Queen D. Michele: Jumping Off the Wheel & Finding Your True Purpose

[00:00:00] I am a retired elementary and middle school teacher currently living in Mexico. Work, pay bills. Work, pay bills. There would be no weekend getaways or no fine dining or any concerts. I would not have created a mindfulness curriculum for middle and high school students.

[00:00:25] My name is Devon Wieters and we have Queen Michelle on today. This is her 48th podcast appearance this year which is insane.

[00:00:49] But I'm glad to have her on and I'm one of her last so I told her maybe we would go out with a bang. So how are you today? I am awesome. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here. Stay connected with Wheel With It and Devon Wieters by following us on social media at wheelwithit.com slash follow us. Tell us about yourself and then we will go from there. Tell you about myself. I guess that would be the show, wouldn't it?

[00:01:18] And like for lives that you've lived. I am a retired elementary and middle school teacher currently living in Mexico. I retired in 2015. And in 17, after discovering that I would always have to work to supplement my pension. There would never be enough.

[00:01:40] And what that meant for me is that I would work until I couldn't work anymore and then live substandardly because I wasn't working. After I retired for that very first year, I was doing all kinds of fun things to supplement. I was an Uber driver. I did some online teaching and oh one of my favorites was I was a shuttle driver for a transportation company that serviced the railroad.

[00:02:08] So I was taking conductors and engineers to and from their train. That was pretty cool working on the yard and doing that. But after a year of that, I was like, hey, wait a minute. I'm going to always have to do this. I'm going to always have to supplement this pension. And I didn't want to be 70 years old saying welcome to Walmart because we're out there. We're out there as I was.

[00:02:34] We're Uber drivers. We're working at the airport and we're in retail. We're at restaurants. We are out there mostly not because we want to be, but because we have to be. And I just didn't want to work until I couldn't work anymore due to health and age and then live substandardly because I wasn't working.

[00:02:58] So hence came the relocation to Mexico where I actually called myself and I love the title of your show. Wheel With It because I kind of consider that relocation to Mexico was me jumping off that wheel. Jumping off that wheel. And I was so attracted to the title of your show that I reached out to you, Will with it.

[00:03:24] Because I could have easily have stayed on the wheel just like everybody else for the most part. I could have worked. And here's the thing. I could have stayed on the wheel, but I would only be working to pay bills. Work, pay bills. Work, pay bills. There would be no weekend getaways or no fine dining or any concerts. I would work and pay bills until I couldn't work anymore.

[00:03:53] So I equate relocating to Mexico like getting off of that wheel. And had I not got off of the wheel, had I not jumped off that wheel, there would be no brand. Considerations of the soul. I started a brand. I wouldn't be an author of several books. I would not have created a mindfulness curriculum for middle and high school students.

[00:04:19] It's called 52 Insights for Gen Alpha, a conscious curriculum. I feel having gotten off that wheel, I was then directed to my true purpose here. We're not just here to work and pay bills. Work and pay bills until we can't work anymore. And then live substandardly because we're not working. Our life is much more purposeful.

[00:04:46] And we're here for much more than being on the wheel. That is the most amazing explanation of the title of the show. I have never thought about that. I caught it wheel with it because of the wheelchair. I thought it was a play on words. I thought, oh, that would be funny. I had never heard it explained like that. I was so attracted to just the title of your show.

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[00:05:40] That's N-U-L-U Knives.com to see this extraordinary knife in action and understand why we say Nulu is the knife that adapts to you. Visit NuluKnives.com and enter code wheelwithit-Nulu at checkout. Tell us about the mindfulness curriculum we created and actually got piloted into schools. Yes, it has been piloted. While I was in Mexico, I'm actually back now.

[00:06:10] But the first time that I was in Mexico, like I said, that came the brand and the books and all of that. I was set for getting ready to do an eight-month workshop that covered my books. It was going to be called The Soul's Journey. And I had called in specialists from around the area where I live, the meditation specialist, a movement specialist, art specialist. And we were going to give this workshop.

[00:06:40] And one of the books that I was going to take them through was called, get this, 52 Insights for Living New Earth Now. That's what part of the eight-month program. I got a call that my parents weren't doing very well back in the United States, Detroit, Michigan, to be exact. And so right before that program, that eight-month workshop was going to take place, I set everything aside and I went back home.

[00:07:08] I became my parents' full-time caregiver. And so I laid all of that down. Now, my parents did pass away within 10 months of each other in 2022. And so here I am in Detroit. And it was my niece's birthday. My niece's birthday was coming up. And I looked over and I saw 52 Insights for Living New Earth Now. And I said, well, that would be a good gift. It's just sitting here.

