May 14, 2025

From Stress to Success: Using Your Intuition to Make Better Financial Decisions

From Stress to Success: Using Your Intuition to Make Better Financial Decisions
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Season 1

Join Bonita and former financial services advisor Teresa Lodato as they share how to remove the stress that is keeping you from making sound investment choices by tapping into your innate intuitive gifts instead! Join us for an enlightening episode!

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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,

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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at

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w fourcy dot com. This week and every week, we

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will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,

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as well as a focus on health and wellness. Now,

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let's join your host, Anita Bell Anderson, as together we

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Hello, and thank you for joining us today for the

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Ask Cood Questions podcast. I'm so glad you're here today

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and let's join Uh, let's join up with our guest today.

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We have a very special guest and her name is

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Teresa lodato I. Hope I said that right, Let's invite

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her to the proverbial podcast stage.

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Hello.

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Did I say your name right?

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Yes, Lodato Italian. Well, I'm so happy.

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I'm Teresa and I met oh, I'm going to say

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a year ago because we were both interested in podcasts

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and so we've that's how we got connected with each other.

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But we've got some very synchronicity type things going on.

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Let me tell you a little bit about her. She's

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She's on the west coast of the US in the

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San Francisco Bay area, and Teresa is known as a

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powerhouse for personal transformation. Her master's level psychology and advanced

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certification in neuroscience and relational Trauma empowers high achieving, action

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taking women to own their seat at the table by

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combining science and spirituality for incredible results. That last, she's

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my kind of girl. And we're going to have a

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great time today talking about finance and intuition and something

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that I call behavioral finance, which seems to be the

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biggest problem out there with money and people. So welcome Teresa.

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Thank you. It's so I'm so happy to be on

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the show today and just want to add into for

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the listeners. I was a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch

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and also worked in Merrill Lynch's private banking investment group,

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so I also have that financial services background. I was

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in financial services for over twenty years so before I

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made my shift to doing what I'm doing now. So

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I'm happy to be here discussing two of my favorite topics,

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money and intuition.

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Well, and another thing that and I haven't told you yet,

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is my miner in college was psychology, so maybe I

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knew that down the road I was going to be

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doing something like that. I've been doing financial education and

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a big and it's like there's two pieces. There's just

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the how to invest in all that, but then the

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other side is behavioral finance and just there's been so

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much data that's gone into why people get so messed

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up around money, and it's because of their habits and

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their behavior. So you're talking about intuition. How in the world,

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what does that actually mean when it comes to money

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and investing.

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Yeah, so intuition is something that everyone has us. It's

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actually baked into our brain. So neuroscientists are actually discovering this,

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and there's an aspect of our brain that's called the

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default mode network. It's a network within our brain and

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it accesses our subconscious and that's the place where we

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go to vision to dream to access the information that

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our body is taking in. Our bodies are like giant

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radio receivers, and so they're taking in all this information.

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But our brain is only using approximately twenty percent of

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the information that our body takes in in this receiver.

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And that twenty percent is comprised of what will keep

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the brain safe and what will make it so that

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it's the most efficient. So if there's something, you know,

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the brain takes in information that it thinks it can use,

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it's going to link it to things that it knows

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from the past what happens, and so it's always looking

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at that certainty. And so the other eighty percent of

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the information is stored in our bodies. And this is

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what comes out when you have dreams at night and

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you start realizing, oh, wait a minute, you know, I'm

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going through a really stressful time and you start having

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nightmares or you start having different dreams that are you know,

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kind of make you not feel great when you wake up.

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That is your brain kind of processing all this quote

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extra information, and so your intuition is just being able

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to calm your brain down enough so that you can

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access that other eighty percent of information to help you

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blend it with the logic and the data. You have

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to make the best decisions that you can and really

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reduce the amount of uncertainty in your life.

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Well, you know you're making you know, it's like, well,

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because you're going to go and you're going to make

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some decisions based on that. But let me ask you,

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how how can somebody differentiate between like a gut feeling

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and an emotional reaction.

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That is a question I get every single time that

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I give a talk. They say, how do they come

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up after me? And they say, how do I tell

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the difference between my anxiety and my intuition? And the

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key component, key component is that your anxiety is a

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fear based emotion. And so if you look at doctor

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David Hawkins, he has a map of consciousness that's out

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you know, you can google it and you will see

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that there are certain emotions that fall below the line

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and these are based on fear. So anger, guilt, worry, shame,

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all those types of emotions are what we consider below

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the line emotions. The above the line emotions are things

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like love and gratitude and joy and hope. Those are

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all above the line emotions. So when we are in

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an anxious state or our anxiety is triggered, what is

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happening in our brain is it is activating the stress

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response in our brain, and so it goes through a

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period where it releases hormones into our bodies. So that's

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nor penefherne. Different lots of different hormones and chemicals. I

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won't get too scientific on everyone, but the bottom line

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is if you feel that rush of excitement like you're oh,

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you just have a whole bunch of energy all of

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a sudden, that's nor pereneferin, which is like adrenaline. So

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it's giving you that rush of feeling. So if your

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heart is beating fast, or if you feel flushed, or

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if you're starting to if you're really aware of your body,

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if you're starting to feel kind of tense, that means

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that your anxiety is activated and that's a fear based response.

