Una Palabra Sola Episode 5, ya
“¡Basta ya!” is not only super-fun to say, but it’s also important to know when to communicate that enough is enough, as it translates to “enough already!”.
Join me and my very special guest, Jennifer Jane Young as we talk about the concepts and language around already - o, ya.
I am so thrilled to present Jennifer Jane Young to the Una PS community! Jenn is an Intuitive Business Advisor, Founder of the School of Intuitive Leadership, and United Nations Consultant. She helps entrepreneurs & leaders find the path of least resistance, make the biggest impact, and create more exponential success through right brain and intuitive leadership.
Check out her podcast, “Finding Your Flow” here and be sure to check out her website for more details about the School of Intuitive Leadership. Keep your eyes peeled for her soon-to-be-published book, “Say YES to Your YES: How to Trust Your Gut and Take the Leap in Business (and Life)”.
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Ya: (adv) already
Adverbs give more context to the verb: in this case, “ya” can be used before or after the verb to give more urgency or detail into how the speaker is feeling.
(Examples: Tell me already, let’s go already, have you already done that?)
**¡OJO! “Ya” can also be a conjunction or interjection- spoken freely by Spanish natives.
Related words: todavía (still), de una vez (once and for all), para entonces ya (by that time)
Related adverbs: pronto (soon), ahora (now)
Related verbs: acabar de (just finishing), acabar (to finish), terminar (to end)
From the Latin “iam”, already, now.
Hurry up to slow down. Where are you feeling like you’re in a rut? How can you invite and welcome change (an international move to Mexico not required). You can live in the moment without needing to over-control your life, and you’ll still be fine.
5:22: You can squeeze it into all kinds of different contexts, which is fun.
11:19: The Mexican Police are kind of chill, and what could be a bad or scary situation can also be OK, with the right language tools.
14:03: For best results, use “ya” with friends, family, and dogs.
28:20: There’s beauty in the chaos of México, and with it, the opportunity to soften, relax, and let go.
35:06: In order to have really incredible experiences, expansive experiences… one, you need time and two, you need to slow down, you need to allow yourself to be vulnerable, and to try different things and be awkward speaking Spanish for a few years…
35:50: Have some fun, let go of all the rules and the controlling.
40:05: "Ya" is soft and squishy. Don't throw it at people that aren't expecting it. Be careful with your "ya". But also listen to it and cherish it and don't forget about it in the fridge because then it'll go stale.
For reflection:
One way I feel in a rut is __________________________________________________________.
One thing I can let go and release my control is _______________________________________.
Play around with how you’d like to use “ya”.
Ejemplos: “Ya tú sabes…” | ¡Basta ya! | Vámanos ya | Ya me voy
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TRANSCRIPT BELOW:
Megan 0:09
Hola y bienvenidos, hello and welcome to Una Palabra Sola, where we get to learn Spanish one word at a time. I'm your host Megan Miller, founder and teacher at Aprovechar Language Solutions. Empezamos and let's dive in.
Jennifer Jane Young is an intuitive business advisor, founder of the School of Intuitive Leadership, and United Nations consultant. She helps entrepreneurs and leaders find the path of least resistance make the biggest impact and create more exponential success through right brain and intuitive leadership. She brings together the last 12 plus years of her experience coaching advising and managing startups to multi six and seven figure businesses her background in yoga therapy and experience leading a community for the United Nations of 500,000+ members in partnership with the International Trade Center in Geneva, Switzerland. Jennifer facilitates growth, flow and transformation for heart centered impact driven entrepreneurs and businesses. She helps her clients translate their visions and intuitive guidance into practical actions and helps them find the most intuitive and aligned solutions and path forward to success. Jennifer is the host of her podcast finding your flow and soon to be author of her new book, "Say Yes to Your Yes: How to Trust your Gut and Take the Leap in Business and Life". She is currently living her Mexican dream life with her two rescue dogs.
Megan 2:18
So it sounds like you have a lot of opinions about this word. And I want to hear all of them.
