Create a New Tomorrow

Hi, I am here with Glenn Ackerman, Glenn is the creator and developer of Energy Awareness Training, a brand new break through method that can create rapid change in people where every other method has failed. He has been certified in and taught multiple disciplines in the personal development field for over 20 years. Also has been teaching and training students all over the world who are committed to living their best life, here is the Highlights of the episode hope you enjoy. Listen to the full episode in your favorite podcast app.

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Create a fundamental change in the global community from a strictly reactive system of medicine that focuses on symptom and emergency treatment to a proactive system based on whole-being health as well as illness and injury prevention. Personally teach and influence at least one million people.

We are a multifaceted Health and Wellness company that specializes in Corporate Wellness and Culture Consulting, Industry Speaking engagements and Continuing education for the industry.

We Help corporations by solving the most costly problems they have with Productivity and Health Care while creating a culture that thrives on accomplishment and community.

We help organizations think outside of the box and gain tools that allow them to be nimble and strong as tides and markets shift.

We Up level the skills and tools of other practitioners by providing them continuing education that actually leads to greater success and standing in the business community.

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Ari Gronich 0:07  

My name is Ari Gronich, I'm known as the performance therapist, and I'm talking today with a good friend of mine, Glenn Ackerman, he and I have been business associates and friends for probably close to 20 years, 15 years. And from my old life in Los Angeles, and we've done business together, we have broken bread together. And Glenn is a guru in the personal development arena. He's an NLP, NLP trainer, and energy worker, he's got a lot of credentials behind his back, we've, we've done some pretty interesting business together as well as just been friends. And so I'm going to let Glenn kind of give you his background. And we're going to be talking today about energy healing, and this, this new methodology that Glenn has created, and how it might be able to support you and your family during this whole pandemic in crisis we are having. So let me give it off to Glenn and let him kind of give you his full background.

Glenn Ackerman 1:24  

Well, thanks, sorry, can you hear me okay?

Ari Gronich 1:26  

Now we can hear you. Great.

Glenn Ackerman 1:28  

Beautiful. Okay, well, appreciate you sitting there, this up here. Just to give you a little a little background, I've been in the personal development field now, overall, over 20 years now, maybe even close to 25. And I started, you know, just out of high school, because I had stuffed inside me that I wanted to change. And I came from a very tumultuous household where there was a lot of love, but there was also a lot of tension and anxiety and stress. And I couldn't wait to get out of there. And I thought, well, you know, once I leave there, I can start living my own life. But even though, you know, I thought that I left that anxiety and the stress and the and the upset, you know, at the house at my parents house, that anxiety, stress and worry, didn't leave me. And as I went out to make my way in life and, and went to college and got into business, I recognize that that there was a part inside me that was what's the word for it, the dysfunctional, another word and that in other words, I would be able to, you know, operate and show up as someone who is strong and capable and, and the leader in many fields, but in sign, I felt a lot of anxiety filled a lot of self doubt, I was dealing with a lot of negative thoughts, a lot of what I call negative self attack, that was creating turbulence internally inside of me. And I wanted to get this thing out because it seemed in many times in my life in areas that I would take two steps forward and three steps back. And as I observed myself over the years, I realized there's some process, or there's some force or there's something there's something going on, beyond what I can deal with, or that I know how to deal with it's keeping me from having the life that I know, I cannot that that it's my potential to have. So I went in threw myself into the self development, personal development, worlds, read, you know, hundreds of books on how to change to courses, seminars, and, and throughout, you know, throughout the years even became proficient and certified in these fields.

Ari Gronich 3:56  

Okay, so, you know, I don't know how many people watching this can get behind the fact that they've done a lot of work. And it hasn't been exactly what they thought it was going to be like, it's not been the cure all it's not been the thing, it's been steps and little steps and little steps. And so I think a lot of people can understand the frustration that you had felt as you were going through all these processes. I know that I had you know, I started doing asked when I was eight years old landmark lifespring you know, before I was a teen, and and I started in this profession. By the time I was 17. I became a master herbalist and aromatherapist and an 18 started going to school for massage and healing. So I kind of, you know, we parallel that background, and I know what it's like to, you know, feel like you're doing so much work and you're only getting so many much progress at a time. And so what I'd like to hear from you is, how do you accelerate that progress based on? Rather than doing because we do a lot? Right. But rather than doing, being aware of what is so, you know, as you're talking, what I can tell is, is what people are aware of typically is the 10%. At the top of the iceberg, they're not aware of the 90% below it. So how can you become more aware of what you're not aware of? So that so that you can then, you know, clear and break that glacier up that iceberg up? and have it dissolve quicker, faster? and with less damage?

Glenn Ackerman 5:50  

who you are? You know, that's a great question. And so let me take a stab at it. So when people come to me, usually, they tried a lot of different things. And they got it usually got an issue that they're dealing with, and they haven't found a solution. with it. It's been here and there this, and it's interesting, that part of my students, I have met doctors, who are students of mine psychologists, who are students of mine who want to learn energy awareness training, and then the question I always ask them, I say, you know, you're your medical doctor, your psychologist, and you're coming to me, alone, did you try, you know, solving it before? And they're like, yeah, we I tried everything I could, you know, that I had access to in the medical field or the psychological field, and I couldn't fix it. So I hear that you get results. So that's why you know, somebody I knew work with you. So that's when contacting you? Well, here's the thing. So it comes down to this, you know, when we were in the in high school, art, our science professor said everything is energy, I remember it so well. Everything that we're dealing with this world is energy, you know, in my my biology classes, right after lunch, so I was always half asleep when he was teaching all about biology. And I'm thinking, Oh, that's great. Everything is energy. What does it have to do with me? And, you know, and and taking out Mary Lou to the dance Friday night, or, you know, making the football team? I don't can't see that? Well, what's interesting is that one of the greatest scientists of the last century, Nikola Tesla said that if you want to understand the mysteries and the secrets of life, then you want to start looking at things in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. Now, that really rung my bell, because I recognize that in life, we are taught a linear process, we are taught, when we grow up, we're taught Well, there's certain things that you do, if you're going to be successful, and you're going to be happy in this world, you use logic, you know, there's a linear process, you grew up, you go to school, go to high school, college, you know, get a job, get married, have kids, you know, there's a linear progression that we're supposed to be on. And we follow that linear progression using logic, we go to school to figure things out, and to learn, and using our five senses. So that works for a large part of life. But it doesn't work for another part of life, where there's things that happen that aren't logical.

Ari Gronich 8:41  

So I'm going to, I'm going to break a little bit and just ask you, so your negatives and false positives. So how do you know if what you're feeling as far as the energetic red flags? Is your trauma, or is it real? And, and so you're getting false negatives or false positives. And if everything happens, for a reason, as some people have, you know, would say everything happens for every reason, then is it doesn't behoove you to bypass the lesson that you may get from having the experience? or, or, you know, is it good to just be born with a silver spoon? Enjoy a pleasant positive life for your entire life and not ever have to worry about a lesson. So one of the things that I've always said is if I was born with a silver spoon in my hand, it wouldn't have bothered me, I would have enjoyed and appreciated a good life. I've fortunately and unfortunately had a plethora of experiences both positive and negative and My question is, if I were to have reacted to what I thought was an energetic poll against the thing I was doing, should I have listened to the false positive or the false negative?

Glenn Ackerman 10:19  

Were we're going down the rabbit hole. All right. So let's get to that, because there's about seven questions in here. So let me start, what was the first one?

Ari Gronich 10:30  

Well, let's let's just, you know, pull it back to false negatives, false positives. If you feel something and and you're that voice inside your head says no. Right? Is that your trauma? And? Or is it a real thing? And wit? And how do you know? And which do you listen to

Glenn Ackerman 10:52  

eautiful let's start there show in describing energy awareness training, there are certain principles, which this is founded upon that are that are clear and obvious, but we ever think about them. One of them is that everything's energy. Number two, in this planet, we're living in under the law of duality or polarity. Okay, which means, you know, if I'm dealing with light, I got to deal with darkness, if I'm dealing with the male, I'm gonna be dealing with female at the Tycho's in the tide goes out, left, right, good, bad night and day. So everything that we're dealing with everything, which is energy, when, when and what it is, whether it's relationship, you know, a business, a health challenges, sports, whatever it is, all of it's an energetic process. And these energetic processes have a duality or polarity to them, you know, when sports winning or losing being in shape, but not in shape, champion, you know, champion, loser, all of these things. So So if everything's energy, then then at least in this world, then energy is is a duality to has a polarity, which is a high, it has a high vibration, which is what Tesla said, you know, energy vibration. So let's break that down. Energy, vibration and frequency, so that so there's what I call a high vibration energy, and a low vibration energy. And these are codes. For the energetic experience we have the high vibration, energy is happiness, joy, peace, health, abundance, full connection, inner peace, all of the things that we want all of the things that make us have a good life. And it shows up as kindness is compassion is oneness is gratitude, etc. So that's a little bit of the code of how the high vibration energy works. It's, there's a lot more than that. But let's just have that be our example. Well, if there's a high vibration energy, then there's going to be a low vibration energy to and that low vibration energy is going to be the polar opposite of the high vibration. If you can, then you're going on 20% of the information, and you're likely going to step in the trap is so much of the time we do

Ari Gronich 13:13  

so I'm going to just just to finish off, I'm going to take it back to our current pandemic situation. So I've been a big advocate against or activist I guess, against the the media currently, and their campaign of fear. And so when you're when you're looking at the campaign of fear that's been spread, whether accurate or not. What would be a good immune system boosting whether energetic immune system or not immune system boosting response to the fear that people are experiencing right now with regards to to COVID?

Glenn Ackerman 14:04  

It's another great question, or you're hitting him out of the park today. So I went, I want you to understand for anybody who's listening, if there's two factors you're dealing with here, remember gets back to what we started the law of duality, the law of polarity, the two factors, there's the actual threat of the virus itself. And there's the thinking that energy, the thoughts around it. Now, 90% of the world or more isn't going to get the virus, but 100% of the world has been infected by the energy by the thinking of what you're talking about. So I don't think nobody needs any help to know what to do about it physically. I think we all know masca keep your social distance, wash your hands, etc. But what you can do Right now is not fall into the low vibration energy pandemic, that's the pandemic, the pandemic is fear, worry, stress death, all you have to do is watch the news, you know, any of the news channels for more than 20 minutes, and your immune system will literally drop that can be measured by by exposing yourself to death sickness, disease threats, what kind of energy is that? What have you guys learned? It's low vibration energy. What is low vibration energy can give you more of low vibration energy. So what I teaching my students to do, is be aware of what's happening, you know, if you got to watch the news, great, but at all times be able to clean your energy. And I do that through a series of breathing through some point manipulation, there are a lot of ways to do that. That sure, you know, some of them are you do it yourself, but I have a program that does that. So that every day just like you take a shower, you got to clean off that dirt. You've got to clean off the mental, low vibration energy that's trying to affect you. It's trying to keep you down now that I want to alert you that's on both sides. So you want to be aware of the the energies that the authorities are saying, okay, that, you know, hey, don't go outside, like, Is it true, I don't know. But I'm not going to be be worried, I'm going to be careful. But I'm not going to be under the covers, oh my gosh, I've been inactive outside. On the other hand, I'm not going to get sucked into these guys who are going the virus is just a hoax, you know, lets everybody go back to work. And be normal, forget about it, that's as dangerous is the other side. So, so high vibration, energy is always in the middle. You know, it can, it's not attached to one side or the other. It wants the characteristics of safety, of health and peace of mind. And you can only get that if you're cleaning and moving energy. So I have a saying that says nothing changes until energy moves. So you want to get out of the thinking and be able to start moving energy, whether it's through exercise, through meditation, through breathing exercises, or any of the things that we teach.

