The Prosperity Show: Recent Episodes
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Joan Sotkin, from ProsperityPlace.com and author of Build Your Money Muscles, presents a holistic approach to business success and financial health. Discover Joan's innovative approach that developed over 25 years of helping people build a business, improve their relationship with money, be their authentic selves, and find peace of mind. Joan is known for her intuitive insights and clear understanding of how a person's internal environment affects their external results, especially the connection between money and emotions. The Prosperity Show provides you with both unique theories and practical suggestions for improving every aspect of your business and personal life.
I have been feeling uncomfortable because of all the conflict that is going on in the world, often concerning things that are beyond my control, including the growing amount of anti-semitism. In this episode, I discuss this and other thoughts about living in a world with so much hate.
Highlights
We can’t have peace in the world until people learn to live with each other.
If you are worried about inflation and aren’t paying attention to what’s going on, you might vote for people who don’t have your interests at heart.
If you elect angry people, you’re not going to have a peaceful world.
People who are brought up in homes with a lot of fighting, often become angry as adults.
Hate makes no sense to me.
We need to find ways of finding peace within ourselves and learning how to love ourselves and others.
If you were brought up in an abusive home, it’s almost impossible to love and appreciate yourself because you weren’t taught how to do that.
It’s hard for me to keep quiet when I see what looks, to me, like injustice.
I believe that love is the healer.
Something has to change in the way we are thinking, believing, and behaving to get over the amount of anxiety that’s present in the society now.
You can’t change what’s going on in society, but you can change what’s going on within yourself.
Right now, people are picking on Jews. At some point, it’ll be a different group because people who don’t love themselves have to have “the other” to pick on.
There are too many people on this planet to be in conflict.
We don’t need more war. We need to teach peace.
Are you willing to learn how to be a peaceful person? If you’re not, then you’ll probably wind up with all sorts of diseases.
My goal is to help people find health, wealth, and peace of mind. I hope to do this through The MetaMind Circle.
You can’t be truly prosperous unless you have peace of mind.
The people who make the most noise are often not the ones who are trying to build a peaceful world.
Links
The MetaMind Circle
Jeanine Thompson is a transformational coach, speaker, and author whose breadth of knowledge and experience spans multiple disciplines and professional expressions from clinical psychotherapy to global business to advancing spiritual growth. At the core of her diverse career is a passionate dedication to helping individuals live their highest potentiality. She shares her journey and how others can reach their full potential in her first book, 911 From Your Soul.
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Jeanine Thompson shares what she went through before she committed to bringing what she was learning about the soul into business.
For Jeanine, the soul is the eternal essence of who we are.
Potentiality is about living a satisfying and peaceful life. It does not require that people reach a point of predefined success.
We talk about whether or not understanding who we are is age-related.
Jeanine’s hope for people is that they learn to truly love who they are and know that they are the intelligence of love.
We talk about understanding the Oneness.
Our systems are fundamentally broken and flawed in many ways, especially as they teach that there is something wrong with us that needs fixing.
Business touches every aspect of life, which is why Jeanine wants to bring her message to the business world where she functioned for many years.
Our uniqueness is our gift to the world.
There is a spiritual and emotional underpinning to disease and physical discomfort.
We have to learn to trust our inner direction.
Nature is a terrific catalyst. It is a gateway to our wisdom. It helps our minds soften and go into the wonder.
Whatever you are seeking is who you are.
Jeanine shares some ideas on how you can connect to your true self.
Links
911 From Your Soul
Jeanine Thompson’s website
Jeanine Thompson on Facebook
Jeanine Thompson on LinkedIn
Jeanine Thompson on Instagram
It sometimes surprises me when I realize how unaware people are of what’s going on inside and around them. In this episode, I talk about different kinds of awareness and how becoming more aware can improve your life and what you can do to increase your awareness.
Highlights
Especially if you are in business, you have to be aware of so much more than what’s going on in your life.
If you’re not aware, it’s easy to fall prey to manipulative forces that are doing their best to affect your opinions and buying habits.
Raising your awareness helps you better understand both yourself and the world around you.
People who are busy surviving can’t necessarily pay attention – or develop awareness – about what’s going on around them.
Those who enjoy a higher income life often lose interest or awareness of people who have to struggle just to survive.
A lot of people who get caught up in crime and drugs have had a difficult childhood.
With awareness comes the ability to make decisions that can lead you to a more comfortable life and positive outcomes.
If you’re stuck in who you have been, you’ll have a hard time making profitable decisions. We aren’t going back to “normal”.
If you make the decision to become more aware, your life is going to get better. I promise.
Even if you don’t want to meditate, just sit still doing nothing for 10 minutes a day. I talk about how to do this effectively.
Are you satisfied with what you’re doing? And if you’re not, what are you doing to change what you’re doing?
Make a decision to become more aware no matter what your current level of awareness is.
I talk about the Supreme Court and how their decisions affect you whether you pay attention or not.
The power to change whatever you want to change, it just doesn’t happen quickly and you may have to learn something new.
If you become aware that food companies don’t have your best interest at heart, maybe you’ll make a change.
The chaos that we’re all going to be experiencing is going to affect all of us and you will fare better if you pay attention to what’s happening.
Links
Click here to learn about The MetaMind Circle
There is a connection between your physical and mental health and the success of your business or career. In this episode, I explore different ways that you can begin to incorporate self-care into your routines in order to succeed.
Highlights
From my point of view, the American medical system is not working. I explain why.
Individual needs vary and by understanding how your body works, you can find solutions that are specific for you.
I talk about a recent hair mineral tissue analysis test I recently did, and the results allowed me to fully understand how important it is to learn about your body and not just trust the practitioners – including doctors – to whom you go for advice.
It’s hard to know what you need to know, which is why it’s important to develop your intuition.
I explore why via Conscious Synchronicity I didn’t learn about the results sooner.
You have to be ready and willing to be healthy in order to be led to the things you need.
You have more power than you realize to have your life work well and you feel good physically.
Links
The MetaMind Circle Site
Hair Mineral Analysis Test
Consumer Labs - information about supplements
Upwork - for hiring freelancers
Circle.so - a place that hosts communities
Judy Wilkins-Smith is a world-renowned Family Patterns, Systemic Work and Constellations Expert, Author, and Motivational Speaker who offers guidance on how to decode your emotional DNA and shift the unconscious inherited patterns that are no longer serving you. Her new book is Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns.
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Originally from South Africa, Judy Wilkins-Smith is now in the United States and tells how she got into constellation work.
Judy explains the meaning and effects of “Emotional DNA” and its epigenetic component. She explains the meaning of epigenetics.
The advantage of decoding your emotional DNA is that you see you’re not actually stuck and can change what isn’t working for you.
Judy explains how to recognize your patterns so you can make changes.
People, generally, have been brought up to believe that suffering is necessary. When we change that pattern, we can have better outcomes. This is not difficult, but it does take time.
Judy talks about how to change a habitual trauma response to a triumph response, both of which happen in the brain quickly.
People are often afraid to make changes because if they do, they won’t belong anymore. Making changes is not changing the system but rather expanding it. When you do this, you become a pioneer.
We talk about how stepping outside of the pack creates leaders who overcome their feeling of not belonging by creating followers.
When people resist change, it’s often because they have an unresolved issue. Once they resolve it, it’s easier to switch. Until they do that, the unconscious loyalties and hidden patterns will keep them stuck.
Judy gives suggestions for what you can do to move forward and how to look at your money patterns.
Judy wants people to remember that everybody's got exactly what they need to go as far as they want and suffering isn't sacred. It's stupid.
Links
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns
Judy Wilkins-Smith’s site
Judy Wilkins-Smith on Facebook
Judy Wilkins-Smith on LinkedIn
Judy Wilkins-Smith on Instagram
Learn more about The MetaMind Circle
While reading Spellbound by Dr. Dan Lieberman, who I interviewed in the last episode, I was struck by the sentence, “The purpose of life is to become your true self”. I have been thinking about that a lot and, in this episode, I share some of my thoughts.
Highlights
Although you may share some characteristics with other people, no one is exactly like you. You are totally unique and perfect the way you are.
We are programmed to always be looking for people like us, yet it is our differences that can make life interesting.
I don’t think that our uniqueness has been celebrated enough.
A lot of our societal loneliness is due to people not knowing how to know love themself.
We aren’t taught to appreciate our differences.
For business people, our businesses are an opportunity for us to learn more about ourselves.
Because of the Covid pause, a lot of people are evaluating their lives and what’s important to them. They’re also asking, “What do I want to do now and who do I want to be or become?”
I talk about the process I’ve been going through in putting together my new business.
In business, we have to learn how to interact with other people who are not us.
Everything you do in business is your opportunity to learn more about who you are, your values, and who you were willing to be in the world.
Giving ourselves permission for self-exploration is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.
You have the right to love and take care of yourself.
Each one of us is given what we need to become who we're becoming, and that’s different for every person.
You have the opportunity to ask yourself, “What do I want to keep and what do I want to change?” It’s important to not judge that which you want to change as bad.
Getting in touch with yourself is one of the most important things you can do.
Links
Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind
Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman: Science, Ancient Magic & The Unconscious Mind
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Dr. Dan Lieberman is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. He is the Co-author of the international bestseller The Molecule of More, which has been translated into 20 languages. He is also the Author of the recently published Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind.
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Dr. Lieberman explains how his interest in the topics found in his new book started in the 1980s when he stumbled upon the works of Carl Jung and was blown away.
He doesn’t talk about synchronicity because he wanted to talk about mysticism from a scientific viewpoint.
In his book, Dr. Lieberman says that “the purpose of life is to become your true self”. This is harder than it sounds because we tend to learn through suffering.
The unconscious mind has a profound effect on how we experience life and who we are.
The pain and suffering of life exists in the service of growth.
“The shadow” part of us forms when we push away all the things that we think is wrong to be. But at some point, we have to deal with this shadow.
The more we allow ourselves to feel the darkness within ourselves, the easier it is to let it go. The polarization that is happening now is because people are afraid to acknowledge their shadow.
The closer we get to our true self the more unique we become.
Cultivating awareness is essential.
Inspiration can change the course of our life. Inspiration can change history.
The vast majority of our lives is driven by our unconscious.
Dr. Lieberman talks about the three forms of meditation that he discusses in his book including focused awareness.
Links
Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman's website
Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman's LinkedIn
I have been looking at how we change as we grow older as part of a natural process. In this episode, I talk about how so many aspects of ourselves go through a maturing process that affects our mind-body along with how we perceive things and how we perceive ourselves.
Highlights
I have come to see that as we grow older, many aspects of us change, but our core stays the same.
The Money Energy Tuneup that I did recently deeply affected me as well as others who attended or listened to the recording.
In the 1980s, I developed my crystal business using my intuition. It was the first one like it and this required that I do something unique and innovative.
After the crystal business, as I created something else, I tended to follow the rules that I learned from other people, and I did this for many years. Now I see that I never reached my original level of success because I wasn’t following my own inner guidance.
In Spellbound, the author says that the purpose of life is finding your true self. I’m trying to stay true to that as I form The MetaMind Circle.
Don’t think there’s something wrong with you or that you’ve done something wrong, you are just going through a normal journey of self-discovery.
Part of finding the real you is finding the part of you that’s connected to the Universal Force, which from my point of view, is love.
It’s interesting to realize how everything has changed over the past decades. We’re all going through some major changes now that are going to affect all of us and how we view our lives.
The chaos that we’re going through is different from chaos of the past because so many things are changing at once.
Adapting well to change is important in this day and age.
Finding your true self means finding your light, your talent – and not denying it.
You don’t have to follow the rules all the time if the rules don’t feel right to you and if you’re trying to discover your true self.
No one can tell you what’s right for you — you have to discover that for yourself by listening to your inner promptings.
Links
Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind by Daniel Z. Lieberman
In today’s episode, I talk about developing trust – trust in the world, trust in your place in the world, and most importantly, trust in yourself – and how developing trust can affect your business and life outcomes.
Highlights
People often tell me that they are aware that they have an inner voice but are afraid to follow it and don’t take action.
The old rules in many sectors no longer apply and the new rules having been settled yet, which causes uncertainty and fear.
When I’m building something innovative, I have to take chances because I’m not building it on old information. Therefore, sometimes things don’t work out, and that’s okay.
It’s necessary to develop a communication system with your body-mind-spirit that works for you and tests over time.
The more you develop your inner awareness, the better your life will work.
The more you understand your inner operating system, the easier it is to make new decisions.
Whatever or whomever you don’t trust is not about them, it’s about you not trusting yourself.
Different people work in different ways. I’ve come to realize that I work best when I’m following my inner guidance. I don’t know how to follow other people’s rules.
If you let things grow organically, then it’s easier to innovate because you’re not building upon past knowledge.
I present some ideas as to how you can learn to trust yourself and your intuition.
Our minds are part of a network of minds that have an energetic connection. If you express yourself freely, it’s easier to be led to the information and people you need because of this connection.
Links
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Interview with Paul O’Brien about Intuition, Synchronicity, and Divination
The Visionary I-Ching App
Click here to receive information about The MetaMind Circle
Dr. Philippe Douyon is a Board Certified Neurologist who helps high-performance individuals and business leaders crack the code to hacking the most powerful tool at your disposal: your brain. From years of witnessing first-hand the disastrous effects of neurological disorders,
Dr. Douyon discovered that the solution was simple: take charge of your brain. Many of us don’t realize that you do not have to fall victim to your neurological makeup. Dr. Douyon believes that success in life and business starts in the brain and is on a mission to spread the empowering message that you CAN rewire your brain to create a life you were meant to live, regardless of age, all without prescribing a single pill. His book is Neuroplasticity: Your Brain's Superpower: Change Your Brain and Change Your Life.
Highlights
Dr. Philippe Douyon shares his experience as a kidney transplant patient and how it affected his life. To overcome the trauma, he focused on goals rather than his problems.
We talk about his perception of the medical system and how he deals with it.
Doctors are too specialized.
I asked how he maintains his equanimity while working in the system that he finds so flawed. He describes the path he’s been taking as he spreads the word about alternative approaches to medical care.
We talk about what it is inside of the brain that allows us to have mystical and other spiritual experiences.
There are senses outside of the usual five senses that are usually discussed. We talk about intuition and other so-called extrasensory perceptions.
You can think about your brain more as a relay station rather than just who you are, and it’s capable of tuning in to other people and other energies around you.
Our brains are in charge only when you let them be. When our brains are in charge, that can lead to a lot of chaos.
You have to do some things every day to keep your brain healthy like exercising, eating right, minimizing stress, constantly learning and evolving, and meditating or sitting silently.
The lifestyle choices you make every day affect your brain.
People in the older generation are finding it easier than young people to adapt to change because they’re looking for something different. He explains.
To deal with uncertainty, understand that the present moment is the only moment you have. Focus on that rather than the past or the future.
Your brain will always try to prove you right.
95% of your thoughts are the same thoughts you had yesterday.
From the moment we are born, people are trying to take control of our thoughts.
When people become aware of how powerful they are, they can take control of their thoughts and their lives.
Which messages are you going to allow in and who are the people you’re surrounding yourself with?
Neurons are built for communication. Every neurological problem is based on neurons not communicating. So, it’s important for people to learn to communicate better with each other.
Links
Dr. Philippe Douyon’s website
Check out The Money Energy Tuneup
With all the dissension the country in the world is experiencing, how does one maintain a state of calm and inner peace? In this episode, I offer some suggestions as well as explaining how brain chemicals affect our inner world and how we can regulate them.
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Any time you experience the feeling of love, your brain releases oxytocin, which is known as the love chemical, and it has a healing effect on the body.
When you feel stress or anything negative, cortisol is released, which has a deleterious effect on the body because it causes inflammation.
The idea is to minimize cortisol and maximize oxytocin.
Chronic diseases are affected by cortisol.
Every time you feel annoyed or angry, you are releasing cortisol.
Gratitude practices help you develop a oxytocin habit.
Every time you get angry or upset, that adds inflammation to your system, especially if the feelings are ongoing rather than momentary.
You have the ability to change your brain chemical releases by changing your emotional habits.
Everything about your life will get better when you move from the cortisol space to the oxytocin space.
When you consciously develop an attitude of love and peace, I guarantee that your life will get better.
If you haven’t dealt with your childhood wounds it is going to affect your life outcomes.
Because your business and life outcomes are an extension of you, you will do better when you are in a more positive space.
When dealing with other people, if I’m always looking for our similarities rather than our differences, I am actually missing something.
Embracing our differences allows for expansion.
The place to start is for you to learn how to love yourself because when you love yourself, it’s easier for you to love and accept other people.
I suggest that you work on altering your thought patterns and your emotional habits and accepting who and where you are.
Links
The Search for Connection
The Anatomy of Peace
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I’d like you to meet my dear friend Ashana, a premier musician and savvy businesswoman who has affected thousands of people around the world with her soaring, angelic vocals and the celestial sound of crystal singing bowls. A life-long student of yoga and mantra from many of the world’s spiritual traditions, Ashana has led two online group yoga meditations touching the lives of more than 20,000 people in 50 countries.
As a renowned master crystal bowl artist, teacher, and sound healer, Ashana is an expert in the field of sound healing with crystal bowls, training students from all over the world in the art of applying crystalline sound to therapeutic and artistic healing modalities in her Crystal Bowl Mastery program.
Highlights
Ashana shares how her early life difficult experiences led her onto the spiritual path and her focus on her music.
There are moments in your life when everything before that moment no longer has meaning and your soul takes you where you have to go.
Ashana is both a “spiritual” artist and grounded businesswoman, which is a common combination. She discusses her journey being a businesswoman and CEO of her own business.
We talk about how many artists and healers often push away learning how to deal with money and other business skills.
Being a businesswoman with a spiritual heart is a razor’s edge. Ashana explains why it is a constant balancing act.
It is necessary to be constantly listening to your inner direction.
When she performs in public, Ashana still deals with moments of anxiety and trepidation.
Ashana offers advice to artists who also want to succeed financially.
For the last nine years, Ashana has been quietly working and putting together a new body of work. She realized that before she could go public with the work, she had to create a stable platform for both herself – internally – and her business.
Links
Ashana’s Ave Maria on YouTube (Official Music Video)
Ashana's website
Ashana's Facebook Page
Ashana on LinkedIn
Ashana's on Twitter
Ashana on Instagram
Over the years, I have been sharing my process on my podcast, and now that I’m building a new business, I’m going to share that process with you as well. Because I have been working towards developing a high degree of intuition, I want to be able to use this in order to build this new business.
Highlights
Intuition is an inner knowing and how that appears can be different for each person.
Intuition comes from that part of you that is aware of more of you and your life than you understand.
You can develop a communication system with that inner part of you. I give an example of how to do that.
If you want to tune into the expanded parts of yourself, then you have to clear out the channels.
The more you take care of yourself, the more you can be in touch with your Self.
The more you are willing to clear out the channels that run through your body-mind, the more accurate will be the intuitive hits that you get.
At some point, you have to make the decision as to whether you are going to build your business while stressed out or if you’re going to take an easier path.
You have to make the decision to follow what your inner voice suggests.
Sit still and do nothing for 10 minutes a day. I explain.
Every intuitive hit will be what you want to be because you have to learn to discriminate between the different types of “messages”. But each message is there to teach you something. Sometimes it’s for you to learn what you’re not.
This all ties in with what I’ve been calling Conscious Synchronicity which requires that you notice what shows up.
What you are feeling guided to do probably has a connection to something that’s been in your life before.
I talk about how I’m using my intuition to build The MetaMind Circle.
Links
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Erin Austin is the Founder of Think Beyond IP and an intellectual property attorney by training. She worked with large corporations before turning her attention to helping entrepreneurs build sustainable, scalable, and salable service firms. She is an expert when it comes to licensing and helps people turn their expertise into an asset. You can learn more about her business and her podcast, Hourly to Exit, at this link.
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Erin Austin explains how she wound up working in the film industry and what intellectual property is.
For entrepreneurs who charge by the hour, Erin helps them develop intellectual-property-based forms of income.
Along with monetizing their books and courses, Erin helps entrepreneurs license their products.
Erin explains what goes into creating a certification course that you can sell to corporate clients.
We talk about how it’s so easy for digital intellectual property to be copied and how some steps have been taken by the copyright office to help with enforcement of copyrights.
We talk about what it takes to build a “salable asset” if you want to sell your business and the difference between salable and sellable.
Characteristics of a salable business include: exclusivity, your brand and position in the marketplace, predictability, and independence from the owner. Erin explains.
To sell a business, it has to generate at least $1 million a year or find a strategic buyer.
Links
The US trademark database search (TESS)
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrilow
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Erin Austin’s Website
Erin Austin on LinkedIn
Today I talk about something that has begun to really interest me – the inner world of people in leadership positions of all kinds. When thinking or speaking about leaders, we don’t often examine their emotional expression and development, even though their habitual emotions affect all of their decisions.
Highlights
I talk about how I have developed meaningful relationships with people online.
People are often taught that there is something wrong with them that needs fixing, and I don’t subscribe to that.
Feelings that are common among leaders include feeling alone and feeling like an outsider.
For some leaders, it’s dangerous to let people know what’s really going on inside of you and how you really feel about yourself and your followers.
This creates a feeling of separation, and we have an inherent need for connection.
Becoming a leader is sometimes a coping mechanism for dealing with life.
I think it’s important for leaders to recognize their own deep-seated feelings of aloneness.
Aloneness often leads people to become members of groups that don’t have the interests of society at heart.
In order to be a person of peace, you have to find peace within yourself.
One of the things that interest me is bringing together entrepreneurial leaders who often feel separated so they can learn how to really feel connected on an authentic level.
If you’re going to learn how to develop empathy, you also have to learn how to set boundaries, so you don’t take responsibility for other people’s problems.
Links
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
Let Go of the Aloneness Blocking Your Prosperity - Audio
Go to www.MetaMindCircle.com for announcements about the new group that’s forming.
Joyce Marter is a licensed psychotherapist, entrepreneur, national public speaker, and a mental health thought leader. She is the Founder of Urban Balance (a national outpatient mental health company), a blogger for Psychology Today, and the author of The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life.
Highlights
Joyce Marter explains how her own emotional money issues led her to her current profession.
We talk about how psychologists often have money problems and how Joyce came to see that beliefs about her earning potential were holding her back.
Do some people come to be psychologists with unreal expectations as to what they can achieve given who they are and how they present themselves?
Joyce does a lot of personal work and believes that her business success is a direct result of that work.
The field of psychology is now examining mindfulness. This is leading them away from the pathology of emotions to a more inner direction of awareness.
Meditation and techniques such as yoga help us connect to our real essence.
We all have to do our own work in order to find our individual solutions.
Joyce recounts how reaching her breaking point financially taught her to ask for help and learn what she had to learn in order to become successful.
We hold on to what’s familiar, even if it’s not working.
Opening yourself to receive is not about receiving money, but about opening up to receiving love.
If we work on ourselves, it doesn’t just affect our money but rather many aspects of our life.
Links
The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life
Joyce Marter's website
Joyce Marter on Facebook
Joyce Marter on LinkedIn
Joyce Marter on Twitter
Joyce Marter on Instagram
Today, I’m talking about something very dear to my heart. It’s about the chaos that we are living through and it’s going to get much worse. Although many things are adding to the chaos, there are actions we can take in order to experience inner peace in the midst of the chaos.
Highlights
One day, when I was in meditation, I heard the following: We are going into a period of great chaos. Many people will leave the planet, and the chaos in the Middle East will get so bad that people will ask, “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen?” People are being trained to be points of light in the midst of this chaos.
I knew, at that moment, that I was one of the people going through that training.
There are a lot of opportunities now for us to recognize that these are chaotic times. I list some of those opportunities.
Our individual response to everything that is going on is a matter of brain science. Our brains are designed to warn us of danger when the outcomes are uncertain.
Uncertainty causes stress, and stress is a major cause of physical and emotional dis-ease.
When you make changes and move in a positive direction, that energy affects the whole world.
You get to decide how you want to be in the midst of the chaos.
It’s okay if you’re upset about what’s going on, but it helps to find a way to be okay with what is and to decide what actions you want to take.
You get to decide if you’re willing to learn how to develop inner peace no matter what’s going on.
In 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, there were only 238,000 people in the entire country.
People have not been taught that they have the option of choosing how they want to feel.
One of the best things you can do is to connect to people who were not just like you.
Ask yourself, do I want to continue living and feeling the way I do now?
I believe that there is a part of you that sees the bigger picture and will guide you to what you need to live a life that allows you to express yourself.
Playing "ain't it awful" does not lead to a comfortable life.
If you believe that energy matters, then take a look at the energy you are generating.
You have the power to create the life you want, but it doesn't happen by just doing affirmations. Action is the key.
Links
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Books I mentioned:
I'm OK, You're OK by Thomas Harris
Games People Play by Eric Berne
Life got in the way this week, thus the replay. The book I mention in this episode has had a profound effect on me and I wanted to share this with you in case you missed the original posting. It started last Thanksgiving when I had an experience at a Thanksgiving gathering that my brother Marc also attended. He said something that really pushed my buttons, and in this episode, I discuss what happened and what I had to go through to resolve the conflict.
Highlights
I talk about what happened at the Thanksgiving gathering and how I reached out to Kimberly Rauch and the group I had been attending. Kimberly suggested that I read the book The Anatomy of Peace.
The book had a deep impact on me. I began to see how I had been expressing a heart of war with my brothers because of the favoritism shown to boys over girls.
The difference between a heart of peace and a heart of war is explained.
A quote from the book: “When our hearts are at war, we can’t see clearly. We give ourselves the best opportunity to make clear-minded decisions only to the extent that our hearts are at peace.”
I also talk about self-directed passive-aggressive behavior and how that has affected me over the years.
If we can’t express hidden anger, then we will act it out in various ways – subconsciously.
People who have been abused or neglected in childhood often have a heart of war towards authorities.
If we take responsibility for what we’re creating and we accept what comes along as what we need, if something uncomfortable comes along, we can observe our responses and make changes when necessary.
I am the only one who can control my response to external stimuli.
