Please welcome my quest today. Myrna Balrak. She is a successful online writer, content creator, and facilitator. She inspires and helps countless of people in crossing their bridge to where they want to be. She has a very successful website.

Myrna Balrak, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much; it is an honor to be here.

Let’s dive right into it right away. What is one thing that truly makes you happy?
To be honest, there are several things that truly make me happy.
For instance my home. I can truly call this my home. I love how you can see all the way through the garden when you walk into the house. It draws you in and makes you want to see more.

I love how the large beautiful panorama window still surprises me when I walk through the corridor and open the door to the living room. Which enhance the breathtaking view of the conservatory and my evergreen garden.

Each room leads into the long and wide modern conservatory which leads to the big evergreen garden with a beautiful view. The view from the garden is just breathtaking; you can see for miles over the beautiful ditch/lake. Living in my dream home brings me so much joy and peace.

What is it about this house that makes you so happy?
It is the first house I can call home. I have always lived in houses, never in a home.

I can understand that living in a house you can call home makes you truly happy. You mentioned that your home is one of the things that makes you truly happy. What else?

Living here with my partner who is beautiful inside out. When I am with him, I experience the same feelings of joy, peace and oneness. My relationship with him is built on trust, admiration, appreciation, respect, and best friend-partnership.

Was it always like this?

No, we had to work at it. He wanted to fix things at first, but all I wanted was for him to truly listen and be present. That drove me crazy because I did not feel heard. I felt as if I and my feelings were unimportant. “If I wanted a solution, I would have asked for it,” I used to say.

And I was constantly asking deeper questions, giving him the impression that he was being interrogated. “Why do you always have to keep digging if I want to share more I would have,” he would say.

How did you solve it?

We both wanted to be heard, to feel important, to be appreciated for who we are. So, we decided to take time out. We made two cards, one that simply says “Listen” and the other that says “Let us Talk.”

What is the difference between Listen and Let us talk in your opinion?

When you just want the other person to be present and hold the space for you to feel, use the Listen card. So that you can freely express your feelings without being judged, questioned, interrogated, or advised.

When we pool the Let Talk card, we can offer advice and ask more in-depth questions. We all have busy lives and often we are too busy with ourselves that we forget to truly listen and be present. I believe that listening, deep listening to the unspoken words, and being present is a gift that you give to someone and to yourself.

Let’s talk about your career or passion. What inspired you to pursue your current career or passion?

I have always been fascinated by movies. When the main characters in a movie answer the call, they embark on a journey. They cross the threshold to get from where they are to where they want to be. They begin their Hero’s Journey. During their journey, they have to bridge many caps we call obstacles.

In reality, most people are unaware that they must bridge the caps and locate the missing planks in order to cross the bridge. In order for them to achieve their goals and dreams. We often fall because we have not found the missing plank. Most people run right back to where they came from believing it is too dangerous and not meant to be.

As a online writer, content creator, and facilitator I inspire and help people to go on their Hero’s Journey to find their missing planks. So that they can cross their bridge and transform their own live from within.

Have you experience that as well and how did you find your missing planks?

Yes, I felt many times and eventually ran back. I did not think I could ever be a life-changing online writer and content creator. Because I make so many spelling mistakes, no matter how many classes I took, it was still full of errors. I wanted to be a Hero’s Journey writer, but I did not know how to apply it; people who could help demanded a lot of money, and I still did not know how to do it. Only information, no implementation.

When you run back too often you eventually stop moving towards the bridge. And at one point, you forget about the planks and the bridge. You start to believe that there are no planks available to fill the caps on your bridge that leads you to your goals and dreams.

In response to your second question. I went on my own Hero’s Journey once more, but this time I had the Master Key System. With the Master Key System, you embark on a journey to help you build the life of your dreams. The Experience is based on the idea of a “pay-it-forward scholarship.”

You mentioned earlier that you have always lived in houses, never in a home. That must have been difficult for you; is that what motivates you and fuels your passion?

Yes, for the most part. Home is where the heart is, or as Dorothy says in The Wizard of Oz, “Click your heels together three times and say, ‘There is no place like home,’ and you will be there.” You know what that feels like, you can always go back to that.

No matter how humble it may be, home is the place where one feels happiest. The proverb comes from the famous song Home, Sweet Home, by John Howard Payne

To be happy, you must first understand how it feels.

I want all Dorothy and Dorotheos to experience what it is like to achieve their goals and dreams. So they cross the threshold into their own Hero’s Journey adventure to their next goal and dreams.

If you could talk to your younger self, what advice would you give her?

Explore and go on adventures to find your missing plank so that you become, do, and have what you most desire.

Thank you very much for this interview, Myrna Balrak.

Thank you so much Oprah. It was a pleasure.