I chose to Live My Purpose in a World that is creating the Generation of Change - The Spiritual Awakening That Inspired Me to Help Heal Humanity, One Smile at a Time

for more, knowing something is missing. Then this podcast is for you, so here's your host, Joe Middigan. Hello and welcome to we. There comes a moment in every person's life, when healing no longer is the destination. It becomes the foundation for something much greater.

“For years, I believe my purpose was simply to heal the pains of my past.”

I thought that if I could overcome loneliness, fear, anxiety, overwhelm, and forgiveness,

but finally arrive at the life I was searching for.

But one day I realized something that truly changed my life. My healing wasn't the destination. It was preparing me to become the person I was truly created to be. At the same time I began to notice something around the world that was happening everywhere I looked.

Humanity is changing. People everywhere are questioning the lives they built, searching for deeper meaning, longing for authentic connection, and realizing that success without inner peace no longer really satisfies the human heart.

We're living through one of the greatest periods of emotional and spiritual transformation

in human history. I call it the generation of change. In this episode, I will share why I chose to stop living according to the world's expectations and I started living according to my purpose. I'll talk about the spiritual awakening that transformed my life.

I'm embracing my calling led to a deeper sense of peace and fulfillment.

“And why I believe each of us has a unique role to play in humanity's healing.”

The purpose isn't about becoming famous. It isn't about making more money. It isn't even about achieving success. Purpose is discovering the unique way your life can become an expression of love. When we heal ourselves, we change our family.

When families heal, communities begin to change. When communities change, humanity changes. Reactive kindness matters. Every word of encouragement matters. Every smile matters.

This episode, it marks the completion of one journey and the beginning of another.

“It's the bridge between healing the wounds of our past and becoming the people our higher power”

is calling us to become. My name is Joe Mitiga and this is we because healing doesn't happen alone folks. It happens when we remember the we. So I want to welcome everybody here today. It's an exciting time to be here.

I'm actually interestingly enough, I'm in my hometown of South Bend, Michelle Walker, Indiana and it's kind of a cool place to be. Unfortunately, I'm here for a funeral, but fortunately the aunt that I'm here to celebrate her life, she was my father's older sister and one of the last of that generation. Literally, my dad was 90.

He had three older sisters and the community we grew up in, a really a foundation immigrant community, Italian community here in Michelle Walker. My aunt was a huge part, she lived here her whole life. And she had been, you know, going through her challenges and this is a woman where, you know, it's why for me, I don't judge religions in any way, shape, or form at all.

I mean, this is a woman who was raised Catholic her entire life and probably without question one of the single most spiritual people I'd ever met literally my entire life. And it's funny because, you know, for Joe, everybody that's been on this podcast for any

link, the time knows that I consider myself more spiritual than religious and I never

judge one as right or wrong, you know, it's not about right or wrong. It's about honoring the paths of people. Well, I am here to honor my aunt, Joanne, and her legacy and I'm getting ready to my family, my three sisters and I are here, I've got cousins coming in from around the country.

I've been going through a lot of grieving, I had to put my dog Zeus to sleep a couple

“weeks ago and, you know, so I'm now in the role of supporter instead of the role of”

griever. And, you know, I tell people all the time, we've got kind of two places to be in life. And if you're in a challenging time, get support. But if you have the opportunity, be the supporter and the we podcast, that's really what the we podcast is all about awareness and giving answers of support.

So as I get started here, I want to remind people, visit my website, JoeMidigat.com. JoeMidigat.com. It's up. It's functioning now. You can download my book, filling the void for free.

Digital form. If you want it in format, form, you know, in book form, soon, we're giving that away for free. You know, I just need people to pay the shipping for me. And I'm really excited. I'm excited that that's up.

That's been a journey. That's 30 plus years long. That was the original book that was channeled through me literally 30 years ago now. I used to call it. Your inner child has rights to, a common man's quest to become one with God.

And now it's called filling the void, a common man's quest to become one with God.

“And the one with God concept is, it's an important one for me to share with”

everybody because my entire life, my entire path, my entire early decade of self-discovery or longer, two decades of self-discovery.

I was never in pursuit of a power greater than myself.

I was never looking for a relationship with God or a higher power, never. My soul motivation on a daily basis was I just really wanted to stop hurting. And as I stopped hurting, I started remembering this essence called a higher power, which is in all of us. And that kind of leads me into what this episode is all about.

