October 25, 2024 • 28 mins
So excited to have the truly inspiring Erin Bradley joining us. Erin is a speaker trainer, bestselling author, and the host of the Real Estate podcast: Pursuing Freedom and she's here to share her transformative journey and her mission to empower others. Get ready to be inspired by her story and insights, as we dive into the world of personal growth, and the pursuit of freedom.
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Theresa Cesare (00:06):
Hey guys.
Welcome to Heart to Talk thepodcast.
I am the host and creatorTheresa Cesare My intention for
this podcast is to deliver toyou wisdom, inspiration, and
consciousness.
Through solo episodes andconversations amongst insightful
people.
It is my greatest honor to bringto you talks that come from the.
(00:28):
Welcome to another amazingepisode today.
We have a truly inspiring guestjoining us.
Erin Bradley.
Erin is a speaker trainer,bestselling author, and the host
of the real estate podcast,pursuing freedom.
And she's here to share hertransformative journey and her
mission to empower others.
(00:48):
Get ready to be inspired by herstory and insights.
As we dive into the world ofpersonal growth, and the pursuit
of freedom.
Erin Bradley (00:56):
Welcome to the show, Erin.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited to be here,Teresa.
I love your show.
I love your energy.
Theresa Cesare (01:03):
This is such an honor to be here with you today.
Oh, the honor is mine because Ilove your show.
I love your work.
I love the way you show up inthe world.
And I'm just so excited just toshare you with this audience.
So I want to dive in.
Go ahead and tell us like whoyou are today and give us the
backstory.
Of how you became, the podcasterthe bestselling author and
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leading others to pursue theirfreedom.
Erin Bradley (01:26):
So right where I am today, we're recording this
in 2024 is I have anorganization called pursuing
freedom, which is the name of myreal estate podcast, as well as
my book that I published in2016.
And it evolved into a career inspeaking and coaching and.
The evolution started veryrocky.
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So, uh, as the youngest of fivekids, I grew up on the East
coast in Philadelphia and I wentto college and like all my older
siblings, like my dad, I studiedbusiness because that was sort
of the thing.
My dad was a stockbroker andfinancial advisor.
And so I checked the box forfinances.
I went into college having noidea what that meant.
And not, it didn't take me longto realize that I wasn't cut out
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for corporate America, but allof my siblings, they followed
that track, you know, get goodgrades, get a good job.
Most of them ended up in Philly,New York, DC, whatever.
So I think I assumed that was mypath until by the time I was
graduating in college, my oldersister had quit her corporate
job because she was having herfirst kid.
And I had this feeling of maybe.
That might be my path too, thatI might want to have a family
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someday.
And that maybe there's a windowhere to be selfish, if you will.
So my first few years out ofcollege, I decided to.
Postpone what some might callthe real world and do some
adventuring.
And much to my parents chagrin,I graduated and got a job at
Outback Steakhouse as a serverto fund my adventures.
And I started traveling, kayakedthe coast of Mexico, went on
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safari, lived in Barcelona for acouple of years.
And anyway, long story short isI find my way to Denver,
Colorado, through my travels andI ended up falling into the
mortgage business.
And when I did, I was thinking,I don't want to do this.
This feels like corporateAmerica.
They're like, no, no, no.
Trust me.
It was the small Latino mortgagecompany.
They were all really goodfriends.
Everybody came to the office injeans and a t shirt and then
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went to yoga in the middle ofthe day and put on their suit
for closing.
And I thought, Oh my gosh,that's the life for me.
It's footloose and fancy free.
I should be self employed.
I should go 100 percentcommission.
So I decided to take the leap in2007, go 100 percent commission
as a salesperson, a loanofficer.
And I did so with zero financialreserves, zero systems, zero
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confidence.
I just had a desire to be free.
That's what I thought.
So the pursuing freedom, that'skind of where it was founded.
I fell flat on my face.
And by the summer of 2008, I'mriding my bike to a client
meeting because I don't haveenough money for gas and I'm
getting there early because Ineed the sweat to dry off before
he gets there.
Try to figure out what's what'saware to look professional for a
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meeting with a mortgage clientand be able to ride my bike in
the summer.
And anyway, I get there early.
The client gets there early aswell.
And he introduces himself to me.
As my credit card is beingdeclined for a 2 cup of coffee.
And the worst part was I thoughtthat was the card that would
work.
So I didn't want to try anotherone.
So I felt like I was atfinancial rock bottom and I
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remember calling my dad foradvice and he just said to me,
do you think you're going to begood at this someday?
And I said, yes, I think I couldbe.
And he said, well, just dowhatever it takes.
And so fast forward a couple ofyears, I kind of, Started
devouring books, attendingseminars, pouring myself into
it.
I was refusing to quit and Ihired my first coach and I
literally was desperate and justsaid, tell me what to do and
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I'll do it.
And I did all the things theytold me to do, but the issue was
that it never really feltauthentic because all of the,
Actions I was taking were aboutgetting something to solve my
problem and today what I'mreally passionate about helping
others understand is that if wecome from a place of I have a
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problem to solve, I'm inscarcity.
I have a void that needs to befilled.
And so I've been told take thisaction.
Everything feels like a grindand everything felt very self
serving to me as well Like Ineed to do this thing make this
call set this appointment so Ican get something and when I get
something Then i'll havepermission to feel better And so
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it was this whole I call it likepaddling upstream energy, right?
And it wasn't until four yearsinto the business that someone
gave me the book the go giverAnd I read it and it clicked for
me where I I had this idea that,okay, if the concept is that the
goal is to be more of value,then you hope to receive in
payment or be a value above andbeyond what you get paid to do.
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I can get behind that.
I can resonate with that.
And so I created a strategy thatultimately allowed me to double
my business over and over again.
And it was simply coming from aplace of what's going on with
you.
What's the problem that you'retrying to solve?
Because what keeps you up atnight?
When you wake up at three in themorning, you can't fall back
asleep.
It's definitely not my mortgage.
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It's not my bank account.
Right.
So I decided to just table myagenda and stop focusing on my
need and my void and my problemsand start coming from a place of
contribution.
And I found that if I chase thecontribution, the dollars
followed.
Right.
And.
Coming from a place ofcontribution and being a value
to others actually fills yourbucket it fills your soul and so
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i started to feel amazing as ishowed up in my interactions
rather than mustering up theenergy or digging deep for the
motivation to do the activity soi could get something to solve
my problem there listen thedestination is the same right we
want you Financial stability,significance, financial freedom,
abundance, right?