[00:07:38] So I was going to give her the book and a candle and a bottle of wine. Happy birthday, niece. And she came over. She's also a basketball coach for high school students. And she started thumbing through the book. And she said, Auntie, she said, this would be great for high school. And it took me back. And I said, you're right. For the past few years, it had just been sitting there. And this book is gold. And talked with another relative, retired teacher and administrator.

[00:08:08] She said, oh, no. She said, that would be perfect for middle school. And then it just hit me like a ton of bricks. Just exploded and resonated on my insides. But who was middle school? I had no idea at that point. I had been out of teaching for years. Who was middle school? So a deep dive into who were middle schoolers in that moment, time, space, reality. And discovered that it was Generation Alpha.

[00:08:38] So deep dive into Generation Alpha. And here's a little bit about them. And they're so very important. Generation Alpha was born between 2000. They're the first generation to be born fully in the 21st century. Matter of fact, the oldest of that generation just turned 13 last year. They're the children of the millennials and some of the X's that got in there a little late.

[00:09:05] Being that they are the first generation to be born fully in the 21st century, this generation has been clicking and swiping since infancy. They will be the largest generation in the history of the world. And they are, just by name alone, Alpha. Alpha being beginning. Are responsible for the conscious evolution of humanity.

[00:09:30] But we're missing the ball with this extremely important generation. Do you know they are in spaces and in platforms that are free from parental influence? They are in spaces and in platforms that their parents don't even understand. They have only been taught externally. Again, swiping and clicking since infancy.

[00:09:56] So it became very apparent to me, because I am a light worker, way shower, frequency code holder, and new earth representative, that all of that work that I did back in Mexico, getting ready for this workshop and all of that and taking them on this soul's journey. It was never meant for the audience that I intended it for. That I thought, had I known, I probably would have messed it up.

[00:10:22] But in its purest form, that 52 Insights for Living New Earth Now was never for the audience I intended it for. So it became 52 Insights for Gen Alpha, a conscious curriculum. Tell us what Gen Alpha is dealing with. Yeah, I have a seven-year-old grandson who is also Generation Alpha.

[00:10:48] Now, mind you, my curriculum is specifically designed for, just because of the way it was made, for middle and high school students. However, it can also be modified all the way down so that this thing can start as early as kindergarten. Here's the two very important things I learned, because it was piloted in two middle schools in Detroit during the 2024-25 school year.

[00:11:15] Very first thing I learned is that unconscious can't teach consciousness. You understand, those teachers are in a space where they're just putting out fires all day long. Because number one, they don't even know who they're dealing with and how to deal with a generation that has been clicking and swiping since infancy.

[00:11:39] Those ways of being, the external stimuli is all that they've had. So they don't know how to guide them inward because, I'm telling you, they haven't been inward. They haven't done the work in that respect.

[00:11:56] The second thing I learned that was extremely important is that in order for the curriculum to be consumable and even marketable, I needed to integrate AI into the curriculum. So here I am now having, first of all, to take a course and to learn as it relates to curriculum design, how to integrate AI into it.

[00:12:23] I had to learn AI, what platforms, what software, to take them on this internal journey. And that's what the curriculum does. See, because they've only been taught externally and there's no balance. In other words, there's no self-awareness and relationship skills are lacking. Self-management is lacking.

[00:12:48] And what the curriculum helps them do is it turns them inward so that they can take this internal journey and gain the tools necessary to navigate their world. They're out there without those tools, without that balance of the internal. And see, and that's what's missing. And so now I have taken this course. I understand the platform.

[00:13:16] I understand the adaptive learning software that's needed for the curriculum. And I'll be spending the first half of the year integrating AI into the curriculum. And it will be piloted again, but this time online for the 2026-27 school year. Now, once I do that pilot and the data is there through the platform, readable, sustainable data,

[00:13:45] then I will be looking at ed tech companies like Mifflin or Pearson or even the SEL platform, social emotional learning platforms, and then selling that curriculum and getting it out there. And it's at that time, again, that they can take something like that and modify it and take it all the way down and take it all the way up.

[00:14:09] And this time, when it's piloted, I also want a range of middle school, high school. I want parents. And I also want those who are in the teaching program, just starting off in the teaching program, those freshmen and sophomore who are considering the teaching profession to take this as well. I want a whole range and grab data on that so they can see how impactful, important this curriculum is.

[00:14:39] Now, again, had I not jumped off the wheel, had I not relocated to Mexico, there would be no books. There would be no brand. There would be no, first of all, 52 insights for Living New Earth now transformed into 52 insights for Gen Alpha, a conscious curriculum. I would have been working, paying bills, working, paying bills.

