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I've got so much to be thankful for
So much to be thankful for
Look I got a roof and a bed a couple
Hey, alexis
Welcome everybody
Hey amy, hey amanda. Hey sherry
We're starting this call off with some gratitude
All right, so I want you to be thinking what are you thankful for today?
I want you to pop it in the chat pop it in the chat. What are you thankful for right now? Let's just
Fill the chat up with gratitude right now. What are you thankful for right now?
One thing's true
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Be thankful for the guy
Keep going more in the chat. What are you thankful for? Let's keep going
You
Awesome welcome everybody. We're just popping what we are thankful for
This makes our brains very very happy
And I just thought what a better thing to start out today
With what we are thankful for today
Okay
I'm gonna read a few of them off and
If more are coming to your mind go ahead and drop those into the chat of what you are thankful for today
a
sunny day me to
Garima
Cream and I live in the same area and it's it may be 35 degrees
But by gosh, it's sunny and it makes me very happy too. So yay sunny day God
Amen
Grateful, it's Monday
Me too, Sherry
Me too
Amy's thankful for her kids
Linda, there's always hope. Amen. Yes, there is. I'm thankful for some hope today. So good.
Christy's thankful for an easy start to the week and month and a slow start and having time to do
everything that needs to be done. That just feels good, doesn't it, Christy? That's nice.
That is awesome. I love a slow start to the week and the day. I'm thankful for that too,
actually. Mondays, I usually do that. So I'm very grateful for that too.
Linda's thankful for the sunshine and the rain. I love that. Thankful for both.
Lisa's thankful choices and her family. I like how you put choices. That's powerful.
Very powerful, Lisa. You know, speaking of choices, that's right, girls. She's strong.
See, speaking of choices, I was talking with a friend this weekend and we were talking about how
did you know that our brain makes average, like, I think it's 30,000 decisions a day.
And so that's why decision fatigue is a real thing and why some people can just get really
tired from making decisions and making choices. And it's a blessing to be able to have so many
choices. It's like a catch-22 to the brain. Also, a lot of women don't even have the opportunity to
make choices in their life in a big part of the world still. So I love that you said that, Lisa.
I think it's a really powerful thing to remember that we get to wake up and we each get to make
our own choices on what we want to do today. What we want to do with our business, your business,
your health, your relationships, you get to choose. Yay. All right, Linda said she's thankful for the
breath in her lungs. God's breath, yes, can be something that's super easy to
take, you know, take for granted. So thank you for that reminder. I'm thankful for the
breath in my lungs too. Green was thankful for her family. Sherry's thankful for AI. Let's go,
let's go. Would y'all believe this weekend, so this weekend was Easter, right? And I don't know why,
but I shouldn't be surprised at this point. But the topic of my family get together on Saturday
with people at church on Sunday and with some of my friends on Friday was AI.
It was, it was a huge part of the conversation. And I really love Sherry, how you said you're
thankful for it because a lot of the people in my circles and who I was having conversations with
were not thankful for it. They were very scared of it. And so we had some really, and I actually
had some really intense conversations about AI. I was going to mention that on this call today too.
So thanks for sharing that, Sherry. I feel like everything's already aligning with some of the
things I was going to talk about today. Linda's thankful for who you are in Christ. Amen. That
never changes. Thank God. Yeah. Garima, good health. Same. So good. So good. A sound mind
for church and Jesus Christ. Amen. The Holy One and all the things that I know. That's so good.
I love that. Okay. Thank you everybody for starting with some gratitude. I think
two weeks ago I went to a trauma conference. I don't know if I mentioned that to you all,
and I actually wanted to share something that I learned from it about the brain on our call today.
It's going to be really powerful. And again, it might be something you, your brain has already
heard, but our brains need to hear things seven times for it to really stick. And so I'm really
looking forward to kind of digging into a little bit of our brain and what there's four different
sections of our brain and what they do and are built to do for our, for our brain. So I want to,
I want to talk about that today. And I also wanted to talk, I wanted to mention something really
quick. So I'm curious of all of you on this call, because a lot of you are building businesses,
you're using AI and you're learning how to leverage it. You're learning how to,
to use it. It's, it's a hot topic. The Rainmaker family, we are teaching people how to do that.
That is literally what this community is. It's a huge part of where we're going. And I'm curious
if you could pop in the chat for me in your vicinity of some of the people you've talked to
about AI. Is the overwhelming response, is it negative or is it positive?
I'd love for you to pop in the chat negative or positive.
Or maybe it's a mix of both. But I'm really curious. If you could pop that in the chat.
So pop in the chat if around you or with the conversations you're having with people
about AI is negative or positive. Sherry. It's funny. Well, I'm sure AI has positive
things to say about AI. So Kristy, positive. Garima, IT service sector is scared. So more
on the negative. Exactly, Kristy. Okay. That is great. AI is happy for AI. Okay.
Okay. Linda, overwhelmingly positive. Okay. But just some awareness of the negative aspects to
it. But overall, it's positive. Okay. Anybody else? All right. It's pretty much most of you
guys on the call here. Okay. Here's why. Because AI is our new normal. This is our new normal.