Ari Gronich 17:31  

Awesome, you know, I wish we had more time to talk because we could go on and on and on. One of the things that maybe next time, if we do this, again, I'm going to ask you to do it near your piano because you can demonstrate low and high vibration, via via the music that you play. It's one of the I favorite things about you is is your playing of that particular instrument. I remember being at your house many many years ago and listening to you play. So anyway, you know that that's a that's a great way to end. And, you know,

Glenn Ackerman 18:11  

again, let's do it again. All right, I'll bring my piano.

Ari Gronich 18:13  

Yeah, if there's anybody who has any questions for us, you know, even if you're watching the replay, and you ask some questions, we'll be glad to answer anything. But Glenn, how does how do people get ahold of you, if they want to do more with you or learn more from you,

Glenn Ackerman 18:32  

they can reach me through my email at [email protected] towards energy, Titan [email protected]. And as you can see, I'm on Facebook. And I have a YouTube channel, which you can subscribe to. And I'm all about getting the word out to this. So you're going to be hearing a lot about energy awareness training in the future. I'm working on a book, and working on rolling this out, cuz it's a mission. What I do is a mission, I am committed to ending emotional suffering in our lifetime. And that's absolutely possible. If you have energetic tools, there's no need for people to suffer emotionally. Now, we can't avoid pain because pains is a necessary tool, unfortunately, in this world is part of the life process. We don't have to suffer. And I know that if I knew this, you know, I would have saved myself 10 to 15 years of some suffering. But you know, it happened for a reason for me to be able to develop this. So that's my gift to the world and along to be able to teach kids this so we can have a world of more peace, more kindness, and more high vibrational energy. And I think that will change the world. So I appreciate you having me on Ari and having this time with you. Thank you so much.

Ari Gronich 20:00  

Literally I'm going to go to turn off our facebook live right now. And I just want to say like said, if anybody has any questions, feel free to, to ask them in the chat room. If you'd like to learn a little bit more about living your passionate life, this is my book, a new tomorrow activating your vision for a better world. And it's really about how to do it's like step by step kind of guide to how to create that life that you really want to live. And with that, I'm going to say good night. Like said any questions you might have will be will feel free to to answer them. So I'm going to stop the livestream right now. And thank you guys so much. Have a healthy day.

Hi, I am here with Glenn Ackerman, Glenn is the creator and developer of Energy Awareness Training, a brand new break through method that can create rapid change in people where every other method has failed. He has been certified in and taught multiple disciplines in the personal development field for over 20 years. Also has been teaching and training students all over the world who are committed to living their best life, here is the full episode hope you enjoy. Listen in your favorite podcast app.

CHECK THIS WEBSITE BY GLENN ACKERMAN TO LEARN MORE!

https://www.energyawarenesstraining.com/

JOIN NOW!! AND BE PART OF MASTERMIND PROGRAM

learn how to activate yourself for a better future!https://createanewtomorrow.com/master...

CHECK THIS LINK FOR A FREE GIFT FOR YOU!https://www.createanewtomorrow.com/gift

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Book an appointment now and let's create a new world together!https://booking.builderall.com/calend...

CHECK THIS OTHER WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

https://www.CreateAnewtomorrow.com

https://www.Achievehealthusa.com

Create a fundamental change in the global community from a strictly reactive system of medicine that focuses on symptom and emergency treatment to a proactive system based on whole-being health as well as illness and injury prevention. Personally teach and influence at least one million people.

We are a multifaceted Health and Wellness company that specializes in Corporate Wellness and Culture Consulting, Industry Speaking engagements and Continuing education for the industry.

We Help corporations by solving the most costly problems they have with Productivity and Health Care while creating a culture that thrives on accomplishment and community.

We help organizations think outside of the box and gain tools that allow them to be nimble and strong as tides and markets shift.

We Up level the skills and tools of other practitioners by providing them continuing education that actually leads to greater success and standing in the business community.

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Ari Gronich 0:00  

Has it occurred to you that the systems we live by are not designed to get results. We pay for procedures instead of outcomes, focusing on emergencies rather than preventing disease and living a healthy lifestyle. For over 25 years, I've taken care of Olympians Paralympians a list actors in fortune 1000 companies, if I did not get results, they did not get results. I realized that while powerful people who control the system wants to keep the status quo, if I were to educate the masses, you would demand change. So I'm taking the gloves off and going after the systems as they are. Join me on my mission to create a new tomorrow as I chat with industry experts, elite athletes, thought leaders and government officials about how we activate our vision for a better world. We may agree, and we may disagree, but I'm not backing down. I'm Ari Gronich and this is create a new tomorrow podcast.

So my name is Ari Gronich. I'm known as the performance therapist, and I'm talking today with a good friend of mine, Glenn Ackerman, he and I have been business associates and friends for probably close to 20 years, 15 years. And from my old life in Los Angeles, and we've done business together, we have broken bread together. And Glenn is a guru in the personal development arena. He's an NLP, NLP trainer, and energy worker, he's got a lot of credentials behind his back, we've done some pretty interesting business together as well as just been friends. And so I'm going to let Glenn kind of give you his background. And we're going to be talking today about energy healing. And this, this new methodology that Glenn has created, and how it might be able to support you and your family during this whole pandemic in crisis are having. So let me give it off to Glenn and let him kind of give you his full background. Well, thanks, sorry,

Glenn Ackerman 2:23  

can you hear me okay?

Ari Gronich 2:24  

Now we can hear you. Great. Beautiful. Okay,

Glenn Ackerman 2:27  

well appreciate you setting this up here. Just to give you a little a little background, I've been in the personal development field now, overall, over 20 years now, maybe even close to 25. And I started, you know, just out of high school, because I had stuff inside me that I wanted to change. And I came from a very tumultuous household where there was a lot of love, but there was also a lot of tension and anxiety and stress. And I couldn't wait to get out of there. And I thought, well, you know, once I leave there, I can start living my own life. But even though, you know, I thought that I left that anxiety and the stress and the and the upset, you know, at the house at my parents house, that anxiety, stress and worry, didn't leave me. And as I went out to make my way in life and, and went to college and got into business, I recognized that, that there was a part inside me that was what's the word for it, the dysfunctional, another word and that in other words, I would be able to, you know, operate and show up as someone who is strong and capable and, and the leader in many fields, but in sign I felt a lot of anxiety filled a lot of self doubt, I was dealing with a lot of negative thoughts, a lot of what I call negative self attack, that was creating turbulence internally inside of me. And I wanted to get this thing out because it seemed in many times in my life in areas that I would take two steps forward and three steps back. And as I observed myself over the years, I realize there's some process, or there's some force or there's something there's something going on, beyond what I can deal with, or that I know how to deal with it's keeping me from having the life that I know, I cannot that that it's my potential to have. So I went in threw myself into the self development, personal development worlds, read, you know, hundreds of books on how to change to courses, seminars and, and throughout you know, throughout the years even became proficient and certified in these fields. And with each field from you know from a I mean, you name it from A to Z from water On fire to vision quest to meditations to, you know, the deepest scientific studies towards, you know, deep mysticism, I mean, you name it, I've tried it, what happened was, is every little part of that, I would learn something, and I would make a little bit of progress. But it never got me to the to, to be able to erase this stuff inside me, it helped me deal with, you know, that the stress or the negative thinking or the, you know, the bad the bad memories in a new way to think about it in the new way, you know, to maneuver in the new way, but it never erased it. So, you know, I was coming up on kind of exasperated, that I had, you know, tried everything and grew enormously from the experiences. And then I was introduced to the field of energy, energy, medicine, energy, psychology, energy, healing, energy, spirituality. And through a series of events, I was able to meet and study with the top people in each of these field, whether it was a medical or, or a spiritual or a scientific or mystical branch of this. And as a result of that, the each of those parts were kind of incomplete on their own. But together, when I was able to put it together was like putting pieces together of a jigsaw puzzle. And through through what developed through me what I was able to develop, and that was actually revealed to me or downloaded, I sold a space. So so to speak, from, you know, another dimension, I began to, to see very clearly one major part that's been left out of the personal development field, or the quest to be able to heal ourselves. And I think, you know, moving through through the different fields, I believe every human being on the surface in recovery from something or the other from, you know, childhood, or an addiction or abuse to parent or, you know, a heartbreak or something. And, and what these are, these are energies, these are hidden energies that we were never taught about. And, you know, these energies, you know, I liken it to the iceberg analogy, you know, it's 10%, above the water that we can see 90% below the water we can't see. And the Titanic wasn't sunk by the 10%, it could see, it was sunk by the 90% that it couldn't see. So I realize that, in my work, I was saying, which is that which we can see, we can control. But that which we can't see, controls us. So this was the beginning of developing what is known now as energy awareness training, which is the ability to recognize and see a hidden reality, or a deeper reality, of living of life that's in the invisible realm, that is responsible for the visible realm. So So it's, it's, you have the thing that's physical, and so much of the physical that we see, we try to work it out in the 10% level. And sometimes we do many times, we don't have the answers. But when you look it when you understand it, everything is physical is created from non physical, that's where the answers lie. That's where the information lies. So whether whether, you know, you're trying to have a better wife, a better relationship, get along with your spouse, with your head, when you want to have better health, whether you want to make more money, whatever it is, every product, every problem at its core is energetic, it was started by an energetic process. And if you don't have an answer to it, at least in the 10% realm, then the answer to it or the solution to it, is in the energetic realm. So this is a whole new way, a whole new paradigm of being able to see the world to navigate the world. And to be able to change ourselves, which is the most important thing the energy awareness does is the ability to be able to use the other 90% to be able to change yourself, and and move to the place where where you know, you're capable of that level of living, of achievement, or maybe just well be able to feel good in your body. And thank God I was able to do that. And through this, I was able to take all that stuff that I've been dabbling in was it fighting for 20 years and eliminate it because it was an energy and when you learn the fundamentals, how to deal with energy you recognize these thing are things who've been dealing with our whole lives can be, and then we haven't had an answer to it can be solved if you if you deal with it and tackle it from an energetic perspective. So that's a little bit of the background of where I've come to today.

Ari Gronich 10:18  

Okay, so, you know, I don't know how many people watching this can get behind the fact that they've done a lot of work. And it hasn't been exactly what they thought it was going to be like, it's not been the cure all, it's not been the thing. It's been steps and little steps and little steps. And so I think a lot of people can understand the frustration that you had felt, as you were going through all these processes. I know that I had, you know, I started doing asked when I was eight years old, landmark lifespring, you know, before I was a team, and, and I started in this profession. By the time I was 17, I became a master herbalist and aromatherapist and at 18 started going to school for massage and healing. So I kind of, you know, we parallel that background, and I know what it's like to, you know, feel like you're doing so much work, and you're only getting so much progress at a time. And so what I'd like to hear from you is, how do you accelerate that progress based on? Rather than doing because we do a lot, right. But rather than doing, being aware of what is so you know, as you're talking, what I can tell is, is what people are aware of typically is the 10%, at the top of the iceberg, they're not aware of the 90% below it. So how can you become more aware of what you're not aware of? So that so that you can then, you know, clear and break that glacier up that iceberg up? and have it dissolve quicker, faster? and with less damage?