This episode is about truly talking about higher purpose, higher passions, giving back into the world. Why Joe calls this the generation of change? I've got four characteristics that I'm going to talk about later in the podcast that are literally why I can give you stats, intellectual stats, and spiritual foundations of

why we, people in a podcast like this, are we are the generation of change. Our kids are getting from us, what we did not get from our parents. And then their kids will get even more and even more even more. And I'm going to describe all of that. This is a perfect place for me to welcome the world, literally, that we podcast now is

in 11 countries and five continents, welcome people from Norway and Canada, brand new group of people now in South Korea, the list United Kingdom, Nigeria, Australia, I wish I would write the list down, I forget to, but I am just so thrilled that you are all here. There's a continual reflection of my belief that humanity is waking up, not any one sector of religion, not just women, not just men, not white, black, green or orange, I don't care

the color of your skin, I don't care where you live, I don't care what continent you live in, we are humanity. If you're living and breathing in your a person, you and I are humanity, and humanity

is waking up in a way, it never has, but where the we comes from, human self, higher

self, inner self, and I'm going to talk a little bit more about how I kind of was awoken to that concept that, instead of calling myself a me, I call myself a we, because we are multi-dimensional beings, from the emotional side, the inner child, the inner essence of your emotions, there's multiple dimensions of your emotional self, multiple ages, that

“if you're in a deep self discovery of emotional healing, that's why it takes time and that's”

why you need support, and if you're going deep, I say all the time, buckle up, because it's not easy, and though it is completely worth it, every ounce of recovery that you get, every ounce of reclaiming the depths of yourself that you're able to ask for the strength and courage to go deeper and deeper and deeper, on the other side, there's a wonderment that is truly amazing, and I have to say I live that wonderment most the time, and that's

why my desire to give back is so strong, and that's why my desire to support systems out their websites out, their solutions, real-life solutions is so important, and that's

why this group called divorce post, I have a passion, I've never met these people

that I refer zero, Joe makes no money, anything, none of that craziness, but I'm living

“what I preach, and divorce post is one of those things, it's a foundational support that”

is needed more now than ever before, because we are growing, and we're moving more into a spiritual position of our lives, and loving, communion, and connection, and relationships of the past were more emotionally based, they just were, and years ago, for most people they were satiation addiction focused, you fill my whole's, I'll fill yours, well, you know, folks as a humanity, as mankind continues to grow, especially people that are in, you

know, more advanced ages of the progression of their life, the people that have been married, they've already got the kids, they've already done the business, are kind of that next era of life, in my opinion, if you're in partnership now and everything is great fabulous, it's wonderful, that just means you and your partner are growing spiritually at the same rate, and you can be married for somebody for 20 years, and spiritually

outgrow them, it does not mean you don't love them, love is of your humanity, folks, their spiritual growth is of your divinity, and what this podcast is all about, as I get

into it, and why generation of change is so powerful, I'm going to be talking about how

to activate and pursue your divinity, which is a giving back experience, moving from gratitude

“to grace, and that's why I mentioned divorce post a lot, because I believe over the next decade,”

the numbers of people that are going to be outgrowing their partner is going to be extreme, it's just going to be a large number, and is that a bad thing? No, is it a painful thing? Yes, is it a confusing thing? Yes, do you have to completely destroy your life because you're spiritually growing? No, you don't, and hence this website divorce post and hence technology and their availability to support is all because of technology, one of the

things I'm going to talk about, and I've got five or six different areas that I'm going

to be talking about because it's happening, and I never want to be a resource that doesn't

have answers, doesn't have true solutions. I can tell you you're outgrowing your partner maybe if you are, and I can honor that's happening. Can I support you now on a Tuesday morning?

“No, I can't. Does it divorce post let those people help you? Other things I'm going to”

be finding is addiction recovery. You know, we are in an epidemic of opioid addiction. We are as a society. So sooner or later, I'm going to have a resource where if you know somebody, I'm going to tell you, send them there. I keep going back to divorce post and I say I don't know them because I don't know them at all, but I've looked at their stuff, and I say to you right now, you're either in a divorce, you know somebody's in a divorce, or you know

somebody's getting ready to go to a divorce, be the support, tell them about that site, then you've done your part, and soon I'm going to have the same thing for, you know, hopefully if you're on this podcast, you're not the person literally an opioid addiction yourself, if you are, click off right now and call somebody, call somebody right now. Now, I wish I had the number to give you. I don't yet, but I will. And if you know somebody

who's in that challenge, I'm going to have a resource for that. I'm going to have a resource for career change, job change, life coach, that whole thing. We're creating an entire network of life coaches out there that eventually I'll be able to share with you. And, you know, I kind of see the wee podcast and what all of you are helping me do as an awareness podcast. I want to validate and honor your spiritual emotional path because you're the warrior,

and it doesn't sometimes don't feel like the warrior because you're the only one. You know, I had an experience in September of 2022 where I came across the woman, it took me three freaking years to figure it out. But this woman is more spiritually connected to her heart than

I am. And I can't tell you the glory I felt because after 30 years of never coming across somebody

literally, Joe's will path. That was on the same type of path. It felt fantastic to know at least there's another person. You know, I tend to work and I was that I never met this person either. But my point is, you're right now listening to this podcast, but then you're going to go to church

your partner. And most people may or may not know what you're going through. Why? Because as

humanity wakes up, there's the initial group. And people like you and people like me, we are that

“initial group. And that's why the we podcast is such an important voice out there because I'm”

creating a library where on your Tuesday night when, you know, you have a great day and then something triggers you and you're hurting. Find one of my posts. Keep visiting, we podcast, you know, on Apple podcast and any of the major platforms. Because just look through the different posts I create, the different episodes I create. I do it on purpose. So I can be a voice to help you if you feel stuck. I can be a voice to help you if you feel afraid. I can be a voice to help you

if you need to reinvent your life or feel overwhelmed or you're confused because you've been doing positive affirmations your whole life. And now Joe's saying, well, positive affirmations don't heal, but what did he say again? Well, keep going back to the episodes. Listen to him over and over.

