122. Manifesting Manual for Musicians

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the show that explores the methods and strategies
on rocking the financial side of your music business. With
over forty years combined experience, here are your hosts, Chris
Webb and Dave Damkis.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome to Musicians Tip Job, where we talk about musicians
and money. But we want to remind you that when
manifesting a music career, don't forget to specify you want
to get paid. I'm Chris Webb, joined by my co
host who once showed up at a group manifesting event
thinking it was a music festival about nailcare, Dave Mankin.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
The Manifest Chris, you know, the most surprising about being
at that manifest was that you had your own booth
and I know you were doing this on the side.
You know, we talk about doing other careers and the
first fighter income, but how long have you been doing
nails manifest?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
I do.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do enjoy a good groom, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
After you write those off, that's the question.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Actually, I've never done that. You know. My wife always tries, well,
she used to try a lot more, but she's getting
given up. But like she's like, let's go and get
you know, one together, and the pedicures are apparently even
better because they give you a foot massage on top
of that, and that sounds nice. Today we get to
dive into one of our favorite topics that is sort
of outside of our usual topic of things directly connected

(01:27):
to music and money. Today we put a spotlight on manifesting.
This topic is arguably linked to the success of many
wealthy musicians, so it behooves us to treat it as
another tactic and approach to increasing your efforts and odds
to reach your goals. To treat it as another tactic

(01:47):
and approach to increasing your efforts and odds to reach
your goals. Today's quote comes from Alicia Keys. I have
always believed that whatever you give to the universe, the
universe gives back to you.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
This week's nonprofit is Communication Madison. It's a sober, all ages,
arts and music nonprofit based in Madison, Wisconsin. They're dedicated
to cultivating stronger bonds throughout the creative community and beyond Madison.
They're committed to engaging in artistic work, mutual aid, and
equitable conversation for artists and musicians. We believe in breaking
down all possible access barriers to creative expression. Learn more

(02:26):
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Speaker 2 (02:44):
Manifesting your dreams is all about aligning your mindset, actions,
and environment with the reality that you want to create.
It's part in tension setting, part belief, and part hustle.
To treat it as another tactic, an approach to increasing
your efforts and odds to reach your goals. But I
think that this might come right at the right time

(03:05):
for a lot of you to hear and maybe try
some of this stuff out at least get a better
understanding of how this might be useful for you. So
here's our practical and powerful step by step breakdown for manifesting.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
So this might not be a typical conversation that we
have on musicians Tip Jar, but Chris, this is a
very typical conversation for you and I through almost every
week this will come up at least once. If it's
not sharing posts Instagram, tiktoks, it is lifting each other
up and saying, hey, if you have a negative thought

(03:57):
about this, maybe you should reframe it in a different way.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Absolutely, and truthfully I live by most of this, I
really do, and I have for the last decade, and
the amount of books that I've read around this topic
from so many people, so many different walks of life
from long time ago, decades and hundreds of years ago

(04:21):
and then recent. You know, it's just something that is
relevant to all humans and can be so eye opening
when you start to look for this stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
How do you feel about sharing this stuff on Musicians'
tip Jar when you first like attempted the script? And
I only ask because it is very comfortable for you
and me to talk about it, and I have a
few friends that I could talk about it with. I
also have a few friends that I would never bring
us up with. I have a few family members that
I would never bring this up with. And it's kind

(04:55):
of scary a little bit. When I first start doing
my notes, I reached out to my friend Holly Rosatti
and we were sitting around and I said, you know what,
I just can I go over this with you? I'm
having these feelings about being really nervous about talking about
it a musicians hipchar I know, we talk about it,
and it is something that I hold close to my heart,

(05:16):
but I'm not sure if I was ready. And Holly
turned to me and she goes, that's stinking thinking, Dave,
stinking thinking, like what did you just like? Okay? Point
made yeah, turn that around, Go in there, open up,
you know, as much or as little as you want,

(05:36):
but get ready because otherwise any negative information that you
have inside your head building about this conversation is stinking thinking.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, and that's a part of this whole thing is
how are you thinking right? And not just how are
you thinking consciously but also subconsciously. So much of manifesting
and what we'll get into has to do with trying
to figure out both of those things. How am I
thinking about little things like preemptively getting nervous about something,

(06:07):
but then also, deep down in your subconscious what are
you actually thinking about for yourself and your future and
your goals. So I understand that, and I understand that
at the same time, it's been a part of my success,
and so if I'm here as someone who's supposed to
help other people reach their success, it doesn't seem fair

(06:27):
for me not to make this a part of the
conversation too, because I think it's really made a huge
difference for me.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I think the impostor syndrome that fills me up sometimes
not only on the topic of being a musician and
how we are successful in many different ways through our careers,
sneaks up on me sometimes that this was one more
thing I could be judged on the moment investing. So