We are going into a world. We are building a world. All of us are on the cusp of it really
coming onto the scene and into the business world and into just our lives as a whole.
It is kind of one of those things. It's like when the internet came on, but it's 2.0, in my opinion,
because we already have a lot of things building behind AI for AI to even be a reality for us.
And I just think every time something new comes on the scene in our world, there is a lot of fear.
There's a lot of negative thoughts that can really become really overwhelming. And I mean,
there was somebody this weekend who told me, who was like, oh, we're just doomed. We're just doomed
because of AI. Like, I don't even know where we're going to go. Now, is this person more
closed-minded and negative about their own life? Of course, because all of you know how the brain
works, right? It's their own neuropathways. It's their own rejection, projecting onto other people.
But I think it is good for all of us to, for all of you to be thinking about how do you want to
think about AI? And how do you want to, you know, pose conversations and show up in conversations
with it? It was the hot topic of my weekend. And none of these people that I was talking with were
business owners at all. And it's just becoming, you know, a lot more powerful. And here's what,
here's something I share to people talking about AI. And I just wanted to share this. And I wanted
to encourage you all with this story, okay? Because if you're a business owner, you're able
to see things that the average person is not, I don't, I want to be careful how I say this, but
you think differently. Business owners think differently. CEOs think differently, right?
Because you're like solving a problem and you're multiplying, you're 10xing, you're creating
something that maybe never was, or you're learning skills that other people are not needing or
wanting to learn. So AI, even though it's hot in our world as business owners, it's still pretty
like new, I think, getting out into the average public. But this just is not going to be the case
for the next five to 10 years. It's going to go like this. And then it's going to be our new normal.
And we're just, you know, our kids, kids, kids, they're all going to just grow up with it. So I
wanted to share this though, the power of AI in a business. So, oh, his name is escaping me.
Oh man, dang it. I should have written it down. It's a guy who predicted he's one,
maybe Christy, you might know his name. It's a guy who's really big into AI. And he predicted
that there would be somebody who would go to create a billion dollar business just using AI.
Is any name ringing a bell with that?
He's really famous in the AI world.
Okay.
It's not,
it's,
okay.
Anyways, don't remember his name.
I'm not great with names either,
but I'm gonna pop this article actually for you all.
It does have the name in there.
Give me one minute to look this up really quick.
Okay.
Sam Altman.
That's it.
Yup.
So Sam Altman basically said,
in our, in the near future,
he said there was going to be somebody
who would go on to build a billion dollar brand
just using AI.
He, and, you know, people were saying that's not,
that's not possible,
which as everybody knows,
something is not possible until it's,
until somebody does it.
Like the four minute mile, right?
So, so I have a local friend.
His name is Elliot Gallagher
and him and I've been friends for quite a few years
and he has ran a marketing firm.
He ran a marketing firm for quite a few years
and he worked with me with some of my business,
some of my personal brand,
and he has a brother who lives in LA
and his brother had this idea a couple of years ago
and he said, huh, what would it look like if I took,
it was a crazy idea, okay?
It was this.
What if I leverage GLP-1 drugs?
You guys know GLP-1 drugs?
They're like blowing up on the scene right now.
He's like, what if I build an online platform
where people could have access to GLP-1 drugs,
people could have access to doctors?
And so we kind of, he was thinking,
take two companies and put them together
and he would be the middleman
and he would be the one to create the platform
and the software where these two could meet
and then they could, you know, sell GLP-1,
people access to healthcare in a different way online.
Sounds like, okay, like that's already been done before.
Some of you may have had thoughts like that.
Oh man, someone's already done this idea before.
Somebody's already doing this thing.
So he had this idea, but of course it was already being done
because most ideas, there's a, you know,
a spinoff of something that's already in the world.
It's already happening.
So he took $20,000 and he took a couple of,
and he took AI and he just rolled with it
and he built an online platform and he launched it.
I think this was about a year and a half ago.
So not that long ago, he launched it
and it was so full of people and customers
and abundance of people began to come into his website,
into his platform that he needed to hire a person.
So he hired my friend, Elliot.
That was the only other person he hired.
Okay, the two brothers and Elliot came on
and Elliot also was using AI.
And between these two brothers and their AI systems,
and now they have a couple of workers
that they've also hired overseas,
but overall the business is run on AI.
And guess who is going to be the first billion dollar
company built on just AI?
It's these two people.
And I know them personally.
So I'm popping this link in the chat,
grab this and take it with you and just read it.
These are my, this is one of my personal friends
who lives down the street from me in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Okay, he doesn't come from much.
Actually, he comes from a lot of chaos, a lot of trauma,
both of him and his brother did.
They don't, you know, their dad passed at a young age
and they are gonna be the first person.
So Sam Altman actually wants to interview them
and wants to meet them.
And this is all just happened.
I think he sent me this link on Friday.
So like three or four days ago.
And the company is now, it's called Medve.
