685: Why You Resist Prosperity (Throwback!)

Do you all know what that sound means? I know it's new. Like I said, I keep playing with the format and where we're going with our newly rebranded, revamped, Flow Dreaming, now called still kind of. Whoa. Whoa. Because after searching my heart long and hard, looking at the 18 years I've done of the Flow Dreaming podcast, I realized that I could have just let it branch out and sort of evolve, as I've been doing, frankly, for the last two decades. But I needed to give myself a special kind of permission. And changing the name, I don't know, could be a dumb move. We'll see. But changing the name feels like it's giving me that permission. And maybe you can tell because I'm allowing myself to be a little bit more chatty, a little bit more personal with you. Still infusing our conversations with lots of ideas, lots of learnings and teachings. But, you guys, like, I teach seven, ten times a month live. I feel like I teach so much at this point in my life that when I'm here with you, when I'm doing a show, I kind of want to just, you know, take my hair down a little bit, relax a little. And I hope that you find that enjoyable and you'll stick with me. And in fact, I want to enlist your help. If you know of any topics that just don't seem to be answered well out there or are always answered in the same predictable ways, tell them to me. I'm serious. 100% serious. Email. Email them to me. Oh, my God. Yeah, I still email. I'm apparently of that generation. I mean, you can messenger them to me or DM me on Instagram. It might take me a while to see your message because I really try not to be everywhere all the time. I do try to keep it down to just a couple little channels, but nonetheless, email me summerlowdreaming.com. that's the way you're gonna see me instantly. And I would love to explore that with you. But, but, but back to that funny little sound. At the beginning. You know what that means? Okay, well, here's one of the fun things that we're doing. I went through recently, all of my archives, like, all of them, almost 700, right. Because iTunes has this new thing, Apple, your Apple phone podcast app, where you can subscribe. And I said, you know what? I'm gonna take my first 10 seasons and I'm gonna give them, make them be for my subscribers. So I made it very stupidly cheap, and I took those 10 years of shows for the for the very curious, they're all these shows are packed with flow, dream the way, but they're also me when I was 30, when I was, you know, 40, a lot younger. Anyway, I'm going through all of these titles and subjects and just. I'm starting to like have a moment where my eyes are like, what kind of respecting myself. You talked about all those things like, wow, I'm impressed. I'm like, yeah, I'm impressed too. But I know too that it's something I've always said, if you're not living and growing, your ideas will stay the same. Your ideas should be continuously changing, expanding, even doubling back, even contradicting like thoughts that you had few years ago. You are totally allowed to change your mind because it means you're growing. The minute you stop growing is the minute you say, I've already learned everything. I know all the answers. I found the holy grail of knowledge. And no, I am not changing my mind. I will not double back. I will not. It means you've stalled out somewhere in life. So I decided I was gonna take some of these old episodes and redo them. Redo them from today. I'm not listening to them. I don't want to be influenced. I'll let you guys listen. You can compare. I think it'll be interesting. I'm taking a chance here. But I wanted to do this because some of these topics I was looking at and thinking, dang, I want to. I want to look at that one again. And that's. That's what brings us to today. Today we're doing a redux. A new up to date re envisioning reimagining of my original episode 77 why you resist Prosperity originally aired on December 4, 2006 so yes, my friends, what? 17 years ago? 16. 17 years ago. I have a feeling. I have a feeling I might have a few new things to say. Flow dreaming still kinda woo Woo is just what it sounds like. An escape into the world of woo. Also a ride into you and how to feel happier, wiser and more self aware in every way. It's your ultimate journey into personal growth and inner power. We'll explore ideas like how your energy self influences the kinds of opportunities you encounter. Or how your personal growth can drive your business growth. Or even how that feeling of being stuck is really always coming from something else. We just have to figure out what. That's right. We're a dash of woo woo. A sprinkle of self care, a heap of problem solving and pattern busting, and a Giant cup of encouragement, we're going to relight. So much passion, purpose, self love and confidence in you that you practically stagger. I'm Summer McStravik, your host and welcome to Flow Dreaming. Still kinda woo woo. Oh, why do we resist prosperity? I have had a good 17 years to reflect on this. So since first recording that show, I've seen a lot. Maybe you don't know me or maybe you do, but if you don't, I look into the hearts and minds of people. I not only teach about the universe, emotion, energy, flow, dreaming, but I go in and read people. For lack of a better word, I read people. I have one on ones. I have people I've worked with for years, decades. When I read people, I see who they are, where they've been, where they're going. I see things in them they don't see about themselves. I see patterns, I see blocks, I see possibilities. It's literally like opening up a book, sitting on my nightstand and saying, hey, let's talk about this. And they say, talk about what? I say, well, I'm reading it right here. