Episode 416: Embody Your Magic: Human Design, Intuition & Self-Sourcing with Aycee Brown
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What does it mean to embody your magic? In this episode, Erin talks to psychic channel, medium, spiritual guide, teacher, and author Aycee Brown to get into allllll the tools: astrology, numerology, human design, mediumship, metaphysics, manifestation, intuition, and the ways they can help you come back to yourself.
Aycee shares what human design helped her understand about herself as a projector, the difference between intuition and anxiety, and why discernment is going to matter more than ever in a world full of misinformation, clickbait, and people trying to hijack your brain.
In this episode:
What coffee shops, neighborhood dogs, and daily interactions can teach you about your magic
How tools like astrology, numerology, and human design can help you come back to yourself
The “bricks” that block your intuitive gifts, and why healing helps you access what was already there
Why reading a physical book might be one of the most underrated spiritual practices right now
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Aycee’s book, Embody Your Magic: Create the Life Of Your Dreams Through Astrology, Numerology, Mediumship, Metaphysics, and Human Design
Connect with Aycee on her website, Instagram, TikTok, or on YouTube.
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Aycee Brown:
Every one of us is psychic or intuitive in some nature. You have some type of clair gift. You think that you don't have access to it, but you do. You just have to remove the bricks. And those bricks are you healing certain parts of you, it's already there. But the world, our environments, what we've been taught, how we've been raised, the different things that we've been influenced by, sort of dumb that down a little bit each and every year, every day to where you don't think you have it, but it's just in. You just need to know how to access it. Yes, it's a gift, but it also is a talent as well.
Aycee Brown:
And talent can be built. Talent can be perfected.
Erin Holt:
Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast, spelled with a K. Because we do things a little differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. This is where science meets self trust. Your body already knows how to heal and this show is going to show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change.
Erin Holt:
Hi friends.
Erin Holt:
Happy July. Today is a conversation that I had with A.C. brown for my longtime listeners. You might remember the episode I did with her way back in the day on human design. Today, though, we are discussing her new book, Embody your Magic. AC is a psychic channel, a medium, a spiritual guide and teacher dedicated to helping people unlock their most magical lives. Known as the Voice of Truth for her ability to connect individuals with their divine source, AC works with those at life's crossroads, guiding them to find clarity, meaning and a path forward. Her expertise on the role human design, spirituality and astrology play in relationships has been featured in major outlets like Cosmopolitan, Brides and Bustle.
Erin Holt:
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Erin Holt:
Okay? Welcome back to the show, AC I'm so happy to have you here.
Aycee Brown:
I'm so happy to be here.
Erin Holt:
So I have your book in my hand right now. Thank you so much for sending it to me. I read it as soon as I got it. Embody your magic is the name of it. And you are really weaving a lot of different modalities together in this book. So astrology, numerology, mediumship, metaphysics, human design. And I think that that was the most exciting part for me because I am such a modality mixer. Like, my brain doesn't do great with one framework to follow.
Erin Holt:
I don't even like to cook from a recipe. But I'm such a lifelong learner. I have Sagittarius in my chart. So I'm like, I'm always learning, I'm studying, and I love to pull all sorts of things together. And I think that this is exactly what your book does. So first of all, just congratulations for getting this out into the world.
Aycee Brown:
Thank you. Thank you. It was a rough road to get it out into the world, I tell you that. I went through so much getting it out into the world. So it was a lot, but I
Erin Holt:
made was so worth it. I mean, I say that as a reader and whenever I'm interviewing anybody that has published a book, that's when we're off the air. That's like the first question that I ask is like, okay, tell me the truth. How was it? And everyone's like, it's insane. It's an insane amount of work. But I can tell you after reading it, like, totally worth it. It's going to help a lot of people. And I'm so excited to talk to you about it today.
Erin Holt:
I think the first place I would love to start is with the title, so embody your magic. Now, this is how I think about things and what I believe. I believe that we all have special gifts and inside of us. Sometimes I call it medicine, sometimes I call it magic. A couple of years ago, I saw this reel that was made from an old Tupac interview. And he was describing it in a way that, like, I've never heard anyone describe it, which is very Tupac esque. But he was saying, God gives you this voltage and your job in order to repay that gift, your job is to shine that voltage out. And so that's what I think about when I think about embodying your magic.
