February 25, 2025 • 48 mins
This episode of the podcast is a powerful and transformative conversation with high-performance coach and best-selling author Anniston Riekstins. Join us as we dive into the intersection of authenticity, personal growth, and success. With insights from her acclaimed book, The Universe is Hiring, Anniston shares her personal journey of self-reinvention—navigating uncertainty, overcoming challenges, and realigning with her true mission.
In this episode, Anniston reveals how tapping into your authentic self is the key to not just success, but fulfillment. She unpacks the importance of energetic alignment in sales and business, going beyond surface-level transactions to create meaningful connections and impact. As she shares her own experiences with health struggles and external distractions, Anniston offers a fresh perspective on protecting your energy, prioritizing emotional well-being, and embracing uncertainty as a pathway to opportunity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hello everyone, and welcome backto another episode of the Live
(02:36):
your Extraordinary Life podcast.
I'm your host, michelle Rios,and I am thrilled to be able to
introduce to you a dear friend,aniston Ritzens, who is here to
talk about her extraordinarylife and the work that she is
doing as a high performancecoach for women, as the co-host
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of the Empowered podcast and asthe author of her new book.
The Universe is Hiring.
Welcome to the show, aniston.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I am so excited to be here and just to connect with
you again and I know you and Ishare a lot of similarities and
I love to listen to your podcastbecause I always connect with
all of the guests that you haveon because I feel like you
really are starting quite amovement, which is really
exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Thank you, Well, we're going to start where I
start, with all my guests,Aniston, and that is what does
it mean to you to live yourextraordinary life?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To live.
My most extraordinary life isto have the freedom to create
what I'm feeling inspired tocreate when I'm inspired to
create it and to feel so ignitedto show up as my authentic self
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in every moment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That is my most extraordinary life Sounds juicy
and delicious, all right.
So right now, the world for alot of people feels like it's
turned upside down right.
There's a lot happening, nomatter where you are and this
has nothing to do specificallywith politics or anything like
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that but there's just a lothappening in the world.
I think for me, I've sort ofsummed it up to there's a lot of
distraction, there's a lot ofnoise, there's a lot of
heartache.
How is it that someone like you, who's working in this
environment of high-impactcoaching, what is it that you do
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to stay disciplined and focusand stay the course when gosh?
It is really easy to see thatso many in our space are finding
it hard to do so.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah that's a great question and I agree with you.
I think we're in reallyinteresting times and I think
it's a really interesting timeto be alive, and I think we are
amidst a tremendous amount ofchange that is happening and a
lot of it's needed to happen.
How I regulate myself andreally practice energy
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management which I think isreally what it's about is I have
my habits and I have mypractices in place that really
keep me grounded right, and Idefinitely believe that having
habits that support you livinghow you want to live is key.
And then the other thing isremembering that, at the end of
the day, we always have choice,and what I mean by that is I
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make a choice not to watch thenews.
I don't watch the news.
I do not get news feeds on myphone.
I make a choice not to getonline until I've been awake for
at least two hours.
So I have my time right in myworld and I'm very, very
cautious about what I bring intomy awareness.
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Some things you can't control.
Right, you're going to seethings, you're going to hear
things and you're going to havereactions, and that's okay.
But there's a lot that we cancontrol.
And if you're doing somethingthat when you sit back and ask
yourselves, how do I feel when Ilisten to this, or when I watch
this on Netflix, or when I stayup till late reading this scary
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book, whatever it is, if it'snot leaving you feeling in a
good spot, then why are youdoing it?
And I think right now it'sabout taking accountability and
being fully accountable for howI feel and making the tweaks
necessary to get me into a spacethat I'm at my best.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I love that.
All right, I want to kind ofpull back the onion on your book
writing experience, and we'vehad this conversation before.
Ibook is going to be coming outthis year, and the writing
process has been a verycathartic and growth-oriented
journey for me.
Just when I think I've sort offigured something out, there's a
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new level, there's a new devil.
Talk to me about how this bookeven came to be, because I know
that you also share a passionfor writing.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I do.
I do share a passion forwriting.
For a long time I didn't feelworthy to be a writer.
I've always been a consumer ofthe written word.
I mean, michelle, I am stilllike, literally after this, my
kids are coming home, we'regoing to the library, like
that's.
One of my favorite places isstill the library or going to a
bookstore and immersing myselfaround the written word, and
I've always been that way.
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But it really wasn't until mymid-30s that I actually even
started to entertain the ideathat I could write a book.
So, with the universe's hiring,I actually received the idea in
a meditation.
This has happened to me manytimes.
Actually, I've received manybook ideas.
Most of the ideas and thethings that I've created in my
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life that have been the mostprofound and created the most
profound change have beenreceived in that way.
So it was an inspiration.
I was meditating All of asudden it was literally like I
saw the book cover, I saw theoutline and I just had this
understanding of what this bookwas and I actually started
laughing out loud in mymeditation because I was like
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that's funny, the universe ishiring.
And this was during COVID, mindyou.
Okay, this was like when no one, everyone was freaking out
about their jobs.
You know what's going to happen?
What if all the jobs dry up?
What if, you know, no one knewanything, because it was
unprecedented times.
We were kept being reminded,right, and so when I received
this information, it almostseemed like an answer to my own
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fear.
Right, I had been furloughed.
It was like, hey, guess what?
You have a purpose and you havetools to align to where you
need to be going, and this isgoing to require you to lean
into when you're in the unknownand uncertainty.
I feel like it's an invitationto more deeply lean into our
divine gifts and into reallytrusting this guidance system
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within us.
Right, that is the gift, in myopinion, in uncertain times, and
I think sometimes, maybe, whythese things happen?
Because it forces us inward.
And so I would love to tell youthat I started writing the book
right away.
I did not.
I wrote out the outline, savedit in a Word doc on my desktop
and it lived there for I don'tknow a good year, year and a
(09:29):
half, and it was during thatyear, year and a half, that I
wound up going through some ofthe most transformational
healing of my life.
I have been studyingspirituality and personal
development since my early 20s.
I thought I knew it all and I'ddone all the work right, and
for me it wasn't until I came upagainst a chronic health issue.
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And in that process I actuallydidn't write about this in the
book, which is interesting, butit wasn't a part of the original
outline I got.
So I really stayed true to that.
But I wound up having thischronic health issue and it was
in the process of really justbeating my head against it.
Well, I'll just say what it was.
So I was having chronic UTIs,which any woman who's listening
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to this knows that that's justpretty horrible.
I'd never had them in my lifeand then all of a sudden, within
one calendar year, I'd had 10.
Oh my gosh.
And it was like as one wouldheal, another one come, and as
one would heal, another onewould come.
And I was in such a good placein my life.
I was, you know, I was a vicepresident, you know, for an
organization.
I, you know, rudy, and I hadlaunched a podcast.
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We had this coaching company.
I mean such a full, amazinglife and yet all of a sudden, I
have this sickness and I waslike I take really good care of
myself and nothing was working.
And finally, when I was in NewYork City for a training event,
and this was the morning, I wokeup with my 10th UTI and I just
laid on the bathroom floor inthe fetal position crying.
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I was like why?
Like what am I missing?
What am I missing?
And then, all of a sudden, Iheard this little voice in my
head and it said what if thispain is trying to tell you
something and you're notlistening?
In my head and it said what ifthis pain is trying to tell you
something and you're notlistening?
And it was so clear because Iheard it so clearly and it just
stopped me and I was like, oh mygosh, like, of course, like
I've kind of always known whatto do because I've studied
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energy healing and I practiceemotion code.
I practice like these ways ofreleasing emotion.
I guess I just I had beentrying to heal by doing what
we've been taught to do right,which is medicate.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know, go to the doctors do what they tell you to
do.
Another prescription.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right, I wasn't actually really thinking about
what is the core of where thisis coming from, and so I got my
journal and I wrote you knowwhat is this pain trying to tell
me and I wrote, and I wrote andI wrote for hours and, long
story short, a lot of repressedmemories came up for me, and
memories of sexual assault whenI was, you know, 16, and
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memories that I had never sharedwith anybody and that really
became the beginning of a verydeep journey to do the real work
you know what I mean Like thework I had been avoiding for so
long.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
First of all, thank you for sharing I think that
that's something that so many ofour listeners can relate to
that so much of the work thatneeds to be done is actually
healing these repressedexperiences and memories from
earlier in life.
How did you walk through it?
What was the process that youwent through, and did writing
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become a tool for you to?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
release it In the very beginning.
It did, and I've come to learnthat you need to feel it to heal
it right and for a long time.
And especially, you know I'm ahigh performer, like you, right,
and we we're doers, right, weget in there, we get it done.
We pride ourselves on being thego-to girls.
You know what I mean and youbusy yourself.
(12:55):
Get it done, Get it done right,and I became the queen of, and
for a long time I didn't realizethis, but I really would deny a
lot of my own feelings.
I didn't want to feel anything.
