Have you ever felt the pull of something greater guiding your decisions, whispering paths to success that defy all conventional logic? Join me, Debb Cobb, as we venture into the realm where intuition and manifestation intertwine, revealing a world where following your spirit can lead to entrepreneurial triumph. In this episode, I bare my soul, sharing the raw and rebellious journey from high school dropout to the pinnacle of success in my industry, without ever playing by the rules.
Prepare to have your perceptions of reality expanded as we discuss the mysterious links between consciousness, intuition, and the manifestation of our deepest desires. I'll take you through historical misconceptions about our senses, illustrating how tapping into the non-physical can be as real and natural as the discovery of radio waves. We'll explore personal stories and insights that illuminate my path to creating the Mystery School of Manifestation and other ventures that defied conventional wisdom, proving that the extraordinary often demands an extraordinary approach.
As we wrap up, allow yourself to be inspired by the courage it takes to listen to your inner voice, and the incredible outcomes that can follow. I'll share my leap of faith into a marketing career, guided not by traditional qualifications but by unmistakable spiritual signs. And for those ready to forge their own path, I extend an exclusive invitation to my Anti-Launch Launch Workshop, where we'll craft a blueprint for success that shuns the typical playbook in favor of a more personal, spiritually-aligned strategy. Tune in and embark on a transformational journey that could redefine the way you see success, purpose, and fulfillment.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of The Mystery School of Manifestation. If you want to learn more about manifestation, sales or Debb’s journey, please visit DebbCobb.com
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What if the key to achieving your best result ever
was to leap before the netappeared and go left when
everyone else is telling you togo right?
That, my friends, is what we'llbe diving into in today's
episode.
Welcome to the Mystery Schoolof Manifestation, where we
cannot stop talking about theeerie and awe-inspiring
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connection between all thingsphysical, metaphysical and
mystical and the magic ofmanifestation.
My name is Deb Cobb and I amobsessed with teaching you how
to define the odds and stop theself-sabotage, so you can step
fully into your version ofheaven on earth while you're
still able to enjoy it in thephysical.
Now, this podcast is going tobe raw and unfiltered, and I'm
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more than a little controversialat times.
My language can be explicit too, so be warned if you're easily
offended or have children in theroom when you listen.
That said, I hope you're readyto buckle up your seatbelt, jump
on the rollercoaster ride thathas been my spiritual and
entrepreneurial journey and grabsome tissues, your journal and
favorite crystal and get readyto start collapsing timelines to
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step into your version ofhappily ever after.
Welcome to episode two.
I'm so honored that you decidedto join us today Now.
When I was growing up, I was thekid who always wanted to know
why, why something had to be acertain way, why something was a
certain way or why I had to doanything.
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That my parents, teachers orother authority figures told me
that I had to Because I said so,just didn't cut it for me, and
so I often ended up with markson my report cards for talking
too much or landing myself inin-school suspension for
questioning rules I just didn'tagree with because they
restricted my freedoms.
I dropped out of high schoolbecause they forced me to take
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out my tongue ring, for example,and in hindsight, it wasn't the
most effective way to createchange and I was really just
looking for an excuse to dropout.
But, as is so often the case,my rebellious nature has its
benefits as well, especiallywhen it came to quitting my
corporate career in 2017,trading in a stable salary with
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benefits to go out on my ownpath, as it turns out, being a
rule breaker works out perfectlyin entrepreneurship and, from
my experience, it is always therebel in me that strikes gold
and creates breakthroughs andmanifestations beyond what I
would have ever thought possible.
It's going against the rulesthat everyone else says that you
have to follow to be successfulthat works best for me.
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For example, I've worked formyself now for eight years.
I've never run an ad, with theexception of boosting one
Facebook post with a $50 budget.
I've never paid for promotion.
I'm not consistent on socialmedia.
I show up when I feel inspiredto, and I often take three to
six month hiatuses to really gowithin and focus on my inner
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work and connecting with thedivine.
I have created exactly twoopt-ins and I wait until I
receive clear guidance before Iever create a new offer.
Now I'm not going to lie.
It's scary, pausing and waitingfor clear guidance from this
invisible thing I call spiritand then leaping into the
unknown, going against what islogical and without a safety net
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.
But what's even harder thanwaiting on an invisible force to
show you the way is explainingit to all of your well-meaning
but often closed-minded friendsand family, which is really why
this podcast even exists To giveyou a behind-the-scenes look at
what it's like to see with yourfaith and not with eyes, to go
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against the logical on a feelingand selfishly to clap back at
anyone who has underestimated meover the years, not to be mean
or rub it in their faces because, truthfully.
If it wasn't for the naysayers,I'd have had no one to prove
wrong and would most likely havelistened to the negative voices
in my head and given up a longtime ago.
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So to all of you who havecalled me crazy, talked about me
behind my back, laughed in myface or told me I couldn't do
something, thank you for playingthe role of the villain so I
could play the role of the heroin my own story, and it's never
too late to change sides.
That said, every single time Ihave waited on the divine, which
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I call spirit or God, to showme the way.
The way has always appeared.
But just like water doesn'tmagically transform its state
from water to vapor withoutchanging its vibration, the way
forward doesn't appear until youchange yours.
Every single time I create anew offer or decide to pivot in
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my business, it is because Iwent within and asked for
guidance on what to create, andit never fails that within 24 or
48 hours, someone reaches outto me and asks me if I offer the
very thing I just created,without me taking any physical
action to reach out to them.
Now, I still took action, butthe action I took was following
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guidance and creating said offerNow there are so many marketers
online who will tell you thatif you build it they will come
isn't a viable marketingstrategy.
And to that I say just becauseit hasn't worked for you doesn't
mean it doesn't work.
Now.
That's not to say that I'msaying you don't market your
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business, but it is to say thatI don't believe it's what you're
doing that creates your resultsis to say that I don't believe
it's what you're doing thatcreates your results.
And so long as you believe thatit is what you do, and what you
do alone, that creates yourresults, your work will be yours
and yours alone.
As you reenact the age old storyof the original curse as told
in the book of Genesis, a storythat has permeated Western
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culture for hundreds of years.
You know the one that sayscursed is the ground.
Because of you, through painfultoil, you will eat of it all
the days of your life.
It will produce thorns andthistles for you and you will
eat the plants of the field.
Now I'm not here to tell youwhether or not I believe that
the story actually happened, but, just like any other story,
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there is a message in the making, a lesson or a moral to the
story, and the message that Itake from the story of the
Garden of Eden is not that Adamand Eve were cursed by God for
eating a fruit they weren'tsupposed to eat, before they
even understood the differencebetween right and wrong, but
what I take from the story isthat they judged themselves as
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unworthy and hid who they reallywere long before God ever got
back from wherever it is that hewas.
