November 21, 2023 • 50 mins
Looking for an empowering conversation about weight loss and manifestation? You're in for a treat!
Samantha opens up about her personal journey, the manifestation of her 10-year weight loss anniversary event, and the importance of embracing cultural identity in the weight loss process.
Plus, we tackle the challenges of being a first-generation individual, emphasizing the necessity of self-acceptance and personal growth. Samantha's insights on setting clear intentions and understanding how manifestation can work in unexpected ways, are not to be missed.
We touch upon the use of oracle cards as a form of validation from the universe, and Samantha offers a glimpse into her one-on-one coaching program. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom, so tune in, and be sure to check out Sam's podcast, "Your Winning Journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Manifesting Latina Podcast,
where you'll learn to unlockyour incredible power of
manifestation and connect deeplywith yourself.
I'm Dr Norma Reyes, your guideand host, helping you manifest a
life filled with purpose,abundance and inner wisdom.
Together, we'll dive into theart of manifestation, practical
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techniques, personal growth andthe magic of aligning with your
deepest desires.
No more feeling stuck ordisconnected.
It's time to awaken your innermanifester, embrace your
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Tune in each week to theManifesting Latina Podcast and
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Hey, everyone, welcome back.
This is episode 113 and I havea special guest interview for
you.
What's most exciting, this isthe first guest since the
podcast changed into the focusof manifestation.
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I can't wait for you guys tohear her manifestation journey
and how she manifested a soldout event for her 10 year weight
loss anniversary.
It was so exciting to also seethe behind the scenes and how
she unfolded this.
Without further ado, I'm goingto share with you.
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Her name is Samantha Lee.
She is a Hmong American, theeldest daughter of refugee
immigrant parents, a speaker anda health coach who helps people
of color lose weight withouthaving to follow any race's diet
culture roles.
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She is also the host of yourwinning journey podcast and
shares weight loss teachingswith her 10 years of experience.
Her work was inspired by herown weight loss journey where
she felt the need to strip herculture identity to fit into
society standards of whitehealthy.
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I know I can relate to that andknow that everything that she
is teaching is so aligned withhow I now see food.
I hate to use the word dietbecause it has been turned into
losing weight, but diet isreally just what you eat, your
lifestyle, what you decide toeat.
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If you are interested inchecking her out, her links are
all in the show notes.
Thank you so much, sam, forbeing here with me.
I can't wait for everyone tohear all about you and your own
manifestation journey.
Before we dive into that, Iwant to hear more about you,
your family background, wheredid you grow up and who did you
live with?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh my gosh, thanks for having me, norma.
I'm super excited because Ijust posted a podcast of me and
Norma on my podcast, so I'msuper happy that we're doing
this episode.
But hello everyone, my name isSam.
I'm a weight loss coach forwomen of color and I help women
lose 20 pounds without followingracist diet culture, and so I
approach weight loss from thisanti-racist lens, but also just
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helping women eat the foods thatthey grew up with, from their
cultural background, so thatthey don't have to strip a part
of their identity just to behealthy.
And so just a little bit aboutme is I am the oldest in my
family.
I'm a first gen.
My parents are immigrants andrefugee parents that came here
to the US.
I grew up in Minnesota andsomething kind of funky about me
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.
Every time I tell people thatthey're always like super
surprised.
I went to school for mybachelor's and my master's in
information systems, which issimilar to IT, and so now that
I'm doing work that is notreally related in that field,
it's super like completelyopposite of being a behind the
scenes person to now a personthat works with people and talk
to people all the time.
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It's kind of mind blowing forpeople.
But yeah, that's about me, yeahyeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And you said your parents are refugees.
Yeah, yeah, where are they from?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So they were born in Laos, in Thailand, and they came
to the US in the Vietnam Warwhen it happened and there was a
secret war between the US andthe Mone people and we were with
the US at that time trying tofight the communism, and then we
got promised that if we helpthe US we get to migrate into
the United States, and sothere's this whole like history
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behind it and it's kind ofinteresting because we don't
really hear people talk aboutthe secret war in your history
class and so now people are justtalking about it and like
really unveiling like the realthings that really happened in
Vietnam War.
So it's interesting.
They're born in Laos, inThailand.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's not the only part of
the world that the US has donethings like that before.
We won't dive into that rabbithole.
So you went to school to do yousaid information Systems,
systems Okay, I wanted to sayscience, but I knew that was
wrong and systems.
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And then when just kind of evengo from there to the
manifesting part, how was thattransition from being in that
field to helping women withweight loss?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So when I went to school, I originally wanted to
be a marketer and I actuallyalways wanted to be a
photographer when I was in highschool because I was doing
photography at the time.
But my parents, my dad, was,like you're not going to make
any money, so you need to go toschool and you need to get a
degree in science, because STEMis, like, very popular and it
was the time when technology wasevolving and I've always was
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interested in fitness.
So I started my weight lossjourney when I was 16.
And so that was like duringhigh school time, right, and it
was always something that Iwanted to do and more on the
creative side, because I wasinto photography, but I was also
into, like, just helping peoplein their journey.
But my parents were, like youshould just go to school and
find a good job.
And so I did what they said andI just remember, like getting
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my first nine to five job, likeliterally right after I
graduated.
Like I secured a job before Igraduated and I went to my nine
to five and I'm like, what thefuck Is this what I'm going to
be doing for the rest of my life?
It's horrible, I don't like it.
And that was when I started likethe fitness in me started
calling my name again, like Iwas just hearing that intuition
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of hey, you should probably likedo something about this.
I should probably start like aside hustle or like start like a
business.
And then I started postingthings on Instagram and before
all of this, mind you, I triedso many things.
I was a photographer and I wasalso a beauty influencer, so I
did a lot of makeup tutorial onYouTube and so I had a following
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already.
But I was really passionateabout fitness and so when I was
in my nine to five, I actuallypivoted.
I'm like you know what, let mejust really go all in on just
posting fitness content.
But it started from there andthen, when 2021 happened, I got
laid off from my job and I'mlike you know what, let me just
go full time on my business.
I took that leap of faithbecause I was just listening to
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that wiggle like voice in myhead and like my intuition, and
now I'm here.
So that's pretty much likeabout how I got to the weight
loss fitness industry.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, okay, and we'll touch on that here in a little
bit, but can you share a littlebit about any spiritual
practices or any beliefs thathelp playing your manifesting
journey?
I know you just saw intuitionright and as women, oftentimes
we get told that our intuitionis silly.
Right, you can't just go basedon a feeling Although I will
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point out that men trust theirgut all the time and that's okay
but when it comes to women, wecan't trust our intuition, and
I'm not saying that we can't,but the society tells us we
can't, and I think a lot of itis because we relate it more to
a feeling Like I don't knowabout that, I just got a feeling
not to do it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Some of my spiritual practice is meditation, and I
just don't want you to be scaredwhen you hear the word
meditation, because I feel likepeople think you have to
meditate for like a whole hourto see the benefit.
Or really meditation to me isjust letting myself have quiet
time, and sometimes that's notme even closing my eyes, but
just not consuming anything andjust seeing what my inner voice
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is saying to me.
And it's so interesting thatwe're talking about this,
because as a little kid I justfelt like I talked to myself a
lot, and so I feel like that hasbeen something that I've always
done was just talking to myself, like people were always like
you talk so much.
I'm like I feel like I have awhole conversation in my head
just by myself, and so one of myspiritual practices is just
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that meditation piece.
But also I am really futuredriven and so I like to think
about the future a lot, whichcan be a pro and a con, because
sometimes it takes me outside ofbeing present.
But I'm always thinking aheadand I'm always thinking like
what's gonna happen five yearsfrom now, 10 years from now, and
I try to visualize like how mylife will look like, and that
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has always determined what mypresent decisions look like,
which can be fun.
But sometimes my husband islike, okay, you need to like
chill and just like be presentright now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So yeah, definitely I mean being future oriented.
It's great, but like they cansteal some of the joy of when
you're being present, right, sowas there any specific practices
that your family passed down toyou?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we practice shamanism.
It's more of a ritual, more thana religion, but it is where we
practice our rituals, during thefull moon and the new moon,
depending on the year, and wealso do like a new year cleanse
to start like a new year.
And so I feel like, because ofthat ritual, I've always had
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this close relationship with myspirit of making sure that I'm
also doing things that connectme back to my ancestors, and so
it's like honoring my grandpathat has passed away, or my
great grandpa and grandma.
It's like honoring the lovedones that we have lost and also
really praying to them forgreatness to come on things that
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we want to manifest.
And so we really have this likerelationship with our ancestors
, where we can reach them whenwe want to and having them
protect us, and believing thatthere's a bigger God, a bigger
universe or bigger ancestorwhatever you believe in that is
helping guide you.
And so I've always been kind oflike, okay, this mission of the
things that I'm doing is somuch bigger than me because of
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the practices that I grew uplearning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Can you remember when youstarted consciously manifesting
any of your desires?
That's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't really know exactly when.
The closest thing I can rememberwas just in high school when I
was taking pictures of peoplebecause at the time I want to be
a photographer and I wasvisualizing what it was like to
have a studio of my own and Iremember like looking up the
studio props on Amazon, how muchit would cost and like all of
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those things, and I justremember really imagining the
people coming into my studio andtaking pictures of me and like
me feeling like, oh, like Ireally like that.
But then I stopped visualizingbecause I remember telling my
dad that dream and he was likeyou're not gonna make any money.
And so I feel like it wasalways in me to kind of just see
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like what it would be like if Iwas a photographer.
And I stopped thatvisualization actually when I
went to college, Because thevisualization that I was doing
in college was what society wastelling me like go get a job,
right, I mean graduate fromcollege and then get a good job.
And so I didn't actually startvisualizing again until I got my
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nine to five job and I'm likewhat am I doing with my life?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That is super interesting.
I would say that in my teenageyears is when I was exploring
and connecting with spirituality, not necessarily in
visualization, but it's veryinteresting that you were
visualizing that.
You know, like, how many peopleat that age are visualizing
like, oh, I'm opening up astudio, oh, I'm doing this and
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that, and these people arecoming in.
That is so interesting andthank you for sharing how our
dreams are sometimes crushedLack of a better word, but
literally crushed, I mean.
