Yes, You CAN Create the Life You Want!

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortes. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. Welcome back to

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the Working on Purpose Show. Thanks
for tuning in again this week. I'm

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your host, Elise Cortez, joining
you Lai from Dallas, Texas, which

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is home base for me. If
you've been tuning in for a while,

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you know this program is all about
helping people create more meaningful and productive personal

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and work lives and equipping leaders,
insight organizations to cultivate meaning and purpose that

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elicit's passion inspired contribution, innovation,
and persevering performance. I talk with my

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guests to draw on their expertise and
shot my own experience consulting, speaking and

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developing workforces across the globe. Every
week. In these conversations, I hope

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you walk away with something you can
immediately put to use in your life.

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That you come away with the possibility
of living with passion, working on purpose,

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and are inspired to discover for yourself
just how big and fulfilling your life,

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work and leadership can be. And
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Either way, I'm glad we're connected
and thanks for listening. Now onto

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this week's program with us this week
is ron A Zia. She is the

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author of the book You're Hidden Light, a personal guide to creating your desired

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Life. She is the former having
spent twenty years in corporate finance working for

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large four to five hundred companies.
We're talking about her journey that led her

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to writing the book and the work
she's doing today and some of the key

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topics from the book. She jogees
today from Wykoff, New Jersey, Ranna,

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Welcome to Working on Purpose. Thank
you. I'm so happy to be

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here. I'm so glad we found
each other. And I can't remember exactly

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how it happened, but I am
so glad we did. I think maybe

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we found each other online. Have
you heard a show before? But in

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any rate, I'm so happy to
be connected to and I'm a fan of

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what you're up to. I think
it's really important and I want to get

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as much as I can out of
you out of the short time. So

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are you ready? Yeah, I'm
ready. Okay, So we're going to

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be talking about how we can create
the lives we really desire. But before

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we do that, I think it's
important to understand your earlier life and career

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and kind of what led up to
where you are today. So I want

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to first understand why did you pursue
a career in executive finance and why specifically

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mostly in the retail industry. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because where I

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am today's very different from where I've
been for me, honestly, you know,

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I was in college and I didn't
know what I wanted to do.

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And by the time the senior year
rolled around and everybody was out there applying

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for jobs, I was just trying
to figure out what I wanted to do.

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And all I knew is that I
wanted to move to New York City.

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And my cultural background, I'm Indian, my parents migrated here from India

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in the nineteen sixties. I was
born in this country. But from a

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cultural standpoint, you know, a
professional career, what I only had in

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mind was either a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. And I know knew

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that I didn't want to do any
of that, but I didn't really know

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what else there was out there.
I really didn't. So in college,

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you know, there were a lot
of banks that were recruiting on campus and

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they were coming from New York and
for me, I thought, okay,

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that sounds very professional, you know, banking. And I knew I was

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stronger in math as opposed to any
of the sort of other liberal arts cores,

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so I thought, okay, my
parents would probably accept that. So

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I ended up getting a job in
a bank, moved to New York City,

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and then I quickly found out that
I wasn't really interested in banking,

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and I wanted to move into an
industry, and being in New York of

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course opened my eyes out that wow, there's so many things you can do,

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and so I ended up moving into
a corporate finance job for HBO,

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initially thinking I'll get in from a
finance standpoint, and once I'm in a

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company, I'll figure out what I
really wanted to do. So I worked

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there. I loved it. I
absolutely loved it. I was there for

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four and a half years, and
during sort of the last year of my

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job there, I met my husband, and my husband was not living in

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New York at the time, so
I knew that when we got married,

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we were going to move. And
what ended up happening is we got married,

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we moved to San Francisco, and
I had to kind of start over

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with okay, my finance career essentially, and I ended up keeping on that

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finance track because I never really figured
out what I wanted to do besides finance,

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and I thought, again, Okay, let me find an industry that

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I really enjoyed that I can connect
with. I wish I could have stayed

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with entertainment, because at that time
I really enjoyed it. But there wasn't

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much of that in San Francisco.
So working with a recruiter, I got

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the call to work for an apparel
of retail company. And at that point

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when I was in discussions, I
thought, oh, shopping. I love

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to shop clothes. This could work. So for me, industry right and

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connection to industry was really important.
That was a primary sort of priority for

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me. So I ended up,
you know, going in at an analyst

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level. I took a little bit
of a step back, but I figured,

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you know what, let me get
in, let me learn the business

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from the grounds up, and you
know, and see how things go.