The best part, in my humbleopinion, is that being naked
wasn't bad until they deemed itso.
Otherwise, why were theyallowed to hang out in the
Garden of Eden naked before Godcame back out in the Garden of
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Eden naked before God came back?
It would seem that worthinessis an arbitrary standard of
judgment created by humans forhumans, but that's another topic
for another day.
The point is there are many,many ways to interpret the same
story, and typically we justaccept the version we hear most
often or the one told by peoplewho have power over us in one
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way or another.
And I'm here to show you adifferent interpretation or way
one where you follow your ownintuition and base it on your
own experience so that you canco-create your own results, so
far beyond what everyone else isdoing.
It's impossible to ignore them.
But make no mistake, my resultsare not a result of my hard
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work alone.
My hard work is a byproduct offollowing my passion, or
following my bliss, as the greatJoseph Campbell once said,
because the kingdom of heaven iswithin, and to enter it one
needs to see through the eyes ofa child, which does not mean
that you're supposed to blindlyobey a God who demanded that
human beings obey laws withouteven possessing a level of
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consciousness to tell them thedifference between right or
wrong.
To me, the entire gospel issaying that it is our
imagination that creates, andwho among us has the best
ability to imagine a worldbeyond the one that currently
exists?
A child and the people who arebrave enough to listen to the
stirrings of their ownimagination, even when their
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responsible upstanding adultsaround them call them crazy.
From my experience, every oneof us has the ability to receive
divine guidance directly fromspirit and the power to
co-create their version ofheaven on earth now.
Now, wouldn't that be good news?
But you don't have to take myword for it.
Just like anything else, youcan't know for sure unless you
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try it on, but sadly,manifestation practices and
teachings have followed the samepath as the gospel did and have
been reduced to a bunch ofpractices to be sold to the
masses as the answer.
False idols.
Gospel did, and have beenreduced to a bunch of practices
to be sold to the masses as theanswer.
False idols.
Moses would have called them.
If you say this 55 times, or ifyou push down your feelings that
you don't like, or if you raiseyour vibration and make a list
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of all the things that you wantand you just imagine them long
enough, you will attracteverything you want to you.
That's pretty much how it goes,which is only partly true.
It's not the actions thatcreate, and copying what works
for others is akin to spiritualplagiarism.
It doesn't work consistentlybecause it's inauthentic.
So why do some methods work forsome people and not others?
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Or why did they work when youfirst started your manifestation
journey, only to stop working,which is a great question,
because it was never the actionthat created the result?
It is the embodiment of thetruth that activates and
attracts what you need to alignwith your highest good.
To assume that we are the onlybeings that possess
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consciousness isn't justarrogant.
It's wrong to assume becauseour natural senses perceive
reality a certain way means thatit is the truth, is literally
why our ancestors believed thatthe sun revolved around the
earth, because it sure lookedthat way, didn't it imagine just
a couple hundred years ago, ifyou had told your family that
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you could see bugs crawling allover everything, they'd have
locked you up at the very least,heavily medicated you and
lobotomized you at the worst.
And yet today's microscopesshow us that there are indeed
bugs crawling all overeverything.
And what about hallucinations?
I'm fully aware that themedical model of psychiatry
asserts that hearing voices andseeing visions means that you're
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mentally ill and need to be onmedication, and I am not a
licensed anything.
So this is my opinion, and forpure entertainment purposes only
, and also based on just myanecdotal evidence alone, for
now.
That said, I agree, sometimesseeking medical treatment is the
best course of action, likewhen I'm in pain.
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I take pain medication, but Idon't assume, because the pain
medication stopped the pain,that the root cause is handled.
And, like physician and traumaexpert Gabor Mate says, a
diagnosis is just descriptive,it doesn't tell you the cause
and so just blindly believingthat other consciousnesses don't
exist because it can't beperceived with our physical
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senses is the same thing assaying that radio waves aren't
real because we can't perceivethem with our physical senses
either.
However, can't we just changethe radio station if we don't
like the music.
Blowing up the receiver doesn'tchange the fact that the radio
waves still exist and are aroundus all the time.
All of that to say to those ofyou wondering if manifestation
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is just wishful thinking or whoare considering giving up on
your quote unquote crazy dreams.
This podcast is for you.
From my experience, learninghow to receive guidance from the
non-physical and then takingaction on it or leaping before
the net appears is the key toachieving results others around
you might deem impossible.
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It's the difference betweenmanifesting stuff and
manifesting spirit.
But it is important to check inwith your own intuition and not
just blindly follow others offof a cliff.
Don't leap out of fear, butbecause you feel called to.
It's the difference betweenrunning away from something or
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running towards something.
If you aren't sure whether yourguidance is your intuition, ask
yourself does the idea of doingthis fill me with any one of
the so-called fruits of thespirit Meaning?
Does it feel like love, joy,peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,gentleness or self-control.
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Those are the fruits of thespirit that Jesus told his
followers would signal to themright that they were in
alignment with the gospel.
Now, whether or not you believethe gospel isn't really what
I'm speaking about here.
It's following your intuition.
It's checking in with how itfeels when you imagine taking
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that action or ask yourself areyou wanting to take a leap of
faith because you're afraid ofsomething?
So you're running from it, andfrom my experience, you want to
deal with that fear first.
My favorite exercise to overcomefear is Tim Ferriss' TED Talk
about fear setting versus goalsetting.
It's incredibly powerful.
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So I recommend looking at thatfirst and completing that
exercise before you take a leap.
All of that to say.
In order to achieveextraordinary results, you need
to use extraordinary methods,and I know this to be true from
personal experience, becauseeverything I have manifested has
resulted from this premise.
It's my special sauce, it's howI break records and it's how I
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break with the rules, standardsand norms and create results so
far beyond the norm, but there'snothing else to explain them.
Extraordinary simply means,again, outside of the norm.
So if you want results beyondwhat you've created or what has
been done before, you need to dosomething that hasn't been done
before.
Now, this doesn't always meanthat your methods need to be
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special or expensive orcomplicated.
A good rule of thumb whenyou're trying to do something
that has never been done is toconsider doing the exact
opposite of what you have doneor what is currently being done
Now.
This isn't always the magicalanswer, but I find that starting
at the polar opposite is agreat exercise to think beyond
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what you've already thought,which is exactly what happened
when I secretly launched my newprogram, the Mystery School of
Manifestation, earlier this year, and it's why I launched this
podcast in January and then tooklike four months off.
But I digress.
I knew I wanted to do somethingvery different than I'd seen
done before, and I did not wantto have to rely on social media
ads or posting consistently,because it just doesn't align
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with who I am.