And then that chapter wasclosed for you.
In regards to the visualization, right, the imagining of what
could be.
Instead, you kind of steppedmore into like that masculine
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energy of just doing versuscreating, and the doing of like
going to school, checkbox grades, right, and kind of being more
in the physical world.
In regards to like going toclass, maybe, going to parties,
meeting people focused more on,like your personal appearance,
maybe, than, oh, my future goals.
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So you said that once you werein your nine to five, that's
when you were like whoa it'skind of like a wake up, like
okay, this is not for me andshare with a little bit on that.
How did you then start tovisualize, or maybe more
consciously manifest or stepinto the desires that you truly
wanted for yourself and in yourlife and your career?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah.
So it was all because, like,when I got that job and I was at
the office, I was like I don'teven want this, like what have I
been working towards?
And it was all because of, likeI was living in my parents'
manifestation but I wasn'tliving in my own manifestation.
And what got me to really startmanifesting at that time again
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was I had to ask myself oh hey,sam, what do you wanna do?
And are there people doing whatyou wanna do?
Can we find some possibilityhere?
And that's when I discoveredthe coaching industry, because I
was just so curious.
I was like, okay, I wanna knowhow to start a business, but I
don't know.
And so let me see if there's abusiness coach.
Like, is that even a thing?
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Is there even like a socialmedia manager?
At this point?
Like I don't know.
Because, just to give y'all somebackground, when I started my
weight loss journey, I did a lotof diets, I went through a lot
of trauma and error and it tookme like four years for me to
figure out.
Like, okay, I'm not gonna dieanymore.
And so I took that mentality tobusiness.
I'm like, you know, I'm gonnaask for help and I'm not gonna
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try to figure it out on my own,like how I did in my weight loss
journey.
So I'm gonna search up and seeif there's people doing this.
And that's when I started seeingpeople like working from home
and they're like, oh, like youcan help people with their
weight loss journey and youdon't have to like be at your
nine to five, you can make extramoney.
And so when I just startedseeing possibility outside of my
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nine to five, just by lookingat different careers that people
had, or just like how they workwith like their lifestyle,
right, I started painting apicture of, okay, maybe I don't
wanna go into the office, maybeI like I don't see myself
working 40 hours a week, maybe Iwanna travel more and like I
don't wanna just take like onebig trip a year because of my
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PTO.
And I started asking myself,like okay, with these
possibility that you see thesepeople doing, what do you want
for yourself?
And I think asking myself thatquestion is one of the hardest
questions that I've ever had toask, cause you know, sometimes
we think we know what we wantbut really we don't.
And me getting clear on thatreally allowed me to make my
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visualization, for mymanifestation to be more
grounded and like more detailed.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, and would you say how long did it take for you
to actually feel that clarity,that alignment, that it takes
some time.
Did you feel like you had anepiphany at one point?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, I think it was a year, cause I was on my job
for a year.
And you know, when you kind ofhave that little intuition,
that's like hey, you shouldprobably do something different,
you're like, yeah, yeah, I know, and then you kind of just go
about your day, you don't reallylisten to it.
And then a year goes by and I'mlike, okay, you really like
that was at the point where Iwas balancing my nine to five
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and I was going to grad schoolat the same time and I'm like I
don't know why I'm doing this.
And I'm like, you know, I'mjust so sick of like coming home
from work and doing homeworkand like that was my repeat
every day.
And so I was like, okay, I haveto do this.
And at this time, let me justremind you that there was a lot
of people asking me like Sam,how did you lose weight eating
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monk food?
And just so you guys know, myethnicity is monk.
And people would be like, howdid you do that?
Or like, how did you, how didyou get a tone body?
Can you teach me how to do this?
And I saw that there wassomething missing in the
industry, where women of colordidn't get what they needed
because they were trying to likeeat the white culture way.
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And so I feel like the universewas like okay, if you're not
going to listen to this voice,then I'm going to send you
people to talk to you about thistopic.
Because I remember being at mynine to five and people would
come to me like my cousins, myfriends.
They would message me but like,can you help me lose weight,
can you help me do that?
And I'm like I'm not reallyserious about it, like sure, I
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can help you, but I'm not reallythat good you know, and that
was when I was like, okay, Ireally have to take this
seriously, because people areactually out here needing help.
And I had to really think about,like my journey of, if I had me
at the beginning of my journey,how different would my journey
look like.
And that was really what likegot me to really have that
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epiphany was just people justcoming at me with these
questions and like asking me forhelp on the thing that I was
trying to avoid because I wastrying to live in my parents'
manifestation journey.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, and so many of us probably did that even if
we're doing something we enjoydoing, or not even that we enjoy
doing, but something that cameto us easy and it's like, oh
well, this is easy for me, soI'm gonna major in this.
Oh okay, I got this job.
I guess this is where I'll do,without really asking ourselves
what do I really want to do?
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Until we're in that, like youjust mentioned, the hustle,
bustle of life, like waking up,going to work, going to school
and repeat, and it's just likeso mundane, so boring, there's
not any stress in your life, butit's also no joy, yeah, and
it's like what am I doing?
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So you're listening to this andyou're like, oh, my God, I'm
right there.
Just know that you can find away out of that.
And there's gonna be moments intime where life does feel that
way because you're in atransitional period.
I know sometimes like,especially, you just had a child
, you just have to get used tohaving a new baby in your life
If you just got married.
So know that there'stransitional periods, that that
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is okay.
Just don't stay there too long,because then three, four years,
that's gonna be even longertime that you were in that mode
and it's not gonna feel good.
So you dove in to starting yourbusiness when you got laid off
and you recently had your10-year weight loss journey
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event.
How did that idea come up?
Like what made you want to dothat?
And then we'll just share alittle bit about that journey
and making that into a reality.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, so when I started visualizing again in my
nine to five, I started Googlingor not like Googling, but I was
watching YouTube of like how tomeditate, but I wanted more of
a guided meditation and I foundthis meditation by I think it
was called Master is it MasterSuri?
I think that's his name.
But I was listening to one ofhis visualization and I was just
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letting anything come to me andat this point I was already
probably like this is when Istarted taking my business
seriously and I just visualizedI saw myself on stage and it's
so crazy because I saw myself onstage but all I could see was
like the lights was shining onme and then I just saw like
people there and I didn't knowwhat that was at the time
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because I was just like, okay,like okay, there's a crowd, but
I don't really know what that'sgonna look like.
And anytime I would do like avisualization where I don't have
any intention behind it, butI'm just kind of like let me
just use this time to see wheremy brain takes me.
It would always come back tolike some sort of events, like
there's people around me, I'mtalking to someone, I'm talking
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about a specific topic.
I don't know what that topic is, but it was always like
something related to communityand I remember I was like I'm
not in the place to do that yet,cause I just literally started
my business.
I had a little bit of impostersyndrome, but it was always
something that I constantlythought about of, hmm, I really
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wanna do an event one day, but Idon't know what it is.
And it wasn't until this year.
I was like, oh shit, I hit my10 year weight loss anniversary.
I should probably do somethingabout it.
And that was when the ideastarted spinning.
And let me just be, let me justlike step back a little bit too
.
In last year I found a coworkingspace where I live, and I
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remember looking for a coworkingspace after COVID, cause I know
everybody got tired of workingfrom home.
You just wanted to work in adifferent environment.
And this place was so beautiful.
They literally opened up beforeCOVID hit.
And I remember stepping intothat and I'm like, oh, this is
where I'm gonna host an eventone day, cause I just like the
vibe of this.
So I signed up for, like, thecoworking membership and I
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always like go there to likework at least once a week, and
when this idea came up of, ohI'm gonna celebrate my 10 year
weight loss anniversary, I'mlike I know where exactly I'm
gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it at the Coven,which is the coworking space in
Singapore, minnesota, and I juststarted visualizing how that
would look like, and so I'vealways had this like idea of
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bringing people together, but Ididn't know what it would look
like, and it ended up happeningbecause I was like oh, it's the
perfect time, like I'mcelebrating something big.
I want everybody to cometogether and just talk about
weight loss and health.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, so we know the event happened and it was a
success, or some of thechallenges you had to overcome
to get there, to get even allthe tickets sold, cause you know
we're in the mastermindtogether, so I know that was one
of the things that you wereworried about.
And then it was like all of asudden you're sold out.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
It's still blowing my mind aswe're talking about this, but
one of the biggest challenge wastrusting the process.
Like and when I say trustingthe process, it was really
allowing myself to have good andbad days, because what I have
learned about manifestation inthe past was you always have to
stay positive and like youalways gotta have you heard of
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this saying that, like lifedoesn't happen to you, it
happens for you, and you knowwhat.
you're having a bad day.
You're like why this is.
This is not the affirmation ofthe day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And there was a lot of that where I'm like I don't
know what's going to happen, Idon't know how many people are
going to be there, and Iliterally was like it's just
going to be me and my clients.
Literally, it's going to be meand my clients and we're just
going to have a chill day, causenobody's coming.
And the biggest challenge wasregulating my emotions on the
days where, like, I was having abad day and I'm like, okay,
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today is not going to be like aday where you're going to show
up and talk about this a lot,but it's okay, like you're going
to be better tomorrow.
And so I think like justbalancing out like the idea that
in the process of you doingyour manifestation, it's not
going to feel good, cause, if Ireally think about the entire
time, I did not feel good, I didnot feel super positive, but I
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also didn't feel super negativebecause it was the way I was
talking to myself of we'll makeit work, and the thought that I
was practicing a lot was it'snot over until it's over, and
that really helped me like havethe courage to be like okay, we
don't know who's going to bethere, but we have like two
weeks left, let's see what wecan do, and it was coming from
this energy of like curiosity.
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So that was the first challenge.
The second challenge that I hadencountered was just believing
something new Like this is thefirst time I've ever did an
event where it was like verypublic like this, and there was
a lot of direction of okay,you're not going to know what to
do.
This is going to feel like it'snot going to be exactly like
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what you think it is.
There's just a lot ofuncertainty cause I don't know
what the heck I was doing.
If I really think about it, I'mjust kind of doing what I know,
and I had to really be okaywith the uncertainty behind how
things were going to turn out,because I had this whole vision
in my head and the vision didcame close to it, but it
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definitely like I had to releasea lot of expectations so that I
can have a better relationshipwith uncertainty.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, thanks for sharing that.
