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

Prosperity Place

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.

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

Prosperity Place

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, to 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

Prosperity Place

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

Prosperity Place: https://prosperityplace.com/

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

Prosperity Place

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, 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’s 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 really what you want.
• How can a person determine what they want and how they can find their place of comfort in this chaotic world?
• Most people want to fit in, which makes it difficult for you 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 does it change 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 makes it difficult to tap into your own energetic qualities.
• Marina says that the only way to discover their 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

Prosperity Place

The C-Suite Network

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 business relationships if we agree on the future goal, a common outcome, and the rules of the game.
• There is 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 positives solutions and results of what has been happening.
• How can you look into the future and see a positive story?

Links

Prosperity Place

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

Prosperity Place

Mark’s Book

Mark’s Site

Mark's Facebook Page

Mark on LinkedIn

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.

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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.

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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

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Megan’s site: www.MeganFettes.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.

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Aaron’s website: www.AaronMcCormic.com

Aaron on 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:

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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

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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 of 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
  societal change.
• Anger can be transmuted into a positive force.

Links

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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.

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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

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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.

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.

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The Fantasy Bond

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Steven’s site www.PristineCreations.co

Interview with James Pupura

The Power Plunge

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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

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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

Prosperity Place

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

Prosperity Place

Paul O’Brien interview

My book, The Search for Connection

The podcast episode about Empathetic Detachment

The course Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs:

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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

Prosperity Place

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

Prosperity Place

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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 Ades’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

ProsperityPlace

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 break through 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

ProsperityPlace.com

Dan’s site 

Dan on Instagram

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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.

Links:

ProsperityPlace.com