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468: Attract Wealth & Manifest with Feng Shui w/Kristina Hollinger · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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Nicole Laino: Come here to become an unshakable human and build an unshakable business according to your human design.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: Hello, and welcome to Unshakable with Human Design.
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Nicole Laino: I'm your host, Nicole.
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Nicole Laino: Nicole Laino.
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Nicole Laino: And it's just me and you right now, but I actually have an interview for you that I'm very excited to bring you.
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Nicole Laino: I interviewed Christina Hollinger.
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Nicole Laino: She is a feng shui expert.
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Nicole Laino: She's been featured on hgtv, and she brings this beautiful blend of, like, ancient manifesting wisdom of feng shui through simple and modern methods by helping you balance your outer and your inner environment.
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Nicole Laino: So this show, if you listen to this show, what you're probably interested in is alternative ways of bringing in money, of creating the life that you want to have and bringing balance to your life.
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Nicole Laino: You recognize that it isn't all hustle.
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Nicole Laino: It isn't all action, although that's important.
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Nicole Laino: There is an energetic element to everything.
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Nicole Laino: So on the show, we explore so much of, like, the energy of ourselves and the energy of the people that we are around.
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Nicole Laino: But in this episode, feng shui is the study of the energy of space, of the spaces we live in, of the spaces we occupy.
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Nicole Laino: And in this episode, what Christina breaks down because her specialty is manifesting with feng shui.
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Nicole Laino: And what she breaks down in this is how you can attract wealth, how you can start to attract money, hold money, how your home might actually be a key to maybe why money doesn't stay around, to why love doesn't stay or why it does.
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Nicole Laino: And she gives us some really amazing tips and tricks and things that you can implement in your own home.
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Nicole Laino: But she also gives us the background on all of that, of how this all came to be and how we look at our homes and the space and the energy flow within it and learn to work with it more effectively.
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Nicole Laino: So without further ado, I'm going to kick it on over to the episode, but I hope that you enjoy this interview.
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Nicole Laino: I enjoyed it so much for Christina is a dear friend and, yeah, enjoy the episode.
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Nicole Laino: Christina, I am so excited to have you here.
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Nicole Laino: This is a long time coming.
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Kristina Hollinger : It is.
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Kristina Hollinger : Hi, Nicole.
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Nicole Laino: Hi.
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Nicole Laino: Welcome to the show.
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Kristina Hollinger : Thank you.
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Nicole Laino: So, first of all, tell everybody a little bit about yourself and what you do, because I am obsessed.
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Nicole Laino: But I want everybody to know, like, we have some friends in common.
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Nicole Laino: We have Some clients in common.
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Nicole Laino: And so I kept hearing about you.
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Nicole Laino: I think they were telling you about me.
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Nicole Laino: We had these kind of, like, kind of tertiary sort of relationship.
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Nicole Laino: And I love feng shui, but almost so much that I'm kind of dangerous with it.
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Nicole Laino: And then I started following you.
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Nicole Laino: And I love how you bring feng shui into a very.
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Nicole Laino: Like, it doesn't feel rigid.
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Nicole Laino: And I think maybe how I approach human design, maybe that's why people.
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Nicole Laino: We attract the same type of people, that it's not this rigid sort of thing.
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Nicole Laino: It's like this new way of thinking about life and about the way that we connect with energy and the energy of space.
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Nicole Laino: So tell everybody a little bit about how'd you find feng shui.
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Nicole Laino: How'd you end up doing this stuff?
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Kristina Hollinger : Well, first of all, because I'm on your podcast.
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Kristina Hollinger : Like, the first thing I wanted to say was, like, hi, everyone.
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Kristina Hollinger : I'm a projector in human design.
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Kristina Hollinger : I didn't learn that until recently, like, in the last couple of years.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I think that is actually very relevant to why I gravitated towards feng shui in the first place, is just as a projector, you just are very sensitive to energy of your environment and the energy of other people.
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Kristina Hollinger : But ultimately, I do practice feng shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's been over a decade now, or, yeah, it's been like 12 years since I've been certified.
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Kristina Hollinger : But ultimately, I was drawn to it because I really did find it in a place in my life when everything on the outside looked picture perfect.
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Kristina Hollinger : It should have been perfect.
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Kristina Hollinger : I was newly married.
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Kristina Hollinger : You know, I had a new teaching job, and I looked and felt my best.
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Kristina Hollinger : Well, you know, felt my best ish.
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Kristina Hollinger : But, like, on the inside, I was like, well, there's something more.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I did decide to start redecorating my home.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I grew up in a holistic household.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I stumbled upon this book about feng shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : And ultimately, what really drew me in is that this tool called the Bag web app.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I just want your listeners to know, like, we are going to dive into it a little bit because it's so fascinating.
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Kristina Hollinger : There are nine areas of your life.
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Kristina Hollinger : There are different areas of your home represent different areas of your life.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so once I started to realize, like, oh, I can amplify wealth and money, when I had been struggling to make ends meet, having to pick up an extra job every summer, like, I wasn't a teacher that had a summer off.
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Kristina Hollinger : Like, I had to work extra jobs to, like, pay the bills.
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Kristina Hollinger : And it was like, once I started to activate the wealth area.
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Kristina Hollinger : Things started to unlock and so much started unlocked that I'm a teacher, which I don't think a lot of people know that, but I've been teaching in public education for 18 years.
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Kristina Hollinger : And once I learned this manifesting method, I wanted to teach others, which is why I got certified and learned.
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Kristina Hollinger : Literally, it's like the rest is history.
