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Imagine being able to look at any challenge and instantly see it as a pathway to greater potential rather than a limiting obstacle. That's the transformative perspective Laura Brennan Ballet brings to this enlightening conversation. Laura and her brother Christopher have developed a formula that transforms how people respond to challenges, tested with everyone from Olympic athletes to seven-year-old gymnasts to 75-year-old retirees. All humans possess extraordinary capabilities waiting to be unleashed. The key? Learning to position yourself in what she calls "the power seat of choice" through five principles: awareness, willingness, self-accountability, critical thinking, and energy management.
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Josh Porthouse (00:00):
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This is why values still holdvalue.
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Laura Brennan Ballet (00:49):
They don't look at limitations.
They look at how can werecalibrate a present challenge
and improve on it.
And I think if human beings hadthat mindset, we would
collectively be a more advancedcivilization than we are.
Josh Porthouse (01:06):
Today on Transacting Value.
What are your limiting beliefs,and are they always bad?
How can you use those beliefsto ground a foundation that can
give you the empowerment youneed to succeed?
Today's conversation.
We're talking with the host,author and empowerment
facilitator of the Science ofEmpowerment brand, laura
(01:32):
Brennan-Ballet.
I'm Josh Porthouse, I'm yourhost and from SDYT Media this is
Transacting Value.
Laura Brennan Ballet (01:43):
Laura, how are you doing?
I'm doing fabulously.
We were already talking, havinga great conversation.
Josh Porthouse (01:57):
Challenges are on the rise, but I choose to be
fabulous.
Josh, you have to.
Well, I guess.
No, you don't.
You don't have to, it is aconscious choice.
Yeah, absolutely so.
Can we start here for a second?
I've never heard of anybody,self proclaimed or otherwise,
actually being titled anempowerment facilitator and, at
the risk of believing my ownassumptions here, I need you to
clarify if you got a coupleminutes, so let's just start
(02:17):
here.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What sort of things have shapedyour perspective to get you
into this path?
The floor is yours.
Laura Brennan Ballet (02:26):
So I consider myself an evolutionary
human.
I really like to kind of igniteunlimited potential at every
corner.
My brother, christopher, and Ihave been like this since we
were kids.
I include him in.
I always love to acknowledgehim.
He's the creator of the J3equals E formula, which really
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sparked the writing of thescience of empowerment.
That really has become such apassionate mission and my brand.
So we just we thought we weresuperheroes when we were kids.
Funny little quick story.
We used to drag the mattressesoff our bed out the front door.
Funny little quick story.
We used to drag the mattressesoff our bed out the front door,
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find a way up onto the roof,jump off, thought we could fly
Small part of the roof.
We weren't silly, we weren'tstupid, but we really did feel
that we had something in us thatwas magical and we just never
doubted our potential.
And no matter how we kind ofcommunicated this with our
parents, they never shut it down.
They never were like, oh no,you can't think that way or
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that's impossible.
They just were like, ok, cool,carry on.
So yeah, I had childhood issues.
We're regular kids but for somereason I had this unique
ability to look outside of thechallenge and recalibrate it
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into something that wouldempower me.
It's just the way my brain, Ithink, functioned and maybe,
rather than split off into, say,alcoholism or drug addiction
and all of that way of becoming,I went into a very empowered
exploration and I found thatthat empowered other people
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around me and that was a reallybeautiful exchange.
So you know, I live inConnecticut.
I have an amazing husband, twobeautiful daughters, one of them
is quite challenging.
I have an amazing husband, twobeautiful daughters, one of them
is quite challenging, if I mayadd that in, I try to sell her
on occasion but nobody will buyher.
It's a family joke, but I lovewhat I do.
(04:35):
I just love what I do and I'mfearless and I want everyone
else to feel what that feelslike, that there's no hard stops
, we really don't answer toanyone, and to challenge the
present condition and go beyondit, I feel um is like our right.
(04:57):
Why we're in physicality and Ialso believe coded in our, our
DNA is untapped genius.
I really do, and I think wefind that that's almost in and
of itself a challenge to thinkthat I am brilliant or I have a
genius, or I have a spark of allof creation and we see these
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outliers and we think they're sofar, right away from us, but
they're really not.
They just tapped into it andthey carried on.
And so I like to you knowwhether I'm coaching one-on-one
or speaking on virtual stagesaround the world.
Whatever I'm doing, I just liketo bring that up kind of on the
onset if I have the opportunity.
So, thank you that we're allreally unique, beautiful,
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special individuals, though wehave lots of commonalities.
But don't go through lifethinking that this is just what
it is.
It can be so much more.
Josh Porthouse (06:00):
OK, let me break this apart for a second
Untapped potential livingoutside challenges or outside
the challenge.
What do those have to do witheach other?
Is there a correlation, acausation, a relation at all, or
are they just two separate andparallel concepts that you think
are impactful and empowering?
What's the relationship?
Laura Brennan Ballet (06:21):
Yeah, a little little bit, of course, of
what you just said.
But yes, I think that so manyof us are really seated with the
mindset that challenge issupposed to be something that is
up against us.
And I think when we liveoutside of the challenge and we
look at it with a higher levelof intelligence ie potential
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possibility, unlimited thinkingnow we get to have more
directive over the outcome andthe experience while we're going
through it, so we're less atthe mercy of it and we're
authorizing more of the outcome,and so I think it's all
entwined and it's all connected.
It's just how do we look at it?
(07:09):
And reminding everyone thatit's okay.
If you've thought aboutsomething in a very specific way
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for decades, it's also okay torelease that thinking process.
Josh Porthouse (07:36):
It's also okay to release that thinking process
and redesign a whole newthought process, something that
will actually move the needlefor you.
It's just kind of the way mybrain is wired.
It seems to have been pretty,but you didn't, and so now I'm
going to put you in a positionwhere you have to kind of
occasion.
Laura Brennan Ballet (07:56):
Or we can look at that perspective as it's
.
Ok that I missed it along theway, but now my awareness is a
little bit more tuned in and itcaught my attention more than it
ever has.
And now ask yourself how come?
Why is that showing up and kindof catching me?
(08:18):
Maybe that's my indicator to dosomething about it.
I don't live like in pastregrets, coulda, shoulda, woulda
, all right, it's done, it isit's done.
Energy, it's over.
Right.
We can't recalibrate what wedid, you know, a day ago or 12
years ago.
I think the key is when youjust feel that moment of
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awareness and you recognize itnow, rather than let the pattern
keep sliding by right and justbe on automatic.
Now you, you look at it.
Why is that resurfacing?
Why is that reappearing?
And now, what can I do about it?
How can I empower thatparticular challenge so that I
(09:01):
can empower the rest of my life?
Josh Porthouse (09:04):
Wait a minute, did you say?
In power In yeah, so I.
Laura Brennan Ballet (09:10):
I, I N, I empower myself every day in
order to empower my day, if thatmakes any sense.
Yeah, there's two different.
I look at it very differently.
Yeah, I actually just umcopywriting in power to empower.
I have a book that I want towrite on this, and I really came
upon this discovery that to inpower, this internal power,
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really is something that is soindividualized, but it's open
and free to all of us, and whenwe take the time to take in
information and really apply it,it becomes knowledge, and then
this knowledge has the abilityto empower em others, and so
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it's an individualized journeyto be in service for the
collective, and that's just howI look at it.
Josh Porthouse (10:08):
Okay, and then you said untapped potential to
facilitate that process.
Genetically is the initialreference you made.
What are you talking?
about.
What does that?
Laura Brennan Ballet (10:17):
mean, yeah , so many places I go and people
I talk to, and you've beenaround the world you find that
people really have this limitedmindset.
They just think this is it.
I was raised a certain way, Igot married at a certain time, I
went for this job.
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They, it's like this stagnation.
They they're like this is it.
And there's so much more beyondthat.
And that's in that zone ofpotential, Like why would you
think this is all?
There is what's going on in thetrain of thought that you cannot
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recalibrate it, re-engineer it,redesign it, whatever word fits
the vernacular.
But why would you think this isit?
And so I really am curiousabout that.
And even with my clients, whenyou know they come to me and you
know you can feel it right awaythere's a lot of outside blame.
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There's a lot of kind ofsubconscious resigning of
contracts, emotional, mentalcontracts in the mind, and then
these patterns ensue, Right, andthen a belief system that
becomes a value system, becomespart of who we think we are, and
then we just accept it.
And for me it's going all backin there and really think about
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the structure of DNA andcellular makeup and biology
communication right In the body,the mind, the consciousness.
There's so much more there, howcan there not be?
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Laura Brennan Ballet (12:49):
And for me it's going all back in there
and really think about thestructure of DNA and cellular
makeup and biology communicationright In the body, the mind,
the consciousness.
There's so much more there, howcan there not be?
There's no end to right how wecan think and what we can do
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with that thought sure.
Josh Porthouse (13:13):
Sure, but some of that I'm assuming, I guess
anthropologically has to berooted in some degree of bias or
cultural.
Whatever traditions, storiesknow, whatever you're raised
around, it's just what you know,and until you have some degree
of inspiration or exposure tosomething other than the pattern
you've gotten accustomed to,you don't think to ask any other
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questions and you don't knowthat there are other options.
So is a limiting belief alwaysa bad thing, or is it just the
reality of circumstance?
Laura Brennan Ballet (13:43):
Yeah, I don't think anything.
I mean, unless it's a veryhurtful or harmful, of course,
situation.
I don't look at a limitingbelief as a negative.
I look at it as contrast to itsopposition.
We may not know the opposition,but, as you just said, there's
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podcasts, there's books, there'sso much education available.
Get curious, seek it out andknow that what you think is
isn't actually what is.
