Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Going back to oneself, that's like the first connection with love, no, that I, that I'm finding. Being connected to and coming back to what we are. And then we, when we find like this connection that it's inside, then we start creating or giving or sharing. So for me, love, it's been like a matter of understanding love first from my insight instead of bringing like the external love.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Welcome to Came Here to Love, a podcast hosted by me, Liz Logan, where we explore heart centered conversations with visionary leaders from around the world. This podcast is a journey into wisdom, a path to transformation, and an invitation to catch the highest vibration of all. Love. Elevating our lives and connecting us more deeply to ourselves and the world around us. Our mission is simple, to live with passion, align with purpose, and spread more love. In each episode, we invite compassionate leaders to share insights, personal breakthroughs, and heart inspired ideas that impact change not only in our own lives, but also in our communities and the world beyond. Whether you're seeking new perspectives, deeper connection, or a sense of purpose, Came Here to Love offers transformative insights that inspire, enlighten, and remind us all why we're here to love.
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[00:01:32] Speaker C: Sit down with Patricia Mendeval. With a light, explorer, curious and architectural eye, Patricia lives life by overlapping her passions, values in a creative, refined, joyful and earthy way. She is the owner of Tata Mosaics, which is mosaic tiles and design with soul creating in a very artisanal, conscious way that's connected to the earth.
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Came Here to Love. And I'm sitting down today with Patricia from Mexico City. She is one of my favorite design gurus and geniuses and I can't wait for you to really understand what she's doing in the world and just to dive deep into her story and her life. So before we get to that, let's go ahead and talk about things that we're loving right now. So welcome, Patricia. It's so nice to have you here.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Hi Liz. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here and congratulations on this new project.
[00:02:31] Speaker C: Thank you. It's been really, really fun to sit down with people. I absolutely love and love what they're doing in the world and, and when you and I crossed paths, it was definitely that connection. And I'm so excited that we get to have this conversation now offline, not digging in dirt and creating beautiful spaces and just sitting in, in this beautiful space together. So thank you for coming and I always start every episode with talking about things that I'm loving right now. And before I ask you about, about what you're loving, I actually just got back from a design trip in San Miguel and I have to say, every time I go there, I am just falling in love deeper and deeper with that little magical place. Because this time it was all culinary for me. It was like every single food experience was so magical and so many small, little restaurants. I think that's the thing that I love most about San Miguel is there's these tiny little eateries that you just, you know, it's around the corner, it's through an alley, it's this tiny little door you go through and there's always magic at the other end of that. So that's what I'm really coming high away from this weekend. I just got back last night and I'm still. I'm still wishing. I'm like craving some beautiful culinary experience today. And instead I'm going to be making something out of my own kitchen. And so it's kind of not as much fun, but. But yeah. So for those of you that know San Miguel, there's so many new restaurants popping up. Actually, someone told me there's like 600 restaurants in San Miguel right now. So, yeah, so it's definitely becoming a culinary delight. It's also what. Also I'm really venturing. There is. Is for a lot of design trips and there's a lot of really cool artisans that are moving outside of Mexico City into San Miguel and setting up shop there. And so a lot of the projects that I'm working on, I'm doing a lot of stuff in San Miguel. And so it's a really fun combo to be able to go shop and meet with suppliers and the artisans and then also eat really well. So anyways, that's what I'm loving. I'll send you some show notes on that below this episode and then I turn it to you. Can you tell us, is there anything that you're loving in your life? Right.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: I've been traveling a lot. I just came from Greece. And what I'm loving right now, it's super interesting because I'm kind of connecting in terms of history, like what makes us connected from one culture to another. Like going back to the roots of Greece and going back to the roots of Mexico in terms of food and in terms of crafts as well. Like kind of the interest overlapping design and architecture. Food kind of also like family values and so like this overlap of cultures and being sensitive to. To rescue. For example, right now, another thing that I'm excited about is that I'm doing my. My home studio showroom, like, all in the same place. And I'm kind of opening up the. The creative part of traveling, but also being connected to my own route. So that's blend, like, in terms of, like, plants and gardening and the materials and what kind of vibe do I want to be in touch with. And also thinking about what made me feel in peace when I was in Greece and what food kind of connected me to home. And, you know, like, all these connections, it feels like a bit not grounded, but I'm being able to kind of ground everything. And everything makes sense. So much sense. And the way that you're talking about San Miguel de.