“Definitely get my book and we're creating a book club where you're literally able to work with”

groups of people around the globe who are going to be using the book as a guide to heal. So it's exciting. It's really, I feel honored to be a part of it. I got some very cool news the other day. And now the we podcast on Spotify, we're in the top 100. We're ranked like number 41 in the

top trending podcast on Spotify. Now I always say I don't really know much about this world.

I don't. I'm learning. I'm an entrepreneur. I will learn the podcast world as I go. But when I sent that screenshot to my PR person, Adrian Ashley, I can't I'm trying not the cost, but she said wholly blank blank blank. And I haven't heard what that means yet, but from her expression, I guess it's a really good thing. And why do I always share about the successes of the we podcast and rankings in global? Because it means that the message is reaching more and more

people. It's not ever about the man. It's about the message. And my goal is to help 100 million people heal the depths of their heart. Give a voice to the deepest parts of your angst and learn how to communicate and reach out for strength and courage from your divinity. You're in the center of the way. You're the human part of the way. The person listening here is the human part of the way. My job, my intention, my focus and hope is to help you learn and become aware that any

deep pain you have in the inner you. You can give a voice to that deep pain through different techniques. I'm going to have people eventually go to this website, go to that website who will support you

“weekend, week out. And on the other side of that, we is your divine sense of self. And that's why”

I say, I hope people have started my suggestion of finding silence. You know, I say it all the time. If I can do five or six hours a day, you can do five or six minutes. So I hope you started that. If you're new here, the we podcast again, welcome, but what I'm talking about is, I'm wanting people to start the practice of spending 30 seconds or 60 seconds in silence. And what silence means is no external stimulus, no radio, no TV, no kids, no phone, no scrolling,

no anything and just sit there in silence, practice 30 seconds, then practice a minute. And your going silence does not mean you don't hear the voices inside your head. Silence means there's no external stimuli. And the more you do it, the more you're going to get practiced at it. And the longer you're able to do it with practice. And you're still going to hear the voices in your head. And if those voices get too big,

write them down bullet point first steps. But then eventually you're going to hear a smaller quieter voice. And that smaller quieter voice in you, that's your higher power. I hear my higher power talk. A lot of people feel the higher power, a mass number of entuned women, sensitive, they're gut instinct, they can sense the higher power. Well,

Joe's overall goal, 100 million, because I figure if we can help 100 million people

with 100 million downloads a month here at the Wepodcast, he all the depths themselves by giving a voice to the depths, connect with a higher part of themselves by living in humility and asking for support, then through that entire process, right? We help 100 million people heal.

which billions around 10% in my math is off course. But that's the whole idea. That's what my intention here is. So when I see these, you know, Wepodcast on the Spotify top podcast trending list, that's exciting because it just means more and more people are connecting and more and more people are hearing the message. And that's really my desire. That's my hope. And I know that a couple podcasts to go when I was sharing from the depths of my pain,

I know a lot of people have never even heard a grown man cry. And I know that's challenging. I

do. I know it had to be hard. Well, keep coming back and keep listening. Not because I want you listen to me, because I want you to feel whatever the tweaks are in your heart, in your belly, listen to the compassion you've probably had for me, because I was hurting and able to share. So feel the strength because if I can, you can. My message is always that if I can, you can. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a researcher. I'm not a doctor. I'm none of those things. I'm a guy.

Just like you. And you're just like me. And I say that. Now, I always caveat. I started this process

in 1990. You know, we're talking 36 years ago. I am very practice. February the 16th, 1990.

So I'm practice. Just different than anybody else? No. uniquely gifted it anywhere. No, no, practice, yes. And on the other side, I live a very peaceful life. I live a very blessed life. I have a lot of purpose. I have a lot of overflow. And when I'm in pain, I don't have all the deterrence of guilt and shame and all that. So I just feel the pain and I have no fear of pain. So pain doesn't control me anymore. It doesn't. And it doesn't have to control you either.

