Truth can cost you a title—and hand you your purpose. When Blair accepted a big promotion, he didn’t expect to confront abuse, misuse of funds, and a system that punished honesty. He spoke up, lost the job, and found something wilder: a daily dialogue with a higher consciousness that reshaped his life and work. We compare notes on anxiety, ADHD, and the simple, stubborn practices that hold you steady when everything tilts.
I share how five minutes of meditation became an hour during a season of panic and grief, and why research shows a consistent 25-minute practice can meaningfully reduce anxiety. Blair walks us through the two layers that changed his trajectory: a sit-down meditation aimed at illumination rather than wrestling thoughts, and everyday mindfulness cues—peace be still, breath resets, sacred senses—that raise your baseline in real time. He explains how nightly journaling opened a channel to what he calls soul contact, leading to seven books on meditation, mindfulness, and manifestation , and a renewed consulting career.
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If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hey library, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Release Thought with Real Purpose. And today’s Blair 80. And when I read his interesting story, it brought me back to times at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, believe it or not. He talked about a story of transformation where he decided to tell the truth about a very difficult situation that was happening in his workplace. And people did not react the way that they were supposed to react with him. And it made him feel like he was going insane. So to stay sane, he developed the practice of meditation, which I love to hear more about. I don’t know about the last of you, but meditation is something that actually helped save me in 2020 because I suffer from anxiety. And in those years, God prompted me to start meditating. And I thought, how am I going to sit still when I also have ADHD? And sitting still for five minutes at a time was incredibly difficult. And what God was asking me to do was to sit and meditate for over 25 minutes, if not longer, to start creating new neural pathways in my brain so that my anxiety could be under control. Because that’s what research shows is the benefit of meditation. 25 minutes a day can help reduce generalized anxiety disorder. And that was something I learned in my journey to help my firstborn with his anxiety issues. Because my anxiety was out of control, his anxiety was out of control. And we know that anxiety has a genetic component to this. So we have genetic components, and on top of that, I was modeling it and I was being triggered by major things happening in my life. So without further ado, Blair, thank you so much for joining us on early style reveal purpose to talk about one of my favorite subjects out there meditation.
Happy to be here, Sylvia. I’m looking forward to our conversation.
So am I. I think it’s gonna be amazing. And I know I want to dive deep into that story of transformation of yours. Tell us what happened in your workplace.
Okay. Um I moved from the East Coast to the West Coast to um uh San Diego to take a large uh promotion, um and only to find um that my boss was a psychopath, is all I can say. I mean, she was abusing employees, she was misusing funds, she was running the program into the ground. Um and um she had said when she hired me that she wanted my help. Well, it turned out she didn’t really. She wanted cover. Um and after about a year, I just had enough. Uh, you know, I could not continue to be in that situation for myself and for others. Um, so I decided that I would uh let people who were supposed to be um monitoring the program know what was going on. Um and as a result, an investigation occurred. Um she was fired, um, but they fired me too. And they fired me because they said I was a troublemaker. Well, I guess in a way I was because I did make trouble for them by bringing attention to the situation. Um and um uh in effect, you know, indicating that they were mismanaging the situation from above and uh that I needed to go. Um now I’ve been doing the kind of work that I would was doing at that time for more than 20 years, and I was on a trajectory for um um, this was a small business administration program for a state director job, and and my whole career and uh uh income and everything just ended at that point. I mean, it just came crashing down. Um and as you can imagine, my ego was horribly deflated, uh um my income uh was gone, and I was gonna have to figure out what to do. Um fortunately, I had some savings. So um I spent some time in a in a similar way that you did, um, of taking a deep dive into my meditation practice and and and using journaling as a as therapy. Now I had started doing yoga, gosh, 30 years before. Um, and so meditation was part of my yoga practice, but I’d never gone as deep into my meditation as I as I went at that time. And and and and I’d never done spiritual journey journaling either. Um in the process, I realized that I um was having soul contact as I sat in the evening writing and thinking, and um you described your relationship with uh God uh as um one where you’re you experienced downloading uh information. Well that was