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Episode 20 Adam Avenus Identity Creates Reality · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose Podcast. I'm your host, John Streit,
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and each week we bring you conversations with thought leaders,
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entrepreneurs, and individuals who have aligned their life
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with purpose and created extraordinary results. So I'm going to live through it and
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accept it radically with grace and hope and love. I mean,
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I would be proud to be in this council. It was an honor. I had
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so much fun. Tune in every Monday for the Revolution of Purpose solo
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show and every Thursday for Revolution of Purpose Conversations.
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Welcome to another episode of Revolution of Purpose Conversations,
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the show where we sit down with people who are helping others discover
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who they are, why they're here, and how to create a life
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of greater purpose and fulfillment. Today's guest
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is someone that I'm really looking forward to introducing you all
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to. Adam of Venus is a mindset,
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manifestation, and human potential coach who works with entrepreneurs,
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business leaders, sales professionals to help them create extraordinary
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breakthroughs in both business and life.
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His work brings together neuroscience, quantum physics,
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identity, and practical coaching to help people break through
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those internal limitations that often keep them from living
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the life that they're truly capable of creating.
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And on a personal note, Adam is not just someone that I admire
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professionally, But he is actually my own mindset coach.
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I've experienced firsthand the way that he challenges people
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to think differently, see differently, and ultimately
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to become different. I'm excited for
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all of you to hear from someone who has had such
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a meaningful impact in my own journey. So, Adam,
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welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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Thank you, John. I'm so excited to be here. And, you know,
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You know, it's really cool that you're bringing people on to have a conversation,
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you know, people who are flowing in their purpose. Because when I
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met you, I really challenged you on what would you really want
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to do with your life. And hats off to you because you actually
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are someone who takes coaching and runs with it. You've made so many changes in
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your life. You are flowing in your purpose and you're
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also helping a ton of people do exactly that too. So it's
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a beautiful kind of, um, culmination of where we've,
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you know, grown to and where we're at right now with all of this,
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isn't it? Absolutely. It is a little bit surreal.
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Um, I know when we first started working together, Adam, and,
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and at the time I was the sales director for a flooring company. I was
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in real estate. I had a wholesaling business in real estate.
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I was doing a lot of wonderful things.
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But they weren't my purpose, you know. And it was so important when
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you asked me how, you know, what do you desire your life to look like
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and what do you want to do? And all I knew at the time was
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that I wanted to use my voice. And so I had started like posting on
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social media, and but I had not, I had not yet envisioned the
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podcast, the book Revolution of Purpose, all of that. And one of
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the exercises that you gave me there was to list 100
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ways that I could use my voice, that I could flow
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in my purpose. And the idea for Revolution of Purpose
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was actually number 101. Like, I listed
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all 100, and after I put my pen down, it took me several days to
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do it. I just was having quiet time, and all of a sudden I saw
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in my mind #RevolutionOfPurpose,
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and that became the book that I wrote. It became the coaching
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program that is still to this day my flagship mindset
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coaching program, and it became the very podcast that now you're sitting on right
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now. And, and I mean, I have chills like talking
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about that and thinking about that, how, oh my God,
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what manifestation is that? You know, I'm sitting
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here on a call with you then talking about
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how I've had this idea for Revolution for Purpose and how I saw it taking
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off, and now I'm on a podcast by the same name that's growing
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so fast and interviewing you. So Thank you for challenging me to,
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to go past my 100 ideas. Thank you for challenging me
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all the different ways that I could use my voice and finding my own purpose.
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Of course. No, I'm so happy we're here. And, you know, I say this
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all the time when it comes to this stuff, it really is greater than us,
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right? Like, I have people come to me all the time and they say,
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Adam, you changed my life. And it's not that I did.
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I facilitated you going within to connect
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with what you are meant for. That's all that happened. And that's
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what we're experiencing right now. We're literally actually experiencing an
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idea manifested in physical form through this conversation.
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And so it's an exciting thing. That is,
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that is amazing. And even this very podcast,
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you— we had a coaching call. You know, this podcast is a
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little over 2 months old now. I think we're 9 weeks in and it's growing
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so fast and I'm so thankful for that. But I think it
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started with a conversation about 4 months ago where you asked me on a one-on-one
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call, John, is there something that you're supposed to be
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doing that you're not? And I was like, yeah, I'm supposed to launch a podcast.
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I just didn't think I had time to do it. And you're like, well,
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then do it. You know, like, I don't have time is a limiting belief.
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And it's one that I think that we let control us in a huge
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way. So many people do. But it's just not true. We all have the
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same time and we're tapped into a limitless
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potential of time. And then we could go even deeper about, you know,
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time not being linear and all this other thing. But, but we do have
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time. We just decide that we don't, you know,
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100%. And, you know, it's such a great,
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you know, image for other people to see because it all just has to
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do with the ideas that you accept. And when you accept ideas
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of limitation, of not having time, that becomes your reality. If you accept
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that you're going to make this podcast work no matter what, the time
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will make itself. It will find itself. Your mind will rearrange whatever
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automatically to make it happen. Absolutely.
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And so I think it's beautiful that you accepted that idea and
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that you were actually okay with being challenged,
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which is what happened there, to be able to accept what was trying
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to come through. Because that's another big thing, you know, I,
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I've realized from coaching thousands of people now that A
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lot of times people won't change unless they're challenged.
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And to the people who get in the rooms and are willing to be challenged
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and then actually do something with the awareness that comes,
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those are my people. And that's why you're one of my people, right?
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You're the best for that. Absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate that.
