for all those times you stood by me for
all the truth that you made me see for
all the joy you brought to my life for
all the wrong that you made right for
every dream you make them true for all
the love I found in you I’ll be forever
grateful God
who held me up never let me fall oh the
I had been singing professionally for
about three or four years in and around
Montreal when I got this phone call on
an early Monday morning
Aloha Rachelle this is Magoo the musical
we saw you on stage last Saturday and we
enjoyed your performance very much we’d
like you to join us on the next world
tour as a back vocalist for Celine it
will last about a year would you be
interested if I was interested of course
I was interested I mean imagine the
opportunity it is for beginning singer
but honestly the amazing opportunity was
not only to tour with Celine it was
actually a way to make the money to
fulfill my true dream go to Paris and
join the new hip French music scene and
contribute in my own humble way as a
singer-songwriter in la langue de maria
that was my dream so with that in mind
of course I went on the world tour with
silly and for almost two years playing
but as I had made a promise to myself to
stay true to my dreams and follow my own
path I decided it was time to leave
I knew anyways that if I didn’t get a
hope now I might never want to leave
this luxury cruise ship but also never
discover new shorts so I packed my
things pulled up my sleeves and left and
guess who was on that very first flight
off to Paris guess who my French music
hero of the time MC Sola
standing right behind me in the queue to
check-in I mean did I see the sign I saw
the side
[Music]
whoo baby baby it’s a wild world it’s
hard to get by just upon this mine yeah
indeed despite all the smiles I gave
things in Paris didn’t work how the way
so in resume after almost ten years of
constant effort ten years of leaps of
faith ten years of risk-taking ten years
of non-stop belief ten years also of
repeated refusals and broken promises
and letdowns by record companies until
the next hopeful opening not to mention
the financial disaster I found myself in
and the embarrassment that comes with
this situation I had no choice but to go
[Music]
things started looking up again though
my dream was starting to come true again
I found a manager I found a record deal
and I was even announced to the media as
the next big thing coming on the
francophone music scene until life hit
me with another punch it is now 2007 and
my days are spent in the dark hoping the
[Music]
I just can’t face my reality anymore
life has become unbearable because I’ve
just been terribly betrayed and scammed
by my manager and I don’t know if I’m
more angry at him or at myself for
letting this happen because you see
three years before that
my intuition had clearly warned me not
to work with this guy clearly warned me
but my head desperate and eager to see
my lifelong work become a success went
ahead and accepted his offer to be my
manager well he managed one thing all
right to disappear with both the money
plan for my album and with my final
recordings and he was nowhere to be
found nowhere the album that I had
worked so hard on the album that I had
sacrificed everything for went unheard
the doors that were once opened now
closed my singing career
the pain the shame and the humiliation
of the situation kept playing over and
over and over in my head all night all
day
stole more they stole sheesh action it’s
a lay-oh melee undermine me it total
even let’s see Emily see my heart and my
soul though they were still alive and
they craved they craved for a way out I
knew that I needed to learn how not only
well God listens to pure desires because
in the midst of my depression a ray of
light came to me through my angel my
mother her choir director offered me to
be the guest vocalist for their upcoming
concert
I accepted although I really feared I
would not even be able to sing anymore
but the power of the music pulled me
through in the choir two young women
both lovely and luminous and adored by
my mom came to her after the concert and
asked if I was pursuing a spiritual path
oh yes she said and since a long time
hmm because we felt very strong
vibrations coming from your daughter
obviously God had managed to read
between my thoughts of rage and revenge
and was sending me help I so profoundly
[Music]
love you’ve come to rescue me to heal my
wounds and carry me home the girl’s name
was
Ozlem she invited me to her home for the
meditation session her calm voice led
the way and suited my heart already so I
was sitting down for a while
with my eyes closed and my hands opened
when suddenly
something wondrous started to happen it
felt it felt like a an invisible zipper
was coming down slowly from my forehead
down to my feet and then like a layer of
darkness and heaviness just falling off
of me literally like an old skin and on
that newborn skin a gentle but powerful
and then above my head an amazing flow
of energy by pulling up as if
reconnecting me directly back to the
divine it felt so amazing so safe so
comforting I don’t remember ever feeling
I also noticed there was a profound
silence in my head within me I felt a
closeness and intimacy with myself I had
not yet known and the peace the peace
and the Amazing Grace I was blind but
I could see how everything was some well
different around me but mostly in me the
pain was gone it was gone it’s as if the
past didn’t even matter anymore as if I
and what that man had done it seemed
like nothing compared to the power of my
spirit
I could forgive him easily I have
struggled so much to forgive him but I
could forgive him easily because I
understood that he was trapped in the
thick walls of his ego like I was and
did not know his spirit but I had just
met mine the most beautiful encounter of
my life that state that space that
that stillness had joy that clarity they
my inner voice was clearer than ever and
my capacity to obey it was now free of
obstacles and I had hope again I had
hope again when I learned that the
kundalini energy awakens in others like
a candle lights up another candle I
deeply understood my life purpose God
had to make me discover that true power
that was inside of me first and then go
out there and use it for the highest
purpose
[Music]
when I understood that with every cell
of my body soul and mind things took off
like a rocket it was amazing
right now I don’t have the time to tell
you about all the amazing miraculous
turns of events that happened following
this realization but if I am standing
here before you today at TEDx my dream
it is because I have finally succeeded
in listening to my intuition and I
obeyed it to the point of living a
blissful and fulfilling life if you knew
how all these things all these
circumstances got resolved
you would be flabbergasted I think like
I was at how the universe helps you when
you help it by trusting your intuition
and following it namaste thank you [Applause]