It's a moment in time thatyou've just again been on repeat
and there's something beyondthat.
So it's again.
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This is around thought energy.
This is what I'm reallyfocusing on and starting to
specialize in as looking at thestructure of energy around
thought and not looking at it asa belief, as limiting hard stop
, oh, that's been a limitingbelief for a long time Now.
(14:46):
What I've been introduced tothis podcast, or this speaker,
or this coach, et cetera, wow,let me expand the perspective.
Let me invite in something new.
Let's see what gets ignited.
What can I spark new?
Let's see what gets ignited.
What can I spark Again.
Let's have some fun, let's getcurious, let's really push that
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zone of potential so I can becreative.
I firmly believe that's why weare in physicality, right.
We can take thought andmanifest it into things.
How cool is this?
Now, I don't know what's before, what's after.
Everybody's got their ownbeliefs.
God, energy, universal energy,spiritual energy.
It's all beautiful to me.
What happens if?
And then fill that in.
(15:38):
All I know is right now, we canthink of something and we can
create it, Of course, withinreason, but we have a gentleman
right now.
We can think of something andwe can create it, of course,
within reason, but we have agentleman right now.
No political conversation.
Right, shooting rockets up inthe air, looking to terraform
another planet.
Right, we have ideas ofpossibility, even if they're not
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in abundance.
We look at our Einsteins and welook at, right, our Tesla and
we look at an Elon Musk.
I'll just use that as anexample.
Right, they don't look atlimitations, they look at how
can we recalibrate a presentchallenge and improve on it, and
I think if human beings hadthat mindset, I think we would
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collectively be a more advancedcivilization than we are.
Josh Porthouse (16:28):
Okay, all right, what do we do with that insight
then?
So you talk about thoughtenergy, and then I see your book
, your podcast, your brand isthe science of empowerment, not
the art of creating empoweringthought energy, right?
So what of that is the sciencethen?
(16:52):
I assume rooted in fact orformula or, you know, proven
scientific method type processes.
How do you qualify that againstthought energy?
Laura Brennan Ballet (17:02):
Yeah, so thought energy is embedded into
the science of empowerment.
The way we think has directcausation on how we feel.
How we feel has directcausation on how we react,
respond or interact.
Josh Porthouse (17:21):
Sure.
Laura Brennan Ballet (17:21):
So when we kind of again hone in on that
awareness around our thinkingprocess, now we get to begin to
empower our experiences.
My particular science aroundempowerment comes from a very
specific formula formula.
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My brother, christopher,created this formula as he was a
USA gymnastics coach trainingOlympians, and he started to
understand what makes thatperson, usually very young, have
the ability to do 10,000 skills, a giant on a bar, in order to
win a medal.
And what are we missing withinthe human condition that the
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average person doesn't have thatsame mindset?
And so when I started observinghim with these champions, I
kind of understood that theywere already primed at a very
young age.
Right, they didn't go to proms.
A lot of them didn't haveboyfriends or girlfriends, right
, they were in a facility justfocused with mad energy to
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create something amazing forthemselves and represent their
country.
I wanted to know what would itbe like to create a formula that
everyday people could feel likea champion, as a mother, a
father, a sibling, a neighbor,someone in the community?
How can we kind of tweak thisformula and move it into a more
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simplistic application?
And we do.
We have a neuromusculartraining facility application.
And we do, we have aneuromuscular training facility.
We have seven-year-old kidsthat come in and start training
gymnastic style, training everykind of athlete my brother's
trained NBA of baseball players,all of it and there's no
difference.
When we show them the formula,they understand it.
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Five principles, three fieldsof energy they get it.
I can position myself into thepower seat of choice.
I get to choose whether I'mseven or 75.
I get to choose how I'm goingto learn, how to respond rather
than react.
I'm going to understand whatnegative energy looks like.
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I'm going to enact thesuperpower of neutrality, calm
the pattern down.
Now to springboard fromneutrality to positivity is very
easy.
It really is, and you runthrough the formula.
So there is a formula thatworks.
I know this from over 10,000hours of coaching.
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There is a formula that works.
I know this from over 10,000hours of coaching and it's
amazing what it does to themindset development of people
that are at least willing to seehow can I shift something that
hasn't really brought mefulfillment or happiness or calm
in my life.
So you have to be willing,right, and you have to be open.
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New perspectives, release thelimited thinking Again, curious,
excited, have some fun, reallyget creative on what you can do
while we're here for a veryshort time, under a hundred year
span.
Make it count, yeah.
Josh Porthouse (20:44):
Yeah, but now it sounds like this works well for
people that already have aproclivity for systems and
patterns, and so for the peoplewho necessarily don't learn the
same way, I assume the outcomeis going to be similar, based on
your explanation.
But how do you explain it thenin a way that makes sense to
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them, if they're like this isboring, yeah, like I get the
results, but I just can't makesense of the material.
Laura Brennan Ballet (21:16):
I've never .
I've never had that happen tome yet.
I've never had that equated toany of any conversation, whether
I'm at a cocktail party, abarbecue, on a plane traveling
to Europe, where theconversation comes up all the
time.
I've never had anyone say that.
And real quick, I've got afabulous little story.
So we have a girl.
(21:37):
Her name is Brooklyn.
She was seven when she startedwith us.
I think she's 14 or 15 now.
She used to come in.
She was just kind of like alittle princess, right Typical
little girl, and just didn'twant to get up at six or 7 AM
and start working the skills.
She's actually now a regionaland national champion, trained
with my brother, and she wouldcome in and, oh, she had a
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little pout on her face and Ialways had this really cool kind
of synergy with her as she cameinto what we call the cage
before she got to coach Chrisand I would be like let's go,
brooklyn, we got some girl powergoing on.
Come on now, look at theprinciples on the wall negative,
positive, neutral.
Which one are you?
And let me remind you, you canposition yourself into the power
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seat of choice and I would talkto her with intelligence, like
you've got this Very quickly.
She realized that she wasdragging in to her practice
attitude, right Belief thatmaybe I'm not good enough, I
don't want to be here, I'drather be home watching cartoons
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, whatever her story was, and Iused to tell her put the story
outside the cage.
She eventually figured out whenshe came in and we would lock
eyes.
She knew if she wasn't in agood space.
She'd look at me and she'd belike hold on, coach Laura.
She'd walk out the door.
Okay, she was seven years old.
She'd come back in, smile.
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I'd be like what'd you do?
She goes, I left negative Boboutside, seven years old.
She knew I'm carrying theattitude, the energy.
She couldn't formulize theemotion and psychological impact
.
She knew the energy and she'dcome in and the rest is history.
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And I've had clients from sevento 75.
I have someone right now, agentleman, and his whole life is
changing At 75, hisrelationship with his son, with
his grandchildren, breakinglifelong patterns and beliefs,
because he realizes I've carriedit and I can release it cool
(23:55):
yeah, it's really okay so that's, that's the empowerment.
Josh Porthouse (23:57):
Then I got it.
Now the science, I'm with you.
What about the circumstance?
So bringing it sort of intomaybe a bit different
practicality here for a second,most of my career professionally
, let's say most of my careerhas been in the us military with
the marine corps.
Most of career has been in theUS military with the Marine
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Corps, most of which has been inthe infantry, and so a lot of
what we excel at happens to notbe self-awareness and personal
development.
In fact, it's more common totank all of our relationships
that aren't professional andthere's a lot of people in
positions with very similarcircumstances.
People in positions with verysimilar circumstances, maybe not
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outcomes, but very similarcircumstances.
In my opinion, based on thissort of enduring exposure to
high stress, occupational wellstressors out of necessity, and
so everything else, is that muchmore impactful.
You bring it home.
It's difficult to separate workfrom your family life or, to
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whatever degree, help them toalign better, and oftentimes
then the outcomes happen to bedivorce, more coping strategies
or alcoholism or whichever, andin some circumstances the
awareness of the amount ofcontrol each of us has to change
that perspective totallydissipates, or at least there's
(25:25):
some sort of dissonance betweenwhere it is and where it
actually stands.
How do you recommend workingthrough some of that?
I understand you've got abusiness right, but but as
advice, as a recommendation,because until, like you said,
people are ready and willing orI guess, able and willing and
(25:45):
ready they won't, and so thisstep has to sort of self-soothe
first right.
Laura Brennan Ballet (25:53):
Yeah, this is, I'll say, a vulnerable and
sensitive topic.
My dad is a Marine, so I know alittle bit about the mindset
around this.
We all know David Goggins right, he's the high level example of
what creates somebody to godown or rise to that level.
(26:14):
And you know we have to takeinto consideration, as you said,
coping mechanisms and the rightcare and coaching and therapies
for those this is not to saycome out of that intense style
of experience, just get coachedand be empowered.
I myself have never been on afront line and carried a gun and
(26:38):
served my country in thatmanner, so I would not at all
want to dishonor anything with aconversation.
But there you asked about youknow circumstances and first
sentence in the book isregardless of the conditions in
which encounters happen or thereasons why something profoundly
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changes us or how the messageswithin the story are conveyed,
you are in a position to growbeyond your present state of
mind.
Period.
Oh, in the first sentence.
That's the first sentence inthe book, on page 19.
Josh Porthouse (27:14):
Oh, in the first sentence.
Laura Brennan Ballet (27:15):
Those are the.
That's the first sentence inthe book, on page 19.
Individuality, chapter one, andthat is an indicator of what's
to come.
You can.
So now we would have to go intothis is awareness.
You can grow beyond thatpresent moment.
Second principle of the J3equals formula is willingness.
(27:36):
Are you willing?
Now, when we move into that,right, when we start to study
that environment of I'munwilling and then right, that's
where coaching comes in.