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And it's, and it's the truth. I've realized the same.
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The people who who can't accept coaching
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or being challenged are not going to change. Like,
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they don't desire to change enough to allow someone
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to speak truth. Like, with coaching, it's so important for us
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to put a mirror in front of someone's face. You know, if I
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use that example so much, but if you don't like your reality,
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you have to change yourself. If you don't like what you see in the mirror,
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you have to change yourself. You can't change the mirror. And it's the same with
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reality. And I think in coaching, that's so important. And you
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did that for me and continue to. So I'm very appreciative
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of that. Good. I have a question
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that I ask everyone that appears on this podcast,
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and I'm really looking forward to hearing your answer to this,
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Adam. Who are you today that
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your younger self would be proud of?
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Hmm. That's such an incredible question. And I'm
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sure it's so exciting getting to hear the various ways people answer that too.
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You know, there's so many things that come up for me when I hear that
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question, but I would say the number one of all is I'm
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the person who shows up for myself. And it sounds so simple,
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but it's actually one of the key things that has created
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the life that I live right now. The fulfillment,
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the happiness, everything truly. That one
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character trait has been a result of millions of dollars, as an
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example, right? Of making millions of dollars. And it's because when I was
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younger, I was someone who would constantly back down
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in the face of fear. And I think a lot of people do this too,
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right? Where maybe you endeavor for something different,
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or you start moving towards what you actually want,
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and— or maybe you're just still living in your same programming, but as
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soon as something gets hard, you kind of shrink back.
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It's like this contraction that happens. And that was something that happened to me for
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years. You know, if I wasn't feeling right, I would call in sick for work
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and I would shrivel up, you know, kind of shrink back to my smaller self.
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And at a certain point in my journey, I just made a commitment
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that I was going to show up for my higher self as my higher self.
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I was going to show up for what I really wanted. And not allow myself
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to shrink back down when things get scary or uncertain or overwhelming.
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And that's who I am today. I'm the kind of person who, you know,
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that one week that I just had was a really great example. In one week
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I did 2 events across 2 cities on next
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to no sleep and a few days later my beautiful baby boy was born and
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I was on my coaching calls. I was still running those calls from a boardroom
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just outside the hospital. You know, like I show up and that's
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continued to compound not just in my own life but in the
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lives of everyone that I'm able to touch. You do.
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You, you definitely exhibit that trait.
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Like you show up for yourself and for your clients.
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I can remember when I first started working with you, um, you were
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in Italy I think for, um, for maybe a month or so and I
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even asked to say I said, do we need to reschedule your calls for when
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you get back? Like, we— I don't want to take your time. And you're like,
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you don't understand, I'm, I'm living a life I don't have to take a vacation
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from now. And that resonated with me. That helped me
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see the possibility that I could create a life that
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I love so much that I don't have to take time off from it,
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you know? Exactly. And, you know,
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it makes showing up a different thing. Like, I don't have to force or
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push, right? Like, I've created a life that I'm enthusiastic
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about showing up for. And was that a product of
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years of inner work? For sure. But like, you know, it's,
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it's different and it's beautiful. That is, it is beautiful.
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And congratulations on Everett William.
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Is that right? Everett William Avenis? Yes. So to you and to Kristen,
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congratulations. That is, I'm so excited for you guys, both of you.
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Thank you. Um, so you mentioned, you know,
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the life that you're living now, and people, they may see where you are today,
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but they don't always see the journey that got you there, you know. So tell
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us a little bit about your story and what led you into this
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work specifically. Yeah, it's a great question,
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and I love talking about the story too, because you're right, like, people can
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see some of the lifestyle or, you know, even who I am and how I
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show up, like we said, but they don't see the harder times, the harder decisions,
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the fear, all of that. And the truth is, when I first found this
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work, I was, you know, as I said, someone who didn't show up for
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myself, but I was also someone who didn't realize how bad my mindset was.
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You know, I would have never pegged myself as someone who was cynical or,
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you know, who looked for the worst-case scenarios. But as soon as I met my
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first coach and I was asked very confronting questions, I realized
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I had a very poor image of who I was in my mind. You know,
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I had so much scarcity and was ruled
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by so much fear, and it was a real wake-up call for
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me because I didn't even know it was in there. So I met a Bob
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Proctor coach when I was young. I was working in real estate,
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and she just changed my life. This material really
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just changed my life. It allowed me to see what was operating
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underneath the surface It allowed me the tools to actually
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change that. And when I saw my results change from a— as
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a product of rewiring my mind, things just— I mean,
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it became undeniable. Things just changed so fast, and I just leaned in more
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and more. And, you know, I went from using this
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work to triple my income in real estate to,
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you know, building a software company to getting to
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this point where I knew in my heart that if I could spend my time
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doing anything, it would be through sharing this material,
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coaching, and everything. And that was after a decade of,
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you know, getting coached, of going deeper, of learning neuroscience and quantum
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physics and reading deep into spiritual texts and all of these
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things. And what's funny is even after all of
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that, I still was at the point where even though I knew I wanted it,
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I questioned if I needed to prove more. And I think everyone can find themselves
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at that point, right? Do I need to prove more?
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Like, do I need to do more before I can actually just step
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into what I'm meant for? And the question is no, it's just accepting it for
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yourself. And I made a lot
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of, you know, scary decisions along the way. I'm gonna be very open about that.
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I invested in coaching and invested in myself when,
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you know, I didn't have the money sitting around in a bank account, right?
