The new year is a time of change. You can ignore this or use the energy of change to move your life forward. In this episode, I offer some suggestions for getting to know yourself better, to follow your intuition and to be who you want to be.

Highlights

• What is your intention for next year and who you want to be? You can choose.
• How do you want to perceive the economy and what’s going on in the world. You can choose.
• This is a time of change, and you can decide if you want to tap into that energy.
• Your age will often determine how you think and feel about things.
• You have value just for being who you are.
• No matter what your age, it’s important to be flexible.
• Be willing to take chances and try something new. Not everything you try will work out perfectly, that’s okay. At least you know what not to do.
• When making business decisions, be aware of the marketplace.
• It’s important to learn how to listen – and follow – your inner voice.
• It sometimes takes courage to follow your own path. So-called authorities don’t always have the right answers for you.
• Do you really want to spend your life trying to please other people?
• What is it that you are afraid to do or be?

Links

Henry Lopez’s Course

Click here to set up a time to talk to me about how we might work together.

Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and consultant who helps people start, run, and grow a small business. He also hosts the popular podcast, The How of Business.

Highlights

• Joan Sotkin and Henry Lopez discuss chaos in business. They talk about how chaos becomes an identity for business owners and how they feed off problem-solving. Joan suggests that this mindset can lead to discomfort when trying to delegate and step back from the chaotic environment.
• Henry talks about the importance of taking time away from the business to allow it to grow and giving employees the freedom to make decisions.
• Joan mentions that fear holds entrepreneurs back from making changes and asks how they can give their brains a new message. Henry suggests focusing on identifying new roles and working away from the office to avoid micromanaging.
• They also discuss learning to trust oneself and finding satisfaction in one’s business journey rather than constantly chasing goals.
• Joan discusses how uncertainty in the financial world affects business owners. Henry expresses concerns about inflation, interest rates, and labor-force shortages, which create instability and hamper long-term planning.
• They discuss finding opportunities within chaos and embracing it to make positive changes.
• Joan shares her own experience of currently recreating her business with a focus on helping people find peace amid chaos.
• They also talk about the importance of enjoying what you do in business and making decisions that prioritize personal values.
• They discuss the importance of setting feeling goals instead of focusing solely on achieving external success.
• Henry and Joan discuss the importance of looking at one’s internal world and developing skills that are not traditionally taught. They also talk about how chaos can manifest in business.
• Joan shares her journey to self-confidence and her transition into being an Energy Activator, while Henry expresses his excitement for Joan’s new endeavors with minerals.
• Joan discussed her interest in working with minerals and crystals in a scientific way to help people find peace in the midst of chaos.
• Henry mentioned the challenge of comparing oneself to others and feeling like they haven’t accomplished enough.
• Joan discussed the concept of accepting what is and finding satisfaction in the present moment.
• Henry shared his belief that introspection and self-awareness are key to reducing chaos in business.

Links

Henry Lopez’s website

Henry Lopez on LinkedIn

Henry Lopez on Facebook

Henry Lopez on YouTube

Elizabeth Ralph is a high-level wealth strategist and intuitive investor who retired at the age of 39 to teach others how to reach financial freedom through non-traditional ways. She is the founder of The Spiritual Investor and the host of The Spiritual Investor podcast, the place where entrepreneurs transform from unsure investors to effortless wealth creators.

Formerly a financial executive and energy trader, Elizabeth shifted her focus entirely in 2012 while feeding Cheetos to a kangaroo on a beach in Australia. She realized that to fulfill her purpose of saving unwanted horses from slaughter she needed to break free from the confines of the corporate world. So right then and there, she decided to go “all-in” and set up a strategy to achieve financial freedom within 10 years. Since then, Elizabeth has helped countless spiritual entrepreneurs to create their own strategies for financial freedom through The Spiritual Investor framework.

Highlights

• Elizabeth Ralph shares her journey from corporate energy trader to spiritual investor, and the courageous steps she took along the way.
• First you have to get to the point of emotional neutrality about money before you can learn the principles of investing.
• People Elizabeth works with are usually already open to the idea of a spiritual path.
• If you already know that everything is connected, then you can bring that concept into investing.
• We talk about how to differentiate between your intuition and your “monkey mind”.
• Elizabeth’s clients usually have made the decision that they have to change their relationship with money.
• People who are already on the spiritual path often have trouble understanding the financial world as it is presented. Elizabeth helps to translate traditional concepts to ones that those on the spiritual path can understand.
• How do you go out in the world with the idea that money is energy?
• Everyone is different and it’s important to meet people where they are.

Links

Elizabeth Ralph’s website

Elizabeth Ralph on Instagram

In this episode, I am interviewed by my friend, Greg Harrington. We decided to do this after having a long discussion about aloneness, which was the topic of the previous podcast episode. We talked about that and then talked a lot about getting in touch with instructions from yourself.

Highlights

• We discussed the difference between loneliness and aloneness.
• Loneliness leads us to seek others and to be part of a tribe. Aloneness is a feeling of emptiness and separation from our self.
• People often look for God everywhere except within themselves. We have the power and we’re connected to everything.
• Greg: I’ve learned that I keep myself from self-discovery with busyness.
• Joan: It isn’t easy to move in a new direction.
• We talk about the search for meaning in our lives and why it’s important to connect to other people.
• Everyone’s path to their self is different. Every life and every path has value.
• We talk about the childhood experiences that perpetrate the feeling of aloneness.
• We also talk about getting in touch with your intuition and the process of sitting on the couch and waiting for instructions.
• Greg asks how we can tell the difference between our intuition and the noise in our head and learning how to wait.
• You're so unique no matter who you are, and you have something to offer the world. It's good to understand how things work.
• Don’t try to make things happen; allow them to happen.