We all want these things forourselves, but the journey can
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look very different.
The journey can be very needbased and very uphill, upstream,
or it can be joyful.
It can be coming from a place ofcontribution.
It can be where curiositySquashes your insecurity and
love can conquer fear.
And all of a sudden you findyourself engaging easily with
the external world or yourtarget market or whatever it is.
(07:14):
Right.
And you find yourself in flowand it's, it's almost
counterintuitive.
And I feel, I know from yourshow that your listeners
probably are used to the woo.
Oh yeah.
We get a little woo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But what ended up happening,Teresa, is that.
After I experienced this initialexternal success, okay.
Meaning the business grew extraexponentially, right.
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And the money was coming in andthe credit cards were paid off.
And I was so, so, so gratefulfor the money, but I started to
feel out of alignment.
Like I had built the structureon a faulty foundation and I
found myself working 24, seven,just trying to survive the
success.
And I remember.
Talking to some coworkers backin 2012, who were what I would
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consider ahead of me in thegame, like I was pregnant with
my second child.
Their kids were a little bitolder than mine.
They were doing more businessthan me.
And I remember asking them, howare you doing this?
Because I am just treading waterover here, just barely
surviving, trying to come up fora breath of air.
And it doesn't feel good.
The money's good, but I'm not.
And they admitted that theyworked until 11, 12, one o'clock
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in the morning, sometimes justtrying to keep up with the
demands of their career.
And so again, coming back tothe.
The title of the name of mybusiness pursuing freedom that
didn't feel like freedom eitheri was just a slave to my
business and my business waslike this whale in the bathtub
with my life trying to squish inaround the edges and i was just
becoming a shell of myself i wasnever present.
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I was always distracted, alwayspreoccupied, always trying to
move at a breakneck pace andnever giving myself permission
to experience the joy that I wasreally craving.
Right.
And so it just comes back tothis idea of when we come from a
place of need and scarcity.
And we think when I get there,I'll feel better.
Right.
And then sometimes I know peoplethat are in burnout.
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They're in survival mode, butsurviving their success, which
is an interesting form ofsurvival mode, and they say to
themselves, once this thingslows down, I'll feel better.
And so everything we desire isthen the idea that we're going
to feel good in the having ofit.
And so I just try to reverseengineer that and focus on
feeling good.
And it's scary because itrequires you making decisions.
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Which ultimately was learning toscale my business, learning to
hire help, getting out of my ownway and starting to do things
that felt terrifying and findingout that on the other side of
fear is often Extraordinarygrowth.
And it's just been thisevolution.
So as I learned to scale thebusiness, as I learned to create
predictable growth, I startedteaching others and I started
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teaching real estateprofessionals.
And I really found joy in thatspace of teaching.
So for many years I kind ofstraddled the teaching and then
the managing of the mortgagebusiness until I finally retired
myself in 2022 from the mortgageside so that I could pursue
this.
This place of teaching andcontribution full time.
And this is the thing that fillsmy soul.
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And it was terrifying onceagain, but here we are.
So everything's going great.
And that's a long winded answerto your question, but it kind of
paints a picture.
Theresa Cesare (10:19):
I love it.
And you're so authentic and allthe wisdom that you just spewed
out.
I'm just like, Oh, soincredible.
What would you say is yourbiggest mission in the space
that you're in now?
Erin Bradley (10:33):
My mission, what I love is that I have this visual,
I guess, that everyone has alight within them.
And I believe this to the core.
And I know because you can seeit.
So what I mean by that is whenyour light is When you're, it's
when you're having a good time,it's when you're feeling
inspired, it's when you'refeeling connected, engaged,
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alive, right?
Energized.
And when the light is out or dimis when you're feeling in fear,
in self doubt, in overwhelm,exhaustion, burnout, right?
And the truth of the matter isthat There's an emotional scale
there, right?
From fear and panic toconfidence and contentment and
satisfaction or from anxiety toenthusiasm and as human beings,
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we all know what it feels liketo be anywhere on that scale,
right?
So we've got lights on andlights out and throughout our
day, certain things can dim ourlight.
It could be circumstances thatare external to us.
It could be What's going on inthe political climate, it could
be what's going on in themarket.
It could be what's going on inyour relationships, right?
That can just rob you of thatlight.
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And so what I try to help peoplerecognize is that before you
take action, you need to have anawareness of where you are on
that scale.
And you need to be okay with thefact that as human beings, we're
going to vacillate.
Right.
If I'm in a place ofuncertainty, fear, overwhelm,
burnout, exhaustion, et cetera,I'm going to do whatever it
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takes to move myself along thatemotional scale to hope and
expectation and excitement andenthusiasm and contribution so
that I can come from a place ofinspired action rather than,
like I said, motivation, they'retwo different things.
Same destination, but if we getourselves to the positive side
of the scale, we can hear andreceive impulses that we can
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follow that will lead us topotential quantum leaps in the
desires that we have forourselves, right?
And the other way is kind oflike crawling our way out of the
darkness.
And I believe that if we canaccess the control switch of the
dimmer on the light within usand, and I wouldn't want to say
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master, but practice.
Certain activities that we cando when we recognize where we
are emotionally or mentally orenergetically and we can do some
work to move ourselves alongthat scale life just becomes
juicier there's more claritythere's more ideas there's more
creativity there's moreconnection and I genuinely have
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been a witness to this in my ownlife that from that place magic
happens.
And again, it sounds woo, butwe've all experienced miracles.
We all have things in our nowreality.
We're once either a pipe dreamor if you look back at some of
the most beautiful relationshipsor opportunities even just
meeting you Teresa It wasn'tscripted.
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I didn't find you on Instagramand then Strategize on how to
get to know you I have to figureout a way to network with this
person, right?
We Met because our paths crossbecause the stars aligned and
here we are connecting andhaving the beginning of a
beautiful relationship right soa year from now when I look back
you're going to be one of thoseexamples of the beautiful
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unscripted and I think that Iwant to help more people believe
in the fact that we don't needto have all the dots connected
to take the first step and thatwhen we feel an impulse and we
can hear our brain start tochatter and talk us out of it
because of that fear anduncertainty.
Thank you.
That we can be a witness to itfirst and foremost, and then
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make decisions on what to do inspite of it and how to, how to
access that control switchultimately.
So it's just this, this feelingthat I, I mean, I'm not, it's
not a feeling I've been awitness to it in myself and I'm
a witness to it with my, myfriends, my coaching clients.