It's similar, no? Like, it's like this place that different cultures kind of come together, but in a respectful way and being interested about the history behind each place, for example, or craft.
[00:06:41] Speaker C: Yeah. 100% no. And I love. And this is actually one of the things that I love about your work, but this passion and this respect, I'll say it that way, for the overlapping and overarching themes of how things thread together. I think that you. You have this genius skill about you to really recognize that and to thread it through. So it doesn't shock me at all that that's what you're. That's what you're doing, no matter if you're traveling or. Or living in your new studio space. I think it's just. It's about that. It's about honoring the roots of a place and then also weaving in. It's almost like, you know, I refer to my favorite style of design as ancient modern, where you're taking the very oldest, you know, curated antiques and bringing them into a modern way that feels, you know, more refined and fluid to this day and age. And. And I think that's. That's what you're speaking to right now. And I love that. I think that's beautiful.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Definitely.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: Well, and I would love to actually just take a step back because. Yes. Now that we've. We've talked about what we're loving currently, I would love to tell everybody how much I love you. And the minute that I saw your work and then you and I had our first conversation when I was working on a. On a big house project, for me, I love working with talented artisans that actually have a sense of purpose and place in. In a bigger, grander way. And so I want to just step back and tell the story of your background as an architect and then how you ended up Going into the Tata Mosaics, which we will also link all of your work to the bottom of these episodes so that you, you know, everybody watching can. Can see what this talented, amazing human is doing in the world. But will you just take me through and take our audience through your background and how you got now to where you are?
[00:08:45] Speaker A: My background is in architecture, so I studied architecture in Mexico City and I started doing my freelance project as an architect. And then like it came like this.
So as an entrepreneur and an architect in Mexico, it's a lot of freedom, of course, but it's also challenging in order to. To get projects and to get to people trust you once you don't have like a CV or a background or a famous last name or a family who is an architect or so on. So I was like in this phase of questioning, like myself and my practice, like, what am I doing? Like, why do I use the material that I use for architecture? And then like, so it started like from a small scale into a bigger one. So I was like, okay, so I'm here at my apartment in Condesa and I'm. Every time I was longing for. For a connection to, to nature. So I grew up in Mexico City, but like kind of in the suburbs, like closer to the mountain. So every, every weekend I used to go to the mountain with my family. So like everything was a connection with nature. So when I went down as an independent to live in Condesa, like to the city, I started get used to sounds like, not the birds, but the, the boss or the.
[00:10:25] Speaker C: Yeah, the city sounds.
[00:10:26] Speaker A: The tamales. The city sound. No, so it was super interesting. Like, okay, like this is the city. Like I thought I, I lived in the city, but no, I, I kind of lived in a bubble. No nature bubble. So I was like, I really miss the, the nature. Like, why am I like surrounded with concrete and the city is concrete and so on. And so I was questioning about like, what path do I want to follow in architecture. So I started researching about natural architecture, bio architecture, random architecture. And I found out I really felt a connection there. But it was kind of like, like the hippie side of the architecture.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: Right?
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Kind of the empirical one. Not the, that I, I studied at university because it was, it's. It's. There's not like a guidance of following, like how to build with earth. No.
[00:11:25] Speaker C: And especially forgotten. It's a forgotten wisdom teaching. Really?