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And from all of these years, all of these people, all of these different encounters, there is no one size fits all. Why you resist prosperity. There is dozens reasons, dozens. Patterns. Things that we absorbed, thought, think about ourself, things we absorb, thought, think about money. It's just overflowing. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to tap into a couple of them that I see most often. And maybe you'll see that in you too. Maybe you'll say, oh, yeah, Yep, nailed it. Or maybe it's not you. Maybe you're looking at someone else, your. Your partner, your spouse, and you're like, yeah, that's definitely them. I don't know. Let's find out. We're gonna explore why you resist prosperity. And in keeping with the new format of this fabulous show, we're gonna also gonna do a few other fun things. I have, yeah, I have some fun little segments that I'm gonna keep dropping in, getting your feedback to, seeing how you feel. In fact, you know what? Let's do one right now. Before we even go into prosperity. I'm gonna do this. Yeah. Right now. This is where I update you on what's going on in my world. Just a little, little insider information in case you're curious. I didn't think people would ever be curious about me, but it turns out you guys are. I can tell from your Google searches, you know, like, what is Summer McStravik's net worth? And does she? Is she a psychic? And what is me school? I see those searches. I mean, I don't know that from you, but, you know, Google always floats them to the top. So here's what I want to tell you. The pond. The pond is still leaking. I don't know what to do about this, guys. So this. This person who cleans my pond and made my pond, well, he's supposed to clean my pond, too. I'm not getting that done either. So I kind of want to tell him, you know, I'm not going to pay you to clean my pond, but I want to get my pond fixed before I tell him that. What would you do? What would you do? Well, you know, I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm calling the guy every day. I have fully gone there. I have become that person. Are you coming today? You coming today? You gonna fix my pond? You gonna fix it? I haven't gotten to the point of, you know, saying I'm gonna bad yelp them or anything, but, yeah, still working on my pond. Here's something else, though. Recently, I was talking to my mom and something I said earlier about me, you know, kind of being in my. Not 30s, not fort anymore. I was talking with my mom the other day, and, you know, she's a. An amazing empath, and she's got beautiful white hair. She went full white in her 40s. And because of that, I've always thought, oh, God, I hope I get full white hair. I always. Well, turns out I don't think I'm going to. I've. I've missed that mark. I'm going to get your regular old steel gray hair. But that full white hair, it makes her look like an old, bubbly white witch. And we were talking about how, you know, she wants to go on YouTube and she says, we should do it together. And I'm like, yeah, we'll be like the two white witches on YouTube. She says, yeah, we should totally do it. And I said, mom, you know, I don't like to get all dressed up all the time. It's just so boring, you know, when she says, well, why do you have to get dressed up? You just show up, wear whatever you're wearing. And I. Oh, my God, it's really interesting because I realized I do still care. I do still have a little vanity there. And I thought, well, well, you can show up in your house, dress your pajamas and your. And your white hair. I said, people would probably love that. They'd probably think, you're just amazing. She's like, well, I'm going to. You can do whatever you want to do. Get over yourself. That's my mom. So I don't know, maybe. Maybe we will. Maybe we'll do some YouTubing together. Fact is, she's getting older, and, you know, you kind of, like, spend more time with your parents as they age. So there's a lot I'm learning from her, and I have learned. Maybe I'll do it. I don't know. I still don't like the idea of videos. Still an audio person. I feel so intimate this way. No one's looking at me. I'm not looking at you, but we're talking together, sharing. Anyway, that's it for the personal update. So why do we resist prosperity? It's a weird question to start with because normally we'd answer it like, I don't resist prosperity. Bring it on, baby. Give me the money. Fill me up. But in fact, we do things that kind of push it away, kind of keep it in its place, kind of keep us at status quo, kind of keep us in a comfort zone of having it and not having quite enough. You know your comfort zone. It's the one you're in every day. You're like, that's not comfortable, Summer. I know, but it's a comfortable discomfort. It's a discomfort that you know well and you know how to get out of it. I'll think on that a little bit when I see a client, a student who's work, work, working, like, working all the time, and