Living by the Mantras with Colleen Souza

Air Date - 21 October 2025

What if one simple phrase could shift your perspective-and your path? In this empowering episode, leadership coach and educator Colleen Souza, author of Living by the Mantras, shares how to live with purpose, one mantra at a time.

About the Guest:

Colleen Souza is a nationally recognized educator turned real estate leader, speaker, and podcaster who blends humor and heart to guide others to lead more intentional, values-driven lives.

She is the author of Living by the Mantras that shares 21 real-life mantras that helped her lead in the classroom, raise grounded kids, grow a thriving business, and stay true to her values. Each one is packed with wisdom, humor, and practical tools to help you live and lead with more purpose

Distilling her remarkable journey of success as both a professional and a loving wife and mother into powerful mantras—short, memorable sayings that carry big truths—she offers practical wisdom and inspiration to help readers parent, lead, and live with clarity and courage.

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I got to tell you I had a private conversation
before jumping on here with my guests today Colleen SUSA,
and I am so excited for this lively conversation with her.
She's a mom educator and leadership coach and the author
of the new book Living by the Mantras, which shows
how humor, consistency, and heart can turn everyday parenting chaos

(02:08):
into connection. And she'll share uplifting lessons for not only
raising responsible kids while keeping family life joyful, but so
much more about the power of mantra to change every
area of your life, whether you're a leadership, parenting, sell
your relationship itself, in so much more. She's a nationally

(02:31):
recognized educator, turned real estate leader, speaker, and soon to
be podcaster who blends humor and heart to guide others
to lead more intentional Do you.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Get why I like this?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Gal?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Values driven lives, distilling her remarkable journey of success as
both a professional and a loving wife and mother into
powerful mantras, sure memorable sayings that carry big truths. She
offers practice, go wisdom and inspiration, help read a parent,
lead and live with clarity and courage.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Welcome Colleen, Hi, thank you so much for having me
here today.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
One. I've used mantras affirmation, It's guide of visualizations to
transform my life from welfare mom to the woman I
am today. And so when I heard about your book,
I'm like, girl, we're going to get you on the show.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, thank you. I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I am too, and I want to know what led you.
I always ask this question, especially when someone's an author.
What was the little spark that led you to write
this book?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
You know, it's fun. I've been asked that question a
number of times lately, because, of course my book is.
My book has just hit the market, and I'm very
excited about this as I raise my children, and to
give a little insight, I have three children. They are
ages thirty two and the little God's little Blessing and
sense of humor, who is twenty and so I have

(04:05):
a little bit of a spance in ages. I've been
married to the same wonderful man for almost thirty six
years in December. So when we were raising our kids,
they were very good at talking to adults, making eye contact,
really well behaved, did decent in school. So I always
had people peers, as I was a teacher at the
time that they were young. Other people say, what is

(04:29):
it that you guys do your kids? Are? Your kids
are awesome? My husband and I looked at each other
and said, well, what do we do? So I began
to pay attention, because you know, you sort of developed patterns.
But I knew as a rule for me, I had
paid attention prior to having them about who I was
and how I was developing as an adult, what I
wanted out of my life, and that began to bleed

(04:49):
over into the way that we were raising them. So
I began to take notes, and we had lots of
fun phrases and statements and things that just became rules
of our household, and we called the mantras. These are
the mantras we live by. As time progressed, I would
be asked again and I began to think, you know,
maybe I should share these out. Well, you got a

(05:12):
fast forward. Life gets busy, and I'd always meant to
put them together. About five six years ago, after I
had left the classroom and have spent the last fifteen
years working side by side with my husband in our
real estate corporation, I realized I was using the same
principles in mantras in our business, training agents that worked
for us, and working alongside professional adults, using them to

(05:36):
help people and guide them in the decisions as they
were investing in real estate and doing the things they
were doing. Then I reflected once again and realized those
were the same principles I used when I taught, and
so all together I realized there was something to be shared,
something of value that I needed to give to the
world because it had been given to me. So I
began to organize these. I went to my kids and

(05:57):
I said, I want you to write down all of
the mantra is that you remember that were of the
best value to you, because the book is full of
twenty one of them, but of course we live by
many more than that. And they wrote them down, and
together we decided kind of as a family, what were
the most important ones. And once again, once I had
that that sat under the blotder on my desk for

(06:18):
another three or four years, and then I finally sat
down and said, it's time to put those in words.
So it has inspired me because I realize, upon reflection,
I want to see my children as adults living by
those mantras themselves. As well as I've seen what it's
done to the world around me, I know what it's
done for myself, for my marriage, for my husband, and
that became the inspiration.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I love that because what I notice is this red
thread through the lives of many of my guests over
the last ten years, is something in their own life
sparked the desire to serve right, the desire to make
a difference, the desire to share.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
What works for them.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
So I always love hearing about how something was born
because I can always feel the love and intention behind something,
and I felt that in your book. So I thank
you for sharing that.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
You get it, you got it. It's very fun to
giving is probably one of the most significant pieces of me.
I always feel best when I'm serving, and that's just
kind of the nature of who I am. And so
I felt like I've shared this with you know, chatting
with anybody that's asked me about it, But my sweet
husband's been the one that's heard the most about it

