4 Steps To Manifest Miracles & Abundance | David Ghiyam

Today on the School of Greatness, we are here to be of service to you, to help you create true wealth in your life. And if you feel like you've been blocked emotionally or spiritually or mentally around creating more financial opportunities in your life, true financial wealth, not only externally but internally, this is the episode for you. David Guillaume is back and he spent over a decade of his life focused on serving spiritually to communities around the world. Then he shifted his mindset and said, how can I serve spiritually but also financially create abundance in my life? And he has gone on with his wife, Mary Ruth, to build a billion-dollar brand called Mary Ruth's. And today David's going to reveal that true wealth creation begins not with business strategies, but with spiritual alignment. And some of you might be thinking, well, I just need more tactics and I need the right strategies to create income and to invest in all these different things. But that's, that's true. You could have those strategies and tactics and all these kinds of things, tools that could help you increase the processes in your career or your business. But so often there are, there are mental, physical, or spiritual limitations that hold us back from believing we are worthy and deserving of creating more true financial abundance. And in this episode, we are gonna talk about why doubt is the greatest blocker to abundance and how certainty is your VIP access to the miracle zone in financial opportunities. We're also gonna talk about how to shift from creating a linear vessel inside of you that constantly needs external validation to creating a circular vessel that can receive endlessly. We're gonna be talking a few of these different concepts that most of us have maybe never heard about and really trying to shift the inner perspective to create more external financial success in your life. He's also gonna talk about the counterintuitive reason that receiving too much wealth too quickly without proper preparation can create chaos in your life. And there's a moment in the book of my new book called Make Money Easy that is out in one week from today. Make Money Easy. Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life. There's a moment in the book where I talk about this, this relationship with money. And early on in my kind of business journey and, and trying to figure out who I was in my early mid-twenties, I had a mentor that would go on walks with me every single week that I would ask questions to about business and marketing and all these different things. And I was struggling after like 6 months. I wasn't making any money. I was really struggling trying to figure out my way.. And I remember saying to him, man, I'm struggling right now.

I could really use some money.

And he told me, money comes to you when you're ready for it. And on that walk, I said, well, I'm pretty ready to receive some money. I'm broke. I'm living on my sister's couch. I could really receive some money right now. And that stuck with me. Money comes to you when you're ready for it. And if wealth comes too quickly without proper preparation, it can create chaos in your life. And you see this all the time with pro athletes who go bankrupt 2, 2 years after they, uh, You know, they retire because they weren't ready for it. You hear this from lottery winners who lose all their money and have extreme depression within a couple years after winning lottery. You hear this sometimes from children of wealthy parents who were handed down a ton of money without being ready for it. If they weren't prepared for it financially and spiritually, then it might create more chaos in their life. You see this with child stars who have tons of fame and wealth, all these different things. We're gonna be talking about this and so much more in today's episode. And if you have not got a copy of the book, which talks about healing the relationship with money in your life, so you can break free from the financial blocks, blocks that you have, make sure to get your copy of Make Money Easy right now. You can go to the link in the description of this episode or go to Amazon and type in Make Money Easy. Get your copy right now. Get a couple copies for your friends as well. This will give you the tools to unlock that relationship that's blocking you from the abundance in your life. And there are so many, uh, strategies and tools to support you in your growth. It'd mean a lot to me. The book is out in one week, but you can preorder it today. I'm also going on tour. If you go to lewishouse.com/tour, I will be on the road in Austin, Texas, New York City, Boston, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Starting March 15th through March 25th. Make sure to get your ticket right now. Bring your friends and family. LewisHowes.com/tour. I would love to see you because we got some great things happening on that tour that you do not want to miss, my friend. Okay. Thank you again for your support as always for being here on this show, The School of Greatness. Without further ado, let's dive into the episode right now. Now, small business owners, listen up. You started your business because you had a vision, not because you wanted to spend your nights figuring out payroll, benefits, paperwork, and all the little details that somehow become very big details. That's where Justworks comes in. Justworks is the payroll, benefits, and global hiring platform to unburden your brain from all the complicated small business stuff. They handle the things you can't afford to get wrong so you don't have to worry because building a business is hard enough. You don't have to worry when it just works.

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Welcome back everyone to the School of Greatness. Excited about today's episode with David G. And we are talking about the step-by-step process from growing broke to millionaire and what that would look like. And also, um, how to make making money easier in your life. 'Cause I think a lot of people struggle with making money or they feel like they have to work hard. Yeah. To make money. And I wanna get into that in a little bit about, you know, do you need to work hard all the time or is it sometimes in order to make money? What does that look like? But you have, uh, you've been on the show now many times and people love our conversations around this. In the last episode around money, we talked about the energy around manifesting money.

Yeah.

And you, in my mind, are a money manifesting expert. You went from spiritual teacher for many years making no money to manifesting an abundance of money, having a billion-dollar, uh, brand and business with Mary Ruth's Organics. And I wanted to ask you the first question. If you were broke today, all of the money was gone, and you had to create a step-by-step process from going to broke to millionaire and beyond, mm-hmm, what in practical terms would that look like for you?

Mm-hmm.

And would it be hard?

Well, first, very flattered by everything you said, and thank you for having me back. And yes, I think our connection, our chemistry, and every time, like, I'm with you, like, the gates open and there's so much to come. So I just love the time that we have together. If I was broke today, if I had nothing, what would I do?

Yeah.

What's the step-by-step process?

And what is hard work? I think those are two beautiful questions. One, hard work is essential, but let's define what hard work is. A lot of people think, a lot of people are investing their energy in hard work and in the physical world. So it's the amount of hours I spend doing something. It's the amount of effort I exert in doing something. And one of the ways of looking at it is, uh, the Kabbalists kind of explain, and I've, I've simplified it in 4 quadrants. There are 4 things that we need to do and do very well in order to manifest a miracle. Mm. What is that? In order to manifest the miracle of abundance, wealth, love, whatever it is that you're looking for. And often the reason why people are working so hard but not seeing the miracle is they might only be focused on one of those four quadrants and investing all their energy in that one, but ignoring the other three. Or maybe just 3 out of the 4. It's when you hit all 4 that the gates open. And every time I've given this seminar, I ask everybody in the room, how many people are 4 out of 4? Wow.

Nobody.

Really? Ever. Including myself. When you're 4 out of 4, the gates open immediately. When you're not 4 out of 4, things take time. They become a struggle. They become harder. And then the universe has to compensate for the quadrant you're not working on. So I'm gonna get to those 4 quadrants in a moment, but what does it mean the universe has to compensate? The universe then has to push us or cause some form of pain and suffering to awaken us in that quadrant.

Mm. Okay, so what do we need to feel pain to then bring attention to it to start focusing on how to improve it?

Correct, because our attention often only flows to where there's pain.

Mm.

Now, if you can proactively put your attention somewhere, then the universe does not need to get involved. Then there is no signal sent to send somebody toxic to you to make you fall in love with them, to then break your heart to learn a lesson. Yeah. There is no need for someone to come in to steal from you or to sue you or to sabotage your business in some way. There's just no need. There's no need for your family to be destructive all of a sudden and cause problems and drama. All of these things happen because a signal is being sent to pay attention to something, right? So what are the 4 quadrants? Spiritual work, which I'll define. Mm-hmm. There's physical work, certainty, and prayer. This is all technology. And when people hear this, I want to make sure you know I am not a religious person. I do not ascribe to, let's say, a dogma or a specific path. Everything I'm sharing is what the great sages and Kabbalists who understand the energy of our world, understand Light and Vessel, have explained how you can build the vessel to hold this energy and Light of Creation. Some people call it God, some people call it the Creator, that exists and is waiting to come into your life. Because our birthright is to be happy, to be fulfilled, and to have everything. This is what we are meant to receive, every soul in this world. And all of creation is actually pushing us towards this point where we can receive all that. So what is this technology? What is Maq spiritual work? We talk a lot about this in Kabbalah, and then there is a whole step-by-step process to it. But in essence, spiritual work is my soul came to this world with certain spiritual baggage. Fears, limitations, and I am meant to transform them to get to a place of wholeness, which is the vibration of the Creator. That means that if I have a fear of abandonment, I'm transforming this. That means if I have anger issues, I'm transforming it. That means that if I'm a judgmental, sarcastic person, or a person who's always seeing the bad, or a person who is feeling that they don't deserve. These are all qualities that don't exist in the Creator. The Creator does not have weakness. The Creator does not have fear. The Creator doesn't have jealousy. The Creator does not have these limitations.

And so— Why do we have these things if the Creator doesn't?

