Well with Arielle Lorre - 398: How To Effortlessly Attract More Wealth, Up-Level Your Confidence, and Manifest With Ease (Ft. Mimi Bouchard)

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

Mimi Bouchard is an entrepreneurial trailblazer, founder of Activations, and is known for helping women upgrade their lives. In this tangible episode, Mimi shares how to fully step into the person you're meant to be. We talk about overcoming limiting scarcity beliefs, changing your self-image and perception, creating abundance (including $$$), bouncing back from setbacks, and how to manage your responses. She also shares how to simplify your growth journey and activate your future self in a way that feels actionable every day. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Go to activations.com/blonde to unlock your massive discount - special limited time only!Visit ProlonLife.com/BLONDE for 15% discount and your free bonus giftVisit fieldofgreens.com and use code WELL for 20% off + free shippingHead to jolieskinco.com/WELL for free shipping Visit nutrafol.com and use promo code BLONDE for $10 off your first month’s subscription + free shippingPlan your next trip at Aruba.comVisit fromourplace.com/blonde and use code BLONDE for 10% off sitewideProduced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The following podcast is a dear media production. This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms. I'm Ariel Lori, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look. Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the show. Today's show is one that you will not want to miss. In fact, you probably will want to bookmark this one and keep coming back to it whenever you need some inspiration, whenever you feel like you are maybe stagnant and you need some motivation. And to just remind yourself that you are in the driver's seat of your life and you can create the exact life that you desire.

And we're going to tell you exactly how to do that in this episode. So I'm talking to Mimi Bouchard today. I absolutely adore her. I think she is so inspiring and the perfect person to spearhead this revolutionary kind of work because she did it herself. She changed her life. She doesn't just talk the talk. She really walks the walk and I love that about her. So she is the founder of Activations. Activations is a top rated app. It has quietly amassed tens of thousands of subscribers, including high-profile devotees like Miranda Kerr. And it's basically created a completely new category of audio in the personal growth space.

So unlike meditation, it's designed to fit seamlessly into daily life. They're basically functional audio designed to help you make the most of everyday moments to live the life that you have always imagined. So you aren't necessarily sitting down and shutting down for X amount of time, like a traditional meditation. You certainly can sit there and do visualizations, but you can also just put these activations on when you are in the car on a way to a meeting, when you're doing your skincare, when you are walking,

they're designed to fit into your life. And I am telling you, when you have these on, they will essentially seep into your psyche and change the way that you look at life, the way that you show up in life, and the way that you experience life. and it is truly transformative in a way that I cannot even really articulate. I'll let Mimi do that in this episode because she is the one who brought this life to work. So Mimi is, like I said, an entrepreneur. She launched her debut book this spring.

It's called Activate Your Future Self, The Secret to Effortlessly becoming the happiest, healthiest, and wealthiest you. And she is going to share how to do that in this episode, how she did it in her own life and she will kind of get into the nitty gritty of this work and why it's so important. And just for well listeners, there is a special limited time offer. You will get a massive discount. It's only available through this exclusive link. It is activations.com slash blonde. And you can try activations completely risk free with their 14 day money back guarantee. you have nothing to lose. So again, it's activations.com slash blonde. You can find the link in the show notes in the

description of this episode and you will get a 14-day free trial, money back guarantee, nothing to lose, everything to gain. So please enjoy Mimi Bouchard. Welcome, Mimi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited for this. So glad that this worked out. I know. We're both in London, found like a random podcast studio and now we're here. I think the last time we recorded was maybe two or three years ago. Yeah, I think it was three years. Yeah, almost three. That's crazy.

So much has happened for both of us since then. So I can't wait to catch up with you about everything. But to start, you did the manifesting magnetic energy on the way here. I saw on your Instagram story. It was the embody magnetic manifestation energy activation. And I do it every time before I do an interview. you because it just like gets me in the mode. You know what I mean? I need to start doing that one. I did the embody confident energy this morning. Love that. When I was getting ready. So I feel like

I got that little boost that I needed. Yeah. So if anybody is wondering what we're talking about, obviously we're talking about activations, which is your app. And it's absolutely incredible. Thank you. Coming from somebody who does traditional meditation, which we've talked about, It's completely different. Yeah. Completely different. So I would love to get into like the why and the how of it all. Yeah.

So meditation is for calming your mind. It's for clearing your thoughts. It's for relaxing your body. And it is so beneficial. I don't personally meditate. I've tried many times that I feel like I always just like have it on my to do list and never actually stick to it. I admire people that can actually stick to it, especially the type that you do.

You do TM, right? I did TM since 2018. The last two months or so, I've been doing a mindfulness meditation, which is completely different. But again, it's more about my perspective and exactly what it sounds like, mindfulness. Whereas with activations, it's embodiment. It's embodying my future self. It's visualization. It's really energizing versus the meditation, which is very like being in my body.