“And that's why I'm creating the episode library where you can use my voice as a support because”

a lot of people around you are not going to know what you're going through. They're just not. Well, in this particular episode, right? Why I wanted to bridge it here? Because we've been doing a lot around emotional growth. We've been doing a lot around spiritual transformation, humanity waking up, which humanity is literally waking up. But I want you to hear about the different spiritual awakenings I had. And I want to talk real quick about that whole concept. What is

spiritual growth? What is spiritual awakening? And what is that whole concept? Well, as a human being, as a being, you are truly a spirit having a human experience. Created in God's image that whole concept, well, the God part of the image is the spiritual essence of you. And we are living in an era of time where we are waking up to that internal essence more and more. We're becoming consciously aware. We literally know that we know it's a spiritual part of us in us guiding us.

“That's the awakening process. And to spiritually grow, are to have a spiritual awareness, right?”

Is the moment you say, oh my gosh, I never thought of that before. I always joke way back when, my second spiritual awakening, my first spiritual awareness was conscious of awareness was. The police officers are not trying to get me to stop driving. They're trying to get me to stop drinking and driving. Prior to that exact spot in time, I never thought that. My entire life, I'm in my mid-20s. I've never had that thought. Police are trying to get me to stop drinking and driving.

I laughed because my solution to no drinking or driving was, I became a full-time every day,

marijuana smoker. Now, I didn't go to prison because I didn't get that third DUI. I never

broke into people's house crazy because I wasn't drunk anymore all the time. So it had its benefits, but to have a spiritual awareness is that period of time where it's that moment in time, that just in a moment, you just see the something, the it, the experience different than ever before. Spiritual awareness. And I always suggest to people, think back when it was the first time you had,

“what's your first awareness? What is your first time you really could see your own thoughts?”

Also, when I let you know, most people, most do not know that they do not know that they can hear

already know that concept that you could hear your own thoughts. Everybody that does positive affirmations and all of that world and meditations, what are they doing? They're trying to calm their thoughts. And that just tells me that whole world with their millions, but there are billions that don't know. They understand that their thoughts are their own, they're inside of them. Everybody on this podcast knows people in their family, probably in your breakfast dinner

“table, that does not know that they don't know that they can hear their thoughts. And that's why”

it can be very frustrating because you can see their insanity of their life, but they can't see themselves. And that's just all part of the process. Hence why I'm glad you're here, because I'm going to validate that you are hearing your own thoughts. You are. And you're doing it. And you can change it. Now, when you have a brand new thought out of nowhere, you see the exact circumstance that you saw on Monday, over here at ABC, and now Tuesday, you see the exact same experiences,

XYZ, that spiritual awareness. Now, when you start living that new awareness on a daily basis, the more you live the new perspective of what it ever does, you just became aware of, that's spiritual awakening. You're waking up to the availability that this new way of looking at something, you can live life differently. You can make choices differently. You can act out in the world differently. That's the spiritual awakening process. And then spiritual enlightenment,

right, is about bringing light to that. So you've got a spiritual awareness, spiritual awakening, and then to just spiritually know something. Over time, you just know it that you know it. And for a lot of you, you've reached that era of time in your world where you've got the house. You've got the family. You've got the business. You've got plenty of money. Everything is good.

You and your partner, you know, you may be on your first one. Still, you may be on your fourth one.

Whatever it is, but things are pretty okay. And you just know that you know, though, that some things missing. We're going to talk about the something that's missing. We're going to talk about how I found that and how I became aware of that in my own world. And for me, what happened was I have this powerful experience in September 2022. And I read a woman's document. And she's talking about a grander tomorrow, which if you're talking about

or seeing a grander tomorrow, that's your divinity speaking. This woman is a brilliant writer. And then I heard this same person on this thing called a podcast, which I didn't even know what it was back then. I hear her and my heart opens. So I have this powerful opening. At the time,

I really thought it was emotional. But after two or three months, I mean, I never met this woman.

You know, so I'm a six-year-old guy. I literally felt like I had a crush on a person I never met. It was bizarre. I'm going to tell you that straight up. And so I knew it wasn't emotional.

“How can you have a crush on someone you know now? But that's what it felt like.”

Literally the experience. Three years later, what I realized was what happened for Jo for the first time of my life. And almost the only time is that this woman's heart, the way she connected to her spiritual essence of her heart, more expanded than me. So it wasn't an emotional experience. It was an expansive experience. Well, in that expansion, right? So now Jo is living the expansion. So what happens? Two more books come through me. One called unequal a yoke. One called we.

We now we've turned into a book called Why We Feel Alone. That's the second book going to

be coming out here in a few months. But in that awakening, in that opening, I start then moving into my career path. Now, this career path. For 16 years, I've owned a company called Avian Energy. I still own the company called Avian Energy. I last podcast, I say, you know, you can live your passion, live your purpose. But it's not your passion and purpose is responsibility to pay your bills. The reason I can do these podcasts, the reason I can write books, the reason I can

travel the globe speaking is because Avian Energy is a company that's been around since 2010. We do very well. We offer a fabulous service. And we make money. It's how we pay my bills. All of our bills, there's 15, 20 of us. So I get this awakening and then I just am guided. One day, I don't know, we're in this period, right? So the states back 2022. So 2023 happens and you know, then things just start moving forward at a get a phone call. I get a message.