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Um, I leveraged credit and did what I had to do,
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and that was the start or the transition of,
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you know, other things, or me with my poor mindset into an
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incredible mindset, an incredible business, you know,
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multi-seven-figure business. And, uh, it's only
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getting better, truly. That's amazing. So would
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you say that your own self-work helping you find
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your potential sort of then woke up inside of you your passion
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for helping other people find their potential? Oh, 100%.
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You know, I got to this point, I'll never forget,
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I was in my condo. I had
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created a life that I had once wanted. It was the dream life at one
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point. And I just felt so depressed and I didn't know what was going
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on. And it was because I had used this work for achievement
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only and achievement of what I thought
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success was. It wasn't my own definition. And so I got to
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this point where I felt empty. And when I started to look at that,
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I said, okay, well, I have what I want. I got everything
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that I thought I wanted, right? So why do I feel unhappy?
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And it was because I was fulfilling someone else's definition of success.
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I never actually stopped and asked the myself
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what my soul wanted, like what I really wanted for my life. And when
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I did, there was a voice that was very loud and clear, which you've
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experienced too, that voice that just tells you exactly what you're meant
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to do. And it was scary, and it took a lot of courage for
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me to even face that voice. And that was
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the moment where everything really changed in my life. If I
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could say there's 2 moments, the first was meeting my first
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coach, just becoming aware of this work. And the second would be when I faced
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that there was a voice within me that was calling me to a different
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expression. And when I actually listened to that voice,
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everything changed and I knew I had to share with other people how
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to actually tap into and listen to that voice as well.
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So what do you call that voice? My higher self, the intuition,
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the higher power, infinite intelligence, God. You know,
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there's many different ways to look at it, but I think the
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key understanding within that is that there is an intelligence,
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there is a power greater than we understand ourselves
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to be that knows more than us. And it is purposeful.
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It is here to experience something specific.
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And that's why achievement can feel empty if it's not connected with
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that higher guidance. You know, one of the things that I
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think from day one resonates with everything you do, like the
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coaching calls we've had, your group calls, one-on-ones, your,
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um, you know, your, your masterminds when we, you know,
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come together for conferences, all of that is that everything
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you talk about through manifestation is based in
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service. It is not just accruing wealth for
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the sake of accruing wealth. And I think that's what you're hitting on. You're like,
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I, I was living the dream, but you were missing your
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purpose in that dream. And it was just— it's hollow.
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Like, I feel like success without service is hollow. I 100%
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agree. And, you know, if we're talking about aligning
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with our soul-level self, right, our higher self, I think
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every human somewhere within there, like, your soul has a desire to
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serve in some way. Your soul is, you know, for connection
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of some kind and making the world a better place. So tapping into
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that is a soulful thing, 100%. I agree totally.
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So one thing that I love about your coaching,
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and I'm trying to not fanboy, but I, you know, I'm just like, here's all
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the things I love about Adam of Venus's coaching, but it has just transformed my
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life so dramatically. And I wouldn't be hosting this podcast,
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I don't believe, had we not worked together. And I just realized
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Hey, whoa, I should be doing this. Um, but one thing that I love about
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your coaching that's been life-changing for me is that you don't
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just help people accomplish their goals, you help them become someone— I don't
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even want to say different— you help them awaken to their highest self.
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And so a lot of what I do is
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identity-based coaching, and a lot of my podcasts
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recently have been on this, this, you know,
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importance of of identity. And so let me
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ask you, how would you define identity? This is
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such a great question. And, you know, it really taps into that we
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as beings, you know, as spiritual beings living a human experience,
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truly, we exist on 3 different planes, right?
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We are spiritual in nature, as we just touched on. I think
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everyone can kind of come to an understanding that we have a soul, or their
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spirit. Like, that is the true essence of who we are.
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There is also the mental plane, right? We have thoughts.
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We get to choose those thoughts. There's thoughts and emotions. There's an internal,
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and then there is the physical plane. And so what people
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don't understand is, yes, you can tap into your intuition
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and listen to what spirit is calling you to, but your mental and
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physical body is still conditioned to a
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belief really about who you are or
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about how this world operates. And so if you're going to ask me about
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what identity is, identity is the mind
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and body's idea or concept as
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to who you are. And that comes with
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character traits, that comes with emotions, that comes with what you believe
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you're worthy of or capable of. You know, how you believe results
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to be produced, how you think people respond to you, all of these different things.
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It's really a concept you've accepted as to who you are.
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And why identity is so important to understand and the paradigm and
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understanding that you have to rewire your mind is because we
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can tap into spirit and get information as to what we're meant to do.
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You can, just like you did when you faced that there was a
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higher expression of creating a podcast for you to do. It doesn't
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mean that your current programming is set up for that already.
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There might be resistance. You might be questioning if you're capable
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of that. You might be questioning whatever it is, right? There's different narratives that
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have to do with that concept of yourself that you've accepted.
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And so we have to do the work to rewire who
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we believe ourselves to be to be in
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alignment with what we receive, you know, in terms of intuitive
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downloads from spirit.
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And what's interesting is the identity is always going
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to be expressing itself. So whether it's aligned with
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your spirit or not, let's say it's misaligned with your spirit, it will express—
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your body will display and express the identity. It won't
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express spirit, it'll express the identity. That's why we have to create that
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alignment. Of our identity with the higher calling of what spirit is
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really truly trying to evolve us into, if that makes sense.
