Habits and Hustle - Episode 441: Peter Crone on Breaking Mental Prisons + How To Dissolve Limiting Beliefs in Seconds
Episode Date: April 15, 2025Ever wonder why some people seem stuck in the same patterns while others break free and thrive? In this Habits and Hustle podcast episode, I am joined by Peter Crone, known as "The Mind Architect," ...to discuss how our deepest subconscious beliefs create invisible prisons that limit our potential. We dive into the invisible prisons of our subconscious mind and how they limit our potential. We also discuss why simply changing behaviors often fails, how to dissolve rather than solve problems, and the physics of how our perception shapes our reality. Peter Crone has worked with professional athletes, celebrities, and business leaders to help them break free from mental and emotional limitations. Former personal trainer to Tom Cruise, Peter has delineated the "10 prisons of the subconscious" that constrain human potential. Through his masterminds, live events, and Freedom membership program, he helps people dissolve the limiting beliefs that create suffering. What We Discuss: (03:50) Mind Architect's Actor Training Journey (11:11) Overcoming Limiting Beliefs for Success (17:17) Understanding Subconscious Patterns for Personal Growth (25:03) Unpacking Subconscious Patterns for Healing (30:00) Facing and Transforming Limiting Beliefs (42:48) Embracing Humanity and Self-Responsibility (54:03) Understanding Primal Emotional Needs (57:31) Releasing Lies and Embracing Authenticity (01:01:58) Exploring Self-Love and Healing (01:09:56) Uncovering Lies for Personal Freedom (01:19:32) Exploring Physics and Personal Transformation (01:25:47) Exploring Mind-Body Connection and Abundance …and more! Thank you to our sponsors: AquaTru: Get 20% off any purifier at aquatru.com with code HUSTLE Therasage: Head over to therasage.com and use code Be Bold for 15% off TruNiagen: Head over to truniagen.com and use code HUSTLE20 to get $20 off any purchase over $100. Magic Mind: Head over to www.magicmind.com/jen and use code Jen at checkout. BiOptimizers: Want to try Magnesium Breakthrough? Go to https://bioptimizers.com/jennifercohen and use promo code JC10 at checkout to save 10% off your purchase. Timeline Nutrition: Get 10% off your first order at timeline.com/cohen Air Doctor: Go to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code HUSTLE for up to $300 off and a 3-year warranty on air purifiers. Bio.me: Link to daily prebiotic fiber here, code Jennifer20 for 20% off. Momentous: Shop this link and use code Jen for 20% off Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagement Find more from Peter Crone: Website: https://www.petercrone.com/
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Guys, today we have Peter Krohn on the podcast
and I'm nervous about this one.
I actually really am.
Okay.
I was going to say that before we started rolling
because you talk so much about subconscious
and conscious and like language that I, it's hard for
me and my personality to kind of like grasp and
understand, right?
Yeah.
But I've seen like some of the work you've done
and the things that you talk about and it's so
compelling.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
And that, so I wanted to have you on because
sure there's a few little things that I've
caught through social media that like really resonated and I think my audience will
find everything in your work what you do. Very interesting. Okay.
So just like, I never really, like I said, read these things, but just so people can...
Just for shits and giggles.
Yeah, just for shits and giggles, exactly. Okay, it says here, you're a mindset coach,
speaker and writer known for your work as personal development, performance optimization, and spiritual wellbeing. You're
referred to as the mind architect and focuses on helping individuals, athletes, business
leaders break free from mental and emotional limitations and reach their full potential.
Does that kind of good enough?
I mean, it sounds pretty cool. I'd meet that guy.
Me too, that's why you're here.
I wanted to meet that guy.
First, let's start with why do you call yourself
or who calls you a mind architect and what is that?
So I sort of generated the moniker just by virtue
of what I call, you know,
necessity being the mother of invention, right?
Meaning that there wasn't any other title
that seemed to be sufficiently appropriate. Like I'd been called a spiritual teacher or a performance coach or even once a hit man for the ego.
I like that one.
Those are good.
They're okay.
But I always was fascinated with architecture and particularly if you look at some of these sort of sci-fi type movies, which I love like Inception and Matrix and Dr. Strange
and sort of the architecture of time and space. And really what I recognized what I was actually
doing was reorienting people's inner thinking space. So really redesigning who you are for
yourself. So the architecture seemed accurate and where was I doing it? You know, predominantly
in the mind being as that's the interface between, you know, our unmanifest self and
manifest self.
So like, how did you get into this?
Cause I, like you talk about a lot about the subconscious and how like we have
our limiting beliefs and what we thought of our, like it's so deep rooted and
that, and then we act and our behavior is based on these ideas and thoughts of
ourselves that we're not even aware of.
Right.
But you're not a psychologist, are you?
No, trained, no, no.
Like I don't have a certificate on my wall, no.
Okay, well, and the funny thing is,
most of the people I know who do have that certificate
are the ones who are the most screwed up.
Isn't that the irony of life, right?
You said it, not me.
Okay, I said it, not you.
So what is your background and how did you evolve
into being this person that people go to
to kind of get, I guess, like tap into that subconscious?
I mean, I went through a lot of my own sort of personal stories of human from a young
age.
Like I was only child, my mom passed of cancer when I was seven.
So that was obviously pretty significant for a little boy.
And then so it was me and my dad and then at 17, so 10 years later, he went to work,
he works on the boats that go between Dover and England, Dover in France and
Dover being the Southeast part of England and then Dover and Zaybrugge, which is in
Belgium.
So their ferry liners that carry cargo to people and with caravans going on
vacation, whatever, and that boat capsized.
And so sadly he passed.
So my dad went to work one day and I never saw him again.
So they were both obviously significant. So seven and 17, mom and dad gone. I had a stepmother, she was
a marriage to my dad, but she'd moved in. So she was there for like the last four or
five years prior to that. So she came in when I was about 12 or 13 or so. And so, you know,
there was a semblance of some sort of adult figure taking care of stuff, but that really forged me
into this more exacerbated form of survival
that I saw every human being has.
Like we as mammals, our primordial imperative
is just to make it, we just wanna survive.
And so mine got obviously heightened at that point,
didn't know where I was gonna go.
I eventually went to college, did very well.
I actually skipped a year because my grades all got affected.
But that was-
Where'd you go to college?
Back in London?
Back in the UK.
Oh yeah, okay.
Back in the UK.
So a place called Loughborough,
which was renowned more for sort of its athletic prowess,
but it was sort of top five, you know,
Oxford and Cambridge of the world,
equivalent to the Harvards and stuff.
Yeah.
And then sort of in the top five, it was a great school.
And so that was an amazing, I did three years undergrad.
I did a post-grad for a year, stayed on.
And then I very soon after that came to the States,
originally just for an experience, like they did, you know,
exchange programs where they pay 50 bucks a month or something
to come and coach entitled kids tennis.
Were you a tennis player?
I wasn't like as a college performing, like a college performing D one here or
whatever you'd call it.
Yeah.
I love tennis.
I was a good athlete, but I didn't compete for the school.
I played different sports for the school, but I didn't play tennis, but I was good
enough that I took my certification program so I could teach, you know, kids.
And so it just brought me to the States.
They pay for your flight.
They put you in a bunk with these eight, you know, obnoxious teenagers.
Yes, I know all about it. Yes. That was quite fun. Where the kids have, you know, obnoxious. Yes, I know.
Yes. So that was quite fun.
Where the kids have, you know, the parents of booting them out of Manhattan.
It was an upstate New York.
It was beautiful.
Yeah.
So it was a great introduction to the States, made some great friends.
And then that led to one thing that then I came to California originally and stayed
with a friend of mine that I'd met at the camp.
He was trying to make a movie.
I got involved with him, made the movie.
It was, you know, a great experience, but a terrible business. It was three 24-year-olds
doing the best they could. Oh, wow. How old are you now?
Now I'm 55. Okay. You look amazing. You're 55?
Yeah. Okay. That's a whole other podcast altogether.
Yeah. You do not look 55.
No, thank you. That's amazing. You look much younger.
Yeah.
No, my, my, thank you.
Appreciate that.
I play tennis still with kids who are half my age.
I'm still the quickest on the court.
Yeah, that's okay.
I want to get into your, all that stuff later because it's really incredible
that you, you've obviously maintained your youth very well.
So then you've been here for like many years, like 25 years or so, 30 years.
So they, so you were like in movies and like you were helping
people. I understand because my background is fitness and like we start like if you start
doing things physically, it does make a big difference in the mental performance, like
mental strength, physical strength. It's all kind of.
Absolutely. That's where I started actually.
Really?
Yeah. So it's common knowledge I can say, but I was Tom Cruise's trainer for a few years.
You were? Yeah. For Mission Possible and yeah, Moulin Rouge with Nicole in Australia and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Okay. You don't get this is great. I was called for Tom Cruise many, many years ago,
but are you a Scientologist?
No, no, no.
Because he was only hiring it at some point, like only Scientologist.
Yes, that was after I had left at the time. And a lot of the stuff was, but I wasn't and a lot of stuff weren't, you know, but
I guess he changed that afterwards.
So wait, so what movies did you do for him?
Oh, there were a lot.
I was with him for five years.
So, okay.
I want to know what this is like, by the way, Mission Impossible is my favorite
movie of all time, all of them, the whole series.
And I'm obsessed with them.
These were early.
I don't know if it was the very first one, but it was a couple afterwards, two and three, we did a couple together.
Mulan Rouge with Nicole.
We did the others.
We did minority report.
I can't remember.
I understand.
We did the Blue Room in London and New York, which New York was a Broadway show
that Nicole had done.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
I lost track of all the movies.
Jerry Maguire was on the back of that. He was just finishing
that she was done peacemaker, which George Clooney. Yeah, so
it was five years. But anyway,
that's huge, because he's like the most intense of I would
imagine, you know, I more than I would. It was he as intense, I
should ask you, as his reputation says,
you know, it comes down to how you define words, I would say he
was passionate, I wouldn't say he define words. I would say he was passionate.
I wouldn't say he's intense. I would say he's the ardent professional. I learned a lot from him.
I have nothing but good words to say about my experience with them. He was
the quintessential professional. I mean, he did everything so well with such integrity. And that
was really inspiring to see. Did you have to be on clock like 24 seven?
Cause he would train like three o'clock in the morning
if he wanted to.
No, no, it was a, it was a unique setup
and that was a big part of my history.
So I'm not sure it's so relevant today.
Oh, it is relevant though.
Yeah, I'll tell you why it's relevant.
Okay.
Because I think that in my, in my experience, my life,
I have a background similar to you then,
but that leads like those opportunities that you create for yourself or that happen upon you,
whatever, it's what you do with them, right? And it's a great, you can leverage things into
different possibilities and opportunities from having these experiences. And I think that like
when you're with people who are like high performers,
this is my, they can cut me off if you'd like, but, and you start in one realm, it automatically,
like there, it seeps into all sorts of different, like performance in different realms, because
everything is connected. Yeah, no, it definitely for a kid who had been orphaned in England and
didn't come from wealth or anything like I didn't,'t left a penny. It actually went to my then stepmother.
So I came to the States with about 200 bucks. Right. Wow. It was tough. And I was sleeping on a
very stained and not pleasantly smelling rent control department carpet, you know, in a living
room with buddies. And so that was very humbling, but in a way that it's really made me appreciate
everything that I have. And so to a point, yes, but in a way that it's really made me appreciate everything that I have. And so
to a point, yes, when I was then in this environment with the
jets and everything that you could imagine, it's sort of like
you, you know, you sort of soak a piece of meat and whatever
marinade is going to absorb it, right? So through the process
of osmosis, I was starting to imbibe my own higher
frequencies of what becomes possible. So whilst I was a small cog in a big machine,
I'm very grateful for the experience.