(07:32):
lately because he hit me at the time. But sharing
with him that I feel like there's a bit of
a rebirth for me because I spent years teaching, because
that's what I did for twenty years. I was a
classroom teacher and a teacher trainer mentor for our school
district that I work in or worked in. I was
also a teacher to my children, right and so as

(07:52):
I went through those years and those roles, I switched
life circumstances, had a great time. We've been very successful
as entrepreneurs in the business world. But this is a
returning to the core of who I am and the
opportunity to directly teach again. And it just feels like
as a homecoming sort of for me to be able
to just focus on that and just focus on the

(08:14):
giving back one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I love that, and you know, I think a lot
of us I feel that way. Even though I wasn't
in the education realm as a career. I feel I
was a born teacher, you know, spiritual wisdom all that.
But a part of it is I turned my wounds
into my wisdom. Right, I've done such deep work for
thirty two years, and I'm like it just morphed into

(08:39):
owning numerous multimedia brands to inspire woman to live their
best lives.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
So I'm like you, I.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Feel like this makes sense of my whole life in
turning what I experienced into a purpose. So let's dive
in for a moment before we go on our first
break and few moments for those who are just listening,
how would you define a mantra?

Speaker 4 (09:05):
You know, I define a mantra as a repetitive I've
used words. I've had people be a bit confused by
that if they're not familiar with mantras. But I say
it could be a quote, an axiom, a proverb, It
is a whatever it is, It is whatever you want
to title it. For me, it is a repetitive statement
that is said so often that it's it becomes a truth.

(09:27):
It becomes a part of how I think and who
I am. And you know, in doing that, even with mine,
I like to say, what's your mantra? Choose? In my book, Really,
it's about those foundational principles that the mantras represent that
I really am trying to get across, and you know,
these foundational values and things that build ourselves and make

(09:49):
us the best version of ourselves. They've been through fun
phrases that embedded themselves in our thinking. Create the one
you've got to create the ones that work for you.
But that's what a man is, and is that that
ongoing repetitive statement that produces meaning.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hmm. I love that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm a big mantra person, affirmations person, and.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
That is how I use it.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
To me, the mantra is it's the repetition of it
that really does it. It's like we're calling it in,
we're owning it.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
That's how it feels like in my energy field.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sure, yes, and I know I totally agree that's it's Yes.
I know I have to go to a break and
I hate to take it, but yes, it's so. It's
so very important because whether it's it's words or sometimes
to me, there's certain places like I walk into the
room where I write and work, and I'm a different
person than when I walk out of it because this room,
this place has a purpose for me and I and

(10:45):
I have a thought I have when I walk in
the door, and I know that this is my place
to produce and create and therefore it affects who I am.
And so that's the same with these words they you know,
they help us become the version of ourselves we need
to be.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Definitely, Oh, I love this because I'm all about space too,
and I talk about my clients. I mean, do you
create sacred space in this case for your business like
they know? And one of the Aspires experts is Felicia
Messina de Haiti and she's a func stuey and Energy
Clearing master teacher. She teaches for Denise Land for my

(11:19):
audience as well as her own and I'm always turned
into her, like, give me some tips strategy so we
can get the clients to know that they have to
have that sacred space so when they enter it, their
body remembers.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
It does it does.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Mid remembers.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
It is such I love that you bout it up
because so many are like, oh, I have to do this.
I'm like, no, you need to center and ground in
your truth and create from that space and having that
space that your body remembers, like you said, when you
walk in there, it's like, yes, it's time to create.
It's like your mind releases all blocks around everything, just.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
It flows out. And I learned that long I'm writing
this book. I didn't have a space, but I had
a place. I sat in our house and a chair
at a spot where I could look out to the
front in the back of my home, and it was.
It caused me to kind of clear my mind because
I could see from both directions.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
It worked for me, and when I sat in that space,
it didn't matter what was happening around me. That chair,
that space was my mind right And so when I
was able to grab to where I am now, my
husband walks in here and he goes, oh, I'm in
the zen zone. He likes to laugh because he walks
in here and he feels it. I told me, see,
you feel it. You feel that this space is special,
and you can call it the zen zone because you

(12:32):
don't know what else to call it. But for me,
it is my space and it's you know, there's a
certain energy in this space.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
I love that. I love that such it was.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
We have so many similarities. We're going to take a
first break and my friends will.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Be back in a moment.