Links

Buried Feelings of Aloneness Can Affect Your Finances – TPS578

In today’s episode, I share something I went through recently that I hope will help you understand something about yourself. It’s about one of the five main feelings that people act out through their money – aloneness.

Highlights

• The five main feelings I outlined in Build Your Money Muscles were aloneness, shame, anger, deprivation, and a sense of being trapped. Aloneness is one that is most common. I explain why.
• I talk about the difference between loneliness and aloneness and how I got in touch with a time in my life when I felt utterly alone.
• A friend helped me express and release those feelings. I explain how.
• Within an hour afterwards I felt entirely different, and I tell how my financial situation changed very rapidly – within a few days.
• Changes like this don’t always happen rapidly but rather after a series of smaller releases.
• Explain how the Healing Energy Activations I do speeds up the process.
• By allowing yourself to feel the feelings, you learn a lot about yourself and how your habitual feelings are affecting your financial outcomes.
• I talk about how your ethnic background can be the force behind your habitual emotions.
• Physical therapy has helped me shift my body and how it moves and that can affect your emotions.
• When you go through any kind of change, it can lead to feelings of disorientation because your brain has to be reprogrammed for the new way of being.
• The reason why a lot of people resist major change is because it is disorienting.
• I discuss how aging can affect your habitual thoughts, beliefs, and emotions and offer some ideas about how to recognize what’s happening.
• When you’re being authentic, then you feel better about yourself, and when you feel better about yourself, you’re going to reward yourself differently financially and in terms of what you’re accomplishing.

Links

Download a free PDF of Build Your Money Muscles

Click here to be notified of the groups that will start early next year.

In this episode, I talk about finding inner peace in turbulent times such as we are in now. Techniques are suggested for reducing anxiety and finding that peace within.

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Highlights:

• I see hope in the younger generations who want positive change in the world. I find that people in their 20s and 30s are more able to quickly change their mindset.
• I share an example of a 30-year-old client who transformed her anxiety and depression into a much happier state in just 5-6 months. This gives me optimism about people’s ability to change.
• I believe each person contributes energy to the world by how they think and feel. Listeners are encouraged to add “positive energy” through kindness, love, and peacefulness.
• Major events happening in the world may feel out of our control. But we have power over our inner state. I share some coping skills to handle difficult times.
• I suggest setting “feeling goals” not just money goals. Changing your mindset is crucial for creating what you want.
• I see this as a turning point on the planet. You have a choice: contribute to fear and anger or be part of a growing peace movement.
• Finding peace within ourselves radiates outwards to help heal the world.

Links

To be notified of the new opportunities that will soon be announced on Prosperity Place, click here.

It’s amazing to me how many small business owners don’t know how to manage their money. This affects their ability to make good business and financial decisions. In this episode I address this issue and offer some solutions.

Highlights

• Many people are feeling financially uncomfortable due to fear about the state of the world. Remember, it’s not about the money, it’s about your feelings regarding money.
• During uncertainty, there’s a tendency to default to fear because your brain is trying to keep you safe. But giving in to fear means going back to what wasn’t working.
• Look at your financial fear and relationship with money your money reflects what’s going on inside you.
• Minimize fear by taking care of your money. Money likes to be counted track your numbers. Don’t hand off all financial duties.
• Entrepreneurs often don’t pay enough attention to their finances. You must track income, expenses, cash flow.
• Automate as much as possible use accounting software. Get help from a bookkeeper or accountant.
• If you avoid tracking your finances, you have a poor money relationship. Successful businesses track their numbers.
• Use tools like spreadsheets to measure cash flow, especially as an entrepreneur with fluctuating income.
• Make decisions based on your numbers what to pay, what to let slide, how much extra you need. This allows creative money solutions.
• Quiet time allows financial solution thoughts to come through. Worrying is a waste of time.
• Your thoughts, beliefs emotions affect your money outcomes. Train your brain towards prosperity.
• Make a commitment to learn about money practice basics like mental math. Read financial sites.
• Get to know your money by paying attention to it. Disorderly finances lead to poor outcomes.
• Download the free cash flow spreadsheet to start tracking your numbers. Improving your money relationship improves your life.

Links

Download the Cashflow Spreadsheet

Stripe

Mint

QuickBooks

PayTraqer

Dr. Saul Shaye was a chiropractor for 18 years before closing his chiropractic practice in 1993 to follow his inner guidance to become a full-time spiritual healer. For 19 years, he worked with the National Football League as a spiritual healer, and helped over 100 players and coaches with the Green Bay Packers, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Saul is the former Vice President of The Spiritual Healers Association of America and is the author of three books – He Who Walks on Two Worlds, Double-E Diet, and The Bigger Little Book of Miracles. He has also lectured in eight countries and over 250 Unity churches in the United States, Canada, and Britain.