Glenn Ackerman 12:12  

You know, that's a great question. And so let me take a stab at it. So when people come to me, usually, they tried a lot of different things. And they've got it usually got an issue that they're dealing with. And they haven't found a solution with it being in here than they have in this. And it's interesting that part of my students, I had met doctors, who are students of mine psychologists, who are students of mine who want to learn energy awareness training. And then the question I always ask them, I say, you know, you're your medical doctor, you're a psychologist, and you're coming to me, alone, did you try, you know, solving it before? And they're like, yeah, we I tried everything I could, you know, that I had access to in the medical field, it was psychological field, and I couldn't fix it. So I hear that you get results. So that's why you know, somebody I knew work with you. So that's when contacting you? Well, here's the thing. So it comes down to this, you know, when we were in the in high school, art, Ari, science professor said everything is energy, I remember it so well. Everything that we're dealing with this world is energy, you know, in my my biology classes, right after lunch, so I was always half asleep when he was teaching all about biology. And I'm thinking, Oh, that's great. Everything is generally what does it have to do with me? And, you know, and and taking out Mary Lou to the dance Friday night, or, you know, making the football team? I don't can't see that. Well, what's interesting is that is that one of the greatest scientists of the last century, Nikola Tesla said that if you want to understand the mysteries and the secrets of life, then you want to start looking at things in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Now, that really rang my bell, because I recognize that in life, we are taught a linear process, we are taught, when we grow up, we're taught Well, there's certain things that you do if you're going to be successful, and you can be happy in this world. You use logic, you know, there's a linear process, you grew up, you go to school, go to high school, college, you know, get a job, get married, have kids, you know, there's a linear progression that we're supposed to be on. And we follow that linear progression using logic. We go to school to figure things out and to learn and using our five senses. So that works for a large part of life. But it doesn't work for another part of life where there's Things that happen that aren't logical. They're things that happen that don't make sense. And it's a mystery, you know, especially in relationships, you know, you you meet someone and you think, Hey, you know, they, they look good, they sound good. We're getting along, okay, I think I'm gonna get into this thing, right? So you get into it using all of the, the census, the logic, and it's good for a while and then over time something happens. And then it becomes the exact opposite of what she got into it for. And then it's a it's like a nightmare, and oh, my God. And then it ends, you know, and it hits the rocks. And there's heartbreak. And that's not what you signed up for. You either sign up for heartbreak and misery, but that's what you ended up with. Why is that? That's the big question that I answered and, and Tesla started the process that kind of handed me the ball up, which he made said that, that, if you want to understand the mysteries of life, in other words, the mysteries of things that don't make sense, or things that are not logical, which is half half of life, then look at them in terms of energy as an energy, whole, with a frequency and vibration. So what he's saying is that there's a channel, there's a frequency, there's a signature for these things of mystery. Well, I put it develop that to recognize Well, if everything's energy, like you, like me, like the table, like the computer, like the sky, like jobs, like the, the COVID virus, I mean, if that's all energy, then let's develop these codes into something that can really educate us and do something for us so that we can have better lives. So in my model, if it's all energy, take people for example, in my model, adding to what Tesla said that all energy has a power, it has a purpose, it has an intelligence, it has a direction, and it gives off energy. Now, when and that's called becoming energetically aware, or being able to read energies, why is it important to be able to read energies, because energies never lie? people lie situations, maybe not lie, but a lot of times aren't what they seem to be. But energy fundamentally, always moves in a certain direction. So if you can read what that direction is, that's going to give you immense, enormous advantage, to protect yourself against negativity, and to be able to move forward to be able to be more to do more to have more. So the illustration there, give you one more, is that an energetic and energetic awareness? You know, again, traditionally, we live in this world, which we call the three dimensional world. And in these dimensions, it's to what you can see, it's what I can see. And it kind of like, that's what we call reality. Now, science says that there are 10, maybe 12, or more dimensions of reality? Well, if that's the case, then we're only seeing about maybe 20 to 30% of what's going on. And we're missing out the majority of what's happening around us. So why that's important is, that's why we make mistakes. And, and don't we spend most of our time every day trying to make the decisions of what's good for us? Should I do this? Should I do that? Should I eat this food? Is it good for me? It's not good for me, should I be in this relationship? Should I not be in it? Should I use this exercise program? Should I move to this place? Now, you know, your biggest issue? So I go out? Should I go to the market or not? Or should I go outside without a mass mean, these are decisions that we're making? Now? The one of the most it advantages of my work is the ability to grasp that other 70, 60 to 70% of reality. And and so people say you're saying there's other realities around that, that we don't know about that, that we can access? And I'm all Yeah, let's go back to the relationship example. You know, you you made a decision. I'm talking about relationships that it hit the hit the rocks, and we've all had them, men and women. So at the beginning, as I mentioned, you You use that 20 or 30%, plus your five senses, plus your logic to make a decision of whether this is something that would be good for you, or not good for you. And in spite of using, you know, all of the tools that you have your logic and your percentages of awareness and your five senses, you made the wrong decision. So, and that wasn't clear until the ending came. And then when the ending comes in, and the results are, you know, not what you wanted, and bringing you into a place that you regret, what do we do? We say, Oh, if only I had known then what I know now, I never would have done that I never would have got involved naturally and never would have made that investment. Okay, and then you save yourself. I knew it. I knew it. I knew I shouldn't have gotten involved in this thing I knew. And I say, you do it? Why didn't you listen to yourself? Okay, or I love this one. You know, there is a voice inside me that said, Don't do this. This isn't for me, this is not going to work out, right. And I didn't listen. Like, oh, why did he listen? I didn't listen. So what that shows us is that there was information, there was awareness, at the time that you made that decision that was trying to communicate to you or the least was available, that you didn't use. So energy awareness training, is about accessing all of the information. And being able to read the energies and the people that have this, this incredible tool to to be able to see the totality of what you're about to do. Before you do it, not after everybody's everybody's a wise man after. But what really comes in handy is it before you do that. And there are roadmaps, and which I'd be happy to go into here. If you want me to, that can tell us there are signs here, when you become energetically aware that can do that can direct us to see a deeper reality of how everything works, so that we can use it to our benefit. So in the better these benefits, you know, we're having a better life to things moving up to a better life, and being able to get rid of the baggage, the issues and the negativity that's been keeping us down.

Ari Gronich 22:42  

So I'm going to, I'm going to break a little bit and just ask you, so your negatives and false positives. So how do you know if what you're feeling as far as the energetic red flags? Is your trauma? Or is it real? And, and so you're getting false negatives or false positives? And if everything happens for a reason, as some people have, you know, would say everything happens for every reason, then? Is it does it behoove you to bypass the lesson that you may get from having the experience? Or? Or, you know, is it good to just be born with the silver spoon, enjoy a pleasant positive life for your entire life and not ever have to worry about a lesson. So one of the things that I've always said is if I was born with a silver spoon in my hand, it wouldn't have bothered me, I would have enjoyed and appreciated a good life. Ivan, I've fortunately and unfortunately had a plethora of experiences both positive and negative. And my question is, if I were to have reacted to what I thought was an energetic pull against the thing I was doing should I have listened to the false positive or the false negative?

Glenn Ackerman 24:21  

We're going down the rabbit hole. Alright. So let's get to that because there's about seven questions in here. So let me start what was the first one?

Ari Gronich 24:32  

Well, let's let's just you know, pull it back to false negatives false positives. If you feel something and and you're that voice inside your head says no. Right? Is that your trauma? And or is it a real thing and wit and how do you know and which do you listen to

Glenn Ackerman 24:53  

eautiful? Let's start there. Show it Describing energy awareness training, there are certain principles, which this is founded upon that are that are clear and obvious, but we ever think about them. One of them is that everything's energy. Number two, in this planet we're living in under the law of duality or polarity. Okay, which means, you know, if I'm dealing with light, I got to deal with darkness, if I'm dealing with a male, I'm gonna be dealing with female if the tide goes in, the tide goes out, left, right, good, bad night and day. So everything that we're dealing with everything, which is energy, when, when and what it is, whether it's relationship, you know, a business, a health challenges, sports, whatever it is, all of it's an energetic process. And these energetic processes have a duality or polarity to them, you know, when sports winning or losing being in shape, be not in shape, champion, you know, champion loser, all these things. So So if everything's energy, then at least in this world, then energy is is a duality to it has a polarity, which is a high, it has a high vibration, which is what Tesla said, you know, energy vibration. So let's break that down. Energy, vibration and frequency. So that was so there's what I call a high vibration energy, and a low vibration energy. And these are codes. For the energetic experience, we have the high vibration energies, happiness, joy, peace, health, abundance, full connection, inner peace, all of the things that we want all of the things that make us have a good life. And it shows up his kindness, his compassion, his oneness, his gratitude, etc. So that's a little bit of the code of how the high vibration energy works. It's, there's a lot more than that, but let's just have that be our example. Well, if there's a high vibration energy, then there's going to be a low vibration energy to and that low vibration energy is going to be the polar opposite of the high vibration, it's gonna, that's going to be vibrating anxiety, stress, worry, doubt, fear, darkness, heaviness, stuckness lack, which is all the stuff that we don't want. Now, even though there's there's lots of frequencies and energies in this planet, they can all be come under two headings, it's either going to be a high frequency, or a high vibrational energy, or a low vibration or, or low frequency energy. Now, these energies are actively influencing us, every human being, every single day, they are active externally, out into the world. And they are active internally within us. So we have a force that wants peace that wants unity that wants once abundance and blessings for people operating. Well. There's also a frequency that's operating that wants chaos, that wants destruction, that wants negativity, operating out in the field. And these energies, again, they influence the world that we live in, and also our own internal structures, and they contact us through our thoughts through our feelings or our emotions internally. So if you remember that one of the most important thing to energy awareness training is to be able to be aware of what energy field Am I in and or my about to go in? Because that's key information. Why? Because I know that high vibration energy will attract more high vibrational energy. And I know that low vibration energy will attract more low vibration energy. So as an example, you're around one of your favorite people, you love being around them, why they're happy, they're joyful, they uplift you, they inspire you, you know, whether it's a friend or a musician or a, you know, an influencer type or a politician or somebody that wow, you know, they make they lift you up. That's a high vibration energy. Now, when you're around somebody who's a whiner, who's complaining is down all the times. It doesn't take long before you start feeling that energy and it starts to pull you down. So part of being energetically aware, is being able to recognize the frequencies that that we're in or that are coming at us, because all of us as human beings are energetic sending and receiving vehicles. We're sending out energy and receiving the energy. When energies are we sending out we're whatever we're thinking with, or with whatever we're feeling Whatever way we're motivated and whatever we're behaving, that's our energy. And that's what we send out into the world. And what do we get back? Usually a similar version of what we put out. And if you remember, the phrase, which you put out comes back to you 200%. So, so the answer to your question, or at least the one I can remember, is that when you recognize what the frequencies are, you know that high vibration energy is about having you feel good, having you be healthy, having you have long term fulfillment, low vibration energy, may give you an ounce of pleasure to suck you into a relationship or to a drug or to an addiction, that will give you an ounce of pleasure, followed by a pound of pain, and ultimately want to lead you into the direction of suffering. So these, these, these energies are active. So for example, energy awareness, let's take the COVID-19. Remember, I said using using the Ackermann formula, all energy is a power a purpose. It has an intelligence in a direction and gives you information. So let's look at this COVID thing. Okay, if we were able to see this at the beginning, we would have saved a lot of lives. Does it have a power? You bet it is a power is a power to destabilize the world. Okay, now, you know what you're dealing with? Does it have a purpose? Yes, it has a purpose, and has a purpose to hurt people and make them sick and to take lives? Okay? Does it have an intelligence? You bet it does, it knows how to mutate, and it knows how to spread itself without any help. Whoa, does it have a direction that it takes people to? You better believe it? It? What's going to take people down? And what's it take you out. So that's the information you get now, if it was if it was four months ago, and and you had a bottle and this virus is in that bottle, and you were able to recognize that energy, you would know, hey, this, this is something to fool around with. This is something to be very careful with, you know, and not to take lightly. But whoever didn't take it, whoever thought Oh, it's no big deal. Oh, you know, like this, that was a major energetic mistake that guy made. And this result, you know, if you're not energetically tuned, it can it can it it has in our lives, brought us a lot of chaos and suffering. So in my work, we do two things, that my work is geared to eliminate suffering. That's what energy awareness training is the first goal, by becoming energetically aware, we can eliminate the traps, the mental traps, the emotional traps that happen in all areas of life and relationships, in business and finance. In health, we can eliminate the traps and move your energy towards a consistent high vibrational energy of operating so that you're able to stay in a happy, proactive place, no matter what happens, no matter what you're dealing with in this world. And I can explain how that works maybe later on that, but that's possible using Is it possible to be consistently happy in this world? And the answer is only if you're energetically aware. Because if you're if your intelligence or consciousness is, is limited to a three dimensional world, there's no lasting happiness in this world. Okay, that's a big one, no lasting. Why? Because if your happiness is based upon anything in this physical or external world, the characteristics of everything in this world is there's a beginning, a middle, and an end. So whatever you're enjoying, that makes you happy in this world, at some point, it's going to end or at the very least, it's going to shift. There's principle It is called energy cycles, which is, no matter where you are in this moment in time. Eventually, it's going to shift and it's going to move from one polarity to the other polarity, right without you having to do a thing. Last year at this time, economy was great. Everybody was walking around in the springtime and nobody had a care in the world. And if I told you, hey, enjoy it, because a year from now, you're going to be quarantine, you're not gonna be able to go out you're not gonna be able to go out here, man. Yeah, but I knew that it was going to change. I didn't know it's going to be this extreme. But I knew that there was going to be a major energy shift taking place in 2020 major, so I prepared for it. And I taught my students, you know, when I teach them the law of energy cycles, you need to prepare. So if you're aware of how the energies work, then you're prepared. So that So that when they go the other way, if the damage is minimal, or it doesn't affect you at all, does that make sense Ari? so that

