The Mentor Within and Learning to Trust Yourself

The mentor is where the Maven journey starts, and it is not the person you go out and find. It is the one already in you. We all look outside ourselves at the beginning and I did that for a long time, because there was so much I did not know that I needed somebody further along to show me. What I understand now is that the codes were already there. The mentor within is the part of you that has been through it, that guides without instructing, that keeps asking you to look deeper instead of handing you an answer. This one goes into self mastery, which is the phrase that landed on me while I was making it, and into how I see us as stardust that has already been everywhere. It goes into spirals and depth rather than hierarchy, into treating whatever happens around you as material, and into the choice you still have to make when you get knocked off the path. There is a short sit at the end if you want it. These episodes come from my archive. Years of lives, courses and conversations that were sitting on a channel doing nothing, so I am bringing them back one at a time. Some of it I would say differently now, and that is fine, it is all part of how I got here. First published 18 August 2023. __ I’ve burned through enough identities to stop believing in a final version of myself. For a long time, I stood in the middle of reality demanding answers. Reality laughed, lit a cigarette, and left me holding the blueprint. Now I trace the patterns in identity, belief and human behaviour, and talk about what I find. My Ego Says Hi holds all my old podcasts, alongside whatever comes next. Different versions of me speaking from different points in the same life. My books, Money Surge, Body Surge and Love Surge, explore the patterns, beliefs and behaviours that shape our relationships with money, our bodies and love. Together they form the Surge Trilogy, three 21-day protocols available as full audiobooks on Spotify. Money Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/0MnVWHQgPQiaQLgzWADVRd Body Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/1wyLX50IhCOaRMeuncGd6Z Love Surge https://open.spotify.com/show/14jYtxSRLHrd8cfOmDtvNU I write about identity, belief and human behaviour on Substack. My website brings together my writing, art, portfolio and systems. Writing & Essays https://annachitticksego.substack.com Portfolio & Systems https://annachittick.com