So you shared about not feelingpositive all the time, which is
important to know, right, likethere is a lot in the
spirituality community and themanifesting community that you
need to always be high vibe oryou know that your vibration,
that you need to raise yourvibration, which I do talk about
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raising your vibration, butalso acknowledging where you are
and where you feel Like if youare at the lowest vibration and
feeling super negative and downand out, no one should expect
you to feel like, within 10minutes, be in joy, like that's
impossible.
That's not how things work.
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You just have to start learninghow to lift yourself just a
little bit more.
Just a little bit more.
But that takes practice and Ilike that.
You shared that you weren'tsuper positive, but you also
weren't super negative.
So it sounds like you were maybemore like in the middle
vibrations which go from boredomto contentment to you know,
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just these emotions that aren'talways feeling good, but they're
in the more like middle ground,which isn't super negative or
super positive, which can alsomake you feel like, oh, am I
really doing what I need to doto manifest what I am desiring?
But sometimes you have to gothrough that Like you needed
this growth and this growth isgoing to help you in future
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events.
As a reminder to like oh, I'mnot always going to feel super
happy, you know, because thingsare stressful.
I'm sure putting something likethat together takes a lot of
thoughts and then it's stressful.
And then coordinating all ofthose things together,
especially if you don't have alot of people working for you
that can help coordinate andcheck in with you and tell you
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like those blind spots.
I imagine that it's a lot ofdifferent things that you didn't
even realize you need to thinkabout.
I know you talked about chairs,like there's this many seats
because this is how many chairsthere is, but I'm sure it wasn't
something that you hadpreviously thought about that.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, for sure.
And I just even want to saylike what I've learned about
manifestation.
You know, people always say,make sure your vibration is high
, and I think this event likemanifesting this event really
showed me that I really don'thave to be positive all the time
, I really don't have to be in ahigh vibration for my
manifestation to come true.
It's really about not giving up, but also like seeing it all
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the way through.
I think that's really what Isee manifestation now like, when
I really think about it, versusmore of like an emotion driven
thing.
Right, and yeah, like it wasreally challenging because there
was just little details that Ididn't really think about, like
how are people going to know howto get to the room, and so I
had to think about puttingballoons up so I could direct
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people to the right place.
But it's like I think all ofthis was very helpful.
To like even do was because Ididn't get caught up on the
detail at the very beginning.
I think that was what helped meto not give up, was to not
focus on the detail right awayand just let it kind of unfold
itself, which I'm sure youprobably talk about that a lot
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which is very scary becausesometimes you don't know how
it's going to unfold.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah, and sometimes it's best not to go
into those details until a dayor two ahead of time because you
really aren't going to have asolution.
You know there's times likethere's really not a solution
until there's a solution.
But if you focus on it likeweeks ahead, not only is it
going to keep your vibration low, it's going to take your mental
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bandwidth, it's going to takeyou away from all the other
things going on in your currentlife.
So what you already kind oftalked a little bit about, like
some misguided manifestingadvice that you've already heard
which is being positive all thetime, is there any other advice
that you've looked back andyou're like, well, that was just
a bunch of crap.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I think the first thing that's coming to my
mind because I mentioned likefeeling positive all the time,
but also like holding space foremotions.
I feel like there's not muchtalk around that, but I know
your work does a lot, which Iappreciate, because I think in
the manifestation community alot of people are like, yeah,
this is how you should feel, butit's like, at the same time,
why can't two emotions exist,you know, like holding space for
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like different kinds ofemotions, especially with so
many things going on around inthe world right now?
It's like we can only vibrateso high until we feel the
emotions of everybody that'sgoing through the hard times,
and so I think it's thismisconception that we can only
feel one way.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right, yeah, yeah, and we can have multiple
emotions.
Okay, yeah, I like that, I likethat.
Yeah, definitely, and that Ithink definitely as first gen,
and we're both first gen, so Iguess we can speak on this, not
to say that others don't feelthis also.
But you have, like, so manyexpectations and you've seen
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like the struggles and thechallenges of your family in a
whole different way than someonelike my kids might not
experience that right.
They may not understand that Ihad challenges.
So when you, as a first gen,see that first hand with your
parents, it may then push you tofeel like, well, what do I have
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to be sad about?
You know, my parents wereeating rice and beans because
there literally was nothing toeat and I'm complaining about
not being able to go have fastfood or something.
You know, like there's a lot ofthat duality that happens and it
can then make you feel evenworse when you're just like I
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should just be happy, but youcan't because your reality is
different from your family andyou have to accept that you are
going to want more, you're goingto desire more and connecting
to those desires is not a badthing, but it's also about
healing that right and lettinggo of whatever expectations and
challenges might have, thatmight have been put on you by
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your family, them knowing orunknowing right.
Because as I've gotten older,my dad has really changed how he
speaks to me in regards to mygoals.
He says more of like I justwant you to be happy, and that
probably started maybe about 10years ago and that's very
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different from growing uphearing don't get pregnant,
don't quit school, go to school,and that was it.
He didn't really have careeraspirations for me, per say, but
it was more of like don't getpregnant and don't quit school.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, the usual.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right.
And then years later, I mean,he did ask as soon as I
graduated college.
He did ask when are you goingto be married and have kids?
And it was like you literallyspent my whole teenage college
life telling me not to getpregnant.
Now you're telling me when am Igoing to get pregnant?
And then, you know, after a fewyears, I didn't have my first
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son until I was 31.
And so I think in my late 20smaybe I don't want to say he
gave up hope, but he was justkind of like whatever, let her
do whatever she's going to do.
And I remember him saying Ijust want you to be happy.
I don't remember what theconversation was about, but you
know, whatever you do, just aslong as you're happy, then I'm
(32:28):
happy.
I might have been telling himabout a goal or something that I
was thinking of doing, and Ithink that really started to
release me from feeling that Ineeded to do things a certain
way.
And you may not ever hear thatfrom your parents or someone,
but you got to start saying thatto yourself, and I mean you
said it to yourself.
(32:48):
What was your parents'expectation when you decided to
leave the nine to five security?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I was actually really surprised that they were
supportive, because I literallytold my parents yeah, I'm
getting laid off and I'm notgoing to find another job.
And then my dad and my mom waslike Okay, yeah, just focus on
your business.
And at that moment I was likeare you saying you believe it be
?
But, like you know, obviouslythey don't say I believe in you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They were shocked.
But then they were like verysupportive and then, even now to
this day, like sometimes they'dbe like, hey, have you thought
about getting another job, youknow, so you can make more money
?
And like sometimes they'll justpoke at what I'm doing, but
then they'll be like, oh, okay,like it's whatever, like do
whatever you want.
So now it's coming to thatpoint.
But before I got laid off, mydad was always like have a job
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and like have your business atthe same time.
Always do both.
And he was always like safetyequals money, and so that was
always something that he wasafraid of.
I mean, until his day he'sstill like checks in on all of
my siblings and I to make surethat we're doing what we're
supposed to do.
But then he's a little bit morelenient on it now because I was
(33:59):
a cycle breaker.
I'm like yeah, you know, I'mgonna go do this.
And now my siblings are likeokay, since she's doing that, I
could do this now.
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, and sometimes, yeah, our parents will surprise
us in what we say.
I know that when I was younger,I told my mom that I wasn't
gonna have any kids and she wasjust like, yeah, you know, not
everyone's meant to be a mom,and I was so offended I was like
I don't know 24.
So, you know, that's definitelya time not to be having babies,
(34:29):
just so that you are justfocused on you.
But you know, and I even thinkabout like, why didn't you even
say that?
Like, now that I have childrenand I'm pregnant, I can't even
imagine that version of me.
So it's also good to remember,right, you're gonna be a
different version of yourselfand be kind, because this
version of you, who you aretoday, isn't that you.
(34:52):
You had different thinking, youhad different goals, different
expectations, different thingsthat you wanted to accomplish.
Because, literally, I thinkback, I'm like, why did I say
that I always knew I wanted toget married and have kids?
But did I?
Obviously I didn't.
If I said it, why would I sayit?
I mean, unless I was trying topush your buttons, but I don't
think so.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, that's so good that you brought that up, though
, because it just reminds me ofone of the misguided
manifestation rules that I'velearned.
When I first learned aboutmanifestation was that you have
to know exactly what you want.
When you know people are like,you have to be clear on your
intention.
You have to know, like be veryspecific and, honestly, any time
I've manifested something, ithas never looked like how I
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think it's gonna look.
It's the package that'sdelivered is like what, okay, I
guess I'll take this, but it'snever like very apples to apples
.
So I'll give you an example.
Like when I'm manifesting newclients, or like when I'm
manifesting clients for mybusiness, sometimes the universe
would be like okay, here's aclient renewal and I'm like what
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?
Like I met new clients but, yeah, renewal clients are good too,
but it's like it's delivered inthat way, you know.
And then I'm even thinkingabout like the time when I
manifested a parking spot atwork and it wasn't the exact
spot that I was looking for, butit was like literally four
spots down and I'm like, okay, Iguess you know, and it's just
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like.
I feel like it's.
It doesn't have to be specific,and sometimes I get caught up
in that I'm like, oh, I need toknow exactly what I want, but
really like I could just have anidea and then, if I take action
on it, that the vision getsmore clearer for me, Like that's
how I manifest and that hashelped me to like step into
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manifestation a little bit morethan like knowing exactly.
Because if I'm trying to figureout, like how exactly that
picture is gonna look like, thenI have trouble even taking
action because I get so caughtup in the details.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yes, yes, I love that you shared that.
Yeah, and I always teach thatyou wanna be planning max three
years ahead of in your life,because that version of you may
not want what this currentversion of you wants.
Things might change in a yearand so the five year, the 10
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year plan, like that doesn'twork.
Like I mean, maybe it worked atsome point when people worked
20, 30,000 years at the same job, but you're a completely
different person If you thinkabout it.
Minus 10 years from where youare right now.
Do you want that version of youcreating your current reality
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Like a 16 year old self?
Like you know, they're alwaysbeing pressured on what you
wanna do with your life, butshould a six year old really be
deciding what 26 year old you isgonna do as 26 year old you?