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So that is not the time to check in with

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your intuition. Now, on the flip side, if you're nice

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and calm, if your heart rate is lowered, if you

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can breathe naturally and easily. Then that's probably more likely

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to be in the neutral balance state, which is where

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you want to be when you start tapping into your

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intuitive gifts.

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Well, do you think that you're born with this or

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can you learn? I mean, I think one of the

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reasons why I went into I went into financial services

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after a terrible divorce about twenty five years ago. Now,

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part of it was part of it was just having

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a get feeling that and also a bit I went

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out and I studied women in financial services. But I

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also had people saying you should look at this as

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a career because you'd really be good at it. And

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so for me, it was kind of like a mix.

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But what do you think. Do you think that there's

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some natural ability to be able to do this sort

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of thing or is it just going to be a

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learned behavior.

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Yeah, you know, it's interesting. Like I said, we all

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have access to our intuitive gift. It's something that's just

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you know, we're born with this ability to access our intuition. Unfortunately,

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especially here in the West, not the Western United States,

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the Western civilization, we are not taught to really trust

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our intuitive gifts. Now, if you're someone who has more

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of the Eastern either your background is you know, if

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you're Asian or Indian or some of the different philosophies

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and cultures, then chances are you will be more open

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to this because it's just part of the culture. Now

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that all being said, like I said before, it's really

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about our stress response, and that is what limits or

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hijacks if you will are intuitive gifts. What I do,

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I actually offer intuition classes. I just finished my last

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beginning intuition class and we start another one in July.

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But there are certain ways. There's a certain practice that

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I have been teaching for well over t years to

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help people tap into their intuitive gifts. And within eight weeks,

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you know, definitely within that period. Sometimes it's within the

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first week. Sometimes you know it's all along. You start

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being able to access your intuitive gifts because there's a

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certain practice that I guide people through that's very easy,

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very empowering, and that enables you to start getting those

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wins of checking in with your intuition and getting the

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information validated. So, yes, it is something that's natural, and

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yes it is something that is learned because we have

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to practice it because we just weren't taught how to

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be or to access our intuitive gifts unfortunately in our

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Western civilization.

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Well, and it sounds like it does make a difference

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to the environment. If you're in India, that's a that's

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just a completely different culture and environment then yeah, our

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Western civilization. Yeah wow. So here's the next question. Why

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do you think intuition might be really good and valuable

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in a financial landscape that's full of uncertainty. We don't

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have any uncertainty right now at all at all, not

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at all known. Yeah, so let's think about that because

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that's like a hot topic. And it's like I have

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clients who have called and said, well, it's going to

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go on with the stock market. Well, you know, I

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have to tell people I've lost my crystal ball. But

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what do you think about, you know, having intuition try

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to help you with with all the uncertainty in today's world.

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Well, I think the real power behind the classes that

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I teach is to not only be able to access

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your intuition, but be able to get in that calm

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centered place and be able to live from that and

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equate it to like a hurricane. You know, in the hurricane,

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you've got all the winds that are blowing around, and

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things are flying and the you know, it's just it's

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windy and it's raining and everything, and then there's the

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calm center right eye of the hurricane. Most of us,

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because of the way we were raised and because of

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all the programming we received, we're accustomed to being out

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there in the hurricane itself, being blown around and not

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knowing what's coming at us and what the next thing

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is going to happen.

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And there's the house coming at you.

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There's a pressure, absolutely, But through the work of being

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able to learn these practices, you start to really calm

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down your nervous system so that it recognizes and starts

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to make that the natural state, which is our natural

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state of being. And so from that point, you know,

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you when you're living from that point of that calm center,

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then no matter what happens, you are comfortable with it.

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And I'm actually going to bring up one of my students,

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Like I said, I just finished this eight week beginning

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Intuition class and one of my students had a major

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medical emergency during this eight week period. It was actually

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about week four major like you know, we're talking brain surgery.

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It was, it was serious. She was so calm during

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the whole process. And she finished up the class yesterday

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and she said, I don't even recognize the person that

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I am. I've been so calm. I've just trusted. I've

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trusted my intuition. I've trusted the doctors, you know, the

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doctors that I chose.

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You know.

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Her neurosurgeons said, Oh my gosh, I don't understand someone

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was stage four brain cancer. How you could be so

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calm about this. You shouldn't be walking, you shouldn't be talking.