It's kind of like, I don't know. there are two ends of a spectrum, I would say. The use case is completely different. So activations are a new type of audio and it is not a podcast. It is not a meditation. It's not an audio book. It's not music. It is a new type of audio that helps you feel energized and motivated like you are your future self already. It helps you transform into your future self energy. And you can listen to activations in everyday moments with your eyes open. You can listen to them as you have it stack while you're You're getting ready in the morning, doing your makeup. I love to listen to them while I'm like doing my hair and makeup in the morning. You have skincare ones. I have skincare ones. Yes. For the girls, you get it.

We do like self-level doing your skincare, like confident energy while you're getting ready for your day. It's really for the busy woman that wants to feel like her best self, but has a lot going on and just wants to listen to something in the background that helps her shift her energy quite instantly. So it is different to meditation because you can listen to them with your. eyes open. It is not meant to necessarily help you clear your mind. There's no silent sitting. And it is designed to help you become your future self. Every audio on the app is very transformation focused. So yeah, that's activations. And a lot of people have been resonating with it since the app came out a couple years ago or about three, four years ago now. Because a lot of people were like me and they just couldn't stick to meditation and they wanted something to take advantage of the benefit.

of visualization of shifting your energy to align with the energy of your future. And that has been incredibly transformative for people because when you're acting like your future self in everyday moments and you're pairing new thoughts and beliefs with these everyday actions, you are changing from the inside out. I know you like a lot of science and research. It's classical conditioning. It's like the Pavlov's dog theory, Pavlov rings the bell and the dog salivates after being conditioned over time to associate that bell with food. So we're doing the same thing. If we listen to the walk into your future self, walking activation every afternoon when we walk the dog or we listen to a little morning,

three minute pep talk while we're brushing our teeth, soon enough we're going to be doing these everyday mundane activities, feeling energized, abundant, unlimited, lucky, and just like our best selves. And that's how you really transform in the most effortless way, the most simple way possible. Yeah. And you've said when you change your energy, you change your life. And that's absolutely true. And when you change your internal state, your external reality changes as well. And I think that this resonates with so many people. I always try to refrain from talking about meditation on my podcast or on my social because I feel like people glaze over and they tune out because it's so difficult for people. And I totally understand that. It's hard for me, too, but

because of my sobriety and everything, it's just something that I try to maintain. But something like this is so practical and so effortless to your point. And you are proof. I mean, I want to talk about past Mimi. Past Mimi and past Ariel would have been besties. They would have been obsessed with each other. We would have been leaving this podcast and going to the pub and getting in some. trouble probably. Yeah, we'd be doing lines in the bathroom. Yeah. Yeah. We would have been friends for sure. Yeah. Why don't you give the audience like just a brief glimpse of what that was like for you? Yeah. It feels like so long ago now, it was almost a decade ago. Yeah. I have done a complete 180 in every area of my life by using this work of becoming my future self before that reality

materializes into something, right? So all of my work is self-image psychology focused, right? And it it's all about being the person you want to be before it happens. So when I started doing this work, everything started changing. I used to be incredibly insecure. I used to have disordered eating to a really quite intense degree. I used to hate myself, hate my body. I was very, very financially, you know, scarce and unabundant. I remember at one point when I just moved to London, I had under $10 in my bank account, and I was just kind of living paycheck to paycheck, trying to make ends meet. And financial abundance was a big one that I wanted to transform for myself because I didn't come from a lot of money.

My parents are artists and bless them. I'm so grateful for them trying to sacrifice absolutely everything for me as a child and for me, my sister as a kid. But there was just so much financial insecurity and remorgeting the house and just fighting and yelling about money and really negative beliefs around money. So I think when I first started this work, a lot of it, if I'm going to be honest, was because I wanted to make money for myself. And I tied personal development work with me becoming the most abundant best version of myself. So the money transformation was huge for me.

It was one of the biggest things because it's so tangible to look at that before and after. Also relationships, I just hated myself and my life. I didn't know where this life was going and felt just very lost and unclear. clear. And I had that little voice deep inside that I think we all have, if you want to listen to it. And it was, you know, urging me to try to get more. It was telling me, Mimi, there's more for you in this world. There's more for all of us in this world. And it really just brought me back to who, to reminding myself of who I wanted to be. So I had to show up, you know, every day and try to make that happen. How do you recommend people get clear on who they want to be? Because I think that a lot of people

can relate to you and can relate to feeling stuck and in this life that they didn't envision for themselves, but they don't know where to start. And then I know a lot of us, including myself in this, you know, in times in my life, feel like it's just not attainable for us. Like, that's nice for you, but, you know, it's not going to happen for me. The number one limiting belief. I actually just hosted a seven-day retreat. I got back two days ago. I saw that. I was with 20 women and one of the most prevalent limiting beliefs that these women had that I remember having back in the day too, it's it can't happen to me. This can happen to other people, but it can't happen to me. How insane is that belief? There are thousands of people that started in a worse place than you,

than anyone listening, that has created the life that you desire. So that belief alone, that it just can't happen to you, is honestly the main belief that is holding you back. because our belief is everything, the biology of belief, an amazing book by Dawson Church. It talks about how our belief, our perception of ourselves, our self-image creates our life. It creates everything that materializes in our life. So the first step is clarity and my two steps to transformation. In my book, I brought you my book here. I have three, I just came out with it two months ago with Hayhouse.