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Kristina Hollinger : So I want a life that looks good on the outside and feels good on the inside too.
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Kristina Hollinger : And that's truly my mission is to help others do the same.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: It's like I want the physical trappings and I want it all to look good because I want it to be good, but I also want it to feel fulfilling and I want it to feel like I'm in the right place and that I'm moving through this life the way that I'm meant to.
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Nicole Laino: I completely resonate with that.
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Nicole Laino: So tell me, first of all, do you do the compass method or are you.
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Nicole Laino: What's your method of Feng shui?
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Kristina Hollinger : Thanks for asking that.
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Kristina Hollinger : So for listeners, it's really important just to know.
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Kristina Hollinger : Like, this is why I became a Feng Shui practitioner and I have a free mini course because I noticed when I first started you're going to get a lot of information because the compass method is about the cardinal directions and it's a little bit complicated.
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Kristina Hollinger : And that is not my training.
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Kristina Hollinger : In fact, I am a BTB Feng Shui practitioner.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so for listeners and viewers, the BTB school Feng Shui is something that was brought to the United states in the 1980s by Professor Lynn Young.
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Kristina Hollinger : And it's somewhat simplified because ultimately that tool, the Bagua map that I was telling you about, where you can locate your wealth area, your relationship area, your career area, simply you just have to start at the front door of your house.
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Kristina Hollinger : It doesn't matter if you're north, south, east or west, right?
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Kristina Hollinger : So the BTV school Feng shui is what I study, it's what I teach.
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Kristina Hollinger : So if you follow along, you get the free guide.
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Kristina Hollinger : You just follow along with me, I will make like you are aligned with that particular school.
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Nicole Laino: I'm laughing because do you know how many times I've stood outside my front door getting like a compass direction and then drawing lines on graph paper, and I've done the whole thing and making like a map out of cardboard.
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Nicole Laino: And then I gave up because it's like I'm so interested in this, but I don't.
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Nicole Laino: And I have an L shaped home.
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Nicole Laino: And all I kept finding were problems that made me feel bad about My life and home.
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Nicole Laino: And I was like, I need to back away from this.
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Nicole Laino: I am so fascinated by it, which is why I'm happy you're here, because I know that there's so much to this.
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Nicole Laino: But.
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Nicole Laino: So tell us about the bagua.
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Nicole Laino: So the bagua map.
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Nicole Laino: So if someone is brand new to feng shui, you said that there are nine spaces, nine realms, right.
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Nicole Laino: Of the map that you overlay over, like the floor plan of your house, basically.
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Nicole Laino: Right.
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Nicole Laino: And so what do they do with that?
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Kristina Hollinger : So if I'm a visual person.
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Kristina Hollinger : So like the bagua map kind of looks like a tic tac toe grid.
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Kristina Hollinger : Right.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so ultimately, the way I like to describe it is like when you walk into your front door, the far back left area of your home is the wealth area.
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Kristina Hollinger : And then the far back right area of your home is the relationship area.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I like to point those out because those are the command positions, right?
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Kristina Hollinger : And then when you walk into your front door at the, like, very front of your home, and if your front door is front and center, you're walking into the career area of your home.
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Kristina Hollinger : But it might be, if your front door is towards the left in front, you're walking into wisdom and knowledge, which a lot of people overlook that space.
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Kristina Hollinger : And this is what I love about feng shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's like all the areas of life are important.
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Kristina Hollinger : Like when people come to me looking for support with their relationship or finding their soulmate partner, we don't just go to the relationship area, that wisdom and knowledge area.
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Kristina Hollinger : And the first front left area of your home is so impactful and significant because you have to know yourself in order to articulate what you want to someone else.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, like, when you spend time in this space, it's so powerful.
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Kristina Hollinger : So front left is going to be wisdom and knowledge, front center is going to be career.
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Kristina Hollinger : And then the front right is helpful.
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Kristina Hollinger : People travel.
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Kristina Hollinger : That's like the gist.
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Kristina Hollinger : And obviously there's nine areas.
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Kristina Hollinger : But when you know this, you can literally like, simply clean with intention to, like address.
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Kristina Hollinger : And if you're struggling in any area of life, you can just go to that area of your home to truly address what's troubling you.
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Kristina Hollinger : So I love that.
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Nicole Laino: So let's talk a little bit about just for the people who are new to this.
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Nicole Laino: Feng shui is basically it's the energy of your home, right?
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Nicole Laino: The energetic flow.
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Kristina Hollinger : Can you talk a little bit about that or what?
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Nicole Laino: What's good for people to know about that when they're thinking about it?
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Nicole Laino: Because even something like that there are simple signals there.
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Nicole Laino: So something that I do because I feel in control of it.
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Nicole Laino: I wash my front door because my front door takes.
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Nicole Laino: Tends to get very dirty.
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Nicole Laino: We don't use it very often.
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Nicole Laino: We come through the back a lot.
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Nicole Laino: So I remember learning about feng shui, and that was something.
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Nicole Laino: It was like, this is not inviting.
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Nicole Laino: You're not inviting the energy in.
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Nicole Laino: So can you tell everybody a little bit about what?
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Nicole Laino: Like that your home has energy.
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Nicole Laino: Even, I think is something that might.
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Kristina Hollinger : Be new to people, right?
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Kristina Hollinger : So, like, at a foundational level, like, everything is energy is essentially the concept.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, like, even the inanimate objects that are in your home or carrying energy, the books on your tableside are vibrating a different energy.
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Kristina Hollinger : I was.
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Kristina Hollinger : I just read.