Hey, Joe, you want to do a TEDx? I'm like, sure, I'd love to do a TEDx. He says great.

“He says meet me in South Africa. I remember I call it my golf moment. I was like South Africa,”

the country. He's like, yeah, South Africa, the country. I'll put you on a TEDx stage.

When I got there, I'm not much of a traveler. I want to be. I look forward to traveling the globe.

“The globe is such a beautiful place and such beautiful people. And I get there and I meet a community”

a culture of some of the most loving, connected, clear, eyed human beings. I'd ever met, ever. So just walking around, I'm having a spiritual experience. I go up. I do my TED. I have a great time. After my presentation, a gentleman sits down with me. He's a tour guide from the Serengeti. His name is praise and he's talking and he's like, yeah, I grew up, you know, in the normal village here and he was in from the Serengeti. And he says, you know, Joe, the normal village,

no shares, no water. And you know, the big rock across the way we played on that all the time. It was a multi-kilomanch, or the mountain. And I heard the no water, but I wasn't going to interrupt this man's beautiful story. So I didn't think much more, but it stuck with me. Next morning, I get a one of the speakers, another global speakers named Chris and Chris has anybody up for an adventure meet me in the restaurant. 6 a.m. we'll go on an adventure. That's like great. I'll go.

So Chris is a global traveler, literate. This man's named Chris Hardwick. And he's got this

amazing business out there. And he walks mountains. When I met him back a year and a half ago,

he had climbed over 370 mountains in his lifetime. He's younger than me. He's up for 50's probably. And so we're walking. I said, so Chris, what is this no water thing? He kind of looks at me puzzle. He says, oh, yeah, Joe, it's a real epidemic. It's a real problem. I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. Slow down and tell me, what are you talking about Chris? He says, Joe, there are over 400 million people in the continent of Africa alone that do not have running water

“in the homes. I remember gulping and I felt like my head exploded. I couldn't believe it. Like how”

can that possibly be? It's 2025. I said, so yeah, Joe, it's a global epidemic. I had no idea. I said to myself, later, I'm back in the land. I'm like, you know, everywhere I look, people have water. Even homeless people in Atlanta can go on the back of a quick trip, turn on the fricking faucet and there's running water. So my brain just couldn't wrap around it. They're really good. And then we're driving. We're walking. I see these two beautiful young, I don't know,

a 10, 12 year old boy says, Chris, what about them? He says, oh, no, Joe, there's no end. Chris was taking me around some pretty cool places. He says, there's no way. And then I'm looking around, I said, but they have cell phones. And all he does is he points up. I was like, oh, my gosh, yet, satellites. So the technology and the country provides very, very cheap satellite service for phones. So people can have phones, but there's no infrastructure for water.

“So, you know, I'm a guy when I see something that I believe is broken. I can't not look. I can't”

act like I didn't see it. I can't like not pay attention. I just can't do it. I'm playing back 18 hours and I'm being inspired. I'm writing all this stuff down and I come up with this thing called Project Smile, which I'm going to tell you about here in a minute. But I write down. And when I'm inspired, I don't try. I just have pads of paper and I write as fast as I can, I hear it, right? And I started

thinking, like, what is the answer? This is nuts. There's no way that 400 million people

shouldn't have water. Like, what are we going to do about it? We meaning like I'm talking to anybody. I'm literally on an 18 hour flight. No one was in my row. It's me talking to me. So I get back and I go online. And so I reach out. I find a guy who's a caregiver in Uganda on LinkedIn. And he asked me for $50. And what I'm going to share now is where I came up with the whole concept of the generation of change because we live in an era of time right now. August the 15th, when I'm

doing this recording in northern Indiana, is this recording will travel to globe. But we live in an era of time unlike any other era of time ever in the past. And that's where I say the generation to change. And he says there's a little girl named Patricia who has broken her arm and she doesn't have the money for care. I was like, great. How much? 50 bucks. And I found a way. I didn't know how to do it.

way on the other side of the globe. Well, lo and behold, I find an app called world map. Click,

“click, click. He's got my $50. And it took me a while, but literally once I found the app,”

once I didn't know what even existed, then I realized that that was really simple. 50 bucks. Now, what surprised me was within two hours. He and 22 kids sent me a video,

thanking Mr. Joe for the $50. Again, I web because technology was so powerful. And the first

reason we live in the generation to change is because of technology. You know, there's not a human in need around the globe anywhere that somebody doesn't know they exist. They do. Everybody in need there are people aware of their needs. And unlike just 20 years ago, like, and I learned this, which I'm getting ready to tell you now, from my friend, Praise, because Praise says now, when the Serengetti, like he said, because anywhere you drill on the planet, there's water.

