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EP770: Ash Shukla - Financial Chakras · The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast

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  Ash Shukla: We want our money to go up. Essentially, we want this bell curve. That's the bottom line.
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  Ash Shukla: There are seven chakras in your body and you're always traveling. And these seven chakras are the
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  Ash Shukla: hubs for your emotions. When you put it in proper order and really understand that,
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  Ash Shukla: then you get to create your signature financial flow, which is the way you always should be
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  Ash Shukla: flowing and how you can actually build the wealth of your dreams.
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  Nicky Billou: Welcome to another exciting episode of the podcast of Thought Leader Revolution.
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  Nicky Billou: I'm your host, Nicky Ballou, and boy, do we have an exciting guest lined up for you today.
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  Nicky Billou: Today's guest is a true thought leader and the man who created the unbelievable concept
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  Nicky Billou: of financial chakras.
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  Nicky Billou: I'm speaking, of course, of none other than the one, the only, the legendary Shukla.
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  Nicky Billou: Welcome to the show, Ash.
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  Ash Shukla: Thank you so much, Nicky, for having me here.
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  Ash Shukla: I'm so happy to have
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  Ash Shukla: me here.
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  Ash Shukla: But most importantly, I love your
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  Ash Shukla: introduction, so thank you.
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  Nicky Billou: Yeah, you bet.
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  Nicky Billou: So Ash, tell us your
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  Nicky Billou: backstory. How did you get to be the great
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  Nicky Billou: Ash Shukla?
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  Ash Shukla: How did I get to be great Ash Shukla?
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  Ash Shukla: Okay. Well, first of all,
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  Ash Shukla: I want to say thank you for being here. Thank you for
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  Ash Shukla: having me here. I really appreciate you.
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  Ash Shukla: And those of you who are listening, I want to let
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  Ash Shukla: you guys know I love you, okay?
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  Ash Shukla: And that being said, let's get started.
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  Ash Shukla: So I originally came here from India and the key with 20 bucks and no English.
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  Ash Shukla: I grew up here in Maryland.
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  Ash Shukla: I was a financial advisor for 27 years.
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  Ash Shukla: I wasn't bad.
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  Ash Shukla: I was pathetic when I started.
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  Ash Shukla: I had to blackmail my dad through my mom to get the first sale, if you will.
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  Ash Shukla: And eventually I was managing over $300 million.
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  Ash Shukla: And, you know, in 2008, 2007, somebody that I knew very closely scammed me and I lost about
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  Ash Shukla: quarter million dollars and in the scam and essentially that's what brought you know I got
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  Ash Shukla: really you know uh taken if you will internally and it hurt me very badly and I went to my
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  Ash Shukla: grandfather at the time I was doing about five million dollars a year in business in the financial
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  Ash Shukla: space and I was like okay how do I how do I bounce out of that and he helped me get aligned and once
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  Ash Shukla: I got aligned you know I literally doubled my business in six months so I asked him you know
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  Ash Shukla: has anybody proven how chakras exist in finances?
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  Ash Shukla: And it's like, that has never been done.
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  Ash Shukla: So I jumped in it and I figured out mathematical formulas on how,
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  Ash Shukla: you know, you could do that, you know, using chakras and energies.
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  Ash Shukla: And I've been teaching that since 2008.
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  Ash Shukla: And I started doing speaking engagements out of the blue, Nikki.
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  Ash Shukla: And next thing I know is I've helped over 5,000 entrepreneurs.
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  Ash Shukla: And more importantly, I have a,
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  Ash Shukla: I received a congressional honor for the work I've done.
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  Ash Shukla: And I wrote a book, Sald Like Crazy, in 2012.
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  Ash Shukla: And now I have Financial Chakras as the fifth book coming out to really help people out.
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  Ash Shukla: So that's how I got here, buddy.
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  Nicky Billou: So you came from India with $20 in your pocket.
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  Nicky Billou: You built a $5 million a year income as a financial advisor.
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  Nicky Billou: And then you got into the speaking field because you got excited about Financial Chakras.
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  Nicky Billou: So what the hell is a Financial Chakra?
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  Ash Shukla: I am so happy to ask me the question.
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  Ash Shukla: So it's a formula that I have created to really help people find their signature financial flow.
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  Ash Shukla: So many times people struggle.
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  Ash Shukla: So there are three things, four things that are going on.
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  Ash Shukla: One outcome we want in the financial world or in a business world or in a revenue world, right?
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  Ash Shukla: We want our money to go up.
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  Ash Shukla: Essentially, we want this bell curve.
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  Ash Shukla: That's the bottom line.
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  Ash Shukla: But what tends to happen, Nikki, is that we either find ourselves either stuck, you know,
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  Ash Shukla: where we are at through our limited thinking, limited belief, you know, all these things.
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  Ash Shukla: The second scenario I find is in more of a sideways trend.
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  Ash Shukla: And so, yes, we're going up and down.
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  Ash Shukla: But if you take a look at our life and we go, what the heck have I been doing?
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  Ash Shukla: It's literally almost sideways, right?
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  Ash Shukla: And the third trend that I find is that emotionally, internally, you're always going down.
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  Ash Shukla: So financial chakras, my specialty is to help you create financial breakthroughs,
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  Ash Shukla: internal financial breakthroughs that are really stopping you.
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  Ash Shukla: Like an example, I was talking to literally right before our call,
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  Ash Shukla: I was talking to somebody and they want a strategic planning done.
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  Ash Shukla: And I was talking to, they used to be a physical therapist.
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  Ash Shukla: And I started to talk to them and have a conversation with them.
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  Ash Shukla: And they could literally say, like they said,
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  Ash Shukla: that you ran a successful therapy practice in the past.
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  Ash Shukla: And their belief was, you know, more anxiety means more money.