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Welcome back listening to inspired conversations. I am so happy
of circling up with myself and my special guest, Colleen SUSA,
author of Living by the Mantras.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
So I'm curious, what's one mantra that's had.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
The biggest impact on your own parenting or leadership and
business journey and why?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yeah, that's a great question. And I struggle because I
think it just depends on I mean, they're all special
to me, So to pick my very favorite, I think
probably the one that means the most to me in
regards to getting this book done and getting this book
written and living this dream is be radically open minded.

(16:50):
I got to let you know, I've got to share.
I'm going to take a step back and say that
if you listen to the to my mantras, you might
go what but you need to understand. Like I'm going
to share if I could take a moment number one
and my kids will say, it's rule number one of
the household is keep your pants on. And really for
our household, like I said, a mantra was something that

(17:13):
had embedded meeting. It was stated often it was about
think about the choices you're making, you know, and it
has a story and you can read that in the book.
But rule number two was if it was wet and
not yours, don't touch it. And that was about self control.
But we have a whole number of them, and we're
about solutions, not problems. Plan B is just a distraction

(17:33):
I can't yet. But for me, the one that really
helped me, it has helped me a lot, is Laudra
number thirteen. Be radically open minded. And that one is
just simply about lifelong learning, because I think one of
the most important things that any of us can do
is walk through life understanding that there's so much still
to learn, that we haven't arrived anywhere that we need

(17:56):
to review our certain stats as it doesn't mean we
need to change the core of who we are. We
don't have to be wishy washy about something that beliefs
that we have or anything. But we need to understand
that there are multiple perspectives in the world around us,
and as we do so, we'll learn because if we
do that, we keep our minds open and we can

(18:20):
learn and love and accept. And I think that that's
a huge part of when I was writing this book.
I had to do a lot of learning, loving, and
accepting from the experiences and the stories I tell to
the studies I've done to understand it to how to
continue to grow and always be be ready to be
the best version of myself, adapt to change, learn more.

(18:44):
So I hope that makes sense, but that was a real.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Does it really does.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
And one of the other things is too is I
love how you involved your kids in the writing of
the book.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
When you say we're a part of it ones. I
love that.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
So you asked them for guidance of all the ones
they remembered.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, as part of it. I went back to them
and I said, well were the you know, we I
asked questions and I do share. I did little interviews
a few times in the book with them, and I'd say,
what why why did you behave this way? Or what
was this what was your thinking as a kid, because
I wanted to understand, you know, we did have one.
I mean think maybe maybe once. I can remember one

(19:25):
time we grounded my son when he was going through
some tough stuff as a teenager. But as for the
most part, we just you know, we took his phone away,
and that I felt like we were the cruelest parents.
But at the same time, it was very important at
that moment because they just I said, why did you behave?
Why did you do what? We asked why did And
they said it was what was expected because of all
those things you lined up for us. And so I

(19:46):
was very fortunate. I mean, they weren't perfect, and they
had attitude and all of those things, but as a rule,
they were very easy to parent because the expectations were
very clear. And so when I wanted to write the
book I did, I came to them and I said,
I want you guys to brainstormer right down the all
the different mantras and phrases that because I would stick
them on the walls, they'd be on the refrigerator, they'd

(20:07):
be on the post it notes on their mirror in
the bathroom. You know, they'd be everywhere, so they would
remember what they needed to remember each and every day,
and so yeah, they did contribute. They shared those with me.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I love this, So I gotta say a lot of
your mind tras like you've shared a few. They have
this humorous aspect, but at the same time they're like
such deep wisdom. So I love how you balance humor
with like serious life lessons.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
So talk about that a little.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Is that just your vibe, the energy because you have
to laugh out loud on some.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh, you do have to laugh out loud on some
And yes, it is my vibe if you ask most people,
I'm glad you call it humor. I think sometimes my
husband calls it sarcasm. But the the bottom line is,
I mean life. Life brings us a lot, you know,
and the one, the one thing that we have the
power to do is how we react to it. And

(21:01):
I think that that is so very critical to respond.
We have control in the way we respond, not necessarily
what comes at us. And I just made a decision
that the glass was half full. And I think I
did it as a youngster because I did have enough
interesting things going on in my life as a kid,
and I just decided that I wasn't going to let
it all bother me. And I know that that's part
of how I'm wired. I know that not everybody has

(21:22):
that ability to see the unicorns in the rainbows all
the time, but I tend to. And so it carries
over into the way that I lead, in the way
that I do my life. And yes, I think when
we can laugh at ourselves and when we can laugh
at silly for me, you remember things that make that
are attached to an emotion. I should say we remember

(21:43):
what is attached to an emotion, and humor is an emotion,
and if I had to pick one, I would always
default to humor. So they are rather silly.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
Yeah, yeah, but I love that because it also makes
it a little it makes it more relatable, yes, right,
because there's a vibe and energy. Yeah, you know you've
successfully built you know, grew a family, raised three children,
co founded a thriving real estate business. How have these

