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You Are a Lucky Person (Meditation for the New Year): with Mimi Bouchard · QUESTION EVERYTHING

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Speaker 1: Big things happen when you're pretty, pretty bold, pretty clever,
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Speaker 1: pretty strong. I'm Danielle Robe and each week my guests
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Speaker 1: and I have conversations that put a new spin on
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Speaker 1: pretty This is pretty smart. I was about to record
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Speaker 1: this intro, and as I said the first line, I
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Speaker 1: realize that I have been home in Chicago for the week,
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Speaker 1: and I think my accent has gotten thicker. So I
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Speaker 1: say my o's and a's a little stronger, you know,
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Speaker 1: I but this episode is really special because we're walking
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Speaker 1: into two and twenty three, and you know, I'm a ponderer,
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Speaker 1: and one of the concepts I think about sometimes is luck.
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Speaker 1: How much of life happens by chance, how much is
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Speaker 1: in our control, and how much is perspective. For instance,
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Speaker 1: imagine you're driving to work one morning. It's unashining, there's
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Speaker 1: no traffic, you had a good night's sleep, and you
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Speaker 1: feel like today is going to be a good day.
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Speaker 1: Out of nowhere, a car runs a stop sign and
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Speaker 1: slams into the passenger side of your car. After determining
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Speaker 1: that you're thankfully still alive and not hurt, your first thought,
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Speaker 1: maybe of all the luck, but what kind of luck
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Speaker 1: is it? Good luck? That you're unharmed and alive to
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Speaker 1: tell the tale, or bad luck that your car is
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Speaker 1: totaled and you have to deal with the headache of insurance.
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Speaker 1: It depends how you look at it right or how
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Speaker 1: about when everything seems to go wrong. You're passed over
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Speaker 1: for a job, your back hurts, the kitchen drain stops working,
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Speaker 1: your zipper brakes, your dog eats something that makes it sick.
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Speaker 1: You weren't superstitious, but you begin to wonder, could I
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Speaker 1: just be unlucky? Why does it seem like I just
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Speaker 1: can't catch a break? I had a downswing earlier this month. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I got into two car accidents. I was stressed about money.
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Speaker 1: A meeting I was really looking forward to rescheduled twice
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Speaker 1: and then just canceled. I sat in my car after
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Speaker 1: the second accident and thought to myself, what is the
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Speaker 1: universe trying to tell me? And it got me thinking
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Speaker 1: about my perspective, how much of this was luck and
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Speaker 1: how much was in my control. A few years ago,
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Speaker 1: I listened to an interview David Letterman did with former
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Speaker 1: President Barack Obama on his Netflix show My Next Guest,
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Speaker 1: and I've always remembered what Obama said his feelings are
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Speaker 1: on luck.
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Speaker 2: Here's one question I did have, because we're wrapping up,
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Speaker 2: is don't you say to yourself, boy, am I lucky?
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Speaker 2: And one of the things that I think I always
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Speaker 2: am surprised by is when I see people who have
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Speaker 2: been successful in business or entertainment or politics and they're
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Speaker 2: absolutely convinced that it's all because they were so smart.
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Speaker 2: And I'm always saying, well, look, I worked hard and
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Speaker 2: I've got had some talent, but there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of hard work and talent people out there. There was
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Speaker 2: this element of chance to it. There was this element
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Speaker 2: of serendipity, and I wonder whether you feel that sometimes
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Speaker 2: where And the reason that for me at least is
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Speaker 2: important is so a I don't feel too self important,
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Speaker 2: but be you know, you want to see if you
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Speaker 2: could maybe figure out how to sprinkle that stardust.
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Speaker 3: On other people.
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Speaker 2: Mister President, this is what I am struggling with at
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Speaker 2: this point in my life. I have been nothing but lucky.
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Speaker 1: When I hear Obama speak about it, it feels almost
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Speaker 1: like a tool for humility, which I think is beautiful.
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Speaker 1: But the very best idea about luck or chance I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard is from Alex Benayan's book The Third Door,
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Speaker 1: he interviewed Sheilu. She grew up in a rural village
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Speaker 1: outside of Shanghai, China, with no running water or electricity.
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Speaker 1: The village was so poor that people suffered deformities from malnutrition.
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Speaker 1: There were hundreds of kids and one school teacher. At
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Speaker 1: age twenty seven, she was making the most money he'd
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Speaker 1: ever earned, seven dollars a month. Fast forward twenty years,
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Speaker 1: he's the president of online Services at Microsoft. His story
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Speaker 1: is quite literally unbelievable. I don't want to ruin it,
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Speaker 1: because Alex's book is phenomenal and you should pick it up.
