The Prosperity Show Podcast (business)

I have been doing this podcast for more than 10 years and it feels like time to find new ways to express myself and connect to people. In this episode I say my goodbyes and tell what’s coming up in the future.

Here are the links to the things I mentioned:

I will let you know about the membership site via my email list or LinkedIn in about a month.

In the meantime, you can get in touch with me via LinkedIn or joan@prosperityplace.com

Direct download: TPS589-Goodbye.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:46am EDT

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.
  • The 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.
Direct download: TPS588-MoneyWorkshop.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:42am EDT

Small business owners and many practitioners have trouble talking about money. Yet, if you want to be comfortable financially, then you have to learn how to talk about money with potential clients, vendors, and financial practitioners.

Highlights

  • Sex and money are the two hardest things to talk about. A lot of people would rather talk about sex than money.
  • Both sex and money are about sharing personal energy, which can be scary especially when there is a lot of shame around both issues.
  • Always remember, money issues are never about money. They are about the emotions you’re acting out through your money.
  • People in every financial bracket don’t like to talk about money, especially how much they have or don’t have.
  • It’s very freeing to be able to talk about money and to realize that you are not your money. It’s just something you use to interact with the world.
  • How much money you have or don’t have doesn’t change your value as a human being. You have value even if you have no money.
  • Having a lot of money is not necessarily easy because you have to make a lot of decisions and it’s not that easy to talk to people other than financial advisors for whom you are a source of their money.
  • If you’re part of a peer group that struggles with money, when you start making more they might treat you like an outsider.
  • People often feel validated when they receive money. But money is not the answer to anything.
  • If you think you need more money, you actually need more people because money always comes from people.
  • For people who are in business for themselves, there’s a lot of uncertainty about income and unless you train yourself otherwise, that causes a lot of anxiety.
  • When you love, except, acknowledge, and appreciate yourself, you’ll make more money.
  • It’s important to counteract negative self-talk. I talk about how to do this.
  • Trusting and acknowledging yourself are important.
  • Being comfortable asking for money is essential if you’re in business for yourself.
  • How do you feel about talking about money?
  • Understand the value of your uniqueness.
  • Do you ever say, “ I don’t care about the money, I just want to help people”? As someone in practice or as a business owner you have to care about the money. That’s part of being in business.
  • If you suffer financially commonly no one is going to rescue you. You have to rescue yourself.

Links

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Direct download: TPS587-TalkingAboutMoney.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:40am EDT

Because of everything that’s going on in the world right now, many people are experiencing stress and its side effects on the body and mind. In this episode, I discuss the causes of toxic stress and offer a few suggestions for dealing with it.

Highlights

  • Toxic stress often starts early in childhood and continues throughout life. This can lead to many physical and emotional problems.
  • Most major diseases are caused by stress. I give examples.
  • Stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol are meant to be released for short periods. When you’re under constant stress it wears out body parts and systems.
  • You can teach yourself to manage stress, but first you have to make the decision to do it.
  • If you’re always trying to make things happen rather than allowing things to happen, that can cause stress.
  • When you feel uptight that’s a signal that you are responding to the external world in an unhealthy way.
  • Notice when you feel contracted. That’s when you’re under stress. Take a deep breath and imagine you’re expanding.
  • It’s the pushing to make things happen and to reach specific goals that cause a problem.
  • Wanting to be the best parent and being hyper-vigilant about your children’s activities can cause stress.
  • You get to decide how you want to respond to the stressors in your life.
  • If you decide to treat yourself differently and do things like eliminating negative self-talk, within a year or two you’ll feel entirely different from the way you feel now.
  • If you’re taking responsibility for other people’s feelings or outcomes, that’s a stressor.
  • When you’re with people, look for commonalities not differences.
  • Having more money is not going to solve your problems. As a matter of fact, it often causes more problems.

Having body work done is a way of reducing some stress.

Direct download: TPS586-DealingWithStress.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 5:10am EDT

I have known therapist Doug Foresta for a long time and we have been talking about how many therapists have money issues. In this episode we talk about that and an event we're planning to help people in the helper professions.

Because we had such a rich conversation, I’m going to include most of the called transcript under the Highlights.

Highlights

  • Doug shares his personal background with money and why he was attracted to my work before he became a therapist.
  • Doug talks about his emotional habits of disappointment and deprivation and how it affected his relationship with money.
  • He realized that his problems were not about money but about his emotions.
  • He also learned how to replace the habitual emotions for those that were more functional. It led to some business that he hadn’t expected.
  • If a therapist can understand how they deal with money, or a doctor or any other kind of coach or practitioner can understand the money piece, they will find more inner peace because they're not going to be thinking about money all the time.
  • As my money changes, I noticed that so has my identity. I no longer identified as a person who is screwed up about money.
  • When I think about being prosperous, a big part of that is around love that I have in my life now.
  • Doug tells the story of how his relationship with his first wife has changed since he’s been making the changes in his life.
  • He talks about other things in his life that have changed and the new habits he has developed.
  • When you worry, when you're in a hurry, when you're not able to stay in the moment, that's when you miss opportunities.

Links

If you are interested in learning more about the program Doug and I are putting together, sign up for my list at https://ProsperityPlace.com/joinnow

Here’s the Transcript

Hi, everyone. Joan Saskin here. And welcome to the Prosperity show, where we explore a holistic and often alternative path to business and financial success, personal fulfillment, and peace of mind. And today, I have a special treat for you all. A good friend of mine with whom I'm putting a project together, we're going to talk a little bit about, so I want to get right to the interview. And so my guest is Doug Forrester, who is psychotherapist. How do you call yourself?

I call myself a therapist. I'm a licensed clinical social worker, but.

I'm a therapist. Okay. A therapist who is really smart and knows how to do therapy. And I met Doug years ago, and he's been listening to the podcast and following my system for more years than anyone else, and we've decided to do something. So, Doug, welcome to the prosperity show.

Oh, it's such an honor to be here with you, Joe. Thanks for having me on.

So what was it about what I do that attracted you?

Yeah, it's a great question. I think my whole life, so, yeah, I mean, I go back to, like, it was either 2008 or 2009 when I started, when I really started following you. And so my whole life, I kind of have always had struggles with money, but, yeah, I mean, emotional stuff around money, and it was something about the way that you broke things down differently than anyone had ever done. You know, it was. It was always like, practical advice, you know, do this, do that, but, you know, save, you know, save more than you spend, but, I mean, everybody knows that. But I knew there was something else. There was something else because it's like, well, why am I having so much trouble? Why am I having so much anxiety around money?

And so there was just something about the way that you spoke about things, the way that you used the combination of humor, and it just made sense to me, and it just resonated for me. All of a sudden, it was like, oh, yeah, that's me.

Were you a therapist at the time?

I wasn't practicing very much therapy at the time. I had a full time job working for the state, so I had, like, a state job with a pension and all that stuff. But I was always stressing about money. I always remember racing to the bank to try to desperately put $20 in so I don't overdraft.

I don't think anyone else can relate to that. All right. You said what you liked about what I was doing, but it must have been the emotional piece that also attracted you.

No, I mean, that's exactly it. It made me feel like, oh, okay, I see what's going on here. And it made me reflect on my own sort of family origin and stories that I had about money. So, yeah, absolutely. That's what really drew me in. It just made so much sense to me, and it spoke to.

And Doug had a podcast called stand out and be heard, which is a lot of people's issue. He's not doing that anymore, but he's done a lot of different things along the way, and we hadn't talked in about five years, at least. And then he ordered something from me, and I said, let's talk. And here we are. And we've been looking at the market, because you have to do that in order to know what to do next. So tell the story of what we've decided to do.

Absolutely. Well, in full disclosure, you've helped me tremendously. And what were talking about as a therapist, I see that a lot of therapists, when money is brought up in therapy session, a lot of therapists ignore it or they manage to conveniently not talk about it. Why? Because we're uncomfortable, as therapists with money. A lot of therapists have money issues. I would say most therapists have money issues. So if we can't deal with it ourselves, how are we going to help clients deal with it? And that was sort of where we started to think about how do we support other therapists, coaches, healers, in helping them work with people around money issues, which always come up right.

And so we've decided to put together a certification course that's going to start with just a webinar in March. And that's all we're going to say about that at this moment. If you're on my mailing list, you're certainly going to find out about it. So if you want to know about it, just go to prosperityplace.com joinnow and you'll get on my list. But what I find interesting is that not only do therapists avoid talking about money, most of them have serious money problems. That a lot of practitioners have money problems. And it's like they get very caught up in being a good person and helping their clients, and somewhere along the line they forget to help themselves.

I think many therapists become like, why do we become therapists? And I think part of the reason is our role in our family of origin might have been one where were helpful, and that got us attention. And so now we go out in the world, and I love what you said about we want to be good people. Of course, that alone is like, of course you can't be a good person and have money. I mean, good people are broke and destitute.

Well, it's the Jesus model, right?

Yeah.

In order to be spiritual and in order to be a good person, you can't have a lot of money because money is the root of all evils. I mean, our gestalt beliefs are really screwed up around money, and everybody wants it.

Yeah, absolutely.

So will you share some of the things about yourself that you learned?

Sure.

That have helped you develop a different attitude and practice with money?

Yeah, I was addicted to, I had developed a habit of disappointment and desperation with money. Money is something that was constantly disappointing to the point where, yeah, it's like, if I got $100, you'd be like, oh, only $100, why not 1000? And if it was 1000, it'd be like, oh, only $1,000. It's a cycle of desperation around. Money is something there's not enough of. It's hard to get, and it's very stressful. So of course, I just wanted to avoid it. I would avoid logging into my bank account because I didn't want to see how much money was in there. And again, just this constant feeling of never enough. And what you helped me realize is that I had a disappointment habit and a deprivation habit. That was a habit I grew up feeling that way. And then the habit filled my emotional life.

And then I can see so many places in my life where if I had to go back there was no reason for me to go through the emotional trauma that I put myself through with money.

Okay, so once you realized that it was not about money, it was about your emotions. And in recent years or a year, I think we looked at that feeling of being trapped. And you related to that?

Yes, very much so. Yeah. Money was exactly just a general overall feeling of constriction.

Yes. And that being contracted and being contracted. And it didn't take you long to not only understand what was going on, even though you had done a lot of work until then, but what was amazing to me was that new opportunity started showing up without you realizing it.

That's right. Including what we're doing together. But, yeah, I give you an example. So as I started to develop a different habit, which was of appreciation and gratitude, and I can actually log into my bank account today, look at my money and go, I am grateful for every dollar that I have, and I never was able to do that before. And then all of a sudden, I had somebody call me and say, hey, could you work with me? Could you take me on and supervise me as a therapist? And so now I'm building a mentoring of other therapists, which is I'm going to do a fee split with them. And so it gives me an opportunity to supervise and help other therapists grow, but also to grow my practice way beyond what I could earn working just one one with clients.

And that's the key, is finding out what to do other than one to one with clients.

Yeah.

And I had decided a long time ago that I didn't want to work alone anymore, that I didn't see that was healthy, that people did better when they were in joint ventures, when they had partners in their business, and that I had a habit of protecting myself by being alone. For me, having you show up and all you did was buy something from me. And I said, let's talk. This is where that instinct comes in. When you get a message, follow the message. It's not that hard to do. And we both feel, know that if a therapist can understand how they deal with money, or a doctor or any other kind of coach or practitioner can understand the money piece, that they will find more inner peace because they're not going to be thinking about money all the time.

That's exactly right. I mean, it's actually the opposite. That you'll be able to help people more if you can work on your own money issues.

Yes. I mean, all the stuff that I do is based on my experience. No one taught me what I know. And each of you out there has something you know or have experienced that no one else knows or has experienced. And when we can share that information, that's when we all prosper, when we stop trying to put gates around what we know, as if we're protecting diamonds, when in fact, the diamonds gain energy by being passed around.