Should they be deciding what 36year you know?
Like you know, two to threeyears max is what you wanna be
(37:54):
planning for?
I don't wanna say that youcan't manifest 10 years from now
.
You can.
You can embody the feeling thatyou wanna feel.
What more do you wanna bring?
And really focusing on more ofthe emotion.
I love that you said not tofocus on the details and the
details will come when it's timeright, like the chair thing I
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talked about right.
Like that was something that, orthe balloon thing you talked
about.
Those were details that yourmind didn't need to know at the
time.
And when we just focus on, likewhat's my next best step and
what I wanna do, what do I wannafeel, what do I wanna manifest,
what do I wanna have more of inmy life, the next best step is
the best thing that you can askyourself so that you're not
(38:37):
overwhelmed, because, like youmentioned, otherwise leads to
inaction of like, oh well, Idon't wanna, I don't, I can't
start because there's too manythings to do, right?
And I like I think we plannedto do this recording a month ago
and I hadn't thought about itagain until this week, right?
(38:58):
And the little details of like,oh well, how is this episode
gonna go?
Because you are my first justsolely focused on manifestation
podcast interview.
Right, so it's different.
But I could have easilyoverwhelmed myself thinking like
, well, how is it?
How is the audience gonna takeit?
Am I really asking the rightquestions?
But allowing it to unfold, livehere and then also just the day
(39:19):
coming allowed me not to stressout about it and just let it be
.
I love that.
Now, what are some manifestinginsights you would love to share
with the audience?
Maybe things that you realizedon your own, or things you've
heard that you're like oh, thatwas like the best manifesting
advice I've heard so far.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, I just recently started doing this this year,
but I love polling cards, oraclecards, and I like to use it as
a way to just get me thinkingabout where am I in my current
situation.
But that has helped me seethings a different perspective
of like, okay, things are not assmall as you think it is, or
things are not as big as youthink it is, I mean.
(40:00):
So if you are like into oraclecards, I recommend that.
Or if you haven't tried it, Ithink you should.
It's super fun and I thinkeverybody benefits from it,
because you're just like, oh mygosh, that's actually what I
needed to hear today.
It's like a form of validation,but from the universe.
And I think another valuablemanifestation insight that I
(40:22):
would like to add is you alwayshave power over your
manifestation tool.
Because when I first learnedmanifestation, a lot of people
had this like idea of like yourmanifestation is kind of like
fortune reading.
You know, like people can kindof get a little woo-woo and they
kind of go that route of likethis is how your life should be
(40:42):
like.
But one of the things that Ihave found of what this person
has said to me I don't rememberwho it was, but they were like
you gotta use manifestation likea tool, like to get to know
yourself better, more than likepredicting what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Right, yeah, yeah, definitely, and no one can
predict what is going to happen.
People can just give you youknow, like, oh, it looks like
currently, the actions thatyou're taking currently, the
thoughts that you're havingcurrently there, it seems like
these things are leading to thisSame thing with, like,
(41:20):
astrology immunology.
You know, they're just givingyou the roadmap and you decide
which way to take it.
Oh, did you talked about Oraclecards?
And I just wanna add to thatthat if you are wanting to try
that out and you haven't evertried it, I would say start with
like a light deck.
I would not say tarot, becausetarot involves a lot more
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conscious thinking of, like,what does this mean, when an
Oracle card can really just giveyou more of a meaning?
And it's funny because I thinkit was in 2020, it could have
been 2019.
When I was still in my nine tofive, I would with my team.
I have this book.
It's called oh, notes from theuniverse.
(42:05):
I'm actually looking at itright now.
I'm gonna grab it because Iwanna flip through it, but I
would ask them like, if theywant it, I would flip through a
page and it was always spot on,like whatever they needed to
hear, and that book is writtenby Mike Dooley.
If you've heard of him, he'sreally big in the manifestation
world, all about manifesting.
(42:26):
But I'm gonna grab it becauseI'm gonna turn some pages to see
what you get.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
That'll be so exciting.
I would love to know.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
So Mike Dooley.
Mike Dooley is the author ofInfinite Possibilities, the Art
of Living your Dreams, but thisone is the notes from the
university.
I think he has like a couple ofdifferent versions, so you
could pick a number from one to212.
What would you like?
115.
(42:54):
115.
Oh, this is a long one.
I'll send you a picture, butI'm gonna read it to you.
It says you could never spendall the abundance that's yours
to spend.
Your supply is truly limitless.
Of course.
Of course you already know thatthe size of your supply isn't
the issue.
Finding it is.
You know it's there, you knowit's yours and you know you
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deserve it.
But how to get your hands on it, that's the challenge.
Aha, how Did you ask yourselfhow you did?
Oh dear, never ask how, neverthink about how.
Let go of the hows.
If you ever wonder about how,it means your conscious is not
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dwelling in spirit, it meansyou're trying to manipulate
matter and it means you're goingto be searching for a long,
long, long time.
Steer clear of the hows, dearheart, and simply dwell on the
end result.
Got it?
Oh, that's so good.
I love that.
Actually, we didn't talk aboutfocusing on the how or not, not
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focusing on the how.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, it's like the.
You know, when people say thewho before, how I used to hate
that show.
When people said that's me, I'mlike, are you serious?
I'm a logical person.
Give me step one, two and three.
I am so logical too.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
So that leads me to when you were visualizing and
you had your events.
Now that it's happened, do youfeel like what you were
visualizing, feeling the endresult was similar to the result
In person.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
I'm sure it felt like a hundred thousand times more
intense, but yeah, it feltexactly the same in terms of how
I felt in that room, if thatmakes sense, cause in the
visualization I didn't see howmany people were there, I just
kind of saw myself standing andthen like kind of how the decor,
how I wanted to look like, andI just remember feeling like
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proud.
So like at that event I reallyfelt like proud of myself and
like really like excited for thepeople there.
And I feel like it was exactlyhow it felt like when I was
practicing my visualization,like that feeling of proud and
excitement for the people thereand for me.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, yeah, which goes back to the last sentence
of the page where it was likefocus on the results.
So how can anyone in thecommunity connect with?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
you.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Anything else you would want to share with us?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah.
So before I mentioned connectiveme, I just want to say this and
this is something that Iactually learned listening to
your podcast, but I kind of putmy own spin of my flavor into it
and a little tip that I justwant to give you if you're like
learning how to manifest rightnow, or just wondering what that
is, I want you to like focus onyour superpowers, and I think
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everybody has differentsuperpowers.
I feel like mine is visualizing,and so I feel like I have to
really double down on that.
Yours might be feeling like youmight be a feeling generator,
like you just know how togenerate emotions really well.
You might be someone whomanifests through scent, like I
know my sister loves perfume andlike if she picks a perfume and
she thinks of a place that shewants to be with that perfume,
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that helps her, that's cool.
Or like, just like if you aresomeone who your superpower is
physical and like you need toget yourself in the environment
to help you manifest, I justwant you to like think about
which one do you think you areand like go practice that.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Because I feel like visualization was my superpower
for a long time, but I neverrealized it, because I've always
been like, oh, like you'rethinking.
People are always like you'rethinking way too far or like
that can't happen, that's nottrue, like you're kind of cuckoo
out of your mind for going thatfar.
So it's like grounding myselfin that.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, I don't know the names of them all off the
top of my head, but everythingyou talked about there's
actually a name for it.
One of them is likeconnoisseurs, which is just like
knowing.
I know that one is one of mysuper ones, but it also can be
very challenging for me becauseI'm very logical and want to
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know, like the how behind it.
So if that is you, if you're aperson who maybe your superpower
, like Samzat, is visualizing,but you have people telling you
like you're wrong, you knowyou're going to feel like this
is right.
So really figure out, kind ofnavigate for yourself.
I'm going to find it and put itin the show notes.
The different types cause thesmell.
(47:25):
One is one of them too.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
So is it actually?
I didn't think it was a thing.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, there is.
And then there's like ways howyou can start to build those up.
I know there was a book I wasreading so I'll include that in
the show notes, cause I don'tknow what off the top of my head
right now.
But when I heard the smell oneI was like, okay, but I love
what you said, cause I meaneveryone can be like you walk
into like Hobby Lobby duringChristmas and you know that
(47:51):
Christmas smell.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Right.
So, like, like that's the onething I got my go yeah, hobby
Lobby, Christmas smell.
But you, that same smell cantake you elsewhere too, right?
So we all know it, we'veexperienced it.
Maybe it's the smell of somefood that your parents make and
at certain times of the year,and that'll take you there.
So everyone has the ability foreach of them.
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But, like you said, one of themis going to be stronger, right,
it's going to be your supermanifesting power and stepping
into that, especially whenyou're feeling like my
manifestation isn't coming,going into that, stepping into
that.
So I'll put it in the shownotes and I'll share it with you
too, sam, so you can know themand have the actual label for
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your sister that is so cool.
I've never heard of anyone thatactually does it, where she
sprays the perfume andvisualizes her cell wear.
Yeah, oh my gosh, that's sointeresting.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
I feel like I should start doing that.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
I remember, like magazines, youknow, as a teenager you would
get the magazine and smell thatperfume or cologne, whatever it
was, and it would be like I justthink of department store.
So I need to change it.
Whenever I smell it, I justthink of a Macy's or something.
Yeah, yeah, I'm not trying togo to Macy's, I need to go.
I don't know, I don't even wantto go to like a store, I just
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want to be somewhere fancy.
But thank you for sharing that.
Now, how can my audienceconnect with you and find you if
they want to work with you orjust learn more about everything
that you are sharing on thediet culture?
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah, so you can find me on Instagram at Superly Sam,
and I also have a podcastcalled your Winning Journey.
You can find that on Apple andSpotify.
I'm pretty sure Norma will notethese down in the show notes.
And then right now I just havemy six month one-on-one coaching
, and so if you're someone whohas been trying to lose weight
and you know we're at the newyear, we're coming close, and
you're like I don't want to setthe same 20 pound goal over and
(49:43):
over again, I want to invite youto come work with me.
This is my one-on-one coachingprogram.
I'm going to help you lose 20pounds, keep it off without
following any diets, and helpyou like, keep it off because
you're going to be doing it yourway and you're going to be
eating foods that you enjoy.
