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In this episode, Maria shares personal reflections on a recent weekend experience that highlighted the importance of gratitude and environment in the manifestation process. She emphasizes that our surroundings and the energy of the people we interact with significantly impact our ability to manifest our desires. The conversation delves into the steps of effective manifestation, including the importance of aligning thoughts and actions with one's goals, and the necessity of maintaining consistency and intentionality in the manifestation journey.
Takeaways
Living the life you once prayed for is possible.
Your environment affects your energy and manifestation.
Gratitude is essential for attracting more good things.
Manifestation requires intentional thoughts and actions.
You must feel the emotions of your desires to manifest them.
Vague desires lead to vague results in manifestation.
Your thoughts and energy must align with your goals.
Consistent practice is key to successful manifestation.
Surrendering control allows for greater possibilities.
You have the power to direct your thoughts and energy.
Sound bites
"Your thoughts create your reality."
"Vague desires create vague results."
"Manifestation isn't passive, guys."
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Weekend Reflections
03:47 The Importance of Environment in Manifestation
08:30 Gratitude as a Key to Manifestation
15:48 Understanding the Manifestation Process
24:52 Steps to Effective Manifestation
33:52 Consistency and Intentionality in Manifestation
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Episode Summary
As 2026 approaches, Maria guides listeners through practical preparation for the Year of the Fire Horse - a powerful time for bold moves, passion, and momentum. This episode releases the pressure of "getting it right" and focuses on alignment, clarity, and readiness. Maria shares journaling exercises for releasing 2025, getting specific about desires, building worthiness, and working with Fire Horse energy (freedom, movement, power, passion). She addresses the anxiety many feel heading into a new year and reframes manifestation as something that comes from being, not striving.
What You'll Learn
Why Fire Horse energy (starting February 3, 2026) is perfect for bold manifestations
How to release what you're not taking into 2026 through journaling
The difference between vague and specific manifestation intentions
How to embody Fire Horse energy: bold action, trusting instincts, being unapologetically yourself
Why making space is essential before calling in new desires
How to prepare your environment and energy for manifestation
The balance between momentum and rest in Fire Horse year
Key Takeaways
✨ Fire Horse energy represents freedom, movement, power, and passion - this is a year for bold moves and taking risks
✨ Release what you're not taking with you through intentional journaling and physical letting go
✨ Get specific about what you want - clear intentions create powerful manifestations
✨ Worthiness work is non-negotiable: "I am worthy of everything I desire simply because I exist"
✨ Embody Fire Horse energy: take inspired action, trust your instincts, be authentically yourself, enjoy the journey
✨ Making space (energetically and physically) is essential for new manifestations to enter
✨ You don't need the whole year mapped out - just know your next aligned step
✨ Balance passion and momentum with rest and self-care
Practices & Exercises
Release Journaling Practice:
Set aside 30 minutes in a sacred space
Write "I am releasing..." and let it flow
Feel the release as you write
Physically destroy the paper (burn, rip, bury)
Calling In Practice:
Write "In 2026, I am calling in..."
Get specific across all life areas: business/career, relationships, health/body, lifestyle
Paint the picture in vivid detail
Daily Worthiness Affirmation: "I am worthy of everything I desire. Not because of what I've accomplished, but simply because I exist. I deserve abundance, love, success, and joy. I am worthy of my wildest dreams coming true."
Evidence Collection:
Create a note/journal page for "Evidence of My Worthiness"
Write down daily wins, compliments, moments of pride
Read regularly to train your brain to see the good
Environment Alignment:
Clear clutter to make space for Fire Horse momentum
Add beauty and inspiration to your space
Update what no longer reflects who you're becoming
Energy Audit:
Evaluate who you spend time with
Assess what content you're consuming
Review daily habits
Episode Highlights
Opening - Releasing the pressure and anxiety around the new year
Fire Horse Energy Intro - What this year's energy means for manifestations (starts February 3, 2026)
Release Practice - Detailed journaling exercise to let go of 2025
Getting Clear - How to write specific intentions across life areas (business, relationships, health, lifestyle)
Worthiness Work - Why it's essential and how to practice it daily
Embodying Fire Horse - Taking bold action, trusting instincts, being authentic, enjoying the process
Practical Tips - Staying grounded, celebrating wins, connecting to your why, keeping it playful
Environment & Energy - Aligning your space and auditing what you consume
Flexibility Over Planning - Why you don't need the whole year mapped out
The Five Keys - Space, clarity, timing, worthiness, surrender
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Maria shares the exciting news that she and Jeff manifested a 56-acre farm - a dream that started 5 years ago at a farm Airbnb. This episode dives into the full manifestation story, from planting the seed to closing on the property, and explores the key principles that made it possible: divine timing, making space for desires, staying in worthiness, and surrendering control.