It's called Activate Your Future Self. There are three main parts to the book. the first part is step one, and that's clarity. The second part is step two, and that's becoming, and the third part is maintaining. So I like to say that there is really two steps to transformation. The first step is clarity. You must get crystal clear on that dream life first before anything else. But the most important part of the clarity piece is that you must get so clear on how it feels in your body to be your future. your self? How does it feel energetically to be where you want to be right now? What is your future self-frequency, the energy inside and around you? There are biofields around all of our bodies.

Scientists have measured this. Three to six meters around us, biofields, energetic fields. And our energy is influenced by our thoughts and our beliefs and what we are feeling every day. and when you can tune in to what that future self biofield feels like, that future self-frequency, and you can embody that feeling inside and around you every single day with your eyes open while you are unloading the dishwasher or unpacking your groceries or cleaning your room, making your bed in these everyday mundane moments if you can prime your mind to feel the energy, the frequency of your future self. And that's where activations come in.

It's a very easy way to get into that. You can also do it yourself. You don't need my app. You can do this with conscious thought. When you do that, you are sending a signal out to the world. You are becoming a magnet to what you desire. Everything is energy. Like particles, attract like particles.

This is real. This is science. And if you put one particle here that has a different frequency to this particle, they repel. You literally can become a magnet to everything you want. in life if you just embody this future self-frequency. So activations help you get there. There are specific activations to help you design your future self-frequency. I can tell you really quickly how I do that and anyone listening can do it at home quickly kind of as we speak and you don't need to close your eyes. This is not meditation. This is a new type of audio activation. And what I'm

about to do is actually not really technically an activation because our activation's music is 50% of the powerful component to it. I love the music. We, use such. I'm so proud of our music too. I swear, I have searched far and wide for the best composers in the world. I find these composers that literally create scores for some of the top movies and TV shows. That's how it feels. It's like a soundtrack. You're the main character. It's that energy that really like fuels the activation. Because music makes you feel a different way. It changes your state. We've all seen that like funny meme, the Harry Potter. I don't know if you've seen this. Like I literally die every time I see it on my Instagram. It's like the Harry.

Potter scene, but with like sexy music instead of scary music. No, I haven't seen this. Oh, it kills me. It's like it just shows you how different music can make you perceive something and feel differently, right? So, I am a perfectionist with the audio on the app and the composers that we use, the audio engineers on my team are like framed to make the user, the listener feel like they are at this crossroads, this transformation, this decision they're about to make. They're going to go down the road of transformation. They're about to transform and become their future self. They're on their way to living this dream life. They're living it right now. So it has to really evoke every piece of audio in the app. We have over 700 activations in the app. It needs to evoke a certain emotion because

emotion creates energy. Emotion creates energy. So going back to what I was saying, clarity, future self-frequency, a very easy way to design your own future self-suffer. self-frequency. You should select three to five emotions that really align with your future self. Okay. And we have a writing activation on the app to help you do this. We also have, you know, any time in a seated activation to help you really go in. But you can understand the gist of it just as I explain it right now. So essentially, you want to select three to five emotions or feelings that really encapsulate this future self-frequency. And I can just tell you mine. So mine is love, abundance, awe. and health.

Mine kind of changes sometimes. So that's what I'm trying to think. But let's just use that. Love, abundance, awe, and health. Okay. So the first thing you want to do is embody the feeling, the energy of love. If you want to, you know, select my future self-frequency, but yours can be anything. So you feel love in your body.

You feel your heart to expand. You feel your energy really, really align itself with the emotion, the frequency of love. Okay. So then you're going to hold on to that energy in your body. It's very simple. And then you're just going to mix in the next energy, abundance. So what would it feel like in your body if you embodied love and abundance at the same time? And you kind of mix those two energies together. And when you're ready and you can really hold on to that frequency, you add in the third one. Aw. I love the feeling of awe. I love being an awe of life. So what does that feel like? Love, abundance, awe, mixing all that together. I'm going really quick, so I want to get through it.

But you usually take a bit more time to really create your future self-frequency. And the last one is health. What do all of those emotions feel like? Aw, abundance, love, health, all at the same time. And then you feel it inside and around you, about three to six meters around you, your biofield. And just by focusing on this alone, you are doing it. This work is so simple. Everybody tries to overcomplicate personal development manifestation becoming your future self.