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But here you are. You're calm, you're relaxed. We expect

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wonderful results. She's making a full recovery. And she told

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me yesterday doing she goes, had I feel so blessed

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to have met you and to have done this class

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when I did, because if I didn't have these tools,

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I know, I just I know in my heart that

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it would not have been a good outcome. So once again,

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this brings us back. I mean, that's a really severe example,

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but it brings us back to the power that we

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have within us that as we look at different challenges

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and uncertainties that come up in life, it's how we

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approach it, it's how we face it, and if we

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face it from that calm centered place, doing your practices

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and everything that I teach, then you're empowered to be

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able to survive no matter what life sends your way.

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And I think that's the real benefit of the work

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that I do with my clients is being able to

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help them get to that place so that they can

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weather the storm and from that place be able to

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access us their intuition very clearly so they know the

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next right step to take.

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is an amazing organism that has the ability to write itself, absolutely,

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but I think we need to give our body the

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tools to do that. So I think this is just

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a marvelous, marvelous.

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Tool absolutely well. And when you think about it, when

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we're in a stressed state, what that is doing is

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actually creating a lot of inflammation in our body. And

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when we are inflamed, our body can't do what it's

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normally doing, which is healing itself. You know, if you've

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got you know, if your body's in that constant state

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of oh, I'm under attack, I'm under attack, then it's

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not going to be doing anything of maintenance wise. You know,

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that experience, and so that you know, when we're not

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in more time, Yes, we're maintaining the ship and we're

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maintaining our flags and we're maintaining all these things. We've

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got ample time to do it. But when we're in

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a drill or when we're actually out or we don't

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have time, that's not the priority. And so if you

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can take that analogy and apply it to your humanness,

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if your body is constantly feeling like it's under attack,

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then it's not going to be doing the normal maintenance,

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the clearing out the toxins, the getting rid of the

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cancer cells. It's not going to be focused on that

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because it's going to be focused on just keeping you alive.

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again to find, you know, have that practice to be

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able to get yourself to that calm centered place and

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live from there, responding when you need to to something

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that comes up and then returning to it. And I

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mean this has been something that we've known, you know,

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meditation is something that we were introduced to, you know,

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decade ago here, Yeah, in the United States, but a

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lot of people struggle with meditation. And the one great

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thing about the classes I teach is no matter who

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has come, I've taught kids from eight years old all

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the way up to people that were in their seventies,

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and they are all able to do it. And what

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they always tell me when I speak to them afterwards,

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you know, especially the people that tried meditating, is they said,

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you know what, meditation can feel hard. It can feel

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hard to get rid of the thoughts. And it's that's

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not the practice that I teach. And so it's something

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that is very easy, very doable. Whether you have ADHD

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or whether you have a you know, a neutral brain state,

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anyone can do it.

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That's awesome. I'm wondering is has there ever been any

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studies done where intuitive investors have outperformed the data driven

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day traders. I mean, is there anything like, I don't

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even know how how that you would do that? Is

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that even possible to like quantitaid, you know, have some

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way of figuring out if it's how it stacks up.

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When I was in college, in undergrad I was studying

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finance and I was part of a stock market game.

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It was a competition between universities across them and I

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actually came in two weeks late because I was I

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had been on vacation during college with my family and

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came in two weeks late. And you know, my teacher said, hey,

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you know, go ahead and join. We can still get

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you in. And I thought to myself, I'm going to

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use my intuition. This would be the perfect time. I'm

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planning on being a financial advisor. Let me use my intuition. Yeah,

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And so I used my intuition, picked my stocks and

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I actually, you know, there's you know, we could have

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done options, and we could have done all different kinds

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of trading strategies. And I thought to myself, you know,

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but now in this market, what's going on? And this

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is I'm going to date myself. You know, way back

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in the late nineties, I thought, now's the time for

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a great buy and whole strategy. Even though it was

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like a two month term, I ended up winning the

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competition and based on my intuition. Now, following that up,

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when I discussed it with my professor afterwards, he said,

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you know what, there's an interesting study about stock picking

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stocks and they actually found that a monkey throwing darts

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a board. I've seen that article did was better at

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picking stocks than crazy im Now that being said, there

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have been some studies that I've seen more recently that

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talk about people that are really in their fields, So

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people who are regular traders or money managers or analysts.

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The more involved you are in your field, the better

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access you're going to have to your intuition for that

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specific tool. So, once again, this takes us back to

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our body as a receiver. It's taking in information. So

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if the information that you're taking in all day is

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primarily about money market movements, analytics, all this, if that's

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the majority of the information you're taking in because that's

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your job and that's what you're doing most of the day,

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then that's what your intuition is going to be connecting

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all the dots on. So somebody who is actively involved

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and actively working professionally or even you know, just on

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your own, if you're someone who loves to be a

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day trader and that's what you do for eight hours

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a day, every single day, then chances are you're going

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to have better access to the information. However, it still

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is dependent, highly dependent on how you are showing up.