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So I ended up getting into corporate
finance and apparel retailer out in San Francisco,

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starting at a senior analyst level.
And I had that mentality again,

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Okay, I don't want to be
in finance, but once I'm in the

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company, I will see what I
really want to do and maybe I'll move

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into something else. But as time
passed, I was really enjoying what I

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did in finance because I realized within
the company I was working for, finance

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was involved in all aspects of the
business and could influence all aspects of the

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business. So for me, I
thought, you know, okay, what

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do I really love? I love
this industry, I love this business,

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and if I can influence this business
from the finance seat, then I have

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no reason to move into another function. So I continue to stay on that

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finance track, and I just kind
of climbed the corporate ladder getting more responsibility,

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mere responsibility, and that's kind of
where I stayed. And then eventually

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I got to the point of,
Okay, where do I go. It's

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the next logical sort of goal,
financial career goal for me within retail,

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within finance, And it was eventually
I set that goal for myself that I

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wanted to become a CFO, which
I was able to accomplish in twenty twelve,

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which ended up kind of shifting everything
for me in terms of me really

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questioning is this really what I wanted
to do forever? Wow? So a

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couple of things RONA. One is
I appreciate that it sounds like to me,

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you dove into your work life from
like a career vantage point versus a

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job or a calling. You were
looking to build a place where you could

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be successful and build skills, et
cetera, which I totally understand and respect

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and appreciate, and I also appreciate
that somewhere along the line things began to

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change for you. And so I
want to understand what happened for you in

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your life and your career that had
you start looking for your purpose. Yeah.

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Well, I would say the biggest
catalyst for change for me was actually

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a very positive change, and it
was in twenty twelve where I had the

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opportunity to take a CFO role in
a parel retailer coming back to the East

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Coast because I wanted to come back
to the East Coast because I had children

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and all of our family was on
the East Coast. And so when this

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opportunity came into my hands, and
it happened fairly quickly and unexpectedly, and

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actually much sooner than I would have
anticipated, if you know, one were

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to follow a normal sort of career
track. So when this happened, it

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shook me in a very positive way. There was something that I knew that

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I had done internally right. I
had this sense if there was something in

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terms of the way I was thinking
about it, the way I was feeling

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inside what I believed that allowed this
to manifest in my life. And then

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I immediately thought to myself, Wow, you know, if I could have

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manifested this in my life, what
else could I really, what else could

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I manifest for myself health that would
actually be much more fulfilling and make me

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much more you know, more happier
or happier than I had been and couldn't

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look very different than what I had
been doing the last twenty years. So

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once that thought was planted in my
head, I became a bit obsessed about

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going, you know, doing some
real deep sort of personal work really in

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order to discover what what was it
that I really wanted to do and what

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was my purpose? And so I
actually, you know, I think started

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in twenty twelve. I started to
do a lot of sort of like reading

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a lot of books, talking to
people, going on you know, retreats,

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going to workshops, and I was
really sort of determined to figure out

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what is it that I really wanted
to create in my life. And so

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along this journey of like personal development
and personal growth, I started to,

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you know, I started to come
across information that was so profound and life

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changing for me. And it was
really this idea that we do have this

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power to create what we want in
our lives, and it's really the power

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of our own thoughts, feelings,
and beliefs when they're in alignment, can

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manifest wonderful things in our life.
And so what I was learning was really

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really resonating for me, and I
started to sort of test out consciously creating

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things in my life. And as
I was seeing how I was able to

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impact sort of my external reality by
changing what I was thinking and feeling on

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the inside, it just it was
just life changing for me. It was

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life changing. And so that's kind
of what really, you know, started

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with the catalyst for me to move
into a completely different, you know,

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sort of career in my life was
just me learning about these different concepts that

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no one ever taught me growing up, and me just trying them myself to

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discover my own power. And while
I was discovering this, it just gave

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me the confidence to trust that I
could do something very different. Oh my

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gosh, Ronad, that is all
so delicious, And I hope our listeners

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are hanging on every single last word
that you said because it's so compelling and

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so inspiring. And what it sounds
like to me is you have found your

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purpose? Do you feel like you
have or you're on your path? Where

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do you think you're at? I
feel like I'm on my path and that's

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what's exciting, because you know,
when you build a career, a twenty

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plus year career, following one track, right and one way of being in

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a lot of ways, things feel
very known to you, right, things

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you kind of know, like I
go from this step to this step to

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this step, and now when I'm
completely shifted, I feel like I'm completely

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on the path that I'm supposed to
be on, which feels really exciting,

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and it's it's what I find also
really exciting. It's everything is new and

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I'm learning new things and being guided
to new things and doing new things.