I don't know, maybe some of you've heard of it
if you've used GLP-1.
But here's the thing about business too.
The GLP-1 started working cause he already
leveraged two different companies that were already working.
He came in, made it better, made their systems better,
and now they're literally offering,
you know, 20 different services now.
I mean, it is no longer GLP-1.
It's now meals and,
and, you know, other drugs and,
okay, whether I'm a fan of this
or agree with this or whatever,
this is the power of AI right here.
Two brothers, one brother with $20,000 and an idea,
an AI, and boom, it is going,
it is set to be a billion-dollar business.
My friend told me, he said,
they started having million-dollar months,
and he was like, I mean, it's just a matter of time
before it hits a billion dollars,
and again, they started it like a year and a half ago.
Okay, that is wild.
And so AI has the power.
This is where, this is a new belief
that I'm beginning to really see,
and I wanted to really encourage all of you with.
AI, while it can be very overwhelming,
can be very scary,
there can be a lot of unknown with it.
Once you learn certain skills,
again, you all know this, you cannot unlearn them.
They are now yours to use as you want
and as you can see possible.
And what used to take, I mean,
how many years did it used to take
for a company to become a billion-dollar company?
I mean, decades before, right?
And this is, again, this is top percent.
This is not average.
This is completely above average.
I mean, my friend Elliot,
because I saw him last week,
he said that I think that they're about to make history,
that they are the fastest company
that's grown to this number in history,
or at least since the 1800s or something like that.
And I'm like, okay, how do you even factor
something like that, first of all, okay, right?
Like, whatever though.
He just wants to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
I don't blame him.
But it's just the sheer power,
the sheer scalability,
the sheer speed that we are going to have access to
and are already privy to.
And so I just really wanted to share that.
And anybody have any thoughts about this you want to share?
I just wanted to open up the topic of AI
and like scaling your business.
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Thanks for sharing.
I mean, I would just say that it's such a nice,
like I would, from this,
my takeaway from the model that they did
is like, they were like a middleman
and getting two services together
to just put them together.
And there were like no much like physical products
or physical.
So there's a lot of like, from this use case,
there's so much of learning to do
that it's more about like,
there's so much learning to do
that it's more about just trying to figure out
how you can make things work better.
You may not have to even come up with a physical product,
just see where you can position yourself
and maybe make two sectors talk to each other
in a better way and use AI.
So this is great.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah.
You're welcome.
That's great.
Well, what's interesting is he actually
is selling a physical product though.
Like he's selling GLP,
it started with GLP medication
and they're technically are selling other products,
but they're partnering with companies who are selling it.
Right, okay.
Yeah, but it is the middleman's way of thinking.
So he's not even the one who originated
the idea of what they're selling.
He just had an idea and was like,
wait, I see something.
There could be something here.
And they're so average.
If you look at this,
they're just average looking people.
If you look at this article,
he's literally wearing a sweatshirt.
And my friend Elliot was like,
yeah, he underdressed for that.
I was like, he underdressed
or that's like what he normally looks like.
He's like, actually that's how he usually looks.
I'm like, yeah.
Like he's literally wealthy,
a wealthy person in the world.
His home is like, I think 11 mil in SoCal.
And he's like out here looking like a normal person.
So I think there's just like some,
I think the rich and the wealthy,
I think even in our world is kind of shifting
on kind of what's important and like what that looks like.
like. So I thought that was really humbling too. Anybody else have any other thoughts about AI,
about this company, about what's possible? One thing that I've been finding whenever I'm
interacting with AI and just based, I haven't read the article, but based on what you're saying,
the article says it's, it really, I think is beneficial to people who have like imposter
syndrome or self-doubt or need to see the end before they can start because AI is like so
positive when you interact with it. Like, yes, this is a great idea. You should keep going or,
oh, have you thought about it this way? And it's very encouraging because it also has all the
answers and it also gives you directions to go in. And it, I think helps people like this very
average, like you said, looking human who has just an idea and a notion, but no actual like
skills to pull it off, pull off this thing, which I would hazard to guess when he started,
wasn't thinking he was going to be a billion dollar business owner in like less than five years,
because statistically that's just not true, right? I would guess that he started with the first step
and then with the power of AI built confidence over time and decided to keep taking steps
because he felt empowered either by the encouragement of AI, the people around him,
whatever the environment he was in to continue to feel that encouragement,
but to keep walking down the path and to keep getting answers to the questions that he had.
And so I feel like maybe like this use case, you know, not every, so I work in med tech and I can
tell you it very quickly becomes a billion dollar industry because of the medical needs across the
globe. And so it's very easy to have a billion dollar company in medical applications, unlike
something like e-commerce, you know, direct to retail, it is a slower birth path, but nonetheless
having that confidence to continue on the path, even as you don't have the answers 20 steps from
now, you only have the answer steps from now. I think, you know, this article really gives
an empowerment to all of us to just keep going. Exactly. Thank you so much for saying that,
Christy. And that is exactly what I also wanted to touch on today because I will say he's not a
doctor and he has never been in the medical field before ever. This was way out of his comfort zone.