It did open my eyes to different ways of looking at life.
And of course then people, you know,
there was press clips and things of what I was doing.
And so there's a little bit of notoriety that came with it
that then afforded me to work with other people
who were high performers.
So it did start a new trajectory.
And that's why I'm, as I said, I'm super grateful for the experience.
So what was the first thing that you did that kind of took on a life
that like took on a new life?
Yeah.
So when I, I, I, I left, uh, much to the chagrin of kind of both of them, which
was nice, cause they really enjoyed my company and we had great results together.
But I just recognized that as much as I could transform a body, which was somewhat
child's play, meaning cause I'd studied exercise, physiology, human biology as
my undergrad, I kind of knew the ins and outs of anatomy to physiology and
biomechanics, so that was relatively easy.
And I got the job with them because I was a trainer originally, and I was
getting such incredible results.
So my name was thrown in a hat for a possible replacement for their old trainer.
So, but what I recognize was that takes time, right?
In the world of matter, you need time and space in order to make true, you know,
significant transformation.
And I had already been fascinated with philosophy, the mind, why do humans do
what they do?
I was also a skiing instructor for a while.
And I can remember distinct moments where I would be watching two people.
I was helping same age, same experience, same sort of seemingly athletic ability.
But one was sort of had this trepidation and scared.
And the other one went for it.
And I'm like, it's got nothing to do with equipment anymore.
Right.
It's about perception.
So that really opened up this whole line of coaching at the time.
I just was sort of doing friends and family to start, you know, seeing if I actually
had, you know, anything decent to say.
And then it really took off very quickly when I got some professional athletes who
started to triple winnings and things like that, uh, you know, on a professional
level where they were changing nothing but their mindset and, you know, golf and
then baseball.
And so that kind of really, that, that accelerated my career very quickly then.
So, right.
Cause you talk so much about, it's all about like limiting beliefs, like at what point in your mind or
would have you seen where talent takes you so far?
And then it comes into like, if you actually think
you can, or the mindset you have, or the limiting
belief that you can, like in all your experience
that you just said, what is that one thing that
holds one person back and allows the other person
to thrive and go so much further, even if that other person had more talent.
I don't know if there's one thing.
I mean, what's come through me, the uniqueness and sort of proprietary nature
in my work is I've delineated these 10 prisons of the subconscious that we all
have. So you could argue that actually somebody's constraint becomes the
impetus for their success. Like somebody like a Kobe, he thrived on making people wrong.
I would say it's a limited way of actually becoming accomplished because
you're being defined by a negative, if that makes sense.
Right.
It's like, so even though I can get people a long way, it typically is
being driven by the energy of fear.
So with my athletes, there's the myriad of like, I'm not good enough.
I'm a failure, you know, whatever it is that holds any human being back. So they could have all the talent in the world, just like you probably
have friends and family who are brilliant and they have a lot of potential, but they don't know why
they can't access a loving relationship, nine, 10 figure business or whatever they want or health in
their body. So it's these sort of blind spots that hold people back, which is sort of my area of
expertise to reveal. And as Carl Jung said, he had a beautiful quote.
He said, until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will drive your life and you'll call it fate.
I heard you say that actually.
I saw that clip that you talked about that,
and I'm so fascinated by this because it's 100% true.
And this is like the pool that you play in.
So that, like, I could, we could do like a whole
hour just on that. Like why we do all have, it's always the people who are the smartest, who are,
sometimes they overthink their, their way into analysis paralysis, right? And that's why I think
sometimes people who are the, I hate to say it, but like the more less intelligent or people who aren't that smart, get way further
in life because they have nothing holding them back.
They're like, why not?
I'll just go for it.
Right.
Versus the people they overthink, they analyze, they, their brain becomes their prison.
I have, yeah, I don't know what you probably know because you've listened to some of my
stuff, but I tend to download in quotes.
So I have a quote to that point about intelligence where I said, being smart
doesn't make you any happier.
It just makes your reasons why you're not way more convincing.
That's a hundred percent true.
People who have the IQs, the EQs, you know, they're able to discern and to
justify, rationalize why things won't work.
So, you know, I could say if there was one catchall for your question about what
is the one thing that holds people back, oftentimes it's really, it's the accumulation of disappointment or failure, right? So you think
about a young mind in whatever regards, whether it's walking, tasting something, going up to a
girl for the first time, you know, there's a sun in a cavalier part of being human where we're just
curious. But then when you've had disappointments and trials and tribulations, the more you've
accumulated, then the more you've accumulated,
then the more your brain uses that as evidence as to why it's not going to work.
So again, one of my quotes, I say past hurts informs future fear.
So the, the greater the hurt, then sort of the commensurate energy that comes with that
is now fear.
So kind of the younger you are, which with a lot of my pro athletes, most of them are,
then there's this sort of more fuck it kind of the younger you are, which with a lot of my pro athletes, most of them are, then there's this sort of more fuck it kind of attitude.
So which to me is really representative of one of my favorite qualities, which is commitment.
Like most people just aren't committed in filling the gap, you know, relationships,
their health, their career, you know, their, their sleep program, whatever it is, like,
you know, they're not really committed and that's not a judgment.
It's just an observation for people. Maybe even as they listen to that go, holy shit, like I struggle, like, you know, they're not really committed. And that's not a judgment. It's just an observation for people.
Maybe even as they listen to that go, holy shit.
Like I struggle with that, you know, the absence of commitment in my life.
So athletes are successful, have less accumulated baggage, you know, and
ideally combined with a lot more commitment.
How about regular people who are not athletes?
Same just smart, but we're all athletes.
We're all performers at the end of the day.
You know, you're a mom, you have a show, you have a business,
you know, you're a performer, right?
And so I work with corporations and I look at the corporate athlete.
You know, it's the same thing, right?
Like what is your discipline, your dedication, your, how clear are you
and what you're wanting to accomplish?
You know, where are your big audacious goals that you're trying to get to?
Same, same with everybody.
Then how do you, how do you help somebody break free from that?
Like they're, they're limited belief.
Like what if they don't know it themselves?
Like what's the process?
Can you walk me through what like the process is to even begin really
knowing what's in your subconscious mind?
Yeah, it's, it's, it's quite insidious.
And for that reason, it's, it's like kind of fine surgery.
You know, Michelangelo was asked, how did you create this
beautiful sculpture of David out of big piece of marble?
Yeah.
And he said, I didn't, David was already in there.
I just chipped away everything that wasn't David, right?
Which is beautiful.
So I think, you know, early on in life, we take big chunks off
the corner, right?
You can maybe just see the corner of a shoulder, but what
I'm working on is sort of the, the details around the eyelids
and the nostrils, right?
So it's very subtle.
Yeah.
So it's sort of brain surgery a little bit quite literally.
Right.
Literally.
So, so the process is you're, you know, a human being who I'm
working with, whatever walk of life, and you know, you feel some
constraints, some resistance, some frustration.
There's a degree of you're not fulfilling on your version of
potential or life isn't the way you want it, or, you know, further down the line
of imbalances, you're sick or you have anxiety or depression or addiction.
Right.
Most of my people are pretty robust.
They have successful lives.
They just want to go to the next level, but it runs the gamut, right?
People to the point of like, I've helped people who are suicidal, you know, and
help them understand they're actually not, that's just a part of their subconscious
that is asking to be relinquished.
So they don't want to die part of the software that no longer serves and wants
to die.
And that distinction alone has saved many lives, right?
Wow.
You see that?
Yeah.
But how do you know that?
Like what, like if someone, how do you even get into that subconscious?
Do you hypnotize them?
Is that what you do?
I can hear it.
So to finish the question. So whatever area of life they're being triggered in,
and there's normally only a few because of humans, we, our details are very complex.
You know, it's an uncle here and aunt, a wife, a kid, a boss, but it's all the same.
It's like, we kind of have family stuff.
We have health body stuff.
We have maybe money stuff.
We have career stuff and then maybe hobbies and passion.
You know, it's like, humans don't talk about too many things.
Right.
There's buckets.
There's buckets that, you know, we all are basically committed to and attached to.
So wherever the people get triggered, I use that as an access point to reverse engineer.
What is it that that must be revealing about you as a human where
you're not okay with something?
So again, one of my quotes I love, one of my favorites is life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you're not free.
So meaning that it's the opportunity to the life is to be human is that we, you know, scurry around in the best we can thinking we're trying to get somewhere and we get pissed off upset triggered her whatever it is and that's where for me without getting too poetic and as a Turk out of the gate if we're these divine,
integrates beings who are timeless and limitless meaning there's nothing that we can't handle there's nothing we can't create but if we get stopped by something then that's where the subconscious is caught in some pretense or a lie that you're not good enough for you're not lovable or you're not safe.
enough or you're not lovable or you're not safe.
So for me, this whole dimension of humanity on planet earth is because we all came here to break free from the constraints with which we arrived.
So that's the, that's the process is where do you get basically,
where do you get pissed off?
Where do you get triggered?
That's gold.
And if you're with someone who knows how to reverse engineer it, then you'll
discover why you get triggered.
Cause again, unless I say, unless it's life threatening, it's just ego
threatening most of the time is 99.999% it's ego threatening.
So then that's the gold.
Right.
So ego threatening is what, how do you define that?
Ego threatening, meaning that something you got upset by something.
Right.
You know, Jennifer got pissed off because, or she's hurt because,
or she's scared because right.
There's some, the way, even because we're under the, the, the illusion
that we're at the effect of life.
Oh, why are you upset?
Oh, because somebody cut me off in traffic.
Well, no, you're not upset because of that.
Someone just cut, cut you off in traffic.
You're upset because of the way you react to it.
And that's all us.
So we become the author of our own experience.
When you start to realize the power of responsibility, most people don't want
that they want to point fingers, you know, like I'm, I'm pissed off because my
husband, our, our, my wife or my kids or my boss. And so then you become a victim. It's sort of a powerless way to live life.
Very much so. Yeah. So I undo all of that and help people to discover their own authorship.
They are the genesis of their own experience. It must be hard. I mean, I think it's, I would imagine
the reverse engineering of it and making people see things they do. Like is it, don't people easily just revert back to how they were?
It's easy to do that.
Like you're saying.
It's easy and they can.
And again, it's dependent a little bit on age.
The older we are, the more established all of our habits,
patterns, neural pathways are.
Yeah.
So working with youngsters, it's sort of like, you know, the,
the transformations can be instantaneous and lasting.
So you need some time like anything, like, you know, you're an athlete.
So whatever sports you play, I love golf and tennis and skiing.
And if someone was looking at my swing, they might have the most beautiful
insight about what I'm doing and I could maybe feel it when I'm with a coach.
But then it's up to me to go and practice it.
So it becomes ingrained.
No different with the mind, even as even more slippery though, it's a bit more subtle.
Yeah.
But it's the same thing.
You know, there's what I call the two main buckets of awareness of your
blind spot, bring the unconscious conscious as Carl Jung said, and then
there's a practice of this new set of eyes that you're looking through.
I've like, Oh my God, I always thought my mom was fill in the blank.
And so I've communicated with her like that, but that's based on my history
of her and that's not who she is today.
So we sustain our images of things
and then we perpetuate because the ego wants to be right, even though what it's being right about
our limitations, which is insane. Right. We want to convince ourselves that what we think is actually
true. Is that why what the words we say are so important? Yes. I was told the other day something
like, even if you're saying something in jest or joking,
like, you know, oh God, I'm so dumb because I forgot that.
Like your brain doesn't have a sense of humor.
So they don't know you're joking.
