In this solo podcast episode of The Aligned Creative, host CL Palmer (aka CZ Pod Gang) expands the definition of creativity beyond art to everyday problem‑solving and entrepreneurship. He argues that recognizing the abundance already present in one’s life—love, support, utilities, and especially gratitude—creates a sense of worthiness that allows the universe to provide what is needed. Palmer shares personal anecdotes of receiving unexpected financial help and kindness when his bank account was negative, illustrating how a mindset of gratitude and self‑worth can attract more abundance. He warns against scarcity‑based thoughts such as jealousy or negative money beliefs, and offers practical encouragement to act as if one already deserves abundance, maintain inner peace, and stay aligned with one’s purpose. The episode concludes with a call to action for listeners to engage with him on social platforms and to keep cultivating their most “dopest” creative selves.
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You got an abundance of a lot of things in your life. And once you can get into understanding how much abundance is in your life that is supporting your ability to have peace, to have the energy to create the things that you want to create, then it's much easier to just allow things to flow. Yo, what up though? What's happening? Welcome to another edition of The Aligned Creative, where we sit at the intersection between passion and purpose, and the point is always to strengthen the connection between inner alignment and outer expression. I'm your host, CL Palmer, AKA CZ Pod Gang, and once again, I need to give a big thank you for showing up to this podcast giving this a shot and having an open mind to what the possibilities of creativity has in your life. We talk about creativity and let me slow down. So today on the podcast, we're going to talk a little bit about abundance. But before we get into that, again, I just want to remind everyone, creativity isn't a thing about just making art. Creativity is how you make— how you solve problems. It's creativity is how you become an entrepreneur in the first place. Because you came up with a solution. You pulled it out of the quantum, out of the ether, out of your imagination and made it real. You create stories in your life every single day. You tell yourself what type of person you are. You take a shirt, shoes, pants, hat, and you turn it into an outfit. You take ingredients out of the fridge, you take spices out of the cupboards, and you create a meal. These are all creative acts, and that's something that you have to realize, that every single thing in your life is anchored by creativity. It comes from your imagination, and then you manifest that thing into being reality. So please remember that as you go through with this podcast and any other time somebody talks about creativity, put that into perspective. So with that said, I just want to talk a little bit about abundance. I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible, but I feel like I need to get this message out so people can understand what it really means to be in abundance. So one of the things that I had to realize with myself is I needed to pull worthiness into my spirit. I had to do some real healing about what I was worth as far as being invested into because of things that happened in my childhood, because of things that have happened to me in my early adulthood. I look for so many different places for people to show up for me and tell me how much I was worthy of being invested into. And so what happens is when I don't feel worthy of the investment from others, then I don't feel like being invested for myself. And now I can't hold the abundance that the universe has for me because I don't feel worthy. And this is something that I think a lot of people struggle with. In a lot of different ways. But you got to understand that you are worthy. You're always going to be worthy. You were born worthy. Nobody has to make you feel worthy of anything. The only thing you need to do is have peace within yourself and show up as your most aligned self. Do the things that make you feel good. Have fun, enjoy life, and don't worry about anything else. Because as long as you're not energetically bringing anything, you know, karmic, any type of bad karma into your life, then like you shouldn't be worried about anything else. Straight up. You know, the thing about how abundance exists and you will see it, and I'm not going to go too deep into how you can scare abundance off, but you can repel abundance by having a certain mindset, by thinking about money in a certain way, by looking at people, being jealous, doing all of these things that don't bring the right energy when it comes to money or anything else for that matter. And that's something that I think that has to be understood when we talk about abundance and being an artist, being someone who is bringing all of the things that can support you in life. Because abundance exists in all forms and fashions. Do you have an abundance of love in your life? Do you have an abundance of, of support? Do you have an abundance of utilities, of technology? So many different things we have an abundance for, but we get focused in on money and we're not looking at what the universe has already provided for us. There have been so many times where I've had little to no money, but the universe always provided some way, somehow for me to eat and be safe. And the biggest thing that you can do to bring more abundance into your life is to just have gratitude. Just being thankful for the amount of abundance of things that you have. In your life, the people that do the things that are necessary for you to have the life that you do have. You know, I have a lot of gratitude for people who work in the service industry, who work— you know, I think about all the people that work at the grocery