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Kristina Hollinger : Have you ever read the book Ask and it is Given by Abraham Hicks?
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Kristina Hollinger : You've heard this.
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Kristina Hollinger : So Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote the foreword to that book.
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Kristina Hollinger : I recently just had his daughter Sage on my podcast.
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Kristina Hollinger : And this is true story.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, like in the book in the forward, Dr. Wayne Dyer says, even if you feel resistance to practicing anything in this book, asking is and it is given.
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Kristina Hollinger : Just simply carry the book around with you.
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Kristina Hollinger : And.
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Kristina Hollinger : And the energy of the words will vibrate through your life.
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Kristina Hollinger : And literally, within seven days of just carrying the book around with me, I booked an impromptu trip to New York City to interview Sage Dyer.
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Kristina Hollinger : It was like the most divine thing.
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Kristina Hollinger : So all of this to say, like, Dr. Wayne Dyer didn't teach feng shui, but it's like this concept of just like, yes, our environment is impacting us, and it does make a difference.
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Kristina Hollinger : So when you shift the energy with your intention of what it is you want to call in, it is so magnetic.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's so powerful.
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Kristina Hollinger : So did I fully answer your question, or was there more to it?
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Kristina Hollinger : I. I'm like.
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Kristina Hollinger : I kind of went on a little story of, like, I think I answered it completely.
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Nicole Laino: I think you did.
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Nicole Laino: I mean, similarly to, like, the human design chart, it's like we are all energy, but the different centers represent different themes of energy that we have.
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Nicole Laino: So the head center is going to be energetic inspiration.
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Nicole Laino: The G center is going to be the center of self.
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Nicole Laino: That's theme that's carrying it.
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Nicole Laino: So I'm guessing the areas in the Bagua map are themes of energy based on the space.
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Kristina Hollinger : Yeah.
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Kristina Hollinger : And.
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Kristina Hollinger : Well, here's what.
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Kristina Hollinger : I love what you just said, because I'm like, I have to say, your space is so important, and we work with the environmental energy in feng shui, but there's actually three types of Energy that we work with, right?
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Kristina Hollinger : We work with the environmental energy, which most people are familiar with.
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Kristina Hollinger : And that's what we're talking about right now.
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Kristina Hollinger : We work with the universal energy.
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Kristina Hollinger : So like the moon phases, mercury retrogrades, we know that impacts us on a personal level and as a collective.
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Kristina Hollinger : And then the third type of energy we work with in feng shui is your personal energy.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so for you to bring up the human design piece, I love that so much because professor who, like I said, brought the BTV School Feng Shui to the United States in the 1980s, professor would always say, you can move your furniture around, but unless you balance your personal energy, you will not be as successful manifesting with feng shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : So that's why I always include different ways for, like, different visualizations and different techniques for people to balance their personal energy.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I just want to emphasize a lot of the adjustments we do, people are surprised to know that they're invisible.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, so many times, like if you go, for example, to your wealth area, which is the far back left area of your home, you can write intentions for what it is that you're calling in and place it behind a photograph or place it behind a picture so that the energy of your intentions for your wealth, for your prosperity is vibrating in the wealth area.
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Kristina Hollinger : And again, it's like on a personal level, you are being intentional and you are, you know, setting that internally.
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Kristina Hollinger : And then you're also doing this invisible adjustment in your environment.
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Kristina Hollinger : And that's kind of how it all fits together.
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Nicole Laino: It's like a holistic approach to energetic work.
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Nicole Laino: You're not just working with your personal energy.
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Nicole Laino: You're not just working with the physical space.
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Nicole Laino: You're treating them all as kind of one process.
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Nicole Laino: It just has different facets to it.
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Kristina Hollinger : Yeah, I love that way of putting it because for me, whenever I was stewing over a problem in my mind and I was getting so frustrated by something, it felt really therapeutic to be able to just be like, well, I'm going to locate, like, I'm stressed about money, so let me go to the family area.
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Kristina Hollinger : Because the family area is all about having stability and finances and always having enough.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, like, if I go to the family area and the wealth area, I can, like, tackle these stressors head on in a physical way, which I love, because I think sometimes when you hear about manifesting, it can be frustrating if it's just all internal work.
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Kristina Hollinger : Right.
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Kristina Hollinger : So I do like the aspect of the holistic piece of, like, you can do the inner work but you also get to, like, do the outer and see the shit.
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Nicole Laino: No, I. I think it's super valid, too, because I think I say to people all the time, you know, when you're carrying something, I do visualizations with clients.
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Nicole Laino: Like, there's all these different tools that we use.
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Nicole Laino: It isn't just human sign.
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Nicole Laino: And a lot of times I'm like, well, if there's worry, it's important that you process it and then that there's someplace that you have to put it, because walking around with it isn't going to be helpful.
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Nicole Laino: So things like working with your space and stuff gives you a way of feeling like you are addressing it, that the only way you address things isn't just by carrying it.
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Nicole Laino: You know, that there are other tools that we can use.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, Nicole, you brought up visualization, so I really want to just emphasize something that, you know, after doing this for 10 years and then going on my own spiritual journey, about six or seven years ago, I really discovered Gabby Bernstein's teaching.
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Kristina Hollinger : Her book Super Attractor, like, changed my life.
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Kristina Hollinger : I became a certified Gabby Bernstein spirit junkie.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I infuse a lot of her spiritual practices in my work because it's just, like, part of who I am now.
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Kristina Hollinger : And one of the things that she always has said is that visualization is one of the most powerful manifesting tools, like, to actually visualize it, feel it.