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Speaker 1: But towards the end of the interview, Alex is in
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Speaker 1: near disbelief because so much of she's life seems to
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Speaker 1: have been coincidence or luck. She says he actually doesn't
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Speaker 1: believe it's completely random. He says luck is like a bus.
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Speaker 1: If you miss one, there's always the next one. But
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Speaker 1: if you're not prepared aka not at the bus station,
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Speaker 1: you won't be able to jump on. And while that
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Speaker 1: brings me to our guest today, Mimi Bouchard is the
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Speaker 1: found of Superhuman app. She's credited with a new form
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Speaker 1: of meditation, one that she says is energizing and motivating.
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Speaker 1: Thousands of people swear by her app and her daily practice,
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Speaker 1: and she was kind enough to share a thirty minute
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Speaker 1: meditation with us as we head into the new year.
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Speaker 1: After the meditation plays, there's an interview with Mimi that
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Speaker 1: I really hope you'll enjoy. And during our conversation, she
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Speaker 1: said something that struck me. She said, I am a
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Speaker 1: lucky person, and that's an affirmation I tell myself. That
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Speaker 1: phrase actually totally changed the course of this episode. Originally
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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be about renewal for the new year,
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Speaker 1: intention setting, and after she said that, I thought, luck
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Speaker 1: really is about perspective, and I want us all to
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Speaker 1: go into twenty twenty three with a knowing that we're lucky.
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Speaker 1: I'll let Mimi share her story, but I think it's
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Speaker 1: important to note that she didn't always feel that way,
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Speaker 1: so it's okay if you don't, but you will. She
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Speaker 1: went from feeling quote financially stuck and depressed with an
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Speaker 1: eating disorder to being abundantly wealthy, blissfully happy, and in
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Speaker 1: love with life. She says, if you change your thinking
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Speaker 1: from realistic to believing impossibility, When you start looking for
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Speaker 1: potential everywhere, you'll begin finding it everywhere. So please enjoy
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Speaker 1: Mimi's meditation titled align with the Energy of your Future.
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Speaker 1: And as we walk into twenty twenty three, know that
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Speaker 1: the future you is lucky.
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Speaker 4: Those your eyes. Settle into your body and feel excited
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Speaker 4: because in this guided meditation, you're going to align with
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Speaker 4: the energy of your desired future. Start by feeling your body,
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Speaker 4: letting any old thoughts simply disappear. All you're focusing on
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Speaker 4: right now is how your body's feeling, and now the
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Speaker 4: space around your body your energetic field. Simply notice how
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Speaker 4: you are currently vibrating the energy you are currently emitting,
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Speaker 4: connecting with your mind and body, Feeling the relationship that
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Speaker 4: you have with you, Feeling that deep innate love that
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Speaker 4: you have for yourself. This is an intimate, loving meditation.
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Speaker 4: You're guiding yourself through the journey of getting from where
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Speaker 4: you are to where you want to be, of aligning
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Speaker 4: the energy in every single cell in your being with
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Speaker 4: what you desire. So feel that love for yourself before
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Speaker 4: we begin the visualization the manifestation all that good stuff.
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Speaker 4: Feel that deep love that you have for you, that
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Speaker 4: deep appreciation for the person that you are now, as
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Speaker 4: you're a bit more settled in and your heart has expanded.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 4: Simply thinking about what you're creating, what you are attracting
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Speaker 4: in your life. Just think about it. Where do you
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Speaker 4: want to be in one year, and three years and
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Speaker 4: five years? Day Dream for just a few minutes on
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Speaker 4: where you're headed, Get excited, think big, Do not limit yourself.
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Speaker 4: Remember that anything is possible and you are absolutely unlimited.
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Speaker 4: What does your life look like? You're just fired future?
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Speaker 4: Where are you? Where do you live? Who are you with?
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Speaker 4: What do you have? What are your relationships like? Feeling
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Speaker 4: the energy of your future, taking your time to soak
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Speaker 4: it all in, Feeling the magic of what you are creating,
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Speaker 4: of what is already on its way. Visualize that beautiful
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Speaker 4: golden energy around you that resembles your future, the next
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Speaker 4: level of this incredible life. Simply visualize the feeling in
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Speaker 4: your body. Act as if you're already there, while embodying
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Speaker 4: that gorgeous golden light emitting all around you, the source
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Speaker 4: being you. What does it feel like in your body
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Speaker 4: being where you want to be? Memorize the emotions, the
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Speaker 4: feeling in your heart. The deeper you go the closer
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Speaker 4: it gets. Everything is energy. You are unlimited to sign
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Speaker 4: your future, because after all, it's all on you and
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Speaker 4: it's simply a decision away. What does it feel like
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Speaker 4: to know deep down that everything that you want also
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Speaker 4: wants you? Feel that in your body energetically, energetically, just
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Speaker 4: feel what it feels like in your body and your
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Speaker 4: mind and your heart. What it feels like to know
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Speaker 4: that what you want also wants you, It is also
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Speaker 4: attracted to you. Hm, hm, Excitement, gratitude, all feel the feelings,
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Speaker 4: feel the magic. That beautiful gold and energy is still
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Speaker 4: surrounding you. Feel it deep in your being, emitting from
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Speaker 4: every single article in your body. Visualize it, Visualize every cell,
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Speaker 4: every atom beaming with light, beaming with this abundant gold
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Speaker 4: and energy. Become more of it than anything else. And
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Speaker 4: everything is energy after all? What if you surrendered and
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Speaker 4: went a little bit cheaper, opening up to your innate
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Speaker 4: unlimited ability. Everything you want is on its way. Everything
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Speaker 4: you've been visualizing is closer than you think. Feel that
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Speaker 4: as a truth. It's like you're a magnet to abundance,
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Speaker 4: to love, to joy. This goal and energy is a magnet.
