Ep4: I've been in a funk, this helped me turn life around

Last week hit a bit of a low - the energy was just not it. But, Tiff was able to shift her mindset, regain motivation and turn things around. And in this episode, she shares how! She also chats about the recurring signs and patterns in her life that continue to guide her towards what’s highest aligned. Expect serendipitous stories, a few laughs, and as always… a bit of wisdom. 

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Hey friends.

Hey, and welcome back to the podcast.

I didn't really prepare
anything for today.

I figured we'd just chit chat a little bit

and honestly,
I think it's because I don't know.

Let me know
if you guys are feeling this too.

But for some reason, the energy right now
just feels really off.

I don't know.

And I've been honestly, I've been
feeling it for the majority of this week.

For me, it all started on December 12.

So 1212 which 1212.

And I don't know if you guys follow like,
you guys know how I'm really into this.

Like woo woo, like Angel Numbers
portal of all of that stuff.

You guys know I'm really into that.

If you're not into that stuff,

then you are not probably not going to
like this episode because I have a feeling

a lot of
that's going to come out in this episode.

But 1212,
or at least how it's been presented to me

and like what I've seen and read about
has always been the portal

for transformation,
for new beginnings and whatnot.

And it's actually really, really funny
because I launched my YouTube

channel on 1212,
not even on purpose, actually.

It's kind of an interesting story.

So when I was gearing up to launch
my YouTube channel and this is like

four years ago, oh my gosh,
have I been on YouTube for four years?

I feel like I've been on YouTube
for years on and off

because I took a little break
when I came back from Paris.

But anyways, when I was gearing up
to launch my YouTube channel,

I really wanted to launch it earlier.

I think I wanted to launch it like end of
November or like first week in December.

But because I'm so like neurotic
about these things, I was like, okay,

when I launch my YouTube channel,
I want my Instagram handle

to be the same as my YouTube channel
so that it's all like seamless

and it all flows and whatnot.

And I was trying to update my Instagram
name to @itstiffaniedavis

because @tiffaniedavis was taken
and I really

and I really didn't want to keep
what I currently had on Instagram,

which I think at the time
I was the burgundy blazer. Comment below.

If you're watching this video, if you're
watching this on YouTube, comment below.

If you've been following me
since my burgundy blazer days,

and if you are listening to this,
please send me a DM.

I would love to know

how many people have actually followed me
since my burgundy blazer days.

But anyway, sorry I'm rambling.

But anyways, I really wanted to switch
my instagram handle

from the burgundy blazer
to @itstiffaniedavis

But at the time and I don't know
if Instagram is still like this, but

at the time I couldn't
change it right away.

I had to wait about two weeks
for the change to actually go into effect.

And I was like, Oh,

this means I can't launch
my channel on time and all this stuff.

I was literally having a meltdown about it
and oh my God, it's so funny.

I am so ridiculous
when it comes to these things.

I was working in the luxury beauty

industry at the time
and we had a connect with Instagram.

We had to connect with Facebook

like we had connections
with all of these major platforms.

And I remember
we had gone to the Instagram office

for like a meeting or something like that
or like a presentation.

And I remember going to
one of the Instagram execs and being like,

I'm trying to start this YouTube channel
and I really want my Instagram

to be the same name.

Is there any way you can speed up
this process?

It's telling me
it's going to take two weeks

and they're were very much just like,
Sorry, girl.

Like it's
just kind of how the system works.

And I was like,
But I was trying everything

to speed up this process
because I was like,

I really just want to launch this
when I want to launch it.

But I had to wait.

God was telling me, You gotta wait.

So I waited because I didn't have a choice

and I was so fixated on making sure
when I launched this YouTube account

that all of my other platforms
had the like Tiffanie

Davis or it's Tiffanie

Davis username because I was like,
I don't want people to get confused

if they see that My YouTube
channel is Tiffanie Davis

and then my Instagram
is the burgundy blazer.

Again, I was just so particular
about everything being the same.