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Absolutely. So when you talk about like
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our identity is and how sometimes our identity is, is not aligned
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with our highest self, would you say that's become— well,
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I know with the paradigm of thinking that we get in,
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you know, stuck in so many times. Why do you think people
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get so stuck in their paradigm? Why do you think that so many
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times people get so stuck in their own stories? And when— even when these stories
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are limiting us of where we could go, you know,
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I think it starts with that most people don't realize that they're just living through
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stories. They're just actually, you know, fully engorged
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in the experience of their story. They don't think— they don't realize there's
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anything else outside of it. Right? They've convinced themselves that that's truth.
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And, you know, just to give an example to that, I had convinced
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myself or accepted a narrative that the only way to experience
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success was to suffer. And so I just lived in suffering thinking
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that that was going to bring me to success. And so I
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didn't know any better. And I think that's where it starts with a lot of
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people is they don't know any better. Now, the next kind of stage or step
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to that is you become aware of it. Maybe you meet John Street and
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he gets to, you know, show you exactly what's holding you back. Maybe you
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listen to this podcast and you actually wake up to some of those stories
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that are there. Now, just because they're there doesn't mean you know how
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to rewire them. So that's almost more uncomfortable,
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if anything, when you're aware of the illusion but you're still living
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in the illusion. That's hard, right? And so then that
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next step is learning how to rewire it. And when you learn, you know,
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I would say it takes a process and it takes people working with someone like
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yourself or myself to actually really understand the
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process to rewiring your mind and rewiring those narratives to live
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into different experiences that you can create. That's like
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the process it takes, if that makes sense.
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Absolutely. So you mentioned how uncomfortable
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it gets. Would you say that the most people that by the time
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that they found you in coaching, do they have this sort
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of thing in common where they've gotten to a place that it's just really uncomfortable
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because they feel stuck? Like, and I don't know the percentage
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or how many, like it could be. And I mean, I've got some clients that
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don't feel stuck. They just want to go to the next level. But I would
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say the vast majority of people that work with me
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are people that feel like one of those cars you have as a kid where
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you pull it back and then you let it go and it just takes off,
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you know, except they feel like they've been pulled back, but they can't let go.
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You know, do you, do you see that in a lot of the folks that
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you work with? That's such a good analogy. I love that.
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And yeah, 100%. You know, I would say there's 2 things I
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see is either people who know that they're stuck, or there's
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people who just know very deeply within them that they are meant
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for more that they want. You know, the next level, and they don't know how
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to really approach that, if that makes sense. Um, so sometimes
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it doesn't have to be like from the negative of being stuck, it's just from
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the positive of wanting more and knowing that guidance will get them there faster.
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So this is kind of a good segue into neuroscience because
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I know you've spent a lot of time studying neuroscience. And what does
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neuroscience say about getting unstuck? Like, what does it lend
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us when creating lasting transformation? That's such a good question.
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And, you know, I would say neuroplasticity is the best place to start.
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To those who've never heard the word neuroplasticity, it's essentially the
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understanding that our way of thinking can actually change the
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structure of our brain. So what does that mean? It means
24:35
that if you were to think in a new way, it allows
24:39
your mind to therefore actually, like, create structure around that
24:43
way of thinking so that it can you know, move that way easier. So I'm
24:47
going to give a really great example, and I think that this will help a
24:50
lot of people. You know, let's say that you have a cabin
24:55
in the woods that you grew up going to. Your parents took you there.
24:57
They owned this cabin in the woods. And, you know, you walk outside,
25:02
you walk up to the forest, and they would take you on this walk in
25:04
the forest. And over time, they stamped down the grass
25:08
and they threw the, you know, branches out of the way, and they created this
25:12
beautiful trail through the forest. And you grew up just going up there and you
25:16
see the trail and you walk through that trail in the forest. Now this becomes
25:20
automatic. This is neuroplasticity. If there's a path that is,
25:23
you know, your mind is used to going on, it makes it very easy for
25:27
it to just continue going on that path. Now what ends
25:32
up happening is maybe you become an adult and you realize maybe you want
25:35
a different experience. Maybe if you were to walk
25:40
up to that path You can create what's called the mindfulness gap where you become
25:44
aware of your narrative. You don't have to actually go into the narrative.
25:47
You become aware of it. You create separation between you and a thought and
25:52
you say, you know what, rather than going down the same way we've been going,
25:56
what if I walked that complete other way through the woods?
26:00
What if there's a beautiful lake or a waterfall? There's some
26:04
better experience that we just haven't allowed ourselves to
26:08
explore because we're just used to walking the same path. And so
26:11
what happens is that's the mindfulness gap, is first just stopping and creating separation
26:16
between you and an automatic way of thinking or being. The next
26:20
step is to actually go that different path, meaning think
26:24
that different way, you know, choosing a way
26:27
of thinking, of course, that is conducive to what you would really want. And the
26:31
first time you walk that different way, there's going to be resistance.
26:35
It's going to be hard. There's going to be the grass
26:38
that you got to trample down and the branches you got to throw out of
26:41
the way. But if you keep choosing that new path, what ends
26:45
up happening is the old path grows over and it becomes
26:49
harder to go that way. And the new path slowly
26:53
becomes the automatic path that, in this example,
26:57
the brain goes to. And so this is a, you know,
27:01
an image of neuroscience that I continue to come back to because
27:04
I think it really paints the picture for people that they do have the choice.
27:08
And if they create the gap and then consciously choose,
27:12
eventually that new way of thinking will be the easy automatic
27:15
way, and the old way of thinking will become harder over time.
27:20
And, you know, some people may hear that and be like,
27:23
oh, well, that sounds kind of woo-woo. But not only is it not woo-woo,
27:27
it is used every day in addiction recovery.