You can see when somebody showsup on a call and they're fired
up and they're excited and theyhave a new idea and it's like,
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boom, lights on.
That's what I'm about.
I mean, I'm about seeing that.
Like, be ignited so that you cango ignite the flames of others
and create a wildfire ofopportunity and unexpected
surprise and delight and all thethings that are out there
waiting for
Theresa Cesare (14:45):
you.
That is a powerful mission.
And it is so true.
You can't fake energy.
So can you give the listenerskind of a, an example of what
moving from inspired actionbeing in your light to move
forward?
What does that look like?
Erin Bradley (15:02):
Yeah.
So it's very counterintuitivebecause we have been trained
since preschool to get up andhurry up and that achievement is
the byproduct of action.
So hurry up and get doing, getgoing, get going.
Right.
And as we become.
Adults.
And we move through the seasonsof life and we have this deep
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programming of just get up andhurry up.
It feels counterintuitive for meto say, slow down in order to
speed up like a slingshot.
You have to pull it back.
And the farther you pull itback, the farther it will
catapult farther, farther.
You can launch right.
And so many people in this worldare moving so fast on autopilot.
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Or just on this hamster wheel ofgo, go, go that they haven't
taken the time to evaluate ifthey're even Headed to the right
island like I remember Havingachieved a really high level of
success externally.
I always say that because Idon't define success by money I
define success by Unlimitedpresent moments with the people
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I care about personally andprofessionally the fulfillment
and present moments and joy,right?
So I had achieved a lotExternally, I had my, my biggest
month ever made the most amountof money in one month I ever
could even imagine as a childand I called my coach and I
said, I feel like I just mooreda ship to port and I'm on the
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wrong island.
Wow.
Because I had been like racingto this destination and I got
there and it.
It didn't really feel thathappy, so I am a huge proponent
of encouraging people to slowdown and do some reflection and
evaluate where you are withoutjudgment on that scale and then
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do the work for as long as ittakes until you are feeling
better because once you'refeeling better, you'll be more
clear headed.
You'll be more focused, moreenergized, more present, and
ultimately more capable ofachieving the desires you want,
again, in sometimes the mostunexpected fashion.
So what that would look like is.
Number one, I made a rule formyself many years ago that
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mornings are for me.
And this went against everythingI had done previously, which was
get up, hurry up, get to thegym, check the boxes.
Even when I was doing my morningroutine back in 2015, after I
read the miracle morning, evenwhen I started doing the morning
routine, I remember like, Itfelt like I was checking boxes.
Okay.
I meditated for 10 minutes.
I wrote my gratitudes.
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I then read 10 pages and then Iworked out, you know, it was
like everything was so scriptedand it was a good start.
Right.
But over time I started torecognize how impactful that
time Was for me and how well itset me up to be my best version
of me that day and when i was mybest version i started to
attract more like you said likea magnet right so nowadays i
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don't take any appointments forten which gives me as much time
many hours as i need to getmyself to the positive side of
the scale because as humanbeings i could wake up.
And still have that defaultanxious energy of I got so much
to do today.
I just have to get going, right.
Or I'm frustrated at somethingor I'm exhausted because my dog
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woke me up in the middle of thenight or whatever.
Right.
And so when I'm there, I take asmuch time as it needs.
And there's a couple ofdifferent activities you can do.
Number one, I'm a huge fan ofthis book called the black belt
of the mind.
I forget who wrote it, but blackbelt of the mind.
And he talks about Doing alittle activity where you
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measure your level 10 moments,level 25, level 50, 75, and a
hundred.
So your level 10 moments, youlook back on the day before.
And you look for simplepleasures.
How many simple pleasures didyou have yesterday?
Did you watch the sunrise?
Did you enjoy the coffee?
Did you snuggle with your dog oryour favorite person?
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You know, what little simplepleasures that you can have in
every single day.
And when you start it, you mightlook back and realize, I don't,
I don't know how many I hadbecause I wasn't really paying
attention.
And so then you make it a goalfor yourself to have a 10 out of
10 day.
So today I'm going to look for10 simple pleasures.
Like when I was getting readyfor this podcast, I was looking
out the window and I saw thissymphony of birds and my bird
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feeder's not even full and I waslike, Oh my God, look at all
those birds.
They're so pretty.
You know, that's a level 10moment, right?
But you're looking for them.
So you're waking up to thegoodness, simple goodness in
your life.
And then your level 25s aresomething that maybe happens
once every couple of weeks oronce a month.
And if you're so busy trying tomaintain this.
Friend frantic pace that you'vecreated for yourself, you may
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not slow down enough to putthose in your life, right?
So then it's about havingintention around making sure
that I have some level 25moments That could be like
getting a massage it could belike a really cool date night or
Lunch with a good friend orwhatever and then level 50s are
going to be something that mighthappen every couple months So
maybe like a weekend getaway orso up and up it goes and then
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level 100s are bucket list Youthings once in a lifetime.
And so it helps you to look backand see those.
How many level 100 moments haveyou had?
How many times have you blownyour own mind with some
experience in your life?
Right.
And you start to settle down.
Like when you do this reflectionand in my lifestyle design
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workshop, I do this.
It started out as businessplanning every year in December.
But it evolved into lifestyledesign because what's the point
of having success in yourbusiness if it's not going to
fuel your epic life.
So I want life to be the whalein the bathtub and I want
business to be simplified andstrategic in such a way that it
creates the life, right?
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So as I look at my life for theyear ahead and I tap into the
daydream before I can do that, Ido the reflection to say what
were the greatest happenings ofthe last year?
Which is gonna give me anindication of what really
matters to me for me it'sexperiences the money can afford
the experience so i need themoney but i'm focused on the
experience of the money canafford because that's gonna
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inspire me and then what are thenew relationships that i
developed and that's a reminderthat.
As I look at my daydream, Ihaven't even met half the people
that are going to show up on thepath to get me there and so
there's just this work that youcan do and you can do it, it can
take you 10 minutes and we dothis a lot in my workshops where
it takes, we do this for 10minutes on and a live, you know,
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virtual masterclass or in a livesetting and they answer these
questions that I providespecific to their personal life.
And before we do it, I askedthem to drop a word in the chat
about how they feel right now.
And some of them are feelinggreat.
Some of them aren't.
Right?
But by the end of 10 minutes,the words that come in are
things like grateful, centered,calm, hopeful, excited,
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enthusiastic, eager.
And so you can see how it'scapable.
