Emonthebrain - Luck Isn’t Random... Here’s How to Prepare So It Finds You

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

In this episode of Planet Em, Em shares one of her core life philosophies: letting luck meet preparation. She breaks down why “luck” isn’t something you wait for, it’s what happens when you create space for opportunity to land by getting clear on what you want and removing the fear that blocks you from receiving it. Em explains how preparation helps your brain filter for opportunities (instead of missing them), how fear of the unknown quietly drives procrastination and avoidance, and why a lot of people subconsciously fear success more than they realize. She shares real examples including how preparing for a book deal made her ready to say yes when the opportunity showed up. Then she walks you through a simple two-part “preparation workshop” you can do for any goal: planning the how (all the possible paths) and preparing for the after (what happens when it works out). The result is clarity, safety in your nervous system, and a brain that’s trained to notice what you’ve been asking for. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/planetempodcast?igsh=NDYwZmtrZzRveHQz TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@planetempod

Hello everyone and welcome back to Planet M. This episode is all about a core philosophy that I have for living life. I have used it to manifest so many things from a book deal to making a lot more money. And I am very excited to share this with you because I have not honestly made any content on social media about this. I have one of my students in Minecraft who has a podcast went and made a whole podcast episode of her own about this philosophy. And of course she talked about, you know, like learning it from me and all that. But it is incredible. And it is the idea of letting luck meet preparation. Luck is what happens when preparation creates space for opportunity to land. Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. When you are prepared, the opportunity will come.

That is the basic idea behind this phrase. When you are prepared, the opportunity will come. If you are not prepared, the opportunity could be right in front of your face and your brain will block you from seeing it because it hasn't been clearly defined or it hasn't been associated as a goal-oriented object or event or situation. If you are not prepared, your fears will subconsciously block you from getting what you want. If you are not prepared, your brain doesn't even know that it needs to filter for this opportunity. It doesn't even know that it needs to filter for this luck. If you are not prepared, your subconscious fears about what will happen if it all works out will take over and block you and you won't even be aware of it. Preparation is the act of creating space so that the opportunity can come.

Preparation is the act of clearly outlining what it is that you want so that your brain knows what it needs to feel. filter for. Preparation is writing down, okay, what happens if everything does go the way that I want? What happens if my dream does come true? What happens if all this money does hit my bank account? What happens if I do get that dream job? What happens if I do meet my soulmate? What happens then? Because a lot of us actually subconsciously fear getting what we want. But what I want to do in this episode is to teach you or show you exactly how I prepare, how I have taught my students to prepare for the opportunity, for the blessing. I want to tell you how I do it, how I've done it, how I've used this philosophy to manifest things in my own life. I want to show you how to prepare so that luck can meet

your preparation. It's going to be great. Let's get right into it. So I have worked with very successful people. I have had calls and sessions, coaching calls and sessions with very successful people who have goals, right? And they've shared with me that they turn down big opportunities because these opportunities don't feel safe. They've turned down, you know, the opportunities that they know will help them grow because they don't feel safe because of fear. And one thing that preparation helps you to do is actually it helps you to remove that fear the fear of the unknown. The brain loves predictability. The brain loves when things feel predictable because that feels safe. Now, of course, life is unpredictable by nature and that is a topic for a whole different conversation.

But you can and should take control over the things that you can make more predictable. And preparation is how you start to overcome fear of the unknown. Preparation for your goals. You have to make the unknown known. Because remember, when you identify your fears, they no longer have that power over you. Fear will subconsciously direct our behavior. It subconsciously directs your emotional state. It subconsciously determines what you notice and your reality.

It'll have your brain filtering. for potential threats that may or may not even actually be there. Fear will have you turning down opportunities. It'll have you procrastinating, doing the things that you need to do to achieve your goals until you identify them. Preparation allows you to identify your fears and come up with a plan for how you're going to overcome them. For example, letting luck meet preparation, you can do preparation workshops. And this is something that I highly recommend you do is hold a preparation workshop for whatever it is that you want. Okay. So the idea of letting luck meet preparation, it's not some, you know, abstract idea or theory or whatever that you're just going to be like, okay, I'm like,