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Speaker 4: It attracts more of it to you, So one last time,
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Speaker 4: go all in for the rest of this meditation. What
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Speaker 4: does it feel like to be living your future now?
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Speaker 4: What does it feel like to be truly unlimited, to
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Speaker 4: feel like your superhuman self becoming the person you know
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Speaker 4: deep down you're meant to be?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 4: Who are you going to be for the rest of today?
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Speaker 4: Because if you hold onto this energy, and you stay
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Speaker 4: aligned with the energy you of your future, and you
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Speaker 4: hold onto this, you're going to experience magic in your day.
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Speaker 4: Everything in your life will adapt to the new future
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Speaker 4: self you presenting yourself into the world. Just trust it.
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Speaker 4: Try it. Visualize yourself going through the emotions, going through
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Speaker 4: the rest of your day as this elevated version of yourself.
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Speaker 4: Every single part of you feels different. Your body physically
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Speaker 4: feels lighter, your heart is more receptive to love, It
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Speaker 4: feels more open. Your mind knows where it's going, feels clear, focused,
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Speaker 4: doesn't let the small things affect it. Your emotional body
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Speaker 4: feel safe and excited for the future. Feel so much
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Speaker 4: love and gratitude for where you are, for where you're headed. Remember,
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Speaker 4: everything that you want is on its way. It's already
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Speaker 4: on its way. Feel that in your body one last time.
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Speaker 4: Everything that you're feeling is closer than you think. It's
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Speaker 4: already here. It's just a matter of time for you
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Speaker 4: to see it in your physical reality. Keeping your eyes closed, slowly,
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Speaker 4: very slowly, bring yourself back to the room, feeling the
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Speaker 4: space around you, and before you open up your eyes,
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Speaker 4: set the intention that you will open them as the
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Speaker 4: new you, as your future self. You have tapped in,
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Speaker 4: you have connected, you have transformed over the past twenty
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Speaker 4: five minutes, and you've got to hold onto this feeling.
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Speaker 4: So promise yourself right now, when you open up your eyes,
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Speaker 4: you will be the version of you that you know
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Speaker 4: deep down you're meant to be. You will be your
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Speaker 4: future self, full of love, positive energy, abundant energy, full
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Speaker 4: of power, because that is how everything will fall into place.
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Speaker 4: You holding onto this feeling no matter what, whether you're
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Speaker 4: in or out of meditation, you gotta become it. So
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Speaker 4: set that intention that it is who you are now
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Speaker 4: as you slowly up your eyes, taking in the room
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Speaker 4: around you, feeling the significant shift, and how you feel
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Speaker 4: and how everything looks. It's interesting how colors look brighter,
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Speaker 4: more vivid when you're in this state. It's interesting how
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Speaker 4: you feel so connected and in tune with the world
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Speaker 4: with where you're headed. When you're in this state now
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Speaker 4: remembering you want to be for the rest of the
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Speaker 4: day and to hold onto this feeling because this is
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Speaker 4: what it really feels like to be fully alive. You
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Speaker 1: get into meditation?
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Speaker 3: I have really gotten into this space in quite an
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Speaker 3: unconventional way. I am not your conventional meditator or meditation teacher.
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Speaker 3: I don't even like using the word meditation because what
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Speaker 3: I do is so different. I initially got introduced to
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Speaker 3: meditation back eight years ago when I was getting into
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Speaker 3: personal development and I tried Danielle I freaking. I was like, listen,
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Speaker 3: I'm doing all the other things I was supposed to
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Speaker 3: be doing for the life of my dreams. But I
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Speaker 3: couldn't stick to the habit of sitting down and meditating
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Speaker 3: because I kept telling myself, this is hard, this is
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Speaker 3: not enjoyable. I'm not the kind of person that can meditate.