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Kristina Hollinger : And later, after I read that in one of her books and heard it on her podcast and heard it in her meditation, I came across a text where professor literally said the same thing.
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Kristina Hollinger : And professor said that visualization and balancing that personal energy with intention is one of the most powerful ways to manifest.
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Kristina Hollinger : So, for example, how this works in Feng shui, he would say, even if you're not in the wealth area of your home, but you visualize a clear per, let's say purple light, because purple represents wealth and abundance, and it activates the wealth area.
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Kristina Hollinger : If you just envision this purple light, like, clearing the energy of your wealth area with your intention, that's just as powerful as actually walking through your space and, like, with a chime and clearing that space and activating it.
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Kristina Hollinger : So visualization is a huge part of manifesting with feng shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's a big part of, like, other teachings like Gabby Bernstein's.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so, again, that's just why I like to incorporate those visualizations.
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Kristina Hollinger : And it's, like, amazing to hear you do the same for your community.
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Nicole Laino: I visualize every day, whether I feel like it or not, because I'm either putting Good thoughts out into the universe or.
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Nicole Laino: So this is my intentional shot that I have that wherever my mind goes, I might lose myself at some point during the day.
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Nicole Laino: But I know at the start of every single day and at the end of every single day, before I go to bed, I visualize something of my choosing and it's the easiest thing.
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Nicole Laino: Like, I'll.
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Nicole Laino: I'll notice.
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Nicole Laino: I'll have clients that won't do it.
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Nicole Laino: And I'm like, why is it that you can't find seven minutes in your day if it might change?
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Nicole Laino: It costs you absolutely nothing but seven minutes.
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Nicole Laino: What if it changes everything?
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Nicole Laino: Wouldn't you feel silly if for seven minutes a day?
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Nicole Laino: But you would.
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Nicole Laino: Then you'll go and run around and chase all of these other things.
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Nicole Laino: I always think it's very interesting when people resist simple things.
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Nicole Laino: And I want to take a moment.
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Nicole Laino: We've talked a lot about, like, you've mentioned manifesting several times and Feng shui.
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Nicole Laino: And I don't know if everybody always thinks about those two things linked together, but I want to ask, what is it that you wish everybody knew?
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Nicole Laino: That's listening if they didn't know it already?
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Nicole Laino: If you're like, this is the one thing that I wish everybody knew about manifesting with Feng Shui or about what you teach?
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Kristina Hollinger : Well, it's so interesting because I have my own podcast, over a hundred episodes, and it has evolved over the years.
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Kristina Hollinger : And just last year, I changed the name of it to Manifesting with Feng Shui.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I had resisted that term a really long time simply just because I just felt like it was very, like a buzzword, maybe overused, but I really wanted people to understand.
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Kristina Hollinger : Like, my tagline too is like, I help people design the life they deserve.
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Kristina Hollinger : So I think a lot of people just have like, this conception that feng shui is a way to make your home look good and feel good and have good energy, but it's actually a way to intentionally design your life.
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Kristina Hollinger : And that is so powerful.
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Kristina Hollinger : So when people come to me for like a one one consultation, like, we navigate, like, what are the three areas of your life where you're struggling with the most?
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Kristina Hollinger : And like, now let's walk through your entire home you had brought out the front door.
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Kristina Hollinger : We always start our one one consultation at the front door because it's the most important area to begin your feng shui journey.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's where all of the money, new opportunities, and helpful people energetically, metaphorically enter through your life.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's called the Mouth of Qi.
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Kristina Hollinger : And so, I mean if you're struggling in any area of life, you can literally shift your space and your life will change.
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Kristina Hollinger : And I think that's just the biggest thing.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's like, this is not, it's like it's a practice because it's like, it's not like you brush your teeth one day and then like you wait till you have a toothache to brush it again.
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Kristina Hollinger : It's like it could be very simple things, but if you do a little bit every single day and you live a feng shui lifestyle, it literally changes your life.
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Nicole Laino: What you're saying is sort of like how I look at like the nervous system work that I do with clients.
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Nicole Laino: And I use human design as the map and then I use my other tools to help you clear those shadows and shift into your gifts.
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Nicole Laino: The gifts aren't g given their potential, most of us spend more time in the shadow than we do in the gift.
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Nicole Laino: Until we learn what those two things are and what's keeping us from being in the gift.
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Nicole Laino: And if it were only as simple as being like, oh, I'm not going to do that anymore, most of us would stop.
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Nicole Laino: But most people have some sort of big T, small T trauma, something that is keeping them from living there.
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Nicole Laino: So it's the same thing.
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Nicole Laino: It's like there is like an energetic hygiene to.
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Nicole Laino: It isn't about like you do breath work one day.
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Nicole Laino: It's about like I do breath work every morning.
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Nicole Laino: I check in with myself and I intuitively ask, what am I needing right now?
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Nicole Laino: What doesn't feel off?
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Nicole Laino: What is my body telling me?
19:55
Nicole Laino: What is my energy telling me?
19:56
Nicole Laino: I talk to my guides.
19:58
Nicole Laino: I have like a whole thing that I do in the morning and it doesn't take me all that long, but it's an intentional time.
20:03
Nicole Laino: And I think that you're saying the same thing with your space.
20:05
Nicole Laino: It's like it isn't something you do once.
20:07
Nicole Laino: And then you're like, okay, we're good now.
20:09
Nicole Laino: Because I'm guessing life happens, things happen and then there are adjustments and things that need to be made and we continue to live.
20:16
Nicole Laino: We bring new things home with us.