(06:54):
I had to get rid of that very quickly. And
I thought about the first time someone told me about this.
Could you remember the first time that you took this
practice or at least kind of try to look into
the future to have an outcome you wanted.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I think there were things that I was doing instinctively
from a very young age. It's not that I was
doing them, you know, intentionally. I was not aware that
I was doing them, but I was just instinctively doing them.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
I believed in.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Myself in certain ways, with my goals and my ambitions
as an artist especially, and I just felt when I
look back, I look at this list that we're going
to talk about.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
And I was just instinctively doing them.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
And I think that's the thing, is that this is
one of those things where you don't necessarily have to
be conscious that you're doing it to make it work,
and that's kind of cool. In fact, it's always happening
no matter whether you realize it or not. That's part
of the point, is that if you are manifesting your future,
you are always doing that.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Whether you're doing that intentional or not.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is really what we should be having a conversation about,
like how how is your intention setting, how is your beliefs,
and how is your soul manifesting what you actually want
or is it manifesting stuff that you actually don't want,
because that's what you're focused on, right.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, agreed, it's you're manifesting daily you have this inner
dialogue that's either pushing you positive or negative as far
as performance was concerned. And I'll answer my own question
just because you're not asking me back in return, I
would say, I would say gymnastics for me. I remember

(08:29):
going to State in as early, you know, as high
school and having to visualize my gymnastics routine. And I
would sit there and I would every single move, every
pommel grab, every swing. I would just do it over
and over again. And if I mess it up, in
my head, which sometimes if I forgot, you know, a move,

(08:50):
I would start all over and do it again and
again and again. And that was the first time, not
even knowing that that was manifesting at the time or
have that definition to it, but wanting to see an
outcome visualizing myself doing it and then executing.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
That's great, And I think that sports are such an
easy place for us also to see so many people
using these methods and using them in real time, like
you just did with that with gymnastics. It's such such
a mental sport. But there are certain that golf I
know that a lot of people are by like golf,
Oh gosh, golf is my golf game, which is always

(09:27):
not going to be professional. I understand and don't expect
it to be, no matter how hard. You know, in
my head, I think I'm going to get better. I
also have that expectation that I'll never.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Be a pro.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But I notice on days that I'm feeling good right,
that I do better, that I'm more confident or less distracted.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
I'm just better. It's just a thing.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Sports is such an easy place for us to see
examples of this.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Not only sports, but something that I brought up a
few times. But for magicians, did you know that? I mean,
we talked about no one questions a magician what else
do they do for a living when they tell you
I'm a magician. Oh that's cool, it's magic to a musician.
Well what's your plan?

Speaker 1 (10:08):
B So.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
I don't know, just you know, all our the phone
listening constantly, the clip came up about abracadabra and the
definition the magic of musicians. The magic for magicians, Abracadabra
means it's a word from Aramic that means I create

(10:31):
as I speak. It's not just a magician's like catchphrase.
So it's a declaration of the power behind spoken words.
As musicians that's going to be more aligned with what
we do. We turn thoughts into sound and sound into
energy that moves others. So magicians they've known it from
the start. They create what they speak. So I think

(10:53):
that might be a good transition to go into our
step by steps or our bullet points that you and
I go over all the time.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Totally, and a lot of this is magic. When it works,
it does feel like it's full on magic. But let's
break it down. So the first one that we want
to talk about is getting clear on what your dream is.
This is such a fundamental part that so many people
actually can't answer when I ask them what is it
that you want? When I sit down with some of

(11:23):
our guests, and not our guests on the show, but
like people that I help outside of the podcast, and
we talk about what they're working on and what their
goals are and what their finances are. When we look
at that and I asked that first question of what
is it that you really dream of? What is it
that you really what keeps you working at this, what
keeps you focused on getting success? It's weird how they

(11:48):
can't seem to answer that question with at least it's
either hesitation of like, oh I don't deserve this, which
we'll get too later, but this is what I'd want,
so I'm going to break I'm going to move that
back down and live a little smaller just to keep
my expectations real. Or it's that they don't really actually
know specifically what it is, and if you don't know
that a lot of the next steps won't happen.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Sometimes it takes practice to articulate what you want. So
for me, it's definitely a more morning journal that I
do every morning. Sometimes it's a page, sometimes it's three.
But throughout the day I'll even voice memo myself something
that I had an idea on, or I want something
to go a certain way, and that could be more

(12:31):
powerful sometimes when you listen back to it, because you
hear your own self talking about something going your way,
So you could shrick yourself with that. But it might
be something you might want to try to do, is
write down in the morning how you see your day going,
how you see your week going and now, and then
if it's not in the morning, do the voice recording
of it.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You know, it's not to throw you back to what
we had this conversation along last season sometimes or maybe
it was two seasons ago, so this might be really
far back. But when we asked you what you wanted
to do as you got older, that was a tough
question to answer at first. And I think back to
it because I kind of saw in your eyes you're like, well,

(13:12):
I'm going to.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Be able to choose to play shows or not.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
But that's not really what we were asking, right, It's
in it, and as we discussed it further, part of
it was clarification of what we're asking, and part of
it is on clarification of what that actually is. You know,
there's luxuries around our goals. There's luxuries around well, like
having enough money. Right, that's always a part of most