Erin Holt:
We have to take this medicine inside of us and share it with the world. And, you know, one of my mentors refers to this as right size impact, which I really, really love. Because if you're sharing your medicine with your Partner or your child or a pet that's still sharing your magic, that's still sharing your medicine. Maybe you're doing it with millions of people, whatever the right size impact is for you. But this is what I think of when I think of embodying your magic. But for somebody who's like, I don't know what my magic is, what is my voltage, what are my unique gifts? What would you recommend that they start with? How do they find their magic?
Aycee Brown:
It's day to day. It is the day to day interactions that you have with people, that you have with your neighbors, that you have with the animals in your neighborhood. I know for me, one of my magical gifts is that dogs love me. So I know all the dogs, like in my building where, you know, some of the dogs recognize me, who I'm just walking in my neighborhood. So to me, those things are magical because they see me walking down the street or something and they start wagging their tail and you know, their owners are like, oh my God, your friend wants to talk to you. And then I stop and I talk to the dogs. And it's simple things like that. Or I always tell people, when you feel lost and you feel like you are not really sure of your magic, the first place that you can start.
Aycee Brown:
And it sounds so old school, but I learned this from my grandmother, is your neighborhood. I make it a point wherever I do live that people know who I am, that all of the ladies at the coffee shop know me. The people at my local restaurants, they're familiar with me. My neighbors. Like, I make sure we don't have to be best friends, but we get to know each other. Or like I said, the dogs, or just those things like patronizing and communing with the people around you, that's something that you can do that is immediate, that you can start using your magic. Because maybe you know how to talk to people a certain way. Maybe when people see you, you brighten their day, that you're their little sunshine when you go get your coffee in the morning.
Aycee Brown:
I think that we look at these interactions that we have on the day to day basis within our immediate circle, within our immediate neighborhoods, within our immediate things, as just, well, this is, I live here. So of course this or of course that. And it's just like, no, why don't you stop and ask somebody how their day is going? And you might spark up a conversation and you might engage in a way that you never have. How many people actually know what their neighbors do? You know, just recently we had our Lovely four person team go to space and travel the moon. And one of the astronauts, you know, people found out that he was the astronaut that went on to the moon and he came outside and he said, hey, some of you are just meeting me for the first time. Hopefully this is not the last time that we can interact, you know, so it's those things you can infuse your magic with the day to day. It does not have to be you curing cancer or doing these life changing things. Sometimes it's just you doing something very simple for yourself or someone else around you.
Erin Holt:
And people feel that for somebody to
Erin Holt:
try to understand, okay, well, what are my special gifts or what is my special magic? What is that unique frequency that I carry that only I carry is part of discovering that for yourself, Seeing it reflected back to you by other people. What do you think?
Aycee Brown:
Well, it depends. I think you first have to see it in yourself first. So there are certain things that I do for myself that I know make an impact for me. So one of the things that I love doing for myself, I'm very scent conscious. So I like fragrances, I like trying out fragrances. I used to own a company where I made fragrances and so I like smelling good for myself. That's one of the things people recognize about me when I'm out in the world. They're like, oh my God, you smell so good.
Aycee Brown:
But it started with me and me testing out things on my skin or me trying things out. And yes, it sounds so simple, but that is a magical piece of me or the way I dress. I take pride in that. When I go to places or do stuff, I like dressing really nice. And that's always been a part of me since I was younger. So people compliment me on that. But it has to start with you first and the things that you like. You may love jewelry and you may love different types of jewelry, or you may love to put your hair in a certain way or.
Aycee Brown:
Or you may like to read books. It could be anything that starts with you and then it will be reflected because it's going to be something that you love about yourself or that you admire about yourself. I think what happens is that we miss those little magical moments in ourselves because we first are looking for other people to recognize them. We have to recognize them in ourselves first. So maybe you do have these gifts and these wonderful things, but are you using them for yourself first?
Erin Holt:
I'm curious because the book is about astrology, it's about numerology, it's about human design. And are those ways for us to unlock and access different parts and pieces of ourselves.
Aycee Brown:
Absolutely. They are phenomenal ways, but they are also tools.
Erin Holt:
Right?
Aycee Brown:
I talk about this in the book. 80% of this stuff is accurate. The 20% that can be skewed is religion, how you were raised, your socioeconomic status, your neighborhood, the things that your parents taught you. All of that stuff can be a little skewed. The goal is for us to get back to the 80% and for you to really embody that 80% so you can use those tools to create the life of your dreams. So these tools are there for you to say, hey, well, I want to know about myself. So astrology can tell you that I want to make a change out in the world, so human design can tell you that, or I want to make a choice. That's something that metaphysics can do.