store to stock the shelves, that show up to count the money, to be the cashier. Like, that makes life so much easier. I don't want to unload the truck. I don't want to count the money in till. I just want to buy my groceries and get up out of there. So if you're not having gratitude for stuff like that, You're not having gratitude for the fact that the sun come out every single day and warm up your face. You don't have gratitude for the fact that you got a bed to sleep in. You could take a shower every day. It's just all the simple things. You got an abundance of a lot of things in your life. And once you can get into understanding how much abundance is in your life that is supporting your ability to have peace, to have the energy to create the things that you want to create, then it's much easier to just allow things to flow. We can talk about money. And you know what? I'm going to talk about money right now, and I'm going to tell you how the universe always provides. But the thing is, you need to have faith that you will be taken care of. The universe provides everything that you need because you have everything you need right now. Everything you need in life is within you. And you already have everything you need. So if you don't have a bigger house, have you put yourself in a position to actually need a bigger house? So you could be thinking about it, but what is it that you actually need? You know, I can say this about a bunch of things, but let me just tell y'all a quick story. So I had this week, and it wasn't even that long ago, but I could just remember so vividly because it was when I started to really do some healing and I started to accept the fact that abundance was all around me. So I had little to no money in my account. As a matter of fact, this is how the week started. My account was actually in the negative, and all of a sudden I get a notification saying a Zelle hits my account. And I'm like, who's sending me money? I'm like, damn, I'm like, this, this, I'm like, this money meditation working kind of fast. I'm like, I'm just getting random money. I'm like, what's going on?. But then the person hits me up and they're like, hey, I sent you this money on accident. Now, unfortunately, like I said, account was in the negative by a few dollars, so I couldn't send everything back, but I did the right thing and I sent the money back or everything that was left. But what that did do is get me back to even zero. I was in the negative. Now I'm at zero. I'm like, all right, now, now we going up. Then later on in the week, I'm going to the store. I had to go buy some, some food for the like the kids' school party. It was some type of party, and I'm in there like buying some potato salad. And so I needed to use cash. Of course, self-checkout wasn't taking cash, so I had to go stand in line. There's a young lady in there. She doesn't know my situation. She doesn't know how much money I have in my pocket. But what she does is she says, hey, I will pay for that, because she had quite a few groceries and she was using food stamps. So basically I'm getting rewarded for my patience because there was no other reason for her to do that. So even though I didn't have that much money in my pocket, the universe was providing. You see what I'm saying? And it— and the reason why I really accepted that was because I really needed to get my kids to school on time. So it kind of needed to happen. So it's like I get the time back and I get to keep the money. Then I want to say it may not have been the same day, but it may have been like A day or two after that, I go in the racetrack after dropping the kids off. I'm like, man, I need a coffee. I ain't had no coffee at the crib. I had been dragging the whole morning. I go in there, let me go get me a coffee real quick. Get my coffee and I go up to the register, you know, the dude talking to the lady with her lottery tickets and whatnot. And he was just like, bro, you good. Go ahead, take that coffee. You good. I was like, you sure? He was like, yeah, man, go. You good. I was just like, huh. It's like, how am I getting all of these things done with no money? How am I making it happen? How am I getting the things that are necessary for my life and I'm not coming out of my pocket? Of course, I'm like, I don't have that much money in my pocket, but I know I got everything that I need. I had been grateful for everything that I had. And because I had been carrying that energy all throughout the days prior, the universe just kept providing. And that's something that you got to realize is that the universe is going to keep providing as long as you keep giving the universe everything that you got, using everything to its capacity, because you're always going to get it back, whatever it is. So just accept the fact that you are blessed with abundance. You are blessed and being provided for. So act like it. You may need to do some work so you can get some of that stuff out of your nervous system. Trust me, I had to. But act like you deserve the abundance because you do. All right, so let's wrap it up right there. Again, I appreciate y'all for coming through, listening to this podcast. I hope y'all have found this to be valuable and you get something out of it. If you have any questions, hit me up at CL Palmer at MuserPro.com or @CZPodGang on any platform or CZ.FourWay on TikTok. I want to hear from y'all. Give me some feedback. Jump in them comments, subscribe, share, review, all them good things. Just show this some love so we can keep making this because I want to help everybody get to be their most dopest creative self possible. That's all I want to see out of the world. I want everybody to do the dopest thing that they could ever imagine. All right, so help me out on that, on that quest, and let's bring that energy out to everyone else. All right, so till next time, y'all take care. Stay blessed. Peace.