27:31
You know, if, if you've ever known anyone who's gone through addiction recovery,
27:34
this is something that they do in rehab. Like, if you can Get rid
27:39
of the triggers that are causing you to always take the same path. And,
27:42
and this is how you, you rewire your brain. So you break
27:46
habits, you break addictions. It's, it's the same thing.
27:49
So I know people often hear the phrase, your brain
27:53
doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality.
27:56
And that's something that, you know, I've heard Bob Proctor say.
28:00
I've heard people say that. Can you unpack what that actually means?
28:04
And how like visualization and emotion are actually working together
28:08
to help us reshape our brain? Yeah, such a great question. So it's
28:12
the subconscious mind in specific that can't tell the difference between, you know,
28:16
physical reality and something that is vividly imagined.
28:20
And the reason that it can't tell the difference is because the subconscious mind
28:23
is the feeling or emotional mind. So if the subconscious
28:28
mind is the feeling or emotional mind, It is basically you're just imprinting
28:31
the emotions of the experience onto it, and then that's
28:36
what it dictates as truth. So the cool thing about this and how to use
28:39
this is, you know, your subconscious mind is always basically
28:43
going to look for proof of what's been imprinted
28:47
on it. So this is why, going back to the example used before,
28:50
if I have imprinted the emotion, the narrative and the emotion,
28:54
onto my subconscious mind, that it, you know, success requires
28:58
suffering, then my mind is automatically filtering all of reality and
29:02
looking for proof that success requires suffering.
29:06
And therefore my mind is automatically actually creating
29:10
the experience of suffering because it's looking to experience suffering
29:14
so that I can get what I want. So this is
29:18
interesting because to your point, then we can use that understanding
29:22
to actually create a different filter through
29:26
which we see everything through and therefore a different reality.
29:29
So now let's go to the opposite of that.
29:33
If I want to experience an ease with success,
29:37
I realize it's just a narrative that I need to suffer for success.
29:40
And so I realize that I want to experience being
29:44
successful beyond my wildest dreams and it— for
29:47
it to feel easy and and like flow and like serenity. Now,
29:51
if I were to go into my mind and visualize in vivid detail what
29:55
that feels like, it's the emotions that we need to tap into. You have to
29:59
remember that as you, you called out there. So if we were to go and
30:03
experience that in our mind, we will start to actually feel the emotion
30:07
of what that can feel like, of success feeling easy, and our subconscious
30:11
mind not being able to tell the difference. It's just feeling the emotion of
30:15
that success can feel easy. And then the reticular activating
30:19
system, which is that part of your mind that is finding that proof,
30:23
is looking for and filtering reality for that proof that
30:28
success can be easy and feel like flow. And then it's actually
30:32
pulling us into that experience, identifying and accepting
30:35
those opportunities that do feel like ease and flow.
30:39
And so the more we do that the more we get to manifestation,
30:45
which is, you know, people are like, how do you manifest?
30:48
Well, that's it. You, you change your paradigm,
30:51
you flow, you, you change your emotions, and all of a sudden you
30:55
start to make decisions that match the life you wish to live
30:59
instead of what you've been in the habit and condition of
31:03
living. So manifestation is— I mean, it is such
31:07
a buzzword, of course. But a lot of people hear the word manifestation, and they
31:11
think, oh, well, that means I wish for something, and it's gonna come to pass.
31:14
But I don't think that's exactly how it works. What, what do you believe is
31:18
maybe the biggest misconception that people have about manifestation?
31:22
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33:29
So the biggest misconception that I think people have about manifestation, it's funny,
33:33
but it's People think it's woo-woo, but like in its simplest terms,
33:37
manifestation is simply having an idea come into physical form,
33:41
and that's done everywhere. I mean, like I said at the beginning of this episode,
33:45
this podcast is an example of manifestation.
33:49
It started as an idea, you ended up committing to
33:52
it, and then moving out into the physical form where people could go
33:56
on to Apple or Spotify and find it. And listen to it, and it's become
34:00
something real that is actually distributed through the physical world.
34:05
So that's all it really is, right? That's all manifestation is.
34:08
If anyone's saying it's woo-woo, well, look at any company in the world,
34:11
any product, anything you see started as an
34:15
idea. So anything that you can see that is man-made is
34:19
simply a manifestation of someone's idea.
34:22
We're all sitting in a building that was a manifestation of someone's
34:26
idea, or for you sitting outside a building. But still, yes,
34:29
exactly, exactly. So I think that's the biggest misconception.
34:33
Now we can take it to any different level from there. I mean, you know
34:36
the depths we could go with this topic. But I think if
34:40
you start there in its most simplest terms, then there's nothing really to,
34:44
you know, deny anymore, if that makes sense. I think a question
34:48
that I get asked a good bit about it, especially people who are really new
34:51
to mindset work is where does manifestation end
34:55
and personal responsibility begin? And I
34:59
feel like they're saying, you know, where do you get out of your head and
35:02
do the action? But I feel like when you ask the
35:06
question like that, you're missing the part
35:10
of it that you have a personal responsibility to envision it before you
35:14
take the action. It's not like you envision envision it and then take action,
35:17
or it doesn't work. You have to do all of it. It can't just be
35:21
the action is responsibility. Like, that's such a hustle culture way to say,
35:24
well, you know, if I envision it but I don't work 80 hours,
35:28
it's not going to happen. Like, where is that? I guess at
35:31
some point you have to start trusting spirit, source,
35:34
the universe to come into play. Would that be kind of what takes it
35:39
out of that hustle culture, work 80 hours to make it happen?