Aycee Brown:
So each of these tools have a different way of helping you either heal your past, focus on your present, and also imagine your future that you want for yourself.
Erin Holt:
One thing that I would love to chat with you a little bit about is human design. You've been on the show before talking about human design. So this isn't our first conversation. You've done a professional reading for me, Human design, too. But before I even get into that, specifically, one of my favorite parts of the book, and this might surprise you, but it. It's when you address the elephant in the room specific to human design. And I'm going to open this up
Aycee Brown:
right now because I want to read
Erin Holt:
specifically what you wrote. You just really leaned into this, and you said, just because an author embellished their story doesn't negate the profound impact that story might have on your journey. We're not worshiping the messenger. We're focusing on the message itself. You said, I'm not here to erase the truth about human's design origin story, but I also won't let it overshadow the transformative potential it offers. And so you're speaking into. And I don't even know the whole sordid backstory, but you're speaking into the sort of the founder of human design maybe didn't have the best path. And, you know, I think what we're all witnessing and seeing is this, like, guru culture kind of collapsing right now.
Erin Holt:
We know that when we pedestalize somebody, you know, absolute power corrupts absolutely. And so I think we're just seeing a lot of this happening right now in real time. And for myself, I've kind of struggled with how do I separate the person from the Body of work not specific to human design. But we've seen this in a lot of other places, right?
Aycee Brown:
We've seen a lot of stuff. We've seen a lot of stuff.
Erin Holt:
With cancel culture being what it is, I think we're so quick to throw the baby out with the bathwater rather than being able to hold multiple truths at once. And I think that's why that part of the book jumped out at me so much, is because you are able to so skillfully do that, and you are so eloquent in how you are able to put language to that. It's something I've been really struggling to do for quite a few years, is like, do I have to throw out this whole body of work that has helped me so significantly? Because the founder of it or the head of the body of work is actually maybe not super aligned with my morals and values and, like, how do I navigate that? So I just want to speak to into that. And thank you for making that a thing in the book. I just really appreciate you making space for that.
Aycee Brown:
Oh, no, thank you for reading that. Yeah. I wanted to put a lot of things in there, especially those type of things. I also talk about manifestation in a different way, and I really wanted to point those things out because they're true. And so I always go back to the story of Leah Remini. She used to have a reality show. This is before her show with the late Mike Render, where they were doing, like, their takedown of Scientology, but she had a reality show, and I'll land the plane with this, because it's the best analogy in. She just had left Scientology.
Aycee Brown:
Her and her whole family, they got disconnected and everything. And she started therapy, and she was struggling with so much about all of the things. And she said on camera, her therapist said, you don't have to throw out everything because there were some things that you did learn. And she said, I did. You know, because even though this was an absolute crazy cult, horrible harm to people, everything, one of the things I learned, because people at that time would think, oh, if you join Scientology, you'll become a famous actor. And she was like, that wasn't it. Because I was working really hard. But what Scientology did teach me was, was that I was superior than everyone else.
Aycee Brown:
So when I would go into these auditions, I had so much confidence, and that's how I was getting my roles. Because she's like, in my mind, because I was indoctrinated with all of this crazy thing that they were telling me, this cult stuff. I was going in like, hey, I'm superior. I'm saving the world. Because that's, you know, the whole Scientology model. Like, we're saving the world. We're saving the planet. So she would go into these auditions like, well, screw the casting director and the director.
Aycee Brown:
I'm saving the planet. I'm going to read these lines, and I'm going to be great at it. And so she's like, that's how it was, getting those roles. So her therapist told her, well, you can keep that same vigor, that same confidence. You don't have to dim your light now because of the root of where you learned that confidence or why you still got the confidence from it. And so when we talk about human design, the origins of it are, I would even say, bad. They're horrible as far as the background of the founder of Ra and everything. But if you utilize the tools for yourself, they actually do work.
Aycee Brown:
They actually make sense. So for me, I was able to talk about that and say, hey, this is the truth. Horrible individual. Lots of stuff going on. But me finding out that I was a projector helped me so much because I was. I felt in. At the time in my life, when I found it, I was fighting against something, so it felt so heavy, so strong. Like, why is this not working out for me? How come I can't make things happen? Like I said, both of my parents are generators.
