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Helen Garcia
An invitation to authenticity Do you remember the last time you walked in creative courage & unrelenting vision? Think Weird seeks to give creative entrepreneurs the courage to embrace who they are without shame or condemnation. Join Helen Garcia every Monday as she deconstructs unhealthy mindsets and teaches you how to avoid hysteria in the workplace. The goal is to help creators transform their ideas into remarkable daily practices! Helen occasionally talks to other creators about their process to keep the show entertaining. Disclaimer: not intended to be a substitute for clinical help, please refer to your therapist or supervisor as needed!
Larry Roberts is an inspiring motivational speaker, podcast entrepreneur, and coach who has overcome remarkable challenges to reach success. His story of transformation from addiction to triumph will motivate you to reach heights you never thought possible. He has dared to dream bigger and take bold action to reach success. Join us as we listen to his unbelievable journey and get inspired to take leaps in our own lives.
Time Stamps
00:00 Meet Larry Roberts
05:21 How much Time and Sweat Goes into business
13:19 Patience in Saving Money to Go into Business Full-Time
18:28 Failed Monetization Strategy
23:03 Letting Go of Expectations
25:37 Chat GPT & Copywriting
31:44 The Future of Education
32:52 Martial Arts & Kickboxing
35:12 Addiction and Recovery
39:43 Relapse Story
44:12 Accountability
50:47 You NEED to Make Mistakes
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This podcast episode features my friend, Pat, an 80-year-old retired teacher who shares their wisdom from her life experience. Filled with priceless life lessons, their insight can help young creators develop their craft, discover new pathways, and succeed in the modern world. Get inspired, get motivated, and learn from the unique perspective of an elder teacher.
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This video will help you master yourself and unlock your hidden potential. Learn how consistency, patience, and humility can help you reach your highest potential and start seeing real results in your life. Get ready to embark on a journey of self-improvement and understand why these three qualities are essential for inner growth and true success.
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In this episode, I'm sharing with you the truth about generosity: you already have all that you need. In this video, I'm going to share with you some of the lessons I've learned from Gary Vee about generosity. I hope you find it helpful and that it encourages you to be more generous in your own life and in the lives of those around you.
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Are you curious about what it takes to develop and grow a successful 7-figure therapy business? In this video, we chat with Kristie Tse, a therapist and business coach who has achieved 7-figure success.
We’ll discuss Kristie's journey to success, the biggest challenges she faced, the influence her parents had on her success, and the strategies he used to overcome her "money story".
We'll also get her advice on the most effective steps aspiring 7-figure entrepreneurs should take to reach their goals. Tune in for valuable insights from Kristie and get inspired to take your therapy business to the next level!
Time Stamps
0:00 Kristie’s influence on Helen’s life
03:39 Starting a Private Practice
05:36 Finding Opportunity – Noticing Trends
10:04 Raising Rates Based on Scarcity
13:19 Privilege & Oppressive Systems
14:21 Advice: Be Careful Who You Listen To
20:17 Guilt Raising Your Rates
22:00 Unlearning “The Culture of Silence” – Permission to Cry & Feel
24:56 Kristie’s Upbringing
31:59 How Kristie Started Therapy
39:32 Therapy & Communication Tools to Talk to Family
48:11 “Recognize when you are internalizing these systems
50:21 Limiting Beliefs & Self-Sabotage
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mentalhealth #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurmindset #valueyourself #asianamericantherapist #asianamerican #asiantherapists #therapists
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Hi everyone, it's Helen. Today, I'm making a podcast episode to save entrepreneurs time and energy by helping them focus on the tasks that matter. I learned this from an amazing PR strategist, Gloria Chu, who I recently took an online course from. She has a system called $10 tasks, $100 tasks, $1,000 tasks, and so forth, which encourages students to write down the tasks that correspond to these amounts and prioritize them accordingly. My hope is this system will identify the minuscule tasks that don't matter, versus those that have a greater impact and should be focused on. 🤔🤔 So, let's all try and focus on the tasks that make the biggest difference! 💪💪
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🤔 Are you an overthinker who's trying to grow an online business?
💻 We have all been there: you have an amazing idea for a business, but you're so consumed by your own thoughts and worries that you can't seem to make it a reality. 🤯 If that's the case, this video is for you!
🙌 In this episode, Helen vulnerably shares her natural proclivity to overthink and how she found the courage to ask for help 🤓 We'll get into the nitty-gritty of leading from a place of service, rather than the shiny glitter of "saying you have a business". ✨ We also cover how to stay humble while networking and how to remain grounded while striving for success. 🤝 By the end of this video, you'll learn that you are not alone in the process. We need people. You are not "weird" for not knowing what to do. Relationships, matter.
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*EDIT: Fixing weird audio gaps in episode***
🎧 In this episode, I talk to Mario Busto, the founder of the 1992 Creative & Soapbox Business Show, about the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset 🧠.
⏰ Time Stamps:
00:00 Icebreaker – How Mario Started his podcast
05:55 How to Deal with Self-Doubt
07:26 Are creativity and business in opposition to each other?