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So yeah, it's been really great. Well you just your energy, it

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tells me that you're in a great
space. So let's talk about your book

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a little bit. First. I
want to understand since I'm writing my own

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book, it's no small feat and
it is coming out this year, but

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yours is out. So why did
you write the book and what do you

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hope readerskid from it? Yeah?
Well, I wrote this book because,

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like I said, I was coming
across all of this information that was so

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profound and life changing for me and
so powerful that I just felt like I

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needed to get it all down in
one place as an easy reference. So

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it's just to have something that would
continuously keep me on track and remind me

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of my own power to create my
reality. And what was really interesting was

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that I've never had a desire to
write a book. I actually didn't even

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think I was a writer. You
know, if I look back to the

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choices I made, this choice to
go into finance was because anything related to

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writing English or any of that wasn't
even a choice for me, because I

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didn't believe I was any good at
it. So when I started to feel

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this desire sort of in my soul
that I wanted to write this book for

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me, I knew that the only
way I could write this book is if

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I believed I could. And for
a long time, I didn't believe I

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could do that because I had a
conditioned belief that I could not. So

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I actually spent a year and a
half just building up a belief. But

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when I had the belief, the
book essentially read it wrote itself, and

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I was done with it in two
months, and I knew that I wanted

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it out within the year. Which
it was. And so for me,

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you know, I wrote this book
because I felt like it was something that

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I just wanted to share for anybody
who was open to it, because I

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really felt like it would be such
a benefit as it has been to me,

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you know, the benefit to my
children, and you know my desire,

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and I say in the book,
my desire is that I would inspire

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others to sort of embrace their own
power to create their reality. I'm right

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in the space with you, as
you know, which is probably why we

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found each other. We are on
the same sort of energy, energy pattern,

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I would say, or yeah,
okay, way, yes, yeah,

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right, And so let's first talk. We have to we've got to

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grab a break here in just a
second, but then we've got time for

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one question around the book. I
want to start with the first chapter that

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you wrote, which was incredibly intriguing, and you talk about how our inner

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world creates our outer world, and
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spiritually connected. Profound love it.
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this? Yeah, so you know
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I had heard our inner world creates
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okay, sounds nice, but I
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anyone to really understand it, it
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energy, and so what this means
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energy outside of us. So if
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you're having to align your internal energy. Are you thinking positively or do you

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feel positively? Are your beliefs about
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beliefs that support you. And when
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and directed to something you desire,
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Now it sounds a little you know, people say wooo. I don't understand

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why it's woo woo, because these
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everything is energy. Therefore the energy
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I incredibly get that as well,
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purpose space and purpose is definitely rooted
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you're coming from. Can't wait to
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Now back to working on purpose.
Thanks for staying with us and welcome

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back to working on purpose if you're
just joining us. My guest is ron

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the book You're Hidden Light, A personal

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guide to creating your desired life.
She us a former CFO, having spent

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twenty years in corporate finance America working
for large for government our companies. I'm

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your host, Cortes, So Ronni. Before we get back into the content,

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I want to share with our listeners. With you and I were speaking

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about on the break, and I
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want to thank you for coming into
my life and for writing this book,

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because it is mattering to me.
It's inspiring me to stay true on my

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path. I'm up to a fair
amount this year in twenty nineteen, writing

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my first full book and creating some
other programs, online offerings, et cetera.

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And I want you to know that
your work has helped give me some

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real spark. So thank you.
Oh, thank you. I'm so happy.

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Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you. Well let's continue

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into our conversation about the book,
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sort of just present something here.
I thought about this as I was reading

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your work and I certainly get the
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and ask being able to create the
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occurred to me to think of the
people that maybe have gone through some awful

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disability or injury, and I wonder
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energy might be connected to that experience. Yeah, you know the way I

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look at any sort of challenge,
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through, things that we would say
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this happen? Et cetera. And
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and I truly believe it's a discipline
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a discipline way on what are the
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find myself in a difficult situation or
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go through these emotions that are negative
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go and get out of your body
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of you know, negative things that
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your body. The more you resist
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out any of those negative emotions.
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my book the power of polarity and
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bad. You can't have up without
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challenge, your challenge is connected energetically
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felt like I was in a situation
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I perceived it as a challenge or
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that there in this moment was a
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know, had the right to receive
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And we do. We're able to
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in focus in that moment of there's
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it, something really good is going
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know what it is is. But
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that true belief that out of this
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automatically on your path un manifesting something
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That is so empowering. And what
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for our listeners that I really appreciate
being a social scientist and a researcher myself,