similar to the experience that I had. That I would sit and I would just write um uh uh and would go back and look later on, and I’ll I would think that’s me saying these things. I I I I didn’t know this. You know, these were very much higher um um spiritual um concepts, ideas, um, information. Um, and after about 150,000 words of of this, I realized that I had material for some books. Um and at that point, and I never intended to be an author, I began writing some books which have become now seven books on the subject of meditation, mindfulness, manifestation, um, all of which have a very spiritual uh approach to them. Um and the the the focus in many ways is on the subject of meditation. My first book, for example, is on the benefits of meditation. You were talking about the benefits of meditation being healing, among other things. Um 3,000 studies have been done on the subject of meditation and the benefits of meditation mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Um, and that’s the subject of my of my first book. Uh, and then I have a meditation book, I have a mindfulness book, I have a manifestation book, um, and all of that just came pouring out of me. Um, and it was wonderful. Um what I realized looking back is that I was on a particular path, but spirit, my soul, wanted me to take a different uh direction. And so I I took a 90-degree turn from where I was going and what I was doing. Um I ended up moving back to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Bay Area where I’ve live now. My kids are uh in California. Um and uh you know, I I continue to do my writing. I have a uh newsletter that I send out every week. Um uh I’m doing podcasts, I’m I’m writing my next book, which is on the subject of making soul contact, and it’ll be in the vein of what we were just talking about. Um I I think sometimes traumatic situations, although they are difficult, are there for a reason, and one of the reasons might be for uh somebody to wake up which was my experience. I I sort of woke up from my human experience and I began to have more and more a spiritual experience, a sense of illumination, a sense of five-dimensional reality, if you will, is how I describe it. Um you know, that invisible spirit that underlies the our our per our three-dimensional experience of being a human in a in a biomechanical vehicle, you know, uh motoring around with this um uh computer program on board that’s constantly chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, and beginning to uh calm that down and beginning to listen for the still small voice, which I interpret as being my soul. Um and so I I have my higher consciousness, um, and I’ve affectionately nicknamed it high C. And I have conversations on a daily basis with that part of myself, um, both through journaling uh as well as through meditation and sitting and listening and um paying attention to that still small voice. Uh there’s an ongoing dialogue now with my friend, my companion, my guide, um uh uh that that that that part of me which it’s it’s it’s like uh two aspects of myself have sort of melded and become one. Uh and that gives me also access to the universe and to what I would call the all. Um, because I think God is sometimes confusing to people, but uh access to the all as well. So that’s that’s the story. Um uh I I think I think it’s an unusual story. Um, and I think the the the message that I came away with is that we all have a soul, we all have a soul that wants us to wake up to it, that wants to us to invite it in, that wants to develop a relationship with that, but we we’re never taught much of anything about what that is or how to do it. Um, I think one of the Jesus’ most powerful sayings was the kingdom of heaven is within you. Well, if if that’s true, then you have to go and find a way in to access the kingdom of heaven that’s within. Um that imprisoned splendor that Robert Browning talks about, wanting to come out. I think soul in a lifetime, our soul wants to develop a relationship with us, but we’re not exposed to that very much, we don’t know much about it. Uh, and unless we embark on a path of uh or a um some sort of approach to have that experience, and that’s the thing that’s most important is having the experience. That’s not theoretical, is having an experience of being an eternal being, uh a child of God, um, and um uh uh a soul as our companion for negotiating life.
And see, and you call it the soul, and I call it the spirit, because the we have two identities that are constantly battling it out that when we uh navigate major change, in my my humble opinion, it’s the ego identity and the soul identity, and within the soul identity is spirit, the Holy Spirit. You mentioned something in the interview where you feel like you need to do something to gain access to that. The good news of Christ is that you don’t need to gain access, it’s already there for you. He died, he died for you, he bled, he made a choice to love you enough to die so that you wouldn’t have to work at it, that it’s already yours. You just have to believe that he is the Lord, that he is the Son of God, and that’s all that’s needed. That’s the whole good news part of being a Christian, right? You don’t have to, it’s within us all, it’s already there. We just have to acknowledge that it’s him.