(22:13):
mantras shaped your own approach for when challenges come up,
whether that's in family or business, Like, how do you
put these into action during those times?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I think it's you. Well, first of all, you have
to there's a level of accountability, and I will say
it helps that have had a partner in crime, if
you will, on all of this, because my husband and
I did these together, Like there's one that's a bauntre
number five. If the job is too tough for most people,
it's just about right for me. And it was a
it was it was the value of hard work. And he,

(22:45):
you know, so he that was something that came out
of his own childhood. He worked beside his grandfather who
was a laborer and a rancher, and so you know,
that was just something he would always say to our
kids repeatedly. And so the bottom line is when you've
got somebody else who's repeating the mantras with you, it's
sure helpful. And if you don't, then what you need
to do is find a way that you daily remind

(23:05):
yourself of those And one of the ways is I
find it amusing when you see the book. It has
the cover has posted notes with a lot of the
values and mantras on the cover. And I worked with
a graphic designer who didn't know me, and I don't
think there are mistakes in the world. She came up
with this book cover and I just I had to

(23:25):
have it because if you were to look at my
office right now. If you're to look at my life
post it notes are everywhere because I like to remind myself.
I don't want to forget. I have little notes and
messages as well as you know to do lists. But
the bottom line is I keep those things in front
of me, which is the answer to I hope to
your question is how do you incorporate them? They're on
the walls. I have a wall behind me in the

(23:48):
room that I've created to work in that is some
of my favorites, quotes and mantras and words and wisdom,
and it's just covered because I want to walk in
every day and reread those and go, yep, that's who
I'm going to be today. And so you have to
put those things in place so that you remember them.
The desktop of my phone is one of my favorite messages,

(24:09):
and so it's always there in front of me. So
those are those are the ways that I make sure
they stay in front of me. Is have people and
objects that don't let me forget them.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Oh my god, I have screen savers. In fact, one
of my audience's favorite I guess you can say free
gift of mine is I give them intentional life, beautiful
stunning affirmation screen savers, which to me, affirmations in mantras
can coexist together.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yes, I get so many women going, oh my.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
God, just having the because they get a set for
their computer and then they get a set for their phone.
So like when I look at my phone, I have
my affirmation screen savers on my phone. And like you said,
it's the energy, it's always within.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Our exactly well, I mean, and that's just it. Like
I said that, the one thing we can control is
our reaction to things, and if we keep things in
the forefront of our mind, then it helps us control
our reaction. And I can't proclaim to be perfect because
there's a lot of emotion into birthing a book, if
you will. It's like your baby. You know, you've carried it,

(25:20):
you've worked on it. And for this one in particular,
it's not just a bunch of facts and things that
I'm sharing out there. I'm telling a bit of the
story of my life as I share these things, and
so there's a lot of emotion attached to it. It's
been a rough few weeks as it's come close to
being actually out and available, because you know, you doubt yourself,
you have to battle these little things that go on,

(25:41):
and so there have been a few times where my
husband will like, just go how about mantrare number three?
How about mantra number five? And I'll be like, Okay, okay,
you're right, You're right. And I have had to go
back and reread my own words and go, Okay, I
got this. So it's it's important that you have access
to that to give you strength.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh my goodness. Yes.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
In one of the other things I just want to share.
As you know, I'm a book publisher, so I've published
over three hundred women and everything you are experiencing prior
to the birth of your book, I call it visibility hangovers, right,
It's a vulnerable, deep feeling. And as I walk my
clients in authors through something called authentic storytelling, which is

(26:20):
one of my registered trademarks, I tell them you are
birthing something through you. Of course you're going to feel
vulnerable about that project. So I just wanted to share
that because I have three hundred women who as our
book gets close to launch, they're like, oh my god,
oh my god, I'm hyperventilating. I'm like, it's I got you, girl,

(26:43):
It's all normal.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
So I just think it is. It is crazy. It's
an emotion, yes, because you give it.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's like, yeah, it's like my niece is in labor
right now at the hospital. She's been in labor for
it's going to be twenty two hours.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
And I think of all the emotions she went through
leading up to it, right, And I'm like, it's very
similar to when you pour your heart's soul intention into
a book, and your intention is to transform life's it is.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
It does bring up a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
So Colin, we're going to take our next break and
we'll be back in a moment. We're going to dive
into more about Living by the Mantras. I invite everyone
to visit calling site at Livingbythemontras dot com grab a
copy of her new book. And by the way, my friends,
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Thank you for circling up with us. You're listening to
inspired conversations today. We're talking about Living by the Mantras,
a new book by Colleen Susan.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
So, Colleen, you know what.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
I love is like in the book you talk about
like how to shut down chaos before it derails your day,
how to turn tiny mindset shifts into unshakable resilience and
self esteem, and so much more. Like as I was
going through, I'm like, ooh, show up with intention and
purpose even when life gets messy. I'd love when you

(30:12):
said when life gets messy, because my favorite saying in
life is is life feeling lifey right now? And life
does get lifey, doesn't it?