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  Ash Shukla: That was a belief system, okay?
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  Ash Shukla: So to them, that's how they built it successfully.
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  Ash Shukla: They sold it.
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  Ash Shukla: And now it's time for them to like, you know, they want to relax
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  Ash Shukla: and they want to build it a different way.
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  Ash Shukla: And they're like, I can't get myself to, you know, get to the next level
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  Ash Shukla: or I can't see the, you know, at the end of the rainbow, if you will.
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  Ash Shukla: So, Nikki, what I find with financial chakras energetically inside, you are always traveling within your seven chakras, right?
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  Ash Shukla: There are seven chakras in your body and you're always traveling.
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  Ash Shukla: And these seven chakras are the hubs for your emotions.
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  Ash Shukla: They start with the root chakra at the base of your spine.
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  Ash Shukla: It's in between your privates, right at the tailbone.
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  Ash Shukla: And these seven chakras hold your emotions.
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  Ash Shukla: And the base chakra is fear, anxiety, uncertainty.
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  Ash Shukla: And also, you know, it also has a certainty and grounding mechanisms, right?
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  Ash Shukla: So ultimately, you know, we are looking for that grounding.
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  Ash Shukla: We are looking for the safety that everybody is really shooting for or looking for.
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  Ash Shukla: And everybody measures safety differently.
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  Ash Shukla: To a risk taker who comes from a second chakra, right?
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  Ash Shukla: To a heavy, heavy risk taker.
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  Ash Shukla: Like if you are an extreme risk taker, right?
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  Ash Shukla: That safety means you have to jump off the bridge.
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  Ash Shukla: that's their safety zone right to a as somebody who is very conservative the safety means you know
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  Ash Shukla: what as long as you stay on the ground you're going to be safe right so it just depends on
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  Ash Shukla: what your belief systems are and then the questioning of how do you how are you flowing internally
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  Ash Shukla: that that's creating your current reality and how do you create your signature financial flow so
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  Ash Shukla: Everybody has an epicenter in their body that they derive from.
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  Ash Shukla: So second chakra is all about creativity.
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  Ash Shukla: And third chakra is all about importance.
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  Ash Shukla: And then fourth chakra is all about love and connection.
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  Ash Shukla: And fifth chakra is all about growth and speaking and making sure you speak your truth and stuff like that.
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  Ash Shukla: And your sixth chakra is all about serving and intelligence and things of the nature in your third eye.
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  Ash Shukla: And last chakra is all about having you need absolutely nothing.
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  Ash Shukla: the issue that i run into is that most of the people come from there they have their primary
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  Ash Shukla: energy and then they have their their current flow and that current flow is what's stopping them
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  Ash Shukla: or taking them downwards or going this way so they go from they bounce like a bouncy ball
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  Ash Shukla: if you will so you know one minute they might be saying hey you know i uh i'm a very heart-centric
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  Ash Shukla: person i'm sure you met some people like this but they're very very much heart-centric and they're
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  Ash Shukla: like yeah but you know i i also like to be creative and then they go here there and everywhere so
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  Ash Shukla: what they're doing really internally right they're very intelligent and they want to absorb all the
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  Ash Shukla: knowledge and they want to get this and get this and get this and get this and what i find is that
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  Ash Shukla: they are heart-centric but now they're going to third chakra and then they're traveling into their
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  Ash Shukla: second chakra so they're traveling in some way and that's their current financial flow and what i find
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  Ash Shukla: is when you put it in a perfect, proper order
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  Ash Shukla: and you put it, you know, like
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  Ash Shukla: outside of your body and really
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  Ash Shukla: like understand that, then you get to
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  Ash Shukla: create your signature financial flow,
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  Ash Shukla: which is the way you always should be flowing
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  Ash Shukla: and how you can actually
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  Ash Shukla: build the wealth of your dreams,
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  Ash Shukla: whatever that is. Whether it's a business,
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  Ash Shukla: whether it's just saving money or
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  Ash Shukla: whether it's paying off your debts,
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  Ash Shukla: it's irrelevant.
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  Nicky Billou: Okay, so, I mean, you
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  Nicky Billou: explain the chakras, but I've heard these
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  Nicky Billou: explanations for chakras outside of the financial
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  Nicky Billou: aspect of a chakra. So how is this, for example, the base, the root chakra, how is the financial
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  Nicky Billou: chakra, base root chakra different from the regular chakra, base root chakra?
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  Ash Shukla: Okay. So until now, the chakras have been talked about as the principles of the body, right? It's
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  Ash Shukla: a principle of the body, right? So the financial chakra piece of it comes into play. First of all,
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  Ash Shukla: Every chakra is connected to your finances in one way, shape or form.
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  Ash Shukla: For instance, in the root chakra basis, when you are coming from a fear or anxiety or uncertainty,
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  Ash Shukla: it's a level of frequency that you are generating.
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  Ash Shukla: So that particular frequency is what's bringing you into reality.
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  Ash Shukla: That's the first thing, right?
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  Ash Shukla: So whenever you're looking to take action or whenever you're looking to move forward,
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  Ash Shukla: The first thing that happens is if you're coming from the space of fear, it's basically creating a stoppage.
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  Ash Shukla: Now, that stoppage is actually hurting your potential, whatever the potential is.
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  Ash Shukla: I have created a mathematical formula on how to measure your potential in dollars.
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  Ash Shukla: So what it does is what you find is that this fear is actually directly contributing to your ultimate potential, whatever that is.
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  Ash Shukla: So let's say Elon Musk is $500 billion.
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  Ash Shukla: Let's just say there is a potential that's where he's at.
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  Ash Shukla: So from that being said, at this point, whenever that person comes from the peer base, that
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  Ash Shukla: person is actually hurting their potential, not reaching ultimate goal.