Aycee Brown:
I can't make anything happen. What's going on? And I come from a family with a lot of generator energy, and I'm just like, wow, everybody's just moving. Everybody's just moving. Everybody just. And I was taught to, like, get things together, make things happen. And then finding that out, and it's like, oh, no, I actually need to do it this way. It took a lot of pressure off of me. So I was still able to utilize the tools, but also make them work for me.
Aycee Brown:
Because there were also a lot of people in the human design culture that saying, yeah, you're a projector. You just sit around and wait. And I'm just like, I'm a black woman in America. Sit around and wait for anything. That's insane. I remember watching YouTube, he was like, yeah, I get fired. And I just, you know, wait for some. I'm just like, I can't do that.
Aycee Brown:
Sounds crazy. And so I had to make it work for me, and I had to make it palatable and talk about it from a lens that actually worked for me through my lens. So that's how I utilize the system. Specifically that one and all of the other ones, but I don't separate him from it. But I also realized that wherever he was in his life at that time became a vessel for him putting it together.
Erin Holt:
There's medicine in anything if we choose to see life that way. Right. There's learnings and there's lessons and there's growth opportunities and medicine and anything. I think that's kind of being more in like student consciousness versus like victim consciousness.
Aycee Brown:
Right, Right.
Erin Holt:
Looking at the world through a different lens. And that's only a choice that that we can make.
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Erin Holt:
that we sent do back to the human design thing when you were talking about taking pressure off of yourself. So my very first introduction to human design was you in your work. And then I got a professional reading from you and I was like, wow, this makes so much sense. I didn't really do anything with it other than to be like, that's really cool. That makes a lot of sense. Like everything she said, I'm like, yeah, yeah, that is me. She's describing me. And then a few years later, I had another reading and it was kind of more of the same.
Erin Holt:
Like, yeah, this makes sense. You know, this still tracks. I'm still me. And I sort of like rediscovered it just a couple of months ago. And I was so excited to talk to you because I knew we had this conversation on the books. And I was, to use your language, putting a lot of pressure on myself to be someone and something that I am not. I wasn't operating outside of integrity. That's not what I mean at all.
Erin Holt:
It was just, like. I just felt like it was. It was so hard. I was forcing myself, and I was, like, fighting against myself specifically. And I haven't shared this publicly anywhere, but I probably will a little bit more in the CEO role in my organization. There's a lot of things that you have to do as a CEO that I'm not very innately good at.
Aycee Brown:
What's your aura type again?
Erin Holt:
Manifesting generator.
Aycee Brown:
Okay, okay, Right. I was like, I think she's a gen. Part of the generator family. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Erin Holt:
And just all, like, the unique, like, all the little, like, subplots and twists and turns of, like, my whole. And I don't even have, like, the language to put to it, but I'm like, why does it feel so hard? And I'm like, how did I create this big thing and work so hard and create this success? Everyone from the outside looking at is like, wow, she's so successful. And I'm like, I am stuck in
Erin Holt:
a job, like a J O B
Erin Holt:
job that I, like, hate. Like, how did I get here?
Aycee Brown:
You're ready to open up a nail salon. You're like, can I do something?
Erin Holt:
I was, like, blurred it all down. I was, like, talking to my husband. I'm like, how do I get myself out of this? And he's like, we could sell the business. Like, I don't know. And so, long story short, I found human design, and I just, again, rediscovered it. And I really explored it. And I want to be super crystal clear. And I know that you and I are in lockstep with this.
Erin Holt:
We're not looking to human design or to astrology or to any other system to tell us who we are. Correct. I'm not, like, letting that be the framework for how I live my life. But it was so affirming, invalidating dating to be like, oh, no wonder why this is so hard. I'm literally working against who I came here to be and how I came here to express myself. So it allowed me the permission to, like, stop fighting against myself. And it just allowed me to pivot enough to be like, how could this look, you know, how could I change things so I can still be me within my own organization? And I think that is the beauty in the gift of some of these, what you call tools.
Aycee Brown:
It's your tool in your Tool bag, you know, for you, being a manifesting generator. And this just kind of popped in spiritually. Like, I don't know if you guys are doing retreats or anything. That would probably be really helpful for you to do different things that bring in your work and being around people a little bit more, something that's community based, because that gets your mind going, gets things like maybe events, something of that nature where you can kind of bring people together and there's multiple things happening at once. Something of that nature. So you don't get bored, because the manifesting generator gets bored. And so you build big things, but that big thing can become boring. And so that's why people look at you like, what do you mean? You built this great company.
