014 Interview w Kathy Baldwin of Trader Genius

Hello and welcome to the Consistent Profits Podcast brought to you by Inside out trading and Brian McAvoy, where the focus is on consistency because when you have the consistent part down, profits become easy. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Consistent Profits podcast brought to you by Brian McAvoy of Inside Out Trading. And today I'm really excited to be talking to Kathy Baldwin, who I just recently made acquaintance of. But she's got an interesting story, so I wanted to talk to her and actually, you know, share this conversation with you. So, Kathy, glad to have you here today.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks, Brian.

Cool.

Yeah. One thing I found interesting when we first met was, you know, we were on a. Actually, we're both attendees on a webinar. And when I, when we had a chance to visit a little bit, you said that, yeah, you've been working with traders for a while, but your main thing that you've been doing, or at least we had online, was the Rise Up Coaching site and where you're doing a lot of energy work. And so if you would go and tell us just a little bit about your Rise Up Coaching site and what that's about, that journey. Yeah. Share just a little bit about that with us. That's kind of cool, because it's different in the trading world.

Yes. What I have found is that we carry with us baggage, and we all have baggage, but we also have so much potential within us. And there's been a disconnect between our society of disempowerment versus empowerment and Rise Up Coaching is designed to teach people how to integrate themselves so that they are fully aligned within their central nervous system, knowing how their brain operates, how to be able to actually steer and drive and program themselves and get themselves into a place where they're the driver of their own body and their own lives.

How'd you end up in all that and setting up the site and helping people with that?

How'd that come about?

It's been a progress. I have been a student for about 35 years. Not only stock market, but human development, how the brain works, quantum physics. There's a lot that goes behind it that I've been systematically working on. And I came to a point where I realized that our world is changing, our economics are changing. There are so many opportunities for people they don't have to hand their investments over to somebody else and just live in the mutual fund world. So what I wanted to do was when I found that the people I was coaching, money was always a thing. That was a weakness in Their foundation. And you can't have personal empowerment unless you're standing on solid ground. And as a trader that I've been trading for 25 years, it just was a no brainer to put the two of them together and help people understand that if you know yourself and you know how your body works, then we can create a trading plan that is based specifically on you. And then when you enter the market, you have a solid foundation to create financial independence.

Very cool.

So you said you've been trading for 25 years. Tell me your story as far as how you got started in trading.

Well, my parents started trading when I was a teenager. It was very small at that time. They would give instructions to their broker. You couldn't just go on and create your own. You weren't that independent. But I was surrounded by magazines on stocks and the stock market and, and finance and how everything worked and, and that was part of our dinner table conversation.

Okay, so you're now were they, were they stock investors? Because I know like my parents they, you know, they had, you know, different like stock investing clubs that they belong to and but it was mostly they weren't really trading, they were more, it was more portfolio management. And so you know, when I discovered trading it I found out yeah, it was a holder of beast. So so as far as trading yourself. So you grew up with that, how do you wind up actually getting started trading them?

When it became available to us, I was at a personal conference and Courtney Smith, who is a big hedge fund trader started trading people. And so that's where I started actually trading instead of the investing part of it. Went through, learned about how to trade and then it went trend into forex and options. And so I, I've been through quite a few different experts and hedge fund and explore traders that train me.

Oh cool.

So what are you trading in?

I love options, but I also love the binary part of forex.

Okay, so are you day trading or swing trading or what?

Swing trading.

Okay.

I do want to get into day trading one day but you've got to put a lot more attention on it than I'm doing. And right now my focus is helping people figure out how they can become empowered and.

Huh, Cool.

Well at what point did you decide to, you know, start helping other traders?

It wasn't so much helping other traders. It's more people who have never been in the stock market want to enter it and have no clue about this opportunity. So that is who I'm working with right now and targeting with my introductory course trader Genius. And from there I'd like to. A lot of traders I know have the sickness that I call where they think they know everything. And to go back and start again at personal knowledge and personal empowerment is a humbling experience.

Well, trading can be a humbling experience by itself.

Yeah.

Yes.

Most everybody who's been at it a while knows that.

Yeah.

Yeah. We've gotten slapped a few times.

Huh.

Well, so you mentioned, Excuse me, you mentioned Trader Genius.

Yes.

When, when we first met, I asked, you know, if you had any, you know, if you had a site about trading and you said you have your Rise up coaching where you talk about like your energy healing and your personal work that you do with people. But you said that you've, you mentioned Trader Genius. So what's going on with that?

Trader Genius is this new program that I've put together. The website is coming. It'll be TraderGenius IO just like Rise Up Coaching is RiseUpCoaching IO and I'm, that's where I'm going to be bringing this product to market so that people who are thinking about wanting to learn how to trade, I want to start them where I wish I had started 25 years ago. Which is the greatest asset and the greatest opponent is right inside ourselves. And if we can get control of that first before we step into the market, that's who I want to reach out and help.

Okay.

Well, so you said that you're wanting to work with people who are thinking about getting into the stock market. So where, how are you connecting with these people if they're not already like traders, which are a little easier to find? How are you connecting with these people that are thinking about the stock market?

Well, that's where my social media is coming out and explaining to people that it's an option for them. It's not that they have to hand their portfolios over to a investment advisor if they want personal empowerment and they want to step in and take care of it. But the questions that I've received from people were where do I even start? Who do I trust? What do I know? And that's what this is about is helping people take that first step, create a little bit of knowledge so that they can decide if they want to continue down the road of learning how to trade or if they just want to be knowledgeable enough to talk to their investment advisors.

Okay. Huh.