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is that you have gone out there
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looking to at Karttol, Deepak Chopra, Aristotle, Gandhi, and from the

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Talmud to the Bible, from Buddha
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that ron and that is so impressive, and I think it's important that our

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listeners understand that you did that really
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You know, I knew that I
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power. Everybody has this ability and
we all know deep down, or we

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all know deep down that we've impacted
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and my own personal experience is the
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many spiritual teachers and philosophers, and
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look up to, we're saying the
same thing. To me. It just

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you know, helped me build a
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the core of it is to believe, to believe, because that is foundational,

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because that is your Your deepest thoughts
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I appreciate that you mentioned all of
the people that I was referencing in

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the book. You know, it's
to show that this is just not this

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is something that's been around forever,
but not everybody is consciously doing right.

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that makes it easy to digest and
embrace. And as I said at the

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beginning of the show, I want
my listeners every week to walk away with

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something that they can immediately put to
use. And so we're getting there.

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And so the next thing, I
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you could really go on for this, So we've got to be somewhat brief

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about it and maybe just give some
pearls to start. But how do we

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start to create who we want to
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probably go on forever. You know. For me, what I didn't,

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and I believe is foundational is meditation. You know a lot of people talk

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about meditation these days, and why
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me, is that meditation I look
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mental muscle. Because the first time
we ever, you know, you meditate,

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you do see you become aware.
You become aware of all the chatter

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that lives in our minds. And
I became so aware of like, oh

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my gosh, my mind runs crazy. And the more aware I became of

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my own thoughts, the more I
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create my reality, I needed to
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what I was thinking and feeling more
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awareness. So, you know,
I really really recommend that people start a

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meditation practice, even a simple one, you know, a ten minute guided

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meditation. It's very hard to go
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your mind. But if you sit
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build awareness, You start to go
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you start to eliminate the chatter.
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and you get to a place,
that's when your body's very calm, very

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relaxed. That's the magical space because
within that space, you can set an

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intention and you can come out of
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day, which I was, that
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So that that's that I believe,
is a way that people can start to

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test for themselves how how to create
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in your own life that is so
accessible. Ranna, thank you. I

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love that. And I don't know
if you would consider a six year or

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nine a minute bak from yoga class
meditation, but I put it into that

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camp for a certain for a certain
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of that chatter you're talking about,
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in the class, and sometimes it's
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things I'd be there would be so
much loud, you know, mind chatter

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and just negative thoughts that even sitting
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difficult. For me, So meditation
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say yoga is a form of meditation. Taking a walk to clear your mind

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is a form of meditation. So
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to get up and kind of do
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go out, maybe take a walk
to clear my mind. It is really

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the practice of clearing that mind chatter, calming your body, and when you're

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calm, that's when inspiration comes to
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intuition, right, that's where the
magic happens. I totally understand that this

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wasn't what's been happening for me as
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may be related. I really resonated
and loved your idea of cosmic consciousness.

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For me, that gets to everything
being inter threaded and interconnected. And I

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know you'll say more about that,
but I want you to tell us,

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if you will, what you mean
by this concept and why you think it's

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important understanding how to create the life
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no, absolutely So. When I
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is a book on the power to
manifest and the step by step process by

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which you can use to manifest positive
things in your life. So my analytical

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brain was like trying to break it
down to very simple, straightforward steps to

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manifest things. You know, these
are the steps that worked really well for

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me, right, So I'm doing
that. And in this sort of process

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I was going through of learning these
things and experiencing it, I would almost

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ask why does this work? Right? Why does this really work? How

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am I able to do this and
create? Like why? And so as

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I was kind of going deep into
my own work of understanding, I realized

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that everything in the material world is
connected directly connected to the spiritual world.

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So everything in the spiritual world creates
everything in the physical world. So cosmic

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consciousness, as I talk about it
in the book, is this consciousness,

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right, It's this universal source energy
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the power and energy that permeates throughout
everything. And when I say everything,

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that means you and I, right, and so so it's this powerful source

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energy that we're all connected to.
So we are connected to the source of

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every you know, the source of
the creator of everything, which is huge.