If you say the word, I'm so dumb, haha.
They just think in that word, I'm so dumb or just becomes the loop.
And it's a little bit more slippery than that because even what generates the I'm so dumb,
because by the time you've had a conscious thought or an expression, it's being generated
from a subconscious pattern.
So that statement, I'm dumb as a way of defacing yourself or mocking ourselves or
joking that only exists because of who you are at a deeper level to even say it in the
first place.
Right.
Oh, God.
See, this is where I get, I gotta really pay attention.
Yes.
Okay.
So say that again.
So this isn't the snicker bar like version.
This is not that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I got a really laser focus.
This way.
So this house that we're in, beautiful house can only exist because of the
foundations, but we can't see the foundations, but nonetheless, the house
could not exist if it weren't for them, nor could we build a bigger house
relative to the size of foundation.
Right.
So think of the foundations like the subconscious.
Yep.
So everything that happens in this house is directly commensurate with
the foundations that allow for it.
Yes.
I'm following you.
Yes.
Yeah.
So likewise, someone's personality and their conscious thoughts and the words
they say can only exist to degree that their foundations of their subconscious allow.
Right. So you can't change the foundation.
No, well, you can.
You can?
Yeah, you can. That's sort of, you know, sort of mental, emotional excavation, I guess.
Yeah.
The re-architecture. But you can because the difference between like, you know, the concrete
that's beneath us, this is based in language, which is why is it where words are so
important because subconscious constraints are also based in programming.
So for example, the, I'm not enough, which everybody can relate to will manifest
differently depending on somebody's circumstances and their proclivities
towards, you know, whatever it is focused on relationships, focused on money.
It will manifest in that way, but the, I'm not enough isn't an inherent truth.
It's just a constraint.
It's a, but if it's been there for 40 years, it's very convincing for that person.
They'll say, Oh, I'm so dumb or, Oh, I'm never going to meet anyone.
Or what if, why, why was I trying to start a business?
I'm so stupid to think that I would be successful.
Those words make sense for somebody at a deeper foundational level,
think that they're not enough.
Right.
So, so what I would do is hear those things in not truths.
Like there's no truth in saying I'm dumb or an immediate or I'm a failure.
That's not a truth.
It's a statement, a declaration that reinforces a deeper narrative.
If we can access that, you know, this is what I do in my masterminds or
when I'm working with people, it's, it's so revelatory.
It's so moving because people are like, holy shit. Like, I don't even know what I could do now because you're not
being confined by anything anymore. Right. And you, you, so you, in your work, you can
actually take away that ideology at a foundational level. Yes. How? Like you're in a mastermind.
Let's say I'm in your mat. Like I like to know the nitty gritty. Yeah, no, I love that. I love
your, your attention to detail. It's the attentionitty gritty. Yeah, no, I love that. I love your attention to detail.
It's the attention. Because I feel like, especially on this podcast or like in my life,
I'm sure with you too, like you meet a lot of different people, experts in this and experts
in that. And they give you this very panoramic, big, you know, overarching ideologies. But in
real life, it's really hard to kind of..., you know, conceptual. Yes. So one last Saturday in my mastermind, which just started,
it's a three and a half month process.
We meet every two weeks on a Saturday.
It's a long day.
I do theory and then I coach people.
So one of the women I was coaching people from all around the world who
attend and she's in Holland and she's a mom of two kids.
And she had a question.
She struggles with migraines and particularly around her cycle.
And there's some sort of physiological associations but really what it came down to her deep subconscious pattern was it's all up to her.
That is all i she's thinking that it's almost so good yeah i'm a single mom of course it's like it's so commonplace for her to act that way but it started when she was young and she had to drive her dad who was an
alcoholic, you know, and when she's a kid having all of this responsibility
put onto her, that wasn't hers to have.
Right.
So she, from a very young age, developed the idea that lives are in danger.
You know, it's not like she's saying this, but these are her care
providers and she's young.
Right.
So for a kid who's really dependent, she had to, it's the, the energy of resistance.
If you have to, you must, you need to, these words carry weight.
So for a kid is like, I literally have to keep my dad alive because he's the one paying
or providing food or shelter.
Right.
But then that continued to now it's perfect.
She's fulfilling on the sentence of her subconscious, which we all do.
So now she's a single mom and now she feels like it's incumbent upon her to do everything.
I understand the logic of it, but it's not a truth.
So how do I undo that?
You know, I take people through an exercise.
So for example, I said, you know, if I cut you open, am I going to find a
manufacturing label that says, you know, da da da, you're from Holland.
It's all up to you.
And she laughs and said, no, of course not.
I'm like, okay, so it's not part of your hardware.
So where does it exist? She's like, well, it's what I believe. Okay, great. So it's software software we you. And she laughs and said, no, of course not. I'm like, okay, so it's not part of your hardware. So where does it exist?
She's like, well, it's what I believe.
Okay, great.
So it's software, software we can play with, right?
I'm not, I can't change the color of your eyes.
I'm not at that level yet, but yeah, exactly.
I stay in the possibility of it, but the language that I could do something with.
So then I said, okay, so where does it exist?
She's like, well, it's in my mind.
Great.
What's the format?
Well, it's all up to me.
It's words, right? Okay. Yeah. So if it's in my mind. Great. What's the format? Well, it's all up to me. It's words, right?
Okay.
Yeah.
So if it's just words, is it an absolute truth?
I get your, it's how you feel.
I get it's what you've done, but is it a truth that it's all up to you?
And she really got it.
She said, no, it's not a truth.
You see the shoulders drop, the physiological breathing patterns change.
And it was so beautiful.
And this will be coming out because we can use it as a podcast episode.
And she said, Oh my God, I, I don't even like, I've just been introduced to a world.
I don't even know how to explore.
And it's so profound.
Like that's my, my response normally is I'm introducing you to a world that you're not familiar with.
Cause when you've lived in the world from a very young age, you know, we had a few years prior when we're just free in kids and we do whatever.
And we throw up on people's, we don't know we're doing anything wrong.
And then suddenly we learn at one point that being us isn't enough.
Like there's something that kicks in at a very young age, the terrible twos, because
we start to hear wrong, bad, don't do this.
So it's a very interesting part of the arc of a human being's personality where suddenly
we're told that who we are is no longer just unconditionally loved.
Right.
And then from that point forth, all we're doing is trying to get that back.
I understand what you mean.
Yeah.
And so it all stems from an experience or a time in your childhood that you're acting out in, in, in adulthood, I guess.
Yeah, that's continued because it was so jarring.
Sometimes it's really traumatic.
I've helped a lot of people who've had some horrible things happen to them.
You know, the whole world of sexual abuse and,
you know, which sadly happens to a lot of kids.
And now it's a parent or a child, an adult,
who's managing real physical sickness,
real trauma in relationships,
which is still playing out the unreconciled trauma
from childhood.
Do you know, are there specific patterns
that you see over and over again?
Yes.
Okay.
What are they that?
Well, some of the most common ones are the feeling of inadequacy, like I'm not enough
for women, particularly the feeling of insecurity, like we're not safe, you know, as a woman,
because sadly for hundreds of years, the patriarchal has been somewhat abusive, you know, in varying
degrees, right?
And so, and then some sense of scarcity, they're the three main buckets that everybody has. There's something fundamentally wrong with me.
I'm not safe in the world. Like I can't just, you know, leave my house open, no worries. Like
there's crime out there. The world is dangerous, right? And then there's never enough. Like even
I've worked with, you know, 15, 20 billionaires and they're still in a scarcity mindset because
it's part of the human condition. So then how does that even start? Like you're saying even earlier, even the Kobe, for example,
he became really successful because of a chip on his shoulder that he had to prove,
you know, he had to prove that he's not, that he is enough, right? That's what I see all the time,
too. I think that's a, that's that whole thing. If you really, when I talk to a lot of people,
yeah, that's kind of when they peel back the layers, that's really what kind of motivates a lot of people.
Right.
It does.
Yeah.
Because they're proof, they're trying to prove something to themselves
subconsciously that they are enough that they can do it.
That, you know, just that they've just are relentless.
Yeah.
That will be what it takes.
But you just said it there in your own speaking, like they're
trying to prove it to themselves.
Yeah.
So it's me against me, right?
It's my story of inadequacy that I think is because my
dad said I'm a loser and I'll never amount to anything, but actually that's
just one thing that he said that probably took like 10 seconds, but I've
been carrying for a decade, two decades, three decades.
So are you fighting a dad anymore?
Or is you fighting your own belief that you've actually started to own and identify
at and that's the, the old analogy of driving a car with one foot on the
brake and one foot on the accelerator at the same time, which is how most
people love their lives and why they get sick.
Well, you said something, hold on.
I want to, I want to like, hold on.
Open this reference your notes.
Yeah.
That I haven't even looked at.
Okay.
So like, I want it, there was a line, something like, you know, you help
people go from where they are to where they think they should be.
Yeah.
Like, because I think that where we think like where you, where we think we should
be versus where we actually are is why people get so frustrated and depressed
and upset because they always think they should have had a different life that
they have right now.
Yeah.
And it's one of the things I do live events now.
And I spoke recently at one of them talking about how it's incredible the amount of energy a human being exerts and puts
into trying not to be where they are.
That's what that's, I think what social media has done though, too, right?
Like certainly contributed to it.
It does social media in and of itself is not doing anything.
It's just appealing to these mechanisms of the, one of the fundamental prisons
where we think that the way our life is, isn't it?
But we're getting there.
Right.
But you can never get there
because you're never in the future.
There's only the proverbial now
that Eckhart Tolle has been talking about for 40 years.
By the way, by the only person who talks to you
that has to like really listen intently to like,
it's not just me, okay?
No, no, no, it's okay.
Because it's like, because you're talking,
the way you speak about these things,
it's like you have to pay attention. You can't speak about these things, it's like, you have to pay attention.
You can't just like, you can't just like, you
know.
Just shoot the breeze and talk about what
you had at Chipotle.
Pretend I'm listening.
Yeah, exactly.
Like thinking about where my errands are later.
No, I'm going to ask you to be fully present
with me my dear.
I have to be because it's like, you're taking
it back, but I feel like that's what we do.
Right?
Like no one seems to be happy with where they
are, they're always seeking to, for betterment. Like that's what personal growth really is though, right? Like no one seems to be happy with where they are. They're always seeking to for betterment. Like that's what personal growth really
is though, right? Like you want to go from where you are to a better version of
yourself, to a better version of yourself.
You can. And there's, you know,
I'm somebody who's only committed to doing, you know,
the best I can with this lifetime and accessing, realizing my potential,
but there's different ways by which we move, right?
So most people move because of fear and lack and scarcity, right?
So there's something wrong.
And so the person who goes to the gym and signs up at the beginning of the year
and pays a 50 to 300 bucks a month or whatever it is, is invariably being driven
by something that they are not wanting.
So most people's wanting energy of wanting it creates time, right?
If I want something, then what I'm actually saying is I don't have it.
So now I create time.
So now I've got some sort of future idea of what it is that I feel will fulfill on,
in this case, really a sense of accomplishment or peace.
Oftentimes wanting is really, we just want relief from the suffering that we're in.
So not wanting is usually the catalyst for wanting.
So someone doesn't want to be out of shape.
Someone doesn't want to be pre-diabetic.
Somebody doesn't want to be obese. And so they're now, well, what I'm going
to do is go to the gym and get a membership and a trainer. That's fine. They might get some results,
but invariably they're being informed by what I call the negation, the not. So that one thing
can get results, but invariably they will fall by the wayside and they'll not show up after the
first month or whatever it is, or they cancel the membership because it's not a creative form of desire.
It's a reactive form.