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Absolutely. And especially in the city. No. Like, there's like some norms and the rules and, and the, the steel and the concrete. And so I found out, like, okay, maybe what I want to do, there's nothing like this. So maybe I need to learn, like, from scratch what the material is not like, in these terms of earth. So I started doing a research and I went to a workshop of earth architecture at a community outside of Mexico City in Tlasco, in Tlaxcala. So it was like a big land, but with two architects that usually they live there, but they were like, from my perspective, it's what it was like. They went out of the system. So for me was like, oh, this is radical. Like, if I really want to follow that path, I must get out of the system. No, And. And for me, it was, like, challenging because it was. No, no, no. But I need the system. But I'm longing for this. But, like, how am I integrating this? But I really felt a connection with the earth. And I saw, like, the colors of the earth. And for me, it was like. It was like cooking. No, it was, okay. So this is the ingredient. And depending on how much water do you add or not, you could do painting, or you could do like a tally lack for the bathrooms, or you could do a wall or not. So it was like the transformation of the. Of the ingredient itself. And it was mind blowing for me. And it had also color itself. And at that moment, I was working with artisans for my architectural project. Like a handmade tile, but, you know, like the concrete ones that you pigment with chemicals. So I was. I was familiarized with the. With the tradition itself, but I was like, it makes no sense for me keep doing pigmenting a concrete. If the earth itself has color, itself.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: Already has the pigment naturally already now.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: So. So then I started researching about the concrete. So I was kind of against the concrete. You know, like, coming back from this school, it's like, radical. Like, no, no, no concrete and just earth. So out of the system. So I did this research of concrete. And then I found out, like, concrete is a industry that moves the part of the economy of the world. So it was like a challenge. Like, okay, so I cannot shut down, like, concrete just like that. No.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Right, right.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: So. So instead of going, like, instead of fighting, I kind of thought of, how can I mitigate and create in a more mindful way. That makes sense for me because, like, there's nothing in the market. The things that I want, I was curious about, there was not in the market. So I was like, okay, maybe I need to create it. And I started testing with earth, like, with this technique. Like, what. What could happen? Like, imagine this wall, like, in the City instead of concrete, it's earth. And maybe if I see every day the earth, my emotional well being changes.
[00:14:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Instead of looking everyday concrete, what happens if I touch everyday earth? No, like, right. Like if you walk through the. To. Through a floor of barrow and you pour some water on it and you smell the earth of the barrel, it makes a connection maybe to the woods. No.
[00:15:16] Speaker C: Like 100.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Like, why do I need to go out of the city to feel this emotional connection over this piece? What happens if I bring like this connection to the city? So I started developing and at the beginning, of course, the, the piece was beautiful, but it was aesthetically beautiful but not functional. So I kept going, kept going. And then it was super interesting. What had like the conversations with the artisans, because they were like, no, that's not gonna work.
No, that's awful. Like, why are you doing this? It's awful. And I was like, wait a minute, like you live in a house built from adobe. No. Like, why would you say it's awful? No. So then I found out, like, it was also like a kind of social, political status.
[00:16:13] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a. It's a social class. Yeah. Topic. Exactly.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: No.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: Going back to the basics of the adobe floors and walls and earth as the primary. Yeah. No, it's. Of course you would have that resistance. That's interesting.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: Exactly. What's the resistance? And at the beginning, I wanted to focus it more into a social, like a grassroots project, kind of rescuing the techniques, the ancestral techniques in the old towns and so on. But with this conversation, I felt it was the opposite. It's like, what are we doing? So I found out that of course, people from rural places that come to the city to work, they kind of aim what they find in the city. No, in terms of building materials. Oh, no. The city is progress. And they build with concrete and the marble and. No, no, no. We need to do this like, because we're poor and we don't have that. And it's like, no, no, I think we're going in the opposite way.
[00:17:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: So I realized it's like, well, maybe if we. We think about it as a pyramid, like, maybe we need to turn the pyramid opposite. No, like people from the city. What happens if we start looking at this kind of material, which are the. The local ones, the ancestral ones, and we adopted at something that is classy and healthy and you know, again. And we can live with it.
[00:17:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: So that's where my.
[00:17:55] Speaker C: That's amazing hypothesis started. Now that's incredible. And you ended up with this gorgeous I mean, your story is so beautiful on so many levels, but you ended up with this really heartfelt, beautiful end result which the company that you now have of Tata Mosaics, and you're doing very, very high end homes and you're doing very, you know, you're kind of the whole gamut of spectrum of projects because I think people are starting to realize that we have lost our way in so many ways on earth, but, but the connection to Earth, literally, and you're allowing that connection to come back into play in, inside a home. For me, why I was so drawn to you is, is my background is in well, well being and making sure that people are in the most vital version of themselves and living that way. And so for me, when I'm designing a home, it's all about a wellness perspective and what materials are we using and what are we including to make whoever's living in that home have the absolute best experience? Because the toxicity levels inside our homes are very, very, very high, very high. Because of all of the materials and the cleaning supplies and, you know, carpets and mattresses and paint and all of the things that we use in, in an office space. It's very toxic to our health. And so when I came across you and what you were doing, it was like, not only did I want what you had and I wanted to bring you into projects, but it was also this deep respect for your position in the world of making the shift and saying, you know what, we can do it in a better way, we can do this differently, we can use the earth. And I love just hearing your story. I love how much resistance you were met with. Because of course it's like anytime you create your own path in life, people love to knock you down. They love to like, tell you it's not going to work. They love to make you feel crazy. But I love that you stayed center enough on, in both in yourself and on your path to be like, you know what? No, I'm, I'm going to keep doing this and keep changing the recipe and the formula to, to create what you now have, which is a really, really substantially beautiful product. So I just want to acknowledge you for staying the course and for really asking the deeper meaning of questions. I think that within itself, for all of you listening to this episode, it's such a beautiful metaphor of, of how we're moving through the world. And I think we've gotten to a time where it's very easy to just be in the monotony of the world and just kind of go into line with everybody else and do things that the world is telling you you should do, or. Or in this case, using materials that the world knows is. Can be used. But then to also look at your life and the areas in your life to say, like, actually, can I make my own path here? Can I carve out my own direction? And this is where I just feel like you're such a beautiful teacher. So thank you for that.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: Oh, thank you so much, Liz. I really appreciate it.