So I set about trying to figureout how we were going to launch
without relying on social mediaat all.
But you can't launch withoutsocial media.
The part of my brainresponsible for keeping me safe
and fitting in with the crowdargued Well, why not?
You hosted your most successfulevent to date without it,
argued the part of my brain thatargues against anything the
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other parts of my brain suggestreplied, and I remembered there
was a time when I did somethingvery differently that was very
successful.
I had decided I wanted to dosomething very different to
celebrate my daughter Alethea's16th birthday party, and at the
time I knew how fickle teenagerswere and I was afraid that no
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one would show up.
And so the idea occurred to mewhy not design a birthday party
around a Hollywood event?
Because she wanted to be anactress and still does right.
She still is in that world.
However, because she wasinterested in theater and most
of her friends were in theater,I thought why not throw a
Hollywood themed party?
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And so that's exactly what Idid, but in order to get
everyone to attend and betalking about it and create this
huge buzz around it, I decidedI wasn't going to tell anyone
where it was going to be at all.
All I told them was that it wasHollywood themed, to dress in
Hollywood glamour and to bethere 30 minutes before I was
going to have Alethea arrive,because we had a red carpet and
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I had everyone line up and shewas actually blindfolded when
she arrived at the venue.
Now, the reason why everyonewanted to come was because they
had no idea where it was goingto be held or what we were going
to be doing, and in order toeven get access to the location,
they had to email a specialemail that I had created
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Alethea's 16th birthday party.
I didn't tell anyone where theevent was going to be held, even
the person driving her, untilthe day of an hour before the
event started, and you know what.
It was packed.
Literally everyone who wasinvited came and people were
asking her how to get on theinvite list.
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It is literally the party ofher high school career.
People still talk about it tothis day, and it was, hands down
, the most fun I've ever had.
So why not do something similar, I thought, and so I did.
I was launching a membershipwith the name mystery in the
title, after all, and so we kepteverything a mystery.
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We didn't use any social media,we didn't use any ad budget.
We had a brand new brandwithout an established audience.
We didn't tell anyone what ourevent was about, nor did we
strategize about who we shouldinvite or not invite, nor did we
sell at the end of the event,and our results so far beyond
what I have seen anyone else inthe online business industry
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report, and it was our veryfirst time launching.
And yet we were able to turn a$200 marketing budget which by
marketing I mean the cost of theinvitations to attend into
$5,832 in revenue.
That is a 2,816% increase onour investment.
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It kind of blows GrantCardone's whole 10X method out
of the water.
And we didn't even push on anypain points or use manipulative
sales tactics or NLP.
We didn't follow scripts orstrategies either.
Instead, I channeled it all.
I stepped aside, turned thevolume way down on my ego and
let the consciousness that comesfrom the part of my brain that
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doesn't believe in limits takecenter stage, and I proceeded to
tell my story in rhyme andfiction.
I actually ended up writing abook and turning it into a short
film, like a choose your ownadventure experience, and it is,
hands down, the best thing Ihave ever created in my life.
And the process of channelingit was a spiritual experience
that I literally don't havewords to describe.
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All of that to say.
We created these results ourvery first try.
Now, side note, if you'recurious about experiencing what
I called the non-event of theseason yourself, just shoot us
an email athellogoodbyeatdebcobcom with the
subject line line I'm in.
Deb sent me and you can see soyourself.
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It is still the first versionand so it's not perfectly
polished yet, so keep that inmind, but please do fill out the
survey at the end and tell uswhat you loved and what you'd
love more of moving forward, sothe next time we do launch it
it'll be even better, thanks toyou.
Okay, so by now you're probablycurious about the results that
I keep bragging about.
So obviously, turning $200 into$5,832 in revenue is pretty
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incredible, but what's even moreincredible are the results that
we saw from our email campaign.
So to just give you a briefoverview of what those results
are, and then next I'll leaveyou with three steps I follow
when I want to manifest beyondwhat I could manifest of my own
accord.
So an overview.
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We sent 50 personal invitationsto people by snail mail and, yes
, you can still mail things byhand and I selected those to
invite by personally goingthrough every single one of my
contacts and friend lists andasking for divine guidance on
who to invite.
These people were not selectedbased on anything other than my
intuition, and I actually, to behonest, felt a little
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embarrassed mailing some ofthese invitations out because I
hadn't talked to these people inyears.
But if I felt guided to, Iswallowed my pride and I did it
anyway.
Now, out of those 50 invites,roughly 60% RSVP'd and said that
they were going to attend andof those who responded, they
generated the other 34% whoattended the not event, because
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I incentivized those who RSVP'dwith a plus one and we also
created a scavenger hunt, a game, out of the entire thing.
So all of that resulted in a94% attendance rate.
Not everyone attended live, buta good amount did, and of those
who didn't, they watched thereplay.
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So 94% of people who were onour list engaged and watched the
replay or attended live.
Now our total email open ratewas almost triple of what the
industry average is 83.7% forthe total campaign.
That's all of the emails thatwe sent combined and, according
to MailChimp, my industryaverage.
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So marketing and advertising'sopen rate traditionally is 29.7%
and we had an 83.7% open rate.
Our click-through rate was 18times the industry standard,
coming in at 43.36%, andaccording to MailChimp, the
average click-through ratemeaning somebody clicks on a
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link in your email is 2.3%.
But our sales conversion iswhat matters most right.
Our conversion rate is five to10 times the norm, depending on
which figure you align with oryou believe right.
So 10.6% of our email listbought, and our industry
standard is one to 2%.
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So now, if you want toreproduce these results yourself
, you're in luck.
I'm hosting a workshop and I'mlooking for 20 to 30 brave
guinea pigs who are willing topay $144 for a two hour workshop
where I will be walking youthrough how we did it and giving
you access to all of mytemplates and my brain in
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exchange for feedback, before welaunch this to the masses later
this year.
I will teach you how we didwhat we did and then you'll
submit your launch ideas to usand I will personally give you
feedback before turning youloose to do it yourself.
So what you don't need a biglist, a landing page, tech
knowledge, a big team, a big egoor a finished product.
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What you do need a big heart, apassion for the people that you
serve, a business or businessidea that sells something and an
open mind.
So if you want a ticket,they're first come, first serve,
and we're going to pull thosewho purchase tickets to
determine the best date and timefor the workshop and go from
there.
So all of that to say.
If you want in, you need toemail us with the subject line
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golden ticket at hello, goodbyeat devcomcom, and I'll be
sharing that again at the end.
So now, for the moment you'vebeen waiting for right Three
tangible steps so you can stealmy manifestation process for
yourself.
Step one when I want to create,attract or manifest something, I
figure out what that thing isand why it's important that I
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have it.