Ari Gronich 35:08  

it sounds like building an energetic immunity, which I you know I like talking about immune boosting and and how we could boost our immune systems so that things like COVID or any other disease, you know, if if you were to get them, they wouldn't play a big symptomatic role because you have a strong immune system. So it sounds to me like you're talking about an energetic immune system. Yes, and exactly it, you've seen that,

Glenn Ackerman 35:37  

and you really have to have an energetic immune system before you have a physical immune system. You know, they both both in him in that law of duality, you know, it also covers, you know, with there's, we have a physical body that we need to maintain, and we have an energetic body, we have a physical body, we can see, we have an energetic body that we can't see. And both have to be maintained. So if you don't clean your physical body for a couple of days, what's going to happen, it's going to get dirty, you're going to start having problems, you know, if you don't clean for a week, you know that everybody else around you is going to have problems. What's the same thing with your energy body, we just like we accumulate sweat and dust and dirt and our physical bodies walking around, especially on hot days like this. It's the same thing with your energy body. Every day you accumulate, you're moving into the, to a world where you have to deal with low vibration energy, you have to deal with stress. I mean, look at the things that we do, you know, going to a job having a job is stressful. Right now, not having a job is stressful, right? You know, driving in the freeway, you know, that morning commute is stressful. Now, not having a commute is stressful. So no matter what we do paying bills, not paying bills, you know, you know, keeping an eye on your kids or having your kids with your 24 hour 24 seven now, whatever it is the process of life moves, we have to move through a low vibration energy, of stress of worry of uncertainty. That's the that's the duality. So when when people say well, it sounds kind of doom and gloom, I say, that's the way it works. We have a beautiful world. And we have lots of love. And we have beauty and kindness and joy in this world. But we also have to fend off a lot of attacks, since we're kids and growing up with, with I mean, you name it sickness, or finances or relationships with the whole thing. So so it's understanding that, that you're already dealing with energy, whether you know it or not, you're already in the energetic battles, the message I'm giving is, know what you're doing. Be aware of how these energies work, so you can win the battle and be on top of it instead of it being on top of you.

Ari Gronich 37:58  

So give us a like maybe one or two of your techniques for increasing your energetic immunity.

Glenn Ackerman 38:08  

Okay, well, one of the first things that I do when I have a new student, when I'm teaching, or coaching or given a president company presentation, is I alert people to the fact that you're an energetic being. And that what are that what does that mean? It means that, that your energy is held in a physical body. So you have an energy field that is, was never born, that will never die. That's infinite, unlimited, eternal, that's an energy field, that's a scientific fact you can measure energy, it just is that energy is living inside a physical body. So you have kind of like a duality here. You've got an immortal internal unlimited energy, beyond time and space, that's living in a container. That's just the opposite. That's physical in nature, that has a beginning, middle, and ending, and then his limitations. So when you become aware of that, that's an eye opener. And, and then the next thing with that is I see now, if most people who come to me they have some sort of anxiety, some sort of worry, or fear or doubts or some kind of low vibration energy. So when I say, are you dealing with anxiety or stressful Yeah, yeah. I said, how does that show up for you? Oh, I get these thoughts of, you know, I'm not good enough or some bad's gonna happen or I had a nightmare. Great. So thoughts. Step number one is recognizing you are not your thoughts, that you have thoughts, but they are not you. So what does that mean? In other words, so when you have a thought That thought that that thinking process can be hacked, can be hacked into, by these energies, especially the low vibration energies. See our natural state Ari is to be happy, joyous, free, abundant. That's our natural state. When you're feeling great and on top of the world, you never sit down and go, she Why am I so happy? You know, what, what, how did I get to this place? What do I do about this? Right? You know, it just it just what it is. But when things aren't going good, you know, when you're suffering, you're in adversity or your life's upside down, you know, not Gee, you know, how do I how did this happened? So, I want you to be aware that you get visited every day from these energies, especially the low vibration energy, the low vibration energy every day for every human being on this world. Yeah, low vibration energy with your daily delivery. Go away. Okay, now, it doesn't go away. So you know, you wake up in the morning, and all of a sudden, you get the stock field. Oh, my gosh, another day? What am I gonna How am I gonna pay this bill? What I'm going to do about this, or I'm going to do about that? That's not you. So the first thing is the wake up call. You have thoughts? You are not your thoughts. When I was growing up, you know, in school, maybe you had that, you know, I got that the other kids don't like you. You're not good enough for the baseball team. Oh, Mary Lou wouldn't want to go out with you. She only likes you know, the head jocks. So you got to start process, this beat you up inside you. And we don't recognize that's not us. That is another energy field. So the beginning processes of energy awareness tree is to be able to separate your consciousness from the thought attacks, and the emotional attacks that try to pull us down. So when somebody is feeling down, or in a low vibration energy, it's because that energy is trying to corrupt your thinking. So for example, I'm sitting here, here in California, it's a beautiful day outside, you know, springtime, and I'm sitting here and I go, wow, you know, sunshine and the birds are saying, and I'm in a high vibrational energy. Well, the low vibration energies, its job is to keep me out of high vibration. And it does so by attacking my thoughts, my feelings and my emotions. Now, it doesn't tell me it's going to do that it works covertly. This is what I mean by the deeper hidden realities of how they affect us. So I'm sitting here with a great day, and the thought comes to COVID-19 somebody on my blog could have it. I need to go to the store today. What if, what if somebody sneezes? What if I get it? And what if I What if I can't work it? What if I can't pay the rent? And what if I can't all of a sudden what's happened from a high vibrational energy this that I was in now this other forces motivation has pulled me out of my joy? and got me to go to a place of worry a fear of doubt. Now my days ruined. Now I'm under the power of this energy. So the first step is recognizing and ickes people the first question who starts are these? What energy is this? Remember in energy awareness training, that your greatest skill that will pay dividends your whole life is being able to recognize what energy field are you in right now or about to be in and, and being able to make a shift there. So this is Elementary, but it's so important. The shift of Wait a minute, okay, I got this, I got these thoughts. So using my example, I really got the COVID virus gotta go to this target. Wait a second, you start to these? Hold on. Okay. What am I feeling anxiety, worry, stress, fear? Is that what I want to feel? That's not what I want to feel that's not who I am. That's not who I decided to be this morning when I woke up. So I have a measurement to know that I'm committed to being in high vibrational energy, happy, joyous, free, no matter what, no matter what comes my way. So that's the second teaching your happiness. And your well being is a decision that you make every day. It's not dependent upon the weather, or the virus or when anybody else does. And that's how you take back your power. Because the low vibration and want to infiltrate your thoughts ago, you can't be happy today because of the COVID or you can't be happy today because you know, the stores are closed, you know, and and you know the stores are closed, and there is a COVID thing. And yeah, I can't go out to eat. But that doesn't necessarily mean I have to be happy. But the low vibration wants to say, Well, here's the reason why you should be. Here's the reason. Here's a reason usually. That's how the the low vibration infiltrates most of humanity. But when you're energetically you could say, yeah, even though the stores are closed, even though we're still dealing with the COVID, you know, even though I can't go on to do that, sort of like happy, waffle in my power right here right now, because it's a must what I drill people in this, you must know what energy you're in. Because with energy, whatever energy field you're in, you're going to attract more of it. So if I allow myself to be doom and gloom, and why, though, that you know what, guess what's coming my way. because energy is always expanding, and always attracting its same vibration. So I got more, God forbid more stuff are coming my way, if I don't snap out of that quick, and I have exercises, you know, tools to be able to do that lickety split, I'm going to be going down that road, I call it the law of direction, the law of direction, which simply means every, every thought, every emotion, every action that we take in this world is going to create a direction, it's going to take us into high vibration energy, or happiness, joy, peace, or it's going to take us in a low vibration, or anxiety or stress. And that starts with your thoughts that create your feelings, that expand into your emotions that move into create motivational directions, or which way you're going to go, and then ultimately affect your behaviors. So those are about three things here that that I teach beginning students of energy awareness, to become energetically aware and utilize those things.

Ari Gronich 46:51  

Thank you so much for that, you know, I'm a, I'm a big steadier of neuroscience and, and chemistry, especially brain chemistry. And it's funny to me, because, you know, we have these optic nerves, that crossover on our skull, send electrical energetic signals to our brain, which then send electrical energetic symbol signals to processing centers that then tell us what reality it is that we're looking at. Right. So as you're talking, I'm listening to everything is energy, that's kind of like a common thing that we know about everything is energy, at the smallest level, the spin rate of pure matter is nothing. And so everything is the movement of energy. And when you're talking about reality being what reality is, and perception being what perception is, I look back at what is the neuroscience behind it, and every neuroscientist I've ever talked to, or doctor of neuroscience, they basically tell me the same, same thing, which is we're translating images that we see into something that we have no idea of what we are seeing, and if our perception is the same as anybody else's perception, nor do we know if what we're seeing is any kind of reality, because what we see is only so big, in percentage, to what what is actually there in front of us. So that's another thing that you were talking about. And so because I enjoy that kind of conversation, and that kind of thinking, nonlinear circular thinking, right? So what is, in your opinion, or your study? What is the reality that we'd like to see? And how do we shift the neuro chemistry so that what we see is what we want to see and perceive versus what we're getting, which is, in many cases, people want to see good, but they see bad and everything they want to see positive, but they see negative, right? And so give me kind of your already.