So more information on that inthe show notes, but that's where
you can find me.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Thank you so much for sharing everything, sam, and
sharing on your journey.
All right guys.
Well, see you guys on the nextone.
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Hey, everyone, welcome back.
This is episode 113 and I havea special guest interview for
you.
What's most exciting, this isthe first guest since the
podcast changed into the focusof manifestation.
(01:09):
I can't wait for you guys tohear her manifestation journey
and how she manifested a soldout event for her 10 year weight
loss anniversary.
It was so exciting to also seethe behind the scenes and how
she unfolded this.
Without further ado, I'm goingto share with you.
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Her name is Samantha Lee.
She is a Hmong American, theeldest daughter of refugee
immigrant parents, a speaker anda health coach who helps people
of color lose weight withouthaving to follow any race's diet
culture roles.
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She is also the host of yourwinning journey podcast and
shares weight loss teachingswith her 10 years of experience.
Her work was inspired by herown weight loss journey where
she felt the need to strip herculture identity to fit into
society standards of whitehealthy.
(02:14):
I know I can relate to that andknow that everything that she
is teaching is so aligned withhow I now see food.
I hate to use the word dietbecause it has been turned into
losing weight, but diet isreally just what you eat, your
lifestyle, what you decide toeat.
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If you are interested inchecking her out, her links are
all in the show notes.
Thank you so much, sam, forbeing here with me.
I can't wait for everyone tohear all about you and your own
manifestation journey.
Before we dive into that, Iwant to hear more about you,
your family background, wheredid you grow up and who did you
live with?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh my gosh, thanks for having me, norma.
I'm super excited because Ijust posted a podcast of me and
Norma on my podcast, so I'msuper happy that we're doing
this episode.
But hello everyone, my name isSam.
I'm a weight loss coach forwomen of color and I help women
lose 20 pounds without followingracist diet culture, and so I
approach weight loss from thisanti-racist lens, but also just
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helping women eat the foods thatthey grew up with, from their
cultural background, so thatthey don't have to strip a part
of their identity just to behealthy.
And so just a little bit aboutme is I am the oldest in my
family.
I'm a first gen.
My parents are immigrants andrefugee parents that came here
to the US.
I grew up in Minnesota andsomething kind of funky about me
(03:42):
.
Every time I tell people thatthey're always like super
surprised.
I went to school for mybachelor's and my master's in
information systems, which issimilar to IT, and so now that
I'm doing work that is notreally related in that field,
it's super like completelyopposite of being a behind the
scenes person to now a personthat works with people and talk
to people all the time.
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It's kind of mind blowing forpeople.
But yeah, that's about me, yeahyeah.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And you said your parents are refugees.
Yeah, yeah, where are they from?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So they were born in Laos, in Thailand, and they came
to the US in the Vietnam Warwhen it happened and there was a
secret war between the US andthe Mone people and we were with
the US at that time trying tofight the communism, and then we
got promised that if we helpthe US we get to migrate into
the United States, and sothere's this whole like history
(04:34):
behind it and it's kind ofinteresting because we don't
really hear people talk aboutthe secret war in your history
class and so now people are justtalking about it and like
really unveiling like the realthings that really happened in
Vietnam War.
So it's interesting.
They're born in Laos, inThailand.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's not the only part of
the world that the US has donethings like that before.
We won't dive into that rabbithole.
So you went to school to do yousaid information Systems,
systems Okay, I wanted to sayscience, but I knew that was
wrong and systems.
(05:11):
And then when just kind of evengo from there to the
manifesting part, how was thattransition from being in that
field to helping women withweight loss?
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So when I went to school, I originally wanted to
be a marketer and I actuallyalways wanted to be a
photographer when I was in highschool because I was doing
photography at the time.
But my parents, my dad, was,like you're not going to make
any money, so you need to go toschool and you need to get a
degree in science, because STEMis, like, very popular and it
was the time when technology wasevolving and I've always was
(05:48):
interested in fitness.
So I started my weight lossjourney when I was 16.
And so that was like duringhigh school time, right, and it
was always something that Iwanted to do and more on the
creative side, because I wasinto photography, but I was also
into, like, just helping peoplein their journey.
But my parents were, like youshould just go to school and
find a good job.
And so I did what they said andI just remember, like getting
(06:11):
my first nine to five job, likeliterally right after I
graduated.
Like I secured a job before Igraduated and I went to my nine
to five and I'm like, what thefuck Is this what I'm going to
be doing for the rest of my life?
It's horrible, I don't like it.
And that was when I started likethe fitness in me started
calling my name again, like Iwas just hearing that intuition
(06:32):
of hey, you should probably likedo something about this.
I should probably start like aside hustle or like start like a
business.
And then I started postingthings on Instagram and before
all of this, mind you, I triedso many things.
I was a photographer and I wasalso a beauty influencer, so I
did a lot of makeup tutorial onYouTube and so I had a following
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already.
But I was really passionateabout fitness and so when I was
in my nine to five, I actuallypivoted.
I'm like you know what, let mejust really go all in on just
posting fitness content.
But it started from there andthen, when 2021 happened, I got
laid off from my job and I'mlike you know what, let me just
go full time on my business.
I took that leap of faithbecause I was just listening to
(07:15):
that wiggle like voice in myhead and like my intuition, and
now I'm here.
So that's pretty much likeabout how I got to the weight
loss fitness industry.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, okay, and we'll touch on that here in a little
bit, but can you share a littlebit about any spiritual
practices or any beliefs thathelp playing your manifesting
journey?
I know you just saw intuitionright and as women, oftentimes
we get told that our intuitionis silly.
Right, you can't just go basedon a feeling Although I will
(07:48):
point out that men trust theirgut all the time and that's okay
but when it comes to women, wecan't trust our intuition, and
I'm not saying that we can't,but the society tells us we
can't, and I think a lot of itis because we relate it more to
a feeling Like I don't knowabout that, I just got a feeling
not to do it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Some of my spiritual practice is meditation, and I
just don't want you to be scaredwhen you hear the word
meditation, because I feel likepeople think you have to
meditate for like a whole hourto see the benefit.
Or really meditation to me isjust letting myself have quiet
time, and sometimes that's notme even closing my eyes, but
just not consuming anything andjust seeing what my inner voice
(08:30):
is saying to me.
And it's so interesting thatwe're talking about this,
because as a little kid I justfelt like I talked to myself a
lot, and so I feel like that hasbeen something that I've always
done was just talking to myself, like people were always like
you talk so much.
I'm like I feel like I have awhole conversation in my head
just by myself, and so one of myspiritual practices is just
(08:52):
that meditation piece.
But also I am really futuredriven and so I like to think
about the future a lot, whichcan be a pro and a con, because
sometimes it takes me outside ofbeing present.
But I'm always thinking aheadand I'm always thinking like
what's gonna happen five yearsfrom now, 10 years from now, and
I try to visualize like how mylife will look like, and that
(09:15):
has always determined what mypresent decisions look like,
which can be fun.
But sometimes my husband islike, okay, you need to like
chill and just like be presentright now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So yeah, definitely I mean being future oriented.
It's great, but like they cansteal some of the joy of when
you're being present, right, sowas there any specific practices
that your family passed down toyou?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we practice shamanism.
It's more of a ritual, more thana religion, but it is where we
practice our rituals, during thefull moon and the new moon,
depending on the year, and wealso do like a new year cleanse
to start like a new year.
And so I feel like, because ofthat ritual, I've always had
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this close relationship with myspirit of making sure that I'm
also doing things that connectme back to my ancestors, and so
it's like honoring my grandpathat has passed away, or my
great grandpa and grandma.
It's like honoring the lovedones that we have lost and also
really praying to them forgreatness to come on things that
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we want to manifest.
And so we really have this likerelationship with our ancestors
, where we can reach them whenwe want to and having them
protect us, and believing thatthere's a bigger God, a bigger
universe or bigger ancestorwhatever you believe in that is
helping guide you.
And so I've always been kind oflike, okay, this mission of the
things that I'm doing is somuch bigger than me because of
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the practices that I grew uplearning.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Can you remember when youstarted consciously manifesting
any of your desires?
That's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I don't really know exactly when.
The closest thing I can rememberwas just in high school when I
was taking pictures of peoplebecause at the time I want to be
a photographer and I wasvisualizing what it was like to
have a studio of my own and Iremember like looking up the
studio props on Amazon, how muchit would cost and like all of
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those things, and I justremember really imagining the
people coming into my studio andtaking pictures of me and like
me feeling like, oh, like Ireally like that.
But then I stopped visualizingbecause I remember telling my
dad that dream and he was likeyou're not gonna make any money.
And so I feel like it wasalways in me to kind of just see
(11:40):
like what it would be like if Iwas a photographer.
And I stopped thatvisualization actually when I
went to college, Because thevisualization that I was doing
in college was what society wastelling me like go get a job,
right, I mean graduate fromcollege and then get a good job.
And so I didn't actually startvisualizing again until I got my
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nine to five job and I'm likewhat am I doing with my life?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That is super interesting.
I would say that in my teenageyears is when I was exploring
and connecting with spirituality, not necessarily in
visualization, but it's veryinteresting that you were
visualizing that.
You know, like, how many peopleat that age are visualizing
like, oh, I'm opening up astudio, oh, I'm doing this and
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that, and these people arecoming in.
That is so interesting andthank you for sharing how our
dreams are sometimes crushedLack of a better word, but
literally crushed, I mean.
And then that chapter wasclosed for you.
In regards to the visualization, right, the imagining of what
could be.
Instead, you kind of steppedmore into like that masculine
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energy of just doing versuscreating, and the doing of like
going to school, checkbox grades, right, and kind of being more
in the physical world.
In regards to like going toclass, maybe, going to parties,
meeting people focused more on,like your personal appearance,
maybe, than, oh, my future goals.
(13:13):
So you said that once you werein your nine to five, that's
when you were like whoa it'skind of like a wake up, like
okay, this is not for me andshare with a little bit on that.
How did you then start tovisualize, or maybe more
consciously manifest or stepinto the desires that you truly
wanted for yourself and in yourlife and your career?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah.