And when humans are reactive, we're actually holding onto something we don't want and trying to mitigate it or disprove it.
So that's the, the, again, the slippery and insidious part of like the ego is it's like, it knows relatives to society.
Well, I don't look good right now and I want to be loved and accepted.
That's one of the primordial imperatives of every human is I want to be loved and
accepted because it goes back to that kid who felt they weren't.
And so in order to do that, what do I have to do?
Cause I know who I am right now isn't which isn't that I'm not loved and
accepted by society, but I'm not loved and accepted by myself.
And so then the exhausting game of trying to become who I think I need to be
to garner that from outside, which will never work because you're not trying to get it from outside
because everyone's playing the same game. If you think about it, it's kind of hilarious.
Should people get high before they listen to this episode? So they could, can they can
I think so because I feel like they can really focus on this.
Yeah. I mean, many people do say that they have to listen to things, you know, four or
five times to really get it.
To really get it.
It makes, but it makes perfect sense, but it's just like, you're saying it's so
like matter of factly, but-
Because it is, because it's physics, right?
And I've been doing this for 30 years.
So for me, it's very clear.
And I think, excuse me, that's one of the reasons that people are drawn to and
enamored with my work because even if they can't keep track right now, because they've got their own kind of
fog of their own ego, they can hear the inherent truth about what I'm saying. It's not even
my opinion so much as it's just the mechanics of what it is to be human.
No, it's a hundred percent true. Yeah.
It's about the, see, I think what I, even with myself, it's not that I don't know,
you know, people I think intellectually or like just whatever, they know what they need to eat,
they know that what they have to do, but it's in the execution that everything falls apart,
right? Because life or like they rationalize it or these blind spots. And so like how that to me is
what the most interesting thing is, it's like, you can see my blind spots, right?
I can see your blind spot.
If I spent like time with you, like, you know,
I would, I would come back and be like, oh, he
has this, this, this, and this is his blind spot.
But then, cause you know, I'm a very, and then
this is probably, you know, I'm hyper, I think
I'm observant and critical.
I'm very critical.
But does that mean if I'm a critical person that
really I'm critical of myself? A hundred hundred percent and I'm just, you're just
mirroring whatever it is that.
Yeah.
It's not only mirroring what you see for yourself.
It's also mirroring the coping strategies that you developed.
Interesting.
Yeah.
So you've become very astute.
Like I would, if I were to put you in a general consensus, you know, it's
like a very easy label people have heard is like, you're a perfectionist.
Yeah.
But only with myself, I'm not a, I'm not a perfectionist. I mean, is like, you're a perfectionist. Yeah. But only with myself.
I'm not a, I'm not a perfectionist.
I think that's where it all starts.
Yeah.
That's all it's.
Start.
But I notice everybody's like a synchro sees and like not just
short, I notice everything like how someone like uses their hand and
twitches their foot or how they're like looking at me or what, if they're
nodding and what they're thinking, like my brain is constantly in a loop of that.
Yeah. So one level you could look at that as a great asset like I have the same, right? So I
make a distinction between being highly observant and being vigilant. They both carry the capacity
to really be very present with your surroundings and be very aware. Like you've got this keen eye
where you can notice as you said these little subtleties. I notice when someone's breathing
pattern changes when I'm talking to them, right?
So I can see different softness in their face, you know, sometimes when they've
sort of let go of a constraint, but being observant, most people are observant,
but from a place of previous need to survive.
So their powers of observation have got this underlying current of fear and that's
vigilant.
So I would assert, you know, not wrong or right that much of your capacity to see
things was, and maybe still is informed a little bit by fear where you're trying
to get everything right or you're wanting to have things a certain way.
Control probably.
Yes.
Yeah.
Which again, control as a behavior is where there's an underlying feeling of
insecurity where you, you don't, you got hurt before when things were out
of your control, so now I'm not gonna be hurt again,
so I'm gonna make sure that I control everything that I can.
Which is really just perpetuating the previous hurt
as opposed to experiencing the hurt,
allowing it and then stepping into what is literally
a brand new day every day.
So like someone, how do you walk through life then?
Are you perfect now?
No. No.
I don't even like the word.
No, because again, I say, please don't become perfect.
You'll have no one to relate to.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
So that's a, that's a adaptation.
It's a, it's a strategy that the ego will use because the ego doesn't accept itself.
I've gotten to a point where I'm just okay being me, you know, and people are
going to think whatever they want to think.
That's okay.
That's a great, compassionate, I'm loving, I'm kind.
I don't in any way claim to be perfect in every arena of life.
I'm sure, you know, I've lost money on the stock market.
I could have done better there.
You know, like, am I really diligent all the time with my workouts?
No, but I'm pretty damn good.
You know, there's going to be room for improvement in all areas of my life.
I'm just okay with that and I'm doing the best I can.
So I embrace my humanity, which actually allows me, I think, to perform even better
because I don't have these limiting feelings of inadequacy or judgment and self pity and woe that a lot
of people do where they beat the shit out of themselves.
Cause I should have done this.
I should, I'm like, no, I'm pretty chill.
You're pretty chill about that.
Yeah.
It's true.
Cause you seem pretty chill when you walked in here, much more chill than I thought you
were going to be.
But then again, I barely know you, but because you were telling me about the buckets for women,
where the patterns are, what are the buckets
and patterns for men that you see a lot?
Well, I said women more about the insecurity.
The insecurity.
So men, it tends to be more about performance.
So women, obviously the primordial focus
is on appearance and beauty, right?
These are like deep in DNA, right?
The prettiest girl wins the alpha male,
so this is how you continue the species, right? This is deep, deep, deep DNA stuff. So for men, it's more
around performance, right? Like whether that be sports, sex, business, money, like, you
know, that's where men struggle, right? Is that they're scared that they're not going
to be doing something well enough. And so those are just big generalizations, but sometimes
men can feel scared. I mean, I've helped a lot of guys who their dad was mercurial and really angry.
And so they're scared too.
You know, they tend to cower if it's somebody of status or a boss or same thing.
You can still have that same feeling of insecurity.
So how do you work with someone like that to kind of get over the need to outperform
and by again, tracing it back to what is the underlying like roots narrative in of get over the need to outperform and.
But again, tracing it back to what is the underlying like roots narrative in their subconscious.
Like where did that start?
Where was the first time you thought the being you wasn't enough on how you had
to compensate was be the best or get the A or whatever it is.
And so you normally people can remember sometimes they forget, but when I'm
having a conversation with them, they'll remember, wow, I can, you know, the
first time I came home with my sister, my, my grade card and she got all A's and I got a B and my
dad, I could see he was really disappointed, something super benign.
Right.
But nonetheless, at that moment, that child decided that I'm less than my sister or my brother.
And so from that moment forward, they've tried to not be less than, which of course,
reinforces less than, but the way that shows up in behavioral adaptations is hardworking perfectionist people, please, uh, you know, sort of now they've
got adrenal fatigue, you know, it manifests in the physiology over time.
So I would help them go back to that and say, okay, so at that moment, did it really mean
that you were less than, or did it mean you got B's and they got A's?
And so you start to separate emotion from fact, right?
Which is where PTSD, you know, get where people associate a moment with how they
felt versus allowing the moment to be the moment my dad went to work and died.
Right.
But for years I had a story of loss, which no one would begrudge me.
It made sense.
So I didn't lose my dad.
My dad died.
Right.
And so the story of loss impacted me, the truth of my dad dying.
And I can still have grief.
I miss the crap out of him.
I know he'd be so proud of what I've accomplished in the world.
These are all still legitimate, but I'm not losing anything anymore.
Otherwise it's a part of me that's gone.
Right?
Yeah.
It's sounds like you do a lot of reframing and self-talk reframing and the
self-talk is really a dissolution process of self-talk.
Like I don't solve problems.
I dissolve them is what I tell people.
So people's problems sit on top of the narrative that is a confining space.
So I reveal the confining space and then the dissolution of that opens them up to a world of pure possibility.
You know, that now reminds me of a video I saw that I think was what came up on my feed that you did.
Okay.
Which was about like love and falling in love.
Yes.
That one went crazy.
That's like 6.5 million views or something.
Really?
Yeah.
Because it was so that to me, it was like, it was so the way it was worded.
Yeah.
Was very interesting.
Yeah.
Right.
That was someone in my live event.
So I work with people in the crowd, which is really fun.
People I've never met before.
I don't know what they're going to say.
I've had someone who had chronic pain.
I showed him he didn't to someone who was a loser and was on heroin and in jail
to realize he's not a loser.
I mean, really moving stuff.
And that woman, yeah, she was lovely.
Uh, Juliana, I think her name is, but she was saying how she was 39 and worried
about not finding love again.
And she was talking about this one big love of hers when she was 20 and, you
know, never feeling like she could ever revisit that.
And, you know, so I was helping her see that she had collapsed love with the person, which we all
do. Like I'm in love with you in that person. And then if that person goes away, well, now I'm
devastated. And so I just help people see, no, that person is extraordinary. And you might have,
hopefully a lifetime with them, maybe raise a family and it's beautiful, but the love is yours.
They might simply be the catalyst and the inspiration for it, just as the anger's
yours, but they could be the inspiration for it.
Like you pissed me off.
Well, no, they didn't said what they did and you had a reaction.
So that completely changed her life.
And apparently millions of others where they're like, holy shit.
Like people who had just gone through a breakup, they're devastated.
They're depressed.
Like, what's the point is that, Oh no, I had so much love. That's me. That's, I can take that. Now, in theory, you can take it
anywhere. But of course you're going to have preferences as the kind of people you want
to hang out with. Like I'm a super uber loving guy. Doesn't mean I want to spend the rest
of my life with everybody, but I'm, I'm still the source of my love.
Well, yeah, I think the way it was worded or something was something to the effect that
it's not that you were in love with him. Yes. Is that you were in love with the way it was worded or something was something to the fact that it's not that you were in
love with him.
Yes.
Is that you were in love with the way it made you feel version of you that you became through
and with him.
Yeah.
And that's the journey of self revelation and self realization is that life is revealing
our own potentialities in all regards.
It's not just love, although I would have assert that's our predominant state, right?
But it's you get pissed off with someone, see how angry you can get.
Like it's not because of them.
It's who you became through and because of them in terms of that energy, but
it's still yours.
And so that then introduces responsibility that most people don't want.
Cause again, going back to what I said earlier, most people are at the effect of
life, well, no, I'm happy because I got good news from Sosa.
I'm pissed off because of what my wife or husband said.
I'm angry because no, then you're a victim of circumstance.
Right.
So you're saying that when we start putting things on the external only,
that's not, we can't define our ourselves or our happiness or our, our, the, or
sadness based on out, we're outside.
You can, but you're going to be left unfulfilled and feeling hopeless because
then that's when you become a control person, freak, whatever word people want
to use because you're saying, well, it's so factor, right?
If I feel hurt or happy by my environment, I'm going to do everything I can to
control the environment so that I manage my emotions.
That's an exhausting way to try and manage yourself.
If I can learn to be okay with whatever's happening at peace with life, I've won.
Right.
And you have to, I guess you have to practice that.
Well, awareness and practice are the two main buckets.
I said, most people just aren't aware.
So that's why I have compassion.
I say, you can't be held accountable for that, which you're oblivious to.
So people are judgmental as someone who's smoking cigarettes.
Well, yeah, the world knows cigarettes are bad, but that person's still doing it. It's not like they're like, Oh, I can't wait to have a
cigarette because I know it's great for my vitality. They're still in some form of suffering.
And the sick cigarette is their mechanism of relief. And now it's become a habit, but they're
not aware of why because underneath it, they feel like they're a piece of shit or nobody loves them
or, you know, that's the suffering. That's the real addiction is the idea of our own inadequacy is the addiction.