they're not getting money and they're not getting much back from it, not getting much acknowledgement. My question is, are you happy working for the sake of working? Are you happy doing what you're doing? Is that the reward in its own end? I have a good friend. That's his reward. He works with foster kids. Left a big booming company that he started. Didn't really think he'd end up working with foster kids, but did works. Work is its own reward. Totally get it. But a lot of us were not doing that. We're working and angry about our work. We're working and thinking, why am I not earning more? We're working and thinking. I am undercharging. We're working and thinking, but if I charge more, I wouldn't have any customers or clients. I'm working, but nobody is buying all the handmade jewelry I've got in the boutique. I'm working, but. And that's where it Stops. So reason number one, very practical reason. You are not charging what you need to be charging. You are not asking for what your worth and value actually is. Back in the day, when I worked in corporate America. Corporate America, and we had to do our reviews, part of it was, what did you do this year? And I always thought, well, you're my boss. You should probably know what I did this year. But then another part of me realized, they probably don't know what I did this year. Right. You know, I just move things along in their eyes. They've got a lot of people under them. How would they know? So I learned to write down. I brought in 1.2 million in income for this department. I promoted, blah, blah, blah. I Produced, you know, 400 webinars, episodes of blah, blah, blah. I. I learned how to write it in stark black and white so someone could look at this and say, wow, I didn't realize you did all that, wow, you're productive. And be like, yes, I am worth two people pay me as. So I wasn't quite that bold. In fact, I was nowhere near that bold, to be honest, back in my younger days. But I did learn how to crisply share my achievements in black and white print. What this did is it made me start to realize and understand that a lot of the work I was doing was unpaid work. It was work that was above and beyond and would not be compensated. It was work that I did for me because it felt like that's what I thought I needed to do to feel like I did the job well. But nobody else necessarily saw that, or they saw it and were like, cool, keep doing it. We're not paying you to do it, and you're still doing it, so why should we pay you to do it? You can see the logic. Totally makes sense. This doesn't happen just with employers. This happens in our own minds. Feelings about ourself. You don't know how many coaches I coach. I coach tons and tons of coaches. The reason is that they're trying to build things. They have skills. They've got everything. They're racehorses ready to run out onto the track, and the bell rings, and they just kind of like, wander out and they're like, what is going on? I'm like, well, you don't need any more skills. You got 15 certificates to hang on your wall, and you've got clients. So what's up? I'll tell you what's up. I don't know if what I'm doing is effective with people. I don't know if they're gonna get the results. They might be mad if they don't get the results. And they've paid me for them. Maybe if I don't charge very much, then they won't get as bad when it doesn't work out. Maybe I'm just faking it and I really don't know what I'm doing. And I'm using them more than you know, than I'm willing to admit as I figure out what I'm doing. You guys, all this head, garbage circles. It's not just coaches. I mean, apply this to whatever you're doing in your life. This undervaluing of you, undervaluing of where you're at, undervaluing of your skills. I will tell you one thing. I see way more people who undervalue their skills than people who overvalue them. The ratio just from an old lady's perspective, is like 5 to 1. Every now and then, there's someone who's saying, like, I'm going to charge, you know, $100,000. And. And I'm like, how many people have you coached? 4. I'm like, good luck. Let's go. We can try, you know, Sure. I love that you think big, but we need to get there. You know, we need to get there. Usually, though, it's just the opposite. How long you been coaching? Two years. What are you charging? Nothing. Why? I don't know. Because I want to get testimonials. I want to work with my friends. I'm like, how invested in this are you? Is this a hobby or. Or a job? We resist prosperity when we don't think we've earned it or deserve it. Fundamentally, deep down, call it, you know, faking it or imposter syndrome. I hate to use those cliched terms, but you've heard them before. And there's such a leap that happens in us when we finally double what we're charging. Like, we freak out. We assume, oh, we're not going to be working with anybody. I don't. Maybe you're a graphic designer. Maybe you have to double your fees. Maybe you. Maybe you, you know, consult. Maybe you, I don't know, professionally organize people's houses. And you think, well, if I double it, I'll have no clients. And the day you double it and you realize, oh, I'm still getting clients, it's like your mind melts down in shock and wonder and awe. And I tell you, try it. Just try it. Nothing bad's gonna happen. Sure, a few people might walk away, but the people you're gonna get, people