Because this is a very deep question. I'll try to answer it as simply as I can. We were created with this darkness in order to have the free will to choose to remove it. For example, if I got my 5-year-old a puzzle for his birthday and I said to him, I said, "Elliott, can you wait right here? I'm going to show you something really amazing." And I go and I make this 1,000-piece puzzle for him. And then I bring it to him. I said, "Okay, I brought you a gift and I made the puzzle for you." Is he going to be like, "Dad, wow, you know, thank you." Not only did you buy me a puzzle, but you also made it? Like, I love you so much, this is why you're my dad. Like, no, he's going to look at it. He's going to be angry. He's going to be upset. He's going to be like, I don't care for this. He's not going to feel fulfilled. He needs a broken puzzle so that he can make it. Now, I will help him make it. And that feeling, and when he puts that last piece himself, the joy he has that he completed something is like no other. There's a difference between if you built a company or you took over your dad's company or your mom's company. There's a whole different level of feeling. Yes. So we were— we asked to have this level of darkness so that we could transform it and then finish the creation this way. The Creator didn't need that. We asked for it so that we could have the feeling of wholeness. So that's the first quadrant, spiritual work. And every single person right now No matter what your spiritual beliefs are, no matter where you are in your life, something has been revealed to you, at least one quality that you can transform, that you need to transform in order to create the miracle. So at every given moment, we are being shown one negative quality at least. How? There are people who are literally triggering you and bringing stuff out. You may feel like a victim in certain things. You may feel that something is unfair. You may feel bitter. You may feel resentful. These are all feelings and emotions that are indicative of something that we need to transform. Yeah, but he did that to me. Yeah, but they took something from me. Yeah, but they— I gave them 2 years of my life and they cheated on me. All of this is a test since the time of creation that your soul asked for. This person that gave you 2 years of his life and your life and then left, your soul asked for this in order to have all these emotions and feelings come up so you can transform them. And there was no other way to do it. There was no other way for you to see what needs to be transformed without this person coming. And so every single person right now is feeling something and going through some kind of fear or emotion or darkness that Kabbalah explains. And that is highly correlated to this place from trying to make a miracle.

Hmm.

Okay. So someone says, I'm trying to make more money. The first question I'm asking them is, what fear are you feeling right now? And it could be in a totally unrelated part of life, but it is correlated to the miracle. Really? That's the first quadrant.

What's a, what's a common fear you hear around people who say, I'm trying to make more money, or I'm struggling making more money, or I'm in debt and it's, I don't know what to do to make more money. And you ask them, what's your fear? What's the common response?

I would say the most common fear and/or quality that comes up for people when they're trying to manifest a miracle is doubt.

They doubt themselves.

They doubt themselves. They doubt that they will be happy. They doubt that their current situation is good. They doubt that there is a Creator or Universal Force that is looking out for them. And doubt is a quality that does not exist in the vibration of the Creator. So as long as you have doubts, you cannot enter the miracle zone. Like, imagine there's a gate, and there's a guard at the gate, and only people who have certainty can walk in. So they look at you, and they see, but you have doubts. You are not allowed to enter the room of miracles. So you could be an amazing person, you could be a sharing person, you could be a kind person, you could be a spiritual person, you could be a person who only does good for people, but if you have doubts, you cannot enter the world of miracles. So doubt is the key card, is the VIP access to miracles. Okay. So what does it mean to have certainty? It's not certainty that this will work out, or certainty that this person's my soulmate, or certainty that— it's certainty that everything is good, everything is from the Creator, and I feel whole and complete right now. Despite what I see, feel, and hear, I know it's an illusion and everything is whole. Like we said before, I am wealth, I am love, I am all of these amazing things, and I trust in the light of the Creator. All the variations of what I just said is certainty.

So if someone doesn't feel like they are whole or complete right now, and if they don't trust that they are in the right position in this moment where they need to be from the Creator, from God, from the Creator, what's going to happen to them if they don't believe they are whole and they don't have certainty around that?

They enter a different destiny. So imagine you need to travel to San Diego from Los Angeles. You put it in Waze. Waze will give you the fastest path there, also understanding the traffic. Let's say it takes about 2 hours. This is the path of miracles. The most direct—

That would be a miracle to get to San Diego in 2 hours.

In 2 hours, okay. So let's give it 3. So let's get there in 3 hours. This would be akin to the path of miracles in our lives, which is the most direct path. If I decide to have doubts, literally I'm reprogramming the GPS to take a very long route and to go through a lot of windy streets, and eventually I get to San Diego in 19 hours. Now, I will get to that destination. So even people who don't operate on the vibration of the Creator, who don't do spiritual work, who always have doubts or who do negative things in this world, there is another circuit breaker, some backstop that will make sure that even those people transform at some point. But they will transform through pain and suffering, the roundabout way. So a lot of things will happen to eventually break them down to become a spiritual being, either in this lifetime or the next. Some people are very stubborn, and they still choose not to transform, and they still choose to blame everybody else, or blame their circumstances. These are the people that it's painful, but unfortunately, they will always attract chaos and drama because more is required to break them down. Because if we can't get rid of that cancer, the doctors are going to try— the spiritual doctors are going to inject more chemo, more radiation, break it down, break it down until the cancer disappears. So it behooves all of us to surrender the negativity as soon as possible, or it will be forcibly taken away from us. Yes.

So this is the spiritual quadrant to start with.

This is the spiritual quadrant. And the last thing I'll say is there's two ways for a person to stop smoking. One, if they want to stop smoking, one is we know, and I'm sure everybody can agree, smoking is not good for your health. Okay. I'm not saying it's bad if a person smokes, but I'm sure even a smoker knows this is probably not the best. No one's thinking smoking is making you live longer. So, you can either choose proactively to break it, and it's very hard, and it's a very difficult addiction, but there's ways you can proactively push yourself to do it. Or, there's a second way, which is lung cancer could come up, and then you go to the doctor, and the doctor says, "You have lung cancer, and I need you to stop smoking." So, what happened was, you have two different scenarios. Lead to the same outcome. One was you're forcing the universe to push you to change. The other one was proactively changing. We are often shown and told mercifully through the people around us and through just inspiration, the things that we need to change. And if you are sensitive to that, you will take heed and you will learn, you will grow. Oftentimes the people closest to us, especially immediate family, the Creator is telling them to tell you or to awaken in you what you need to change. Yes. If we ignore them, or we say it's their problem, or we say, I don't like the way you're telling me, I don't like your tone, or you got trauma, this is your issue. Even if all that's true, you're still missing the fact that the Creator is trying to tell you in a very merciful way. Even if the messenger is not a good person, still a messenger. Yeah. If your ex tells you something really bad about you, that you don't agree with, but it feels painful, it means there's truth there. So take maybe 5% of you is like that. If your ex says you're a horrible person or a narcissist, or you're like, I'm not a narcissist, but it bothers you. As long as it bothers you, it means there's a piece of you that's in it. So I would say, okay, so maybe there's 5% of me that is, and let me explore that. Only so that I can release it, not have to have another relationship show it to me or have another chaotic situation come up. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. So this is a spiritual quadrant.

4 keys. The second one we already talked about, which is certainty. Mm-hmm. Certainty is a whole bucket in and of itself because none of the other quadrants become activated without certainty. Really? Certainty is everything. It is the consciousness that removes all the dark forces. All the negativity. It is the consciousness that creates happiness. It is the consciousness that creates joy. It is the consciousness that vibrates infinite universes. Every moment of certainty creates positive forces in this world that go out into this world and fight for you.

And so when someone is in doubt or is not certain about something, then they're blocking their abundance. They're blocking their ability to be creative or meet the right people at the right time or take action or move into awareness or whatever they need to do in order to create the money, opportunities for themselves.

They're block— yes, they're blocking the ability to create the vessel that can hold all of those things. Now someone's saying right now, well, I know a lot of people who are wealthy who don't have certainty. They have doubts and anxiety all day long. So what's going on there? These people have a different process. Oftentimes the Creator will give somebody wealth, and that's the beginning of their spiritual process. And it's not that this wealth was something they earned through their spiritual work that they can enjoy. In fact, it's something that was their starting point of their spiritual path. And the fact is, until they do that spiritual work with the wealth, they're not even enjoying it.

Yeah, but broke people say, hey, I'll just get someone give me $1,000,000 right now, I'll enjoy it. I'm broke. That's— it's not enjoyable. You know, I'm suffering. I'm in debt, you know?

Yeah.

If someone gave, I won the lottery, I'd enjoy it.

Yes. So that is true. You would shift from one form of temporary pain and then you will be shifting into another form of temporary pain and that's what will come.

Because you won't be ready for it.

You won't be ready for it. You won't have the vessel for it. But here's what's interesting. Whoever's listening, you have the free will to do that. You could actually tell the universe, hey, look, I'd rather be, Have money. Rich and miserable.