It is literally so simple. I have done this for the past decade of my life and I've created the most insane life for myself. And I've never had one perfect day. I've never had one day where I was living in my future self energy 100% of the time. I've never had one day where at the end of the day I feel like, yep, I did it all exactly as I should have today. No, perfection is not the goal. It's how quickly you bounce back. And that's all part three of my book. But going back to the point, this future self-frequency is the most important part of the clarity piece. Because it's how you feel. You can write affirmations all day long, but if you're not feeling it in your body, you're not going to be radiating that energy into your field. You're not going to be magnetizing

those things towards you. It's all feeling and emotion. And that I think is one of the biggest takeaways. If anyone listening right now could take anything away from this episode, design your future self-frequency and try to embody it in these everyday, quote, mundane moments. Yeah, and if they want to, they can go to show notes because we're going to put a link with the trial and the discount and the code. So you guys can go to show notes because I know everybody right now is probably like trying to find how they can start this. I just want to mention if you guys want to go get two weeks free for the Activations app, go to Activations.com slash blonde. and you can actually get a massive discount on your yearly subscription there. Do not go to the app store to purchase a subscription and to start a trial because the website is the only place that we can offer

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Neutrafol.com, code blonde. But I remember years and years ago when I was pretty newly sober, I heard this speaker talking about thoughts, feelings, actions, behavior. Like, what makes up your reality? And the speaker said, your thoughts dictate your feelings. Your feelings dictate your actions. You're going to act on your feelings. And then your actions create your behavior and your behavior creates your external reality essentially. So does, you know, your perception and all of that. So you can get more nuanced. So thoughts was the first one? Thoughts was the first one. And I tell you what I think. Before that, there's self-image.

Yeah. Because what creates your thoughts? Our thoughts come randomly. If you do the work on your self-image first, then everything else falls into place. Think about it like a onion. The core of the onion is your self-image. It's your identity. And all these other layers, your thoughts, your habits, all those things are other layers. If you just try to take the outside layer of habits and try to change that, that is why you're failing. If you want to become healthier and you keep messing up on your healthy eating routine, it's because you haven't gone to the core of the issue yet. Your self-image does not align with the version of you that truly wants to be healthy and sees themselves as a healthy individual. Just like you, Ariel, you are sober. That's your

self-image. You don't drink alcohol. You don't do drugs. It's just who you are. So if someone offers you, you know, a drink or whatever it is, you're going to say, no, I don't drink. Because that's your self-image. It's simple. We have to just remember that this work can be simple. People overcomplicate it. Your self-image creates your life. You're changing your self-image first makes everything. everything else so easy to change. So I love that person that you listen to you. I'm just going to kind of add in what I think is the real beginning piece. I love your work because I feel like you get to the root. So it is kind of like re-engineering because a lot of people do it backwards, right? To your point, okay, I'm going to change my habits. And then I'm going to be a different person. Well, how can you change

your habits sustainably when you're that same person? You know, it's like you have to peel back the layers to your point. So I love that. And I'm curious if there was a point in your own transformation when you noticed that your self-image had changed effortlessly. Okay. So here is the real raw truth of transformation. It doesn't happen overnight. It takes a little bit of time. But when you do what you know is going to work, you're going to wake up one morning and look back and realize, holy crap, everything has changed. It really creeps up on you. And it can happen quickly, but it won't happen overnight, right? So I remember, especially with my bounce back, right? You know, I talk about this all the time, the rate at which you bounce back from having fallen off track to being your best self again. My bounce back right back in the day was like three months. Like I was trying to be healthy or step into my best body. Like body and weight loss was a thing for me because I was also trying to manage like having had disordered eating. And like I also wanted to have the body of my dreams. I wanted both. I wanted to. I wanted to. to have an amazing relationship with myself, amazing, you know, relationship with food and my self-image around food, but then also be in the body of my dreams and those two things at the same time was hard for me to kind of conceptualize. So let's use that as an example. I would be, you know, on the grind and all healthy and, you know, being, quote, good, which I hate to use that term now,

and I don't use that anymore. But that was my mind at the time. And then let's say, like, I'd get drunk and then come home and have a whole pizza and then the next day feel like I've completely messed everything up and then I wouldn't go back to being healthy for months because I had fallen off the bandwagon. I couldn't get myself back on. That was the beginning of my journey. But what I had to realize is that perfection isn't the goal because it doesn't exist. The most successful, beautiful, happy, abundant people in the world, not one of them have ever had one perfect day where they wake up exactly at 5 a.m. They don't procrastinate. They have positive thoughts all day. They eat organic. They intermittent fasted. They did this. No, the people that are successful in life, they just have a

quick bounce back rate. They're not perfect. So why is perfection our goal, our goal post? Why is perfection what we all aim toward? Because when we focus on perfection, we become paralyzed. And humans have this pension for clean slates. We're obsessed with a Monday. We're obsessed with a Monday, especially if it lands on the first of the month. We're obsessed with New Year. Yes. That's just how a lot of us are programmed to be. But it's actually holding us back more than anything else.