So by the time everything was settled

and I got my username from Instagram
and whatnot, the date

was 1212, like the date that everything
was going to be ready was 1212.

So I was like, All right, great.

I'm going to launch my YouTube
channel on 1212.

And I don't know if at the time
I knew the significance of 1212,

but when I read up on it, I was literally
shocked at everything that it said.

I'm actually going to look it up
and read it to you guys right now.

Okay? Okay. So I found the website.

So it basically says and it's this it's
this article on Refinery29

where they're talking to this astrologer
about the significance of 1212.

And it says there's something
about the energy

of the number 12
that screams completion, heralding

the end of a cycle only to begin in
any only to begin a new one.

Every time we see this number appear,
it means something is coming to close

and that we're approaching
a new beginning.

It's meaning can correlate to finishing up
something in your life,

so you may prepare to move on to another
stage of growth and development.

And it's honestly crazy reading this now,
knowing like now that I'm all this,

now that I'm on the other side and I know
like everything that went down that year

because and sorry
before I even get into that, it also says,

according to many mystics,
1212 is a sacred code

that access the gateway of enlightenment,
which propels change and helps

us raise our frequency as a way to reach
higher realms of consciousness. MM

But so basically it was just

saying a lot about transformation, change,
new beginnings, all of that.

So when I found out that
that's what that number man

and that I kind of,
even though I didn't want to,

I ended up having to launch my YouTube
channel on 1212,

I was like,
wow, like this is actually kind of crazy.

And now, as I said before,
I like knowing what I know now about that

year, I'm a little bit shocked
because it was also during that time

and I was trying to figure out
because I was living in Paris at this time

when I launched my YouTube
channel and I was trying to figure out,

you know, next steps for my next steps
for myself career wise, too.

So I had been working in the luxury beauty
industry, but I was on a contract, too.

And the way that contracts work in
France is

you can either be on a CDD contract
or a CDI contract and

a CDI contract is honestly
what most of the French are on.

It's like a very permanent contract
where a CDI contract is

more is a bit more flexible,
but you don't have as much security

and it can renew every six months,
but only up to eight months.

So if they do end up

extending your contract
to the for 18 months, which thank God

they did for me
at the end of that 18 months,

it's like you have to find a new
another opportunity.

It's so interesting.

At that time I was kind of trying
to figure out like, will

there be other opportunities for me after,
you know, my 18 months was up

because my 18 months would have been
up, was going to be up that February.

So it's so interesting
now that I look back on it, it was very

much like one door was opening, which was,
you know, me kind of launching myself

into being a YouTuber and content creator
and whatnot.

And then another one was closing
because this is so wild

now that I really think about this.

This is so wild because what ended up
happening was the pandemic hit

and there was a hiring freeze
all over France.

So even though I was kind of like
in the process of interviewing for a

few roles and whatnot, all of that stopped
when the pandemic happened.

So it was kind of like my corporate career
at the time had come to a standstill,

and I again
launched myself into a personal endeavor.

It's just it's so wild
that all of that happened

and how that number 1212 was very symbolic

of all the things that happened in my life
after that.

And I say that to say,
if you really look carefully

at what's happening in your life
and especially as like pivotal

moments are happening,

you'll see the signs
and you'll see the patterns

that are pushing you
into a certain direction

or are trying to give you a heads up
on what might be coming.

And this isn't the first time
something like this has happened.

There's actually a story
that I really want to share with you guys.

I'm not going to share it with you

in this episode
because I think it'll be too long.

But maybe for next week's episode,
it's like, I don't know.

It's like it's always so cool to me
how these signs and synchronicities happen

and, you know, the messages that God in
Your Angels will send you

about what could be coming
next for you in your life.

And it's so interesting
because this year on 1212,

the energy felt very off.

The energy felt very heavy and very sad.

And I'm not going to lie.

That whole day I was unwell.

I did not feel like myself.
I was not okay.

And I honestly had no idea why.

I was just in the biggest funk.

Like usually on 1212, I'm like so excited.

I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is like
the birthday of my YouTube channel.