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  Ash Shukla: So it's actually hurting them financially.
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  Ash Shukla: But more importantly, there are specific instruments based on your chakras that actually suit you.
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  Ash Shukla: And there are specific instruments that don't suit you.
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  Ash Shukla: Right. So if you look at like, for instance, a YouTuber.
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  Ash Shukla: Right. Or you take a look at somebody who is from a marketing speak.
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  Ash Shukla: Right. If you take a look at a YouTuber and the way they do YouTube videos.
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  Ash Shukla: OK. And if you take a look at Facebook and then the way they promote Facebook videos,
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  Ash Shukla: right actually they're they're they have specific methodologies by which they particularly like
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  Ash Shukla: in terms of how they want to promote your content so if you're coming from a space from other than
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  Ash Shukla: what those two platforms like you will never make it to your potential so in the in the in the game
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  Ash Shukla: of like business that's what it boils down to in game of financial instruments there's actually
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  Ash Shukla: specific financial instruments that fit a specific type of individual energetically
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  Ash Shukla: and where you're coming from and who you are.
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  Nicky Billou: So how do you figure that out as an individual?
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  Nicky Billou: For example, let's use me.
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  Nicky Billou: How do I figure out what's best for me?
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  Ash Shukla: That's a great question, right?
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  Ash Shukla: So the first thing I ask everybody is that, okay, first, if you just take a,
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  Ash Shukla: like stop for a second, doing anything that you're doing.
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  Ash Shukla: Okay.
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  Ash Shukla: And you ask yourself from the beginning,
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  Ash Shukla: like when you were little, if I was to ask you, Nikki, right?
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  Ash Shukla: When you were little, tell me a little bit about your childhood.
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  Ash Shukla: Let's start from there.
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  Ash Shukla: So tell me a little bit about your childhood.
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  Nicky Billou: I was born in Iran and I lived there till I was 13 years old.
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  Nicky Billou: And then we came to Greece for two years and then to Canada,
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  Nicky Billou: where I've lived ever since,
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  Nicky Billou: except for two years where I lived in the U.S. and a few months where I lived in Dubai.
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  Nicky Billou: Other than that, I've been in Iran.
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  Nicky Billou: I've been in Canada since 1982.
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  Ash Shukla: Okay, and what kind of child were you when you were a child?
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  Ash Shukla: Were you a rambunctious child?
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  Ash Shukla: Were you a goody-two-shoots?
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  Nicky Billou: No, rambunctious.
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  Ash Shukla: Rambunctious child.
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  Ash Shukla: Okay, so you like taking action, right?
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  Ash Shukla: Quite a bit, okay?
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  Ash Shukla: Yeah.
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  Ash Shukla: And I also noticed that when I asked you that question,
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  Ash Shukla: even in our podcast when we when we talk when i asked you the question it was very much of a
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  Ash Shukla: logical answer so when you are looking at something like even when you're asking me questions you're
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  Ash Shukla: you're looking for a end result kind of a situation okay how do you get to this this this state right
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  Ash Shukla: so basically just from those two questions i can tell you that you are the kind of person who
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  Ash Shukla: either so you like taking big risks which is true right but you're also like very much logical
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  Ash Shukla: people like you know if you go to somebody or if somebody comes to you that's very much creative
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  Ash Shukla: all the time and going all over the place it would probably say what the heck man like what are you
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  Ash Shukla: doing right so it drives you crazy correct right so right there so by you not understanding that
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  Ash Shukla: person you lost money and financial chakras right so right right like that little simple example i
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  Ash Shukla: just gave you but you not understand that person where they're coming from and how they flow you
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  Ash Shukla: flow your flow your grounding your grounding what you find grounding is actually in risk taking
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  Ash Shukla: because you like taking risk right but you also like to get too straight to the point so your
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  Ash Shukla: logics are very short when i asked you a question tell me about your childhood i grew up in iran i
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  Ash Shukla: did this i did this i did this i did this it wasn't a uh very much of a detailed answer
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  Ash Shukla: if i had asked a heart-centric person that same question the question they would have been oh you
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  Ash Shukla: know when i was a little little boy i was so happy and i was all over the place and and i had so much
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  Ash Shukla: fun with my parents and i had this much that kind of this kind of childhood and that kind of childhood
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  Ash Shukla: right so you flow differently buddy and you actually attract certain type of clients by default
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  Ash Shukla: by if it is make sense yes if you run into a certain other type of client you don't know what
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  Ash Shukla: to do with that.
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  Ash Shukla: And hence,
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  Ash Shukla: there are two ways.
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  Ash Shukla: The good news is
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  Ash Shukla: you don't deal with them.
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  Ash Shukla: But let's just say
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  Ash Shukla: that it's a bad news
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  Ash Shukla: and say you do want
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  Ash Shukla: to deal with them
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  Ash Shukla: and they do have money
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  Ash Shukla: and you see potential.
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  Ash Shukla: And then you ask yourself,
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  Ash Shukla: do I want to go through
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  Ash Shukla: all that pain and agony
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  Ash Shukla: to deal with that person?
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  Nicky Billou: Well, my girlfriend
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  Nicky Billou: is very the opposite of me.
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  Ash Shukla: So we bring her
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  Nicky Billou: into the conversation
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  Nicky Billou: so I bring the
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  Nicky Billou: let's get to the point energy and she brings
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  Nicky Billou: the I love you and your fabulous energy
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  Nicky Billou: so the two of those work very well together
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  Ash Shukla: yes they do
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  Ash Shukla: I would
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  Ash Shukla: I would have assumed that
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  Ash Shukla: my spouse is completely opposite of me
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  Ash Shukla: so I understand that
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  Ash Shukla: right
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  Nicky Billou: we had a meeting
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  Nicky Billou: with a potential client on Friday
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  Nicky Billou: yeah
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  Nicky Billou: past and you know
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  Nicky Billou: Listen, I love people.