Highlights

• Dr. Saul Shaye grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn and always questioned spiritual concepts as a child. He got into a bad motorcycle accident at 20 which made him want to leave Brooklyn.
• He went to college in Louisiana on a track scholarship, even though he was told he'd never run again after his knee injury. He was determined to heal and did after 6 weeks.
• In his 20s, he read the Edgar Cayce biography "There is a River" which opened him up to metaphysics and spirituality. He started studying his dreams and has recorded over 19,000 of them.
• While a chiropractor, he started experimenting with spiritual healing and kept it secret for years. He eventually followed his calling to be a full-time spiritual healer, giving up his practice.
• For over 19 years, Saul worked as a healer for the Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Kansas City Chiefs, helping injured players recover.
• He believes having been a chiropractor gave him credibility with the teams and allowed him to demonstrate his techniques.
• Saul emphasizes listening to your intuition and inner voice, even if you're skeptical. He and Joan feel they are here to follow their true paths.
• They discuss being willing to reinvent yourself multiple times when something is not working. Saul gave up chiropractic when he felt called to heal full-time.
• Joan sees them both as "old souls" who have been on earth a long time and are not afraid to follow their inner guidance.

Links

Saul Shaye’s website

Saul Shaye on LinkedIn

YouTube videos with Saul

Lately, because I’ve been doing more energy activations, I want to learn more about the science and the different forms of what’s often called energy healing. In this episode, I talk about how I combine both energy healing and ChatGPT in my quest for information.

Here is a summary of the key points from the transcript:

• I have been doing energy work for a long time but am now being more open about it. I don't like to use the word "healing" because it implies the healer does something to you. I believe energy work activates your own healing power within.
• It started for me in the 1970s when I got a message to buy crystals. I started selling them and doing energy treatments to help people use them. I saw astounding results even though there were no books or internet back then to learn from.
• I believe when you have energy work done, it activates your own healing power within. We all have that power - if you've ever had a cut heal, that's your healing power. It can work on emotional, physical, and spiritual levels.
• I'm interested in the science of how energy healing works.
• I've tried many techniques like acupuncture, cranial sacral, and polarity therapy. I believe our bodies run on energy and "dis-ease" is often caused by energy blocks.
• There are now schools for learning energy healing techniques - I never trained, I just followed my guidance.
• We all have psychic and energy abilities; it's finding what works for you. Trust your intuition when exploring techniques.
• Energy healing helps improve the energy flow in your body/mind/spirit.
• Energy healing can change financial results too because money is an energy exchange between people or commercial entities.
• When you feel drained, your energy needs a boost.
• In my Energy Activations, I intuit where to put my hands and can feel emotions stuck there. I make sounds to release the emotions and pain.
• I don't fully understand how this all works. But releasing stuck energies can relieve pain better than drugs that just suppress issues.
• I want to teach people not to fear their emotions. Feeling and expressing them helps you feel better in body, mind, spirit, and allows you to be yourself, not follow others blindly.

Links

Click here if you want to chat about my Energy Activations

Download the “conversation” I had with ChatGPT.

The Energized Tibetan Crystals

Article: The Truth about the Power of Crystals & Stones

The MetaMind Circle

In this episode, Joan Sotkin talks about the connection between food, depression, anxiety, and overall well being. She shares her personal story of overcoming depression by changing her diet and lifestyle.

Joan discusses how eating sugar and processed foods can negatively impact mental health, referencing various studies that show links between diet, inflammation, and conditions like depression and anxiety. She talks about the importance of meeting your body’s needs through healthy nutrition, exercise, and self-care.

Overall, Joan encourages listeners to evaluate whether their current habits and lifestyle are serving them and to make changes if needed. She believes taking care of our physical and mental well being is an inside job and that we have the power to create better feelings and life experiences through the choices we make each day.

Highlights

• Joan suffered from depression for 15 years before discovering the link between sugar, hypoglycemia, and mental health.
• Cutting out sugar and processed carbs helped her depression lift within a week.
• There are now many studies showing connections between inflammatory diets and increased risk of depression.
• Releasing cortisol from chronic stress negatively impacts physical and mental health.
• Making different choices about diet, exercise, and self-care can shift habitual emotions and thinking patterns.
• Meeting your own needs gives you more energy to share with others.
• Joan is interested in leading workshops and webinars focused on these topics.

Links

Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss

Sugar Blues by William Dufty

Nourish Yourself for Health and Happiness by Dr. Harold Harper and Joan Sotkin. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the download.

Article Links

2023

Alterations in Alcohol Consumption Echo Depression Symptom Changes

Summary: A new study uncovers a correlation between changes in alcohol consumption and the ebb and flow of depression symptoms.

How inflammation in the body may explain depression in the brain

Depression: Ultra-processed food consumption tied to higher risk

2022

Depression Linked to Consuming an Inflammatory Diet and Increasing Risk of Frailty – Neuroscience News

2017

World’s First Clinical Trial Finds Diet Works for Depression

In this episode, I talk about the process I went through building The MetaMind Circle and my history with online communities. I learned that it’s not always easy to form meaningful relationships online, and I discuss some of the things I learned along the way.

Highlights

• When a group I joined a few years ago no longer served my need to have authentic conversations, I studied how to start and build an online community.
• I discuss the idea behind The MetaMind Circle, how it got started, how it has grown – and changed – and what I have learned from the process.
• For me it’s important to let things grow organically, no matter how long it takes. And now I see how everything is coming together in a wonderful way.
• What I get out of an organization I belong to, is up to me not the organization.
• If I don’t enjoy what I’m doing, I do something else. This may mean making changes to what I thought had to be done to reach my goals.
• It helps to talk to other people about your ideas, especially people who share your values.
• There’s a good chance that things you try are not going to work. That’s okay. You don’t have to stick with it. Try something else.
• I talk about some of the things I want to do in the future.