(13:36):
people's dream of the future is money is not an issue.
Abundance is this luxury that allows us then to turn
down gigs we don't want to play, right, And also
it allows us to live the way we want to live,
by the things we want to buy, right, you know,
live in the place we want to live in. So
when we ask somebody to clear to be clear on

(13:59):
their vision, especially if we're talking specifically in context to music,
it would be better if you said instead of saying
something like I want to be successful, right, which is
even sometimes hard for people to say that out loud,
but more specifically, it would be something like I want
to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year

(14:20):
on my original music and you know, own my home.
Something like that, something that's so much more specific and
has a vision that now you can start putting very
good detail to in what it is that you actually want.
Once that's become clear, we would move forward to the
next one. Of our bullets here, which is to believe

(14:43):
that it's possible. Cultivating the belief that it can happen
for you takes intentionality. This can be done in a
lot of different ways, and a lot of people find
more use with some of this than others. And I
like to do meditations where I'm doing visions of myself

(15:03):
doing those things. And it might sound really cheesy to
some of you, and I get that, and some of
this still sounds cheesy to me, but I still do
it because I want it, because I've found success from it.
I've found that it works for me. So you know,
despite the fact that when I say it out loud,

(15:23):
I can, I understand that that it might be like, oh,
come on.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
But meditation has changed my life.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Meditation has allowed me to see things clear, to be
aware of my surroundings a little bit more than I
ever was before, and less distracted I think by the
things that maybe we're taking my attention away.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
To have your back on the comment about how this
might be cheesy, the reason we say it's cheesy is
because there's not that many times in people's lives where
we talk about how you're supposed to be lifting each
other up, or even lifting yourself up. We constantly have
negative talk going in our heads about people around us

(16:03):
or ourselves. It's so easy to fall to the negative
and no one says that's cheesy. No one talks about
how that's cheesy. So I don't think it's too cheesy.
Can I say cheesy one more time? If anyone's playing
this late at night and we say cheesy throughout the
rest of this episode, I don't care if it's a

(16:23):
diet coke, what a little whiskey, Just take a sip.
The word is cheesy. It's not cheesy. See that's two
drinks right there.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
The hardest part about believing it's possible is actually understanding
and being aware of your thoughts. So many of us
will say out loud, this is what I want, right,
I want a record deal. Say that's what it is.
You want a record deal with a million dollar advance.
But the problem is that what you're not recognizing is

(16:55):
that your internal monologue, whether it's conscious or subconscious, probably both,
it's saying you're not good enough for that. It's saying
you've had an upbringing. This isn't something you're gonna be
able to get to, right, it's saying, well, because of
these circumstances, this isn't an option for you. You're just not
going to get that. And we have a hard time

(17:16):
recognizing that if we don't sit and listen. And that's
why I say meditation has really helped me, is because
it makes me aware of my inner thoughts a little
bit better and it turns down those other voices that
are often the naysayers in your head and makes you
more aware when you're doing that to yourself.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
And so that's why we talk about affirmations, that we
talk about doing things like that as well as meditations
to help reprogram the way that you think. And if
you don't think that's true, Look, how often when you
start saying negative things about something, how often it ends
up turning out negative. And when you can look at

(17:51):
the same situation, You can look at your home that
you live in and find so many things wrong with it.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
You can find, oh, it's too small, Oh you know
that's super outdated.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I'm never gonna be able to afford to do that.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Right, Like, whatever it is that about your home that
you don't like, right, and start to feel really negative
about your home, you end up having a negative feeling
about it, whereas you could also do the same thing
in a positive life, where you look at your home
and you're like, I'm so grateful that this home is
here for us when so many people are struggling. Right,
I'm so grateful that we have water flowing through that
we can just have whenever we want. Right, you can

(18:24):
go through all these things about your home that are
actually things that you take for granted maybe or that
you just don't put enough focus on the fact that
you get, and you saw start to feel better about
your home. You start to feel more grateful for you home,
you start to feel happier about being there. Right, So
that approach is really about being aware of your thoughts,
so that once you're aware of your thoughts, it's heading

(18:45):
towards what it is you want. You mean, when we're
saying something that we believe, we tend to get that
whatever you believe you will get, whatever you think you
deserve is what you'll get.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Have you ever seen the plant experiment with the two
different plants and how they talk to them, So they're
referring to to there comparing the growth of two plants,
one subject to positive verbal encouragement and others to negative
or insulting words. The results often show that the plant
receiving positive verbal input grows more robustly than the other

(19:22):
subject to the negative. So we do that to ourselves.
If they can show this experiment of two plants here,
you know, hearing out loud people saying positive or negative things,
and that being a control for how they grow. Say
that to yourself in the morning, look yourself in the

(19:44):
mirror and say this is what I want or I'm
going to crush it today, something as simple as that,
And I think you'll be surprised how the energy that
you exude to not only yourself but to others will
will be a change that makes it has happened for you.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
And the fact that humans are made up of at
least sixty percent water tells you that we're exactly going
to have the same reaction when we say those things
to ourselves, right if our body is made up mostly
of water. Of course, water is the most common thing
in plants too. And they did that same study with
the memory of water right where when you talk to water,