no. It is a practice. It's it. It's a work. You can, it's an exercise that you can do with every single goal that you have. Okay. So of course, I like tangible things. And this is going to be a very tangible episode for you and you're going to come out with takeaways and things that you can do right now later today that are going to help you. Okay. So for example, on the topic of preparation, kind of allowing you and helping you to overcome your fear, I was looking back. So I have a folder in my notes app on my laptop and phone called preparation workshops or like luck times preparation. That's what I have it. Because letting luck meet preparation is one of my core philosophies in life, it will change your life. And actually, when I was going back through my folder, and I found

the one from December of 2024. And it was a money preparation workshop that me and my business partner held. We wrote down, you know, there's one part of it where you need to write down, of course, like a plan. Like, okay, like, what are all? And we'll, I'm going to walk you guys through this step by step process of how to hold a preparation workshop at the very end. But for right now, on this kind of fear piece, I like to, when it comes to preparation, you need to imagine. You need to imagine, okay, like what, what fear could you possibly have around actually achieving what you want? So this money preparation workshop was all about, okay, like how to get to, I want to say it was like six figures in a month or something like that. I'm not exactly sure. I don't remember. But it was a X number

amount of money in a month. And I allowed myself to go there and say, okay, what happens if I get that? And we achieve that. We hit that number. What happens then? I was like, okay, well, I will. I will. hire a CPA. At that point, I didn't even have a CPA yet. An accountant, a tax strategist. I want to buy a house. I want to start investing. I wrote down a list of what I was going to do with that money. And what I realized when I was doing that, you know, before I wrote down that list was that I had a fear coming up around responsibility and what I was really going to do with it. Like, okay, yeah, we all have this idea of like, yes, we want to make a ton of money. But what came up for me was this kind of fear around responsibility. Like, do I really know how to handle this amount of money? Like,

do I really know what I'm doing? And the truth is, I don't. I didn't. This was a little over a year ago now that I did this preparation workshop. The truth was that I didn't. I needed to hire a CPA. I needed to hire somebody to help me and strategize my finances. And I needed someone to be able to text or call and reach out to that can answer my questions and make me more financially literate. Doing the preparation workshop allowed me to say, okay, when the money comes, what will I do with it? What will I do? And it immediately kind of unlocked a level within me. The next month, this was last December that I did this workshop, I think it was the January or the February after this. So like one or two months later, we completely broke a record for how much money that we had made.

Not in a month, but in a day, in one day. Now obviously there were other steps to this preparation workshop, but this is a big one, clearly identifying, all right, well, what happens if it all works out? A lot of people don't realize that we actually have subconscious fears around success. For example, the saying, more money, more problems. We all grew up hearing it, more money, more problems. And guess what? I had a limiting belief that with more money came more problems and I needed to be more responsible. And genuinely hiring my CP, he's the best, he's the best accountant in the world. truthfully. Shout out to Khalil. He's amazing. But it has allowed me to feel so much more comfortable now when I'm spending money, when I am trying to decide what I should or shouldn't invest in, to have somebody to reach out to. Okay. And so this preparation workshop, it allowed me to feel safe, right? And the nervous system can expand when it feels safe. When we have a solid foundation, we feel safer to go out and take risks and do bold things, right? And all of that is required. for success and growth.

And so that's part one. Okay. Part two is that preparation provides clarity. This is something that I was mentioning in the very beginning of this episode. If you have not clearly identified how you're going to achieve whatever goal or manifest whatever thing that you want, how do you expect your brain to help you do it? The brain uses predictive processing. It also filters your reality based on whatever you're currently focusing on.

whatever your brain deems as important to you, your brain is then going to filter your reality for it. And so if you have not clearly outlined how sticking with this money example, because it's super simple, if you haven't sat down and said, okay, like, how am I going to make a ton of money? Like, how am I going to make X amount of money? What are all of the different revenue streams I could possibly have? Or if I'm thinking about my current revenue streams, how could I level up my current revenue streams? How could I make more money with my current income, ways that I'm making money? And if, you know, you work a 9 to 5 job where maybe, I mean, you could get a raise,

that's completely possible. So I would write that down. But what are some other ways that you can have alternate streams of income or, you know, if you already have alternate extremes of income, how can you boost those alternate streams, right? So sitting down and asking and clearly identifying what are all the different ways that I could possibly make more money. Or if meeting your soulmate is your goal and you want to manifest that, what are all the different ways that you can meet your soulmate?