20:19
Nicole Laino: We bring new things into it.
20:21
Nicole Laino: But I have selfish questions.
20:22
Nicole Laino: Do you count the garage?
20:24
Kristina Hollinger : It's a great question.
20:25
Kristina Hollinger : Yes.
20:25
Kristina Hollinger : If your garage is attached, you count it.
20:28
Kristina Hollinger : And I did want to mention, like you had mentioned the L shaped house.
20:31
Kristina Hollinger : And like, so for listeners and for viewers, like if you have an L shaped house, like imagine putting an L shape on that tic tac toe grid.
20:39
Kristina Hollinger : You're going to Notice missing pieces.
20:41
Kristina Hollinger : Right.
20:41
Kristina Hollinger : There's going to be areas of your home that are missing.
20:43
Kristina Hollinger : So not to fear, because in feng shui, there's always a cure.
20:47
Kristina Hollinger : And I actually like, I have like a podcast episode about that and we talk about those things.
20:51
Kristina Hollinger : Like I have a 12 month manifesting journey program that you can like ask me questions every month.
20:56
Kristina Hollinger : But the point is, like, in feng shui there's always a cure.
20:59
Kristina Hollinger : So I just don't want you to be worried about that.
21:01
Kristina Hollinger : But I understand, like, when those questions pop up.
21:03
Nicole Laino: Oh yeah, my wealth corner is in my yard.
21:06
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah.
21:06
Nicole Laino: Yeah.
21:07
Kristina Hollinger : Can I give you just a cure right now for that?
21:09
Nicole Laino: You sure can.
21:10
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah, I don't want to like.
21:11
Kristina Hollinger : Okay, so.
21:12
Kristina Hollinger : But the thing is, I'm a really visual person, so I hope I can describe this well for you.
21:17
Nicole Laino: Sure.
21:18
Kristina Hollinger : So we lay Nicole's floor plan down and it's like a backwards L, right?
21:22
Kristina Hollinger : Because you're missing that backlight left corner right there.
21:25
Kristina Hollinger : No house there.
21:26
Nicole Laino: Yeah, that goes across and then back to the right and then there's a big chunk.
21:31
Kristina Hollinger : So at the top of that tic tac toe square.
21:34
Kristina Hollinger : So at the far back right area of your home is the relationship area.
21:37
Kristina Hollinger : Right.
21:38
Kristina Hollinger : So you just kind of like trace this line and you would bury a crystal in the ground where the wealth corner would be if there was a house there.
21:46
Nicole Laino: Okay.
21:47
Kristina Hollinger : Ultimately, so like a pointed quartz crystal, like buried in the ground.
21:52
Kristina Hollinger : You could put a potted plant there and put the crystal there as well.
21:56
Kristina Hollinger : You could just even maybe put like a wind chime to signify, I don't know, like, especially like if you had to like mow the lawn and stuff like that.
22:02
Kristina Hollinger : I know it could be a little bit tricky, but like, if it were me, if it were my home, I would definitely try to do something with that.
22:08
Kristina Hollinger : And then during one one custom consultations, there's an energetic adjustment to energetically close those missing pieces for all those areas.
22:16
Kristina Hollinger : Because you might potentially be missing fame and reputation, which is the far back center area.
22:21
Kristina Hollinger : And that area impacts your career.
22:23
Kristina Hollinger : It's your visibility, it's how people perceive you from the outside world.
22:26
Kristina Hollinger : And it's also going to like help you with like banks for loans and things like that and investors and so.
22:32
Kristina Hollinger : And by the way, everybody, fame and reputation is really important this year because it's the only area activated by the fire element.
22:38
Kristina Hollinger : And since we're in the year, the fire horse is just like really significant.
22:41
Kristina Hollinger : So.
22:42
Kristina Hollinger : Okay, I digress.
22:43
Kristina Hollinger : I could go on.
22:43
Kristina Hollinger : But did that make sense what I said about the Missing piece.
22:46
Nicole Laino: It did make sense.
22:47
Nicole Laino: I have crystals at home that I will bury.
22:50
Kristina Hollinger : Like, beautiful.
22:51
Nicole Laino: When I get there, just point it up.
22:52
Nicole Laino: I was not fishing for that, but I'll take it, and I'm grateful for it.
22:55
Nicole Laino: But what I think is so fascinating about this is, to me, it just brings me back to, I think what the.
23:02
Nicole Laino: Just a fundamental principle that changed my life, which is that everything is connected, is that energy is everything.
23:07
Nicole Laino: And yes, we live in this material world that we are interfacing with, but it's our energy that is connecting with all of it.
23:15
Nicole Laino: And I love the whole idea of not just how space feels, but that it's functioning, that the energy is a function of your home.
23:23
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah.
23:23
Kristina Hollinger : And I really actually wanted to comment on something you were just saying earlier about, like, how important it is to, like.
23:29
Kristina Hollinger : You talked about your, like, morning ritual and getting connected with yourself, your intuition, and then also connecting with your environment.
23:36
Kristina Hollinger : And I really feel like this connects with human design.
23:38
Kristina Hollinger : I know you're very aware that there's a shift happening in 2027, and I just feel like.
23:43
Kristina Hollinger : I just notice it more.
23:45
Kristina Hollinger : So it's like now we have AI and all of these things.
23:48
Kristina Hollinger : I feel like we're in an era where we really need to listen to ourselves and trust ourselves and be connected to ourselves so much more than ever.
23:59
Kristina Hollinger : I just feel like a lot of the practices that I teach, we do a red envelope exchange to honor the lineage of that has been passed down to me.