Yeah. And poor and miserable.

And poor and miserable. And that may shift in that direction.

And you'll stay miserable.

And miserable. You'll still be lacking the fulfillment. And in fact, they're actually—

It might be more painful.

Yeah. Because what happens is now that you have more energy around you and more money—

Everyone's trying to take and people are trying to— negative forces.

Because you have so much more energy around you, i.e., more money, you must have a bigger vessel to hold that. So you actually— 100 extra challenges as well. So maybe you're miserable and broke now, but, you know, your kids are good, your marriage is good, but you're just kind of like miserable because kind of can't make ends meet. In this other scenario, if you are the same exact person but you have more money, all of a sudden you'll see not just problems in the business, but problems with the kids and problems in the relationship.

And money amplifies things. So if you have a lot of problems, it will amplify a lot of the problems. It might solve some temporarily, But if you haven't changed the, the doubt or the uncertainty within you, that's going to amplify into greater uncertainty and doubt with money and making you kind of step into scarcity, holding it back, you know, frustration, anger, all these different things as well.

This is true. And we have to understand why, because there's— this is such a beautiful, true statement. And I think it's very powerful when people hear the why behind it, because now you understand how we're making this, not just how it is. The reason why money amplifies problems is because money is this infusion of energy that then comes towards you, and this energy wants to be revealed in its full potential, but it sees that your vessel can't hold it. So this energy starts to press upon you, and in Kabbalah it's called the surrounding light. It's light that surrounds you and says, hey, I want to be revealed. And in order for me to be revealed, I'm going to put pressure on you to change who you are and expand. And so that is when people feel stress. Stress is when you have energy that's trying to be revealed, but you're not changing fast enough to let it in. You're not overcoming old belief systems, limited belief systems. This thing that your spouse told you that you're being very selfish or you're not being focused or you're being very angry, like you're not— you're just not dealing with it. So then, but what are you doing? You're making more money. So the money's coming in saying, I'm energy and your wife, I sent your wife to you 2 weeks ago to tell you about something you need to change because I'm coming. Mm-hmm. And you haven't made space for me. So now I'm gonna become chaos. When energy comes to a vessel that can't hold it, we have chaos.

Mm-hmm.

If a waiter came right now and poured a gallon of water, which is, water's a great thing. Into my cup, we have chaos. Yes. I need a bigger cup. I need a bigger vessel to hold all of that. And so it's the same reason why we don't just— I remember when we had to do our trusts and like, what are we going to give our children when they grow up or when we pass on? Like, is there a big danger to passing wealth on to children who haven't worked for it?

Mm-hmm.

So, you know, we created a beautiful structure where it basically said, for every dollar they make, maybe they get $0.50 of what we make. But until then, it is not given to them. Interesting.

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So energetically, because I understand vessels, like if I give my— I don't know, if one of my kids is 25 and God forbid I'm no longer here, If I give him an infusion of cash, I destroy him. Mm-hmm. It's a lightning bolt of energy. And he, and we all know this is what happens. There's no child, no kid, no 19-year-old, 20-year-old, 25-year-old, 30-year-old who you can hand them $1 million, $5 million, $10 million, $100 million, who says, you know what? All right, this is good. I'm not gonna let this affect me in any way whatsoever. I'm gonna be more responsible. No one's thinking this way. Yeah.

Now I'm gonna go learn financial literacy. Now I'm gonna understand how to use it. Now I understand the tax codes and all these things like, You don't know that stuff.

No, you're gonna buy a house, you're gonna buy a car, and it's gone. You're gonna go spend it on your friends, it's gone. Spend it on women, and the chaos begins. So you actually bring all this energy in, but nowhere to change your own vessel.

I guarantee you 99% of people watching and listening are saying, ah, but I still love to have $5 million just handed to me.

Okay, so you say that out loud, that prayer will draw the energy of $5 million to you. And that, by the way, that's a great thing, right? Every year I say to the Creator, I would love to have, here's my new goal, which is much more than I have today. So then that energy comes towards me, the pressure builds, it detoxes my soul's negativity, and I begin the process of seeing that. When you ask for $5 million, you're gonna get 5 million problems. But that's a good thing because your, these problems are showing you what you need to change. So I'm with you. Like, nobody wants to be broke. Nobody wants to be alone. Nobody wants to be sad. We, we should have all these things. But I've learned that I, and I really just want to share that there is a process that goes from where you're at to where you want to be. And that process is a very spiritual process. You're just going to see your limitations.

And you need the certainty to figure it out. But if you don't have certainty, there's a process to creating certainty as well.

Correct. We all have certainty when things are okay.

Good. Yeah. It feels good now.

You see the money in the bank. Oh, I have certainty.

Feels good. Yeah. It's when it goes wrong, you don't, you have doubt.

You realize you never had certainty. It's the money. You borrowed the certainty that the money gave you.

Here's also the thing people watching and listening, I already know they're going to be saying and thinking is, I don't know which direction to go. I have all these options laid out. I have my mom or my spouse or someone telling me, my friend telling me what I should do. Around my career, this 17 passion projects that I want to work on all at the same time, and I don't know which decision to make. How does someone get certainty when there's so many options and people telling them what to do?

Such a great question. In my prosperity seminars, I talk about 5 different concepts of how to manifest prosperity. The first one is the limited beliefs about building your vessel. Another one is is simply the power of oneness and focus. One of the things that the negative side does, as you aim to be successful, are successful, is to dilute your focus and work on many things. I have learned that there are only two things I ever want to focus on. One is my brand, as long as I have it. And one is my spiritual platform. These are two things. Now, how many opportunities come to me? Someone comes to me and says, oh, you should invest in Bitcoin or crypto. I said, look, maybe, but I'm not. Here's a huge opportunity to invest in something. Here's a board of a company you should be on. Here's a this and here's a that. And by the way, they're all very lucrative potentially. And some of them are guaranteed wins. In fact, It's the guaranteed wins that are the most dangerous because you're like, well, I'll do that too. And what the negative side does is divide and conquer. Once your attention is divided, everything becomes less of the vibration and state of manifestation. So I have learned to find one, maybe two things, and there are some people who can handle more. Yes. But for the majority of us, we need one or two things. And to go very deep, deep, deep, deep, deep and pull our energy into because someone asked me, if you had to build a vitamin company today, how would you do it? One is I have seen why other people can't do it is because 100% of their attention and focus is not on that. I said, you want to compete with me?

Right.

Good luck. I mean, yeah. Am I, am I attention is 100% on this obsessed and I'm obsessed. Now, if you're doing 6 other things, it's going to be very hard to energetically shift and move and open those gates. So the person who is the most focused wins. So if you're trying to break into a new industry, it's the focus is the only way that's really going to work, right? Starting point. Now, the question I think your audience is asking or that you said you think they're asking And so how do I know of these 10 different options I have, which one to do? And this is true. This is a good question. This is—

I have all these passions. I have all these things that excite me.

Yeah. And I want to do all of them. And I don't know which one's the right one. How would I deal with that? One, I would acknowledge this is not bad. The Creator is showing me 10 options. That alone is good. Because when you say something is bad, you will never understand it. When you say, "This relationship was bad," or "The situation is bad," or "The fact that I don't know what to do is bad," you already aren't on the vibration to understand what needs to be done. So you have to first say it's good. Just even if you don't mean it, say it over and over again. "This is good that I don't know what to do." Now that you've said it's good, you've established a connection to the miraculous realm of the Light of the Creator. Now this Light will illuminate what you should do. If I didn't know what I should do, I'd do nothing. And I continue with prayer. I will walk all around Los Angeles like I always do, and I will say, what, show me, show me what is the right thing for my soul. And here is my spiritual peace offering. I'm also going to work on my negativity. That spiritual quadrant, because that will then expand my vessel to get the answer. If you don't know what to do, it means you haven't merited the answer. You haven't earned the answer from the universe. Well, how do I earn an answer? You have to build your vessel for the answer. So certainty, spiritual work, and these other two quadrants, which I'm going to say, which is the third one is prayer, which I just mentioned. Prayer is the third quadrant. Is all building the vessel even to get an answer. These four quadrants can be used to manifest anything, even an answer. You need an answer about something and you're not getting it? Well, the answer is there because the answer comes before the question. What came first, God or the vessel? God. So what came first, the light or the vessel?

The answer.

The answer comes before the question.

The knowledge, the wisdom.

Correct. The only reason there is a question is because there was an answer before that. If you have a question, it means the answer is already there. Well, why isn't it revealed to me? Because your vessel hasn't been built for it. So let's build it.

Is that prayer?