So a quick bounce back rate is the number one measure of success, I believe. And when I was at the beginning of my journey, you asked if I had that moment. The answer is really like the more I do this work, the more I transform, I will say. So before I launched activations as a kind of, company. And as an app years ago, I was actually creating my own versions of activations myself. So for years before ever even thinking about creating this for the public, I was doing it myself because I couldn't stick to meditation. I realized I wanted something just for my own need to listen to to help me get like amped up about my goals and amped up about life and motivated and

inspired and, you know, excited about this big transformation I'm about to embark on. So I started creating my own activations. I would take out, you know, the voice memo app on my phone. And I'd record these visualizations to myself. And then I'd put it in garage band and layer in inspiring music. I'd take from YouTube. And it would take me like an hour to make one. And then I'd get tired of it after two days. But this was like my hobby. Okay. So for years before that, I was into personal development. I was trying to make more money. I was trying to, you know, get healthy. I was trying to find a beautiful relationship. I wanted to love myself and my life. And the growth, was pretty stagnant. I would see a little bit of improvement for sure, but it wasn't at the rate that I was

wanting. I wanted quick change. And then when I started to listen to these activations in everyday moments, it was like a bell curve. You know, like a graph, you have like the bell curve where it just starts going up like crazy. It was absolutely insane. When I started listening to activations, everything that I was manifesting in my life was a bell curve. I started seeing these crazy opportunities everywhere. I started to be in the right place at the right time suddenly. You know, after all these years of trying, good things started happening to me. And hey, maybe it's manifestation and law of attraction, but maybe it's the reticular activating system. You know, maybe it's the filtration system, our RAS, reticular activating system in our minds that chooses what we actually consciously notice or

don't. It's the filtration system in our brains. We all have it. And maybe, because I was listening to these activations, my thoughts were changing. I started to notice things that were always there that I never noticed before. And my self-image started to change. I started seeing myself as someone that could be worth tens of millions of dollars that could make million dollar months. I started seeing that reality before it happened. I embodied this energy that's used wealth as an example because it's so tangible. I knew what it felt like to have this much money, to make this much money. to be able to retire tomorrow. I knew what it felt like years ago before it came into fruition. So to answer your question one last time, what it felt like to transform, it wasn't shocking

to me. It felt too normal because I had already embodied that energy for years before it happened. And it never shocked me. And that's the one thing I wish was different about this work. Like, I love awe. I have to remind myself of where I am now to feel all. I have to remind myself, I have to get myself into that state because I'm so used to it. It doesn't surprise me because my energy is already there before it happens. Yeah, because you've been feeling it for years. Yeah. I remember when you were on last time, you know, it's almost like you kind of have to fake it until you make it in the beginning. So embody that energy, even if you don't believe it, just pretend. Act as though you are this person. And I remember you said, that's going to change how

others see you too. And they're going to put you in a different box. Your thoughts are lying to you. This is what I tell people when they come to me with these stupid limiting beliefs. Like, I can't do it. Why me? Doesn't ever happen to me. I'm not a lucky person. I am not the type of person I could be earning this much living this type of lifestyle with this type of relationship. I can't have it all. I hear these limiting beliefs. And I tell people that you are causing this reality in your life. What you believe is the truth. That's simple. Whatever you believe is the truth. So if you believe that you are a victim, if you believe that you're unlucky, if you believe like it could never happen to you, then you're right. So that is the craziest thing I want to

shape people sometimes. Listen, if I can do it, anyone can. It's so crazy that I'm able to live this life right now. Honestly, I pinch myself every day. It shouldn't have happened. I am truly a product of this work. This life shouldn't have happened to me. It shouldn't have. It is crazy how quickly it happened. crazy how much this work affects everything in our lives. And I can see looking back the months where I've really gone all in on this work, the years that I've really gone all in. I can literally see the difference in my bank account, the difference in the quality of my relationships, the difference in how I look, how I feel. I have truly manifested and created this very specific life. And it shouldn't have happened. Yeah, I think sometimes it's easier for people to believe

that negative story. And that's not placing blame on anybody. I mean, I struggled with that before I got sober. It was so much easier for me to be a victim because then I didn't have to take accountability for my life. And I remember when I got sober, somebody with a lot of time said, you know, victims don't get sober. They don't get sober. They don't stay sober. You can't have that point of view and change your life, you know. And I think that that's kind of a hard truth sometimes for people to because of how deeply ingrained that is. And people do have terrible circumstances, you know, and horrible things do happen to people. I went through it. I went through major traumas in my addiction, you know, and not all of them are my fault, but I don't need to hold on to that 10 years later

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You have to be very conscious to change that thought. I used to be such a victim as well. And the minute that I realized that I was 100% responsible for my life, everything started to change because it was a hard truth, but I realized it is empowering at the same time. If I started to believe I was 100% responsible for anything that I wanted to create in this life, I was going to do the work to get there. I was going to become that person. I was going to really put myself in those situations and put myself out there.

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So I met him right when I started recording my own activation. Wow. Eight years ago. Okay. And I recorded an activation describing him on October 12th, 2017. I met him on October 13th, 2017. No way. This is the year.