you're gonna keep, trust me, they're invested. It's a weird thing, but when people pay more, they tend to show up more. They tend to value it more. It's more meaningful to them. Money makes meaning. Money is often equating with meaning. Unless, of course, you're getting into the super rich world where, you know, you just buy shoes with red bottoms because the meaning is it makes you look a certain way. Right, sorry, anybody who owns those shoes. But you know what I'm saying, you can sort of spend that a little more freely. You don't equate as much meaning to the thing. But when you're not that person, which is the 99 other percent of us, the more we spend on something, the more we plan to get from it. The more we hold it close to us, the more we want from it, the more we want to show up into it. So that's reason number one, not valuing yourself, not asking for what you're worth, being comfortable being seen as the person who will just do the work anyway without any extra applause. Why else do we resist prosperity? Some of us have a lot of weird associations with money, with people who earn money. Maybe we were brought up to think that those people are superficial, those people are greedy, those people offer nothing. I'll tell you, when influencers became a thing, I know that's years ago. Isn't that funny? It's been years. But years ago, when influencers became a thing, I thought, wow, these people are, like, doing so well, just posting things and just posting pictures of themselves over and over. I'm like, how is. I'm not. I don't understand how this is working. And what are people getting from this? Why would they be earning millions of dollars from this? I'm just. My brain is exploding. Eventually I figured it out. An influencer is offering us a vision. Vision of who we want to be, who we want to be, like, what we want to be doing, what we want to be wearing, how we want to be seemingly feeling about ourselves, that's worth a lot. That's inspiration. It's inspiration. Yet if you had a feeling of, oh, those people are superficial and na, na, na, na, as I initially went through, what I'm realizing is I'm angry that someone that I don't think is producing value is earning so much. Whereas I work my little tushy off teaching and talking and providing and in shepherding. That's not fair. Well, yeah, obviously I had to get rid of that. And I Had to recognize we're all teaching, guiding, and shepherding in our own way. And the group of people that are following one influencer are not the group of people who are following me. We each have our own. We each have our own. We each speak to a certain group and that group can only hear us. So resisting prosperity can mean the people who make money in a certain way. I don't like. I will never be like them. No, no. Money is yucky, bad, don't like. And I know it's funny. You're like, ah, Summer, I never think money is icky and bad. Please, please think about it for a moment, though. What do you generally think about people with money? Do you think they're usually all super douchey and there's like, only one or two good ones who contribute and give money and, you know, are good? That's a real common thought. Do you think that the people who have money, they're so great. You admire them. They are fabulous actors. They are Beyonce. I mean, they are people who are just so great. Good. Of course they have money. Taylor Swift. And you think, yeah, I can't have money like that. I'm not as good. I'm not that good. Now scale it down a little bit. What about people who aren't Taylor Swift or Beyonce? What about people in your neighborhood? And you. And you have all these mixed feelings. Like, well, yeah, one guy owns a chain of restaurants and he must work all the time. It's really hard. I could never do that. I'm not going to have that kind of money. Oh, yeah. And, you know, this other person started a worldwide initiative to fight hunger. And I will never have that kind of access and old money, and I'm not from those kind of people. And right. What I'm getting at is we come up with a lot of rationales of why other people have more, deserve more, are good and right in their earning more. But not us. We cap ourselves. We have a little fishbowl that we feel comfortable swimming around in, that we think we fit in well, as you think. So you are as you feel. So you create. You will create to that degree of your own inner fishbowl. And if you're waiting for someone to come along and bunk you on the head and say, no, you're worth more. That's what you're waiting for. You're not going to be worth more. You're not going to trust that you're worth more until someone does that for you. So you're waiting for them. I don't Know if anybody will come along and do that. It's not their job. Do you think it's anybody else's job in the universe right now to come along and fix that for you? You fix that for you. Your job is your life, their job is their life. And sometimes they will try and bonk you on the head, that best friend who's always telling you what to do, and you won't listen anymore. We just don't listen. So you have to engage in a personal growth campaign to expand not just what you think you're worth, but what you think about people who have what they're worth, what you think about people who have more than you think they're worth. It's all there. That's it. I mean, that's where you go next. This