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Speaker 3: My brain works too quickly, and I which just got
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Speaker 3: fed up. So I stopped and I started recording these
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Speaker 3: little pep talks to myself on the voice memos on
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Speaker 3: my phone, and I was living alone, and I was like,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I want to visualize my future, but
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Speaker 3: I can't dedicate twenty minutes to sit down and think
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Speaker 3: about it and close my eyes. I need to I'm busy,
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Speaker 3: I need to do things. There was just this feeling
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Speaker 3: inside of me that said, you know what, you can
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Speaker 3: listen to this motivational visualization audio while doing other things
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Speaker 3: and while upgrading your energy. And there was a little
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Speaker 3: voice inside of me that said, this is actually a
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Speaker 3: lot more effective for you. So I leaned in. I
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Speaker 3: started recording these twenty minute little PEP talks to myself,
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Speaker 3: you know, telling myself what my future feels like. And
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Speaker 3: I would listen to these voice audio files. It was
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Speaker 3: kind of part of my morning routine. And I started
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Speaker 3: just listening to this audio file and I started making
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Speaker 3: more when I would get bored of one, whenever I
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Speaker 3: wanted to upgrade my vibration, my feeling in my body right.
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Speaker 3: And I soon started to realize that everything started falling
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Speaker 3: into place in my life, and it was interesting that
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Speaker 3: that was aligned with the timeline that I started listening
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Speaker 3: to these active visualizations and then I started adding music
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Speaker 3: behind them, and I started a podcast around a couple
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Speaker 3: of years later, so I just started kind of creating
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Speaker 3: these files for myself, and long story short, you know,
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Speaker 3: years later, I launched a subscription program on for my audience,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: add a few kind of more generic ones for everyone else,
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Speaker 3: and I'm just going to call them meditations because I
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Speaker 3: don't really know what else to call them, and they
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Speaker 3: kicked off. It's very self image focused, and my belief
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Speaker 3: system in the way that I created my dream life
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Speaker 3: was simply by becoming the kind of person that has
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Speaker 3: what I wanted before actually achieving it in the material world.
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Speaker 3: And this is like the science backed approach to manifestation,
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Speaker 3: you know, simply becoming and changing yourself image to match
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Speaker 3: the version of you that you want to be. It's
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Speaker 3: funny that it came from me having that need and
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Speaker 3: not wanting to do things conventionally because I just didn't
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Speaker 3: fit with me. And listening to two different audio content
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Speaker 3: in your everyday moments doesn't require you changing your behavior.
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Speaker 3: It's really easy to do. One of the pain points
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Speaker 3: for me with traditional meditation was that it's hard, like
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Speaker 3: I don't want to do like I don't want to
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Speaker 3: sit down and change a behavior. So realistically, just changing
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Speaker 3: what you listen to in these everyday moments, just it
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Speaker 3: really does change your life. And the last thing I'll
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Speaker 3: say about that, it's kind of like the Pavlov dog theory.
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Speaker 3: I like to explain it as that Pavelov brings the
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Speaker 3: bell and the dog salivates, and it's been conditioning, it's mined. Right,
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like that because like our walking meditations,
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Speaker 3: for example, they change your states so much that if
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Speaker 3: you do them every morning when you're walking dog, soon
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Speaker 3: enough you don't even need to be listening to them,
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Speaker 3: and you're feeling confident and energized and wealthy and abundant
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Speaker 3: when you're walking the dog. Right, So this is really
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Speaker 3: just like a stepping stone to help you shift your
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Speaker 3: vibration and your state and simply become the version of
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Speaker 3: you that you want to be.
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Speaker 1: So when you say become the version of you that
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Speaker 1: you want to be, what do you mean, Like, how
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Speaker 1: do you even visualize that?
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Speaker 3: You first need to decide and get clear on what
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Speaker 3: you actually want. So let's say you want to make
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Speaker 3: more money. You know, that's one big thing. Everyone wants
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Speaker 3: to make more money. Who doesn't, Right, So when you
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Speaker 3: decide that, and then you start getting very clear on
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Speaker 3: what kind of the people that have wealth, how do
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Speaker 3: they think, what is their self image, how do they act,
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Speaker 3: what are their beliefs, And then you start creating an
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Speaker 3: archetype of who you want to be in the future,
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Speaker 3: your future self I call it. I'm very into using
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Speaker 3: the term future self because it's really the vision of
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Speaker 3: you and your ultimate self. And I believe you can
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Speaker 3: be your future self now and that's really what the
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Speaker 3: work is. Like my meditations get you to be that
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Speaker 3: future self in the moment. But yeah, so you just
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Speaker 3: need to decide on what thoughts they think, how they
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Speaker 3: hold themselves, how they speak, who they are the wealthy
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Speaker 3: version of you, and then you start acting different. And
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Speaker 3: I believe that when you change yourself image to match that,
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Speaker 3: it's like a ripple effect in every other area of
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Speaker 3: your life. To effortlessly change your life, you must first
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Speaker 3: be the person that has that. Because you naturally start
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Speaker 3: making those decisions, you naturally start creating interest in weal.