Yeah, I totally agree. And when you talk about energy, that's the other piece you got me to realize, is that money is just another form of energy.

Yes. What does that mean?

Well, it's like a dollar is just a piece of paper, right. But it's a form of currency and energy that we use in the world to get things to interact with people. And we put a lot of emotional energy into money.

Yes. And the way I say it is, it's energy passing between two people or entities. So it's actually the energy of relationship. That dollar bill is a symbol of relationship. And in build your money muscles, I say that when you feel loved, accepted, acknowledged, and appreciated, that's when you're going to get paid.

That's wonderful. And one of the things you helped me realize, too, was that one of the things you always say is that money comes from people. And so a fear of money is a fear of running out of people. And it's really funny, because you talked about how I bought something from you, and I think in my subconscious, that was my way of reaching out to you. Except it was like I was hesitant to just reach out and say, hey.

Joan, that's very interesting. Yes, because it surprised me, because I was surprised when you did that. And this goes beyond what we're just talking about. It goes to that energy piece where you notice what's coming into your life and you don't put any value judgment around it. You just let things show up. Doug is a lot younger than I am. He's only 50. And I've said that I want to work with younger people because when I turn that exit, the knob on the exit door, I want someone else who can pass my knowledge around. And he just showed up. And it's amazing how many significant people can just show up.

That's been my experience in my whole life. I mean, pretty much everything I've ever done or had in my life has been that. And what I realized, too, is that's the energy piece also was when I was in a place of deprivation and feeling deprived, I also pushed people away, and then that pushed opportunity away, and.

That allowed you to continue to feel deprived.

Right.

We perpetrate those feelings when you say, I feel deprived. And you don't even have to say it, just have to have that feeling. You're telling your subconscious that's who you are. And your subconscious, which is running the show, says, oh, he must like that, let's keep him deprived. And it works that way. And once you understand that your emotions are the creative force behind your life stories, that you don't have to figure out why you're not making money. You have to figure out what you're feeling. You.

It's really simple, but it's not easy.

Well, no one said it would be easy. Yes, I'm amazed at how simple, the simple ideas that are behind money problems. But the act of getting people to take action to change is really difficult because people are wired to be afraid of change. So the first thing in build your money muscles, the first chapter is about adapting to change by doing things like changing where you put your toothbrush or the route you take to work or to go to the grocery store. Whatever you're doing, to do it differently and not do the same thing all the time because it gets disorienting. But you get to learn that after a couple of months, it's just as normal as the last thing you were doing.

Yeah. I'll tell you one of the things that's also. We haven't really talked about this, but one of the things that's really changed for me, and it's not obviously every day or perfect, but I noticed a difference in my identity. I had developed an identity as a person who is screwed up with money.

The phrase is, I'm not very good with money.

That's what people say. I'm not very good with numbers. I'm not very good with numbers. That's what I usually hear. And it's nothing about the numbers. It's about your relationship with money.

Right. And now I feel like I'm moving into a different identity of somebody who a. One of the things I learned from you is that my emotional life has nothing to do with my bank account. I don't want my emotional life to be determined by, if I have $1,000, then I'm happy. If I have $800, then I'm sad.

Right. Money doesn't determine how you feel.

But at the same time, I feel a much more expansiveness and possibility. And I notice more things are coming into my life, I think just because I'm noticing them and I'm more open to them. And like I said, my identity is changing from someone who's bad at numbers, I enjoy. I know. I track every dollar that comes in and out.

Yeah. And it's really interesting to me, the way you're saying it, because it's like you're changing, but you're also changing how you think of yourself. And to me, that is the key, is to learn to be okay with what you're doing. And I'm wondering, I know you got into your current marriage later in your life, and I wonder. And you have two young daughters who love their father. I'm sure they've all popped into our Zoom calls, and I sent them all heart. Rose quartz hearts. And one of them holds the heart next to her.

Last night.

Yeah. And I'm wondering if that experience of having the children, the oldest is six, I think.

Six. That's right. Six and five.

Right. Whether that has allowed you to feel more loving towards yourself.

Yeah, I would say that it does. Because when I think about feeling prosperous, a big part of that is around love. Right. It's about connection and feeling connected and feeling loved and feeling loving. And that, for sure, because I forget who it was. There was a woman who was a billionaire. She died from a malnutrition because all she would eat was like boiled chicken. She died alone and sad and lonely. Right. She had so much money, but it didn't add up to any kind of. She just felt this deep feeling of isolation and poverty. And I agree with you. I think definitely that is definitely connected.

To what let you expand. Unfortunately, a lot of people think that if they have a partner or that there is love in their life, that they have a love object, that they'll be able to be happy. But it doesn't always work that way. You were just lucky you had to go through one marriage that didn't work.

That right? That's right. But you want to know something? I don't think I've even shared this with you, Joan. But since I've been working with you, like many people, my ex, my first, just. We weren't compatible. That's okay. But for many years, I also had this thing about, oh, my ex is so mean to me. Why me? And actually, in the last two months or so, I've had this complete change. And we've been communicating better than we ever did when were married and certainly better than we ever did since we got divorced. And that really blew my mind, because that felt like something that was just a fact in my life. It was like the air or the sky or the water. And for that to change.

That really made me feel like, wow, if this immovable object could change in my life, then anything could change in my life.

That's such a good story. That is perfect. I remember when I had separated from my second husband, and there was a lot of contention there, and I just decided to talk to his soul. I call it soul to soul encounters. And I would send him love and light. And all of a sudden, he called me up one day and said, I have some money for you. And money was a problem with us. And it's true that life isn't hurting you. Life isn't happening to you. It's happening through you. And if you can understand that, then instead of saying, I wish that person would change, you can say to yourself, how do I have to change?

It's so obvious to me now. I could look back to some of the. I'll share with you a story of one of the times I felt the most constricted in my life. It was summer of 2014, I'll never forget, and I was dating someone long distance. And so at that time, she was in New York. And so I stopped really working because I was working in Massachusetts, and so I was running out of money. And I remember being so desperate. I was like, I have no money. I have no money left. So I had my wedding ring for my first marriage, and I thought, well, I paid a good amount of money for this. I'll hawk this, and that'll give me at least, like, $1,000, and then whatever. So I went into the place, and the guy was like, this thing is just garbage.

I bought it in New York, like, in the diamond district, and somebody just ripped me off and ripped me off, right? So they're taking it from me, and he goes, I can give you, like, $80. So he gives me $80. And I remember sitting in my car crying, just an emotional wreck. All I have is $80, even my ring, and I've got nothing left. It was like, maybe a kidney. Does anyone pay for a kidney? I can look back, and I could think of 100 ways in which I didn't have to do that to myself.

Right. So what has changed that has allowed you to treat yourself so differently?

Well, certainly working with you, for sure, but, I mean, the thing I got out of it is recognizing that the things I thought I didn't realize, how much I walked around in the world with a habit of deprivation, a habit of feeling trapped. And when you said to me, this is a habit, well, that made me realize, like, well, there's other habits that I've changed in my life. So if this is a habit, and it's not like this muddy curse, I mean, I really felt that way. I felt like I just had this cloud around my head of poor me, literally poor me. And so I think it was the piece about, well, if it's a habit, then I can do something different. And as I started to do that, all of a sudden, like I said, I started to be able to.

We've joked before. I've heard you say this. Nobody logs into their bank account. Very few people log into their bank account and go, that's wonderful. What good news. And it doesn't matter if it's $1,000, $100, or a million dollars. Why couldn't it be 2 million, right? If only I had. And I just started to notice. I would do this. I would log into my bank account, and then my first thought would be, why so little? And then I realized, well, wait a minute. That's a habit. That's a feeling of. I am training myself to feel constricted. I look at my money, I feel constricted. I feel sad for myself. I feel deprived. And I think it was that. It was just every day, just being mindful that I want, like, what do I. You always said to me, what do you feel?

What do you want to feel instead? Do you know how to feel that? Right. And when you ask me, what do you want to feel? Well, I want to feel loved. I want to feel content. And you're like, well, do you know how to feel that? Well, yes. And maybe that goes back to my family thing, too, right? I know what love is. I feel loved in my life and love other people. So I can apply this.

Yes, but you didn't always have that feeling of love to relate to.

No, I did not.

And that's the problem for a lot of people. I'm amazed at how many people I'll say, do you know how to feel satisfied? And they say, no, I've never felt satisfied. Well, that's not true. When they had an ice cream cone when they were a kid, they probably felt satisfied. They didn't know they were hurting themselves. But that's another story. My system is recognize, release, replace, and repeat. And what you just said is you came to recognize when you were feeling something. You may not have had a specific word for it at the time, but you noticed that you were constricted when you were dealing with your money. And that's the whole deal. When do you feel contracted and you can take a breath and allow yourself to feel expanded.

People don't realize how much control they have over how they're feeling without burying the feeling it's recognizing. And when you recognize, to be able to actually feel it and to not push it away and to be able to say, oh, there's something I'd rather be feeling in the moment. And the question, do I know how to feel? That is really important.

Yeah. The other piece then that I started to realize, to bring it back around is as I'm doing this work, I started to become much more aware of how money shows up in therapy. Obviously with couples, money is one of.

The money and sex.

Money and sex, right. But also even just individually, like so many people, where it really did come down to, they'd say something like, I wish I could move here, or I wish I could do this, or I wish I could leave this job. And then when you say, well, why can't you? They'd say, well, I don't have enough money. If only I had more money, then I could make all these changes in my life. And I've started to notice that my work has changed as I've done this work with you. And that's where I think is really exciting because I never got any training in graduate school about how to deal with clients and money.

And I'm going to go out on a limb and say, most therapists, coaches, healers, don't really, as you said, we barely know how to, we're a mess with our own money, so you can't take people on a journey that you haven't been on. So it's really exciting.

Yes. And I love that you're this excited. And for me, it's interesting to be able to work with someone with your, you have a lot of experience and you've done really well in parts of your life, and so many people do well in parts of their life, but the money piece is always the thing that's niggling at them, and they can't seem to get beyond it. And our goal, not only with therapists, but with healers and doctors, I see that just about everybody has money issues. When I talk to people in the financial industry, they all have money issues. That's why they're so anxious for new clients, so they can make more money. And when you read the publications that are put out by financial things for financial advisors, it's all about how you can make more money.

When they don't talk about how you can be happier or how you can be more satisfied or how you can feel more love, all of that. How can you make more money? As if money is what gives you the wherewithal to do what you want. And somewhere along the line, I said, just do what you want. And if you want to go into a business, you don't have to start with a big business. Start with something small. It's like, I want to play with the crystals and minerals again. So I bought $100 worth of stuff, and I'm going to turn it into more money. But I'm not in a hurry to make it happen. When you worry, when you're in a hurry, when you're not able to stay in the moment, that's when you miss the opportunity.

That's what happened to me. It's funny you said that because that's one of the things I really look at now. I would have a pattern of exhausting myself, but it never really added up to anything. And in the last year and a half, I've had some major, really good successes, working less and less frantically. The frantic thing was like, there's not enough money and I got to go get the money, and the oxygen is running out. I can't breathe in here.

That's funny. I mean, you're saying everything so well, which is one of the reasons we want to put this program together, because being a therapist who's willing to look at himself and the way that you are has let me see what really goes on with therapists. I've always known for a long time that they are just as screwed up as everybody else and that they don't know how to talk about money. To me, it's like you're being able to look at your money and recognize the feelings. To me, money is just a pathway into our inner world, that it has no value other than that. And the deeper you go into your inner world, the more apt you are to be able to find a means of expression that is satisfying for you and not what everybody wants you to do.

I had a need to tamper down my voice, my energy, my creativity, and so I used money as the vehicle to keep myself constricted.