(20:25):
it's somebody starts the podcast right here, they're like, what
is happening for the first and last time. If you
want to read more about this, I suggest you look
at the book called The Memory of Water, and it's
a short read, it's really quick, but it's scientifically studied
about how water reacts to positive and negative verbal communication

(20:48):
from humans. And so taking that into context, if we
are saying negative or positive things to us, we are
our bodies in our minds are also their memory is
the same as the water it reacts. So whether or
not you think this is a ridiculous idea or not,
it's scientifically proven, so there is a matter of fact

(21:10):
to it. So beyond believing it's possible, after you've identified
what it is your dream is, you clarify those things,
then you believe it's possible, which again takes can take
a long time for some people. One of the things
to help make that happen is this visualization of it,
you know, visualizing it daily, taking a few minutes every

(21:33):
day to feel that dream that we also talk about
with the flow, right when you're a creator and you're
a songwriter and you're trying to stay in the emotion
of feeling those things, because that's the way we write best,
and a lot of us we understand it from that
perspective really easily. When you don't feel like writing, it's
really hard to write a song, right, So it's not

(21:54):
that you need to force yourself to write a song,
but that does happen. But the other end of it
is that you are in the flow where because you've
been visualizing and feeling that the energy that comes from
being creative or you know, there's certain songs that help
you get back to feeling that way, whatever it is.
One of the ways to do that is to visualize
that dream to keep it feeling having a physical response

(22:18):
in you when you think about it. And that can
take very intentional imagination, you know, going to the detail
of what does it look like, what does it sound like,
how does it feel? And some people will create vision
boards for this. One of our popular things to do
is Pinter's boards of stuff that is relevant to it.
It just helps keep the feeling there so that you

(22:40):
can feel it.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Something I do to have it in my brain throughout
the day. And you've brought this up about, you know,
creative stacking. We've done this before when we were talking
about income stacking. Have it stacking. So in the morning
at eight o'clock, I have an alarm goes off, and
that might be for you know, affirmations, something I just

(23:04):
want to remind myself of stay cool, stay confident. Second
is the action step, what do I need to do
that day to get things done? And third would be
just probably like a minute of going through my day
if it didn't go the way I wanted to do, what
I could have done differently, and then maybe how I
want to see the next day. I started this I

(23:24):
don't know, maybe five or six years ago where I
had this little alarm, and I can't remember where I
got it from, but I had three words that I
wanted to describe myself, three things that maybe weren't the
way I saw myself, but I wanted to be this way.
And it was patient, confident, and caring. And it would
just come up on my phone as an alarm, and

(23:45):
then I would just say it something just to kind
of keep it in the back of my head. It
means a lot to me to go throughout my day
and have a relaxed view, to take the time to
understand where other people are coming from. Easy to get
inside your own head and not have empathy for someone
else's either a situation or point of view, because you

(24:07):
get wrapped up in yourself easily. And those were like
three things that I wanted to have a little reminder
for myself. So that might be a little way to
practice this too, where you can visualize it not only
in your head, but you can see how you want
to represent yourself.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's great. That made me think of one other way
that I do this all the time too. First of all,
I don't get out of bed.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
I know, sometimes I wish you would just get work done,
but it's like, come on, you could do this, Chris.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
You have to let me finish the sentence. I don't
get out of bed until I've kind of visualized how
my day's going to go. That sometimes it's just like
things I'm looking forward to, things to be happy about,
Like sometimes when it's really nice out, that's just enough,
you know, but just to help me like get up
in a positive mood. And I literally stay in bed
sometimes for five minutes until I've kind of gotten to

(24:57):
that point and then I get up. Another thing I
do is anytime before like a meeting, like if like
with my booking agency, I'm meeting with a new client,
potential client, or I have something big coming up with
a lecture or something, I visualize the whole thing right
before I go in and do it, and I have
it visualized going very positively, you know, and it just
not only does it help take away some of the

(25:18):
fear and anxiety, but it also just that's what I
expect when I go in then because I've seen what's coming,
you know. And I do think this really helps to
reduce anxiety. For a lot of our artists, like we
get up on stage a lot of anxiety. This can
be a great tactic to help with that. So after
you visualized what it is that you've wanted that you're

(25:38):
clear about, you then set aligned intentions and goals. Right,
we talk a lot about manifesting being a lot about
the internal stuff, but there's also the expectation that without action,
nothing happens, right, nothing can happen until the motion begins.
So setting and aligning intentions and goals and breaking down

(25:59):
what your dream is into actionable goals is a critical step.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Critical because you can manifest all day long and if
you do absolutely nothing to make those things come true
for yourself, they're not going to happen. So having those
written down after going through this, after you get out
of bed, you have to organize your day somehow, I
would imagine.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
I mean, for me, I don't necessarily plan that part
out when it's on a day, because once I've seen
how it's going to go, I have this thing where
I let go and it I trust that it's going
to happen. If it's maybe something new that I've never
done before, this may not be that how I do that,
but that takes a whole different kind of list of
intentionality for me. But most of the stuff that I'm