Then whatever shows up on top of that, pick your poison.
But if you can get out of that, then you're free.
You can be okay with whatever.
That's why my main product is freedom.
Freedom.
It makes perfect.
Cause everyone wants to feel freedom.
Yes.
But they're under the impression freedom will come when they perfect their circumstances.
Right.
It's like, it's basically like a loop.
It's an exhausting loop because I think also it's like your, your behavior is a
product of what your subconscious thinks.
Yes.
It's not just, you're not just acting willy nilly.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, that's why the quote again, Carl Jung is so beautiful because he said, until
you make the unconscious, I call subconscious conscious, it will drive your life.
Meaning it's what's informing, but you'll call it fate.
Right.
Okay.
So all behavior, like I said earlier, the words that you say have been the
genesis of them are these blind spots.
So we think, oh, it's just bad luck.
No, it's the energetic signature that you occupy in the way that you see yourself
at the deepest level that creates your energetic way of relating to everything in life.
So there's no coincidence. Is this like frequency and vibrate? Everything is frequency and vibration, language, words, and even testers that right. You want to sound the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Yes. So how can you change? And how does someone change that frequency or that energy by recognizing if they're living in a prison based on linguistic, like what I
call prisons, right?
So someone's 10 of them too, right?
Yes.
But it gets more complex and,
Oh God.
Yeah.
Well, because each one has got a shadow side too.
So I'll give you an example.
So someone who thinks they're not good enough, typically that becomes an
adaptive way as a coping strategy.
So if someone is in an environment where they think they're not good enough,
fill in the blank, because one of my baseball players, he could go four for
five in a baseball game, which is amazing.
You've got four hits out of five at bats, but he was still miserable in the locker
room.
People understand why, because as a kid, his dad would always tell him, well,
what happened to the fifth at bat?
Right?
So that's still the continuation of that feeling that he still wasn't enough.
So for most people in the realm of I'm not enough at the deepest level, that
will inform perfectionism, people pleasing, hard work, a type drive, you
know, that people are trying to compensate for.
So if I'm not something typically the way that the brain reacts to that
is I'll try and become something.
Do you see something?
Cause that's something you want that you want to be good.
So I'm not that, you know, it's getting people on thinking I'm not good.
They're thinking all sorts of things.
I, why can't I get a raise or why am I not making enough money or
why can't I attract a good mate?
That's all on top of the feeling of inadequacy.
So then it's the compensations to become good or better.
The darker side of I'm not good enough is I am bad.
And that's typically where people have grown up in a little bit more of a harsh
environment where they were dismissed or they were really treated like shit or they were around an
alcoholic parents and they were beaten.
And so sadly, although they're not good enough can still be really painful and
can lead to sickness and disease and dysfunction and all sorts, most people
at least are striving to do better.
Somebody who's I'm bad tends to really become the addicts and the, the sort of really self defeating homeless,
eventually maybe like really destructive behaviors,
because you're saying I am something derogatory. Right.
And so that's where it becomes,
we'll fuck it and the woe and then self-fulfilling prophecy of like war who
gives a shit anyway.
And that's where people can sabotage their lives to a really detrimental level.
What's another prison that you have?
Um, I'm not loved.
A lot of people have that one.
Really?
Yeah.
A lot of people.
I'm not lovable.
I'm not loved.
It can be either or, you know, it's words can be very subtle on the way it lands
for people, but it's basically the same phenomenon that I'm not accepted for who
I am.
So what would be the shadow of that?
Um, so like if you will think about it, well, if someone is not loved, right?
So wanting to be loved is, you know, a good thing, but if, if you're not loved,
what would be a darker side of that?
I'm not liked, I'm hated, or I'm not lovable.
Well, yeah, the darker side could be stills and not, I'm not even wanted.
Oh, I'm not wanted.
Okay. So not wanted. Okay.
So not loved. Okay.
You can stay around as a kid and it's like, but you're not getting affection.
Mom doesn't hold you.
Dad doesn't tell you love you, doesn't acknowledge you.
So that's a horrible feeling.
But if a parent says, you know, you were a mistake, which kids have heard, you
know, or they might even hear the dad over, like I had to, uh, a friend of mine,
she's a therapist and these two kids, girls wanted
to go through all the transition bullshit, whatever, you know, and wanted to be boys.
And she fortunately helped them because they didn't, what they had, what had happened is
they'd overheard their dad one day saying to the mom, you know, I really wish I'd had
boys, which was for him a sort of a, just who knows the context of their conversation.
But those girls heard that the interpretation is we're not wanted for who we are, but if we become boys, we'll be loved. That's how primal it is.
Cause if you're not loved, you get kicked out of the gang and you don't make it. Right.
That's so interesting because especially what's going on with everything now, it's madness.
And so these things, that's why it's, that's why it's super dangerous of what's happening in our world right now, right?
Because it could be something as primal as like a comment and so subtle and no one's even thinking about that stuff.
Yeah, but it still comes down to this primal need as a human being to be wanted, to be loved and accepted, to be safe.
Is there an age where these things are really kind of implanted so deeply or like, if can you like, for example,
like seven and under is when these things really become super impactful or.
Yeah.
I mean, those formative years, because as I said, it gets really subtle.
I say, these are the constraints with which we arrive, you know, which is just my take.
People could argue the other way around, meaning that this dimension of planet earth being
human is we're here to reconciling transcend these limitations.
So it's not because mom said, or dad said, I would assert those souls wanted to
have the experience of whatever that feeling of being dismissed or not wanted
is so that they could transcend it.
But most people don't look at life that way.
They just try and get rid of the pain.
You know, that's why we have pick your poison, right?
Like alcohol, food, sex, prescription drugs, street drugs, whatever it is.
Right.
And so actually for me, the opportunity that it is to be human is go, Oh, I'm a
boundless, limitless, timeless soul incarnated into this three dimensional
meat suit with a narrative that is based in some sort of limitation.
And the game is, can I break free from that?
That's the game that to me is the purpose of life is to break free from the limitations with which we arrived.
So when you had your went so for you, for example, you're and you had your mom die and
you had your father die at such a young age. What was your story? Was that like, I'm alone?
I'm yes, it's all up to me as well. Similar to the woman I said from- Yeah, the Holland.
The Mastermind and Holland.
I'm alone and also a big story of loss.
Anything that's of value to me is gonna leave.
So my very first girlfriend, I was like,
I compensated, I was a good guy,
but I was the perfect boyfriend.
Right, you went overboard.
But as a compensation, yeah,
which eventually is, it's not gonna work, right?
She literally said, I feel suffocated by your love. Right.
And I was like, what's the fucking problem?
There's so much love.
But then I, when I got it, which is my awakening to my own behaviors, that holy shit, like,
yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't real.
It wasn't authentic.
It was real, but it wasn't true.
You know?
So then how did you course correct?
Are you in a relationship?
Are you like, do you have, I saw, I could see that mechanism then.
So once you see again, it's a lie.
So these prisons are lies.
That's that, you know, that's a key part of this conversation.
The, I'm not enough isn't a truth.
It's a lie.
The, I'm not loved as a lie.
I'm not safe.
It, they're all lies.
Right.
So that's what I'm doing is I'm helping people see that.
So for example, yeah, my live event last, uh, few days ago, this girl was
wanting me to help her with her business.
So just some random girl, she put her hand up.
I said, who wants to chat?
So I want you to help me visit.
Okay.
Dada, what's going on?
And it turned out that when she was young, her dad said to her, you're going to turn
out to be a loser, just like your mom and your sister.
Right.
And so she'd held onto that.
This is very articulate, successful coach, but I helped to point out that she can't actually
help people cause she's trying to perfect herself because she thinks she's a loser.
But you see, if you hold onto a lie and then you're just trying to disprove it,
or she keeps reinforcing is the lie.
She said in front of everyone, it was comical.
She said, she just saved me 12 grand.
I was about to do this coaching program, which is another attempt to
try to finally perfect herself.
So the lies of now she felt relief.
What was so powerful.
She came up to me at the end of the, when everyone
was breaking chairs and leaving, she came up and
said, you're not going to believe this.
Show me her phone.
She said, there's a client that I've been trying to
get since June of last year.
They texted me literally as you and I stopped talking.
Really?
Cause now she was available.
She, there's nothing, she's not trying to perfect
herself behind closed doors before she thinks she's
ready for business.
I said, one of the greatest qualities you can bring in your business is accept.
Cause everyone who comes to you has got the feeling of that there's something wrong with them too, but you're the, the authority here who's desperately trying to perfect yourself.
Exactly.
You're a disservice to the people and that's why your business is not working.
She was just blown, blown away.
So that's, so you do all these live programs basically.
Yeah.
Live events. Yeah. Yeah, live events, yeah.
Live events.
So the Mastermind is more online,
people from all around the world,
three month container.
The live events are just fun where we're gonna grow.
People have asked me now to travel around the world and do them.
They're just really fun.
They are. I love this.
Come to one.
I will. When's the next one?
March 20th.
And do a lot of, like, where is it at here?
Yeah, we've outgrown the space. It's, uh, I come into LA for it
and there's, um, 200 plus people. It's a good, it's a, it's
intimate, but it's a good size. But now, you know, we're looking
at a bigger theater for 2000 because we sell out within 24
hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People fly from all around the world.
There were people from this time. There's someone from
Australia and all from East coast. And yeah, it's really flattering.
And so what, so do you spend the entire time? You say you give them some theory.
Yeah, I talk a little bit about whatever. And then I just say, who wants to chat? So this time is a
girl who wanted me to improve a business is another woman who's turning 15 a week, who doesn't have a
relationship, but she wants love. And she, part of our story is, you know, she hasn't had many relationships. She's turning 50. So I hold, I hear all the data I need. Right.
Yeah. So immediately I said, what's the significance of me, you telling me that you're about to
turn 50, but there's a story about that. So why she can't have a relationship. So we undo
all of that. And then she's just
I want to hear it and do it. I'm curious. I'm sure there are people who are listening
who may be turning 50 or 40. And I feel like relationships is a biggie, right?
Cause I think, I think it's harder and harder for people to meet people here.
Not here, just in life.
Yes.
And with everything with like social apps, social media, now AI, there's so
many people that I think loneliness has become a massive, uh, I think
that's the real pandemic.
So I'm going to take something you said there because I think it will
probably hit a chord with people.
You said it's getting harder and harder for people to meet people
because they haven't met themselves.
Is that as interesting?
Do you get that?
I do get that.
See, it's harder for people to meet because the more you drift away from
your authentic nature, the more of a facade you're carrying and the harder
it is to sustain and therefore the harder it is to have intimacy into me see.
So this is what, and people really want to watch it.
I have a super affordable.
My, my membership program is freedom is 29 bucks a month and all my
lives are in there, you pay more to go to the live than watching them free
recorded. So if someone wants to watch that and there's a 90 plus hours of
other content on anxiety, relationships, freeing your mind, depression,
a wisdom library, like, yeah. So all the lives get put in there because not everyone can come. So it was a
powerful conversation, but she sat there just beaming in joy because she realized being 50 has
got nothing to do with anything. The fact that she hasn't had many relationships got nothing to do
with anything. And that she stepped into a whole world of possibility where I said, by the time you
come here next month, you could have had probably five suitors come up to you if you want.
So what was it if it wasn't the 50 and if it wasn't the fact that she's not, she hasn't
had a lot of relationships.
What was the reason why she was saying that in the first place?
Because she had at a young age learned to self soothe because her parents weren't available.
And so she'd become fiercely independent.