17:13 Importance of singular purpose
24:03 Be the “anti-hero”
32:52 How to Execute on Vision - how you work with people
37:52 Overthinking
44:55 Faithful in Your Season
51:39 Scarcity Mindset
01:03:41 No Regrets. Always Learning
📚 Mario Busto has a lot of valuable insights to share about the mindset required to be a successful entrepreneur. 🙋🏻♀️ If you're interested in learning more about the entrepreneurial mindset, then you should definitely watch this video. Mario Busto has a lot of great insights to share about the importance of the mindset, and how it can help you achieve your goals.
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Two Mistakes were made in the video & audio:
-Rich Webster makes $500k/year, not per month
-Loom.com is $96/year and $8/mo
Blog Post:
“I used Rich Webster’s productivity system for 1 week”
As a starting entrepreneur, it can be difficult to stay productive and on top of your many tasks. With so much to do and energy to channel, it can be overwhelming at times. However, there are tools available to help increase your productivity and make juggling your workload a lot easier. In this blog post, I'll share some of my favorite online tools to help increase your entrepreneurial productivity.
Tools that Benefitted Me:
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Loom.Com ($8/mo or $96/year)
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Screen Capture Recordings to save time scheduling meetings - can act as tutorials and updates to co-workers, masterclass presentations, and podcast recordings
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Notion (free)
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Create budgets, outlines, and proposals with this all-in-one platform. This software is completely free
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Boomerang for Gmail (free)
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(Optional) - Send auto-responder emails, communicating to senders to when you will respond to them
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Don’t get distracted by your inbox, software will “Pause” your inbox until you decide to unpause it
Results after 1 Week:
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Saved me 4.8 hours on meetings
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Published 2 podcast episodes in one week
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5 writing submissions published (0-1 week prior) - newsletter, drafts at work, 2 podcast outlines
Lessons Learned:
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Know your weaknesses:
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After implementing these 3 tools, I realized that I spend a majority of my time in “busy work” - emails, Amazon, YouTube
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Set-up structures to protect from weaknesses:
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These producitivity systems made it “stupid easy” for me to get more work done in less time
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I started a new podcast in March 2022, out of the desire to give listeners free access to mental health education through curated advice and guest episodes. But, after 3 months, I began to doubt myself. I allowed the doubt to consume my thoughts. I didn’t think I was enough…” who am I?” I thought…
Every time I listened to Lewis Howes, Mel Robbins, or Rich Roll, I felt a tug in my heart. The tug was the guilt of not doing what I had to do.
I was tortured by my own still-small voice:
“you know what you need to do. Why aren’t you taking action?”
So, I decided to take action. Here’s what I discussed:
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The Solution to Overthinking: Looking for Help
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Vulnerability
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Asking for Connections
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Internet Resources
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Effective Time Management
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Wasted Time
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More time, money, and resources creating solely with the purpose of creating ONE post on each platform
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New Post System
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Newsletter → Screen Record from Loom → Instagram → YouTube
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Ankit Sherke interviews Helen for his podcast. In this episode, they talk about:
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Helen's journey from a first-generation college student, using the school as an opportunity to ask questions, and her path to becoming a therapist
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Anti-perfect path, therapy, and being honest
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Realizing that the "cost" of saying yes is beyond money (the right questions to ask yourself to choose the best job and align your expectations)
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Being interesting starts with the desire to understand
Links:
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Ankit's Podcast
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Helen's Instagram
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Helen's Daily Newsletter: Bad Email Nation
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Think Weird on YouTube
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Hi there 👋 If you're new to this podcast, my name is Helen Garcia.
I'm a creative, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur. I love to help creative entrepreneurs create with a pure, healthy heart.
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Helen references "Turning Pro" by Steven Pressfield and the importance of acknowledging our inner resistance as creatives.
Resistance is part of the process. Often the work we fear can take us to a higher level. The moment we realize this, we can begin to unlock a part of ourselves that may reach greatness.
Resources reference in the podcast:
· War of Art by Steven Pressfield
· Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
· Daily Stoic Podcast Episode with Steven Pressfield
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In moments of internal discontent - how can you display bravery?
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Bruce Warren (World Café, WXPN Radio, Some Velvet Blog) is the Executive Producer of World Café and Assistant General Manager of WXPN radio in Philadelphia. Bruce joins Think Weird to discuss his 30+ years in the music business, how he started as a radio station volunteer and the art of figuring out your passion. Bruce discusses how his experience working as an elementary school teacher and a chef at a restaurant business prepared him for executive programming for World Cafe & public radio. Bruce and Helen talk about jobs vs. leadership, staying a fan of your calling, music as scrapbooks of memory, and what it really means to work with a lens of equity.
Jeff talks to Helen for a second time to unpack Asian American mental health & facing our shadow side. They also discuss the importance of honoring our cultural practices. Jeff also discusses his background as a second-generation Korean American growing up in Portland, speaking in his native tongue, and the power of emotion-focused therapy.