Links

The MetaMind Circle website

www.Circle.so  – the platform on which I built The MetaMind Circle

Click here to set up a time to talk to me

I recently started using ChatGPT and in this episode, I share my experiences with you. I also talk about software for automating income and expense entries with bookkeeping software like QuickBooks.

Highlights

• It’s important that you learn how to correctly give ChatGPT prompts (queries) and how to talk to it.
• The bottom line is that it can be very useful for researching and outlining articles, webinars, e-books, and events.
• ChatGPT needs to be personalized and you need to be familiar enough with the answers given to evaluate the accuracy of the information ChatGPT provides.
• Chat GPT can provide ideas for topics to include in speeches, e-books, etc. It will also create outlines for you.
• Because the basic version of ChatGPT is free, I suggest you give it a try. No one else will see what you’re doing and no one will criticize you for anything. You can’t make mistakes.
• I talk about having a holistic approach to business.
• Building a business is much more effective when you’re not trying to do it all alone. Get out of your own little bubble and reach out to others.
• Be discriminating when it comes to accepting external information.
• It’s important to understand some level of technology because it can make such a difference for your business.
• It’s also important to be curious and learn new things and have an awareness of the world around you.

Links

Experience ChatGPT

Henry Lopez’s E-Book: Click here for the podcast episode. Scroll down to the Resources section to download.

Jeff Hood is the owner and developer of the Rio Grande Refuge. In this episode Jeff shares his long journey to finding his place of peace on the Rio Grande and how he is now developing it for others to share. I’ve known Jeff for 25 years and know that he has a lot of wisdom to share.

Highlights

• Jeff Hood is in the process of renovating a 100-year-old farmhouse and property in Vilardi, New Mexico on the Rio Grande – for him, a dream come true.
• As he recounts some of the work experiences he has had, Jeff said he always wanted to have a farm.
• A seminar with Jack Canfield convinced him that he had to take a chance and find a way to his dream.
• Jeff shares what it’s like living and working on the river.
• In the 70s, Jeff was a wilderness guide and got a Masters in counselling.
• Through the 80s and 90s, Jeff was working at Larry Wilson’s Pecos River Learning Center where they did corporate trainings using ropes courses and other activities to help people build confidence.
• Jeff shares his inner experience of some of the adventures he has lived through during his 73 years, and what it’s been like building the Refuge as he becomes who he has become – and is still becoming. He also reads one of his poems.

Links

Jeff’s Poetry Book: Musk Ox Poems

Jeff’s site

In this episode, I tell the story of my intuitive introduction to crystals and stones in the late 1970s and how that developed into a large wholesale, retail, and mail-order business. I talk about my deep connection to the minerals kingdom and something that happened recently to rekindle my desire to energize and distribute crystals and stones.

Highlights

·   In meditation, I heard “go buy a pound of tumbled stones”. This led me to start using and selling stones while I was living with my parents at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey 1977.

·   I share why I decided to start studying mail-order and how that evolved into Joan’s Crystals, which was the first business to market minerals for healing and meditation nationwide.

·   The business grew rapidly, and I talk about steps I took to make that happen.

·     A healer friend of mine suggested that I own the fact that I am a healer and to stop trying to hide it.trying to

·      I share some of the steps I took – and am still taking to move in a direction that is more in tune with who I believe I am.

·   People often want instant healings, but it doesn’t work that way. I explain.

·   Minerals are important for both our health and in industry, especially now that people are talking about the minerals that go into technology.

·  I talk about my plans for the future – as I see it today – although I know it’s an evolving story.

This episode is a long narrative. If you feel drawn to the topic, I hope you listen to the podcast.

Links

Check out the Energized Double-Terminated Tibetan Crystals for Inner Peace

Rachel Rider is a Master Coach and the Founder of MettaWorks. She is also the author of the new book Who You Are Is How You Lead. Rachel sets her practice apart by drawing from both traditional and alternative modalities, including Somatic Experiencing, Polarity Therapy, Zen Buddhism, Inner Relationship Focusing, and anti-racism.

Highlights

• Rachel explains how she got into alternative therapies and practices when she felt physically and emotionally uncomfortable while working in corporate.
• She explains how the work she does with clients is different from other coaches and how she basically gets her clients through referrals.
• Generally, Rachel has found that people in high corporate positions feel a certain anxiety because of their need to always get things right. She explains.
• When there was childhood trauma, Rachel doesn’t try to deal with the trauma directly, but helps clients see how that trauma is affecting their performance.
• Rachel has always had a strong entrepreneurial spirit. The females in her lineage were all entrepreneurs.
• Because of her lineage and experience, she has learned to trust in the entrepreneurial process without getting overly anxious.
• As a result of her financial situation in college, Rachel learned bookkeeping which has served her well as an entrepreneur.
• Rachel hopes for the development of a common language for doing the inner work that isn’t about fixing yourself but knowing yourself.
• There’s a difference between curiosity and self-blame when examining your inner world.
• Learning how to connect is not easy and teaching the skill is one of the things that Rachel does so that people can work better together in corporate.
• Rachel explains how she meets people where they are – a very important skill.