Jenn 2:33
Well, it was a very confusing word for me at the beginning because I you know, spoke English and French but we don't really use that in French. But for me, "Ya" meant yes. So when I heard people saying "Ya" I was like, "Ya" what? What are you talking about? And then people would say it angrily and I'm like, why would you say yes in such an angry way? what is happening, you know? So it took a while for me to get used to it. I started using the word with my dogs actually. Because I learned it was essentially like setting a boundary, saying no, asking to stop. It's like "Ya" can mean no in many different shapes and forms. Or it can also mean like "Ya" now. It can also mean kind of like now, "Ya me voy afuera", now I'm going outside, or it can also mean like "Tranqui, ya" like it's done and over with, kind of thing, you know, and that's what I love about the word is like you can use it in so many different contexts. But I started using it with my dogs, I think because I heard my ex using it when he was like "enough" with the dogs, you know. And it is still the word that I, it is the one Spanish word that I use with them all the time.
Megan 3:58
Well, dogs are such gateway... they're wonderful gateway like drugs to Spanish, because like there's some things that I will say to Norman, that I would not say to a human. And like mi'hijito that's, or osito, like, I don't go calling anybody else like a little teddy bear. And I'm like, hey mi'hijito or mi osito. And it's like, my little son. Even though he's a dog, like if you pee on your feet that much. You shouldn't be a human so he's a dog.
Jenn 4:37
By the way, my dog pees on my foot. So it's, yeah, it's like, we go for a walk. And I'm like, not focused and he lifts his leg and he pees on my foot. Then I use "Ya". What the eff just happened here.
Megan 4:56
Seriously. Well to backup your word is "Ya", and I learned it like already or enough, like "basta ya", like enough already. But you're saying that this word can be used whenever, however, like it's almost like a blob, or like a cat in a bowl, it can take whatever shape you want it to take.
Jenn 5:22
Yeah, 100%. And that's what I love about it, because you can squeeze it into all kinds of different, different contexts, which is, which is really fun. And it's simple.
Megan 5:34
It is. It's one syllable. It can be very much like "Ya", like let's go, let's go party. Or it can be like"Ya," like enough.
Jenn 5:46
Actually, Spanish teacher, there's one thing I don't know about this word. Can it be used as a yes also?
Megan 5:55
I don't teach it that way. But this is the lovely 50 Shades of Gray of language. Because there's a lot of gray. And as English is spoken more and more throughout the world. I think people start to learn. Yeah, like yes, yeah. Or yeah but, you know, how we usually say Yeah. And, um, yeah, and "Ya", sound very similar.
Jenn 6:26
Right. And I actually had a friend of mine do a reels on this the other day, because she's Indian. And I think they actually use it a lot, also, but she was like, making the joke about how in English we're like, "yeah no" "no yeah," and how confusing it is because we use both words in the same sentence. And you're like, is this person saying yeah or no? or no or yeah? You know?
Megan 6:51
Yeah, and it's very much like, if we're in agreement with something, and we'll say like, "yeah, I don't think" and it's like, that started out positive. And then we just made it negative. And I think that is another thing that people learning English have a really hard time with. Because English there are no rules. It's kind of anarchy. Like everyone's running around in masks going "Yeah and," "yeah but," "yeah no." Have you ever heard it as a yes in Mexico?
Jenn 7:29
I don't think so. That's what I was thinking of. No, I think I accidentally use it as a yes sometimes because my English brain kicks in. But no, I don't think I've ever heard anybody... no, people here will say sí or si pi. Si pi means like, kind of "yeah yeah" sort of I think.
Megan 7:52
Interesting, I have never heard of si pi
Jenn 8:04
Si pi sorry I think it means "Yep." Yeah si pi, I think it means "Yep."
Megan 8:03
Interesting.
Jenn 8:10
This is so confusing.
Megan 8:12
I've never I've never heard si pi but it sounds adorable. So it sounds like it should be Mexican.
Jenn 8:18
Yeah, and super cute. It's si space pi.
Megan 8:23
Okay, so it's almost like Wifi, but si pi
Jenn 8:27
With a space.
Megan 8:28
With a space. I don't know if there's any space in wifi. This is what I love about this, this podcast though. Because, like, it's not until we think about the one word that we're like, holy shit, this, this appears a lot in real life. And just like alrededor, right? Like, I was talking with my intercambio partner the other week. And we were talking about contractions. And I didn't realize how many contractions we use. So many, like in Spanish there are two. Al and del, that's it.
Jenn 9:11
I didn't even know what a contraction was I was like, what is a contraction?