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  Nicky Billou: You know I love people.
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  Nicky Billou: You and I have talked before, and I have a lot of care and desire to help them.
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  Nicky Billou: But I was asking the questions to get to the point,
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  Nicky Billou: and she was asking the questions to touch their heart.
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  Nicky Billou: So between the two of them, it worked great.
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  Nicky Billou: And they signed up with us.
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  Ash Shukla: Right, and they should, right?
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  Ash Shukla: So it's a good match for you.
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  Ash Shukla: And that tells me that your girlfriend is a good match for you, right?
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  Ash Shukla: So she kind of completes you.
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  Ash Shukla: Not kind of, but she does complete you.
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  Nicky Billou: correct business wise i think it's absolutely true the two of us like me by myself i wouldn't do as
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  Nicky Billou: good and she by herself she definitely wouldn't do as good but together together is bigger than
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  Ash Shukla: the sum of the parts does that make sense yes absolutely yeah absolutely so am i making sense
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  Ash Shukla: now right so from from energetic point of view imagine you know you're not alone you have a
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  Ash Shukla: girlfriend but you didn't have a girlfriend right that would be a very difficult conversation to
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  Ash Shukla: have for you yeah for her for her if she met a logical ceo like a literally left brain or right
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  Ash Shukla: brain ceo that's very very much of a totally like boom boom boom boom boom right she would have
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  Ash Shukla: really difficult time with him she will her i'm at right but for you that would be very easy
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  Ash Shukla: very so hence if you lose the deal right you know in this case you won't because you have a girlfriend
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  Ash Shukla: that that understand that piece right but everybody has a signature does that make sense she flows in
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  Ash Shukla: a different way you flow in a different way so these are just two chakras but there are seven
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  Ash Shukla: chakras so you flow you you ping pong somehow you do it quick and you don't realize it it's like boom
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  Ash Shukla: it's done right so when somebody says something is boom it's done but there's a process you follow
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  Ash Shukla: the process for you is signature is it's so quick like it that's the answer right for her it's like
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  Ash Shukla: this is the answer but it's her way but she follows every single seven chakras and she follows the
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  Ash Shukla: same process and you follow the same process the question is what is the process number one and
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  Ash Shukla: then how do you perfect the process and create a signature out of that so you can actually make it
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  Ash Shukla: wherever you are, but like 10 times bigger.
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  Ash Shukla: Right?
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  Ash Shukla: So that's where financial chakras comes into play.
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  Ash Shukla: Because you heard about chakras and chakras until now,
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  Ash Shukla: like I can show you how chakras exist in this cup, right?
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  Ash Shukla: Or in a cup of coffee or in financial instruments.
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  Ash Shukla: Yes.
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  Ash Shukla: So I.E. I'll give you an example of like,
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  Ash Shukla: let's just take a financial instrument like banking.
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  Ash Shukla: As simple as that, banking, right?
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  Ash Shukla: And if you take a look at savings accounts,
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  Ash Shukla: and if you really hear the words
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  Ash Shukla: savings account and you and I like when we hear
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  Ash Shukla: savings accounts
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  Ash Shukla: I'm like yeah I'm not so sure about that
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  Ash Shukla: but you know well
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  Ash Shukla: it's not exciting correct
• 19:06
  Nicky Billou: no
• 19:08
  Nicky Billou: I have some savings accounts
• 19:10
  Nicky Billou: but I like to go to investment
• 19:12
  Nicky Billou: accounts more
• 19:14
  Ash Shukla: exactly right so if I was to ask you
• 19:16
  Ash Shukla: what kind of investments
• 19:18
  Ash Shukla: do you like the most and I'm going to
• 19:20
  Ash Shukla: assume it's going to be aggressive investments
• 19:22
  Nicky Billou: Well, my biggest stock investments are in companies like Apple, Amazon, Tesla, you know,
• 19:30
  Nicky Billou: and they've done, they've been aggressive for sure. And they've done well.
• 19:34
  Ash Shukla: Exactly. Right. So it suits you on that front. Now, if you have outside investments, let's say
• 19:40
  Ash Shukla: you may have done investments in real estate or something like, have you ever done that before?
• 19:45
  Nicky Billou: I haven't really done real estate investing. No, no. Okay. Good.
• 19:47
  Nicky Billou: At some point, I will.
• 19:49
  Ash Shukla: Okay, do you have any investments that actually you did and failed?
• 19:54
  Nicky Billou: Yeah, there have been some stocks I bought that did not do well at all.
• 19:58
  Nicky Billou: They went to almost zero.
• 19:59
  Nicky Billou: I made a mistake and I bought, oh my God, that fake meat company.
• 20:06
  Nicky Billou: What's it called?
• 20:08
  Ash Shukla: I don't know.
• 20:09
  Ash Shukla: But yeah, I know what you're talking about.
• 20:12
  Nicky Billou: It's almost zero, man.
• 20:13
  Nicky Billou: I lost 10 grand on that one.
• 20:16
  Ash Shukla: Okay, but if you look at that particular.
• 20:17
  Ash Shukla: you know, stock, it did not suit who you are.
• 20:20
  Nicky Billou: No, it really didn't.
• 20:22
  Nicky Billou: But, you know, at the time, Beyond Meat, it's called Beyond Meat.
• 20:25
  Ash Shukla: Beyond Meat, yes, there you go.
• 20:26
  Nicky Billou: I've had a few stocks like that.
• 20:28
  Nicky Billou: Not many, but three or four, let's say.
• 20:30
  Ash Shukla: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:31
  Ash Shukla: But does that make sense of what I'm saying to you, though?