After I understood my response to my brother’s comment, I felt an enormous sense of relief and my energy levels have increased considerably.
Treat yourself like someone you love.
If something isn’t going the way you wanted it to, get in touch with your inner experience and see you if you can figure out why you’re creating what you’re creating. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing and you aren’t doing anything wrong.
Do you have a heart at peace or heart at war?
Links
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
To set up an appointment to talk to me about coaching, CLICK HERE.
Anne deLain Clark started as a transformative mediator the week of 9/11. Since then, she's been transforming human relationships in businesses, government, and families. She specializes in high-stress environments and highly charged circumstances, helping people successfully breach gaps in understanding and perspective so they can find mutually satisfying outcomes. Her greatest satisfaction is to witness the shifts in people as they discover common needs and shared solutions.
Highlights
Anne deLain Clark explains how her family-of-origin and beginning work experience led her to become a mediator.
She learned that it’s not necessarily what you say but how you present it.
Anne talks about common communication stressors in the workplace and why developing empathy and compassion are important.
We examine why so many people have problems asking questions when they are in a conversation.
Every culture has a different “pause time”. This time in New York is a lot less than pause time in New Mexico.
To have authentic conversations, it’s important to listen to what the other person is saying and to assess their pause time.
People regulate each other’s neural systems by talking to each other.
The great thinkers spent a lot of time in the thinking part of their brain rather than the primitive part.
Links
How to Read a Person like a Book
Website
Anne deLain Clark on LinkedIn
Reading an article in Neuroscience News about a study that concluded that diabetes increases the possibility of getting Alzheimer’s triggered something for me. In this episode, I talk about the easy things you can do to feel and live more comfortably.
Highlights
I have observed that many people with diabetes don’t take it seriously. It is serious and can lead to many uncomfortable problems.
You need to make the decision as to whether or not you’re going to take care of yourself so your business and life can flourish.
I share figures about the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes.
Many physical problems can be traced to what you’re eating.
It’s important to be aware of the dangers of having diabetes which can lead to blindness and amputations.
If you are between 30 or 50, you don’t have to suffer from multiple diseases if you take care of your body and give it what it needs to function.
You have to get in touch with your body to find out what it needs. I give some suggestions.
Daily meditation puts you more in touch with your body systems.
We are not wired to deal with the amount of uncertainty that’s going on in the world today, which is why it’s so important to learn how to take care of yourself and reduce the stress.
Links
The article in Neuroscience News
The Low Blood Sugar Symptom List. Download Nourish Yourself.
Interview with Dr. Fred Moss
Information about Naprapathy
Reiner Lomb is the founder of BoomerangCoach, an executive coaching firm specializing in leadership and career development, innovation, and transformational change. Reiner’s mission is to mobilize and develop leaders to create a more sustainable and positive future for all. Before becoming an executive coach, Reiner had a 30-plus year career in technology, started and developed software businesses, and led leadership development. Reiner’s new book is ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are.
Highlights
Reiner explains how his upbringing on a farm in Germany led him eventually to do the work with emotions he’s doing now.
Leaders are often well developed intellectually but not emotionally. He explains how, when he first introduced the concept 15 years ago, he had to approach the topic of emotions very carefully.
Reiner tells how he developed trust with teams so they would accept the idea of working on emotions.
Family is the first team we get to work with.
Reiner recounts that he went back to school to learn more about psychology and brain science.
When you become aware of where your emotions began, you can decide to change your emotional expression.
People often believe that emotions happen automatically and that they can’t change, which is not true.
We talk about various aspects of empathy and how important it is in order to understand where people are coming from.
Assume good intentions. Most people have good intentions, but they may come from a different value framework then you.
Once Reiner assesses a person’s emotional state through observation, he can decide which direction to go in with them.
Reiner talks about the seven emotions he mentions in his book.
A foundation of leadership is developing interest in the people you’re leading and to help them develop a better vision of the future.
Inspiration is one of the most powerful leadership tools.
Links
Reiner Lomb’s site
ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are
Reiner Lomb on LinkedIn
In today’s episode I talk about something that affects your business and financial outcomes that goes beyond hard-core skills and mindset. It is important to learn how to tune into the energies around you and understand the quality of the energy you generate.
Highlights
How we develop early in life often affects the eventual decisions we make and our outcomes.
There is no one thing that is going to change your financial position or your life.
I define what I mean by personal energy and give some examples.
When you talk to people, is there an underlying sadness that even you aren’t aware of all the time?
I talk about the concept of how you are being in the world.
The foods that you are eating can affect your personal energy.
If your thoughts are very negative, that will tamp down your personal energy.
Energy around the world now is difficult and chaotic, which makes it even more important to understand your personal energy.
For today, I’m hoping you will increase your awareness of the energy you generate and the energy around you, all of which will affect your life outcomes.
Have the power to change things.
Links
The episode in which I talk about the Heart of War vs Heart of Peace
The Anatomy of Peace
Noah Hammond Tyrrell is the Co-founder and CEO of Feel Good Hemp, which offers a free self-empowerment platform and community to its clients. Noah is a yogi, coach, and entrepreneur whose mission is to help people feel good naturally and live their life to the fullest. He’s been on a relentless quest to unlock the secrets of human potential and how to live a deeply fulfilling life. Noah believes that we all have the capacity to be like the Christ or the Buddha and leave a ripple of love that is felt around the world for generations.
Highlights
Noah tells us how his father’s liver cancer diagnosis led Noah into the hemp business.
People are getting positive results from not only the CBD but the other courses that Noah offers.
Conscious entrepreneurship is a pathway to an awakened humanity.
When you have an enterprise that generates profit while giving value, then you contribute to positive change in the world. Work plus passion and purpose create a conscious business.
Because the press isn’t covering the growth of conscious businesses, many people just don’t know about the concept and how these businesses are contributing to change in the world.
We talk about anger and its possible connection to his father’s liver cancer.
Our bodies are programmed to accept CBD through the endocannabinoid system.
Links
Noah Hammond Tyrrell’s website
The free library of courses
YouTube
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
It’s not helpful to believe that there is something wrong with you that needs fixing. In this episode I talk about how to find solutions to what you perceive as problems and stop thinking that there’s something wrong with you. This will change your life outcomes.
Highlights
While giving a recent presentation to potential real estate investors, one of the participants said that he thought the reason for his problem moving forward is that he has imposter syndrome. This led to a discussion about how there is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing.
Changing your habitual thoughts, which includes negative self-talk, will lead to better outcomes. I give suggestions on how to do this.
You have agency over your space in the world and you can decide who and how you want to be with other people.
The more satisfied you are with yourself, the more you’re going to be able to grow and move forward.
Our psychological and medical systems are built around the idea that there’s something wrong with you the needs fixing. You can make decisions to change or perceive whatever is bothering you.
If you get a diagnosis for something that seems to be wrong with you, you can find information online for alternative treatments and what you can do for yourself.
It helps if you learn how your body works so you can figure out what’s going on if you’re uncomfortable.
Once you believe that there is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing, you can find solutions to whatever problems or discomforts you may be having.
Can you change everything about you? Not necessarily, but you can decide that whoever you are is fine and there’s nothing wrong with you.
Once you make the decision and set the intention to change something you want to change, the information and resources you need will show up – if you are ready.
Links
The Fisher-Wallace Brain Stimulator
The interview with Chip Fisher
Interview with Bob Doyle
If you would like to get information about the new group that is forming – The Money & Mindset Community – click here
Sandy Stamato, Founder of Limb Dweller Transitional Coaching for women 50 and beyond, is passionate about her work. As a Limb Dweller, she’s found out that she is not alone. As a result, she has coached fellow Limb Dwellers from all over the world.
Whether or not these fellow limb dwellers are dealing with shame, anxiety, or identity issues regarding their next steps or are women who have been doing work that isn’t aligned with who they are today, it’s a vulnerable and tender time as they look into the near future. Sandy says, “At a certain point, there are no do-overs. This is precious time, so why waste it?”
Highlights
Sandy shares how she, at 28, found out she is a Limb Dweller and what that means.
People have so many social pressures on them now that it’s hard to have a sense of belonging fitting in.
It’s important to realize it’s okay to be who you are and that when you’re young, you have no idea who you’re going to become.
It’s important to support people at the age where they are and not expect them to know exactly where they’re going, and to let them explore possibilities.
Understanding that who you are and where you are gives you breathing space to become who you want to be.
Sandy talks about how she helps people see that wherever they are is fine by using the concept of an internal Board of Directors.
Fear, shame, and anxiety often are the loudest of our internal voices.
We talk about the value of tough times and how to make them work for you.
Find your people so you can understand that you aren’t alone.
There is no competition. The pain comes when we compare ourselves to people who are doing similar things.
Links
Sandy’s site: www.limbdweller.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Limbdwellercoaching
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/limbdwellercoaching/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/limbdwellercoaching/
In this episode, I discuss Financial Vagueness Syndrome (FVS). What it is, the symptoms, and what you can do to avoid this problem that will keep you from making good financial decisions. It takes awareness of both your inner world and financial skills.
Highlights
As a business owner, you have to do more than just check your bank balance online daily if you want to make good financial decisions.
Financial Vagueness Syndrome is characterized by not keeping financial records, never reconciling your accounts, avoiding looking at your numbers, leaving bills unopened or unpaid, frequently bouncing checks, spending beyond your credit limits, or frequently dealing with fear about your finances.
I use Quicken for my personal accounts and QuickBooks for my business accounts, both of which provide useful reports so you can track your income and spending.
When you recognize your discomforts around your finances, then you can make decisions about changing what's causing those discomforts.
You can't make wise financial decisions if you're not in touch with your money.
If you have Financial Vagueness Syndrome, then it will be hard to make rational financial decisions including investment decisions. It's also possible that you keep too much money in your checking account.
You may have to develop new spending habits.
The more you know about your money, the less afraid you will be.
There is a cadence to working with money that comes with experience.
Be aware of how much interest you're paying on all of your accounts and beware of low- or no-interest balance-transfer offers.
Until you know how to manage your money, you don't want to hire someone to do it for you because you have to know what's going on first so you can catch problems. It's your business, not theirs.
My goal is to help you avoid financial fear, and the best way to do that is to get over Financial Vagueness Syndrome.
If you have financial fear, you are not going to make good financial decisions.
For people who have a lot of money coming in, they can go through it rapidly if they don't keep track of their numbers.
Links
Care Credit
Quicken
QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online
Find out more about The Money & Mindset Community
In this short episode, I’m sharing an idea that I’ve had for a long time and am now putting into action. I want to co-create a community of entrepreneurs and service providers interested in authentic conversations, building meaningful relationships, expanding themselves, and adding positive energy to the world while increasing their income potential.
People who are hoping to build a business or practice are welcome.
The ultimate goal is for you to:
Experience confidence in yourself as you enhance your business and financial skills
Feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world around you.
Grow, personally, professionally, financially, and spiritually
The Money & Mindset Community will be very affordable at $29 a month. There will be lots of ways to interact, events, and various groups where people gather. A variety of coaches will also be available to answer questions and interact.
If you would like to receive an invitation to this new Community, click here and fill out this form.
Dr. Fred Moss is a holistic psychiatrist serving in many capacities: telepsychiatrist, speaker, psychiatry expert witness, telehealth educator, mental health coach, and filmmaker. A desire to help people has been the force leading him to various settings and roles as a psychiatrist over the years and compelling him to continually look for better, more effective ways to provide the highest quality care. He is the person behind Welcome To Humanity and Global Madness.
Highlights
There’s nothing wrong with any of us that needs fixing. We are all doing our best with what we know.
It’s human nature to think there’s something wrong with us.
Authentic connection and radical listening are pathways to feeling healthier and not mentally troubled.
When a person feels connected to another human being, that is the basis for all healing. The magic of healing kicks in when a person feels heard.
Every moment carries multiple possibilities of how we’re going to respond to something. The possibility of breaking habitual responses is always there.
What is the value of always thinking that there’s something wrong with you?
It appears that it’s less difficult to continue doing something that doesn’t work for you rather than making a change.
Dr. Fred Moss shares his views about the lack of value of psychotropic drugs and how he gets people off of them. He talks about about various alternatives to traditional ways of treating mental illness.
Links
We The People Summit
Dr. Fred Moss' website: www.welcometohumanity.net
Dr. Fred Moss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfredmoss/
Dr. Fred Moss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss/
Dr. Fred Moss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfredmoss
Every day you make thousands of choices, some of which will affect your business and financial outcomes. In this episode, I talk about seven choices you can make that will move you much closer to the success you are seeking.
For these show notes, I’m listing the seven choices, each of which I discuss at length during this episode.
The 7 choices that lead to business and financial success:
Choose to take care of your body.
Choose to come from a place of love. (Towards yourself and others)
Choose to keep good financial records.
Choose to ask for help. Don’t try to do things alone.
Choose to be a little bit skeptical and learn how to trust yourself
Choose to imagine a prosperous future.
Choose to learn some brain science basics.
Links
Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
Make an appointment to talk to Joan
Joseph O’Connor is the Co-founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC), and one of the best known and respected coaches and coach trainers in the world. He also founded the Neuroscience Coaching Centre. Joseph is the author of nineteen books in thirty languages on coaching, training, and neuroscience that have sold half a million copies worldwide. He follows his two great interests, giving coaching training and courses on creative nonfiction writing.
Highlights
Joseph’s background as a musician provided the impetus for him to figure out what he has been teaching about both performance and teaching.
There is a gap between what you do and what you can do and Joseph helps people understand how to bridge that gap.
His original interest was in helping people use psychological techniques such as NLP to do a better job of playing the guitar. (In the 1980s.)
Joseph’s latest book is Coaching the Brain, which helps coaches understand the brain science they need to use when working with clients.
If coaches don’t understand brain science, then their ability to lead clients is limited. It also helps coaching clients to know more about how their brain works.
Emotions are a combination of body sensations and meaning. Joseph explains talks about emotional intelligence.
Every thought contains an emotion, and every emotion has a thought, i.e. meaning. Our decisions are based on the emotions that are going on.
In the end, our decisions are based on our emotions which are designed to keep us alive and moving forward. The idea is to use the energy of emotions constructively.
We spent time talking about money and emotions.
Thomas Leonard, who started the whole coaching profession, was originally a financial advisor.
When we get afraid because the amygdala is activated, the rest of the brain shuts down and stops thinking.
Our brains are very good at making up negative stories about the future. Taking action can ground us in the present.
To reduce anxiety, first acknowledge and accept where you are emotionally. Trying to make the anxiety go away, you’re actually makes it worse. Then ask, what can I do? When we do that, other parts of the brain are engaged and we can find solutions.
Links
Coaching the Brain – the book
www.CoachingTheBrain.com has a lot of helpful information
If you’re hoping to increase your income, then there are some things that you need to consider – some internal and some external. In this episode, I discuss what you need to pay attention to as your income increases so that you don’t make bad financial decisions.
Highlights
As you start making more money, there are new skills you need to learn and practice. You will also have a new internal experience as you start making more money.
Talk about what I went through as my income started increasing and how I consciously started changing and upgrading some of my habits.
You have to make new spending and saving decisions, depending on what you want your future look like.
Making more money, be sure to be very much in touch with your money by keeping good records and paying attention to what’s going on.
Monitor your feelings as your income increases and you’re dealing with money on a different level.
Set a goal or intention for how much you want to make that’s not far above what you’ve made before in order to stay comfortable.
Don’t expand your income goals and ideas without talking to someone whose opinion you respect.
Check out the Small Business Development Center in your area.
Have you made a rational decision about what kind of entity your business should be: sole proprietor, S Corp., LLC?
You are setting an intention for increased income, then you have to ask yourself, what is a rational way for me to accomplish that? What are the actions I have to take in order to realize my intentions?
It’s a good idea to have an accountability partner.
Set things up so you’re not taking chances.
It’s hard for a lot of people to talk about money because they carry so much shame about money.
To make more money, it’s important to plan for it – before you have it.
Links
SBDC Directory of Locations
If you want to talk to me about your financial situation and how you can move forward, fill out this Application for an Ideas & Insight Session.
Claudia Harvey is a global entrepreneur & investor, speaker, influencer, best-selling author, and philanthropist. After her successful corporate career, she began Dig It Apparel® Inc. and struck a deal with famous venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary. While raising a family of three, Claudia co-founded BG Wealth Group Inc., BG Property Holdings Inc., and BG Marketing Authority, and became an international keynote speaker and best-selling author. In 2019, she was awarded the Top Female Business Leader Award from The International Association of Top Professionals. Philanthropy is paramount to Claudia, and she sits on the Boards of Sonas.org.
Highlights
Claudia Harvey talks about her experience on the Canadian version of Shark Tank and her partnership with Kevin O’Leary.
She also talks about her entrepreneurial parents and how being adopted had something to do with her developing her drive and ambition.
Her family was not wealthy, and Claudia learned how to raise money for what she wanted at an early age. Today, although she works hard, she also knows how to relax and enjoy herself.
If you are going to be busy in your business life, then you also have to nurture your body and soul.
Because she was adopted, Claudia had no family history to fall back on, which she feels has something to do with the life she has created for herself and her ability to be as accepting and nonjudgmental as she is.
Don’t live your life with regrets.
As a child, Claudia’s father taught her that she’s not competing with other people, she’s competing with herself.
It’s important not to put undue pressure on yourself by competing with others.
Claudia shares her vision for her future.
To be able to stand out from the crowd, you have to craft that and not compare yourself to others.
Because she has developed functioning teams in her businesses, Claudia has more freedom to live her life the way she wants to.
If you don’t like what you’re doing, what do you have to change? Claudia shares some of the decisions she made to create a life that works for her.
Our definition of success changes during our life and is often influenced by other people. It’s important to become very centered and clear about who you are and what you want.
Links:
Claudia’s Websites: www.claudiaharvey.com and www.bgwealthgroup.com
Claudia on Facebook
Claudia on LinkedIn
Claudia on Twitter
Claudia on Instagram
In my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom, I introduced the 4Rs process for creating new emotional responses to familiar stimuli. In this episode, I focus on the process, especially the Release step.
Highlights
I define the 4Rs - Recognize, Release, Replace, Repeat. The Recognize step can take a while to complete for each instance.
Feelings don’t happen in your head. They have been when neuropeptides, which start in your brain, travel to receptor sites in the cells of your organs.
Saying the feeling that you’re experiencing out loud helps to release the neuropeptides from the receptors. You’re actually expressing the feeling.
I talk about different ways of using sound to release both feelings and the thoughts that can be looping around in your head.
Bringing hidden emotions into the light has a very strong effect.
Call to get to the hidden emotions that started early in childhood.
If you have any questions about the technique, then ask me those questions by writing to Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
Links
My Course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
To set up a time to talk to me, go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/call
My books and audios: https://ProsperityPlace.com/shop
Bob Doyle is one of the featured experts in the film and book, "The Secret" and now focuses his teaching, speaking, and coaching on Neuroplasticity - our ability to change our brain - to facilitate lasting personal and professional transformation.
Highlights
After 20 years of talking about the Law of Attraction, Bob shifted his focus to the brain and neuroplasticity and how the brain can be rewired.
People were so focused on the Law of Attraction that they didn’t focus on who they want to be and how to get there.
Transformation is about learning new ways of being. We have to be someone else if we want transformation.
Becoming who you want to become is going to take longer than you wanted to. Many actions are required for you to move towards your goal.
There is going to be a lot of resistance along the way.
Bob talks about the power of visualization as a tool for transformation.
Feeling drives at all.
Our brain tells us it is dangerous to change. We’re going against years of programming that brought us to where we are.
The first step is to become aware of when you’re functioning on autopilot.
Just as the physical universe is always expanding and we are part of that universe, we are always expanding, if we allow it.
We keep telling ourselves the same stories that eventually become true for us on many different levels.
When you change your story about the future, it often moves you towards subtle actions.
We talk about the effect of ancestral wiring which can change with intentional actions.
More people are talking about the brain rather than the Law of Attraction.
Young people today are much more conscious than they were as Bob and I grew up.
Bob has a free quiz that helps you understand your autopilot and how you can be more in alignment with who you want to be.
Links
Bob Doyle’s quiz
Bob Doyle’s site
Bob Doyle on Facebook
Bob Doyle on LinkedIn
Bob Doyle on Instagram
In January 2020, I started talking about conscious synchronicity on this podcast. I think a lot about this topic and in today’s episode, I share some of the things I’ve learned about the depths of what it is and what it takes to allow conscious synchronicity into your life.
Highlights
Synchronicity is when unrelated incidents seem to be more than just coincidence. I give examples.
Over the years, I have asked the question, “What if everything that happens is synchronicity.”
If you’re willing to believe that everything you need shows up and you need everything that shows up, when something uncomfortable happens, you can ask, “Why do I need this?” The answer always is related to the feelings that helped create the situation.
Emotions are the creative force behind our life stories.
The situation doesn’t cause the emotion. The emotion is the force behind the situation. I give examples.
I talk about the process of asking yourself what you’re feeling, when you have felt it before, what you would rather be feeling, and you know how to feel that.
You have to decide what their feeling goals are.
There is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing. You just have habits that developed early in childhood and these habits can change.
It takes time to develop new habits and new neural pathways in your brain.
Whatever happens in your life is a reflection of what is going on inside of you.
Anger can be a habitual response to familiar stimuli, and you have to decide if you want to change your responses.
Empathetic detachment is when I can really empathize with what others feel, but I don’t have to take responsibility for it and fix it.
The more you can let go of those deeply ingrained habits, the more will show up for you that’s comfortable.
To build my coaching business, I didn’t want to have to do a lot of outbound marketing. I wanted to be able to get myself in the right place and have what I need show up.
I talk about my current state of comfort and joy since I let go of old family-related feelings.
For conscious synchronicity to work, it’s necessary to examine the whole process of letting go.
Are you ready to let go of trying to control everything? Conscious synchronicity requires that you let life happen through you, not to you.
Who you are right now is perfect.
When you can ask yourself, “Why do I need this?” instead of, “Why is this happening to me?” your life results will be different.
There is no one thing that is going to make your life more comfortable. A holistic approach is necessary.
It's a matter of looking at what is and deciding if there's something that you would rather it be.
Links
Dissolve the Anger Money Connection
The Heart of War, Heart of Peace podcast episode
Sign up for the Rapid Money Energy Tuneup
Dr. Mark Halpern is a Chiropractor, Author, Lecturer, and Certified HeartMath Practitioner who is also certified in additional healing modalities, including PSYCH-K and Ho’oponopono. In both his personal and professional life, Dr. Mark has been drawn to methods that promote optimal health and healing of the brain, body, and spirit. His book is Coherence Revolution: Finding flow on your journey to the present moment.
Highlights
Mark shares how his experience with long-lasting anxiety led him on the path to becoming a chiropractor and healing professional.
Now he helps people deal with stress, which causes a lot of physical discomforts.
Although he has tried many things, like meditation and other modalities, the most effective for him has been HeartMath. Dr. Mark explains what that is.
Coherence can happen with the HeartMath practice.
Coherence is also the topic of Dr. Mark’s book. He explains why coherence helps improve health.
We talk about how emotions play a part in the healing process and how being in a constant state of stress affects your health.
Being in a state of coherence allows you to make better decisions.
Mark explains how he takes people through a process so they begin to recognize what stimulates a state of relaxation for them.
It is important to keep searching and find what works for you. There is no one answer.
Changing your physiological state can happen quickly.
Mark talks about how he approaches a person who is just getting started.
It's about creating a habitual practice that works for you and staying focused in the present.
Links
Dr. Mark’s site: www.coherencerevolution.com/2022
Dr. Mark on Facebook
I have often talked about the connection between emotions and money. In in this episode, I discuss the connection between emotions and health. Many physical discomforts and diseases often have an emotional base. By releasing your habitual uncomfortable emotions, you can improve your health.
Highlights
The feelings that you are holding in and not expressing can really affect your health. I talk about how my father died of anger.
Recently, I got in touch with long-suppressed anger that I had been unaware of. Once I was able to process and release the anger, I had more energy and my health differently improved.
There’s no doubt in my mind that there is a connection between physical pain and emotional pain.
When you’re experiencing uncomfortable emotions, you are in a contracted state.
Instead of having to take a lot of medicine to relieve discomforts, it helps to understand the emotions behind those discomforts.
Becoming happy and healthy requires releasing all the old uncomfortable emotions you are holding in.
Cortisol is designed to help us deal with stressors – occasionally. Frequent cortisol responses cause problems in our physical bodies.
Anyone who has experienced any kind of abuse or neglect, is probably holding in and not expressing uncomfortable emotions.
When you are frequently happy, that helps your physical body because of the chemicals, such as endorphins and happy brain chemicals, that are released.
If you don’t know how to relax, that’s hurting your physical body.
It is difficult to have true financial freedom if you don’t get rid of those uncomfortable emotions you’ve been holding on to since childhood.
Love is the healer.
You can’t just cover-up the uncomfortable emotions, they have to be released, which is not always an easy process.
Emotions are the creative force behind their life stories.
To be more comfortable, decide how you want to be in the world.
You don’t have to be uncomfortable forever. You can decide how you want to be and learn how to get there.
Links
Podcast Episode: Heart of War vs Heart of Peace
The Rapid Money Energy Tuneups
To set up a call with me, click here
Having built a 7-figure business without sales calls and as a former Dominatrix, Dana Pharant knows all about owning her power and being unique. She has worked with clients for over 25 years, helping them scale with ease. She is the author of 5 books, winner of multiple awards, and a woman who treats her own personal development like an extreme sport.
Highlights
Dana's experience with “magic mushrooms” led her to decide to lead people on psilocybin journeys.
The difference between Ayahuasca and psilocybin.
Each person responds differently to the various psychedelics.
Psilocybin is being seriously studied as a treatment for depression and other mental problems.
Dana explains what happens in the brain when someone takes psilocybin and what can happen during a “dark” or “bad” trip.
Some people resist the deep experience that psychedelics bring which keeps them from having a full release of old traumas.
Psilocybin journeys are not for everyone. If you have fear about it, don’t do it.