Now, my rule of thumb is thatwhat I want to attract cannot be
something I only want to provemy worthiness or heal any
feeling of lack or inadequacy.
Now, trigger warning there's areason why the higher your
income, the more likely you areto commit suicide.
Reason why the higher yourincome, the more likely you are
to commit suicide.
This is a statistic found to betrue in a 2022 study at the
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University of Washington in StLouis, who disproved their own
hypothesis that poverty wouldpredict higher rates of suicide,
when, in fact, the highestgroup at risk is affluent white
men over the age of 75.
Now, money does not buyhappiness and whether you love
him or hate him, I happen tolove him.
Jim Carrey had it right when hesaid everybody should get rich
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and famous and do everythingthey ever dreamed of.
So they can see that it's notthe answer.
Having overcome my own battlewith suicide, low self-worth and
self-sabotage, I know for afact that seeking external
validation or things to fill thehole in your soul will most
likely result in a bigger hole.
Trying to manifest things forthe sake of things usually fails
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or puts you on themanifestation hamster wheel,
where it is never enough.
So first figure out what youwant and why.
What validation are you lookingfor from manifesting or
creating this thing?
And if you find that you'retrying to heal a feeling of not
being good enough or to proveyour worth to anyone but
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yourself, you'll see the bestresults If you pause and work on
healing that and adjusting yourmanifestation goal to align
with something that you actuallylove and will support your
greater purpose or your dharma,or help others in your family or
friends or clients to achievetheir results.
First and I know it's not sexy,but it's true that the more you
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heal your inner world, the moreyour outer world will resemble
the one of your dreams.
Second, the next step, and thisis very important.
I turn off my logical brain thattries to dictate the way to
achieve what I want.
And I ask for guidance frombeyond the physical.
Again, you can call it whateveryou want.
I call it God or spirit, butuse the word that resonates most
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right.
And then I make a list of allof my possible next actions and
I ask for a sign so grand that Ican't help but see it and know
what my next step is, which isalmost always what produces a
sign and almost always wayeasier than what I'd imagined
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and completely against the waymy brain would have told me to
go.
In fact, my favorite saying theodds are stacked against you,
but you are not a statistic camefrom my very first attempt at
manifesting guidance, before Ihad even heard of manifestation.
I was 18 years old and pregnantat the time, going to high
school half days as an at-riskstudent and working part-time as
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a secretary in the afternoonfor a mortgage company.
I told one of my coworkers Ihad decided not to go to college
after all.
I didn't think I could pull offcollege and a baby when I'd
barely made it through my senioryear.
Now I remember very vividlyrolling my chair from my desk to
the filing cabinet so Iwouldn't have to walk.
I was actually wearing slippersat this point because my old
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shoes no longer fit and I didn'thave the money for new shoes.
So I was rolling across thefloor and I was wondering if not
going to college was the rightdecision.
I had really wanted to get adegree in psychology, to become
a psychologist someday, to helpothers or figure out what was
quote unquote wrong with me.
Right, when I heard the samevoice from my near-death
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experience and I explained thatin the last episode, if you
haven't listened, but I heardthe same voice and it said ever
so softly the odds are stackedagainst you, debbie, but you are
not a statistic.
One of many reasons I believethat it is a mistake to dismiss
the voices in your head as justwishful thinking at best or
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delusions of grandeur at worst.
Whether or not something isreal or only in your head is
pretty much impossible to prove.
How do you prove somethingexists outside of your brain
when the only way to experienceanything is with your brain,
right?
That said, there are ways toground the guidance that you're
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receiving into the 3D so you canbe fairly certain that your
guidance is real, but that'sanother topic for another day.
Finally, step three I listen.
I listen and I take action onwhat the voice in my head guides
me to, regardless of how crazyor risky it may seem to myself
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or anyone else.
Just like the time in 2012, whenI quit my job in corporate
retail management, I was workingat Target and I had barely
three months savings and noleads for another job.
I was obsessed with Pat Flynn'sPassive Income Podcast at the
time and I had developed aninterest in personal development
and online business.
It was there I discovered AmyPorterfield and Laura Roeder and
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I decided to launch a career inmarketing, but nobody wanted to
give someone a chance who hadno experience in advertising or
marketing and a degree inphilosophy.
Right Several dozenapplications and hundreds of
hours of job searching later, Iwas at the very bottom of my
bank account and I mean verybottom when I decided to take a
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leap, take a risk and try againand apply for an entry level
position at a local advertisingagency.
Now, I didn't expect to hearback because, again, I hadn't
heard back as of that time and Iwas actually considering going
back to work in the serviceindustry as a bartender when I
received a call from thatadvertising company's hiring
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manager, who, lo and behold, hadalso recently quit working as a
manager for Target, and becausesomeone had taken a chance on
them without them havingexperience, they convinced the
owner of the agency that theyshould take a chance on me.
I received my very firstpaycheck just a day or two after
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I drained all of my savings andoverdrafted my bank account,
and thus my career in onlinemarketing was born.
I had to start at the verybottom as a secretary and I took
a $25,000 pay cut, and I had todrive well over an hour each
way from the small town ofMooresville, indiana, which is
20 minutes South of Indianapolis, all the way to Westfield,
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indiana, which is a town about20 minutes North of Indianapolis
, and it was pretty rough, but Igot my foot in the door and I
got paid to teach myselfeverything I could about email
and digital marketing.
And when their current writerleft just a few months after I
had started, I volunteered tofill in and I took over the task
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of writing all of their currentclient email campaigns on the
side while completing my adminduties.
When my emails became ourhighest producing lead source, I
convinced my boss to invest ina social media marketing course.
Digital marketing was stillfairly new back then and our
clients relied on traditionalforms of advertising like Yellow
Pages, direct Mail and ValPakright, and thus a brand new
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revenue stream and departmentwas born, and a few months later
I was working from home halfthe week and getting paid to
learn the very skill I now usein my own online business.
And the rest is, as they say,history.
The moral of my story yourintuition is not going to make
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sense, and that's the point.
Your family, friends andcoworkers may think you're
batshit crazy, and that's a goodsign.
If you are aligned with takinga leap and pivoting your life to
follow what lights you up, itdoesn't matter whether or not it
looks good on paper.
All that matters is that youare following your own inner
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compass and actually living thelife that you want to live.
It might not be easy in thebeginning.
It might be going againsteverything that you've been
taught up to this point, andeven against things that you've
held sacred in the past, but Ican promise you this it will be
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worth it.
The alternative is to live thelife you don't want, and then
what's the point?
So what do you think Was blindlyfollowing my intuition to quit
my job.
Reckless or genius?
Have you ever done the oppositeof what was logical, only to
have it work out?
I would love to know All of mylove and remember you are indeed
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a spiritual being having aphysical experience.
