Habits and Hustle - Episode 441: Peter Crone on Breaking Mental Prisons + How To Dissolve Limiting Beliefs in Seconds

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Ever 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi guys, this is Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it! Before we dive into today's episode, I want to thank our sponsor, Momentous. When your goal is healthspan, living better and longer, there are very few non-negotiables. One of them, quality. And when it comes to supplements designed for high performers, nobody does it better than Momentus. Momentus goes all in on NSF certification, which means every single batch is tested for heavy metals, harmful additives, and label accuracy. And that's why they're trusted by all 32 NFL teams and top collegiate sports dietitians across the country.
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Starting point is 00:01:38 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.
Starting point is 00:01:54 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
Starting point is 00:02:13 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?
Starting point is 00:02:42 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?
Starting point is 00:03:00 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
Starting point is 00:03:36 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.
Starting point is 00:04:03 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?
Starting point is 00:04:17 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.
Starting point is 00:04:36 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.
Starting point is 00:05:00 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
Starting point is 00:05:34 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?
Starting point is 00:05:48 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.
Starting point is 00:06:00 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.
Starting point is 00:06:19 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.
Starting point is 00:06:37 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.
Starting point is 00:06:51 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?
Starting point is 00:07:12 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.
Starting point is 00:07:29 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
Starting point is 00:07:54 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?
Starting point is 00:08:16 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.
Starting point is 00:08:34 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.
Starting point is 00:08:52 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
Starting point is 00:09:06 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.
Starting point is 00:09:30 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.
Starting point is 00:09:56 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
Starting point is 00:10:23 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
Starting point is 00:11:04 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.
Starting point is 00:11:28 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.
Starting point is 00:11:47 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
Starting point is 00:12:14 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
Starting point is 00:12:36 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.
Starting point is 00:12:53 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.
Starting point is 00:13:16 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
Starting point is 00:13:41 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
Starting point is 00:14:10 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
Starting point is 00:14:37 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.
Starting point is 00:15:02 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.
Starting point is 00:15:32 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
Starting point is 00:15:55 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.
Starting point is 00:16:30 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,
Starting point is 00:17:01 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.
Starting point is 00:17:23 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?
Starting point is 00:17:42 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.
Starting point is 00:18:03 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
Starting point is 00:18:18 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.
Starting point is 00:18:30 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.
Starting point is 00:18:53 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.
Starting point is 00:19:12 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?
Starting point is 00:19:23 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.
Starting point is 00:19:44 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.
Starting point is 00:20:12 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.
Starting point is 00:20:55 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.
Starting point is 00:21:15 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.
Starting point is 00:21:29 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.
Starting point is 00:21:53 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.
Starting point is 00:22:16 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.
Starting point is 00:22:37 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.
Starting point is 00:22:56 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.
Starting point is 00:23:28 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
Starting point is 00:23:58 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.
Starting point is 00:24:10 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.
Starting point is 00:24:16 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
Starting point is 00:24:36 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.
Starting point is 00:24:51 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
Starting point is 00:25:15 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.
Starting point is 00:25:39 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
Starting point is 00:26:00 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
Starting point is 00:26:34 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.
Starting point is 00:26:59 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.
Starting point is 00:27:36 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.
Starting point is 00:27:56 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.
Starting point is 00:28:20 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.
Starting point is 00:28:30 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?
Starting point is 00:28:45 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.
Starting point is 00:29:00 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.
Starting point is 00:29:26 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.
Starting point is 00:29:50 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,
Starting point is 00:30:12 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.
Starting point is 00:30:28 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
Starting point is 00:30:58 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.
Starting point is 00:31:28 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.
Starting point is 00:31:42 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
Starting point is 00:32:02 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.
Starting point is 00:32:15 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.
Starting point is 00:32:39 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
Starting point is 00:33:03 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
Starting point is 00:33:16 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.
Starting point is 00:33:28 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
Starting point is 00:33:37 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,
Starting point is 00:33:58 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?
Starting point is 00:34:24 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.
Starting point is 00:34:44 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.
Starting point is 00:35:24 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
Starting point is 00:35:50 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-
Starting point is 00:36:14 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.
Starting point is 00:36:40 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
Starting point is 00:37:12 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.
Starting point is 00:37:30 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.
Starting point is 00:37:43 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
Starting point is 00:37:54 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?
Starting point is 00:38:26 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.
Starting point is 00:38:56 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
Starting point is 00:39:13 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.
Starting point is 00:39:26 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.
Starting point is 00:39:39 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.
Starting point is 00:39:57 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.
Starting point is 00:40:18 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.
Starting point is 00:40:34 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
Starting point is 00:40:57 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.
Starting point is 00:41:30 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.
Starting point is 00:41:52 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
Starting point is 00:42:27 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.
Starting point is 00:42:42 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
Starting point is 00:42:58 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.
Starting point is 00:43:25 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.
Starting point is 00:43:36 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
Starting point is 00:43:47 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
Starting point is 00:44:09 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.
Starting point is 00:44:36 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
Starting point is 00:45:04 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.
Starting point is 00:45:21 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.
Starting point is 00:45:45 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
Starting point is 00:46:12 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.
