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Welcome to The Vermillion Podcast, a free audio library of business strategies, creative inspiration and industry knowledge for actors, filmmakers, writers and anyone looking to activate their creative potential. I'm Nisha Culver, a writer director who helps artists build the careers that they dream of. I really hope that this podcast inspires you in some way. Thanks for tuning in.
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money. Let's talk about money. Money is everywhere.
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And I want to talk about some things relating to money that are hopefully going to make it come to you.
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Do you want more money?
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Yeah. Me too.
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So let's give you some strategies to get more money into your life and to think about it in a whole new way. Because what I see is a coach now for over 15 years
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is that
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a lot of money problems are not external.
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They're internal. So we're going to address the internal money blocks that you might have so that you can free it up
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just have more coming into your life.
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Sounds like a good thing right?
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So for the purposes of this conversation,
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Let's talk about what money actually is.
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So.
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Another word for money is currency.
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And another word for currency is electricity. Electric current. Right.
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And another word for electricity is energy
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Electricity is a form of energy. So ABCd money in a way is just energy.
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I want you to think of money in that way. And like,
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energy is all around us.
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Money is also all around us. Especially if you live where I live, which is New York City.
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It goes by different names,
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but
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in all its forms. It is all
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around us.
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I'm going to give you some other examples of currency that might expand your thinking on this.
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And this is coming at it from an artist's perspective. And you know, I work a lot with
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filmmakers, writers, directors, producers.
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So
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think of this, you know, from your artist lens,
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but think about the different forms of currency that are at play with you as an actor.
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because currency isn't just about cash. Money is not just about cash. There's other forms of value that are,
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you know, in some ways equal to cash money.
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So here's a check box of what some of those different categories are.
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Attention.
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Labor.
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Creativity.
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Property.
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Craft.
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Truth.
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Beauty.
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Taste.
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Youth.
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Talent.
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Followers
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and credits.
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All of these are forms of currency.
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And they will lead to cash money
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as
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the final form of currency. Usually.
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Some of these categories are really interesting too, like followers, you know. Of course you're going to think of social media followers, but I also think of like Joan of Arc and the people who have
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followed leaders into battle or across oceans. You know, it's a really powerful form of currency.
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And I also think of truth
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and how powerful that currency is
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of the people that I follow on social media, only because they seem to be a source of truth
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in a sea of false
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right.
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So that
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ability to be true and to be honest can be very powerful. So
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think about your currency.
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You may not have access to a lot of money, but think about
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what forms of currency you do have access to. What do you have a value
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and what can you offer
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that no one else can?
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Why do you listen to this podcast? Why do you like these episodes? Or maybe you don't like them? I don't, I don't want to soon, but if you do like the way that I talk, you know,
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what is the currency that you
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find? You're able to extract from these episodes?
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I have had to analyze my own brand and get really clear about what am I bringing to the table here, and how can I maximize the value?
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How can I serve you better? How can I bring more value
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to you, my viewer, and my listener,
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and get even more skilled and more adept at bringing you that currency?
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So things like my life experience, my psychic abilities, if you know, you know,
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my experience in,
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the filmmaking industry,
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my talent as an actor, writer and director, my imagination, my vision
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and my ability to
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network easily, to be a clear speaker
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and my groundedness, my nervous system regulation.
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Right.
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People tell me all the time, like,
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I'll be at
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an event and someone's like, oh, I love your podcast.
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Your voice is so soothing.
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I'm like, what? That's crazy. I don't think of myself that way. But I have to be real about the fact that
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other people find my voice and my delivery on the podcast soothing, and that that is a form of currency for them, that that calming sense is really valuable to them.
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Okay, so take a moment, pause the episode and write down what is the currency that you are bringing. What currencies do you operate with?
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Try and find the value that you bring. It might not be money, but what is it or what are they?
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I want to talk now about what I
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see as poverty thinking.
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So if getting in touch with your value in your currency is rich thinking,
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here's what I see as poverty thinking.
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Expecting something
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for nothing.
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Reason being.
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We live in systems.
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The universe is comprised of systems. And this isn't something that I came up with. Systems thinking and systems theory is well-established and
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very worth the time to read up on it.
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But basically, none of us functions in isolation. Nothing is in isolation. It's all connected to systems
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big, small,
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microscopic, macroscopic.
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So because of that, we're constantly interacting with other things other people, other organisms.
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Due to that,
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the fact that everything is within systems,
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we're constantly exchanging energy
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and
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it kind of links back to
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the
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market, you know, the entertainment market or really any market
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which is a series of exchanges, a series of trades.
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And that's normal. That's actually like
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very natural. You know, everything is
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trading all the time. Something for something.
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And I find that poverty thinking is expecting something for nothing.
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It's a two way street, which I'm going to explain in a second, but either way, either direction, it's a trap and it's going to lead to,
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scarcity, lack, poverty.
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By the way, when I say poverty, I don't mean like
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being poor is inherently bad.
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it's not a statement on the poor.
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Poverty is more like
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talking energetic mindset here of having nothing and being unhappy about it. So
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that's kind of the definition that I'm using. You know, I've grew up
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poor,
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so
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poor people are
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mean, they're human beings for a start.
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But
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it's not any slight on the poor
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to talk about poverty thinking.
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I'm just
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assuming that you want money. So
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that's the framework of this conversation.
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Now
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I'm going to go into
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the two different ways
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that something for nothing mindset can get you into trouble.
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This one is actually the unexpected use of that mindset.
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Which is.
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I see this all the time as a coach.