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If you're showing up in that calm, you know, centered place,

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then you're going to get great hits and you're going

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to be able to put things together. Whereas if you're

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stressed out and oh my god, I just lost this

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money and I need to make this money back so

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I can make my mortgage, You're not going to make

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good now good investment decisions.

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Wow, well what do you think of? This leads into

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the next question, really well, what do you think are

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the most common mental blocks? I mean, that's kind of

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likeing me thinking of like a wall or an emotional

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block to accessing to intuition. What would you say about

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what are the things that get in people's way?

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Yeah, they're all the fear based emotions. You know, there's

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not enough money. If I lose this then my spouse

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will leave me, or you know, I won't be able

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to afford the mortgage.

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There are all stories that people tell themselves.

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They're all stories. Yes. In fact, my first ted X

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talk I did last year and it's how to stop

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obsessing over the stories that other people are telling you.

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I think that's they changed the title on me, but

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basically it's you know, how to how to stop tell,

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you know, telling yourself stories about what other people are

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thinking about us. And it's all these stories that we

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tell ourselves. It's the beliefs that we were raised with.

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money is evil. You know, a lot of you know,

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especially Christian religions here in the Western world. You know,

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we're brought up with money is the root of all evil.

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Right, if you don't read the scripture, right, if you

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read the scripture correctly, yeah.

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going going down that road. But but the point is

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that we have these really inherent beliefs.

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the uh, your father's boss was really wealthy, was the

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wealthy employer in town, and he was greedy, and so

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he might have grown up with you know, well, geez,

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if you've got.

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A lot of money, then you're going to be greedy

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and that's bad.

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It all boils down to those fear based emotions. Guilt, shame, unworthiness,

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all of those things get triggered when we make financial decisions.

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And you know, so many people get triggered by money.

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So many people get triggered by the word God. There

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are lots of really hearty triggers that are just natural

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in our collective consciousness, and so it's really important just

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to be aware that there are those things going on,

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and then from there you can start examining what comes

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up in me, Like when I think about picking a

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stock and I start to feel my heart race a

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little bit or get that warm flush, which is that

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indication that my stress response is then activated, then that's

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your opportunity to bring some awareness, get curious about what's

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going on, and really uncover that story so that you

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can start telling yourself a new story, a story of prosperity,

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of abundance and possiblity, and those are much more you know,

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above the line emotions that we all aspire for, but

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we're basically caging ourselves in these fear based emotions, and

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that's what usually jacks people up, especially in the investments,

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you know, investments, They wait for everyone else to go first,

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and then they try to get in for the investments,

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but then the tide is turned and people are getting out,

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and then they stay in too long and then they

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end up using money. So it's money is tied to

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emotion very much so, and so it's even more critical

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that we learn how to have that healthy emotional regulated

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state so that we're taking emotion out of the decision.

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I think you're making me think of, like if you're

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talking about like a fear of I mean basically at

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the bottom of it would be a fear of losing money, right,

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And so it seems like awareness would be how you

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would not you know, be able to stop having the

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cloud around intuitive thinking. So it seems like all of

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this is going to start with just having an awareness

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in the beginning.

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Absolutely well. My company is called Becoming Aware for a

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reason big and everything is about that's the key starting point.

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In fact, my next book that I'm working on right now,

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Awareness is one of the very first steps that I

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encourage everyone to take because the more aware you are,

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it's just like anything, you know, if you're aware of

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a problem, then you can get to work to fixing

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the problem. And so everything starts with awareness, and it's

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awareness of your body. It's awareness of how your body

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for you is responding. You know, for me, with intuition,

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I may see things, I may know things, I may

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hear things, and those are all indications of my intuitive gifts,

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I have students come through. In fact, in one of

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my advanced classes, I've got a student who all along

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she's never been able to see anything, hear anything, or

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know anything, but her body is moved and so her

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body moves certain directions and she's learned that language, that

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somatic language, so now she uses that for her intuitive guidance.

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It doesn't matter. My way isn't the right way. There

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is no one right way. It's more about learning what

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is right for you. And so you know, that's what

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my classes are all about. Is not about trusting someone

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else by giving your power away to someone else. It's

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about taking that power in and using your own power

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to be able to make these decisions. And that's how

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you really navigate life with such bliss and joy.

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Well, one thing I'm going to say right here too

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to let everybody know, because I'm sure there's going to

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be some people that are going to be wanting to

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check out, you know, these classes that you do on

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on the podcast website. I have a bonus downloads place,

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and so we're going to be putting some of the

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information for getting in contact with you later right for that.