• 20:34
  Nicky Billou: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Ash Shukla: Like, you would have known that if you had understood yourself
• 20:38
  Ash Shukla: and understood your energetics to not to buy that.
• 20:43
  Ash Shukla: It would not suit you.
• 20:46
  Ash Shukla: Obviously, I can't give any stock recommendation.
• 20:49
  Ash Shukla: Full disclosure, I'm no longer an advisor.
• 20:51
  Ash Shukla: So please, don't take any advice.
• 20:54
  Ash Shukla: But that being said, you know, but does it make sense what I'm saying to you?
• 20:59
  Ash Shukla: Yeah, it does.
• 21:00
  Ash Shukla: They would have stopped you and said, like, is this me?
• 21:03
  Ash Shukla: Is this who I am?
• 21:04
  Ash Shukla: To understand your energetic.
• 21:06
  Nicky Billou: I hate that crap.
• 21:07
  Nicky Billou: I like meat.
• 21:08
  Nicky Billou: I don't even know why.
• 21:08
  Nicky Billou: I thought, oh, my God, this is going to be big.
• 21:10
  Nicky Billou: A lot of vegans are going to buy it.
• 21:11
  Nicky Billou: But I'm never going to buy it.
• 21:13
  Nicky Billou: So I shouldn't have done it.
• 21:15
  Nicky Billou: But Amazon, Tesla, Apple, like I'm like, I buy Apple, I buy Amazon.
• 21:19
  Nicky Billou: And at some point I'm going to buy a Tesla.
• 21:21
  Nicky Billou: They're my kind of companies.
• 21:23
  Ash Shukla: So very logical, right?
• 21:26
  Ash Shukla: You are very logical, correct?
• 21:28
  Ash Shukla: When you take a look at how you think and how they think, it's almost in sync.
• 21:33
  Nicky Billou: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Ash Shukla: You went from heart-centric thinking in that case.
• 21:39
  Ash Shukla: You got excited, right?
• 21:41
  Ash Shukla: And you went into that with an excitement.
• 21:46
  Ash Shukla: where normally when you buy a stock how do you normally buy it
• 21:50
  Nicky Billou: well i think this is going to do well that's what i thought like amazon i thought amazon's just
• 21:54
  Nicky Billou: growing and growing and growing so i thought this is a good stock and i bought some other stocks
• 22:00
  Nicky Billou: right now in in ai um and my thinking is ai is just going to get bigger and bigger so the companies
• 22:07
  Nicky Billou: that are in ai that you know maybe this year it'll be volatile but next year it'll get bigger the year
• 22:12
  Ash Shukla: after it'll get bigger you know what i mean uh so internally when you think about these things
• 22:21
  Ash Shukla: think about like instinct intuitively what kicks in and what is a feeling that you get from that
• 22:32
  Nicky Billou: you know i feel a calmness inside but in my i get a little excited but not like
• 22:38
  Nicky Billou: emotionally excited, but like, like my brain gets me excited. Like I'm thinking this is going to be
• 22:44
  Nicky Billou: great. But I thought about it. Like I did my, I did my thinking first and then I let myself get
• 22:51
  Ash Shukla: excited. I didn't just get excited without having thought about it. Right. And beyond meat was
• 22:56
  Nicky Billou: opposite, wasn't it? Beyond meat. I just thought, man, these vegans, they're going to buy it. I just
• 23:01
  Nicky Billou: thought they're going to buy it. And I'm like, you know what, but this isn't real meat. It's actually
• 23:05
  Nicky Billou: crap what am i buying you for because i'll never eat it that's the first thing i said to myself i
• 23:08
  Nicky Billou: said oh my god this is crap why did i buy okay i should have sold it i should have sold it right
• 23:13
  Ash Shukla: away so you had the inklings right from the beginning didn't you i did right so what i'm
• 23:24
  Ash Shukla: saying to you is that there's a travel there's a path inside of you that you follow and there are
• 23:30
  Ash Shukla: times where you don't follow that path what happens when you don't follow the path
• 23:35
  Ash Shukla: like either down or sideways or you're stuck right so one of the three things are going on
• 23:41
  Ash Shukla: and the the the process that i teach with financial chakras is creating the signature financial flow
• 23:49
  Ash Shukla: so that you are making decisions from a right space and you are choosing the right thing to do
• 23:56
  Ash Shukla: in your life right not just in one area of life but in five areas of life in health relationship
• 24:02
  Ash Shukla: business finance and spirituality correct so my the the the what financial chakras does
• 24:09
  Ash Shukla: it really helps you understand you know how you know where what's your primary energy
• 24:15
  Ash Shukla: what's your energy flow how to measure your potential in dollars and your emotions in dollars
• 24:21
  Ash Shukla: and then how do you create a signature financial flow so you can actually build the life that you
• 24:26
  Ash Shukla: want and you can eliminate the downturns more right so the more the less downturns you create
• 24:33
  Ash Shukla: the better it becomes right in terms of moving forward your life so not that downturns are not
• 24:40
  Ash Shukla: going to happen they will always happen but if you can figure out a way to minimize that then why not
• 24:45
  Nicky Billou: yeah truly truly truly truly but that's what financial chakra is about like you know it and
• 24:50
  Ash Shukla: i've built a system around supporting individuals and entrepreneurs and business owners and so forth
• 24:56
  Ash Shukla: doing that.
• 24:58
  Nicky Billou: It's a beautiful idea, Ash.
• 25:00
  Nicky Billou: It's a beautiful, beautiful idea.
• 25:04
  Nicky Billou: So when someone wants to maximize their potential, how would they engage with this system?
• 25:20
  Ash Shukla: I'm glad that you asked that question.
• 25:23
  Ash Shukla: So in order for them to maximize the system, I built up my systems in three tiers.