[00:15:09] But being able to step off that wheel, I was able to step into purpose. These midterm elections are the most important of our lifetime and could decide the future of comprehensive welfare reform and the nation itself. Register to vote. Check your registration to make sure it is up to date. And find your polling place at wheelwithit.com slash vote. Tell us what a new earth is. You've mentioned that a lot.

[00:15:38] I know what a new earth is. I have read part of that book, but for the audience that doesn't know. Yes. New earth is not a place. First of all, let me just make that clear. It is not a place.

[00:15:51] It is a state of consciousness that one can resonate in, that one can reside in, even though we are physically in this time space reality, which is known as the third dimension. New earth is that of the fifth dimension.

[00:16:12] It's that state of consciousness that one will live, move, and have their beingness in being solely directed, guided by their soul self. That's that internal journey that I was speaking of. I wrote a book called Traveling Home Together.

[00:16:33] And that book basically helps one navigate a shift in consciousness that they experience when they move from that 3D, that third dimensional realm, conscious realm, into the fifth dimension, the new earth realm.

[00:16:56] And if I got a minute, I'd like to just read a passage out of there that might help make it a little bit more clearer as to what new earth is and how to live it now. This is from my book called Traveling Home Together. And I'll give the information to where your listeners can find that before we end this wonderful conversation. This book also comes with a workbook because here's the thing.

[00:17:24] Once one has navigated and has reached that state of consciousness of new earth, there are exercises and practices in a way of being and living to maintain that residence. You just don't get there and, hey, I'm here. You have to, there's a frequency, if you will. There's a bandwidth that one would need to maintain through practices and exercises that will help them continue to reside in that state of consciousness.

[00:17:54] Okay. In the book, again, as I said, it's called Traveling Home Together. And here's the passage. There was one voice within when you were first born into this world. It had your undivided attention. As you grew into your humanness, a new voice was introduced through your senses.

[00:18:17] What you saw, heard, tasted, felt, and smelled drew you more and more into the physical world. And you lost touch with that non-physical connection that your flesh now clothed. You also lost touch with the essence of who you really are as the world took over and the still small voice became smaller.

[00:18:46] The new, stronger voice that grew within and pretty much took over was that of your ego. Through programming and conditioning, the ego grew stronger and began running things internally. You attached and identified with the stories you were being told about yourself.

[00:19:09] Those attachments became your belief systems, which determined how you perceived yourself and the world around you. Those perceptions have become the realities in which you have lived for many years. The true essence of you is still just as present within as ego. However, it can remain unheard.

[00:19:37] Now, living new earth now is actually being aligned. You're always connected. You're connected now, but there's a difference between being connected and being aligned.

[00:19:53] So, the ego, which is running things, and that's that whole 3D, third dimensional thing, that's ego driven. That's programmed. That's conditioning. That's the matrix. That's the system. That one has been programmed and conditioned to live in.

[00:20:18] Me jumping off that wheel or leaving the wheel is me leaving that program and leaving that conditioning. Because remember, through programming and conditioning, it would have been extremely normal for me to stay on the wheel, work, pay bills. Work, pay bills. Right? Jumping off of that then opens you up to actually place the ego in its proper position.

[00:20:46] Now, the ego does have a general purpose, but it's not the general. So, placing one's ego, like I said through the book, in the backseat and bringing forth your soul self, which you meet internally and being led, guided, and directed by it. That's a new state of consciousness.

[00:21:11] Your alignment, you will hear that soul self say, go left, go right, sit down, be quiet, talk to him, say this to her. And it's a very sweet and gentle ebb and flow of the universe. It's a harmonic ebb and flow once aligned with your soul self.

[00:21:36] So, through exercises and practices, one can begin navigate using those tools and navigating themselves off the wheel, if you will, and begin living new earth. Begin living that state of consciousness. Your support of the Wheel With It podcast is completely optional but greatly appreciated.

[00:21:59] To help support my financial independence and the work we do, and for more information about where your gift goes, visit wheelwithit.com slash give. I have to run, but is there anything else you want to say before we get up here? Oh, absolutely. Listen, if you guys want to know a little bit more about that, what I've talked about, you can find it on my nonprofit website that has to do with Fuller History and Genealogy.

[00:22:27] It's called Fuller History and Genealogy Society in America. That's a whole other program. But on that site, you'll be able to find a little bit more about 52 Insights. There's a tab that says 52 Insights, and there's also a tab of my publications. And you can find that on www.fula, F-U-L-A, American.org. FulaAmerican.org. And click on those tabs.

[00:22:56] I want to have you back on for 15 more shows. One for each of your 15 lives. You're so funny. I have so enjoyed having you, and I really do want to have you back, so maybe we can make that up. Okay. We'll see. We will see you guys next episode. Bye, guys. Bye, guys. I will now be updating the YouTube and podcast feed every Sunday.

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