Links

Rachel Rider’s website

Rachel Rider on LinkedIn

Rachael’s book: Who You Are Is How You Lead

In this episode, I acknowledge the difficulty people are having with the many changes that are taking place in our world and in our lives. Suggestions are offered for becoming comfortable with change, especially when you can’t control what’s happening.

Highlights

• An important piece of my podcast equipment died, which precipitated unexpected changes. I talk about how I dealt with these changes and the many changes in the podcast world that have taken place over the past 10 years.
• If you don’t know how to gracefully deal with change, you can wind up anxious and depressed.
• Your brain is wired to let you know that you’re in danger when there is uncertainty. I talk about how your brain responds to uncertainty and change.
• You can’t stop the changes that are happening, but you can make plans and learn to deal with the changes.
• Older people often have more difficulty dealing with change.
• Technical changes, such as AI, are causing confusion because they’re happening so fast.
• It’s important to recognize when you feel uncomfortable with what’s going on – especially regarding things over which you have no control. I explain and offer some suggestions.
• Meditation can be just as effective as antidepressants.
• The idea is to make whatever is going on okay.
• When you are uncomfortable, talk to yourself as if there’s a coach in the room with you who can help you understand that whatever is happening is okay and you’ll get through it.
• It is your inner child that is upset and the adult within needs to soothe that child.
• Whatever is happening is just what’s happening; it’s not good or bad.
• It’s not about what’s happening, it’s about how you respond to whatever is happening and it’s your choice as to how you do this.
• Many things are going to come up in your life that are unexpected and that you can’t control. Now is the time to learn how to deal with those things.
• Being afraid is not going to change anything.

Link

To set up an appointment to talk to me about how we can work together in a way that works for you, click here.

Dr. Philippe Douyon is a Board Certified Neurologist who helps high-performance individuals and business leaders crack the code to hacking the most powerful tool at your disposal: Your Brain. From years of witnessing first-hand the disastrous effects of neurological disorders, Dr. Douyon discovered that the solution was simple: Take charge of your brain.

Many of us don’t realize that you do not have to fall victim to your neurological makeup. Dr. Douyon believes that success in life and business starts in the brain and is on a mission to spread the empowering message that you CAN rewire your brain to create a life you were meant to live, regardless of age, all without prescribing a single pill. His book is Neuroplasticity: Your Brain's Superpower: Change Your Brain and Change Your Life.

Highlights

·         A definition of neurology.

·         Who you are is, in reality, all about your brain.

·         During the first seven years of our lives, we aren’t thinking for ourselves. Our brains are being programmed as we are absorbing everything around us.

·         Our experiences inform the brain we have today.

·         We talk about how electricity and magnetism run body-mind systems and how they can be used to help the brain.

·         Dr. Douyon shares the morning routine that helps him maximize the power of his brain. He discusses meditation, affirmations, self-talk, exercise, and more.

·         When you say I Am, your brain believes whatever you say afterward. So be careful what you say.

·         Be mindful of what you’re doing and thinking when you first wake up. Your brain is in the alpha state and takes in everything.

·         Drink plenty of water, eat healthy foods, and take cold showers.

·         To be the best version of yourself, invest in yourself every day.

·         He shares how having two kidney transplants affected how he lives his life and takes responsibility for what’s going on in his body-mind.

·         Make your health a priority and don’t always believe what society tells you.

·         Awareness is the big thing. A lot of people don’t realize that they don’t feel well.

·         Don’t try to make big changes all at once. Make a series of small changes.

Links

Previous Interview: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

Book: Neuroplasticity: Your Brain's Superpower: Change Your Brain and Change Your Life

PODCAST: Surviving Your Brain with Dr. Philippe Douyon

Dr. Douyon’s Website: www.inlebrainfitinstitute.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/PhilippeDouyonMD

Instagram: www.instagram.com/philippe.md/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-douyon-md-85a24449/

Dr. Dan Lieberman is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. He is the co-author of the international bestseller The Molecule of More, which has been translated into 20 languages, and the author of Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind.

Highlights

·         People underestimate the importance of the subconscious. Dan tells us why.

·         Our unconscious is responsible for the most important things in life.

·         Talking about fairytales, Dan says there’s a certain amount of entrainment that happens when one person tells a story to another.

·         Stories are key to understanding the world.

·         There is a difference between fairytales and myths. Dan explains.

·         Fairytales are often intense and not entirely safe because they can stir up so much in our unconscious.

·         Read one fairytale and let it do its work.

·         Often, when uncomfortable stuff shows up, we flee. Dan suggests that we stick with it and deal with whatever comes up.

·         Dan discusses the symbolism in Rapunzel.

·         Growth sneaks up on you whether you want it or not. Becoming an adult often means coming to terms with our animal self. Seeing the “exit door” in our 70s or 80s is often a catalyst for growth.

·         Training your brain is not unlike training an animal – it requires repetition and gentleness. If you don’t do something right, don’t berate yourself.

Links

Dan’s Website

Dan on LinkedIn

Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind  On Amazon

Previous Interviews on The Prosperity Show about:
The Molecule of More

About Spellbound and the purpose of life

Communicate with Your Subconscious Using Numbers and Tarot

Like many people, since the Covid pause, I’ve been trying to figure out where I want to go from here. In this episode, I share the process I’ve been going through and some of the techniques that have served me and are now serving others.