So it was all because, like,when I got that job and I was at
the office, I was like I don'teven want this, like what have I
been working towards?
And it was all because of, likeI was living in my parents'
manifestation but I wasn'tliving in my own manifestation.
And what got me to really startmanifesting at that time again
(13:57):
was I had to ask myself oh hey,sam, what do you wanna do?
And are there people doing whatyou wanna do?
Can we find some possibilityhere?
And that's when I discoveredthe coaching industry, because I
was just so curious.
I was like, okay, I wanna knowhow to start a business, but I
don't know.
And so let me see if there's abusiness coach.
Like, is that even a thing?
(14:18):
Is there even like a socialmedia manager?
At this point?
Like I don't know.
Because, just to give y'all somebackground, when I started my
weight loss journey, I did a lotof diets, I went through a lot
of trauma and error and it tookme like four years for me to
figure out.
Like, okay, I'm not gonna dieanymore.
And so I took that mentality tobusiness.
I'm like, you know, I'm gonnaask for help and I'm not gonna
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try to figure it out on my own,like how I did in my weight loss
journey.
So I'm gonna search up and seeif there's people doing this.
And that's when I started seeingpeople like working from home
and they're like, oh, like youcan help people with their
weight loss journey and youdon't have to like be at your
nine to five, you can make extramoney.
And so when I just startedseeing possibility outside of my
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nine to five, just by lookingat different careers that people
had, or just like how they workwith like their lifestyle,
right, I started painting apicture of, okay, maybe I don't
wanna go into the office, maybeI like I don't see myself
working 40 hours a week, maybe Iwanna travel more and like I
don't wanna just take like onebig trip a year because of my
(15:23):
PTO.
And I started asking myself,like okay, with these
possibility that you see thesepeople doing, what do you want
for yourself?
And I think asking myself thatquestion is one of the hardest
questions that I've ever had toask, cause you know, sometimes
we think we know what we wantbut really we don't.
And me getting clear on thatreally allowed me to make my
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visualization, for mymanifestation to be more
grounded and like more detailed.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, and would you say how long did it take for you
to actually feel that clarity,that alignment, that it takes
some time.
Did you feel like you had anepiphany at one point?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, I think it was a year, cause I was on my job
for a year.
And you know, when you kind ofhave that little intuition,
that's like hey, you shouldprobably do something different,
you're like, yeah, yeah, I know, and then you kind of just go
about your day, you don't reallylisten to it.
And then a year goes by and I'mlike, okay, you really like
that was at the point where Iwas balancing my nine to five
(16:22):
and I was going to grad schoolat the same time and I'm like I
don't know why I'm doing this.
And I'm like, you know, I'mjust so sick of like coming home
from work and doing homeworkand like that was my repeat
every day.
And so I was like, okay, I haveto do this.
And at this time, let me justremind you that there was a lot
of people asking me like Sam,how did you lose weight eating
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monk food?
And just so you guys know, myethnicity is monk.
And people would be like, howdid you do that?
Or like, how did you, how didyou get a tone body?
Can you teach me how to do this?
And I saw that there wassomething missing in the
industry, where women of colordidn't get what they needed
because they were trying to likeeat the white culture way.
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And so I feel like the universewas like okay, if you're not
going to listen to this voice,then I'm going to send you
people to talk to you about thistopic.
Because I remember being at mynine to five and people would
come to me like my cousins, myfriends.
They would message me but like,can you help me lose weight,
can you help me do that?
And I'm like I'm not reallyserious about it, like sure, I
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can help you, but I'm not reallythat good you know, and that
was when I was like, okay, Ireally have to take this
seriously, because people areactually out here needing help.
And I had to really think about,like my journey of, if I had me
at the beginning of my journey,how different would my journey
look like.
And that was really what likegot me to really have that
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epiphany was just people justcoming at me with these
questions and like asking me forhelp on the thing that I was
trying to avoid because I wastrying to live in my parents'
manifestation journey.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, and so many of us probably did that even if
we're doing something we enjoydoing, or not even that we enjoy
doing, but something that cameto us easy and it's like, oh
well, this is easy for me, soI'm gonna major in this.
Oh okay, I got this job.
I guess this is where I'll do,without really asking ourselves
what do I really want to do?
(18:17):
Until we're in that, like youjust mentioned, the hustle,
bustle of life, like waking up,going to work, going to school
and repeat, and it's just likeso mundane, so boring, there's
not any stress in your life, butit's also no joy, yeah, and
it's like what am I doing?
(18:38):
So you're listening to this andyou're like, oh, my God, I'm
right there.
Just know that you can find away out of that.
And there's gonna be moments intime where life does feel that
way because you're in atransitional period.
I know sometimes like,especially, you just had a child
, you just have to get used tohaving a new baby in your life
If you just got married.
So know that there'stransitional periods, that that
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is okay.
Just don't stay there too long,because then three, four years,
that's gonna be even longertime that you were in that mode
and it's not gonna feel good.
So you dove in to starting yourbusiness when you got laid off
and you recently had your10-year weight loss journey
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event.
How did that idea come up?
Like what made you want to dothat?
And then we'll just share alittle bit about that journey
and making that into a reality.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, so when I started visualizing again in my
nine to five, I started Googlingor not like Googling, but I was
watching YouTube of like how tomeditate, but I wanted more of
a guided meditation and I foundthis meditation by I think it
was called Master is it MasterSuri?
I think that's his name.
But I was listening to one ofhis visualization and I was just
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letting anything come to me andat this point I was already
probably like this is when Istarted taking my business
seriously and I just visualizedI saw myself on stage and it's
so crazy because I saw myself onstage but all I could see was
like the lights was shining onme and then I just saw like
people there and I didn't knowwhat that was at the time
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because I was just like, okay,like okay, there's a crowd, but
I don't really know what that'sgonna look like.
And anytime I would do like avisualization where I don't have
any intention behind it, butI'm just kind of like let me
just use this time to see wheremy brain takes me.
It would always come back tolike some sort of events, like
there's people around me, I'mtalking to someone, I'm talking
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about a specific topic.
I don't know what that topic is, but it was always like
something related to communityand I remember I was like I'm
not in the place to do that yet,cause I just literally started
my business.
I had a little bit of impostersyndrome, but it was always
something that I constantlythought about of, hmm, I really
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wanna do an event one day, but Idon't know what it is.
And it wasn't until this year.
I was like, oh shit, I hit my10 year weight loss anniversary.
I should probably do somethingabout it.
And that was when the ideastarted spinning.
And let me just be, let me justlike step back a little bit too
.
In last year I found a coworkingspace where I live, and I
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remember looking for a coworkingspace after COVID, cause I know
everybody got tired of workingfrom home.
You just wanted to work in adifferent environment.
And this place was so beautiful.
They literally opened up beforeCOVID hit.
And I remember stepping intothat and I'm like, oh, this is
where I'm gonna host an eventone day, cause I just like the
vibe of this.
So I signed up for, like, thecoworking membership and I
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always like go there to likework at least once a week, and
when this idea came up of, ohI'm gonna celebrate my 10 year
weight loss anniversary, I'mlike I know where exactly I'm
gonna do it.
I'm gonna do it at the Coven,which is the coworking space in
Singapore, minnesota, and I juststarted visualizing how that
would look like, and so I'vealways had this like idea of
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bringing people together, but Ididn't know what it would look
like, and it ended up happeningbecause I was like oh, it's the
perfect time, like I'mcelebrating something big.
I want everybody to cometogether and just talk about
weight loss and health.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Yeah, so we know the event happened and it was a
success, or some of thechallenges you had to overcome
to get there, to get even allthe tickets sold, cause you know
we're in the mastermindtogether, so I know that was one
of the things that you wereworried about.
And then it was like all of asudden you're sold out.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, yeah, it was.
It's still blowing my mind aswe're talking about this, but
one of the biggest challenge wastrusting the process.
Like and when I say trustingthe process, it was really
allowing myself to have good andbad days, because what I have
learned about manifestation inthe past was you always have to
stay positive and like youalways gotta have you heard of
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this saying that, like lifedoesn't happen to you, it
happens for you, and you knowwhat.
you're having a bad day.
You're like why this is.
This is not the affirmation ofthe day.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
And there was a lot of that where I'm like I don't
know what's going to happen, Idon't know how many people are
going to be there, and Iliterally was like it's just
going to be me and my clients.
Literally, it's going to be meand my clients and we're just
going to have a chill day, causenobody's coming.
And the biggest challenge wasregulating my emotions on the
days where, like, I was having abad day and I'm like, okay,
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today is not going to be like aday where you're going to show
up and talk about this a lot,but it's okay, like you're going
to be better tomorrow.
And so I think like justbalancing out like the idea that
in the process of you doingyour manifestation, it's not
going to feel good, cause, if Ireally think about the entire
time, I did not feel good, I didnot feel super positive, but I
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also didn't feel super negativebecause it was the way I was
talking to myself of we'll makeit work, and the thought that I
was practicing a lot was it'snot over until it's over, and
that really helped me like havethe courage to be like okay, we
don't know who's going to bethere, but we have like two
weeks left, let's see what wecan do, and it was coming from
this energy of like curiosity.
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So that was the first challenge.
The second challenge that I hadencountered was just believing
something new Like this is thefirst time I've ever did an
event where it was like verypublic like this, and there was
a lot of direction of okay,you're not going to know what to
do.
This is going to feel like it'snot going to be exactly like
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what you think it is.
There's just a lot ofuncertainty cause I don't know
what the heck I was doing.
If I really think about it, I'mjust kind of doing what I know,
and I had to really be okaywith the uncertainty behind how
things were going to turn out,because I had this whole vision
in my head and the vision didcame close to it, but it
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definitely like I had to releasea lot of expectations so that I
can have a better relationshipwith uncertainty.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, thanks for sharing that.
So you shared about not feelingpositive all the time, which is
important to know, right, likethere is a lot in the
spirituality community and themanifesting community that you
need to always be high vibe oryou know that your vibration,
that you need to raise yourvibration, which I do talk about
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raising your vibration, butalso acknowledging where you are
and where you feel Like if youare at the lowest vibration and
feeling super negative and downand out, no one should expect
you to feel like, within 10minutes, be in joy, like that's
impossible.