But this 1212, I was just kind of like,
Hmm, I'm really not feeling it today.

I'm really not.

So I started to do a few different things
to help me get out of my funk.

And I have to say it really did work.

So really want to share a few things
that I did with you in case, you know,

it can help you if you're ever feeling
like you're in a rut or feeling down.

So a few things that I did,
and I will say it really for me

ended up becoming like this day
of manifestation, this day of kind of

like laying out my dream life and all that
I want to accomplish in a way.

And yes, I did kind of go
into like the things that I want,

but I also focused on like really feeling

those things like really deeply.

So first and foremost, I drove to this

like really, really nice,
beautiful neighborhood in L.A.

that I honestly love.

And and it's a neighborhood that I
actually did my, like, rebrand photoshoot.

And, and it's also so crazy
because when I was driving up

to that neighborhood, when I was about
when I was just like scouting locations

to do that, shoot

the house number that I stopped
in front of said three, three,

three and three, three,
three is another one of my angel numbers.

Told ya, this is going to be a very like
woo woo a very woo woo episode.

And I was shook.

And then I as I was backing up,
I looked at the car that was parked

right outside
and on the license plate was 818

and I was like,
You've got to be kidding me

because that's
another one of my angel numbers.

And oh my God, I,
I could really go into depth

about these numbers
and why they're so significant.

Like, I feel like the 818 story
I have to save for another day.

But the three, three, three story.

So and I know I'm
like going all over in this episode,

but I'm just I knew that
this podcast episode was going to be

a little bit of a brain dump,
but the number three three, three,

okay, listen to how wild this is.

So the number three, three, three
I kid you not has been

following me throughout my time in L.A.

not because I'm looking for it,
not because I'm like wishing

to see it, to give me confirmation
or anything like that.

It'll just appear.

And when it appears to me, I see it as
confirmation that I'm on the right track.

But listen to this story,
so I'm going to rewind it to last year

when I was living in Boston
with my parents and trying to figure out,

you know,
where do I want to move post Paris?

Do I want to be in New York?

Do I want to be in L.A.?

Like I wasn't exactly sure
where I wanted to be, but

I knew that I was getting pushed
towards L.A.

for some reason, and I didn't know why.

So I finally decided that
I want to take a trip to L.A.

for about a month to really figure out,
you know, if it's somewhere where

I could see myself living, if it's where
I really want to live right now.

You know,
I really wanted to just feel L.A.

out and see if it was a good fit for me.

So I booked my Airbnb
and I'm just looking around the area like,

you know, you can do that on Google Maps,
like see the street View and whatnot.

I see the sign or something that says 333
and I'm like, Oh, that's interesting.

But I didn't really think anything of it.

So then a few hours later,
I go to book my plane ticket to L.A.

and the total comes to $333.

And that's when I was like,
All right, this is like, what's going on?

And then later that day, I'm
just like scrolling on YouTube,

just looking at my YouTube analytics
because I had just done a livestream.

It was just looking
at the performance of that.

I got three, three, three likes, 333
likes on that livestream that day.

And then I'm in the car with my mom and
I'm telling her this story about this song

that has literally been following me
since I was living in Paris.

And this is a this is actually a story
that I need to tell you.

I mean, this is a story that I really want
to share with you guys like ASAP.

It's just it'll be too long
for this episode.

But I'm talking to my mom about this song
and all of that,

and she's like,
I've never heard the song before.

Can you pull it up for me?
And I'm like, Sure.

So I go to YouTube, I pull up the song.

Why is this song 3 minutes

and 33 seconds long?

Okay, This number was everywhere that day.

And then I take my trip to L.A..

I decide I want to move here.

I move here earlier this year,

all this stuff, and continue
to see this number repeatedly.

So it was really crazy when I decided
I wanted to do this

like rebrand photoshoot
and whatnot, you know,

just to kind of reestablish myself
on social media

that the that the location

I decided to shoot at literally
right in front of me, literally

as I drove up to the street,
right in front of me

was a house with the number three,
three, three.