Highlights

• I share a dental experience I had that led to a concussion. It took a long time for me to understand how the dental experience had affected me.
• When you’re trying to figure out what’s going on medically for you, it helps to remember that there isn’t just one answer. Look back at your personal medical history and notice when you recognize a connection to something.
• It’s complicated because there are so many interconnected systems in your body-mind, and only you can get in touch with what’s going on.
• I have come to trust that there is a solution for every problem.
• As a result of sharing this story with others, I’ve come to understand what in my heart I want to do – which is to help people understand who they are and how to communicate with inner guidance.
• I shared this story because you may not realize how valuable who you have learned to be can be to other people – if you believe in yourself.
• Many people recognize they have an inner voice, but they were afraid to follow it.
• I talk about the technique I taught someone for going inside to listen to your body-mind and how the inner voice can lead you to what you need.
• You have to try things out and don’t be afraid that they won’t work. That’s how you get to know what will work.
• The answers for you are within you.
• Let’s suppose you have been helping someone who is in a needy position and you don’t want to do it anymore. But you keep doing it so that you don’t abandon the person. Keep in mind that if you leave, someone else will fill that spot.
• Remind yourself, if one of us has to be uncomfortable, it doesn’t have to be me. And the corollary is NO is a complete sentence.
• You have the right to do what feels right to you.
• Getting in touch with your self is the key to comfortable living so you can be led to the right answers for you.

Links

Also, listen to this episode: Only You Know What’s Right for You

Audrey Holst works with high performing teams and individuals to rewire perfectionism, procrastination, and work anxiety into a culture of excellence. She’s the Owner and Founder of the Fortitude & Flow® Process and creator of the Perfectionist Archetypes™ and the Procrastination Protocol™. Her work goes beyond mindset and addresses challenges at their root cause using neuroscience and the latest research on the brain and the body.

Highlights

·         Audrey tells how and why she decided to lead people through procrastination and perfectionism.

·         One of the things that Audrey’s client’s home in on is a sense of incompleteness.

·         Perfectionism is a very specific survival strategy that people often used to get their needs met. As time goes on, the perfectionism either fades out or get stronger.

·         Law school is a place where perfectionism and skepticism develop.

·         Perfectionism is a learned behavior and doesn’t define who a person is.

·         Procrastination, like perfectionism, is another form of an excuse.

·         Procrastination kicks in the adrenaline, which gets people started.

·         How people recognize when they are letting their perfectionism or procrastination take hold.

·         Audrey shares how she works with people to help them let go of procrastination and perfectionism.

Links

Audrey Holst’s website

LinkedIn

In this episode, I cover a number of topics including why exercise is just as good as medications for depression, why it’s important to get to know yourself, and understanding how you make the decisions that determine your life outcomes.

Highlights

• What’s true for me might not be true for you.
• I talk about an article I saw that stated that exercise is more effective than counseling or medication for depression.
• How you make decisions and what you believe is true is true for you. These are different for every person.
• You may be using a high level of emotion to make your decisions when someone else may not.
• Critical thinking skills are important, and we aren’t teaching people how to develop those skills. How to examine what you believe to be true.
• We are living in a time when truth is sometimes buried in belief and many of our actions are based on what we believe to be true.
• Your brain is always trying to protect you and keep you alive but it may be leading you to make ineffective decisions.
• What do you believe that may not be serving you in the best possible way?
• Decide what you want to believe, then test the hypothesis. That’s the scientific method.
• Sometimes, I discover that what I want to believe is true isn’t, and I have to be willing to look for other answers.
• Test things out for yourself. Come to your own conclusions.
• I talk about using your intuition to find out what you need.
• Get to know yourself and your needs.
• Don’t believe everything you hear. Question authority. Question your own beliefs.
• You could never know what another person is thinking, so don’t assume that you do.
• When you are willing to look at possibilities, then you will be in the right place.
• We learn by trying things. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.
• There is no one who has your answers. Only you do.
• Explore the emotions behind your decisions because those decisions are defining your life.
• Don’t be afraid to be who you really are. You are unique – celebrate your uniqueness.

Links

Nourish Yourself for Health & Happiness

In this episode, I share some of my experiences as I go through the journey from who I’ve been to who I’m becoming and offer some insights I’ve gained along the way. I also talk about how self-awareness is a way to have a deeper, more impactful experience.

Highlights

• I have been trying out being fully honest about who I am and have learned that not everybody wants to hear it. I have to certain adaptations as to how I present myself in certain situations.
• The idea is to be able to share your ideas with others without expecting them to agree with you.
• Instead of wanting other people to understand me, I first have to understand them and who they are.
• I see that we often adapt who we are to the different people we are with. We all have multiple personalities within us – and that’s okay.
• It takes self-awareness to be okay with who you are, wherever you are, and to be okay with whatever part of you is expressing itself.
• Having self-awareness also allows you to decide which parts of you want to alter.
• Self-awareness is really important for you to learn to love yourself and to succeed.
• As you mature, you develop self-awareness if you take the time each day to spend time with yourself.
• By spending time with yourself, you can begin to recognize your inner power. This allows you to become more aware of others so you can comfortably be with them without judging who they are.
• I share an emotional experience I had after being honest with people I’ve known for a long time and sharing something they didn’t know about me. The results were positive.
• Have you ever given yourself permission to be and embrace who you really are? When you do, you’ll activate your inner power and find your true expression.
• You can feel safe and peaceful even in this crazy world that we’re all living in now.
• Everything we are going through is helping us become who we are becoming.