Canada, where Dana lives, is moving towards legalizing the use of plant medicine, which includes psilocybin.
The energy of the guide, as well as the energy of the person who provides the psilocybin, can affect the nature of a person’s journey.
If you were considering a psilocybin journey, be discriminating and use your intuition when searching for a guide. Be very aware if something doesn’t feel comfortable.
Dana explains the difference between dosing and micro-dosing and she describes what a session is like.
Psychedelics are a tool for opening up the parts of you that have always been there.
Links
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In this episode, I talk about what you have to do internally to expand your influence and the profitability of your business. Your business is an extension of you, so expanding your business requires that you also expand your mindset and your place in the world.
Highlights
First, I talk about raising your awareness of your thoughts. I offer suggestions for doing this.
It’s important to become aware of how and when you become contracted because contraction keeps you from expanding.
Teaching yourself how to feel expanded will allow you to expand your presence in the world.
When you draw your energy into yourself, it gives you impetus for expanding into the world.
When you get your consciousness in the right place, everything you need will show up – and learning to expand your consciousness is a key.
How you think about yourself and how you feel about yourself may be keeping you small.
You can be as big as you want to be.
Spend a few minutes each day going inside and seeing how you feel about who you are and imagining yourself expanding. As you expand within yourself, it allows you to expand in the world.
To feel big and expanded, you need to become aware of what you were thinking and believing when you're feeling small and contracted.
Your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are all habits, and you have the option of changing those habits.
Links
Who Are You...When You Are BIG? by Allan Milham & Kimberly Roush
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After a successful career as an I.T. consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Aprille Janes removed her “corporate suit” to follow a more creative path. Today she lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, painting and teaching in her studio overlooking the Bay of Fundy.
Highlights
Aprille shares the Canadian view of what’s happening now in the United States.
When Aprille left corporate, she and her husband were willing to take a chance and let their future unfold. She shares how they dealt with the uncertainty and talks about the synchronistic things that happened.
The process Aprille went through learning to trust her inner direction.
Skill and intuition have to be combined to develop inspired creation.
Aprille’s path has been one of exploration without having a definite end in mind.
We all have pain, we just choose whether we suffer.
Living a quiet, peaceful life, couldn’t have happened for Aprille when she was younger.
We need the contrast between light and dark.
Does it take time – and years of experience – to reach a point of acceptance?
The Covid pause is allowing us to reevaluate what’s important to us.
This is a time of choice – which side do you want to be on?
The chaos of the “insurrection” was a definite wake-up call for a lot of people.
Most of the people outside of the United States who are watching what’s going on are praying that democracy stands.
People are ready to be heard.
Fear of the unknown will paralyze us; trust lets us keep going.
We talk about the value of gratitude. What can you be thankful for today?
A lot of the conflict we’re seeing now is caused, in part, by feelings of powerlessness. Seeing that we have choices as to how we respond gives us back our power.
Links
Aprille’s site
An interview with Aprille after she moved to Nova Scotia
In the last episode, I talked a lot about oppression as an underlying emotion with chronic debting. As a result, I then started thinking a lot about the whole idea of oppression and how it affects so many areas of our lives and our culture. In this short episode, I share some of what I was thinking about.
Highlights
Recognizing feelings of oppression that may be buried deep inside of you opens you to many new opportunities and possibilities.
The process of internal change can have physical effects and can be, in some cases, uncomfortable.
Many people want their lives to change but they don’t want to change. If you want your life to change, you have to go through some energetic shifts.
There are many things, on a day-to-day basis, that can lead to feelings of oppression.
You can’t experience real freedom when you feel oppressed.
Get in touch with when you feel oppressed doing your day-to-day activities.
You can ask yourself, “What do I need to do to feel less oppressed?”
When you get in touch with feeling oppressed and learn how to let it go, you’ll be able to give so much more to the world.
Links
To share your experience with getting in touch with feelings of oppression, write to me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
I had an experience at a Thanksgiving gathering that greatly impacted me internally. My brother, Marc was also at the event, and he said something that really pushed my buttons. In this episode, I discuss what happened and what I had to go through to resolve the conflict I was experiencing.
Highlights
I talk about what happened at the Thanksgiving gathering and how I reached out to Kimberly Rauch and the group I had been attending. Kimberly suggested that I read the book The Anatomy of War.
The book had a deep impact on me. I began to see how I had been expressing a heart of war with my brothers because of the favoritism shown to boys over girls.
The difference between a heart of peace and a heart of war is explained.
A quote from the book: "When our hearts are at war, we can’t see clearly. We give ourselves the best opportunity to make clear-minded decisions only to the extent that our hearts are at peace.”
I also talk about self-directed passive-aggressive behavior and how that has affected me over the years.
If we can’t express hidden anger, then we will act it out in various ways – subconsciously.
People who have been abused or neglected in childhood often have a heart of war towards authorities.
If we take responsibility for what we’re creating and we accept what comes along as what we need, if something uncomfortable comes along, we can observe our responses and make changes when necessary.
I am the only one who can control my response to external stimuli.
After I understood my response to my brother’s comment, I felt an enormous sense of relief and my energy levels have increased considerably.
Treat yourself like someone you love.
If something isn’t going the way you wanted it to, get in touch with your inner experience and see you if you can figure out why you’re creating what you’re creating. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing and you aren’t doing anything wrong.
Do you have a heart of peace or heart of war?
Links
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict byThe Arbinger Institute
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In this episode, I talk about why it’s so important to understand how what you are eating is affecting your business performance and the decisions that you make. I also talk about the physical symptoms that are caused by eating the wrong foods.
Highlights
Sleep is very important if we want to perform at our best and make good decisions.
One of the things that isn’t often mentioned when discussing sleep is the effect of the food you eat on your ability to sleep well.
I talk about how I got started on the path to health.
Low blood sugar is a precursor to diabetes.
I talk about some of the symptoms caused by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Find out if what you’re eating is causing your symptoms, by clicking here.
Your food is the fuel that’s powering your body and brain. Low-quality fuel causes symptoms.
Many years ago, I had a lot of mental/emotional problems that stopped after I gave up sugar and changed my eating habits.
If you want to be healthy, it’s within your power to make that happen.
It’s important to exercise if you want to stay young.
You have to make the decision as to whether or not you want to be healthy.
Stress affects your biochemistry.
If you want to be a high-performance person, then pay attention to what you’re eating – or not eating.
Your doctor is not going to fix you.
When you are healthy, your life will work better and you’ll make better decisions.
Links
Longevity Calculator
The Low Blood Sugar Symptom List and Nourish Yourself for Health and Happiness
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Sharon A. Kuhn is an Emotional Intelligence Trainer who coaches executives and leaders in optimizing their own and their teams’ unique potential. She is the author of Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential where she introduces the idea of Unique EQ. Sharon is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and is certified in the Working Genius Assessment, an affiliate of Table Group Consulting.
Highlights:
Sharon shares the brain science that gives us our sense of self-esteem and what she means by Unique EQ.
When we can share with people states of mind or reflect their state of mind, that releases oxytocin and causes them to feel more confident.
We are all trying to gather the strength that we have within to interpret other people and to be seen and interpreted by them.
When Sharon works with teens in corporate, people are often reticent about looking at the internal issues.
Emotion is a physical response to an internal or external stimulus.
What the body wants most is the feeling of connection. Relationship is our drug of choice.
Love is the most powerful thing that we can use to help people move forward.
Your empathy releases brain chemicals of belonging in the other person.
When someone else is feeling our feelings, they are, in effect managing our stress.
As a leader, I can feel people’s emotions, but I don’t get sucked into their feelings. I’m able to stay true to myself.
There are logical ways of coordinating with others so we are emotionally synchronistic.
The more we understand ourselves, the less fearful we are.
Sharon talks about reflective listening and mirroring.
We must experience the chemicals of connection in order to thrive and survive.
The feedback that we get from one another is shaping our brains daily.
The brain often becomes disorganized as a result of confusing experiences.
The more we identify with each other, the more we draw out our true self.
Links:
Sharon’s site
Sharon’s Book: Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential
Recently, I was part of a 3-person panel at the Women’s Leadership Council of the C-Suite Network where we discussed our spiritual background and how we bring our spirituality into our business. This episode is my portion of the panel discussion.
Highlights
In 1975, I moved to Venice Beach and met a woman who moved in with me and started channeling “The Mother”. I talk about the experience and the advice I received.
During that time, I spent many hours in meditation waiting for “instructions”.
I explain why, in 1976, I gave everything I owned away and went on a years-long journey.
For many years, I had been fascinated by what lies beyond three-dimensional reality.
When I listened to what I was getting in meditation, amazing and interesting things happened in my life. And that still happens.
When I was building my crystal business, in the 1980s, that’s when I was closest to being who I really am – and I was rewarded for it.
The question, “Who am I and why am I here?”, is a common one, especially for women as we explore who we are as women.
There is a certain advantage of getting older because you have more wisdom that helps you let go and let life show you who you are and why you’re here.
Links
The Search for Connection - the book I wrote about my journey.
Who Are You…When You Are Big? By Kimberly Roush & Allan Milham
In this episode, I talk about three TV shows that aired last Sunday and how I see that they are indicative of what a lot of us are going through now. There’s no doubt about the fact that it’s a time of chaos and we have the option of finding our own peace of mind.
Highlights
I mentioned the three TV shows: the concert with Adele and it’s included interview by Oprah, the final episode of the CNN series about Princess Diana, and the gridlock in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors.
I also talk about how each of these is connected to what we are going through now.
Despite all the difficulties that people are experiencing, they still desire to experience peace of mind.
This is an important time for some inner examination to find out what means something to us and what we can do to achieve peace of mind.
So many of our systems are not working for most people. Although we tend to be optimistic, there are so many barriers to raising one’s habitual income level.
We need to examine what really matters to us and why it appears to be so important to make more money.
A lot of people at the lower economic levels are complaining about the Build Back Better bill, even though it has the potential to help a lot of people who are suffering.
When everything seems chaotic, keeping good financial records will help assuage fear that’s bound to occur during times of uncertainty.
I talk about the value of connecting to and working with others to solve problems that can help many.
A key is for you to learn how to make decisions that work for you and to get advice so that you’re not trying to figure everything out yourself.
You don’t have to have a lot of money to have contentment.
The people I know who are most satisfied don’t focus on money, they focus on enjoying what they’re doing.
Making your life work requires that you learn to trust other people and yourself.
If you are always worried, you can’t make good decisions. It helps to understand how your brain works and why it’s programmed to help you by warning you to be afraid when there is uncertainty.
I’m getting ready to do a group in late January/early February to help people use their inner resources to build or expand a business.
One of the most important things you can do to overcome financial fear is to take action. One of those actions needs to be keeping good financial records.
Links
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In this episode, I talk about effective ways of "acting as if". Years ago, people thought that to become wealthy it helped to act as if you are already wealthy, and they began spending lots of money as if they had it. That didn't work. So, what does work?
Highlights
Wealthy people often make well-thought-out financial decisions. To do this, you have to be in touch with your numbers. This requires a clear decision to keep good financial records.
Money goes to people who love and take care of it, and the thing that money likes best is to be counted.
To do well in business, pay attention to your outer world as well as your inner world.
It is important to learn how to manage cash flow.
The more information you have, the better the financial decisions you make.
The most successful people I know don’t worry about money. Worrying about money doesn’t help you make more.
What would you be thinking and feeling if you had a large amount of money?
Acting as if means looking for the things you’re grateful for and focusing on positive thoughts.
I talk about training your brain to have new responses to familiar stimuli. Money triggers are familiar stimuli.
Money is just energy.
To change your relationship with money, take small steps and change one thing at a time. By taking small steps in a new direction, you are acting as if you are becoming wealthy.
Spend time learning about the world of money and how it works.
What do you need to know about the world of money so you can make rational financial decisions?
Are you willing to act as if you are already changing your relationship with money?
I make some suggestions about the small changes you can start to make.
Links
Information and registration for the Money Energy Tuneup
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QuickBooks Online
Zapier.com
The Ugly Cashflow Spreadsheet
ln this episode, I talk about the epidemic of aloneness that is in our country now and how we need to learn to connect to each other to make our lives work better. I also outline how this podcast might be changing and some of the activities that are coming up on Prosperity Place.
Highlights
I talk about a dive I did recently into aloneness. Once you process and emotion it, it no longer runs your life the same way.
It’s now time for me to combine what I’ve learned about the inner world with business skills.
In this time of chaos, it’s more important to get in touch with your inner self so you can be led to what you’re supposed to be doing.
To make more money, it’s important to understand the world of money.
If you’re feeling stuck, then you probably are. If you don’t keep moving forward by changing, you’re going to stay stuck where you are.
Self-care activities are just as important as business activities.
Love yourself, let go, and connect – and wait to see what shows up.
Most people don’t know how to wait.
I talk about the dysfunctional systems in the United States.
How can we work together to make our futures better?
If you want to make significant change in your life, it’s best not to try to do it alone.
Are you willing to look at your life and understand that you have the power to change it, if it isn’t working for you now?
Links
Money Energy Tuneup
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The Frontline program about the Fed
The C-Suite Network
Eric Rogell is the host of the popular “Warriors, Lovers, Kings, and Heroes” podcast, sought after corporate speaker, bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. He shows high achieving executives and entrepreneurs how to break through barriers, forge mental toughness, and inspire and engage their teams, making them more capable, more confident, and more connected.
Highlights
Eric explains how learning how to honor people allowed him to become more complete and better as a podcast host.
We are all the same and are all on the same journey, just different flavors.
When we share our stories with each other, it connects us.
Technology, especially Zoom, allows us to connect in a whole new way to so many more people and become inter-generational.
When you are more deliberate about the connections you make, you get more out of it.
Platforms like Facebook allow our connections to go wide. Being more deliberate with our connections allows us to go deep, which allows us to feel more connected.
Eric gives us a picture into his background and his upbringing which led him to do the kind of work he does today and why he is so interested in emotional intelligence.
In his work, Eric talks about four archetypes: Warrior, Lover, King, Hero.
The Lover side is the emotional side, which is harder for men than the Warrior side, which is easy for them.
With women, the King becomes the Queen and women often like moving into that energy.
Aggression is the downside of the Warrior. He talks about how Mother Teresa was a fierce Warrior without being aggressive – quite the contrary.
We all have the masculine and feminine within us and each is a unique combination of those two energies.
Your brain is your biggest enemy when you want to change. Your heart may want to change, but your brain will lead you to resist the change.
Links
Eric’s Website: www.ericrogell.com
Eric on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericrogell/
Kimberly Roush holds people BIG! She is the founder of All-Star Executive Coaching, which specializes in coaching C-level and VP-level executives from Fortune 100 companies to solo entrepreneurs. She is also a co-author of Who Are You… When You Are Big? As a former national partner with a “Big 4” public accounting firm, Kimberly brings more than 30 years of business experience to her coaching including extensive work with C-suite executives, boards of directors, and audit committees. She facilitates a popular program called Back In the Game (BIG), which is a three-month group coaching program for executives in transition. Kimberly also is a keynote speaker, leadership facilitator, and a Charter Member of ForbesSpeakers.
Highlights
Kimberly shares her experience working with a coach and how that led to her starting her own coaching practice and writing her book.
Every day we have a choice whether to stay small or to step into the part of us that knows how to be big.
Kimberly shares what happens when people are asked, "Who are you when you're big?"
In her younger years, Kimberly was somewhat codependent. She talks about how that presented itself and how she worked through it.
When people are in transition, they often have trouble defining who they are. Kimberly helps them find the answer.
We talk about how Kimberly helps people get in touch with the emotional part of themselves.
With the information about emotional intelligence that's out there now, corporate is making progress but still has a long way to go.
Don't go after money for the wrong reasons.
You have to define success for you.
Although Kimberly loved working for corporate, she knew she had to leave and start her own project.
After being in business for herself for 14 years, Kimberly feels that she's still learning how to do it.
One of the problems with being an entrepreneur can be the isolation. We talk about the need for connecting with people who can give you advice and support you in other ways.
Links
Kimberly's Book: Who Are You… When You're Big?
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg & John David Mann
Kimberly's Website: www.allstarexecutivecoaching.com
Kimberly's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.roush.56
Kimberly's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyroush/
Kimberly's Twitter: @AllStarKimberly
The C-Suite Network
Just like everything else, your self-concept is a habit that affects all of your decisions. Protecting your identity often keeps you from moving forward. In this episode, I talk about The Identity Factor and how you can move past the restraints put on you as you try to keep yourself safe.
Highlights
Definition of The Identity Factor: A mechanism that kicks in – subconsciously – whenever you try to make a significant internal change that will affect your self-concept and your position in the world. There's a fear that if you make these changes, it will lead to your being alone and alienated.
I talk about the behavioral effects of The Identity Factor.
Common among successful people is that they never feel satisfied. So learning to be satisfied is a threat to who they perceive themselves to be – even though they understand that learning to be satisfied could make them more comfortable.
We are programmed to always want more, which keeps us unsatisfied.
If you have a habit of feeling alone, learning to feel connected can be a threat to your identity.
It is perfectly natural to resist major changes to how you have been. It's easier for younger people than for older people.
Are you willing to look at who you have been so you can decide who you want to be?
It takes courage to let people know who you really are.
For your life to change, you have to change.
The more adept you are at change, the better your life will be – even though those periods of change can be uncomfortable.
To become naturally prosperous – where you really feel rich – you need to look at many internal aspects of yourself and be willing to make changes.
Each person has a unique combination of things they have to work on to become more comfortable.
To be a full human being, we have to learn how to live in society and we get to choose how we want to do that and who we want to connect to.
Your external world is just a reflection of what's going on inside of you.
Links
The Rapid Money Energy Tuneup
What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Erin Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Conquer Your Business, an international company helping entrepreneurs and small business owners get out of reaction mode so they can be in charge of their businesses and their lives. Having made the successful leap from corporate executive to entrepreneur, she uses that experience, along with her MBA education and street-smart upbringing to help her clients reach heights they never dreamed possible. And have fun doing it! Erin is also an international speaker, having spoken for both corporate and entrepreneurial audiences including Highland Capital Brokerage, US Bank, Women’s Council of Realtors, and a wide variety of entrepreneur organizations.
Highlights
Erin loved her corporate job but felt that something was missing and that she didn't have enough control over her business world. That's why she left corporate.
After corporate, Erin had a franchise and she tells why it was a burnout experience.
It never occurred to Erin that she couldn't do what she wanted to do.
Because she had a lot of health problems as a baby, Erin developed a survival mentality. She shares the details.
Everything you are and what you do is a choice.
Your brain's only job is to keep you alive, and it perceives everything as a threat.
People, including family, can support you but that doesn't mean they understand you. Surround yourself with such inspirational people that it doesn't matter what your family thinks.
Even though she has trouble relating to the experience of her feelings, Erin has made the choice to learn how to do it.
When people want to build a business, they often get good at doing the tasks but don't learn the skills of building a business.
A coach's job is to help their clients work through their fears.
The question, "What's the worst that can happen?" can help work through fears of doing new things.
Most often, the thing that people are afraid will happen can't happen.
One of the biggest problems for entrepreneurs is that they avoid talking to people.
Links
Erin's Website: www.conqueryourbusiness.com
Erin's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ErinMarcusConquerYourBusiness
Erin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinmarcusconqueryourbusiness/
Erin's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erinmarcusconqueryourbusiness/
Click here to check out the information about the upcoming Rapid Money Energy Tuneup
In this episode, you will enjoy Linda Fisk’s inspiring, energetic approach as we get to know about her work and who she is. Linda is the Founder and CEO of LeadHERship Global, a community of unstoppable women enhancing their leadership blueprint and embracing their power to be the best version of themselves- in work and life.
Linda has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Clinical Psychology and has written extensively about social comparison, depression and anxiety, subjective well-being, and personality theory, with a focus on relating scientific research to commonly understood concepts. Currently, Linda is interested in the psychology of influence, persuasion, and negotiation.
Highlights
Linda's experience in corporate, where she was often the only woman in various positions, inspired her to start LeadHERship Global.
Companies benefit from having women in influential positions.
Women struggle more than men with the concept of competence.
Women tend to outperform men in crisis situations.
You have to combine mind and heart to be an effective leader.
Linda talks about the many skills that women have because they have had to understand and navigate family dynamics.
There are real burdens that women carry that can make it difficult for them to step into a leadership role.
Every leader has to identify their personal leadership style based on their own values, purpose, and talents. Linda's organization helps women do that. She explains how they do this.
Links
Linda’s Website: https://leadhershipglobal.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/leadhershipglobal
LinkedIn: www.Linkedin.com/company/leadhershipglobal
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/leadhershipglob
Instagram: www.Instagram.com/leadhershipglobal
In this episode, I talk about the relationship between the feeling of aloneness and money. If you can understand this relationship, when you're having money problems or discomforts, you can get to the root of where those discomforts are coming from.
Highlights
I describe a Akashic record reading a friend did that helped me tap into an early childhood memory that affected me more deeply than I realized. The incident, and one that followed, left me feeling alone and disconnected.
When we are young, we can also feel alone in our families. I explain why.
Getting to understand the emotions behind your decisions can help you change the course of the outcomes of your life.
Because in our culture we deal with money daily, we can use it as a method for getting in touch with our habitual emotions.
Whatever you're saying to yourself about money is a pathway into your emotional self.
I discuss the five main feelings that people act out through their money that I discussed in my book Build Your Money Muscles.
The ultimate thing that you might want to accomplish is to know yourself and your own unique combination of emotions.
I talk about the limitations of EFT and BSFF.
There are so many ways that the feeling of aloneness can find its way into your system.
Once you recognize your habitual feelings, you can deal with them and move on, although the memory may never go away
I talk about how to get in touch with your feelings of aloneness and what to do about it.
Just making money or being in a big family doesn't necessarily help people feel less alone.
One of the solutions to feeling alone is to get to know yourself by understanding your unique combination of emotions.
If you think you need more money, you probably need more people because money always comes from people.
Links
Build Your Money Muscles: Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
Be Set Free Fast
Byron Katie's book - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Let Go of the Aloneness Blocking Your Prosperity. An audio available on my site.
Audrey Holst guides ambitious high performers and high achievers who are ready to stop micromanaging their lives with perfectionism so they can actually start living. She’s the founder of the Fortitude & Flow® Process which uses mindful and embodied practices to create transformation. Her work goes beyond mindset and addresses perfectionism's impossible standards at their root cause.
Highlights
Audrey shares her own experience with perfectionism and how that led to the work she does.
She kept trying to do things right so she could be accepted socially, but never felt as if she got it. It's an interesting story.
Perfectionists often wait till the last minute to finish something that has a due date.
Once she got on the entrepreneurial path, she saw that entrepreneurship and perfectionism don't go well together.
Audrey's mother was a perfectionist. Once she understood the concept of inherited emotions and behaviors, it helped Audrey move forward.
Getting in touch with the body sensations that went along with her perfectionism enhanced Audrey's self-awareness.
The style of yoga that Audrey studied was more about pushing through discomfort rather than embracing it.
When you notice something, don't try to intellectualize or change it. Take a deep breath and just notice it and stay with it.
Perfectionism is a coping or survival mechanism.
Perfectionists often isolate because they don't want anyone to know that they're not sure how to handle something. So they don't ask for help.
As you go through the process of letting go of some of your perfectionism, it will improve your relationships with other people in the world around you.
We talk about how being bullied at school contributed to her perfectionism and her willingness to move beyond it.
It takes courage to change your thought patterns and behaviors.
It helps to work with someone else when you're trying to go through this process so that it doesn't feel overwhelming and you know that someone has your back.
It takes a long time to reverse the perfectionism habit.
Audrey has developed five archetypes of perfectionism and they are available on her site.
Links
Audrey's website: www.fortitudeandflow.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-holst/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fortitudeandflow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortitudeandflow/
Ed Coambs is a couples therapist specializing in financial therapy. He loves helping couples go from despair and overwhelm to financial intimacy. It is not always an easy process, but it is one worth taking. He uses the latest in love and brain science to help couples flourish financially.
Highlights
Ed tells us how he evolved from firefighter and financial advisor to financial therapist.
There's so much emotion around money and no one tells us how to deal with that. Therapists don't talk about money and financial planners and advisors don't talk about emotions.
Part of Ed's journey was understanding his own psychological issues.
We all have a relationship with money, much of which develops in early childhood.
When couples argue about money, they are often arguing about their emotional needs.
Couples often act out their parents' relationship with money.
We talk about how childhood experiences affect your relationship with money.
Income disparity between siblings is common.
Ed describes what financial intimacy is really about.
We talk about shame and Ed shares his experience with shame around money and how to overcome it.
Understanding brain chemistry helps us to understand our responses about money.
Links
Website: www.healthyloveandmoney.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthyloveandmoney
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthyloveandmoney/
In today’s episode, I talk about techniques for developing peace of mind and how to use your inner resources to maximize your business. These techniques will help you create what you want and let go of some of the tension that you may be feeling because of everything that’s going on in the world right now.
Highlights
Here are the main topics I discuss in today’s podcast. For more detailed information, read the transcript below the links section.
Spend time in nature. Go for a walk. Walk with someone else, if possible.
Either meditate or sit quietly watching your thoughts for 10 minutes a day. Imagine that you are letting go of everything.
Do stretches every morning.
Train yourself not to rush.
When you start worrying, imagine a positive future.
As you’re getting ready to fall asleep, take 10 deep diaphragmatic breaths. If you have trouble falling asleep, you might want to try using the supplement Theanine.
Pay attention to your sleep habits and get enough sleep.
Get a massage or do self-massage.
Keep track of your income and spending. Manage your cash flow.
Connect to other people.
Share what you’re feeling with someone else. Ask for help if necessary.
Leave space in your calendar.
Links
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Scheduling calendar www.Calendly.com
HERE’S THE TRANSCRIPT
The transcript is created via www.otter.ai. It’s not perfect, but you’ll get the idea.
Today, I'd like to talk about a techniques for developing that peace of mind. And being able to use your inner resources to maximize your business, to be able to create what you want. And to let go of some of the tension, you may be feeling because of everything that's going on now.