doesn't have to be an unanswerable question that never gets answered. This is a very, very, very answerable question. You just have to come do it. So back in the beginning when I said I look in people, part of my work is to see inside of them. When I work with energy, I teach about manifesting, creating, working with energies of life, but I also do the opposite. I see what's already out there, what's inside of you, what's gotten all caked up and stuck up in there through all of your years of being and living and thinking and feeling. Sometimes you need to go to someone, if not me, someone else who can look at you from the outside, say, hmm, we need to clean this dirty window. Do you want to expand outward? Here is where and how. Oftentimes we don't do that, though. We don't trust it'll work. We don't know if we're picking the right person. We don't have the money, we say so. We just stay where we are. We stay and we stay and we think magically, somehow it'll just fix itself somewhere down the road years from now. And sometimes it does, sometimes, often it doesn't. But it's very, very fixable. One more way we resist prosperity. Oh, oh, wait a second. Hold on. I believe it's time for a segment I call Shower Thoughts. Sometimes we need a good old cathartic do over. We've been flatlining, emotionally spent and wrung out like an old washcloth. We want to feel a different way, be a different way. We've plateaued. We're stuck. We need to gain purpose and direction and feel good again. We want to find the self worth, confidence and inner strength that got wiped away from years of frustration, disappointments and emotional depletion. We're ready to uplevel and go bigger. And when we do, we want to know that we'll be wildly successful at it. This is what's kept me busy these last couple of years. I wrote a book all about how to reinvent yourself up level and find your path again. I wrote three books actually, but only one is on its way to you. It's called stuff nobody taught you. And I took all the lessons from MI school and wrote them out. Not only that, but I go through me school in the book with you, right alongside you. We both reignite and maybe even reinvent ourselves by the end. There are 40 actionable lessons. I want you to read just one small chapter a night and then do or think about whatever I ask you to do at the end. It's a formula and it works like crazy. If you pre order the book today, I've got some fabulous bonuses for you. You can find it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, wherever you get your books. If you're listening to this and the book is already out though, don't worry, I've got some goodies for you too, including downloadable worksheets that will make reading it so much easier. So here it is. Stuff nobody taught you. I sure hope you love it. Ah, yes, those thoughts we have in the shower. Those little moments of limited brilliance. I don't know, I just thought it was a fun way of injecting some things to think about into our show. Because you're here and you'll be thinking. I know you'll be thinking in the shower. And I'd like to give you something to think about other than the regular rehash of crummy stuff that circles around in our heads. So today's shower thought is one that's short but kind of big. You know how you have a cell in your body? That cell doesn't really realize that it's in your whole body. It just knows the cells around it functions with them. It's part of a much bigger thing though. Your whole body. Right. And lately we've been reading and learning and researching that maybe cells do carry memories, maybe cells do embody a consciousness. We humans, we tend to think the only thing that embodies a consciousness is the little gray matter stuffed up in our skulls. But there's a lot of people who are saying now, oh, a lot of things have consciousness. There are neural networks. In fact, AI and technology is really pushing our understanding of what consciousness is. A neural network. Could there be other networks? What if your body is a cell in the organism of Earth, literally, you're a cell. You're interacting with your small surroundings just like a cell in your thumb is interacting with, you know, your thumbnail and your thumb joint. That's it. We interact with Earth. And really not all of Earth, just our little place. What if Earth has the same consciousness as we perceive our own selves to have? And Earth looks at us and thinks, that's like. That's crazy. That's like thinking a cell in my body has a consciousness awareness. What if Earth is thinking that about us? Not even recognizing our consciousness is just going. It doesn't even see it. We're too silly. We're just cells. Literally, we actually are cells on Earth. If you compare it that way, everything is a cell of Earth. Earth is a body. It's a body, and everything in it is part of that body. An organ, a. A vein, a chemical. Call it what you will, it's all made out of the same stuff. I mean, we're all made out of iron and magnesium and et cetera. We're not made out of different materials. We're all our cells and Earth all made of the same exact materials. Okay, see where we're getting shower thought y here. Now, what if this Earth is a cell in our universe? What if Earth is like, yeah, I occupy this little Milky Way and this little tiny solar system way out. I'm like the. The pinky toe of the whole universe. Because