You just have to be able to go deep enough. Hear me, anywhere on the planet, if you drill deep enough, you'll hit an aquifer deep enough. Well, in the Serengetti, it was either 250 feet deep or 450 feet

“deep. And don't quote me, I don't know, really deep. I think it's 250 feet deep. And 20 years ago,”

because it's remote, you know, is out there literally in the middle of nowhere. The water's under there, but they couldn't reach it because technology wasn't. And I said, so how much, Praise, to drill a well? He says 30 grand. 30,000 dollars, you can have a well. Yeah. How many people with that, like, satisfy? Says an entire village, three or four thousand people. So, and I said, so, why don't they have it? He says money, no money. So, and he's going to explain it to me. He said

20 years ago, even if you had the money, the same well 20 years ago might have been a half a million

dollars, because they didn't have the technology they do now. They didn't have the equipment,

“they didn't have the radars and the sensors to find the water. Water is easily found now with”

technology of 2026. So, the first thing that makes us, you and me, part of the generation of change, this technology. The next thing is wealth. We live in the wealthiest global economy effort. I'm not saying you aren't having a challenge paying for your Mercedes. I'm not saying you're not having a challenge paying for your second car. I'm not saying you're not having a challenge because college cost you $250,000. I'm not saying you're not going through financial challenges. I'm saying

as a global economy, there is more wealth that moves through our global economy in one hour than there used to be existence of money 100 years ago. That I did the math. Here what I just said, there is more money, global economy, you know, US, the whole world, all the way, all of a spend money. More money moving through the global economy in one hour than there used to be in existence 100 years ago. What does that tell me? It tells me that there is plenty of

money because the only challenge, like praise said, if I had $60,000 Joe, I could build a well, I could build a greenhouse. We could plant food in the greenhouse that would literally feed and give water and food to in the community of 3,000 people. A lot of them now starve and, you know, they go through their challenges all the time because they don't have it. He said, if he just had that amount of money, $56,000, I could do it. And that's when I was thinking this whole thing

when I was on my trip coming back from South Africa. Now, I am entrepreneurial big time. I am

quad A entrepreneur. I hope everybody on this podcast goes out and makes a million dollars. I hope

you become the next owner of the next apple. Go make yourself a hundred billion. Be the next whoever you want to be. Why? Because there's plenty of money for people to do plenty of things with. But what I said, when I'm sitting in my seat, which is back in row 43, I think it costs $3,000,

on the same plane going to the same place, they were spending $20,000, somebody was spending $20,000,

“so they could stretch their legs. My legs were pretty stretched. I didn't have to anyone sit next”

me. So I thought to myself, any human that has $20,000 to spend on a flight that to stretch their legs would have $10,000 for a well. That's the wealth. That's the extra. That's where I came up the concept of one percent one time. So technology, grander than ever before, wealth, grander than ever before. And part of what I did with Project smile, and I'm going to tie all this together at the end of this podcast. But we live in the wealthiest society ever.

Now, the other thing that I just I learned as I got back from South Africa, that for the past 20, 30 years, there's a whole world of people whose passion is to be hands on the ground, boots on the ground, touching people, helping communities in need. Is that Joe's passion? No, my passion is awareness. My podcast. It's literally a Saturday night at 845. I'm getting ready to go to a funeral. I had to excuse myself from my family for an hour, so I could do this podcast because I'll be traveling.

This particular podcast won't be released for a week, but I'm traveling. My passion is what you're experiencing from me. Now, this is Joe's passion. But there are people that have been spiritually guided to be hands on the ground. I got a good and I met these people. I've no

probably 15 of them now has never been looking. I met this one man. He owns it's called water

something. Water works or something. And 30 years, 25 years ago, now probably his name is Tom. Tom was in church and it was kind of out of church and an old preacher, an old pastor came up

“to him and said, "Tom, you need to get those kids back in church." Tom being the good Italian,”

you know, he waited till the priest turned around, custom out and said to us, "I've our, let's take the kids." Well, at that particular service, they were talking about a mission trip to Dominican Republic. And Tom said to his wife, he said, "Let's go. Why said I'm not going? You can't make me go. Let's just go. Come on. Listen." And this is Tom talking. He says, "Here's the deal. You come to Dominican Republic with me. And our trip to Europe,

I'll make it from two weeks to six." There's life ahead. All right, what the hell? Week in Dominican Republic, six weeks in Europe, I'm in, she says. Well, sure enough, Tom goes down there. Absolutely falls in love with the people. Absolutely, she sees a need with the, because his background was filtration systems. And for 30 years, Tom, think his last name is Flame. Tom Flame has been working in his nonprofit that is very established

to help the water crisis in the island of Dominican Republic. As I'm listening to Tom talk, he says, "You know, as the oceans have rise, risen a little bit, they filled the caverns. So

“when you drill on an island, like Dominican Republic, you should be able to hit fresh water”

with those days or over." So they have to, the only way they get fresh water, it has to be disalienized. So, and I don't know the details. I'm paraphrasing all of that, but the point is,

30 years ago, Tom was divinely guided, and spiritually, he's never left.