00:43
Before I get to the techniques, I'd like to remind you that on September 9, I'm having a, an event, I don't want to call it a webinar, it's a little more than that. It's called the money energy tune up. In it, I'm going to use a energy technique that I've learned over the years, to get you in a comfortable space, and to be able to deal with your money from a much more rational place rather than fear. So I hope you'll think about attending this, it's on September 9, there will be a replay. And if you go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/tuneup, you'll see what it's all about. I will have a link to the show notes on www.prosperityplace.com.
01:44
So, let's talk about being kind to yourself, what are some of the things that you can do to remove some of your tension and, and just feel better about yourself and your life? I made a list today of the things that came to my mind, and I wonder what you can think of for yourself. One of the things that comes to mind first is to spend time in nature. There are studies that show that people who see grass, green grass, on a regular basis, are actually in a better shape emotionally than people who don't. I go out for a walk every day and make sure I see green, and birds. And actually we walk in a park by my house. So I see the other dogs, we being my dog and me and I actually walk with someone, which is a very good idea.
02:54
Studies show that when you exercise with someone else, and that means walking, if or anything else that you do with someone that you get more value from the exercise. So spending time in nature, walking in nature, walking with someone else really helps. I know at the end of the day, I meet this person from my neighborhood at five o'clock. And we walk together for part of the way because he lives in a different neighborhood. So we walk part of the way and I walk a total of a mile and a half to two miles a day. And I focus on what I'm doing and how I'm breathing, and and just what's going on.
Steven Hoffman (Captain Hoff) is the Captain & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Hoffman is also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning books. These include Make Elephants Fly, Surviving a Startup, and The Five Forces.
Highlights
Steve shares his interesting journey to becoming the CEO of Founders Space.
We talk about the dangers of comparing yourself to others and not following your inner urge to do something.
If you have a big dream, then you make sure that you’re the best in your field. Steve shares his experience in trying to become a Hollywood writer/director.
A lot of entrepreneurs believe they’re better at something than they really are.
As an entrepreneur, how you think of yourself is important.
Anyone who works for themselves will learn that it’s an emotional roller coaster.
Steve talks about how Founders Space helps budding entrepreneurs on many different levels, giving them skills that can move them toward success.
It’s not unusual for entrepreneurs to become deeply attached to their business idea and then fail because they aren’t open to change.
Steve explains the screening process his company uses with potential clients.
For new entrepreneurs, when you get an idea, you have to take it into the real world to test your idea. Find out who wants it and why.
We talk about the importance of learning soft skills to go along with business skills.
Your work doesn’t define you unless you let it define you.
Because of the way your brain works, you have much more control over your responses and emotions than you realize that you do.
Links
Website: www.FoundersSpace.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/groups/foundersspace
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/foundersspace
Instagram: www.instagram.com/foundersspace/
Joan's Money Energy Tuneup
Because there are so many changes happening around the world, everything is feeling somewhat chaotic. Businesses and individuals have to flow with the changes to maintain or improve. In this episode, I make some suggestions for dealing with the changes and the chaos.
Highlights
People who are good at change at adaptation will do best in today’s environment.
In certain areas, like real estate, people are doing very well. In other areas not so much.
It appears that individuals are not as willing to invest in things like coaching and consulting because of the brain warning against uncertain outcomes.
Be aware that things are changing and that business may be less robust because of this and not because you're doing something wrong.
It may be advantageous to you to start looking at different ways to do things that you've been doing before.
People are craving connection and you may have to reach out to people, some of whom you've lost contact with, to get beyond the feeling of being disconnected.
Feeling connected is a key to doing well in business.
When you can get beyond fear and worry that’s when you can experience conscious synchronicity and what you need will show up.
So many things keep changing and you need to adapt your business to the changes to make sure you’re providing people with what they want and need.
If you’re stuck in worry, it’s difficult to allow creativity to happen.
Whenever you worry, that’s just the story you’re making up.
Meditation can get you in touch with a quiet place inside of you where you can begin to understand what to do next.
We are not meant to do things alone. We need other people.
Reach out to others and ask what their experience has been during these times.
The chaos is creating nervousness for a lot of people.
Links
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David Wood is a former consultant to Fortune 100 companies who has built the world’s largest coaching business. He has coached for thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself,
having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, and experiencing anxiety and depression. He coaches high-performing business owners to double revenue and their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career.
Links:
Website: https://focus.ceo/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/extraordinaryfocus
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/focus-ceo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_focusceo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_focusceo/
In today’s episode, I explore the idea of feeling limited, which I see as a corollary to feeling oppressed. I relate this to feeling financially limited. There are other emotions that can be part of feeling limited such as powerless.
Highlights
I recognize that when I don’t have the funds I think I need, I feel limited. People often feel limited financially.
The glass ceiling is a feeling of limitation.
Limitations can be external or internal. I explain.
What are your physical limitations?
When you face physical limitations, you have to decide if you want to push through or not.
The internal limitations can be on the feeling level, such as feeling tight or constrained, which might be expressed as “money is tight”.
What do you perceive is your limitations, and is there some action you can take to work through those limitations and feel more expanded?
Ask, “what would I rather be feeling other than limited?”
If you recognize that you need more people, ask the question, “How can I connect to more people in a meaningful way?”
When you want to connect to more people, it’s often necessary to overlook your differences and to look for the similarities.
For now, I’m hoping that you will take some time to get in touch with the feeling of being limited.
I have found that when you get in touch with the feelings of limitation that come from difficult childhood experiences or abuse, then you can move past those feelings and expand to a different place of consciousness.
If you’re seeking financial freedom, then you have to learn how to feel free.
Are you willing to go through the process of making the internal changes that are necessary to live the life of your dreams?
Making the necessary changes is easier if you work with someone else. In this day and age, trying to do it alone just isn’t a good idea.
Once you set your intention, then what you need will show up. You just have to recognize it when it shows up.
Just focusing on money is not going to get you where you have to go. Focusing on feeling goals will make a big difference.
I talk about the energy tune-ups I do.
Links
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Previous episode: How Feeling Oppressed Affects Your Life
Previous episode: The Childhood Abuse & Adult Debting Connection
Andrea Austin is the Co-founder of My Conscious Wellness and Love Evolution, two organizations that deal with the expansion of conscious awareness through love. They use advanced consciousness-based technologies designed to balance and harmonize the subtle energy fields of the human form so people can easily let go of emotions, mental and physical traumas, and uncomfortable experiences.
Highlights
Andrea started out as an accountant. She shares how she switched to exploring conscious awareness after having an out-of-body experience.
She learned to trust that whatever came along was in her best interest.
Andrea began seeing the world with her inner eyes more than she had before.
In exploring what makes her happy, Andrea had to deconstruct previous concepts of what life was supposed to be.
There was a transitionary time when she had to understand that what she was seeing was not seen by everyone. She has learned to accept people where they are and not have expectations that are unrealistic.
Andrea hopes to show people that you can live in expanded consciousness and still be grounded in so-called reality.
There is a growing movement of people who are interested in learning how to cross between the two worlds.
Learn how to be an observer from a place of neutrality.
We talk about accepting our differences with other people rather than just searching for sameness.
I ask Andrea how she teaches people to be satisfied with who they are and where they are.
Andrea talks about the technologies that she and her partner use to help people develop expanded awareness.
Going from A to Z doesn’t necessarily mean you’re moving in a straight line.
Links
Andrea’s Websites: www.loveevolution.ca, www.consciouswellness.ca
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.ann.austin/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrealeighaustin/
Brainwave Optimization
The Fisher-Wallace Stimulator
Joan’s Energy Adjustments
I recently watched an interview on C-SPAN with Ursula Burns, the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I was impressed with her ability to allow life to happen through her rather than working hard to make it happen. A great example of synchronicity.
Highlights
Brought up in a poor neighborhood, Ursula’s mother never let the kids know that they were poor.
I talk about how Ursula let her life happen rather than pushing toward a goal. The fact that she could not have conceived of being a CEO of a large company worked in her favor. I expand on this.
When you get yourself into the place where you allow your life to happen, you’ll get what you need to become who you are becoming.
It’s important to be satisfied with where you are and what you have and believe that what you need will show up but it will probably take longer than you want.
Problems and concerns are part of your journey.
I talk about the oppression that is prevalent in our society and relate something I went through via Microsoft that allowed me to feel controlled and powerless.
If you can recognize the situations when you feel controlled – or oppressed – it will allow you to process those feelings and not hold onto them.
When you hold things in rather than expressing them, it’s hard to let them go. It helps to talk to people about what’s bothering you – without kvetching.
Working through your emotions allows you to move your life comfortably forward.
Links
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are by Ursula Burns
C-SPAN interview with Ursula Barnes
Be Set Free Fast (BSFF) - The Official Manual
Rapidly Release a Major Money Issue
Udo Erasmus is the co-founder of Udo’s Choice line of health products. He designed the machinery for making oils with health in mind and pioneered flax oil, a billion-dollar industry. Pesticide poisoning in 1980 left Udo’s doctors at a loss regarding treatment so he decided to take his health into his own hands.
His research and discoveries led him to a passion for finding the answers to life’s big questions. Udo is an acclaimed speaker and author of many books, including the best-selling Fats That Heal Fats That Kill. He teaches at events hosted by Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra, has given live presentations, interviews, and training in over 30 countries and has impacted more than 25 million lives with his message about health, peace, nature, and human nature. Udo has an extensive education in biochemistry, genetics, biology, and nutrition, psychology.
Highlights
Because he was born in the 1940s, during the war, the overwhelming uncertainty led him to be very curious. He explains.
What you are deep down looking for is already inside of you.
Udo gives suggestions for how to get in touch with the place within your heart that knows what’s right for you.
Being is more important than doing.
Your real purpose is found internally.
When the heart aches, people often turn to distractions. By focusing on success on the outside, we are trying to fix the hurt that is on the inside.
If you feel restless, you don’t have to do something, you need to sit still.
Your emotional state determines how you see and relate to the world. Peace has always been there, but if you’re not looking for it, you won’t recognize that it’s there.
When you’re in a place of peace and taking care of your inner needs, it’s easier to build a business.
When you feel cared for, you can flow with life.
Links
Udo’s websites: www.TheUdo.com and www.UdosChoice.com
Udo’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theudoerasmus/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/udoerasmus/
What are the words you use when you’re talking to yourself or others about your money? In this episode, I explore various money words that you may be using that could be holding you back with your money and in your life.
Highlights
Whatever you are telling yourself is what your subconscious will believe is true and will work to make it true.
Worrying about money has nothing to do with how much money you have.
What are your thinking habits about your money?
Growing up, what were the words you heard about money and was it enough?
What happens when you think about using the word enough?
Do you say things like, “I can’t afford that,” or “I haven’t got enough money for that”? Or, are you willing to say, “I’m choosing not to do that today”?
If you can perceive yourself as having enough, then you’re more apt to have enough.
If you are always focusing on what you don’t have, then it’s hard to create more.
What are the words you use to describe your financial situation?
Are you developing authentic relationships with other people so you can both share what’s going on for you?
The money doesn’t matter, the connections you experience do matter.
Think about the words you use to describe your money, your life, your relationships. You get to choose the words you want to use to describe everything in your life, including your money.
I talk about experiments that have been done with water and other substances where words have affected the quality of whatever was used.
Are you willing to look at what you’re creating in your life with the words that you were using?
Take a look at the words you are using and decide if those words are helping you create a positive life and business.
Do you have people in your life with home you can discuss what’s bothering you, not from a place of complaining but rather looking for solutions?
Your expectations are defining what you’re probably going to create, and the words you use help to define those expectations.
Links
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto
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Lee Tomlinson had a life many would have considered charmed. He has been a successful world-trotting tennis pro, international businessman, major Hollywood film studio owner, award-winning TV producer, and the marketing genius behind the American Film Institute's 10-year long 100 Greatest Movies.
Then, his world crashed down when he was diagnosed with Stage III throat cancer and underwent months of painful treatments. As a result of his experience with the healthcare system, Lee is now known as the Compassionate Care Crusader. He is on a Mission to Restore Compassion to healthcare, healthcare professionals, and the world at large! In his new book, Compassion Heals: From Self-Care to Healthcare, Lee's message is about the power of compassion to heal mental, emotional, and physical pain – for others and ourselves.
Highlights
Because of his unusually active lifestyle, Lee has had more than the usual interactions with the healthcare system.
After his cancer diagnosis, we went through months of agonizing treatments and suffered from a sepsis infection. Lee shares how he felt like he was being treated like a “piece of meat”. No compassion.
When he was at his lowest point, a doctor friend convinced him to speak publicly about the effect of care without compassion.
Everything that divides us can be healed with compassion.
We are genetically programmed to need connection.
Lee shares techniques that we can use to show compassion for ourselves.
You have to take care of yourself and be healthy before you can help anyone else.
The most successful businesses are those that treat their customers and employees with compassion.
Don’t allow others to treat you without caring and compassion.
Compassion is necessary for the best outcome for a practitioner’s patients.
There is a movement now within the healthcare industry to learn compassion because they understand that their income depends on it.
Compassion is teachable, repeatable, and an undeniable healing and business benefit.
Each of us has to learn to speak up and demand compassion.
Links
Lee Tomlinson’s book: Compassion Heals
To book Lee to speak to your group or business, go to Lee’s website.
Entrepreneurs often complain that they don’t have enough either time or money. I have often spoken about the non-enough-money issue. In this episode, I talk about feeling that you don’t have enough time and how to develop a better relationship with time.
Highlights
I talk about my long history of examining the issue of time.
Staying focused in the present moment was often what I focused on in meditation. I often use the mantra, There is no past, there is no future, there is only the here and now.
Time is a series of nows, and if you’re focused on the past or the future, you are missing your life.
When you are focused in the moment, you are allowing things to happen rather than forcing things to happen.
I talk about age and how each decade is like a different phase of our lives, and I give some definition to each of the phases.
People often worry about how much time they have left and there is no way of knowing. So pay attention to today and what you feel the urge to do for yourself today – or perhaps for others.
Take the time to be with people because being with people allows you to feel more connected, which is extremely important. People who have good relationships live longer.
How do you complain about not having enough time? You have as much as you have – even though you don’t know what that is.
Are you leaving enough time in between activities for new ideas and information to come through?
If you are keeping yourself constantly busy and are always pushing to get to the next thing, you are missing a lot of your life.
Give yourself the time to do whatever makes you comfortable.
Time is a gift and you have to decide how you want to spend it.
Links
The updated Conscious Synchronicity episode
My guest today is author and CEO, Marty Strong. Marty spent twenty years in the Navy's elite SEAL Teams learning effective leadership skills and mastering the art of turning vision into actionable strategy. After his service, he spent seven years as a financial advisor and portfolio manager with UBS before moving on to become a C-Suite executive. Marty's new book, Be Nimble, is set for release in Fall 2021.
Highlights
Marty shares how he decided to become a Navy SEAL and what’s behind the people who don’t make it through the training.
We talk about the 80-20 rule regarding success with the SEALs and for entrepreneurs.
You can teach tenacity, but you have to know how to teach it.
Being exposed to risk-taking as a child helps prepare you for being an entrepreneur.
Serial entrepreneurs often use failures as a strengthening exercise.
I asked Marty what drove him to be in the financial industry. It wasn’t planned.
Marty has the ability to go with the flow of life and not resist change.
Marty was not afraid of failure and over time, became a good problem solver.
Because of his family background, at an early age, Marty realized that he had to learn how to take care of himself.
We discussed whether qualities of strength and resilience are inborn and the person.
There are different ways of handling different forms of failure. Marty often looks at seeming failure as an opportunity to make changes.
When he was writing his book, Be Nimble, Marty asked himself the question, “Why am I the person to write this book?”
We talk about how people react to financial issues, including up and down income.
Most things in our evolution aren’t linear. There are always ups and downs. Marty tells how the lives of presidents Grant and Truman illustrate this principle.
I asked Marty if he was born with the name Strong. He was.
Links
Marty’s Website www.martystrongbenimble.com
Marty’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marty.strong.547/
Marty’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-strong-9676bb13/
Marty’s Twitter: mlstrongauthor
Marty’s Instagram: Martin L Strong
As the world is moving out of the Covid nightmare, each of us has the opportunity to create what we want to be our new normal. In this episode, I make some suggestions as to what we can do internally to create the life that’s right for us.
Highlights
Watch your self-talk and decide to stop talking to yourself like a critical parent. I give suggestions.
When you begin to treat yourself the way you’d like others to treat you, you’ll start drawing in people who treat you that way.
It’s up to you to decide who and how you want to be in the future.
Listen to your language when you are talking to yourself or to others. Are you always looking at the downside? Are you looking for sympathy or complaining? It helps to see the positive side of life.
Stop judging other people. They are doing the best they can at this point in time.
As you change your relationship with yourself, people who are a reflection of the new you are going to show up.
Examine your expectations. Do you expect people to embrace you or push you away? Do you expect to be a success or are you afraid of being disappointed? Your expectations are shaping your life stories.
What are your expectations of other people?
Notice your internal experience of whatever is going on. Recognize when you’re contracted, take a breath, and imagine your expanding.
Start noticing when you’re being defensive. You have the power to protect yourself.
Are you afraid about being treated badly causing you to push people away?
When people criticize you, they are really telling you about themselves.
I see that feeling sorry for yourself or feeling oppressed go deep within our culture. I talk about dealing with those two feelings.
The more you allow your life to happen, rather than trying to make it happen, the better you will get at creating what is right for you.
This is the perfect time to ask yourself if you want to go back to doing and being who you were or do you want to dig deep inside yourself and find a different way of being.
It’s okay to ask yourself how you want to change and to develop the support you need as you go through the change.
Links
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Today I’m going to bring some things to conclusion and open up the door to what might be lying ahead. In this episode, I talk about the fact that I’ve been trying to prove that if you get yourself into the right place, whatever you need to become, who you are becoming will show up. I also explain what I had to do to make this happen.
Highlights
What can happen when you live in the moment and let go enough to let life happen?
It’s not what happens to us that matters but how we respond to what’s happening.
I came to realize that I can control the amount of positivity that flows through me as well as how I decide to respond to whatever is happening.
It’s a matter of truly becoming a person who is content and willing to lead with love.
You have to let your life evolve so you can discover who you are becoming. However, you will have hints along the way and they will be an arc from your childhood to your life as it evolves.
You need to have feeling goals.
You will learn that you have the power to create what’s right for you – and you alone.
We are living in an unusual time where many people are going through self-exploration and you have the opportunity than usual to discover new aspects of yourself.
When we tune into the feelings of the group around us, it often keeps us from understanding our individual feelings.
You get to decide how you would like to live your life.
Getting yourself to the right place means being willing to follow your inner urge because that’s the voice of the part of you that sees the bigger picture.
Life is a series of choices, then deciding if those choices are really working for you.
I talk about how I decided to become a virtual speaker and what I did – without pushing or marketing – that allowed it to happen.
I share an experience where I started sharing about the energy work I used to do and that I want to do again.
Getting yourself to the right place is not easy. I explain why.
You have the power to control what’s going on inside of you – and only you.
Listen to the advice that others give you, then evaluate what they’ve said in terms of if it feels right to you and if you want to follow what they’ve suggested. This includes when you’re working with a coach.
Links
Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters by Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D.
The interview with Deb & Dave that I recently did
The Rapid Money-Issue Release
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In today’s episode, I talk about the emotional healing crisis that happens when you release long-held emotions. I explain how emotions don’t just happen in your mind, but also happen in your physical body and how you can deal with the resulting discomfort.
Highlights
When you don’t express your emotions, there is a buildup of the “molecules of emotion” on the receptors of your cell. Because emotions are a form of energy, this buildup can cause physical symptoms.
I talk about some physical effects of holding in emotions.
When you make significant emotional changes, there is an energetic shift throughout your body and you have to would just to the new configuration.
Because most people don’t understand the idea of healing crises, they will often do things to stop the process.
I talk about the emotional healing crisis I’ve been going through.
As you start shifting to a new way of being, there’s a chance that you’re going to go through a healing crisis.
There is a wide variety of symptoms that you may experience when going through a healing crisis.
It takes time to take care of your body which is an incredible machine that requires maintenance.
If you get in touch with your body and learn how to communicate with your body, you’ll know what action to take when you feel a little off.
It’s important to learn at least a little bit about how your body works and to have people you can talk to about how your body works.
No one can know your body better than you.
The healing crisis is just something that happens – it isn’t bad – and if you can understand it better then you’ll know how to deal with it.
Links
Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert
The Wisdom of the Receptors: Neuropeptides, the Emotions, and the Bodymind by Candace Pert
In the last episode, I talked a lot about oppression as an underlying emotion with chronic debting. As a result, I then started thinking a lot about the whole idea of oppression and how it affects so many areas of our lives and our culture. In this short episode, I share some of what I was thinking about.
Highlights
Recognizing feelings of oppression that may be buried deep inside of you opens you to many new opportunities and possibilities.
The process of internal change can have physical effects and can be, in some cases, uncomfortable.
Many people want their lives to change but they don’t want to change. If you want your life to change, you have to go through some energetic shifts.
There are many things, on a day-to-day basis, that can lead to feelings of oppression.
You can’t experience real freedom when you feel oppressed.
Get in touch with when you feel oppressed doing your day-to-day activities.
You can ask yourself, “What do I need to do to feel less oppressed?”
When you get in touch with feeling oppressed and learn how to let it go, you’ll be able to give so much more to the world.
Links
To share your experience with getting in touch with feelings of oppression, write to me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
In today’s episode, I take a deep dive into an aspect of the connection between emotions and money – specifically the issue of chronic debting, which is an issue I dealt with for many years.
Highlights
By changing your inner environment, especially your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, you can alter the outcomes of your life stories.
I talk about my family’s history with debting and how your family history will affect your financial behaviors. I also discuss my history and how I have dealt with debt.
Spending and debting allows us to feel connected to people.
I explained the process I use for discovering the emotions behind my behaviors.
Bodywork can help you release emotions that have been with you for a long time.
Chronic pain often is the result of long-held emotions.
I share an episode I had where I was able to reexperience the emotions I experienced while being abused – feeling oppressed, bullied, powerless.
I focus on the feeling of being oppressed and how that affects us individually and in our culture.
If many of us are carrying the feeling of being oppressed, we will, as a group, create being oppressed. Right now, there are many dramas going on between the oppressed and the oppressors.
Many of our leaders and corporations often act as the oppressors.
Whenever you have been through is what you need to become who you are becoming.
There is a group of emotional Gestalt that affects us on a cultural level.
Your life stories don’t create your feelings, your feelings create your life stories and this is true for groups as well.
When you come to understand and deeply experience your emotions, your life will move forward.
There is no simple answer – it’s a complex process. When you stop trying to be someone else and you are willing to fully accept yourself, you will be led to what you need. You need to follow and accept the things that show up.
When you learn how to recognize and differentiate between your different emotions, there is a simple process you can use to develop new responses to familiar stimuli.
You can learn the process via my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
Links
My course, Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
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In this episode, I explore how our fear of being alone often leads us to make decisions that don’t serve us well or meet our needs. This includes business and financial decisions as well as relationship decisions.
Highlights
We are wired to need other people and to fear being alone. This is a survival technique.
Money doesn’t come flying in the window: it comes from other people.
We have to understand what our needs are so we can satisfy ourselves.
You need whatever it is you’re getting today. Even the discomforts are part of your learning process.
Many people are afraid of wealth and power because it can be separating.
If you’re considering getting into a business or personal relationship, are you doing it because of your fear of being alone?
You have the option of creating an inner environment that allows you to feel satisfied with who you are today.
There are different qualities of a relationship and some people will click with us better than others. Some are just there to pass by and then move on.
If you are afraid of people and afraid of trusting life, you’re going to feel alone.
The feeling of being alone starts in early childhood – or before. If your mother felt alone when she was pregnant with you, then you will inherit that feeling.
The way to feel more connected is to recognize your feelings of aloneness and to not try to push the feeling away and to work through the emotion rather than trying to cover it up.
If you criticize yourself a lot, then you’re not connected to yourself.
Examine what it is you’re afraid of. Understand that financial fear is often the same as the fear of dying.
The fear of being alone often is the result of childhood abuse or neglect or your relationship with your parents.
Money can be the perfect mechanism for understanding the emotions that are holding you back.
Covid has brought 'feeling alone' into many people’s consciousness.
If you can let yourself feel the aloneness, then you’re one step closer to moving your life forward.
If the solutions are within you, why would you want to work with a coach or someone like that? I discuss.
If you have created a life that separates you from other people, that’s going to keep you from feeling fulfilled.
Links
My previous episode on Conscious Synchronicity
The audio Let Go of the Aloneness Blocking Your Prosperity
During the past few weeks, I have talked to a number of young people who have complained that even though they are doing EFT or BSFF and they’re trying to change their thoughts, they are still having trouble generating the income that they need to pay their basic expenses. In this episode, I talk about the inner work that will help you get unstuck financially.
Highlights
It’s important to manage your cash flow, especially when income is low.
Everyone has a different path, so it doesn’t work to say, “If I did it, you can do it too.”
Getting in touch with your inner guidance will help you find the best life that is right for you.
If you’re only focusing on income, you aren’t opening yourself to possibilities.
If you haven’t dealt with your money feelings by the time you’re in your mid-50s, those emotions will probably comment to the surface and you’ll have to deal with them.
Choose one thing that you want to work on and focus on that for whatever time it takes for a release.
When you only focus on the money, you aren’t getting to the real force behind your life stories.
I talk about ways you can shift negative self-talk.
If you don’t like what’s going on in your life, then you have the power to change it by changing what’s going on inside of you.
The more you understand about your inner world, the better you will be able to create the life you want.
It can take a year or more to change habitual responses to familiar stimuli.
Often, in the early part of our lives, what we’re going through is helping us realize what we’re not.
There is often an arc in our lives so that what we do as a young person comes back again in later years.
When you are feeling stuck financially, there isn’t just one thing that has to be done. But if you choose one thing to focus on, like changing yourself talk, you’ll see small gradual changes in your life.