So even if I was reading a book, Michelle, if I was reading a
personal development book or aspiritual book, and at the end a
book, Michelle, like if I wasreading like a personal
development book or a spiritualbook, and at the end they would
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have like exercises, likejournal, these things, I'd be
like I'd read over, I'm likeyeah, no, no, we're good, we're
good, I know all these thingsRight Cause you think you know
right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But a hundred percent .
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, but it's not until it wasn't until I really
wrote everything out.
I went home the next morningand I sat down with Rudy, my
husband and I.
Just I read everything aloud tohim, like I gave a voice to
stories I had never told anybodyever.
It's like it reactivated thatenergy within me and then I
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didn't know what to do.
It was like I could tell.
I was like okay, the pain isstill here.
I clearly haven't healed.
So like this isn't the end ofthis, now what?
So I tried a lot of differentmodalities.
This was really for me where Ibecame very aware of all of the
energy healing like that isavailable right now.
Right, so I am, um, I practiceemotion code.
(14:09):
Are you familiar with emotioncode?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, but tell, for our audience's sake, please walk
us through it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, sure.
So emotion code is.
It's actually a work by DrBradley Nelson.
I discovered him, I don't know,probably five, six years ago
and I would just kind of dabblein it here and there, but
essentially it is a process thatyou can do on your own.
It's pretty simple.
It utilizes muscle testing andthen through muscle testing
you're able to identify wherethere is basically stuck energy
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in your field, and emotions thatbecome stuck in your field then
will start to vibrate andcreate imbalances in your system
and thus then cause physicalissues, right, and what's
interesting is I noticed that alot of the emotion that was
coming up to be cleared wasshame, A lot.
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And I believe now, because I'vetold this story on many stages
at this point and I've had somany women come up to me, that I
think even just talking aboutUTIs, women have shame about it.
They feel shameful about it,right.
So if you think about thatright, then you take that where
I think the correlation is iswith assault, if those things
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that happen to us, to so manywomen, that we carry shame
around and we're not releasingthat shame.
So I do think UTIs.
I don't know again, I'm not adoctor and I can't prove this,
but just from my conversationsnow and really supporting a lot
of women, I do see a correlationthere.
And so that was when I didhypnotherapy.
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I have a great girlfriend who'svery gifted there, so she was
able to help take me back tosome of these instances.
I did a lot of journaling butwhat I realized, michelle, is
that as I started this healingprocess, I think we
overcomplicate it and think weneed to go and identify all the
experiences that are causing theissues.
(16:07):
But what happened for me wasthat life started to show me
them.
Right would give me anexperience to allow this emotion
to bubble, like for me to havean emotional experience about
something the minute I startbeing like where else have I
felt this before?
And I would, I would recognizeoh my gosh, I felt the exact
same way when this happened 20years ago.
(16:29):
You, you know what I mean.
So it really was like anunraveling and letting go of not
only emotion but an entireidentity.
And when I did that and when Ireleased the identity that I
didn't even really realize wasthere unconsciously, which is
I'm weak, I'm easily takenadvantage of you know what I
mean.
A lot of those things thatwere-.
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Worthiness issues of you knowwhat I mean A lot of those
things that were worthinessissues, just self-protection,
all of that it's not safe to beseen.
Oh, that was a big one.
I don't want to be noticed, Iwant to blend in.
That was impacting everything.
I had started to write a bookabout 10 years ago.
I wrote the entire book, theentire book, michelle.
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I wrote the book, I had itedited, and when it came time to
publish, I was paralyzed.
I was completely paralyzed, andI couldn't understand why the
visibility the visibility, it'slike my whole system was like
mayday, mayday.
This is not safe, and Icouldn't understand, because,
when I would look back to mypast, I'm like I had a pretty
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easy childhood.
I had things here and there itwasn't a big deal and what I
realized, though, was it was allthat healing work that I did.
When I finally did the workthen, when it came time to write
this book, I was ready.
You know what I mean, because Ihad dealt with and released,
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and done the work of turning mypain into gold, into purpose,
into strength, becoming analchemist.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You really helped turn that into something
purposeful.
But now, okay, inquiring mindswant to know what happened to
the other book, and is thatother book ever going to see the
light of day?
Aniston, I kind of cheated onthis.
I actually heard this in apodcast interview that you did
with Amberley.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh yeah, and actually it was funny.
I was just on with Dana Grant.
She said the same thing.
She's like you are going topublish that book.
I'm like I will.
I promise you hand to heart.
You know what?
It's interesting because I andI think it just at this point in
time in writing the Universe isHiring.
I just felt like the right timefor that book.
However, to honor even justmyself, right for that the girl
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who, through all of her fears,wrote that book, and it's
brilliant, and, again, it was aninspiration.
I just wasn't equipped to holdthe energy of that book.
Yet Now I am, and so I willabsolutely publish that book
next.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You have goosebumps.
This is exciting stuff.
Okay, we're having abreakthrough right here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
All right, let's talk about the Universe is Hiring,
because it is a bold title.
It's very intriguing what wasthe spark that led you down that
path of this particular book atthis moment in time?
So?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
for me one of, I think, one of the hardest things
for me to get through, and Ithink this is very common,
especially for those that are inbusiness, that are
professionals and you know thecorporate sphere, or even those
that are entrepreneurial.
But I had a very, very hardtime fully feeling safe to be my
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authentic self in my role, andI had been in corporate America
for 20 years.
I'm just recently out of it andso I experienced in my early
career where I would try tocompartmentalize right and I
would say, okay, I always feltlike the role I was in was
temporary because in my heart Iknew I had this calling, I knew
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I wanted to help people and Ialways would kind of have, I
would be like I would take thesepositions and do well and I
would like be offered, you know,elevations, but for whatever
reason, I just always felt likeit wasn't safe for me to bring
all of me to work Meaning.
I'm a very spiritual person.
I use tools and practices forintention and manifestation and
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I never wanted to talk aboutthat at work because I always
believed that if I did Iwouldn't be respected, that I
wouldn't be taken seriously.
I believed that if people knewthat I was writing a spiritual
book at home out in that way,and so, because of that, I feel
like I attracted a lot of peoplethat were dealing with a
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similar issue and I started tosee the need.
And so, during COVID, Rudy and Ilaunched our coaching company,
I thought I was done withcorporate America right as we do
, right, Like that's it, I'mdone.
And then we make plans and Godlaughs.
Right as we do.
We're like that's it, I'm done.
And then we make plans and Godlaughs right.
And then this opportunity cameand this was four years ago and
I made the decision and I toldRudy it just kept coming and
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kept coming and I was like youknow what?
I think this might be somethingI'm supposed to do, even though
this is not part of my plan toget back into corporate America
in a high-level position.
I am going to do thisdifferently this time.
I am going to show up as me.
I'm going to wave my freak flag.
I'm just going to be who I am.
If that's not okay, then I'llleave, because I know that I
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have other options.
I know that I have gifts toshare and I really want to help
and impact people, but who am Ito say?
I have gifts to share and Ireally want to help and impact
people.
But who am I to say, oh well,the people have to be these
kinds of people, but they can'tbe people in an organization,
right?
I was praying and saying pleasebring me more people to impact.
Well, here's several thousand,right, here's several thousand
that for me to impact.
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So you know, I started doing alot of trainings within the
organization on mindset and Iwould bring a little bit of
spirituality in there and thenwe would host these leadership
events and it turned into areally big thing and I became
known for that there and I hadnever been happier, I had never
been more fulfilled and I hadnever been more successful or
made more money.
And I think there was a lot oflessons for me there, because I
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used to really limit myself,because I realized when you're
not showing up fully,authentically, it's almost like
you're leaving half your powersource at home, A hundred
percent.
And then people wonder why am Inot shining?
Why am I not being seen?
I know that because I used toask that same question, Like why
aren't people seeing me andthinking about me for that
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position or whatever, and whenyou just show up as yourself,
100%, authentically, like numberone, you're connected to
inspiration, right, so you'regoing to be the one who gets
those good ideas, those ideasthat move the company leaps, and
then utilized for that, whichmeans you're really excited to
do that and you're excited toshow up to work every day, and
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then from that, opportunitiescontinue to come to give me
times to do what I love, andthen people outside the
organization started noticingand then that started opening up
other opportunities and then itjust expanded into a life of
its own.
And then I knew when it wastime for me to go.
Versus me, sitting there waitingand waiting and thinking when I
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leave this job, I'm going tostart impacting people.
That doesn't work, folks.
I'm here to tell you you haveto start being what you want to
be now.
If your goal is like my goal,which was to coach and teach and
to write books and start now.
That really is the crux of thisbook, and I wanted to give
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people the same framework, thesame roadmap that I followed.
That was very successful, notonly for me, but for so many, so
many people that I've coachedand trained on this topic that
have also followed the roadmapand been like wow, this formula
is simple, it's doable and it'shelping me keep me aligned with
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what I believe I'm here to do inthis life.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So much to talk about in this.
First of all, no, thank you.
This is exciting, and I thinkthis is where a lot of people
get tripped up because theythink well, that's easy for you,
aniston, you must have been inan environment that was just
much more primed for that kindof culture.