That's accessing the dimmerswitch of the light within.
And it's like, all right, sofrom here.
What feels exciting to imaginefor yourself, right?
So we can tap into our heart inspite of the chatter in our
head, because we've learned howto quiet the chatter so that the
heart can be heard.
Theresa Cesare (22:17):
Beautiful.
Yeah, such a great tip.
And I've never read that book,but I'm putting it on my list.
That being said, how can peoplefind you?
and work with you.
Erin Bradley (22:32):
Sure so, I love just connecting with people.
Even if you don't want to workwith me, I love hearing from
you, I love connecting withpeople.
So you can reach out to me,follow me, DM me on instagram at
Pursuing Freedom Official.
You can reach out to me onLinkedIn at Erin Bradley.
Um, you can email me erin atpursuingfreedom.
com I genuinely Get high off ofgetting feedback.
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If there was something thatspoke to you and you had an aha
moment and you send me a DM, Iwill make my day.
And in making my day, hopefullyit makes your day too.
I love
Theresa Cesare (23:02):
that.
And I'll drop all of that in theshow notes.
And for those listening who arelike, Oh yeah, I'd love to
connect.
But those who are like, Hmm, Iwonder if I would be an ideal
client.
Do you have an ideal client whowould be the best person to work
with you?
Yeah.
Erin Bradley (23:16):
I specialize in helping real estate
professionals, realtors andmortgage lenders to redesign
their business.
You know, I mentioned earlierhow I felt like I had built a
house on a faulty foundation andeven though some things were
working out, other areas of mylife were crumbling.
So I like to help people take itdown to the studs and really
evaluate the foundation of thebusiness and design a future in
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spite of the past.
So not carrying along old ideasand beliefs and expectations and
habits, foundation Into thefuture, but really doing the
reflection and the evaluatingand the design of the landscape
of the future that feelsbeautiful to you so that you can
have goals that you want to runtowards instead of goals that
feel like a problem solvingdecision.
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I love
Theresa Cesare (23:59):
that.
And before I pivot to the endingquestions, is there anything you
feel called to share, want totalk about before we wrap up
this episode?
Erin Bradley (24:09):
The only thing I'll say is that.
My motto is say yes to life andbe curious about what might come
up for you.
Because if you're curious andyou're awake, you might be
surprised by the amount of doorsthat are waiting to open for you
rather than trying to figure itall out.
And, and I also like to say, ifnot now, when, so.
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Not like a lighthearted cliche.
I've actually experienced a tonof tragic sudden loss from a
very young age and five of mybest friends before the age of
22.
Like I've been through a lot.
So I really believe life isshort.
And so when I have an impulseand I follow that with why I
can't do it, I catch myself andsay, Okay, just a reminder, if I
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say I can't, it means I won't,because I'm not willing to
explore how.
And if I have that impulse, andI notice my brain speaking up
and saying, no, I can't, that'sthe moment at which I'm going to
pause and say, wait a minute, ifnot now, when?
So how do we make that happen?
And that's going to open yourmind to the solutions and the
doorways.
So powerful.
Theresa Cesare (25:12):
Oh my goodness.
We're going to pivot into theending questions.
So per tradition, the first one,what is your favorite
affirmation?
Erin Bradley (25:22):
Oh my gosh.
One of my favorite affirmationsis the less I chase, the more I
attract.
I love that.
Theresa Cesare (25:28):
I love that.
I love it.
And the second question, what isyour favorite book?
Erin Bradley (25:34):
Oh, that's a loaded question.
I have so many.
You can get more than one.
If
Theresa Cesare (25:38):
there's enough, if there's like two,
Erin Bradley (25:42):
I will give a few, I would have to say the go giver
was one of my favorite booksbecause it truly became a
turning point in my life.
And I was blessed to have theauthor, Bob Berg on my podcast.
And he is the real deal.
Like he is an actual go giver.
And so I just honor him for thatreason.
And then funny enough, one ofthe best books I've ever read is
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something I read very recently.
And it's called 10 X is easierthan two X by Benjamin Hardy.
And it sounds, I had it on myshelf for so long and I thought
it was going to be the oppositeof what it is.
I thought it was going to bethis hustle culture book.
And so I just, I kept hearingabout it.
Everybody kept talking about it.
And then I finally read it and Iwas like, Oh, yes.
This speaks to me.
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And I catch myself in that 2xidentity mindset of like, Oh,
I'm going to cling on to thislittle opportunity that might be
the thing that solves theproblem today.
And then it's like, hang on asecond.
That's so 2x.
10x is limitless.
And it levels up the whole wayyou see things and the filter
through which you determine yesor no to things.
And I just love it.
I geek out on it completely.
Theresa Cesare (26:46):
I love it.
You just gave me goose bumpsbecause I just listened to it,
the audio book, and I love it.
I'm like, the less, the less Ido, the more I achieve thank you
for sharing those two, books.
Okay.
And the last question, what doyou want to be known for?
Erin Bradley (27:01):
I want to be known for someone who helped someone
else see.
In themselves that light andbelieve in their ability to
literally design a life thatthey love and to say yes to life
and to live the most joyousfulfilled version of themselves
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and then again be surprised anddelighted by how everything
seems to work out for them.
I just want people to look backand be like, I heard her say
something one time on this stageor on this podcast or whatever.
And it woke me up.
It shook me inside.
And since then.
I've just felt belief in myselfthat I too can do anything I set
my mind to like I'll just shareone last thing is that the only
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difference between us and theperson living a life that we
desire for ourselves is theirdecision to do it.
And each and every one of us hasthe free will to decide that
doesn't mean that it lookspretty and I don't like to
compare myself on chapter one tosomeone else on chapter ten
because I don't know whattranspired between one and ten
but if I can be inspired by themand then actually learn from
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them.
put myself in the room withpeople that remind me of my
future, I might get to theirchapter 10 by my chapter four.
And so that's my challenge foreverybody listening is get
yourself in the room or in theenvironment or in the books or
in the podcast with the peoplethat remind you of your future.
And you might just be surprisedby how quickly your own life
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elevates through association.
Theresa Cesare (28:32):
Thank you so much for tuning into this
episode.
Please download, rate,subscribe, and share this
podcast.
Also, be sure to visit mytheresacesare.com to check out
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Otherwise, friends, I will beback in two weeks for another
episode of Heart to.
Hey guys.
Welcome to Heart to Talk thepodcast.
I am the host and creatorTheresa Cesare My intention for
this podcast is to deliver toyou wisdom, inspiration, and
consciousness.