Megan 9:15
You know, like when we're... if we're lazy? Two words, and we want to squish them together. Like "Weren't" "don't" "Ain't" "Aren't"
Jenn 9:25
So there is only two in Spanish?
Megan 9:33
Uh huh. Al and del. Like if you're going "al juego de fútbol", you're going to the football game, or you came from del barco, right, like I just disembarked. I came from, vine del barco. And de+el, and a+el.
Jenn 10:03
Interesting. I mean, I just butcher my Spanish because I just kind of like, it just comes out. And I would actually really love to record myself and like, listen to it and translate it to see what I actually said sometimes, because now I'm getting more and more comfortable with it. And I just like, go off and then I'm like, I don't think that was the proper verb that I used.
Megan 10:28
But I mean, what's, what's the reaction that you get when you just kind of go off? Like, are people, are they following and like nodding? Are they going? Like, No, I didn't understand any of that.
Jenn 10:40
No, I actually get compliments on my Spanish all the time, like people are like, your Spanish is excellent. It's like really, really good. I get stopped by the police here. And they like we ended up chatting for like 20 minutes because they're like, your Spanish is so good. The last time they let me off the hook with no ticket, which is big for Mexico because generally, you either get a ticket or you need to fork up some kind of cash. So yeah no, I get compliments all the time on my Spanish and people are like, yes, sometimes your tenses are a little off. But my Spanish teacher told me that I was advanced.
Megan 11:19
I think that's the hardest part about Spanish. You have all this knowledge in your head and you're like, I don't know what I am. So the police stop you in Mexico. Why? Like just to chat you up?
Jenn 11:36
They stop you for no good reason here. Well, the last time to be fair was my fault. I forgot to turn my lights on at night.
Megan 11:46
Oh, when you were driving?
Jenn 11:48
Yeah. Well, because I'm in the city here, right? There's so much lights, you can't see if your lights are on or off. And I don't know, I forgot. And I had my friend in the car with me with her three kids at the back. They were on vacation here. And literally the whole time she was like panicking. She's like, Oh my God, we just got stopped by the Mexican police. We're gonna go to jail.
Megan 12:14
They get such a bad rap in like Netflix shows and things. So are they are they as bad as Netflix shows want us to believe?
Jenn 12:24
No, so here's the thing. They're super corrupt. Because Mexico is a corrupt country. But they're super nice. Like here the police when they come to your window, they shake your hand. You can step out of your car and go talk to them. If you step out of your car in Canada, US and talk to the police. You're gonna get like, tased to the ground. Yeah, no you can step out of the car and chat with them. They're super super polite with me anyways, they're always super polite and super friendly and kind.
Megan 13:01
could you ever see yourself using "Ya" with them? ¡Disculpe policía, ya me voy!
Jenn 13:11
Ya me voy, I don't want the ticket. Gracias pero ya. I don't know. I guess maybe if he told me Here's your ticket. You need to go pay it at the police station. I'd be like, okay, gracias, ya me voy. I don't know if I would use it in many other contexts with them.
Megan 13:39
Yeah. I think of "Ya", as almost like a little bit more informal, aggressive word. I'm not going to use it with like a...
Jenn 13:54
authority.
Megan 13:55
Yeah. I'm just thinking like any professor or police or like, "Ya".
Jenn 14:03
Yeah no, you use it with friends, family, and dogs.
Megan 14:19
I'm just thinking I haven't really like seen it written that much either. Like maybe on Facebook, because Facebook has everything.
Jenn 15:01
Yeah, exactly. I see it written a lot on promotional stuff like, ¡Ya abrimos! So it's used a lot as like a punctuation word here on billboards or in magazines or stuff like that, you know? Oh, goodness. Yeah. It's a fun word. It's a really fun word. And I think it could be fun. You know, the 50 things list that we do with the school? Would it be fun to do a 50 Things list with the word "Ya"? 50 ways to use it.
Megan 15:54
Yes. Because there's so many different little nuances, unos matices, but it really depends on the context.
Jenn 16:08
Yeah, and the energy, or the mood of the person or the moment.
Megan 16:18
The intention, it can be in a rush. It can be angry or frustrated. It can be like running late.
Jenn 16:26
Yeah, I use it frustrated a lot with the dogs when we're walking.