Said beautifully, you've been learning well.

I have a good teacher.

By listening to my podcast and talking to me, and I couldn't ask for anything more. You're like the perfect person in my life. I love it.

Thank you.

So we're coming to the end of this interaction, and if any of this has done something to tweak something in your heart, then be sure to sign up for my list at join now. I'll have a link to that in the show notes. I really feel that Doug and I are doing something very valuable because if the helpers in the world do not know how to help people with money, how can people who are not in the helping professions help themselves? There is a process to being able to.

There is a process to being able to see your place in whatever you're doing with other people and to be able to get your place yourself into a place of peace so that you're not worried about your clients outcomes, that you're not worried about what you're doing for other people, that you realize that you're the most important thing in the world. And by letting go of all this stuff, you can get to take care of yourself in the way that you have to. So, Doug, thank you so much for this conversation today.

Thank you, Joan. Thanks for being you.

Direct download: TPS585-DougForesta.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 2:23pm EDT

In this episode, I discuss the problems caused by unrealistic expectations with an emphasis on how subconscious expectations affect your life outcomes. You will also learn more about how habitual emotions are the creative force behind your life stories.

Highlights

  • Subconscious expectations that result from past experiences can influence our relationships and financial decisions.
  • You can learn more about your expectations by recognizing patterns that might lead to disappointment and learning from your mistakes.
  • I give an example of relationship expectations. Also, examples are given about f how habitual emotions are the creative force behind our life stories and how this relates to expectations.
  • All of this is happening on the subconscious level.
  • If you have an expectation that a relationship won’t last, you will make decisions and behave in ways that make sure it doesn’t last.
  • Once you recognize a pattern, ask yourself what emotion the  pattern stimulates for you.
  • People who are overly optimistic often make bad financial decisions.
  • Experiences that don’t have happy endings are not bad, they are just what’s happening.
  • You can never really know what someone else is thinking.
  • It is best not to have expectations about how other people are going to behave.
  • If you expect a relationship to fill in the emptiness in your life, that can lead to disappointment.
  • Nothing can be perfect and the more tolerant you become of other people, the easier your life will be.
  • It’s okay to make mistakes and not do things perfectly.

Links

Click here to learn more and register for the Money Energy Activation.

Interview with Dr. Daniel Lieberman that I mentioned

Direct download: TPS584-Expectations.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 4:58am EDT

The beginning of a new year is a great time to introduce some change in your life. In this episode, I discuss why it’s necessary to make changes gradually and I offer some tips on some easy changes to make to get yourself going.

Highlights

  • Take small steps towards change to avoid overwhelming your brain. Start with things that don’t have major consequences.
  • I talk about how to embrace the discomfort and disorientation that change stimulates.
  • I offer some suggestions about small changes you can make around your house.
  • Develop an awareness about your current financial habits and decide what small steps to take towards new, more effective habits.
  • Develop a “buddy” relationship with a friend who may also want to change their financial habits. This gives you both the chance to establish accountability.
  • You can’t control everything in your life. Be aware of what you can control and make changes within that realm.
  • There is some discomfort that comes with change. The idea is to learn to recognize the discomfort as part of the process and to develop ways of adapting to it.
  • Learning how to adapt to change will help you deal with the major changes that are going on in the world – and will continue to go on for the foreseeable future.
  • What is one small change you can make today?

Links

Iris Apfel’s Instagram page

I would love to know what changes you are considering making and if you need any help in charting a course for yourself in the new year. Click here to set up a time to talk to me.

You can also send an email to Joan@ProsperityPlace.com

Direct download: TPS583-MakeChangesForTheNewYear.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 6:13am EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS582-BeYourself.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:36pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS581-Henry_Lopez_audio.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:07am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS580-ElizabethRalph.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:17pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS579-Joan-And-GreggHarrington.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 11:04am EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS578_-_Aloneness.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 1:34am EDT

Direct download: TPS577-Resistance2.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:03am EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS576_-_Peace_Within.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:43am EDT

Direct download: TPS575-Chaos_Of_War.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 11:53am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS574-_You_and_Your_Relationship_with_Money.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 5:38am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS573-SaulShaye.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS572-EnergyHealing.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 10:29am EDT

Direct download: TPS571-KuteBlackson.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:46am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS570-FoodDepressionAnxiety.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:40am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS569-Metamind.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 4:59am EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS567-ChatGPT2.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 4:35pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS566-Jeff_Hood.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS565-Minerals_01-01.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:59am EDT

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

Direct download: TPS564-RachaelRider.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 5:47am EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS563-DeslingWithChange.mp3
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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/

Direct download: TPS562_-_Douyon.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:35am EDT

The Prosperity Show

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

Direct download: TPS561-Dan-Lieberman-Spellbound.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 5:42pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS559-AudreyHolst.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:27am EDT

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

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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:

Direct download: TPS557-SelfAwareness.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 1:52pm EDT

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.

Direct download: TPS556-ArtGeiser.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 2:56pm EDT

Direct download: TPS555-BecomeYourTrueSelf.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 3:55pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS554-CatherineChadwick.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:10pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS553-FindPeaceWithin.mp3
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Category:business -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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

 

Direct download: TPS550-Tracy_Crossley.mp3
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Category:business -- posted at: 2:18pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS546_-_Cortisol_and_Health.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

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Category:business -- posted at: 2:56pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS544-MoniqueRhodes.mp3
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Category:business -- posted at: 1:26pm EDT

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

Direct download: TPS541-MoneyWorries.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

As we approach the end of the year and the beginning of the next one, it’s a great time for reflection. In this episode, I mention a number of things that might help to think about.

Topics discussed in this episode include:

  • Becoming aware of the energy that surrounds us.
  • How to find peace of mind in the midst of the worldwide chaos.
  • How to develop empathetic detachment.
  • An attitude of acceptance and letting go.
  • Don’t expect other people to meet your needs.
  • Love, accept, acknowledge, and appreciate yourself.
  • Do something about getting out of uncomfortable situations and relationships.
  • You can make the decision to learn how to be internally peaceful.
  • Self-awareness and self-acceptance.
  • Allow life to happen rather than trying to make it happen.
  • Take care of yourself.
Direct download: TPS540-WishesForTheNewYear.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

I have been looking for a unifying topic for all my information and what I came up with is Prosperous Living – A Holistic Path to Health, Wealth, and Happiness. In this episode, I ask you to define what prosperous living means to you.

Highlights

  • I’d like to suggest that you think about what prosperous living means to you.
  • In a previous episode, I had talked about making the decisions about what intentions you would like to make for the new year and actions you will take to move forward.
  • Making too many changes at once, impedes progress.
  • Making any kind of changes in your life can stimulate the moving stupids, which is a feeling of disorientation that you get when you try new things because your brain gets confused.
  • It can take a few months to get comfortable with something new.
  • If you make small changes over a period of time, your life will move in a positive direction.
  • Start making changes with things that are inconsequential, like cleaning off your desk or a corner of a room.
  • You have to find what works for you.
  • Something that you really want or would like to create, without buying anything, ask yourself what having that or doing that would require. Look at it carefully.
  • When asking the question, “who do I want to be” or “what do I want to do”, understand that your age makes a difference.
  • You have to discover what makes you happy and what your definition of happy is.
  • If you sit quietly with yourself or meditate every day, you will be more satisfied and more in touch with yourself.
Direct download: TPS539-What_Is_Prosperous_Living.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 2:57pm EDT

As we get ready for 2023, it’s time to make the decisions – rather than the resolutions – that will move you forward. In this episode, I talk about what decisions to consider and how not to overload yourself with things to do.

Highlights

  • Make a decision to take care of yourself – if you want a better life.
  • If you don’t like where your life is today, then you have the option of deciding what you will do in order to change it.
  • The best way to make lasting change is to become very aware of where you are now and to choose one or two things you want to change.
  • The energy of change is prevalent on this planet right now.
  • It takes considerable effort to make lasting change in your life.
  • It’s important to love yourself, let go, and connect. Most people don’t realize how important the connect piece is.
  • In order to feel prosperous, you need a lot of people, love, and experiences that warm your heart.
  • How do want to feel next year?
  • What do you want to work on next year so you can move your life in a positive direction? If you focus your efforts on moving in a positive direction, you will improve your life.
  • For today, make a list of the things that you would like to be different in your life, the small things you can begin to work on.
  • Practice being okay with who you are today.
  • Start with small changes, one at a time.
  • Set feeling goals.
  • Every day, acknowledge yourself for something you have done.

To talk to Joan about coaching or The MetaMind Circle go to www.ProsperityPlace.com/call

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Breathing seems so natural because you do it every day. In this episode, you’ll learn that breathing not only keeps us alive, it also affects our emotions, attention, and how our brains process the world around us. Especially important is learning how to use diaphragmatic breathing.

Highlights

  • In times of stress, people often do shallow breathing – from the chest. Diaphragmatic breathing is much healthier and helps to relieve stress.
  • Here’s a list of some of the positive effects of deep diaphragmatic breathing.
  • I talk about how to do diaphragmatic breathing.
  • How you are being in the world is a choice. How you are in the world is a habit.
  • You can train yourself to notice when you are tensing up, and when you do how to use breathing as a release.
  • Being in a hurry or being nervous doesn’t help anything.
  • If you understand that you have control over how you feel and how you react to what’s going on, it will make your life not only easier but also more successful.
  • When in a state of stress or fear you can’t make the best decisions for you.
  • If you get in touch with and deal with the pain of your childhood, you will have less physical pain.
  • I asked myself what can a person do that is free and easy to do, and the answer is learn diaphragmatic breathing.
  • If you become aware of what’s going on in the world, you can prepare for the chaos and make decisions as to how you want to feel and act.

Articles:

How Breathing Shapes Our Brain

Benefits of Deep Breathing

What Is Diaphragmatic Breathing?

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Direct download: TPS534-Breathing.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

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Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Dr. Paul J. Mills is Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine and Director of the Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego. He has over 400 scientific publications in the fields of pharmacology, oncology, cardiology, psychoneuroimmunology, behavioral medicine, and integrative health. His work has been featured in many national media outlets and he has presented at hundreds of conferences and workshops around the world. His new book is Science, Being, & Becoming: The Spiritual Lives of Scientists.

Highlights

  • Metaphysical experiences in childhood stimulated Paul’s curiosity about metaphysics. He eventually discovered that other scientists had similar experiences.
  • People on the metaphysical path no longer have to apologize for or hide their beliefs. There have been many studies that prove the validity of the effects of things like meditation and yoga.
  • Thirty-one scientists were interviewed for the book about their metaphysical experiences. Paul shares one of their stories.
  • Everyone has the inherent urge to find out who they are. The metaphysical experiences allow one to recognize their creative power.
  • Our education systems don’t teach us to recognize our innate powers.
  • Paul shares about the difficulty in finding ways to express his views within the academic framework. He talks about what he has done to reduce the stress.
  • Following a spiritual path often leads to greater creativity.
  • When we aren’t allowed to follow the inner urge to find out who we are, suppressing that urge often leads to anger and other uncomfortable emotions.
  • Often, young children aren’t allowed to express who they are. Fortunately, some education systems outside of the public school system allow that to happen.
  • Paul’s interest in psychoneuroimmunology (the connection between emotions and health) started with his study of the immune system.
  • Humans are a beautifully integrated system and Western science is beginning to appreciate that.
  • It takes a long time for medicine to talk with published science and what every day people are experiencing.
  • What we enjoy as children are often guideposts for our future life.
  • Depression is often the result of our not living the lives we were meant to live.

Links

Paul Mills website

Direct download: TPS532_-_Paul_Mills.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:40pm EDT

I have been feeling uncomfortable because of all the conflict that is going on in the world, often concerning things that are beyond my control, including the growing amount of anti-semitism. In this episode, I discuss this and other thoughts about living in a world with so much hate.