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So that's just a little aside. So what I'm thinking is,

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you know, this financial world is all full of charts

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and trends and social media news, and do you think

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that information overload can can just drown out an intuition

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or can you be aware so that you don't let

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it drown out your intuition?

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That is a great question. I think it depends upon

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the individual. If you are someone who is easily overwhelmed

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by data and analytics and charts, then that is not

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going to be supportive of your intuitive gifts, right, because

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overwhelm is a fear based emotion, below the line emotion.

468
00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:59.240
Whereas if you're someone who is your natural inclination is

469
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:03.200
to be kind of that researching, analytical mindset. And if

470
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.599
you I mean, if your heart goes pitter patter when

471
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.559
you see a whole bunch of charts and logistics, then

472
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:12.480
you're not going to be activating the stress response. Now,

473
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:15.519
the additional caveat that I want to put in here

474
00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:20.920
is all of that data and analytics is historical, so

475
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.359
it's what has happened in the past. And now granted

476
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:30.480
we know that history informs our decisions, but the difference

477
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.160
is in nowadays with our technology and with AI and

478
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:38.720
all these advancements, history is not informing us in the

479
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.599
way that it used to be able to inform us.

480
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.279
And AI still can't tell us what's going to happen tomorrow.

481
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:49.839
Absolutely because once again, and this is our own individual brains.

482
00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:55.599
Our brains make predictions about what's going to happen intuitive

483
00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:59.680
as well as normal processes, based on what's happened in

484
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:02.680
the past. And so once uh, like what I said

485
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.039
at the beginning, you know, talking about the eighty twenty

486
00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:07.400
you know, your brain uses twenty percent of the information

487
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.640
that your body takes in. It is taking that information

488
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:16.279
and it's basically linking it up with past experiences or

489
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:20.240
past people. That's why if you meet somebody on the

490
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:23.799
road and you or you're out somewhere and you start

491
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:26.519
to get that flush or your heart starts to race

492
00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:28.680
a little bit, a lot of people get really excited.

493
00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:32.519
Oh that means, you know, someone who I must really

494
00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:34.559
be attracted to or there must be some kind of

495
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:38.799
chemistry with. In reality, what it's doing is your brain

496
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:43.200
is recognizing that there's something about this person that is

497
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:46.599
like someone or lots of people that you've known in

498
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:50.720
the past. And so it's making that association, and so

499
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:51.880
how I responds.

500
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:55.200
Look, you're still looking back at what's happened in the.

501
00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:58.720
Past, right, and your responses are going to be now

502
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:03.200
attached to that new person. So like for dating, for example,

503
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:04.960
I know this is a little off topic. For dating,

504
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.480
for example, people will date someone and then break up

505
00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:10.720
with them, and they'll end up dating the same kind

506
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:13.720
of person over and over and over. That's because your

507
00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.519
brain is recognizing, Oh, I recognize this, it's familiar. Your

508
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.200
brain loves efficiency. So things that they recognize and familiar,

509
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.160
your brain loves that. Oh I know exactly what that is.

510
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.279
It doesn't give a full analysis, it only picks up

511
00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:30.440
a little bit. So that's why you get triggered. And

512
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:32.920
that's why all these things happen. That was a little

513
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:36.680
off topic, But the point is that our brain is

514
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:40.440
always looking for efficiency, and so when we are going

515
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.319
through and we are looking to do investing or we're

516
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:46.200
looking to do different things, we have to be really

517
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:50.680
super careful about using information from the past and relying

518
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.799
solely on that.

519
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:55.519
Well, what about if you like, have a little bit

520
00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:00.079
of an ego and you feel and you want to

521
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.799
be right, the need to be right, wouldn't that hinder

522
00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:05.079
intuitive thinking?

523
00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:10.279
Absolutely? That falls into the fixed minded perspective. So when

524
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.119
we have a fixed minded perspective that you know, that

525
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.519
has our brain's inability to be able to take on

526
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.119
new information and be able to assimilate it, we really

527
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.640
want to have a growth mindset. A grown growth mindset

528
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.759
is going to be more open to new experiences, more

529
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:32.519
open to new possibilities, and those neural networks are going

530
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:36.400
to be a lot more expanded than with someone who

531
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:39.880
has a fixed mindset. So people who have that fixed mindset,

532
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:43.240
it falls in that very strict black or white. If

533
00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:45.839
it's not this, then it's this, and if it's not that,

534
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.440
then it's this, Whereas somebody with a growth mindset is

535
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:52.680
going to be able to take the information and say, wow,

536
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.240
what's possible with this? Let me get curious about this.