You are infinitely loved andsupported by the entire cosmos
To collapsing timelines andco-creating your version of
happily ever after, our newheaven on earth, because the
odds may be stacked against you,but you are not a statistic.
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We'll see you next time.
If you'd like to attend theAnti-Launch Launch Workshop
which is a real workshop and nota webinar and learn exactly how
we achieved over 2,800%increase on our investment
without ads or social media oran established brand or
established audience, or eventelling people what the event
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was about or what we werelaunching, and draft your own
version, email us with thesubject line golden ticket at
hello, goodbye.
At devcobbcom.
That's H, e, l, l, o, g, o, o,d, b, y, e at D, e, b, b, c, o,
b, bcom.
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Hope to see you there.
What if the key to achieving your best result ever
was to leap before the netappeared and go left when
everyone else is telling you togo right?
That, my friends, is what we'llbe diving into in today's
episode.
Welcome to the Mystery Schoolof Manifestation, where we
cannot stop talking about theeerie and awe-inspiring
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connection between all thingsphysical, metaphysical and
mystical and the magic ofmanifestation.
My name is Deb Cobb and I amobsessed with teaching you how
to define the odds and stop theself-sabotage, so you can step
fully into your version ofheaven on earth while you're
still able to enjoy it in thephysical.
Now, this podcast is going tobe raw and unfiltered, and I'm
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more than a little controversialat times.
My language can be explicit too, so be warned if you're easily
offended or have children in theroom when you listen.
That said, I hope you're readyto buckle up your seatbelt, jump
on the rollercoaster ride thathas been my spiritual and
entrepreneurial journey and grabsome tissues, your journal and
favorite crystal and get readyto start collapsing timelines to
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step into your version ofhappily ever after.
Welcome to episode two.
I'm so honored that you decidedto join us today Now.
When I was growing up, I was thekid who always wanted to know
why, why something had to be acertain way, why something was a
certain way or why I had to doanything.
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That my parents, teachers orother authority figures told me
that I had to Because I said so,just didn't cut it for me, and
so I often ended up with markson my report cards for talking
too much or landing myself inin-school suspension for
questioning rules I just didn'tagree with because they
restricted my freedoms.
I dropped out of high schoolbecause they forced me to take
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out my tongue ring, for example,and in hindsight, it wasn't the
most effective way to createchange and I was really just
looking for an excuse to dropout.
But, as is so often the case,my rebellious nature has its
benefits as well, especiallywhen it came to quitting my
corporate career in 2017,trading in a stable salary with
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benefits to go out on my ownpath, as it turns out, being a
rule breaker works out perfectlyin entrepreneurship and, from
my experience, it is always therebel in me that strikes gold
and creates breakthroughs andmanifestations beyond what I
would have ever thought possible.
It's going against the rulesthat everyone else says that you
have to follow to be successfulthat works best for me.
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For example, I've worked formyself now for eight years.
I've never run an ad, with theexception of boosting one
Facebook post with a $50 budget.
I've never paid for promotion.
I'm not consistent on socialmedia.
I show up when I feel inspiredto, and I often take three to
six month hiatuses to really gowithin and focus on my inner
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work and connecting with thedivine.
I have created exactly twoopt-ins and I wait until I
receive clear guidance before Iever create a new offer.
Now I'm not going to lie.
It's scary, pausing and waitingfor clear guidance from this
invisible thing I call spiritand then leaping into the
unknown, going against what islogical and without a safety net
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.
But what's even harder thanwaiting on an invisible force to
show you the way is explainingit to all of your well-meaning
but often closed-minded friendsand family, which is really why
this podcast even exists To giveyou a behind-the-scenes look at
what it's like to see with yourfaith and not with eyes, to go
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against the logical on a feelingand selfishly to clap back at
anyone who has underestimated meover the years, not to be mean
or rub it in their faces because, truthfully.
If it wasn't for the naysayers,I'd have had no one to prove
wrong and would most likely havelistened to the negative voices
in my head and given up a longtime ago.
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So to all of you who havecalled me crazy, talked about me
behind my back, laughed in myface or told me I couldn't do
something, thank you for playingthe role of the villain so I
could play the role of the heroin my own story, and it's never
too late to change sides.
That said, every single time Ihave waited on the divine, which
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I call spirit or God, to showme the way.
The way has always appeared.
But just like water doesn'tmagically transform its state
from water to vapor withoutchanging its vibration, the way
forward doesn't appear until youchange yours.
Every single time I create anew offer or decide to pivot in
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my business, it is because Iwent within and asked for
guidance on what to create, andit never fails that within 24 or
48 hours, someone reaches outto me and asks me if I offer the
very thing I just created,without me taking any physical
action to reach out to them.
Now, I still took action, butthe action I took was following
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guidance and creating said offerNow there are so many marketers
online who will tell you thatif you build it they will come
isn't a viable marketingstrategy.
And to that I say just becauseit hasn't worked for you doesn't
mean it doesn't work.
Now.
That's not to say that I'msaying you don't market your
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business, but it is to say thatI don't believe it's what you're
doing that creates your resultsis to say that I don't believe
it's what you're doing thatcreates your results.
And so long as you believe thatit is what you do, and what you
do alone, that creates yourresults, your work will be yours
and yours alone.
As you reenact the age old storyof the original curse as told
in the book of Genesis, a storythat has permeated Western
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culture for hundreds of years.
You know the one that sayscursed is the ground.
Because of you, through painfultoil, you will eat of it all
the days of your life.
It will produce thorns andthistles for you and you will
eat the plants of the field.
Now I'm not here to tell youwhether or not I believe that
the story actually happened, but, just like any other story,
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there is a message in the making, a lesson or a moral to the
story, and the message that Itake from the story of the
Garden of Eden is not that Adamand Eve were cursed by God for
eating a fruit they weren'tsupposed to eat, before they
even understood the differencebetween right and wrong, but
what I take from the story isthat they judged themselves as
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unworthy and hid who they reallywere long before God ever got
back from wherever it is that hewas.
The best part, in my humbleopinion, is that being naked
wasn't bad until they deemed itso.
Otherwise, why were theyallowed to hang out in the
Garden of Eden naked before Godcame back out in the Garden of
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Eden naked before God came back?
It would seem that worthinessis an arbitrary standard of
judgment created by humans forhumans, but that's another topic
for another day.
The point is there are many,many ways to interpret the same
story, and typically we justaccept the version we hear most
often or the one told by peoplewho have power over us in one
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way or another.
And I'm here to show you adifferent interpretation or way
one where you follow your ownintuition and base it on your
own experience so that you canco-create your own results, so
far beyond what everyone else isdoing.
It's impossible to ignore them.