Aycee Brown:
You're like, this is boring. I'm ready to open up a nail salon or do something. Like, I see manifesting generators. They'll do something completely different. And people like, that doesn't make any sense. They had such a big business, like, yeah, but they got bored.
Erin Holt:
And that's the thing too. It's like, that's the. In order to scale a business, it like, sort of necessitates that you get a little bored. Because when you're reinventing the wheel, it's really challenging to scale. And so that's exactly it. And I'm like, success, yes. Internal success. In terms of how I feel, not so much.
Aycee Brown:
Yeah.
Erin Holt:
So really, like, that kind of gave me the validation of, like, okay, I'm not crazy. I'm not broken. I'm not wrong. You know what I mean? And I think that, like, it gives people permission to stop fighting against the very nature of who they are. And I think it's such a wonderful, wonderful tool for that. Now you just said this, like, when we were talking, you just said this dropped in, you know, like, you got an intuitive hit. Mediumship is another big part of your book. And I think that that is even, like, more of an esoteric concept for people to wrap their heads around than even, like, human design or astrology.
Erin Holt:
And you tell your story in the actual book, but can you share a little bit about that path to, you know, if somebody kind of is curious about, like, how can you just get an intuitive hit like that? How can an idea just drop in? How could a message just come in
Aycee Brown:
like, well, it happens for everyone. But you think you're like, where'd that come from? I'm. Cause I'm more seasoned in this. And I've been doing this work. I see. It feels like since I was a Kid, I know where it comes from, I know who it comes from, I know what that is. I know that it's not mine. So for the average person who is dibbling and dabbling into psychic channeling, into mediumship or any type of intuitive kind of thing, the Claire's, which I talk about in the book, you're already experiencing these things.
Aycee Brown:
Like I say in the book, every one of us is psychic or intuitive in some nature. You have some type of Claire gift. There's something there, right? One of them is very strong for you, one's a little dormant. But as I talk about in the book, babies, dogs, most psychic people we have around, right? And so when you're thinking about it from that, right, and you're thinking about someone holding a baby and the baby starts crying, they're picking up something that still goes on until possibly, you know, the baby gets taught something from their parents, or they have an experience and then a little brick comes in front of them. And then all of these life experiences, there's these bricks that come and they form a wall and in front of you. So you think that you don't have access to it, but you do. You just have to remove the bricks. And those bricks, are you healing certain parts of you, doing certain things with your body? I know people who, when they start therapy, they become, they're like, oh, I feel like I'm more psychic.
Aycee Brown:
No, you're always been psychic. You just are able to tap into it more or even you, you probably in your work and working with people that you've worked with. When people remove inflammation from their body, they start being clearer, thinking all of this stuff is happening, right? It's already there. But the world, our environments, what we've been taught, how we've been raised, the different things that we've been influenced by, sort of dumb that down a little bit each and every year, every day to where you don't think you have it, but it's just in, you just need to know how to access it. And that takes healing, that takes kind of telling the truth about things, getting to the root cause of stuff. And also, yes, it's a gift, but it also is a talent as well. And talent can be built, talent can be perfected. Even me having the natural gift of clairaudience, claircognizant and clairvoyance, I still have to practice the talent.
Aycee Brown:
I still have to do certain things to keep my connection strong. Whether that's meditation, whether that's being with spirit every day, whether that's paying attention to these little idiosyncrasies that happen throughout the day, or I'm sure you've experienced it, where you're, you know, you're thinking about someone or something and then a song starts playing, that spirit talking to you. That song didn't come out of nowhere. Or you smell something, that smell didn't come out of somewhere. But you're just not slowing down enough to pay attention.
Erin Holt:
Well, I think that it's the slowing down part in you're such a cool, present person. Being with you like I can. You dropped my energy. And that's. And I mean that in a positive way. Like, I was, like, buzzing up here. And just because you're so present, it's like I'm attuning to you. Like.
Erin Holt:
Like you're the tuning rod, right? Because you're so grounded and you're so present. And then that creates coherence in the field. And so I'm always going to try to attune to the most coherent, you know, field present, which is you. That I know that that is a skill. I know that that requires practice. I do believe that if we're not quiet, still present, grounded, then it's harder for those messages to land. It's like they have no place to come in. They have no place.