Links

Activate Your Inner Power Workshop

Build Your Money Muscles

Past episodes with Daniel Lieberman:

•             Communicate with Your Subconscious Using Numbers & Tarot
•             Science, Ancient Magic & The Unconscious Mind

Art Giser is the Creator of Energetic NLP, unifying Neuro-Linguistic Programming, spiritual principles, and transformative energy work. He is an internationally renowned NLP trainer, executive coach, intuitive, and master healer. Known for his humor, caring, and remote energy work, Art’s superpower is releasing people’s spiritual and unconscious blocks and opening up their powerful abilities. His unique background includes managing a medical research lab and working as a leadership consultant to Fortune 100 companies.

Highlights

• Art Giser recounts his journey from leadership consultant to the creator of Energetic NLP.
• During the episode, he describes Energetic NLP – what it is and how it works.
• About 30 minutes into the episode, Art takes us through one of his energy processes. This is best listened to at a time when you can close your eyes and relax.
• I hope you enjoy the process.

Links

Art Giser’s website

To sign up for Art’s videos, go to Blockbuster7.com

Art Giser on Facebook

Art Giser on LinkedIn

Art Giser on Twitter

Art Giser on Instagram

To learn about the energy activation I'm doing on May 3, click here.

Catherine Chadwick is a mental fitness trainer with over 40 years of experience as a registered nurse, is a practitioner of applied positive psychology, a certified transformational coach, and the creator of The Sunshine Quotient®. She holds a third-degree black belt in traditional Japanese karate and loves neuroscience. Catherine is a lifelong learner and teaches what she refers to as the rules of the game – energy principles and universal laws. Her site is www.theartofselfcraftsmanship.org.

Highlights

• Catherine Chadwick explains how recovering from a serious spinal injury she sustained while working as a nurse led her to doing the work she does today.
• She came to understand that people haven’t learned how to take care of themselves because they aren’t taught about the body-mind-spirit connection.
• The body-mind is an electrical-magnetic machine and it’s important to understand the principles of polarity.
• One of the first things Catherine suggests is that people get in touch with and connect to their breath. She explains.
• We are light beings who are constantly receiving and emitting energy. This principle is at the base of The Sunshine Quotient.
• Emotions create a range of vibrations. The vibration of disappointment is very different from the vibration of satisfaction. You don’t get what you want if you are stuck in the lower vibrations.
• The more people understand how the body-mind works, the easier it is to live intentionally.
• Catherine explains the science behind how breath can regulate the nervous system.
• What part of your lifestyle is affecting your thinking?
• We discuss techniques for interrupting repetitive thoughts.
• If you start out your day with gratitude and intention, you have a good chance of having a fabulous day.

Links

Catherine Chadwick’s website

Catherine Chadwick’s Facebook Page

Catherine Chadwick on LinkedIn

Catherine Chadwick on Instagram

Click here to learn more about the Activate Your Inner Power Workshop

In this episode, I take a look at what is going on in the world and share what I see as the problems within each of us that are contributing to the problems in the world. I suggest that if we learn to find peace within ourselves, we can contribute to creating peace in the world.

Highlights

• Our combined emotions can affect our environment, including the weather because our emotions also affect our behaviors.
• When we forget that we are all part of one humanity, we cause destruction in our lives.
• There’s so much going on that, for the general population, there are feelings of powerlessness.
• We have lost control of our lives because those who were supposed to take care of us are busy taking care of themselves.
• People aren’t taught the coping skills that people need to deal with what’s going on at this point.
• People need a sense of connection and togetherness, which often happens when dealing with the aftermath of a tragedy, such as a tornado.
• When you are a small child, is not unusual for adults to squash your self-expression and try to get you to think and behave the way they want you to.
• How can we form a functional society when those in charge often choose a group of people to classify as the outsiders, such as being done now with the transgender community?
• Being angry and hateful and controlling doesn’t make for a functioning society.
• What’s going on among people is just as chaotic as what’s going on with the weather.
• Ask yourself, do I want to be the person that I really want to be? Are you willing to figure out how to do that? Do you want to be an angry person and contribute to the chaos?
• The chaos is coming from us, not from externals like the weather, and it’s a matter of learning how to deal with what’s going on so we can change the energy that we're living in now.
• I can’t be free If you’re telling me how to live.
• Enough people have learned to find the peace within themselves, that if we join together, we can counteract some of the conflicting energy that exists now and help to bring forth peace.
• If we all learn how to be peaceful within ourselves and with each other, it’s going to lead to a better world.
• You have the power to decide who you want and how you want to feel, and with whom you want to interact.
• Do you want to be part of the solution or part of the problem? Deciding to stay angry perpetrates the problem.

Links

Tips for Prosperous Living

The MetaMind Circle

Tracy Crossley is a Behavioral Relationship Expert who has perfected a method for real change no matter what circumstances are occurring in the life of an individual; personally or in business. With her background in business, marketing, psychology, ontological coaching, emotional intelligence, and intuitive abilities, Tracy is the game-changer for women leaders looking to reinvent how they live and lead from the inside out. She has been known to say she can build the perfect leader for the present and the future.