Speaker 4 (30:24):
Yes? I love that phrase, So.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Talk a little bit.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I love the one about shutting down chaos before details
your day, because with the world moving as fast as
it is, it is hard to stay grounded and centered
and balanced. In our truth instead of the drama roll
around us. Right, whatever that drama may be life health,
something going on at work, something going on in the world.
So what would be a good mantra if we're in

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the middle of that or just talk about Sure?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
No, I think I think for me, two of them
come to mind. In particular. One that that we've always
we've always had in the household is a Plan B
is just a distraction. And not everybody tends to agree
with us. You know, you want to have this life
plan and you want to have all this you know,
and here's the plan. But in case that goes wrong,
here's the plan. And in case that goes wrong, we've

(31:15):
always said Plan B is just a distraction. You get
very focused on what you want, You work hard and
stay focused on that, and that way when things come
at you, I don't know, it's kind of like, for
the lack of a better example, you know, when you're strong,
if something comes at you, you can push it away. I'm
going to go to a football player on this one. Right,
He's big, strong, and the stronger he trains, the more

(31:39):
he can handle the resistance of the tackle. Right, and
if stuff comes out and he can push it away,
he can break through it because he understands what where
he's supposed to be. You know, he's supposed to do
whatever he's supposed to do with the ball. I don't know.
I'm not a big football person, but hopefully I don't
know why that jumped in my head. But the bottom
line is, if you know where you're headed, you can
see the distractions when they come to you. You can

(31:59):
see things that are coming at you as exactly what
they are. You know, something you don't need to put
your energy and attention into. And I think that that's
often what happens. Those little time and energy vampires come
at us, and because we're not focused, because we forget
where we're headed, because we haven't put our you know,
we get ourselves distractable and we're not as intentional as

(32:21):
we should be. Then we we end up on that
little windy path. I mean, there's times to take the
scenic rout, but there are definitely a lot of times.
So that just is a distraction and it keeps us
from being able to be where we want to be
at the end of a day, at the end of
a month, at the end of a year. And so
we have to stay focused on what our plan is

(32:42):
or what the goal is, so that we don't end up,
you know, the wrong direction. And in that part, I
have an example of if a plane takes off from
Lax and it's a slight increment off, you know, it'll
end up a state away from where it's supposed to
be when it lands on the East coast. And I
have specific details that I mapped out in that and

(33:03):
it's not because the pilot, you know, wasn't doing their
job and they weren't flying east, but they weren't focused,
and I got distracted, and therefore the attention of landing
in a particular airport didn't happen. So it's very very
important to have that. So I think that's one, and
in the book, that one's very much about focus. But
I think the other one is one of my very favorites.

(33:24):
And I sure to have three children, and so the
youngest are Gracie. She is twenty years old. She's a
junior in college as I speak, and when she she's
my final grand experiment. I like to call her because
you know, as you grow, you learn more. And I
had watched this one little guy I followed on one

(33:44):
of the social media channels who had his daughter look
in the mirror and say something every day, and how
emboldened this child was. So when my little Gracie got
out of the car to get go walk to her
kindergarten class from day one of elementary school, I had
her repeat to me, I am smart, I am beautiful,
and I will have a great day. And she did that,

(34:05):
and still to this day, if she's got a stressful
interview something going on, she'll call, she'll vent about it,
and I'll say tell me and she'll say, I'm smart,
I'm beautiful, and I have this. And so that manifestation
is a part. Also I believe in in in creating
the equipping ourselves to take what life brings us. Because

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if we walk into each day and that phrase works
for Gracie, it could be a set of three words
that are different for every single human on this planet.
But if you stick that post it note on your
computer screen, if you write it on your bathroom mirror
with a dryer, race marker, whatever it is reminding yourself
that you are empowered and you do have a goal

(34:47):
and you will be okay, then when those things come
at you, they deflect a whole lot easier.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Oh, this is powerfying love that your daughter get to
experience all of that.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, the other two I've tried on the older two
and they're like yay, yeah. Mom. I'm like no, no, no,
and Grace will even say no, no, no, you guys
just do it. It's powerful.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
And I remember my granddaughter's gonna be fourteen, and my
daughter sent me a video and then I'm the master
bedroom of my daughter's home. It's that wall of Marra's
you know, buz the door mirrors. So she sends me
a video from the doorway. McKenna didn't my granddaughter didn't
know she was being taped and McKenna Nikki could hear