frankly, if you guys have ever looked at our placement in space, we are. Earth is considered the backwaters. You know, we are not front and central to where all the action is happening. We are way out. So our Earth is a cell, in a way, our way out, little part of the universe's body. And maybe the Earth isn't thinking the universe has a consciousness. Maybe the Earth is thinking I'm the only one that has a consciousness. Just like we think as humans. We're the only ones. You see what I'm saying? We all think we're the only ones. But the universe, universe, does it go bigger than that? I mean, really, where does it end? Is the universe a cell in other universes? Where, where does it end? Where does it end? And further, can you see how everything is just a smaller copy of the bigger thing? The universe isn't made of different elements than we're made of. There may be more that we haven't explored yet, but it's got the same stuff out there. There's hydrogen, there's helium, there's all out there? Where does it end? What is all consciousness? Could all consciousness envelop all of these things? Could all of these things, from the cell in your thumb to you to the earth, to the solar system to the universe, could they all be cells? Could they all be conscious? Could they all be conscious together, layers upon layers? What would that mean? How does God or source fit into that? I leave it to you to think about. Now let's return. Here we are, our third and final way of why you resist prosperity. How are you guys enjoying how this compares to the original episode 77? I don't know. I feel like I need to go back and listen. After I do this. I'm really curious. Wouldn't it be weird if I was saying the same things after 16, 17 years? That would be crazy. Oh, we're gonna have to place bets on this. I don't think I am, but maybe. I don't know. Okay, here we go. Third, third, final one. Of course, like I said, there are so, so many. It's very individual and it's all about just kind of picking it out, you know, just picking out the knots, just finding it inside of ourselves. But maybe these big three will relate to you, my darling. This last one is really a failure to understand what abundance is, recognizing that it is not conditional. We have trained ourselves to believe that prosperity, money, wealth is conditional. You have to do X to get Y. You've got to be a certain level to get that. You have to be worthy to get the payoff. You have to work hard to get the result. We start to forget that having abundance, and you guys, I'm going to say abundance, money, prosperity, I'm talking about it not just as cold, hard cash in your hands and in your bank account, but I'm talking about it as an energy. I'm talking about it as. Something that we claim and we own and we love and we enjoy and we embrace and we respect and we honor. Abundance, prosperity means I have enough. I have more than enough. I am trusted to do well with all that I have been given and gifted. Abundance, money is just a thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a bad thing. If anything, it's just a conversion of energy, really. You know how, gosh, when you light a match, you're converting one form of energy into another. You're converting heat, converting atomic energy into heat, right? It's just a conversion. Nuclear energy is created out of a conversion of one form of energy to another. Kinetic movement is a conversion of one form of energy to Another money is a form of one energy turned into another. And what is that energy? Well, at some point it used to be based on work output. Now money can make money. That money in itself is doing the work that we used to labor to do. And whenever you're getting, you know, a percent on your savings account, that's what's happening. It's still quote, unquote working, just not in a physical way. Money is just a conversion of time, of value. It's a made up thing that we say this stands for this, X stands for Y. In this equation, they are equal. I convert one thing to another and they're equal. They're both energy spent no matter what form it takes. It's this amount and sometimes we raise it and sometimes we lower it. We do have that wonderful ability to do with wealth. It can gain or lose value, unlike say, you know, kinetic energy or thermal energy. That's why we humans got our little fingers involved in it. But generally speaking, it's just a conversion of a form of your time, your value into this so called tangible thing, money. Money in that sense is not conditional. What's it conditional on? Do you think money is just sitting there waiting for you to prove that you're worth it? Is money sitting there saying, no, you can't have more of me until you do X, Y and Z? No, money's not doing that. Money doesn't care, doesn't give a good gosh darn. Money is just saying, well, I'm here. Do you want to claim me? You say, well, summer, there's not enough. You're making it sound like there's plenty of money. Everybody should have money. You know what, honestly, I do feel that if our world really got it together, everybody could have money. If our world got it together, we could solve climate change tomorrow. I don't think that was impressed on me ever before until the COVID lockdown. And I had a breathtaking life experience where I realized it is possible for every nation on earth to do the same thing all at once for humanity's