537
00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.079
You know, there was something over here that is kind

538
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:02.480
of like it, and I'm noticing some differences. And so

539
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:06.759
then that's where the brain really gets excited and says, Okay,

540
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.119
I don't know about this, so let me explore more

541
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.839
about it. And I think having that growth mindset is

542
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.440
definitely tied to into it, you know, being able to

543
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:20.200
access your intuitive gifts, but it also opens your brain

544
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:24.839
and to possibilities, and that's where you start being able

545
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:29.640
to do visioning forecasting, you know, tapping into what's really

546
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.759
going on with this company and being able to make

547
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:33.759
decisions that way.

548
00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:36.960
Right, Well, I mean, like, let's let's do like a

549
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:41.559
hypothetical example of somebody you know who's got some formal

550
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:47.880
financial education, but they're looking at some financial data, but

551
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.279
they're also aware of this whole thing with making smart

552
00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:57.160
money moves using intuition. How how is is that person

553
00:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.359
going to check themselves? You know they're sitting there looking

554
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:03.920
at all the analytical stuff, but how would you say

555
00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:09.759
they they incorporate, you know, looking at the data at

556
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:12.400
the same time that they're looking at how they feel

557
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.160
about it. Am I saying that? Am I making sense? Well?

558
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.960
What I hear you saying is that you're wondering if

559
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:24.240
there's a process that you can use too. So there

560
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:27.359
is a very easy process. It's something I talk about

561
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.279
a lot. I call it the three c's. It's be calm,

562
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.279
be curious, and be connected. And so in this application,

563
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.119
be calm is the first one. It's about getting to

564
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:41.279
that really calm centered place the eye of the storm

565
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:45.920
and being able to really trust what your your body

566
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.920
is able to do keeping it calm. From there, get curious,

567
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.119
what's going on, What's happened in the past with this company,

568
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.759
what's going on currently with this company or this stock? What?

569
00:33:56.759 --> 00:34:00.799
What are you know? Investors that I trust, money managers

570
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:03.480
that I have seen over and over and over making

571
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:08.760
really wise choices. What are they saying about this particular stock.

572
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:13.800
You take all of that information and then you get connected.

573
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.679
So the second was be curious. Now it's be connected.

574
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.639
So now it's getting connected with your body. Knowing what

575
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.159
a yes is for you and knowing what a no

576
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.119
is for you, and you can feel that in your body,

577
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:28.960
and so you know, obviously you want to learn your

578
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:33.519
yes and no before you start the investment process. But

579
00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.519
once you know how your body communicates yes and no

580
00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:40.039
to you, then it's much easier to take that information

581
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:42.960
that you've brought in and then be able to say,

582
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:47.639
you know, okay, is this the correct or is this

583
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.039
the best stock for me to purchase with this goal

584
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:55.079
in mind? And actually this circles back to another thing

585
00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:57.679
that I want to throw in here. Ask good questions,

586
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.199
just like your podcast is called it's about knowing how

587
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:04.880
to ask questions. So many people, especially when they come

588
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.840
for intuitive readings or anything else, is they ask questions

589
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:12.840
should I do that? Or you know, what would happen

590
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.039
if if I? Well, actually, that's a good question, what

591
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:18.119
would happen if? But should I do that? That question

592
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:21.440
is loaded in judgment and it's going to trigger those

593
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:27.760
fear responses. So really being aware of the choice of

594
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:31.559
words and how you structure your question is going to

595
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.199
empower your intuition to provide more information. It's kind of

596
00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:38.639
like a Google search. If you go on Google and

597
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:41.880
you do a search for what what stock should I choose,

598
00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.159
it's gonna, you know, spin off whatever. Whereas if you

599
00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:47.039
go in and say, you know, what would be the

600
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:50.440
best stock for someone who's twenty years old and who

601
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.599
you know has makes X amount of money your I

602
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:55.239
don't know what kind of answer you'd get, but you'd

603
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:59.880
get a better response from your brain in that way.

604
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:03.719
I know that a lot. I would say most of

605
00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:06.519
the bad decisions that I've made in my life were

606
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:09.440
because I didn't know what the right questions were to ask,

607
00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:12.760
or I didn't ask the right questions, or I had

608
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.960
no flip and idea what I was doing. And so

609
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:19.519
that was why I called this podcast Ask Good Questions,

610
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.920
because that has so much to do with this and

611
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:26.400
what has I Back in the day I would do

612
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:29.960
these little programs and red arrows and green arrows. I

613
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:33.480
went so far the other way because I've become very firmly,

614
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:40.079
you know, centered in a globally diversified account that you

615
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:43.880
shouldn't just be buying a few little stocks. You should

616
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.880
be diversifying about a bunch because you don't know what

617
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:51.039
any is going to happen with anyone company. But I

618
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.800
think that you need I think you need to step back,

619
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.960
don't you think and ask yourself? Why why are you

620
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.880
being drawn to this or that? You know a way

621
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:01.519
of doing.