The 5-year manifestation timeline and why some dreams take time
How their Westchester home was a necessary stepping stone to the farm
The divine timing that made the property available
What Maria did differently in 2025 to create space for this manifestation
How flexibility and surrender led to receiving gifted animals
Practical manifestation principles: space, clarity, timing, worthiness, surrender
✨ Divine timing is real - what's meant for you will find you when you're ready for it
✨ Making intentional space (energetically and physically) is essential for manifestations to enter
✨ You don't need perfect conditions or to have everything figured out to manifest your dreams
✨ Some manifestations require preparation time - you're becoming the person who can hold that dream
✨ Surrendering control and staying flexible often unlocks unexpected magic
✨ Worthiness isn't conditional - you deserve your desires simply because you exist
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Ever have one moment flip your whole energy?
In this December episode, Maria shares how a sudden wave of anxiety on the train led her to a simple but powerful grounding ritual.
She breaks down the six journal prompts that instantly calmed her nervous system, brought her back into her body, and reopened her connection to gratitude, presence, and co-creation with the universe.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed or stuck in nonstop “output mode,” these prompts will help you release what’s heavy, realign your energy, call in miracles, and come home to your inner power.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
• How to start your day with aligned intention instead of autopilot
• A simple journaling practice that instantly calms anxiety
• The power of the Reticular Activating System (RAS) in manifestation
• How to release fear, tension, and limiting beliefs from your body
• What “co-creation with the universe” really means
• Why receiving energy is crucial for high-achieving women
• How to write your daily miracle in a way that your subconscious believes
• When to use “manifested” vs. “manifesting” depending on your confidence level
• A gentle reminder that gratitude creates the highest vibration for abundance
THE SIX JOURNAL PROMPTS (SAVE THESE!)
1. Today’s Intention – How do you want to feel today?
2. I Release… – What thoughts, fears, or energies are ready to go?
3. I Receive… – What are you calling in? Emotions, opportunities, abundance?
4. Today’s Miracle – Write the miracle as if it already happened.
5. Grateful For… – The vibration that accelerates every manifestation.
6. Manifested / Manifesting – Claim your desires in either past or present tense, depending on what feels authentic to your subconscious.
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Website: www.manifestingninja.com
INSTAGRAM: @manifestingninja
Sometimes you reach the end of the year and think, “Wait…I know how to manifest, but why does it suddenly feel harder?”
In this episode, Maria guides you through a gentle but powerful manifestation tune-up to help you realign your energy, reset your beliefs, and finish the year strong — with clarity, purpose, and a frequency that magnetizes everythingmeant for you.
This conversation will help you understand exactly what'sbeen blocking your manifestations, how to regulate your nervous system through belief work, and how to step into 2026 grounded, open, and energetically aligned.
You’ll learn:
• Why your thoughts about your circumstances mattermore than the circumstances themselves
• How stress, anxiety, and overwhelm block your ability to attract solutions
• Why “positive thinking” doesn’t work if your nervous system doesn’t feel safe
• The belief patterns that create low frequency vs. high frequency
• How shifting your internal state opens the door to new opportunities
• A powerful 6-step manifestation process to reset your energy
• The 3 levels of manifesting — things, states, and identity
• How to call in abundance, love, and clarity by changing your beliefs
• Why manifestation is more nervous system work than magical thinking
• A morning practice to help you stay grounded, open, and aligned
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Website: www.manifestingninja.com
Instagram: @manifestingninja
EPISODE OVERVIEW: In this special episode, Maria shares the story of her surprise engagement to Jeff after nearly 15 years together! From the unexpected proposal at her sacred tree to reflections on redefining love on their own terms, this is a heartfelt conversation about real love, soul contracts, and why being a "hopeful romantic" means believing love can find you at any age and stage.