I talk about how you can recognize, release, and replace the feelings that you are acting out through your money.
It’s really important to pay attention to your inner world in a non-judgmental way.
No one else can tell you what’s right for you. You have to get in touch with your inner guidance.
You get to choose – and every point – who you want to be and what you want to do.
Sometimes you have to be different from what you’ve been before.
There is no one thing that is going to change your financial situation.
You have the power to change your life. You don’t have the power to become someone else.
Links
Build Your Money Muscles: Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money
Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
David Veech teaches leaders how to Love, Learn, Let Go, and Connect so they can create a workplace that fully engages the creative and productive power of people. He is a retired Army Veteran, has written two best-selling books, founded two successful international consulting firms, and provides executive coaching, leadership development, and problem solving for companies and government agencies around the world.
David's messages inspire leaders and teams to obliterate obstacles, accelerate innovation, and elevate performance leaving everyone motivated and engaged for the future. His latest book is Leadersights.
Highlights
David shares how his 25 years in the Army taught him about leadership and how he became interested in the .
The evolving approach to leadership has become much more holistic, focusing on the inner world of the person as much as the outer world.
We encourage people to appeal to the emotions of those we are leading.
Leadership requires constant self-awareness and self-assessment.
Leaders who want to succeed are learning that they have to understand their people and their needs.
"Do it because I say so" method doesn't work anymore.
No single individual can control the changes that are happening, so leaders need to learn how to let go of their tendency to control.
David explains why the control approach has worked for so long and why it's no longer effective.
Servant leadership rather than authoritarian leadership is evolving and starts with the concept of love – putting the needs of my people above my needs.
The way you measure things drives the behavior, and the way Amazon measures things is causing some of their people problems.
Amazon's major measure is time – how quickly can we deliver to people and what do we have to do to make that happen.
Since Amazon has acquired Zappos, employee satisfaction has been lowered significantly because Amazon is not treating the employees the way that Zappos did.
Running businesses without paying attention to people is not sustainable.
David finds encouragement in the B Corporation movement where companies are creating really satisfying jobs for people.
The Covid pause is allowing people to take a really good look at their lives and their values and many are deciding to make major changes.
We talk about possible changes in society that will take place – many of which are starting to take place.
The decision cycle starts with love, and this requires that you learn about the needs of the people that you serve.
David talks about the learning groups he's hoping to put together.
Links
David’s Book - Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces
David’s Website (Under Construction): https://www.leadersights.com
David’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DSVLeadersights
David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidveech/
Interview with Gary McGrath
About six weeks ago, I did an episode about feeling sorry for myself. Since then, I’ve seen how that applies to me and how feeling sorry for oneself affects many people. I’ve come to understand a number of related topics, including Personal Power, which I discuss in this episode.
Highlights
Step 1 in dealing with feeling sorry for yourself is to recognize the emotion and when it is coming up for you.
I’ve come to realize how very different each one of us is and how there’s no way to truly understand what goes on inside of other people. The only one who can fully understand you is you.
Many of our relationships are based on our wanting to be like other people.
You have created your life outcomes, which indicates how powerful you really are.
In our society, we haven’t learned how to embrace our differences as well as our similarities.
I realize that you can never fully understand everything about me and what I’m actually feeling. But you can relate to what I’m saying.
If we can each understand our differences, not just our similarities, we could live more peacefully with each other.
To be comfortable with who you are, it’s important to accept how much power you have.
In America, we have a huge amount of diversity, but a lot of people don’t want that diversity and don’t see its value.
To stop feeling sorry for ourselves, we have to stop feeling like victims.
When you start feeling powerless, examine your options and take action.
When you’re looking at yourself, it can be hard to go deep and you may be seeing yourself from a negative point of view.
This process can be complicated.
Are you willing to look at yourself without thinking that who you are being and what you’re doing is wrong? Are you willing to go through a little bit of discomfort in order to move in a positive direction?
Links
If you’d like to talk to me about how you can release your personal power, click here
How Feeling Sorry for Yourself Affects Your Life Outcomes – TPS451
In this episode, David Newkirk and I continue our conversation about how he integrates spirituality and intuition into his consulting work. He also describes the work his company, Adept6, does with his clients. David’s work with corporate clients goes deeper with individuals within an organization than most consultants.
Highlights
More people within the business world are now becoming more open to understanding their own behavior and how that affects their business outcomes.
Leaders who are looking for help are aware that methods they’ve used before have not worked.
Good leaders are willing to look at their behaviors and other internal elements that affect their decisions rather than resisting the change.
David helps people see how their decisions develop and what they need to do to make better decisions and improve relationships.
Only a small number of people are ready to do the kind of work that David does and he believes that people who are drawn to his type of approach will find him. He often gets referrals from people who have experienced his work.
David explains what Adept6, the name of his business means, and the six things that he focuses on. He explains how the results his clients get using his methods are longer-lasting than when traditional methods are used.
We talk about how, as a consultant, it’s necessary to pay attention to the whole human being in each of the team members, including how their emotional habits are affecting their decisions.
David’s intuitive abilities have allowed him to work in diverse organizations on a deep level.
What you put out there creates a vibration that draws in what you’re looking for. We talk about the advantages of getting yourself in the right place and waiting to see what shows up.
Don’t treat people as transactions.
When David meets new potential clients, he makes clear how his mind works so they can understand where they might go together and if that works for them.
Because he can intuit the potential outcome of a client’s actions, David has to gently present what he sees in a way that will allow the client to make a good decision.
Identify blind spots, remove complexity, and empower the client to be successful on their own.
Links
David Newkirk's email at dnewkirk@ethosconsults.com
David Newkirk’s website: www.ethosconsults.com
David Newkirk: Bringing Spirituality Into His Business Consulting Part 1
As Principal and Founder of Ethos Consulting, David Newkirk brings over 30 years of experience working in large corporations, small privately owned companies and business start-ups. His work has been a source of innovative thinking that has changed how industries and business leaders adapt to the ongoing dynamic changes impacting them. The innovation has led to his creation of ADEPT6, a program that is changing how businesses adapt and make changes to sustain growth and profitability.
Highlights
David explains how the essence of his spirituality expresses itself through his business and how he defines spirituality.
When we are in unconditional love, we accept people for who they are in the moment.
Unconditional love is a choice we make.
Asking if someone is spiritual is passing judgement.
David talks about his wide experience in business and how that has helped him develop strategies for companies.
Because of his meditation practices, David is able to see and understand a wide picture that can help companies solve problems.
Everything is energy and energy is always in motion and everything in life is energy. When we open up our intuition, each of us has a separate way of translating what we see.
No one has more or less intuition, there are just different levels of development.
Meditation is about setting up a way of being.
The art of meditation is about observing and receiving.
Enlightenment isn’t a state of being to achieve.
We talk about purpose.
Because you have freedom of choice, you can’t have regrets.
Links
David’s consulting site: www.ethosconsults.com
David’s meditation site: www.LightWarriorUnited.com
David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethosconsults/
A lot of business people, including those who are successful, often deal with stress, overwhelm, and worry. My goal has always been to be able to run my business without stress and to experience ongoing peace of mind. In this episode, I discussed how to achieve this state of peace of mind.
Highlights
It takes a while to decide who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to do with your life.
When you reach a place of peace, you’ll be happier, healthier, and more productive without pushing yourself.
You have to learn how to “read” the inner signals that help you discriminate between what you need and what you don’t need.
If your goal is to experience success and peace of mind, you have to make the decision to do that.
The question isn’t what do you want to do, but who do you want to be.
Are you aware of the emotions that are driving you?
The difference between happiness and contentment is the corresponding brain chemicals.
Is it possible to live in a state of gratitude, acceptance, and satisfaction?
I was guided to learn to experience equanimity rather than getting hyper-excited about what was going on in my life.
You can train yourself to be in that state of equanimity, which allows you to live your life without stress.
Peace of mind requires a habit of acceptance and satisfaction and getting there, requires being aware of the habitual emotions that keep you from getting there.
This requires practicing and developing self-awareness and deciding what you want to be feeling instead of what you’re feeling now.
You have many different aspects of your personality. It takes a while to recognize which one of your aspects you’re being at any moment.
The system that I teach is about developing new responses to familiar stimuli so that things that normally trigger you no longer do.
One of the ways of becoming aware of your current emotional responses is through your money. I explain.
Start noticing the kinesthetic experience in your body any time you’re dealing with money. Do you feel contracted or expanded?
You can decide how you want to feel.
What will it take for you to be okay in this moment?
Links
TPS episode on Empathetic Detachment
The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert H Lustig, M.D., MSL
To set up an appointment to talk to me click here
Daniel Z. Lieberman is the author of The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race. He is a professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a recipient of the Caron Foundation Research Award. In addition to writing science books, he works with patients, teaches medical students, and does behavioral research.
Highlights
All of our wealth comes from new ideas, so it helps to understand how the brain works.
Lieberman talks about the basics of why dopamine is so important.
Dopamine is so much more than just the pleasure molecule.
Dopamine is not about contentment or satisfaction because those emotions don’t stimulate us to seek more. Dopamine is the transmitter of anticipation.
People who have highly active dopamine systems are more likely to be entrepreneurs, artists, and to suffer from mental illness.
Dopamine leads to pleasure, but not happiness or satisfaction. That comes from other brain chemicals.
We talk about the reward prediction error and how it can lead to disappointment.
Some people go into things with low expectations. With low expectations, you are apt to get more positive feelings when things work out well.
If you always expect the best, you are bound to be disappointed.
Dopamine always pushes towards more.
People have to decide what they want out of life.
People who are highly dopaminergic aren’t happy or satisfied, but the rest of us profit from their dissatisfaction.
Artists are driven more by meaning than happiness.
We talk about entrepreneurs and their constant desire for more.
It’s not true that you can have it all. You have to make choices.
Once we understand how our brains work, we can make better choices.
We talk about addiction, the power of cravings, and how to overcome cravings.
Understanding how brains work helps you understand and tolerate others.
Links
www.DanielZLieberman.com
www.TheMoleculeOfMore.com
Herb “Flight Time” Lang is an 18-year former player and coach with the World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters who is now a speaker, entrepreneur, motivator, and author. Throughout his travels, to nearly 90 countries with the Globetrotters, some of Herb’s most memorable
moments include meeting Pope Francis, President Obama, and appearing on numerous national television commercials and reality TV shows—most notably CBS’s “The Amazing Race.” He currently resides in Sacramento, California, where he is the proud father of two, and continues to make a difference through kindness and his life experiences, which he believes are the keys to maximizing what we get out of life. He is a true believer in that we are all rich with love and kindness. "Kindness Is Free!"
Highlights
Herb tells us how he was surrounded by kindness as a child and how that affected him.
He also shared what he went through physically to become one of the Harlem Globtrotters.
We talk about how his background taught him how to survive being a celebrity. He said it was important for him to never forget where he came from.
Some of the things that have given me the most pain are the things I’ve learned the most from. It taught me resilience.
“The feedback I get from others is what keeps me going.”
Herb’s positive mindset has inspired others. Being around a bunch of older people is what helped him develop the positive mindset along with his high-school basketball coach.
With the work he’s doing now, Herb is trying to teach young people how to develop kindness.
Look into a young person’s eyes and feed them all the things that you’ve learned along the way.
Things aren’t as bad as you think they are.
It takes support for us to achieve our dreams. Reach out to others.
I asked him how he deals with “the downs”. Now, he meditates and goes for daily walks. He also takes his mind back to “the kid me” where he had all his dreams.
We talk about “the wall” that often surrounds people of wealth and celebrity. Herb doesn’t have that wall.
Kindness is within all of us. We just have to let it out.
It bothers me when I see people who had a difficult childhood and now they’re doing the same things to their kids. I can only understand it and show them another way.
We are all children at heart.
The world is not a bad place.
My purpose is to do the best I can while I’m here.
Links
Herb’s book: Projects Popes and Presidents: An Inspirational Journey That Shows How You Can Overcome Life's Obstacles and Achieve Your Dreams
Herb’s Website: www.Herblang.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/herbertflighttime.lang
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/themotivationalspeaker/
In this episode, I share a recent experience that led to a major AHA. I recognized a habitual emotion that has been with me and has affected my life for a very long time. I think a lot of you will relate to this.
Highlights
I review my basic theory about how habitual emotions are the creative force behind our life stories.
Once I realized that I had a habit of feeling sorry for myself, I looked at all the times in my life it had affected decisions I had made even though I wasn’t aware that I was feeling sorry for myself.
I have learned not to judge myself because of things I have done in the past and decisions I have made.
It takes time and practice to develop a facility with recognizing your emotions and how they affected you in the past.
Along the line, I came to understand that in order to get healthy I had to change my persona – without realizing how long that would take.
I think that the best way to get to the core of why you do what you do is to understand not only the thoughts and beliefs that go into your decision-making but also to understand the emotions behind every decision you make.
One of the things I decided to do was to learn how to let go of negative self-talk.
How often do you feel sorry for yourself?
Comparing yourself to others will often allow you to feel sorry for yourself.
Lots of successful people never reach the levels they think they ought to and even though they have a lot, they still feel sorry for themselves.
It’s not that easy to make the necessary changes by yourself.
Links
Hacking the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains by Robert H. Lustig
If you’d like help moving your life in a more satisfying direction, click here to set up an appointment to talk to me.
Having built a 7-figure business without sales calls and as a former dominatrix, Dana Pharant knows all about owning her power and being unique. She has worked with clients for over 25 years, helping them keep their head out of their ass so they can scale with ease. She is the author of five books, winner of multiple awards and a woman who treats her own personal development like an extreme sport.
Highlights:
Dana Pharant was brought up in a cold and also went through all kinds of abuse. When she left the cult at 18, she went on a healing journey. She explains how her time as a dominatrix was part of her healing journey.
In the work that she does now, Dana uses her experience to help empower her clients.
We talk about how women can often have the fantasy of dominating, although Dana says that many men and women want to let go and be submissive.
A dominatrix is a high-level service position. Dana explains.
We talk about the difference between power and control and the different ways that leaders express their power. It’s about 'power with' rather than 'power over'.
Power comes from letting go. In order to be able to let go, it’s essential that you understand why you need to be in control.
For the women that Dana works with, there can be a real fear of letting go of control. Dana talks about the shift in mindset that women have to go through in order to let go.
I asked Dana to explain how she helps people understand the difference between feminine and masculine power. Making the shift is a matter of reprogramming the brain.
Dana shares some techniques she uses to help people trust their intuition including how to ask your body what it needs.
When you let yourself be who you really are, you get a sense of profound freedom.
We talk about the value of letting your intuition guide your creative process.
Men and women access their intuitive inspiration differently.
People are becoming more accepting of some of the “woo” ideas about energy.
Dana is very grounded and uses the term “practical woo”.
We talk about letting go and allowing our businesses to take shape rather than pushing to make things happen.
Links:
Dana Pharant’s Site
For a free download of Dana’s book, go to www.BadAssIntuition.com
Facebook Page
Dana Pharant on LinkedIn
During these uncertain times, it’s difficult for people to experience a sense of equanimity – where you can maintain calm no matter what’s going on. Our brains are wired to warn us of danger when things are uncertain. In this episode, I talk about how you can develop some calm in the midst of the chaos.
Highlights
It’s possible to train yourself to maintain calm during times of chaos if you’re willing to listen to your inner voice and follow its instructions.
We can do better in our business and financially if we let go of our attachment to the outcomes.
If I’m setting goals based on what I know from the past, I’m not leaving room for new information and opportunities to come to me.
If you are skeptical and don’t trust others or yourself, it’s going to be hard for you to be able to draw in what you want and need.
Letting go and trusting is important if you want to find your true pathway.
If you’re trying to get back to what we had before Covid, it’s not going to happen. So much in our lives is changing – and will continue to change as the story evolves.
It’s important to develop ways of centering yourself and bringing yourself back to the current moment.
The idea is to minimize your fear and wait to see what shows up - and there will be some scary moments as we move towards the new reality.
How willing are you to believe that what’s happening now is to your advantage?
Are you prepared to die? If you take care of all the details, then you can let go of some of your fear of death.
If you are afraid of getting Covid or afraid of dying, then you need to do something about it so the fear doesn’t take up a whole lot of your thinking time.
Fear of not having enough money is actually the fear of dying.
I talk about how to deal with the fear of running out of money.
To be peaceful all the time, there are certain skills you have to develop.
Links
If you would like some guidance about how you can reach a point of inner peace, set up an appointment to talk to me by clicking here.
Lisa L. Levy is the bestselling author of Future Proofing Cubed and Founder and CEO of Lcubed Consulting, a business that helps organizations elevate through strategic goal achievement. She and her team teach the practice of rapid adaptive transformation to notable global, multi-billion-dollar clients.
Lisa is a frequent guest expert on multiple media outlets and speaker at business executive conferences. On her rare days off, she enjoys spending time at her home in Arizona with her family and hound dogs.
Highlights
Lisa talks about how her company switched from working with very large companies to smaller companies.
The Adaptive Transformation Framework helps smaller businesses grow.
Lisa started working in corporate but realized she needed to be more creative and moved towards entrepreneurship.
Her experience in corporate helped create the system she uses.
Large corporations are only 10% of the businesses in the US.
The system that Lisa uses engages everyone within the organization and helps them adapt to change.
Lisa explains how the system she uses works with her mostly left-brain clients, but she is aware of the necessity of developing right-brain skills that lead to creativity and innovation.
Future Proofing Cubed – Lisa’s book – came to be during the pandemic when businesses had to adapt to new ways of doing things. By using the Adaptive Transformation Framework, business leaders can better adapt to change and thrive during difficult times.
Lisa is developing her ability to use emotions as part of business building.
You can teach people business skills, but their attitude and how they show up is also important.
Lisa has a core group of partners she works with so that she can bring in expertise from all fields to her clients.
We talk about the importance of collaboration.
When you open to other people, you expand yourself and become stronger.
Links
Lisa’s site
Future Proofing Cubed: The Definitive Guide to Improving Productivity, Refining Processes, and Bolstering Profitability
The C-Suite Network
After a successful career as an I.T. consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Aprille Janes removed her “corporate suit” to follow a more creative path. Today she lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, painting and teaching in her studio overlooking the Bay of Fundy.
Highlights
Aprille shares the Canadian view of what’s happening now in the United States.
When Aprille left corporate, she and her husband were willing to take a chance and let their future unfold. She shares how they dealt with the uncertainty and talks about the synchronistic things that happened.
The process Aprille went through learning to trust her inner direction.
Skill and intuition have to be combined to develop inspired creation.
Aprille’s path has been one of exploration without having a definite end in mind.
We all have pain, we just choose whether we suffer.
Living a quiet, peaceful life, couldn’t have happened for Aprille when she was younger.
We need the contrast between light and dark.
Does it take time – and years of experience – to reach a point of acceptance?
The Covid pause is allowing us to reevaluate what’s important to us.
This is a time of choice – which side do you want to be on?
The chaos of the “insurrection” was a definite wake-up call for a lot of people.
Most of the people outside of the United States who are watching what’s going on are praying that democracy stands.
People are ready to be heard.
Fear of the unknown will paralyze us; trust lets us keep going.
We talk about the value of gratitude. What can you be thankful for today?
A lot of the conflict we’re seeing now is caused, in part, by feelings of powerlessness. Seeing that we have choices as to how we respond gives us back our power.
Links
Aprille’s site
An interview with Aprille after she moved to Nova Scotia
Aprille’s Facebook Page
David M. Howitt is the founder & CEO of Meriwether Group and author of Heed Your Call is an inspiring thought leader and accomplished entrepreneur. David has over twenty years of experience providing financial, strategic, and brand counseling to early stage, and Fortune 100 companies. He has the unique ability to integrate vision and growth strategies with mission and purpose.
Highlights
David is a big fan of Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey.
As a young boy, David had the urge to explore beyond the limited world he knew but avoided following that urge to explore. After getting married, having children, and working for years as an attorney, he knew he had to move in a new direction.
The business owners that David works with are able to integrate their spiritual lives with their business. He talks about the power of and rather than the power of or.
We talk about what it is that allows one person to move out of the “abyss” and move forward rather than staying stuck where they have been.
When you let go of what you think you should be and discover who must be that’s when synchronicity can happen and unexpected doors will open for you.
When he interviewed hospice workers, the number one regret that they heard from people on their deathbed was that they lived the life that other people wanted them to live.
There is a paradigm shift happening where younger people are beginning to understand that they don’t have to suffer to be considered a productive member of society. They are more interested in experiences than acquiring more things.
Sometimes we have to follow the wrong path to discern what the right path for us is.
We repair the world by following the “breath of God” that resides within us.
The question is, “How do we create the world that we really want?”
David talks about how the Meriwether Group helps people discover how they can become co-creators of their perfect life and lead from a place of intentionality.
We are now seeing the integration of Eastern and Western philosophy, of left brain and right brain, of artistry and analytics and that the magic happens with the integration of the ashram and the boardroom.
The beauty is in letting go.
Links:
David’s Site www.meriwethergroup.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/meriwethergroup
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-howitt-09306a59/
This past Sunday, I gave a talk at The Celebration, the spiritual group I belong to and thought you might like to hear it. I’ve been interested in the idea of synchronicity for a long time and I shared some of my thoughts about it in this episode.
If you have stories about your experience with synchronicity, I’d love to hear about them. You can email them to Joan at ProsperityPlace.com.
I recently woke up with the word “truth” sounding loudly in my mind which led me to think about truth – a lot – and how I might talk about it on a podcast episode. Because we have been going through a period of a lot of not truth I’ve been pondering what we miss when we don’t tell the truth. I discuss it in this episode.
Highlights
I ask, “Why the advantage of telling the truth or the truth of you?”
Years ago, I committed to tell the truth all the time. It is really difficult.
People often exaggerate in order to make a better impression, which makes it difficult to tell if they’re telling the truth or not.
I talk about all the claims made in commercials that I perceive is not being true.
We’re becoming adapted to alternative realities and “alternative truth”.
In order to connect to your truth, you have to develop a certain amount of intuition.
To develop self-awareness, you need to be able to learn to travel into the depths of yourself.
We sometimes think that people who display a lot of self-confidence no more than we do.
As children, we often suppressed ourselves because it appeared to be safer.
Every time you adjust your truth, you're slowing down the process of finding out who you are becoming.
Humans are complicated, and finding our own path is complicated because we have to overcome a lot of the messages we got as children.
We tend to not honestly express our emotions.
I talk about the nuances that are sometimes necessary when telling the truth.
What are the things that you think about but never talk to other people about?
What is it that separates you from other people that you never talk about?
I talk about my invisible disability and how I have kept it hidden. But I now see that I’m actually holding myself back by doing this.
Whatever you are thinking is limiting you may be what you’re identifying as a disability.
If you have a physical disability, that’s not something that’s wrong with you, it’s just something you have to deal with.
Each of us is separate, unique, and valuable. You can’t understand your value to the greater society, if you’re thinking that you’re less-than.
What is it about you that you consider something that holds you back? That would be what you perceive to be your disability. That is the truth of you and your life doesn’t have to be diminished because of it.
The truth of you shall set you free.
There’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing. You just have habitual thoughts beliefs and emotions that may need to change. And you can do that.
Links
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
My course, Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom, will show you how to create new habits.
Dr. Gary McGrath’s mission is to make Good Bosses into Great Leaders with Compassionate Accountability. His company is STATARIUS which is Latin for ‘to stand firm’ where he and his team of Statarians DEVELOP Leadership - they don’t just train leaders.
He served our country as an officer in the United States Army where he commanded 102 soldiers at the age of 25. He is the author of two books, a Certified Speaking Professional with the National Speakers Association, and a meditation instructor. After living in nine states and two foreign countries, Dr. Gary has settled in Raleigh, NC.
Highlights
Gary shares his journey to learning about emotional intelligence.
The only two characteristics of leadership effectiveness are emotional intelligence and cognitive judgment.
In business, we often don’t understand the importance of emotions and leadership.
Four parts of emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
Emotional intelligence means being able to tell – in the moment – how you are feeling and how someone you’re talking to is feeling.
Without emotional intelligence, you are trying to build your business as a manager, not a leader.
Gary defines leadership.
Typically, men have low self-awareness and high self-management. Women tend to have high self-awareness. Gary explains the brain science behind this phenomenon.
If a man tells a woman, “you’re being too emotional”, he is actually insulting her biology.
Men basically have two emotions – happy and pissed.
85% of performance problems at work are about problems outside of work. Our emotional state at work is impacted by everything in our life.
The only way we can truly show someone we care is by understanding their emotions.
Emotional intelligence is often thought of as a soft skill, but it is not. It’s hard.
Every decision that you make is an emotional one.
Links
Dr. Gary on LinkedIn
Dr. Gary’s Site
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – by Travis Bradberry and Jean Graves
When most podcasters talk about money and emotions, they talk about how people feel about their money. My approach is quite different in that I look at the emotions you are acting out through your money. In this episode, I talk about how what you feel when dealing with money is never about money – and what it is about.
Highlights
You can use your money feelings to understand your emotional makeup.
If you are afraid of running out of money, that indicates that you are feeling alone.
If you think you need more money, you are saying that you need more people because money is always attached to people.
Feeling like there’s never enough means that you feel like not enough.
Fear of losing what you have is often the result of abandonment stories.
The idea is to recognize the feeling and express it.
When you hear yourself thinking that you need more money, ask yourself, “What am I feeling?”
How you were brought up – either in poverty or wealth – will affect your money emotions.
If you let yourself deal with the feelings, you aren’t going to have to repeat the dramas.
Learning how to manage cash flow can mollify financial fears.
When you learn how to put off purchases, you can manage your money better.
I talk about learning how to delay gratification.
If you learn how to manage your need for gratification and your dopamine signals that you need more, you can feel better about yourself and your money.
You can use the Covid pause to retrain your emotional responses.
Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have.
This is a good time to learn to recognize and deal with your emotions.
Links
Check out my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom
Want to talk to me? Send an email to Joan@ProsperityPlace.com or fill out the form at https://ProsperityPlace.com/call
The new year is soon to be upon us. In this episode, I ask you to decide what choices you want to make in the new year as to who you want to be and what you want to be doing. What changes do you want to make?