And the fa, the follow up will be going into that whole personal empowerment and connecting the stock market personality with the trader's personality and creating a full integrated trading Plan that takes into account the holistic nature of the whole person in their lives.

Right.

Okay, so you said your social media presence, are you, are you just like periodically public publishing like, you know, tweets or pictures on Instagram or like I said, how actually locating these people that are thinking about something?

Yes, I'm reaching out on Facebook, Instagram, and I'm just starting on Tick Tock. So I will be a lot more vocal on Tick Tock.

Okay. Huh. All right. Very cool.

Well, so as far as, I mean, what do you envision? So when somebody comes to you and you know, they're thinking about getting your stock market, they go through your course. What's life going to be like for them afterwards?

Well, they'll have a, a decision to make. Do they want to learn how to trade? And my, my goal would be that they start with me first. Part of the energy healing that I do is to release those money blocks, change money ceilings, so that when people start having success, they're not going to self sabotage and be able to have control over their emotional states, because the emotional part of us can sabotage any good trade.

Gotcha. Huh.

So you said energy healing. What kind of energy healing?

I am a certified practitioner of the emotion code and the body code. It is based on the quantum physics. That energy, there's no end to it. And I am able to tap into someone's energy, whether it's remote. And we can work on releasing those trapped emotions, which are chemical. All of our emotions are a chemical release from our different glands. And if we don't, if we don't release those trapped emotions because we suppress them, they get trapped in our body. And just like holding a beach ball underwater, you don't know when or where it's going to pop up or how it's going to affect you. So when we're dealing with money, especially if I can help people heal those toxic beliefs and energy that's trapped in their body, it's all part of the whole. I'm creating a whole system that it's integrating everything that I've always done and putting it together for the trainer.

Okay, well, you said. So you said you tap into somebody's energy.

Yes.

So you like, give them an iv?

No.

So how do you tap into somebody's energy? Are you like physically tapping on them with a little, you know, ref?

No, I, I can do it remotely. Dr. Bradley Nelson was the one who founded this modality. He's done years and years of research and testing, but if you and I were working together, I Could, with your permission, connect with your energy and talk to your subconscious and ask it binary questions. And based on the yes, no answer that your subconscious gives, it will direct us to what it wants to release. And then because our central meridian goes all the way through our head down to our spine, you can release it on an energetic level, which there is amazing healings that happen from that. And so I want to use that for traders to be more empowered rather than just healing.

So you said this was the emotion code and what was the other code?

The body code.

The body code, yeah. When I first saw the energy healing, I was thinking like Reiki or something.

It's very similar, except Reiki, you are physically with the person in their body. This is something I can do, zoom like this. And it's fascinating how when I tap into someone's energy, their unconscious will tell me things that they're shocked I know or have. Have found out. And it's not me, I'm not psychic. It's your unconscious will say, you know what? This is bothering me. I want to get rid of it.

Right. And. And we.

And we can clear it.

So. So how are you reaching subtask? You don't, like, put them in a hypnosis, a state of hypnosis?

No, no. Although I have done work with people who are meditating at the same time, and it's pretty profound. But no, it's just a matter of you and I having a conversation like this and tap into your energy and then ask. Like I said, it's a binary question. This, that, and there's a whole system that your unconscious can. With the body code, and then we release it with a magnet. I wasn't planning on talking about this right now. So, no, I don't have my magnet right here with me right now, but I just use a big, thick magnet, run it down my meridian, and with the permission of you, energy is connected. There's no beginning or end. And the same. When I've done this work with quantum physics, there's really no beginning or end to our body either. They've proven that the bacteria on our body is exactly the same as the bacteria inside. We just have a visual disconnect. But energetically.

What are you talking about?

With the bacteria, Every part of us, what's on the inside is on the outside and vice versa. We are more fluid and connected than we imagine. We think of ourselves as like a separate being, like a rock or something. Very disconnected. But energetically, we are fully connected at a cellular level. Because when you go, when you go to the base of any cell, it's energy.

Okay.

It just kind of lost me a little bit when you were talking about bacteria inside our body and outside our body.

I just use that as an example because I was doing some research on gut health and how our gut will communicate to the heart and the heart will communicate to the. And how all of those are part of the language that once we know what our body is saying, we can then correct or make decisions. Yes, I want to do this. No, I don't. But our body is very well aware there was a scientific experiment where somebody's heart reacted to a stimulus that was outside of their sight of vision. The heart connected to the brain and it was in full alert before it actually entered the person's awareness. So yes, yes.

I'm sorry, what was the circumstance that you're referring to? You said there was something going on outside the room or whatever it was, was outside their field.

It was just one of those science experiments to discover. It's part of the HeartMath Institute. They've done so much research. But sure, yeah. So between the heart and our brain and how. Dr. Amen is one of the people that I've studied under about how the brain works and the snapsis and how we can rewire and the neuroplasticity that we can create, creating that integration within our body, healing what needs to be healed and then coming into the market with a full sound trading plan gives an individual retail trader an edge up rather than just learning how to do a covered call or how to do an iron condor. Yes. Sorry, my words got lost there for a second. I know.

So you're tying the energy work to developing a trading plan.

Like I said, it's a full holistic way of understanding who we are, where our strengths, our weaknesses are.

What will.

Take us out of the market, healing it, creating a plan for it and then with the strengths of each individual creating a trading plan that matches their personal strengths. For example, if somebody is a really fast decision maker then binary like forex X might be best for them. But it's creating that awareness. I'll give you an example. My strength is when I commit, I commit all in, but in trading that is my weakness.