• 25:29
  Ash Shukla: Okay.
• 25:30
  Ash Shukla: So, and I'll tell you a story and then I'll give you the system.
• 25:33
  Ash Shukla: All right.
• 25:35
  Ash Shukla: So when I was coming here from India, you know, Nikki, my flight was delayed.
• 25:41
  Ash Shukla: Like, you know, in the Mumbai International Airport, we had the whole family there and
• 25:46
  Ash Shukla: everybody was telling us goodbye and we had our visas and all that.
• 25:49
  Ash Shukla: And we were getting on the plane and I thought it was the most beautiful thing ever.
• 25:53
  Ash Shukla: Like I have never been in a plane before, right?
• 25:55
  Ash Shukla: I was a 16-year-old kid.
• 25:57
  Ash Shukla: What the heck I know.
• 25:59
  Ash Shukla: So I get into a plane.
• 26:01
  Ash Shukla: You know, our plane was supposed to take off at 9 o'clock.
• 26:03
  Ash Shukla: And you know how it is.
• 26:04
  Ash Shukla: And like in Mumbai, the National Airport is hot and it's muggy.
• 26:07
  Ash Shukla: And it didn't take off until like 1.30 at night.
• 26:09
  Ash Shukla: And it was like, it was like, whoa, like what just transpired within four and a half hours, you know.
• 26:15
  Ash Shukla: But finally they took off at like 1.30 at night.
• 26:19
  Ash Shukla: And we got to London Heathrow.
• 26:20
  Ash Shukla: And I was like, wow, it's a beautiful airport.
• 26:22
  Ash Shukla: I thought I was in heaven for a minute.
• 26:26
  Ash Shukla: And we had a really rough ride, if you will.
• 26:29
  Ash Shukla: And as this whole thing was going on, I had to go to the restroom.
• 26:32
  Ash Shukla: And I had to ask somebody for a restroom.
• 26:33
  Ash Shukla: And I didn't know what to ask because I couldn't speak English.
• 26:37
  Ash Shukla: So essentially, I got in.
• 26:40
  Ash Shukla: And a new guy helped me out to go figure it out.
• 26:44
  Ash Shukla: And then I go to the tiki counter.
• 26:45
  Ash Shukla: And my dad is struggling with the tiki counter lady.
• 26:47
  Ash Shukla: She's saying something.
• 26:49
  Ash Shukla: He doesn't get it.
• 26:50
  Ash Shukla: He's saying something.
• 26:51
  Ash Shukla: She doesn't get it.
• 26:52
  Ash Shukla: And the Indian lady walks up to us and says, okay, first thing she does is we have missed our connecting flight.
• 26:59
  Ash Shukla: And I'm like, oh my God, that's the worst thing ever.
• 27:02
  Ash Shukla: We have 20 bucks each.
• 27:04
  Ash Shukla: We can't speak English.
• 27:06
  Ash Shukla: And we have missed our connecting.
• 27:08
  Ash Shukla: Now what do we do?
• 27:09
  Ash Shukla: But she helps us get the vouchers and all that.
• 27:12
  Ash Shukla: And then we were hungry.
• 27:12
  Ash Shukla: So we go downstairs to eat at a hotel.
• 27:16
  Ash Shukla: And I go downstairs to eat at a hotel.
• 27:19
  Ash Shukla: And you know what happens?
• 27:20
  Ash Shukla: We can't read the menu.
• 27:22
  Ash Shukla: so like okay and we are vegetarian and it's 1989 at the linden hetero airport there are two words
• 27:29
  Ash Shukla: buddy good luck like you know there's only two words for that okay so i said okay no problem so
• 27:39
  Ash Shukla: so this lady walks up to us again and she says let me help you out right it was a full by fluke
• 27:46
  Ash Shukla: She walked up and she helps us get a spaghetti, a salad and a bread roll.
• 27:51
  Ash Shukla: So I'm like, OK, I've never had grass in my life.
• 27:54
  Ash Shukla: I'm going to go for grass, you know, and I go for grass and it was horrible.
• 27:58
  Ash Shukla: OK, and then I go for spaghetti.
• 28:00
  Ash Shukla: It was a plain noodles, like Kung Fu Panda dad, you know, when he made plain noodles, it was plain boiled noodles.
• 28:06
  Ash Shukla: I'm like, OK, great.
• 28:07
  Ash Shukla: So I'm going to go for this noodles, you know, it was horrible.
• 28:10
  Ash Shukla: And then I go for the bread and the bread was a literally a.
• 28:16
  Ash Shukla: like a soup roll, right?
• 28:18
  Ash Shukla: English soup roll.
• 28:19
  Ash Shukla: And I could not bite that, you know, bite that at all.
• 28:22
  Ash Shukla: So I didn't do bad hungry that night.
• 28:24
  Ash Shukla: And then the next morning we got over here.
• 28:27
  Ash Shukla: Now, the reason I shared that story is that many times in coaching, consulting,
• 28:31
  Ash Shukla: I find that, you know, coaches, consultants want to give you a ticket and say,
• 28:36
  Ash Shukla: okay, here's a ticket, go, you know, do your thing, right?
• 28:39
  Ash Shukla: And here's your ticket, get on this plane and hope you're going to make it,
• 28:43
  Ash Shukla: that kind of thing.
• 28:44
  Ash Shukla: So for me, my promise to the clients is to take the ride with them all the way to the destination.
• 28:51
  Ash Shukla: So to start the journey, I have a three-day event that I do every first of the month.
• 28:57
  Ash Shukla: So first, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I do an event to really help them find their flow
• 29:03
  Ash Shukla: and really help them understand how to create their signature and all the things that they're looking for.
• 29:09
  Ash Shukla: And then I have my daily wealth manifestation.