And what was so funny and people cracked up because for some reason when I do my lives,
I turn more into the comedian. And so she says, it was so funny and people cracked up. Cause for some reason, when I do my lives, I turn more into the comedian.
And so she says, it's so funny.
She says, I do heart centered workshops.
Are you serious?
So I was thinking of this cause of course I'm coming from a loving place.
I'm like, I can just see that.
Okay.
Everybody drop into their heart, you know, and like, this is all about love.
And then I said, and then you leave and go back to your hotel room and cry by
yourself, but this is the, that's what she did as a kid.
So she's so scared to make herself so vulnerable, which again is, that's why I get it.
It's scary.
I have compassion, but that's where people haven't met themselves to love themselves.
Same with the girl who's trying to perfect herself before she thinks she's a good enough
coach.
Now I'm like, you'll be the best coach in the world if you could just accept yourself
and tell people to get over themselves.
That's all they want.
Well, I totally agree.
But this is why I said it earlier about the psychologists, right?
Like, I find like a lot of times, like people are not comfortable of just being
authentic, true.
The word authentic is thrown around all the time.
Yeah.
I know like authenticity, you know, all these things.
It's a great hashtags, but the truth is nobody's really comfortable in just
being who they are being completely honest, You know, like just being different because different is not for whatever
reason, it's not accepted.
People think it's not accepted.
But the truth is I think the more different you are, the more actually
you're actually you're, you're more likeable, not less likeable because it's
a magnet, like you think about it.
If you had this really beautiful gala, everyone's in there like black tie and
it's all fancy schmancy and everyone's sipping on
their champagne or whatever.
And you throw in a four year old kid who's running around and he's
got shit all over his face.
Yeah.
Like it's adorable.
And people are drawn to that because it's freedom.
That's why my product school freedom, you know, so for me, you know, if you
want to took the world right now of like just insane amounts of mental health
issues, the, the precursor of all of that is that the absence of self love, because then I'm,
I'm in dis-ease with myself.
So then that's just going to spill out into the world.
But I feel like also it's speak people just besides self soothing, it's distra,
everything is basically a distraction.
Now, if people are the mental health, as you were just saying, anxiety, depression,
suicide, all of it is
becoming worse and worse because social media, comparing yourself to some other life that
doesn't even actually really exist.
And people are using these all and they're becoming worse.
Even though going on social media is why they're depressed,
they're still, they can't, they can't seem to take themselves off because they need it
as a distraction away from their own life.
So it's fueling all of these mechanisms where fundamentally someone is just simply not at
peace with themselves.
So it's this exogenous form of looking for searching for some reconciliation.
If I find the right person, if I have enough money, when I get my body, right.
When I start my business, when I get the dream home, forget about it.
Then I'm going to be awesome.
But that no, cause you're awesome.
Now you're awesome.
Now everybody is like literally everyone right now.
I'd say everyone is a masterpiece and a work in progress.
So can you be, yes.
So can you be completely a piece where you are, no matter the size waste you have or
whatever it is you're going through, even as a sickness with whatever your bank account
says, however dysfunctional or great your relationship, can you find peace with what
is?
That's the only way you can move forward to something that you might have as an aspiration
simply for the pure exploration of what life is.
I mean, I'm going to actually listen to this podcast myself to make sure I understand,
so I can like, you know, get like the whole thing.
So when you, I just want to go back to you for a second.
And so, cause when you did that movie, Heal, the documentary, so what was that?
What would you consider?
What kind of expert were you in that?
That was the mind architect, but I spoke to, so part of my background is in Ayurveda,
which is a healing arm of yoga.
So like Chinese medicine, which itself is fascinating.
Fascinating.
I use that for, like I'm still here
in a three-dimensional meat suit.
You know, there's still things that I do
to take care of myself.
Yeah.
Just, but internally my terrain.
A meat suit, did you call it?
Yeah, yeah.
Three-dimensional meat suit.
People become misidentified.
Like they say, I am a certain weight.
I am a certain height.
No, you're not.
Because you're the you that has been consistent, even when you were like three
foot as a kid and whatever weight you had or loss, right?
If anything can change and that's not the real you, right?
So that's an access point to realizing, Oh, I've become misidentified with form.
And then even the subtler form, which is the thoughts in your head.
So that's where I'm helping people to disassociate from to become free from
like a radio station in your head, just 24 seven, usually nonsense, right?
But most people believe it.
And if you can start to create a bit of space from that, like, um, you know, the,
I forgot who it was.
Aristotle or someone said it's the mark of an intelligent mind that can entertain
a thought without believing it.
Right.
So you can have the thoughts of like, I'm an idiot.
I don't know.
Am I a minute?
Like, you know, versus just saying like a declarer declaration of fact.
Yeah.
So that's what I'm helping people understand is the power of the words that
become the, they create the reality and the confines you live within.
So then they have to stop act.
They have to stop doing certain behaviors and saying
certain things to themselves.
They don't have to, but that would happen.
Ideally it would happen automatically when you realize that what's been driving your
behavior isn't a truth.
Right?
So it's where again, I say, I dissolve problems solution-based, uh, well, that we live in
is like, okay, you have anxiety.
Well, this is what you have to do, right?
You go and see an expert.
Typically they, they traffic in the world of behavior, right?
Don't do this.
Don't do that.
Right. But I don't, I'm not interested.
Behavior is a byproduct of your feelings
and then your thoughts
and then underneath your thoughts subconscious.
So changing behavior, it might work for a while,
but if you're human,
you know how hard that is to freaking sustain.
Yeah, because you're being driven by deeper code
that has you think the thoughts you have,
feel the way you feel and then make choices to act.
So unless you undo that deeper code, which is what I'm talking about, then
you're going to, if you have willpower, you'll keep up the new behaviors for a
while. If you don't just say, fucking go back to the cigarette and that
therapist was a piece of shit.
Anyway, you'll come up with a justification.
A hundred percent.
And that's why willpower is that never works.
Anyway, it's a muscle that will get tired.
Especially as you get older, because you're not going to have the same sort
of level of, you know, like tenacity or cavalier attitude of fuck you,
or, you know, eventually your dad's gonna die
and now you've got no one else to make wrong.
It's like, until you fall flat on your face again.
So that's why I wanna be informed by love and freedom
versus like love and limitation, fear and limitation.
Do you believe in like that?
I said it earlier, like the, like hypnosis or breath work or any type of like, how about
like psychedelics psychedelics to get you into that place in your head?
I think they all have a place and people, whatever journey they're on and wherever they're
at and the people they draw into their life, it might be appropriate.
You know, I think things like breath work, I think psychedelics help because that's going
to get deeper, right?
Breath work can be transformative.
You can have a powerful moment, you know, especially if you're
doing deep, heterotropic breathing where it is hard, but a lot of people go
into the crepitus and they have these epiphanies and that's great, but
oftentimes anything that we're doing is it's too late, right?
What I'm interested in just my own modality is revealing these deep
subconscious constraints for what they are, which is lies.
When you see it for what it is a lie, then you're never going to be the same person.
Uh, yeah.
As an analogy, right for 2000 years, we have said the world is a globe and I
guess still people arguing that it's not, which is fine.
That's a whole different conversation, but let's just go with it.
It's a, we're on a sphere, right?
But prior to that, prior to Galileo, I think he decided, or he saw that it's a
sphere, everyone thought it was flat.
So that is the prison, right?
The flat, because it's a lie.
But in that prison, it's appropriate for what the fear of falling off the edge.
Do you see that fear is commensurate with the perspective?
So you could say, okay, well, what's your gadget for stopping people falling off?
That's a solution, right?
If I was Elon Musk back in the day and I had a laser bracelet that would
detect how far the horizon was, I'd be a multi-billionaire.
Yeah.
No kidding.
But it would all be within a lie.
Cause now I've worked with MBA guys.
So who are like, I tell an MBA, try and fall off the planet.
Like, you know, they jump high.
Give it four seconds.
They're right back.
So, so that you start to realize.
So then when you reveal the lie, the previous fear associated with it,
does this disappears?
Do you see, so does that as an analogy help you understand?
So if someone thinks they're not enough and as a, as a byproduct of that, they
had Hashimoto's, which is down the line of them trying to be a perfectionist
and working too hard, you know, and I could say, well, you know, what you
need to do is some breath
work, meditation as a solution, but they're still being driven by the
deeper code that they're not enough.
Once they see that for what it is.
Oh, my dad said, da da da, my sister and my brother was the athlete or whatever
the justification was.
So does that mean like truly you're not enough?
No, it's made up.
Holy shit.
If I'm not enough, what become, then I say in the absence of that
constraint, like literally stepping out of prison, how would you feel what become available?
Oh my God, I, that's when the shoulders drop.
I, I do anything.
That's a new world.
There's no, then I don't need to tell them what to do.
They start to look through new eyes, which will generate different behavior.
And so, yeah, I do understand.
It's like going to a different planet, like Wakanda or whatever it was in
black Panther, you know, so you go through a portal in this case, the
portal is dissolving your constraint.
You suddenly enter this world of pure love and freedom and possibility.
You don't know how to navigate it.
Like the girl from Holland, which is cool.
She's like, I don't even know what to do here.
I'm like, no, I know.
That's what I say to people, even in my mastermind, I'm introducing you to a
world with which you're not familiar. Yeah. But at least you're
out of fucking hell. Now we can start to explore who could you be if you're not trying to disprove
some feeling of inadequacy? Who could you be if you're not always worried about whether
you're going to make it or be safe? Oh, fuck. I don't know. I'd, you know, I'd be so free.
I'd start my business. I'd take better care of myself, I'd probably sleep like a baby.
And there's all these different experiences
that now become available in this new dimension.
So in this new dimension,
but how many of the people that you work with
fall back into old patterns, old routines?
For sure, I mean, I don't keep track of the thousands
of people, but for people who are committed to my work,
most of them for sure are gonna have glimpses, myself included, I'm at the bow of the boat of this whole work, at least to my work, most of them for sure are going to have glimpses,
you know, myself included.
I'm, I'm at the bow of the boat of this whole work, at least in my way of sharing it and
teaching it.
So I can still, you know, have, you know, an old feeling of whatever it is, very short
lived now, but yeah, it takes practice and also it takes community.
It takes environment, right?
Community is a big one.
Because if you're in a world where you're constantly being reminded of everybody shortcomings or you even hear your friends complaining about their marriages and their kids or their business.
You're in the mire of like derogatory negative comments right versus in part of my.
Freedom membership there's a community where people support each other with the same kind of conversation. So that itself can be uplifting.
So yes, you need a practice, you need time, you need support, you need reinforcement,
and there's, there's many layers to it.
So even if somebody in my mastermind, like this woman realizes all up to her and now
realizes it's not, it's just not up to her.
Right.
Okay.
Maybe the predominant onus is on her, but as a choice, not like
I have to, it's a very different energy. She gets to be a mom. She loves to be a mom. Do
you see the difference between it's all up to me and I have to do it. That's creating
suffering and resistance. So it's a choice. And when you introduce choice, you now have
freedom.
I don't. Okay. I have a friend, a couple of weeks ago, I was out for dinner and I'm like, I gotta go,
I have to put my kids to bed. And he told me this whole big thing about like how he has this
spiritual advisor who said to him that he, and then he relates to me, he's like, oh no, Jennifer,
you can't say you have to put your kids to bed. You have to say, I get to put my kids together.
I get to put my kids together. I'm like, so like this language, I find like it all sounds dandy and fine, but it feels
very contrived and weird.
It can do, yes.
Right?
So I'm like, okay, well, I got to leave because I get to put my children to bed or whatever.
It's like a whole different language that you have to learn. It is.