The third quadrant is prayer. So if you pray—

What's the difference between spirituality and prayer?

Spirituality is the concept that I have a soul and my soul has a purpose, and I am now going to learn about that purpose in order for my soul to receive everything that it is meant to receive. This is the definition of spiritual. It's the way everybody says they're spiritual. I ask someone, are you religious? They go, no, no, we're spiritual. It's like a great— people love saying it because they resonate with this idea. Yeah, I'm a soul and I'm meant to receive everything, so I'm spiritual. Now, certainty is a concept, is a vibration, is a quality of the Creator that I must inhabit in order to be on a spiritual path. So a spiritual person is also a certain person. Prayer. Oh, prayer. Was it, was it prayer that you said? Yeah, yeah. So prayer. Okay, I'm sorry. I thought it was certainty. So prayer, same thing. Prayer is another technology. By which I can best transform my vessel. Because every time I pray, my vessel vibrationally changes and everything becomes clear and expands and the energy can come in.

What does prayer look like for you?

Depends on what I'm asking for. So let's say I don't feel enough certainty. I'll just keep asking for certainty in my own language over and over again.

How do you, how do you say it? Creator, uh, give me certainty.

That's it. Give me certainty. I am certain. I want certainty. I have certainty in this. I have certainty in my happiness. I have certainty that this thing is good. And I'll actually go through every problem in my life and say, I have certainty that this is good. I have certainty that this is good. I have certainty that this is good. So I'll start to inject the light force of certainty in everything that is currently not working. Because if I don't proactively do that, subconsciously your mind thinks it's a bad thing. So you're blocking the energy. If you do nothing, if you don't pray, the default is that you think something is bad. That doesn't go your way. That's just how we're built. So you actually have to reprogram your body and mind every morning and point to everything that's not working and say, I have certainty.

I have certainty this is working or this will work or—

All of them work. I have certainty that this is good. I have certainty that it will work. It's actually more powerful to say I have certainty that it is already done. I've already reached the level of manifestation is actually a higher vibration.

Okay. Wow.

But I let people kind of comfortably find what works for them. Gotcha. Sometimes just saying one thing may not be appealing to someone and they need some baby steps along the way.

How often are you praying on a daily basis?

So I have learned that 99% of my day needs to be prayer. And even now, 99% of your day is prayer. So like even now we're praying. This is prayer for you. Well, what maybe the audience doesn't see is that every pause I'm taking or when you're talking, in my mind I'm like, Creator, please make sure that the next word that comes out is like, it is the right word. So I'll be praying for that. Or when I'm drinking the water, I'm saying, I want that the light in this water is what I connect to, not the physicality of the water. Because everything also has light in vessel. And if your intention when you drink or eat is, I'm just hungry. So you're feeding, you're feeding the pain.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you're feeding the body consciousness, which is the doubts, the fears, and negativity. So Kabbalists have this whole thing about how to eat food, how to choose chew food. Say, if you chew food until it's liquid— actually, science says the same thing— chew food until it's liquid, what you're doing, the mastication of food, is separating the physical from the spiritual. And so by doing that, you're elevating the negative, coarser part of the food out, and you're elevating the light that's in it. So what will happen is your consciousness will be elevated. But if you just kind of eat and just shove it in your mouth and you're like, I'm hungry, Your intention here is to feed and empower your body consciousness, which is the selfishness, the insecurity, the neediness, the lust of the body, the need for power of the body. So even food is a technology if used in the right way. Sure. To elevate your consciousness of certainty.

Okay.

So that's prayer.

And then the fourth part is physical.

Yes. Now, if I did all of this and I just sat on my couch, there's a problem. Because while we spiritually need to earn everything, the body also needs to move. The body needs to earn itself. This is why the gym is important. This is why exercise is important. Exercise is actually very spiritual. Kabbalists say that when you sweat, the sweat is actually the breaking of negativity as well. And that's why almost every time you sweat, you feel good because you're cleansing negativity.

I sweat all the time, so I must have negativity that needs to come out of me.

You sweat very well, right? So it's a great feeling. You sweat when you're pushing when you're proactively pushing yourself.

Yeah.

So the body's cleansing itself when it sweats, and that's what sweat is. It's the cleansing of the body consciousness. Um, so, and sleep, by the way, what sleep does spiritually is the soul has, has, is so pure that when it's inundated with all the negativity of this world and the limited consciousness and the fears and not just of you, but everybody around you. The soul needs to recharge and cleanse itself. Science even says our body rejuvenates itself, so why do we need to sleep? Sleep is actually a spiritual process that the body benefits from. The soul leaves at night, and the body experiences actually a little bit of death, and that's why it starts to cleanse itself. And, you know, a person wakes up in the morning, they have bad breath, they have this, they have that, they need to like kind of clean themselves, they need to use the restroom. It's because when the soul leaves, it's kind of pushing. The soul leaves, it recharges, comes back, and it pushes out of the body like the negativity. So there's a cleansing happening every time we sleep. So when we sleep well, we are, we have higher consciousness, we have more certainty, we have more happiness, we have more joy. So sleep is also a spiritual process that enhances these four quadrants. So the physical work is so important in terms of the way you eat, the way you sleep, The way you exercise, all for the sake of uniting yourself with the Creator, not to impress someone or because you're insecure. Shift it to, I want to be like the Creator. And actually working in your company, in your business, like you actually have to put the time in. Elon Musk didn't just say, I have certainty, and, you know, did everything. He actually was sitting in his factories working really hard as well. So when hard work— when a person is just physically working hard, the reason why it's not working is because they're missing the other 3 quadrants. And that is why it feels like nothing's moving.

So you could work really hard, spend tons of time, but not feel like you're getting a lot of results or feel like the results are coming very slowly. Or for others, it becomes more effortless. But for you, it's harder. And maybe you've been doing it for years. It's because you're not focusing on all 4 quadrants. To improve the quality of them, or maybe you're not doing one of them or two of them or whatever it might be. And so you should be assessing, okay, within these four areas of my life— spiritual, certainty, prayer, and physical— do I have any blocks? And spiritual. Yeah, spiritual is number one, right? Number two, certainty. Number three, prayer. Number four, physical. Do I have any blocks? Am I paying attention to this area of my life or am I neglecting it? If I'm neglecting it, How can I improve it? All these different things and making it a daily practice to try to improve all 4 of them.

Correct. And the truth is each quadrant, I could probably give 10 to 20 classes and seminars on like how to go deeper and what it really means. And all of this is in my masterclass as well, but this is kind of like the headline of it. Sure. But there's depths of it. And if you go deeper into each one, you will be a manifestation powerhouse. Like, wow, everywhere you go, you can open any gate, and then you collapse time as well, and you do it much quicker.

What's the area— what's— which key do you struggle with the most in your life right now? Spiritual certainty, physical, or prayer, or physical? Which one is blocking you from the next level?

I would say in the spiritual category, at this stage, like things have moved so quickly for me lately. Um, so much has come in that it's kind of the negative side is using it as a way to distract me.

What do you mean?

I think that, I think that the I got to a place I was so methodical about my spiritual work and step by step and how do I break through and then things open. So as long as things go methodically for me, I'm good. And they go slowly and patiently, like I'm very structured.

But now it's abundantly flowing to you.

So the Creator and the negative side got together and said, okay, how do we really test him? Let's give him so much momentum that it actually distracts him. Really? Yeah. So what I've kind of learned now is to not fall into that. I'm trying to anyways, I'm trying not to fall into that and constantly rebalance because there's so many shiny objects. There's so many ways and opportunities and like, what do we do and how do we do it? That very easily I could lose myself. And I have, by the way, like there's like, I'm not sitting here saying, guys, I got this. Like I am in the same seat as everybody else.

Not a perfect guy.

Just a different level.

Yeah, yeah. Just different levels.

I hate to even say that because it's kind of like We're all so different in so many different ways, but I can just tell you the same mistakes you make, I make. The same fears you have, I have. The same problems you have, I deal with on a daily basis. The same pain. It's all the same. And in my case, I am just learning that I can very easily get lost in the momentum of things. And I need to always remember what's important. What is important for me? That I'm reminding myself is my family, is the spiritual work that got me here. Because now he's like, okay, I got all this manifestation, whatever, this happened, that happened, uh, and you forget. Because my teacher, one of my teachers, Karen Berg, said whatever miracle you're having today is because of seeds you planted 6 months ago or 6 years ago. 6 years ago.

Yeah, yeah.