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It is huge, right, So
that's what I mean by coll It

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is being connected to something bigger than
ourselves, something that is unseen but in

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which everything gets created. And the
way we tap into that energy of cosmic

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consciousness is through the power of our
thoughts. It is through the vibration within

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our body, right, and our
thoughts and our feelings and our beliefs all

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create vibrations, and that vibration is
a language in the universe that connects to

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this cosmic web. And we all, I think, deep down, have

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experienced this, right. We know
that there's connection. We know that in

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nature everything is connected. We've all
had those experiences. We're thinking about somebody

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and then they send us a text
or we get a phone call, and

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we think it's coincidence, but in
reality, there is no coincidence. It's

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we are all connected, you know. I love every single last drop of

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this Rana. Thank you. And
also the other thing that I really want

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a surface to talk about next,
which you've been kind of queuing up already,

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is as someone who is a fanatic
fan of language, I love the

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English language, Spanish, Portuguese,
English, French or it Giant French.

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You talk about how our spoken words
are sounds that reflect our thoughts. I

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love that sounds that reflect our thoughts. So would you say a little bit

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about how the power we about the
power we can harness with the words we

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use and how we use them.
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sort of discovered that we'll discovered this. When I say discovered, you know,

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it's information that's out there. But
when I first learned about this,

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I it really rang true for me, And it was this idea, right

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that our words reflect our thoughts and
therefore reflect our beliefs to create a vibration

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which creates our reality. So we
have to be very conscious of what we

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are saying. So, for example, it's as simple as saying what you

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want versus saying what you don't want. You know a lot of times,

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you know, we don't want to
be sick, right, so I don't

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want to be sick. I don't
want to be sick. I don't want

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to be sick. That's saying what
we don't want. And in that context,

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right, what you're putting out is
this fear of being sick. So

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you're emanating this negative vibration which kind
of goes out into the cosmic consciousness.

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And what do you receive back?
You know, you're you're more likely to

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experience what you don't want, So
instead being conscious of almost understanding, even

416
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though it's difficult. Right, So
as best as you can clearly stating what

417
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it is you want. I want
to be healthy. I want to be

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healthy. It feels very different in
your own body when you say healthy versus

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sick. Absolutely right. So it's
being very conscious of the words that we

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say and how we say them.
And because even if you say something negative,

421
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you know, we're all so used
to kind of bonding on things we

422
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.039
don't like, you know, sometimes
that's the place where we can connect.

423
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You complain about the weather, complain
about our boss, complain about what have

424
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you, and it could be really
you know, captarting. We could just

425
00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.240
get in there and complain. But
and there's time to get to do that.

426
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Right, You're going to let it
all out, but know that once

427
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it's let it out, release it. But if you dwell in it,

428
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.880
it's just going to make you feel
bad. It's going to make you feel

429
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negative and bad, and when you
feel bad, you're not going to experience

430
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anything good. So to be conscious
that the words that you put out there

431
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.400
are the words that you're going to
get back. And also just on the

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you know, we could talk about
this for a while too, but words

433
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also can help you build a new
sort of internal belief about something, and

434
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that's why affirmations our tools that people
use in this creation process to build a

435
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new belief about yourself, like saying
things like I am worthy, I am

436
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brave, I am beautiful. We're
not used to saying positive things right about

437
00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.920
ourselves, and we usually feel really
negative things about ourselves. We're usually hard

438
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.759
on ourselves. But the more you
use words, because words are powerful to

439
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:08.920
build belief, the quicker you're going
to see that you're attracting and you're creating

440
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:15.279
more positive things in your life.
Fantastic. Want to take us into our

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last break here before we come back. I'm your host, Alis Cortes.

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We are in the air with Ronazia, who is the author of the book

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You're Hidden Light, a personal guide
to creating your desired life. She's a

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former CFO, having spent twenty years
in corporate finance working for large fortune five

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hundred companies. She joined us today
from Wycoff, New Jersey. After the

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break, we're going to continue the
conversation about her book. Stay with us,

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We'll be right back. Alis Cortez
is a speaker and engagement and development

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catalyst. She designs and delivers professional
development, leadership and engagement workshops and can

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bring her expertise to your organization.
She will help ignite meaningful development within your

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workforce that will increase employee engagement,
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to invite Elise to speak to your
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on purpose. This is working on
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program today, send an email to
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Now back to working on purpose.
Thanks for staying with us, and welcome

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back to working on purpose. If
you're just tuning in, my guest is