All these past 30 years, he built big businesses, he raised his kids, his kids are in college, kids went on, but for 30 years. And that taught me was there is a whole generation of tens of thousands of prolonged caregivers already on the ground. They're already there. They're already established. I met another guy that he said, "I can do wells in Somalia for $5,000 a piece. I just have to have because he's got teams of people in Somalia." I said, "How many wells you want to do? $40? How much is that

take? $4 million? $5,000?" So he can't do just one well for $5,000. He needs to have 50,000 and do 10 wells at a time. In some of the roughest, back-country places in Somalia, where they have zero water. $5,000 a well. I asked this man, his name is John something. John's probably 40 now. It's John how long you been doing this? Tell me that almost the exact same story. Joe and high school went there. Went back when I was 23. He lived there for five or six years, met his wife. He and his wife

now raising kids and this gentleman for 15 years has been raising money for wells in Somalia. Why do I

there's a whole world of prolonged caregivers that are already on the ground. And you know the only thing they're missing? Not passion, not ability, not technology, not anything, not love. Jesus, these are

“what love is. It's money. The only thing they're missing is money. And that brings me into the last”

component, which I call generation lab. We are literally living in an era of time that has never

happened in human history. The the young side of generation lab is that our children are coming in more spiritually connected, more spiritually aware, more spiritually gifted, more intelligent, than we would ever be and could ever be. Everybody on this podcast knows some kid around them somewhere, that every time you see them, they wow you. They're smarter than you know. They're musicians, they're whatever. My youngest son is literally a modern day Mozart. He's 14 years old. He's right

now learning how to trade the futures market. But all by himself, he's teaching me how I could go on and on. And people say, "Well, Joe, is that the group going to heal humanity?" I said, "No, that's

the next generation." The other side of generation lab is there are more people that have made

more money in shorter periods of time than ever before. So there are more people that are in their late 40s, early 50s, early 60s, even early 70s that have made millions and millions and millions of dollars. And now they've got the rest of their life to go do something with that money, with their life. And why they're lost is because their normal pursuit for the past 30 years is well, let's just go start another business. Well, they don't feel like starting another business.

They've got plenty of money. They don't want to go through the hard work. And that position right there is where their humanity was the one for 20 30 years was pursuing gratitude, a beautiful

“expression of life called gratitude, pursuit of gratitude. What does that mean?”

You get up on a money morning, you work really hard, you put value out into the world,

and you get money back and you're grateful for the money. You get up on a Tuesday morning and you teach your kids and you help your kids through college and they get their college diploma and you provide and they're successful. And you're the one giving them the money and supporting the whole process, you're empowering your kids. Well, they get their diploma and you're grateful for it. That's all part of the human experience. It's wonderful. Now, a lot of you, you might not be in the

excess of it, but you've got to job that pays your bills. You've got to carve that you like. You have a partner that you like. The last time you bought a blouse that you like, you're buying the blouse and you're getting it and you're grateful for the blouse. That's a human experience gratitude. Well, where humanity is shifting is that there's a massive quantity of people that are moving from their humanity to their divinity. They're moving from

the pursuit of gratitude to the pursuit of grace and grace is when you give back and your reward is in the giving, not in the receiving. The experience I got two years ago when Patricia, I did a livestream in this young Zuhili girl, she couldn't understand a word I said. These big, beautiful eyes. She moved her arm. I gave her $50. No $50. I was told later that I have to cut the arm off because they didn't have anywhere to care for. Well, the grace I felt for the giving of that $50.

It's the same today as it was two years ago. gratitude is an ever fleeting experience. It's an ever chasing experience. It's a beautiful one but you're ever chasing it. You do something on a Monday, you know, you put it out there, you get back, you're grateful then. By Thursday, you're doing it again, you're pursuing gratitude. gratitude is an ever chasing event to human experience. Well, with the waking up your humanity, the what's happening, we're waking up to the

feminine side of ourselves and that feminine side of ourselves, there's a male side and female side, male side, mental physical, female side spiritual emotional. Well, as you're healing the depths of your emotions and a lot of you are already emotionally pretty real stable, then you have your

“divinity, your higher sense of you that's ready to be activated. I literally thought that's why”

my opening was like, you know, if I hit my feelings and feel better, that I was kind of done. And that's where I realized that that isn't the finished spot, that's the launch spot. So for many of you, you've had a wonderful human life, your humanity's been wonderful, and you're not done. That's the launch into the living of your divinity, the living of pursuing

for guidance from a power greater than yourself, human self, higher self, inner self, emotionally

you're in challenges, ask the inner self, give a voice to the inner self by asking it, what it's feeling, what's the same experience, but now you're doing it with the grander part of yourself, the divine part of you, you ask for guidance. I say all the time, dear God guide me. I don't know what your adjective is, but you ask, hey, divinity, what is my life supposed to be? And then you pray for strength and courage to pursue. And that's where I came up with the whole

idea of one percent one time. Because for Joe, when I'm out there on the road, and that's where the we podcast came in, my ultimate goal on the we podcast is to make sure every living human being

in the continent of Africa has water. Joe, that's 400 million. And why do I care?