Megan 16:30
Especially if you get your foot pissed on, like, disrespectful.
Jenn 16:35
Yeah, I know. The first time he did it, we were in Canada talking to the vet outside and I guess he was done waiting. So he just peed on my foot on my Ugg boots. And then, yeah, he just we went walking the other day again. And I was like, not focused. And he just lifted and like, then I was in like, chanclas, flip flops, and shorts, so I had like, the burning pee on my foot until I walked home, which was impossible to walk home because it was all wet. It was a mess. It's like, cuidado, chancla mojada. Yeah, it was not a good moment. Honestly. I did not appreciate it. So that came out in that moment. Or if he you know, Johnny goes a little psycho when he meets other dogs. So the "Ya" has kind of become my Cesar Milans. So I kind of use it with the same intention to like, snap them out of it.
Megan 17:40
Yeah. You probably use "Ya" like I use oye. I use oye a bunch. Like, hey, hey, hey, stop, oye, oye, oye.
Jenn 17:48
I actually don't use oye a lot. I'm starting to a little bit. But I only use it sometimes with people that I know really well. Because, you know, you wouldn't like go up to someone you don't know and be like, Hey. It has to be in a very casual setting with someone you know? Yeah.
Megan 18:19
That and it has to have the right tone to. like, I think I've used oye more trying to get somebody's attention. Because like, I have tiny little legs. So if I'm like, trying to catch up with somebody, I might be like, oye, like, wait for me. espérame, like, I'm trying to get there as fast as I can.
Jenn 18:50
You know how I use it more, oye, I use it less like that, I use it more like, so we've just shifted words, people, sorry, we've just changed the word of the day. But I use oye more when I want to share something dramatic. I'll be like, oye, sabes que, do you hear this thing?
Megan 19:10
Well, it's funny because Spanish can be such a dramatic language of just like tú sabes, like even going back to "Ya", ¿ya tú sabes? it's like what do you know already? It can be a great little punch line.
Jenn 19:28
I mean, I don't know about other Spanish speaking countries but Mexico is full of chisme.
Megan 19:32
It's everywhere. It's endemic at this point. All the chisme. I love chisme though, and chisme is just gossip. It's just like talking. I've heard stories of like people are on the bus. And somebody's talking to them and they're responding. And they're going to a town like four hours away, and they get to their town and everybody knows that they're there. And they know their backstory because of that one person on the bus. Because you don't talk to just one person, you talk to docenas, to a dozen, because word travels so much.
Jenn 20:18
I mean, and now that WhatsApp exists, WhatsApp is huge in Latin countries. So it's like, the person on the bus texts the name of the person and then the WhatsApp just like explodes and the whole world knows the whole thing.
Megan 20:30
It's just like a mushroom cloud of information. But I think that's why little words like "oye" or "ya" are so important, because they just kind of help destacar, they help emphasize what you want. So we're talking about "Ya", we're talking about chisme, we're talking about oye, we're talking about dog training. How is... I'm just curious, did you start learning Spanish when you were still in Canada?
Jenn 21:00
I did not. I've had a dream of speaking Spanish since I was a teenager. It's just something that was like, in me. I knew or I had this like intuitive feeling that Spanish needed to be part of my life. I did not know how I had no idea that I would ever live in Mexico. And when I came to live in Mexico for the first time, when I came to visit Mexico for the first time, I landed here, and it was like, oh my god, I'm home. Like it was that immediate feeling. I knew there was something here for me. So anyways, fast forward a couple of years, I land here to live. And no, I knew nothing of Spanish at all. My partner at the time was Mexican. He spoke English, but his family did not speak English. So I just had to learn really quickly. And I immediately started taking classes. It was kind of like, you know, like the Eat, Pray Love kind of thing. I'd meet my Spanish teacher at the cafe, we'd have a coffee and do Spanish and then I go home and you know, the whole thing. And I just kept at it. it's been like six years now. And I just kept at it all the time. And I also lived in a very local area here for a few years, where nobody speaks Spanish. And there are no white people. So la güerita camindando en la calle, its much better if I was speaking Spanish to not attract too much attention. So if I would go into a store and like speak Spanish fluently, they could actually even potentially think that I was from Mexico City.