But make no mistake, my resultsare not a result of my hard
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work alone.
My hard work is a byproduct offollowing my passion, or
following my bliss, as the greatJoseph Campbell once said,
because the kingdom of heaven iswithin, and to enter it one
needs to see through the eyes ofa child, which does not mean
that you're supposed to blindlyobey a God who demanded that
human beings obey laws withouteven possessing a level of
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consciousness to tell them thedifference between right or
wrong.
To me, the entire gospel issaying that it is our
imagination that creates, andwho among us has the best
ability to imagine a worldbeyond the one that currently
exists?
A child and the people who arebrave enough to listen to the
stirrings of their ownimagination, even when their
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responsible upstanding adultsaround them call them crazy.
From my experience, every oneof us has the ability to receive
divine guidance directly fromspirit and the power to
co-create their version ofheaven on earth now.
Now, wouldn't that be good news?
But you don't have to take myword for it.
Just like anything else, youcan't know for sure unless you
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try it on, but sadly,manifestation practices and
teachings have followed the samepath as the gospel did and have
been reduced to a bunch ofpractices to be sold to the
masses as the answer.
False idols.
Gospel did, and have beenreduced to a bunch of practices
to be sold to the masses as theanswer.
False idols.
Moses would have called them.
If you say this 55 times, or ifyou push down your feelings that
you don't like, or if you raiseyour vibration and make a list
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of all the things that you wantand you just imagine them long
enough, you will attracteverything you want to you.
That's pretty much how it goes,which is only partly true.
It's not the actions thatcreate, and copying what works
for others is akin to spiritualplagiarism.
It doesn't work consistentlybecause it's inauthentic.
So why do some methods work forsome people and not others?
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Or why did they work when youfirst started your manifestation
journey, only to stop working,which is a great question,
because it was never the actionthat created the result?
It is the embodiment of thetruth that activates and
attracts what you need to alignwith your highest good.
To assume that we are the onlybeings that possess
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consciousness isn't justarrogant.
It's wrong to assume becauseour natural senses perceive
reality a certain way means thatit is the truth, is literally
why our ancestors believed thatthe sun revolved around the
earth, because it sure lookedthat way, didn't it imagine just
a couple hundred years ago, ifyou had told your family that
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you could see bugs crawling allover everything, they'd have
locked you up at the very least,heavily medicated you and
lobotomized you at the worst.
And yet today's microscopesshow us that there are indeed
bugs crawling all overeverything.
And what about hallucinations?
I'm fully aware that themedical model of psychiatry
asserts that hearing voices andseeing visions means that you're
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mentally ill and need to be onmedication, and I am not a
licensed anything.
So this is my opinion, and forpure entertainment purposes only
, and also based on just myanecdotal evidence alone, for
now.
That said, I agree, sometimesseeking medical treatment is the
best course of action, likewhen I'm in pain.
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I take pain medication, but Idon't assume, because the pain
medication stopped the pain,that the root cause is handled.
And, like physician and traumaexpert Gabor Mate says, a
diagnosis is just descriptive,it doesn't tell you the cause
and so just blindly believingthat other consciousnesses don't
exist because it can't beperceived with our physical
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senses is the same thing assaying that radio waves aren't
real because we can't perceivethem with our physical senses
either.
However, can't we just changethe radio station if we don't
like the music.
Blowing up the receiver doesn'tchange the fact that the radio
waves still exist and are aroundus all the time.
All of that to say to those ofyou wondering if manifestation
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is just wishful thinking or whoare considering giving up on
your quote unquote crazy dreams.
This podcast is for you.
From my experience, learninghow to receive guidance from the
non-physical and then takingaction on it or leaping before
the net appears is the key toachieving results others around
you might deem impossible.
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It's the difference betweenmanifesting stuff and
manifesting spirit.
But it is important to check inwith your own intuition and not
just blindly follow others offof a cliff.
Don't leap out of fear, butbecause you feel called to.
It's the difference betweenrunning away from something or
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running towards something.
If you aren't sure whether yourguidance is your intuition, ask
yourself does the idea of doingthis fill me with any one of
the so-called fruits of thespirit Meaning?
Does it feel like love, joy,peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,gentleness or self-control.
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Those are the fruits of thespirit that Jesus told his
followers would signal to themright that they were in
alignment with the gospel.
Now, whether or not you believethe gospel isn't really what
I'm speaking about here.
It's following your intuition.
It's checking in with how itfeels when you imagine taking
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that action or ask yourself areyou wanting to take a leap of
faith because you're afraid ofsomething?
So you're running from it, andfrom my experience, you want to
deal with that fear first.
My favorite exercise to overcomefear is Tim Ferriss' TED Talk
about fear setting versus goalsetting.
It's incredibly powerful.
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So I recommend looking at thatfirst and completing that
exercise before you take a leap.
All of that to say.
In order to achieveextraordinary results, you need
to use extraordinary methods,and I know this to be true from
personal experience, becauseeverything I have manifested has
resulted from this premise.
It's my special sauce, it's howI break records and it's how I
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break with the rules, standardsand norms and create results so
far beyond the norm, but there'snothing else to explain them.
Extraordinary simply means,again, outside of the norm.
So if you want results beyondwhat you've created or what has
been done before, you need to dosomething that hasn't been done
before.
Now, this doesn't always meanthat your methods need to be
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special or expensive orcomplicated.
A good rule of thumb whenyou're trying to do something
that has never been done is toconsider doing the exact
opposite of what you have doneor what is currently being done
Now.
This isn't always the magicalanswer, but I find that starting
at the polar opposite is agreat exercise to think beyond
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what you've already thought,which is exactly what happened
when I secretly launched my newprogram, the Mystery School of
Manifestation, earlier this year, and it's why I launched this
podcast in January and then tooklike four months off.
But I digress.
I knew I wanted to do somethingvery different than I'd seen
done before, and I did not wantto have to rely on social media
ads or posting consistently,because it just doesn't align
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with who I am.
So I set about trying to figureout how we were going to launch
without relying on social mediaat all.
But you can't launch withoutsocial media.
The part of my brainresponsible for keeping me safe
and fitting in with the crowdargued Well, why not?
You hosted your most successfulevent to date without it,
argued the part of my brain thatargues against anything the
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other parts of my brain suggestreplied, and I remembered there
was a time when I did somethingvery differently that was very
successful.
I had decided I wanted to dosomething very different to
celebrate my daughter Alethea's16th birthday party, and at the
time I knew how fickle teenagerswere and I was afraid that no
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one would show up.
And so the idea occurred to mewhy not design a birthday party
around a Hollywood event?
Because she wanted to be anactress and still does right.
She still is in that world.