And this is where I think it'simportant to challenge that
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limiting belief, because most ofthe time I think maybe 99.9% of
the time the problems arisebecause we do not fully trust
ourselves to be our authenticselves, not necessarily because
the culture has said oh, you asyourself not good enough, but we
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read that into the tea leaves,right, we project that fear out
there.
And the difference betweenthose people who end up being
their authentic selves and youknow I joke about this and you
just said it, so I'm going tosay it as well the freak shows
that we all are.
That separates those thatreally truly are living an
extraordinary life, which meanshighs and lows people.
(25:27):
It does not mean Instagram,curated, problem-free existence.
It means embracing the highsand lows of a very rich,
fulfilling life.
When you are there, you trustyourself, and I think that is
the key difference, because mostpeople haven't come to terms
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with trusting themselves.
There's this sense of like.
I want to, but I don't fullythink I'm capable of believing
that what I think or feel orwhat's coming up for me is valid
, so I'm gonna fold back on thesidelines.
So what you've done and whatyou've put out here, I think, is
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just so monumentally important,because it's the difference
between In my opinion and again,I think this is where we need
to delve in a little bit morewhere people are searching for
purpose versus where the callingfinds you.
Your calling will get you.
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It's going to just keep at ituntil you pay attention, because
I don't.
I spent I think a lot of us dothis a long time in my 20s
searching for meaning, searchingfor purpose, searching outside
of myself, right, searching outthere, out, there, out there.
And the reality is the callingcomes up from within and it is
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why it's called the calling.
It calls you to it.
You don't need to go find itright.
Talk about your experiencearound that, because I think so
many people confuse this idea ofpurpose with something they
have to go search for high andlow, versus knowing that your
purpose is.
(27:15):
Calling is something that findsyou, that you are beckoned to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh, and it's a part of you let's start there Like
you've never been disconnectedfrom it, right, ever.
You can't be disconnected fromsomething that you are.
It's impossible to extricatethe you that you are from your
purpose.
It's more of, I think, anunraveling and an unpacking,
(27:41):
because what happens is is, Ithink, we wind up looking at the
world and at ourselves throughvery dirty glasses.
Okay, I don't know about you,but like sunglasses like my
sunglasses they're alwaysconstantly dirty.
I'm having to like alwayssmudge.
It drives me crazy, like howcan you do that?
And I'm like I don't know, I'mjust kind of used to it.
Okay, so there we go.
(28:03):
It's right there.
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm like whatever, it's fine, that's what happens
when you have little kids andgrimy little fingers.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So I think skipping the part of where you need to
wipe off those lens so you cansee yourself clearly and your
path clearly and your gifts moreclearly is, in my opinion, it's
avoiding the magic, right.
So for me, and kind of circlingback to what we initially
talked about, about the healingjourney we all are on, I believe
(28:37):
, on a healing journey, right.
Some of us are moving throughdifferent stages of it, and it's
not linear, it's like circular,right.
So just as you think you'vehealed one thing, you kind of
come back to it again.
You go for a deeper level andcome back to it again, and come
back to it again.
And so I think a big part of theprocess is number one when you
are feeling confused, when youare feeling lost and you're like
(29:00):
I have no idea, First of allrecognize you're not lost.
Okay, you just need to do alittle work.
And that's that is.
The question is, are youwilling to do the work, Are you
willing to sit with yourself andto ask yourself some really
good questions?
And and just even coming to the, the awareness that you are
(29:22):
feeling lost, that you're notsure what you want to do, like
congratulations, because thatmeans you're ready, Like you're
so close, because most peoplethat you will see walking around
are like zombies in anapocalypse they don't even
question, they don't even thinkto question our full survival
mode.
Right, and that might be, andthat's okay.
(29:45):
That's their journey.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's where they're at, and we are all at that at
some point in time.
We can't deny that Like we fallinto that or have been part of
that autopilot living at onepoint or time or another, but
that moment of awareness thatyou just talked about is
everything.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's everything when you start asking better
questions, you're going to getbetter answers.
So it's not a reallycomplicated process.
In the book, in the first partof the book, it's really about
clarity, right.
It's about discovering andreally kind of reconnecting with
who are you, what are yourpassions, who are you
authentically, and reallygetting to know yourself again
(30:25):
in a way that's deeper than whoyou think yourself to be just in
your normal narrative.
Because the normal narrativethat you have of your identity,
of who you are, what you're goodat, what's possible for you,
that is probably pretty false.
I mean, some things might betrue, right, but there are
probably some things that needto be updated.
It'd be like if you get alaptop or computer and you just
(30:46):
never updated it, right, youridentity needs to be regularly,
updated regularly and for you tobe clear on, well, this is who
I am and this is what I'm aboutand this is what I'm capable of
and what I'm ready for.
And, more than that, I thinkit's really starting to
recognize what you are uniquelygood at.
I believe the age that we're inright now is an age where AI is
(31:12):
coming in hot right, a lot ofefficiencies and people kind of
feel fearful around that, like,well, what kind of purpose am I
going to have here when, withall these efficiencies happening
in the world, it's ending?
It's like, well, that's one wayto look at it.
Or you could look at it as agift that will give us more time
to do the things that we loveso well.
(31:33):
And while we used to trade ininformation right, it was what
you knew is why you got hired Ithink the future is we'll be
trading in genius, because whatAI can't do is connect to a
higher power and a source andreceive information from the
quantum field, right.
What AI can't do is connect toa soul that is connected to the
(31:56):
all, that is, that can receivethese intuitive downloads at the
right time, at the right placeto touch somebody's heart.
Right.
That can receive theseintuitive downloads at the right
time, at the right place totouch somebody's heart right,
like right now.
Now is the time, I believe, tostart reconnecting to what makes
you the unique snowflake thatyou are that will never be
replicated, and through thatcomes the self-love and the
(32:19):
self-worth and realizing like,wow, I really do have something
to offer here.
And not devaluing these giftsbecause you think, oh well, that
person has those gifts andthey're really successful, and I
don't have those, so my giftsaren't that great.
Your gift is great and Iguarantee you it's needed.
And I think that that is goingto become more of our calling
(32:40):
card is to be known for what wedo so well, so uniquely well,
that people will start coming toyou for that and you'll start
going to them for what they doso uniquely well, and we'll
start to get to know each otheron a much deeper soul level.
So I know that was a longanswer to your question.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I love that.
Well, look, this audience isprime for this, because we talk
about all things spiritual hereon the show, and one of the
things I know we share so deeplyin common is a love for the
late great Wayne Dyer and thisnotion that you know, we are
spiritual beings having a humanexperience and so the eternal
(33:19):
part of us right, that soul thatwe all are not that we have,
but that we are is somethingthat I think most of the folks
that are listening hererecognize.
And unfortunately, we need tohave regular reminders that this
human experience that we're allgoing on is the temporary field
(33:42):
and that we are going toexperience some really beautiful
things.
But we're also going toexperience a lot of heartbreak
and disappointing things, andthat's part of the human
experience we get to, asspiritual beings that are
walking through this, decide howwe're going to respond and, I
(34:05):
think, reflect our light throughall of that.
Right, that's where I think somuch of the inherent worthiness
that we need to be reminded thatwe have comes into play.
There is no better soul, lessersoul.
We're all spiritual beings,we're all souls, right, there's
(34:26):
an equality of that.
It's beautiful as it is, we arebeautiful as we are, and then
we inhabit these human livesthat come with different tools
and gifts that we get toexperience and get to share and
burdens that we have to livethrough that most of the time
end up being the places that weget to bring back to the world
(34:49):
in some sort of role of teachingor healing, or where our true
calling is to be and holdingthat space for other people that
have either come behind us andneed encouragement or need light
as they go through their ownexperiences.
So I think so much of this ideabehind the book really being
(35:15):
built into the fact that nobodybut nobody can play the role
that you came here to play issuch a wonderfully beautiful
reminder.
And I'm curious you have youngkids.
What do they think of the book?
Have they experienced this?
(35:35):
I mean, first of all, they mustthink mom's a rock star, but
besides that, I know that youand Rudy I've had Rudy on the
show before, so our audiencewill remember Rudy these two are
a dynamic duo, but you reallydo embody what you teach here.
How are the kids reacting tothe success of the book and the
(35:56):
work that you're doing?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You know, it's been such a blessing this whole
process because I've gotten toexperience my children in
different ways through this.
So when I decided that I madethe commitment, I was like I'm
writing this book, I knew thatit was going to come.
There's always a trade-off,right?
There's always a trade-off.
And people say, well, how areyou doing that with a full-time,
(36:18):
high-level job?
And you're doing the podcast,you're doing this, you're doing
that.
And I'm like well, you maketime for the things that you
value, right, you make time forthe things that are important to
you.
And I knew that if somethinghappened and I was at my
deathbed and I had not writtenthis book, I would have such
regret about it.
So I really my why was sostrong?
(36:38):
And so I sat the kids down,rudy, and I did, and I said
listen, this is my goal, this is.
I believe it's a big part of mypurpose.
I believe I was given this tocreate it, to impact other
people and I could really useyour support.