Yeah, I'm willing, but, andthen there's all those
variations within there, then wego into the third principle,
which is self-accountability.
(27:57):
You can stay stuck, stay in thatmindset, stay in that limited
thinking, stay connected toalcoholism or drug addiction or
divorce or bad relationships,whatever, operating at your
highest and best, and this isn'tagain to make everyone feel
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like, oh, I have to be somethingbig in order to tap into that
part of me.
You know it could be just beingyourself in your own life and
knowing that you're tapping intothat.
So when we take that selfaccountability truly within the
formula and my coaching, we stopblaming any outside condition,
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we suspend it all to the outside, which actually leaves room now
to take accountability forourself, because we're not
allowed in certain sessions.
No, my mother, my father, mycountry, religion, politics,
economics, economics.
We put it all out.
We just stay focused right here, zone of potential, right
(29:04):
tapping into the dna structureof potential, knowing that you
can change the mindset, you cangrow, evolve, elevate and
develop.
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Laura Brennan Ballet (29:35):
Know my mother, my father, my country,
religion, politics, economics.
We put it all out.
We just stay focused right here, Zone of potential, right
Tapping into the DNA structureof potential, knowing that you
can change the mindset, you cangrow, evolve, elevate and
(29:56):
develop.
Then we go into the fourthprinciple critical thinking.
This is where we learn to takethe emotionality out of the
thought process long enough toinsert a little bit higher of
intellectual thinking, just alittle, just to plant the seed,
and then you can bring back theemotion, because we all
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understand we can't shift likethat, especially when there's
patterns embedded for a longtime.
And then we go into the fifthprinciple energy.
Negative, positive, neutral.
Which one are you?
And if you're answeringnegative more than neutral or
positive, well, let's get towork.
Josh Porthouse (30:36):
Simple.
Laura Brennan Ballet (30:37):
It really is.
We complicate it because we'rehumans and it's built into the
human condition right Toself-inflict drama and chaos and
disruption, and we getpatterned in fights and we pick
the wrong people and we, youknow, stay in jobs we don't like
.
It's just built in.
(30:57):
I look at things from a higherperspective.
What happens if it's built into get us to evolve?
Nothing else.
It's built in only to trigger ahigher level of self-awareness,
a higher level of willingness,a higher level of
(31:20):
self-accountability, a higherlevel of critical thinking and a
higher level of understandingthat energy is in everything and
you are energy beings.
Without energy, we're not here.
Josh Porthouse (31:37):
Sure.
So then it basically goes froma state of mind into a state of
being and then it's in yourcontrol.
You've got ownership, you'vegot accountability, you've got
whatever you want to do with itdiscernment, anything, okay.
Laura Brennan Ballet (31:51):
And not saying it's easy and simple.
And again, don't feel bad ifyou're thinking well, negative,
positive, neutral, oh I can'tchange, no, we're.
The conversation is to sparkthe awareness into thinking
beyond your present thoughtprocess, like, oh, maybe I can
heal that relationship, maybe Ican learn to respond rather than
(32:13):
react.
We all know road rage and we'refrustrated and you know the
world is quite challenging.
We all know what this feelslike when we're off.
Our energy is just, it's reallydistorted.
But now you know well, maybe Icould read a book, maybe I can
become coachable, maybe I cantune into a podcast and just
(32:34):
kind of sit with that for awhile.
Let me give it a try and maybelife can become more than it is
right now.
Josh Porthouse (32:44):
Okay.
Well then, based on what youjust said, for something to
become more than it is, you haveto start out with what's the
baseline, so you know where tobuild, what to build, how to
build and move forward and movethrough.
So this is a segment of theshow called developing character
.
D d d, developing character.
And now this is a two questionsegment, as vulnerable as you
(33:10):
care to be, laura, totally up toyou.
But you mentioned earlier andthis is for anybody new to the
show, laura you mentionedearlier and this is for anybody
new to the show, laura youmentioned earlier that and I'm
paraphrasing but that beliefsystems can become value systems
.
My working hypothesis actuallyreverses that, and so I think
(33:33):
values not only ground us, ourcognition or our beliefs to a
certain degree, and then alsoobviously guiding our actions I
agree with your flow there butthat they're also a shortcut to
our identity and to ourrelationships and the
conversations.
And so, to me, everythingyou're describing on a natural
(33:56):
level and genetic level stillwas nurtured as you grew, so you
could learn the vocabulary, theperspective to present it
effectively to whoever youraudience happens to be or
whatever age your audiencehappens to be.
And so I'm curious, though,where maybe some of those things
started from started from, andso my first question is what
(34:21):
were some of the values that youwere raised on or remember
being exposed to while you weregrowing up?
You think that contributed tothis whole passion and process
of yours.
Laura Brennan Ballet (34:29):
Yeah, I love that question.
So again, full transparency.
People meet me or listen to meor we interact and they think,
oh, everything must have beenpretty darn smooth for you.
No, no, no, no.
So I really want to be honest.
I am speaking from aperspective and an actual
(34:50):
reality of some pretty hardshipsgrowing up, as I shared with
you.
There was just an ability tolook at the hardships and
recalibrate them into somethingdifferent than bringing me into
the negative realm.
We were taught to value love,family, tradition and even
(35:16):
though there were things goingon that were disruptors to all
of that, we knew at the end ofthe day we were loved, whether
it was by our parents, mygrandmother, especially
friendships, family.
We knew that birthdays andChristmas and holidays and big
(35:38):
Easter dinners, and if ourfathers were moving into new
businesses, my uncle was openinganother new restaurant,
whatever it would be, wegathered, we celebrated, even if
things were off.
We had the grounding of thatvalue system family of tradition
.
I still have it to this dayfull transparency to be
(36:01):
vulnerable.
When my brother came into thehome that my husband and I
created and renovated this iskind of funny that we're talking
about this he sat in the livingroom and he said you did it,
you brought a little bit of herchildhood into your home the
tradition, the bookcases, thepictures, the artwork.
(36:22):
We knew what he was referencing.
I knew what he was referencing.
He said he never lost it.
So the value of aesthetic beautythat represents life, that
represents life memories, thoseare the things that really
helped and they serve me nowstill where I am, decades later,
(36:44):
and I think we all have valuesystems that we can look at.
And even for those that havehad deep challenges, I'm working
with someone now that was inthe foster care system and it
was not a nice experience of herlife and we keep searching for
(37:07):
just a spark of what she canvalue, because then that does
give her hope and belief thatnot everybody is cruel, not
everyone is bad, and that eventhough some experiences are
really debilitating to ournatural beauty of who we are as
humans, it's not forever takenaway, that we can dig deep, we
(37:33):
can take that exploration, wecan discover that beautiful
moment of just creation and wecan get back to that and learn
how to make that a new.
Even if you're 32 or 47 or 56or 16, what has happened does
(37:53):
not define you, unless youbelieve it does define you.
Josh Porthouse (37:59):
I love that point that you're.
I feel exactly the same way.
Your past doesn't have todefine you, but it can refine
you and I think that's a verysimilar circumstance to what
you're describing, at least inperspective.
I love it, okay.
So my second question thentradition, family love, what you
(38:20):
were raised on and obviouslystill holding that now, but all
of these podcasts you've been on, the research for your book,
the people clients you've workedwith, spoken to throughout your
life experiences you had what'schanged?
Any new values now that you'reolder?
Laura Brennan Ballet (38:37):
Anything that's something you've maybe
discovered realign yes, I'mlearning to value the skill of
listening differently than Iused to.
So I used to think that Ivalued listening because it was
(38:59):
the polite thing to do, right?
So we were raised, you know, ina little bit in that way and
then I learned to value theskill of listening, to learn, to
grow, to evolve it.
It makes me a better human.
And so when I'm out somewherebecause in all honesty and this
(39:21):
is not an egoic statement I reada lot, I study a lot, I observe
a lot and I have a lot to share.
That doesn't mean everyonewants to hear what I have to
share, but when people do, Ihave a lot to share.
I love life, I love my presencein the world and I feel amazing
being a part of the collectivein this timeframe.
(39:44):
But when I'm out, I listendifferently now and I pick up
cues differently.
And I'll take a moment.
If I can kind of hear, likepeople in a grocery store or a
shopping aisle and you can feela little bit of that disruptive
energy, and if I feel it'sappropriate, I might break it
(40:06):
for them oh, excuse me, can doyou mind if I get that?
And it breaks the pattern, andthen I may look and say, wow, I
love, I love your jacket.
Or oh, if you guys haven'ttried, it sounds very simple,
but it breaks the pattern forthem and one moment of a break
in a pattern for another humanactually seeds the break.
(40:30):
They may not remember it asthat, but somewhere maybe in
their mind they'll remember god.
We were having a little bit ofa disagreement out in public.
Do you remember when that womanwalked in the store and asked
us about some recipe?
I was thinking about that theother day, you know, we stopped
arguing and we started talkingabout recipes and it changed the
(40:52):
whole.
This is.
I share this because sometimespeople hear me speak or they
read the book and they think ithas to be complicated and, to go
back to what we were sayingbefore, it isn't.
You can make really big changeswith the smallest of effort and
(41:13):
it helps the entirety.
I think.
Raise the vibration, or thefrequency, the energy of our
world, and I think that'simportant and that's not saying
it in any well.
You can take it however youwant a religious way, a God way,
a universal way, a spiritualway, but I look at it as a human
way and it's important to knowthat.
(41:35):
You know we all struggle, weall have challenges, but there
are ways to free ourselves fromthose patterns.
It's just there are and don'tstay stuck, you don't need to.