[00:21:08] Speaker C: Yeah, no, it's substantial, and not a lot of people would take the risk that you've taken and do things differently, so. So I honor that, and I honor your work every day, because it's not for me when I'm buying anything now, I'm in a very conscious mindset of who is behind the thing that I'm buying, whether it's clothing, whether it's products for the home, whether it's, you know, anything that I'm doing, even places that I stay. I really want to support the people that are having a conscious conversation around how that they're actually moving through the world, because I think we're at a moment of time where everything's very fragile here on planet Earth, you know, and. And it's fragile within ourselves. And so when we actually rise up to new levels of wisdom that we all have access to, we're all internally so wise, and it's all stored inside the privacy of our heart. When we can access that and start to ask those deeper questions of what are we really here for and what are we really doing, and how can I make it better? This is where I feel like it's really living a life you love and designing into that potential. So you are a walking example of that. And I just wanted to ask you, could you share. And maybe this is part of what we just talked about, but could you share a transformative moment that significantly really shaped your. Your current path? Did we already cover that? Would you. Would you say anything different?
[00:22:34] Speaker A: Yeah, actually, we already covered that.
[00:22:36] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I think.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: But I would add that that was like the first season, and right now I'm kind of leaving the second or third season, because in this. In this path, there's been, like, questioning again, like, you know, like, is this. This still the path? You know, like, it's normal, like, once you're growing, like, interest kind of change or questioning change or, like, some projects start to develop as a trend instead of.
Of being aligned to. To the ethos or to the values itself. Like, that's like, a lot of the world works like this, like by trends. But then I get confused. No with in this kind of question, especially in the social media that a lot of things are moving so fast and so fast and this concept is going from back and forth now this new. But then like in, in this transformative second or third season path is like stopping and going back to why do I wanted to start this? No. And kind of going back in order to come again to the present.
And it takes me to this concept of impermanence. Not like things change from one moment to another, but there's something that still like remain like the values or the, the seed that we are like in terms of individuals or the project itself. And that's the soul of the project or the person. So I'm into this kind of concepts of soul and the impermanence and blending.
[00:24:29] Speaker C: It and what I think you're sitting on. Of course you've had so many obstacles to overcome. You're constantly.
It's like you're hitting an obstacle. You're going back, you're reevaluating, you're shifting, you know, saying okay, let's, let's do it this way now we'll turn this way. Let's re examine. You know, so many obstacles come. I think so many obstacles come with just owning your, your own business as an entrepreneurial. But then in, in this particular situation you're also completely changing a marketplace. So you're doing things in such a different way that you're, you're going completely against the grain. So there's also obstacles that come with that. Right. And what I'm hearing you say, and I just love to have you kind of bridge this for me but, and for our audience. But what I feel like it's almost like and this is where I love to take people in businesses and helping consults or even coach in businesses. But it feels like your business and your self discovery path, like actually the authenticity of your life is very overlapped. It's almost like. So my ultimate definition of a successful life is when you, when what you do becomes who you are. And there is no difference in that, in that formula. And what I'm hearing you say is with all of these obstacles you've overcome with, with choosing the more difficult path of what rammed earth, mosaic tiles or walls or all of the projects that you're doing, they're actually giving you this beautiful lesson of self discovery of you know, simple teachings, profound teachings, simple yet profound teachings of what you just said which was impermanence. Right. This is one of the biggest lessons of self discovery that we can actually master or at least try to attempt to understand, which is that nothing is permanent. And I feel like what you're. You're teaching us in this episode is that your work is your guidepost for actually a lot of your soul lessons. Am I feeling that? Because, wow, you're saying it in a beautiful way, you know, and this, this is where for me, everything that I, I teach, I preach, I. I believe in, is soul first living where you can really, again, it's tapping into that deep internal wisdom that we all hold. And that's really what the premise of Came Here to Love is about. It's not about the love as the possession. It's actually the essence of who we are as a soul person. And so I feel like you're blending this soul version of yourself into the beautiful creation that you are. And I think that's why it's successful and it's why it's sustainable for you because you are in your. In your passion and in your purpose doing your soul work.