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ron Azia. She is the author
of the book You're Hidden Light, a

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personal guide to creating your desired life. She is a former CFO, having

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spent twenty years in corporate finance working
for large fortuit five hundred companies. I'm

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00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:00.719
your host, Elise Cortes, so
Rona. Before the we were talking a

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00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.639
bit more about the items in your
book that I particularly gravitated to, and

462
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.440
the next thing I want to talk
about that I found really interesting and I've

463
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.480
never anybody else actually described it.
The way that you have is you talk

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about how negative emotions operate in a
low frequency while positive ones operate in a

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high frequency. Can you say more
about this? And really what I mentioned

466
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.599
in is as how and why this
phenomenon managed living in our emotions to create

467
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:28.639
the lives that we want. Yeah, absolutely, so, I have a

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whole chapter on emotions and the power
of emotions. So, emotions are energy

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00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:40.559
that we physically feel, right,
So they again represent our thoughts, and

470
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it's an expression of our thoughts in
our body, how we physically feel.

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And so because emotions are also energy, and energy creates a vibration, not

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all emotions are created equally. So
negative emotions are a lower vibration and we

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feel that in our body because vibration
emotions make us feel bad, right,

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00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.199
they bring us down. Think about
that, right, So when you feel

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00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:12.000
bad, you're kind of down.
You know, higher vibration emotions, positive

476
00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.280
emotions, you know, feelings of
passion, gratitude, love, those are

477
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.840
really high emotions. They make you
feel good and some people even say they

478
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:23.800
can get high right when they feel
good, they feel high natural hides.

479
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:31.599
So as you go up the emotional
scale, right of energy, the highest

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00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:37.159
emotion being love. It's a very
high frequency, and gratitude is right below

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00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.519
that. It's the gateway to love. How do you immediately get yourself in

482
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.519
a good place, Well, start
to think of things you're grateful for and

483
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.400
you'll immediately start to feel good.
And so when you want to manifest something

484
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.800
in your life, you easily manifest
things when you're in this higher vibration because

485
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:59.920
that high vibration is what really connects
you to this cosmic consciousness. Right,

486
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:07.239
people talk about love is all there
is, right, God is love.

487
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.519
Love is all there is. And
if you think about this all in terms

488
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:17.159
of energy, it's the energy and
vibration of love that is the most powerful

489
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:23.760
creative force in the universe. So
why shouldn't we be able to harness that

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00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:30.559
creative force ourselves to create wonderful things
in our life? And yes, we

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00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:36.760
can do that, and that's by
keeping ourselves as best as we can consciously

492
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:42.519
in those higher vibrational states. That
was so crisp and easy to follow Roun

493
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:44.679
And thank you for that. I
love how you gave us access to that.

494
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.719
I followed that entirely and got even
deeper access in what I got from

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00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:51.559
the book. So thank you,
and you probably were starting to say some

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00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:53.360
of this. But the next thing
I wanted to ask you just again to

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00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:57.400
give our listeners something they could really
walk away with for to be able to

498
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:01.960
put into practice today, is you
just describe a four step creation process and

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00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:05.519
how it works to help us create
the lives that we want. Can you

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00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.639
just sort of briefly cover that four
step process? Yeah? No, absolutely,

501
00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:14.679
So the four step creation process,
it's the same process to create anything

502
00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:19.119
in your life, whether it's something
very small or a bigger change in your

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00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:23.719
life like I did trying to you
know, change in careers. And so

504
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.440
the step one in the process is
first starting with a thought. What is

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it that you want to create?
What is your thought? What is your

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00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.599
desire? What is your goal?
What is your intention? Right? So

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00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.960
create an intention. And also when
you create your desire goal, the next

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00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:44.960
thing you have to ask yourself in
step one is do I believe it is

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00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:50.960
possible for me? Because without the
belief, you can't get past step one.

510
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:53.199
You can't because then it just becomes
a wish. Right, So you

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want to create a powerful intention that
you believe in and once you have that.

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Step two is an emotion. It
is infusing gratitude into your body.

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00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:10.960
So what you're doing is you're getting
your body into a higher vibrational state.