Josh Porthouse (42:07):
All right, folks sit tight and we'll be right
back on Transacting Value
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Laura Brennan Ballet (42:27):
You know we all struggle, we all have
challenges, but there are waysto free ourselves from those
patterns.
There are, and don't stay stuck, you don't need to.
Josh Porthouse (42:41):
That's powerful in itself.
You could put that on a bumpersticker.
Yeah, it'd be.
It'd be a big bumper sticker,but you could it's.
that is powerful and don't sayyeah, you know, there's a book.
Have you ever heard of BecomingHuman?
Yes, so, for anybody who hasn't, if you're unfamiliar written
(43:02):
by a guy I'm pretty sure yes,he's dead now, I think 20 some
years, but it's a relativelyrecent book.
It's called Becoming Human, bya man named Jacques Barnier, and
he talks basically about asimilar process in concept,
where paying attention to otherpeople, helping other people,
helps you become aware ofyourself and then, in turn, it
sort of begets its own cycle.
(43:24):
There's a lot of application inwhat you're saying, but there's
a lot of depth in, I think, howit comes across.
So, for the sake of time, thisis one of my last few questions
for you.
But if you had to simplify thepower of what you're describing
and for the record you can'tjust use your formula and cheat
(43:45):
the answer If you had tosimplify this concept of thought
, energy and empowerment and thegood it can do for you and
other people and how to raiseyour awareness around it, into
one or two sentences, how canpeople increase their awareness
and do this to help themselves?
How would you do that?
Laura Brennan Ballet (44:06):
Yeah, I have a few words at the end of
the book that readership aroundthe world.
When I was selling the bookfirst out personally on my
website because I wanted thatexperience, I didn't want to go
at an opportunity with a bigpublisher, but I'm like I'm
going to lose the connection ifI do that from the get-go, and
(44:27):
that wasn't the point it was.
I want to know, like if youordered the book, you could go
on my website, you can text meand you can say oh my God, I
read this, I loved this.
I'm confused about this and Iwould answer probably the first.
You know a couple thousandpeople before I went on Amazon
and there's a quote that I finda lot of people consistently
(44:51):
have looked at.
That they say has changed theirlife, changed their mindset,
and it is.
Do not glance changed theirlife, changed their mindset, and
it is.
Do not glance at the power,become the power, and this, for
me, is all about empowering selfin order to empower the
collective, and it is verysimple you are that power and it
(45:33):
is very simple.
You are that power, you justare.
You are living, breathingenergy.
However you think you got here,however, synchronicity,
coincidence, where you come from, where you're going, none of it
matters.
You are that power, it residesin you.
And so I would say, to keep itsimple any challenge, look at it
as a contrast mechanism forchange.
It's not a hard.
Stop.
Just look at the challenge, getcreative, have a little fun,
even if it doesn't feel like itshould be fun, but try to.
(45:53):
When I say fun, even if itdoesn't feel like it should be
fun, but try to.
When I say fun, almost bringthat childlike playfulness in it
.
Right, because when we're kids,I mean some of us can be bratty
, but we tend to be pretty coolwe're bratty for a minute and
then we're playing and havingpopsicles or cotton candy or
whatever, pretty quickly.
Yeah, just remember that you'rethe power, and I don't mean
(46:16):
that it I don't, it's it's.
I don't mean it to sound likeyou are the power, but you are
the power.
You have in you.
We have elements that make upthe universe in us.
Josh Porthouse (46:32):
I mean, come on like, yeah, we're unique that's
exactly what I was picturing allof the cosmic energy from
whatever creation story youdecide to believe or ascribe to.
The one thing that they allhave in common is everything
expanded in a vacuum, right, soit either just appeared or it
(46:55):
exploded, or whatever the theprecursor was, but in a vacuum,
which is space, which isindisputable by any other, I'm
pretty sure religion andperspective right.
Then it keeps going, yeah, butthen you've got these things
planets, the sun, stars,whatever, it is right,
exhibiting some degree ofgravity.
(47:15):
So it pulls it back.
And so, if all of these thingsare constantly ebbing and
flowing and fluctuating throughevery cell in our body and
that's what we're interpretingor feeling, or whatever this
thought, energy might, might be,yeah, pretty hard to dispute
that that's going to dosomething for you.
You know you're not shootinglightning, but but there's, I
(47:37):
think, few other accurateanalogies.
Laura Brennan Ballet (47:39):
And I want to share and this is a little
bit quick unique.
So my husband and I were inFrance recently and we went to a
very high level restaurantwhich the chef there is
considered, right at this moment, the world's greatest chef
right at this moment, theworld's greatest chef.
(48:00):
They're very, very much intothe land and very sustainable
farming and the way she doeseverything is amazing and I
can't share all of it becauseit's just an experience.
But they were telling me I loveoysters.
I grew up eating oysters.
My mom would pick them rightout of the channel in Rhode
Island on the shoreline and make, you know, beautiful dishes
with them.
I don't eat them so muchbecause I have a friend that's a
chemist and she told me if Ilooked under the microscope I
(48:22):
wouldn't eat raw oysters anymore.
However, one of the delicaciesof this main course several
course dinner we had were theseoysters, and they explained that
there's an AI generated systemnow that they take the oysters
out, like right at the verybeginning, and they take them
(48:45):
out of the roughness of theocean and they put them in this
man-made lagoon and they movethe oysters through the tides
based on the sun rather than themoon.
And when you eat these oystersthey come out, they're like pure
velvet.
(49:06):
Now, the reason I bring this upis because oysters and the ocean
right To create the pearl, it'sthat right.
They go through all that trialand tribulation and some of them
create these beautiful pearlsand you eat.
Sometimes you get the littlegrid of sand which is nature and
right, and that's all on themoon, all the structure right Of
all the energy and the cyclesRight.
(49:29):
And here is a system thatshifted the cycle and put it
into the sun.
And my point is energy isenergy, whether it's real,
whether it's a little bit kindof generated through some new
sciences or new technology.
But these baby pearls grew upunderstanding.
(49:52):
So back to our mindset.
We only think what we thinkbecause it is what we were told.
It doesn't make it fact.
It can shift at any point ifyou're open to seeing that a
shift is possible.
Josh Porthouse (50:13):
Okay, Okay.
Well, for more clarity, formore insight, for people to
listen to your show or get yourbook.
Where do we go?
Laura Brennan Ballet (50:25):
So you can go to
wwwthescienceofempowermentcom.
There is a copious amount offun, education, information
easily applied to becomeknowledge.
And then you begin to create,which I write about in the
science of empowerment yourinternal living library.
(50:45):
You get to start creating thisliving force of knowledge and
application and exploration.
Knowledge and application andexploration.
Nothing has to be, as I said, ahard stop.
You can read a book.
It can change your life andthen, three years later, read
another book and change yourlife again.
But keep changing and shiftingand growing and evolving.
(51:07):
Stay curious, infuse a littlebit of fun in your day, even if
it's a bad day.
Try to find something to justcross a little smile on your
face.
It's good for the soul.
And yeah, I'm at LinkedIn and Ihave a new YouTube channel, the
science of empowerment brand new, I think I've got like a
(51:28):
hundred subscribers on there.
But really unique is I'm goingto start a weekly podcast on the
YouTube channel.
But really unique is I'm goingto start a weekly podcast on the
YouTube channel.
So people who maybe I mean thebook isn't very expensive on
Amazon, you can buy it there.
But for people maybe who can'tquite do coaching at the moment,
you're going to have freecoaching from the Thought Energy
(51:48):
Expert on the Science ofEmpowerment YouTube channel.
So the website, amazon, orderthe book.
Reach out to me, find me, textme, you know I, you know.
Reach out to me on LinkedIn,facebook and Instagram.
I'm not so much of a socialmedia person, but I am
connecting because people arewanting me to be out more and
(52:08):
connect with me in those areas.
So it's what I'm doing and I'malways doing great podcasts with
hosts like you.
So it's what I'm doing and I'malways doing great podcasts with
hosts like you.
Josh Porthouse (52:15):
Oh, thank you.
So, first of all, for anybodywho's unfamiliar with our show,
depending on the player you'restreaming this conversation on,
you can click see more.
You can click show more and inthe dropdown description for
this conversation, you will alsofind links to the entirety of
Laura's the Science ofEmpowerment.
(52:35):
Brand links YouTube, thewebsite, Amazon, LinkedIn so
you'll be able to get in touchwith her even as you're
listening to this conversation,which is a pretty sweet exchange
of energy, in my opinion aswell.
But, Laura, I appreciate theopportunity and your perspective
.
There's so many other thingsthat I want to talk about with
you and I don't have the timeright now, since we're out.
Laura Brennan Ballet (52:58):
I have to do another one.
Josh Porthouse (53:01):
Be careful what you wish for, because the invite
email is coming.
So, yeah, we'll absolutelyfigure out a time to have you
back on.
I'd love to talk some moreabout this and some of these
other things that you're gettinginto as well, but for now, I
appreciate your time and yourperspective and your energy and
your passion and your deliveryand everything you put into this
(53:21):
conversation.
So thanks for coming on.
The show.
Laura Brennan Ballet (53:24):
It's been an honor.
I really appreciate you sharingtime with you.
I love human to humanconnection.
I think it's quite amazing.
So thank you for theopportunity.
Josh Porthouse (53:34):
Even if it is digitized.
I agree, yeah, yeah.
Laura Brennan Ballet (53:38):
Super cool , even in the digital.
Josh Porthouse (53:41):
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That's it.
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Welcome to Transacting Value,where we talk about practical
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each other and even withinourselves, where we foster a
podcast listening experiencethat lets you hear the power of
a value system for managingburnout, establishing boundaries
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My name is Josh Porthouse, I'myour host and we are redefining
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This is why values still holdvalue.