Starting point is 00:46:33 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
Starting point is 00:47:01 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.
Starting point is 00:47:20 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.
Starting point is 00:47:37 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.
Starting point is 00:47:58 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.
Starting point is 00:48:30 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,
Starting point is 00:48:43 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.
Starting point is 00:49:00 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.
Starting point is 00:49:22 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
Starting point is 00:49:48 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,
Starting point is 00:50:17 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.
Starting point is 00:50:31 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?
Starting point is 00:50:49 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.
Starting point is 00:51:09 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
Starting point is 00:51:34 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.
Starting point is 00:52:18 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
Starting point is 00:52:53 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
Starting point is 00:53:14 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.
Starting point is 00:53:46 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?
Starting point is 00:54:02 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?
Starting point is 00:54:16 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.
Starting point is 00:54:32 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.
Starting point is 00:54:47 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.
Starting point is 00:54:59 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.
Starting point is 00:55:22 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.
Starting point is 00:55:34 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.
Starting point is 00:55:57 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,
Starting point is 00:56:08 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?
Starting point is 00:56:20 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
Starting point is 00:56:43 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
Starting point is 00:57:17 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.
Starting point is 00:57:43 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
Starting point is 00:57:58 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,
Starting point is 00:58:23 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?
Starting point is 00:58:54 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.
Starting point is 00:59:15 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.
Starting point is 00:59:35 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
Starting point is 00:59:52 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.
Starting point is 01:00:12 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.
Starting point is 01:00:32 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.
Starting point is 01:00:51 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,
Starting point is 01:01:26 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.
Starting point is 01:01:50 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
Starting point is 01:02:13 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?
Starting point is 01:02:38 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
Starting point is 01:02:53 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.
Starting point is 01:03:03 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
Starting point is 01:03:27 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.
Starting point is 01:03:46 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
Starting point is 01:04:03 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?
Starting point is 01:04:18 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.
Starting point is 01:04:30 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
Starting point is 01:04:50 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,
Starting point is 01:05:09 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?
Starting point is 01:05:31 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
Starting point is 01:05:55 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.
Starting point is 01:06:22 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?
Starting point is 01:06:43 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.
Starting point is 01:06:58 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
Starting point is 01:07:17 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.
Starting point is 01:07:37 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.
Starting point is 01:07:54 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.
Starting point is 01:08:17 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.
Starting point is 01:08:41 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,
Starting point is 01:09:02 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.
Starting point is 01:09:23 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.
Starting point is 01:10:02 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
Starting point is 01:10:31 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.
Starting point is 01:11:05 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.
Starting point is 01:11:28 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
Starting point is 01:11:54 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.
Starting point is 01:12:17 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
Starting point is 01:12:41 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.
Starting point is 01:12:53 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
Starting point is 01:13:10 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.
Starting point is 01:13:25 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.
Starting point is 01:13:48 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
Starting point is 01:14:14 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.
Starting point is 01:14:47 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
Starting point is 01:15:10 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.
Starting point is 01:15:36 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.
Starting point is 01:15:56 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.
Starting point is 01:16:15 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
Starting point is 01:16:49 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
Starting point is 01:17:19 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.
Starting point is 01:17:37 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.
Starting point is 01:17:48 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.
Starting point is 01:18:05 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.
Starting point is 01:18:30 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.
Starting point is 01:18:54 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
Starting point is 01:19:25 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
Starting point is 01:19:50 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
Starting point is 01:20:08 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.
Starting point is 01:20:18 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,
Starting point is 01:20:35 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.
Starting point is 01:20:52 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.
Starting point is 01:21:21 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
Starting point is 01:21:56 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,
Starting point is 01:22:18 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.
Starting point is 01:22:39 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.
Starting point is 01:22:56 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.
Starting point is 01:23:13 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
Starting point is 01:23:31 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.
Starting point is 01:23:49 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
Starting point is 01:24:03 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
Starting point is 01:24:23 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.
Starting point is 01:24:40 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.
Starting point is 01:25:00 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?
Starting point is 01:25:18 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,
Starting point is 01:25:43 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?
Starting point is 01:25:58 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?
Starting point is 01:26:16 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.
Starting point is 01:26:35 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
Starting point is 01:27:00 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.
Starting point is 01:27:22 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.
Starting point is 01:27:39 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,
Starting point is 01:28:04 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
Starting point is 01:28:36 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,
Starting point is 01:28:46 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
Starting point is 01:29:03 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.
Starting point is 01:29:15 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?
Starting point is 01:29:31 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.
Starting point is 01:29:54 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?
Starting point is 01:30:06 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,
Starting point is 01:30:18 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,
Starting point is 01:30:29 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,
Starting point is 01:30:54 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,
Starting point is 01:31:13 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
Starting point is 01:31:43 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?
Starting point is 01:32:02 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
Starting point is 01:32:16 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.
Starting point is 01:32:29 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.
Starting point is 01:32:43 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.
Starting point is 01:32:55 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.
Starting point is 01:33:09 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.
Starting point is 01:33:18 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,
Starting point is 01:33:48 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.
Starting point is 01:34:11 A pleasure to be with you, fellow Virgo. Oh, yes, exactly. Pleasure is all mine. Thank you. Bye.

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