Highlights
We have no idea what our lives or our world are going to look like in the coming year.
There’s going to be a new normal, but we have no idea what normal is going to look like.
Covid has given us the opportunity of reevaluating everything in our life. Do we really want to go back to what was, or do we want to create something new that is more satisfying?
It’s hard to set goals when you have no idea what the future is going to look like. I suggest that instead of setting doing goals that you set feeling goals.
The one thing that you have control over and the power to change is your internal environment.
What we are all going through, provides us with the opportunity to ask who we want to be and what we want to change. Change is happening whether you wanted to or not.
What is it that you can do to create some certainty for yourself?
It is impossible to create specific goals when you have no idea what the external environment is going to be.
I’m going to ask you – if you’re willing – to examine your internal environment and decide what choices for change you want to make in the new year.
This is the time for choice. You are where you are because of the choices you have made and now you can make different choices that will allow you to move in a different direction.
Every choice that you make has an emotional component.
We have been given the opportunity, at this juncture in time, to examine our lives and make new choices.
What will it take for you to be the best version of yourself today?
If we all make changes together, it will affect the entire world.
Links
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Jan Janzen has been a serial entrepreneur for 40 years. She bought a franchise at just 19 years of age and since then has worked in a wide variety of industries from being president of a network marketing company to having three businesses
in the automotive field to having a 6-figures healing practice. Jan's focus is helping women entrepreneurs fall in love with the sales process so they can earn the money they need in their businesses so they can take care of themselves and make the difference they are here to make in the world.
Highlights
Jan shares her unusual background in sales as a Jehovah's Witness where she learned how to accept rejection.
Leaders often feel l like outsiders, which can be an asset. They also have to be their own person.
We talk about how Jan presents the idea of sales to people who might be repulsed by the idea of selling.
Jan explains why she doesn’t use high-testosterone words like prospect, close, or filling the pipeline.
Women are usually really good at sales and outsell men by 11%, even though they break many of the rules.
Women entrepreneurs outsell men, but they earn less because they often under-price their services.
Jan talks about money mindset and the assessment she uses to measure where a person is vis-à-vis money. She explains the idea of money archetypes.
A person’s genetic coding can also affect financial behaviors.
Changing your money mindset requires more than learning financial skills. The inner work has to be done.
I asked Jan how she helps people overcome their money mindset blocks.
Women often don’t see the value that they bring. Jan explains how she teaches women to overcome this.
Jan talks about dealing with the objection, “I can’t afford it” and how to discover if a potential client is a good fit for you.
People often rush through a sales conversation because they don’t like doing it.
There are various techniques that Jan uses to help people gain the confidence needed in order to sell.
Your internal habits and self-concept can affect your ability to sell. We talk about the elements that can come into play.
Our tribal programming can keep us from reaching our next income level.
Links
Take Jan’s free assessment to discover your money archetype www.8MoneyArchetypes.com
Jan’s Site: www.selllikeaqueen.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/janjanzen100
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janjanzen
In this episode, I talk about the feelings stimulated by the election in the US. Lots of people are angry, which can cause all sorts of physical problems. We all have a choice as to how we want to feel and who we want to be.
Highlights
If you are angry about the election, you have probably been angry all of your life – both individually and as a group.
Ongoing anger will negatively affect your health.
Heart attacks are often related to adrenaline responses.
Many people are motivated by anger – which is not healthy.
Do you want to be on the side of tension or release?
Constant tension leads to physical problems.
Who do you want to be and how do want your health to be?
It’s a whole lot more comfortable to be on the peaceful side of life.
Choosing to be a peaceful person will make your life more comfortable.
Let’s connect through the light, not the darkness.
You have a choice as to how you want to live your life and how you want to feel. You are not the victim of circumstances.
Links
Episode about Empathetic Detachment
Chad E Cooper, Author of Time Isn’t the Problem: Four Strategies to Transform Stress Into Success, leads his life by example. He retired at 35 and has since been a successful coach working with CEO’s, professional athletes, and people in everyday walks of life.
He inspires others to grab their dreams and execute them with passion. Chad teaches people to move out of a life of fear, boredom, frustration, and exhaustion and live a life where dreams become a Legendary Lifestyle and where time can serve them!
Highlights
Chad tells us how his childhood experience stimulated his ambitions. He was one of 10 children.
Lessons learned in the service and in business helped him see that we have choices. Do we want to be a victim or victor?
I don’t need your approval to recognize my self-worth.
Discipline is important but so is the strength of your purpose. We talk about how to find your purpose.
You have to have the courage to let go of what works for you and upgrade your identity.
Do you know how you want to feel?
We undervalue understanding our/mankind’s history.
Are you comfortable being uncomfortable?
During the covid experience we have choices as to how we are going to deal with it.
Chad tells us to examine our emotions in order to find your purpose.
Social media is harmful for our mental health.
Somewhere Chad learned the difference between an explanation and an excuse.
Most people don’t know how to access the subtle difference in emotions.
If you can recognize that you are part of the problem, you can find solutions.
Chad’s book is a collection of things you aren’t taught in school but are necessary for success.
Coronavirus taught us how to be ok with silence.
Links
Chad’s book: Time Isn’t the Problem
Chad’s site where you can download a free audio of his book- www.ChadECooper.com
Paul O’Brien is an entrepreneurial success story. He invented the category of divination software and created the world’s largest astrology and divination e-commerce business. He is also a philosopher, sought-after advisor, interview subject, and speaker, as well as the author of the award-winning book Intuitive Intelligence,
and the Visionary I Ching app for smartphones. His latest release is the Visionary I Ching card deck. As Executive Director of the Divination Foundation for over 30 years, Paul has hosted Pathways radio in Portland, Oregon, an interview program focused on personal and cultural transformation (now podcast at Divination.com).
Highlights
Synchronicity is all about perfect timing – being at the right place at the right time. Paul explains and relates it to intuition.
The mastery is being able to make synchronicity happen using tools such as the I Ching.
Become aware of when synchronicity happens.
Paul tells a wonderful story about how synchronicity played a part in his starting his successful business.
Paul believes that everything happens for a reason.
Fear interferes with synchronicity.
It’s important to be led by your heart.
When money isn’t the focus, you have more opportunities to learn about yourself.
Paul tells more stories about how synchronicity played a part in finding a perfect house and getting the perfect domains.
The I Ching doesn’t care what you want to hear.
The advantage of using the I Ching is that allows you to feel more connected to all that is.
We talk about the hexagram Youthful Folly.
The I Ching will give you one of three pieces of advice – advance, retreat, or chill out.
Paul has used the I Ching whenever he has had a major decision to make.
Links
Paul’s website
The Visionary I Ching mobile app
Paul O'Brien’s book: Intuitive Intelligence: Make Life-Changing Decisions with Perfect Timing
Paul O'Brien's Facebook Page
Humans have an ingrained need to feel safe, which is difficult in the current environment. In this episode, I offer suggestions to help you create a habit of feeling safe.
Highlights
It’s pretty hard to feel safe when your world seems to be falling apart.
Feeling safe is a matter of brain training.
Safe is a feeling, not a situation.
When I became aware of not feeling safe in certain situations I decided to teach myself to feel safe.
First, have you ever felt safe?
Sit still and do nothing and notice the busyness in your mind and make a decision that you will teach yourself to feel safe.
Entrepreneurship often feels unsafe.
Our brains are wired to always be looking for danger.
It helps to assess the situation and re-perceive the situation.
Out in nature is a good place to practice feeling safe.
After you assess a situation, take a deep breath and determine what action you need to take, if any.
I did a blog post about the value of imagining a positive future. Read it here.
We will go through a difficult time as we transition out of COVID-19 into the future.
Look inside your body and notice when you feel contracted.
If you are worried about money, I offer some suggestions for getting beyond that.
You can’t make good decisions when you are worried.
No one else can help you feel safe. It’s a habit you have to develop.
Links
The Course: Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs
The Holistic Prosperity Facebook Group
Dr. Jessica Hehmeyer is a functional medicine practitioner and founder of Well Empowered where she uses data-driven natural medicine to help her clients resolve health problems and maintain health. Her singular focus is helping people sustain the health and vitality needed to bring their gifts fully to this world.
Dr. Hehmeyer holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, a Doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine, and a BA from UCLA. She is an Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner as well as a certified Yoga Instructor, Master Level Certified SuperSlow High Intensity Strength Trainer.
Highlights
Jessica had a serious problem maintaining her weight which led her on the path to learning about alternative protocols.
People aren’t trained to know that there are options to the traditional medical system.
Medical practices are starting to shift and doctors are starting to recommend people to natural medicine practitioners.
Most illness is related to lifestyle choices.
Data driven natural medicine uses a lot of tests to determine a course of action for a patient.
We talk about the necessity of addressing psychological elements that affect people’s eating habits. Jessica helps people recognize their emotional triggers.
There are a lot of challenges to making functional medicine available to large numbers of people.
Jessica shares a lot of her knowledge via webinars and social media.
Meditation can help you find what’s right for you.
When people identify their why, it’s easier to make a decision to heal.
Jessica works mostly with people who have weight issues.
Links
Jessica’s site: www.WellEmpowered.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/YouWellEmpowered/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicahehmeyer
I recently saw a short video on LinkedIn that talked about visualization and it pushed some buttons for me. In this episode, I talk about my long experience with visualizations and what you can expect if you are using them as a technique for getting what you want.
Highlights
I share how I tried to use visualizations that didn’t work. Understandably.
There are times when visualizations do work.
What you are visualizing has to be in tune with your true path in life.
I have faith that I’ll be led to what I need.
Results with affirmations and visualizations will probably take longer than you want. You can’t control time.
Learning how to wait is a useful skill to develop. I share a technique for doing this.
Being in a hurry doesn’t work. You have to learn to deal with time.
I discuss trying to “manifest” money, which involves other people’s behaviors.
If you have a disappointment habit, your visualizations probably won’t work.
You have to teach yourself how to feel satisfied—and safe.
It’s important to get your feelings in the right place.
Learning to manage money and cash flow is important if you want to create more money.
I trust that whatever I’m going through is what I need to become who I’m becoming.
The act of creating your life stories is probably going to take longer than you think. So you have to learn to wait.
Links
It’s Never about Money podcast episode
Be Set Free Fast Basics download
Dr. Marina Bruni trains her students to simultaneously shift from right-brain to left-brain and from left-brain to right-brain strategies. A dual-qualified lawyer and coach, she is a featured speaker in the sequel to The Secret, How Thoughts Become Things.
As a Master of Neuro-Linguistic and Energy, Dr. Marina Bruni teaches how to activate your brain to tap into your energetic DNA, create more powerful choices, and design the outcome you want. She has shared stages with world-class speakers such as Sharon Lechter, Les Brown, and Jack Canfield to name a few.
Highlights
Marina discusses what she means by “energetic DNA” and why knowing about it is important.
I ask how she defines prosperity and abundance because that is one of the main outcomes she is promoting.
Being wealthy and being rich are two different things.
Make sure that your definition of success is what you really want.
How can a person determine what they want and how can they find their place of comfort in this chaotic world?
Most people want to fit in, which makes it difficult for them to see things from a different perspective.
Each of us attracts people who can best benefit from what we have to share.
Coaches often want to work with people who mirror who they are.
I ask how each of us determines our energetic DNA and if it changes over the years.
We talk about how each of us has our own truth.
The energetic DNA is not the same as our genetic DNA.
When we make choices that are out of tune with our energetic DNA, it creates some blocks and negative patterns which make it difficult to tap into our own energetic qualities.
Marina says that the only way to discover our energetic DNA is to have Marina do a reading. She explains what happens during one of her readings.
Links
Prosperity Place
Download Marina’s gift – How to Design Your Morning Energetic Blueprint
Download Be Set Free Fast Basics
If you think you need more money, in reality, you need more people because money always comes from people. Because aloneness is one of the main emotions acted out through money. In this episode, I discuss how building a robust network can help overcome feelings of aloneness.
Highlights
Creating a network can be difficult because it means a change in behaviors.
In business, you can be part of multiple networks.
A business network can allow you to create a team of other professionals that you can use with your clients.
I talk about the different networks I belong to.
It takes time to adjust to the pace of a new network you are joining
The organizations I belong to function on the give to get principles.
If you are functioning by yourself, it’s difficult to build a successful business.
I talk about the value of having a podcast and using social media to form different types of connections.
The internet provides a lot of opportunities for connection, but you have to reach out and nurture relationships.
The question is, how can you increase your network?
I talk about some of the networking opportunities during the pandemic.
Connection is one of the keys to business success.
Try different groups in order to find one that might work for you.
In this day and age, we can’t do things alone.
Links
The C-Suite Network – www.c-suitenetwork.com
Judy Robinette Interview about Networking
Make an appointment to talk to Joan here
Dawson Church, Ph.D., is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit: The Genie in Your Genes, Mind to Matter, and his latest, Bliss Brain which demonstrates that peak mental states rapidly remodel the brain for happiness.
Dawson has conducted dozens of clinical trials and founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to promote groundbreaking new treatments. He shares how to apply the breakthroughs of energy psychology to health and personal performance through EFTUniverse.com, one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web.
Highlights
Many people are now open to expanding into new levels of consciousness.
Studies have been done to document the brain-wave states that mystics reach via meditation.
Dawson talks about losing his home in 2017 during the California fires and explains how people can use life’s tragedies to lead to Post Traumatic Growth.
It takes a major crisis in a person’s life that leads them to make changes. He shares what led him to start meditating.
Even a novice can be trained to reach the brain states of Zen masters.
When people raise their brain states are they led to make other changes in their life?
Dawson differentiates between seekers and finders.
Childhood trauma has to be healed before you reach the highest states.
When you are committed to meditation practice, synchronicity increases.
People who are in sync with themselves become in sync with planetary pulses.
If you are a resilient person, you see life’s difficulties from a solution-oriented point of view.
People who can sustain a flow state are more productive than others.
You become an agent for positive change when you are able to reach higher states of consciousness.
Links
More about the book Bliss Brain: www.BlissBrain.com
Dawson’s main site: www.EFTUniverse.com
The Tapping Place: a directory of EFT practitioners
In this episode, Bob Miglani explains how chaos is opportunity in disguise. Bob is a keynote speaker, bestselling author, and Founder of Embrace the Chaos, an Experiential Change Company. He helps people and organizations change, transform and grow. Bob was born in poverty in India and grew up in the U.S. helping his family run their successful Dairy Queen franchise for 25 years. Bob had a successful 23-year corporate career in New York. While going through massive change in his job, Bob was able to adapt and reinvent himself to grow. His journey became the subject of his Washington Post bestselling book called Embrace the Chaos, inspiring others on how to embrace change in their job, career, business, and life. Today, Bob helps teams adapt to the post-pandemic world.
Highlights
Bob talks about how and why he got interested in embracing the chaos.
You can’t control the chaos, so let go of the idea of controlling it.
It’s important to learn how to deal with uncertainty. You can do this by creating some certainty for yourself.
Instead of thinking of the worst that can happen, set a goal for yourself in the future that you can focus on.
This is a good time to reinvent yourself and think about starting a business.
We talk about how people can overcome their fear of the future.
The chaos won’t go away, but you can control it better by controlling yourself.
So much of what we do is habitual. Bob talks about breaking old patterns.
Meditation can help you recognize the patterns.
We talk about letting go and trusting that something will show up.
To move forward, it helps to let go of the past.
Opportunities can only come to an open hand.
If you wait for perfection, you’ll get nowhere in life.
Chaos is opportunity in disguise.
Links
Bob’s site: www.EmbraceTheChaos.com
Bob’s book: Embrace the Chaos
Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmiglani/
Bob’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bobmiglani/
In this episode, I share my experience going through sepsis, a potentially fatal condition that I obviously survived. The experience has led me to do a lot of thinking about the frailties of our medical system and I share some of my thoughts with you.
Highlights
I share the harrowing experience I went through when I thought I had COVID-19, but it turned out I had sepsis.
I’ve been thinking a lot about our medical system and its shortcomings and how people make unhealthy decisions for themselves.
We haven’t taught people that they have control of their health.
Your body is a complex machine that needs certain kinds of fuel. The wrong fuel will cause symptoms.
Each body has different needs.
We put too much faith in the opinions of medical doctors. It’s important to learn how to communicate with your body.
There are good practitioners within the allopathic system who are open and willing to try alternatives. The idea of integrative medicine that combines different systems is what makes sense to me.
If you’d like to share your thoughts with me on this topic, you can write to me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
Mike Skrypnek is a top selling author, international speaker and transformational business coach. His latest book, “Entrepreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life”, is the guide for mid-career business owners seeking a better business, a great life and even bigger impact. Mike has conducted hundreds of keynote presentations and workshops to inspire and train thousands of owners, C-Suite executives, professional advisors and charitable organizations in Canada and the United States. His Grow Get Give philosophy helps guide impact-minded owners build great businesses that give them the life they want to live.
Highlights
For people who have wanted to leave their jobs, is this a good time to start a new business?
Mike asked himself, “Am I living my passion every day?”
We talk about how one finds one’s passion.
Ask what am I good at that could be the basis for a business and take one step forward at a time. Get help and input from others.
Break everything down to the simple things that you have to learn and tackle one at a time.
Engaging people in an authentic way is the basis of sales.
We talk about establishing relationships using Zoom rather than in person.
Mike has looked deeply into the issue of trust, which is more about us than the person who is trying to gain our trust.
We can develop trust in business relationships if we agree on the future goal, a common outcome, and the rules of the game.
There is a scarcity mindset happening now rather than their normal abundance mindset.
High end earners rarely give referrals to others.
We talk about approaching high-end clients.
Mike shares his personal challenge to not sound promotional when talking to people. He uses writing books to put forth his genuine desire to help others.
After you figure out your why, identify your ideal customer and interview them about themselves and what they want. Learn the language of your ideal customers.
If you don’t lead by serving, you aren’t leading.
Be patient, be serving, be compassionate.
This is one of the rare moments in history where everyone is experiencing similar emotions. This allows for more authentic discussions.
People are becoming tired of the chaos which Mike believes will lead us to a better place.
Links
Mike’s book: Enterpreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life
Mike’s site: www.GrowGetGive.com
In this episode I share some thoughts about what each of us can do to overcome feelings of aloneness and powerlessness that are affecting a lot of people during this difficult time.
Highlights
I’m trying to identify the emotions, both comfortable and uncomfortable, that I’m experiencing now.
Because I like to solve problems, not knowing how to help leads me to feel powerless.
I have no power to change what’s going on outside of me. I can only change what’s going on inside of me.
The people in power don’t understand what ordinary people have to go through.
What can each of us do – what actions can we take – to help lift the burden that so many are feeling.
Although there’s a lot of aloneness going on, we have the opportunity to reach out and connect to others.
It’s important to reach out to others and be authentic about how you are feeling and what you are dealing with.
If we share our feelings with others, both up and down, we can feel more whole.
Who might you reach out to just to ask How are you doing?
How can you re-perceive the current situation?
We need to connect to and support others.
We have to look beyond the past and into the future. And, you have the right to imagine a positive future.
Try to imagine positive solutions and results of what has been happening.
How can you look into the future and see a positive story?
Links
Information about the Taos Pueblo
Holistic Prosperity Facebook Group
Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. His book It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (published by Viking/Penguin) is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in psychology and has been translated into 19 languages. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.
Highlights
Mark explains what Family Trauma is.
When trauma is unresolved it can pass on to future generations.
Many of us live with medical mysteries that need deeper examination.
Our sense of not having enough can hark back to not getting enough attention from our mother in early life.
If the mother has a previous difficult pregnancy or miscarriage, or any difficult life experience during pregnancy, that will affect the child’s experience as a fetus.
Instead of blaming your parents because you are, in some way, screwed up, find out what trauma they experienced that allowed them to treat you the way they did.
There’s a long list of questions about their parents that Mark asks his clients.
Although early memories may not be available to us, they still affect us.
By understanding what your parents went through, it makes it easier to forgive your parents. We can then let go of whatever anger we are holding on to.
Mark helps people get out of the stress response so they can have new, more pleasant experiences and build new neural pathways while overcoming the stress response.
Mark mentions some of the techniques he uses and how he helps people become “trauma detectives”.
Trauma in our family history can determine how success does or does not flow to us.
Because of Covid, we have the chance to look inside and work through past traumas.
What’s your worst fear? It time to look at this.
When traumas are not talked about, that’s what leads to repeating the pattern.
Links
Mark’s Book: It Didn’t Start with You
Mark’s Site – www.MarkWolynn.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MarkWolynn/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwolynn/
In this episode, I talk about the importance of getting in touch with your emotions and how you have choices about how you want to respond to life experiences. I also talk about the connection between emotions and health.
Highlights
We can decide to stay in fear or to learn how to mollify our fear.
People are beginning to see that there is more to us and our world than what is obvious in our three-dimensional world.
If we could tap into our existence outside of three-dimensional reality, we will feel more comfortable and connected.
Emotions affect your life stories and your health. I talk about the connection between emotions and health.
The USA is not a healthy nation and it’s partially because we haven’t learned how to express our emotions.
I talk about the feelings of being unheard, unseen, and unappreciated. These emotions start in early childhood.
Chronic disease is often caused by unexpressed emotions.
Doctors often don’t understand the emotional connection to disease.
Your unique combination of emotions is the song you sing.
There’s a huge amount of fear now because of the uncertainty.
You can’t just stop fear. You have to do something else instead.
You don’t have control of the virus, but you do have control of your behavior.
Our choices need to go beyond our own self-interest.
Allowing myself to feel my feelings helps me feel more connected
We are all more powerful than we realize.
Links
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
The Fisher-Wallace Stimulator
Interview with Chip Fisher
Jen Coken is the executive coach for Badass Boss Ladies who are ready to smash obstacles, jump over hurdles, and grab snarling dogs by the ears. For twenty years she's been beating down BS with a velvet sledgehammer tasseled with humor. She is also an international speaker and best-selling author. When she isn't doing all of that, you can find her performing stand-up comedy or eating Nutella by the spoonful in the nearest grocery aisle.
Highlights
Jen tells us how her comedy emerged from experiences as a child.
Jen’s focus is on helping people deal with what’s called Imposter Syndrome.
We talk about Imposter Syndrome – what it is and how it presents itself.
Women often learn to be number two, although this wasn’t Jen’s experience.
Jen’s mission is to empower others to fulfill their missions.
The problem comes from comparing ourselves to others. Also, working all of the time (Superwomen or Superman complex)
Because people with the syndrome often think they don’t belong, they are constantly trying to overcompensate.
Jen talks about the different manifestations of imposter syndrome and the techniques she uses to help people deal with imposter syndrome.
Calling it imposter syndrome allows us to better understand why we do what we do so we can deal with it.
Rather than calling it a syndrome, call it a phenomenon. That way, you aren’t saying there’s something wrong with you.
Feeling like an imposter happens any time you doubt yourself.
Jen tells us how to recognize the reactive emotions that show up and what triggered those emotions.
She also discusses how she helps people develop new habitual responses.
Links
Go to www.jencokenquiz.com to take a quiz to find out if you have a problem with imposter syndrome.
Valerie Young’s book: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Imposter Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
Meagan Fettes is an unusual young woman who, at an early age, learned profound lessons from her grandmother. In this episode, she shares some of what she learned. Meagan is a Best Selling author, Speaker, Creator of RISE Yoga School, RISE Entrepreneur Center and Entrepreneur Fit and featured thought leader in the movie How Thoughts Become Things. Meagan is known for teaching world-wide tools that Entrepreneurs can use to access greater abundance and success in their lives.
Highlights
Meagan shares her interesting and unusual journey and her relationship with her grandmother that taught her the basis of the principles she teaches today.
What she learned caused her to feel like an outsider, which drove her to drugs and alcohol.
It’s sometimes the darkest moments that lead us to our truth.
Meagan teaches yoga teachers how to teach yoga.
Yoga allows you to build self-awareness and body-awareness.
People often focus on things they have no control of.
Stillness actually creates momentum.
People are afraid to sit still because of fear and lack of trust.
After Meagan’s grandfather had a near death experience, his tales of what he saw on the other side set her grandmother off on an unusual self-development path many years before it was popular.
We talk about the spaces in between that we often ignore.
Meagan shares how she starts people moving towards awareness.
I ask Meagan if she has hope for the future.
The current COVID-19 situation is bringing up a lot of emotions that people need to deal with.
We are all of a choice point.
People are afraid to feel their pain because they’re afraid they will never get rid of it.
Define how you want to feel.
Links
Megan’s site: www.MeaganFettes.com
Aaron McCormick was raised in poverty on the south side of Chicago by a single mother with no education and a father who was likely an undiagnosed bipolar schizophrenic. Tightly controlled by an extreme fundamentalist religion that allowed no personal freedom, Aaron ultimately defied expectations of failure. In his early twenties, despite being a minority with no college degree Aaron became a leading seven-figure-earning corporate sales executive and entrepreneur who earned an MBA. How he managed to rise above his difficult beginnings is unveiled in his book Unbounded - Journey to Your Within where he shares suggestions with the reader for following an inner path to an unbounded life.
Highlights
I ask Aaron what he thinks it was that allowed him to rise above his beginnings.
People are born with certain gifts. The task is to have the gifts identified and nurtured.
Problem-solving skills come from being more introspective and asking the why question.
Aaron talks about how to find your Why.
What you’ve gone through is what has led you to where you are. Appreciate your journey.
Current events are emotionally triggering, causing fear and anxiety. Because a lot of distractions have been removed, we get to look within and deal with our own darkness and get beyond the fear.
Aaron talks about how humanity's group darkness of the soul will lead to positive changes.
Aaron shares how people can get past money fears.
I ask Aaron if he thinks we are going to experience real change regarding the treatment of minorities.
Growing up, Aaron did not have anger about how blacks were treated. He sees that if you expect to be treated unfairly, you will be.
Loving yourself as you are allows you to assume others will also treat you well.
Everything about you is exactly as it should be.