• 29:13
  Ash Shukla: So every day I work with people subconscious programming to really help them keep elevating whatever they are doing.
• 29:20
  Ash Shukla: So my goal is to really help them elevate to the next level.
• 29:24
  Ash Shukla: So as far as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, you want to build a million dollar business.
• 29:28
  Ash Shukla: We created a signature system where I helped you create the breakthroughs.
• 29:32
  Ash Shukla: And now the question is, how do you sustain that?
• 29:35
  Ash Shukla: Because, you know, you create a breakthrough.
• 29:37
  Ash Shukla: And the question is, how do you sustain that breakthrough throughout the time?
• 29:41
  Ash Shukla: So I created this system where two times a day I do daily wealth manifestation.
• 29:46
  Ash Shukla: And then I have my VIP mastermind group, or I call it VIP office hours, actually.
• 29:54
  Ash Shukla: So people come in and they say, okay, I'm still struggling with this internally.
• 29:57
  Ash Shukla: How do I deal with that?
• 29:59
  Ash Shukla: Or I'm still struggling with this business-wise, or how do I deal with that?
• 30:02
  Ash Shukla: So I go in and I help them with that.
• 30:04
  Ash Shukla: That piece is concerned.
• 30:06
  Ash Shukla: And then I have a once a month, all I do is break through events where people can come in and really like get retuned and realigned, you know, and literally just keep it keep the wheel moving.
• 30:18
  Ash Shukla: So what it does, it helps them exponentially grow their cash flows and their businesses or internally, it helps them grow exponentially.
• 30:28
  Ash Shukla: So a lot of times if I'm working with my clients or I'm working with coaches or consultants, they are just looking for a mechanism where they can sustain that, you know, the growth pattern, then you're able to do that a lot easily.
• 30:41
  Ash Shukla: So that's how they work with me.
• 30:42
  Ash Shukla: Very, very easy.
• 30:43
  Ash Shukla: I have three systems that I have built out.
• 30:46
  Ash Shukla: And it's very, very simple.
• 30:48
  Nicky Billou: So this three-day event, it's once a month.
• 30:50
  Nicky Billou: Is it in person?
• 30:51
  Nicky Billou: Is it on Zoom?
• 30:53
  Ash Shukla: It's on Zoom, buddy.
• 30:54
  Ash Shukla: It's on Zoom.
• 30:55
  Ash Shukla: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Ash Shukla: So 3D event is on Zoom.
• 30:58
  Ash Shukla: It's $47 to enter and $197 for mid-ticket offer
• 31:04
  Ash Shukla: and there's $997 for the high-ticket offer.
• 31:06
  Ash Shukla: So it's like a three-tier thing.
• 31:08
  Ash Shukla: They can purchase whatever they want, that kind of stuff.
• 31:13
  Ash Shukla: It's a very, very simple thing.
• 31:14
  Ash Shukla: It's a simple mechanism, you know,
• 31:16
  Ash Shukla: and I've been doing this for a long time.
• 31:19
  Ash Shukla: And I'm using the same system every time.
• 31:22
  Ash Shukla: And I find that people are truly transforming as they go along.
• 31:27
  Nicky Billou: Beautiful.
• 31:28
  Ash Shukla: So, yeah.
• 31:29
  Ash Shukla: So I've taken about 5,000 entrepreneurs through this so far.
• 31:33
  Ash Shukla: And I've taken, in terms of like individuals and entrepreneurs as a mixed bag, right?
• 31:38
  Ash Shukla: There's a lot of people come to me for, and I'm now going into, you know, I'm talking
• 31:43
  Ash Shukla: to somebody right now for franchising, only one licensing models as we speak.
• 31:49
  Ash Shukla: But I'm leaning towards franchising as we go along.
• 31:51
  Ash Shukla: But we'll see.
• 31:53
  Nicky Billou: Beautiful.
• 31:53
  Nicky Billou: Well, the concept of financial chakras is very interesting.
• 31:57
  Nicky Billou: and so what's the website you want us to send them to?
• 32:01
  Ash Shukla: unicachakras.com
• 32:03
  Nicky Billou: beautiful
• 32:04
  Nicky Billou: so we end off each episode
• 32:06
  Nicky Billou: by asking you as our guest expert
• 32:09
  Nicky Billou: what are your top three expert action steps
• 32:11
  Nicky Billou: these are your three best pieces of bullet point advice
• 32:14
  Nicky Billou: to help my listener get to the next level
• 32:16
  Nicky Billou: so what do you say?
• 32:18
  Ash Shukla: alright so when you're listening to this my friend
• 32:21
  Ash Shukla: first of all I want to let you know that
• 32:24
  Ash Shukla: the the you know no matter what you do okay follow simple like simplicity so let's say that
• 32:31
  Ash Shukla: you want to create conviction okay what you're really looking for is conviction as to can you
• 32:37
  Ash Shukla: do something and how can you do it and how fast you can do it and how much can with how much
• 32:42
  Ash Shukla: conviction you want to do it with right what is the conviction level whatever you have done if you
• 32:46
  Ash Shukla: have you know played any kind of sport you did it because like you know for sure that you had a
• 32:51
  Ash Shukla: Pretty good chance of winning.
• 32:53
  Ash Shukla: The question is, how did you create that?
• 32:55
  Ash Shukla: And you created that with these three steps.
• 32:58
  Ash Shukla: First, you believed in your magic.
• 33:01
  Ash Shukla: Internal magic that you have, right?
• 33:03
  Ash Shukla: You believed in that magic, okay?
• 33:06
  Ash Shukla: Second, you created a logic of some sort.
• 33:09
  Ash Shukla: You know, whatever that logic is.
• 33:10
  Ash Shukla: Maybe logic for you is, you know, just start the business.
• 33:14
  Ash Shukla: Or maybe put up an LLC.