And so we talked about it andthat daddy was going to help
them in the mornings when I waswriting and some weekends I
would be writing.
And they said okay.
(37:00):
And I said and once this bookis published, then we will all
go together and celebrate to goto Universal Studios, like this
became a thing They've neverbeen, which we're still.
We have the plan, so we'regoing this year, and so they
felt like they were a part of it, like they would check in with
me How's it going.
So they feel like this is theirbook too, like they've been a
(37:23):
part of this process.
And my daughter now is writingher own book she's nine and my
son is writing music.
And you know, it was such areminder to me that I think the
greatest gift we can give to ourchildren is to live our most
authentic big lives and to honorour calling and the dreams that
are put on our heart, even ifit means that I have less time
(37:47):
to do some of the motherlythings that I would have,
because I think what I was ableto model for them was what it
looks like to follow your dreamsand to follow your heart and to
do it knowing that you don'thave to choose, like you get to
be a mom, you get to be a wife,you get to be a high-powered
career woman, you get to impactpeople, and it can be a lot of
(38:09):
things.
So, yeah, it's been a greatprocess.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
That's so beautiful and I'm so glad you shared that.
I mean, one of the biggestgifts that I've been given was,
you know, my son, alex, was amajor part of my own journey.
I remember during COVID he cameinto my office and said, mom,
are you on Zoom?
And I said I am.
And he said are you on speaker?
And I said no, I'm on mute.
(38:33):
And he said oh good, when areyou going to stop helping
everybody else and start writingyour own book?
And I remember going else andstart writing your own book.
And I remember going fully.
I said well, you know, just asa matter of reference, that job
that you're criticizing rightnow is paying for this lovely
home you live in and all thesephenomenal vacations we've taken
on in the past.
(38:54):
And he said, mom, I don't thinkit matters, I really think you
need to go do the thing that youwere meant to do here.
That was my then 12-year-old,or almost 13-year-old, and I
remember going oh my gosh, outof the mouth of babes.
And he's been, and I was apretty high power executive for
a while here.
And he said I've never beenmore proud of you than the day
(39:17):
that you walked away fromeverything to start doing the
things you were meant to do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
And now he's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
He's on his entrepreneur journey himself.
He just got accepted to college.
Like we're going through allthis process, we're going to be
dropping him off in the end ofthe summer and to start his own
journey.
And he said watching you hitthe reset on certain goals so
that you can start living whatyou were meant to do is the
(39:45):
thing I'm most proud of, mom.
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
not the thing that gave us all the toys and the
things and the nope nope, and Ithink that also just showing
what it looks like to pivot,because I know for sure, like I
don't regret a day that I spent.
That was my qualification, tobe honest, like I feel like
really good, and I'm still beingqualified every single day.
I'm being qualified for whatI'm doing.
(40:10):
But I was meant to be in thatrole.
I was meant.
Every job I've had has taughtme something so important.
And so I think that the problemis when we get so attached and
we hold on with these fistsbecause we're so afraid nothing
is on the other side of this.
And when you really start toopen up and start to trust, I
think, in the universe and trustin your creatorship here and
(40:35):
your ability, through yourenergy and vibration, to
co-create your reality, itstarts to open up doors for you.
And I know for a lot of people,money is a big issue.
They're like I'm not going toleave my corporate job because
of money.
And I do think that there issomething to be said for, like
start where you're at and seewhat opens up for you, because
you might not even have to dothat.
There might be a role that youfind within your current
(40:57):
organization that really checksall the boxes, leaves you
feeling fulfilled.
So don't like blow up your lifebecause you think you have to
change everything in order to behappy.
First get happy, get fulfilled,become abundant yourself and in
your abundant vibration thatwill outweigh any circumstance.
(41:17):
And I'll give you an example.
So I left my job in January,okay, and I had a very healthy
paycheck.
And right now I'm busy coachingand I'm building some new
things that I'll be offeringwhich I'm really excited about.
But you know, logic would tellyou, okay, well, we need to plan
for a certain amount of timewhere I'm not going to have this
(41:38):
income.
But I was like actually, no,we're not planning for that,
because I believe that I have acertain worthiness level as it
relates to abundance and I havea whole chapter on this called
the universe's payroll, and Iwas like I'm taking my own
advice, I'm on the universe doespayroll, and I was like I'm
taking my own advice, I'm on theuniverse's payroll baby, and I
am open to receive abundance forwherever, wherever God wants to
send it from.
And two days ago we get acompletely unexpected check in
(42:02):
the mail and it is for I'mthinking even to the cent what
my monthly paycheck was from Wow, unexpected, did not anticipate
it.
Rudy was like is this real?
And I was like yeah, I think.
(42:22):
So Deposit it, you'll find outreal fast.
And it was like it was just.
We both just killed ourselveslaughing because you could
totally stress yourself out andbe like doomsday, oh my gosh.
But I really, truly believe andmy life is continuing to
validate for me that if you areabundant and you feel worthy,
that there are an infiniteamount of sources of potential
(42:46):
for income for you.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Hallelujah and amen to that.
So those of you who arelistening right now know
Hallelujah and amen to that.
So those of you who arelistening right now know I 100%
believe this.
This is part of we talk aboutwealth frequency and the
energetics of money on this showpretty regularly and it's
probably one of my mostdownloaded tools that I offer to
our community is this idea andnotion that we do not stop where
(43:11):
we believe our abundance factoris.
We raise to the level of thatand so it is.
All it is is energy.
We know that.
We know that this wholeuniverse, including Aniston and
I, are made of energy, thatmoney is nothing more than an
energetic exchange and that weraise to the vibration of that
frequency of that which we wantto experience.
(43:33):
So I love the fact that youdidn't get into that scarcity
mindset, that you maintainedthat no, this is where our
family is going to live andthrive and be, and you continue
to grow at that place and be inthat space and that mindset.
That is how you continue tobring the abundance in from all
the places, places you didn'teven anticipate they were gonna
(43:56):
come from.
That's how it happens, people.
So don't be surprised if theuniverse says, hey, random check
coming in from this place thatyou didn't even know you had
something waiting for you.
When your expectation is there,you need to believe and be
grateful that it's alreadycoming.
(44:16):
So thank you for sharing that.
That's such a wonderfulreminder.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Isn't the place to tighten the belt.
This is the place to stay inexpectancy and stay in belief
and know that it is coming.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
It's being in the flow and I think it's really
living in.
Uncertainty itself is a gift.
If you can set like one goalfor yourself this year, I would
say get really comfortable withuncertainty and see the gift in
it, because when you'reuncertain, you open up just to
the infinite amount of potentialthat's out there.
(44:50):
Right up, just to the infiniteamount of potential that's out
there right, when we're incertainty and we are so
committed to certainty and we'recommitted that means we're
committed to control we'rebasically saying we're very much
limiting our potential to onlythe things, right, that we're
like well, it has to be this way.
But when you step out of what iswhat, out of what is known,
into the unknown, and you'relike, well, I have no idea what
(45:12):
this is going to look like, butI know that I'm excited and I
know that I'm protected and Iknow that I'm guided and I'm
connected to all the informationthat is going to guide me ahead
and bring in all the necessaryresources, life becomes magical
and you start to see the magicevery day.
And so, even though, yes, Ithink I know what's, I mean, I'm
(45:32):
starting to kind of see thevision.
I'm not in a hurry to give it alabel.
And I'm not in a hurry to getit all figured out, because this
time of uncertainty has beensuch a gift and full of just the
most incredible things.
So I just want to encourageanyone out there that is really
struggling and afraid right nowbecause you're in uncertainty
(45:53):
that a shift in perception wasthe course in miracle says a
miracle is just a shift in aperspective, in perception, and
one little shift and how you'reperceiving a situation can
completely turn your worldaround.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
So, a hundred percent an thank you so much for
modeling what it means to livean extraordinary life.
It is not about having it allfigured out, it is not about
certainty, it is not aboutcurated experiences.
It really is being present forthe moment that you are living
(46:27):
now, with all your gifts and allof your full potential being
expressed and willing to embracewhat we would normally label as
humans good and bad andrecognizing that they're all
just experiences that we gothrough as humans and that our
mission really here is to servelove wherever we go.
(46:52):
And you are doing that sobeautifully and I'm just honored
to call you friend and I'm soproud of you and this work that
you're doing.
Thank you so much and I can'twait to read your book.
Sister, it's coming.
It is coming, folks.
Again.
Aniston's book is called theUniverse is Hiring.
I highly encourage you to goget it.
(47:13):
We will include the link in theshow notes.
Aniston is very active now.
She is out being seen and heardon Instagram, so please go look
for her there.
We'll make sure we have herInstagram handle.
Aniston, I'll give you the lastword.
What else would you like forour audience to know?
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Well, I would just say yeah, I'd love to talk with
you on Instagram.
Come find me.
The Empowered Life podcast iswhat I co-host with Rudy, and
we're always talking about allthings spiritual.
Very similar to you, michelle.
So I just wish everyone thebest and I hope that you got
what you needed out of thisepisode.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Well, thank you for an inspiring afternoon
conversation and until next time, everyone, go and live your
extraordinary lives.