It's like you literally
cannot make this stuff up again.

To me, it was just beautiful confirmation
that I'm exactly where I,

I should be right now.

And I mean, for you,
it could be something totally different.

It's like for me, I know that God
and my angels in the universe

speak to me through numbers
like there have just been so many

different instances, is where I'm like,

This just doesn't even like,
how does this happen?

How does this happen?

But anyways, back to my original story of
when when it was 12, 12

and I was just trying
to get out of my funk,

so I decided to go to my three,
three, three street,

that neighborhood
with just beautiful houses

and kind of like my manifestation
neighborhood.

I took a walk around

and was listening to this audio
book called The Science of Getting Rich,

and it was actually one of you guys
that recommended that book to me.

I highly, highly recommend that book.

If you're into just like or if you're into
and if you're ready to kind of manifest

the next step in your life and your career

or what have you, that's a really,
really good book to read.

But I was just walking around
the neighborhood listening to this book,

and part of what it shares in the book is,
you know, when you're

trying to get to that next level,

it's like you actually have to be able
to visualize what it is that you want.

But I actually learned from my osteopath
that it's not just about, you know,

visualizing
vision and creating vision boards.

It's also about, you know, one,

really tapping into the feelings
and the qualities of all that you want

and being grateful
for all that you have right now.

So when I got back home,
I created my vision board.

I did home life like relationships
in terms of dating and friendships.

I did travel.

I did just like where I see myself
going in my career.

I put everything on that vision board

and I truly tapped in to the feelings
of all that I wanted.

And let's just say the very next day
I noticed

how things were starting
to move around in my life.

It was literally like
things had been set in motion

and I was shook.

And I don't know if it just had to do
with the fact

that it was 1212 because it was
so it was so funny and so on

1212 I was getting a lot of like messages
from my friends and stuff

about the 1212 portal, and one of them

in particular said, I'm
going to read it to you.

It said,
so it said The New Moon 1212 portal.

It couldn't get any better than this.

It's the last new moon of the year
and it falls on the 1212 portal,

ushering in a miraculous twist of fate
to turn your dreams into reality.

There's energetic gateway is aligned
with the power of the number 12

in numerology and can and can connect you
to your personal desires.

So get your vision board out and start

setting clear intentions
on what you wish to manifest.

This extraordinary event
hasn't occurred since 1992.

Oh my God. I'm shook. I'm shook.

I didn't remember that part.

Make way for big breakthroughs
and spectacular

in a spectacular development to occur.

Oh, my God. I'm shook. Wait, wait, wait.

This is wild.

I remember reading about, like, the whole.

Like, turn your dreams into reality.

But I.

I do not remember reading on here
about the piece

around the vision board
and that it hadn't occurred since 1992.

Okay? Wait. Yeah.

I'm shook.

Not me

like processing all of this
as I'm sharing it with you.

And I think this just kind of goes to show
it's like

even when you're feeling really down,
if you can find a way to just, like, move

in the direction of what

you feel like your personally energy
space is telling you to move into,

you will be right on time because not me
doing that vision board and whatnot.

After listening to that book
and it literally saying in that caption

that I just read to you
that that day was the best day to do all

what. At this point, I don't even know why
I keep getting shook.

Like, I think that I just need to accept
that it's always telling me

that I am in alignment
of all that I'm creating.

Wow. Like, how does that happen?

That's actually kind of crazy.

But the point of me sharing this with you
guys originally was to say,

If you ever find yourself in that funk
or when your energy is off,

do some of those things that you feel
could get you closer to the life

that you're trying to create.

So like again,

I walked through that neighborhood
and was listening to the science

of getting rich,
and I was just manifesting.

And then I came home

and did my vision board
and I was starting to feel a lot better.

But I will say another thing that I did
that night

was I just completely surrendered.

So I prayed to God and just said, God,

I don't know why I'm feeling this way,
but I surrender it all to you.

Just tell me what to do.

Tell me the direction
that I need to move in.

And I kid you not again.