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Speaker 3: If you want to learn about investing, you see opportunity
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Speaker 3: the reticular activating system in your mind is now triggered
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Speaker 3: to see potentials and then soon enough you have it,
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Speaker 3: things start happening. Crazy things, Danielle, have literally happened to me.
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Speaker 3: And this is why I believe in the work, because.
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Speaker 1: Crazy to me.
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Speaker 3: Can you share some Yeah, Well, a couple of years
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Speaker 3: ago I made my first one hundred thousand dollars months
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Speaker 3: and this was in a month that I was intensely
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Speaker 3: in this visualization. And I've realized it's not visualization just
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Speaker 3: in your mind, and this is why I think the
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Speaker 3: open eyed meditations are so powerful. It's visualization in your body.
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Speaker 3: It's not about thinking, it's about feeling. Right, So when
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Speaker 3: you want to create the life you desire, you need
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Speaker 3: to embody it and your whole physical body. So that
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Speaker 3: month I was just very in it, and my subscription
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Speaker 3: platform at the time was doing I think thirty thousand
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Speaker 3: a month consistently. I randomly got an opportunity that month
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Speaker 3: that was a commission deal to sell these ebooks. And
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Speaker 3: I know my audience, you know, I know how much
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Speaker 3: they buy. I know you know. I was predicting maybe
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Speaker 3: make ten or fifteen thousand from it, and I pushed it,
42:43
Speaker 3: but I kept I was very sure of. It was
42:45
Speaker 3: a January, you know, you're always very motivated. In January,
42:47
Speaker 3: I was like, I want to be one hundred thousand
42:49
Speaker 3: dollars a month, mean me, and it was like a
42:51
Speaker 3: huge goal of mine. So I was in that vibration.
42:54
Speaker 3: And when I got the results from that commission deal,
42:57
Speaker 3: it was the exact amount to make up to one
43:00
Speaker 3: hundred thousands. And I literally looked at myself after that
43:04
Speaker 3: month and I was like, Wow, if this is not
43:07
Speaker 3: proof enough, then I don't know what is, because I
43:10
Speaker 3: shouldn't have made that from that commission deal.
43:12
Speaker 1: Do you feel so powerful?
43:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see the universe in the world like through
43:18
Speaker 3: a new lens now. And then I'm going to be
43:20
Speaker 3: honest though I'm not perfect and no one is, and
43:23
Speaker 3: I'm often in a lower vibe mentality and I often
43:27
Speaker 3: am still trying, you know, even as someone that's created
43:30
Speaker 3: this business like I am right now today. You're catching
43:33
Speaker 3: me on a day where I feel very powerful and
43:35
Speaker 3: I'm really in it. But sometimes I have to really
43:37
Speaker 3: work to get to this mentality, and sometimes I don't
43:40
Speaker 3: even do it, and then the next day I wake up,
43:41
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, you know, get into the state meaning
43:43
Speaker 3: and I know what to do to get there. But
43:45
Speaker 3: I used to always think that I had to be
43:47
Speaker 3: perfect to create these results, and I just want to
43:50
Speaker 3: say it loud and clear that you don't.
43:52
Speaker 1: So when you are having those low days, what do
43:54
Speaker 1: you do to remind yourself and to kind of clock
43:58
Speaker 1: back into your positive mindset.
44:00
Speaker 3: I've kind of coined this term bounced back rate, and
44:04
Speaker 3: it essentially means the rate at which you bounce back
44:07
Speaker 3: to being who you want to be your best self.
44:09
Speaker 3: And the shorter yourn back rate is, the more successful
44:14
Speaker 3: you'll be.
44:15
Speaker 1: I believe.
44:15
Speaker 3: So what I do when I'm feeling like my bounce
44:18
Speaker 3: back rate has been lengthened for some reason. I'm very intuitive.
44:23
Speaker 3: I don't have strict regimes. I have consistencies in my life.
44:27
Speaker 3: But I can't tell you one thing I do every
44:29
Speaker 3: time because I really listen to my body. So one
44:32
Speaker 3: one day I'll be like, Okay, I really need a
44:34
Speaker 3: bath and I want to eat chocolate and watch like
44:36
Speaker 3: some stupid show and that's my self care. But I'll
44:38
Speaker 3: tell you, Danielle, I used to do those things and
44:42
Speaker 3: in the process feel guilty for not doing something else.