Boonie Sripom, MA (Organized Messes, organizedmesses.com) is a peer mentor and writer. Boonie joins Think Weird to discuss being a sensitive child, stress-inducing systems, and the influence games had on understanding her psychology. Later, she explains how to undo the "supposed" role we had to take on in early childhood & feel safe as an individual. Boonie also discusses working with video game design and its relationship to understanding archetypal modes. Boonie and Helen talk about human archetypes, plant analogies & growing. Boonie explains why it's okay that people change. She also describes how our society/environment influences our personality.
Helen talks about how different connections of interest propagate innovation and strengthens our analytical thinking.
Books mentioned:
- Mastery by Robert Greene (great beginning)
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (writing practice, long term)
- Range by David Epstein (long-term growth in life)
- Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield (Career, personal experiences)
As artists, our work comes with a price...and this price includes:
- Facing Our Fears
- Undoing the Narrative of Perfection
- Taking Action over Analytical Consumption
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Feck Perfuction by James Victore
- The Futur Pro Group
- Salvador Dali - Perfection Quote
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In this episode of "Think Weird", Helen discusses the "Discouragement Dip" (what it is, how to overcome it, and why I think multidisciplinary learning leads to self-mastery).
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Helen sits down for a Solo episode to address the common question of "doing away with overthinking" - Helen discusses the function of overthinking, why we do it, and how to unlearn its repercussions. She also discusses why the podcast was re-named "Think Weird".
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Today’s guests are licensed clinical therapists Kaelly Arellano and Brandon Shindo. They are also entrepreneurs who own and operate K&B Therapy, a private practice located in Los Angeles, California. K&B Therapy serves young professionals, college students, and people of color (particularly those who identify as Asian American Pacific Islander, and/or Latinx). K&B Therapy helps clients use their own voice in expressing their needs and thoughts to create an authentic life of balance between success and happiness.
In this episode we discuss:
The Biggest Misconceptions about Therapists
Why it's important to share Your story
The Importance of Community Care/Mentorship, And so much more!
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In this episode we discuss the following:
- Life is Unpredictable, Embrace what Comes
- Ready, Fire, Aim > Why Action is Better than Over-Analysis and Over-Thinking
- Permission to Work Your Own Way - Divergent brains rock!
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Discussed in this Episode:
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How External Validation does not produce long-lasting happiness - ([00:00:00] [00:22:34])
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Ongoing Healing from Our Past ([00:22:34] - ([00:41:38]
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How to Express Vulnerability in our Art ([00:41:38] - [01:23:45])
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3 Things We Talk About In this Episode:
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Scenius > Genius Show Your Work because you want to be a part of a larger scene, not to showcase "how good you are"
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Learn to Listen. Teach what You Learn It's a cyclical process AND a win-win situation, i.e. clarity in the process for you, more information to help your audience and friends get better
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You're ALWAYS going to be an amateur, embrace the process and have fun Make content in nuanced ways (write, take photos, create, draw pictures). Be clear about your process and this will produce dividends in mastery and lifelong learning
Be honest – during the times in your life when you fall, how many times have you gotten back up? After a few losses, how easy is it to say "I can do this!"?
And here’s the truth: the secret to success is consistency. The reality is that you have become the type of person who’s willing to get up one, two, or a hundred times.
My guest today has embodied this principle throughout her career and continues to provide joy and love to those around her, whether it is her family, friends, or everyday people. Her name is Juliet Hahn and during the conversation, she’s going to explain how to Master Creativity, unlearn Discouragement and Embrace Curiosity. Please help me welcome Juliet Hahn to Brains Create!
Helen discusses her latest read, "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. The Creative Life is that of War, the internal war of doubt and internalizing criticism. Helen discusses the summary and key points of the book and why it's a pivotal read for all creatives.
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War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Deondre Dior is a musician, lyrical writer, and spiritual pursuer. His approach to creating music is eclectic, utilizing several genres to disrupt and inspire musical listeners. His approach to creating stood out to me because of his mindset of presence and self-awareness. I was incredibly excited to dive deeper into his beliefs, practices, and eclectic nuances. Be sure to check out his music on Spotify (Links below)
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In this episode we discuss:
-Leading with value and authenticity in music
-How to shift from people-pleasing to giving value to those you serve
-Why most of us are afraid to speak openly about who we truly are & our uniqueness
Stress is a normal response to a challenge.
3 Points of Discussion:
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Acceptance of feelings
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Set aside time for yourself every morning - journal, reflect, exercise, learn to love before the sun rises. Stay ready, don't get ready.
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Help Stress Work FOR You: Challenge & Opportunity to build new skills
Links to Resources Mentioned:
- Harvard Business Article: "Make Your Stress Work for You"
- 5am Club by Robin Sharma
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Cole Brightbill is a singer/songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts. He describes his creative process, his relationship to songwriting, and his love of baseball.
In this episode we discuss: -How Overthinking can become a hindrance to Progress in Creating -Big Lessons Cole Learned from Relationships -How to Turn Your Lack of Focus into your Superpower!