So if you want to have miracles again in 6 months or in 6 years or in 6 days, plant the same seeds now that you did before. The greatest seed you can plant for miracles is when you are so broken, so at the bottom, so confused, so like hopeless, but you inject happiness, certainty, and you do those 4 quadrants when you're at the bottom. It's the greatest light that can be revealed. So I know that a lot of the great things that are happening in my life today are from— let me think about it— it was some That was probably from one of the most painful times of my life. I mean, a lot of painful things happened last year, the transition of obviously, you know, family and relationship. A very painful thing happened 4 years ago, which was like one of the worst things. Like every 4 years something crazy happens. And then I know that either a year or 2 or 3 years later, there's a huge blessing that comes as well. So I'll tell people, if you're going through that now, that darkness, that broken, that like, I don't even know what to I do, and it's— I'm so scared. If you apply these 4 quadrants right now, it's the greatest soil to plant the seeds.

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I love that you started this when we talked about going from kind of broke to millionaire today. If you had to restart this process or teach this process to someone who's struggling financially, that's trying to earn a lot of money.

Yeah.

That you don't give some, you know, go register a business domain or start an LLC or, you know, buy this book and learn these kind of financial strategies. You're not teaching that first. You're saying understand your spiritual vessel and take an assessment of where you are in the 4 areas of life: spiritual, your level of certainty and belief in yourself, uh, your, your prayer, your level of prayer and how that looks for you, and your physical world. Because I think a lot of people get ahead of themselves on how do I make money, whatever you need to create, I need to come up with some good idea and then execute this idea. They get ahead of themselves on the product, the process, uh, who they need to hire before assessing themselves, correct? Creating self-awareness on their life, correct? And these are the— like you said, this is the soil for you to expand and grow, correct? And without having fertile soil, without having the assessment of these kind of four areas, you will ultimately fail or be stressed or be overwhelmed or burdened with something else. And be brought back to these four areas. That is correct. So you might be getting ahead of yourself and be successful on the outside, but suffer on the inside without applying these four keys and constantly being reminded of them. Correct. So that is the first— I don't know if that's the first four steps for you then, but would there be other steps after that? Once you were like, okay, I'm going to get into a spiritual practice and ask God to show me what my soul needs right now to expand my vessel, I'm going to have certainty that this is everything, that everything that's happening for me is happening for my good, for my benefit, for growth. I'm certain this is working out. I'm certain this is for me. Thank you so much. Appreciating what you're creating right now. Into prayer. Give me the certainty. I have certainty. I am certainty. I am wealth. Like saying these things over and over again.

And you can ask for anything. Yes.

And then making sure that the body is taking care of itself, that you are taking care of your body, you're moving, you're sweating, you're sleeping, you're intentional about what you're eating and how you're consuming all these different things. Once you've got that foundation and you still gotta go make money now.

Yes.

What are you doing next?

Well, here's what's amazing. When you do these 4 things, you are connected on such a vibration where you start to have divine inspiration. So, ah, the divine ideas and thoughts become to a person who's doing these 4 things. We know that when a person is happy, they receive messages. When a person is sad, they don't receive messages. And why? Because it's a vibration of energy. Happiness is in line with the light of the Creator. So you're receiving divine inspiration. You're receiving visions of the future. You're receiving the right words at the right time. You're actually finding yourself in the right place at the right time. And it's all working out when you're on that vibration. When you're not on that vibration and you have sadness or laziness, there's laziness or there's this being stubborn and not listening, then it's like the thoughts are blocked, the ideas are blocked. You could be saying the right things, but people don't feel you. I've heard this so many times. They'll be like this. I hear you saying all the right things, but it's like, like the energy's off. The energy's off. Or they hear something totally different because everybody feels our energy. They're not listening to our words. This is a very powerful thing that I've also learned, because when I started to like want to put content out there, one of the mistakes I knew I could have made was, I want to— how do I make really the content unique? And I was talking to somebody else recently and she's like, I haven't found my niche to put out new unique content. I don't want to be like every other influencer. And I said, look, if you're trying to solve this in the physical realm, Oh, this is a niche. This is my niche. You'll get far, but the world is looking for something very different. And I actually think content for our next generation, what the audience will really appreciate, I call it Content 2.0. It's less about the hacks of life and, you know, hey, like, like we said before, like if you're in a breakup, block them for 30 days and like respect yourself. Like all of these things is like really great, but we've heard it a lot. Then 2.0 is the energy you transmit through the content, the certainty you transmit through the content, the spirituality through the work you've done on yourself that you transmit through the content. This will be the new era of influencers because people are now— people see through the BS. People see through the I'm telling you what I think is great to hear, but they don't believe it or they don't have certainty around it or something, or they're turning off the camera and going back and screaming at their kids or cheating on their wife or whatever it is that's going on. So the— so they're saying one thing but doing another, right? And by the way, we're all— we're all like inauthentic in some way. I— whatever I say to you, am I living it perfectly? Absolutely not. The question becomes, what is your desire? If your desire is to always reach that level, it is as if you have reached that level. But if you're really just living two different lives and you're like, I know this is what the world wants to hear and this is actually what I want to do, that polarity is going to be shut down and not rewarded, I believe, in the next 5 to 10 years. Wow. So you do not have to be perfect, but you have to have a desire to want to grow these 4 quadrants. The desire itself is the immunity and the protection, and your audience will feel it. And I really wanna emphasize that. Don't try to be perfect. I've tried this and it has backfired tremendously. I've tried to look perfect. I've tried to say, oh my God, if I'm on a spiritual platform, I can't make any mistakes. I can't, I used to not leave my house for fear that I would make a mistake and ruin my reputation. It was that bad. Wow. That was, that was why I said in the last podcast, I didn't even date a woman from the age of 20 to 29 until the day I got married because I was so afraid of making a mistake or hurting somebody, having a bad reputation, somebody calling me an asshole, somebody calling me a creep, somebody calling me whatever. And then I realized I was actually avoiding very much what my probably spiritual work was at the time, which was, you know, need for approval, let's say. Wow. So it is very—

because you don't want to be criticized or you didn't want someone to say you're not living up to the standard that you're preaching or something like that.

No, I think there's, I feel like I would be, if I had to get on a stage and say something and feel that when I got off of it, I did the exact opposite intentionally. I would die inside. Like I would feel like I could not. And I think most people cannot do that. Like you can't like get on and talk when you know you're doing something else.

Yeah. It's not authentic.

Intentionally.

It's not authentic. It's a disconnection. What is the biggest fear for you then? We've, we've heard the, the, the thing that you maybe, I mean, I guess you're, again, you're doing all these 4 things at a high level, but you're saying the spiritual aspect is the thing that's speaking to you that you need to continue to step into. Yeah. Even though that's not, it's not like you've erased the spiritual aspect, but you're like, okay, I need to refocus on this at another level. Yeah. But what is the biggest fear you face in your life right now? Because you have this billion dollar plus brand. You have a growing audience of communities that are inspired by you. You're the healthiest you've ever been. Um, you know, your kids are starting to grow up. What is your biggest fear? You have spiritual wisdom that you've been teaching and serving for a long time. You know, what's, what's the big fear for you?

I think in some of my most recent walks and meditations and prayer, and I ask like, what is my soul meant to do? And you know, I see, I see like a future. I see a vision of something I know I would love to do and desire to do and believe I'm meant to do. Uh, let's say for example, it's an audience. 'Cause again, I, I only started this like half a year ago or 8 months ago. I, if I want to reach, if I want to be of service to, let's say, 100 million people, that they learn this wisdom of the Creator, not my wisdom, like totally be clear about that. This is not my wisdom. This is not my content. This is all stuff I've learned from my teachers. I've learned it from their teachers for thousands of years. And I love that we can have access to it. And I would love to be part of that process of bringing it to the world. But how am I, how would I, I ask my question, how would I sabotage that? Because if I'm a vessel for that, the question's gonna be, what do I need to do to expand the vessel to fit that energy through to 100 million people, right? I don't know if my audience is a couple million now, I would have to become a completely different person to service 100 million people or a billion people and not fall. There's a lot of times we can get to those numbers. And then there's a crash that happens. So I'm always asking myself, like, what do I need to do to the best of my ability to expand my vessel to service those souls if I feel that's my purpose? One of the things that's come up, and I'll just be vulnerable about it, is that I think the most dangerous thing we all face, and I have it real big, is the need for validation. Right? We all love being validated. We love when people message us and say, you're amazing.

That was the best. You're awesome.

Hey, but every time somebody says that was the best podcast with you and Lewis, I'm like sending it to you right away.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, did you see that? And the truth is it's great to receive thank yous and compliments and validation. But I ask myself, what's gonna happen when there's like, you, you give a seminar for 1,000 people. Like I came to your seminar, like you had 4 or 5,000 people there. And I asked myself, If I was on the stage, like, I would, I would be like, wow, like, look at me. And the fact that that would affect me and change me means I'm not ready for it.

