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

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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

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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