That it’s that’s what and that’s what I’m saying. That’s exactly what I’m saying.
That that that he lives within us, and if we want the power and the authority of God, it’s right there. We just have to tap into it.
So you and I you and I have a little bit different, you know, approach to that, but we’re talking we’re talking about essentially the same thing. Because if the if the kingdom of heaven is within you, that means that spirit and and um um uh soul, perhaps, as I call it, is within and is accessible, it’s it’s available to you at any time. Uh what you have to do though, uh, is to spend some time is spend some time listening. And I I have found that meditation is the most direct path to that place within you, whatever you want to call it, uh, that is your spiritual guide. Um uh and you know there there are lots of paths to find that. Christianity is one of them. There are you know other spiritual traditions, uh there are other methodologies, there are lots of meditation paths. I developed a particular meditation um that opens me to the all or to God, it opens me to my higher consciousness, um, it acknowledges that I’m an eternal being. Um, it um uh includes a request for um raising awareness for um illumination and for the sharing of that as a light out into my world. And what I found that to result in is that my world got better. Uh things began to happen, my you know, my uh writing began to uh take hold, my books began to sell. I started doing business consulting again directly with clients, and that began to click. Um, and my life now uh is better than it’s ever been. And I completely forgive those people at this point who fired fired me because, in fact, what they did was a favor. It didn’t seem like it at the time, yeah, but it turned out to be that they did a favor for me to explore and to go deep and to find out what spirit wanted me to do next.
Yeah, yeah, spirit is always leading us, the Holy Spirit is always available to us. It was that voice that I heard in the Easter weekend that said, lean forward, Sylvia, so you can breathe. I had two blood plots that were going through my heart for those listening, and I could have easily stopped it and didn’t. And doctors were baffled, like completely baffled. How did I even walk inside the hospital? Yes, like unassisted, uh, when I should have been doubled over in pain. In fact, I shouldn’t have been walking into the hospital at all because of the condition that I had. It wasn’t just the blood clots in my, it wasn’t just pulmonary embolism what I had. I had what they call a Carey syndrome, which I’ve I’ve always said it’s such a beautiful name for such a deadly syndrome. It is a blood clot that was clotting the entirety, almost the entirety of the vena cava, which is the main vein, that pulls blood from all the main organs, and it was putting pressure on my liver. I was about to go into acute liver failure and require a transplant.
And I had to and that healing happened because you listened to that still small voice in a time of crisis. Yes. Um, and you responded to that. And sometimes I think we have, as I did, as you did, we we sometimes have to go through traumatic situations in order to dig deep and find that place within ourselves that is our that is our spiritual guide.
Yes, yes, and we all it there’s different methodologies, like you mentioned. Some I used to meditate in 2020 because that was something that I felt spirit was leading me to do. Um because my anxiety was really affecting my marriage and and affecting my parenting. And I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to spill that onto my children. If I could do something about it, I wanted to do it, learn how to do it. And so God had me in training for a while. He said, Okay, start with start very little, so we have five minutes and then build. You know how to do this. You do it. In my meditation practice, and I started very small, and I remember just I didn’t know, yeah, I didn’t even know what to use, you know, because I think most people meditation is is is a very big word that we need to break down for them, Blair. Okay, so I started do this in the interview. What I how I was guided was to purchase an app called Insight Timer, and I started to just allow whatever my soul got attracted to, I would allow. So I would read the description of these teachers and what they were teaching, and if it I felt pulled to it, I would click on it and I would start doing that. And by the time I turned around at the end of 2020, what had transpired was what had started as five minutes a day turned into an hour. Wow, yeah, which was a huge thing for someone who could never sit still, right? Let alone you know, meditate. So I started with inside timer, that was 2020. All throughout the pandemic, I did meditation. Then in 2023, when my father um received his terminal diagnosis, at this point in my relationship with God, I had gotten closer to him. I had I had been wanting to find my identity in Christ, and so I started to dive a little bit into his word because as a Catholic, I didn’t even know how to read the Bible. No one had ever really taught us that. They taught us how to uh do the religious um traditional things that the Catholics do, you know, the ceremonies and everything. We were very well versed in that, but we weren’t well versed in the word of God, and so I just I felt the pull again. Hey, you need to uh you need to start reading my word. And so I was like, okay, but