Erin Holt:
There's no space for them to land. And so how does one even attempt to think about practicing listening to their intuition or listening to messages coming from spirit in a world that is so clouded up with clickbait and distractions and dopamine hits and just. There's just so much information coming at us all day, every day, like, where would we even begin?
Aycee Brown:
And this is gonna sound so odd, but reading, physically reading, you're like, buy my book, not just buy my any. I don't care what you read, read. I'm telling you, that will turn on, that will help you slow down, that will help you pay attention, that will help you be present, even if you do. I like immersive reading where I do the actual physical reading and I listen to the audiobook read. You'd be surprised at how quiet your brain gets, how attentive and attuned it gets, how calm it gets. Those are the meditative channels and the feeling that you need to connect through reading. Because as I've said this on several different platforms and even my own is in our lifetime right now, this is the most information that we've ever had access to. As far as the bad stuff, the good stuff.
Aycee Brown:
We have information galore. You know, one of my Aunts passed away in 2024. She was a black Panther at one part of her life and always talked to her about stuff and just my grandmother and talking about things. They were her neighborhood was very activism kind of based and everything. And so one thing that I think about talking to them and just different memories is that back then they were able to go out, be in the midst of the information of the bad stuff and then they went home to their communities. They didn't have the news like we did. So they were able to come back to their bodies, recalibrate, re energize, rest and then go back out and fight. Now we have all of the information and then it's on our phones, then we're getting emails, then we're getting alerts, then we're opening up and we're seeing something.
Aycee Brown:
Your body doesn't even have time to be quiet. So now you have to create different scenarios for it to get quiet. That's why meditation. Now when I tell somebody to meditate, they're like, oh my God, it's pulling teeth because they're not used to slowing down. So alternative read, that's going to force you to slow down, it's going to force you to take a step back to get into something else, to get into a different world, to get into a story. Even if you're reading none nonfiction, even if you're reading self help, even if you're reading fiction, it will help you slow down. And that is a form of meditation so you can connect and listen and feel.
Erin Holt:
I love this. As an avid reader, since I was a little kid, I love this advice. But also I think I love how you frame it as an alternative. If somebody just genuinely doesn't feel like they have the capacity to sit still and meditate, this gives the brain something to actually do without all of the noise and the clutter and the chaos like coming at them. And I'm surprised. I read a lot and I post a lot of books that I read. And people inevitably, whenever I post a book, they're like, how do you read so much? And I'm like, this is a non negotiable for me.
Aycee Brown:
If you're listening, watching, look at your phone right now and go see your screen time. You have time to read. I promise you, you have an easy hour to sit down with a book and read.
Erin Holt:
I completely agree. And I also think of my brain is my superpower. And so like I take that so seriously. And I know that there are powers that be in billions of dollars being spent on hijacking my brain power and my attention.
Aycee Brown:
I keep telling people this, this is going to be your only saving grace, is reading. You know, I'm not a fan of Kendall. That's just me. If you know, I hate a Kindle. But I'm telling people, if you can used books, bargain books, build your library now because they are trying to hijack your brain. And a physical book is going to be worth more than you think it is. I've been even looking for, trying to find on ebay and things an encyclopedia. You know, my grandmother, her last one, this is years ago.
Aycee Brown:
I don't know what happened to. I'm like trying to find. Because we always had encyclopedias up, growing, growing up. So I'm trying to find like a good, like version and I can't find one. So it's just like you need this. What you think about, how you think is going to be worth billions of dollars for you. And not in a capitalistic way, just in a health way. Your brain is going to be so my, my dad, he's always talking about, he's like, I can't let my brain go.
Aycee Brown:
My dad reads, reads. He loves fiction. He reads like three books a week. He stays up to two, three o' clock in the morning and he's like, yeah, I had to finish that book. He's like, I just can't let my brain go.
Erin Holt:
I mean, it's so, so, so, so important. And if we know that there are forces that are shaping our mind, I just want to have as much control and say, in power over what my mind does and where it goes in the direction that it takes me in. And it's also just really, really, really good for your nervous system and for sleep. Read a book like, like not on a screen. Read a book that you can hold in your hand before you go to bed.
Aycee Brown:
Yes, I read every morning for an hour, like after I do my workout and journal. I read my non fiction in the morning and I read my fiction at night. Like that's my routine.