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I'm your host, michelle Rios,and I am thrilled to be able to
introduce to you a dear friend,aniston Ritzens, who is here to
talk about her extraordinarylife and the work that she is
doing as a high performancecoach for women, as the co-host
(02:56):
of the Empowered podcast and asthe author of her new book.
The Universe is Hiring.
Welcome to the show, aniston.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I am so excited to be here and just to connect with
you again and I know you and Ishare a lot of similarities and
I love to listen to your podcastbecause I always connect with
all of the guests that you haveon because I feel like you
really are starting quite amovement, which is really
exciting.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Thank you, Well, we're going to start where I
start, with all my guests,Aniston, and that is what does
it mean to you to live yourextraordinary life?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To live.
My most extraordinary life isto have the freedom to create
what I'm feeling inspired tocreate when I'm inspired to
create it and to feel so ignitedto show up as my authentic self
(04:00):
in every moment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That is my most extraordinary life Sounds juicy
and delicious, all right.
So right now, the world for alot of people feels like it's
turned upside down right.
There's a lot happening, nomatter where you are and this
has nothing to do specificallywith politics or anything like
(04:21):
that but there's just a lothappening in the world.
I think for me, I've sort ofsummed it up to there's a lot of
distraction, there's a lot ofnoise, there's a lot of
heartache.
How is it that someone like you, who's working in this
environment of high-impactcoaching, what is it that you do
(04:43):
to stay disciplined and focusand stay the course when gosh?
It is really easy to see thatso many in our space are finding
it hard to do so.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah that's a great question and I agree with you.
I think we're in reallyinteresting times and I think
it's a really interesting timeto be alive, and I think we are
amidst a tremendous amount ofchange that is happening and a
lot of it's needed to happen.
How I regulate myself andreally practice energy
(05:17):
management which I think isreally what it's about is I have
my habits and I have mypractices in place that really
keep me grounded right, and Idefinitely believe that having
habits that support you livinghow you want to live is key.
And then the other thing isremembering that, at the end of
the day, we always have choice,and what I mean by that is I
(05:43):
make a choice not to watch thenews.
I don't watch the news.
I do not get news feeds on myphone.
I make a choice not to getonline until I've been awake for
at least two hours.
So I have my time right in myworld and I'm very, very
cautious about what I bring intomy awareness.
(06:04):
Some things you can't control.
Right, you're going to seethings, you're going to hear
things and you're going to havereactions, and that's okay.
But there's a lot that we cancontrol.
And if you're doing somethingthat when you sit back and ask
yourselves, how do I feel when Ilisten to this, or when I watch
this on Netflix, or when I stayup till late reading this scary
(06:27):
book, whatever it is, if it'snot leaving you feeling in a
good spot, then why are youdoing it?
And I think right now it'sabout taking accountability and
being fully accountable for howI feel and making the tweaks
necessary to get me into a spacethat I'm at my best.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I love that.
All right, I want to kind ofpull back the onion on your book
writing experience, and we'vehad this conversation before.
Ibook is going to be coming outthis year, and the writing
process has been a verycathartic and growth-oriented
journey for me.
Just when I think I've sort offigured something out, there's a
(07:10):
new level, there's a new devil.
Talk to me about how this bookeven came to be, because I know
that you also share a passionfor writing.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I do.
I do share a passion forwriting.
For a long time I didn't feelworthy to be a writer.
I've always been a consumer ofthe written word.
I mean, michelle, I am stilllike, literally after this, my
kids are coming home, we'regoing to the library, like
that's.
One of my favorite places isstill the library or going to a
bookstore and immersing myselfaround the written word, and
I've always been that way.
(07:40):
But it really wasn't until mymid-30s that I actually even
started to entertain the ideathat I could write a book.
So, with the universe's hiring,I actually received the idea in
a meditation.
This has happened to me manytimes.
Actually, I've received manybook ideas.
Most of the ideas and thethings that I've created in my
(08:01):
life that have been the mostprofound and created the most
profound change have beenreceived in that way.
So it was an inspiration.
I was meditating All of asudden it was literally like I
saw the book cover, I saw theoutline and I just had this
understanding of what this bookwas and I actually started
laughing out loud in mymeditation because I was like
(08:22):
that's funny, the universe ishiring.
And this was during COVID, mindyou.
Okay, this was like when no one, everyone was freaking out
about their jobs.
You know what's going to happen?
What if all the jobs dry up?
What if, you know, no one knewanything, because it was
unprecedented times.
We were kept being reminded,right, and so when I received
this information, it almostseemed like an answer to my own
(08:43):
fear.
Right, I had been furloughed.
It was like, hey, guess what?
You have a purpose and you havetools to align to where you
need to be going, and this isgoing to require you to lean
into when you're in the unknownand uncertainty.
I feel like it's an invitationto more deeply lean into our
divine gifts and into reallytrusting this guidance system
(09:05):
within us.
Right, that is the gift, in myopinion, in uncertain times, and
I think sometimes, maybe, whythese things happen?
Because it forces us inward.
And so I would love to tell youthat I started writing the book
right away.
I did not.
I wrote out the outline, savedit in a Word doc on my desktop
and it lived there for I don'tknow a good year, year and a
(09:29):
half, and it was during thatyear, year and a half, that I
wound up going through some ofthe most transformational
healing of my life.
I have been studyingspirituality and personal
development since my early 20s.
I thought I knew it all and I'ddone all the work right, and
for me it wasn't until I came upagainst a chronic health issue.
(09:50):
And in that process I actuallydidn't write about this in the
book, which is interesting, butit wasn't a part of the original
outline I got.
So I really stayed true to that.
But I wound up having thischronic health issue and it was
in the process of really justbeating my head against it.
Well, I'll just say what it was.
So I was having chronic UTIs,which any woman who's listening
(10:11):
to this knows that that's justpretty horrible.
I'd never had them in my lifeand then all of a sudden, within
one calendar year, I'd had 10.
Oh my gosh.
And it was like as one wouldheal, another one come, and as
one would heal, another onewould come.
And I was in such a good placein my life.
I was, you know, I was a vicepresident, you know, for an
organization.
I, you know, rudy, and I hadlaunched a podcast.
(10:33):
We had this coaching company.
I mean such a full, amazinglife and yet all of a sudden, I
have this sickness and I waslike I take really good care of
myself and nothing was working.
And finally, when I was in NewYork City for a training event,
and this was the morning, I wokeup with my 10th UTI and I just
laid on the bathroom floor inthe fetal position crying.
(10:55):
I was like why?
Like what am I missing?
What am I missing?
And then, all of a sudden, Iheard this little voice in my
head and it said what if thispain is trying to tell you
something and you're notlistening?
In my head and it said what ifthis pain is trying to tell you
something and you're notlistening?
And it was so clear because Iheard it so clearly and it just
stopped me and I was like, oh mygosh, like, of course, like
I've kind of always known whatto do because I've studied
(11:16):
energy healing and I practiceemotion code.
I practice like these ways ofreleasing emotion.
I guess I just I had beentrying to heal by doing what
we've been taught to do right,which is medicate.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know, go to the doctors do what they tell you to
do.
Another prescription.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Right, I wasn't actually really thinking about
what is the core of where thisis coming from, and so I got my
journal and I wrote you knowwhat is this pain trying to tell
me and I wrote, and I wrote andI wrote for hours and, long
story short, a lot of repressedmemories came up for me, and
memories of sexual assault whenI was, you know, 16, and
(11:54):
memories that I had never sharedwith anybody and that really
became the beginning of a verydeep journey to do the real work
you know what I mean Like thework I had been avoiding for so
long.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
First of all, thank you for sharing I think that
that's something that so many ofour listeners can relate to
that so much of the work thatneeds to be done is actually
healing these repressedexperiences and memories from
earlier in life.
How did you walk through it?
What was the process that youwent through, and did writing
(12:33):
become a tool for you to?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
release it In the very beginning.
It did, and I've come to learnthat you need to feel it to heal
it right and for a long time.
And especially, you know I'm ahigh performer, like you, right,
and we we're doers, right, weget in there, we get it done.
We pride ourselves on being thego-to girls.
You know what I mean and youbusy yourself.
(12:55):
Get it done, Get it done right,and I became the queen of, and
for a long time I didn't realizethis, but I really would deny a
lot of my own feelings.
I didn't want to feel anything.
So even if I was reading a book, Michelle, if I was reading a
personal development book or aspiritual book, and at the end a
book, Michelle, like if I wasreading like a personal
development book or a spiritualbook, and at the end they would
(13:17):
have like exercises, likejournal, these things, I'd be
like I'd read over, I'm likeyeah, no, no, we're good, we're
good, I know all these thingsRight Cause you think you know
right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
But a hundred percent .
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh yeah, but it's not until it wasn't until I really
wrote everything out.
I went home the next morningand I sat down with Rudy, my
husband and I.
Just I read everything aloud tohim, like I gave a voice to
stories I had never told anybodyever.