622
00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:05.440
Investing absolutely well, And that comes back to being curious.

623
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:09.239
You know what is being curious about it is why

624
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:12.000
what I Why am I looking to invest? You know,

625
00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:14.159
what is my goal? Where am I trying to be?

626
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:18.280
Also in like I said, knowing your your money managers

627
00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:23.320
or knowing different people who you know provide their sectors. Yeah,

628
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:26.320
I mean there's there's so many different things to consider

629
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.000
and this is why it's you know, important to hire

630
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:32.599
someone like you or any other financial professional is because

631
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:35.679
that's what you are committed to, and so you can

632
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:40.320
use your intuition to help you decide what financial professional

633
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:41.800
is the best one for you.

634
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:44.280
You and I have read classes about that.

635
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:48.159
Yeah, absolutely, you do that. Yeah, well that's what's important.

636
00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:52.119
Yeah. Do you think that there's a time when relying

637
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.800
on intuition over analysis would be a mistake? Do you

638
00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.519
think you can go too far down that road or not?

639
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:00.320
What do you think?

640
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:08.119
You know? For me, it's my experience and my belief

641
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:13.079
that you know, you either go left or right. I'm

642
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:14.920
one of those gray people. I'm you know, it's not

643
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:18.480
black or white, it's it's the scale in between. So

644
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:22.320
for me, either going full on logic or going full

645
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:26.320
on intuition, I don't think either is the correct choice.

646
00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:31.159
That being said, unless you are in a an immediate

647
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:34.559
need of intuition. If there is an immediate need, then

648
00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.360
intuition because it's the fastest your brain is going to

649
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.400
pick up the information and make decisions more quickly than

650
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:43.599
your brain can can logically think through. So for me,

651
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.760
it's a blend. You know. That's why I combine science

652
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:51.239
and spirituality because the two together being integrated. That is

653
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:55.679
the most powerful that you can possibly be in anything.

654
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.480
Well, do you think that there's some what would you say,

655
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:04.039
are some day practices that you can do to strengthen

656
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:05.440
financial intuition?

657
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:09.360
Absolutely? Well, Number one is take my class and learn.

658
00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:14.159
There you go. But I've got some traveling coming up

659
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:16.599
here a little bit. But I mean I have been

660
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:18.880
kind of toying with this, but I think you've convinced

661
00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:20.960
me that this would be a really good thing to do.

662
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.159
Yeah, it's you know, it's so important to ground yourself

663
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:26.840
every single day. That is, you know, and there's lots

664
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.239
of different ways that you can ground yourself, but that

665
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:34.320
really helps to connect your body to the earth. And

666
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:36.599
you know, there's been a lot of science heart math

667
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:40.480
has a lot of scientific research around what happens with

668
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:44.039
our emotions and our body when we're in a grounded state. So,

669
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.400
you know, grounding is something that you know, is pretty

670
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:49.840
easy for anyone to be able to do, even if

671
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:53.119
you take your shoes off, barefoot walk on the earth,

672
00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:56.559
you know, is good. But what I teach is really

673
00:39:56.679 --> 00:40:00.119
not only grounding, but also learning how to run your energy.

674
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:03.840
You know, we all have an energetic field. Money is

675
00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:07.159
energy money is flow. Everything in this world is made

676
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:11.920
up of energy, and so being able to safely run

677
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.960
your energy, it's going to help clear out the blockages,

678
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:18.880
those limiting beliefs and everything that gets in the way

679
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:23.840
of your intuition. Simply by running your energy. That's a

680
00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:26.159
great way to do it. But you know, if nothing

681
00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:28.559
else that you take away from this, if you just

682
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:32.159
think about the three c's, be calm, be curious, and

683
00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:35.519
be connected, be grounded, would be the g that I

684
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.800
would add to that. If that is all you ever do,

685
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.320
that is the most important things.

686
00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:44.800
So would you say that those are the questions that

687
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.840
you would ask yourself before making a big money move.

688
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.159
It sounds like it I would if I were to make. Well,

689
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.119
let me give you an example. My husband and I

690
00:40:55.199 --> 00:40:58.840
were looking to buy a house in this late community

691
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.760
that he's grown, you know, he visited his whole life

692
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:05.400
with his family, and there was a house that was

693
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.599
for sale. It was not on the lake. We wanted

694
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.320
a house on the lake, and it was across the

695
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.719
street from the lake and the windows. Actually there was

696
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.280
a street that went down to the marina and you

697
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.199
could see from the house. It was right at the

698
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:19.440
tee looking at the lake, so it had a lake view.

699
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.280
He asked me, after we viewed the house, how much

700
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.639
should we put an offer in for. And you know,

701
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.400
I tapped into my intuition and I said, this house

702
00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.440
is going to sell for two hundred and eighty nine thousand,

703
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:33.239
but it needed work. It needed a new deck, so

704
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.440
that was probably going to be like another forty thousand.