Highlights

  • We can’t have peace in the world until people learn to live with each other.
  • If you are worried about inflation and aren’t paying attention to what’s going on, you might vote for people who don’t have your interests at heart.
  • If you elect angry people, you’re not going to have a peaceful world.
  • People who are brought up in homes with a lot of fighting, often become angry as adults.
  • Hate makes no sense to me.
  • We need to find ways of finding peace within ourselves and learning how to love ourselves and others.
  • If you were brought up in an abusive home, it’s almost impossible to love and appreciate yourself because you weren’t taught how to do that.
  • It’s hard for me to keep quiet when I see what looks, to me, like injustice.
  • I believe that love is the healer.
  • Something has to change in the way we are thinking, believing, and behaving to get over the amount of anxiety that’s present in the society now.
  • You can’t change what’s going on in society, but you can change what’s going on within yourself.
  • Right now, people are picking on Jews. At some point, it’ll be a different group because people who don’t love themselves have to have “the other” to pick on.
  • There are too many people on this planet to be in conflict.
  • We don’t need more war. We need to teach peace.
  • Are you willing to learn how to be a peaceful person? If you’re not, then you’ll probably wind up with all sorts of diseases.
  • My goal is to help people find health, wealth, and peace of mind. I hope to do this through The MetaMind Circle.
  • You can’t be truly prosperous unless you have peace of mind.
  • The people who make the most noise are often not the ones who are trying to build a peaceful world.

Links

The MetaMind Circle

Direct download: TPS531-Love_Not_Hate.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 1:01pm EDT

Jeanine Thompson is a transformational coach, speaker, and author whose breadth of knowledge and experience spans multiple disciplines and professional expressions from clinical psychotherapy to global business to advancing spiritual growth. At the core of her diverse career is a passionate dedication to helping individuals live their highest potentiality. She shares her journey and how others can reach their full potential in her first book, 911 From Your Soul.

Highlights

  • Jeanine Thompson shares what she went through before she committed to bringing what she was learning about the soul into business.
  • For Jeanine, the soul is the eternal essence of who we are.
  • Potentiality is about living a satisfying and peaceful life. It does not require that people reach a point of predefined success.
  • We talk about whether or not understanding who we are is age-related.
  • Jeanine’s hope for people is that they learn to truly love who they are and know that they are the intelligence of love.
  • We talk about understanding the Oneness.
  • Our systems are fundamentally broken and flawed in many ways, especially as they teach that there is something wrong with us that needs fixing.
  • Business touches every aspect of life, which is why Jeanine wants to bring her message to the business world where she functioned for many years.
  • Our uniqueness is our gift to the world.
  • There is a spiritual and emotional underpinning to disease and physical discomfort.
  • We have to learn to trust our inner direction.
  • Nature is a terrific catalyst. It is a gateway to our wisdom. It helps our minds soften and go into the wonder.
  • Whatever you are seeking is who you are.
  • Jeanine shares some ideas on how you can connect to your true self.

Links

911 From Your Soul

Jeanine Thompson’s website

Jeanine Thompson on Facebook

Jeanine Thompson on LinkedIn

Jeanine Thompson on Instagram

Direct download: TPS530_-_JennineThimpson.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:15pm EDT

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Category:business -- posted at: 2:03pm EDT

There is a connection between your physical and mental health and the success of your business or career. In this episode, I explore different ways that you can begin to incorporate self-care into your routines in order to succeed.

Highlights

  • From my point of view, the American medical system is not working. I explain why.
  • Individual needs vary and by understanding how your body works, you can find solutions that are specific for you.
  • I talk about a recent hair mineral tissue analysis test I recently did, and the results allowed me to fully understand how important it is to learn about your body and not just trust the practitioners – including doctors – to whom you go for advice.
  • It’s hard to know what you need to know, which is why it’s important to develop your intuition.
  • I explore why via Conscious Synchronicity I didn’t learn about the results sooner.
  • You have to be ready and willing to be healthy in order to be led to the things you need.
  • You have more power than you realize to have your life work well and you feel good physically.

Links

The MetaMind Circle Site

Hair Mineral Analysis Test

Consumer Labs – information about supplements

Upwork – for hiring freelancers

Circle.so – a place that hosts communities

Direct download: TPS528-Take_Care_Of_Yourself.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Judy Wilkins-Smith is a world-renowned Family Patterns, Systemic Work and Constellations Expert, Author, and Motivational Speaker who offers guidance on how to decode your emotional DNA and shift the unconscious inherited patterns that are no longer serving you. Her new book is Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns.

Highlights

  • Originally from South Africa, Judy Wilkins-Smith is now in the United States and tells how she got into constellation work.
  • Judy explains the meaning and effects of “Emotional DNA” and its epigenetic component. She explains the meaning of epigenetics.
  • The advantage of decoding your emotional DNA is that you see you’re not actually stuck and can change what isn’t working for you.
  • Judy explains how to recognize your patterns so you can make changes.
  • People, generally, have been brought up to believe that suffering is necessary. When we change that pattern, we can have better outcomes. This is not difficult, but it does take time.
  • Judy talks about how to change a habitual trauma response to a triumph response, both of which happen in the brain quickly.
  • People are often afraid to make changes because if they do, they won’t belong anymore. Making changes is not changing the system but rather expanding it. When you do this, you become a pioneer.
  • We talk about how stepping outside of the pack creates leaders who overcome their feeling of not belonging by creating followers.
  • When people resist change, it’s often because they have an unresolved issue. Once they resolve it, it’s easier to switch. Until they do that, the unconscious loyalties and hidden patterns will keep them stuck.
  • Judy gives suggestions for what you can do to move forward and how to look at your money patterns.
  • Judy wants people to remember that everybody's got exactly what they need to go as far as they want and suffering isn't sacred. It's stupid.

Links

Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns

Judy Wilkins-Smith’s site

Judy Wilkins-Smith on Facebook

Judy Wilkins-Smith on LinkedIn

Judy Wilkins-Smith on Instagram

Learn more about The MetaMind Circle

Direct download: TPS527_-_Judy_WilkinsSmith.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 11:01am EDT

While reading Spellbound by Dr. Dan Lieberman, who I interviewed in the last episode, I was struck by the sentence, “The purpose of life is to become your true self”. I have been thinking about that a lot and, in this episode, I share some of my thoughts.

Highlights

  • Although you may share some characteristics with other people, no one is exactly like you. You are totally unique and perfect the way you are.
  • We are programmed to always be looking for people like us, yet it is our differences that can make life interesting.
  • I don’t think that our uniqueness has been celebrated enough.
  • A lot of our societal loneliness is due to people not knowing how to know love themself.
  • We aren’t taught to appreciate our differences.
  • For business people, our businesses are an opportunity for us to learn more about ourselves.
  • Because of the Covid pause, a lot of people are evaluating their lives and what’s important to them. They’re also asking, “What do I want to do now and who do I want to be or become?”
  • I talk about the process I’ve been going through in putting together my new business.
  • In business, we have to learn how to interact with other people who are not us.
  • Everything you do in business is your opportunity to learn more about who you are, your values, and who you were willing to be in the world.
  • Giving ourselves permission for self-exploration is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves.
  • You have the right to love and take care of yourself.
  • Each one of us is given what we need to become who we’re becoming, and that’s different for every person.
  • You have the opportunity to ask yourself, “What do I want to keep and what do I want to change?” It’s important to not judge that which you want to change as bad.
  • Getting in touch with yourself is one of the most important things you can do.

Links

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

Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman: Science, Ancient Magic & The Unconscious Mind

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Direct download: TPS526_-_TrueSelf.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:50pm EDT

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. He is also the Author of the recently published Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind.

Highlights

  • Dr. Lieberman explains how his interest in the topics found in his new book started in the 1980s when he stumbled upon the works of Carl Jung and was blown away.
  • He doesn’t talk about synchronicity because he wanted to talk about mysticism from a scientific viewpoint.
  • In his book, Dr. Lieberman says that “the purpose of life is to become your true self”. This is harder than it sounds because we tend to learn through suffering.
  • The unconscious mind has a profound effect on how we experience life and who we are.
  • The pain and suffering of life exists in the service of growth.
  • “The shadow” part of us forms when we push away all the things that we think is wrong to be. But at some point, we have to deal with this shadow.
  • The more we allow ourselves to feel the darkness within ourselves, the easier it is to let it go. The polarization that is happening now is because people are afraid to acknowledge their shadow.
  • The closer we get to our true self the more unique we become.
  • Cultivating awareness is essential.
  • Inspiration can change the course of our life. Inspiration can change history.
  • The vast majority of our lives is driven by our unconscious.
  • Dr. Lieberman talks about the three forms of meditation that he discusses in his book including focused awareness.

Links

Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman's website

Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman's LinkedIn

Direct download: TPS525_-_Daniel_Lieberman.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 10:02am EDT

I have been looking at how we change as we grow older as part of a natural process. In this episode, I talk about how so many aspects of ourselves go through a maturing process that affects our mind-body along with how we perceive things and how we perceive ourselves.

Highlights

  • I have come to see that as we grow older, many aspects of us change, but our core stays the same.
  • The Money Energy Tuneup that I did recently deeply affected me as well as others who attended or listened to the recording.
  • In the 1980s, I developed my crystal business using my intuition. It was the first one like it and this required that I do something unique and innovative.
  • After the crystal business, as I created something else, I tended to follow the rules that I learned from other people, and I did this for many years. Now I see that I never reached my original level of success because I wasn’t following my own inner guidance.
  • In Spellbound, the author says that the purpose of life is finding your true self. I’m trying to stay true to that as I form The MetaMind Circle.
  • Don’t think there’s something wrong with you or that you’ve done something wrong, you are just going through a normal journey of self-discovery.
  • Part of finding the real you is finding the part of you that’s connected to the Universal Force, which from my point of view, is love.
  • It’s interesting to realize how everything has changed over the past decades. We’re all going through some major changes now that are going to affect all of us and how we view our lives.
  • The chaos that we’re going through is different from chaos of the past because so many things are changing at once.
  • Adapting well to change is important in this day and age.
  • Finding your true self means finding your light, your talent – and not denying it.
  • You don’t have to follow the rules all the time if the rules don’t feel right to you and if you’re trying to discover your true self.
  • No one can tell you what’s right for you — you have to discover that for yourself by listening to your inner promptings.

Links

Spellbound: Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind by Daniel Z. Lieberman

Direct download: TPS524-Whatever_Your_Going_Thru.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:39pm EDT

In today’s episode, I talk about developing trust – trust in the world, trust in your place in the world, and most importantly, trust in yourself – and how developing trust can affect your business and life outcomes.

Highlights

  • People often tell me that they are aware that they have an inner voice but are afraid to follow it and don’t take action.
  • The old rules in many sectors no longer apply and the new rules having been settled yet, which causes uncertainty and fear.
  • When I’m building something innovative, I have to take chances because I’m not building it on old information. Therefore, sometimes things don’t work out, and that’s okay.
  • It’s necessary to develop a communication system with your body-mind-spirit that works for you and tests over time.
  • The more you develop your inner awareness, the better your life will work.
  • The more you understand your inner operating system, the easier it is to make new decisions.
  • Whatever or whomever you don’t trust is not about them, it’s about you not trusting yourself.
  • Different people work in different ways. I’ve come to realize that I work best when I’m following my inner guidance. I don’t know how to follow other people’s rules.
  • If you let things grow organically, then it’s easier to innovate because you’re not building upon past knowledge.
  • I present some ideas as to how you can learn to trust yourself and your intuition.
  • Our minds are part of a network of minds that have an energetic connection. If you express yourself freely, it’s easier to be led to the information and people you need because of this connection.