• 33:16
  Ash Shukla: Or maybe just go invest a dollar, put up a dollar somewhere, right?
• 33:20
  Ash Shukla: Wherever you want.
• 33:22
  Ash Shukla: but so that's the second step this logic okay what what is the logic and then the third step is
• 33:28
  Ash Shukla: you know learn to create your own science stop following everybody else create your own science
• 33:34
  Ash Shukla: these chakras energetics right they are yours they are like thumbprint so follow that thumbprint
• 33:41
  Ash Shukla: and learn to follow when you follow that thumbprint right is when you become ultra successful
• 33:46
  Ash Shukla: is not is it's not by following other people's formulas if you take a look at anybody like in a
• 33:52
  Ash Shukla: recent uh thing that's going on with uh you know my condolences to the guy charlie kirk yes as what
• 33:58
  Ash Shukla: transpired right and to him and his family it is tragedy right horrible but if you look at his
• 34:05
  Ash Shukla: legacy from from the other side of it what he left behind because what he created was his thumbprint
• 34:12
  Ash Shukla: and Charlie Buddy I'm sorry I'm giving your example but that's what came to mind right away okay so
• 34:18
  Ash Shukla: but that being said okay but it's a thumbprint right that's a thumbprint that he left and because
• 34:25
  Ash Shukla: it's his thumbprint other people are identifying with that thumbprint and saying I want to follow
• 34:30
  Ash Shukla: that does that make sense so it's a it's a it's a what you call the science that he created
• 34:38
  Ash Shukla: back in 2012 when he started people were laughing at him i'm sure right you know people were mocking
• 34:44
  Ash Shukla: him i'm sure but not today correct so it's why because he created his own thumbprint he believed
• 34:52
  Ash Shukla: in the magic that change is possible and open debate is possible it was just a possibility
• 34:59
  Ash Shukla: right then he created his logic oh so what's the logic what can i do how can i go he could have
• 35:04
  Ash Shukla: going to elder centers he could have gone to dum-dum centers he could have gone to other places but he
• 35:09
  Ash Shukla: only went to colleges and then schools why because he knows that he can he internally he was able to
• 35:18
  Ash Shukla: identify with that audience very well so logic step was i'm from college i'm from high school
• 35:24
  Ash Shukla: i'm gonna relate with them very very simple logic very good good logic right and then the science
• 35:32
  Ash Shukla: is how would I do this?
• 35:33
  Ash Shukla: Okay, I'm just going to sit in the middle of the school
• 35:35
  Ash Shukla: and just talk to people.
• 35:37
  Ash Shukla: That was the basic science he created.
• 35:39
  Ash Shukla: But it was his style.
• 35:40
  Ash Shukla: Like if you go to PBD Podcasts or other people,
• 35:44
  Ash Shukla: it's not their style.
• 35:46
  Ash Shukla: PBD Podcasts shows up in a,
• 35:48
  Ash Shukla: what do you call this thing?
• 35:50
  Ash Shukla: In a suit all the time.
• 35:51
  Ash Shukla: He likes to be, he's like you.
• 35:54
  Ash Shukla: So he likes to be like you.
• 35:56
  Ash Shukla: So it's a thumbprint.
• 35:58
  Ash Shukla: Everybody leaves a thumbprint.
• 36:00
  Ash Shukla: So what's your signature?
• 36:01
  Ash Shukla: What signature you are creating for yourself to create that ultimate conviction that you,
• 36:07
  Ash Shukla: for yourself, not for anybody else, but for yourself that, you know what,
• 36:10
  Ash Shukla: what you do absolutely works.
• 36:13
  Ash Shukla: Forget about everybody else.
• 36:14
  Ash Shukla: Forget about everything.
• 36:15
  Ash Shukla: You follow these three steps.
• 36:17
  Ash Shukla: You'll get whatever you want.
• 36:19
  Nicky Billou: Great, great expert action steps.
• 36:22
  Nicky Billou: So, listener, go to FinancialChakras.com to find out more about Ash and his amazing programs.
• 36:27
  Nicky Billou: The Financial Chakras concept is unique.
• 36:29
  Nicky Billou: No one else in the world is doing it.
• 36:32
  Nicky Billou: Ash is a one of one when it comes to this
• 36:34
  Nicky Billou: if you enjoyed this episode
• 36:36
  Nicky Billou: share it with a friend, give us a like, give us a rating
• 36:38
  Nicky Billou: give us a review
• 36:41
  Nicky Billou: and if you have a friend
• 36:43
  Nicky Billou: who could use the message
• 36:46
  Nicky Billou: this is a day for sharing
• 36:48
  Nicky Billou: that was a beautiful thing about Charlie Kirk
• 36:50
  Nicky Billou: he shared messages
• 36:52
  Nicky Billou: be like Charlie, share this message
• 36:55
  Nicky Billou: Ash, fantastic having you here brother
• 36:57
  Nicky Billou: God bless you
• 36:59
  Ash Shukla: Thank you Nicky for having me buddy
• 37:00
  Ash Shukla: Thank you so much.
• 37:01
  Ash Shukla: And God bless you as well.
• 37:02
  Ash Shukla: And my wish to the universe for your listeners,
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  Ash Shukla: that it is my wish for everyone,
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  Ash Shukla: that may give you all the health, health, and happiness that you deserve.
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  Ash Shukla: That is my message to you.
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  Nicky Billou: Amen.
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  Nicky Billou: And that wraps up another exciting episode of the podcast,
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  Nicky Billou: The Thought Leader Revolution.
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  Nicky Billou: To find out more about today's guest, the one and only Ash Shukla,
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  Nicky Billou: go to the show notes at thethoughtleaderrevolution.com
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  Nicky Billou: Until next time.
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  Nicky Billou: goodbye
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