I didn’t even know where to start, so I started with a Bible study because to me, I wanted to know what I was reading. At times I did, I’d be like, I’m so confused, I don’t know what I’m reading. And then the lady would come on, Terry Cobble that does the Bible recap would come on after several um chapters, would come on and just kind of reflect on those chapters, and then I’d be like, oh, okay, that’s what I read. Oh, that’s what that means. Okay, and I did that, and actually, about a day ago, I finished that whole year because when my dad died, I took a little break. I was in the midst of grieving a major loss in our family, and I had just um reunited with my dad uh four years before, in that my father and I had a very tumultuous relationship throughout my my my life, and it was through the prompting of God to write my first manuscript journey to me that I reflected on all those years with God by my side and how God revealed certain things to me throughout that year in writing the book. I started off with the trauma that started that whole horrible relationship with my father, and ended with chapter 15, joyfully identifying with my soul identity, which wanted to forgive my father and wanted to start all over again. And I’m glad I did because God was very persistent that I write that first manuscript primarily to heal me from. The inside out.
Yes.
And it was very freeing. But then I needed something else to start building on that foundation. So I’ve shared some tactics here. What were your tactics? What other things can people do aside from meditation? Or how do how do we break down meditation for them, Blair?
Yes. From my perspective, as I said, uh meditation is is the most direct path to spiritual growth. And I do two different types of meditation each day. One is a sit-down meditation that can be anywhere from five minutes to half an hour. I developed a meditation practice that as I as I mentioned is sort of some steps that you go through. And the purpose is uh illumination. It’s not just getting the mind to stop chatter, chatter, chatter. In fact, the purpose of my meditation practice is to go around trying to tame tame the mind because it doesn’t really want to be tamed. Uh it doesn’t want to let go. Um and so the meditation practice is really a little different than other uh practices that I had come across over the years. Um I do that a couple of times a day, one once in the morning, once in the evening, and then during the day I undertake um mindfulness meditation practices. Now, mindfulness meditation practices take different forms, um, but it’s as simple as um just taking a deep breath and taking a moment and just being aware of the space that’s that’s around you and the space that’s within you. Um and it can be as simple as that. It doesn’t have to be complicated, it doesn’t have to be this mysterious thing, it can just be as simple as that. Um or it can be using um uh word phrases like peace be still, which you’re of course very familiar with. Um uh which is I think one of the most powerful things uh uh mindfulness practices that that somebody can undertake, just saying to themselves, peace, be still, and just be still for one moment, you know. Just mindfulness practices are about remembering in a moment who you are and your spiritual nature. It’s a it’s a spiritual pause, if you will. And if you do it three or four times throughout the day, it kind of helps keep you tuned up and um your your vibratory frequency uh up. Um and a an ongoing sort of lifestyle reminder of remembering to remember, you know, that um what you’re about uh and your your your um uh the the the spiritual side of you. Uh now there are all kinds of mindfulness practice this that you can undertake. For example, you could do as I do, which is to put a little three by five card here by my computer that just says live Christ consciousness. Um I have a little angel that I put on my door post uh going out and I and I touch it uh every day uh um as I go in and out of the as I go and out of the house. It’s a trigger, if you will, it’s a remembrance tool. Um getting out into nature and doing a spiritual walk in nature is a mindfulness practice. Um five senses as sacred senses is a um uh mindfulness practice. For example, um seeing with your spiritual eye, your third eye, your spiritual eye, instead of your three-dimensional eyes. You know, your three-dimensional eyes, let’s say you go to the grocery store, are judging eyes. So you’re looking around and you’re judging people and you’re classifying them, and you’re doing you know what the mind does, da da da da da da. It’s possible to take a pause before going into the grocery store, peace be still, go in with the intention of seeing with spiritual eyes, kind of squinting a little bit or fuzzing your eyes, and getting yourself into a uh higher vibratory frequency, and then being able to look out from within to see what’s behind the obvious, to see the essence of people, for example, to have interactions with people that are meaningful, to to um be in a place where that that seems to kind of light up with the the seeing, the the uh spiritual um seeing that you’re doing. So you can do that with each one of your, as my mindfulness books talks about, you can do that with each one of your physical senses in a spiritual way that really alters your experience of life from looking at it from judge, judge, judge, judge to B B B B B B as a way of uh interacting with the world.