This is Transacting Value.
Laura Brennan Ballet (00:49):
They don't look at limitations.
They look at how can werecalibrate a present challenge
and improve on it.
And I think if human beings hadthat mindset, we would
collectively be a more advancedcivilization than we are.
Josh Porthouse (01:06):
Today on Transacting Value.
What are your limiting beliefs,and are they always bad?
How can you use those beliefsto ground a foundation that can
give you the empowerment youneed to succeed?
Today's conversation.
We're talking with the host,author and empowerment
facilitator of the Science ofEmpowerment brand, laura
(01:32):
Brennan-Ballet.
I'm Josh Porthouse, I'm yourhost and from SDYT Media this is
Transacting Value.
Laura Brennan Ballet (01:43):
Laura, how are you doing?
I'm doing fabulously.
We were already talking, havinga great conversation.
Josh Porthouse (01:57):
Challenges are on the rise, but I choose to be
fabulous.
Josh, you have to.
Well, I guess.
No, you don't.
You don't have to, it is aconscious choice.
Yeah, absolutely so.
Can we start here for a second?
I've never heard of anybody,self proclaimed or otherwise,
actually being titled anempowerment facilitator and, at
the risk of believing my ownassumptions here, I need you to
clarify if you got a coupleminutes, so let's just start
(02:17):
here.
Who are you?
Where are you from?
What sort of things have shapedyour perspective to get you
into this path?
The floor is yours.
Laura Brennan Ballet (02:26):
So I consider myself an evolutionary
human.
I really like to kind of igniteunlimited potential at every
corner.
My brother, christopher, and Ihave been like this since we
were kids.
I include him in.
I always love to acknowledgehim.
He's the creator of the J3equals E formula, which really
(02:47):
sparked the writing of thescience of empowerment.
That really has become such apassionate mission and my brand.
So we just we thought we weresuperheroes when we were kids.
Funny little quick story.
We used to drag the mattressesoff our bed out the front door.
Funny little quick story.
We used to drag the mattressesoff our bed out the front door,
(03:10):
find a way up onto the roof,jump off, thought we could fly
Small part of the roof.
We weren't silly, we weren'tstupid, but we really did feel
that we had something in us thatwas magical and we just never
doubted our potential.
And no matter how we kind ofcommunicated this with our
parents, they never shut it down.
They never were like, oh no,you can't think that way or
(03:30):
that's impossible.
They just were like, ok, cool,carry on.
So yeah, I had childhood issues.
We're regular kids but for somereason I had this unique
ability to look outside of thechallenge and recalibrate it
(03:54):
into something that wouldempower me.
It's just the way my brain, Ithink, functioned and maybe,
rather than split off into, say,alcoholism or drug addiction
and all of that way of becoming,I went into a very empowered
exploration and I found thatthat empowered other people
(04:14):
around me and that was a reallybeautiful exchange.
So you know, I live inConnecticut.
I have an amazing husband, twobeautiful daughters, one of them
is quite challenging.
I have an amazing husband, twobeautiful daughters, one of them
is quite challenging, if I mayadd that in, I try to sell her
on occasion but nobody will buyher.
It's a family joke, but I lovewhat I do.
(04:35):
I just love what I do and I'mfearless and I want everyone
else to feel what that feelslike, that there's no hard stops
, we really don't answer toanyone, and to challenge the
present condition and go beyondit, I feel um is like our right.
(04:57):
Why we're in physicality and Ialso believe coded in our, our
DNA is untapped genius.
I really do, and I think wefind that that's almost in and
of itself a challenge to thinkthat I am brilliant or I have a
genius, or I have a spark of allof creation and we see these
(05:21):
outliers and we think they're sofar, right away from us, but
they're really not.
They just tapped into it andthey carried on.
And so I like to you knowwhether I'm coaching one-on-one
or speaking on virtual stagesaround the world.
Whatever I'm doing, I just liketo bring that up kind of on the
onset if I have the opportunity.
So, thank you that we're allreally unique, beautiful,
(05:45):
special individuals, though wehave lots of commonalities.
But don't go through lifethinking that this is just what
it is.
It can be so much more.
Josh Porthouse (06:00):
OK, let me break this apart for a second
Untapped potential livingoutside challenges or outside
the challenge.
What do those have to do witheach other?
Is there a correlation, acausation, a relation at all, or
are they just two separate andparallel concepts that you think
are impactful and empowering?
What's the relationship?
Laura Brennan Ballet (06:21):
Yeah, a little little bit, of course, of
what you just said.
But yes, I think that so manyof us are really seated with the
mindset that challenge issupposed to be something that is
up against us.
And I think when we liveoutside of the challenge and we
look at it with a higher levelof intelligence ie potential
(06:46):
possibility, unlimited thinkingnow we get to have more
directive over the outcome andthe experience while we're going
through it, so we're less atthe mercy of it and we're
authorizing more of the outcome,and so I think it's all
entwined and it's all connected.
It's just how do we look at it?
(07:09):
And reminding everyone thatit's okay.
If you've thought aboutsomething in a very specific way
(07:33):
for decades, it's also okay torelease that thinking process.
Josh Porthouse (07:36):
It's also okay to release that thinking process
and redesign a whole newthought process, something that
will actually move the needlefor you.
It's just kind of the way mybrain is wired.
It seems to have been pretty,but you didn't, and so now I'm
going to put you in a positionwhere you have to kind of
occasion.
Laura Brennan Ballet (07:56):
Or we can look at that perspective as it's
.
Ok that I missed it along theway, but now my awareness is a
little bit more tuned in and itcaught my attention more than it
ever has.
And now ask yourself how come?
Why is that showing up and kindof catching me?
(08:18):
Maybe that's my indicator to dosomething about it.
I don't live like in pastregrets, coulda, shoulda, woulda
, all right, it's done, it isit's done.
Energy, it's over.
Right.
We can't recalibrate what wedid, you know, a day ago or 12
years ago.
I think the key is when youjust feel that moment of
(08:39):
awareness and you recognize itnow, rather than let the pattern
keep sliding by right and justbe on automatic.
Now you, you look at it.
Why is that resurfacing?
Why is that reappearing?
And now, what can I do about it?
How can I empower thatparticular challenge so that I
(09:01):
can empower the rest of my life?
Josh Porthouse (09:04):
Wait a minute, did you say?
In power In yeah, so I.
Laura Brennan Ballet (09:10):
I, I N, I empower myself every day in
order to empower my day, if thatmakes any sense.
Yeah, there's two different.
I look at it very differently.
Yeah, I actually just umcopywriting in power to empower.
I have a book that I want towrite on this, and I really came
upon this discovery that to inpower, this internal power,
(09:37):
really is something that is soindividualized, but it's open
and free to all of us, and whenwe take the time to take in
information and really apply it,it becomes knowledge, and then
this knowledge has the abilityto empower em others, and so
(10:00):
it's an individualized journeyto be in service for the
collective, and that's just howI look at it.
Josh Porthouse (10:08):
Okay, and then you said untapped potential to
facilitate that process.
Genetically is the initialreference you made.
What are you talking?
about.
What does that?
Laura Brennan Ballet (10:17):
mean, yeah , so many places I go and people
I talk to, and you've beenaround the world you find that
people really have this limitedmindset.
They just think this is it.
I was raised a certain way, Igot married at a certain time, I
went for this job.
(10:37):
They, it's like this stagnation.
They they're like this is it.
And there's so much more beyondthat.
And that's in that zone ofpotential, Like why would you
think this is all?
There is what's going on in thetrain of thought that you cannot
(10:59):
recalibrate it, re-engineer it,redesign it, whatever word fits
the vernacular.
But why would you think this isit?
And so I really am curiousabout that.
And even with my clients, whenyou know they come to me and you
know you can feel it right awaythere's a lot of outside blame.
(11:20):
There's a lot of kind ofsubconscious resigning of
contracts, emotional, mentalcontracts in the mind, and then
these patterns ensue, Right, andthen a belief system that
becomes a value system, becomespart of who we think we are, and
then we just accept it.
And for me it's going all backin there and really think about
(11:43):
the structure of DNA andcellular makeup and biology
communication right In the body,the mind, the consciousness.
There's so much more there, howcan there not be?
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Laura Brennan Ballet (12:49):
And for me it's going all back in there
and really think about thestructure of DNA and cellular
makeup and biology communicationright In the body, the mind,
the consciousness.
There's so much more there, howcan there not be?
There's no end to right how wecan think and what we can do
(13:10):
with that thought sure.
Josh Porthouse (13:13):
Sure, but some of that I'm assuming, I guess
anthropologically has to berooted in some degree of bias or
cultural.
Whatever traditions, storiesknow, whatever you're raised
around, it's just what you know,and until you have some degree
of inspiration or exposure tosomething other than the pattern
you've gotten accustomed to,you don't think to ask any other
(13:35):
questions and you don't knowthat there are other options.
So is a limiting belief alwaysa bad thing, or is it just the
reality of circumstance?
Laura Brennan Ballet (13:43):
Yeah, I don't think anything.
I mean, unless it's a veryhurtful or harmful, of course,
situation.
I don't look at a limitingbelief as a negative.
I look at it as contrast to itsopposition.
We may not know the opposition,but, as you just said, there's
(14:03):
podcasts, there's books, there'sso much education available.
Get curious, seek it out andknow that what you think is
isn't actually what is.
It's a moment in time thatyou've just again been on repeat
and there's something beyondthat.
So it's again.
(14:25):
This is around thought energy.
This is what I'm reallyfocusing on and starting to
specialize in as looking at thestructure of energy around
thought and not looking at it asa belief, as limiting hard stop
, oh, that's been a limitingbelief for a long time Now.