2017 was the year I started becoming a magnet to everything I wanted. Before then, it was like terrible. Life was terrible. This work works. And now we're getting married next month. That's so crazy. To answer your question, what we first met, like I was literally at my worst. Like, I had just really started to try to change my life. Like, I wasn't at my complete

rock bottom worse, but I was like a couple years into trying to change, but kind of falling back and I bounced back where it was months out of time. On our first date, we like did cocaine together. He was not my dream. Sorry, Ben, exposed. We were both not our best selves when we first met. But we found each other. And it's funny because I say that I manifested him and I manifested what he became as well. You know, so yes, he wasn't maybe the ideal. He was a bit of a party or two, which at the time I didn't see as like this crazy negative. I was so young, too. Yeah. But yeah, so we ended up meeting and very quickly both of us started getting into better habits. Like we've really helped each other. And, you know, eight years in, like we've grown in

the right direction. He doesn't necessarily, you know, dive into this work as much as I do, but he's definitely into bettering himself. And he has had an incredible transformation. you know, himself and we've really, yeah, created this dream life together. Well, it's that magnetic field. I mean, you can't be in a relationship with somebody who's doing the work and on one trajectory and live with them and be so close and not be affected by that for the positive. And it works the other way, too. Exactly. We kind of so important to choose who you surround yourself with. Oh, it's, it's everything. You are an average of the five people. You surround yourself with most. Like you are literally an average. Look at the five people.

listening, look at the five people closest to you in your life that you spend the most time with, how would you feel if I told you you're an average of those five people? It just happens naturally. So if you feel like you want to change your life, start to spend more time with people that are on that same trajectory, that are positive, that are happy, that maybe don't gossip as much, that are just more positive humans, that are into healthy things if you want to be healthier, that, you know, care about the same things you want to care about. Yeah, I'm manifested my boyfriend too. Can you tell me that story? I didn't even really realize that I was doing it, but, you know, when we last recorded, I was separated from my ex-husband. We got back together and, you know, a few months into that ish. It was very apparent that it was not going to work out. The unraveling of that relationship took a long time, but I started journaling a lot and I was meditating a lot and I was doing this kind of future visualization meditation. And oh, I wish you did. We have like attract your dream partner activations on the app. Those would be so good for that time.

Yeah. I wasn't even planning on getting into a relationship, like right out of my marriage, obviously. In fact, I thought I was going to get on the app. Yeah. Kind of relive like my 20s that I never had. Date around. Date around. That was my plan. But I was also trying to kind of untangle in my head. Like, why is this relationship not working? What are the things in this relationship? that I wouldn't want in a future partner? What do I want in a future partner? Like trying to see where things didn't align. It was a really hard situation because it wasn't black and white. I loved my ex-husband, you know. But I wrote, like, such specific things. And journaling is so good for clarity. Yeah. Like, it's such an amazing tool putting pen to paper to really get those thoughts out of your mind. Yeah, we think we know and then we get it on paper. And it's something about especially writing where, like, you just have no inhibitions. And the truth comes out. And so. I had this list of things that I wanted in a future partner at some point in my life. And we were actually introduced a couple years before we met. We were introduced when my ex and I were separated.

We were both in Miami at the same time. And my trainer and friend is really good friends with him. Did you meet at that time? No, he texted me. And I responded once and then I like ghosted because I wasn't in the place. Yes. I was trying to figure out my marriage. I wasn't trying to date anybody when we were separated.

And I knew like many, many, many months before the divorce that I was getting divorced. And Harley, my trainer friend, was like, you have to meet Chris. Like, he's perfect. You guys are perfect for each other. Have you had him on the podcast? No. I want to protect him. Okay.

You know, the internet is like not a nice place. Oh, I know. I don't like the internet very much. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, he was like, you really have to meet. And I said, well, then wait until everything is final. I moved out, you know, if you really think that this is going to be like. a match. I don't want to do it on these terms. And we ended up both being in Miami again,

like exactly two years later, same place, same everything. And he asked me to go to lunch. And I was like really not even sure that I wanted to do it. And I went and that was it. But you had written down. Really weird specific things. Like I wanted to have East Coast summers because I grew up on the East Coast. And he's born and raised in Beverly Hills, but he spends part of his summer in Martha's Vineyard, like for 20-something years. Most people in L.A. don't do that. Like really, and I had even, I had a Pinterest, like, what is it called? Like a board. A board. Yeah. Sorry, the jet lag is like creeping in now. But when I was doing this journaling, I was making a board of just things. And I had pinned some pictures and we were in Martha's Vineyard

last summer and he took a picture of me and I looked at my Pinterest. It was the exact same background, me standing there of a picture that I had pinned. Like, It was crazy. That's crazy. And then, you know, there's things like generosity of spirit, things like that. It wasn't all like tangible per se. But yeah, he like embodies everything. It was just crazy.