Megan 22:39
Yeah, I mean, people forget that there are white Spanish people. There are different Spanish people. There are Spanish speaking people that are native that look like every amalgamation of humans. But I think that we get like so kind of focused into that one kind of, like somewhat indigenous looking like dark skin, dark hair. Trenzas or, you know, bright colors or something. And then when people come in and they look different. Our brains are like, wait, what? You don't fit the stereotype.
Jenn 23:17
Yeah, I remember the first time because in the Caribbean, obviously, you you see the typical, you know, darker skin, Latin person, which is what we're used to. And I remember the first time I met people from Mexico City, I'm like, you're not Mexican? What's your skin? What's happening? You know? And I started to learn about all the different areas in Mexico and yeah, they're people who look very North American, you know?
Megan 23:42
Well, because Mexico is part of North America. And we forget that.
Jenn 23:45
I still cannot wrap my head around that, I can't wrap my head around that. I'm like, Mexico is not North American. It just isn't. Maybe Cancun feels like it a little bit because it's very Americanized, but I still struggle to process that piece of information.
Megan 24:08
Yeah. Is it just like the cultura that just kind of like this doesn't belong in North America? This is its own thing.
Jenn 24:16
Uh huh. It does not belong in North America. It is not the same energy at all. And I actually feel like it doesn't... how can I say this in a positive way... It deserves to not be part of North America because Mexico is really unique. It has its own unique culture and energy and vibe and people and history. And I think it just doesn't fit in the North American bubble.
Megan 24:53
Yeah.
Jenn 24:54
I like North America. It just doesn't fit.
Megan 24:57
Yeah. So what is the vibe? What is the energy if you can sum that up. Off the cuff, you know.
Jenn 25:07
Well, okay, I'll speak for Cancun in the Caribbean because this is where I am but the energy is welcoming and soft and gentle and kind and fucking chaotic and sensual. Not sexual, sensual. like just they're very loving, touchy feely, attentive people. The energy is also like there's a lot of respect and politeness here a lot. A lot of humanity, I guess I would say. One of my favorite things about here is when you walk into anywhere public and there's human beings, everyone greets each other. So if you're sitting at the doctor's office and someone walks in, everybody stops what they're doing lifts their head and says "buenos días", "buenas tardes", and the person coming in does the same thing. people greet each other here they look at each other in the eyes. When we are walking in North America, we look down.
Megan 26:21
Yeah, or even worse we just look straight ahead and it's just like, dead inside.
Jenn 26:27
As if it's like they're a ghost, we don't even see them. But here, yeah no, everybody greets you if you cross somebody everybody says hi. Extremely welcoming. I think the word that is most strong for me is welcoming. No matter who you are, where you come from, when you come to Mexico, you are greeted. Equally.
Megan 26:50
Yeah, and the cool thing about welcoming is like, we say Bienvenidos for like, welcome. But to actually welcome somebody. It's dar, dar la bienvenida. It's to give the welcome. It just kind of solidifies that there's a verb, there's action and intent behind welcoming somebody. Like, my neighbor gave me a hug the other day, and I was like, Oh, my God, you're touching me. What? I remember when my mom came to DC when I was living in Washington, DC for a time, and she wanted to run on the Mall. She had like this big Forrest Gump, ambition run on the Mall. And she's from the Midwest as am I and like, when she crosses somebody, she says Hi, or waves. Here she was like, Oh my God. No one said hi back. I was like the weird woman running on the National Mall. And I was like, Yeah, we don't. We just look straight ahead. It's like, unless somebody is literally running you over, you don't make the eye contact or you don't dar la bienvenida to anybody, and it feels very closed off. I like how you brought up soft, because it feels in the US like we're very controlling. We want to control the situation. And in Mexico, even though it's a little chaotic, everybody's like "yeah".
Jenn 28:20
Yeah, exactly. There's beauty in the chaos here. And there's also like, you know, it's messy sometimes. But I feel like what happened to me when I came here is I softened. Really, like I softened. I relaxed, I let go. At first I was like, why aren't people not showing up on time? And why is my thing not fixed? And why is this? It's just like, why do we have no power? I was kind of, you know, being very North American about it. And now it's like, it's part of how life is you know, and so yeah, there's good and bad sides to it. But I think one of the reasons why people love coming to Mexico so much is when they land here, they just relax.