[00:27:30] Speaker A: Absolutely. And it's funny that you mentioned this, because there were moments that I kind of fight with. Not like, this is Tata and Tata is not me. I'm Patty. No, like, it's. It's natural in. In every entrepreneur, of course, to kind of see, like the project as their baby or sometimes not being able to separate of. Of the project or company itself. So, yeah, like, there were some moments that I was like, no, no, I'm not. That is a separate living thing. And I'm Patty. And how you explain it, it's like, I'm. I'm Carla. I'm more peaceful with the concept of. It can be like, there's like an interbeing. No, like with Tata and. And Patty. Or if it's like in the future, it's not Pati. The one behind Tata. The history and the narrative from where it came, it's there.
[00:28:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: So it can evolve and it can continue. So it's like nurturing itself, like from one to another.
And it's two. Two separate beings that can coexist.
[00:28:44] Speaker C: 100. And what I would say to that on top of that is that Tata is your soul's creative expression. And so, yes, it's not you, but it's how we actually get to experience your soul in the world. So it's almost like, you know, when an author writes a book, it's the same thing. It's. It's their creative expression out into the world of how we get to experience Them. When you're in the design world and in the creative world, I think that it's. It actually lends itself deeper into the opportunity to really be in the soul's work. And so for me, when I look at your tiles, it's like, wow, what an amazing light that your soul is expressing out through you into the design of what Tata is. And yes, it's separate and it can live on without you, but at the same time, it's definitely an expression and a really beautiful imprint of. Of what I feel your soul is. So congratulations again.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Thank you so much.
[00:29:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. So. So I wanted to ask you, how is your perception of love or the understanding of love evolved throughout your life experience? Or has it evolved.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Of love like. Like as a general concept, love, however.
[00:30:06] Speaker C: You want to interpret that, Interpret that question. You know, the understanding of love, like, how. How do you feel like your understanding of love has evolved over time, through. Through your life, through your life experiences. Could be, you know, personal love, it could be passion, it could be work. It could be, you know, any of it.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: Well, the first thing that comes to mind is going back to oneself. That's like the first connection with love. No, that I. That I'm finding being connected to and coming back to what we are. And then we. When we find like this connection that it's inside, then we start creating or giving or sharing. Know. So. So for me, love, it's been like a matter of understanding love first from the my inside instead of bringing like, the external love to me. Like, it's like, it's both ways. Of course.
[00:31:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: But it's been like, interesting to notice, like, oh, well, what I. I'm looking outside that I kind of thought it was love or that need to.
[00:31:19] Speaker C: Right.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Bring to me. Maybe I. I have it on my own. No.
[00:31:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: So. And being able to. To connect with that has been beautiful. To notice that I am never alone and I am never by myself. Like, even though I have my own love and we have our own love, we are always like in community, we are always like, seeing from the outside and bringing from the outside, but if we have, we're like kind of solid in our own standing, that's like a powerful love.
[00:31:55] Speaker C: You nailed it. I mean, I feel like that's the. That's the whole point, you know, It's. It's realizing that love starts within. It is who we are. It's that it's the deepest layer of the privacy of your. Your own heart. And once you can really get that. And I think this is Again, just a beautiful reflection of how you move through the world and what you're doing as a craft.
[00:32:16] Speaker A: That.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: I mean, I feel what you just said. I feel it when I see your work. I feel it when I touch your tile. I feel it when just I'm around you in this conversation. It's just it. You. You understand that concept so much, and. And again, it becomes that, you know, it becomes your life teaching, but it also becomes that you are the teacher to so many others. And, you know, I think that's. That's where, again, the. The creative design side of life, I think it evokes this exploration of that deeper inner knowing because you are using this creative side to yourself. And so for. For the audience listening, what I.