44:45
Speaker 3: And I've really realized that if you are trying to rest,
44:49
Speaker 3: but you're feeling guilty about everything else that you need
44:52
Speaker 3: to do, that's not called rest. And then I'll also
44:54
Speaker 3: just listen. If I'm really like needing something, I'll listen to.
44:58
Speaker 3: Like we have these like pep talks on the app
45:00
Speaker 3: that are like two minutes long, and there there's a
45:02
Speaker 3: variety of topics. It's like, you know, stopped doubting yourself,
45:04
Speaker 3: or everything you want is on your way, or like
45:07
Speaker 3: whatever you need in that moment, And I honestly listen
45:09
Speaker 3: to them. And even though it's my voice, I feel
45:12
Speaker 3: like it's from my future self, so it's like it's
45:15
Speaker 3: I don't even relate to that, you know, being mine,
45:18
Speaker 3: and I just like I need a pep talk.
45:20
Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to talk about your business because
45:22
Speaker 1: I've been using the Superhuman app. I love it so much.
45:25
Speaker 1: I think, like, aside from the content that it's it's
45:28
Speaker 1: a really well made app, it's super accessible and like
45:31
Speaker 1: easy to use.
45:33
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
45:34
Speaker 1: So when you first started, you didn't have as a
45:37
Speaker 1: big of a following as you do now. So when
45:40
Speaker 1: you say that you were making thirty thousand dollars a month,
45:42
Speaker 1: So the I mistened to pretty have hide hustles or
45:46
Speaker 1: like ideas, and a lot of the comments are always
45:49
Speaker 1: about like, how do I, you know, make my passion
45:52
Speaker 1: my career? So can you walk me through how you
45:55
Speaker 1: even created this?
45:56
Speaker 3: Well, I started my podcast four years ago beyond that,
46:00
Speaker 3: so six when I first moved to London. Six like
46:03
Speaker 3: to start my actual following online six seven years ago.
46:07
Speaker 3: I was on a TV show in London. When I
46:09
Speaker 3: first moved there, my visa was expiring and I was
46:12
Speaker 3: really desperate to continue living in London and I was
46:15
Speaker 3: kind of working like five jobs trying to you know,
46:17
Speaker 3: make rent. And I met this woman who was my
46:21
Speaker 3: old agent, and I asked her, you know, I want
46:22
Speaker 3: to get into TV presenting. Actually that's what I wanted
46:25
Speaker 3: to do back in the day. And she was like, okay,
46:27
Speaker 3: but you're never going to get a visa for that.
46:29
Speaker 3: It's early hard industry in the UK and you don't
46:31
Speaker 3: have a British accent, and like, I don't know if
46:33
Speaker 3: you're going to be able to get a visa, but
46:34
Speaker 3: if you get on this other show, then they'll sponsor
46:36
Speaker 3: you and I'll start representing you. So I was like,
46:38
Speaker 3: all right, no brainer. So I did this reality show
46:41
Speaker 3: it's kind of like The Hills of the UK. Yeah,
46:44
Speaker 3: this was the beginning. And then I started my podcast
46:47
Speaker 3: four years ago and that was a really big thing
46:49
Speaker 3: for me, and I started it to promote my online
46:51
Speaker 3: magazine blog that I was doing, and then I started
46:53
Speaker 3: posting on Instagram more and you know, I just started
46:56
Speaker 3: building a bit of a community and it was a
46:57
Speaker 3: lot more based around health and fitness wellness at the time. Yeah,
47:01
Speaker 3: it kind of started off with that. So then I
47:03
Speaker 3: started selling ebooks and ebooks started doing really well in
47:07
Speaker 3: digital content and online courses at the time. Three years ago,
47:10
Speaker 3: I decided to launch Mimi Method, which was like a
47:13
Speaker 3: health and wellness subscription platform, and it wasn't an app.
47:16
Speaker 3: It was just like an online platform. Then we launched
47:19
Speaker 3: app later, but it was it was through one of
47:21
Speaker 3: these like video ott platforms. It wasn't that expensive to do.
47:24
Speaker 3: Creating a custom developed app is hundreds of thousands of dollars.
47:28
Speaker 3: It's incredibly expensive, so you know, it definitely wasn't bad.
47:31
Speaker 3: So every single step I took it brought me to
47:34
Speaker 3: the next level, and you know, the meditation started kicking
47:37
Speaker 3: off and I realized you know what. And I was
47:40
Speaker 3: making thirty thousand a month at that point. Right when
47:42
Speaker 3: I was deciding to change everything to Superhuman, I was,
47:45
Speaker 3: you know, I see potential with this. There was nothing
47:47
Speaker 3: else like this out there, and people are loving it.