Megan 29:03
Yeah. It just kind of tells you to soften. It tells you to just take a break.
Jenn 29:13
Yeah.
Megan 29:16
Because la cultura is different. So do you have anyone in mind that would benefit the most from living in Mexico? Anyone you meet and you're just like, you're the personality type. You need to soften. You need a break.
Jenn 29:35
I don't know if I should publicly name people I think there's a lot of people that should live here, but I don't know that there's a lot of people that could live here. So there's a lot of expats that come to live here and they kind of want to bring their American life into Mexico. And then they don't adapt. There's a lot of expats here, I won't name the category of people but there's a lot of expats here that have been living here for 15-20 years and they can't speak Spanish. And then they run into problems and then stuff happens to them because they look like a big tourist walking around who doesn't understand Spanish and can't speak Spanish. And then obviously if you get stopped by the police here you know. I think if you come here, you really have to be prepared to change your way of being. Adapt to the life here and if you do, that's when you can really take in the beauty of this country, I think.
Megan 30:40
Yeah. So it's almost like using taking it back full circle, or square, whichever shape you would want.
Jenn 30:50
I would like a circle. No, infinity symbol. Let's do the infinity symbol.
Megan 30:53
Okay. All right, taking it back to the last loop of the infinity symbol. Using "Ya", it's almost like those people need some "Ya", in their life. They need some, like, hurry up and change a little bit like enough already.
Jenn 31:09
Hurry up and slow the fuck down. Seriously. Yeah. I agree. Like yeah, just relax. Exhale, you will be fine. If you don't over control your whole life, everything will be fine.
Megan 31:26
So being in the kind of intuitive and business space, do you feel like Mexico... you already said that it felt like home when you first landed, do you feel like just living there has opened up the gateway? opened up the doorway not only for yourself, but in order to help other people like living with arms wide open? You know, sometimes we do need to slow down. Sometimes we do need to listen to that intuition. Do you feel like that's helped?
Jenn 32:02
Yeah oh my goodness, I'm so much more connected to my intuition since I live here. So much more. Because one, there's more opportunities to experience different kinds of things because people are not over controlling everything here. So it's like you're kind of just going with the natural flow of life. You know, things don't feel so manufactured in your day to day. And yeah, intuition, you can access it when you're in your parasympathetic state and your relaxation response. And I am much more in my relaxation response here. And so yes, I have way more access to my intuition. When I land in Canada, and I'm like, ugh, its just like what happened.
Megan 32:51
Everything's cold again. Like human connection is cold. And also the weather.
Jenn 32:56
Thank God for my family. When I land there, I get all nice warm and fuzzy it particularly my, mis sobrinos. Yeah, it's definitely I can I feel the energetic difference. When I when I arrive in Montreal, it's like this. This heavier, darker energy of like, when you come here, it's like you, you know, when you have a plant and you forgot to water and it's kind of like that's kind of the energy I feel when I go to Canada. And then the energy when I come back here is like, Oh, you water the plants. And then all of a sudden, it's like, back to life and like, perky and alive and vibrant. I guess that's how I could explain my energy.
Megan 33:42
That's a good explanation. That's a really good visual of just a plant that's just droopy and sad, really all of my plants because I'm not a good plant person. I forget that they need like, things like food and water and sun. And then you give what it needs. And it's just like, Oh, I am back to being proud. And, you know, straight, straightforward and looking at the sun looking at the next step. Yeah,
Jenn 34:15
I totally agree. I also catch my plants when they're half-dead I just forget about them. Thank God. Most importantly we don't do that with our dogs.
Megan 34:26
Yes, instead we just say "Ya!" Enough already! Stop pissing on my foot!
Jenn 34:35
Please. There's like palm trees everywhere. Pick a tree not my foot.
Megan 34:41
Yeah seriously. Well, to close out, Is there anything around not only the word "Ya". But anything around kind of the evolution that you have with Spanish that you have with Mexico that you have with business? Anything else you'd want to share?