Interesting. But you've been teaching workshops for 20 years.

I have.

To big audiences, to massive celebrities, billionaires. Like, they all come to you and say, teach me, coach me, help me.

So I remember when I was 24 years old, I started at 20 teaching seminars. At 24, I went on tour. And I went to 4 different cities a week for a year. Wow. So I don't know what it was. I did like 200-something seminars. And so I would go to Phoenix, there'd be like 300 people there. I would go to San Francisco, there was 700 people there. Like I went and I went, I went with like a group of 5 people. I was staying at the great hotels. I was eating great food. And I'm like, this is like rockstar. I felt so great.

People come up to you after the speech and you're amazing and you're changing my life and thank you.

So new for me. I'm like, this is amazing, right? You feel like you're changing the world. You feel like you're doing something spiritual. I think after like the 30th one, and it's the same seminar over and over again, I was like exhausted. I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore. I don't want to see people anymore. I remember like vomiting in the airports. I wasn't sleeping enough on flight after flight after flight. And I'm like, I didn't, I like didn't want it at all. And I didn't want to go to another city. And at some point, people coming up to you and saying, that was great, becomes the opposite. It's more like you feel like they're taking energy from you.

Mm. Now that they're telling you the whole life story for 3 hours and you're trying to be present and serve and you're like, okay, now I'm exhausted.

Correct. Before it was like, wow, look, they want my energy. Now it's like, oh my God, they want my energy.

Right, right, right.

So I remember calling my mentor at the time and I said to him, so why? Like one of, like probably one of the wisest spiritual teachers. His name is Michael Berg, and I said to him, I said, I said, I don't want to do this anymore. Like, I'm exhausted. I want to come back to LA. I want to sleep in my bed. I want to like just teach there. And he said to me something I'll never forget. One of the most profound things he ever said. He said, you need to know everything you've done up to this point actually was no revelation of light because you were the taker. You went to San Francisco and you took validation from them. I know it looked like you gave them. But you took from them.

But you did it because you were excited about the validation you were getting.

Correct. And so, yes, they look like they were inspired, but to the extent of the taking is they're not going to be left with the blessing and the miracle. They're not going to remember the wisdom. The reason why we still— there's the major religions of Christianity and Buddhism and Islam and Judaism. Like, the reason why these words of these great sages still continue till today is because they perfected their need for approval. They perfected their vessel to truly be pure channels, and so their words became immortal. Wow. And the reason why most people just forget about us after a certain point is because our words are not immortal, because we are really like, we're mixing some purity with a lot of selfishness as well. And I thought to myself, to the extent of my need for validation is to the extent that not only will my words not carry, not only will the message not carry, but I will not be able to reach that group of people. So he said to me, he said, from this moment on, everything you do will actually be giving because you don't want to do it anymore. You're not even enjoying it. You look at someone approaching you, you're like, oh God.

Oh no.

Yeah, yeah. And then when you look them in the eye and you talk to them, this is, you are now God. Because you don't have any desire to receive for yourself.

But isn't the whole point of life to receive? Yes. So how are we creating something to serve?

Very deep question.

We're creating to because we want to serve. And the whole point is to receive all of our life's desires and dreams and manifestations and abundance, right? So do we just create and not receive anything?

You are now asking the most powerful question and from this moment on, if I answer it, we are actually now studying Kabbalah. Because everything before this was like pre-Kabbalah. It was like scrimmage. Because I didn't—

It was JV.

I rarely— yeah, it was JV. Now we're on the varsity. If you want to hear the answer to this, because— and for the audience that's going to hear it, it's going to sound contradictory and it's going to bend your mind a little bit, but you're going to feel the energy of it. Because Kabbalah is so powerful and advanced, and I almost never on a podcast format, that. We'll go into it. I'll do it in my masterclasses because we have time. But here's the thing. There are two vessels inside of you to receive. One is called a linear vessel and one is called a circular vessel. What do we know about a linear vessel? It has a beginning and an end. Meaning, if you feed that vessel, you're always going to feel good and then it's going to be gone. And this is how most people feel. I got validation, I feel amazing, and then tomorrow I need it again.

Mm.

Okay? Most people are operating in the linear vessel. When you get to that point where you no longer enjoy the giving and you still push through with the intention of, I'm doing this to become one with the Creator because I just want affinity of form. Mm. You now shift to a circular vessel. The circular vessel is endless. And no chaos can come in this. And now you can receive endlessly, because what happens when you don't care anymore, but you still give? I can give you a million dollars, I can give you $100 million, I can have a million people say you're amazing, it won't affect you. Because you're serving now, you're looking for validation from the Creator.

Mm.

And you can only get to that second phase when you no longer are in the mood to give, and then you shift through that darkness.

So what does that look like specifically for you right now, or, or for someone watching right now? Maybe they do something, maybe it's with a good intention, but unconsciously, or they still want that validation, or they still want someone to acknowledge them, or they still want someone to appreciate how hard they're showing up for them, or whatever. Maybe it's an employee and they want that from their boss consistently. Maybe it's a, your, your romantic partnership, you do something for your partner and they're not thanking me or appreciating me enough. You know, I'm guilty of all those things. Yeah. So what would the process look like for, for anyone or for yourself to going from a linear vessel of I'm going to do something and I hope to get something.

Yeah. And then I got to do it all over again.

And then I got to keep showing up every day and like, because I—

then somebody doesn't give you a validation, you're depressed for 3 or 4 days.

Well, you're resentful, you're frustrated, you're, you're angry, you know, whatever. You're negative. You're negative thought process. So how do we get out of this linear loop that holds us back from needing something consistently, when we still need things to live and survive also in the physical realm, to getting into a circular place where you don't care about receiving something, but you still give and then you receive abundantly.

Mm-hmm. 99% of this spiritual work is just wanting it. So what I hope from this podcast everyone hearing is, hey, we're all in the same boat. We all want validation. We want everyone to love us. Like, we want to be the man or the woman. We want to be it. Let's admit that that's our problem. Yes. And then let's pray, ask, and desire and say, I want to get to this circular place where I don't need it at all and I can truly serve and be a giver, and I receive only the validation of the Creator. I invoice the Creator. I don't invoice the people. I have learned that when I make, do a favor for someone, immediately I write an invoice to the Creator. I do not, otherwise I will look for something from the person. I did something for them. Why aren't they doing something for me? There's nothing more powerful than invoicing the Creator.

So what does that look like? You do something for someone else. You give a speech, you do this podcast, and 1,000 people message you. You're amazing, David. That was incredible. You blew my mind. Thank you for your wisdom. You're changing my life. Yeah. How do you invoice the creator instead of people validating it?

When, when it's coming to you, you have to pause constantly and say, okay, one second. What is this doing to me? Is this inflating my ego? Is this what is making me feel a certain way? How do I recalibrate myself back to becoming the vessel that creates miracles? How do I get back to being the cause? Because as soon as somebody validates you, you become the effect. Now they are controlling my mood. I am no longer in the vibration of God and the Creator, and I am now actually not planting any more seeds. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't compliment people. We should.

And you don't want to bypass and say, oh, it's all the Creator, you know.

You don't want to bypass.

Don't say, uh, don't— it's not me, it's the Creator.

Never say that to them. You always say thank you to them. You never say, oh no, no, it's not me, because you're also you're now rejecting their ability to shine their light.

You're blocking their gift.

Exactly. So it's the constant calibration of— this is why slow and steady wins the race. And if you get too successful too fast— So true. Yeah. You get too famous too fast, it's almost impossible to recalibrate your consciousness. You almost have to fall and then the recalibration happens, which, by the way, has happened to me many times. I've fallen and then I had to recalibrate. I'm learning now, if I want to go at this momentum, I need to like pray more. I need to like ground myself more. I need to spend time with people who have achieved this. I went to dinner. I was in Miami. I went to dinner with someone. I had two options to go somewhere really fun or go to this dinner. And I went to the dinner. It was three, three people. And I'm trying to see if I am allowed to, you know what, I'm going to say his name because I think that He would appreciate it and it would be context of the story. Do you remember Adam Neumann from— Yeah, WeWork. WeWork, right? Yeah. So he's got a, he's got a great story, right? So Adam, uh, a lot of people don't like his story, but yeah, a lot of people don't like it. I'm not here to like give him a panache, right?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah. But there's a very powerful—

Uh-huh. Where he fricking exploded and this massive unicorn got huge investment, but then it all crumbled. WeCrash was the documentary. I was in it.

You were in it?

Well, they took a part of my, um, oh wait, actually I, they took an interview clip of mine and recreated it.

Oh really?