IN THIS EPISODE:
✨ The full proposal story - how Jeff carried the ring around waiting for the right moment
✨ Why Maria calls herself a "hopeful romantic" instead of a hopeless romantic
✨ The hummingbird necklace and the sign from Maria's sister
✨ How their love has evolved over 15 years (spoiler: the butterflies never left!)
✨ Redefining what love means outside of society's expectations
✨ The question Jeff asked early on that changed everything
✨ Soul contracts vs. soulmates - and why Maria believes she and Jeff agreed to do this life together
✨ Permission to believe your love story isn't over, no matter your age or chapter
QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
"A hopeless romantic believes in one fairy tale version of love. A hopeful romantic believes in many versions of love and that it can work out at any stage, at any age."
"For Jeff and I, we had to redefine what love was for us. Because that's the only way it would work. It needed to come from the only two people actually in this relationship, us."
"Love can find you at any age, in any chapter, when you least expect it. And it can deepen in ways that surprise you when you're willing to keep evolving, keep healing, keep becoming more of yourself."
CONNECT WITH MARIA:
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Website: www.manifestingninja.com
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Brandy Library (in Tribeca, NYC) tell them Maria and Jeff sent ya!
Classic romance films from the 80s and 90s (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail)
Have you ever felt drained after giving too much of yourself— even when your heart meant well? Maria reflects on a life-changing women’s retreat in Greece that helped her rediscover her manifesting power, realign her energy, and uncover a hidden people-pleasing pattern she didn’t even know she had.
She shares how clarity, boundaries, and self-awareness are key to living in alignment — plus, three practical tools to stop leaking your energy and start giving from overflow, not depletion.
Whether you’re a recovering people-pleaser, a spiritualseeker, or someone craving a deeper sense of balance and authenticity, this episode will inspire you to reclaim your energy, release fear, and manifest from a place of grounded power.
You’ll learn:
• The signs you’re leaking energy (and how to reclaim it)
• Why even empowered women fall into people-pleasing patterns
• How to recognize “energy leaks” in relationships and work
• 3 simple tools to honor your capacity and protect your peace
• How to reconnect with your body’s signals for alignment
Key takeaway:
You’re not selfish for having boundaries — you’re self-aware.
Connect with Maria:
Website: www.manifestingninja.com
INSTAGRAM: @manifestingninja
Get ready to be inspired! Maria sits down with the incredible Raquel Quinet for a conversation that's all about the power of bold action, authentic relationships, and defining success on your own terms.
Raquel opens up about her entrepreneurial journey, sharing how she's built her business through genuine connections rather than complicated strategies. From navigating the beautiful chaos of balancing motherhood with ambition to taking risks that completely transformed her path, this episode is packed with real wisdom for anyone ready to play bigger in business and life.
Whether you're just starting your entrepreneurial journey or looking to scale what you've already built, Raquel's insights on simplicity, relationship-building, and finding joy in the present moment will shift how you think about success and fulfillment.
Raquel Quinet is a highly sought-after business coach, podcast host of The Raquel Show, co-author, real estate entrepreneur and investor who is dedicated to helping business owners achieve extraordinary growth. After scaling 7 of her own businesses and expanding a real estate sales team to 23 markets across the U.S., and serving as a former prop-tech C-Level executive, Raquel now uses her vast experience to coach entrepreneurs and teams to reach impressive milestones in the multiple 6, 7, and 8-figure mark.
Today, she coaches some of the industry's best real estate agents in North America. She is the founder of The Results Group at Real Broker and Play Bigger Consulting, where they specialize in helping real estate entrepreneurs and small business owners scale through private coaching, masterminds, and retreats. Raquel's mission is to help entrepreneurs play bigger in business and in life.