I'm so happy for you. Thank you. That's so beautiful. But now that I like embark on this next part of my business too, I'm like, I am doing these activations because I mean, I believe it. And that was part of what I think happened for me at that time, even though I wasn't doing this specific type of visualization. But I believe, I was like,

I've always been kind of delusional. And I was just kind of delusional like, yeah, this is what I want and what I'll get. And I believed that. And it happened. And I think, you know, that belief part is so important. And the more you pay attention to those things, the more you're going to see in your external reality. Whereas if you pay attention to the negative, that's going to be your reality as well. Yes. Being delusional makes you magnetic. Yeah. Being delusional. Yes, because you are believing. You are assuming. that what you want is going to materialize. And even if you can think of all the reasons why it can't happen or why you're so far away from that goal, if you can just focus on those things that are, quote, delusional. Like, I'm going to find this dream guy and we're going to have this exact experience. I'm going to have this business and it's going to blow me away with all the money I'm going to make. I'm going to have all these things and more. You can just focus on those, quote, delusional things that aren't actually that delusional. That's what you believe materializes.

Then you're going to see so much success in every area of your life. You just need to focus on those things you want. Embody the energy of the version of you that already has those things. Yeah. And it's all out there. I mean, there's somebody out there for everybody. Yeah. There's so much money out there to be had for everybody.

Unlimited. Yeah. So it's really like you just have to believe it and change your story. Yes. Self-image story. So important. Yeah. But with your new.

business that you're launching, I would love to see what happens if you're listening to these activations regularly. I will. I'm going to report back to you. Because a lot of our users go to the app for like career and financial success. We have so many activations on there for money. We have this whole targeted visualization category. For everyone listening, we have like 16 categories on the app. But one of them is the targeted visualization category and that's for money. We have dozens of activations on there from manifest $1,000. all the way to manifest $100 million. Everything in between.

Oh, yeah. If you scroll it down a little. But it was on my like for you. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Sometimes we target people with those as well. And then we also have like a yearly income targeted visualization category, everything from, you know, create an $100,000 a year income to $10 million a year.

So we have everything in between. But I love the manifest money ones. There are some of my favorite. I'm currently using a specific one as well for a few big things happening. in my life, but they work like a charm. You feel like you're in your own movie. You feel like you have already achieved the goal. You feel like you're there. And it literally shifts your state like crazy. Okay, so I'm obsessed with this Russian quantum physicist. His name is Vadim Zeland. You heard of his book, Reality Transurfing? No. It's like this big. Okay. It is huge. It is, you know,

definitely not the easiest thing to read. It's translated from Russian. And I've been learning a lot from many different teachers, mentors, you know, researchers over the past decade of this personal development journey I've been on. But my recent obsession has been this quantum physicist, Vadim Zeeland. I'm writing this down. Yeah, write it down. Reality transurfing. Okay. So his theory is that there are unlimited lifelines at any given moment. Think about it like parallel realities, you know, timelines. I call them lifelines because he calls them lifelines. So unlimited lifelines that you could select in any moment. So think about it. There is a lifeline that is existing in this very moment where you are making 10 million in the first year that you launch

your business. Okay. There is a lifeline where we are in the exact same spot right now, but I'm wearing leather jacket and you're wearing a navy top. Like there are literally unlimited lifelines with any possible scenario. So Medeem Zelen, what I've kind of taken from his work, because it's a little bit complex, but the way that I'm interpreting it is that to step into a new lifeline, your energy physically needs to match that lifeline. That's it. So it's kind of like quantum jumping. You literally feel like you are, you know, in this new lifeline after you energetically reset. So when I listen to an activation, I can literally feel energetically that I have moved into a different lifeline. And I can tell you there have been like three times over the past 12 months where I have

specifically done an activation. A lot of the time it's like a walking activation. One of them, I use like, you know, the anytime category for walking sometimes. So one of them was actually the one I did in the taxi ride embody magnetic manifestation energy. So I remember when I was listening to that one for the first time, I was approving it for my audio engineers and I was in the Bahamas and I was walking on the beach and I was listening to it on my headphones for the first time. I remember specifically shifting timelines, like in a really insane way. Shifting lifelines. Every single cell in my body felt different. And I have not felt the same since. Okay. It doesn't happen every time I do an activation, but there are some times where I feel like, okay, I've stepped into a new

reality. And I have to tell you, I was bawling my eyes out at the end of this. I was looking around. colors looked different. I was in a new timeline. I felt it with every single, you know, cell in my body. And by the end of that activation, I knew that everything I wanted for this upcoming year was going to happen. And I've already achieved 90% of it. And this is how powerful this work is. It is simply energetically dialing to the frequency, to the reality that you want to live. And again, you don't need activations to do this for everyone listening. It's just kind of like a shortcut tool that I created. You can try to do it yourself by listening to cinematic music that makes you feel like you're moved like you are stepping into this transformative new era.

You can journal. You can really connect with your future self in many other ways. You can create your own little voice memos and try to add music to them. Just shifting your state is the number one thing and you can shift timelines. Amazing. It's fun. It's fun work. It's like you get to choose. You get to be the creator of whatever reality you want. And I think that's going to be so motivating for the audience, particularly anybody who feels stuck, but even people who don't feel stuck who might want to get to that next level. If somebody is embarking on a new journey, they have a new business, they want a new relationship, whatever it is. Like you get to choose.