Erin Holt:
So I love it. That's really, really good, good, good advice.
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Aycee Brown:
Intuition is whispers, anxiety is loud. Intuition is always going to be very subtle. Settling your body, settle in your brain, settle in the voice that you hear. Anxiety is like, move, get out the way. You're like, you know, intuition is going to be like, I think it's time for you to, you know, move to the left. And it's like, oh, okay, I'm going to move to the left. That's the difference. It's a very subtle energy.
Aycee Brown:
Now if you are super anxious all the time or if you even have adhd, I tell people the shower is a good place to get messages. Somewhere where you have to slow down. Anywhere where you have to slow down. I always also recommend people I do this exercise when you're super, super anxious. If you don't have like a vibration plate or something like that, lay your back on the floor and then breathe so your body can slow down. Hopefully it's a cold floor too. And then you can really decipher the intuitive message because everything has to do with your body.
Erin Holt:
The body is an entry point. It's a gateway for so, so much. And I think, you know, we have to speak into the fact that a lot of people spend a lot of their effort and energy to escape their body because it doesn't always feel like a safe place to be or historically may have not been a safe place to be. So a lot of us have spent a lot of our lives trying to do anything but be in our body and feel what's happening, you know, the calls coming from inside the house. And so there can be a bit of a titration process with this. There can be a, you know, it's not a zero to 60 situation for everybody. But like you said earlier about the mediumship in listening to messages coming from spirit, that is a skill and a practice. Like same for this, like the messages coming from within, same deal.
Erin Holt:
It can take practice.
Aycee Brown:
It takes a lot of practice. And not hard practice. It's just anything that you want to get good at, you're going to have to put some effort into. It doesn't have to be like really hard effort. It can be small changes. You don't have to do this huge program. It's maybe it's five minutes a day, maybe it's a minute a day. I always tell people, start with a seven day practice and see if you can stick with it.
Aycee Brown:
And you know, I do with my clients and things, things I'm always like, okay. They're like, oh, I wanna, you know, read for Two hours a day. I'm like, why don't you start with 15? Or read a page a night? Let's see if you could do that for seven days. And then they get upset because they're like, no, but I have these big lofty goals of reading 16 books in a week or whatever like that. I'm like, well, you have to build that up. You have to build up that practice. Even when it comes to meditating, like, oh, no, I'm gonna meditate for 20 minutes a day. I'm like, no, you're not.
Aycee Brown:
You don't do it now. So why don't you start with 5 minutes? Minutes. Or I'm gonna walk for an hour on the treadmill. Why don't you do 10, do 10 for the next seven days and see how that works out. And then usually they either do the whole thing for seven days or I'm like, oh, I missed day five. Okay, well, then start the seven days over. Let's practice these things. Same with, you know, when people are like, how do you manifest? I'm like, you gotta practice with smaller things.
Aycee Brown:
You can't just manifest a car. Your body's not used to that right now. Try manifesting. You know, I have a friend who. She manifests money. She finds money all over New York, la. She finds money everywhere. That's her thing.
Aycee Brown:
She's never in doubt. She just found like $200, literally, in LA. She posted about. She always posts about it because that's her thing. She's can master that. At one point, my thing was Neiman Marcus gift card manifesting. Neiman Marcus and Amazon gift cards. All the time.
Aycee Brown:
All the time. And so I still like, oh, I want an Amazon gift card. And lo and behold, I saw my aunt, another one of my aunts, like, after my birthday, and she gave me an Amazon gift card. I was like, oh, good, now I can buy some books. So it was just, you know, you just have to practice with these little things and then work your way up. And that's the same with these practices on intuition. Anything that's attached that you have to practice it. I mean, I still have teachers that I go to for certain things that I trust that I've been going to for years.
Aycee Brown:
Or, you know, asking them, like, hey, I'm having trouble connecting this way. Or, you know, as far as my mediumship is concerned, sometimes I might have trouble with certain relationships and I'm, you know, ask around to people who I respect, and I'm just like, hey, I'm having trouble with relationships. Give me some tips on what's going on, and they help me. And I have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice.
Erin Holt:
And to what you're saying too, especially with the manifestation piece. It's like, where, you know, to our brains and our nervous system, unfamiliarity registers as unsafe. So we have to practice enough. The only way something's going to get familiar is if we've experienced it enough that the body recognizes it and the nervous system recognizes it. So practice has to come online. We have to literally practice, practice feeling the feelings in our body, too. So I appreciate you saying that. Last question, because this book really kind of covers so many different spirituality topics.