Key Topics Covered
Takeaways
✨ Bold action is what separates dreamers from entrepreneurs—execution is everything
✨ Building genuine relationships is more powerful than any business strategy
✨ Motherhood and entrepreneurship can beautifully coexist with the right mindset
✨ Defining success on your own terms is crucial for true fulfillment
✨ Live events and in-person connections create irreplaceable experiences
✨ Taking calculated risks often leads to the biggest growth and unexpected rewards
✨ Asking for help is a superpower, not a weakness
✨ Investing in relationships can fast-track your success more than anything else
✨ Finding joy in the present moment is essential for a truly fulfilling life
Episode Chapters
04:17 The Power of Bold Decisions
06:48 Building Relationships in Entrepreneurship
09:06 Raquel's Entrepreneurial Journey Begins
11:40 Overcoming Challenges in Early Business
14:33 Navigating Imposter Syndrome
16:46 Mindset Shifts for Success
18:25 The Importance of Asking for Help
20:55 Balancing Motherhood and Business
26:55 Embracing Life's Seasons
27:47 Building Businesses for Choices
29:56 Playing Bigger in Business and Life
33:57 Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
35:10 The Power of In-Person Experiences
37:21 Taking Risks for Alignment
38:28 Manifesting Without Limits
40:57 Finding Joy in Presence
Resources Mentioned
📚 Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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About Katya Libin
Katya Libin is a transformational business mentor, strategic advisor, and co-founder of JADEVA, where she leads a global movement devoted to reimagining business through the lens of divine feminine power. Her work guides visionary women to build regenerative businesses, unlock embodied wealth, and lead lives that are fully alive and soul-aligned.
Before launching JADEVA, Katya co-founded HeyMama, a pioneering community for working mothers that reached tens of thousands of women and was featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and Harper's Bazaar before being successfully acquired in 2023. Across her ventures, she's generated over $11 million in revenue while completely redefining what sustainable, feminine-led success looks like.
As a certified Dakini in the sacred tantric arts, Katya bridges the mystical and material, helping women lead from pleasure, not pressure. She's spoken on stages from Davos to Morgan Stanley's Women's Leadership Summit and has spent over a decade mentoring founders, artists, executives, and spiritual leaders.
Summary
In this powerful conversation, Maria sits down with transformational business mentor and JADEVA co-founder Katya Libin to explore what divine feminine leadership really looks like in practice. From generating over $11 million across her ventures to redefining how women can build sustainable, soul-aligned businesses, Katya shares her journey of embracing both the mystical and practical sides of entrepreneurship.
This episode dives deep into the intersection of motherhood and business, the art of balancing masculine and feminine energies, and why vulnerability might be your greatest leadership superpower. Katya opens up about her immigrant experience, the importance of sacred community, and how stepping away from hustle culture actually accelerated her success.
Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just beginning to explore what conscious business looks like, this conversation will shift how you think about building wealth, creating impact, and leading from your essence instead of exhaustion.
Key Takeaways
✨ Entrepreneurship and motherhood are deeply intertwined journeys that can fuel each other
✨ Balancing masculine (structure, strategy) and feminine (intuition, flow) energies creates sustainable success
✨ Vulnerability in leadership doesn't make you weak—it builds trust and authentic connection
✨ Hustle culture leads to burnout and disconnection from your true self and purpose
✨ Understanding your human design can unlock deeper self-awareness and business alignment
✨ Sacred community and genuine connection are essential for both personal and professional growth
✨ Taking calculated risks is necessary for evolution and breakthrough success
✨ Creating space for reflection and self-discovery is vital for sustainable growth
✨ Your immigrant experience or background can become a unique entrepreneurial advantage
✨ Leading from essence rather than exhaustion creates more impact and fulfillment
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In this episode, Maria reflects on her transformative summer, emphasizing the importance of taking time away from work to reconnect with oneself and nature. She discusses the lessons learned about authenticity, the need for self-reflection, and the power of pausing in the manifestation process. Maria also shares her emotional journey of connecting with her past and the significance of her sister's presence in her life. The episode concludes with a reminder that true manifestation comes from within and encourages listeners to embrace their own journeys of self-discovery.
Takeaways
This summer was so necessary for my transformation.
I had to completely surrender to what was being offered.
Taking time away from work allowed me to be present.
I realized how much I needed to reconnect with nature.
Reflecting on my energy helped me align with my true self.
Practicing pauses before action led to better decisions.
Updating my operating system was crucial for my growth.
I felt my sister's presence guiding me this summer.
Manifestation sometimes means not moving at all.
Everything I need is already within me.
Website: www.manifestingninja.com
INSTAGRAM: @manifestingninja
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