(14:46):
What I've been introduced tothis podcast, or this speaker,
or this coach, et cetera, wow,let me expand the perspective.
Let me invite in something new.
Let's see what gets ignited.
What can I spark new?
Let's see what gets ignited.
What can I spark Again.
Let's have some fun, let's getcurious, let's really push that
(15:16):
zone of potential so I can becreative.
I firmly believe that's why weare in physicality, right.
We can take thought andmanifest it into things.
How cool is this?
Now, I don't know what's before, what's after.
Everybody's got their ownbeliefs.
God, energy, universal energy,spiritual energy.
It's all beautiful to me.
What happens if?
And then fill that in.
(15:38):
All I know is right now, we canthink of something and we can
create it, Of course, withinreason, but we have a gentleman
right now.
We can think of something andwe can create it, of course,
within reason, but we have agentleman right now.
No political conversation.
Right, shooting rockets up inthe air, looking to terraform
another planet.
Right, we have ideas ofpossibility, even if they're not
(16:01):
in abundance.
We look at our Einsteins and welook at, right, our Tesla and
we look at an Elon Musk.
I'll just use that as anexample.
Right, they don't look atlimitations, they look at how
can we recalibrate a presentchallenge and improve on it, and
I think if human beings hadthat mindset, I think we would
(16:22):
collectively be a more advancedcivilization than we are.
Josh Porthouse (16:28):
Okay, all right, what do we do with that insight
then?
So you talk about thoughtenergy, and then I see your book
, your podcast, your brand isthe science of empowerment, not
the art of creating empoweringthought energy, right?
So what of that is the sciencethen?
(16:52):
I assume rooted in fact orformula or, you know, proven
scientific method type processes.
How do you qualify that againstthought energy?
Laura Brennan Ballet (17:02):
Yeah, so thought energy is embedded into
the science of empowerment.
The way we think has directcausation on how we feel.
How we feel has directcausation on how we react,
respond or interact.
Josh Porthouse (17:21):
Sure.
Laura Brennan Ballet (17:21):
So when we kind of again hone in on that
awareness around our thinkingprocess, now we get to begin to
empower our experiences.
My particular science aroundempowerment comes from a very
specific formula formula.
(17:49):
My brother, christopher,created this formula as he was a
USA gymnastics coach trainingOlympians, and he started to
understand what makes thatperson, usually very young, have
the ability to do 10,000 skills, a giant on a bar, in order to
win a medal.
And what are we missing withinthe human condition that the
(18:11):
average person doesn't have thatsame mindset?
And so when I started observinghim with these champions, I
kind of understood that theywere already primed at a very
young age.
Right, they didn't go to proms.
A lot of them didn't haveboyfriends or girlfriends, right
, they were in a facility justfocused with mad energy to
(18:35):
create something amazing forthemselves and represent their
country.
I wanted to know what would itbe like to create a formula that
everyday people could feel likea champion, as a mother, a
father, a sibling, a neighbor,someone in the community?
How can we kind of tweak thisformula and move it into a more
(18:59):
simplistic application?
And we do.
We have a neuromusculartraining facility application.
And we do, we have aneuromuscular training facility.
We have seven-year-old kidsthat come in and start training
gymnastic style, training everykind of athlete my brother's
trained NBA of baseball players,all of it and there's no
difference.
When we show them the formula,they understand it.
(19:20):
Five principles, three fieldsof energy they get it.
I can position myself into thepower seat of choice.
I get to choose whether I'mseven or 75.
I get to choose how I'm goingto learn, how to respond rather
than react.
I'm going to understand whatnegative energy looks like.
(19:44):
I'm going to enact thesuperpower of neutrality, calm
the pattern down.
Now to springboard fromneutrality to positivity is very
easy.
It really is, and you runthrough the formula.
So there is a formula thatworks.
I know this from over 10,000hours of coaching.
(20:04):
There is a formula that works.
I know this from over 10,000hours of coaching and it's
amazing what it does to themindset development of people
that are at least willing to seehow can I shift something that
hasn't really brought mefulfillment or happiness or calm
in my life.
So you have to be willing,right, and you have to be open.
(20:26):
New perspectives, release thelimited thinking Again, curious,
excited, have some fun, reallyget creative on what you can do
while we're here for a veryshort time, under a hundred year
span.
Make it count, yeah.
Josh Porthouse (20:44):
Yeah, but now it sounds like this works well for
people that already have aproclivity for systems and
patterns, and so for the peoplewho necessarily don't learn the
same way, I assume the outcomeis going to be similar, based on
your explanation.
But how do you explain it thenin a way that makes sense to
(21:07):
them, if they're like this isboring, yeah, like I get the
results, but I just can't makesense of the material.
Laura Brennan Ballet (21:16):
I've never .
I've never had that happen tome yet.
I've never had that equated toany of any conversation, whether
I'm at a cocktail party, abarbecue, on a plane traveling
to Europe, where theconversation comes up all the
time.
I've never had anyone say that.
And real quick, I've got afabulous little story.
So we have a girl.
(21:37):
Her name is Brooklyn.
She was seven when she startedwith us.
I think she's 14 or 15 now.
She used to come in.
She was just kind of like alittle princess, right Typical
little girl, and just didn'twant to get up at six or 7 AM
and start working the skills.
She's actually now a regionaland national champion, trained
with my brother, and she wouldcome in and, oh, she had a
(22:00):
little pout on her face and Ialways had this really cool kind
of synergy with her as she cameinto what we call the cage
before she got to coach Chrisand I would be like let's go,
brooklyn, we got some girl powergoing on.
Come on now, look at theprinciples on the wall negative,
positive, neutral.
Which one are you?
And let me remind you, you canposition yourself into the power
(22:23):
seat of choice and I would talkto her with intelligence, like
you've got this Very quickly.
She realized that she wasdragging in to her practice
attitude, right Belief thatmaybe I'm not good enough, I
don't want to be here, I'drather be home watching cartoons
(22:44):
, whatever her story was, and Iused to tell her put the story
outside the cage.
She eventually figured out whenshe came in and we would lock
eyes.
She knew if she wasn't in agood space.
She'd look at me and she'd belike hold on, coach Laura.
She'd walk out the door.
Okay, she was seven years old.
She'd come back in, smile.
(23:06):
I'd be like what'd you do?
She goes, I left negative Boboutside, seven years old.
She knew I'm carrying theattitude, the energy.
She couldn't formulize theemotion and psychological impact
.
She knew the energy and she'dcome in and the rest is history.
(23:30):
And I've had clients from sevento 75.
I have someone right now, agentleman, and his whole life is
changing At 75, hisrelationship with his son, with
his grandchildren, breakinglifelong patterns and beliefs,
because he realizes I've carriedit and I can release it cool
(23:55):
yeah, it's really okay so that's, that's the empowerment.
Josh Porthouse (23:57):
Then I got it.
Now the science, I'm with you.
What about the circumstance?
So bringing it sort of intomaybe a bit different
practicality here for a second,most of my career professionally
, let's say most of my careerhas been in the us military with
the marine corps.
Most of career has been in theUS military with the Marine
(24:18):
Corps, most of which has been inthe infantry, and so a lot of
what we excel at happens to notbe self-awareness and personal
development.
In fact, it's more common totank all of our relationships
that aren't professional andthere's a lot of people in
positions with very similarcircumstances.
People in positions with verysimilar circumstances, maybe not
(24:41):
outcomes, but very similarcircumstances.
In my opinion, based on thissort of enduring exposure to
high stress, occupational wellstressors out of necessity, and
so everything else, is that muchmore impactful.
You bring it home.
It's difficult to separate workfrom your family life or, to
(25:01):
whatever degree, help them toalign better, and oftentimes
then the outcomes happen to bedivorce, more coping strategies
or alcoholism or whichever, andin some circumstances the
awareness of the amount ofcontrol each of us has to change
that perspective totallydissipates, or at least there's
(25:25):
some sort of dissonance betweenwhere it is and where it
actually stands.
How do you recommend workingthrough some of that?
I understand you've got abusiness right, but but as
advice, as a recommendation,because until, like you said,
people are ready and willing orI guess, able and willing and
(25:45):
ready they won't, and so thisstep has to sort of self-soothe
first right.
Laura Brennan Ballet (25:53):
Yeah, this is, I'll say, a vulnerable and
sensitive topic.
My dad is a Marine, so I know alittle bit about the mindset
around this.
We all know David Goggins right, he's the high level example of
what creates somebody to godown or rise to that level.
(26:14):
And you know we have to takeinto consideration, as you said,
coping mechanisms and the rightcare and coaching and therapies
for those this is not to saycome out of that intense style
of experience, just get coachedand be empowered.
I myself have never been on afront line and carried a gun and
(26:38):
served my country in thatmanner, so I would not at all
want to dishonor anything with aconversation.
But there you asked about youknow circumstances and first
sentence in the book isregardless of the conditions in
which encounters happen or thereasons why something profoundly
(26:59):
changes us or how the messageswithin the story are conveyed,
you are in a position to growbeyond your present state of
mind.
Period.
Oh, in the first sentence.
That's the first sentence inthe book, on page 19.
Josh Porthouse (27:14):
Oh, in the first sentence.
Laura Brennan Ballet (27:15):
Those are the.
That's the first sentence inthe book, on page 19.
Individuality, chapter one, andthat is an indicator of what's
to come.
You can.
So now we would have to go intothis is awareness.
You can grow beyond thatpresent moment.
Second principle of the J3equals formula is willingness.
(27:36):
Are you willing?
Now, when we move into that,right, when we start to study
that environment of I'munwilling and then right, that's
where coaching comes in.