35:41
Yeah, well, I mean, I think it's the understanding that
35:47
all you have to do is accept the idea and
35:50
the movement comes as a byproduct of that. So the
35:54
example of— I always give people this example. Let's think
35:58
of it this way. Let's say there's someone who's in a sales role and
36:02
they have a hard time making cold calls.
36:05
They just have so much resistance to towards it? Well, their belief isn't
36:09
there. Because look at it this way, if you believed
36:13
that if you made a day's worth of cold calls,
36:16
you would make the kind of money you want to make, if you genuinely believe
36:20
that, you'll put in that day's worth of phone calls, right? If I gave you
36:23
a list of 10 people and I said one of these people is going to
36:25
give you a million dollars, you just have to call them, you would call them
36:30
because the belief is there. So if there's a lack of belief, There's internal
36:34
work that we have to do to move into that.
36:37
Now let's look at it in another layer because this is something I experienced.
36:41
Let's say you're actually doing the thing and you're putting in the calls, you're doing
36:45
the work, right? But let's say you're not seeing
36:49
the results. Well, it's the energy you're showing up in
36:53
that produces the results. If you have an identity that
36:57
is rooted in that you are not the kind of person that
37:00
people will take seriously, it was my thing back in the day,
37:04
then why would someone say yes to you? They're picking up subconsciously that
37:08
exact level of energy or confidence, and then they're going to believe the same thing.
37:13
So I think at its root, not only will,
37:17
you know, the internal or spirit create the
37:20
movement, meaning if you accept an idea, the movement will happen. Of course,
37:24
you took actions to make this podcast happen. The belief
37:27
had to be there first. And then when you move into
37:30
that, that actual action or that movement, it has
37:34
to have the right energy behind it. Otherwise,
37:37
there's no point. You won't get the results. And again,
37:41
we could go much deeper, but just there alone should show people that
37:45
it all works together. And you have to be looking at the internal or energetic
37:50
or spiritual side of it if you really want the results that
37:54
you want. Absolutely. So would you say it's fair to say you can't really create
37:57
a different life without being willing to change who you
38:01
are as a person? 100%. Yeah,
38:04
100%. Like, I literally had that written down as a question
38:07
to ask you, and I'm like, well, you just answered that question. I mean,
38:10
it's, it's absolutely— it can't be done. But this is
38:14
a good question that kind of feeds into this. So where does quantum physics
38:18
come to play in all of this? There are so many levels to
38:23
that answer, but I'll start here. I think this will be a good way to
38:26
explain it. So in quantum physics, they have proven that,
38:31
you know, the worlds in which we see the physical side of this,
38:36
you know, experience is actually 99.9999%
38:40
energy. That's what it is. That is the physical plane. That you
38:44
experience and see. And so what you have to understand is
38:48
within our reality, almost everything is actually
38:52
energy. That's what everything is. We live in a
38:56
universe, a world full of energy, and that energy is made
39:00
up of infinite level of vibrational frequencies.
39:04
So matter, what you can see, is the slowest
39:08
form of vibration. That's why you can see it, touch it,
39:12
taste it, smell it. Whereas there are infinite levels
39:16
of vibration and frequency that we're not tapping into.
39:20
We're going very deep here. So now
39:24
with that understanding, what, what's very good for, I think,
39:28
people to know is that you can tap into any
39:32
of those other, like, frequencies that exist in the here
39:36
and now. They are right here in our universe. All of these different
39:40
frequencies exist, and if you change your vibrational frequency,
39:44
your thoughts and beliefs and who you believe yourself to be,
39:47
you are actually able to tap into some of that other information.
39:50
Now, why does this matter? Because the information of
39:54
any different life that you want to fulfill exists right now in
39:58
energetic form. So just like your podcast,
40:02
there was a higher vibration sitting just outside of your level of awareness that
40:06
was saying the next iteration of Revolution of Purpose
40:10
and everything that you want to flow in is a
40:13
podcast. And now you accepting
40:16
that actually allows that idea to come into you. What does that do? It starts
40:21
the flow, the channel of information on that vibration.
40:24
So you will continue to attract more awareness,
40:29
more information that's on the vibration you accept.
40:32
So if you accept the idea of a podcast, guess what?
40:36
You're going to start thinking of the name, of the people that you want to
40:39
have on it. You're going to attract the opportunity for those people to
40:43
come on it. You're going to think of, you know, all the other things start
40:46
to come into play because there's information that's existing
40:50
on that vibration. Now quantum physics is a very
40:54
deep topic and there's even infinite, you know, more depths
40:58
to that. But in its most basic form, just the understanding
41:02
that we have access to all the information that would allow us
41:06
to create any kind of life— it just starts with accepting even
41:10
the first bits of that vibration. That's what allows
41:14
the further ideas to be attracted from that vibration, if that makes sense.
41:19
It makes total sense. But for people who maybe it's
41:23
a newer Um, subject for, you know, and they, they're like, oh my
41:27
gosh, what? You just lost me. Why? This is so woo-woo. I love to use
41:31
the example because you talk about frequency, and we have energy
41:35
that is seen and energy that is not seen. So it's
41:40
not a question of if that's true. We know it's true. Turn on
41:44
a radio and you know it's true. Turn on your microwave
41:48
oven and you know you have microwave frequency. Turn on, you know,
41:52
uh, your, your television and satellite images come in.