greater good. I was in shock for days. I was like, no way, no way could the world. And everyone did. Guys, remember seeing those photos? Like the canals in Venice were crystal clear. You could see to the bottom. There were like, like whales going up the Thames river in, in, in London because suddenly it was so clean. There was no industrial. I was just, my mind was blown. We can do anything. Everyone could have money. Everyone could have prosperity. We could. I'm not talking like a straight out socialist here. I Know what some of you guys are thinking, but it's a question of what do we value? And do we value each other? Do we value those kids that we've never seen before? Do we value that person who's struggling, who we want to help, even if it seems like they don't deserve it? What do we value? What I'm getting at here is money doesn't care. Money's not conditional. Money is not judging you. You're judging money. Money doesn't judge you. Money's not saying, I'm not going to be in your pocket until you, blah, blah, blah, become a better person, do more, show up, I don't know, get your hair tinted. No, money's not saying any of that. It is not judging you. What a weird thought. We judge money and we judge the people who have money and the places that have money and our ability to have money. It's all us. But if you just open your arms and say, flow to me, I love you. Isn't that a weird thing? I love you, money. I love you, money. I'm. Say it seriously now. I love you, money. You know why I love you? Because you equate to other energy states for me. You equate to freedom. You equate to possibilities. You equate to me being able to address my health the way I need to. You equate to me being able to recover, heal. You equate to a lot of things. You equate to me being able to spend you and give you to places and in ways that I can do real good stuff. Of course I would love you. You are my ally. You are my friend. The things, the place. Oh, the places we'll go. As Dr. Seuss said, that's how I want you to think about money. Your relationship to it. Money is not conditional. That's a fake, made up thing that people told you that you believe, that you told yourself that you believe and you don't have to any longer. What if you totally divorced money from your own perceived inner value? What if you could be worthless and rich and not even mad at yourself for being worthless and rich? I mean worthless in the best possible way. You're always worthy. You're always. You're an intrinsic little star being a piece of God, a piece of life, a cell in a body of the universe. Of course you're worthy. So stop making up weird stuff in your head about what? The end game or the end cap or the limitation of that worthiness. Oh, you can tell I'm getting on my preachy high horse here. I promised you that my newly redone podcast would be a little more fun. But you know what? This one is so important to us. This one is. This one reaches right into our heart. That's why I wanted to do this one again. So I'm gonna rest my case right here and I'm going to say I love you all and take this. I hope you consider it. You've got a lot to think about in your shower tonight. Before I go, I do want to remind you at certain points of the year, I often throw open my doors for personal, private, one on one sessions. I am doing so now. Although if you're listening to this as an older show, probably not. But come check out, come ask me, let's find out who knows what I'll be doing right? But right now, as this show is released, you can have a session with me. I will look into you and I will look into your money and we will get a lot done. Constant. I have hundreds and hundreds of testimonials. Not necessarily reviews of the podcast, strangely enough, but testimonials. Oh God, I'm coming out the Yazoo. They're all over my website, hundreds of them. Especially when it comes to the private work that I do, I just don't do it all year long because it takes a lot from me. I do it for a group of people that I bring in who've committed to me for a year. You can ask me about that, but if you just want to just see where you're at, come reach out. Best way is to get on my mailing list. I'm an old school emailer. I know you may not be. I'm trying to dip my toes into the new worlds of social media, which I realize are already like 20 years old, but still, I love to email. I love words, long form words. So reach out to me and we'll see what we can do. All right, my loves, I hope you enjoyed this again. Redux, one of my old episodes recast as you know, this newer me. I'll be doing these from time to time in our show. So come back, join me next week of course for more of Flow Dreaming. Still kind of Woo woo. Lots of love. So this show is in its 19th season. 19 years, folks. Which means if you want to see Baby Summer and all that she was obsessed with about you, can I just put 10 seasons of archives up into Apple podcasts and at the moment there's a seven day free trial. This means you can binge to your heart's delight you'll hear hundreds of flow dreams, all kinds of specialized manifesting topics. So much all you do is go to Apple Podcasts on your iPhone phone or get the Apple podcast app on any phone. Or even just google the search words Apple Podcast Flow Dreaming. Anyway, it was a big endeavor, but I'm so happy to re release so many hundreds of episodes for you. Check it out.