I know that much about him and his brother. And I do know that they had prior marketing skills
and they had prior skills online, working in online remote space, a business model of using
affiliates, which is not what we really teach here. We teach a different type of, now they do
no ads by the way, and we teach ads here, which is really important. So that's also how they scaled
quickly was, was leveraging ads. However, this is where the mindset comes in is that he didn't let
imposter syndrome keep him stuck because him and his brother, they have tried so many things.
I know them. I know them personally. Well, mostly my friend Elliot, I know very well, but
I have seen my friend Elliot go up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down, take the risk.
It didn't work. Take the risk. It didn't work. One thing worked kind of for a little bit, and then it
didn't work anymore. And, and, and this is the power of continuing to go and, and adding on to what you
said, Christy, about that self-confidence. He went in knowing he could trust his leadership skills
is what he could trust. And he could trust that he could figure it out. He, and that is something we,
we, I think is a good thing to reiterate to all of you today. If you're feeling stuck or there's a
something ahead that feels really difficult to tackle or to learn, it is, it is quite simply
taking on the belief. I can figure anything out. I can do this. And then you will begin to do it.
Will there be fumbling? Yes. Will it not make sense at some points? Yes. I will say these two gentlemen
gave up a lot in the last two years of their life. I mean, they did not have a social life.
There was no work family balance. I don't think that's for everybody. I don't think that fully
aligns with how we run, like we teach here. For example, I think there's a little bit, definitely
of a hustle culture going on with them and kind of their way of philosophy.
the and it's worked I mean something finally hit for them and my friend Elliot was telling me I
said I mean how does that feel he was interviewed last week as well and he said it is almost on it
maybe I should bring him on wait should I try to get him on this call
whoa I just had that idea he probably would show up
uh he oh okay maybe next week I'll see if he's available um yeah instead of me just telling you
what he's told me we can hear him from his mouth because he he did tell me he said you know it's
very costly though to get here but it also felt he said it's almost unexplainable he said it's
I can't even fathom the success right now like it doesn't he's like it doesn't even seem real
he's like we just he's like I feel like we just are getting started I mean imagine feeling like
that having so much success from the beginning you know and again it's not the beginning because
because we see these success stories and I know they I mean they were that they were the boys who
were entrepreneurs as little teen boys you know like selling newspaper but I don't think that
because I wasn't that person I just became an entrepreneur a couple years ago myself for the
first time I don't think that disqualifies us though because it's a it's it's the sheer
what's available to us right now and and a different way of thinking what can get there so
okay I'm gonna see if I can get Elliot on here I doubt I'll be able to get his brother
but I definitely can get Elliot who's his right-hand man and my friend so that'd be crazy
okay I'll give you a post okay that's fun all right I see a hand raise did you want to share
something not fun yeah but I think you actually hit a lot of it so I did take a minute and read
the article and what stood out to me is that like you said they started as teenagers like his brother
they started and they started so many businesses that like you said worked and did not work but
for me what really stood out is you know part of what we talk about in mastermind which is
you get stuck you fail those are things you've learned along the way you know you use those are
not wasted because what he leveraged is basically what he learned during his failures and it looked
like right before he even did this he had a business which he put like 60 people he had
employees yeah it was a watch business that I went and saw and I got to see you know before my
eyes everything that was going on and that's not even that long ago it's just like two years
yeah so he found out he knew like and then I know like this one he said it hit up right away
and also the people you employ because like his brother he pulled in had the same level of grit
you know having to work a lot of people you know we see the success stories but he also
had the grit behind which is putting in everything they knew putting in all their time to keep up
with the fast what do I call it the fast turnaround like the fast the high expansion
they needed to do so quickly with the amount of people they were having coming in so for me it's
like like personally I'm at a point where it's like okay you've learned this you've learned this
you've done this like you went to the mastermind how do you leverage that knowledge that you now
have it might not look like it's going where you want it but those are all knowledge you can now
leverage and keep going which for me it comes full circle because I know that's one of the
things that we used to talk about like as a beginning mastermind person then was it like
these people that have been here like two years three years and they talk about pivoting
um trying all that like you know changing what you use changing what you sold and all that and
hearing their story really brings that full circle that look all that knowledge is not wasted going
to those experiences is not wasted like personally I've done the china got my product gone through
all that phase you know posting on amazon and now I can think of making a product in china
without freaking out right because I've done the process I've been there done that been able to get
a product him and able to ship it so I'm gonna be able to shoot so he's like you've now gotten that
muscle that you can now leverage so I and you hit a lot of the others I wanted to say so yeah
that was so well said and I think such a beautiful reminder of of to keep going.
and to keep trying new things and to not give up, right?
And how none of what all of you have learned is wasted.
It's not.
It's wasted if you so choose to believe that it is.
And here's where the power of our mind comes in
because it's really important to take on
an abundance mindset just in general in life.
I just believe that's the way to go,
to be thinking there is more than enough.
There is more than enough.
That's the essence of abundance.
There's more than enough.