And I think that's so, so empowering. And it can happen to anyone. Yeah. And we're two women that own our own businesses and we're thinking big numbers here. but anyone listening, like even if you have more of like a standard job, like you can use this work. I wrote about this one girl, Allie in my book, who I interviewed, who is an activations user, and she's a middle school teacher. She's not earning a lot of money. And teachers definitely need to get paid more, but she, you know, is at a certain point. And she really wanted more abundance in her

life. She wanted to be able to go to the grocery store, not look at price tag. She just wanted like those, you know, a certain level of income with where those simple luxury, of buying organic food or getting a coffee and not feeling guilt for it. No, she just wanted to upgrade her life to this extent. She wanted to feel more abundant in her day. So she started listening to Activations. She heard me on a podcast a few years ago. And she was like, okay, I'm just going to give this a shot.

I'm going to do the two-week free trial and take advantage of that. Cancel if I don't like it. She was actually assuming that she would cancel. She's like, I'm just going to try this out. Anyway, so she started listening to the more abundance-focused activations and very quickly started feeling different. She'd listened to them on her ride to school every day. She would listen to them while she was cooking dinner at night,

just very casually. She was a light user, you know, listened to it in the background. And very, very quickly, she got this random opportunity out of nowhere from an old student of hers that wanted to do some, like, consulting work or like a collaboration of sorts. I don't know exactly what it was. I don't remember,

but there was like this opportunity that came out of nowhere and it ended up doubling her salary that year. And so she's still doing this work and seeing these crazy synchronities come into play. She's opened up her energy to these opportunities happening. And she says that she will never not do this work because it just makes life feel more magical. So anyone listening, no matter what it is, whether you have your own business or you're working, you know, more of a consistent job, like you can benefit from this work. Whether it's financially you're wanting more abundance, whether that's you wanting to call in a new beautiful relationship or improve your current relationship. whether you want to step into your best body in a way that feels really loving towards yourself,

because that was actually something, you know, the past six to eight months I've been really focusing on my physical body. I'm getting married next month. Like, I really wanted to feel my best and I have no shame in talking about that. I already loved how I felt before, but I just wanted to kind of like dial it up. So all I did was listen to this one activation we have on the app called Let Yourself Lose Weight. It is like three or four minutes. And, it is so quick and it's such a state changer and I just listened to it, you know, four times a week for this period of time. Obviously did a few other things like I started intermittent fasting a bit more. I just started like listening to my body and really, you know, cycle-sinking a bit more as well.

And I feel the best I've ever felt. Like I've lost like 10-ish pounds and I'm like five feet tall. That's a lot for me. And I feel amazing. I feel like radiant. I feel like radiant. I feel like. like how I've always supposed to, you know, felt. And I use this work for every goal that I have in life from manifesting money to having the best thriving relationships, my relationship with myself, to body and weight loss. Like I use this work for everything and it always works. No doubt. Yeah. Well, yeah, like I said before, you're the perfect carrier of this message. I'm the poster child. You do. Yeah, you are. You're the poster child. And especially coming from, you know, your background. And it's.

just amazing how you've turned everything around and, you know, it really is effortless. And it's like, if nothing else, do it for the natural high. Like, you know, it's like it will get you amped for life and that energy will change your reality, whatever it is that you're. Time is going to pass either way. Exactly. Like, what is life? Life is just the moment we have in this moment. Life is not the past. Life is not the future. Life is literally what we are living in this moment. Okay. So if you can feel the way you want to feel in this moment, why wouldn't you? Plus, it's going to help everything you want come into fruition faster. It's a no-brainer. It's like the shortcut. Exactly. I love it. Everybody go to activations.com slash blonde. You'll get a two-week free trial and an insane discount. And tell everybody where they can find you. I know that you're scarcely on social media, which is my goal in life. I'm in and out. Yeah, I don't really have it on my phone too often. But if you guys want to find you. I know. I'm in and out. I don't really have it on my phone too often. But if you guys want to find you. I know, me. I just came out with my first book, Activate Your Future Self. You can find it on Amazon or wherever you buy books. You can find me on Instagram at Mimi Bouchard. And yeah, other than that, take advantage

of the two weeks free that we're offering for the Activations app. Make sure to go to the website to claim your big discount and your two weeks free because the app store does not allow discounts. So just head to the website. Take advantage of it. We have a two week free trial and a money back guarantee. So it's risk-free. If you don't love it, then you don't need to pay. Amazing. Thanks, Mimi. Thanks for having me. I hope you enjoyed that episode. If you liked the episode, and if you like the show in general, please take a second to rate, review, and subscribe. It goes such a long way in supporting the show. Follow the show over on Instagram at well.pod. You can also follow my personal Instagram at Ariel Lorry. I'm always sharing great clips from the episodes and

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