Adam Torres and Monique Franceschini discuss The Conscious Life Expo.
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Listen to The Conscious Life Expo coverage. In this episode, Adam Torres interviews Monique Franceschini, Founder of The Love Stones, explore The Love Stones and The Conscious Life Expo thanks to the support of our sponsor, Marketing Completion Fund.
About Monique Franceschini
Monique started collecting my “Pet Rocks” when she was about 4 years old. Over the years she continued collecting minerals fascinated by the magical alchemy that occurred to create the unique piece of art in each one.
In 2010 she began studying Crystal Healing with her Reiki teacher and Soul Sister, Victoria Lanakila Generao. As an Energy Practitioner she began to understand the subtle and higher vibrations from the crystals and hear positive feedback from her clients when the crystals were added into the Healing sessions.
Understanding how having a crystal or stone near you could change your vibration she began experimenting with custom silver wire wrapping but something was missing for her! Monique needed to melt, hammer, saw, use sandpaper and more! In India this dream came true when she learned silver-smithing from her lovely Soul Sister, Divya Soni in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India.
India gave another gift of being able to meet several families associated with the crystal caves. Finding unique minerals for making high resonating jewelry and huge crystals that inspire your surroundings….This is Happiness for her 🙂
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 Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today I’m in Los Angeles, California, and if you could see behind me, these amazing rocks from the love I have Monique, the founder on the show.
Monique, welcome. Hi, thank you so much. Thank you. I appreciate you for coming through today. All right, Monique. So I’ve been hearing this story about like how this business came into be about. I mean, how did you get started? How’d you get in the store? I, can I call it the stone business? Like what should I, the crystal?
Yeah, it’s like, in a way it’s like all my pet rocks or I heard you say when we were warming up all the babies, they are, they’re babies because I call it a an adoption agency because it’s like, you really make a connection to a crystal and it’s, it’s your companion. It like gives you information of like something that you need to feel for your soul.
Yeah. How did you first make that connection to even like this business? How did it come about? Since I was a kid, since I was a little girl, I used to pick up rocks from the ground, and my parents got me a tumbler, and so it just began from there, yeah. And so tell me, the Love Stone though, how did this business come to be?
So I actually got into a really crazy car accident here in Los Angeles, and I almost broke my neck. And so I could barely drive my vehicle and so something inside of me was just like, you have to go to India, you know, and I was just, I knew nothing about India. Did you speak the language? No, but now I speak a little bit of Hindi.
like something told you to go? Yeah. I actually because of my accident, one of my Reiki brothers because I do Reiki also energy work, he did Reiki on me and I kind of passed out and I had a dream and the dream showed me like orange and white pointy roofs and monkeys and this thing and I told him about it and I was like, I don’t know what this is about, but he was like, that was wild.
So, a year to the date later, like some, like so somewhere in between, I had typed into the internet, Himalayan mountains yoga retreat, because I knew I needed to get my core back for my body, right? So, I went to India. And a year to the date later, that whole dream reenacted itself. Like, I was already, like, involved in the yoga school.
My body was getting good. So anyways during my time in India, I met a family that owns a mine over there near the Ajanta Caves near Mumbai. And so I got introduced to apophyllite, which is it’s different than quartz, and it’s like rainbow, and it’s, like, makes you feel just like very different and calm and peaceful.
Yeah. So especially like in my house now, like I have like so many. Cause anyways, long story short, I brought in a thousand kilos of these crystals. A thousand kilos of crystals? Yeah. How do you bring in a thousand kilos? On a ship, on a boat. Wow. Yeah. But before then back in 2016, I was getting like smaller just smaller amounts from him.
Because I was just like, you know, I was like, I want these and, you know, cause they’re just so awesome to have. And then we ended up or I ended up just, like, getting these and, yeah. So, let’s fast forward a bit. So, where are you at with the business now? So, that was, you brought these over, I’m guessing you sold out.
I just feel like you’ve already sold out of these and you’ve been bringing more and more over. Yeah, I did, yeah. How does this, how did this work for you? So I went, so my last batch I got in during COVID and it was like, it took it forever to come over on the ship. Yeah. And because it was happening, it was being quarantined.
So these little babies were getting quarantined all over the world. It was so funny because I was like two months, three months when they finally arrived and it was great, you know, and cause there was like huge ones and, you know, and like all the ones that we like had picked out. Yeah. And so anyways moving forward.
I didn’t realize, this is like a funny story, that apophyllite is, clears past life trauma, okay? And during me having this amount of apophyllite around me, Yeah. All of a sudden in like probably about like eight months after I got this huge amount. Yeah I read 14 books on past life regressions from various authors and people that have done this work In one and a half months I read 14 books and I didn’t realize till later like until a couple years ago that this is past life regression stones that help you to clear that so That’s what I’m doing.
So in my, in my office, like where people come to have their sessions, I have like crystals. Lining around this this bed that they lay in and they have their journeys and sessions and wow The crystals are my helpers. This is such an amazing story. Yeah Yeah, so last thing I want you to do. I want you to look into the camera.
How do people follow? How do they learn more about your practice? How do they learn more about the stones? How do they? So you can go to www. templejourneys. org. That’s J O U R N E Y S dot org. And you can see all kind of information about the work I’m doing with people, helping them to change their timelines in the future, and learn from their past for problems that they’re going through today that your higher self wants you to know and to help you with.
And connecting you with that inner voice. That can be so quiet, but it’s our intuition that we really need to connect with because it’s here for us It’s been with us in all of our lifetime. And yeah, it’s like such a magical gift to Awaken the crystals are online right now. Well, actually the crystals have been offline so I’m taking more pictures and getting them off more on there, but Find me through the temple journeys, and we’ll connect about the crystals, about where I’m going to be having shows, and you can come and enjoy.
And I do this little thing for people where I lead them through a chi booster, and I quickly show you within seven minutes, just how to like tap in. To the divine source energy that is for us to have. It’s our birthright. Bring it down into your body, fill yourself up, make an ethereal vitamin of what you need for the day, put it inside of you.
And then I like to give it back to mother earth. For, for just sustaining us here, giving us all her love and oxygen and all the things that Mother Earth provides. And we give that back to her and it’s something like really beautiful. So come visit and love to meet you. Amazing. And for everybody listening, just so you know, we’ll definitely put the links to the website in the show notes.
So you can just click on the links and head right on over. And speaking of the audience, if this is your first time with Mission Matters and you haven’t done it yet, hit that subscribe or follow button. This is a daily show. Each and every day we’re bringing you new content, new ideas, and hopefully new inspiration to help you along your journey as well.
So again, hit that subscribe or follow button. And thank you so much for sharing your story and then the babies that are all around us, these beautiful rocks. Oh my gosh. Thank you.