Because I had the only interview with Rebecca.

Oh yes.

And so they kind of recreated that clip of me and they even say like School of Greatness, but it was some actor. So that's somebody else.

Anyways, I love that.

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So you had dinner with him.

So I met Adam for the first time before he had WeWork, and I was teaching privately in someone's home.

Before he had WeWork, he met him.

Before he had WeWork.

Wow.

He had his other company. Before he was Adam. Like there was no, and he was learning Kabbalah in this home.

Interesting.

Yeah, it was a private thing. So I've known him all these years and he has been an incredible, he and Rebecca have been incredible friends, mentors, guides in so many different ways. Like when you get to know who they are and the love they have and what they want to give, like like, I've always kept them by myself. So, and married with them.

I went to the school that she created and I thought it was a fascinating concept and I was there and I was watching. I was like, these kids are playing music in the morning and they're running around and it's creative learning. And yeah, I was like—

I just heard about the school in Miami. She was just telling me about it. I'm like, oh my God, I want this in LA. That would be— I would love my kids to be in that. So I went to this dinner and he said to me, he said, look, I see what's happening to you. I see what's happening to your platform. I see what's happening to your business. And it was a 4-hour conversation. And they, I, what I got from that was basically the energy of, we hope, we never want you to crash. Here are the things you should do.

So that doesn't happen. So that doesn't happen. Well, what do you say?

Okay. So the biggest thing was the validation. Ah, he said, you have to be from a validation point of view. You have to make sure that you do not allow this to take you from the core of who you are and from everything you did to get to this point. You reconnect with your spirituality deeper and deeper than ever. Reconnect with your mentors and teachers and the ones who were there for you more deeper and deeper than ever before. He also said something very interesting. They have a great relationship together. And he said, you know, being in a relationship and being in a healthy relationship, a romantic relationship, whatever, like this is also a very important thing. It makes you choose wisely. The greatest thing that ever happened to me in my life is my relationship partnership with Mary Ruth, a female figure in my life who undoubtedly without her, I would not be anywhere that I am today. Like I owe everything to her. And so whoever that partner is in your life, right? The way Maruth took me from who I was to where I am today and whatever that next chapter of my life is, like this, they said, was so valuable because that is who you're spending the most time with. That is who is affecting your consciousness. That's who is affecting your belief systems. And so this is a very important thing as well. And the third thing they said, remember the intention. Of why you are teaching this wisdom. And it is only about the light of the Creator and helping people connect with the light of the Creator, know the Creator, and not know you. Because one of the things I struggled with is, as a marketer by trade, what's the smartest way to bring this wisdom out?

Personal brand. Personal brand. Yeah.

So that's interesting.

So how do you— build personal brand because people need to hear from a messenger. They need to hear from people that they can connect with or relate to from their story, their backstory. And so how, how do you, or how does anyone build a personal brand without losing themself in the desire to be validated constantly from their community or audience? Because the personal brand is gonna help you probably get to the next level of reaching people. They need to know about you if you wanna impact 100 million people. Yeah, but how do you not let that take over your soul of like, oh, I'm the man, or I have all this attention, or people love me?

Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know yet because I'm just going to be honest.

I don't.

Yeah, I don't fully know because I'm going through it. And I also believe I'm failing, by the way. I like, I remind myself every day, most likely you're failing this because that will actually positioned me better to not be delusional. So most likely I'm failing.

I got it all figured out. I'm doing perfect.

Yeah. It is so scary to me because it's happened to me and I've seen it happen to people very close to me. So I almost always assume that I'm not doing it right. So do I know how to do that? I'm struggling with it. I am praying every day. And I think this is probably the answer. I know my heart's in the right— I believe my heart's in the right place. I know my intention is I want to be pure. I don't want to be corrupted. I don't want to fall to this. I do see my negativity come up regularly in— and this is new negativity, right? Because I've never been in this position before. So like, I'm so human. Like, I always want to like let the world know, like, I'm human. Like, know that I'm going to disappoint you. And I am doing right now the best I can, which is pray and ask and just be around good people who I know will call me out. Yes. So, and, and they called me out for like 4 hours. Really? Yeah. Oh yeah. And the first thing, and I felt, I felt, I felt my soul and I left. And then I called, I texted him the next day. I said, I need, um, to hear that more often. And I want to have that because it's not the words they said. Remember, they've gone through it.

They've been the highest high, all the attention, all the investors, all the money, all the press, and then boom.

Yeah. And, and, and I, and one of the things I asked, I said, what was really, what really like, what's the one thing that really did it? It's those covers of the magazines, he said. I mean, can you imagine being on the COVID of Forbes, cover of Times, cover— like, I know if I— if that happened to me—

You mean it got his validation too big or—

Oh, it's just like how all the energy happened, right? Like, once all of that happens, right? And I really hope it's okay I share this. I believe that they would want this message to be out there. I know if I was on the COVID of Forbes, I'd probably be demolished. My soul would probably rot at that point. Really? Level of ego that would— Really? And, and, and, um, but if someone is, uh, so how then? Me, I'm not saying other people.

I'm saying from me, let's say, let's say if that's something that you desire to reach hundreds of millions of people and, and spread a message of light, energy, love, and wholeness to the world.

Yeah.

And people want to acknowledge you to spread this message on the COVID of magazines, on podcasts or whatever it might be, billboards or whatever, everything. It's like you're out there, your face.

Yeah.

David Keough, the man, the man who brings the message to the masses. Yeah. David Keough, you know, it's like, how will you approach that to say, oh yes, I desire this also to bring it and this is a consequence of me spreading this truth, spreading this message, and I'm going to be on the COVID of things and things are going to happen for me and millions of people are going to see these things. How will you set your future self up now? What seed are you planting now to set yourself up so that you don't lose yourself, your ego, in the linear vessel and you go into this circular vessel of I'm just pouring this back into the Creator, back into light energy and redoing those four keys in my life and making sure I have the foundation and putting in circular, not linear. What's the seed you need to plant now for that to happen? So when you're on the COVID of Forbes, when you're on the COVID of whatever, it doesn't get to you.

That is the question.

Yes.

And that is, I think, the only solution. I need to ask myself that question every day.

Because it's coming. If you desire it.

Yes.

It will happen.

Yes.

The momentum is there.

Yeah, there are things that I see and that I feel, which means it's destined to happen either in this lifetime or next. That's my free will. When? Time will be the free will of when it happens.

So if you were, if the Creator is speaking to you right now and saying, this is exactly what you need to do in order for you to receive all the blessings and to be able to share my message with the world. And to serve humanity at the highest level, to bring them light, to expand their vessel so they are able to remind themselves that they are made of pure love and wholeness. What does the Creator need to say to you so that your ego doesn't think you're the one doing this when the fame, the success, the magazine covers come your way?

This is why I love spending time with you, because you ask me these questions all the time. So I'm trying to take myself out of my body and ask if the Creator was asking me. Mm-hmm.

Or what is the Creator telling you?

You know, there's a— it's harder for me to describe in words, but I can describe in feelings. There's a feeling I have. I know when I've been broken and like, what that broken feeling is and I still go out there. That feeling is a very powerful place to be. That's— it's like you're broken, but you're appreciative. You're broken, but you're happy. That's the only protection. And I have to always try to connect to that energy and duplicate that so that crashing doesn't do that. And just as you're saying it, I think I would need to take even more time out of my day instead of manifesting things, instead of working, instead of trying to make more money, I need to work on building that feeling and that consciousness because that vessel is what's gonna be able to hold that future that you just talked about. And I think what I'm actually realizing as I'm talking to you is the negative side, this like dark force that we all have an opponent, this opponent could very well be giving me so much good things so that I don't spend any time or I just don't have the time to reconnect to that consciousness of a broken vessel.

Because you have so much momentum, so many opportunities. Oh, this is all these blessings are coming to me and my whole purpose is to receive them.

Right.

So I'm receiving, I'm receiving all this is coming, it's coming.

Right. So all these things I'm doing will draw in the energy, but I'm actually not taking the time to build the vessel that will hold it when it comes, that's the danger.

So it's getting away from those four keys. Yes. It's like, it's just because you have so much going on that all your day is stacked that you kind of forget about the four keys.

That is the scariest thing here. When you get so busy and the day is stacked because the good things are happening, you then forget the spiritual and the spiritual things you did to get there.