There's more than enough ideas.
I like that, Christy.
I think we're onto something right now.
And I've seen, you know,
you can tell when people are speaking
and I'm like, you do not have abundance thinking.
It's a no.
You're like constantly saying this isn't gonna work.
No, I can't do this.
Why are you even trying that?
Well, guess what?
I think thinking abundantly takes more courage
than thinking in a poverty way or a scarcity way,
which says there's not enough.
Why does it take more courage?
Because I think scarcity is what a lot
is very normal still.
It's still like the average normal default
for a lot of us humans.
Like exactly, we are wired to keep us safe.
We are wired for that.
And I think that's why thinking abundantly
can have so much friction to it.
And here's also why.
Some of our trauma, our nervous systems.
We talked about nervous system.
Was that last week?
Talked about nervous systems last week or the week before.
And how our nervous system is constantly trying
to tell us something and we need to take care of it.
And when we go into fear,
when we go into fight or flight response in our brain,
it is so, abundance is not a natural way
of thinking at that point.
Because abundance requires risk.
It requires courage.
It requires thinking about something
you've never actually seen before,
which is the unknown.
Again, our natural response to that is scurred.
Like, no, I'm scared of the unknown.
That's scary.
That's a risk.
I've never been there.
I don't have any evidence for that space.
So my brain's gonna go naturally to the evidence I do have.
My reticular activator system,
which are like our antennas, right?
Is gonna go back and it's gonna like grab all the evidence
for what you have seen and what you have experienced.
And it is required in business
to take on an abundant mindset
because you all are creating something you've yet to see
or you're hoping for something that is different and new
than what the brain has ever seen or been a part of.
And that is so, that is why I wanted to touch
on this article and I wanted to touch on these,
one of them I can call a friend
because they've been through a lot of trauma in their life.
And honestly, they don't have,
on paper there's not a lot of reason
why they would be successful in this way.
Their brains would have told them otherwise,
stay safe, don't take the risk.
Like we've failed a million times.
Like I, why even try again?
But they didn't.
And I wanna read, I wanna touch real quick
on the four sections of the brain
and how our brain tries to keep us safe
and how we can, I want you to be paying attention this week.
Let's just claim it.
Can we claim this abundant April?
Because we did Miracle March,
we saw a lot of miracles in March happen.
And I would love for this month
us to be really looking at abundance.
Where is there more than enough?
Because when you catch yourself thinking,
oh, I don't have enough time,
that's not an abundance thought.
That is immediately, when you think that thought,
it's like stress, anxiety, I gotta fit it all in.
Like, but when you say there's plenty of time,
I'll get it done.
Your literal nervous system is like,
we're gonna get it done, I'm at peace,
it's gonna be okay, look at that.
So let's be looking for abundance this week.
Oh, I can't wait.
Okay, now listen to the brain.
Parts of our brain.
There are four main sections of the brain.
So the one is the brainstem, which is right here.
We kind of talked about it.
at like the C5, it's right here,
and it's responsible for temperature control,
breathing, and keeping our heart beating and our senses.
So kind of, it's also similar to the vagus nerve
that I showed two weeks ago or last week,
I literally can't remember.
Okay, so we've got the brainstem, senses,
controls our breathing and our temperature,
keeps our heart beating.
All right, that's one part of our brain.
Then we have the amygdala,
which I like to call the amygdala
is like the brain's watchdog,
meaning that's the part of the brain
that's like trying to keep you safe
because the amygdala receives information
and it communicates it to the rest of your brain
of what's happening in the moment.
So our amygdala is like, okay, I'm seeing a bear,
let's run, that's the amygdala speaking in the brain.
Or in other cases, I see a big amount of money,
I'm in debt, I'm gonna run.
That's like the amygdala response right there.
Okay, our amygdala is like our watchdog,
it's keeping us safe.
And then the hippocampus is the part
where we have reward, memory, bonding,
learning, and emotions.
So the hippocampus is my personal favorite part of the brain
that I feel like I'm in touch with a lot,
but it's a reward, memory, bonding, learning,
and where our emotions are housed.
And then here's the last main part of our brain,
the prefrontal cortex,
which is about right here.
I didn't show you where the rest of our brain is,
you guys can, I didn't look up a slide show
for this or anything, but you can look that up if you want.
But the prefrontal cortex is like right here.
And this part is where we are also very much in touch with.
This is where we have creativity, thinking,
language, problem solving, impulse control,
perseverance, comprehension, values, belief, hope,
the ability to be aware of time and reasoning.
So you probably have heard all of these four parts
of the brain, yeah?
Like these are the main big four parts of our brain.
And did you all know that the prefrontal cortex
is not fully developed until we're 25?
So before then, it's not, it's still developing.
And so that's something to say.
And so here's the thing.
Our brain, the brainstem, the amygdala, the hippocampus,
and the prefrontal cortex are constantly communicating
and working together all day, every day.
That's wild to me.
And so that is why a big part,
also I wanna say the amygdala,
releases the cortisol and the adrenaline.