(26:43):
doing is repeating and improving and repeating and improving right now.
And then there's another part of this too. For me.
It's like when I'm talking about goals, it's like, if
I'm not I've realized this recently, if I'm not nervous
about a couple things like I'm anticipating responses from a
few different scenario right now. There's a new client, potential
client that I keep waiting to hear back from. I

(27:05):
reached out for opportunity to open for someone at Red Rocks,
And these are things that I feel uncomfortable because and
then I identify that as being a reason to lean
into them, right. That's often why if I don't feel
like I'm nervous about something coming up right now, then
I'm not really stretching myself right now, you know. And

(27:26):
so I use that now as like, why am I
not nervous about something? I need to put something else
out there to push myself then, and I use that
with my intentions and my goals to kind of keep
track of what's happening. And sometimes it's just a small
step like emailing somebody that you've been putting off because
you're just nervous about doing that, because that action is

(27:47):
tied to those inner monologue about that's going to then
put you in a position where you're going to be
proven right that you don't think you're good enough or
whatever it is, you know. And so intentions are a
lot about energy, right, There are a lot about goals
being set into small actions, and both the energy and
the action they matter a lot for me.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
I have to write down that energy to make that
actionable step, otherwise they won't get done. I have to
because there's so many fleeting moments in my day that
will draw me one way or another. I know, when
we started working together, not I don't get a notification
when musicians tip jar sends me an email. I have

(28:28):
to go into musicians tip jar to look at my
email because I don't want it to ruin my flow.
So that email that, like you said that it's an
important email to do, but it scares you. I have
to write that down. So when I started playing music
for a living, it was what's one thing I could
do to make money doing what I love this week?

(28:50):
And then the next week it would be one more
thing and I would have to, you know, say hey,
did I finish that step last week before I move
on to the next one. So I think either it's
sink opportunities that you do following up on a gig,
doing new merch for me, also with merch looking for
new clients for merch, it's what what aligns with that

(29:10):
action step for new income for me this week.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
The other end that we this seems to be coming
up a lot recently, is raising your vibration. Although we
never called it that, We've often called it whether you
have a positive outlook on things or if you have
a negative outlook on things, but vibration right, Nikola Tesla said,
if you want to understand the universe, right, look for
vibration and.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Frequency.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Right. And when we're talking about the fact that some
people feel better, right, that is because they have a
higher vibration. And this is not some you know, Southern
California hippie mentality. This is science here, right, neurological science
that your vibrations that you're giving off are higher, right.
And it's a very simple concept to understand that the

(29:58):
higher vibrations, the more that you're resonating with your goals,
the more that you're in line and in the flow, right,
which is what I love to call all of this.
When it's everything's working right, there's this flow to it
and things feel easily. You don't something to get through
your day and you're like, how did I do so
many things?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Right?

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Like how did that? How did I just get all
that done? So much?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
And I and I felt like it was nothing right.
That's the flow to me. And so we need to
have a positive, abundant mindset. And in order for us
to achieve that, we have to go back through all
these steps again, making one direct focus on what is
my attitude towards all of this? Right? What is what

(30:42):
is how what kind of vibration? Am I giving off
about all this? Do you know when somebody walks in
a room and everyone can feel them, right? It happens
all the time, Right, you walk somebody else walk in
and you're like, I don't like the vibe that they're
giving me.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Right, it's called an orgy, Chris.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Or they don't feel like they don't feel like you
two understand each other.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
There's sometimes where you're like trying to talk to somebody
and you feel like you just can't seem to communicate.
There's a vibration that you get there and you understand
that everyone understands that, Like, I don't feel good around
that person, they don't make me feel good.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
But the main thing is that you're doing these things
for yourself. You're taking care of your energy and to
raise that and give yourself that abundant mindset, you have
to focus in on gratitude, meditation, movement, and helping other people.
The more you give love, the more you raise your
own vibration.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
So that's a really good way to do it.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
And as performers, that's really what we're up there doing, right,
We're giving our love to everybody else. That is why
we do this, or else we wouldn't get up on
that stage for so many years before you start making
any money and do exactly the same thing. Right, it's
because we love it, and that abundant mindset is because
you get up there not feeling like you need the money.
So you're going to get up there on stage. You're

(31:57):
getting up there because you love the way it makes
you feel. You're raising vibrations since you're making everyone.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Else feel good.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
So we are naturally gifted at doing this. But sometimes
when we're at home or we're in our own space,
we have to recognize what is happening within our mindset
in those situations.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
And if you don't have that space, create that space
within your own home. And if it's not at home,
maybe it's a garage somewhere, Maybe it's the community center,
maybe you rent practice space to go there and be
focused on your intentions. And I know this is a
little opposite of what I just said with what are
my action steps to make money doing what I love

(32:35):
this week? But something that was hard for me when
I was gigging all the time, sometimes two gigs a day,
four days a week, that when there was time to
write new music I couldn't get it out of my
head that this was going to be in front of people.
So I really had to start a new kind of