705
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:37.559
And I said, so I think we should offer two

706
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.800
hundred and eighty nine thousand, but then have them pay

707
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:44.000
for the deck. Now, keep in mind I didn't really

708
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.159
want that house because I wanted that lake front property

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right and so you know, we did the offer, they

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declined it. We went on our way and found a

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lot that was right on the lake. I'll tell you

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about that in a second. Two weeks later, the house

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sold for two hundred and eighty nine thousand. So, you know,

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the lesson learned is when you tap into your intuition,

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it will give you what you need to know, and

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it depends on how you use it. Now, fast forward

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to today, that lot that we bought back in twenty nineteen,

718
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twenty twenty, we are three weeks away from our dream

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house being built on it, and it is you know,

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so much better. You know, one and a half million

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dollar house that we're building. It's our absolute dream house.

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And when we started to build, we didn't know how

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we were going to be able to finance that. We

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didn't you know, we were thinking, gosh, how do we

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do this? But our intuition, both of our intuition, said trust,

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just keep trusting. Check the next right step. And that's

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what I always tell my students. It's about the next

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right step, not about that end goal of the house

729
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being finished. It's about what's the next right step that

730
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I need to take now?

731
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That really is super important.

732
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Yeah, let's.

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You. Yes, it's super important to have to be using

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your intuition. But what you're saying is you're taking some action.

735
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Absolutely nothing happens. You can get all the intuitive insight

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in the world, but if you're not using it, then

737
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it's useless. But here's what clogs people up. They think

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of the end goal, the lake house on the lake,

739
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and they focus, why can't I get there? Why can't

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I get there? My intuition isn't getting me there. It's

741
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because you're looking way too far in the future. It

742
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is not a linear path. It's about taking one little

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step and then coming back to that calm center, and

744
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then taking the next step going out into the storm,

745
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doing the action, and then coming back to the calm center.

746
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It's almost like a reset. Okay, where are we now? Now?

747
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Make a next choice? Where are we now? It's a

748
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.599
slower process, but it gets you exactly where you want

749
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:03.920
to go or sometimes even places that you never thought

750
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.239
were dreamed were possible, like what we're experiencing right now.

751
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:16.800
Yeah, wow, well our time is up, Teresa. How that happened? Wow?

752
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This has just been fascinating. So if people are going

753
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to be working with you, what's the next step? What

754
00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:28.920
is the class that they should take to be like

755
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:30.480
an introductory class with you?

756
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:33.679
Yeah, if you want to take my first class, it's

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Beginning Intuition. It's an eight week class. We meet virtually

758
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:41.840
for ninety minutes and I give some instruction that you

759
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:44.719
can watch during the week. It's usually about ten minutes,

760
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:48.039
something to a read or something to watch, and the

761
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:52.159
class the ninety minutes is all experiential, so you will

762
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:55.920
know for yourself right off the bat whether it is

763
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something that is working for you or not. And in fact,

764
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I do offer you if you sign up and it's

765
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an eight week class. If after the second week, if

766
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you decide, you know what, this just isn't right for me,

767
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then you get refunded your money. But no one has

768
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ever taken me up on that, because within two classes

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people are blown away and can feel already what is

770
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:23.280
going on and the importance of the work. So the

771
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:26.159
best thing to do is to send me a direct

772
00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:29.280
message a DM on Instagram and that's my handle on

773
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:33.679
the screen, the underlying Modern day Oracle, and just you know,

774
00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:36.480
send me a message and say, you know, either ask

775
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:40.679
good questions or bonita and I can go ahead and

776
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:43.800
send you some information about the next class that I've

777
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got coming up.

778
00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:51.400
Awesome, Okay, the modern day Oracle. So thank you so

779
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:55.519
much for being here with us. This has been so valuable.

780
00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:59.480
I can't tell you how many I've been in a

781
00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:04.320
lot of classes around behavioral finance, and this is really

782
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:06.960
kind of the guts of it. This is the this

783
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.679
is the key that that people need to really go

784
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out there and make good decisions.

785
00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:14.559
Absolutely, And like I said, you know lots of examples

786
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that were beyond money, because once you learn you know

787
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:21.239
a solid method of being able to access your intuitive

788
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.519
gifts it helps across all areas of your life.

789
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Absolutely happy, happy, happy life, Yes, happy intuition. So thank

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you so much for being here with us today, Teresa,

791
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and thank you so much everyone for joining us on

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the Ask Good Questions Podcast.

793
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796
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:03.239
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week for more conversations with experts on finances, retirement, behavioral

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finance issues, health and wellness, and more. Until then, remember

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to ask good questions.