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00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:16.719
So be grateful. You know,
initially you can be grateful for your desire

515
00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:22.199
as if you've already achieved it,
you can say I'm grateful for X,

516
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:28.280
y Z, thank you, and
you can move on or for some reason,

517
00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:31.960
if that's difficult to do, just
get into whatever you know, think

518
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.119
about whatever you need to think about, just to get yourself into that higher

519
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:42.039
vibrational gratitude. So that's step two. Step three is detachment. So we

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00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:46.159
can probably spend hours talking about detachment, and when you're trying to manifest something

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00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:52.800
in your life that is very different
than what you've ever experienced, detachment can

522
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.599
sometimes be difficult. But sometimes if
you're trying to manifest something that you have

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00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.480
experienced before and you know you can
do it again, it may not be

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so difficult. So what detachment really
is is detaching from your desire on how

525
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:12.199
it's going to happen for you.
It is one a knowing that it will

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00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:17.119
manifest for you, but it's not
worrying about when it's going to come,

527
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:22.159
how it's going to come, or
why hasn't it come yet. So another

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00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:29.639
way to think about detachment is a
lot of times when we really want something,

529
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.840
our body starts to ten stop.
It's like I really really want it,

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00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.800
I really want it, and we
feel strained, we feel stress,

531
00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:43.519
our body feels in a state of
unease. When you're detached, you're relaxed.

532
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You're like, I know it's coming, I know it's coming, and

533
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.159
you relax. There's a sense of
ease. To detachment is putting your body

534
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:59.239
in a state of ease, and
in that place is where creation starts to

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happen. So once you detach,
right from it, step four is the

536
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place of action. So that's where
you do things in line. I wanted

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00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.639
to create a book, well I
had to write it. But you're not.

538
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:22.199
You shouldn't, shouldn't really start to
action. If you're in a place

539
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.440
of honeyes, honeys, and straight
you're attached, your way to attach,

540
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.719
your action will feel really really hard. Your action will flow from that place

541
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:35.679
of ease, in that place of
knowing. So those are the four steps.

542
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:43.000
It's your your thought with a belief, gratitude, detachment, and then

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00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:46.880
action beautiful, so accessible. Thank
you for that, and listeners, put

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00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:52.079
that down and get to work,
and you know how to make it a

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00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:54.519
little simple, just really quickly.
One way to test this out because a

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00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.880
lot you know, this could sound
still sort of like, oh my gosh,

547
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:00.440
you know, it can sound a
little bit overwhelming. This is what

548
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:05.239
I did to really sort of test
out this process. And it's very simple.

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00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:08.519
It could take This whole process could
take twenty seconds. I would wake

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up in the morning and I would
have an intention for my day and say,

551
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Okay, what do I want my
day to be? Like, I

552
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:16.559
want my day to be productive.
Not all my days were productive. It

553
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:22.280
wasn't something that happened all the time. But I knew it could happen if

554
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:25.599
I wanted it to. So I
would intend a productive day. I would

555
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:30.880
believe it was possible. I would
quickly say thank you for my productive day,

556
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.960
and I would just not think about
it anymore, and then I would

557
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.280
go into my work day and do
whatever I needed to do. Now by

558
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.440
the end of the day, I
would come back and think, oh my

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00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:45.239
god, I was super productive.
For me. That felt very much that

560
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:50.360
I manifested that because I never felt
like that every day, And the more

561
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.280
I did that, and the more
I made slightly different intentions on a daily

562
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:59.480
basis, intending something for a meeting
that I was going into, intending how

563
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:04.440
I wanted, you know, dinner
with friends to be like I would see

564
00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:09.760
for myself my power to create my
reality. So it could literally be a

565
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:15.000
twenty second process. Wow, that
was That also gave me more to it,

566
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:17.679
And the fact that we can actually
do it in twenty seconds is incredibly

567
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:22.360
encouraging. Thank you for that.
We're running close at a time here,

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00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.679
runner, so maybe I can get
one or two more questions before we have

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00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.400
to dash. But one of the
other things that you talk about, which

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00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:34.280
I find incredibly intriguing and compelling,
is the idea of choice. So talk

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00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.360
to us a little bit about how
choice determines our reality. Yeah, so,

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00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:42.000
I, you know, I think
about the world that we live in,

573
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.519
right, is a world of infinite
choices. We're always being presented with

574
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:49.639
choices, right, do I go
left, do I go right? Do

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00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.400
I take this job? Do I
take that job? And it's our choices

576
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:59.880
that create our reality. And so
when we think about you know, choices

577
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:07.800
and creating a positive reality for me
is choosing the positive over the negative.