47:50
Speaker 3: The product market fit is insane. And I started learning
47:53
Speaker 3: a lot more about business a couple of years ago
47:55
Speaker 3: and just started becoming obsessed with entrepreneurship. And it was like,
47:59
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going to globalize this product, and
48:02
Speaker 3: I'm going to create a custom app, and I'm going
48:05
Speaker 3: to really hone in on our unique selling proposition of
48:08
Speaker 3: meditations for every moment of the day that are energizing,
48:11
Speaker 3: that are motivational, that you can listen to while getting
48:14
Speaker 3: ready in the morning, you know, whatever it is that
48:16
Speaker 3: you're doing. I've always been very customer obsessed, and I
48:19
Speaker 3: think that's why the company has succeeded as it has
48:22
Speaker 3: the past couple of years. You know, I always just
48:24
Speaker 3: want to put a lot back into the business. Whenever
48:27
Speaker 3: I see an opportunity, I'm like, yeah, that's that's like,
48:30
Speaker 3: let's just go spend three hundred day on a new app.
48:32
Speaker 3: Like it's just going to be ten times better. It's
48:34
Speaker 3: going to set us up better for the future. It's
48:36
Speaker 3: been a great experience. It's a lot of ups and
48:38
Speaker 3: downs and a lot of you know, I've spent money
48:40
Speaker 3: on really stupid things that didn't end up turning out
48:43
Speaker 3: like that.
48:44
Speaker 1: Actually, I was going to ask what things would you
48:46
Speaker 1: have avoided.
48:47
Speaker 3: I would have done my research a little bit more
48:49
Speaker 3: about what things actually cost. When I decided at the
48:52
Speaker 3: time to turn things into Superhuman, I met an amazing
48:56
Speaker 3: marketing agency, and I don't regret working with them at all.
48:58
Speaker 3: But I did spend thirty five thousand dollars on our website,
49:02
Speaker 3: and I was kind of under the impression that to
49:06
Speaker 3: get a website that I wanted it was going to
49:09
Speaker 3: cost that much money. But then I very quickly realized
49:12
Speaker 3: that I could have gotten it designed by a team
49:15
Speaker 3: and then developed by another one, Like there are always
49:16
Speaker 3: ways to save money, and I kind of I regret
49:19
Speaker 3: not looking into other options with that. Another thing is
49:24
Speaker 3: hiring the wrong people for the job just because I
49:28
Speaker 3: see their potential. I had a really sweet girl working
49:31
Speaker 3: for me for the first year of meaning method, and
49:34
Speaker 3: I kind of, you know, I really wanted her to
49:36
Speaker 3: be this person that could take on like an operational
49:39
Speaker 3: role and she just didn't have any experience with it.
49:41
Speaker 3: But her salary was really high because her past experience
49:45
Speaker 3: was in something that had a higher salary but didn't
49:47
Speaker 3: really have like the same you know, pros that I
49:50
Speaker 3: needed for her or like equalities that I needed for
49:52
Speaker 3: this job. So yeah, I just like I had I
49:55
Speaker 3: kept her on for too long because I just really
49:57
Speaker 3: I was terrified of firing anyone, and I really he
50:00
Speaker 3: liked her, but ultimately it was a really stupid business decision,
50:04
Speaker 3: Like a huge part of our revenue was going to
50:06
Speaker 3: like her salary, and I'm just like, this is not
50:09
Speaker 3: a right fit and I have to fire her, which
50:11
Speaker 3: was really sad.
50:13
Speaker 1: When you look back on your journey, what do you
50:14
Speaker 1: feel most proud of.
50:16
Speaker 3: I really feel proud of myself, I do, and I
50:22
Speaker 3: feel proud of the people that I've helped. And having
50:26
Speaker 3: a business that directly impacts other people's lives in a
50:29
Speaker 3: positive way is so deeply fulfilling and it really just
50:35
Speaker 3: fills my heart in a way that I can't explain.
50:38
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, what is a negotiating tip that you've
50:42
Speaker 1: learned that you'd like to pass on to other women?