(32:55):
practice routine where I am just going to play to play,
and that's how I start out before I practice the
vibration is this is where I started, and I call
it play before pay. So it's it's just this is
what I'm thinking about, and then I can go into
my routine. Well, I need X amount of songs for

(33:17):
this gig. What's the order? Like, how does the audience
interact with all that stuff?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Another way I raise vibrations sometimes is I have like
certain songs I'll go listen to that I know make
me feel better, you know. Or I'll I like go
out into nature for a little while that it really
helps me a lot, like bare feet on the ground
kind of thing. There's ways that you start to find
for yourself that sometimes it's it's not always feeling effortless,

(33:43):
I guess is what I also want to say with
raising a vibration, sometimes you just don't feel you don't.
It takes just a little more effort to get yourself
back to it. Once you're there again, it's all good,
But it's it's something that the more consistent you can
keep your vibration up, the more manifestation seems to have results.

(34:04):
The next one is to take inspired action. Don't wait
to feel ready, move when you feel nudged or excited,
and that is sort of listening for the instincts right.
Even small steps can shift momentum.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Small steps could be something as easily as those voicemails
that I mentioned earlier. It could be something that maybe
you have to brush your teeth and you attach it
to a habit that says I'm going to think of
one lyric or one line and write it down before
I brush my teeth. But you can do small things
to lift that energy up to take control for the

(34:45):
rest of your day.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
And there's just so many examples for me of when
if my vibration is up, it's easier to take inspire action, right,
and if you're not feeling it or if you're down
about something, it's so much.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Harder to take insp action. So if you do this.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
In that order where you've raised your vibration and now
you feel like you know what, I'm gonna go ahead
and do that one thing, whatever that one thing is,
I feel like doing on my list of things I
know I need to do, I end up taking inspired
actions sometimes by choosing the thing that feels like the
path of least resistance. You know, the path of least
resistance thing, to me is not always just about the
direction of your career. It's also about my daily tasks

(35:24):
and what I just feel like that one I can do.
Let's do that, and then it usually gets me into
that flow where I start continually staying productive. Part of this,
also with this inspired action, is to be open to
unexpected paths. Sometimes when you think one thing is going
to go a certain way, it changes right and all
of a sudden that my favorite saying these days is ben,

(35:46):
don't break right, like, don't let the change completely stop you.
The momentum might be part of the guide, right, and
to trust that that might be the next thing to try,
and your dream might show up differently than expected as
you get through all of this.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I brought this straw for you for today because Chris
recently said that to me on Monday. I got really
sick Monday, and I don't even think I woke up
until after we had our schedule time for this. He's like,
where are you man, I'm like, oh my god, I
thought it was Wednesday. And right away I felt worse

(36:22):
for Chris because I've been in that, not with just Chris,
but situation where you're prepped, you're ready to go. Your buddy,
your partner in crime, is not there to you know,
follow through with you. And I had this awful set.
I felt even more sick when it happened and Chris.
I said, I'm sorry, Chris. I know this has to

(36:42):
be frustrating. This wasn't my intention. I gave him my excuses.
I didn't tell him I was sick because I've been
so sick lately. I didn't want him to think that
that's just going to be a recurring habit. And he
just rolle back. He bend, don't break, man, It's going
to be okay. I'm going to use this time in
a way. I'm going to get a whole bunch of
stuff done, which again brought me back to the table, going, oh,

(37:06):
I can go back to being sick and getting better
because I knew he meant it, and I felt like, Okay,
this is settled. He knows where I'm coming from. I'll
follow through and just take care of myself, so control
up for today and.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I was able to re listen to back to some
manifest books. So I feel more prepared because of those
two extra days. So the next thing with this, though,
is to let go of control.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
This part is the hardest part for most people, right.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Because when you are put in a situation, sometimes there
are things that you cannot control with the way it's going,
and that makes you feel like, well, now that I'm
not in control of it anymore, things aren't going the
way I'm supposed they're supposed to write. And that could
have been looked at like with why am I sick again?
Right when you had that to deal with that on Monday.
You could have been really upset about that and let

(37:54):
that focus be all you could you could do. But
instead you have to sometimes let go of that control
and trust the timing is going to work out. And
that can be really hard, especially for our musician friends
that are older that are really trying to get at
something that they feel like has a time limit to
it about their age. But staying flexible and not obsessing

(38:15):
over how it must happen is such an important part
of letting manifesting occur. I have a quick story about that.
The other day, I lost my coat. This is my
favorite coat, which is so silly, but I do have
this one coat that I'm like, this coat almost works
for everything, right, It's like a light jacket. Anyways, I
couldn't figure out what I went. I looked in all

(38:35):
this normal places that it would be. And there's one
thing that the manifestors these guides always say is that
you have to if you believe something's lost. If you
believe it's lost, then you're never going to find.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
It, right.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
And I had given up on finding it. I had
looked right, and so I was like, I'm going to
do this. I'm going to let go of believing that
it's lost, and then it's.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Going to come come to me.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Right.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm driving my kid.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
It was football game and we stop it a light
and I had let go of it. I had stopped
thinking about it. And the guy in front of me
gets out of his car and I'm like, what you know,
Like this is weird. We're at a stoplight and opens
up his trunk and pulls something out of his golf bag,
and it just like a light went on in my
head and I was like, it's in my golf bag.