(35:30):
her in there. So she sends me a video and
she's standing in front of that mirror.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
I am strong, i am powerful. She's like four years old,
and I'm like, my heart just like, oh.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Because you could be beautiful. Yeah, yeah, I could see you.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
She's looking in her eyes, she's looking in her own
eyes in the mirror, and I'm like, yes, own this.
And then just a quick example of how it can work.
I was with her for the last nine days when
my daughter was in Scotland. And I forget what I
asked her. Oh, I think, I said, hey, do you
need help getting your dinner?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
She was Alma.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
They call me Alma. She says, Alma, I'm a very
independent person. I said, yes, ah, girl, you are. And
I love that you own that. And it was like
just to hear her living in her the affirmations and
mantras that she received growing up.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
And that is it's so powerful, you know. And I
and if someone doesn't believe it, here's one of the
and I share this in the book. But you know,
during COVID and out here in California, we were set
down for two solid years. So my daughter she got
out of the car every day and said those words
to us. And during that COVID period when she wasn't
leaving every day and she was around her parents, and

(36:43):
so you know, she should be in this rather than
that horrible I won't say horrible, but you know, challenging
teenage environment where you might be affirmed or put down
at any given moment. You would think she'd be feeling
pretty good about herself. But she wasn't. And I started
to see her get a little I don't want to
say depressed, but I.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Was consisted, yeah, family members, lots.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Of dynamics going on. So I took her for a
cup of coffee and I sat her down, and I said,
let's talk about what's going on in your head. And
one of the things together she and I realized was
that for over eight or nine months, she didn't leave
me every day, So she stopped saying that to me
every day, and so one of the things that we
committed to together was that as we had breakfast and

(37:26):
I got started on my work day and she did
school online every day, that she would stop and remind
herself and me that she was smart, beautiful and was
going to have a great day. It was literally within
two weeks, I felt like we had her back, and
it was because she just took the time every day
to affirm herself, to remember her focus, to believe in

(37:48):
who she was, and it was night and day and
then we were back on track with that to the
point that she would call me a couple of years
later as she was racing off to her senior year
of high school, if she forgot to say it she
was driving herself school, she'd say, real quick, mom, I'm smart, beautiful,
I'm gonna have a great day, and she just would not,
you know, like they want to.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Break her routine because she was committed.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Yeah, so it does make a difference because I watched
it transform her back into that confident, driven young lady.
It was great.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, And you know, I love teaching our children mostly.
I love teaching the children the things I didn't.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Learn when I was young.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I don't want them having the emotional and self esteem
hardships that I had way back when. And so you know,
I raised my daughter's forty one now, so I got
on this path and got nineteen ninety one.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I think she was seven, But so she's grown up with.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
All my mindset work in all of that, and it's
so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
I did emotional to.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Watch her from the time McKenna was born to live
those principles as you do right, to give the gift
to the next generation mindset energy, how to reframe your
thoughts when they start to spiral, how not to judge
yourself and they start to spile. I'm like, oh my god,
if every children had your book, if every child learn

(39:15):
these things, they were so much more in a piece
for these kids, because this world is hard.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Well it is. And I say this with all the kindness,
and I'm not trying to be negative to a millennial
that's out there. There is a generation I think that
is they have their children as they're going through this.
At least I have witnessed this. And mind you, I
work with a lot of families one on one when
I'm helping them buy homes because we do residential real estate,
and I still, even though we've grown our business big

(39:42):
and have lots of agents, I love helping first time
home buyers getting too homes because there's such a joy
in the process of helping them establish their home. I
love it. And so I'm out there working with these
young families and they have kids and they're they're seeking
guidance and how to make sure their kids are okay.
And so I try to instill these and it's I mean,

(40:04):
I've been giving, I can't wait to give. I'm going
to send the copy of the book to a lot
of those young families I put in homes because I
think I'm just going to say, do me a favor.
It's my gift to you. Read it, use it, raise
your children with this because these are simple principles that
are going to build strong human beings and it's so important.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Oh my god, what a gift, What a gift to them.
And I love I can hear your passion for helping
first time home buyers step into their first home and
let's have the joy it brings that.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
It got to be so fulfilling.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well people ask me before, how could
you go from education where I was just so hands
on with kids into real estate That seems like so opposite.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
It took.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
I came on board literally to just help my husband,
you know, blow up his business and I was going
to start writing this book that was fifteen years ago.
Bottom line is I fell in love with the process
of I'd go out with him and meet people and go,
I want to help people do this. This is this
is fun. And so I got my license and I
came on board and we blew it all up and
it was lots of fun for a while there. And

(41:02):
I but the joy in it comes from just knowing
you're making somebody's life better. So definitely, Oh.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
We're going to take a final break, Colleen and will
be back in a moment. My friends, please visit Livingbythemontras
dot com. Grab a copy of this book, give it
to your go friends, give it to your grandchildren, and I,
of course your children.

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Welcome back, you're listening to inspired conversations with me today
is nationally recognized educated turned real estate leader, speaker, and
author of Living by the Mantras. All right, so, Colleen,
one of the things that I'm all about is living
with intention. And in the book you talk about showing

(44:05):
up with intention and purpose even when life gets messy.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Right, So what does that mean to you?

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Oh? It means I mean, really, it's funny because I'm
sitting here staring at my book. It means all all
of these things put together, because if I could, I mean,
all of the different mantras come back to talking about respect, positivity,
hard work, living without regrets. That's a huge one. I
think that living in our regrets keeps us from moving forward.