Links

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

Interview with Paul O’Brien about Intuition, Synchronicity, and Divination

The Visionary I-Ching App

Click here to receive information about The MetaMind Circle

Direct download: TPS523-Trust_Yourself.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:41pm EDT

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

  • Dr. Philippe Douyon shares his experience as a kidney transplant patient and how it affected his life. To overcome the trauma, he focused on goals rather than his problems.
  • We talk about his perception of the medical system and how he deals with it.
  • Doctors are too specialized.
  • I asked how he maintains his equanimity while working in the system that he finds so flawed. He describes the path he’s been taking as he spreads the word about alternative approaches to medical care.
  • We talk about what it is inside of the brain that allows us to have mystical and other spiritual experiences.
  • There are senses outside of the usual five senses that are usually discussed. We talk about intuition and other so-called extrasensory perceptions.
  • You can think about your brain more as a relay station rather than just who you are, and it’s capable of tuning in to other people and other energies around you.
  • Our brains are in charge only when you let them be. When our brains are in charge, that can lead to a lot of chaos.
  • You have to do some things every day to keep your brain healthy like exercising, eating right, minimizing stress, constantly learning and evolving, and meditating or sitting silently.
  • The lifestyle choices you make every day affect your brain.
  • People in the older generation are finding it easier than young people to adapt to change because they’re looking for something different. He explains.
  • To deal with uncertainty, understand that the present moment is the only moment you have. Focus on that rather than the past or the future.
  • Your brain will always try to prove you right.
  • 95% of your thoughts are the same thoughts you had yesterday.
  • From the moment we are born, people are trying to take control of our thoughts.
  • When people become aware of how powerful they are, they can take control of their thoughts and their lives.
  • Which messages are you going to allow in and who are the people you’re surrounding yourself with?
  • Neurons are built for communication. Every neurological problem is based on neurons not communicating. So, it’s important for people to learn to communicate better with each other.

Links

Dr. Philippe Douyon’s website

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

Check out The Money Energy Tuneup

Direct download: TPS522-Philippe_Douyon.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

With all the dissension the country in the world is experiencing, how does one maintain a state of calm and inner peace? In this episode, I offer some suggestions as well as explaining how brain chemicals affect our inner world and how we can regulate them.

Highlights

  • Any time you experience the feeling of love, your brain releases oxytocin, which is known as the love chemical, and it has a healing effect on the body.
  • When you feel stress or anything negative, cortisol is released, which has a deleterious effect on the body because it causes inflammation.
  • The idea is to minimize cortisol and maximize oxytocin.
  • Chronic diseases are affected by cortisol.
  • Every time you feel annoyed or angry, you are releasing cortisol.
  • Gratitude practices help you develop a oxytocin habit.
  • Every time you get angry or upset, that adds inflammation to your system, especially if the feelings are ongoing rather than momentary.
  • You have the ability to change your brain chemical releases by changing your emotional habits.
  • Everything about your life will get better when you move from the cortisol space to the oxytocin space.
  • When you consciously develop an attitude of love and peace, I guarantee that your life will get better.
  • If you haven’t dealt with your childhood wounds it is going to affect your life outcomes.
  • Because your business and life outcomes are an extension of you, you will do better when you are in a more positive space.
  • When dealing with other people, if I’m always looking for our similarities rather than our differences, I am actually missing something.
  • Embracing our differences allows for expansion.
  • The place to start is for you to learn how to love yourself because when you love yourself, it’s easier for you to love and accept other people.
  • I suggest that you work on altering your thought patterns and your emotional habits and accepting who and where you are.

Links

The Search for Connection

The Anatomy of Peace

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Direct download: TPS521-LoveIsHealer.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 11:03am EDT

I’d like you to meet my dear friend Ashana, a premier musician and savvy businesswoman who has affected thousands of people around the world with her soaring, angelic vocals and the celestial sound of crystal singing bowls. A life-long student of yoga and mantra from many of the world’s spiritual traditions, Ashana has led two online group yoga meditations touching the lives of more than 20,000 people in 50 countries.

As a renowned master crystal bowl artist, teacher, and sound healer, Ashana is an expert in the field of sound healing with crystal bowls, training students from all over the world in the art of applying crystalline sound to therapeutic and artistic healing modalities in her Crystal Bowl Mastery program.

Highlights

  • Ashana shares how her early life difficult experiences led her onto the spiritual path and her focus on her music.
  • There are moments in your life when everything before that moment no longer has meaning and your soul takes you where you have to go.
  • Ashana is both a “spiritual” artist and grounded businesswoman, which is a common combination. She discusses her journey being a businesswoman and CEO of her own business.
  • We talk about how many artists and healers often push away learning how to deal with money and other business skills.
  • Being a businesswoman with a spiritual heart is a razor’s edge. Ashana explains why it is a constant balancing act.
  • It is necessary to be constantly listening to your inner direction.
  • When she performs in public, Ashana still deals with moments of anxiety and trepidation.
  • Ashana offers advice to artists who also want to succeed financially.
  • For the last nine years, Ashana has been quietly working and putting together a new body of work. She realized that before she could go public with the work, she had to create a stable platform for both herself – internally – and her business.

Links

Ashana’s Ave Maria on YouTube (Official Music Video)

Ashana’s website

Ashana’s Facebook Page

Ashana on LinkedIn

Ashana’s on Twitter

Ashana on Instagram

Direct download: TPS520-Ashana.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 12:35pm EDT

Over the years, I have been sharing my process on my podcast, and now that I’m building a new business, I’m going to share that process with you as well. Because I have been working towards developing a high degree of intuition, I want to be able to use this in order to build this new business.

Highlights

  • Intuition is an inner knowing and how that appears can be different for each person.
  • Intuition comes from that part of you that is aware of more of you and your life then you understand.
  • You can develop a communication system with that inner part of you. I give an example of how to do that.
  • If you want to tune into the expanded parts of yourself, then you have to clear out the channels.
  • The more you take care of yourself, the more you can be in touch with your Self.
  • The more you are willing to clear out the channels that run through your body-mind, the more accurate will be the intuitive hits that you get.
  • At some point, you have to make the decision as to whether you are going to build your business while stressed out or if you’re going to take an easier path.
  • You have to make the decision to follow what you’re inner voice suggests.
  • Sit still and do nothing for 10 minutes a day. I explain.
  • Every intuitive hit will be what you want to be because you have to learn to discriminate between the different types of “messages”. But each message is there to teach you something. Sometimes it’s for you to learn what you’re not.
  • This all ties in with what I’ve been calling Conscious Synchronicity which requires that you notice what shows up.
  • What you are feeling guided to do probably has a connection to something that’s been in your life before.
  • I talk about how I’m using my intuition to build The MetaMind Circle.

Links

I’m going to be sharing information about The MetaMind Circle. To get on the announcement list click here.

Direct download: TPS519_-_Intuition_In_Business.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Erin Austin is the Founder of Think Beyond IP and an intellectual property attorney by training. She worked with large corporations before turning her attention to helping entrepreneurs build sustainable, scalable, and salable service firms. She is an expert when it comes to licensing and helps people turn their expertise into an asset. You can learn more about her business and her podcast, Hourly to Exit, at this link.

Highlights

  • Erin Austin explains how she wound up working in the film industry and what intellectual property is.
  • For entrepreneurs who charge by the hour, Erin helps them develop intellectual-property-based forms of income.
  • Along with monetizing their books and courses, Erin helps entrepreneurs license their products.
  • Erin explains what goes into creating a certification course that you can sell to corporate clients.
  • We talk about how it’s so easy for digital intellectual property to be copied and how some steps have been taken by the copyright office to help with enforcement of copyrights.
  • We talk about what it takes to build a “salable asset” if you want to sell your business and the difference between salable and sellable.
  • Characteristics of a salable business include: exclusivity, your brand and position in the marketplace, predictability, and independence from the owner. Erin explains.
  • To sell a business, it has to generate at least $1 million a year or find a strategic buyer.

Links

The US trademark database search (TESS)

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrilow

To receive more information about The MetaMind Circle, click here

Erin Austin’s Website

Erin Austin on LinkedIn

Direct download: TPS518_-_Erin_Austin.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 10:38am EDT

Today I talk about something that has begun to really interest me – the inner world of people in leadership positions of all kinds. When thinking or speaking about leaders, we don’t often examine their emotional expression and development, even though their habitual emotions affect all of their decisions.

Highlights

  • I talk about how I have developed meaningful relationships with people online.
  • People are often taught that there is something wrong with them that needs fixing, and I don’t subscribe to that.
  • Feelings that are common among leaders include feeling alone and feeling like an outsider.
  • For some leaders, it’s dangerous to let people know what’s really going on inside of you and how you really feel about yourself and your followers.
  • This creates a feeling of separation, and we have an inherent need for connection.
  • Becoming a leader is sometimes a coping mechanism for dealing with life.
  • I think it’s important for leaders to recognize their own deep-seated feelings of aloneness.
  • Aloneness often leads people to become members of groups that don’t have the interests of society at heart.
  • In order to be a person of peace, you have to find peace within yourself.
  • One of the things that interest me is bringing together entrepreneurial leaders who often feel separated so they can learn how to really feel connected on an authentic level.
  • If you’re going to learn how to develop empathy, you also have to learn how to set boundaries, so you don’t take responsibility for other people’s problems.

Links

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

Let Go of the Aloneness Blocking Your Prosperity - Audio

Go to www.MetaMindCircle.com for announcements about the new group that’s forming

Direct download: TPS517-LeadersAndAleoness_.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 3:38pm EDT

Joyce Marter is a licensed psychotherapist, entrepreneur, national public speaker, and a mental health thought leader. She is the Founder of Urban Balance (a national outpatient mental health company), a blogger for Psychology Today, and the author of The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life.

Highlights

  • Joyce Marter explains how her own emotional money issues led her to her current profession.
  • We talk about how psychologists often have money problems and how Joyce came to see that beliefs about her earning potential were holding her back.
  • Do some people come to be psychologists with unreal expectations as to what they can achieve given who they are and how they present themselves?
  • Joyce does a lot of personal work and believes that her business success is a direct result of that work.
  • The field of psychology is now examining mindfulness. This is leading them away from the pathology of emotions to a more inner direction of awareness.
  • Meditation and techniques such as yoga help us connect to our real essence.
  • We all have to do our own work in order to find our individual solutions.
  • Joyce recounts how reaching her breaking point financially taught her to ask for help and learn what she had to learn in order to become successful.
  • We hold on to what’s familiar, even if it’s not working.
  • Opening yourself to receive is not about receiving money, but about opening up to receiving love.
  • If we work on ourselves, it doesn’t just affect our money but rather many aspects of our life.

Links

The Financial Mindset Fix: A Mental Fitness Program for an Abundant Life

Joyce Marter’s website

Joyce Marter on Facebook

Joyce Marter on LinkedIn

Joyce Marter on Twitter

Joyce Marter on Instagram

Direct download: TPS516_-_Joyce_Marter.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Today, I’m talking about something very dear to my heart. It’s about the chaos that we are living through and it’s going to get much worse. Although many things are adding to the chaos, there are actions we can take in order to experience inner peace in the midst of the chaos.