It's like it reactivated thatenergy within me and then I
(13:48):
didn't know what to do.
It was like I could tell.
I was like okay, the pain isstill here.
I clearly haven't healed.
So like this isn't the end ofthis, now what?
So I tried a lot of differentmodalities.
This was really for me where Ibecame very aware of all of the
energy healing like that isavailable right now.
Right, so I am, um, I practiceemotion code.
(14:09):
Are you familiar with emotioncode?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, but tell, for our audience's sake, please walk
us through it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, sure.
So emotion code is.
It's actually a work by DrBradley Nelson.
I discovered him, I don't know,probably five, six years ago
and I would just kind of dabblein it here and there, but
essentially it is a process thatyou can do on your own.
It's pretty simple.
It utilizes muscle testing andthen through muscle testing
you're able to identify wherethere is basically stuck energy
(14:39):
in your field, and emotions thatbecome stuck in your field then
will start to vibrate andcreate imbalances in your system
and thus then cause physicalissues, right, and what's
interesting is I noticed that alot of the emotion that was
coming up to be cleared wasshame, A lot.
(15:01):
And I believe now, because I'vetold this story on many stages
at this point and I've had somany women come up to me, that I
think even just talking aboutUTIs, women have shame about it.
They feel shameful about it,right.
So if you think about thatright, then you take that where
I think the correlation is iswith assault, if those things
(15:24):
that happen to us, to so manywomen, that we carry shame
around and we're not releasingthat shame.
So I do think UTIs.
I don't know again, I'm not adoctor and I can't prove this,
but just from my conversationsnow and really supporting a lot
of women, I do see a correlationthere.
And so that was when I didhypnotherapy.
(15:46):
I have a great girlfriend who'svery gifted there, so she was
able to help take me back tosome of these instances.
I did a lot of journaling butwhat I realized, michelle, is
that as I started this healingprocess, I think we
overcomplicate it and think weneed to go and identify all the
experiences that are causing theissues.
(16:07):
But what happened for me wasthat life started to show me
them.
Right would give me anexperience to allow this emotion
to bubble, like for me to havean emotional experience about
something the minute I startbeing like where else have I
felt this before?
And I would, I would recognizeoh my gosh, I felt the exact
same way when this happened 20years ago.
(16:29):
You, you know what I mean.
So it really was like anunraveling and letting go of not
only emotion but an entireidentity.
And when I did that and when Ireleased the identity that I
didn't even really realize wasthere unconsciously, which is
I'm weak, I'm easily takenadvantage of you know what I
mean.
A lot of those things thatwere-.
(16:50):
Worthiness issues of you knowwhat I mean A lot of those
things that were worthinessissues, just self-protection,
all of that it's not safe to beseen.
Oh, that was a big one.
I don't want to be noticed, Iwant to blend in.
That was impacting everything.
I had started to write a bookabout 10 years ago.
I wrote the entire book, theentire book, michelle.
(17:12):
I wrote the book, I had itedited, and when it came time to
publish, I was paralyzed.
I was completely paralyzed, andI couldn't understand why the
visibility the visibility, it'slike my whole system was like
mayday, mayday.
This is not safe, and Icouldn't understand, because,
when I would look back to mypast, I'm like I had a pretty
(17:32):
easy childhood.
I had things here and there itwasn't a big deal and what I
realized, though, was it was allthat healing work that I did.
When I finally did the workthen, when it came time to write
this book, I was ready.
You know what I mean, because Ihad dealt with and released,
(17:52):
and done the work of turning mypain into gold, into purpose,
into strength, becoming analchemist.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You really helped turn that into something
purposeful.
But now, okay, inquiring mindswant to know what happened to
the other book, and is thatother book ever going to see the
light of day?
Aniston, I kind of cheated onthis.
I actually heard this in apodcast interview that you did
with Amberley.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh yeah, and actually it was funny.
I was just on with Dana Grant.
She said the same thing.
She's like you are going topublish that book.
I'm like I will.
I promise you hand to heart.
You know what?
It's interesting because I andI think it just at this point in
time in writing the Universe isHiring.
I just felt like the right timefor that book.
However, to honor even justmyself, right for that the girl
(18:40):
who, through all of her fears,wrote that book, and it's
brilliant, and, again, it was aninspiration.
I just wasn't equipped to holdthe energy of that book.
Yet Now I am, and so I willabsolutely publish that book
next.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You have goosebumps.
This is exciting stuff.
Okay, we're having abreakthrough right here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
All right, let's talk about the Universe is Hiring,
because it is a bold title.
It's very intriguing what wasthe spark that led you down that
path of this particular book atthis moment in time?
So?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
for me one of, I think, one of the hardest things
for me to get through, and Ithink this is very common,
especially for those that are inbusiness, that are
professionals and you know thecorporate sphere, or even those
that are entrepreneurial.
But I had a very, very hardtime fully feeling safe to be my
(19:41):
authentic self in my role, andI had been in corporate America
for 20 years.
I'm just recently out of it andso I experienced in my early
career where I would try tocompartmentalize right and I
would say, okay, I always feltlike the role I was in was
temporary because in my heart Iknew I had this calling, I knew
(20:03):
I wanted to help people and Ialways would kind of have, I
would be like I would take thesepositions and do well and I
would like be offered, you know,elevations, but for whatever
reason, I just always felt likeit wasn't safe for me to bring
all of me to work Meaning.
I'm a very spiritual person.
I use tools and practices forintention and manifestation and
(20:28):
I never wanted to talk aboutthat at work because I always
believed that if I did Iwouldn't be respected, that I
wouldn't be taken seriously.
I believed that if people knewthat I was writing a spiritual
book at home out in that way,and so, because of that, I feel
like I attracted a lot of peoplethat were dealing with a
(20:59):
similar issue and I started tosee the need.
And so, during COVID, Rudy and Ilaunched our coaching company,
I thought I was done withcorporate America right as we do
, right, Like that's it, I'mdone.
And then we make plans and Godlaughs.
Right as we do.
We're like that's it, I'm done.
And then we make plans and Godlaughs right.
And then this opportunity cameand this was four years ago and
I made the decision and I toldRudy it just kept coming and
(21:21):
kept coming and I was like youknow what?
I think this might be somethingI'm supposed to do, even though
this is not part of my plan toget back into corporate America
in a high-level position.
I am going to do thisdifferently this time.
I am going to show up as me.
I'm going to wave my freak flag.
I'm just going to be who I am.
If that's not okay, then I'llleave, because I know that I
(21:46):
have other options.
I know that I have gifts toshare and I really want to help
and impact people, but who am Ito say?
I have gifts to share and Ireally want to help and impact
people.
But who am I to say, oh well,the people have to be these
kinds of people, but they can'tbe people in an organization,
right?
I was praying and saying pleasebring me more people to impact.
Well, here's several thousand,right, here's several thousand
that for me to impact.
(22:07):
So you know, I started doing alot of trainings within the
organization on mindset and Iwould bring a little bit of
spirituality in there and thenwe would host these leadership
events and it turned into areally big thing and I became
known for that there and I hadnever been happier, I had never
been more fulfilled and I hadnever been more successful or
made more money.
And I think there was a lot oflessons for me there, because I
(22:31):
used to really limit myself,because I realized when you're
not showing up fully,authentically, it's almost like
you're leaving half your powersource at home, A hundred
percent.
And then people wonder why am Inot shining?
Why am I not being seen?
I know that because I used toask that same question, Like why
aren't people seeing me andthinking about me for that
(22:51):
position or whatever, and whenyou just show up as yourself,
100%, authentically, like numberone, you're connected to
inspiration, right, so you'regoing to be the one who gets
those good ideas, those ideasthat move the company leaps, and
then utilized for that, whichmeans you're really excited to
do that and you're excited toshow up to work every day, and
(23:16):
then from that, opportunitiescontinue to come to give me
times to do what I love, andthen people outside the
organization started noticingand then that started opening up
other opportunities and then itjust expanded into a life of
its own.
And then I knew when it wastime for me to go.
Versus me, sitting there waitingand waiting and thinking when I
(23:36):
leave this job, I'm going tostart impacting people.
That doesn't work, folks.
I'm here to tell you you haveto start being what you want to
be now.
If your goal is like my goal,which was to coach and teach and
to write books and start now.
That really is the crux of thisbook, and I wanted to give
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people the same framework, thesame roadmap that I followed.
That was very successful, notonly for me, but for so many, so
many people that I've coachedand trained on this topic that
have also followed the roadmapand been like wow, this formula
is simple, it's doable and it'shelping me keep me aligned with
(24:17):
what I believe I'm here to do inthis life.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So much to talk about in this.
First of all, no, thank you.
This is exciting, and I thinkthis is where a lot of people
get tripped up because theythink well, that's easy for you,
aniston, you must have been inan environment that was just
much more primed for that kindof culture.
And this is where I think it'simportant to challenge that
(24:43):
limiting belief, because most ofthe time I think maybe 99.9% of
the time the problems arisebecause we do not fully trust
ourselves to be our authenticselves, not necessarily because
the culture has said oh, you asyourself not good enough, but we
(25:03):
read that into the tea leaves,right, we project that fear out
there.