41:55
Like, you have things that we cannot see that become existing
42:00
things to us. And so there is an unseen
42:04
out there. And that's all basically you're saying is that we
42:09
have what we can see, but there is a vast amount of unseen frequencies
42:13
that we can tap into that that is available to us,
42:17
right? Oh, exactly. And I think I'm happy you brought up
42:21
the radio because I think it's a great easy example to come back to.
42:24
It's just like a radio. If you change the dial, you tune into a different
42:28
actual stream of information. What happens? The song changes. You change
42:32
to a different channel and the unseen becomes sound
42:35
in your living room, right? So it's just like that.
42:39
That's all it is. It is. And if you don't like what you're getting on
42:42
the radio, you change the frequency to another
42:46
station. That is literally what life is with this
42:50
teaching. If you don't like the reality that you're seeing, you've got
42:54
to change your frequency, which means rising to a higher vibration
42:59
of yourself, rising, awakening to a higher version of yourself to be
43:03
on the frequency that matches the reality you want to see. And it
43:07
sounds woo-woo, but it's really just absolutely,
43:11
um, it's just real. I mean, it is. And I
43:14
wasn't familiar with it when we started working together,
43:18
and my life has so dramatically changed through even being
43:22
open to it. I mean, I came from the, the Christian faith is what,
43:26
uh, I've been raised in, and so that's what I know. And so I had
43:29
to work through, well, what about this, or what about that? But I realized so
43:32
much of of what I've learned through this type of
43:36
work is actually talked about in the Christian faith and
43:41
talked about in other ancient traditions. Like, there is so much power,
43:44
you know. The, the scripturally it says God gives us the desires of
43:49
our heart, and another scripture says that out of the abundance of the heart the
43:52
mouth speaks, and then another scripture says in the mouth, in the tongue,
43:56
is the power of life and death. So right there,
43:59
you know, from our heart to our brain to our words,
44:04
we're— we can speak the reality that we desire to see.
44:08
I mean, if we can speak life and death, there is no other greater thing
44:11
we can speak. And so, I mean, you find it in the Christian tradition
44:16
and in Muslim tradition and Buddhism. It's, it's all
44:19
in all of the ancient teachings, ancient religions, you know,
44:22
the inscribed above of, you know, the interest of Delphi.
44:26
I think, therefore I am. I mean, it's just— it is all
44:29
right there. We just have to accept it and,
44:33
and shift, shift our frequency to match. Exactly.
44:37
And I'm so happy you brought it around to that too, because, you know,
44:40
if you start becoming open-minded and exploring and seeking,
44:44
you'll see it everywhere. And when you can get to a point where this
44:48
is just how it all is, when you can actually accept that this is just
44:51
how everything is, and then it's up to you just to apply it.
44:55
That's what will actually allow you to become willing in a new way
44:59
to create that different life using the proof that's
45:02
all around us already. That's huge.
45:06
So let's take it to something practical and doable.
45:11
Let's say someone is watching or listening to this, whether you're listening
45:14
on Apple Spotify, Amazon, Podbean, or you're watching
45:18
on YouTube, what is one exercise that someone
45:22
could start doing this week that will begin changing
45:26
the way they think and help them identify, like, help them awaken
45:30
to their highest identity? I love this
45:33
so much, and I just wrote an article that I've not even released
45:37
on this. So this, you know, the guests listening today, this is going to be
45:41
the first place you hear it. Love the synchronicity. It's so
45:45
good. It's so good. So I think, you know, it starts with allowing yourself the
45:49
permission to dream, I think. And that's how you're gonna
45:53
really, you know, utilize this work and see it come to
45:57
fruition is with like permission is where it starts. And I think,
46:00
you know, one way to give yourself permission to dream
46:04
without power is with a question called what if. What comes after
46:08
that? If you could have anything, or if there's something you feel you're meant
46:12
to do, I want you to just ask yourself the question, and you can write
46:16
it out. You can go pen to paper. What if it did all work out
46:20
how I wanted? And you could put down anything. Maybe it's a podcast,
46:23
right? Maybe it's a completely different career. Maybe it's 3x-ing
46:27
your income within your career. Whatever it is, what if this
46:31
was my reality? What if it all worked out how I wanted?
46:34
Whatever comes after the what if, and just write it all out. Like,
46:37
see what comes up and allow it to flow. Now,
46:41
the second question I think is very important is, you know,
46:45
what if— it takes the pressure away, so to speak,
46:48
right? You're just kind of exploring. You're just curious. Now,
46:51
the second question that I think you need to ask yourself is, why not?
46:56
So if you write out what if it
46:59
did all work out how I wanted and I could triple my income in the
47:02
next year. And you write out what that would be like. You explored it.
47:05
You gave yourself permission to explore. The next thing I want you
47:09
to write is why not? Why can't you? And what it's
47:13
going to do is it's going to give you awareness because it's going to show
47:16
you firsthand whatever narratives are there. It doesn't matter
47:20
if you think it's logical. Oh, logically, you know, people don't make that
47:23
much in my industry. Logically, the market's bad, whatever it is. Those are all narratives
47:28
and that's what you have to understand. You know, the amount of people who said
47:31
that you can't make the kind of money I make teaching this work,
47:36
it's, you know, it's all narratives. It's just what other people have accepted as
47:39
true. I know that I don't have to accept that,
47:42
right? So then ask yourself, why not?
47:46
And see all of the awarenesses that come up and
47:50
as they come up, what I want you to do is I want you to
47:53
actually switch them into what you would want.
47:57
So if you say, you know, what if I tripled my income?
48:00
And you write that out, and then you say, why not? Whatever excuses
48:03
come up, write the opposite. Well, because the market, you know,
48:07
why not? Because the market is in a bad place. Well,
48:10
what if within your market you can create your own economy
48:15
and you can create a service that people would want regardless of the economy?