all the truth that you made me see for
all the joy you brought to my life for
all the wrong that you made right for
every dream you make them true for all
the love I found in you I’ll be forever
grateful God
who held me up never let me fall oh the
I had been singing professionally for
about three or four years in and around
Montreal when I got this phone call on
an early Monday morning
Aloha Rachelle this is Magoo the musical
we saw you on stage last Saturday and we
enjoyed your performance very much we’d
like you to join us on the next world
tour as a back vocalist for Celine it
will last about a year would you be
interested if I was interested of course
I was interested I mean imagine the
opportunity it is for beginning singer
but honestly the amazing opportunity was
not only to tour with Celine it was
actually a way to make the money to
fulfill my true dream go to Paris and
join the new hip French music scene and
contribute in my own humble way as a
singer-songwriter in la langue de maria
that was my dream so with that in mind
of course I went on the world tour with
silly and for almost two years playing
but as I had made a promise to myself to
stay true to my dreams and follow my own
path I decided it was time to leave
I knew anyways that if I didn’t get a
hope now I might never want to leave
this luxury cruise ship but also never
discover new shorts so I packed my
things pulled up my sleeves and left and
guess who was on that very first flight
off to Paris guess who my French music
hero of the time MC Sola
standing right behind me in the queue to
check-in I mean did I see the sign I saw
the side
[Music]
whoo baby baby it’s a wild world it’s
hard to get by just upon this mine yeah
indeed despite all the smiles I gave
things in Paris didn’t work how the way
so in resume after almost ten years of
constant effort ten years of leaps of
faith ten years of risk-taking ten years
of non-stop belief ten years also of
repeated refusals and broken promises
and letdowns by record companies until
the next hopeful opening not to mention
the financial disaster I found myself in
and the embarrassment that comes with
this situation I had no choice but to go
[Music]
things started looking up again though
my dream was starting to come true again
I found a manager I found a record deal
and I was even announced to the media as
the next big thing coming on the
francophone music scene until life hit
me with another punch it is now 2007 and
my days are spent in the dark hoping the
[Music]
I just can’t face my reality anymore
life has become unbearable because I’ve
just been terribly betrayed and scammed
by my manager and I don’t know if I’m
more angry at him or at myself for
letting this happen because you see
three years before that
my intuition had clearly warned me not
to work with this guy clearly warned me
but my head desperate and eager to see
my lifelong work become a success went
ahead and accepted his offer to be my
manager well he managed one thing all
right to disappear with both the money
plan for my album and with my final
recordings and he was nowhere to be
found nowhere the album that I had
worked so hard on the album that I had
sacrificed everything for went unheard
the doors that were once opened now
closed my singing career
the pain the shame and the humiliation
of the situation kept playing over and
over and over in my head all night all
day
stole more they stole sheesh action it’s
a lay-oh melee undermine me it total
even let’s see Emily see my heart and my
soul though they were still alive and
they craved they craved for a way out I
knew that I needed to learn how not only
well God listens to pure desires because
in the midst of my depression a ray of
light came to me through my angel my
mother her choir director offered me to
be the guest vocalist for their upcoming
concert
I accepted although I really feared I
would not even be able to sing anymore
but the power of the music pulled me
through in the choir two young women
both lovely and luminous and adored by
my mom came to her after the concert and
asked if I was pursuing a spiritual path
oh yes she said and since a long time
hmm because we felt very strong
vibrations coming from your daughter
obviously God had managed to read
between my thoughts of rage and revenge
and was sending me help I so profoundly
[Music]
love you’ve come to rescue me to heal my
wounds and carry me home the girl’s name
was
Ozlem she invited me to her home for the
meditation session her calm voice led
the way and suited my heart already so I
was sitting down for a while
with my eyes closed and my hands opened
when suddenly
something wondrous started to happen it
felt it felt like a an invisible zipper
was coming down slowly from my forehead
down to my feet and then like a layer of
darkness and heaviness just falling off
of me literally like an old skin and on
that newborn skin a gentle but powerful
and then above my head an amazing flow
of energy by pulling up as if
reconnecting me directly back to the
divine it felt so amazing so safe so
comforting I don’t remember ever feeling
I also noticed there was a profound
silence in my head within me I felt a
closeness and intimacy with myself I had
not yet known and the peace the peace
and the Amazing Grace I was blind but
I could see how everything was some well
different around me but mostly in me the
pain was gone it was gone it’s as if the
past didn’t even matter anymore as if I
and what that man had done it seemed
like nothing compared to the power of my
spirit
I could forgive him easily I have
struggled so much to forgive him but I
could forgive him easily because I
understood that he was trapped in the
thick walls of his ego like I was and
did not know his spirit but I had just
met mine the most beautiful encounter of
my life that state that space that
that stillness had joy that clarity they
my inner voice was clearer than ever and
my capacity to obey it was now free of
obstacles and I had hope again I had
hope again when I learned that the
kundalini energy awakens in others like
a candle lights up another candle I
deeply understood my life purpose God
had to make me discover that true power
that was inside of me first and then go
out there and use it for the highest
purpose
[Music]
when I understood that with every cell
of my body soul and mind things took off
like a rocket it was amazing
right now I don’t have the time to tell
you about all the amazing miraculous
turns of events that happened following
this realization but if I am standing
here before you today at TEDx my dream
it is because I have finally succeeded
in listening to my intuition and I
obeyed it to the point of living a
blissful and fulfilling life if you knew
how all these things all these
circumstances got resolved
you would be flabbergasted I think like
I was at how the universe helps you when
you help it by trusting your intuition
and following it namaste thank you [Applause]
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