If you haven't been creative in your life as of late, which most of us, if you're not in the world of creativity, of, you know, design or music or the arts, you kind of lose, and you lose that muscle tone. And so I would love to invite you to do something today or tomorrow, if it's the end of the day, do something that sparks the creativity in you. Whether it's just, you know, writing a letter or trying to sing in the shower or drawing something or, you know, molding something or designing a new house or even thinking about some new dreams for your life. But it's when we start to pull away from the creativity, in my opinion and what I've witnessed after coaching for so many years, we get this stagnation and we lose the center of who we are in the essence of this love that Patricia is talking about. And so it's a really easy place to start to tap into it. So that's the invitation for today, and I thank you for highlighting that because I think it's a really good place for people to start. So thank you for that.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: I would like to add something on that.
Sometimes we think creative is only like, maybe crafts or music or dancing, but I found that creative side is also crafting our thoughts as well, like our inner dialogue as well. It's also creating. It's not tangible, but we can create from. From changing thoughts as well.
[00:34:34] Speaker C: Nah, that's. That's such a beautiful addition. So, yeah, so even if that's what you're doing, if you're driving in the car right now, sitting in traffic or on the way to work and. And you're running through your thoughts like, yeah, check. Check them. Because you do you have that creative power to really design and create the life that you love, no matter the circumstances, you have the moment that you can make a pivot and change. So put it into practice. I would love to ask you, what does came here to love mean to you?
[00:35:05] Speaker A: For me, it means sharing. Just. Just sharing each other's path, thoughts, work story for me that defines, like, what you're. You're telling about in. In all this podcast. Like, even though I. I don't know, like, all the people that you interview, just by sharing it, I kind of feel like we're all part of it. It's not that someone is bigger or smaller. It's like we are all here in the same path.
[00:35:37] Speaker C: Yeah. No, it's a. It's a collective movement for me. That's why I started. This is. I wanted the hope and inspiration of just one moment in your life to be tapped into the highest vibrational frequency that we have, which is love. And when we can all do our part to tap into that, it's like we raise the elevation on the collective whole. And I believe this is. This is what we're all here for and what we're all here to do together. And it's super easy to do it. So I love that. So I want to ask you a couple of questions that you can just kind of fill in the blank however they come to you. So you're an artist. You're. You're always creative. You're always switched on. But when you disconnect, like, I want you to just answer this statement. When I disconnect, blank. So fill in the statement.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: I dream.
[00:36:29] Speaker C: You dream. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Okay, so then here's another one. I have learned to live without.
[00:36:36] Speaker A: Could be expectation.
[00:36:37] Speaker C: Wow. Isn't that an important one in the work that you're in and in life? In life, yes. Oh, my God.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So I. I've been switching, like, from this can be or cannot be, and I'm okay with each of the.
[00:36:52] Speaker C: Yeah. Results.
Yeah, no, that's. That's beautiful.
[00:36:56] Speaker A: So, of course it's a constant work. Like I'm saying, like, it's so easy, but.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: No, no, it's a practice. It's a practice. Like, it's. It's a daily realignment and resetting. It's a practice for sure. Okay, so we talked about impermanence, but fill in this blank. Change is.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: Change is necessary.
[00:37:17] Speaker C: Change is necessary. As much as we love to resist, it really is necessary. Oh, my God. There's been so many moments in my life where I'm like, no, I don't want to do this change or grow or Stretch or flex.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: And.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: And then once you get past that resistance of change on the other side of the change, all of a sudden you're like, wow, this is magical. You know, but it, but it does require the change piece for sure. Okay. So my life feels meaningful when what I feel?
[00:37:49] Speaker A: Balance.
[00:37:50] Speaker C: And to you, like, what, what does balance look like? Like, what would. What would it look like if you were in balance?
[00:37:57] Speaker A: Being able to get to myself what I. What I need, like from basic, like exercising, eating healthy and delicious food, laughing. For me, it's super important to laugh. Having a connection, a social connection, like being with family, being with friends, being in touch with nature, traveling.
[00:38:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: You know, like. Like this, like, important ingredient that makes. Gives me balance and also discipline as well. Like, if I have like all this well developed.