Glenn Ackerman 49:29  

These are great questions. I love them. First of all, I have to tell you, you know that that process that you just mentioned about, you know, the light goes into your eye and goes and sends a message to your brain and then based upon what you see we make decisions, that process lies to you. It lies to you. Why, how can I say that? Because you've used you and me and all of us have used that same process to make decisions about what's good for our lives. And we've used these processes Again, you know, our five senses, you know, certainly our eyes, our brain in our logic, you know, to be able to ascertain if something's good for us or not good for us. And we've made decisions that were just flat out wrong. And and the opposite of what we want it to. So somewhere, you know, there's a potential dysfunction in that. And that's the point I'm making about energetic awareness. So let me give you an example. You know, let me tell you a story here that I, that I think will answer your question. So what I do when I'm teaching energy awareness to students is I give them a very solid grounding on what high vibration energy is, and what low vibration energy is. And then once you have that grounding of understanding how the energies work, and it especially in their subtleties and their nuance, then you can apply them to any situation that comes your way, no matter what it looks like. Now, the energetic laws are, again are this high vibration energy is about long term fulfillment, you may have to give up some short term pleasure, you know, for long term fulfillment, low vibration energies about having you suffer, but it recognizes not everybody's going to want to volunteer for the suffering. So it has to throw you a morsel of pleasure. It has to give you an ounce of pleasure. So it can suck you in to, you know, the the 99% of suffering. It's kind of like Las Vegas, you know, if everybody lost their money in Las Vegas, right? Nobody would go to Las Vegas, because everybody just lose your money. They don't go there. So somebody's got to win. You know, there's got to be 1% 101 of 100 the 1% A somebody who meets the jackpot so that but Vegas, because we'll see come to Vegas and win a new car when the jackpot. All right, here we go. So there was a politician, a guy who ran for president a couple years, about eight years ago, his name was john edwards, remember him? China's senator from South Carolina, this is all published news, not revealing any secrets here at all public information. So he was running for president. And his kids are, too. He was saying himself as a big family man, he was trying to get the Democratic nomination for president. Well, his wife, he was he found himself in New York City, and his wife happened to be back home taking care of the kids. Now john Evans, a handsome guy. So a woman approached him at the hotel and said to him, you know, I think you're hot. And I'd like to sleep with you, you know, and I want to be with you. Now, we looked at this girl, and she's pretty hot, you know? And he's thinking to himself, hmm, you know what, you know, my wife, we haven't had relationships in almost a year because she's battling cancer. And, and, you know, I probably shouldn't do this, but I think I could get away with it here. You know, I think if I stick her up to the room, I think you could do this right now. I think I could get away with it. Okay. She said it was okay. Meet me at the room. Right. Okay. So we have the account. And good. Really good. And, and these are how the energies work. So he got this pleasure. Now what happens with intense pleasure that we get, when you have a great experience are in what do you want to do immediately? Almost, almost again, what do you want to do? repeat it? You want to repeat it? Okay. So, so initially says, Well, you know, one little trick isn't going to be a big deal. You know, I'll just do it. And then she'll go on our way. And, you know, got my, you know, my sex covered, but after they get he goes, You know, I like to see her again. So we saw her the next night. And he saw the next night while he was in New York. And then as they were about to say goodbye. He said, You know, I don't want to give this up your Why don't you Why don't you join my campaign is my videographer. And she says, okay, so she joins the campaign, and now he's having this affair with this woman, you know, on the campaign bus and is in rather his wife's nose. Okay, and this continues for a while. And the way with it, you know, he's going yeah, man, I'm getting away. I got I got my cake and eat too. Right, right, right off. So about six months later, you know, six months. I got away with it. She says to him, I'm pregnant. I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have a baby. I've been pregnant because he hadn't seen her in a while, but it was still going on. So she has the baby that was going, Oh, I got a love child. All right. I'll keep it under wraps. Okay, so remember, high vibration attracts more high, low vibrations. attracts more low, but it doesn't necessarily come immediately. It could come come long term. So she so she calls him up he says, Listen, I want you to come see the baby Meet me in Beverly Hills at the Beverly Hill circus, okay. And meanwhile he's trying to get the the vice presidential nomination is still in the running in the hotel, and And somehow, someway, the National Enquirer got ahold of it. So they had a photographer there. And when he went to the room to see the his lover in the baby, they kept the window open. So the photographers taking pictures, they can picture they can picture taking pictures, and images leaving the hotel the photographer says, Hi, from the National Enquirer, I see you've got your love child and your mistress up there, which you care to quote, because we're going to run the story tomorrow. The guy's freaking out. So the run the story becomes natural natural is a big scandal. So what does he do? The science to lie about it decides to say, Oh, that's, yeah, had an affair, but my wife forgave me. And that's not my child. It's my age child. It's my, you know, it's my, my, my aide, who, who runs my campaign, it's just yo y is about it. So the campaign aide says, Yes, my child, and and it goes away a little bit. Until Edward stops paying the campaign aid, then the campaign aid goes out in the presidency, I lied. So my child's done every child. So this thing just becomes a quagmire. And what's the end result? The end result is he's disgraced. He's a pry thrown out of the out of the political party. His wife wants to divorce them. But she's, you know, she's ill health is disgraced. And the guy's name is mud. Now, let's let's view this under energy awareness training. If you've been a student of mine, or if you've been one of my students, eight would have said, Hey, I got an opportunity to commit adultery and have a quick affair with a woman who's not my wife. And I would have said, Okay, well, let's use what you've learned in energy awareness training. So in order to do that, you'd have to lie. You'd have to deceive, you're following your lust. And, and if it got out, it would hurt people. Right? Yeah. Okay. Is that high vibration or low vibration? Probably low vibration. Great. So what have you learned about low vibration? In other words, what you know, now is you take that direction, you are going to suffer brother, like you never suffered before. But see, the energies are covert. And they don't announce themselves, the low vibration energy didn't come up to john edwards and say, hey, I want to introduce you to this woman, for you to have some fun with and she's going to wreck your life. She's going to disgrace you, she's gonna make you wish you were never born. But, you know, would you still go for it? Would he have gone? If you asked them? Hey, was it worth it? Was that little piece of tale worth losing everything worth all the suffering? You're going through what or what he would have said, Not in a million years? Well, then why did you do it seemed like a good idea at the time. I shouldn't have done it. But I do, I should put that right in the URL and low vibration energy strikes again. So this is an analogy of how being energetically aware can save your marriage can save your career can save your health. You know, I have, you know, people who experiment with drugs, and they want to experiment with them, you know, for to raise their consciousness level. And I and they asked me about my Okay, well, you know, what's in the drugs? Not really, other people who have had adverse reactions to the drugs? Well, yeah. Okay. All right. Are you risking your health if you do this? Well, yeah. Okay. So is that a high vibration energy decision, a low vibration is so you get a sneak preview. I guess what I'm telling you Ariis whatever you're going to do. Whatever relationship you're going to get into whatever car you're going to buy, whatever it estimates you're going to make whatever house you're going to move into. It's all a field of information. And that information will tell you the right thing to do, and alert you to the wrong thing to do. If you can read the energies. If you can, then you're going on 20% of the information, and you're likely going to step in the trap is so much of the time we do.

Ari Gronich 1:00:10  

So I'm going to just just to finish off, I'm going to take it back to our current pandemic situation. So I've been a big advocate against or activist, I guess against the the media currently, and their campaign of fear. And so when you're when you're looking at the campaign of fear that's been spread, whether accurate or not. What would be a good immune system boosting whether energetic immune system or not immune system boosting response to the fear that people are experiencing right now with regards to to COVID?

Glenn Ackerman 1:01:01  

That's another great question, Ari, you're hitting them out of the park today. So I want you to understand, for everybody who's listening, if there's two factors you're dealing with here, remember, gets back to what we started the law of duality, the law of polarity, the two factors, there's the actual threat of the virus itself. And there's the thinking that energy, the thoughts around it, now, 90% of the world or more isn't going to get the virus, but 100% of the world has been infected by the energy, by the thinking of what you're talking about. So I don't think it nobody needs any help to know what to do about it physically, I think we all know that scub keep your social distance, wash your hands, etc. But what you can do right now is not fall into the low vibration energy pandemic, that's the pandemic, the pandemic is fear, worry, stress that all you have to do is watch the news, you know, any of the news channels for more than 20 minutes, and your immune system will literally drop that can be measured by by exposing yourself to death, sickness, disease threats, what kind of energy is that? What have you guys heard? It's low vibration energy. What is low vibration, energy can give you more of low vibration energy. So what I teach all my students to do is be aware of what's happening, you know, if you got to watch the news, great, but at all times, be able to clean your energy. And I do that through a series of breathing through some point manipulation, there are a lot of ways to do that. It sure you know, some of them Ari you do it yourself, but I have a program that does that. So that every day just like to take a shower, you got to clean off that dirt. You've got to clean off the mental, low vibration energy that's trying to affect you. It's trying to keep you down now that I want to alert you that's on both sides. So you want to be aware of the the energies that the authorities are saying, okay, that, you know, hey, don't go outside, like, Is it true, I don't know. But I'm not going to be be worried. I'm going to be careful. But I'm not going to be under the covers, oh my gosh, I've been inactive outside. On the other hand, I'm not going to get sucked into these guys who are going the virus is just a hoax, you know, lets everybody go back to work. And be normal. Forget about it, that's as dangerous is the other side. So, so high vibration, energy is always in the middle. You know, it can it's not attached to one side or the other. It wants the characteristics of safety, of health and peace of mind. And you can only get that if you're cleaning and moving energy. So I've been saying that says nothing changes until energy moves. So you want to get out of the thinking and be able to start moving energy, whether it's through exercise, through meditation, through breathing exercises, or any of the things that we teach.

Ari Gronich 1:04:28  

Awesome, you know, I wish we had more time to talk because we could go on and on and on. One of the things that maybe next time if we do this again, I'm going to ask you to do it near your piano because you can demonstrate low and high vibration, via the music that you play. It's one of the I favorite things about you is your playing of that particular instrument. I remember being at your house many many years ago and listening to you play so Anyway, you know that that's a that's a great way to end. And, you know, again,

Glenn Ackerman 1:05:08  

let's do it again. All right, I'll bring my piano.