You know what's interesting? I had a pastor on a couple years ago named Michael Todd. And Christian pastor. And he had a book come out that was on the New York Times list for— I can't remember the exact— I think it was like 3 months, every week in a row for like 3 months, something like this. And early on in his pastor mentorship with like the pastor that taught him how to be a pastor and the person he was being mentored under, his pastor mentor said, "Before you get into this, I want to remind you that, you know, I take a month every year to recharge. And every year, it doesn't matter if everything's going well, everything's going wrong, like, I take a month every year to reset, and I do no work. No work for a month, no preaching, nothing. I'm with my family, I'm recovering, etc." And he had been doing this every year for, I don't know, 7 or 8 years, as long as he's been doing the, his church and his church just took off, like crushing, like he saw him everywhere, his audience, his platform, the church, everything is crushing. The New York Times bestselling book. And the week it went on, he was on the New York Times bestseller list for every week for 3 months or something or 5 months. The week it stopped being on the New York Times bestseller list was the first week of his month of that year of his taking off time. And I go, why would you stop the momentum? And he goes, because I made a commitment and my pastor mentor told me early on that great things are gonna happen, but if I don't take time for me and my health and my relationships with my wife, my kids, like, I'll eventually fall.

Wow, what did this look like?

And, and he had a transformation with his own physical health over the last couple of years. And it's like, I think there's something to that. There's a scary thing of blocking your momentum and stopping it because you're like, but this opportunity and this thing and this thing. But it's like, if you're not willing to take care of these other things and stop yourself to pause, doesn't mean you have to block the flow of abundance coming to you, but take time to really recharge. And it might have to be in the middle of the greatest momentum you've ever had.

So hard.

It's really hard.

I think what you just said is so many people talk about how to make it. Very few people talk about how to hold it. Sustain it. Yes.

Into being circular, not a start and end.

That's right.

And so that it doesn't end and you have to restart all this momentum because you have a big crash. Correct. Going back to the WeWork founders is like, they're fine. I mean, they've got tons of money still, but have they really rebuilt something again? You know, it's like, so the bigger the crash is probably like, it takes more time to build momentum up again, right? You've got to let the dust settle. You've got to recalibrate your own personal life, all these different things, right? And maybe they've got so much money, it doesn't matter anymore. But it's like, there's still a recovery phase that happens when you crash.

Correct.

To course correct, to get back on track, to heal, mend, whatever you need to mend. And so it's just something to think about.

Yeah. We don't talk about it enough. Yeah. That's for sure.

Yeah. So it's just something to think about. But I mean, so that's your, that's your biggest fear.

I, after you said it and that's what I heard.

That's what came up for you.

That's what came up for me. Yeah. To make the time or even take the time off to always recalibrate and get to that one feeling I had before that I knew that was the perfect vessel. That was the circular vessel when you're broken, and you're crushed and you feel rejected and you feel like humiliated, like you don't even want to walk outside, but you still show up, then you're just a giver. It's not about you anymore, but then everybody loves you again. And then that's a problem, right? And the Taoist, I can say that because when you do, when you're broken, you go out there and you give, then the miracles come and then everybody loves you. So you keep, there's manifestation and then you need to recreate the vessel. The question is, Do you recreate it proactively, which is very hard, or do you wait for the universe to crush you to build it?

Yeah, man. How to go from broke to millionaire. It's all about the foundational stuff. And this is really the kind of the mindset stuff behind it because, you know, a lot of people have made a lot of money and lost it all. And so it's like, what's the point of doing it unless you have the wholeness and the peace and the certainty within you that you are creating from a place of not needing the validation, you know, receiving the blessings that come to you and creating meaningful relationships with people, but not doing it because you need the validation, but doing it because you want to give from a place of service and from a place of, I guess, giving it all up to the Creator.

Yeah. Only looking for the validation from the Creator.

Only looking for validation from the Creator. And what did you say? Taking receipts from the Creator? What is that? Invoicing the Creator?

The Creator?

What does that mean? Invoicing the Creator?

When you do a service for someone, then you send them an invoice and say, here's your— here's what you have to pay for my services, right? And one of the ways I've learned to kind of let go of resentment is I will do something for someone. I'll give them time, maybe money, maybe energy, and maybe they don't appreciate— maybe they do nothing with it. But I know that that energy is not lost. So I go to the Creator and I say, Creator, I'm now invoicing you. You have to pay this bill. Wow, that's cool. Yeah. So you pay the bill through any way you want. And then I'm, I'm not resenting the person anymore.

Because you trust the Creator's gonna bring you everything you need.

You trust and you also basically say, hey, look, this is my services. This is how much energy I use. This is my vessel I created. And this is the money.

You pay me for my service.

Pay me for my services. Well, you obviously have to let go about when and how it happens.

Yeah. And how much.

And how much. Yeah.

I did this much energy, pay me a billion dollars now. Yeah, it's not going to happen.

You should never look to take from the people. You should only look to receive from the Creator. Now, the Creator may send the people to give to you, but your intention should never be, because otherwise that's when we get upset with people.

And resentful. Man, that's been one of the biggest challenges for me is like, It's funny because I took this test or this like online quiz of like, who's your Disney character? I don't know if you've ever like—

I know what you're talking about.

Like BuzzFeed or something, or it's like of like the 1,000 Disney characters. It's like your personality test of like who you are, right? And mine was Maui. And Maui feels like he does all these things for all these people and no one appreciates him.

Oh my God.

And I was like, yeah, that's probably me. You know, it's like, yeah. And so it was just a good reminder to be like, okay, I need to stop needing the appreciation of people. And I used to be an extreme people pleaser where like, I'm just gonna give, give, give, give, give. And they didn't, people didn't, you know, acknowledge it or whatever. Right. And I'd be like, mother effers, you know, like what's going on? I'm like putting all this energy into this and they're taking it, but not even a thank you or whatever.

Right.

That's the whole Maui's thing.

It's like, wow.

He says, thank you. You're welcome. Or whatever. Right.

So, oh my gosh, that's so powerful.

He's like, I brought the moon down for you and you didn't even say thank me. I brought the freaking land down He didn't say thank you, all these things in the songs.

So, wow.

I was like, yeah, I can relate to that. That makes sense. And it speaks true to me what you're saying. Instead of like having, needing the acknowledgement from people or needing someone to thank you or needing someone to give you something in return or whatever it might be, if I'm wanting to truly be of service, then all I should be thinking of is gratitude from the Creator, not gratitude from people.

Correct.

Now, I think it'd be nice to have some type of decency of just like a simple thank you, because I don't know, I feel like there's something there, an exchange of energy with people still.

People are programmed not to give you something that you are looking for from them. That's what's interesting. People like to give to people who don't feel entitled to it in any way, or are not even expecting it. And so when you talk to the creator and you still feel you deserve, but from the creator, you say, creator, I trust the way you will manifest it with people. Then your energy is like very like whole and complete. And then people actually wanna give to you more. Yes. And that's when they actually come to you.

Yes.

It's very fascinating.

That's interesting. So it's, it's cool. Don't look for validation from people. Invoice God or the creator to pay you for your services. Yeah. And it may show up in people providing and clients.

Oh, it will.

He'll send— clients or opportunities or jobs or whatever it might be.

He'll send the people and the people will have no choice, but they'll come to you like, I don't even know why, but I gotta do this for you.

Wow.

Wow.

That's beautiful, man. Well, I appreciate you, David Deema in the house. Uh, this has been a powerful episode. Again, for people watching or listening, leave your biggest takeaway from this episode. What opened up for you? What spoke to you? What resonated? What is the one thing you needed to hear today? And what's the one action step you're gonna take to support you in the 4 keys of your, your life, spiritual, certainty, prayer, and physical, and also, What action step are you to take to go from a linear vessel into a circular vessel in your life? Share this with a friend. Let us know, even though we don't need the validation, let us know what is speaking to you, what is resonating to you. Don't worry, we won't hold on to all the validation. We'll bring it in and let it go. Yeah, yeah, we'll humble each other. But we appreciate all of your comments and the previous videos and episodes and everyone sharing this with people. I appreciate you, David, for being a channel of inspiration, of hope, of wisdom from, you know, our ancestors and wise individuals before us and being able to communicate in a way that people can understand it and communicating the message in a way where people can resonate and connect with it exactly where they're at in their life. And I hope everyone watching and listening hears exactly what they need to hear and they act on that thing in the next step. I'm not expecting people to understand all of it and try to apply it all at once. It's a lot. But if there's one thing that's speaking to you, the thing that, mm, that hits you in your heart or your chest and something where you're like, ah, yeah, I know I need to work on that, or, oh, that spoke to me, or I can relate to that. Move into that fear, move into that pain. Say, thank you. What a blessing. What a pleasure. And lean into it. So David, thank you so much for being here. DavidGyam.com, your social media, David Gyam as well. You've got masterclasses on this wisdom. It goes extensively on your website as well. Thank you. Um, and I'm excited to keep creating together, my man.

Appreciate you. My choice. Thank you so much.

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