However, because she wasinterested in theater and most
of her friends were in theater,I thought why not throw a
Hollywood themed party?
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And so that's exactly what Idid, but in order to get
everyone to attend and betalking about it and create this
huge buzz around it, I decidedI wasn't going to tell anyone
where it was going to be at all.
All I told them was that it wasHollywood themed, to dress in
Hollywood glamour and to bethere 30 minutes before I was
going to have Alethea arrive,because we had a red carpet and
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I had everyone line up and shewas actually blindfolded when
she arrived at the venue.
Now, the reason why everyonewanted to come was because they
had no idea where it was goingto be held or what we were going
to be doing, and in order toeven get access to the location,
they had to email a specialemail that I had created
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Alethea's 16th birthday party.
I didn't tell anyone where theevent was going to be held, even
the person driving her, untilthe day of an hour before the
event started, and you know what.
It was packed.
Literally everyone who wasinvited came and people were
asking her how to get on theinvite list.
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It is literally the party ofher high school career.
People still talk about it tothis day, and it was, hands down
, the most fun I've ever had.
So why not do something similar, I thought, and so I did.
I was launching a membershipwith the name mystery in the
title, after all, and so we kepteverything a mystery.
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We didn't use any social media,we didn't use any ad budget.
We had a brand new brandwithout an established audience.
We didn't tell anyone what ourevent was about, nor did we
strategize about who we shouldinvite or not invite, nor did we
sell at the end of the event,and our results so far beyond
what I have seen anyone else inthe online business industry
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report, and it was our veryfirst time launching.
And yet we were able to turn a$200 marketing budget which by
marketing I mean the cost of theinvitations to attend into
$5,832 in revenue.
That is a 2,816% increase onour investment.
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It kind of blows GrantCardone's whole 10X method out
of the water.
And we didn't even push on anypain points or use manipulative
sales tactics or NLP.
We didn't follow scripts orstrategies either.
Instead, I channeled it all.
I stepped aside, turned thevolume way down on my ego and
let the consciousness that comesfrom the part of my brain that
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doesn't believe in limits takecenter stage, and I proceeded to
tell my story in rhyme andfiction.
I actually ended up writing abook and turning it into a short
film, like a choose your ownadventure experience, and it is,
hands down, the best thing Ihave ever created in my life.
And the process of channelingit was a spiritual experience
that I literally don't havewords to describe.
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All of that to say.
We created these results ourvery first try.
Now, side note, if you'recurious about experiencing what
I called the non-event of theseason yourself, just shoot us
an email athellogoodbyeatdebcobcom with the
subject line line I'm in.
Deb sent me and you can see soyourself.
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It is still the first versionand so it's not perfectly
polished yet, so keep that inmind, but please do fill out the
survey at the end and tell uswhat you loved and what you'd
love more of moving forward, sothe next time we do launch it
it'll be even better, thanks toyou.
Okay, so by now you're probablycurious about the results that
I keep bragging about.
So obviously, turning $200 into$5,832 in revenue is pretty
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incredible, but what's even moreincredible are the results that
we saw from our email campaign.
So to just give you a briefoverview of what those results
are, and then next I'll leaveyou with three steps I follow
when I want to manifest beyondwhat I could manifest of my own
accord.
So an overview.
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We sent 50 personal invitationsto people by snail mail and, yes
, you can still mail things byhand and I selected those to
invite by personally goingthrough every single one of my
contacts and friend lists andasking for divine guidance on
who to invite.
These people were not selectedbased on anything other than my
intuition, and I actually, to behonest, felt a little
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embarrassed mailing some ofthese invitations out because I
hadn't talked to these people inyears.
But if I felt guided to, Iswallowed my pride and I did it
anyway.
Now, out of those 50 invites,roughly 60% RSVP'd and said that
they were going to attend andof those who responded, they
generated the other 34% whoattended the not event, because
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I incentivized those who RSVP'dwith a plus one and we also
created a scavenger hunt, a game, out of the entire thing.
So all of that resulted in a94% attendance rate.
Not everyone attended live, buta good amount did, and of those
who didn't, they watched thereplay.
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So 94% of people who were onour list engaged and watched the
replay or attended live.
Now our total email open ratewas almost triple of what the
industry average is 83.7% forthe total campaign.
That's all of the emails thatwe sent combined and, according
to MailChimp, my industryaverage.
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So marketing and advertising'sopen rate traditionally is 29.7%
and we had an 83.7% open rate.
Our click-through rate was 18times the industry standard,
coming in at 43.36%, andaccording to MailChimp, the
average click-through ratemeaning somebody clicks on a
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link in your email is 2.3%.
But our sales conversion iswhat matters most right.
Our conversion rate is five to10 times the norm, depending on
which figure you align with oryou believe right.
So 10.6% of our email listbought, and our industry
standard is one to 2%.
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So now, if you want toreproduce these results yourself
, you're in luck.
I'm hosting a workshop and I'mlooking for 20 to 30 brave
guinea pigs who are willing topay $144 for a two hour workshop
where I will be walking youthrough how we did it and giving
you access to all of mytemplates and my brain in
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exchange for feedback, before welaunch this to the masses later
this year.
I will teach you how we didwhat we did and then you'll
submit your launch ideas to usand I will personally give you
feedback before turning youloose to do it yourself.
So what you don't need a biglist, a landing page, tech
knowledge, a big team, a big egoor a finished product.
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What you do need a big heart, apassion for the people that you
serve, a business or businessidea that sells something and an
open mind.
So if you want a ticket,they're first come, first serve,
and we're going to pull thosewho purchase tickets to
determine the best date and timefor the workshop and go from
there.
So all of that to say.
If you want in, you need toemail us with the subject line
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golden ticket at hello, goodbyeat devcomcom, and I'll be
sharing that again at the end.
So now, for the moment you'vebeen waiting for right Three
tangible steps so you can stealmy manifestation process for
yourself.
Step one when I want to create,attract or manifest something, I
figure out what that thing isand why it's important that I
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have it.
Now, my rule of thumb is thatwhat I want to attract cannot be
something I only want to provemy worthiness or heal any
feeling of lack or inadequacy.
Now, trigger warning there's areason why the higher your
income, the more likely you areto commit suicide.
Reason why the higher yourincome, the more likely you are
to commit suicide.
This is a statistic found to betrue in a 2022 study at the
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University of Washington in StLouis, who disproved their own
hypothesis that poverty wouldpredict higher rates of suicide,
when, in fact, the highestgroup at risk is affluent white
men over the age of 75.
Now, money does not buyhappiness and whether you love
him or hate him, I happen tolove him.
Jim Carrey had it right when hesaid everybody should get rich
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and famous and do everythingthey ever dreamed of.
So they can see that it's notthe answer.