Ari Gronich 1:05:10  

Yeah, if there's anybody who has any questions for us, you know, even if you're watching the replay and you ask some questions, we'll be glad to answer anything. But Glenn, how does how do people get ahold of you, if they want to do more with you or learn more from you,

Glenn Ackerman 1:05:29  

they can reach me through my email at [email protected] towards energy, Titan ti ta [email protected]. And as you can see, I'm on Facebook. And I have a YouTube channel, which you can subscribe to. And I'm all about getting the word out to this. So you're going to be hearing a lot about energy awareness training in the future, I'm working on a book, and working on rolling this out, cuz it's a mission. What I do is a mission, I'm committed to ending emotional suffering in our lifetime. And that's absolutely possible. If you have energetic tools, there's no need for people to suffer emotionally. Now, we can't avoid pain, because pains in a necessary tool, unfortunately, in this world, is part of the life process. We don't have to suffer. And I know that if I knew this, you know, I would have saved myself 10 to 15 years of some suffering. But you know, it happened for a reason for me to be able to develop this. So that's my gift to the world. And along you be able to teach kids this. So we can have a world of more peace, more kindness, and more high vibrational energy. And I think that will change the world. So I appreciate you having me on Ari. And having this time with you. Thank you so much,

Ari Gronich 1:06:57  

Lily, I'm going to go to turn off our facebook live right now. And I just want to say like said, if anybody has any questions, feel free to to ask them in the chat room. If you'd like to learn a little bit more about living your passionate life, this is my book, a new tomorrow activating your vision for a better world. And it's really about how to do it's like step by step kind of guide to how to create that life that you really want to live. And with that, I'm going to say good night. Like said any questions you might have will be will feel free to to answer them. Thank you for listening to this podcast. I appreciate all you do to create a new tomorrow for yourself and those around you. If you'd like to take this information further and are interested in joining a community of like minded people who are all passionate about activating their vision for a better world. Go to the website, create a new tomorrow.com and find out how you can be part of making a bigger difference. I have a gift for you just for checking it out and look forward to seeing you take the leap and joining our private paid mastermind community. Until then, see you on the next episode.

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I began to, to see very clearly one major part that's been left out of the personal development field, or the quest to be able to heal ourselves. And I think, you know, moving through through the different fields, I believe every human being on this earth is in recovery from something or the other from, you know, childhood or an addiction or abusive parent or, you know, a heartbreak or something. And, and what these are, these are energies, these are hidden energies that we were never taught about. And, you know, these energies, you know, I liken it to the iceberg analogy, you know, it's 10% above the water that we can see 90% below the water we can't see. And the Titanic wasn't sunk by the 10%. It could see it was sunk by the 90% and it couldn't see

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Ari Gronich 0:07  

I am here with Bert Oliva. My name is Ari Gronich and we are talking about pivoting and making the most of your life during this COVID era. Berta Oliva is a good friend of mine. He's a leadership and behavior expert for over 20 plus years, he's been on stages with thousands and thousands of people, runs with his wife and nonprofit that helps with the human trafficking. And he is also a social media expert. So we're gonna be discussing the pivot, what are you going to do in order to make the COVID era the best year yet? So Bert, can you tell them a little bit about your background and why you're talking to them?

Well, number one, I'm talking to them because of you. Because you're asking me to come in here and I say shirtless do this one. That's a good example of collaboration, it's time to collaborate. But before I go into giving you guys some ideas and things that you should be doing, let me go ahead. I've been doing seminars for 26 years all over the world. When it comes to leadership and human behavior. That's my main focus. However, we have been doing social media for quite a bit time now. And it really we tie it in a little different, because we actually apply and leadership skills and human behavior within social media, I think it's really important that right now a lot of people reach out, reach out and collaborate with other other creators, even if it's even people in your own industry. Forget about competition, there's a thing called Co Op petition working together. And this is a time that people those that work together with other people and collaborate are the ones that gonna succeed.

Absolutely. So how can how can somebody you know, dismissed the fear and start living the passionate life that they really want during this particular time, because a lot of people are out of work, not going to be able to go back to the same job that they've had not going to be able to go back to the same work that they've done. But they may be passionate about something, they may have a hobby that they're really interested in, and they want to get started on creating that life now versus in 10 or 20 years when they may retire. Right? 

So simple, really simple, right? This is the recipe, stop consuming social media is start creating. Because everyone's on social media. The problem is, most people are just consuming information that will bring in fear, that'll bring in doubts. But you have all these fabulous ideas and things that you know that people want to hear or people want to get into your product or service, whatever the case is, you have all these great ideas, but you're spending so much time in consuming information, and not creating that all you have is a dream. You know, the best dream happens when a person takes action, but not just consuming information. So you want to go and get away from fear. You know, make sure you schedule your time for that fear, right? Like I tell people go ahead and say, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and wake up in the morning, and look and see what's going on, you know, with the corona virus and all this stuff. Let's go ahead and see what's going on. But only for like 30 minutes, turn it off. Don't look at it again, till the end of the day, into creating your best life go into creating all these great ideas that make them actually really come alive. Not in here. But actually like what you're doing right now, at the end of the day consuming enough information to be able to know, and then stop it and move on with your life and make things happen.

All right. So if somebody was like, say passionate about some hobby, right, and they wanted to get started now because they're out of business, what would be some of the first steps to doing that? So,

okay, I don't know about hobbies. But the thing What I'm saying is, look, why don't you do an inventory? inventory. The money in your business? What is it in my business that I can start doing online? Because whether you're online or not, or you're earning money online or not, is inevitable? need to do it because it's the new norm. Right, everyone's got a line. The only thing This Coronavirus has done when it comes to social media or digital platform. Like what we're doing right now. It's pushed us five years ahead of time. We were Gonna be there eventually. But now we were forced to be here. So start thinking, what is it that I have an all this knowledge all these years of experience like yourself, you know, you're one of the best and maybe for lack of better words for me, but I probably You're the best chiropractor I've ever had in my life. You know, in two seconds, you did this one thing that leaving my from my toes all the way to my last hair on the top. Not right. However, at the end of the day, how can you put that on line? What is it an egg can give out there get value. And also remember this, don't go thinking about what product or service I can sell online? Because that you're going to fail immediately go out there and say, What value can I get? Value driven, the more value you give. What happens is this, when you get people a ton of value, they don't want to buy your product or service, they want to buy access to you. And once you've done that in your mind, and you figured that out, that's when you become successful.

So what I'm hearing is you say, express your passion and be consistent about how you do that. And then that builds followers, collaborators partner,

and find your vehicle that to add to that you need to find a vehicle, what's your vehicle, what's your vehicle of choice, right, like a lot of people will go ahead and buy the latest iPhone. And you know, it's supposed to be a smartphone. Phone is only a person that has. So the end of the day, you have an iPhone, they spend $500 1500 dollars for the phone, and they only use it to look at their social media and maybe do some texting. Why buy that phone? When I know people that I know that are creators, and they do it with a phone that cost them $300 they don't have the same video quality, but you know what, at least they're doing it six months later, they don't buy the latest spot on they don't have camera equipment, they evolve because they were doing it. You can only learn by doing things,

right? Like me with with digital technology and social media I've been I've watched videos on how to build a website. I've you know, watched marketing, I've taken classes, I've been in seminars on marketing and, and so on. And I know the theories, I know the concepts. But when I actually get down to the doing of it, it it takes me 100 hours to do what somebody else can do in one. That's fine.

Bert Oliva 7:29  

That's fine. But look, how many shows have you done so far?

Ari Gronich 7:33  

I've done about five or six of these show. 

Six of them, right? Yeah. Now remember, you have all this knowledge, you're starting to take action on the knowledge. Be honest with me. Is this the easiest one we've ever done out of the first six?

It's not easy, but it's easier. Yeah, I mean,

Bert Oliva 7:56  

that's what I said. It's easier than the first one you did. Well imagine that you've done 60 shows. 

Ari Gronich 8:01  

And that's mentally and emotionally easy.

Bert Oliva 8:04  

It's also muscle memory. Now you know how to turn on the camera. Now you know where the lighting has to be. Now, you know if the microphone is working, I mean not to go live on Facebook, right? So now imagine. Imagine that you've got 150 shows, and you have 100,000 followers, people will come to you as he Ari know what your soul like. Or he studied, you put all the information in your mind and now you decided to take action. Right?

Ari Gronich 8:39  

So during that ramp up the emotional the emotional is what really tends to stop people. I know that that stopped me a lot. I grew up in Hollywood, and never liked myself on camera and never let anybody take pictures of me. I've recently lost 140 pounds. I feel a little bit of that a little bit better now but I still look at myself and go Hmm, you know this, maybe I should grow a beard like that to cover up the double chin or you

Bert Oliva 9:10  

can see my double Chin.

Ari Gronich 9:15  

You know, the emotional side of starting something new. let's address some of that.

Bert Oliva 9:26  

motion, affect emotion create emotion, right? So at the end of the day, part of the reason that the emotion is affecting you It's because you're not moving around. You sitting still. As soon as you move running, you know, it's because you've taught me some of this stuff. My backers. You know I'm everyday Bert, why don't you start this? Instead of this, you know, if you move in a different direction and you focus in a different direction, you will feel different. You know like what's your your cycle in the morning? What cycle Do you have what risk You know what routine? Oh, I used to have a routine at work up to six in the morning and then get prepared, brush my teeth. Go ahead, go to the gym workout for two hours. Okay? So you're telling me that depend on it. Change the routine? Well, you've allowed it to change your routine. That's the first mistake. I still wake up at six in the morning, I still work out. I don't go to the gym. I've created a makeshift gym in the backyard to at least get my mind thinking that I'm still where I was. I'm still following my goal. I'm still focused. Most people have allowed this thing to happen. And they're like, you know what, it's just gonna take me one day, I just go ahead and take two days off, three days off. Now what happened to their their routine, they wake up at 10 in the morning, at 11 in the morning, when you wake up at 11am warning you now feel like frog just because you know, you used to wake up at six. You're not working out. So now you're like, Okay, I'm getting a little more weight. You know, now you get the it starts working against you. You know, motion creates emotion move. There's a thing in Spanish. If you like beans, they're called Goya beans. You know, go Yeah, means get off your acid. Oh, create a move. Right? Don't wait for it to happen.

Ari Gronich 11:18  

So why don't you talk a little bit about how make it happen. God established in 1994. What was the pivot that you were doing when you decided to make it happen? And how is that you know, similar to what somebody can do now?

Bert Oliva 11:34  

Well, we're all the same, nothing, nothing that we've learned from the masters of self help, which to me, they were Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale. Those were the guys that really created this whole mindset. For me. That's what I've learned for years. And those are the guys that used to study. I remember, I used to work for Xerox Corporation. And as Xerox Corporation, they taught us how to become the best sales people in the world. You know, we stood up to Leesburg, Virginia, where they had, I would call it a compound, but it was really like their college, right? So you'd walk in, and you would go ahead and take a course they would actually keep you there for a week or over a weekend. Of course, you could not you weren't allowed to leave the campus. And if it was raining or snowing, it didn't matter. Because from your dorm, the only way you can get knowledge, I mean, the only way you even if it was raining from the dorm, they had underground tunnels to actually to the classrooms. So they said you have to be there at seven in the morning. If you weren't there, they would lock the door and you would miss that session. So I learned a lot and I got turned on by back in the day. I remember seeing Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and all these gracepoint Tracy and I'm like, Yeah, I would love to this one day. Now I want to I want to be able to do this. And I remember Les Brown and one thing I learned from was you know, every time people would do the same thing, I would leave the place. And then I would always ask myself how? Well he always he told me, Bert, how is none of your business? That's what holds you back. So I started saying, Well, you know what, back in the day, there was only two demo markets for motivational seminars or empowerment. It was Anglo whites and black Americans. You know, you had TD Jakes, we had Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, there was no space for a Latino guy called Bert. Oliva. Perfect. And that's where it all started happening.

Ari Gronich 13:31  

That's good. That's kind of what I've been telling you to do. Anyway.