Links
Aaron’s site: www.AaronMcCormick.com
Instagram: @theaaronmccormick
In today’s episode, I talk about why, if you want to move forward, it’s important to create space for you to grow and expand as a person and in business. I share the process I’ve been going through and make some suggestions.
Highlights
I share about the process I have been going through and how wonderful it feels.
Feels like I’m moving into something new.
Now, when I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep, instead of processing feelings, I’m having wonderful memories from childhood.
To let go so you can experience freedom, you have to take action internally and externally so you can learn to feel free.
What are the beliefs that you are holding on to such as success requires that you work hard?
Changing the software I’ve been using for my marketing is helping me see my business from a new point of view.
The Synchronicity Marketing Method is where you listen to your intuition and have the faith that everything you need will show up.
I’ve also been letting go of behavior that hasn’t been serving me, such as making impulsive decisions.
Making big changes takes a major commitment to yourself.
No matter how much you let go, there’s always more.
Part of letting go is not having to know what comes next.
Our lives are just a series of choices.
When you do something that stretches you, and you have to let go of the fear.
Do something that you think you can’t do.
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David Wood is a high-performance coach for executives, entrepreneurs, and teams and the author of “Get Paid For Who You Are.” He was nominated to the Transformational Leadership Council alongside such thought leaders as Don Miguel Ruiz, John Gray, and Marianne Williamson. David believes the tough conversations we avoid are our doorways to confidence, success, and even love – in both work and life. In this episode, we talk about having tough conversations about money and race.
Highlights:
David tells us how he decided to focus on tough conversations when he worked in corporate and eventually learned about things like emotional intelligence and other personal growth techniques.
When conversations are looming, we tend to avoid them.
With the CARE model David uses, the first step is to ask, “What is your hope for this conversation, what is your fear?”
I ask David what keeps people from talking about money. I use an example of when a husband racks of credit card charges but is afraid to tell his wife. He shows us how to use the CARE model in this case.
There is often a fear of loss.
We spend time talking about difficult conversations about race relations.
David shares his position as a privileged white male and what he has to do in order to have the race conversation.
It’s only in the past few weeks that David has been developing awareness about what goes on for blacks.
David is trying to understand his own whiteness, privilege, and unconscious bias.
Links:
Get the CARE worksheet on David’s site: www.playforreal.life where there is also information about his coaching.
Bob Doyle is the facilitator of the "Wealth Beyond Reason" program and one of the featured teachers in the film and book "The Secret". Since 2002, his primary focus has been on teaching the practical implementation of Law of Attraction principles, and moving people past the blocks that keep them from living a life of purpose, passion, and true abundance. He is also part of the new film 'How Thoughts Become Things.'
Highlights
Our inability to express ourselves creatively is at the root of a lot of our problems.
After many of his attempts at a career failed, Bob became interested in metaphysics and the Law of Attraction and came to understand how our thoughts affect our outer results.
The most important thing is to determine who you want to be in the vision you hold.
Bob shares the fascinating story of how he became the teacher he is today.
A lot came out from The Secret about the Law of Attraction that complicated things and confused people.
Feelings cause the vibration that leads to creation.
We have choices as to how we want to feel, but we don’t know it.
During an upset, get into the observer mode.
We talk about “The Universe” and your relation to it.
Bob talks about what he went through to learn about taking care of his business and money.
Start by deciding who you want to be for now.
Pay attention to where you aren’t satisfied.
It takes time to go from where you are to where you want to be.
If you want to use the Law of Attraction for solving problems it will keep you stuck in the problem.
Having the belief that everything has to be hard keeps you stuck.
The most important thing is for you to decide who you want to be.
Links
Bob’s site: www.MeetBobDoyle.com
How Thoughts Become Things – The movie
I read an article this week in Neuroscience News about how Repetitive Negative Thinking (RNT) can lead to cognitive decline and the buildup of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s. In this episode, I talk about how to eliminate negative self-talk and thinking with brain training in order to prevent loss of cognitive function.
Highlights
A lot of physical and mental problems that come with aging can be prevented.
Although the study cited in Neuroscience News was done with people 55 and older, no matter what your age, it’s important to prevent problems as you age.
Negative thinking patterns are habits. I talk about how they start as protective measures and because the way brains are wired.
Hypervigilance is a common result of difficult childhood experiences.
The trick is to recognize your patterns and make a commitment to changing them.
Start by recognizing when you use the word should. Then take a deep breath and use a positive statement such as You’re doing fine.
Lead with love.
You can create a benevolent mother or father in your mind who reparents you.
What if what we imagine is going to happen is what is going to happen.
Meditation can help you recognize what’s going on in your mind.
The more positive my thinking becomes, the more positive things happen for me.
If you stop being angry, that doesn’t mean you have to stop working for positive
sociental change.
Anger can be transmuted into a positive force.
Links
The Adverse Childhood Experience Test
Tina Greenbaum works with executives who want to increase their performance level in high stakes, high-pressure situations. An Optimal Performance Specialist and Sports Psychology Consultant, Tina’s signature program, Mastery Under Pressure empowers leaders and their teams using cutting-edge technology, neuroscience, energy psychology, sports psychology, and current learning theory.
Highlights
Tina is a trained psychotherapist who intuitively knew that there was a better way of treating eating disorders.
She now focuses on anxiety, teaching people how to train the mind to overcome its reaction to perceived danger.
If you practice deep diaphragmatic breathing, when you are in a difficult situation, the deep breathing will happen naturally.
If you have a lot of worrying thoughts, ask, “Do my thoughts produce something useful for me?”
Stress comes when you seem to be out of control.
People under stress don’t see their options.
When you feel you don’t have control, ask, “What can I do now?”
When we live in the past or future, we need to get back to the present.
The issues of those in higher positions have different kinds of problems to solve and they still have to manage their anxiety.
Good leaders have faith they can find answers to their problems.
Resilient people have a specific language they use. Tina gives us examples.
People get used to their comfort zone and have to learn to tolerate the uncertainty that comes with change.
Tina offers suggestions for dealing with uncertainty.
The challenge is living in a state of curiosity.
It’s important to understand why you can’t get instant results. Tina explains.
Meditation quiets the amygdala and builds new connections to the prefrontal cortex, which helps you make better decisions.
If you want to change anything in your life, you have to change yourself.
The secret lies not in what you are doing but in who you are being.
Links:
Tina’s site: www.TinaGreenbaum.com
Douglas Vermeeren has personally interviewed business leaders and companies like Nike, Reebok, Fruit of the Loom, FedEx, American Airlines, United Airlines, Microsoft and many others to share their success secrets with you. ABC television and FOX Business refer to him as the modern-day Napoleon Hill. He is also the producer and director of three out of the top ten personal development movies ever made as well as the new film How Thoughts Become Things. Douglas has authored three books in the Guerrilla Marketing series. He is a regularly featured expert on FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CTV, CBC, and others.
Highlights
Doug tells us why he decided to interview business leaders and how doing so affected him.
Networking skills are really important and most people are playing a small game.
Ask people to introduce you to others.
Successful people like to help up-and-comers.
When you get an intuitive idea, you have to take action.
Success is doing what you love even when it’s hard.
We talk about the whole idea of thinking big.
Your net worth is not about money. What does your network value?
Your net worth does not equal your self-worth.
What we need more than motivation is momentum.
All habits become habits because they give us a return.
What “The Universe” means.
If you are in an expanding mode, you are being authentic.
We talk about what abundance is.
Money is never the root of money problems and does not guarantee happiness.
During the COVID episode, fear is keeping people from seeing possibilities.
All of our characteristics are being magnified during COVID.
There are a lot of changes that are being made in business and personal lives.
The movie How Thoughts Become Things tries to answer the “how” question.
Some people find value in negative experiences.
Top achievers don’t run from problems, they solve them.
Links
Go to www.HowThoughtsBecomeThings.com to see the movie.
Mariana Ruiz is a Certified Business Coach + Consultant, international best-selling author, and the Founder and CEO of The Impact Driven Entrepreneur - a company that is on a mission to transform coaches into Thriving Impactful CEOs with The Profitable Impact Formula Mythology. She uses her background in brain science, hospital administration, and 13 years of marketing, sales, and business experience to help you get results.
Highlights
Coaches often go into business without understanding how to manage teams or money
Working in ICU taking care of patients recovering from brain surgery and later as a transplant coordinator, Mariana had to experience death on a deep level which led to a spiritual focus.
Mariana’s love of challenge has driven her as a business owner to build a team and a bigger business.
Marketing to a person’s identity determines her marketing.
We talk about how she runs her business differently because of the coronavirus.
Business owners need to keep investing in their business and to keep marketing.
“We are here for you” has become a trite phrase used by corporations.
Mariana’s clients are dealing with both the fear and overwhelm they are dealing with because of the changes they are going through.
Understanding brain science along with awareness can help people deal with how they fear now.
Certainty is an illusion.
We talk about the internal changes, such as values, younger people are going to go through now.
Leaders often feel like outsiders. Mariana talks about how being an outsider has become an advantage.
Links
Intention + Action Coaching Group
Mariana’s site
For any one of a number of reasons, many children don’t get their needs met. As adults, this can translate into underearning, chronic dissatisfaction, or lack of accomplishment. In this episode, I share what I’ve learned after working with many people who have this issue.
Highlights
An issue I’ve seen play out with clients and the Intention + Action Coaching Group that I lead.
The situation doesn’t create the feeling, the feelings create the situation. I explain
I talk about the various situations where young children don’t get their needs met.
In the Intention + Action Coaching Group, we had a discussion about not getting your needs met and how it affects your ability to create financial wealth and related feelings.
During this period of time, it’s very easy to feel you aren’t getting your needs met.
How can you shift emotionally so you can perceive that your needs are being met?
Every individual situation is different.
This is the time to ask yourself, why do I need to get through this?
In order to get guided to your solution, it helps to get fear out of the way.
Thoughts, beliefs, and emotions are not separate. They are intertwined. And everyone’s combination of thoughts, beliefs, and emotions are different.
Everything in your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.
What’s going on now is the perfect opportunity for examining your inner world.
Links
The Fantasy Bond
Episode about Touch Deprivation
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
Loretta is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain and others. Her latest book is Tame Your Anxiety, which is all about the brain chemicals that cause uncomfortable feelings when you feel under threat – real or imagined. In this episode, she helps me understand an episode of financial fear I experienced, along with other topics.
Highlights
Loretta explains why she decided to write her newest book, Tame Your Anxiety.
Mental health is a skill that has to be developed.
We talk about how natural it is to compare yourself to others.
If what you’re doing doesn’t feel good, you can change your habits.
We build neural pathways from early experience, but you can build new neural pathways (thus new habits), but it’s more difficult as you grow older.
The urge to be special is universal.
Autopilot is natural because it forms in early childhood.
During early childhood and again during teenage years, patterns are set.
Loretta explains the difference between adrenaline and cortisol.
Cortisol lasts about an hour. It has a half-life of 20 minutes.
I share an experience I had where I felt a rush of financial fear and ask Loretta to explain it in terms of cortisol.
Children pick up the behaviors and emotions of their parents because of mirror neurons.
The goal when you have a cortisol response is to create an alternative pathway.
The idea is to take a step in a new direction immediately.
Loretta shares her 3-step processes for taming anxiety.
Fears are not necessarily logical or rational.
We talk about disappointment.
Loretta wants to talk about how to counteract the fear circuit, which she does in the part of the interview that posts next week.
Part 2 Highlights
Positive feelings come from the “happy” brain chemicals, which include dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins.
Dopamine is about the anticipation of reward. But it stops as soon as you get what you want. Then you keep going after what got you the dopamine hit.
Having big dreams gives you a dopamine hit as long as you see that the reward is possible. So, set small goals and continually reach them, and you can continually stimulate dopamine.
When people see their big dreams are out of reach, they switch to saving the world, which is a grandiose dream.
When saving the world is also out of reach, a person will become bitter, which puts them in a one-up position and this stimulates serotonin.
You have to applaud your small steps in order to release serotonin.
Focus on what you want in the moment.
Loretta talks about her social anxiety and feeling at risk of criticism – and how she overcame it.
You can train yourself to understand that other people are not going to fill your needs.
It’s not realistic to expect “the applause of the world.”
You have to tell yourself something realistic that you can get.
We talk about how people can divert their attention when they worry about money.
Ask, how can I feel better in a moment of stress?
The animal brain has confidence that it can solve problems.
Links
Loretta’s site: www.innermammalinstitute.org
Loretta’s new book: Tame Your Anxiety
Loretta’s books on Amazon or Barnes & Noble
Loretta’s other interviews on this podcast:
How to Activate and Enjoy Your Happy Brain Chemicals
The Brain Science of Positivity
I had another AHA moment recently that took my emotional understanding to a deeper level and I think a number of you will relate to what I discuss in this episode.
The understanding is about how the feeling of being an outsider, which starts in early childhood, affects many of our relationships as well as our business and financial outcomes.
Highlights
I review the idea that your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.
When you feel like an outsider, you feel less connected and connection is what we, as humans, need.
Our culture has encouraged feelings of separateness and aloneness.
I share the moment I realized that I have a habit of feeling like an outsider, even though as an adult I’m not treated like one.
I examined where in my body, I felt the outsider feeling and I share what I found and how it affects when I’m with people.
The affirmation that came into my head was I honor and respect my uniqueness.
The idea is to try to remember how you felt as a child and how you were treated that caused you to withdraw internally.
If your real religious views vary from those of the members of your spiritual group, it can cause outsider feelings.
I talk about how debt has, on occasion, allowed me to maintain my position as an outsider.
Being an outsider is part of my identity, so I create life stories in order to maintain that identity.
In order to make and sustain a lot of money, it helps to feel connected.
If you feel like an outsider, it may not be true.
The feelings that go along with feeling like an outsider are aloneness, feeling separate.
I’m going to put together an accountability group. If this interests you in any way, email me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
Links
Letting Go of Your Aloneness - audio
As an inspirational speaker, author, and coach, Victoria Price encourages each of us to co-create a Legacy of Love through a heart-centered practice. Along with writing her popular blog, Daily Practice of Joy, Victoria is the author of three books — including the recently published Living Love: 12 Heart-Centered Practices to Transform Your Life! In 2016, Victoria became a nomad. Now, over four years later, she remains “intentionally home-free” as her core heart-centered practice. She lives on the road with her beloved dog Allie.
Highlights
Victoria explains what led her to let go and give her things away and start living her nomadic life.
She explains how she had to listen to and trust her inner voice as she was led on her journey.
What we don’t know can lead us to solutions.
We are born programmed to love and we are taught not to listen to our hearts.
Victoria’s father was Vincent Price and her mother and step-mother were both well-known. There were a lot of conflicts and fear around money.
We talk about some of the downsides with celebrity and wealth and Victoria’s study of celebrity.
Celebrity asks you to become a persona, so we grow up idealizing emptiness.
Victoria explains how she realized she spent too much time in her head and developed a joy-centered practice that allows her to get connected to her heart.
She came to understand that joy meant the pure and simple delight of being alive and to do that, she had to remember what brought her joy as a child.
When you develop heart-centered habits, you are aligning with love.
I ask Victoria how she applies her practice to what’s going on in the world so she can maintain her joy and love.
Living in our heads instead of hearts is a cause of many of today’s societal problems.
What’s going on with the virus is a wake-up call for us to see how we have been out of inner alignment.
Victoria shares how her life and work is going to change because of the world situation and what she has to let go of.
We have to trust that there is a bigger picture – one where there is more equality. And to experience that equality many will have to give up things they think they need and are important.
We talk about some things that are going to have to change, including what we think is possible.
When we realize that we have enough, all this grabbing, and having, and needing has to shift.
Inequalities are coming to the surface and we are seeing the limit to what human ingenuity can do.
Links
Victoria’s site – www.VictoriaPrice.com
In this episode, I share some of my ideas about how to maintain a positive attitude about the future despite what’s going on. You have choices as to what you’re going to think about and how you’re going to feel.
Highlights
You can have empathy for what’s going on and still move forward with your life.
Each one of us has the opportunity to say, “Where am I now and where do I want to be in the future?” even though, at this moment, the future is so unknown.
The survival skill for today is to learn that you are ok today and you are learning what you need to learn..
If you can have a positive view of your future and get out of your fear of the present, you’ll have an easier time finding a pathway forward.
The bigger the mountain you have to climb, the more you have to have faith in your ability to get from where you are, to where you want to be.
If you can let go of the fear and have a positive view of the future, surviving what we are all going through will be a whole lot easier.
Talk to people and exchange ideas.
If you want to survive this thing, you have to believe that you can.
I feel as if we are in a space between where we are and where we are going.
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Dr. Kristina Hallett is a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist, TEDx Speaker, and Associate Professor of Psychology with over 25 years of experience working with organizations and individuals. She offers a fresh look at our commonly held beliefs about well-being, serving as a catalyst for change by inviting shifts in mindset, perspective and everyday practices. She speaks internationally in several areas –resilience, radical self-care, harnessing the positive power of stress, and living your best life through self-compassion.
Highlights
Kristina debunks the idea that you have to love yourself before you can love someone else.
Even if a mother doesn’t bond well with a child, there are still ways to experience connection.
We talk about how a person can remove heart blocks to connecting.
Music is a way to help someone connect to their emotions.
It’s important for leaders to give energy to learning emotional intelligence.
We talk about the value of emotional intelligence.
Brain health and neuroplasticity work best when people have new challenges.
In order to change, a person has to have a definite internal motivation.
How you are at home reflects how you are in business and visa-versa.
Becoming aware of the physical effects of stress can act as a motivation for a behavioral change.
Repeating small changes is the best path to effective change.
I’m not good enough is one of the major strands to understanding why people behave the way they do.
It helps to be aware of where you learned to believe that you’re not good enough.
Long-term therapy can re-traumatize someone.
Links
Kristina’s website
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
It’s as if the whole world is turning upside down as we go through this unprecedented period of our lives. It’s important to rise above the fear so you can see the opportunities that abound and take action in a new direction. It’s up to us to create the new normal.
Highlights
At a Zoom meeting I had recently, we all agreed that we aren’t going to go back to the old normal.
What are you going to do to plan a future without a model to work from?
It’s hard to come up with good ideas when you are in fear.
There are always ways of thinking outside of the box. There’s a problem if you’re afraid of technology.
Your brain is going to tell you that change is dangerous.
Think of a positive future. It’s time to let go of the things you really don’t like to do.
There are always options.
Allow your life to be a little more spontaneous.
I talk about the restaurant business and how they might change how they deliver their food.
The future is whatever you make it and you have the option of making new choices.
You may have to learn new skills.
What is a skill that you have that you can do differently while collaborating with other people?
During this time, learn something new.
This is the winter of the planet when things are dormant.
Links
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
Steven Ringlestein is a lifelong serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Pristine Creations LLC, a high flow state consulting firm creating extraordinary results, innovation and excellence. He is an evolutionary leader who pioneered the 4 Zones of Leadership framework. He uses neuroscience principles to hack leaders’ internal decision-making algorithms to enhance performance. He is highly skilled in emotional intelligence, energetic intelligence, and an expert in the science of intuitive intelligence.
Highlights
Steven tells us how he got to the place of believing in the power of our inner reality.
The gap between what is and what I think it is can be large.
Our collective consciousness can create the apparent reality.
Because our outer world is contracting, we now have the opportunity to examine our inner world.
Habits are invisible because they have disappeared from our awareness. The trick is to become aware of the habit. Steven explains how to do this.
We talk about what is triggering people to buy so much toilet paper.
There is an opportunity now to find balance between our inner and outer worlds.
Steven explains how to activate parts of you that have become numb.
Because families are spending so much time together now, there is opportunity to heal conflicts within family relationships.
I ask what can people do to stop focusing on what’s wrong so they can look for opportunities. Steven suggests asking, “What’s the gift in that”.
If you watch too much TV now, you can generate fear. If you ask, “What’s the gift in that?”, you can shift to looking at opportunities.
Letting go of the fear takes trust. When each of us can trust, it facilitates the evolution of the group.
Focusing on getting healthier can counteract some of the fear.
By consciously slowing down while doing everything, you will counteract some of the fear.
Steven practices radical self-love and creates communication between his internal masculine and feminine.
We are the only ones who know what each of us needs.
Meditation, walking outside, and nurturing yourself are helpful now. Also, ask yourself, “What’s important for me?”
Healthy desire gives us access to our intuitive selves.
Steven equates money with the energy of love.
We talk about connection and how to create it now.
It’s a gift now to open ourselves to receive.
Links
Steven’s site www.PristineCreations.co
Interview with James Pupura
The Power Plunge
Intention + Action Coaching Group
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Going through the coronavirus experience presents many new opportunities if you are willing to do some deep introspection while the world goes through a major reset.
In this episode, I make suggestions for things you can do while you have to wind down and find quiet things to do. It’s a great time to slow down, listen to your inner voice and stop pushing forward.
Your brain is wired to perceive uncertainty as a threat. It’s not. This is your opportunity to assess where you’ve been and mentally move forward towards a more satisfying future.
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Gene Hammett has been an entrepreneurial leader for over 20 years. He works with leaders to help them have the organizations they really want. On his podcast, Growth Think Tank, he has interviewed hundreds of leaders and best-selling authors with the goal of helping other business leaders create new strategies for growth.
Highlights
Gene tells the story of how he grew a big business then got complacent and ended up losing it all.
He had a dream of coaching entrepreneurs and the loss of his business, which was very difficult, led him to follow his dream.
The hard thing was learning to forgive himself
Gene explains what he means by the Trap of Success, which is the title of his book.
Entrepreneurs have to create their own world.
In his book, Gene talks about how it’s necessary to change your identity and he shares a personal transformation he went through.
Gene learned to focus and explains how he applies focus to his work.
If you can channel your energy into becoming who you want to be, you’ll make more progress.
Part 1: Start with what you want, not what you don’t want. Part 2: Why do you want it? Part 3: Who would you have to be to have the success you want? Part 4: What is your identity in that place?
We talk about learning to feel what you want to feel when you reach your goal.
You don’t achieve your goals, you receive your goals.
Gene uses visualizations which allow him to imagine how he will feel when he reaches his goals.
Links
The Trap of Success: A Brutally Candid Guide to Overcoming Your Fears, Finding Significance, and Attaining Profound Success
Gene’s Site: www.GeneHammett.com
Today I talk about what's happening with the coronavirus, how it might affect your business and how you can deal with it from the inside out. I recorded this episode on March 3, so I only had the amount of information that was available on that day. I have a feeling that things are going to get worse by the time this posts on March 6.
I think it’s important to look at the facts and the possibilities and to do our best to rise above the fear that’s being generated.
In this episode I discuss how to overcome your fear and concerns, and focus on taking the action that you can. I also mentioned that during any downturn, people succeed. The trick is to be open and listen to your inner guidance.
Use whatever techniques you know to deal with the possible stress because it is stress that affects your immune system and causes inflammation. I make some suggestions.
If you’d like to join with a group of people with whom you can discuss what’s going on, I invite you to join the Intention + Action coaching group. The first month is free. For more information go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/intentions
Dr. Diane Hamilton is a sought-after expert in emotional intelligence and behavioral science with nearly four decades of real-world experience. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index™ and the author of four books. A thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, and motivation, Diane is known for increasing engagement, improving productivity and reducing conflict. She is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, a consulting and media-based business and is also a nationally syndicated radio host, keynote speaker, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business.
Highlights
Diane answers the question, “Why are some people more curious than others?”
We need curiosity to survive, to see what lies beyond.
In doing research, she couldn’t find information about why curiosity declines after age 5.
Four areas that affect levels of curiosity. FATE stands for Fear, Assumption, Technology, Environment.
Sometimes our natural inclinations are shut down.
We talk about entrepreneurial curiosity.
There is a curiosity gene.
First, recognize what has shut down your curiosity, then you can develop an action plan.
I ask how she motivates people to become more innovative.
It’s important to recognize your fear.
As an entrepreneur, what’s holding you back from being more curious?
Assumptions that we tell ourselves can be holding us back.
Technology can be overused or underused.
We talk about Emotional Intelligence and empathy.
A lot of focus is on mentorship now. It’s important to get other perspectives.
It’s all about asking questions without thinking you know the answer.
Links
Diane’s Site: www.DrDianeHamiton.com
Diane's book on Amazon: Cracking the Curiosity Code
All her social media links are on her site.
Intention + Action Coaching Group
In today’s episode I talk about synchronicity, often called meaningful coincidences, plus how to experience more synchronicity and what prevents its occurrence. The main problem is fear and I discuss how to tamp this down.
Highlights
I give some examples of synchronicity and my ongoing question of how we can increase synchronicity happening for us.
Fear is one of the things that keeps you from experiencing synchronicity because when you are fearful, you are usually making up a story in the future that doesn’t exist.
Fear of an immediate danger is different from fear of the future.
If you want more of what you want to show up, you need to control your fear.
Mindfulness or meditation can help you focus on the present.
I share simple meditation techniques for staying focused on the present.
People often talk about accepting what’s happening but don’t think about it in terms of our greater reality.
I ask if peace on earth is possible within our dualistic reality.
In your quiet moment, you can ask if there is something you can do to ameliorate what’s happening.
How can you contribute to solutions?
By letting go of fear, you can contribute to solutions.
Fear blocks creative forces and keeps us in a stagnant place.
I also believe that you need to understand how traumatic childhood experiences are affecting your outcomes.
You have to make a decision to work through your fear
Links
Paul O’Brien interview
My book, The Search for Connection
The podcast episode about Empathetic Detachment
The course Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs:
For 50% off, use Promo Code smbe50off at checkout.
Daniel Z. Lieberman is the author of The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race. He is a professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a recipient of the Caron Foundation Research Award. In addition to writing science books, he works with patients, teaches medical students, and does behavioral research.
Highlights
All of our wealth comes from new ideas, so it helps to understand how the brain works.
Lieberman talks about the basics of why dopamine is so important.
Dopamine is so much more than just the pleasure molecule.
Dopamine is not about contentment or satisfaction because those emotions don’t stimulate us to seek more. Dopamine is the transmitter of anticipation.