You could go hang out of coffee shops more if that's something that you're into, right? Like whatever your hobbies are, you can go start doing them alone more often. You can maybe be on the apps if that's something that you're into. You can, you know, there's so many different things, right? And so what's important to do is to clearly write all those things down. What happens when you clearly write down all of the different possible ways that you're goal could come to fruition. Now you are priming your brain to filter your reality for those things. I'm going to tell you guys a little story. How I came about signing my book deal. So I had always

wanted to write a book. It had always been a dream of mine to be a bestselling author. And I remember even when I, like two years ago, sort of in the very beginning of my journey through all of this, I was on the Jennifer Hudson show. And after she interviewed me, she was like, do you have a book? I was like, no, I've literally like just graduated from grad school. Like, I don't have, I've not written a book. She's like, you're right. Like, you're still in the very first chapter of your life. Like, that makes sense.

She's like, but just no, like, if you had a book, I would read it. I was like, damn, yeah, I didn't need to write a book. And so, anyway, I had always been a goal of writing my book. But an important note is that in my mind, it always was something kind of far off. It was like, oh, yeah, I'll write a book one day. It's not necessarily that I'm going to do it today. But I'm going to write a book one day. And then I was on a coaching call in Minecraft with my beautiful community and I was coaching them.

And we were talking about this exact topic. Let luck meet preparation. I have been kind of living by this for a long time. And honestly, after deciding to record a podcast episode about this exact thing, I realized I need to do another preparation workshop. So hey, we're both going to do this. We're going to come out after this episode and we're all going to go do preparation workshops. But anyway, so I'm sitting there on this Minecraft. call and I am talking my talk. I am talking about letting luck meet preparation. And somehow the idea of

the book came to me in that moment. And I was like, huh, well, maybe I need to let luck meet preparation here. Maybe I need to prepare so that the opportunity will come. If I have not prepared, if I have no idea what I'm going to want to write my book about, if I have no idea, you know, what type of book I'd want to write, what the topic would be, you know, when I want to write it. If I have no idea about anything, then even if the opportunity smacked me in the face, I would not even be able to take advantage of it because I would have no idea what I want. And this is so true for everything. Like if you're dating and the perfect person could smack you in the face, but if you haven't clearly identified what you want, then your brain doesn't even know that that's the perfect person

for you. And this was very true with my book story because I had actually gotten many emails from different publishing companies. I had just never noticed them. Why? Because my brain was not filtering reality for that opportunity. Why? Because the opportunity was never clearly defined as something that was goal-oriented. But here's what happened. So I was on the call and I decided that I realized that I needed to do a preparation workshop for my book. I took 15 minutes after the coaching call, sat down. I was like, let me prepare for a book deal to come. I sat down and I wrote out a list. And this This was a year and a half ago. This was a year and a half ago.

I sat down and I wrote out a list of what I would want to write my book about. Like, okay, and I realized what I want to write my book about and I kind of came up with this idea and it was a super solid idea. And I was like, yeah, that feels exciting. That feels good. Cool. The next day, my manager calls me on the phone and he says, M, do you want to write a book? We have some of the top publishing companies in the world in our inbox. and I am connected to a really good book agent that will help you come up with the proposal

and take it to all these publishers. Do you want to write a book? And I was like, no way. I literally prepared for this opportunity yesterday. Had I not prepared, would the opportunity have even come? Would have even happened? I don't know because I wouldn't have been a match for it, right? Because you don't get what you want in life. You get what your brain is wired for. That preparation might have made me the match to the thing that I have been wanting, which then called in the opportunity. We can never know. We never, we'll never know why it happened. But what I do know is that if I hadn't prepared and he got on the phone and asked me if I wanted to do that, I don't think I would have said yes because I would have been like, I don't really know what I want to do. Like, I don't know. It seems like a

not right now kind of thing. But I was able to take advantage of the opportunity because I had prepared, right? Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. All right. And so anyway, that was a day later and then two days later I was in a call with my manager and the book agent that I ended up working with. He's an absolutely incredible person. And his idea for my book was the exact same idea that I had written down three days prior in my preparation workshop. The exact same idea. He was like, I was watching your content and I feel like this would be a great idea for your book. And I was like, well, no way because that's the exact thing that I wrote down in my preparation workshop. And the rest is history. That was a year and a half ago.