(39:25):
And I would never have thought of that. I mean,
I just hadn't you know, used that in a while.
And but and who gets out of their car at
a stoplight?

Speaker 4 (39:34):
You know what I mean. Like it was such a
strange thing, and I was.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Like, well that that just demonstrated just a little mini
example of how this kind of works. You just have
to let go sometimes and trust the timing will work
out on these things. And the other benefit that we
get from this is we let go of the stress,
right Like we're creating stress for these things that I tell.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
My kids all the time.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
They make their own problems, right Like they'll instantly be
arguing about who had one extra piece of candy from something,
And I'm like, this problem didn't exist thirty seconds ago,
and now you're making it and you're releasing all these Yeah,
my kids, I definitely drive them nuts, But I tell
them this stuff all the time, that you're releasing all
these chemicals in your body that are totally pointless. They're
not serving any purpose except for a reaction to the

(40:17):
stress that you are creating out of nothing.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I think prayer works that way too, for a lot
of people that use prayer to find some solace in
their lives. And my mom will say, Tony, Tony, look around,
something's lost and must be found. And that's Saint Anthony
for her, that you know, goes around to the universe
and finds missing coats as well. But I'm sure once

(40:40):
she says that in her brain, that's something that just
turns off that I lifted up to the universe or
for whatever, you know, she believes that's going to handle that. Yeah,
I think that same idea of just letting the universe
take care of it is something that we do when
we work out. We say, okay, we're going to take

(41:01):
a day off from running or using our muscles so
they have a chance to heal. We take it. This
is why we meditate because our brain is constantly going
and you need to take some time to shut down
your brain because it needs to conserve energy and it's
going to get fatigued just like anything else. And same
with these dreams and the things you want to go
after in life. Some days you just need to take

(41:23):
a day off, I think, and let the universe do
what it's supposed to do, and you know, call it
a day of just I'm going to surrender to the universe,
let things go the way they need to, and that
also opens up your mind for creativity, to heal, to
be around family and friends and pay attention and be
patient and kind and consider it to those other things

(41:44):
around you in your life that also move those things
forward well.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
And for so many people that have a religious belief right,
this can still work, and that is one of the
things that I like about it so much is it
doesn't threaten anyone's religious beliefs, and a lot of times
it's very much in hot harmony with most religions. And
that part of the lesson is to let go, right,
is to ask for what you want, believe you can

(42:09):
get it, and then let go. And the go part
is equally hard to believing in yourself and to be
clarifying what it is you want. All these steps they
might seem so simple, but it's often that as you
go through each one, you start to realize how much
work you have to do in order to get manifesting
to actually occur. And letting go is no exception. So

(42:34):
many times we feel like we need to control everything.
You know, we have to be though that failure is
our fault all the time. Right and or that any
little failure is evidence to to your doubts, and it's
so contrary to that to say, you know what, I'm

(42:56):
going to allow that to happen and see where this goes.
And I'm going to trust that I've asked for what
I want. I believe that I'm worthy of that, and
I'm going to see how I get there.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
You know, which is ironic that the next one is
called keep the faith.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
So the last one of these steps to manifesting successfully,
we really believe that you have to stay consistent with
this procedure. You have to trust that this is going
to work. And like we said, whatever your other faith is,
to see this as as something worth trying, is something
worth your time, something that you're worth trying for. It's

(43:35):
about keeping going, it's about reaffirming your vision for what
it is that you want, and it is about saying
consistent even when the results continually challenge you.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
One thing I use to stay on track is this
app called Streaks, and it's a game that I play
with myself that I know how many days in a
row I did the things that I said I was
going to do. And of course you give your day
off here or there. But some people work visually and
they have one place that they could look at and say,

(44:07):
these are the things that mean the most to me,
and I wanted to attack these today, get to them
or I didn't get to them, but kind of helps
me get on track. I would highly recommend you look
at it up. The last thing I want to talk
about here and as the foundation for all these steps,
is words and thoughts have energy. We've said it a
bunch of time. And the inner monologue that you have

(44:30):
in your life is your most played tracks, the most
played songs you have. If you had a Spotify playlist
that you could listen to forever, what would be on
that playlist? What kind of songs would they bring you up?
Would they tell you you're a shitty person all day?
Because we tell ourselves that here and there? How often

(44:52):
are we saying we're deserving? And any thought that you
repeat daily like this is too hard. No one cares
about my music. You're programming that energy and that drive
you have inside your head. So rewriting that internal monologue
is what I hope we all can get out of this.
And you're worth it. You're worth being that one song

(45:15):
that you listen to most every day.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
So I thought it'd be fun if we just kind
of give a couple artists examples. And I'm sure everyone
knows some stories about people that they follow in the
music industry that have talked something about manifesting in some way.
But here's a couple examples of some quotes and some
actions that other artists have done. And again, I usually
try to pick somebody that everyone's going to know, right,