48:19
And as you start to change each of those narratives, you are slowly conditioning
48:23
yourself to actually be able to accept that you
48:28
can triple your income. And when you accept that you can
48:31
triple your income, it's starting to move into form already. It is already starting to
48:35
happen. You are already attracting the ideas, the awareness, the people. Your mind is
48:40
identifying the people, identifying the opportunities, all of that. But it starts
48:43
with accepting it. And in my opinion, this is one of the best ways to
48:46
actually accept it. That is huge. I wrote it down myself.
48:49
I'm just like, I'm gonna do that exercise myself. And you should
48:54
totally do this exercise, not only because of what,
48:57
what you could uncover from it, but also to break the
49:01
habit of what if being a negative statement. You know,
49:04
a lot of times the what ifs are horrible. It's like, what if this goes
49:08
wrong? What if— but I love this. What if it does work out?
49:12
You know, what if this really does happen? And, and why not?
49:16
I mean, what if I do triple my income doing something I love and I'm
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passionate about? And why not? I think that's, that's huge,
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Adam. That's amazing. Um, so I
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have a lightning round that, uh, that I'd like to go into. I hope you're
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ready for, um, but I'm, I'm doing this week's lightning round a little
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different than what I've done in the past for people who are watching the podcast.
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I actually want you to complete a sentence. I'm gonna start it and then
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I want you to kind of complete it for me. So we'll have several of
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these in a row. Um, okay, I like this. Complete this sentence: success
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is whatever you want it to be. I love
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that. Failure is just awareness
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or learning lessons. Oh my gosh, because everything's working together for our good.
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Oh yeah, love that. Confidence comes from,
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from understanding your true human potential.
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Fear is false evidence appearing real.
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In addition to Revolution of Purpose, the book, one book everyone should read is—
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love this— hmm, The Power of Awareness by Neville
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Goddard is where I'll start. I have a lot there, as you know. There's so
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many that I want to recommend, but I'll start there. Neville Goddard is such
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the OG. I love him. I really do. Not my favorite.
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Yeah. Um, last of the lightning round questions:
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one lesson that you wish you had learned 10 years earlier?
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Um, I think it's what a lot of what we talked about here
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on, on this episode. Um, that whatever you
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accept as your reality becomes your reality, and that we have the ability
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to choose the ideas that we accept.
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Absolutely. I'm so thankful you did learn that, and I'm so thankful that you're
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using your voice to help other people learn that same lesson,
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because it is, it is empowering, it is freeing,
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and it's important work. So I'm so thankful that you're doing that, Adam.
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Um, before we wrap up, I do have one final question for you,
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and this is something that I ask every one of the peers on this podcast,
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and I'm Really looking forward to hearing your answer.
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What is one thing about purpose that you believe most people
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are missing? Hmm,
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I think this is so good. Purpose starts personal.
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It starts with a desire. It starts with an excitement. It starts
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with something that lights you up and makes you want to explore something further.
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But purpose really isn't about yourself at the end of the day. I think
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it's when you realize that your purpose is meant to
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serve others, when you understand that the reason you
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have a desire is because there is people who are meant to be
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changed by whatever it is that you provide,
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that I think is the key. And it allows— it's allowed me
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at least to get out of my own way, because whenever I want to play
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small, I realize that's so selfish to play small. Small because it's not
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about me. It's about the people who are meant to experience whatever reason I
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desire to serve in this way. That is so huge. And it's, you know,
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it's, it's almost counterintuitive. Playing small is
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seen as selfless, but if you're called
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to be big and use your voice and get out there, it's being selfish
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because you're letting the fear of what others think or all those limiting beliefs keep
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you from shining that light. And no man is an island.
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You know, there are people who are going to need the light that we shine.
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I liken our purpose to a lighthouse.
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I mean, we just, we don't know who is lost at sea that needs
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to see what we're going to shine their way. And it's,
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it's that important. I mean, it really is that important. It is life-changing
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work. Exactly. It's everything. It's everything.
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It is everything. Well, Adam, this has been such an incredible
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conversation. I appreciate not only your willingness to come on the
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show, but also just the investment that you've made in my own
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life. I am so grateful for your friendship, your coaching,
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and the way that you challenged me to think differently. And just for coming on
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and sharing your light with the audience of the Revolution of
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Purpose podcast, it means the world to me. I'm so glad.
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Of course. I will say one last thing.
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So I'll put this in the show notes as well, but where
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is the best place for people to connect with you or to follow you?
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Yeah, I would say Instagram. Instagram is the best place. We're pretty active on there.
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So that's where. And I didn't mean to cut
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you off. What were you about to say before I just talked over you?
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I was just going to say the one last thing I just want to remind
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everyone is that like it's bigger than you.
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It's so much bigger than you. I think this podcast right here is bigger
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than us, right? We're here, we're meant to be here for a reason.
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Everything has a purpose. And so I just wanted to end on that
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note because I think it's, it's important for us to hear consistently and repetitively
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and actually remember and operate with that. Absolutely.
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That's how we change our paradigm of thinking, is repetition of thought
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and emotional catalysts. That's amazing. Yes. To everyone
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listening, thank you so much for joining for another episode of Revolution of Purpose,
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especially these conversations episodes. I hope that you get as
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much out of these as I do because I certainly love,
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54:35
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And remember, your purpose is not something that you find.
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It is something that you awaken to, that you become.
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And until next time, keep living your own revolution
55:04
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