Erin Holt:
What are you seeing right now with modern spirituality that you think is really positive? And what are things that you're seeing that might be a misconception or kind of like a swing in a misconception?
Aycee Brown:
This. Well, I've been talking about this probably for the last year or so that we are, you know, Pluto is now in Aquarius. And as we, you know, big generational change, big gener, we have a lot of generational ships. Neptune, Saturn, Aries, Uranus is moving into Gemini. Lots of stuff happening astrologically that are changing. And I always said there's going to be two camps for a little bit where people are going to be clinging on to religion like it is the air that they breathe. And everybody else is going to be waking up. And so there's going to be this pretty huge divide of people who are holding on to ideals, patriarchy, capitalism, in a very unhealthy way and really trying to hang on to it.
Aycee Brown:
And then there's going to be everyone else who was saying, okay, we have to do this differently. We need to do this differently. We need to create a different way. And that's probably the biggest thing that I'm seeing in spirituality, is that people still are holding on to these ideals, that whole guru thing and all of that stuff. And then there's other people who are not. And that's what I'm telling people to read. Telling people to read. And it's very important that you read.
Aycee Brown:
It's very important that you are willing to take the extra step to do some research. And I'll use a. An instance that happens with me and my work. I will maybe post something and I'll give instructions for something. And because people are so used to them telling them the next step, I encourage people, why don't you Google it and find out how to do it? And it's not to be mean. It's let's move you to the next step. Because I come from a generation, I'm an older millennial. I research a lot of stuff.
Aycee Brown:
You know, my dad is a Sagittarius. I research everything because I just want to research. I'm just used to that, so. And I read a lot. And so I encourage people to go the extra mile when we're thinking about things that help us, that hurt us. You know, there's going to be a big wave of misinformation and you're going to have to do some research about it. You know, you'll see posts on certain platforms and I'll see them. Like, that doesn't feel right.
Aycee Brown:
Let me go research that. And then I'll Google it, click that news tab, and I'll see nothing from that. And I'm like, okay, then that wants to be a fake post. So those are the type of things that we're going to see in spirituality. There's going to be people who are still clinging on to this old way of doing stuff and people who are waking up and just wanting to know something different or do things differently.
Erin Holt:
Yeah. And this is like the same thing that we see in health and wellness space too. And one of the biggest things that I tried to teach people and instill in people is like, you have to learn how to self source more than you're outsourcing. And that is true for all things. And I think it that the ability to discern information is a little bit of a lost art and we need to bring that back online using our own critical thinking and using our own discernment tools. And so if that is a practice or a skill set that you have lost, like, let's bring that online. Like starting now.
Aycee Brown:
Yeah. Is today like yesterday? Like actually, actually November 2024. Okay.
Erin Holt:
The best time was November 2024. Second best times today.
Aycee Brown:
Yes, the first and best time was November 2024.
Erin Holt:
Thank you so much, AC. I always love chatting with you. I'll let you tell everybody where to find more of your work. But I do want to encourage everyone to go out and, and get AC's book. Embody your magic. I'm looking at it right here. It's a beautiful book, but it's a really easy read. The way that you've organized the information, nothing feels overwhelming.
Erin Holt:
It feels very digestible. Even though there's some, like, big topics, big esoteric topics, you make it very easy to like, bring it into the body and understand what you're saying. And I appreciate that about the book.
Aycee Brown:
Oh, good. Good. That makes me happy. It really does.
Erin Holt:
So tell us where we can find more of you in your work.
Aycee Brown:
Yes, you can go to acbrown.com on TikTok, Instagram and threads @acbrown and on YouTube. I am Aycee Brown, the actual number one. And on my website, you can reach out to work with me one on one or in group or invite me to speak and come visit you at your retreat, at your corporate event. And I'll come and, and give the girls and guys what they want.
Erin Holt:
I love it. We'll link all that up in the show notes, of course. And I just encourage you guys to check more of AC Out. Like I said, I mean, I'm sure you felt it in this episode, but there's a very grounding, calming presence to AC and her work and I think that that's something that we all really, really need a lot right now. So thank you so much for coming on the show.
Aycee Brown:
Thank you for having me.
Erin Holt:
Thanks for joining me for this episode
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