578
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:17.559
If I'm experiencing something that that could
be perceived right a certain a certain negative

579
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:23.239
way, I may choose to think
about it slightly different, to change my

580
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:27.760
experience of it, if that makes
sense. So I can give you,

581
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.800
like, you know, a quick
story that I think I talk about it

582
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.559
in the book. You know,
my husband and I were on a trip

583
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:36.880
together. I was on his work
trip. He you know, he was

584
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:40.239
going to Portugal for his work trip, and I tagged along with him.

585
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.159
And the last night we were there, I wanted to go out and with

586
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:46.960
people that I had met while he
was working, you know, in the

587
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:52.760
city. And I met some some
people and I wanted to meet meet out

588
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:57.039
with them, and I wanted us
to have a really fun last night in

589
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.840
Portugal. And my husband didn't want
to. He just wanted a quiet night

590
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.320
so we can get to the airport
early so we could fly back home.

591
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.599
But I kind of can, you
know, I convinced him otherwise, and

592
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:09.719
we ended up staying out really really
late and having a really great time.

593
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:14.880
Now in the morning, we've got
very very little sleep, And the next

594
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:17.559
day he realized he left his jacket
somewhere in the middle of the night,

595
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.119
and he was really, really really
upset about that. We're really angry and

596
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:29.000
at me, you know, blaming
me. And at that point I was

597
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.639
I was literally like, Okay,
this could go in a really bad place.

598
00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:36.039
You know, we could we're both
tired, we could be fighting this.

599
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.639
I could just play out the whole
scenario in my head like we're not

600
00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:42.039
going to talk on the airplane,
We're going to be miserable, tired,

601
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.239
Oh my god, and my head
could go down this total negative path.

602
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:50.599
And I knew his head was going
there too, And so I did whatever

603
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.800
I could to sort of change the
story in my head. And how can

604
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:59.639
I how can I just practice going
against where I would normally go in all

605
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:05.519
my years marriage and just spin this
story in my head? And so I

606
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:08.519
started to chalk this whole situation up. Is can't we just laugh about it?

607
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:13.440
Can't we just think of it as
a fun night out? And so

608
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:16.760
when my husband and I finally kind
of talked at the airport, I threw

609
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:20.320
that out to him. I just
said, you know what, why can't

610
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:25.760
we just feel good that at our
age we can still hang out with people,

611
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.079
have our age and stay out all
night, have a great time and

612
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:32.920
it will be a funny story when
we get home, and it calmed both

613
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:38.320
of us down. And so it's
this idea of choosing a different story,

614
00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:45.079
choosing a different perspective, choosing a
different lens. And at that point I

615
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:47.599
felt like, for the first time, you know, we were able to

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shift pretty quickly into a different space
and instead of going down a negative path,

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we were able to kind of just
be on a positive one. Yes,

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that story is in your book,
by the way, R, So

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thank you for that and way to
illustrate just the power we have to create

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the realities that we want for ourselves. Beautiful story and here we are at

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the very close already. So I
let you give my guests the last word.

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If you will run and so and
say thirty seconds or less, what

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would you like to leave our listeners
with today? Well, I would say

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I can leave you with one more
thing really quickly. That's very easy to

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do in terms of just manifesting positive
things very quickly. It is to wake

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up or go to bed whatever time
you choose with thinking about things that you're

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grateful for. I talk about the
power of gratitude in my book, and

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it's very easy to do. Because
there's something that we're all grateful for.

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So I would just suggest tomorrow morning, wake up first in the morning,

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list is many things in your mind
that you're grateful for, and start your

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day and see if your day shifts
in a positive way. Beautiful way to

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finish, Rona, thank you so
much for joining me. You were at

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light and a tremendous help. Thank
you, Oh, thank you so much

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for having me on. This is
really fun. You're welcome. If you

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want to learn more about ron Azia
or her book You're Hidden Light, a

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personal guide to creating your desired life, or the work she's up to in

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workshops and programs, visit her website. It's your Hiddenlight dot com. If

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I missed last week's show, we
can always schedule your recorded podcast. We

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are on there with Nick Craig,
he's the CEO of Core Leadership. We

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talked about his latest book, Leading
from Purpose, and next week we'll be

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on the air with doctor Trullian Small
talking about Overcoming the Fear of Love,

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where she provides a psychological and neurological
perspective of fear, particularly as it relates

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to love. See you there.
Remember that work is at least one third

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of our life, so let's work
on purpose. We hope you've enjoyed this

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week's program. Be sure to tune
in to Working on Purpose, featuring your

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host Alis Cortes, each week on
the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This week,

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find your life surpose at work