Jenn 35:06
No I think, you know, I guess the only thing I want to share is that I think a lot of us have dreams of living these kinds of experiences. Like, I have a lot of people that tell me like, oh my god, you live in Mexico, how did you do it. We kind of go from like, people jump from where the person was to where they are now, like just one big easy leap. And I think probably what I want to share that's most important is that in order to have really incredible experiences, expansive experiences, have those kinds of Eat, Pray Love moments. One, you need time and two, you need to slow down, you need to allow yourself to be vulnerable, and to try different things and be awkward speaking Spanish for a few years. And opening yourself up to being and thinking and doing in a brand new way you know, and in so you can experience things incredible, even in your own hometown, where you are right now, it's not so much about where you are, obviously, it's awesome if you can go into Mexico, but it's getting out of our habits and our automatic way of being, which is what happens when we connect to our intuition right? So I would just encourage people to like, have some fun, let go of all the rules and the controlling. And yeah.
Megan 36:30
So really our intuition will help us get out of whatever rut that we think that we're in, whatever rut we feel like we're in intuition is going to be the thing that kind of pulls us out of that.
Jenn 36:45
Yeah, and if we do another infinity circle back to your first episode, intuition allows us to disfrutar which is the thing that we're all chasing and craving is to just like, enjoy life more. And that's, for me, that's what I enjoy. Like most when I just listened to my intuition. And like, I think a break when my intuition is telling me to take a break. And I work with my intuition is telling me to work and go to the beach when it's telling me to go to the beach, just like following that inner compass, you know.
Megan 37:18
So it's almost like we can use "Ya" when our intuition might be telling us "Ya" it might be telling us like, enough. All right. Hurry up to slow down. And go do that leap, go make that leap. And then, you know, until we keep growing and growing and growing, but we can't grow if we're in a rut.
Jenn 37:42
Yeah, absolutely. And if people want to, like play with this, whether you're an entrepreneur or not, like I work with entrepreneurs, it doesn't really matter. But on my website, I have a workshop and a guided meditation that helps to tap into your intuition well, to connect to it and then like actually hear it and like I said, doesn't matter if you're entrepreneur or not, the concept of what I'm talking about is relevant to anybody. Particularly the Guided Meditation is a really good way to just slow down, get quiet. And, just hear your inner wisdom.
Megan 38:20
Hear the "Ya's"
Jenn 38:20
It's yes and no, it's stop and go. It's enough, or more.
Megan 38:32
Already is, maybe you are already.
Jenn 38:36
Yes, I am having like an Oprah aha moment. I just realized why I love this word so much. I love duality. So when I did my branding, I told them, I'm like, I need duality in my branding. I want to feel duality in my branding. And yeah, is full of duality. That's why I love it.
Megan 38:56
It is a jello word. It is a word that can fit into so many containers. And sometimes you just need to chill with it. And just don't throw it at somebody that's not expecting it. Be gentle with your "Ya." But then also listen to it. I think that's definitely key is listening to those moments where either your intuition or your body or your brain is going "basta ya," like enough already. I'm over this shit. Let's move on. But then it's also enough to know like, when to move on and when to stay. And you're like, "no estoy lista ya", like I'm not ready yet. It's almost like todavía or an aún, like, not ready yet. But when I get there, it'll be "ya."
Jenn 39:56
I'm like loving this moment right now. I did not think that we wouldn't be able to connect "ya" to intuition today to be honest. I love it.
Megan 40:05
Well little did you know, this little magia that we always have, la magia nos une. It'll get us to where we want to go. But yes, "ya" is jello. "Ya" is soft and squishy. Don't throw it at people that aren't expecting it. Be careful with your "ya". But also listen to it and cherish it and don't forget about it in the fridge because then it'll go stale.
Jenn 40:33
Yeah, that's not as powerful anymore.
Megan 40:40
Well, como siempre, it has been such a pleasure to just see you and talk Spanish and Spanglish and cultura and identidad and language and Mexico.
Jenn 40:57
Sí.
Megan 40:58
Pinche Mexico.
Jenn 41:00
Pinche Mexico, we love you. Yeah, and we are waiting for you Megan with SPF-80. Your room is ready.
Megan 41:09
¡Ya me voy!
Jenn 41:12
¡Ya me voy!
Megan 41:25 Gracias otra vez, and thank you so much for coming along with me on this ride to Una Palabra Sola. Be sure to check out the show notes for additional worksheets and materials. If you have a word that you would like me to review, please feel free to let me know at aprovecharlanguagesolutions.com. Hasta la próxima vez; until next time!