And if it's done that way where his spiritual counselor is telling him to, then it's just
another thing for him to do, which is only going to create more pressure.
Well, if he's living, he's embodying it, but when he says it to me, it feels very like...
Yeah, it's instructional.
So there's a difference between what I call instruction and inspiration.
You know, if he's saying, oh, you have to do, you have to say, well, it's still, I have
to, it's still the same energy.
And also now I just, like, mock him.
I'm like, I, every time he calls me, I'm like, oh, I get to, you know, I get to like do the
chores I have to do, you know, or I get to, I can't wait to do the dishes.
Yeah.
I get to do the dishes.
You know, like I, it's, again, you want to be careful that it doesn't become too fastidious
in terms of
we're human, right? We're all doing the best we can. And that's where I think we can make
space for a bit of comedy, a bit of compassion of like, these are good things to understand
so that you can have a deeper reference point of like, Oh, okay. Yeah. At times I'm, my
kids have been a pain in my ass and I'm just going to put them to time out or bad. You
know, you're human, you're a mom, you're doing the best you can. But if you can at least revert back to it
at some point in your evening or the next day,
I go, okay, that was an emotional reaction,
totally appropriate as a human.
I don't want to live from there because it's tiring.
I also don't want to be that person for my kids.
And maybe there's an opportunity for a conversation
where they can garner a bit more responsibility
about the way they behave.
You know, you want to just come back to it.
Otherwise it's a cumulative over time.
I know. I guess like you don't know me at all. I know. I understand that. But like I
laugh about a lot of people who, and maybe that you're going to say, cause I'm overly
critical perhaps, but about manifestation, like I'm manifesting this. I'm going to spiritual
world of woo woo. Yeah. Like I'm going to woo woo. Yeah. Like, and I'm like the anti-woo.
Yes. You're super practical.
I'm super practical.
Yeah. Same. I'm a Virgo.
I'm a Virgo too.
When's your birthday?
September 10th.
September 16th.
Okay.
So yeah, I'm a Virgo.
And I like things that are like, you know, practical, right?
Like, I'm not going to like just think myself
into getting what I want, you know?
I'm going to chase what I want.
Yes.
And then so then the manifestation people like you don't chase you wait, you, you hold
space and it comes to you.
But for me, it's always both.
Okay.
So how does it work?
It's not either or like the brain thinks in terms of duality, good, bad, right, wrong,
you know, and that's why people tend to go well, if a relationship doesn't work is like
fuck it.
You know, it's like everything tends to be a bit too reaction a relationship doesn't work, it's like, fuck it.
It's like everything tends to be a bit too reactionary.
And what about if it could just be both?
Recognize that we're frequency-based beings, and that our energy does have like that girl
who's talking to me in a live, her phone's off, she turns her phone off at the end, sees
what time we finish, and woo woo, hey presto, abracadabra, this fucking client who she's
been trying to get for seven months shows up.
There's something in that.
Yes.
And I believe in that.
Yeah.
So she now energetically has stepped into a different iteration of herself that isn't
in this world of there's something wrong with me and I have to constantly perfect myself.
So the way I would phrase it, she became more available to life, which is where life then
met her at a different vibration.
Now can she just sit around and go, Oh, I'm at this new vibration. No, she has to reply
to the person and say, great to hear from you. I'd love to work with you. And then whatever
the next steps would be for this new type of person, she also has to be proactive.
Right, right. So it's a combination of both.
My friend in college, he had a great expression, um, because I started all of this philosophizing
at a very young age and he and I would sit under a tree and talk about consciousness
and it was fun as 18, 19 year old punk kids. Yeah. But he would say, you know, believe
in Allah, but tie up your camels. Yeah. Right. So that to me kind of captures it, right?
Like, you know, yeah, like there's a, whether you call it God or Jesus or
Muhammad or whoever, or fucking Buddha.
That's great.
Have your dogmas.
I'm not going to poop for you for it.
And, you know, be as responsible you can be as a co-creator in life.
Yes.
So that's where the woman who's okay.
She's a single mom, but she has community and an ex and parents, you know, she's
not fully alone, but she could also say, okay, maybe life will bring me some unexpected lover or a friend or a neighbor who loves kids in the next three
or four weeks, you know, be open to the miracles too.
We tend to default to it's all up to us.
And for that reason, you know, fuck life and woe is me, you know, it's like, I think it's
we can make room for both.
I think you can, but like you, cause you seem very much, cause I was actually very nervous,
but I started this podcast by saying I was a little nervous because before I met you,
because I thought you were going to be way more woo woo.
Yeah.
You know, but you're not so woo woo.
You're like, you seem to be like very much.
Super down to earth.
So me, you know, again, going back to the monikers at the beginning, a spiritual teacher,
I'm actually more of a physicist, right?
But my physicist lens incorporates code, right?
So I'm more of a tech guy also, but even with your mind, right?
Because it's programming.
So that's not woo woo.
Because if you're living in a world where you think that you're not enough, that that's,
that's a physical piece of code.
Yes.
So I could then attribute what people might think is woo woo as to why do they
keep attracting a partner who's emotionally unavailable or maybe even a
little abusive.
Oh, that's not woo woo.
You know, they just need to move to a better city or something.
Well, no, to me it's more, no, it makes sense.
Energetically, if the way they view themselves is less than they're going to
attract woo woo people who will mirror that. Yeah. So I'm yeah, I'm not. And then, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, had stage four endometriosis gone a couple of months after the end of the mastermind that's not woo woo that's
that's freaking science but why is that because she let go of the involved in her world her needs
don't matter because she grew up as a kid where her needs weren't met she wasn't given any
attention right so especially as a woman then her system shutting down her needs don't matter
whatever she wants is really irrelevant right so? So it manifests physically, and she
attracted boyfriends who would never pay her the time of day
or abusive. And eventually it shows up physiologically,
physiologically. Yeah, the mind and body connection is not so
much a connection as it's a continuum. Yeah, it's a
continuum. I would agree with that. Yeah. So if you're living
in a state of stress, I mean, you talk to any like real like
far, like scientists, scientists, to any like real, like far,
like scientists, scientist who's like, no, no, unless there's actual evidence and, you
know, a documented study, they're still going to say stress is the number one cause of death,
right?
Or disease.
Yeah, stress for sure.
So what stress it's the way you're relating to your environment, which is based on perception.
Yeah.
So if you can change your eyes with which you view the world, then you're going to change
your physiological response to it.
That's not woo woo.
That's physics.
That's physics.
Hold on.
I think I have another question.
Just want to make sure before I hold on a minute, cause I mean, that's where Wayne
Dyer had a great quote.
He said, you know, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change that I love that.
Yeah.
Is it cause they change or is it cause I have a new view?
It's because it's because you have a new view.
Physics talks about the
split the electron test with the two split tests, you know, like
whether it's a wave or it's particles, all of it, this is
all physics. So if you're the observer in a particular
environment, you're going to see the way that you see, and then
you're going to you're going to therefore, like impose your particular vantage point on a circumstance while someone else would
have seen something completely different.
Yeah.
That's the same environment.
Ramana Maharshi, one of the greatest spiritual teachers, or in terms of legacy,
he would say people come to his ashram for satsang, which is where they come and
listen and ask questions and he'd sit there and do his best to answer.
And he said, it's like people arrive with a palm full of gun powder.
Some people's gun powder is completely submerged with water.
And for some other people, it's damp.
And for some other people is really bone dry.
And he says, I'm saying the same thing to the whole group, but depending on
their capacity to hear it will elicit the kind of response they have.
The person who's got completely submerged might go,
ah, it's kind of interesting. I didn't get much from it. They did, but they're not aware of it
yet. The person with bone dry gunpowder has the biggest epiphany. Same thing, but depending on the
readiness of someone's consciousness, you're going to interact with life at that level.
I like that. It's so true. It is so true. Yeah. So that's the beauty of like, whether we call it
karma or whatever this incarnation is about
that you're going to have to revisit the different arenas of life.
Those buckets we talked about.
Why does a girl continue to attract a guy that's not emotionally available?
It was a bit abusive.
She's the consistent theme.
Maybe just maybe, you know, she's got some story of like, she's not lovable or she's
trash or, and so she keeps attracting guys and circumstances
to reflect until she transcends that she goes to a different timeline because she's now
viewing herself differently, feeling differently.
And as a result, life will present new circumstances.
Right, right, right.
So that's physics.
She changes the pattern herself because she's otherwise living it over and over again until
you learn it for yourself.
Yes. And then most people live the other way around
where they think I want to change my circumstances
before I'll change.
Right, but you follow yourself wherever you go.
Exactly.
Right?
And that's called seeing is believing,
which I say is also called waiting.
Seeing is believing.
Is also called.
It's called waiting, yes.
I love your little, like your wordsmithing
or your analogies or your word stuff.
You do that all the time, huh?
All the time. Cause it helps people understand something
that's kind of otherwise a little bit over the head. Like
you said, you got to really focus.
Because normally, cause it's not what I normally talk about,
right? So, and I have to just kind of like pay attention, you
know, I can't, I can't just like interject with something
because it's just cash this one in and just, yeah, I cannot, I cannot cash when I got to be like, well, good.
I'm glad that you're on your, your A game.
I have to be.
I mean, it's a lot.
It's a lot.
Yeah.
I, cause I know you, um, like I'm trying to think of some, what do people ask you about
like layman's people like me that what's the most common question that they would ask you?
I mean, they run the gamut.
As you said, usually in the arena of relationships, something to do with, you
know, I mean, relationships, health and wealth, you know, they're the big
buckets, right?
They're the real main three.
So give me one question in each that they ask the most.
Health tends to be specific to whatever someone's dealing with.
Right?
So, you know, why have I created or why do I have this particular sickness?
And so I love to make the correlation for people between dis-ease and disease.
So disease being the physical manifestation over time of dis-ease, which is the absence of ease.
Meaning if my system's not at peace and just again, biologically, I'm going to be in the sympathetic part of my autonomic nervous system, meaning I'm in
fight or flight because I'm not at ease. When we're at peace, we're in the parasympathetic,
which is rest and digest and rejuvenate, right? So that's just physics again. But if the way
I perceive my environment is I'm like, I'm scared or I'm like under stress, then my biology
has to follow that. So then dis-ease, absence of ease,
well, so just even understanding that cascade,
regardless of what you're dealing with,
can help people to be more responsible about,
okay, in ways that I don't know how they have to manage it,
whether they get out of a narcissistic, horrible relationship,
or they leave a toxic job,
or they just need to learn to take time and breathe
and have a better sleep routine or meditate,
just to imbibe ease more in your system and see what your body does.
That's one.
Relationships again are going to be the reflection of your relationship with
yourself.
So if you're in a place where you think you're not safe, then you're always going
to see something your partner does as potentially threatening.
If you think that you're not enough, you're always going to see something your
partner does as a judgment of you, you know, so it's all a mirror, the whole life and the dimension of time and space
and people is all just a mirror.
So again, that's the good news.
It's a good news and the bad news.
Cause most people don't want to be that responsible.
Yeah.
But I'd rather blame my husband.
It's much easier.
Yeah, exactly.
Seems that, but in the longterm it's not because you're actually slowly killing
yourself.
That's what I thought was really funny.
The Dutch girl, the woman, you know, she said, holy shit.
When she realized her mechanism for survival, which is it's all up to me,
which is the white knuckling of I've got to make care, make, take care of everything.
She said, I realized the way that I'm surviving is actually what's killing me.
Right.
Is that always the way it is?
Everyone, but it was just beautiful that she could see it.
Yeah.
I'm prompted by me, you know, that's what happens when the lights go on in the
back room, you're like, holy shit, I've been doing this since I was a kid.