That's not how things work.
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You just have to start learninghow to lift yourself just a
little bit more.
Just a little bit more.
But that takes practice and Ilike that.
You shared that you weren'tsuper positive, but you also
weren't super negative.
So it sounds like you were maybemore like in the middle
vibrations which go from boredomto contentment to you know,
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just these emotions that aren'talways feeling good, but they're
in the more like middle ground,which isn't super negative or
super positive, which can alsomake you feel like, oh, am I
really doing what I need to doto manifest what I am desiring?
But sometimes you have to gothrough that Like you needed
this growth and this growth isgoing to help you in future
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events.
As a reminder to like oh, I'mnot always going to feel super
happy, you know, because thingsare stressful.
I'm sure putting something likethat together takes a lot of
thoughts and then it's stressful.
And then coordinating all ofthose things together,
especially if you don't have alot of people working for you
that can help coordinate andcheck in with you and tell you
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like those blind spots.
I imagine that it's a lot ofdifferent things that you didn't
even realize you need to thinkabout.
I know you talked about chairs,like there's this many seats
because this is how many chairsthere is, but I'm sure it wasn't
something that you hadpreviously thought about that.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, for sure.
And I just even want to saylike what I've learned about
manifestation.
You know, people always say,make sure your vibration is high
, and I think this event likemanifesting this event really
showed me that I really don'thave to be positive all the time
, I really don't have to be in ahigh vibration for my
manifestation to come true.
It's really about not giving up, but also like seeing it all
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the way through.
I think that's really what Isee manifestation now like, when
I really think about it, versusmore of like an emotion driven
thing.
Right, and yeah, like it wasreally challenging because there
was just little details that Ididn't really think about, like
how are people going to know howto get to the room, and so I
had to think about puttingballoons up so I could direct
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people to the right place.
But it's like I think all ofthis was very helpful.
To like even do was because Ididn't get caught up on the
detail at the very beginning.
I think that was what helped meto not give up, was to not
focus on the detail right awayand just let it kind of unfold
itself, which I'm sure youprobably talk about that a lot
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which is very scary becausesometimes you don't know how
it's going to unfold.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah, and sometimes it's best not to go
into those details until a dayor two ahead of time because you
really aren't going to have asolution.
You know there's times likethere's really not a solution
until there's a solution.
But if you focus on it likeweeks ahead, not only is it
going to keep your vibration low, it's going to take your mental
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bandwidth, it's going to takeyou away from all the other
things going on in your currentlife.
So what you already kind oftalked a little bit about, like
some misguided manifestingadvice that you've already heard
which is being positive all thetime, is there any other advice
that you've looked back andyou're like, well, that was just
a bunch of crap.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I think the first thing that's coming to my
mind because I mentioned likefeeling positive all the time,
but also like holding space foremotions.
I feel like there's not muchtalk around that, but I know
your work does a lot, which Iappreciate, because I think in
the manifestation community alot of people are like, yeah,
this is how you should feel, butit's like, at the same time,
why can't two emotions exist,you know, like holding space for
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like different kinds ofemotions, especially with so
many things going on around inthe world right now?
It's like we can only vibrateso high until we feel the
emotions of everybody that'sgoing through the hard times,
and so I think it's thismisconception that we can only
feel one way.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right, yeah, yeah, and we can have multiple
emotions.
Okay, yeah, I like that, I likethat.
Yeah, definitely, and that Ithink definitely as first gen,
and we're both first gen, so Iguess we can speak on this, not
to say that others don't feelthis also.
But you have, like, so manyexpectations and you've seen
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like the struggles and thechallenges of your family in a
whole different way than someonelike my kids might not
experience that right.
They may not understand that Ihad challenges.
So when you, as a first gen,see that first hand with your
parents, it may then push you tofeel like, well, what do I have
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to be sad about?
You know, my parents wereeating rice and beans because
there literally was nothing toeat and I'm complaining about
not being able to go have fastfood or something.
You know, like there's a lot ofthat duality that happens and it
can then make you feel evenworse when you're just like I
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should just be happy, but youcan't because your reality is
different from your family andyou have to accept that you are
going to want more, you're goingto desire more and connecting
to those desires is not a badthing, but it's also about
healing that right and lettinggo of whatever expectations and
challenges might have, thatmight have been put on you by
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your family, them knowing orunknowing right.
Because as I've gotten older,my dad has really changed how he
speaks to me in regards to mygoals.
He says more of like I justwant you to be happy, and that
probably started maybe about 10years ago and that's very
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different from growing uphearing don't get pregnant,
don't quit school, go to school,and that was it.
He didn't really have careeraspirations for me, per say, but
it was more of like don't getpregnant and don't quit school.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, the usual.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right.
And then years later, I mean,he did ask as soon as I
graduated college.
He did ask when are you goingto be married and have kids?
And it was like you literallyspent my whole teenage college
life telling me not to getpregnant.
Now you're telling me when am Igoing to get pregnant?
And then, you know, after a fewyears, I didn't have my first
(32:07):
son until I was 31.
And so I think in my late 20smaybe I don't want to say he
gave up hope, but he was justkind of like whatever, let her
do whatever she's going to do.
And I remember him saying Ijust want you to be happy.
I don't remember what theconversation was about, but you
know, whatever you do, just aslong as you're happy, then I'm
(32:28):
happy.
I might have been telling himabout a goal or something that I
was thinking of doing, and Ithink that really started to
release me from feeling that Ineeded to do things a certain
way.
And you may not ever hear thatfrom your parents or someone,
but you got to start saying thatto yourself, and I mean you
said it to yourself.
(32:48):
What was your parents'expectation when you decided to
leave the nine to five security?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I was actually really surprised that they were
supportive, because I literallytold my parents yeah, I'm
getting laid off and I'm notgoing to find another job.
And then my dad and my mom waslike Okay, yeah, just focus on
your business.
And at that moment I was likeare you saying you believe it be
?
But, like you know, obviouslythey don't say I believe in you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
They were shocked.
But then they were like verysupportive and then, even now to
this day, like sometimes they'dbe like, hey, have you thought
about getting another job, youknow, so you can make more money
?
And like sometimes they'll justpoke at what I'm doing, but
then they'll be like, oh, okay,like it's whatever, like do
whatever you want.
So now it's coming to thatpoint.
But before I got laid off, mydad was always like have a job
(33:37):
and like have your business atthe same time.
Always do both.
And he was always like safetyequals money, and so that was
always something that he wasafraid of.
I mean, until his day he'sstill like checks in on all of
my siblings and I to make surethat we're doing what we're
supposed to do.
But then he's a little bit morelenient on it now because I was
(33:59):
a cycle breaker.
I'm like yeah, you know, I'mgonna go do this.
And now my siblings are likeokay, since she's doing that, I
could do this now.
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, and sometimes, yeah, our parents will surprise
us in what we say.
I know that when I was younger,I told my mom that I wasn't
gonna have any kids and she wasjust like, yeah, you know, not
everyone's meant to be a mom,and I was so offended I was like
I don't know 24.
So, you know, that's definitelya time not to be having babies,
(34:29):
just so that you are justfocused on you.
But you know, and I even thinkabout like, why didn't you even
say that?
Like, now that I have childrenand I'm pregnant, I can't even
imagine that version of me.
So it's also good to remember,right, you're gonna be a
different version of yourselfand be kind, because this
version of you, who you aretoday, isn't that you.
(34:52):
You had different thinking, youhad different goals, different
expectations, different thingsthat you wanted to accomplish.
Because, literally, I thinkback, I'm like, why did I say
that I always knew I wanted toget married and have kids?
But did I?
Obviously I didn't.
If I said it, why would I sayit?
I mean, unless I was trying topush your buttons, but I don't
think so.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well, that's so good that you brought that up, though
, because it just reminds me ofone of the misguided
manifestation rules that I'velearned.
When I first learned aboutmanifestation was that you have
to know exactly what you want.
When you know people are like,you have to be clear on your
intention.
You have to know, like be veryspecific and, honestly, any time
I've manifested something, ithas never looked like how I
(35:36):
think it's gonna look.
It's the package that'sdelivered is like what, okay, I
guess I'll take this, but it'snever like very apples to apples
.
So I'll give you an example.
Like when I'm manifesting newclients, or like when I'm
manifesting clients for mybusiness, sometimes the universe
would be like okay, here's aclient renewal and I'm like what
(35:57):
?
Like I met new clients but, yeah, renewal clients are good too,
but it's like it's delivered inthat way, you know.
And then I'm even thinkingabout like the time when I
manifested a parking spot atwork and it wasn't the exact
spot that I was looking for, butit was like literally four
spots down and I'm like, okay, Iguess you know, and it's just
(36:20):
like.
I feel like it's.
It doesn't have to be specific,and sometimes I get caught up
in that I'm like, oh, I need toknow exactly what I want, but
really like I could just have anidea and then, if I take action
on it, that the vision getsmore clearer for me, Like that's
how I manifest and that hashelped me to like step into
(36:40):
manifestation a little bit morethan like knowing exactly.
Because if I'm trying to figureout, like how exactly that
picture is gonna look like, thenI have trouble even taking
action because I get so caughtup in the details.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yes, yes, I love that you shared that.
Yeah, and I always teach thatyou wanna be planning max three
years ahead of in your life,because that version of you may
not want what this currentversion of you wants.
Things might change in a yearand so the five year, the 10
(37:12):
year plan, like that doesn'twork.
Like I mean, maybe it worked atsome point when people worked
20, 30,000 years at the same job, but you're a completely
different person If you thinkabout it.
Minus 10 years from where youare right now.
Do you want that version of youcreating your current reality
(37:33):
Like a 16 year old self?
Like you know, they're alwaysbeing pressured on what you
wanna do with your life, butshould a six year old really be
deciding what 26 year old you isgonna do as 26 year old you?
Should they be deciding what 36year you know?
Like you know, two to threeyears max is what you wanna be
(37:54):
planning for?
I don't wanna say that youcan't manifest 10 years from now
.
You can.
You can embody the feeling thatyou wanna feel.
What more do you wanna bring?
And really focusing on more ofthe emotion.
I love that you said not tofocus on the details and the
details will come when it's timeright, like the chair thing I
(38:14):
talked about right.