It took a solid amount of time to come up with the proposal and then to pitch it to all these publishers and then actually sign a deal and now writing the book is its own, is its own beast. But that is how it happened. And it has happened so many times in my life where I've decided to sit down and prepare for the blessing, prepare for the luck to come. And then it happens. It's incredible. So now I want to walk you guys through a step-by-step preparation workshop process so that you can know exactly how to prepare for whatever it is that you're trying to manifest into your life. We are going to stick with the example of making money because it is super simple and easy and I think a lot of people can resonate with it. But also, you know, there are so many different things like hitting, like for example, this morning on a moment.

on my Minecraft coaching call, I asked somebody like, what's your goal? Because I wanted to use them as an example. And somebody said, hitting a million followers on Instagram. And so that was very easy for me to talk about as well, because that's something that I've done. But your goal could be whatever. Whatever it is that you're trying to call in your opportunity, whatever it is that you're wanting to achieve or receive, it will work with this workshop. Okay. But let's just follow along through this example. Okay. So let's say your goal is to make X amount of money per month. preparation, a preparation workshop really has two parts. That's it. You guys know I love a simple two, three step process. I like to keep things very simple. This is really only a two-step

process, okay? And the first step of preparation looks like planning the how. I already kind of alluded to this a little bit, but what are all the different ways that you could do it? Whatever your goal is, if it's making money, what are all the different ways that you could make money? What are some different forms of income that you could have. Make the list long and give yourself options. Because again, you are going to be priming your brain to then look for those opportunities, right? And so that's for money, you could do that. If it's, again, if it's a relationship, you could write down all the different ways that you could potentially get out there and meet the right person or make yourself a match to whoever it is that you're wanting to call in, right?

to make yourself a match. If it is, for example, hitting a million followers on Instagram, what are all of the different ways you could do it? And I've actually done that before for myself as well. Like, what are all the different ways that I could go viral? And showing your brain that there are different ways it could happen too. Like, it doesn't necessarily have to be, you know, you post a viral video. Like, your post in itself goes viral.

It could be that somebody reposts your video. Or, like, for example, a celebrity just reposts it. one of my Minecraft posts, like my Minecraft coaching program and community with all the courses and everything. We have our own Instagram. It's just at Minecraft. And we post like really cool tips from the course and just tips from what we talk about and coaching calls and just from my content and stuff. And we posted recently a post about how the neuroscience of whimsy and how, you know, joy is a performance enhancer. And a celebrity actually reposted it. it. And I'm like, how did they even see it? I don't even know. But different things like that,

like, there are recognizing that there are so many different ways that things could go your way. There are so many different ways that things could go your way. There are so many different paths, so many different avenues for things to work out that you probably haven't even considered. And that is the point of this first step of the preparation workshop is to plan the how And this doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to do every single one of these things, but it's really about brain dumping and making the list as long as possible of, okay, what are all the different ways that I could possibly make this happen? And these are all things that, you know, you could do.

And so, for example, with the content creation thing too, like, okay, like being consistent, posting consistently, maybe posting on different platforms. Something that I've been bad at for the past few months is posting on TikTok as well as Instagram. I always kind of just lean toward Instagram because I don't ever go on TikTok at all. I don't even use that app. And so it's just not second nature for me to post on there. But anyway, I digress. I posted on there because I'm back on my, I'm back on top of things in 26. But anyway, write down a list of all of the things that you could do to make it happen. Plan the how. How can you do it? How can you increase your income? How can you diversify your income

streams. How can you, you know, put yourself in places to meet your soulmate? How can you be more consistent, right? So make the list long and be detailed. Like if you're saying like you need to be more consistent, okay, like how can you be more consistent? Like what are some ways that you can more consistently show up? Give yourself options. And now we move on to the second part of the preparation workshop. There are only two parts. This is the second part. The second part is all about planning for the after preparing for the after this is huge and rarely ever talked about in the manifestation or achieving or self-development space i never hear anybody talk about this how what are you going to do after it happens this is so important because a lot of the time we subconsciously actually block

ourselves from getting what we want out of fear of not knowing what will come with it will i lose relationships? Will I, you know, will the people around me still respect me? Will I be responsible enough to hold it? You know, do I know how to hold the abundance that I'm asking for? If one of your goals is to grow on social media like one of my people in Minecraft, do you really feel safe being seen by that many people? Do you really feel safe being perceived? Do you really feel safe being perceived? right like planning for the after preparing for the after not necessarily planning for the after because you don't always know how it's going to work but preparing for the after and so kind of sticking with this money example what would you do with the money how would you spend or invest it would you hire