24:08
Kristina Hollinger : So much of the teachings that I have put into, like, my courses, you know, you've got your kajabi course, and it's all nice and digital, but those programs that I've developed have come from, like, stacks of handwritten journals that I just took notes from my teacher, who passed down the teachings from Professor Lynn Yun.
24:25
Kristina Hollinger : And it's just like, honoring some of this ancient wisdom and, like, then also, like, practicing it so that you can be, like, really present and attuned to like yourself, your desires, your environment, and just be connected to, like.
24:39
Kristina Hollinger : I just think it's just more important than ever in this day and age.
24:42
Kristina Hollinger : I don't know how you feel about it or if you have any connections with human design, but I just felt called and share that.
24:47
Nicole Laino: Oh, I'm all over that.
24:48
Nicole Laino: So in 2027, you know, and we can talk a little bit about the fire horse energy that we're.
24:53
Nicole Laino: I'm already feeling that for sure.
24:55
Nicole Laino: It's just.
24:55
Nicole Laino: It's very weird right now because we're currently in Mercury retrograde, which I feel like this is a very, like it's Pisces, it's Mercury retrograde.
25:02
Nicole Laino: But we're also in the Fire horse where it's sort of like, it's like the horse is chained a little bit and it's not happy about it and it's like it wants to go and a lot of energy is building up.
25:12
Nicole Laino: It feels a little bit like a pressure cooker to me.
25:14
Nicole Laino: That's my own personal experience with it.
25:16
Nicole Laino: But less than a year we are going to go from a world energetically that the background frequency so to speak has been supporting structures and very man made stuff, very like, you know, linear.
25:31
Nicole Laino: And we're about to say goodbye to that as like the law of the land energetically.
25:36
Nicole Laino: And so I do think that these practices, I don't think they're gonna be optional and I think that we, that's why we're seeing so many people turn to alternative methods and some of these things that 10 years ago people thought you were crazy for even entertaining the ideas of.
25:53
Nicole Laino: You know, you mentioned Esther Hicks.
25:55
Nicole Laino: Like I think that was like.
25:56
Nicole Laino: And you didn't really talk about that unless you were around certain people that you listened to Esther Hicks because that was pretty out there.
26:03
Nicole Laino: But I do think that this is gonna be, this is where we're going.
26:07
Nicole Laino: We're not getting less energetic and more material.
26:09
Nicole Laino: We're getting, we're getting more energetic and the material follows.
26:14
Kristina Hollinger : I totally agree.
26:15
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah.
26:16
Kristina Hollinger : And psychic and the term manifesting like it, you know, they don't teach that in schools.
26:20
Kristina Hollinger : And you know, I said I've been teaching in public education for 18 years or working in education.
26:24
Kristina Hollinger : But you know what, there's definitely so much science to back up that like even just like writing down your goals or your intentions, whatever you want to call them, makes them so much more likely to happen.
26:38
Kristina Hollinger : And so you know, teaching even children how to set their intentions and you know, let them know how powerful they are is just so important.
26:47
Nicole Laino: Yeah.
26:48
Nicole Laino: You know, it gives like the list to Santa feel even more interesting.
26:51
Nicole Laino: Right.
26:52
Nicole Laino: But what is it that you do as an entrepreneur?
26:54
Nicole Laino: What are the things that you make a priority?
26:57
Nicole Laino: Because this, our listener race is mostly entrepreneurs, if not completely.
27:02
Nicole Laino: We get a lot of human sign people, but it's definitely people that are usually running a business or thinking about running a business.
27:07
Nicole Laino: And you've been doing this for a long time.
27:10
Nicole Laino: You are successful.
27:11
Nicole Laino: I'm always wanting to bring other voices other than my own to talk about what's your priorities.
27:18
Nicole Laino: So you are in tune with these energies.
27:20
Nicole Laino: It's the year of the fire horse.
27:22
Nicole Laino: What are you prioritizing this year?
27:24
Nicole Laino: What are the things that you're focusing.
27:25
Kristina Hollinger : On and what are the things that.
27:26
Nicole Laino: Maybe you're not focusing on?
27:27
Kristina Hollinger : Oh my gosh, I love this question.
27:29
Kristina Hollinger : I'm like, where do I go with it?
27:31
Kristina Hollinger : Okay, so pull me back to the year of the horse if I get too off track here because I really first and foremost want to say when we talk about success in business.
27:40
Kristina Hollinger : So I have, I work full time in public education and I also have a six figure side business and that did not happen overnight.
27:49
Kristina Hollinger : And so.
27:50
Kristina Hollinger : And I'm also a human design projector, so I only have so much energy during the day.
27:55
Kristina Hollinger : So when you talk about priorities, like, I really have got to prioritize my energy and I've had to learn over the years how to not just completely deplete my tank, you know.
28:08
Kristina Hollinger : So I would say most recently in the past three years, I've been able to create a sustainable six figure business on repeat because I've learned how to invest in a business mentor.
28:22
Kristina Hollinger : I think that was the biggest thing I could have done for myself.
28:26
Kristina Hollinger : And here, from the feng shui angle, I will tell you, I didn't mention this, but I literally manifested my own way to hgtv.
28:34
Kristina Hollinger : So I started my career just as a mom who worked in public education.
28:40
Kristina Hollinger : And I was like, literally like sitting on my couch watching hdtv, Windy City rehab while my kids went to bed.
28:46
Kristina Hollinger : It was like my mommy, my me time, the only me time I had.
28:49
Kristina Hollinger : You know, when your kids are really young.