Yeah, I'm willing, but, andthen there's all those
variations within there, then wego into the third principle,
which is self-accountability.
(27:57):
You can stay stuck, stay in thatmindset, stay in that limited
thinking, stay connected toalcoholism or drug addiction or
divorce or bad relationships,whatever, operating at your
highest and best, and this isn'tagain to make everyone feel
(28:18):
like, oh, I have to be somethingbig in order to tap into that
part of me.
You know it could be just beingyourself in your own life and
knowing that you're tapping intothat.
So when we take that selfaccountability truly within the
formula and my coaching, we stopblaming any outside condition,
(28:40):
we suspend it all to the outside, which actually leaves room now
to take accountability forourself, because we're not
allowed in certain sessions.
No, my mother, my father, mycountry, religion, politics,
economics, economics.
We put it all out.
We just stay focused right here, zone of potential, right
(29:04):
tapping into the dna structureof potential, knowing that you
can change the mindset, you cangrow, evolve, elevate and
develop.
Josh Porthouse (29:16):
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Laura Brennan Ballet (29:35):
Know my mother, my father, my country,
religion, politics, economics.
We put it all out.
We just stay focused right here, Zone of potential, right
Tapping into the DNA structureof potential, knowing that you
can change the mindset, you cangrow, evolve, elevate and
(29:56):
develop.
Then we go into the fourthprinciple critical thinking.
This is where we learn to takethe emotionality out of the
thought process long enough toinsert a little bit higher of
intellectual thinking, just alittle, just to plant the seed,
and then you can bring back theemotion, because we all
(30:17):
understand we can't shift likethat, especially when there's
patterns embedded for a longtime.
And then we go into the fifthprinciple energy.
Negative, positive, neutral.
Which one are you?
And if you're answeringnegative more than neutral or
positive, well, let's get towork.
Josh Porthouse (30:36):
Simple.
Laura Brennan Ballet (30:37):
It really is.
We complicate it because we'rehumans and it's built into the
human condition right Toself-inflict drama and chaos and
disruption, and we getpatterned in fights and we pick
the wrong people and we, youknow, stay in jobs we don't like
.
It's just built in.
(30:57):
I look at things from a higherperspective.
What happens if it's built into get us to evolve?
Nothing else.
It's built in only to trigger ahigher level of self-awareness,
a higher level of willingness,a higher level of
(31:20):
self-accountability, a higherlevel of critical thinking and a
higher level of understandingthat energy is in everything and
you are energy beings.
Without energy, we're not here.
Josh Porthouse (31:37):
Sure.
So then it basically goes froma state of mind into a state of
being and then it's in yourcontrol.
You've got ownership, you'vegot accountability, you've got
whatever you want to do with itdiscernment, anything, okay.
Laura Brennan Ballet (31:51):
And not saying it's easy and simple.
And again, don't feel bad ifyou're thinking well, negative,
positive, neutral, oh I can'tchange, no, we're.
The conversation is to sparkthe awareness into thinking
beyond your present thoughtprocess, like, oh, maybe I can
heal that relationship, maybe Ican learn to respond rather than
(32:13):
react.
We all know road rage and we'refrustrated and you know the
world is quite challenging.
We all know what this feelslike when we're off.
Our energy is just, it's reallydistorted.
But now you know well, maybe Icould read a book, maybe I can
become coachable, maybe I cantune into a podcast and just
(32:34):
kind of sit with that for awhile.
Let me give it a try and maybelife can become more than it is
right now.
Josh Porthouse (32:44):
Okay.
Well then, based on what youjust said, for something to
become more than it is, you haveto start out with what's the
baseline, so you know where tobuild, what to build, how to
build and move forward and movethrough.
So this is a segment of theshow called developing character
.
D d d, developing character.
And now this is a two questionsegment, as vulnerable as you
(33:10):
care to be, laura, totally up toyou.
But you mentioned earlier andthis is for anybody new to the
show, laura you mentionedearlier and this is for anybody
new to the show, laura youmentioned earlier that and I'm
paraphrasing but that beliefsystems can become value systems
.
My working hypothesis actuallyreverses that, and so I think
(33:33):
values not only ground us, ourcognition or our beliefs to a
certain degree, and then alsoobviously guiding our actions I
agree with your flow there butthat they're also a shortcut to
our identity and to ourrelationships and the
conversations.
And so, to me, everythingyou're describing on a natural
(33:56):
level and genetic level stillwas nurtured as you grew, so you
could learn the vocabulary, theperspective to present it
effectively to whoever youraudience happens to be or
whatever age your audiencehappens to be.
And so I'm curious, though,where maybe some of those things
started from started from, andso my first question is what
(34:21):
were some of the values that youwere raised on or remember
being exposed to while you weregrowing up?
You think that contributed tothis whole passion and process
of yours.
Laura Brennan Ballet (34:29):
Yeah, I love that question.
So again, full transparency.
People meet me or listen to meor we interact and they think,
oh, everything must have beenpretty darn smooth for you.
No, no, no, no.
So I really want to be honest.
I am speaking from aperspective and an actual
(34:50):
reality of some pretty hardshipsgrowing up, as I shared with
you.
There was just an ability tolook at the hardships and
recalibrate them into somethingdifferent than bringing me into
the negative realm.
We were taught to value love,family, tradition and even
(35:16):
though there were things goingon that were disruptors to all
of that, we knew at the end ofthe day we were loved, whether
it was by our parents, mygrandmother, especially
friendships, family.
We knew that birthdays andChristmas and holidays and big
(35:38):
Easter dinners, and if ourfathers were moving into new
businesses, my uncle was openinganother new restaurant,
whatever it would be, wegathered, we celebrated, even if
things were off.
We had the grounding of thatvalue system family of tradition
.
I still have it to this dayfull transparency to be
(36:01):
vulnerable.
When my brother came into thehome that my husband and I
created and renovated this iskind of funny that we're talking
about this he sat in the livingroom and he said you did it,
you brought a little bit of herchildhood into your home the
tradition, the bookcases, thepictures, the artwork.
(36:22):
We knew what he was referencing.
I knew what he was referencing.
He said he never lost it.
So the value of aesthetic beautythat represents life, that
represents life memories, thoseare the things that really
helped and they serve me nowstill where I am, decades later,
(36:44):
and I think we all have valuesystems that we can look at.
And even for those that havehad deep challenges, I'm working
with someone now that was inthe foster care system and it
was not a nice experience of herlife and we keep searching for
(37:07):
just a spark of what she canvalue, because then that does
give her hope and belief thatnot everybody is cruel, not
everyone is bad, and that eventhough some experiences are
really debilitating to ournatural beauty of who we are as
humans, it's not forever takenaway, that we can dig deep, we
(37:33):
can take that exploration, wecan discover that beautiful
moment of just creation and wecan get back to that and learn
how to make that a new.
Even if you're 32 or 47 or 56or 16, what has happened does
(37:53):
not define you, unless youbelieve it does define you.
Josh Porthouse (37:59):
I love that point that you're.
I feel exactly the same way.
Your past doesn't have todefine you, but it can refine
you and I think that's a verysimilar circumstance to what
you're describing, at least inperspective.
I love it, okay.
So my second question thentradition, family love, what you
(38:20):
were raised on and obviouslystill holding that now, but all
of these podcasts you've been on, the research for your book,
the people clients you've workedwith, spoken to throughout your
life experiences you had what'schanged?
Any new values now that you'reolder?
Laura Brennan Ballet (38:37):
Anything that's something you've maybe
discovered realign yes, I'mlearning to value the skill of
listening differently than Iused to.
So I used to think that Ivalued listening because it was
(38:59):
the polite thing to do, right?
So we were raised, you know, ina little bit in that way and
then I learned to value theskill of listening, to learn, to
grow, to evolve it.
It makes me a better human.
And so when I'm out somewherebecause in all honesty and this
(39:21):
is not an egoic statement I reada lot, I study a lot, I observe
a lot and I have a lot to share.
That doesn't mean everyonewants to hear what I have to
share, but when people do, Ihave a lot to share.
I love life, I love my presencein the world and I feel amazing
being a part of the collectivein this timeframe.
(39:44):
But when I'm out, I listendifferently now and I pick up
cues differently.
And I'll take a moment.
If I can kind of hear, likepeople in a grocery store or a
shopping aisle and you can feela little bit of that disruptive
energy, and if I feel it'sappropriate, I might break it
(40:06):
for them oh, excuse me, can doyou mind if I get that?
And it breaks the pattern, andthen I may look and say, wow, I
love, I love your jacket.
Or oh, if you guys haven'ttried, it sounds very simple,
but it breaks the pattern forthem and one moment of a break
in a pattern for another humanactually seeds the break.
(40:30):
They may not remember it asthat, but somewhere maybe in
their mind they'll remember god.
We were having a little bit ofa disagreement out in public.
Do you remember when that womanwalked in the store and asked
us about some recipe?
I was thinking about that theother day, you know, we stopped
arguing and we started talkingabout recipes and it changed the
(40:52):
whole.
This is.
I share this because sometimespeople hear me speak or they
read the book and they think ithas to be complicated and, to go
back to what we were sayingbefore, it isn't.
You can make really big changeswith the smallest of effort and
(41:13):
it helps the entirety.
I think.
Raise the vibration, or thefrequency, the energy of our
world, and I think that'simportant and that's not saying
it in any well.
You can take it however youwant a religious way, a God way,
a universal way, a spiritualway, but I look at it as a human
way and it's important to knowthat.
(41:35):
You know we all struggle, weall have challenges, but there
are ways to free ourselves fromthose patterns.
It's just there are and don'tstay stuck, you don't need to.