And the difference betweenthose people who end up being
their authentic selves and youknow I joke about this and you
just said it, so I'm going tosay it as well the freak shows
that we all are.
That separates those thatreally truly are living an
extraordinary life, which meanshighs and lows people.
(25:27):
It does not mean Instagram,curated, problem-free existence.
It means embracing the highsand lows of a very rich,
fulfilling life.
When you are there, you trustyourself, and I think that is
the key difference, because mostpeople haven't come to terms
(25:48):
with trusting themselves.
There's this sense of like.
I want to, but I don't fullythink I'm capable of believing
that what I think or feel orwhat's coming up for me is valid
, so I'm gonna fold back on thesidelines.
So what you've done and whatyou've put out here, I think, is
(26:11):
just so monumentally important,because it's the difference
between In my opinion and again,I think this is where we need
to delve in a little bit morewhere people are searching for
purpose versus where the callingfinds you.
Your calling will get you.
(26:33):
It's going to just keep at ituntil you pay attention, because
I don't.
I spent I think a lot of us dothis a long time in my 20s
searching for meaning, searchingfor purpose, searching outside
of myself, right, searching outthere, out, there, out there.
And the reality is the callingcomes up from within and it is
(26:54):
why it's called the calling.
It calls you to it.
You don't need to go find itright.
Talk about your experiencearound that, because I think so
many people confuse this idea ofpurpose with something they
have to go search for high andlow, versus knowing that your
purpose is.
(27:15):
Calling is something that findsyou, that you are beckoned to.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh, and it's a part of you let's start there Like
you've never been disconnectedfrom it, right, ever.
You can't be disconnected fromsomething that you are.
It's impossible to extricatethe you that you are from your
purpose.
It's more of, I think, anunraveling and an unpacking,
(27:41):
because what happens is is, Ithink, we wind up looking at the
world and at ourselves throughvery dirty glasses.
Okay, I don't know about you,but like sunglasses like my
sunglasses they're alwaysconstantly dirty.
I'm having to like alwayssmudge.
It drives me crazy, like howcan you do that?
And I'm like I don't know, I'mjust kind of used to it.
Okay, so there we go.
(28:03):
It's right there.
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm like whatever, it's fine, that's what happens
when you have little kids andgrimy little fingers.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So I think skipping the part of where you need to
wipe off those lens so you cansee yourself clearly and your
path clearly and your gifts moreclearly is, in my opinion, it's
avoiding the magic, right.
So for me, and kind of circlingback to what we initially
talked about, about the healingjourney we all are on, I believe
(28:37):
, on a healing journey, right.
Some of us are moving throughdifferent stages of it, and it's
not linear, it's like circular,right.
So just as you think you'vehealed one thing, you kind of
come back to it again.
You go for a deeper level andcome back to it again, and come
back to it again.
And so I think a big part of theprocess is number one when you
are feeling confused, when youare feeling lost and you're like
(29:00):
I have no idea, First of allrecognize you're not lost.
Okay, you just need to do alittle work.
And that's that is.
The question is, are youwilling to do the work, Are you
willing to sit with yourself andto ask yourself some really
good questions?
And and just even coming to the, the awareness that you are
(29:22):
feeling lost, that you're notsure what you want to do, like
congratulations, because thatmeans you're ready, Like you're
so close, because most peoplethat you will see walking around
are like zombies in anapocalypse they don't even
question, they don't even thinkto question our full survival
mode.
Right, and that might be, andthat's okay.
(29:45):
That's their journey.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's where they're at, and we are all at that at
some point in time.
We can't deny that Like we fallinto that or have been part of
that autopilot living at onepoint or time or another, but
that moment of awareness thatyou just talked about is
everything.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's everything when you start asking better
questions, you're going to getbetter answers.
So it's not a reallycomplicated process.
In the book, in the first partof the book, it's really about
clarity, right.
It's about discovering andreally kind of reconnecting with
who are you, what are yourpassions, who are you
authentically, and reallygetting to know yourself again
(30:25):
in a way that's deeper than whoyou think yourself to be just in
your normal narrative.
Because the normal narrativethat you have of your identity,
of who you are, what you're goodat, what's possible for you,
that is probably pretty false.
I mean, some things might betrue, right, but there are
probably some things that needto be updated.
It'd be like if you get alaptop or computer and you just
(30:46):
never updated it, right, youridentity needs to be regularly,
updated regularly and for you tobe clear on, well, this is who
I am and this is what I'm aboutand this is what I'm capable of
and what I'm ready for.
And, more than that, I thinkit's really starting to
recognize what you are uniquelygood at.
I believe the age that we're inright now is an age where AI is
(31:12):
coming in hot right, a lot ofefficiencies and people kind of
feel fearful around that, like,well, what kind of purpose am I
going to have here when, withall these efficiencies happening
in the world, it's ending?
It's like, well, that's one wayto look at it.
Or you could look at it as agift that will give us more time
to do the things that we loveso well.
(31:33):
And while we used to trade ininformation right, it was what
you knew is why you got hired Ithink the future is we'll be
trading in genius, because whatAI can't do is connect to a
higher power and a source andreceive information from the
quantum field, right.
What AI can't do is connect toa soul that is connected to the
(31:56):
all, that is, that can receivethese intuitive downloads at the
right time, at the right placeto touch somebody's heart.
Right.
That can receive theseintuitive downloads at the right
time, at the right place totouch somebody's heart right,
like right now.
Now is the time, I believe, tostart reconnecting to what makes
you the unique snowflake thatyou are that will never be
replicated, and through thatcomes the self-love and the
(32:19):
self-worth and realizing like,wow, I really do have something
to offer here.
And not devaluing these giftsbecause you think, oh well, that
person has those gifts andthey're really successful, and I
don't have those, so my giftsaren't that great.
Your gift is great and Iguarantee you it's needed.
And I think that that is goingto become more of our calling
(32:40):
card is to be known for what wedo so well, so uniquely well,
that people will start coming toyou for that and you'll start
going to them for what they doso uniquely well, and we'll
start to get to know each otheron a much deeper soul level.
So I know that was a longanswer to your question.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I love that.
Well, look, this audience isprime for this, because we talk
about all things spiritual hereon the show, and one of the
things I know we share so deeplyin common is a love for the
late great Wayne Dyer and thisnotion that you know, we are
spiritual beings having a humanexperience and so the eternal
(33:19):
part of us right, that soul thatwe all are not that we have,
but that we are is somethingthat I think most of the folks
that are listening hererecognize.
And unfortunately, we need tohave regular reminders that this
human experience that we're allgoing on is the temporary field
(33:42):
and that we are going toexperience some really beautiful
things.
But we're also going toexperience a lot of heartbreak
and disappointing things, andthat's part of the human
experience we get to, asspiritual beings that are
walking through this, decide howwe're going to respond and, I
(34:05):
think, reflect our light throughall of that.
Right, that's where I think somuch of the inherent worthiness
that we need to be reminded thatwe have comes into play.
There is no better soul, lessersoul.
We're all spiritual beings,we're all souls, right, there's
(34:26):
an equality of that.
It's beautiful as it is, we arebeautiful as we are, and then
we inhabit these human livesthat come with different tools
and gifts that we get toexperience and get to share and
burdens that we have to livethrough that most of the time
end up being the places that weget to bring back to the world
(34:49):
in some sort of role of teachingor healing, or where our true
calling is to be and holdingthat space for other people that
have either come behind us andneed encouragement or need light
as they go through their ownexperiences.
So I think so much of this ideabehind the book really being
(35:15):
built into the fact that nobodybut nobody can play the role
that you came here to play issuch a wonderfully beautiful
reminder.
And I'm curious you have youngkids.
What do they think of the book?
Have they experienced this?
(35:35):
I mean, first of all, they mustthink mom's a rock star, but
besides that, I know that youand Rudy I've had Rudy on the
show before, so our audiencewill remember Rudy these two are
a dynamic duo, but you reallydo embody what you teach here.
How are the kids reacting tothe success of the book and the
(35:56):
work that you're doing?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You know, it's been such a blessing this whole
process because I've gotten toexperience my children in
different ways through this.
So when I decided that I madethe commitment, I was like I'm
writing this book, I knew thatit was going to come.
There's always a trade-off,right?
There's always a trade-off.
And people say, well, how areyou doing that with a full-time,
(36:18):
high-level job?
And you're doing the podcast,you're doing this, you're doing
that.
And I'm like well, you maketime for the things that you
value, right, you make time forthe things that are important to
you.
And I knew that if somethinghappened and I was at my
deathbed and I had not writtenthis book, I would have such
regret about it.
So I really my why was sostrong?
(36:38):
And so I sat the kids down,rudy, and I did, and I said
listen, this is my goal, this is.
I believe it's a big part of mypurpose.
I believe I was given this tocreate it, to impact other
people and I could really useyour support.
And so we talked about it andthat daddy was going to help
them in the mornings when I waswriting and some weekends I
would be writing.
And they said okay.