So that's why it's really important kind of talking,
I'm gonna bring this full circle here.
That's why it's really important
to take care of our nervous system
and to take care of yourself and the stress that you feel
or that when you're triggered or when a trauma thing happens
or when you're beginning to feel anxious or out of control
or like your breathing's, you know,
your sleep's not off, is off.
These are all things that you need to take a look at
and pay attention because it is your brain
trying to tell you something.
It just doesn't always mean it's the thing
that you wanna listen to.
So get this, this is the power.
At this retreat I went to, this conference,
and they were talking about these four main sections
of the brain.
And they said between the brainstem, the amygdala,
the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.
I basically asked the question,
what am I supposed to do with this?
This is great and everything, you know,
and practically what do I do if I'm feeling stressed
or like what is the antidote?
How do I take care?
How do I best control some of this?
Because it's not all controllable, it's not.
It just happens.
I want to know in the chat,
it's not nervous system work
even though that is a part of it.
We've already kind of talked about that,
we've touched on that.
That reiterated, that made me feel good.
I was like, oh good, I'm talking to y'all about this
and how important that is, the nervous system,
taking care of it.
But there's one other thing that was mentioned
conference that if you can do this, you are going to take really good care of
your prefrontal corpus, your your hippocampus, your amygdala, and your
brainstem. Anybody have it? I would love to hear. It's one, it's doing this one
thing. Pop in the chat your guesses. I just want to see your guesses for fun.
All right, meditation. We got meditation, sleep and rest, sleep, gratitude,
confession, self-talk, laugh, maybe laughing. All right, any other guesses
before I reveal the answer?
Puzzles. That's fun, that's fun. That is good for our brain, I will say, and our
nervous system. Okay, I'm gonna give one more hint. I'm gonna see if anyone gets
it because somebody kind of got it, but I'm gonna give one more hint. Okay, the
question is, so taking, you know, these four sections of our brain, the
brainstem, amygdala, hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex, which basically like
runs every part of ourselves and the brain, what is the like number one thing
that is recommended to do to keep yourself in a positive, you know, stress
free, everybody's happy, functioning well state? There's one thing that they
mentioned and it really blew my mind, but it also didn't because I work with
minds. So I'll give you a hint. We have done this work already in this community
and we just did, we did a couple, we took a couple weeks to work on this
particular thing. Any other guesses?
Okay, yeah, Sherry got it and Linda, you too. It's changing your neuropathways.
That was it, which we've kind of, I don't use them as, I don't, wouldn't use the
word affirmation. We use the word as the, the, yeah, changing your
neuropathways with your brain prime and how we went over that was Shannon
Irvine's book, The 67 Day Year. Essentially what Shannon Irvine taught
in that book is, was mentioned multiple times in this conference. If you can
change your neuropathways to align with who you are and what you want to believe,
it will follow because our brains are so malleable and we have so much power to
work with the way that God made our brains. How amazing is that? So again, it's
not just these little silly, I needed to touch on this again because some of you
are still speaking very negative to yourselves and you're not having hopeful
thoughts. You're not having abundant thoughts and I'm gonna tell you right
now, that right there is actually some of the most important work that is
connected to so many other things in our body and our brain and our, in our, in our
way of being is what we think determines a lot. And I just sat back and I was like,
wow, that was a good reminder for me too. And I want to just reiterate to all of
you, doing that brain prime and saying those, you know, record, refute, and then
create a new brain thought for yourself is so much more powerful than we even
still fully realize. And, you know, some of you have been through big trauma, big
T trauma. Some of you have been through little T trauma. Some of you maybe
haven't been through that much trauma. You're not fully aware of it, or you will
go on to have some in your life at some point because we're not, none of us are
free of it. It's a very real thing that comes to destroy and
really hurt our brains and some people don't ever recover.
And yet, I mean, you can, if you choose to recover,
you can, if you choose to do the hard work,
this is hard work.
This is hard work deciding to believe something positive
and abundant when you have believed something shallow
and small for so long.
It is so courageous and it is extremely difficult,
by the way.
And yet, it's worth it on the other side
to get on the other side of healing.
I was just talking to a friend this weekend
and one of my friends was like telling me,
she's like, you've really healed a lot.
Like you have changed a lot in the last 10 years
of your life.
And I'm like, I mean, when I sit here and tell you all,
I should not even be alive.
I mean, I should be dead multiple times over
or like have multiple baby daddies,
homeless, strung out on drugs.
Like that was where my life was going as a teenage girl.
It was really, really, really terrible.
And I was raised in chaos.
And most people just don't, you meet me and you're like,
how are you raised in chaos?
And it's like, oh, well, where do you,
would you like to start?
And so it's just so beautiful to see
that no matter what has happened,
cause see chaos can be really,
really deceitful and really tricky.
Cause if you have a thought like, I can't take risks,
that thought right there will keep you stuck.
Or I'm not capable.
That thought right there will keep you stuck
for a long time.
And I've seen so many people have all of these beliefs
and yet they keep saying, but I really wanted this thing,
but I really wanted to try for this thing,
but I just never did it.