(45:39):
because that makes this more helpful. So a lot of
these artists are massively successful. But what's interesting is you
listen to almost any type of business any if you
listen to podcasts about I interview very successful people, they
all talk about this. All of them talk about this.
It's not just an artsy thing. It's people in business
that are so not create creative, but the manifestation part

(46:03):
of it is a part of what they think got
them to where they got to. So Beyonce was going
to be my first example, she said in an interview
that she visualized.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
She says, quote, I visualize.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Things in my mind before I actually do it. I
walk through it like it's already done. That sounds familiar.
That was the end of the That was the end
of the quote that's she didn't say that sounds familiar.
That was me that said that. But she's a huge
believer in visualization and speaking success into existence, right, that's
that concept, and her whole career is basically a masterclass

(46:37):
in intentional manifestation. Another one I thought was interesting was Tyler.
Tyler the Creator. He often talks about dreaming big and
believing in your own world building. He manifested entire brands,
creative identities, fan bases through sheer belief and expression before
the industry got him. Just one more here, I wanted

(47:02):
to bring up Jim Carrey. I know that he's a
comedian and an actor, but he's also a great example.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
In this.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
You should look up if you haven't watched his interview
about this. It's all over YouTube, easy to find. But
he talks about how he wrote himself a ten million
dollar check for acting services rendered for ten million dollars,
and he dated it for a few years in the future,

(47:33):
and he manifested that exact amount when he got hired
to do a movie and he pulled out that check
in there it was exactly that amount that he had
written down of ten million dollars. So many musicians cite
him as an inspiration for their visual setting because he's
very well spoken about how he makes that happen. Let's

(47:54):
bring in a couple of books just to kind of
end this conversation in case any of you want to
find out more information. We certainly have a bunch of
these on musicians tip jar dot com Backslash book Club
where we can continuously add books that we've been reading
that we might think that you might enjoy or get
something out of. And so we do have a few

(48:15):
on there that are relevant to manifesting, including You Are
a Bad Asset Making Money by Jensen Zero. She's very funny,
she's raw, she's motivational, but she also focuses on manifesting
wealth and the more that you put intentionality behind this
and understand the way that you think, the more that
you're going to be effective at manifesting. And she does

(48:36):
a great job of helping you with that. The other
two books, one is The Power of Now by Eckhart Toll.
He's an absolute guru in this field. It's as book, yeah,
and it's a bit long for some of us that
you know, we're reading these books that are very thick,
but incredibly well written. It's not a manifesting manual in

(49:02):
the traditional sense, but is essential for aligning your energy
and getting present with the foundations of what manifesting is.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
The first book I've ever read on manifesting is this
next one, Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispensa right out of
the gates for the science meets spiritual folks. It's awesome,
breaks down how thoughts and energy literally affect reality. It
brings up the plants, talks about the water, also talks
about cancer in so many different ways, and how you're

(49:32):
in control of yourselves. It's fantastic book.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
It is a great book if you want to go
deeper on how to rewire your brain and understanding energy
fields in a very scientific way. He is very scientific
in his evidence of how this stuff works and how
you can actually rewire things.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
That just had its twenty fifth anniversary.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I believe, oh nice, if all this is new to
you or a little bit too out there for you,
we get it, and that's okay. The whole thing is
that maybe you learn something that you can take with
you and start somewhere or try, or maybe you can
just let it all go and laugh at us. Either way,
it's not going to offend this. But I want to

(50:15):
give you an action step, and I wanted to make
this as simple as possible for any that anyone that
may be wanting to try an approach that is easy
to improving their ability to create their success. So here's
the three step process that of manifesting that I'd like
to give you. So Step one, decide what you want.

(50:36):
Get crystal clear on that. Ask yourself, what do I
truly want? How will I feel once I get this right?
And as David said, Dave said, write it down, David,
are you mad at me? Some examples would be like,
I'm thriving as a full time musician, getting paid doing

(50:58):
what I love and surround by creative energy. Being very
specific about it. Okay, So decide what you want. Step two,
feel that, visualize it. Spend a few minutes daily imagining
how that dream is going to feel as real. Feel
those emotions of joy and peace and excitement and gratitude.
You have to try to get to the place where

(51:18):
you feel them. It's really important. And add this to
your morning routine or your nighttime wherever it seems to
feel natural to you. You can say those affirmations out loud,
and then step three is to take a small inspired
action manifestation needs movement. Ask what's one small step I
can take today in alignment with my dream? And you know,

(51:42):
that could be something as simple as emailing someone, posting something,
applying for a grant, you know, writing the finishing that
new song, cleaning out your studio space or your hard drive,
whatever it is. That's a small step towards that those
actions will show the proof and that proof that the
universe will take seriously that you're ready for what it

(52:04):
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Speaker 2 (52:48):
Remember there is already enough for everyone, You just need
to know how to get it. Until next time on
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and wealthy. Manifestation is not about wishing. It's about becoming
the version of you that already has what you want.

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