somebody to help you what would you do what would you do with it i already kind of shared with you guys what i wrote in my own money preparation workshop but if you are again like i said trying to manifest growing a platform. All right, you hit a million followers. What would you want to do with it? Like, what's the point? Like, why do you want it? And what are you going to do with it? How are you going to feel when it happens? What are some potential downfalls that you, if you can think of any, of achieving what you want or receiving what you want? Maybe there aren't any, but maybe there are. And if potential downfalls come to mind, take note of those because those are subconscious fears holding you back that you haven't been aware of until now. If you say that you want to meet your soul main, you want to be in

your dream relationship, okay, let's say you get into it. Now, what are some potential downfalls? A lot of people fear vulnerability and actually being connected and vulnerable in that way. A lot of people fear losing their me time. And so if that comes up for you, right, and you're like, okay, like, preparing for the after, preparing for the after, preparing for actually like when it comes. Remember, letting luck meet preparation. Like, okay, if you're prepared for the after, you're prepared for opportunity to come, it can come. It can meet you. And so, all right, if I meet my soulmate, what am I going to do? You're also training your brain to hold whatever it is that you're asking for when you start to think about, okay, like, what will happen? What will I do when it all works out?

And now, of course, this is also a way of living in the feeling state of your desires. This is a way of acting like you already have it before it can happen right. And we know that we have. We have a have to act as if we have to act like we already have the thing before we can have have it before it can happen we have to be a match for what we want and preparing for the after is a way of acting like you already have it right like okay like i just made six figures or i just made a million whatever it is or i just met my soulmate okay now what am i going to do you are literally putting yourself in the shoes of the version of you who achieves what you want or receives what you want and training your nervous system to hold that. That's powerful. Now this episode, we really just kept it simple. Okay,

but to close all of this out, luck is not something that you wait for. It's something that you can prepare for. Opportunities are truly circling all the time. Opportunities are everywhere. They are all around you. The question is whether your brain is trained to notice them. When you are prepared, the opportunity will come. It's sort of like when the student is ready, the teacher appears, right? When you are ready, whatever it is that you're asking for will come. So hold your preparation workshop. Let me know how it goes. Leave me a comment. Or, you know, I actually do see some DMs a lot of the time. I don't see most of my DMs, obviously, because I get a ton. But when I do see a DM about someone message me about something that they did off the podcast and

it was awesome to see. And I replied. But I don't always see DM. So if I don't reply, don't be sad. But I do see my comments. And so leave me a comment about how your preparation workshop goes. I am very excited to hear all about it. And my final announcements are really, if you are feeling called, to come and sit on a live class with me and hear me talk about the 10-step process. There's actually a bonus 11th step. But the 10-step process and formula that I personally used to rewire my brain for focus and relieve stress and regulate my nervous system. and my, wire in new beliefs in myself and in the possibility and in my worthiness,

and really just completely changed my life and actually go from struggling to making all my dreams come true, then come to my free masterclass. Okay, the link to sign up is in my bio. It's always on Instagram in my bio. I share them on my stories too. It's also on the at Minecraft Instagram. You can go to Minecraft and the link is in the bio to register for the class there. It is completely free.

and so I highly recommend it. They're really fun too and very high energy. So if you're ever just lacking motivation, then pull up to one of my classes because you will leave very motivated to get it done. And also it's a great way to just kind of like start to organize all of the information that I talk about in my content and also in this podcast because I talk about kind of the 10-step formula in order of how I did it. And then you can kind of start to, you know, organize the information.

in a way that kind of makes all the pieces of the puzzle, makes it all make sense. So I highly recommend that. And then also, if you have ever been interested in having me as your coach, learning from me, learning more of the neuroscience behind everything that I talk about, highly, highly recommend joining Minecraft. It is absolutely amazing. Someone actually on the coaching call today, it was her last day after six months. and she got on and she, I was open, I was, like, anybody have any questions?

And this woman raised her hand and she didn't have a question. She was just like, it's my last day. And she was like, I just wanted to say thank you. And my life has completely changed. So if you want to change your life in six months, then Minecraft is the place to do it. It's also the place to be around a ton of like-minded individuals that are rewiring their brain and leveling up and achieving things that they want. It's really, truly a bunch of winners in the community.

then I would join Minecraft. If you want to learn more about Minecraft and kind of what it's all about, then come to my free class as well because at the very end of the class is when I talk about Minecraft and open the doors to join the community. But that really is all I have for everybody here.

Until next time, I'm sending you so much love, so much positive energy, and good luck with your preparation workshop. Can't wait to hear how it goes. I'll see you next time. Bye. Thank you.