Through solo episodes andconversations amongst insightful
people.
It is my greatest honor to bringto you talks that come from the.
(00:28):
Welcome to another amazingepisode today.
We have a truly inspiring guestjoining us.
Erin Bradley.
Erin is a speaker trainer,bestselling author, and the host
of the real estate podcast,pursuing freedom.
And she's here to share hertransformative journey and her
mission to empower others.
(00:48):
Get ready to be inspired by herstory and insights.
As we dive into the world ofpersonal growth, and the pursuit
of freedom.
Erin Bradley (00:56):
Welcome to the show, Erin.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited to be here,Teresa.
I love your show.
I love your energy.
Theresa Cesare (01:03):
This is such an honor to be here with you today.
Oh, the honor is mine because Ilove your show.
I love your work.
I love the way you show up inthe world.
And I'm just so excited just toshare you with this audience.
So I want to dive in.
Go ahead and tell us like whoyou are today and give us the
backstory.
Of how you became, the podcasterthe bestselling author and
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leading others to pursue theirfreedom.
Erin Bradley (01:26):
So right where I am today, we're recording this
in 2024 is I have anorganization called pursuing
freedom, which is the name of myreal estate podcast, as well as
my book that I published in2016.
And it evolved into a career inspeaking and coaching and.
The evolution started veryrocky.
(01:46):
So, uh, as the youngest of fivekids, I grew up on the East
coast in Philadelphia and I wentto college and like all my older
siblings, like my dad, I studiedbusiness because that was sort
of the thing.
My dad was a stockbroker andfinancial advisor.
And so I checked the box forfinances.
I went into college having noidea what that meant.
And not, it didn't take me longto realize that I wasn't cut out
(02:09):
for corporate America, but allof my siblings, they followed
that track, you know, get goodgrades, get a good job.
Most of them ended up in Philly,New York, DC, whatever.
So I think I assumed that was mypath until by the time I was
graduating in college, my oldersister had quit her corporate
job because she was having herfirst kid.
And I had this feeling of maybe.
That might be my path too, thatI might want to have a family
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someday.
And that maybe there's a windowhere to be selfish, if you will.
So my first few years out ofcollege, I decided to.
Postpone what some might callthe real world and do some
adventuring.
And much to my parents chagrin,I graduated and got a job at
Outback Steakhouse as a serverto fund my adventures.
And I started traveling, kayakedthe coast of Mexico, went on
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safari, lived in Barcelona for acouple of years.
And anyway, long story short isI find my way to Denver,
Colorado, through my travels andI ended up falling into the
mortgage business.
And when I did, I was thinking,I don't want to do this.
This feels like corporateAmerica.
They're like, no, no, no.
Trust me.
It was the small Latino mortgagecompany.
They were all really goodfriends.
Everybody came to the office injeans and a t shirt and then
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went to yoga in the middle ofthe day and put on their suit
for closing.
And I thought, Oh my gosh,that's the life for me.
It's footloose and fancy free.
I should be self employed.
I should go 100 percentcommission.
So I decided to take the leap in2007, go 100 percent commission
as a salesperson, a loanofficer.
And I did so with zero financialreserves, zero systems, zero
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confidence.
I just had a desire to be free.
That's what I thought.
So the pursuing freedom, that'skind of where it was founded.
I fell flat on my face.
And by the summer of 2008, I'mriding my bike to a client
meeting because I don't haveenough money for gas and I'm
getting there early because Ineed the sweat to dry off before
he gets there.
Try to figure out what's what'saware to look professional for a
(04:00):
meeting with a mortgage clientand be able to ride my bike in
the summer.
And anyway, I get there early.
The client gets there early aswell.
And he introduces himself to me.
As my credit card is beingdeclined for a 2 cup of coffee.
And the worst part was I thoughtthat was the card that would
work.
So I didn't want to try anotherone.
So I felt like I was atfinancial rock bottom and I
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remember calling my dad foradvice and he just said to me,
do you think you're going to begood at this someday?
And I said, yes, I think I couldbe.
And he said, well, just dowhatever it takes.
And so fast forward a couple ofyears, I kind of, Started
devouring books, attendingseminars, pouring myself into
it.
I was refusing to quit and Ihired my first coach and I
literally was desperate and justsaid, tell me what to do and
(04:43):
I'll do it.
And I did all the things theytold me to do, but the issue was
that it never really feltauthentic because all of the,
Actions I was taking were aboutgetting something to solve my
problem and today what I'mreally passionate about helping
others understand is that if wecome from a place of I have a
(05:03):
problem to solve, I'm inscarcity.
I have a void that needs to befilled.
And so I've been told take thisaction.
Everything feels like a grindand everything felt very self
serving to me as well Like Ineed to do this thing make this
call set this appointment so Ican get something and when I get
something Then i'll havepermission to feel better And so
(05:24):
it was this whole I call it likepaddling upstream energy, right?
And it wasn't until four yearsinto the business that someone
gave me the book the go giverAnd I read it and it clicked for
me where I I had this idea that,okay, if the concept is that the
goal is to be more of value,then you hope to receive in
payment or be a value above andbeyond what you get paid to do.
(05:45):
I can get behind that.
I can resonate with that.
And so I created a strategy thatultimately allowed me to double
my business over and over again.
And it was simply coming from aplace of what's going on with
you.
What's the problem that you'retrying to solve?
Because what keeps you up atnight?
When you wake up at three in themorning, you can't fall back
asleep.
It's definitely not my mortgage.
(06:05):
It's not my bank account.
Right.
So I decided to just table myagenda and stop focusing on my
need and my void and my problemsand start coming from a place of
contribution.
And I found that if I chase thecontribution, the dollars
followed.
Right.
And.
Coming from a place ofcontribution and being a value
to others actually fills yourbucket it fills your soul and so
(06:28):
i started to feel amazing as ishowed up in my interactions
rather than mustering up theenergy or digging deep for the
motivation to do the activity soi could get something to solve
my problem there listen thedestination is the same right we
want you Financial stability,significance, financial freedom,
abundance, right?
We all want these things forourselves, but the journey can
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look very different.
The journey can be very needbased and very uphill, upstream,
or it can be joyful.
It can be coming from a place ofcontribution.
It can be where curiositySquashes your insecurity and
love can conquer fear.
And all of a sudden you findyourself engaging easily with
the external world or yourtarget market or whatever it is.
(07:14):
Right.
And you find yourself in flowand it's, it's almost
counterintuitive.