You probably have all heard this too.
I have a friend who works in hospice.
And a lot of these people who are on their deathbed,
they're dying.
They are later in life.
They have massive regrets.
And a lot of it is because they never did that one thing
that they were too scared to do.
And usually guess what?
It's a belief that kept them from doing that.
And also their brain doing its job, by the way,
the amygdala, the hippocampus,
all talking to each other and saying,
don't do that, you're going to fail.
Well, just what if you said, no,
I'm going to try this and it's going to work.
What if you begin to relook at your thoughts this week
and make them more abundant thinking?
This is our work.
It is our opportunity.
It is our job.
It is not anybody else's, right?
It's not my dad's fault that he, you know,
told me to stop crying at a young age
and put me in a corner and treated me like terrible
and hit me and told me I'll never amount to anything.
That, maybe that is what I was told.
Do I want to keep believing that about myself?
No.
However, the courage it takes to close that gap
from your childhood or the things people have spoken
over you or the things you have began to believe
that are not true, the gap between that
and getting where you want to go,
it can feel very daunting and it can feel real big.
And actually, dare I say impossible.
What's the point?
And just how it's going to be.
And I was just reminded last week,
and I wanted, I really wanted to remind everyone today
that your thoughts matter
and what you think about yourself matters
because you matter.
And if you've been believing some things,
most people aren't in touch with what they think about.
So the first step to this is to think,
be aware of your own thoughts,
not what you want them to be, but how they actually are.
I kind of shifted, I shared a testimony
with you all last week on how I used to have this belief
that I'm not a real mom unless I have a biological child.
I literally had that subconscious belief
until like last week.
My whole life has been different
this last two weeks of my life.
I am different.
I am showing up different.
And nobody would be like, oh, that's not true.
Well, it doesn't matter if you think it's not true.
I think it's true.
I thought it was true.
And it was subconscious
because 90% of our thoughts are subconscious,
meaning we are not conscious of them.
So imagine how powerful it is to do this work,
to be in tune with your thoughts,
to be conscious of what you're thinking
that you don't like, that's not working.
and say, wait a minute, I want to believe and think something different.
And that is powerful work right there. And that is courageous work.
Thank you, Margo. I appreciate you sharing that because it never ends.
And here's the last thought I wanted to share with you all as we wrap up our call.
They said healing, because what let's let's be honest, what is changing our
neuropathways really is it's healing. It's healing our brains. It's healing our beliefs.
And if I spiritual for a moment, God actually mainly only cares about our beliefs.
He didn't care about what we do. He cares about what we believe, because what we believe is what
we end up going to do. So he's really the word mind is actually in scripture all over and I
could go on a whole like Mindset Monday on that and how important our minds are.
And the more I get to know it and study it, I'm like, Oh, absolutely.
It's like the it's a huge part of us. But But hear me out.
If you can begin to believe just one thing different, you will get a different result.
Now, it may not be it may not be instant. And it may take years, actually, because I've actually
been believing this belief for four years, actually, I didn't even realize that. So I
put so much pressure on like, I need to heal my womb, I need to heal this disease, obviously,
with God. I need I need this isn't this so I can have biological children. I only have 10 years
left to have kids. Like, there's not a lot of freedom in that thinking, even though it seemed
like it was, though. So just this new one new thought is really like transforming other areas
of my life, too. And I'm just remembering the power of this, and that this is for anybody and
everybody. And I think the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy and starts in our mind starts
in our thoughts. And here's the thing healing is a lifestyle, not a destination. Healing is a
lifestyle, not a destination. And that is why even if you just look at some of your thoughts this
week, that is amazing to take a look at, like, where am I feeling stuck? And I always say,
okay, you've all seen me coach on the spot. I try to dig in, where's the belief? What are the
thoughts going on surrounding this? Because they're so incredibly important.
Yeah, exactly, Linda. Exactly. And so this week, there are we did go over think it wasn't January,
was it January is either end of December or January where I really walked you through how
to change a neuropath way with Shannon Irvine's way. And if some of you have already created a
brain prime, keep listening to your brain prime. Okay, this is a reminder, keep listening to it.
If you haven't created one in January, you can go back on the app and you can see where I walked
you through how to create a new neuropath way. There actually are a couple of steps to it. It's
not just like say a negative thing and say the opposite. Our brain there's like a specific way
to go about about, you know, changing your neuropath way. So this week, I want you to take
a look. If you're already doing a brain prime, I want you to keep going with it. If you're not
create, you can create one. And at minimum, you can be more aware of your thoughts that are more
scarcity and ask how can they be more abundant. And when we come back next week, I'm going to
start the call of with where did you see abundance this week? Where did you see abundance? Because
it's coming. And it can be something so small, so so small. For example, I'll already share one real
quick right now that just happened. My best friend came in last minute for the weekend. And I didn't
have a place where to stay because I have three kids living with me and their mom upstairs. So I
don't actually have a guest room. So that's something I gave up for the season. But I said,
you know what? No, I'm going to I'm going to transform half of my basement into a guest room.