(37:00):
And I said and once this bookis published, then we will all
go together and celebrate to goto Universal Studios, like this
became a thing They've neverbeen, which we're still.
We have the plan, so we'regoing this year, and so they
felt like they were a part of it, like they would check in with
me How's it going.
So they feel like this is theirbook too, like they've been a
(37:23):
part of this process.
And my daughter now is writingher own book she's nine and my
son is writing music.
And you know, it was such areminder to me that I think the
greatest gift we can give to ourchildren is to live our most
authentic big lives and to honorour calling and the dreams that
are put on our heart, even ifit means that I have less time
(37:47):
to do some of the motherlythings that I would have,
because I think what I was ableto model for them was what it
looks like to follow your dreamsand to follow your heart and to
do it knowing that you don'thave to choose, like you get to
be a mom, you get to be a wife,you get to be a high-powered
career woman, you get to impactpeople, and it can be a lot of
(38:09):
things.
So, yeah, it's been a greatprocess.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
That's so beautiful and I'm so glad you shared that.
I mean, one of the biggestgifts that I've been given was,
you know, my son, alex, was amajor part of my own journey.
I remember during COVID he cameinto my office and said, mom,
are you on Zoom?
And I said I am.
And he said are you on speaker?
And I said no, I'm on mute.
(38:33):
And he said oh good, when areyou going to stop helping
everybody else and start writingyour own book?
And I remember going else andstart writing your own book.
And I remember going fully.
I said well, you know, just asa matter of reference, that job
that you're criticizing rightnow is paying for this lovely
home you live in and all thesephenomenal vacations we've taken
on in the past.
(38:54):
And he said, mom, I don't thinkit matters, I really think you
need to go do the thing that youwere meant to do here.
That was my then 12-year-old,or almost 13-year-old, and I
remember going oh my gosh, outof the mouth of babes.
And he's been, and I was apretty high power executive for
a while here.
And he said I've never beenmore proud of you than the day
(39:17):
that you walked away fromeverything to start doing the
things you were meant to do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
And now he's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
He's on his entrepreneur journey himself.
He just got accepted to college.
Like we're going through allthis process, we're going to be
dropping him off in the end ofthe summer and to start his own
journey.
And he said watching you hitthe reset on certain goals so
that you can start living whatyou were meant to do is the
(39:45):
thing I'm most proud of, mom.
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
not the thing that gave us all the toys and the
things and the nope nope, and Ithink that also just showing
what it looks like to pivot,because I know for sure, like I
don't regret a day that I spent.
That was my qualification, tobe honest, like I feel like
really good, and I'm still beingqualified every single day.
I'm being qualified for whatI'm doing.
(40:10):
But I was meant to be in thatrole.
I was meant.
Every job I've had has taughtme something so important.
And so I think that the problemis when we get so attached and
we hold on with these fistsbecause we're so afraid nothing
is on the other side of this.
And when you really start toopen up and start to trust, I
think, in the universe and trustin your creatorship here and
(40:35):
your ability, through yourenergy and vibration, to
co-create your reality, itstarts to open up doors for you.
And I know for a lot of people,money is a big issue.
They're like I'm not going toleave my corporate job because
of money.
And I do think that there issomething to be said for, like
start where you're at and seewhat opens up for you, because
you might not even have to dothat.
There might be a role that youfind within your current
(40:57):
organization that really checksall the boxes, leaves you
feeling fulfilled.
So don't like blow up your lifebecause you think you have to
change everything in order to behappy.
First get happy, get fulfilled,become abundant yourself and in
your abundant vibration thatwill outweigh any circumstance.
(41:17):
And I'll give you an example.
So I left my job in January,okay, and I had a very healthy
paycheck.
And right now I'm busy coachingand I'm building some new
things that I'll be offeringwhich I'm really excited about.
But you know, logic would tellyou, okay, well, we need to plan
for a certain amount of timewhere I'm not going to have this
(41:38):
income.
But I was like actually, no,we're not planning for that,
because I believe that I have acertain worthiness level as it
relates to abundance and I havea whole chapter on this called
the universe's payroll, and Iwas like I'm taking my own
advice, I'm on the universe doespayroll, and I was like I'm
taking my own advice, I'm on theuniverse's payroll baby, and I
am open to receive abundance forwherever, wherever God wants to
send it from.
And two days ago we get acompletely unexpected check in
(42:02):
the mail and it is for I'mthinking even to the cent what
my monthly paycheck was from Wow, unexpected, did not anticipate
it.
Rudy was like is this real?
And I was like yeah, I think.
(42:22):
So Deposit it, you'll find outreal fast.
And it was like it was just.
We both just killed ourselveslaughing because you could
totally stress yourself out andbe like doomsday, oh my gosh.
But I really, truly believe andmy life is continuing to
validate for me that if you areabundant and you feel worthy,
that there are an infiniteamount of sources of potential
(42:46):
for income for you.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Hallelujah and amen to that.
So those of you who arelistening right now know
Hallelujah and amen to that.
So those of you who arelistening right now know I 100%
believe this.
This is part of we talk aboutwealth frequency and the
energetics of money on this showpretty regularly and it's
probably one of my mostdownloaded tools that I offer to
our community is this idea andnotion that we do not stop where
(43:11):
we believe our abundance factoris.
We raise to the level of thatand so it is.
All it is is energy.
We know that.
We know that this wholeuniverse, including Aniston and
I, are made of energy, thatmoney is nothing more than an
energetic exchange and that weraise to the vibration of that
frequency of that which we wantto experience.
(43:33):
So I love the fact that youdidn't get into that scarcity
mindset, that you maintainedthat no, this is where our
family is going to live andthrive and be, and you continue
to grow at that place and be inthat space and that mindset.
That is how you continue tobring the abundance in from all
the places, places you didn'teven anticipate they were gonna
(43:56):
come from.
That's how it happens, people.
So don't be surprised if theuniverse says, hey, random check
coming in from this place thatyou didn't even know you had
something waiting for you.
When your expectation is there,you need to believe and be
grateful that it's alreadycoming.
(44:16):
So thank you for sharing that.
That's such a wonderfulreminder.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Isn't the place to tighten the belt.
This is the place to stay inexpectancy and stay in belief
and know that it is coming.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
It's being in the flow and I think it's really
living in.
Uncertainty itself is a gift.
If you can set like one goalfor yourself this year, I would
say get really comfortable withuncertainty and see the gift in
it, because when you'reuncertain, you open up just to
the infinite amount of potentialthat's out there.
(44:50):
Right up, just to the infiniteamount of potential that's out
there right, when we're incertainty and we are so
committed to certainty and we'recommitted that means we're
committed to control we'rebasically saying we're very much
limiting our potential to onlythe things, right, that we're
like well, it has to be this way.
But when you step out of what iswhat, out of what is known,
into the unknown, and you'relike, well, I have no idea what
(45:12):
this is going to look like, butI know that I'm excited and I
know that I'm protected and Iknow that I'm guided and I'm
connected to all the informationthat is going to guide me ahead
and bring in all the necessaryresources, life becomes magical
and you start to see the magicevery day.
And so, even though, yes, Ithink I know what's, I mean, I'm
(45:32):
starting to kind of see thevision.
I'm not in a hurry to give it alabel.
And I'm not in a hurry to getit all figured out, because this
time of uncertainty has beensuch a gift and full of just the
most incredible things.
So I just want to encourageanyone out there that is really
struggling and afraid right nowbecause you're in uncertainty
(45:53):
that a shift in perception wasthe course in miracle says a
miracle is just a shift in aperspective, in perception, and
one little shift and how you'reperceiving a situation can
completely turn your worldaround.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
So, a hundred percent an thank you so much for
modeling what it means to livean extraordinary life.
It is not about having it allfigured out, it is not about
certainty, it is not aboutcurated experiences.
It really is being present forthe moment that you are living
(46:27):
now, with all your gifts and allof your full potential being
expressed and willing to embracewhat we would normally label as
humans good and bad andrecognizing that they're all
just experiences that we gothrough as humans and that our
mission really here is to servelove wherever we go.
(46:52):
And you are doing that sobeautifully and I'm just honored
to call you friend and I'm soproud of you and this work that
you're doing.
Thank you so much and I can'twait to read your book.
Sister, it's coming.
It is coming, folks.
Again.
Aniston's book is called theUniverse is Hiring.
I highly encourage you to goget it.
(47:13):
We will include the link in theshow notes.
Aniston is very active now.
She is out being seen and heardon Instagram, so please go look
for her there.
We'll make sure we have herInstagram handle.
Aniston, I'll give you the lastword.
What else would you like forour audience to know?
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Well, I would just say yeah, I'd love to talk with
you on Instagram.
Come find me.
The Empowered Life podcast iswhat I co-host with Rudy, and
we're always talking about allthings spiritual.
Very similar to you, michelle.
So I just wish everyone thebest and I hope that you got
what you needed out of thisepisode.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Well, thank you for an inspiring afternoon
conversation and until next time, everyone, go and live your
extraordinary lives.
Thank you for listening totoday's episode.
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