And I feel, I know from yourshow that your listeners
probably are used to the woo.
Oh yeah.
We get a little woo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But what ended up happening,Teresa, is that.
After I experienced this initialexternal success, okay.
Meaning the business grew extraexponentially, right.
(07:38):
And the money was coming in andthe credit cards were paid off.
And I was so, so, so gratefulfor the money, but I started to
feel out of alignment.
Like I had built the structureon a faulty foundation and I
found myself working 24, seven,just trying to survive the
success.
And I remember.
Talking to some coworkers backin 2012, who were what I would
(08:00):
consider ahead of me in thegame, like I was pregnant with
my second child.
Their kids were a little bitolder than mine.
They were doing more businessthan me.
And I remember asking them, howare you doing this?
Because I am just treading waterover here, just barely
surviving, trying to come up fora breath of air.
And it doesn't feel good.
The money's good, but I'm not.
And they admitted that theyworked until 11, 12, one o'clock
(08:22):
in the morning, sometimes justtrying to keep up with the
demands of their career.
And so again, coming back tothe.
The title of the name of mybusiness pursuing freedom that
didn't feel like freedom eitheri was just a slave to my
business and my business waslike this whale in the bathtub
with my life trying to squish inaround the edges and i was just
becoming a shell of myself i wasnever present.
(08:45):
I was always distracted, alwayspreoccupied, always trying to
move at a breakneck pace andnever giving myself permission
to experience the joy that I wasreally craving.
Right.
And so it just comes back tothis idea of when we come from a
place of need and scarcity.
And we think when I get there,I'll feel better.
Right.
And then sometimes I know peoplethat are in burnout.
(09:07):
They're in survival mode, butsurviving their success, which
is an interesting form ofsurvival mode, and they say to
themselves, once this thingslows down, I'll feel better.
And so everything we desire isthen the idea that we're going
to feel good in the having ofit.
And so I just try to reverseengineer that and focus on
feeling good.
And it's scary because itrequires you making decisions.
(09:29):
Which ultimately was learning toscale my business, learning to
hire help, getting out of my ownway and starting to do things
that felt terrifying and findingout that on the other side of
fear is often Extraordinarygrowth.
And it's just been thisevolution.
So as I learned to scale thebusiness, as I learned to create
predictable growth, I startedteaching others and I started
(09:50):
teaching real estateprofessionals.
And I really found joy in thatspace of teaching.
So for many years I kind ofstraddled the teaching and then
the managing of the mortgagebusiness until I finally retired
myself in 2022 from the mortgageside so that I could pursue
this.
This place of teaching andcontribution full time.
And this is the thing that fillsmy soul.
(10:11):
And it was terrifying onceagain, but here we are.
So everything's going great.
And that's a long winded answerto your question, but it kind of
paints a picture.
Theresa Cesare (10:19):
I love it.
And you're so authentic and allthe wisdom that you just spewed
out.
I'm just like, Oh, soincredible.
What would you say is yourbiggest mission in the space
that you're in now?
Erin Bradley (10:33):
My mission, what I love is that I have this visual,
I guess, that everyone has alight within them.
And I believe this to the core.
And I know because you can seeit.
So what I mean by that is whenyour light is When you're, it's
when you're having a good time,it's when you're feeling
inspired, it's when you'refeeling connected, engaged,
(10:54):
alive, right?
Energized.
And when the light is out or dimis when you're feeling in fear,
in self doubt, in overwhelm,exhaustion, burnout, right?
And the truth of the matter isthat There's an emotional scale
there, right?
From fear and panic toconfidence and contentment and
satisfaction or from anxiety toenthusiasm and as human beings,
(11:19):
we all know what it feels liketo be anywhere on that scale,
right?
So we've got lights on andlights out and throughout our
day, certain things can dim ourlight.
It could be circumstances thatare external to us.
It could be What's going on inthe political climate, it could
be what's going on in themarket.
It could be what's going on inyour relationships, right?
That can just rob you of thatlight.
(11:40):
And so what I try to help peoplerecognize is that before you
take action, you need to have anawareness of where you are on
that scale.
And you need to be okay with thefact that as human beings, we're
going to vacillate.
Right.
If I'm in a place ofuncertainty, fear, overwhelm,
burnout, exhaustion, et cetera,I'm going to do whatever it
(12:02):
takes to move myself along thatemotional scale to hope and
expectation and excitement andenthusiasm and contribution so
that I can come from a place ofinspired action rather than,
like I said, motivation, they'retwo different things.
Same destination, but if we getourselves to the positive side
of the scale, we can hear andreceive impulses that we can
(12:23):
follow that will lead us topotential quantum leaps in the
desires that we have forourselves, right?
And the other way is kind oflike crawling our way out of the
darkness.
And I believe that if we canaccess the control switch of the
dimmer on the light within usand, and I wouldn't want to say
(12:44):
master, but practice.
Certain activities that we cando when we recognize where we
are emotionally or mentally orenergetically and we can do some
work to move ourselves alongthat scale life just becomes
juicier there's more claritythere's more ideas there's more
creativity there's moreconnection and I genuinely have
(13:06):
been a witness to this in my ownlife that from that place magic
happens.
And again, it sounds woo, butwe've all experienced miracles.
We all have things in our nowreality.
We're once either a pipe dreamor if you look back at some of
the most beautiful relationshipsor opportunities even just
meeting you Teresa It wasn'tscripted.
(13:29):
I didn't find you on Instagramand then Strategize on how to
get to know you I have to figureout a way to network with this
person, right?
We Met because our paths crossbecause the stars aligned and
here we are connecting andhaving the beginning of a
beautiful relationship right soa year from now when I look back
you're going to be one of thoseexamples of the beautiful
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unscripted and I think that Iwant to help more people believe
in the fact that we don't needto have all the dots connected
to take the first step and thatwhen we feel an impulse and we
can hear our brain start tochatter and talk us out of it
because of that fear anduncertainty.
Thank you.
That we can be a witness to itfirst and foremost, and then
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make decisions on what to do inspite of it and how to, how to
access that control switchultimately.
So it's just this, this feelingthat I, I mean, I'm not, it's
not a feeling I've been awitness to it in myself and I'm
a witness to it with my, myfriends, my coaching clients.
You can see when somebody showsup on a call and they're fired
up and they're excited and theyhave a new idea and it's like,
(14:30):
boom, lights on.
That's what I'm about.
I mean, I'm about seeing that.