And I just had this thought. I said, there is plenty of resources in the world. I can go find
them. I can go figure this out within literally 12 hours. Within 12 hours, I had a bed, a mattress,
a mirror, a I mean, it's all literally right here. I mean, I had all of this stuff.
All of this just given to me within 12 hours. And then boom, my friend was like ready to sleep
here because she doesn't like blow up mattresses. She's bougie. And I love her for that.
And I was like, I will not make you sleep on a blow up. That's fine, girl. I'll get you a bed.
And so let's look for abundance this week.
And yeah, healing is a lifestyle, not a destination.
And that's really encouraging for all of us.
Okay, that's be really encouraged
because there will always be areas that we need healing.
And we just go one day at a time, one thought at a time.
And yeah, Jennifer, the thought that was changed
because I had this thought of like,
I'm not a mom until I have a biological child,
but kind of this idea in God's family,
like mothering, the idea of mothering
is actually being nurturing and loving and creating safety.
And I do that for, I've actually done that
for hundreds of people in my life.
I do it in my home right now.
And so that, I wanna be a foster mom at some point,
that's a part of me.
And so it was just really empowering
for me to shift that thought.
What?
That is amazing, Margo.
What?
Let's go, that's abundance right there.
Yes, that's exciting too.
When are you getting married?
Oh, wow.
That is gotta be so encouraging.
It's only four months away.
I'm sure you still have a lot of things to do
and decisions to make and yeah.
Yeah, that's abundance right there.
Let's go.
I love that, Linda.
I can figure this out.
And I'm sure you were able to figure it out, weren't you?
Yeah, I just say that I, a short came up on my YouTube
and it's about this lady who had to have brains,
four or five brain surgeries.
And at the end of it, she talked about how she was upset
and she didn't think she could go on
and so on and so forth.
And she said at the very end,
I think at the last brain surgery, she says,
you know what, I'm gonna figure this out.
And that just struck a chord with me.
And so that's what I've been saying
because we've been going through the different courses
and brain makers and thing and the learning curve
and the whole, I'm going to figure it out.
That's right.
I'm going to figure it out.
Figure me out.
I'm going to figure it out.
Yes.
It's going to work for me.
That's right.
So good.
I believe you.
I said, if she could have five brain surgeries,
I can have one.
Right.
You can figure it out.
I can figure it out.
Exactly.
That's good.
Amen.
Okay, while I still have all of you,
if you have another minute,
I'm gonna try to ask my friend
to see if he can pop on next week or the week after.
Any questions right off rip,
you would want me to ask him.
Could you pop it in the chat real quick?
Any questions for my friend with this article
that came to your mind when I was talking about it earlier?
All right.
How did you leverage your past experiences?
Okay.
Also a thought was,
yeah, what mindset should we have to approach this?
What should we be doing?
And I'm gonna ask my friend to see if he can pop it in.
And if he can, I'm gonna ask my friend to see if he can.
Yeah, what mindset should we have to approach AI?
I love that.
Any other thought,
any other questions that come to mind with him?
And maybe we could just do an interactive call as well.
And if any thoughts come up on the call.
That'd be fun.
All right.
Okay, let's see his,
okay, how to handle AI employees.
Okay, that's cool.
Like that question.
What specific tools that were helpful?
Love that.
I was thinking,
you know, what keeps you going?
Or like, what kept you going to get to this point?
Oh, I like that.
How have you handled resistance internal and external
to prevent derailment?
Good.
Okay, Linda, a question about the idea.
Okay.
Maybe a word of encouragement to AI employees.
Okay.
Boom, you all, who are building, learning about AI.
Cool.
All right, I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best.
All right, amazing.
And my best is enough.
That's what I tell myself.
Okay.
Oh, nice, Margo, okay.
I like that.
You're welcome.
Absolutely.
You're welcome.
Okay, so great.
Thanks, everybody.
It's gonna be a good call.
So I will get with him, if not next week,
maybe another weekend in April.
I can just offer him a couple of our April Abundance Mondays
and I will keep you all posted, okay?
Thank you all so much for being here.
I always say it's such a gift being with you
and way to give yourself the gift of this call
and starting your week off strong with your mind.
It's always just such a pleasure being with you
and I'm so excited and looking forward
to your abundance thinking this week
and how you're going to see abundance in your life
because it's about to happen.
It's gonna be good.
All right.
Oh, wait, one more.
One more announcement.
If you are in the Business Accelerator,
only if you're in the Business Accelerator membership,
our event that is gonna happen is the end of May.
And so there was a survey sent out.
So please make sure to fill that out.
If you're able to come, we're looking at all of that info.
Only if you're in Business Accelerator.
That's not for everybody.
Just wanted to make that clear.
And if you're in Business Accelerator,
we are starting our new book tomorrow
on our office hours call.
So make sure you grab that announcement
in the app that I made
about what we're gonna be going over tomorrow.
All right, Abundant April, let's do this.
We'll see y'all next week.
Bye.