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