“The only thing missing is money. Well, we live in the most economically prosperous globe on the planet.”

And I'm going to be creating a fund that will grow. We're going to use the profits of the fund in our prosperous economy out there. And we're going to start healing the well. We're going to start building wells and healing humanity. And that's where the one percent one time comes in. And there's vast, there's millions and millions of us looking for their next thing. Well, the next thing is in giving back some way somehow. Now, you're giving back might be

volunteer. You're giving back might be build a nonprofit. You're giving back might be build another business. It might be. But you're giving back might also be to every once in a while, put into projects, smile, global fund. Give you one percent. I'm not asking for anything more than one percent for anybody. And you know, when my world gets to the place, I'm going to put a very large amount of money in there. And I'll tell you what I do because I'm going to say, you know,

if I can put extra than $100, you can put a little bit in the pursuit of your gratitude. And why do we say that? Because that whole fund is going to be help heal Africa and other places. The globe needs water. And I share that because that's Joe's pursuit of grace. It's Joe's giving back. I don't know what your says. But we are the generation of change because we

live in an era of technology that with a click of a button, people can hear a million, a million

people can hear this podcast. You should do what I have done in grander things as a biblical quote

“that I remember for 30 years. Well, that was Jesus saying you should do what I have done in”

grander things. Well, you know, at every time Jesus would speak about 300 people would hear it. This podcast right here, this episode alone, right here, a million people could hear it with a click of a button. Technology wells that weren't even available to be drilled 20 years ago. Now can be done with less and less money. You name the it. My thing is water. I don't know what your thing is. Find your thing. And then find a place where you can just start working on it and

accomplishing it in your phase, in your style. And it doesn't matter size. It matters that you find your expression of love. And when you're living from your expression of love, that's where true abundance comes from. That's where true value comes from. That's where we feel the best when we're living from our expression of love. I don't know what Jesus, you're on my now. This is a passion of mine to share as I create more and more solution-based services like

divorce posts. I keep saying this one because I don't have the other five or six yet. If you're

“our solution-based website out there that can handle a global audience because you have to be”

technology has to be a major part of what you're doing because you want like literally. I introduced this divorce post concept on that video that I cried. I will have tell 50,000 people about that one website. Why could I do that? Just they used technology to support their process. So we podcast is a podcast of awareness, but I'm going to have solution podcasts out there. As I talk to the owners of these solution podcasts, I can absolutely guarantee you.

They'd say, "Yeah, that's my purpose. It's my passion. It's my passion. I'm doing it because I have a passion. I know that's what they're going to say. I just do. I can feel it in the hearts of people, literally. And the way that you on this podcast feel better and you move out into the world

and you might be one of those hands on the ground. Or you might be the finances for somebody

“who's hands on the ground. Literally projects, my home, my little nonprofit. I project smiles”

only fundraise. I'm the only funder and I've got two orphanages about 70 kids that for a couple hundred dollars a month, I keep them in shoes. We literally just bought $80 worth of seeds.

30 kids will eat because this one man, the prolonged caregiver will go out and plant because it

makes it's corn. And 820 kids will eat for a year for 80 bucks. Find your it. Maybe you're just

“financing for something. You're one percent. And as you do, you're going to live it. That whole”

the way it all wraps together. Technologies out there, wealth is out there. Prolong caregivers are out there. And now there's a whole world of people searching for their next thing. The reason they're lost, they're searching in the same place to live the next 20 years as they lived the last 20 years. The spiritual awakening Joe had and the spiritual awakening I'm teaching you here

“is the answer to your next 20 years is not from your humanity. The answer to the action steps”

of your next 20 years is in your divinity. It's going to be something when you're doing something you love. If God is love and love is an emotion and emotions are in your heart. When you're doing something you love, you're doing God. God is love. Love is emotions. Emotion is in your heart. So when you're doing what you love, you're literally doing God. You're living God. You're living as the essence of your God essence. The creation while created in God's image. How do we live

the created in God's image concept? Do something you love to do. Why? Because if God is love, when you're doing it, you're literally living your highest sense of self. Folks, thanks for being here.

This is exciting time. We live in an amazing era of time. And we're literally at a place where

other generation of change. We're doing it all different. And together, we're making a difference. Together, we're healing humanity. Together, the way podcast is exploding around the world. And together, we're healing humanity. One smile at a time. And from around the world, welcome, to we. So that's it. For today's episode of the Wii podcast, head on over an Apple Podcast or wherever you listen and subscribe to the show. One lucky

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