[00:38:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I love that. Okay, so what do you think the world needs more of right now? Compassion, that's for sure. So, yeah, so today's lessons are to go get creative and in whatever way that resonated with you, and then maybe to wear a little more compassion today as you move through your day. Compassion for yourself, compassion for others around you, compassion for the person standing in the grocery line or the. The car that cuts you off. You know, I. I think compassion is a really, really strong answer for. We definitely need more compassion right now, and I think we're going through a lot of major stuff on the planet. And compassion is a beautiful equalizer, I would say. Okay, I feel whole when.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: When I express.
[00:39:23] Speaker C: You should probably feel pretty whole then.
That's amazing.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: Well, sometimes I don't express a lot of thoughts or emotions, and. And I've been realizing that once I express them, it's like, oh, that's what I needed. Just as simple as that. No. Or just a crime. No, it's another expression.
[00:39:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it's better. It's better to express than to hold it in. You know, most of the time, as long as the expression is from a lens of. Of compassion. I think if you can do that, then we're in good working order. And then complete. Complete the sentence.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: I am creative, powerful, and love a loving human being.
[00:40:15] Speaker C: That's true. That is absolutely who you are. I would say you're excelling. That's. That's a beautiful. A beautiful thing. And then how would you end this? Love is.
[00:40:27] Speaker A: Love is living grateful with what you have.
[00:40:32] Speaker C: Love is living grateful with what you have. That's a profound statement. I think that we could all also tap into that a little stronger and deeper in terms of the gratitude for the now and the gratitude for what we have in this moment, we're so, we're so blessed. Even when we have moments of change and struggle and heartache and pain, there's still underlying all of that, there is gratitude. And I love that you just said that. Love is being grateful for what you have because it can all be taken away. You know, we're experiencing a lot of that right now in what's been happening in the world. So it's a beautiful reminder. I love talking to you and I, and I love the wisdom that you hold in, in you. I think that, you know, I've lived in Mexico for several years now, and I've gotten deeper into this design world here, and Mexico is such a teacher to me. I think it's, it's a wisdom because I do believe that every person that I know in Mexico, for the most part, really honors life. You know, it honors the. You guys honor. You have this way about you that you honor, you honor the beauty, you honor the beauty in life. And so I love sitting with you today and highlighting some of that in terms of the overall scope of how I'm always feeling in Mexico. And then just as a woman, as a woman designer in a very still trying culture to gain some perspective around women's roles and where we sit at the table, I commend you for your, your bravery and your path and just doing, doing everything that you're doing. I, I really, I hope you guys all go and check out Tata Mosaics. We're gonna leave the links down below to this episode of. She has a beautiful. You have an amazing Instagram page. So we'll definitely leave that for you guys to explore. And what I would, what I would invite, I, I would love to do a workshop with you at some point of actually how we can get hands on Earth.
So we'll, we'll have to come up with something that we'll do together. But in the meantime, if you have any design projects that you're wanting to do and you want to pull in rammed earth into the project, look no further than this episode because one, you're getting an amazing human to work with, which is what I always like, is who I get to work with in projects. But also the, the actual product that you're getting is incredible. And I just, I just used your tile on a gorgeous pathway in a hacienda style house. So we'll, we'll also see if we can get some photos and highlight that here. But, but yes, check out Tata Mosaics. Make sure you subscribe and follow and also send this episode to somebody that could use a little more love in their life and anything else that you want to add or you want to close with.
[00:43:28] Speaker A: Thank you so much for your openness and this invitation and I really, I really felt a deep connection in this conversation. Thank you so much.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: You're so welcome. Well, thank you for impacting everyone listening today with your wisdom and with your guidance and just with your heart and with your love. I, I really see you and appreciate the woman you are and and many more things to come here on on Came Here to Love. So keep watching, keep listening and we'll see you on the next episode.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you for joining us on Came Here to Love. I hope today's conversation has inspired you to live more fully align with your soul and spread more love in the world. Remember, love is the highest vibration and when we lead with it, we elevate not just our own lives, but the lives of those around us. If today's episode resonated with you, don't forget to subscribe, leave a review or share it with someone who could use a little more love in their life. And as always, keep tuning in for more heart centered conversations that remind us all why we are here to love. Until next time, keep living your light and loving with your whole heart.