Like, be ignited so that you cango ignite the flames of others
and create a wildfire ofopportunity and unexpected
surprise and delight and all thethings that are out there
waiting for
Theresa Cesare (14:45):
you.
That is a powerful mission.
And it is so true.
You can't fake energy.
So can you give the listenerskind of a, an example of what
moving from inspired actionbeing in your light to move
forward?
What does that look like?
Erin Bradley (15:02):
Yeah.
So it's very counterintuitivebecause we have been trained
since preschool to get up andhurry up and that achievement is
the byproduct of action.
So hurry up and get doing, getgoing, get going.
Right.
And as we become.
Adults.
And we move through the seasonsof life and we have this deep
(15:24):
programming of just get up andhurry up.
It feels counterintuitive for meto say, slow down in order to
speed up like a slingshot.
You have to pull it back.
And the farther you pull itback, the farther it will
catapult farther, farther.
You can launch right.
And so many people in this worldare moving so fast on autopilot.
(15:46):
Or just on this hamster wheel ofgo, go, go that they haven't
taken the time to evaluate ifthey're even Headed to the right
island like I remember Havingachieved a really high level of
success externally.
I always say that because Idon't define success by money I
define success by Unlimitedpresent moments with the people
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I care about personally andprofessionally the fulfillment
and present moments and joy,right?
So I had achieved a lotExternally, I had my, my biggest
month ever made the most amountof money in one month I ever
could even imagine as a childand I called my coach and I
said, I feel like I just mooreda ship to port and I'm on the
(16:28):
wrong island.
Wow.
Because I had been like racingto this destination and I got
there and it.
It didn't really feel thathappy, so I am a huge proponent
of encouraging people to slowdown and do some reflection and
evaluate where you are withoutjudgment on that scale and then
(16:49):
do the work for as long as ittakes until you are feeling
better because once you'refeeling better, you'll be more
clear headed.
You'll be more focused, moreenergized, more present, and
ultimately more capable ofachieving the desires you want,
again, in sometimes the mostunexpected fashion.
So what that would look like is.
Number one, I made a rule formyself many years ago that
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mornings are for me.
And this went against everythingI had done previously, which was
get up, hurry up, get to thegym, check the boxes.
Even when I was doing my morningroutine back in 2015, after I
read the miracle morning, evenwhen I started doing the morning
routine, I remember like, Itfelt like I was checking boxes.
Okay.
I meditated for 10 minutes.
I wrote my gratitudes.
(17:31):
I then read 10 pages and then Iworked out, you know, it was
like everything was so scriptedand it was a good start.
Right.
But over time I started torecognize how impactful that
time Was for me and how well itset me up to be my best version
of me that day and when i was mybest version i started to
attract more like you said likea magnet right so nowadays i
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don't take any appointments forten which gives me as much time
many hours as i need to getmyself to the positive side of
the scale because as humanbeings i could wake up.
And still have that defaultanxious energy of I got so much
to do today.
I just have to get going, right.
Or I'm frustrated at somethingor I'm exhausted because my dog
(18:14):
woke me up in the middle of thenight or whatever.
Right.
And so when I'm there, I take asmuch time as it needs.
And there's a couple ofdifferent activities you can do.
Number one, I'm a huge fan ofthis book called the black belt
of the mind.
I forget who wrote it, but blackbelt of the mind.
And he talks about Doing alittle activity where you
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measure your level 10 moments,level 25, level 50, 75, and a
hundred.
So your level 10 moments, youlook back on the day before.
And you look for simplepleasures.
How many simple pleasures didyou have yesterday?
Did you watch the sunrise?
Did you enjoy the coffee?
Did you snuggle with your dog oryour favorite person?
(18:55):
You know, what little simplepleasures that you can have in
every single day.
And when you start it, you mightlook back and realize, I don't,
I don't know how many I hadbecause I wasn't really paying
attention.
And so then you make it a goalfor yourself to have a 10 out of
10 day.
So today I'm going to look for10 simple pleasures.
Like when I was getting readyfor this podcast, I was looking
out the window and I saw thissymphony of birds and my bird
(19:18):
feeder's not even full and I waslike, Oh my God, look at all
those birds.
They're so pretty.
You know, that's a level 10moment, right?
But you're looking for them.
So you're waking up to thegoodness, simple goodness in
your life.
And then your level 25s aresomething that maybe happens
once every couple of weeks oronce a month.
And if you're so busy trying tomaintain this.
Friend frantic pace that you'vecreated for yourself, you may
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not slow down enough to putthose in your life, right?
So then it's about havingintention around making sure
that I have some level 25moments That could be like
getting a massage it could belike a really cool date night or
Lunch with a good friend orwhatever and then level 50s are
going to be something that mighthappen every couple months So
maybe like a weekend getaway orso up and up it goes and then
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level 100s are bucket list Youthings once in a lifetime.
And so it helps you to look backand see those.
How many level 100 moments haveyou had?
How many times have you blownyour own mind with some
experience in your life?
Right.
And you start to settle down.
Like when you do this reflectionand in my lifestyle design
(20:24):
workshop, I do this.
It started out as businessplanning every year in December.
But it evolved into lifestyledesign because what's the point
of having success in yourbusiness if it's not going to
fuel your epic life.
So I want life to be the whalein the bathtub and I want
business to be simplified andstrategic in such a way that it
creates the life, right?
(20:45):
So as I look at my life for theyear ahead and I tap into the
daydream before I can do that, Ido the reflection to say what
were the greatest happenings ofthe last year?
Which is gonna give me anindication of what really
matters to me for me it'sexperiences the money can afford
the experience so i need themoney but i'm focused on the
experience of the money canafford because that's gonna
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inspire me and then what are thenew relationships that i
developed and that's a reminderthat.
As I look at my daydream, Ihaven't even met half the people
that are going to show up on thepath to get me there and so
there's just this work that youcan do and you can do it, it can
take you 10 minutes and we dothis a lot in my workshops where
it takes, we do this for 10minutes on and a live, you know,
(21:30):
virtual masterclass or in a livesetting and they answer these
questions that I providespecific to their personal life.
And before we do it, I askedthem to drop a word in the chat
about how they feel right now.
And some of them are feelinggreat.
Some of them aren't.
Right?
But by the end of 10 minutes,the words that come in are
things like grateful, centered,calm, hopeful, excited,
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enthusiastic, eager.
And so you can see how it'scapable.
That's accessing the dimmerswitch of the light within.
And it's like, all right, sofrom here.