The very next day
I saw how things were set in motion.

And, I don't know,
maybe I need to do, like,

an entire episode
where I just talk through

a few of the different things
that I do to kind of remind myself

that I am, you know,
moving in the right direction.

I am on the right track.

There's also this one method
that my therapist in New York shared

with me, and I cannot remember
what she titled this journal.

But for me, it's so funny.

She so she told me to get a journal.

And in that journal she told me to like,
put in any quotes that have helped

guide me in my life or things
that have happened in my life that

remind me that I'm on the right track,
like these little God winks, if you will.

And it's so funny
because when I went to go buy

like the Journal for it,
I think I got this from Target

and it's a book that embroidered
on the front cover.

It says Chic happens kind of like
shit happens, but it says chic happens.

And I'm like,
this literally could not be more perfect.

So I have my book and, you know,
I don't even know if I have it with me

here in L.A.

I think I might have left it
at my parents house,

but but I'm going home for Christmas
next week, so I will grab it.

And maybe in one of the upcoming

episodes, I'll read
you guys a bit of what I have in there.

But I will say in the past,
I really used this journal

as a way to kind of like,
get me out of my funk

too. And again,
just remind myself that I am okay.

I'm just having a moment.

This moment is temporary
and look at all of these

beautiful messages and beautiful things
that have had happened in my life

that again, prove
that I am exactly where I'm supposed to be

or I am headed towards,
you know, where I ultimately want to go.

And I think just having these tools

and having these little activities
that you can do when you're feeling down,

at least for me, really helped
to bring me out of that mood.

So I do think that there is a lot of power
in doing some of these exercises, but

at the same time, I think you also just
need to figure out what works for you.

Like, I'm
obviously someone who loves all this stuff

like vision boarding and angel numbers
and looking for the signs and whatnot.

But for you,
that could show up differently.

Like I actually have a friend
who she doesn't

really see numbers like that,
but she was telling me that like,

she gets dreams,
she gets dreams about things.

And it's not like she always know.

It's not like she's a psychic
and she always knows

what's going to happen in the future.

But she has said to me
before that she'll have dreams

about things that kind of like nudge her
in a certain direction.

But I will say it's
like noticing the patterns and the signs

are so personal
and so true to who you are.

Again, for me,

just like looking at the patterns
in my life, I know what those signs are.

So I would really encourage you

to kind of go back in your life and
look at what those patterns are for you.

And you know, when they come up,
you know what's happening,

when you see them and etc..

And I think you'll kind of start to build
your little book of, you know, these

this is how I know that, like God,
the universe, angels

or whoever you believe in is guiding you.

So, yeah, honestly, I have no idea
what I'm going to title this episode.

I lowkey feel like I was just rambling,
but I was just kind of like,

you know what?

Tiff just sit down and record
whatever comes out, comes out.

I'm very much in this like ease
and flow place in my life,

or at least right now in this moment I am
I will say it is

it it takes some effort to kind of be
in constant ease in flow,

which is funny, right?

Because you would think with ease
and flow, it would come very naturally.

But I think because I'm someone who

is a perfectionist

and feels like things should
sometimes always be a certain way,

it takes a lot of effort
to get out of that mindset,

to just kind of
let yourself relax and flow.

So I really wanted to try doing that today
and just chat with you guys and share

it was on my heart
and I would honestly love it

if you're watching this YouTube video,
if you could comment below,

if you have noticed patterns in your life,
you know, patterns

signs guiding you on a certain path,
what do those look like for you?

Drop it in the comments.

I'd be really curious to hear

how it shows up in your life because
again, I know that we're all different.

And if you're listening to this podcast
on your favorite podcast

app, feel free to shoot me a DM.

I would really,
really love to hear from you guys,

but that's pretty much all for me
for today.

I feel like this is going to be a shorter,
shorter episode, but

I really just wanted to get on here and
and share.

So thanks as always for tuning in.

I appreciate you so much
and thank you for being a real one.

That's all for me, guys,
and I'll see you in the next episode bye.