Highlights

  • One day, when I was in meditation, I heard the following: We are going into a period of great chaos. Many people will leave the planet, and the chaos in the Middle East will get so bad that people will ask, “How could a benevolent God allow this to happen?” People are being trained to be points of light in the midst of this chaos.
  • I knew, at that moment, that I was one of the people going through that training.
  • There are a lot of opportunities now for us to recognize that these are chaotic times. I list some of those opportunities.
  • Our individual response to everything that is going on is a matter of brain science. Our brains are designed to warn us of danger when the outcomes are uncertain.
  • Uncertainty causes stress, and stress is a major cause of physical and emotional dis-ease.
  • When you make changes and move in a positive direction, that energy affects the whole world.
  • You get to decide how you want to be in the midst of the chaos.
  • It’s okay if you’re upset about what’s going on, but it helps to find a way to be okay with what is and to decide what actions you want to take.
  • You get to decide if you’re willing to learn how to develop inner peace no matter what’s going on.
  • In 1788, when the Constitution was ratified, there were only 238,000 people in the entire country.
  • People have not been taught that they have the option of choosing how they want to feel.
  • One of the best things you can do is to connect to people who were not just like you.
  • Ask yourself, do I want to continue living and feeling the way I do now?
  • I believe that there is a part of you that sees the bigger picture and will guide you to what you need to live a life that allows you to express yourself.
  • Playing “ain’t it awful” does not lead to a comfortable life.
  • If you believe that energy matters, then take a look at the energy you are generating.
  • You have the power to create the life you want, but it doesn’t happen by just doing affirmations. Action is the key.

Links

To receive information about the group/community I’m putting together, go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/joinnow

Books I mentioned:
I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas Harris

Games People Play by Eric Berne

Direct download: TPS515-CopeWithChaos.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Direct download: TPS514-WilliamTingle.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 5:46am EDT

Anne deLain Clark started as a transformative mediator the week of 9/11. Since then, she’s been transforming human relationships in businesses, government, and families. She specializes in high-stress environments and highly charged circumstances, helping people successfully breach gaps in understanding and perspective so they can find mutually satisfying outcomes. Her greatest satisfaction is to witness the shifts in people as they discover common needs and shared solutions.

Highlights

  • Anne deLain Clark explains how her family-of-origin and beginning work experience led her to become a mediator.
  • She learned that it’s not necessarily what you say but how you present it.
  • Anne talks about common communication stressors in the workplace and why developing empathy and compassion are important.
  • We examine why so many people have problems asking questions when they are in a conversation.
  • Every culture has a different “pause time”. This time in New York is a lot less than pause time in New Mexico.
  • To have authentic conversations, it’s important to listen to what the other person is saying and to assess their pause time.
  • People regulate each other’s neural systems by talking to each other.
  • The great thinkers spent a lot of time in the thinking part of their brain rather than the primitive part.

Links

How to Read a Person like a Book

Website

Anne deLain Clark on LinkedIn

Direct download: TPS512-Anne_deLain_Clark.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Reading an article in Neuroscience News about a study that concluded that diabetes increases the possibility of getting Alzheimer’s triggered something for me. In this episode, I talk about the easy things you can do to feel and live more comfortably.

Highlights

  • I have observed that many people with diabetes don’t take it seriously. It is serious and can lead to many uncomfortable problems.
  • You need to make the decision as to whether or not you’re going to take care of yourself so your business and life can flourish.
  • I share figures about the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes.
  • Many physical problems can be traced to what you’re eating.
  • It’s important to be aware of the dangers of having diabetes which can lead to blindness and amputations.
  • If you are between 30 or 50, you don’t have to suffer from multiple diseases if you take care of your body and give it what it needs to function.
  • You have to get in touch with your body to find out what it needs. I give some suggestions.
  • Daily meditation puts you more in touch with your body systems.
  • We are not wired to deal with the amount of uncertainty that’s going on in the world today, which is why it’s so important to learn how to take care of yourself and reduce the stress.

Links

The article in Neuroscience News

The Low Blood Sugar Symptom List. Download Nourish Yourself.

Interview with Dr. Fred Moss

Information about Naprapathy

Direct download: TPS511-Denial_Diabetes.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 10:01am EDT

Reiner Lomb is the Founder of BoomerangCoach, an executive coaching firm specializing in leadership and career development, innovation, and transformational change. Reiner’s mission is to mobilize and develop leaders to create a more sustainable and positive future for all.  Before becoming an executive coach, Reiner had a 30-plus year career in technology, started and developed software businesses, and led leadership development. Reiner’s new book is ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are.

Highlights

  • Reiner Lomb explains how his upbringing on a farm in Germany led him eventually to do the work with emotions he’s doing now.
  • Leaders are often well developed intellectually but not emotionally. He explains how, when he first introduced the concept 15 years ago, he had to approach the topic of emotions very carefully.
  • Reiner tells how he developed trust with teams so they would accept the idea of working on emotions.
  • Family is the first team we get to work with.
  • Reiner recounts that he went back to school to learn more about psychology and brain science.
  • When you become aware of where your emotions began, you can decide to change your emotional expression.
  • People often believe that emotions happen automatically and that they can’t change, which is not true.
  • We talk about various aspects of empathy and how important it is in order to understand where people are coming from.
  • Assume good intentions. Most people have good intentions, but they may come from a different value framework than you.
  • Once Reiner assesses a person’s emotional state through observation, he can decide which direction to go in with them.
  • Reiner talks about the seven emotions he mentions in his book.
  • A foundation of leadership is developing interest in the people you’re leading and to help them develop a better vision of the future.
  • Inspiration is one of the most powerful leadership tools.

Links

Reiner Lomb’s site

ASPIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change, No Matter Where You Are

Reiner Lomb on LinkedIn

Direct download: TPS510-Reiner_Loeb.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

In today’s episode I talk about something that affects your business and financial outcomes that goes beyond hard-core skills and mindset. It is important to learn how to tune into the energies around you and understand the quality of the energy you generate.

Highlights

  • How we develop early in life often affects the eventual decisions we make and our outcomes.
  • There is no one thing that is going to change your financial position or your life.
  • I define what I mean by personal energy and give some examples.
  • When you talk to people, is there an underlying sadness that even you aren’t aware of all the time?
  • I talk about the concept of how you are being in the world.
  • The foods that you are eating can affect your personal energy.
  • If your thoughts are very negative, that will tamp down your personal energy.
  • Energy around the world now is difficult and chaotic, which makes it even more important to understand your personal energy.
  • For today, I’m hoping you will increase your awareness of the energy you generate and the energy around you, all of which will affect your life outcomes.
  • Have the power to change things.

Links

The episode in which I talk about the Heart of War vs Heart of Peace

The Anatomy of Peace

Direct download: TPS509-Personal_Energy.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Noah Hammond Tyrrell is the Co-founder and CEO of Feel Good Hemp, which offers a free self-empowerment platform and community to its clients. Noah is a yogi, coach, and entrepreneur whose mission is to help people feel good naturally and live their life to the fullest. He’s been on a relentless quest to unlock the secrets of human potential and how to live a deeply fulfilling life. Noah believes that we all have the capacity to be like the Christ or the Buddha and leave a ripple of love that is felt around the world for generations.

Highlights

  • Noah Hammond tells us how his father’s liver cancer diagnosis led Noah into the hemp business.
  • People are getting positive results from not only the CBD but the other courses that Noah offers.
  • Conscious entrepreneurship is a pathway to an awakened humanity.
  • When you have an enterprise that generates profit while giving value, then you contribute to positive change in the world. Work plus passion and purpose create a conscious business.
  • Because the press isn’t covering the growth of conscious businesses, many people just don’t know about the concept and how these businesses are contributing to change in the world.
  • We talk about anger and its possible connection to his father’s liver cancer.
  • Our bodies are programmed to accept CBD through the endocannabinoid system.

Links

Noah Hammond Tyrrell’s website
The free library of courses
Noah Hammond Tyrrell on YouTube
Noah Hammond Tyrrell on Facebook
Noah Hammond Tyrrell on Instagram
Noah Hammond Tyrrell on Twitter

Direct download: TPS508-NoahTerrell.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

It’s not helpful to believe that there is something wrong with you that needs fixing. In this episode I talk about how to find solutions to what you perceive as problems and stop thinking that there’s something wrong with you. This will change your life outcomes.

Highlights

  • While giving a recent presentation to potential real estate investors, one of the participants said that he thought the reason for his problem moving forward is that he has imposter syndrome. This led to a discussion about how there is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing.
  • Changing your habitual thoughts, which includes negative self-talk, will lead to better outcomes. I give suggestions on how to do this.
  • You have agency over your space in the world and you can decide who and how you want to be with other people.
  • The more satisfied you are with yourself, the more you’re going to be able to grow and move forward.
  • Our psychological and medical systems are built around the idea that there’s something wrong with you that needs fixing. You can make decisions to change or perceive whatever is bothering you.
  • If you get a diagnosis for something that seems to be wrong with you, you can find information online for alternative treatments and what you can do for yourself.
  • It helps if you learn how your body works so you can figure out what’s going on if you’re uncomfortable.
  • Once you believe that there is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing, you can find solutions to whatever problems or discomforts you may be having.
  • Can you change everything about you? Not necessarily, but you can decide that whoever you are is fine and there’s nothing wrong with you.
  • Once you make the decision and set the intention to change something you want to change, the information and resources you need will show up – if you are ready.

Links

The Fisher-Wallace Brain Stimulator

The interview with Chip Fisher

The interview with Bob Doyle

If you would like to get information about the new group that is forming – The Money & Mindset Community, click here

Direct download: TPS507-NothingWrongWithYou.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Direct download: TPS506-Sanda-Stamato.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

In this episode, I discuss Financial Vagueness Syndrome (FVS). What it is, the symptoms, and what you can do to avoid this problem that will keep you from making good financial decisions. It takes awareness of both your inner world and financial skills.

Highlights

  • As a business owner, you have to do more than just check your bank balance online daily if you want to make good financial decisions.
  • Financial Vagueness Syndrome is characterized by not keeping financial records, never reconciling your accounts, avoiding looking at your numbers, leaving bills unopened or unpaid, frequently bouncing checks, spending beyond your credit limits, or frequently dealing with fear about your finances.
  • I use Quicken for my personal accounts and QuickBooks for my business accounts, both of which provide useful reports so you can track your income and spending.
  • When you recognize your discomforts around your finances, then you can make decisions about changing what’s causing those discomforts.
  • You can’t make wise financial decisions if you’re not in touch with your money.
  • If you have Financial Vagueness Syndrome, then it will be hard to make rational financial decisions including investment decisions. It’s also possible that you keep too much money in your checking account.
  • You may have to develop new spending habits.
  • The more you know about your money, the less afraid you will be.
  • There is a cadence to working with money that comes with experience.
  • Be aware of how much interest you’re paying on all of your accounts and beware of low- or no-interest balance-transfer offers.
  • Until you know how to manage your money, you don’t want to hire someone to do it for you because you have to know what’s going on first so you can catch problems. It’s your business, not theirs.
  • My goal is to help you avoid financial fear, and the best way to do that is to get over Financial Vagueness Syndrome.
  • If you have financial fear, you are not going to make good financial decisions.
  • For people who have a lot of money coming in, they can go through it rapidly if they don’t keep track of their numbers.

Links

Care Credit

Quicken

QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online

Find out more about The Money & Mindset Community

Direct download: TPS505-Financial-Vagueness.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 10:00am EDT

In this short episode, I’m sharing an idea that I’ve had for a long time and am now putting into action. I want to co-create a community with entrepreneurs who are interested in authentic conversations, building meaningful relationships, expanding themselves, and adding positive energy to the world while increasing their income potential.

The Money & Mindset Community will be very affordable at $29 a month. There will be lots of ways to interact, events, and various groups where people gather. A variety of coaches will also be available to answer questions and interact.

If you would like to receive an invitation to this new Community, click here and fill out this form.

Direct download: TPS504-mmgroup.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

Dr. Fred Moss is a holistic psychiatrist serving in many capacities: telepsychiatrist, speaker, psychiatry expert witness, telehealth educator, mental health coach, and filmmaker. A desire to help people has been the force leading him to various settings and roles as a psychiatrist over the years and compelling him to continually look for better, more effective ways to provide the highest quality care. He is the person behind Welcome To Humanity and Global Madness.