I guess a pandemic heard you and I said, hey, let's go ahead and stop Bert.

Yes. You know, Jim Rohn had a had a saying and I don't know if it was his saying or somebody else's. But it's something that I remember a lot when I'm in the middle of a reaction. And the saying is don't wish it were easy. Wish you were better. And that has stuck with me. I've kind of watched that video where he says that like 30 or 40 times because it's something I for me I need to remember you know, I I always want things to be easy. Most people want things to be easy. But that that saying don't wish it were easy, wish you were better has sparked that wish and that will for me to I'm active to become movement to do take action like you've said and create what I want to create because in my world you know a bully is only a bully because of the silence of others. So we need to get loud we need to get active we need to activate ourselves and those around us that believe in the same things that we want that we believe in so that we can shut down the bullies. Right. So or change the system my other grip saying is we made this shit up, we can make it up differently? How do we want to make it up. And let's start doing the things that it's going to take to get there. So it sounds like in 1994, you had a similar kind of realization, that what you say what you think is going to affect how your days is going to go. So if you're going to be in charge of how your life happens, you've got to be the one to make it happen.

Bert Oliva 15:32  

right choices. You can become a victim of life, or a victor. Every single day, every time you wake up and walk out that door, you have choices. Even when you wake up, what's the first thought process that comes into your mind, once it comes into your mind shift is not something you want to be thinking about, right? Because think about this, when people get into self help. This is not a sprint, this is a marathon, you have to work it. What's the difference with a person that just got into self help. And the person has been doing it for 20, 30 years? Pretty much their thought process, their belief system, all these things Harvard? Do they get upset? Yes, they get depressed. Of course, we're all human. It just doesn't last that long, right? A person that doesn't have the tools will be depressed per year, a month a week for something really dumb person has been working on themselves, their mindset, their body, their eating habits, they get upset, what would last a year for that person the last two hours for this person 30 minutes. These things, they change the restraints, they collapse, some anchors, why each. So what it is, is you start getting better and better. And that's when luck comes in. Right being in the right place at the right time. But being in the right place at the right time and not having the right tools, you're back to not being lucky. That's why you got to work on yourself. This is why you said in the beginning of the show, I had been studying social media and digital programs and all this stuff for years or for a long time. You know, I didn't use it for a long time. Well, guess what, that's why it's become easier to do even though you may think is difficult compared to someone like us, but we have a whole team that doesn't, that's fine. But I guarantee you, there's a ton of other people, they can't even get the software installed. So you're that far ahead. So you get to look at it, and be happy to celebrate, celebrate everything that you do reward yourself saying, you know, after this interview, not before the interview, right, and that's another thing people reward themselves way too soon. Celebrate yourself, I'm gonna celebrate for you that you done six already. I want to I want to come back on your maybe no 25th Oh, actually 21 says I love the number 2121 days of change. When you're ready for 21, I want to come back and look at the difference that you've created in just a few sessions or a few shows.

Ari Gronich 18:15  

And this is a really great time to reinvent yourself and to start living your passion, you know that that pivot that I talked about, and we're kind of coming to towards the end of our call. So I want to kind of bring us back to that pivot. This is a really good time to create what you're passionate about, and to pivot yourself into a new place with new life and vitality. You know, for me, I've I've been a therapist and a trainer for 25 years, I've worked on some of the most elite athletes on the planet and actors, actresses, you know, in Hollywood, and I've been pivoting for the last year and a half, towards more education. I've authored a couple books and courses and and been doing more consulting work and speaking, that's been my pivot, but this particular time has been a great time for me to refocus on that, and start putting out the world who I am and what I want to what I want to do. And so, you know, for our for the audience, you know, how can they do that in a effective, you know, at least it's going to be frustrating at times because they're doing something new and different. But if they have that vitality, and interest, right? And so you've talked about state changes. So how does somebody go when they're frustrated in the process? Doing this pivot? How do they state change when they'd have never heard that term before?

Bert Oliva 20:06  

Oh, that's, that's, that would take another interview. There's a process there, and we can't talk about it in 10 minutes, but I gotta go. But what I do, this is something. In life, they're doing their pivoting point, right? This is the moment you know, are calling a turning point, whatever you want to call it. But at the end of the day, this is when you create the ship. Why would you get depressed and disappointed? Why not? Think about being excited? Think about when you first drove your first car, because other people that drive cars that are second government car, your parents will probably tell you or whoever was your caretaker was like, Oh my god, make sure you put the foot on the brake, make sure you That doesn't mean like, I got this, I got that you all excited. This is the same thing. Wake up excited. There's going to be some obstacles, they're going to be some fender benders, there's going to be some things that you're gonna just, I didn't know, there was a stop sign there. And I'll figure it out as I go. But at the end of the day, is exciting. Wake up with that excitement. And then even though those obstacles happen cool, like I tell my children, I've told a lot of people become a street student, fail fast forward, and then you'll figure it out. Right, make sure you move on. And Les Brown taught me years ago, he said, Bert, you're gonna fall down. And when you fall, make sure you land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. So just keep those things in mind. So before I go, a couple of things I want to say number one, if you want to go to my free webinar, all you have to do is direct message me on your preferred social media Bert Oliva direct message me and we'll send you a link. So you can actually choose the date and it's absolutely free. And then Ari, thank you so much. And I love you, brother. Thank you for the opportunity, and hopefully looking forward to your 21st show where I'm going to be there again. And I just want to leave you guys my name is Bert Oliva Cuban born American made. Remember to live life and don't like live you guys real soon. Thank you.

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I am here with Bert Oliva. My name is Ari Gronich. And we're talking about pivoting and making the most of your life during this COVID era. Berta Oliva is a good friend of mine. He's a leadership and behavior expert for over 20 plus years, he's been on stages with thousands and thousands of people, runs with his wife, a nonprofit that helps with the human trafficking. And he is also a social media expert. So we're going to be discussing the pivot. What are you going to do in order to make the COVID era the best year yet? So Bert, can you tell them a little bit about your background? And why you're talking to them?

Bert Oliva 1:56  

Well, number one, I'm talking to them because of you. Because you're asking me to come in here and I say shirt, let's do this one. That's a good example of collaboration, it's time to collaborate. But before I go into giving you guys some ideas and things that you should be doing, let me go ahead. I've been doing seminars for 26 years all over the world. When it comes to leadership and human behavior. That's my main focus. However, we have been doing social media for quite a bit of time now. And really, we tie it in a little different because we actually apply and leadership skills and human behavior within social media conditions goes, it's more of a marketing strategy. How is it that people can relate connect with you, when you're doing things like this, like going live in your house? How should your background be set up? Why is it set up a certain way? What colors are using, so we get into all that, but like back to what I was saying is, I think it's really important that right now a lot of people reach out, reach out and collaborate with other other creators, even even people in your own industry. Forget about competition, this thing called Co Op petition working together. And this is a time that people those that work together with other people and collaborate are the ones that gonna succeed, the way life was, will no longer be the same way everything has shifted. And that's one of the things, things that we you know, peeping it being in the industry of self help. And we all know this already. It doesn't matter what level if you just got started doing it for 50 years, is all about helping people is about, you know, helping people teaching people new skills and tools, thinking positive, creating affirmations, mindset, all that stuff has been around forever. However, some people get lost in the journey of self help. And it becomes a thing more to feed their ego, if you got into this business is really about helping other people. There's no better time than now to actually do it. Right, like doing these things that we're doing right now?

Ari Gronich 3:56  

Absolutely. So how can how can somebody you know, dismissed the fear and start living the passionate life that they really want during this particular time, because a lot of people are out of work, not going to be able to go back to the same job that they've had not going to be able to go back to the same work that they've done. But they may be passionate about something, they may have a hobby that they're really interested in, and they want to get started on creating that life now versus in 10 or 20 years when they may retire. Right? So

Bert Oliva 4:35  

it's really simple, really simple, right? This is the recipe, stop consuming social media and start creating. Because everyone's on social media. The problem is most people are just consuming information that will bring in fear that will bring in doubts. But you have all these fabulous ideas and things that you know that people want to hear or people want to get into your product or service, whatever the case is, you have all these great ideas. But you're spending so much time in consuming information and not creating that all you have is a dream. You know, the best dream happens when a person takes action, but not just consuming information. So you want to go and get away from fear. No, make sure you schedule your time for that fear, right? Like I tell people go ahead and say, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and wake up in the morning, and look and see what's going on, you know, with the Coronavirus and all this stuff. Let's go ahead and see what's going on. But only for like 30 minutes, turn it off. Don't look at it again, till the end of the day in to creating your best life, go into creating all these great ideas and make them actually really come alive. Not in here. But actually like what you're doing right now. You know, this is something you wanted to do for a while and you said you know what, you're taking action. And then people are gonna make fun of you, of course, you know, but some people take it too personal. I look at it this way. If I have no haters, no one knows me. You need to be grateful to have haters. So if we get one negative feedback or comment in this feed, I'm going to be so excited. Because that's what you really go look forward to look, the only reason you're gonna get haters and people making fun of you. Besides those people that you know, is because you're making them feel uncomfortable. You're training something inside of them. They know maybe what he's saying is right, but you know, I say it different. Yeah, but you're not doing it, and I am. So that's gonna piss people off. And they're going to come out and say, well, you're not that great. You're Yeah. And then the funny thing is, when you really go and look at some of these trolls and haters, number one, they might not have any followers. Number two, they have a fake little avatar that's not even them. So what why are you concerned about that? Go out there, your goal for today should be I want to go out there and get myself five haters. And the only way you're gonna get haters is by getting out there and getting seen. Right? The more people that see you, the more waves you're going to create, the more tension the more your information goes out there, the more there's going to be those trolls and haters are going to come at you and say, well, you're not doing it right. your background is not right, that make it happen doesn't make a difference. Cool. That means you're doing something right. But just sitting at home, and consuming all that negativity, like I tell people cnn for me has always been constant negative news is not negative. It's not news. So you're consuming all this news. And again, not just it could be Fox, it can be whatever you want, it's still negative news. So you go in there, consume a little bit of it to be in the know, because you really want to know what's going on, especially your state the world, but then don't get stuck there. And then when you are following certain people on social media, choose who you want to follow, right? If you want to grow and expand, why are you choosing people that are putting content up that you don't approve of? Right? You tell me who you hang with? I'll tell you who you are. It's according to Spanish and that doesn't translate well in English, the Macomb King onda. In the UK, King et is some of you hang on, I'll tell you You are so even though you're not hanging with them physically in fun right now, you know, face to face. You're still hanging out with them on social media. So be selective about who you're following? And what is it that you're watch.

Ari Gronich 8:24  

So if you're hanging out with Anderson Cooper, on CNN, you're hanging out with constant negative news.

Bert Oliva 8:32  

Oh, you know, I'm just saying that it's the job to just let people know that they're they think about it. The news isn't that look, anything that has to do with media. They're in business, to get to sell advertising, right? So again, I'm not being CNN, I'm not being a fox, I'm just saying at the end of the day, they're going to give you things to give you fear. So you stay watching, the more you watch, the more ads they can sell. Same thing on social media, right there. When you look at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, they're in the advertising business, right? They want to go ahead and go ahead and sell ads. So how do they say sell ads by keeping people on their platform? Right? So this the same thing, at the end of the day, consuming enough information to be able to know and then stop it and move on with your day or your life and make things happen.