(44:33):
How we treat others, manifesting being yourself, having integrity, having
no fear, accepting delayed gratification. Another big one that sometimes
messes with us. Generosity. That's one of my favorites because
I think when we have a generous spirit, can we
get bigger, we get stronger. It's so much more about that.
And then the very last one is my favorite. It's

(44:55):
all begin with the end in mind, which is a
Stephen Covey principle for a business, but it's a vision
for me. It's knowing that as we're walking through life,
if we understand the vision of what we want to create,
whether it be in an individual project and an individual
you know, what vision did I have for my children
in their future? What vision did I have for our business?

(45:16):
What vision did I have for this book? As long
as I understood that vision, then all the steps that
I take create create a stronger version of myself and
allow me not to get wrapped up in the crazy
along the way, because I know what the vision is.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Yeah, it's almost like if I understood it correctly, I
call it future casting. Yes, and it's one of the
things I teach because everyone's always so and I was
this way, so I get it. It's like they have
this beautiful idea or a piece of inspiration that drops

(45:52):
in and it.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Lights them up.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
They're so excited, like you did when the book Kate
dropped in, right, But then I noticed for so many
they go into the house and talk themselves right out
of something. With I'll begin with the end in mind,
or with future casting, it's I am seeing as.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Already done, it is done exactly, and.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
All my energy, my intentions my visions feed that version.
And then because I do that, because everyone says you're
such a master manifestor, I go, I'm very clear, aligned
and intentional. Yes, that may make me a master manifestor,
but it's because I hold the vision of what I desire,

(46:36):
not all the fears and how to's and lego that
excuse my language that comes.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
I totally get it. No, I'm right there with you.
I think you're so right because I think so far
too often. I like how you said get they get
mixed up in the how you know? Simon Seneks start
with the why is has been business wise, very and
inspirational to me, but I think it's really im You
have to understand the why of what you're doing. And
if you if you've got your why, if you've got

(47:05):
a good grasp on your why, the rest can swirl
around you because you're so okay about where you're headed,
you're so knowledgeable about what you hope to get out
of it, and it's huge. I love that I wrote
down the word future casting as you were talking, because
I think that that's such a valuable way of looking
at it, because it's and honestly that mantra just to share.

(47:27):
I mean, we had twenty mantras. Whe were like, okay,
we'll write about twenty of them. And one day my
son was on his he doesn't, you know, live here,
but he was on his way home from a meeting
that he was at, toward his home, and he called
me to his own, mom, if you do not have
to begin with the end in mind in that book,
you have to. I just came out of a meeting
where nobody seemed to have a vision about what we
were trying to accomplish except for me, and we need

(47:49):
to start all over again. We need to revisit this
project because we didn't start with the why. And so
I thought, okay, fine, that's a great way to end
the book. It's number twenty one is with the end
of mind. But that is so valuable because it comes
along with intentionality, and it comes along with focus. It
allows all the other things. The no fear, get the job,

(48:12):
and learn the job is what I call that one,
because sometimes we just have to We have to know
what it is we want, we get it and we
move forward with it, and all the fear and all
the chaos and all the other stuff that might come
at us they don't matter because we know our wife,
we know what it is that we're reaching for. We
have our vision.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, and it almost like I don't know if you've
noticed this, but for myself, when I am in that,
when I stay in that zone and don't let other
people's expectations, desires, wants pull me off path. By forgetting
the house and staying focused on the future vision, I'm
going to tell you magical opportunities and doors open that

(48:54):
make it flow even easier because I'm not trying to
control from that place of really comes from fear and ego.
Do you notice that too, Like, because energetic momentum and
I think.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
I think along those lines of things coming your way.
You know one of the I address that in that
you know, I like I shared and one of the
mantras in one of the chapters, it would really be
nice to know that that thing we really need is
going to show up on the five o'clock flight from Denver.
It would be great if we knew when Amazon was
going to deliver it to our front door. The bottom
line is a lot of the things we need and

(49:28):
a lot of the things that are going to encourage
us forward. They're going to bring our success, we have
to have our have our our eyes focused on what
it is we want, and be open to seeing them
when they arrive, because sometimes they're jogging right alongside us,
you know what I mean, and we'll just drag right
past them and not even notice they're there because we're

(49:49):
stuck in what you said, We're stuck in the in
the what's in the house, and we don't even see
the why is right next to us. We don't even
see the encouragement or the next opportunity, and we drive
right past it rather than embracing it when it arrives
or when we're next to it. And I think that
is so important because yeah, it's so easy to get distracted.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Oh it really is.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
And one of the other things too, is, you know,
just because of my childhood background, I used to struggle
thirty years ago with severe anxiety depression. And so what
that means is you had that ruminated mind that was
always telling you, well, if you do this, this could happen,
this could happen, this could happen.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Right.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
It was always worst case scenario, right based on you know,
the stuff I experienced when I was young. So for me,
I've spent the last thirty years really diving deep into
our thought patterns, and today I'm an advanced belief claiming practitioner,
mindset elevation coach, and I teach spiritual mindset principles. And

