GINA DEVEE | THE AUDACITY TO BE QUEEN

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The shift to the tribe movement, praise (00:09): Live from Los Angeles. I am completely honored on this podcast to begin to bring forth some of my most amazing and incredible badass spiritually based entrepreneurs. And no one better to launch this series with the queen herself, Gina Davi. She is the founder of divine living. She is the OG of empowering women. She has been doing this for longer than majority of all the girls. I know they've been doing this, so I am really excited about this conversation because today her book launches, which is the audacity to be queen the unapologetic art of dreaming big that's right. And manifesting your most fabulous life. So I am, I mean, I'm just gonna be a student today. I'm just gonna ask you, you are my mentor right now, right here. And it's so on. I'm so honored to be here with you. (01:03): Oh, Aaron, it's amazing to be here and thank you so much for having me (01:07): Amazing. So tell us, I want to just break it down in. I wanna pretend like I'm in fourth grade and I wanna know what it is. What's your definition of a queen? (01:21): My definition of a queen is a woman who is living her best life, her fully expressed life and her most enjoyable life while making a contribution. (01:32): Well, yeah, that's definitely a queen. So I wanna know one thing is because I know for me personally, I, I feel like I've claimed my queen, but I feel like I can always get, I can always become more of a queen if you will. All of us, right. More expressed, more just claiming the abundance of everything from financially to love to our community, to all the above. But I know for me, there was many years where I definitely did not know that I was queen I definitely, I had bulimia. I was in codependent relationships. I struggled, even though I was making money, I would hoard it and kind of like, I was afraid to actually be in flow with money mm-hmm . And so I wanna know what was your personal journey from? not being a queer, be (02:23): Hot hop mass central, um, you know, my personal journey, you know, I think like all of us, we, we start out as these little girls who are excited about living a big life and all that's possible and think that we can do anything and then life happens and conditioning happens and sometimes traumas that happen. And we forget who we are. We forget the queen within. And we also forget source along the way as well. And we start making other people or our past situations or what our perceived failures source and indicators that we can't, we're not enough, it'll never happen. Thus the downward spiral. So I grew up, my parents were school teachers. I grew up in the Midwest in the suburbs of Detroit and always dreamed of living this bigger life. And, um, you know, and then my conditioning set in, you know, you can't go to the college you want because it's too expensive. (03:22): So you have to go to an in-state college and, you know, uh, you, that, that that's sort of where it started. And then I finally freed myself from, uh, with all due respect to anybody who lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan . I freed myself from Western Michigan university and got myself to Washington DC, where it seemed like people were really living a big life. And that was my first indicator of what it looked like when people were up to big things in the world. And I landed a position. I was an intern at the first lady's office in the white house. So I got to see this was the Clinton administration. So I got to see the first lady up front, her chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, press, secretary. And I was just really lit up by these women who were playing a very big game in the world. And I knew that that sparked my initial desire for something really big, really powerful, uh, as an adult. (04:20): Wow. That's cool. I didn't, I have no idea that you did that and we're, we're girlfriends. Like we have some amazing girlfriends that all hang out that are one of my favorite things about my own development. It was like a surprise, like a cherry on top of the cake was having such amazing women around me. And that's like, but I didn't even know that about you. (04:39): Yep. I worked at the white house, the Supreme court Harvard's Institute of politics. So I really started my career, um, from a place of wanting to make the world a better place. (04:48): Right. So one of the things that I love about you is that you were one of the first people that I saw that was based in spirituality. I mean, you have divine living, so obviously spiritually based, but also claiming your birthright of prosperity. And I think that this is it's something new in the genre and it's, it's definitely like my favorite genre because I believe that as long as we're working for the highest good and we, you know, we make sure we take care of mother earth and we do stuff like that, that we can have our birthright of prosperity. In fact, the very first time I met you, you were holding an event at where was it? The fair Fairmont down in Santa Monica. And it was this beautiful event. And I, and I remember just thinking, I'd only seen men do that. You know what I mean? (05:32): Really? And truly you were one of the first women that I saw doing an event that was a higher end event. And I thought, wow. You know, and I thought, well, she's got some balls, you know what I mean? I mean, no joke. Right? So when was it that you, you know, cause a lot of us also the programming around for me, I know I did was catch a man, have him pay for everything and you know, still have your interests, but never really considering like, oh, I could actually do this regardless if I have a love or if I don't or whatever's there, was it something that you had to actively choose to do? Or how do you train women to get over that kind of programming? (06:11): Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, you know, I'm 47. And so I think that many of us who are my age and maybe even different ages, we had mothers who were taught that if you want to get ahead in life, you marry a wealthy man. And whenever my mother and I would go shopping, she would always tell me from a little girl, Gina, you have expensive taste. You better marry a wealthy man. It never occurred to her to tell me you better learn how to make a lot of money yourself, cuz that just wasn't in the consciousness for women. And it's not that she didn't think I could do it. It just wasn't the vocabulary. So the training was you better marry a wealthy man? Well, I was totally available for that I still wouldn't be opposed to it, even though I am happily married right now. (06:52): Uh, it just wasn't my, my Dharma, it wasn't my path. So what happened was after I experienced the best of what Washington had to offer, I also, I worked for some other people who I haven't mentioned and won't and saw the underbelly of Washington, um, which had me be a witness to certain things where I got deposed subpoena and had to testify for the grand jury. So went from like, Washington's fabulous. And I was like going to helicopter, take off in state dinners, uh, to basically being excommunicated. So I like won't want crawled back to Detroit, living at home with my parents. Like, what am I gonna do? I was just at the white house nothing's ever gonna compare. Right? So like spiritual lesson, number one, when you make where you're working, your identity, you're gonna get screwed up because when that goes away, then your identity goes away. (07:41): And that's what happened for me. I placed completely placed my identity on where I worked. Right. So that went away and I was just this like lady bug on her back and depressed, like what do I do? What do I do? And uh, I went to therapy three times a week for a year. And then when that just became, I couldn't bear to tell people that any longer, like what do you have to, well, my third session this week. So I found a master's degree in clinical and humanistic psychology because that was a societal, the acceptable warranted year of personal development. I had no interest in becoming the therapist. I was just like this. I get to work on myself for a year and it'll sound good to people. So I was in this accelerated program and that's really where I started to really find myself. (08:29): Um, I, I did grow up in the church in a Christian environment. So I always had a faith in a relationship with God, but I hadn't didn't have the psychological development. So they were sort of separated. And during this year, I in, in, in that year of development, I started to really integrate psychologically and spiritually and, and started to become, um, who I was meant to be. And in that I became a psychotherapist, which was like, great, this is gonna be awesome. Now I can actually make a living, helping people, which is the only reason why I went to Washington's all I ever really wanted to do. So I didn't realize that when you became a psychotherapist, you became an entrepreneur. And I was like, clients are just gonna come and clients didn't just come. And so I've got $75,000 worth of debt, credit card tax li tax lane, student loans. (09:22): And like, you know, I'm like shucking and jive in and doing sliding scale rates and like trying to get clients. And after a year and a half, I hated helping people, which is not a good place for anyone to be. But I was, I was empty. It was all breathing out. There was no breathing in talk about codependency. I was like living for what do, what does everyone else want? What rate is good for you? What schedule is comfortable for you? Like, I, I still didn't have a strong sense of self. So I was this broke, struggling psychotherapist who had still had the dream of living the big life. But you know, felt like, what am I doing? I'm like living at home with my parents in de