Highlights

  • There’s nothing wrong with any of us that needs fixing. We are all doing our best with what we know.
  • It’s human nature to think there’s something wrong with us.
  • Authentic connection and radical listening are pathways to feeling healthier and not mentally troubled.
  • When a person feels connected to another human being, that is the basis for all healing. The magic of healing kicks in when a person feels heard.
  • Every moment carries multiple possibilities of how we’re going to respond to something. The possibility of breaking habitual responses is always there.
  • What is the value of always thinking that there’s something wrong with you?
  • It appears that it’s less difficult to continue doing something that doesn’t work for you rather than making a change.
  • Dr. Fred Moss shares his views about the lack of value of psychotropic drugs and how he gets people off of them. He talks about about various alternatives to traditional ways of treating mental illness.

Links

We The People Summit

Dr. Fred Moss’ website: www.welcometohumanity.net

Dr. Fred Moss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfredmoss/

Dr. Fred Moss on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss/

Dr. Fred Moss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfredmoss

Direct download: TPS503-FredMoss.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Every day you make thousands of choices, some of which will affect your business and financial outcomes. In this episode, I talk about seven choices you can make that will move you much closer to the success you are seeking.

For these show notes, I’m listing the seven choices, each of which I discuss at length during this episode.

The 7 choices that lead to business and financial success:

  1. Choose to take care of your body.
  2. Choose to come from a place of love. (Towards yourself and others)
  3. Choose to keep good financial records.
  4. Choose to ask for help. Don’t try to do things alone.
  5. Choose to be a little bit skeptical and learn how to trust yourself
  6. Choose to imagine a prosperous future.
  7. Choose to learn some brain science basics.

Links

Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

Make an appointment to talk to Joan

Direct download: TPS502-7_Choices.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Joseph O’Connor is the Co-founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC), and one of the best known and respected coaches and coach trainers in the world. He also founded the Neuroscience Coaching Centre. Joseph is the author of nineteen books in thirty languages on coaching, training, and neuroscience that have sold half a million copies worldwide. He follows his two great interests, giving coaching training and courses on creative nonfiction writing.

Highlights

  • Joseph’s background as a musician provided the impetus for him to figure out what he has been teaching about both performance and teaching.
  • There is a gap between what you do and what you can do and Joseph helps people understand how to bridge that gap.
  • His original interest was in helping people use psychological techniques such as NLP to do a better job of playing the guitar (in the 1980s).
  • Joseph’s latest book is Coaching the Brain, which helps coaches understand the brain science they need to use when working with clients.
  • If coaches don’t understand brain science, then their ability to lead clients is limited. It also helps coaching clients to know more about how their brain works.
  • Emotions are a combination of body sensations and meaning. Joseph talks about emotional intelligence.
  • Every thought contains an emotion, and every emotion has a thought, i.e. meaning. Our decisions are based on the emotions that are going on.
  • In the end, our decisions are based on our emotions which are designed to keep us alive and moving forward. The idea is to use the energy of emotions constructively.
  • We spent time talking about money and emotions.
  • Thomas Leonard, who started the whole coaching profession, was originally a financial advisor.
  • When we get afraid because the amygdala is activated, the rest of the brain shuts down and stops thinking.
  • Our brains are very good at making up negative stories about the future. Taking action can ground us in the present.
  • To reduce anxiety, first acknowledge and accept where you are emotionally. Trying to make the anxiety go away, you’re actually makes it worse. Then ask, what can I do? When we do that, other parts of the brain are engaged and we can find solutions.

Links

Coaching the Brain – the book

www.CoachingTheBrain.com has a lot of helpful information

Direct download: TPS501-Joseph_OConner.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

If you’re hoping to increase your income, then there are some things that you need to consider – some internal and some external. In this episode, I discuss what you need to pay attention to as your income increases so that you don’t make bad financial decisions.

Highlights

  • As you start making more money, there are new skills you need to learn and practice. You will also have a new internal experience as you start making more money.
  • I talk about what I went through as my income started increasing and how I consciously started changing and upgrading some of my habits.
  • You have to make new spending and saving decisions, depending on what you want your future to look like.
  • Making more money, be sure to be very much in touch with your money by keeping good records and paying attention to what’s going on.
  • Monitor your feelings as your income increases and as you deal with money on a different level.
  • Set a goal or intention for how much you want to make that’s not far above what you’ve made before in order to stay comfortable.
  • Don’t expand your income goals and ideas without talking to someone whose opinion you respect.
  • Check out the Small Business Development Center in your area.
  • Have you made a rational decision about what kind of entity your business should be: sole proprietor, S Corp., LLC?
  • If you are setting an intention for increased income, then you have to ask yourself, what is a rational way for me to accomplish that? What are the actions I have to take in order to realize my intentions?
  • It’s a good idea to have an accountability partner.
  • Set things up so you’re not taking chances.
  • It’s hard for a lot of people to talk about money because they carry so much shame about money.
  • To make more money, it’s important to plan for it – before you have it.

Links

SBDC Directory of Locations

If you want to talk to me about your financial situation and how you can move forward, fill out this Application for an Ideas & Insight Session.

Direct download: TPS500-_Are_You_Ready_For_More_Money.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Claudia Harvey is a global entrepreneur & investor, speaker, influencer, best-selling author, and philanthropist. After her successful corporate career, she began Dig It Apparel® Inc. and struck a deal with famous venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary. While raising a family of three, Claudia co-founded BG Wealth Group Inc., BG Property Holdings Inc., and BG Marketing Authority, and became an international keynote speaker and best-selling author.

In 2019, she was awarded the Top Female Business Leader Award from The International Association of Top Professionals. Philanthropy is paramount to Claudia, and she sits on the Boards of Sonas.org.

Highlights

  • Claudia Harvey talks about her experience on the Canadian version of Shark Tank and her partnership with Kevin O’Leary.
  • She also talks about her entrepreneurial parents and how being adopted had something to do with her developing her drive and ambition.
  • Her family was not wealthy, and Claudia learned how to raise money for what she wanted at an early age. Today, although she works hard, she also knows how to relax and enjoy herself.
  • If you are going to be busy in your business life, then you also have to nurture your body and soul.
  • Because she was adopted, Claudia had no family history to fall back on, which she feels has something to do with the life she has created for herself and her ability to be as accepting and nonjudgmental as she is.
  • Don’t live your life with regrets.
  • As a child, Claudia’s father taught her that she’s not competing with other people, she’s competing with herself.
  • It’s important not to put undue pressure on yourself by competing with others.
  • Claudia shares her vision for her future.
  • To be able to stand out from the crowd, you have to craft that and not compare yourself to others.
  • Because she has developed functioning teams in her businesses, Claudia has more freedom to live her life the way she wants to.
  • If you don’t like what you’re doing, what do you have to change? Claudia shares some of the decisions she made to create a life that works for her.
  • Our definition of success changes during our life and is often influenced by other people. It’s important to become very centered and clear about who you are and what you want.

Links:

Claudia’s Websites: www.claudiaharvey.com and www.bgwealthgroup.com

Claudia on Facebook

Claudia on LinkedIn

Claudia on Twitter

Claudia on Instagram

Direct download: TPS499.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 6:00am EDT

In my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom, I introduced the 4Rs process for creating new emotional responses to familiar stimuli. In this episode, I focus on the process, especially the Release step.

Highlights

  • I define the 4Rs – Recognize, Release, Replace, Repeat. The Recognize step can take a while to complete for each instance.
  • Feelings don’t happen in your head. They have been when neuropeptides, which start in your brain, travel to receptor sites in the cells of your organs.
  • Saying the feeling that you’re experiencing out loud helps to release the neuropeptides from the receptors. You’re actually expressing the feeling.
  • I talk about different ways of using sound to release both feelings and the thoughts that can be looping around in your head.
  • Bringing hidden emotions into the light has a very strong effect.
  • Call to get to the hidden emotions that started early in childhood.
  • If you have any questions about the technique, then ask me those questions by writing to Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.

Links

My Course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

To set up a time to talk to me, go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/call

My books and audios: https://ProsperityPlace.com/shop

Direct download: TPS498-EasyReleaseTechniques.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:08am EDT

Bob Doyle is one of the featured experts in the film and book, "The Secret" and now focuses his teaching, speaking, and coaching on Neuroplasticity - our ability to change our brain - to facilitate lasting personal and professional transformation.

Highlights

  • After 20 years of talking about the Law of Attraction, Bob shifted his focus to the brain and neuroplasticity and how the brain can be rewired.
  • People were so focused on the Law of Attraction that they didn’t focus on who they want to be and how to get there.
  • Transformation is about learning new ways of being. We have to be someone else if we want transformation.
  • Becoming who you want to become is going to take longer than you wanted to. Many actions are required for you to move towards your goal.
  • There is going to be a lot of resistance along the way.
  • Bob talks about the power of visualization as a tool for transformation.
  • Feeling drives at all.
  • Our brain tells us it is dangerous to change. We’re going against years of programming that brought us to where we are.
  • The first step is to become aware of when you’re functioning on autopilot.
  • Just as the physical universe is always expanding and we are part of that universe, we are always expanding, if we allow it.
  • We keep telling ourselves the same stories that eventually become true for us on many different levels.
  • When you change your story about the future, it often moves you towards subtle actions.
  • We talk about the effect of ancestral wiring which can change with intentional actions.
  • More people are talking about the brain rather than the Law of Attraction.
  • Young people today are much more conscious than they were as Bob and I grew up.
  • Bob has a free quiz that helps you understand your autopilot and how you can be more in alignment with who you want to be.

Links

Bob Doyle’s quiz

Bob Doyle’s site

Bob Doyle on Facebook

Bob Doyle on LinkedIn

Bob Doyle on Instagram

Direct download: TPS497.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 11:13am EDT

In January 2020, I started talking about conscious synchronicity on this podcast. I think a lot about this topic and in today’s episode, I share some of the things I’ve learned about the depths of what it is and what it takes to allow conscious synchronicity into your life.

Highlights

  • Synchronicity is when unrelated incidents seem to be more than just coincidence. I give examples.
  • Over the years, I have asked the question, “What if everything that happens is synchronicity.”
  • If you’re willing to believe that everything you need shows up and you need everything that shows up, when something uncomfortable happens, you can ask, “Why do I need this?” The answer always is related to the feelings that helped create the situation.
  • Emotions are the creative force behind our life stories.
  • The situation doesn’t cause the emotion. The emotion is the force behind the situation. I give examples.
  • I talk about the process of asking yourself what you’re feeling, when you have felt it before, what you would rather be feeling, and you know how to feel that.
  • You have to decide what their feeling goals are.
  • There is nothing wrong with you that needs fixing. You just have habits that developed early in childhood and these habits can change.
  • It takes time to develop new habits and new neural pathways in your brain.
  • Whatever happens in your life is a reflection of what is going on inside of you.
  • Anger can be a habitual response to familiar stimuli, and you have to decide if you want to change your responses.
  • Empathetic detachment is when I can really empathize with what others feel, but I don’t have to take responsibility for it and fix it.
  • The more you can let go of those deeply ingrained habits, the more will show up for you that’s comfortable.
  • To build my coaching business, I didn’t want to have to do a lot of outbound marketing. I wanted to be able to get myself in the right place and have what I need show up.
  • I talk about my current state of comfort and joy since I let go of old family-related feelings.
  • For conscious synchronicity to work, it’s necessary to examine the whole process of letting go.
  • Are you ready to let go of trying to control everything? Conscious synchronicity requires that you let life happen through you, not to you.
  • Who you are right now is perfect.
  • When you can ask yourself, “Why do I need this?” instead of, “Why is this happening to me?” your life results will be different.
  • There is no one thing that is going to make your life more comfortable. A holistic approach is necessary.
  • It’s a matter of looking at what is and deciding if there’s something that you would rather it be.