People who have highly active dopamine systems are more likely to be entrepreneurs, artists, and to suffer from mental illness.
Dopamine leads to pleasure, but not happiness or satisfaction. That comes from other brain chemicals.
We talk about the reward prediction error and how it can lead to disappointment.
Some people go into things with low expectations. With low expectations, you are apt to get more positive feelings when things work out well.
If you always expect the best, you are bound to be disappointed.
Dopamine always pushes towards more.
People have to decide what they want out of life.
People who are highly dopaminergic aren’t happy or satisfied, but the rest of us profit from their dissatisfaction.
Artists are driven more by meaning than happiness.
We talk about entrepreneurs and their constant desire for more.
It’s not true that you can have it all. You have to make choices.
Once we understand how our brains work, we can make better choices.
We talk about addiction, the power of cravings, and how to overcome cravings.
Understanding how brains work helps you understand and tolerate others.
Links
www.DanielZLieberman.com
www.TheMoleculeOfMore.com
The feeling of powerless seems to be spreading as it gets harder to get what we want from companies we have to deal with. In this episode, I talk about some experiences I’ve had that you’ll probably relate to and offer suggestions for taking back your personal power.
Highlights
The online courses platform I was using changed their pricing model, which would have more than doubled my cost. So I found a better solution that will save me money.
You can make decisions that can help you get what you want.
If more people make conscious buying decisions, it will affect change.
Feeling powerless starts when you are a child.
Stop people-pleasing, which only hurts you.
If one of us has to be uncomfortable, it doesn’t have to be me. The corollary to this is, “No is a complete sentence.”
If you aren’t honest with other people, you can’t be honest with yourself.
Do a search for alternatives to whatever software you are using.
Examine your options.
You don’t have to be stuck with what you have.
Value yourself. You really matter.
When you feel you have more control over your life, you will feel empowered.
If you feel powerless, think back to your childhood to times when you felt powerless.
You aren’t a victim. You get to make choices that make you more comfortable.
You always have options.
When you feel powerless, instead of fighting back, ask yourself how you can be an agent of change.
If you make decisions that are right for you, you’ll feel more powerful.
Links
My new courses site: Use the promotional code 50off2
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
Kim Ades is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching™ and JournalEngine™ Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim has 15 years of experience coaching many of North America’s most respected leaders. Recognized as an expert in the area of thought mastery, Kim uses her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style to help her clients deal with core issues and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results.
Highlights
Your beliefs are hard to recognize by yourself so we start with clients finding out what’s happening now in order to bring the beliefs to the surface.
Kim asks me to use my coaching system with her. We do that briefly. She describes what she feels when her money isn’t what she wants to me.
Kim tells me how she would coach a similar situation to help someone change their thoughts and beliefs.
Your habitual thoughts lead to beliefs.
Kim explains the journaling method she uses with clients to help them get better results
We talk about how the journaling helps her understand her clients and her clients understand themselves.
Kim uses an example of a high achieving client who is, in some way, frustrated and wanting to do better. She also talks about how she helped a client with fourth stage cancer move forward.
Links
Kim’s site
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
Todd Maddox, Ph.D. has doctorates in Psychology and Neuroscience and studies the brain basis of learning, memory, and performance. He is interested in the interplay between emotion, cognition, and behavior. In this episode, we have an interesting discussion about dopamine, addiction, the money and sex connection, and more.
Highlights
Todd tells how he got into the combination of psychology and neuroscience.
The answer to every psychological problem lies in the brain.
To deal with addiction, willpower is not the answer. Understanding the brain helps.
We talk a lot about dopamine and addiction.
Behaviors can be influenced by genetics. Behavioral genetics tries to determine the percentage of specific behaviors that can be inherited.
Todd explains why recognizing habits is so difficult.
We talk about how money and sex are connected.
By pairing a memory of when you were satisfied with an experience of dissatisfaction, you can train your brain to have a more positive response.
We talk about the neuroscience explanation of the moving stupids.
In science, the more you know, the more you don’t know.
The more that we learn, the more we’ll be able to understand things, like mysticism, that we don’t understand now.
Todd shares his views about Artificial Intelligence and how to make it closer to how the brain works
Links
Todd Maddox on LinkedIn
For years, I’ve seen the connection between money and sex. These are two topics that people think about most, but don’t talk about them. In this episode, I examine this connection as well as the role that both dopamine and emotions play in our relationship with money and sex.
Highlights
Both money and sex are about how we use our personal energy to interact with the outside world. It’s all about energy flow.
Understanding how your brain works helps you understand why you do what you do and how to make better choices.
In our culture – in the US and some other countries – there is a lot of sexual repression and dysfunction.
I talk about dopamine and how it motivates us.
Dopamine is part of our survival instinct.
Anticipating getting more money causes a release of dopamine.
I talk about how dopamine and disappointment are connected.
Understanding how dopamine works can help you set more realistic expectations and avoid disappointment.
Advertisers understand that they have to stimulate your dopamine in order to stimulate your desire for their product.
You can learn to tame your dopamine response and make pleasure part of conscious living.
Links
The Molecule of More – A book about dopamine
Dan Mendilow is an entrepreneurial neuropsychologist who helps service-based business owners breakthrough income plateaus while working less by rewiring their brains. In this episode, we have a free-flowing conversation about brain science and spirituality.
Highlights
Dan had a tough beginning – an immigrant kid who was born depressed and bullied through school. He shares his story.
When he became suicidal, he realized he had to do something else, which led him on a 13-year search around the world until one day, the depression lifted.
The more he learned about the brain, the more he could help people find out who they are and rewire their brains.
We really don’t know what the mind really is and where it comes from.
We talk about quantum physics and how who we really are goes beyond the measurable science.
Spiritual experiences are a side science we just don’t understand yet.
When we meet someone we are seeing them through our own protective structure. If we could see them deeply, we would see love.
What we are looking for is connection, touch, and to be seen.
Dan explains how he listens to others without his own filters.
When working with clients, he teaches them how to take down their walls, by rewiring their brains. He talks about the techniques he uses.
The longer we live the closer science and spirituality come together.
Links
Dan’s site
Dan on Instagram
Coupon code for 25% off my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom: ryb25
When I ask people what they want to achieve, they often say, “freedom”. Well, freedom is a state of mind. In this episode, I talk about the feeling of freedom and how decisions I have made have led to freedom.
Highlights
I talk about when I reached my moment of stillness in August and how I now really feel free.
When we understand how our brain works, we can understand why we make the decisions we do.
Are you willing to pursue the feeling of freedom? It does take work.
What would your life look like if you really feel free?
If you feel trapped, you need to recognize the feeling of trapped and related feelings such as longing and disappointment
Start by becoming aware of when you feel contracted. Also, recognize what you are thinking about when you feel contracted.
You’ll be learning how to transmute the contracted feeling into expansion.
You can train your brain and change habits.
I talk about impulsive decisions.
The goal is to make better business decisions.
Are you willing to believe that there’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing?
If it’s hard for you to believe that, let’s find out why.
As the last show of the year, in this episode, I review some of the things we talked about in 2019 and what you can expect in the next year. The upcoming topics will include, but not be limited to:
The role of emotions in the healing process
How to apply brain science to make better decisions.
Money, sex, and dopamine
Viewing what’s going on today from a new perspective
Simple ways to live a happier, healthier, and more prosperous life.
I also express my gratitude to those who have been listening to the show.
Check out the Intention + Action Coaching Group
Ken Foster is not only a best-selling author and syndicated radio host in over 100 countries, he is an Expert on Courage and is helping people redefine themselves through courageous living. Ken is also a Master Business Strategist and Coach, International Speaker, and Intuitive Mentor. He is one of the country’s leading figures in the science of business and consciousness. His latest book is The Courage to Change Everything.
Highlights
Real courage is something you can feel inside of you.
People can hear and see courage.
Conscious courage is a choice and is the bridge between fear and love.
Intuition comes with courage. You have to be willing to step into the unknown.
Our busy mind keeps us from clearly hearing our inner voice. You have to develop listening to your intuition.
When something isn’t working, ask yourself, “What is it inside of me that’s allowing things to show up the way they are?”
When you shift into a place where you understand that everything in your life is for your benefit, you can get to a better place.
Being self-reflective is part of taking responsibility for your life.
Ken talks about his book, The Courage to Change Everything.
A while back, Ken realized that he needed to do something to live a life of freedom and let go of all of his things.
The mind is the cause of both our bondage and our freedom.
You have to feel the pain in order to make the change.
We need to get to a place of peace in order to evolve. It means healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually in order to evolve.
A difficult life can be the greatest gift.
Links
Ken’s Free Book: Release-Renew-Evolve
Ken’s Main Site: www.KenDFoster.com
Keri Norley was brought up wealthy and explains what she had to overcome to find herself. She is known as ‘The Wealth Alchemist’ and is an international wealth and soul-alignment coach, mentor, speaker, and author of the book “How to Use Feng Shui to Create Business Abundance”. Keri plays in the quantum realms to help people release the stories that are keeping them stuck.
Highlights
People have beliefs that keep them from creating wealth.
Being brought up in a wealthy family created a wealth habit for Keri at an early age.
Although she had a wealth habit, Keri wondered why her business wasn’t doing well.
People tend to believe that wealthy people are happy. Keri discusses why this isn’t necessarily true.
The money was easy for her, but the humanity part was a lot harder.
Even wealthy people have a hard time talking about money.
The stories we all have to share is what makes us who we are.
Wealth is more than just money. It’s a state of being.
In the quantum realm, there is no time.
Whatever a person is experiencing today is the result of what they believed in the past.
Gratitude allows one to see deeper into who they are.
Everything on our path gives us the opportunity to learn and advance.
We can choose who we want to be.
Lack of worthiness and deservingness holds people back.
By not owning every piece of ourselves then we can’t embody our purpose.
See what swims towards you.
Links
Keri’s site
Julie Renee: An Effective Method of Quantum Activation for Healing
In the last episode, I talked about giving up sugar. Today I want to give you some real practical tips to help you on that journey. I'd like to mention that most of the articles I've seen online about withdrawing from sugar are geared towards people who want to give it up suddenly, to just cold turkey.
My experience was that cold turkey caused other problems. I had been a sugar junkie for a really long time. When I was working, I was doing three Cokes a day and cookies & desserts for lunch! I mean, that was all and I had been eating sugar all of my life. And when the doctor told me to stop eating sugar if I wanted to stop being depressed, I did it practically overnight! And the results were that the depression went away.
But I wound up with a lot of other problems, although it wasn't only due to the sugar withdrawal. I just want to make it clear that if you've been eating a lot of sugar over a long period of time, you might want to consider a slow withdrawal before cold turkey. I did the same thing with cigarettes.
I had only been smoking about half a pack a day. And I cut down to where I was just having two or three cigarettes a day. Then I stopped. It's like when I was addicted to Valium, I had to do it slowly. And there are all sorts of groups online helping people withdraw from that drug, which is very hard to withdraw from, and they're doing it over a really long period of time.
Sometimes you have to adjust to a new way for your body to adjust. If you're in your 20s or 30s, then it might be a little easier to cold turkey. I was in my 30s when I quit cold turkey, and I had a lot of problems. So I just want to put that out and have you consider following your intuition.
If your intuition tells you not to do it suddenly, then do it slowly. As I suggested last time, by reading labels on your food, you get to see how much sugar you're actually eating. And when you do that, you can measure out the number of tablespoons of sugar because there are 12.5 grams of sugar per tablespoon. When you see 39 grams on a can of Coke, then you're going to have to measure out three tablespoons. I didn't do the exact math because two tablespoons, which is an ounce, would be about 25 grams.
I did this with a young boy one time where he was having trouble in school. I think he was in the eighth or tenth grade at the time. He was depressed and wasn't doing his schoolwork and his mother was having a lot of discipline problems with him. I was staying in their house and it was during my journey of withdrawing from sugar. So I measured out the sugar he was eating on a daily basis, and it turned out to be like half a cup of sugar every day. That's a lot of sugar your body has to deal with, yet it's not designed to deal with that much sugar!
Other Ways of Withdrawing from Sugar
So what are some of the other things you can do to help you in withdrawing from sugar other than doing it slowly?
I've found out that with both sugar and smoking, natural licorice root sticks, not licorice, actually help. However, you shouldn't stay on it to long because it will affect your kidneys.
Licorice root sticks are sweet and taste like licorice. They have a sweet flavor and happen to be good for your adrenal glands. When you eat a lot of sugar, your adrenal glands become compromised. That's why you would need sugar to get an energy kick because your adrenal glands are hurting.
One of the reasons why people keep going back to sugar is that like drugs, it causes a dopamine response. Dopamine is the pleasure molecule. And because it feels good to eat sugar, you're going to keep going back to it and you're going to build up a tolerance where you need more and more to get the same kick. And so licorice root sticks can help a lot with that.
The other thing I did in the beginning, which was very helpful, was that I would smell the foods that I didn't want to eat ...
I recently got a message via Facebook from a woman who has been struggling for a long time to withdraw from sugar. Because I gave up – really gave up – sugar 46 years ago, I know how to sustain what might be called sugar sobriety. I offer some of what I learned along the way.
Highlights
Giving up sugar is a lot more complicated than just not eating sugar.
Finally, people are realizing that sugar is not healthy.
In 1973, I saw a documentary on hypoglycemia and knew immediately that was part of my problem.
I talk about how I found out I had hypoglycemia and the doctor who helped me.
Most chronic diseases are caused by inflammation. Sugar causes inflammation.
I mention a number of the symptoms of hypoglycemia as well as how the endocrine system is affected.
Sugar is harder to give up than heroin.
You have to make a decision to give up sugar first and then start reading the labels on your food.
You have to be off sugar, alcohol, and carbohydrates for quite a while before you can sustain the withdrawal.
I list some of the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.
Links
The Low Blood Sugar Symptom List (Download Nourish Yourself on this page)
Articles:
10 Reasons Why Sugar is Bad for Your Health
14 Simple Ways to Stop Eating Lots of Sugar
Your Brain on Sugar
Paul O’Brien is a visionary entrepreneur who invented a new category of software in 1989 that evolved to become the world’s largest astrology and divination websites. He sold the company in 2007 and has since authored three books, including Intuitive Intelligence, his latest. Paul is a sought-after speaker, philanthropist, and founder of the educational Divination Foundation.
Highlights
Paul tells us about how he was introduced to the I-Ching – an ancient divination system – and how he used it to help him make decisions.
He explains how divination works.
In the 1980s he figured out how to create divination software based on the I-Ching.
In his book, Intuitive Intelligence, Paul helps us understand synchronicity and its relationship with time.
How to figure out who you are is part of what he talks about in his book.
We talk about what can interfere with intuitive messages, especially fear.
You can’t “read between the lines” when there’s a lot of chatter in your brain.
Once you decide to notice synchronicity, you will.
If you slow down, things will evolve more smoothly.
Being visionary is being able to see patterns.
We talk about what a society of aware people would look like.
Egocentricity keeps us from seeing the deeper meaning of things.
To find meaning, you have to come from the heart.
Take a risk that can grow you.
Intuition is of the heart.
Ego is a limited level of consciousness.
Links
The Divination Foundation
Intention + Action Coaching Group
Intuitive Intelligence book on Amazon
As we approach the end of this year and the beginning of 2020, it’s a good idea to adjust your attitude, if necessary. In this episode I talk about how adopting a positive attitude towards your future can help to create that future.
Highlights
Your attitude towards yourself and the world around you affects your outcomes.
Believe in yourself and believe in possibilities.
It takes time for your ideas to come into fruition.
When you give yourself more time, you’re giving yourself space to make better decisions.
When things don’t work out, it isn’t a failure. It’s just an outcome.
Are you willing to believe that whatever you’re doing is ok?
What’s going on inside of you affects your outcomes.
Whatever you believe is true is true.
You might want to adjust your attitude towards yourself and the world around you.
You have a choice about how you want to think about things.
I talk about an attitude of detachment.
An attitude of love and understanding would change our society.
During the holidays, you have the choice to develop an attitude of peace.
Decide to stop judging yourself and see yourself as a loving person.
As you become more detached, you can make wiser decisions.
Winter is a good time to do inner work.
What intentions do want to set for the new year?
Links
The Intention/ + Action Coaching Group
Kristin Sunanta Walker is the CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network - a global network of podcasts dedicated to mental health, which is the only podcast network in the world dedicated to this topic. She is the host of multiple podcasts and is also a founding member of Digital Tech Initiative - created to research, study, and provide awareness around digital media addiction.
Highlights
Kristin shares her personal story and how that led to the formation of the network.
There’s a lot more to mental health than just talk therapy.
For Kristin, talk therapy was very helpful.
People have to try a few things until they find something that works for them.
Listeners to the network often say that the shows let them feel less alone.
Kristin’s show is about healing from abuse.
We have a long discussion about digital media addiction and how Kristin decided to learn as much as possible about it.
If you aren’t aware of how you are using technology, you may not be aware of how it is using you.
Students often don’t know how to have real human communications.
By talking about digital addition it helps people realize that it is.
Kristin tells us what to do if you are addicted to your digital media.
People are beginning to see that there has to be time off from devices.
There’s a lot of discussion going on about how to disconnect from media and reconnect with each other.
A lot of young people don’t have a lot of experience connecting.
We need to figure out how to connect to each other more authentically.
Links
Access the network: www.MHNRnetwork.com
Contact Kristin: info@mhnrnetwork.com
It feels like we are in a process of great change, which can lead to a lot of feelings of discomfort because of the uncertainty. This requires that you look at things from a different point of view. What if, everything that is happening really is for our own good?
Highlights
The process of moving forward can be uncomfortable. I talk about how you need the stirring up in order to move forward.
Are you willing to let go of your attachment to the past?
The process is about letting go and building new.
There’s an energy of change on the planet. Seeing our connection to everything helps to deal with the change.
Santa Fe, where I live, is a peaceful place, so I don’t live in the conflict.
It takes time to turn things around.
What do you want to be feeling in the next few years? You can decide how you want to feel.
Although I don’t know where my life is going, I feel it moving in a positive direction.
There needs to be an internal cleansing.
The clearing process happens over a period of time.
Although we are going through a difficult time, it’s part of the process of change.
Links
Intention + Action Coaching Group
Holistic Prosperity Facebook Group
Info about the Energy Adjustments
James Purpura has experienced some of the most extreme moments life can offer. Fifteen years ago, he was an inmate struggling with life in solitary confinement, placed there as a result of his actions while homeless and addicted to drugs. While in prison, he reconciled his life and developed a personal philosophy. Once released, he found his wife, created an amazing family, a beautifully prosperous life, and became inspired to share his knowledge with the world.
Highlights
What being in solitary confinement was like, what he learned from it, and how he started to turn his life around.
Taking ownership of his life outcomes was his turning point.
You do not see reality – James explains.
We develop our perception of reality when we are young.
What you see is just an assumption. Mindfulness allows you to see beyond the assumption.
You cannot see what you don’t believe is possible.
Emotions are the window into our subconscious mind.
Emotions draw your attention to your beliefs about yourself.
Every belief has an emotional component.
The emotion will lead you to the belief.
Creating happiness is about changing your internal world. Making more money is about changing your external world.
James shares his emotional integration technique.
In their book, they take things that are complicated and they break them down into something simple.
As soon as you focus on something it becomes part of your possibilities.
There is a cost to being a pessimist.
Positivity opens up your field of possibilities.
There are no bad decisions. You make your decisions based on the information that’s available to you.
Life and growth are about living in the uncertainty of not knowing.
Links
Visit James’s site: www.Powerful-U.com
The book - Perception: Seeing Is Not Believing.
Joel Zaslofsky is the community-animator, multipotentialite, and quantum biology fanatic behind a bunch of neat stuff. He’s the Connections and Operations Guy for the Puttytribe, hosts the popular Smart and Simple Matters podcast, and has one overarching theme in life – bringing people together.
Highlights
Joel shares how he decided to leave corporate.
Joel identifies himself as a minimalist and talks about how he got into the movement.
Getting clear internally and changing habits was important to get into the simple lifestyle.
Melinda, Joel’s wife, keeps him grounded.
We talk about what it takes to find guides and mentors for unconventional people.
The Everything Conference was held recently. Joel explains what it was and hoped to accomplish.
Multipotentialites often think they are broken in some way because they don’t focus on one thing.
There is so much information available and some people become overwhelmed with the choices.
Links
Joel’s site: www.JoelZaslofsky.com
The Putty Tribe – www.theputtytribe.com
The Intention + Action Coaching Group
Rapid Money-Block Release + A Zap
In today’s episode, I discuss a prosperity principle that people aren’t always aware of. It takes a bit of time to understand, but once you get it, your perception of your problems can change dramatically. This makes it easier to find solutions.
Highlights
Here’s the principle: The situation you are in doesn’t cause your emotions, your emotions create the situation.
Your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.
Emotions are not inherent in a situation.
I use a disappointment habit as an example.
I talk about a process for recognizing and altering your habitual feelings.
Links
Intention + Action Coaching Group
Shoshanna French is an Intuition Expert, a Coach and a Consultant who specializes in training others how to connect to their intuition and live their best lives. Based in Denver, she has been providing one-on-one session work for clients for the last 23 years. Her clients transform their relationships, create unpredictable success, and develop deep connections to their purpose. She offers corporate and personal retreats, training programs, and one-on-one sessions for clients across the globe.
Highlights
We learn how Shoshanna came to recognize and start using her gifts.
People who are drawn to her sessions are open-minded and curious.
When talking to corporate type audiences, Shoshanna uses language that her audience can relate to.
We discuss how people express their experiences with intuition.
Intuition is a practical tool that you can use.
Intuition and synchronicity are related.
Shoshanna talks about the difference between using “psychic” rather than intuitive.
People can learn how to use their intuition for business decisions.
Are intuitive “messages” always right?
Often, we have to “clear the channel” to get the right message.
First, you have to find out how your gift works. Shoshanna explains.
Once you understand what kind of intuitive you are, you can ask better questions.
You can tell what kind of intuitive you are if you watch the news.
How can people get past their fear of following their intuition?
Links
Shoshanna’s website
Shoshanna on social media:
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In this episode, I talk about being a “closet woo” and hiding the thing I love to do best. I wonder what you may be hiding in plain sight that’s keeping you from enjoying your full expression – and the success that can come from being honest about who you are.
Highlights
Finding out who we really are and expressing it is one of our life journeys.
There’s an evolution of consciousness that happens with each decade.
Much of our life is finding out who we are not before we find out who we are.
Learn how to enjoy what you’re doing and to not judge it.
My goal was to not let my money determine how I feel and not to worry about anything.
I talk about the energy adjustments that I’ve been doing for many years and was afraid to talk about with total confidence.
I share some stories about things that happened when I did energy adjustments.
Why are you still hiding?
I talk about my new goal and how I’m going to handle it and changing my old habits.
Your cash flow is related to the energy flow through you.
Your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.
What about you is hiding in plain sight?
Links
Intention + Action Coaching Group
I’m a Success, Now What? Coaching
With over 35 years of prosperity leadership in corporate, government and the entrepreneur sector experience, Olympia Hostler, The Queen Of Wealth, empowers women leaders to eradicate self-sabotaging money blocks so they can work less, make more, and live free™. She has vast experience as a highly sought-after business consultant specializing in rapidly making businesses profitable, purposeful and pleasurable. At 33 years old, she became a corporate executive running multi-billion dollar programs and bringing in over $50 million. Now, she offers The Mind Over Money Makeover Program via her site, WomenChooseWealth.com.
Highlights
Olympia explains how she was able to deal with so much money at an early age.
Her family didn’t have a lot of money, but her father was really good at managing what he had.
We learn from the people around us. Surround yourself with people who are what you want to be.
After she left corporate, she had a lot of healing to do.
She learned from her father to worry about money.
With her clients, Olympia has them understand their thoughts, beliefs, and emotions that affect their money.
The top 4 money blocks are: I’m not good enough, I’m not worthy, fear of success, fear of failure.
Her clients are successful women entrepreneurs.
Self-sabotage is a form of self-protection.
We talk about the techniques she uses to help clients get over their money blocks.
When you can connect to your original self, you can see more possibilities.
Our parent’s behaviors and attitudes affect our development.
Olympia makes good decisions, something she says people can learn to do.
Wealth, poverty, and struggle are choices.
A lot of people get stuck in the “fixing” stage.
We need people who model healthy behavior.
We all have money strategies that we can break down and change.
We are wired to be in community.
Women have gotten into over-giving and they have to learn to receive.
When she left corporate, Olympia quit without knowing what was next.
Links
Olympia’s quiz. www.WomensWealthCheckupQuiz.com
For the course: www.mindovermoneymakeover.com
About Olympia: www.WomenChooseWealth.com
Olympia@womenchoosewealth.com
Today’s episode is a short introduction to a free webinar I’m doing on September 19 with my friend Henry Lopez. Henry is a fabulous business coach and host of the podcast, "The How of Business".
We did an episode of his podcast talking about what we’ll be doing on the webinar. You can listen to it here.
There will be no selling and there will be a replay, but you have to register.
You can register at https://ProsperityPlace.com/stresswebinar.
If you have any questions, email me at Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.
We’ve been following my friend Aprille’s life as she transforms herself from a business coach and trainer in Toronto to a full-time artist and AirBnB host on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. In this episode she shares her progress since we last talked – and the wisdom she has gained.
Highlights
Aprille and her husband made a big change in their lives without the end in mind.
This is a beautiful story of following the inner messages instead of having clear plans.
Aprille talks about what they had to go through internally for this to work.
Learn with small things and trust the process.
Changing how she was looking at and thinking about things made a big difference.
Don’t give up the goal, just change the plan.
We talk about the difference between planning and doing during different decades of life.
She had never been to Nova Scotia before she moved there.
Aprille learned to trust via some experiences earlier in life.
All we need to do is pay attention to what’s happening now.
Instead of thinking about the worst that can happen, think about the best that can happen.
We talk about the benefits of being more mature.
Links
Aprille’s site
On Instagram @AprilleJanes
The book The Search for Connection