Josh Porthouse (42:07):
All right, folks sit tight and we'll be right
back on Transacting Value
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Laura Brennan Ballet (42:27):
You know we all struggle, we all have
challenges, but there are waysto free ourselves from those
patterns.
There are, and don't stay stuck, you don't need to.
Josh Porthouse (42:41):
That's powerful in itself.
You could put that on a bumpersticker.
Yeah, it'd be.
It'd be a big bumper sticker,but you could it's.
that is powerful and don't sayyeah, you know, there's a book.
Have you ever heard of BecomingHuman?
Yes, so, for anybody who hasn't, if you're unfamiliar written
(43:02):
by a guy I'm pretty sure yes,he's dead now, I think 20 some
years, but it's a relativelyrecent book.
It's called Becoming Human, bya man named Jacques Barnier, and
he talks basically about asimilar process in concept,
where paying attention to otherpeople, helping other people,
helps you become aware ofyourself and then, in turn, it
sort of begets its own cycle.
(43:24):
There's a lot of application inwhat you're saying, but there's
a lot of depth in, I think, howit comes across.
So, for the sake of time, thisis one of my last few questions
for you.
But if you had to simplify thepower of what you're describing
and for the record you can'tjust use your formula and cheat
(43:45):
the answer If you had tosimplify this concept of thought
, energy and empowerment and thegood it can do for you and
other people and how to raiseyour awareness around it, into
one or two sentences, how canpeople increase their awareness
and do this to help themselves?
How would you do that?
Laura Brennan Ballet (44:06):
Yeah, I have a few words at the end of
the book that readership aroundthe world.
When I was selling the bookfirst out personally on my
website because I wanted thatexperience, I didn't want to go
at an opportunity with a bigpublisher, but I'm like I'm
going to lose the connection ifI do that from the get-go, and
(44:27):
that wasn't the point it was.
I want to know, like if youordered the book, you could go
on my website, you can text meand you can say oh my God, I
read this, I loved this.
I'm confused about this and Iwould answer probably the first.
You know a couple thousandpeople before I went on Amazon
and there's a quote that I finda lot of people consistently
(44:51):
have looked at.
That they say has changed theirlife, changed their mindset,
and it is.
Do not glance changed theirlife, changed their mindset, and
it is.
Do not glance at the power,become the power, and this, for
me, is all about empowering selfin order to empower the
collective, and it is verysimple you are that power and it
(45:33):
is very simple.
You are that power, you justare.
You are living, breathingenergy.
However you think you got here,however, synchronicity,
coincidence, where you come from, where you're going, none of it
matters.
You are that power, it residesin you.
And so I would say, to keep itsimple any challenge, look at it
as a contrast mechanism forchange.
It's not a hard.
Stop.
Just look at the challenge, getcreative, have a little fun,
even if it doesn't feel like itshould be fun, but try to.
(45:53):
When I say fun, even if itdoesn't feel like it should be
fun, but try to.
When I say fun, almost bringthat childlike playfulness in it
.
Right, because when we're kids,I mean some of us can be bratty
, but we tend to be pretty coolwe're bratty for a minute and
then we're playing and havingpopsicles or cotton candy or
whatever, pretty quickly.
Yeah, just remember that you'rethe power, and I don't mean
(46:16):
that it I don't, it's it's.
I don't mean it to sound likeyou are the power, but you are
the power.
You have in you.
We have elements that make upthe universe in us.
Josh Porthouse (46:32):
I mean, come on like, yeah, we're unique that's
exactly what I was picturing allof the cosmic energy from
whatever creation story youdecide to believe or ascribe to.
The one thing that they allhave in common is everything
expanded in a vacuum, right, soit either just appeared or it
(46:55):
exploded, or whatever the theprecursor was, but in a vacuum,
which is space, which isindisputable by any other, I'm
pretty sure religion andperspective right.
Then it keeps going, yeah, butthen you've got these things
planets, the sun, stars,whatever, it is right,
exhibiting some degree ofgravity.
(47:15):
So it pulls it back.
And so, if all of these thingsare constantly ebbing and
flowing and fluctuating throughevery cell in our body and
that's what we're interpretingor feeling, or whatever this
thought, energy might, might be,yeah, pretty hard to dispute
that that's going to dosomething for you.
You know you're not shootinglightning, but but there's, I
(47:37):
think, few other accurateanalogies.
Laura Brennan Ballet (47:39):
And I want to share and this is a little
bit quick unique.
So my husband and I were inFrance recently and we went to a
very high level restaurantwhich the chef there is
considered, right at this moment, the world's greatest chef
right at this moment, theworld's greatest chef.
(48:00):
They're very, very much intothe land and very sustainable
farming and the way she doeseverything is amazing and I
can't share all of it becauseit's just an experience.
But they were telling me I loveoysters.
I grew up eating oysters.
My mom would pick them rightout of the channel in Rhode
Island on the shoreline and make, you know, beautiful dishes
with them.
I don't eat them so muchbecause I have a friend that's a
chemist and she told me if Ilooked under the microscope I
(48:22):
wouldn't eat raw oysters anymore.
However, one of the delicaciesof this main course several
course dinner we had were theseoysters, and they explained that
there's an AI generated systemnow that they take the oysters
out, like right at the verybeginning, and they take them
(48:45):
out of the roughness of theocean and they put them in this
man-made lagoon and they movethe oysters through the tides
based on the sun rather than themoon.
And when you eat these oystersthey come out, they're like pure
velvet.
(49:06):
Now, the reason I bring this upis because oysters and the ocean
right To create the pearl, it'sthat right.
They go through all that trialand tribulation and some of them
create these beautiful pearlsand you eat.
Sometimes you get the littlegrid of sand which is nature and
right, and that's all on themoon, all the structure right Of
all the energy and the cyclesRight.
(49:29):
And here is a system thatshifted the cycle and put it
into the sun.
And my point is energy isenergy, whether it's real,
whether it's a little bit kindof generated through some new
sciences or new technology.
But these baby pearls grew upunderstanding.
(49:52):
So back to our mindset.
We only think what we thinkbecause it is what we were told.
It doesn't make it fact.
It can shift at any point ifyou're open to seeing that a
shift is possible.
Josh Porthouse (50:13):
Okay, Okay.
Well, for more clarity, formore insight, for people to
listen to your show or get yourbook.
Where do we go?
Laura Brennan Ballet (50:25):
So you can go to
wwwthescienceofempowermentcom.
There is a copious amount offun, education, information
easily applied to becomeknowledge.
And then you begin to create,which I write about in the
science of empowerment yourinternal living library.
(50:45):
You get to start creating thisliving force of knowledge and
application and exploration.
Knowledge and application andexploration.
Nothing has to be, as I said, ahard stop.
You can read a book.
It can change your life andthen, three years later, read
another book and change yourlife again.
But keep changing and shiftingand growing and evolving.
(51:07):
Stay curious, infuse a littlebit of fun in your day, even if
it's a bad day.
Try to find something to justcross a little smile on your
face.
It's good for the soul.
And yeah, I'm at LinkedIn and Ihave a new YouTube channel, the
science of empowerment brand new, I think I've got like a
(51:28):
hundred subscribers on there.
But really unique is I'm goingto start a weekly podcast on the
YouTube channel.
But really unique is I'm goingto start a weekly podcast on the
YouTube channel.
So people who maybe I mean thebook isn't very expensive on
Amazon, you can buy it there.
But for people maybe who can'tquite do coaching at the moment,
you're going to have freecoaching from the Thought Energy
(51:48):
Expert on the Science ofEmpowerment YouTube channel.
So the website, amazon, orderthe book.
Reach out to me, find me, textme, you know I, you know.
Reach out to me on LinkedIn,facebook and Instagram.
I'm not so much of a socialmedia person, but I am
connecting because people arewanting me to be out more and
(52:08):
connect with me in those areas.
So it's what I'm doing and I'malways doing great podcasts with
hosts like you.
So it's what I'm doing and I'malways doing great podcasts with
hosts like you.
Josh Porthouse (52:15):
Oh, thank you.
So, first of all, for anybodywho's unfamiliar with our show,
depending on the player you'restreaming this conversation on,
you can click see more.
You can click show more and inthe dropdown description for
this conversation, you will alsofind links to the entirety of
Laura's the Science ofEmpowerment.
(52:35):
Brand links YouTube, thewebsite, Amazon, LinkedIn so
you'll be able to get in touchwith her even as you're
listening to this conversation,which is a pretty sweet exchange
of energy, in my opinion aswell.
But, Laura, I appreciate theopportunity and your perspective
.
There's so many other thingsthat I want to talk about with
you and I don't have the timeright now, since we're out.
Laura Brennan Ballet (52:58):
I have to do another one.
Josh Porthouse (53:01):
Be careful what you wish for, because the invite
email is coming.
So, yeah, we'll absolutelyfigure out a time to have you
back on.
I'd love to talk some moreabout this and some of these
other things that you're gettinginto as well, but for now, I
appreciate your time and yourperspective and your energy and
your passion and your deliveryand everything you put into this
(53:21):
conversation.
So thanks for coming on.
The show.
Laura Brennan Ballet (53:24):
It's been an honor.
I really appreciate you sharingtime with you.
I love human to humanconnection.
I think it's quite amazing.
So thank you for theopportunity.
Josh Porthouse (53:34):
Even if it is digitized.
I agree, yeah, yeah.
Laura Brennan Ballet (53:38):
Super cool , even in the digital.
Josh Porthouse (53:41):
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah, this was a really coolconversation to everybody else
who's listened to theconversation Continuing
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Thank you guys for tuning in.
You can also go to our website,transactingvaluepodcastcom, and
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