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It's an artist's mindset or, you know, doesn't have to be an artist. But,
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the mindset of
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I work my butt off and no one values what I do.
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So you're giving something and expecting nothing in return. We're not talking charity and Christmas morning we're talking.
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I slave away and I
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work myself to the bone at this, you know, restaurant job. And, like, I'm just not appreciated.
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Or I give it all up to my family and no one appreciates me
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so that's that's really
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impoverished energy that I'm talking about.
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Trap number
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two is
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I'm expecting something and giving nothing.
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This can take many forms, many different sneaky little costumes that this one wears. This can be the
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quick fix the get rich quick scheme.
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This can be the cheat code,
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the magic pill,
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the too good to be true mentality.
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This one thing is going to solve everything mentality.
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This can take the form of pedestal izing industry gatekeepers
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obsession with celebrity,
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glamorizing showbusiness and dreaming of fame as a solution to your problems.
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This can also be entitlement toward people, places, and things where you feel like you're owed something
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like, well,
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maybe you owe like
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a thousand bucks to someone who is rich.
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You're like, well, but they're rich. They can afford it. I'm broke.
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No, you owe them money.
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So that entitlement can really trap you
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Because what is that not paying them back do that reinforces your identity as having nothing.
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They may not need it, but you're sending a signal to yourself and everyone around you, the entire
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universal system around you,
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that you are going to remain broke because you're unwilling to do what it takes to pay them back.
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So anything where you expect to give nothing
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and be saved is going to be tricky. Now, of course, I'm not talking about people who are in crisis.
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I'm talking about artists and actors. And, you know, honestly, is something that I
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consider an epidemic of expecting something for nothing.
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Also known as the battle cry of the starving artist,
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also known as being a martyr.
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you're a martyr and you're going to die for your beliefs, the only guarantee is that you're going to die. You can't guarantee that you're going to
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achieve your mission. You can't guarantee that anyone's going to side with you or
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like you better because of it, or
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you're going to be happy or more satisfied.
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None of that is a guarantee. The only thing that is guaranteed through martyrdom is that you're going to die.
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So we want to get away from that death energy, at least in this context,
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and just say, you know what? It's not worth it.
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I don't want to die. I don't want to suffer
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because of this. I work my butt off and no one values what I do mentality.
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So
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this is the trap of
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expecting nothing for your something.
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in that mindset, people usually
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blame
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others for not valuing them.
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And what I see time and time again is that if others are not valuing what you do,
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it means that you first are not valuing what you do.
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So if you are mad that other people aren't seeing your artistic value, your value as an artist or an actor,
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you're probably not valuing what you do enough
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and you need to actually take yourself more seriously.
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No one's coming to save you.
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And as Steve Bartlett says of diary of a CEO, one of the most popular podcasts in the world,
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he said, If I've learned one thing over my decade of running this podcast and interviewing world experts
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there are no shortcuts. There are no shortcuts.
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And I'm inclined to agree with him. That's one of the most important lessons that we can learn.
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So.
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If money is electricity and energy, and we are in a system of energy and exchange,
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take a look at where are you
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expecting
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something
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for nothing?
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Where are you unwilling to invest
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your time, energy or money to get the thing that you want?
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Also look at where are you giving something and expecting nothing in return, in a way that depletes you.
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Charity can be very fulfilling and not depleting because you are getting something back. You're getting satisfaction. You're getting purpose.
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The joy of seeing other people benefit.
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But you know the difference between giving and feeling good about it
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and giving and feeling drained, self-sacrificing in a way that drains martyrdom in a way that drains.
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So take a look. Where are you doing that?
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Are you
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demanding something of others and unwilling to give back to them?
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Are you unwilling to receive from somebody somewhere?
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It may seem unrelated, but I am so serious when I say when I start to work with people on this level, looking at their lives and looking at the
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non-cash money exchanges and how those exchanges are blocked, we start to free up the blocks.
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The cash money is soon to follow.
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I am dead serious. I see it all the time.
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But on another level, who do you owe money to?
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And who owes you money that you're afraid to collect?
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I just had to do this today. Actually, I had to tap in with somebody who owes me money.
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I could very easily have just let it go.
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It was a situation where I was small enough amount that
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I didn't really need it. But like, on paper, they definitely owed me.
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I could have let it go,
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and I thought of how I was going to come in and record this episode today, and I thought, it is not good for my financial future
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if I let this one go.
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doesn't matter the amount, it's that I want to signal to myself
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that I want this money to continue to flow.
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So because I want to be in flow with it, I'm going to have to call this in and I'm going to have to ask him to pay me. And
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they got right back to me.
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So take a look at your own finances. Where are you owed money and where do you owe money? See if you can clean that up.
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Because to have debt hanging over you either direction is going to create an invisible blueprint of lack
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in either
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direction,
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So really take an inventory of your life
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and of the market that you exist in the energetic market
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and see
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how
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can you create an environment of equal exchange?
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How can you start to do equal trades in your life?
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I'm going to do a part two on this at some point in the near future.
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But for now, I'm just going to leave you with this inventory of looking at your life and, and kind of diagnosing where the unfair trades are occurring. And
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let's create a fair trade system for you and your life. And we're going to watch the money flow as a result of it.
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Okay.
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I hope that this was
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cool and exciting. I find it very cool and exciting,
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and I hope that you make a whole lot of money the rest of this year. Moving into next year,
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Let me know if you do. Okay? Drop me in a DM on Instagram at Me Calvary.
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I would love to hear from you and I would love to hear if this worked or not.
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Thanks so much and I'll see you next week.
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