Links

Dissolve the Anger Money Connection

Podcast episode: The Heart of War, Heart of Peace

Sign up for the Rapid Money Energy Tuneup

Direct download: TPS496.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 1:39pm EDT

Direct download: TPS495.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

I have often talked about the connection between emotions and money. In in this episode, I discuss the connection between emotions and health. Many physical discomforts and diseases often have an emotional base. By releasing your habitual uncomfortable emotions, you can improve your health.

Highlights

  • The feelings that you are holding in and not expressing can really affect your health. I talk about how my father died of anger.
  • Recently, I got in touch with long-suppressed anger that I had been unaware of. Once I was able to process and release the anger, I had more energy and my health differently improved.
  • There’s no doubt in my mind that there is a connection between physical pain and emotional pain.
  • When you’re experiencing uncomfortable emotions, you are in a contracted state.
  • Instead of having to take a lot of medicine to relieve discomforts, it helps to understand the emotions behind those discomforts.
  • Becoming happy and healthy requires releasing all the old uncomfortable emotions you are holding in.
  • Cortisol is designed to help us deal with stressors – occasionally. Frequent cortisol responses cause problems in our physical bodies.
  • Anyone who has experienced any kind of abuse or neglect, is probably holding in and not expressing uncomfortable emotions.
  • When you are frequently happy, that helps your physical body because of the chemicals, such as endorphins and happy brain chemicals, that are released.
  • If you don’t know how to relax, that’s hurting your physical body.
  • It is difficult to have true financial freedom if you don’t get rid of those uncomfortable emotions you’ve been holding on to since childhood.
  • Love is the healer.
  • You can’t just cover-up the uncomfortable emotions, they have to be released, which is not always an easy process.
  • Emotions are the creative force behind their life stories.
  • To be more comfortable, decide how you want to be in the world.
  • You don’t have to be uncomfortable forever. You can decide how you want to be and learn how to get there.

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Podcast Episode: Heart of War vs Heart of Peace

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Direct download: TPS494.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Having built a 7-figure business without sales calls and as a former Dominatrix, Dana Pharant knows all about owning her power and being unique. She has worked with clients for over 25 years, helping them scale with ease. She is the author of 5 books, winner of multiple awards, and a woman who treats her own personal development like an extreme sport.

Highlights

  • Dana’s experience with “magic mushrooms” led her to decide to lead people on psilocybin journeys.
  • The difference between Ayahuasca and psilocybin.
  • Each person responds differently to the various psychedelics.
  • Psilocybin is being seriously studied as a treatment for depression and other mental problems.
  • Dana explains what happens in the brain when someone takes psilocybin and what can happen during a “dark” or “bad” trip.
  • Some people resist the deep experience that psychedelics bring which keeps them from having a full release of old traumas.
  • Psilocybin journeys are not for everyone. If you have fear about it, don’t do it.
  • Canada, where Dana lives, is moving towards legalizing the use of plant medicine, which includes psilocybin.
  • The energy of the guide, as well as the energy of the person who provides the psilocybin, can affect the nature of a person’s journey.
  • If you were considering a psilocybin journey, be discriminating and use your intuition when searching for a guide. Be very aware if something doesn’t feel comfortable.
  • Dana explains the difference between dosing and micro-dosing and she describes what a session is like.
  • Psychedelics are a tool for opening up the parts of you that have always been there.

Links

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Direct download: TPS493.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

In this episode, I talk about what you have to do internally to expand your influence and the profitability of your business. Your business is an extension of you, so expanding your business requires that you also expand your mindset and your place in the world.

Highlights

  • First, I talk about raising your awareness of your thoughts. I offer suggestions for doing this.
  • It’s important to become aware of how and when you become contracted because contraction keeps you from expanding.
  • Teaching yourself how to feel expanded will allow you to expand your presence in the world.
  • When you draw your energy into yourself, it gives you impetus for expanding into the world.
  • When you get your consciousness in the right place, everything you need will show up – and learning to expand your consciousness is a key.
  • How you think about yourself and how you feel about yourself may be keeping you small.
  • You can be as big as you want to be.
  • Spend a few minutes each day going inside and seeing how you feel about who you are and imagining yourself expanding. As you expand within yourself, it allows you to expand in the world.
  • To feel big and expanded, you need to become aware of what you were thinking and believing when you’re feeling small and contracted.
  • Your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are all habits, and you have the option of changing those habits.

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Who Are You…When You Are BIG? by Allan Milham & Kimberly Roush

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Direct download: TPS492.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:53am EDT

I had an experience at a Thanksgiving gathering that greatly impacted me internally. My brother, Marc was also at the event, and he said something that really pushed my buttons. In this episode, I discuss what happened and what I had to go through to resolve the conflict I was experiencing.

Highlights

  • I talk about what happened at the Thanksgiving gathering and how I reached out to Kimberly Rauch and the group I had been attending. Kimberly suggested that I read the book The Anatomy of War.
  • The book had a deep impact on me. I began to see how I had been expressing a heart of war with my brothers because of the favoritism shown to boys over girls.
  • The difference between a heart of peace and a heart of war is explained.
  • A quote from the book: “When our hearts are at war, we can’t see clearly. We give ourselves the best opportunity to make clear-minded decisions only to the extent that our hearts are at peace.”
  • I also talk about self-directed passive-aggressive behavior and how that has affected me over the years.
  • If we can’t express hidden anger, then we will act it out in various ways – subconsciously.
  • People who have been abused or neglected in childhood often have a heart of war towards authorities.
  • If we take responsibility for what we’re creating and we accept what comes along as what we need, if something uncomfortable comes along, we can observe our responses and make changes when necessary.
  • I am the only one who can control my response to external stimuli.
  • After I understood my response to my brother’s comment, I felt an enormous sense of relief and my energy levels have increased considerably.
  • Treat yourself like someone you love.
  • If something isn’t going the way you wanted it to, get in touch with your inner experience and see you if you can figure out why you’re creating what you’re creating. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with you that needs fixing and you aren’t doing anything wrong.
  • Do you have a heart of peace or heart of war?

Links

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute

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Direct download: TPS491.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

In this episode, I talk about why it’s so important to understand how what you are eating is affecting your business performance and the decisions that you make. I also talk about the physical symptoms that are caused by eating the wrong foods.

Highlights

  • Sleep is very important if we want to perform at our best and make good decisions.
  • One of the things that isn’t often mentioned when discussing sleep is the effect of the food you eat on your ability to sleep well.
  • I talk about how I got started on the path to health.
  • Low blood sugar is a precursor to diabetes.
  • I talk about some of the symptoms caused by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
  • Find out if what you’re eating is causing your symptoms, by clicking here.
  • Your food is the fuel that’s powering your body and brain. Low-quality fuel causes symptoms.
  • Many years ago, I had a lot of mental/emotional problems that stopped after I gave up sugar and changed my eating habits.
  • If you want to be healthy, it’s within your power to make that happen.
  • It’s important to exercise if you want to stay young.
  • You have to make the decision as to whether or not you want to be healthy.
  • Stress affects your biochemistry.
  • If you want to be a high-performance person, then pay attention to what you’re eating – or not eating.
  • Your doctor is not going to fix you.
  • When you are healthy, your life will work better and you’ll make better decisions.

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Direct download: TPS490.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Sharon A. Kuhn is an Emotional Intelligence Trainer who coaches executives and leaders in optimizing their own and their teams’ unique potential. She is the author of Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential where she introduces the idea of Unique EQ. Sharon is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and is certified in the Working Genius Assessment, an affiliate of Table Group Consulting.

Highlights:

  • Sharon shares the brain science that gives us our sense of self-esteem and what she means by Unique EQ.
  • When we can share with people states of mind or reflect their state of mind, that releases oxytocin and causes them to feel more confident.
  • We are all trying to gather the strength that we have within to interpret other people and to be seen and interpreted by them.
  • When Sharon works with teens in corporate, people are often reticent about looking at the internal issues.
  • Emotion is a physical response to an internal or external stimulus.
  • What the body wants most is the feeling of connection. Relationship is our drug of choice.
  • Love is the most powerful thing that we can use to help people move forward.
  • Your empathy releases brain chemicals of belonging in the other person.
  • When someone else is feeling our feelings, they are, in effect managing our stress.
  • As a leader, I can feel people’s emotions, but I don’t get sucked into their feelings. I’m able to stay true to myself.
  • There are logical ways of coordinating with others so we are emotionally synchronistic.
  • The more we understand ourselves, the less fearful we are.
  • Sharon talks about reflective listening and mirroring.
  • We must experience the chemicals of connection in order to thrive and survive.
  • The feedback that we get from one another is shaping our brains daily.
  • The brain often becomes disorganized as a result of confusing experiences.
  • The more we identify with each other, the more we draw out our true self.

Links:

Sharon’s site

Sharon’s Book: Empathy: A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential

Direct download: TPS489.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 2:12pm EDT

Recently, I was part of a 3-person panel at the Women’s Leadership Council of the C-Suite Network where we discussed our spiritual background and how we bring our spirituality into our business. This episode is my portion of the panel discussion.

Highlights

  • In 1975, I moved to Venice Beach and met a woman who moved in with me and started channeling “The Mother”. I talk about the experience and the advice I received.
  • During that time, I spent many hours in meditation waiting for “instructions”.
  • I explain why, in 1976, I gave everything I owned away and went on a years-long journey.
  • For many years, I had been fascinated by what lies beyond three-dimensional reality.
  • When I listened to what I was getting in meditation, amazing and interesting things happened in my life. And that still happens.
  • When I was building my crystal business, in the 1980s, that’s when I was closest to being who I really am – and I was rewarded for it.
  • The question, “Who am I and why am I here?”, is a common one, especially for women as we explore who we are as women.
  • There is a certain advantage of getting older because you have more wisdom that helps you let go and let life show you who you are and why you’re here.

Links

The Search for Connection - the book I wrote about my journey.

Who Are You…When You Are Big? By Kimberly Roush & Allan Milham

Direct download: TPS488.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

In this episode, I talk about three TV shows that aired last Sunday and how I see that they are indicative of what a lot of us are going through now. There’s no doubt about the fact that it’s a time of chaos and we have the option of finding our own peace of mind.

Highlights

  • I mentioned the three TV shows: the concert with Adele and it’s included interview by Oprah, the final episode of the CNN series about Princess Diana, and the gridlock in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors.
  • I also talk about how each of these is connected to what we are going through now.
  • Despite all the difficulties that people are experiencing, they still desire to experience peace of mind.
  • This is an important time for some inner examination to find out what means something to us and what we can do to achieve peace of mind.
  • So many of our systems are not working for most people. Although we tend to be optimistic, there are so many barriers to raising one’s habitual income level.
  • We need to examine what really matters to us and why it appears to be so important to make more money.
  • A lot of people at the lower economic levels are complaining about the Build Back Better bill, even though it has the potential to help a lot of people who are suffering.
  • When everything seems chaotic, keeping good financial records will help assuage fear that’s bound to occur during times of uncertainty.
  • I talk about the value of connecting to and working with others to solve problems that can help many.
  • A key is for you to learn how to make decisions that work for you and to get advice so that you’re not trying to figure everything out yourself.
  • You don’t have to have a lot of money to have contentment.
  • The people I know who are most satisfied don’t focus on money, they focus on enjoying what they’re doing.
  • Making your life work requires that you learn to trust other people and yourself.
  • If you are always worried, you can’t make good decisions. It helps to understand how your brain works and why it’s programmed to help you by warning you to be afraid when there is uncertainty.
  • I’m getting ready to do a group in late January/early February to help people use their inner resources to build or expand a business.
  • One of the most important things you can do to overcome financial fear is to take action. One of those actions needs to be keeping good financial records.

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Direct download: TPS487.mp3
Category:business -- posted at: 8:40am EDT