Awesome. I really I’m learning a lot, and I know that the listeners are gonna learn even more by purchasing your book. Where can we find your book?
They’re on at Amazon. Uh Amazon. Yeah, you can get um um you can get uh uh uh you know a paperback or you can get a e-copy of it. Um actually I’d be happy to give people a free copy of my first book, the The Big Benefits of the Meditation. If what they do is go to my website, you can get a free copy of this, um, and you can get on my newsletter and you can get a weekly uh inspirational newsletter at BrailleAB.com.
Okay. That’s what I was thinking it was. So I’m starting to write it so that I don’t forget, um included in the notes at the end of this interview. Any any last words of encouragement you want to leave with the listeners of released out reveal purpose before we sign off?
I think we’re all destined sometime, someplace to wake up. And why not do it now rather than later? Why not embark on a path and find a method that works for you in order to wake up to the spiritual side of yourself? What I would call soul contact, what you would call goal god contact. Um why not do that now? Why not find a way to do it? So I would encourage everybody. I mean, we you know, as a species, we need to wake up. We’ve got big problems uh coming down the the uh railroad track at us. And if we don’t wake up, um you know we’re we’re we’re in for some very dark times.
Yes, I couldn’t agree more. Pretty much it’s time. It’s time to wake up and to tap with the and and really start spreading love and spreading light most when we can. And the way to lighten up the load within us is through meditation, is through prayer, is through different modalities to clear our minds so that we can hear the voice within. Um, however it is that you call it, I call it Holy Spirit, call it uh high C, which I think is a cute name, but um, I’m sure he’s getting a kick out of it in heaven too. And uh because he he rejoices in his children’s creations.
Every new awakening is a rejoice in heaven, I think.
Yes, yes, the angels start to sing very loudly when when we mature emotionally and mature spiritually in our journey as we journey through life and we keep leveling up in our awareness, not just in self, but in in awareness of spirit and how we can step in full collaboration with spirit to create the most beautiful light there is, and that is the light that we carry within us all. We’re all gifted very uniquely with uh a specific set of skills that when we tap in, everything starts to fall in alignment, and that’s why we need to also understand how when there is conflict, it’s not conflict here on earth, it’s conflict in the spiritual realm. So we’ve got to really learn how to fight um in the spiritual realm. And sometimes, you know, for those, I know my mom has has mentioned the Bible was a big thing for her. She didn’t even know where to start. And I said, just start at the beginning. Start at the beginning, start reading it. And if you don’t know how to understand it, find a study, find people, find community. When we talk about it in community, we get we get um hot moments all the time, I find. Yes. Uh and we learn so much quicker than we try to do this alone. Alone sucks. So let’s try to do this in community, community with the spirit, community with people he sends your way. And uh to the listeners of Athese. Be this wonderful, beautiful light, shine it brightly, don’t be afraid. Yeah, that light is yours to for you to bring to the world, to bring to humanity. Uh, it is your light to shine very brightly. This is what you were born to be, uh, to step into, and all that is required is for you to listen to that voice within. Have a beautiful and blessed rest of your week. Blair, thank you so much for joining us. It was such a pleasure, and I’ve learned so much about meditation. Thank you for guiding us on this journey. And uh, for the rest of you, stay blessed. Love y’all. Bye now.
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