28:51
Kristina Hollinger : And this is about, I don't know, like 2020, right?
28:53
Kristina Hollinger : So we're looking at six years ago.
28:55
Kristina Hollinger : Literally it was pre pandemic, I should say.
28:57
Kristina Hollinger : So it was probably 2019.
28:59
Kristina Hollinger : And I used feng shui to set my intention and followed signs to determine what kind of action to take.
29:08
Kristina Hollinger : And Allison Victoria asked me to come on her show and, you know, I thought that was going to be like the pinnacle moment of my career.
29:15
Kristina Hollinger : I made it to hgtv.
29:16
Kristina Hollinger : Like, all the clients are going to flood in.
29:18
Kristina Hollinger : And it was just like truly just the beginning for me because, like, I didn't even have this website built out yet or anything.
29:24
Kristina Hollinger : So all of this to say, prioritizing my feng shui practice has been huge because ultimately what feng shui has helped me to do is, I told you, there's a place called the Helpful people travel space.
29:33
Kristina Hollinger : The front right area of your home is to helpful people travel.
29:37
Kristina Hollinger : And in feng shui, we say you have to pay attention to helpful People travel because it's going to influence your wealth.
29:43
Kristina Hollinger : And you need a network of helpful people to help you to live out your dreams, to build your wealth.
29:50
Kristina Hollinger : And over the years, the right people would come into my life at the right time.
29:55
Kristina Hollinger : So like I told you, a business mentor hiring like a virtual assistant slash business manager, those types of things, knowing which masterminds to join, going on spiritual business retreats to network with other women, yes, they were scary investments financially at the time and they stretched me.
30:15
Kristina Hollinger : But putting yourself in the room, I would not be here today without that sisterhood.
30:21
Kristina Hollinger : So my business has become what it is today in the past three years because of the feng shui adjustments I did, because of the helpful people who came into my life and then also knowing when to actually take action.
30:35
Kristina Hollinger : And then we didn't even talk about the Year Horse.
30:36
Kristina Hollinger : So I'll get there too.
30:37
Nicole Laino: No, and I just wanted to acknowledge that I think, you know, you brought up an investment a lot.
30:42
Nicole Laino: Investment in the business, in where it's mentorship.
30:46
Nicole Laino: I think we've all invested in things that didn't turn out like we had hoped.
30:50
Nicole Laino: But there's intentional investment is the thing that moves you forward in a way that you couldn't move yourself forward.
30:59
Nicole Laino: You might think that you could, but it would take you so much longer.
31:03
Nicole Laino: And I have all of those I can point to.
31:05
Nicole Laino: There are specific investments I made that I'm like, I am not where I am without this.
31:10
Nicole Laino: Some of them turned into like dollars immediately.
31:13
Nicole Laino: And some of them were just making me who I needed to be in order to be the person who could reach my dreams, who could achieve what I had written down on my goal sheet and visualized all of those times.
31:27
Nicole Laino: I don't think that people.
31:29
Nicole Laino: I think there's a bit of PTSD in the business mentor coaching space with a lot of people because they feel like they over promising and under delivering happens a lot.
31:40
Nicole Laino: And they beat themselves up for not achieving what other people have achieved.
31:44
Nicole Laino: If I did that and I stopped, I wouldn't be here right now because there were so many times where I was supposed to have a certain result by the end of a particular program and I didn't, but I just wasn't there yet.
31:57
Nicole Laino: I just had to keep going with it.
31:58
Nicole Laino: I just had to keep growing and now I'm where I'm at and it's because of all of that stuff that I did.
32:05
Nicole Laino: So I love that you brought that up, but let it.
32:07
Nicole Laino: Let's talk about the Year of the Horse.
32:10
Nicole Laino: What are your thoughts?
32:11
Nicole Laino: What are Your.
32:12
Nicole Laino: Is there any particular way that you're approaching this?
32:15
Kristina Hollinger : Well, you really hit on something.
32:17
Kristina Hollinger : Like, at the time of this recording and the time of this filming, it's Mercury retrograde.
32:22
Kristina Hollinger : We're still in the eclipse season.
32:24
Kristina Hollinger : And so people are still feeling like, wait, I thought this was the year of the horse, the year of freedom, momentum, independence, and, like, movement.
32:32
Kristina Hollinger : And it is.
32:33
Kristina Hollinger : It's just not yet.
32:35
Kristina Hollinger : Like, there's.
32:36
Kristina Hollinger : It's almost like this final shed of the snake.
32:38
Kristina Hollinger : It's like we just want it to be done, but when you think about we're in the fire energy.
32:43
Kristina Hollinger : So what I can say from a feng shui lens is last year and the year before, were in two years of wood element.
32:51
Kristina Hollinger : So the wood element fostered growth and flexibility, maybe a focus on finances, especially in the year of the wood dragon that were in the year of the wood snake.
33:00
Kristina Hollinger : Now we're in the year of the fire horse, and fire is going to burn everything away that no longer serves us.
33:07
Kristina Hollinger : It's like the phoenix rising, right?
33:09
Kristina Hollinger : So it's kind of like it's.
33:11
Kristina Hollinger : And it's a this, like, jolt, right?
33:12
Kristina Hollinger : Because you're going from, like, the year of the yin snake, which is, like, very intrinsic and strategic.
33:19
Kristina Hollinger : And now you're in this.
33:20
Kristina Hollinger : Like, it aligns with the astrology, too.
33:22
Kristina Hollinger : Like Neptune and all these other planets, Saturn, they're all in fire elements in Aries.
33:26
Kristina Hollinger : Right.