What feels exciting to imaginefor yourself, right?
So we can tap into our heart inspite of the chatter in our
head, because we've learned howto quiet the chatter so that the
heart can be heard.
Theresa Cesare (22:17):
Beautiful.
Yeah, such a great tip.
And I've never read that book,but I'm putting it on my list.
That being said, how can peoplefind you?
and work with you.
Erin Bradley (22:32):
Sure so, I love just connecting with people.
Even if you don't want to workwith me, I love hearing from
you, I love connecting withpeople.
So you can reach out to me,follow me, DM me on instagram at
Pursuing Freedom Official.
You can reach out to me onLinkedIn at Erin Bradley.
Um, you can email me erin atpursuingfreedom.
com I genuinely Get high off ofgetting feedback.
(22:53):
If there was something thatspoke to you and you had an aha
moment and you send me a DM, Iwill make my day.
And in making my day, hopefullyit makes your day too.
I love
Theresa Cesare (23:02):
that.
And I'll drop all of that in theshow notes.
And for those listening who arelike, Oh yeah, I'd love to
connect.
But those who are like, Hmm, Iwonder if I would be an ideal
client.
Do you have an ideal client whowould be the best person to work
with you?
Yeah.
Erin Bradley (23:16):
I specialize in helping real estate
professionals, realtors andmortgage lenders to redesign
their business.
You know, I mentioned earlierhow I felt like I had built a
house on a faulty foundation andeven though some things were
working out, other areas of mylife were crumbling.
So I like to help people take itdown to the studs and really
evaluate the foundation of thebusiness and design a future in
(23:38):
spite of the past.
So not carrying along old ideasand beliefs and expectations and
habits, foundation Into thefuture, but really doing the
reflection and the evaluatingand the design of the landscape
of the future that feelsbeautiful to you so that you can
have goals that you want to runtowards instead of goals that
feel like a problem solvingdecision.
(23:59):
I love
Theresa Cesare (23:59):
that.
And before I pivot to the endingquestions, is there anything you
feel called to share, want totalk about before we wrap up
this episode?
Erin Bradley (24:09):
The only thing I'll say is that.
My motto is say yes to life andbe curious about what might come
up for you.
Because if you're curious andyou're awake, you might be
surprised by the amount of doorsthat are waiting to open for you
rather than trying to figure itall out.
And, and I also like to say, ifnot now, when, so.
(24:30):
Not like a lighthearted cliche.
I've actually experienced a tonof tragic sudden loss from a
very young age and five of mybest friends before the age of
22.
Like I've been through a lot.
So I really believe life isshort.
And so when I have an impulseand I follow that with why I
can't do it, I catch myself andsay, Okay, just a reminder, if I
(24:51):
say I can't, it means I won't,because I'm not willing to
explore how.
And if I have that impulse, andI notice my brain speaking up
and saying, no, I can't, that'sthe moment at which I'm going to
pause and say, wait a minute, ifnot now, when?
So how do we make that happen?
And that's going to open yourmind to the solutions and the
doorways.
So powerful.
Theresa Cesare (25:12):
Oh my goodness.
We're going to pivot into theending questions.
So per tradition, the first one,what is your favorite
affirmation?
Erin Bradley (25:22):
Oh my gosh.
One of my favorite affirmationsis the less I chase, the more I
attract.
I love that.
Theresa Cesare (25:28):
I love that.
I love it.
And the second question, what isyour favorite book?
Erin Bradley (25:34):
Oh, that's a loaded question.
I have so many.
You can get more than one.
If
Theresa Cesare (25:38):
there's enough, if there's like two,
Erin Bradley (25:42):
I will give a few, I would have to say the go giver
was one of my favorite booksbecause it truly became a
turning point in my life.
And I was blessed to have theauthor, Bob Berg on my podcast.
And he is the real deal.
Like he is an actual go giver.
And so I just honor him for thatreason.
And then funny enough, one ofthe best books I've ever read is
(26:05):
something I read very recently.
And it's called 10 X is easierthan two X by Benjamin Hardy.
And it sounds, I had it on myshelf for so long and I thought
it was going to be the oppositeof what it is.
I thought it was going to bethis hustle culture book.
And so I just, I kept hearingabout it.
Everybody kept talking about it.
And then I finally read it and Iwas like, Oh, yes.
This speaks to me.
(26:26):
And I catch myself in that 2xidentity mindset of like, Oh,
I'm going to cling on to thislittle opportunity that might be
the thing that solves theproblem today.
And then it's like, hang on asecond.
That's so 2x.
10x is limitless.
And it levels up the whole wayyou see things and the filter
through which you determine yesor no to things.
And I just love it.
I geek out on it completely.
Theresa Cesare (26:46):
I love it.
You just gave me goose bumpsbecause I just listened to it,
the audio book, and I love it.
I'm like, the less, the less Ido, the more I achieve thank you
for sharing those two, books.
Okay.
And the last question, what doyou want to be known for?
Erin Bradley (27:01):
I want to be known for someone who helped someone
else see.
In themselves that light andbelieve in their ability to
literally design a life thatthey love and to say yes to life
and to live the most joyousfulfilled version of themselves
(27:22):
and then again be surprised anddelighted by how everything
seems to work out for them.
I just want people to look backand be like, I heard her say
something one time on this stageor on this podcast or whatever.
And it woke me up.
It shook me inside.
And since then.
I've just felt belief in myselfthat I too can do anything I set
my mind to like I'll just shareone last thing is that the only
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difference between us and theperson living a life that we
desire for ourselves is theirdecision to do it.
And each and every one of us hasthe free will to decide that
doesn't mean that it lookspretty and I don't like to
compare myself on chapter one tosomeone else on chapter ten
because I don't know whattranspired between one and ten
but if I can be inspired by themand then actually learn from
(28:06):
them.
put myself in the room withpeople that remind me of my
future, I might get to theirchapter 10 by my chapter four.
And so that's my challenge foreverybody listening is get
yourself in the room or in theenvironment or in the books or
in the podcast with the peoplethat remind you of your future.
And you might just be surprisedby how quickly your own life
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elevates through association.
Theresa Cesare (28:32):
Thank you so much for tuning into this
episode.
Please download, rate,subscribe, and share this
podcast.
Also, be sure to visit mytheresacesare.com to check out
my inspirational merch, connectto my social accounts, and much
more may you continue to befilled with wisdom, inspiration,
and consciousness.
(28:52):
Otherwise, friends, I will beback in two weeks for another
episode of Heart to.
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