And so she thinks that she's doing something from a, you know, a smart
place of like, well, it's all up to me.
So I'm going to push through, but actually that's a lie.
And the mechanism she's using is what's actually her, her oncoming.
Yeah.
You know, it's funny.
It's like, that's a blind spot though.
Right?
Like, right. Cause usually your best quality tends to also be your worst quality. Yeah. You know, it's funny. It's like, that's a blind spot though. Right? Like, right.
Cause usually your best quality tends to also be your worst quality.
Yes. There are two sides of the same coin.
And that's why I said, we can't be hard accountable for that, which we're oblivious
to that's where compassion comes in.
Right.
Because people can be very self-righteous when they see what's going on.
And that doesn't help.
You know, it's about just being kind and realizing everyone's doing the best they
can with the limits of their awareness.
But so then for the wealth for the other bucket
to finish the answer to your question, you know, most people,
I'll give one example, I was talking to someone I met
briefly, and she's a single mom, too. And she's like trying to
eat, she said, I'm in a great place with my kids and my
energy, and I feel really good, my health and her choices around
food and da da da. And she said, now I'm ready to create
abundance, which all sounds beautiful, you know, and that fits into the whole world of da. And she said, now I'm ready to create abundance, which all sounds beautiful.
You know, and that fits into the whole world of spirituality.
And I said, well, there in lies your problem.
She's like, what do you mean?
I said, you don't create abundance.
You reveal it abundance is.
So what we want to do is actually, instead of trying to create it, we want to
dissolve what is your illusion that you can't access it.
Jesus.
I mean, I'm telling you, I need a hard drink after I speak to you.
Not that I don't even drink.
Does everybody say this to you? Who are you friends with? Like who are your friends? Are
you friends like you?
Some of them are. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm on a show with you. I want to obviously give
as much content that it's valuable to your listeners.
No, I think it's amazing.
But I shoot the shit. I play golf and take a fuck around.
You're like a regular dude.
You talk about normal things too. Of course. Of course. But also understand the mechanics. I play golf and you're like a normal dude. You talk about normal things too.
Of course, of course.
But also understand the mechanics of how life works.
And so it's fun because then I get to create and make shit up and, and play in
the world that is this rich tapestry called, you know, planet earth.
But do you have most of your friends like that you hang out with?
Do they think at your, at your level of consciousness?
Maybe not in this regard, but they have their own levels of expertise.
I have friends who are great musicians or great playwrights and you know,
like everyone's got their own different qualities.
Yeah, of course.
I'm kind of teasing you, but you know.
Yeah, I get it and I appreciate the compliment, but I guess I have a unique ability
to understand the power of language and to, you know, discern in a very precise way,
you know, making things that are otherwise profound palatable for people, or not so palatable.
Or not palatable.
So you're not even, you can't even say create,
cause that means that you're thinking
that you don't have the, it's not there in the first place.
Correct, so you're under the illusion
that something's missing, right?
Isn't it subtle?
Yes.
It's so subtle, but it's so profound.
Like often people would say, my stuff got it so,
it's so simple, but it's really not easy. Exactly, well, that's so profound. Like often people would say my stuff, God, it's so, it's so simple, but it's really not easy.
Exactly. Well, that's the thing. Like I'm thinking like, okay, what am I doing to my,
what am I doing in my life that's holding me back that I'm not even aware of?
Yes. Yeah.
Right?
Yeah. And you will be and that's okay. You're human.
Right? And like, where am I blind? Like I think that, oh, I'm so self, I think, oh,
my EQ is so great. Like, oh, but I know my blind spots, but as I'm talking to you, I'm like, I bet you,
there's so many things that I have no idea.
I'm a total mess, a total mess.
And I don't even know it.
I was feeling great before Peter Cronin.
Exactly.
I was, I felt, I was super confident.
You're awesome.
Now I can tell.
And I could guess, you know, you're in the same bucket of a lot of my clientele who
are high-end performers, but there's usually just this unnecessary pressure, you know, the world of have to, like your friend
will be perhaps not in that Reno.
If I get to, I could see that you would perhaps, you know, take that with a pinch of salt,
but you know, the feeling of you have to like, you know, like you put a lot of pressure on
yourself and there might be just a little bit more room for Jennifer to have a bit more
freedom, a bit more joy, not take life so seriously, you know, might be just a little bit more room for Jennifer to have a bit more freedom, a bit more joy,
not take life so seriously, you know, and to just have a bit
more ease about you and allow life to contribute to you as
much as I'm sure you contribute to others.
Yeah, that's actually I think a lot of people would probably
fit into that bucket. I think you're right. Yeah, I think we
put a lot of pressure on ourselves.
Yeah, and I'm guessing just because of who you are, the majority of your audience is probably women.
They're probably very small women.
They're probably, as you said, high EQ.
They're movers and shakers.
They probably have families,
but they also have businesses,
whether they're really committed or it's a hobby, whatever.
But they're dynamic women, extraordinary women.
And typically in that realm,
what I see is where there's become a little bit of
an exaggeration of the masculine qualities of being a little bit too
driven, which can, can start to infiltrate the relationships.
So maybe they've even attracted a man who perhaps isn't so much of a man and
he's become an extension of their children, you know, in the way that they
have to manage or take care of them.
So they maybe haven't made room for the softness of the feminine, you know,
without getting into goddess language or any of that.
No, but you're right. I've done a thing on, first of all, just to kind of let you know,
I have a 50-50 split, like a lot of my audience is men. So that's the first thing. But I was going
to say, I've done other people's podcasts, not on this podcast so much, where I talk about that.
Where I find that a lot of times if you're a strong woman or you're successful,
it can bleed into being too, into masculine
energy, which then is kind of like a turnoff.
If you're trying to like attract a very alpha
type of man.
Yeah.
And so the ba it's a very delicate balance.
It is, it's tough.
Yeah.
Really.
And I feel for both men and women, because men
oftentimes the little boy syndrome that's out there,
you know, they're trying to do the best they can to compensate,
which is really not being a man at all.
Being more of a man is like, yeah, I struggle in this arena,
you know, and just owning, owning it.
Right.
But I think that a lot of women are single.
Yeah.
Who are very successful because they, unfortunately, they're
either too much in that masculine energy,
but they don't see that.
Yeah.
Right.
And then they have, they put on this facade
like, oh, I don't get, I don't need a man or I
don't want a man.
And that becomes their like playbook.
That becomes their talk.
Yeah.
Right.
But, and the guy that they actually want, want
a girl who's more feminine.
And so it becomes this very, very difficult dance that happens.
Yeah, no, I see it.
And there's no simple answer, right?
It comes back to choice.
For a woman who's driven, who's intelligent, who sees the world of possibility,
and this world has become so much more accessible for all of us, right?
Whether it's travel or business or startups or investments, you know,
it's like it's fun to be able to,
but it's how can you maintain that sense of enthusiasm
and drive while simultaneously embodying the softness,
the approachability and the nurturance of a woman.
Right? Yeah.
And that's, that's, I'm not saying that's easy equally
for men who can now also be more sensitive.
Like I make my own skincare products, right?
I make a sugar scrub.
Like I love- Who does?
I do. You do? Yeah. So I, because I like to take care skincare products, right? I make a sugar scrub. Like I love- Who does? I do.
You do?
Yeah.
So I, because I like to take care of myself, right?
But I'm also like, I like to be a fucking man's man.
And I want to be with a woman who's not, you know,
trying to outperform me or something.
Exactly.
You know, it's like-
But like to me, that's like that,
I think that's what happens, unfortunately.
Yeah.
You know, it becomes competitive.
Yep.
And that's again coming from fear.
It's coming from fear. Yeah. And ironically, the means competitive. Yep. And that's again, coming from fear. It's coming from fear.
Yeah.
And I, ironically, the means by which we're trying to garner attractivity,
you know, becoming attractive to somebody is the obstacle to it.
Right?
So the woman oftentimes felt the need to become strong because she felt
either inadequate or insecure, not safe.
And so, okay, well, if I'm going to make it, I need to make sure I'm
financially independent and da da da da da da and all of these things.
Nothing wrong with that method, but it makes you unavailable, right?
Because now you've actually strengthened the independence as opposed to creating, you know,
some sort of companionship or a partnership.
Totally.
And then the boy or the man, you know, who's now trying to disprove he's like weak or trying
to become the alpha, trying to become strong is really constantly reinforcing
that he's not, which is equally unattractive to a woman.
100%.
You know, cause.
That's why people who are like, for women anyway,
you need to have a guy who is like super,
truly confident, who is truly like, it's like,
that they're not intimidated by you,
that they're not like, they don't feel like
you're emasculating them because of your, whatever you have, you know, it's very difficult. It's a very
delicate balance. Yeah. Interesting times. So again, it comes down to awareness. It comes down
to patience. It comes down to compassion with each other. Yeah. You know, like, hey, I've got this
strong tendency to be driven and independent as a woman. And I know that's going to be both
unattractive to you,
but also maybe at times challenging.
But some, I say there's like a lot of guys
who actually like it and it's like,
or like rather have a girl who's like that,
but there is like a body of men who like,
that's what they're not, they don't need another dude.
They don't need to like be dating another dude, right?
They want to have someone who has a softness.
And I talk about this all the time with people,
like all the time, because it's,
I know I got to wrap this up here.
That's okay.
No, but I think it's where we can have more patience
and compassion with ourselves and others
that we're all doing the best we can
with the limits of our awareness.
And just to be aware even of your tendencies
and share those, that's a form of intimacy.
Totally.
To be able to say, hey, you know,
that I have this particular idiosyncrasy
and I know that could be a turn off,
but I at least want to be open.
And that softens it immediately once you can talk about it.
I think so.
I think once anything is out in the open,
like that becomes, you become more vulnerable.
That's attractive also, right?
Yeah, it really is.
I think so.
Oh my God, well, Peter, thank you for being here.
I know you're moving away.
I won't say where. Is it like a secret? Yes, it is. Okay, good. Well, Peter, thank you for being here. I know you're moving away. I won't say where is it like a secret?
Yes, it is.
OK, good. Well, I'm not going to say where it is.
He's going to Mars.
No, I'm sorry.
So I really do.
I appreciate you coming on this before you leave town.
When do you leave?
Within the next two weeks.
So pretty soon. But I come back and forth.
I wasn't based here, but I still come in and out of L.A.
So I was up in the Tahoe region, as mentioned.
So now I come in and do my live events.
So if anyone wants to come to one of those,
they can find that on my website.
I want to come to one of them.
I want to see you in action.
I want to see you do these things.
Yeah, yeah.
It'll help put it into perspective.
100% it will.
I would love-
Because then you experience it vicariously.
Like a number of people who come up to see me often,
they're like, oh my God, I could see myself in all three
or four of the people you spoke to.
And I can see that you're good at it because like you can, it comes naturally for you.
I think it's a gift that you probably obviously you have, right?
Like you're, you pick up on something and then you just kind of keep on going with it.
And I'm sure you've done, I can imagine you probably really helped a lot of people.
Seems that way. It's certainly the people that come up to me or, you know, stop me on the streets or send messages is very, very flattering and humbling. So yeah,
I'll keep at it. Yeah, please. I think you're onto something there. I think you're moving
and the human suffering. Yeah. Okay. I like that. And freedom. I love it all.
Where can people find your Instagram is the best place to see you on social Peter Cron and then
my website, if they want to join freedom or maybe a mastermind in the future, that's just PeterCrone.com.
Yeah.
Wow.
Thank you, Peter.
Thank you.
A pleasure to be with you, fellow Virgo.
Oh, yes, exactly.
Pleasure is all mine.
Thank you.
Bye.