33:27
Kristina Hollinger : So that is just as a collective.
33:29
Kristina Hollinger : We're just feeling this jolt of energy.
33:32
Kristina Hollinger : And it can be a little bit jarring, but we're going to get adjusted.
33:35
Kristina Hollinger : And I do feel that the momentum's coming.
33:38
Kristina Hollinger : And what I will say is that especially for women in business, since that's so many of you listening, you know, this is the year to charge ahead and be intentional and be yourself, essentially, like, kind of go against the grain a little bit and not really worry so much what people think, because from a numerology aspect, we're in a one year.
33:58
Kristina Hollinger : It's all about independence.
34:00
Kristina Hollinger : And the thing is people who resist charging ahead and moving forward, the universe ultimately is going to nudge you and push you in ways that can be uncomfortable.
34:13
Kristina Hollinger : Doing that intentionally can ultimately feel so much better.
34:17
Nicole Laino: Yeah, I am a horse.
34:18
Nicole Laino: I'm a year of a horse person, which I know is not traditionally, like, I'm wearing my horse.
34:25
Nicole Laino: Because I've heard from what I understand is that when it's your year, it's like your animal leaves you to go be doing everything for the collective.
34:34
Nicole Laino: So it's like I've adorned myself in horse stuff, I wear red and wear every day.
34:38
Nicole Laino: Like, just all these, like, little things that I'm trying to, you know, get into the energy around.
34:42
Nicole Laino: But the way I understood the fire horse and what I understand it to be and what I'm kind of taking out of it is the year to let yourself shine.
34:51
Nicole Laino: It is the year to kind of say, like, just everything that's not, you let it burn away.
34:57
Nicole Laino: And I really see it as a prep for 2027.
35:02
Nicole Laino: Like, when 2027 comes, it will be the fire horse year ending.
35:07
Nicole Laino: And now we're into a whole epoch of personal development and personal power.
35:14
Nicole Laino: So that's how I see it.
35:16
Nicole Laino: And I think that tools like feng shui and tools like human design, I think that they're going to be something that is incredibly supportive to people in this time.
35:25
Kristina Hollinger : I love it.
35:25
Kristina Hollinger : And I have something for you and for the listeners, because you brought up that you're a horse, so you have your horse charm on, which I love that for you.
35:33
Kristina Hollinger : And ultimately, like, I'm actually, I'm a rat.
35:36
Kristina Hollinger : And it's like the opposite sign of the horse.
35:38
Kristina Hollinger : And so as I was doing all of the research about the year, it kept saying things like, oh, this is going to be a terrible year for the rat.
35:44
Kristina Hollinger : If you're a rat, don't worry, it's fine.
35:46
Kristina Hollinger : You know, feng shui, so you're going to be okay, but just do your feng shui adjustments.
35:50
Kristina Hollinger : You'll be okay.
35:51
Kristina Hollinger : But for everyone listening, the secret friend of the horse is the goat.
35:58
Kristina Hollinger : It's interchangeable between a goat or a sheep.
36:01
Kristina Hollinger : So if you get a charm that's a goat or a sheep and carry that with you, put it in your wallet, you can add it to your necklace that you're wearing.
36:09
Kristina Hollinger : Nicole.
36:11
Kristina Hollinger : It's actually going to help bring you peace because the horse can be very impatient, somewhat aggressive sometimes, you know, it's like you're charging ahead.
36:22
Kristina Hollinger : So the sheep and the goat kind of reminds you to, like, slow and steady wins the race, and, like, just keep chugging along even when the momentum starts to burn you out.
36:32
Kristina Hollinger : So just a little word of wisdom.
36:34
Kristina Hollinger : I think it could help ease your year a little bit, especially if you get a little tired of all the action, because there's going to be a lot of it.
36:40
Nicole Laino: I love that.
36:41
Nicole Laino: Now, how can people stay in touch with you?
36:44
Nicole Laino: How can they get to know more about your work and all of that?
36:48
Nicole Laino: Your podcast, tell everybody all the things.
36:49
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah, well, Christina with a K, Christina Hollinger.
36:53
Kristina Hollinger : So you can just Find me on instagram or christinahollinger.com and I'll give you direct link to the free mini course.
36:59
Kristina Hollinger : Because the free mini course is kind of like, if you like videos, there's little mini videos.
37:03
Kristina Hollinger : If you just want the PDF and just follow my three step method, go for it.
37:07
Kristina Hollinger : But my intention with my free mini course, it even has manifesting meditation, because like I said, you have to balance your personal energy in order to manifest the most you can with Feng shui.
37:19
Kristina Hollinger : So it literally is packaged so that you have everything you need to.
37:24
Kristina Hollinger : Like, if that's all you did was this free mini course, like it would change your life.
37:29
Kristina Hollinger : And it kind of just reminds me of like, this is what I wish I had when I lived in the cell loop of Chicago and I just discovered Feng shui.
37:37
Kristina Hollinger : So that would be the best gift I could give everyone.
37:40
Nicole Laino: Beautiful.
37:41
Nicole Laino: And the podcast is called Manifesting with Feng Shui.
37:43
Kristina Hollinger : Yeah, it is.
37:44
Nicole Laino: Okay.
37:45
Nicole Laino: And you guys can all check that out.
37:47
Nicole Laino: Thank you so much for being here.
37:48
Kristina Hollinger : Thank you for having me.
37:49
Kristina Hollinger : It's been a blast.
37:50
Nicole Laino: That's awesome.
37:51
Nicole Laino: So happy to have you here.
37:52
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