Like that was something that, orthe balloon thing you talked
about.
Those were details that yourmind didn't need to know at the
time.
And when we just focus on, likewhat's my next best step and
what I wanna do, what do I wannafeel, what do I wanna manifest,
what do I wanna have more of inmy life, the next best step is
the best thing that you can askyourself so that you're not
(38:37):
overwhelmed, because, like youmentioned, otherwise leads to
inaction of like, oh well, Idon't wanna, I don't, I can't
start because there's too manythings to do, right?
And I like I think we plannedto do this recording a month ago
and I hadn't thought about itagain until this week, right?
(38:58):
And the little details of like,oh well, how is this episode
gonna go?
Because you are my first justsolely focused on manifestation
podcast interview.
Right, so it's different.
But I could have easilyoverwhelmed myself thinking like
, well, how is it?
How is the audience gonna takeit?
Am I really asking the rightquestions?
But allowing it to unfold, livehere and then also just the day
(39:19):
coming allowed me not to stressout about it and just let it be
.
I love that.
Now, what are some manifestinginsights you would love to share
with the audience?
Maybe things that you realizedon your own, or things you've
heard that you're like oh, thatwas like the best manifesting
advice I've heard so far.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, I just recently started doing this this year,
but I love polling cards, oraclecards, and I like to use it as
a way to just get me thinkingabout where am I in my current
situation.
But that has helped me seethings a different perspective
of like, okay, things are not assmall as you think it is, or
things are not as big as youthink it is, I mean.
(40:00):
So if you are like into oraclecards, I recommend that.
Or if you haven't tried it, Ithink you should.
It's super fun and I thinkeverybody benefits from it,
because you're just like, oh mygosh, that's actually what I
needed to hear today.
It's like a form of validation,but from the universe.
And I think another valuablemanifestation insight that I
(40:22):
would like to add is you alwayshave power over your
manifestation tool.
Because when I first learnedmanifestation, a lot of people
had this like idea of like yourmanifestation is kind of like
fortune reading.
You know, like people can kindof get a little woo-woo and they
kind of go that route of likethis is how your life should be
(40:42):
like.
But one of the things that Ihave found of what this person
has said to me I don't rememberwho it was, but they were like
you gotta use manifestation likea tool, like to get to know
yourself better, more than likepredicting what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Right, yeah, yeah, definitely, and no one can
predict what is going to happen.
People can just give you youknow, like, oh, it looks like
currently, the actions thatyou're taking currently, the
thoughts that you're havingcurrently there, it seems like
these things are leading to thisSame thing with, like,
(41:20):
astrology immunology.
You know, they're just givingyou the roadmap and you decide
which way to take it.
Oh, did you talked about Oraclecards?
And I just wanna add to thatthat if you are wanting to try
that out and you haven't evertried it, I would say start with
like a light deck.
I would not say tarot, becausetarot involves a lot more
(41:43):
conscious thinking of, like,what does this mean, when an
Oracle card can really just giveyou more of a meaning?
And it's funny because I thinkit was in 2020, it could have
been 2019.
When I was still in my nine tofive, I would with my team.
I have this book.
It's called oh, notes from theuniverse.
(42:05):
I'm actually looking at itright now.
I'm gonna grab it because Iwanna flip through it, but I
would ask them like, if theywant it, I would flip through a
page and it was always spot on,like whatever they needed to
hear, and that book is writtenby Mike Dooley.
If you've heard of him, he'sreally big in the manifestation
world, all about manifesting.
(42:26):
But I'm gonna grab it becauseI'm gonna turn some pages to see
what you get.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
That'll be so exciting.
I would love to know.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
So Mike Dooley.
Mike Dooley is the author ofInfinite Possibilities, the Art
of Living your Dreams, but thisone is the notes from the
university.
I think he has like a couple ofdifferent versions, so you
could pick a number from one to212.
What would you like?
115.
(42:54):
115.
Oh, this is a long one.
I'll send you a picture, butI'm gonna read it to you.
It says you could never spendall the abundance that's yours
to spend.
Your supply is truly limitless.
Of course.
Of course you already know thatthe size of your supply isn't
the issue.
Finding it is.
You know it's there, you knowit's yours and you know you
(43:18):
deserve it.
But how to get your hands on it, that's the challenge.
Aha, how Did you ask yourselfhow you did?
Oh dear, never ask how, neverthink about how.
Let go of the hows.
If you ever wonder about how,it means your conscious is not
(43:38):
dwelling in spirit, it meansyou're trying to manipulate
matter and it means you're goingto be searching for a long,
long, long time.
Steer clear of the hows, dearheart, and simply dwell on the
end result.
Got it?
Oh, that's so good.
I love that.
Actually, we didn't talk aboutfocusing on the how or not, not
(43:59):
focusing on the how.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yeah, it's like the.
You know, when people say thewho before, how I used to hate
that show.
When people said that's me, I'mlike, are you serious?
I'm a logical person.
Give me step one, two and three.
I am so logical too.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
So that leads me to when you were visualizing and
you had your events.
Now that it's happened, do youfeel like what you were
visualizing, feeling the endresult was similar to the result
In person.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
I'm sure it felt like a hundred thousand times more
intense, but yeah, it feltexactly the same in terms of how
I felt in that room, if thatmakes sense, cause in the
visualization I didn't see howmany people were there, I just
kind of saw myself standing andthen like kind of how the decor,
how I wanted to look like, andI just remember feeling like
(44:52):
proud.
So like at that event I reallyfelt like proud of myself and
like really like excited for thepeople there.
And I feel like it was exactlyhow it felt like when I was
practicing my visualization,like that feeling of proud and
excitement for the people thereand for me.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah, yeah, which goes back to the last sentence
of the page where it was likefocus on the results.
So how can anyone in thecommunity connect with?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
you.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
Anything else you would want to share with us?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah.
So before I mentioned connectiveme, I just want to say this and
this is something that Iactually learned listening to
your podcast, but I kind of putmy own spin of my flavor into it
and a little tip that I justwant to give you if you're like
learning how to manifest rightnow, or just wondering what that
is, I want you to like focus onyour superpowers, and I think
(45:48):
everybody has differentsuperpowers.
I feel like mine is visualizing,and so I feel like I have to
really double down on that.
Yours might be feeling like youmight be a feeling generator,
like you just know how togenerate emotions really well.
You might be someone whomanifests through scent, like I
know my sister loves perfume andlike if she picks a perfume and
she thinks of a place that shewants to be with that perfume,
(46:11):
that helps her, that's cool.
Or like, just like if you aresomeone who your superpower is
physical and like you need toget yourself in the environment
to help you manifest, I justwant you to like think about
which one do you think you areand like go practice that.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Because I feel like visualization was my superpower
for a long time, but I neverrealized it, because I've always
been like, oh, like you'rethinking.
People are always like you'rethinking way too far or like
that can't happen, that's nottrue, like you're kind of cuckoo
out of your mind for going thatfar.
So it's like grounding myselfin that.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, I don't know the names of them all off the
top of my head, but everythingyou talked about there's
actually a name for it.
One of them is likeconnoisseurs, which is just like
knowing.
I know that one is one of mysuper ones, but it also can be
very challenging for me becauseI'm very logical and want to
(47:05):
know, like the how behind it.
So if that is you, if you're aperson who maybe your superpower
, like Samzat, is visualizing,but you have people telling you
like you're wrong, you knowyou're going to feel like this
is right.
So really figure out, kind ofnavigate for yourself.
I'm going to find it and put itin the show notes.
The different types cause thesmell.
(47:25):
One is one of them too.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
So is it actually?
I didn't think it was a thing.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, there is.
And then there's like ways howyou can start to build those up.
I know there was a book I wasreading so I'll include that in
the show notes, cause I don'tknow what off the top of my head
right now.
But when I heard the smell oneI was like, okay, but I love
what you said, cause I meaneveryone can be like you walk
into like Hobby Lobby duringChristmas and you know that
(47:51):
Christmas smell.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Right.
So, like, like that's the onething I got my go yeah, hobby
Lobby, Christmas smell.
But you, that same smell cantake you elsewhere too, right?
So we all know it, we'veexperienced it.
Maybe it's the smell of somefood that your parents make and
at certain times of the year,and that'll take you there.
So everyone has the ability foreach of them.
(48:15):
But, like you said, one of themis going to be stronger, right,
it's going to be your supermanifesting power and stepping
into that, especially whenyou're feeling like my
manifestation isn't coming,going into that, stepping into
that.
So I'll put it in the shownotes and I'll share it with you
too, sam, so you can know themand have the actual label for
(48:35):
your sister that is so cool.
I've never heard of anyone thatactually does it, where she
sprays the perfume andvisualizes her cell wear.
Yeah, oh my gosh, that's sointeresting.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
I feel like I should start doing that.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
I remember, like magazines, youknow, as a teenager you would
get the magazine and smell thatperfume or cologne, whatever it
was, and it would be like I justthink of department store.
So I need to change it.
Whenever I smell it, I justthink of a Macy's or something.
Yeah, yeah, I'm not trying togo to Macy's, I need to go.
I don't know, I don't even wantto go to like a store, I just
(49:08):
want to be somewhere fancy.
But thank you for sharing that.
Now, how can my audienceconnect with you and find you if
they want to work with you orjust learn more about everything
that you are sharing on thediet culture?
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah, so you can find me on Instagram at Superly Sam,
and I also have a podcastcalled your Winning Journey.
You can find that on Apple andSpotify.
I'm pretty sure Norma will notethese down in the show notes.
And then right now I just havemy six month one-on-one coaching
, and so if you're someone whohas been trying to lose weight
and you know we're at the newyear, we're coming close, and
you're like I don't want to setthe same 20 pound goal over and
(49:43):
over again, I want to invite youto come work with me.
This is my one-on-one coachingprogram.
I'm going to help you lose 20pounds, keep it off without
following any diets, and helpyou like, keep it off because
you're going to be doing it yourway and you're going to be
eating foods that you enjoy.
So more information on that inthe show notes, but that's where
you can find me.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Thank you so much for sharing everything, sam, and
sharing on your journey.
All right guys.
Well, see you guys on the nextone.
Thank you for listening to theManifesting Latina podcast.
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