Highlights

• Tracy shares the story that led her to go through her own reinvention process and how she helps others to do the same.
• If you aren’t embracing all of your emotions, you aren’t living your full life.
• When you undo your own conditioning, you have freedom of choice.
• It takes emotional strength to make internal changes.
• Understanding who you really are is a lifetime journey. You can move faster when you get help.
• You have to learn how to accept yourself and stop comparing yourself to others.
• The first thing that Tracy does with her clients is to help them work through the anxiety they are experiencing.
• Our emotions are a pathway to understanding ourselves.
• At a deep level, everyone has a fear of loss.
• Taking emotionally risky action is the key to changing your automatic emotional reactions.
• When you reach a point of knowing that you don’t want to keep doing what you’re doing, then you are ready to make a change and you realize that you have the power to make that change.

Links

Tracy Crossley’s Website and podcasts

Tracy Crossley’s book: Overcoming Insecure Attachment

Tracy Crossley on Facebook

Tracy Crossley on LinkedIn

Tracy Crossley on Twitter

Tracy Crossley on Instagram

Cortisol is an important hormone that regulates stress. However, when stress is constant, cortisol levels become very high. This can cause a surprising range of ongoing physical and mental discomforts. In this episode, I talk about how cortisol affects you and what you can do to minimize its effects.

Highlights

• I explain what cortisol is and why you need it.
• When you are under constant stress, you will have too much cortisol which causes a whole range of physical and emotional problems. I list them and mention what you can do to minimize cortisol response.
• When you get older, it gets easier to deal with life’s difficulties and to learn to trust yourself to solve your problems.
• Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to help minimize anxiety levels and cortisol response.
• Alternative solutions that I use include L-Thanine, Rhodiola Rosea, Ashwagandha, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Also useful are Ginkgo Biloba and Cinnamon.
• I share my history of having high cortisol levels.
• Diet makes a difference. What you eat can be connected to your emotions.
• If you look things up on the internet, be discriminating about what you accept as truth and understand that not everything works for everybody.
• Time yourself each day doing either mindfulness or meditation so you can be in touch with your thoughts and inner guidance.
• Pay attention to your morning and evening thoughts and decide to turn them into positive thoughts.
• How you respond when life happens is what determines which brain chemicals are going to affect your decisions.
• How you decide to deal with stress depends upon where you are in the lifecycle. A young parent will deal with stress very differently from an elderly person.
• If things are out of your control, you don’t have to take responsibility for fixing them – like climate change and political chaos.
• Actions you can take include taking care of yourself, eating healthy foods, getting enough sleep, cleaning up your house, laughing a lot, and making your life less complicated.
• Whatever you decide to do, do it with joy.
• If you are worried that you aren’t making enough money, you are probably filling up your life with too many things.
• Understand what’s causing your anxiety, and are you willing to make changes?
• I talk about how to use EFT and BSFF, and how BSFF helps to reprogram your subconscious.
• The better you get at knowing yourself, the better your life will be.

Links

Be Set Free Fast PDF

Be Set Free Fast Spiral Bound

Build Your Money Muscles

Tips for Prosperous Living

Spellbound

The MetaMind Circle

Monique Rhodes is a Happiness Strategist who teaches students and corporations around the world how to master their lives. She has spent the last 25 years studying the mind and its relationship to happiness and suffering. Over 70 universities and colleges use her program The 10 Minute Mind®. Monique hosts the daily In Your Right Mind podcast, where she discusses how small habits determine our well-being. In 2010 Monique received a nomination for the New Zealander of the Year Award.

Highlights

• Long-term depression and a suicide attempt led Monique to discover why she had such a hard time being happy. She traveled around the world learning what she needed to teach what she does today.
• The ability to shift happiness levels is available to everyone.
• People often have to reach a place where the status quo is so painful they have to make a decision to change.
• How we frame things determines the decision we will make about how to move in a new direction.
• Happiness is a habit.
• Almost everything is a habit and habits often form as a result of our past experiences.
• Our mind is the root of our happiness and suffering.
• For Monique, her superpower for understanding her mind is meditation.
• Meditation practices can change the structure of the brain.
• You make the decision to be either happy or unhappy.
• Happiness means that you can cope with whatever is going on in your life. It is the absence of suffering.
• We are programmed to believe that attaining things will make us happier.

Links

Monique’s website

Take the happiness quiz: www.howhappyami.com (loads slowly)

Monique on Facebook

Monique on Instagram

Tips for Prosperous Living

I’ve spoken to a number of people recently who, despite being stable financially, worry a lot about money and their future. In this episode, I provide some suggestions for letting go of money worries.

Highlights

• When you start worrying about money, ask yourself, “What am I afraid will happen if I run out of money?”
• Worrying about money makes it harder to generate money. I explain why.
• Worrying about your money can have a negative effect on your health.
• You can’t just stop worrying about money, you have to teach your brain a new response to how you usually think about money. I give examples.
• If you are worried about your financial future, you are making up a story that doesn’t exist. Tell a different story.
• You need to develop the skills that are necessary to make more money. This includes financial skills, business skills, and more.
• You can’t fulfill your dreams of a positive future unless you understand the habits that have gotten you where you are.
• Create a superhero in your mind who keeps telling you that you’re doing fine no matter what you’re telling yourself.
• You have the power to change your life if you’re willing to become aware of your habits and change the ones that aren’t serving you.
• Start noticing how you talk to yourself and how you worry about money. When you notice how you are worrying, take a few deep belly breaths and tell yourself something positive about what you’re doing.
• Your brain is wired to see the negative. This was originally a survival technique.
• It’s a matter of teaching your brain how to re-perceive where you are.

Links

Astara

The MetaMind Circle