Having overcome my own battlewith suicide, low self-worth and
self-sabotage, I know for afact that seeking external
validation or things to fill thehole in your soul will most
likely result in a bigger hole.
Trying to manifest things forthe sake of things usually fails
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or puts you on themanifestation hamster wheel,
where it is never enough.
So first figure out what youwant and why.
What validation are you lookingfor from manifesting or
creating this thing?
And if you find that you'retrying to heal a feeling of not
being good enough or to proveyour worth to anyone but
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yourself, you'll see the bestresults If you pause and work on
healing that and adjusting yourmanifestation goal to align
with something that you actuallylove and will support your
greater purpose or your dharma,or help others in your family or
friends or clients to achievetheir results.
First and I know it's not sexy,but it's true that the more you
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heal your inner world, the moreyour outer world will resemble
the one of your dreams.
Second, the next step, and thisis very important.
I turn off my logical brain thattries to dictate the way to
achieve what I want.
And I ask for guidance frombeyond the physical.
Again, you can call it whateveryou want.
I call it God or spirit, butuse the word that resonates most
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right.
And then I make a list of allof my possible next actions and
I ask for a sign so grand that Ican't help but see it and know
what my next step is, which isalmost always what produces a
sign and almost always wayeasier than what I'd imagined
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and completely against the waymy brain would have told me to
go.
In fact, my favorite saying theodds are stacked against you,
but you are not a statistic camefrom my very first attempt at
manifesting guidance, before Ihad even heard of manifestation.
I was 18 years old and pregnantat the time, going to high
school half days as an at-riskstudent and working part-time as
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a secretary in the afternoonfor a mortgage company.
I told one of my coworkers Ihad decided not to go to college
after all.
I didn't think I could pull offcollege and a baby when I'd
barely made it through my senioryear.
Now I remember very vividlyrolling my chair from my desk to
the filing cabinet so Iwouldn't have to walk.
I was actually wearing slippersat this point because my old
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shoes no longer fit and I didn'thave the money for new shoes.
So I was rolling across thefloor and I was wondering if not
going to college was the rightdecision.
I had really wanted to get adegree in psychology, to become
a psychologist someday, to helpothers or figure out what was
quote unquote wrong with me.
Right, when I heard the samevoice from my near-death
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experience and I explained thatin the last episode, if you
haven't listened, but I heardthe same voice and it said ever
so softly the odds are stackedagainst you, debbie, but you are
not a statistic.
One of many reasons I believethat it is a mistake to dismiss
the voices in your head as justwishful thinking at best or
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delusions of grandeur at worst.
Whether or not something isreal or only in your head is
pretty much impossible to prove.
How do you prove somethingexists outside of your brain
when the only way to experienceanything is with your brain,
right?
That said, there are ways toground the guidance that you're
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receiving into the 3D so you canbe fairly certain that your
guidance is real, but that'sanother topic for another day.
Finally, step three I listen.
I listen and I take action onwhat the voice in my head guides
me to, regardless of how crazyor risky it may seem to myself
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or anyone else.
Just like the time in 2012, whenI quit my job in corporate
retail management, I was workingat Target and I had barely
three months savings and noleads for another job.
I was obsessed with Pat Flynn'sPassive Income Podcast at the
time and I had developed aninterest in personal development
and online business.
It was there I discovered AmyPorterfield and Laura Roeder and
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I decided to launch a career inmarketing, but nobody wanted to
give someone a chance who hadno experience in advertising or
marketing and a degree inphilosophy.
Right Several dozenapplications and hundreds of
hours of job searching later, Iwas at the very bottom of my
bank account and I mean verybottom when I decided to take a
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leap, take a risk and try againand apply for an entry level
position at a local advertisingagency.
Now, I didn't expect to hearback because, again, I hadn't
heard back as of that time and Iwas actually considering going
back to work in the serviceindustry as a bartender when I
received a call from thatadvertising company's hiring
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manager, who, lo and behold, hadalso recently quit working as a
manager for Target, and becausesomeone had taken a chance on
them without them havingexperience, they convinced the
owner of the agency that theyshould take a chance on me.
I received my very firstpaycheck just a day or two after
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I drained all of my savings andoverdrafted my bank account,
and thus my career in onlinemarketing was born.
I had to start at the verybottom as a secretary and I took
a $25,000 pay cut, and I had todrive well over an hour each
way from the small town ofMooresville, indiana, which is
20 minutes South of Indianapolis, all the way to Westfield,
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indiana, which is a town about20 minutes North of Indianapolis
, and it was pretty rough, but Igot my foot in the door and I
got paid to teach myselfeverything I could about email
and digital marketing.
And when their current writerleft just a few months after I
had started, I volunteered tofill in and I took over the task
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of writing all of their currentclient email campaigns on the
side while completing my adminduties.
When my emails became ourhighest producing lead source, I
convinced my boss to invest ina social media marketing course.
Digital marketing was stillfairly new back then and our
clients relied on traditionalforms of advertising like Yellow
Pages, direct Mail and ValPakright, and thus a brand new
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revenue stream and departmentwas born, and a few months later
I was working from home halfthe week and getting paid to
learn the very skill I now usein my own online business.
And the rest is, as they say,history.
The moral of my story yourintuition is not going to make
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sense, and that's the point.
Your family, friends andcoworkers may think you're
batshit crazy, and that's a goodsign.
If you are aligned with takinga leap and pivoting your life to
follow what lights you up, itdoesn't matter whether or not it
looks good on paper.
All that matters is that youare following your own inner
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compass and actually living thelife that you want to live.
It might not be easy in thebeginning.
It might be going againsteverything that you've been
taught up to this point, andeven against things that you've
held sacred in the past, but Ican promise you this it will be
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worth it.
The alternative is to live thelife you don't want, and then
what's the point?
So what do you think Was blindlyfollowing my intuition to quit
my job.
Reckless or genius?
Have you ever done the oppositeof what was logical, only to
have it work out?
I would love to know All of mylove and remember you are indeed
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a spiritual being having aphysical experience.
You are infinitely loved andsupported by the entire cosmos
To collapsing timelines andco-creating your version of
happily ever after, our newheaven on earth, because the
odds may be stacked against you,but you are not a statistic.
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We'll see you next time.
If you'd like to attend theAnti-Launch Launch Workshop
which is a real workshop and nota webinar and learn exactly how
we achieved over 2,800%increase on our investment
without ads or social media oran established brand or
established audience, or eventelling people what the event
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was about or what we werelaunching, and draft your own
version, email us with thesubject line golden ticket at
hello, goodbye.
At devcobbcom.
That's H, e, l, l, o, g, o, o,d, b, y, e at D, e, b, b, c, o,
b, bcom.
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