(50:48):
when people that meet me, who meet me now, who
see this full version, they're like, oh my god, it comes.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
So easy to you.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I laugh, right, and I go, well, Dowling, you'd have
to know the whole story and journey.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
But this isn't who I always was.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I almost, I don't like the word I will say
I almost. I reprogrammed the limiting scripts that were running
in the background.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
And that's how I see.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
You're living by the mantras, right, You're giving tools to
help them kind of look at their patterns and say,
ooh if I can replace this with this mantra.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Is that I feel like? Was your Was that your provision?

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Yes? Absolutely? And because I share with it, I mean
I have. I had some decent challenges growing up too.
When people you know, see me and they you know,
I had somebody, somebody, a friend from the past that
saw the post that I put on one of my socials.
Oh my gosh, Colleen, everything you touch turns to gold.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
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Speaker 4 (51:51):
Everything I touched I've worked really hard at and I've
been very intentional about And so I'm glad that you
see that because I didn't grow up in a situation
where anything turned to gold. Everything's to be slipping slip
through my fingers and through my father's fingers and through
everything like it was just a rough There was a
rough go there, and I didn't learn any of those
skills until I became an adult. So that's the other
thing that I want to share too, as you're talking

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about this. There's always a chance to turn those things around.
I mean I was, I was in college and I'd
met my husband and then began to study and and
do you know, read books and discover that there was
a whole other world out there where I could believe
in myself. I could have vision for my future, I
could have confidence that there might be a chance that
I could become some of the things I wanted to become.

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And I that's that would be a message I hope
the book gives is that you know, you can recreate
your reality based on who you want to be. I
love what you said when people said it comes naturally.
We have a joke in our business because we're a
very successful real estate company here in the Central Valley
of California, people go, oh, you guys are just you guys?

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You came out of nowhere where we like to laugh
and say we were a ten year overnights access. We
had to work really really hard at it, and nobody
else saw that the brainstorming and the hard work and
the twenty hour days and the things that we did.
What they saw was the product of that. And I
think whether it's something physical like a business, or it's
something spiritual like ourselves, it's it's about that daily practice

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of whatever it is. And it's about that, you know.
For me, it's the words and the mantras and the
prayers and the thoughts and the reading and the believing
until it became something that was just who I was.
And I think that's what you're sharing too, is is
it didn't come easy, and now you take that gift
and you turn around and share it with others because
you want to help them get to that same place.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Oh, it's so true. It's my whole purpose.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
I see now why I experience everything from WOFAM mom,
high school, drop up, run the way queen is self sabotage.
I look back and go, ah, Divine, I see that
you were leading me to my purpose. I needed every
single one of those life experiences to be who I
am today and to be able to teach from a
place of empathy and compassion because I've been there and

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so for years I carried the wounds as heaviness. And
then once I got that life is about turning wounds
into wisdom, pain and to purpose, my whole life made sense.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
And I've dedicated well.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Aspire mag is going to be twenty years old in February,
and now I just dedicate my life to only putting
out content through all my companies that inspire, empower and
support women to.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Live their best lives.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
And I do that by bringing people like you, Colleen
and contributors to my mag to say, listen, there is
another way. I'm not here to tell them their path.
I am here to show them that there is a path,
and the choice is theirs. If they want to transform
their life, it has to come from the inside.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
I was going to say, that's the most important piece
right there, is that it has to be it. You
have to work hard at it, you have to get
there mon to number seven, I can't yet. My kids
are never allowed to tell me they can't. My students
couldn't come up to me and say I can't do
this unless they added the word yet at the end,
because it meant that there was a process in which
they were going to go through or they were going

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to learn how they were going to overcome that obstacle,
whatever it was. And I think that that is powerfully
a part of what you're saying is you have to
want it, and you have to know that you might
not be where you want to be right now, but
you'll get there. There's a yet. It's living I call
it living in the yet and knowing that there's a
future for you in whatever it is you're trying to

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shed or to achieve, depending on what it is. You
will get there, but you have to take that path
yourself to get yourself there. Nobody can do it for you.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
What a powerful way to close out, oh taquen time
together and everyone. I want to invite you give yourself this,
gise I grab a copy of Living by the Mantras.
You can do so at Living by Theemontras dot com. Colleen,
Thank you, thank you for joining me today for having
me here.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
I love this conversation, my friend.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Until next time, my friends, choose live, choose joy, Choose happiness.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Blessings everyone, Thanks for listening to Inspired Conversations with publisher
Linda Joy. Join our Sacred Space every Tuesday at two
pm Eastern and meet leading female visionaries, empowering authors, heart
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