50:45
Speaker 3: So I've learned this. You know, if you're negotiating a salary,
50:48
Speaker 3: if you're negotiating contract, don't be the first one to
50:53
Speaker 3: say a number unless there are specific situations like if
50:56
Speaker 3: I'm giving you know, right now, I'm in the process
51:00
Speaker 3: of giving my top person on the team a little
51:03
Speaker 3: bit of equity in the business, and I'm deciding that
51:06
Speaker 3: number that's not up for negotiation. It's it's something that
51:09
Speaker 3: I'm giving, and it's that's the number. But when it
51:12
Speaker 3: comes to things that are negotiable, don't be the first
51:15
Speaker 3: one to say a number. Always, you know, get the
51:18
Speaker 3: feeling from them first, you know, what are you expecting,
51:20
Speaker 3: what would normally what would the normal fee for this
51:23
Speaker 3: kind of thing be, and then go from there, you know,
51:25
Speaker 3: because you still want it to be fair. But you
51:27
Speaker 3: also sometimes you know, I don't know what if this
51:30
Speaker 3: person's expectation is a chunk of what, like, you know,
51:34
Speaker 3: a third of what I was going to suggest, I
51:35
Speaker 3: don't that's realistically, you don't want to, you know, just
51:38
Speaker 3: put yourself out in the open like that. So that's
51:40
Speaker 3: what I would say, and also be really honest, and
51:45
Speaker 3: what my business strategy with everyone I work with is
51:48
Speaker 3: just honesty. And if I feel like I'm being treated
51:52
Speaker 3: in a way or if i feel like they're not
51:53
Speaker 3: holding up their end of the stick, I'm just I
51:55
Speaker 3: tell them. And I don't like to hold grudges and
51:58
Speaker 3: I like to just let things out and in a
52:00
Speaker 3: responsible way. And I think honesty is a really good
52:04
Speaker 3: negotiation tip or even just like relationship building tip, because
52:07
Speaker 3: it really helps in every way.
52:10
Speaker 1: I like that one too.
52:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
52:11
Speaker 1: What is a book that you've read that you think
52:13
Speaker 1: everybody should read.
52:15
Speaker 3: If you're starting in your personal development journey? Read The
52:18
Speaker 3: Success Principles by Jack Canfield. It's an old book, you know,
52:22
Speaker 3: it's so easy to read though, it's like a huge textbook,
52:25
Speaker 3: and that he has like sixty seven principles or something
52:28
Speaker 3: that are just very easy to read and digest.
52:31
Speaker 1: And it's so good, fantastic. I do a pretty smart
52:35
Speaker 1: question every week. Okay, ooh, what is the biggest sacrifice
52:39
Speaker 1: you've had to make on your path to achievement? Wow?
52:43
Speaker 3: That is such a good question when I was on
52:46
Speaker 3: the road to achievement. Now it really doesn't matter. But
52:50
Speaker 3: when you're in that phase of working towards success before
52:54
Speaker 3: other people have noticed and before it's noticeable. You really
52:57
Speaker 3: need to not care what other people think of you.
53:00
Speaker 3: So I had to let go of what I what
53:03
Speaker 3: my care of what others think of me because I
53:06
Speaker 3: was embarrassing. You know. I would, you know, post on
53:09
Speaker 3: every social channel. Hey guys, go check out my blog.
53:12
Speaker 3: You know, like I was doing things that were embarrassing
53:15
Speaker 3: to get to the next level, to get where I
53:17
Speaker 3: needed to be at that reality show embarrassing. You know,
53:20
Speaker 3: I just didn't even care that much what people thought
53:22
Speaker 3: of me. I just did what I knew I had
53:24
Speaker 3: to do to get to where I wanted to be.
53:26
Speaker 3: And when you're at the beginning of your journey and
53:30
Speaker 3: you know, you need to excuse yourself, like I would
53:33
Speaker 3: go leave a dinner to go to the other room
53:35
Speaker 3: and like listen to my audio file and like take
53:36
Speaker 3: a second, like do one of these like mini meditations,
53:39
Speaker 3: because I was really not in the right state of mind.
53:42
Speaker 3: Like I had to, you know, take myself out of
53:44
Speaker 3: situations and say no to things if I felt like
53:48
Speaker 3: I wasn't in alignment. And yeah, that's the biggest thing.
53:52
Speaker 1: What is the smartest decision You've ever made?
53:54
Speaker 3: Smartest decision I've ever made was not following the crowd
54:00
Speaker 3: when I left school and I decided to go move
54:04
Speaker 3: across the world and start a website that I didn't
54:06
Speaker 3: know would be successful or not. I was doing something
54:12
Speaker 3: that a lot of people disagreed with, from my family
54:14
Speaker 3: to my friends, and everyone wanted me to stay on
54:18
Speaker 3: the path that was safe. Everyone wanted me to stay
54:20
Speaker 3: in school. Everyone wanted me to stay in the country
54:23
Speaker 3: and do what I was supposed to do, and everyone
54:25
Speaker 3: wanted me to just not do anything that was different.
54:28
Speaker 3: So I'm the smartest decision I've ever made was listening
54:32
Speaker 3: to my gut.
54:33
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Mimi, and really appreciate that. Danielle,
54:36
Speaker 1: thank you. I want to thank the people that make
54:43
Speaker 1: the show possible, Colleen O'Neill, Jill Salama, Karrie O'Keefe, and
54:48
Speaker 1: Phil speed Tech. Okay, you know what time it is.
54:51
Speaker 1: Today's a good day. To have a good day. I'll
54:54
Speaker 1: see you next week. Aboard fist