Ari Gronich 9:25  

All right. So if somebody was like, say passionate about some hobby, right, and they wanted to get started now because they're out of business, what would be some of the first steps to doing that? So,

Bert Oliva 9:42  

okay, I don't know about hobbies. But the thing when i'm saying is look good, why don't you do an inventory, inventory? The money in your business, what is it in my business that I could start doing online because whether you're online or not, or you're earning money online or not, is inevitable need to do it because it's the new norm. Right, everyone's gone online. The only thing is Coronavirus has done when it comes to social media or digital platform. Like what we're doing right now. It's pushed those five years ahead of time, we were going to be there eventually. But now we were forced to be here. So start thinking, what is it that I have, in all this knowledge, all these years of experience like yourself, you know, you're one of the best and meet for lack of better words for me, but I probably You're the best chiropractor I've ever had in my life. You know, in two seconds, you did this one thing that even my from my toes all the way to my last hair on the top? Not right. However, at the end of the day, how can you put that on line? What is it that I can give out there get value. And also remember this, don't go thinking about what product or service I can sell online? Because that you're going to fail immediately go out there and say, What value can I get value driven, the more value you give, what happens is this, when you get people a ton of value, they don't want to buy your product or service, they want to buy access to you. And once you've done that in your mind, and you figured that out, that's when you become successful. Those people that try to sell product, you might do really well for a month, two months, maybe two years. But eventually the product will get old, and then you get to create another product. But if you are selling access to you, which means Yeah, you have products, but you're giving so much value. A lot of people like well, but you can wait too much value. No. And one of your three hours webinars is like you know, 10 years of information. And why would you do that? Then you'll run out of information. No, I believe for me. And some people may believe, you know, in the higher power or the universe or me happens to be God. And I truly believe that. The more you give, the more up all your information you don't want to give it that's all the permission you're going to have. When you start giving information. You wake up in the morning, you have new ideas, new concepts, new things, you're like, Oh my god, you know what I spoke about this, but this is really now the way is working. So become a content creator, and what I mean, not like a YouTuber or whatever, content creators, create content, go out there and give it away. Get yourself on every single show you can't right now, even with Ari, go ahead and reach out to them and say, when can I be on your show, don't sit there and just watch them say you have some kind of if you have content, you have information, then value to give a shot. That's me, reaching out to those people that are providing shows on to you create your own show, and start collaborating, start working together. Even if you do the same thing. You can have a conversation, you can bring someone here on your show Ari and have a conversation when it comes to spiritual healing and have a conversation when it comes to being your car, you can put a bunch of chiropractors here, do a zoom call with like 10 chiropractors, some things you will agree some things you want agree, but every single one of them should have a niche. And everyone will have mastered this type of work and they mess, collaboration work together. This is the time to do it.

Ari Gronich 13:15  

So if somebody is passionate about something, what I'm hearing you say is to express that passion outwardly via some sort of content creation, whether it be a blog, or a vlog or a live, inch, anything that you are passionate about, start expressing that Now.

Bert Oliva 13:35  

Now. And then like you said, right now one of the things that people they go after fashion, right? Like, for example, they have a status quo. Oh, podcasts are doing really well. I'm gonna go ahead and do a podcast. And they're not good for podcasts. They don't have a good voice. They just don't know how to do it. Maybe they're good for zoom calls. You know, maybe they're good for just doing social media. posts, follow the trend, because podcasts may be now but next week, it might not be good, right? So don't just jump on next wagon and say, Okay, now podcast is in a trend. Let's go ahead and just do podcasts. But you never completed the series that you were doing on zoom. Because you know, podcast is cool. So why jump. People don't stay on as long as they have to to really see success. Right before they get it. They jump off and go somewhere else. If you stick to it, they will wait.

Ari Gronich 14:33  

So what I'm hearing is you say express your passion and be consistent about how you do that. And then that builds followers, collaborators partner

Bert Oliva 14:44  

and find your vehicle at that. To add to that you need to find a vehicle what's your vehicle, what's your vehicle of choice, right like a lot of people will go ahead and buy the latest iPhone. And you know it's supposed to be a smartphone phone is only person that has. So the end of the day you have an iPhone, they spend $500 1500 dollars for the phone. And they only use it to look at their social media and maybe do some texting. Why buy that phone? When I know people that I know that are creators, and they do it with a phone that cost them $300. They don't have the same video quality, but you know what, at least they're doing it. Six months later, they don't buy the latest spot on, they don't have camera equipment, they evolve, because they were doing it. You can only learn by doing things. You study everything you want, like I can study all your years of what you've done. And then go ahead and look at all your YouTube videos, make go and try it. And let's see, no, I really hurt someone. The reason is you study and then you apply. And the more you'll apply, that's how you become an expert in a master. And what it is you do by taking action. So now you have someone that and you know, these people that will sit down with you have a commerce station, you know, you know, they don't know anything. They know the theory

Ari Gronich 16:11  

thing I know.

Bert Oliva 16:13  

I don't know. But, you know, like, some are saying they got pretty cool. And then when they go and they put their hands on the person, you automatically realize, no, these people don't know they've read every single book. They have a theory on how it works, but just like the way they place their hands on the person. Right? So that's what I'm talking about. So yeah, okay, great. You've learned a lot. You study a lot when you go something much.

Ari Gronich 16:44  

Right? Like me with with digital technology and social media I've been I've watched videos on how to build a website, I've, you know, watched marketing, I've taken classes, I've been in seminars on marketing and, and so on. And I know the theories, I know the concepts. But when I actually get down to the doing of it, it it takes me 100 hours to do what somebody else can do in one. That's fine.

Bert Oliva 17:13  

That's fine. But look, how many shows have you done so far?

Ari Gronich 17:17  

I've done about five or six of these show. Six of them, right?

Bert Oliva 17:21  

Yeah. Now remember, you have all this knowledge, you're starting to take action on the knowledge. Be honest with me. Is this the easiest one we've ever done out of the first six?

Ari Gronich 17:34  

It's not easy, but it's easier. Yeah, I mean,

Bert Oliva 17:39  

that's what I said, it's easier than the first one you did. Well imagine that you've done 50 shows.

Ari Gronich 17:44  

And that's mentally and emotionally easy.

Bert Oliva 17:47  

It's also muscle memory. Now you know how to turn on the camera. Now you know where the lighting has to be now, you know if the microphone is working, or not to go live on Facebook, right? So now imagine, imagine that you've got 150 shows, and you have 100,000 followers, people will come to you as they Ari know what your soul like. Or you studied, you put all the information in your mind. And now you decided to take action. Right? So you see, right? It doesn't just happen because you studied every single video or encyclopedia on a certain topic. And you may know it, but until you start applying it, that's when you start becoming an expert. But in fact, there's been said right need over 10,000 hours in something to become an expert, right? 10 hours is more than one year. Right? So I just gives you an idea when people say you go aging, you can walk that stage like no one else can. Well, I've been booed off the stage, I really got kicked off the stage, and I'll share that story with you one day, people actually lose the hope at this stage, I went to this whole process. Now, when I get on that stage, very few people can rock the stage the way I do, and I'm not being arrogant. I just know it. But it's also more than 10,000 hours being on the platform and knowing how to communicate with people.

Ari Gronich 19:14  

So during that ramp up the emotional. The emotional is what really tends to stop people. I know that that stopped me a lot. I grew up in Hollywood and never liked myself on camera and never let anybody take pictures of me. I've recently lost 140 pounds. I feel a little bit of that a little bit better now but I still look at myself and go Hmm, you know this, maybe I should grow a beard like that to cover up the double chin or .

So, you know, the emotional side of starting something new. let's address some of that.

Bert Oliva 20:01  

Motion, affects and motion creates emotion, right? So at the end of the day, part of the reason that the emotion starts affecting you, it's because you're not moving around. You're sitting still, as soon as you move running, you know, it's because you've taught me some of this stuff. My backers, you know, every gamer, why don't you start this? Instead of this, you know, if you move in a different direction, and you focus in a different direction, you will feel different. You know, like, what's your, your cycle in the morning? What cycle do you have? What ritual? You know what routine? Oh, I used to have a routine a sort of a six in the morning, and then get prepared, brush my teeth, go ahead, go to the gym workout for two hours. Okay, so you're telling me that the pen doesn't change the routine, or you've allowed it to change your routine. That's the first mistake. I still wake up at six in the morning, I still work out. I don't go to the gym. I've created a makeshift gym in the backyard to at least get my mind thinking that I'm still where I was. I'm still following my goal. I'm still focused. Most people have allowed this thing to happen. And they're like, you know what, it's just gonna take me one that I just go ahead and take two days off, three days off. Now what happened to their their routine, they wake up at 10 in the morning, at 11. In the morning, when you wake up at 11am warning you now feel like frog just because you know, you used to wake up at six, you're not working out. So now you're like, Okay, I'm getting a little more weight. You know, now you get the press, it starts working against you. You know, motion creates emotionmove. There's a thing in Spanish. If you like beans, they're called Goya beans. You know, go Yeah, means get off your acid. Oh, create a move, right? Don't wait for it to happen. But that's what a lot of you are doing. You know, I'm Bert Oliva. I spoken for 26 years shared the stage with some of the best people on the planet. So they should be calling me now. I wake up every morning, like if it was day one for me. Like when I was in my 20s when I had this big dream to be able to speak all over the different cities around the world, I wake up with that hunger. In fact, just talking about I'm feeling right. At the end of the day, that's what I tell people act as if this is a perfect opportunity to start all over again. Because they will be a new norm. As much as all these experts are saying we're gonna go right back to where we were, and the economy is gonna be great. That's all wonderful. But there's a major hiccup that happened. There's a new norm, a lot of people will not go back to the same job. A lot of people have just realized that Guess what, this can be my new job. I figured out how to do interviews, I figured out I can make monetize on digital on a digital platform. So at the end of the day you millionaires will be created, as we're speaking right now. And what makes them different. The only difference is they're taking action, back to the meet thing, taking action and making it happen, right. Like I say, you're making it happen. The only way you gotta make it, either you make it happen, or it's going to happen for you know, life is just gonna pass you by, you know, there's no such thing as luck, right? Truly, luck is when preparation meets opportunity, your prayer, you got all this knowledge about getting on a platform, social media, whatever. And then you did the first one. I'm sure the first one was, I haven't seen it. But your playlist. Where's that start button? What am I gonna click? Where do I go on zoom? Do I have a background? All these things? And the second one, third one, this is number six. I can't wait to see number 12. I can't wait to see number 50 you're going to get better.

Ari Gronich 23:41  

I am planning on it to happen. So why don't you talk a little bit about how make it happen. God established in 1994. What was the pivot that you were doing when you decided to make it happen? And how is that you know, similar to what somebody can do now?

Bert Oliva 24:02  

Well, we're all the same, nothing, nothing that we've learned from the masters of self help, which to me, they were Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale. Those were the guys that really created this whole mindset. For me. That's what I've learned for years. Those are the guys that used to study. I remember. I used to work for Xerox Corporation. And as I work the Xerox Corporation, they taught us how to become the best salespeople in the world. You know, we stood up to Leesburg, Virginia, where they had, I would call it a compound but it was really like their college, right? So you'd walk in and you would go ahead and take a course they would actually keep you there for a week or over a weekend. Of course you couldn't let you want to leave the campus. And if it was raining or snowing, it didn't matter because from your dorm The only way you can get knowledge I mean the only way you even if it was raining from the dorm. They had underground tunnels to actually to the classrooms. So they said, you have to be there at seven in the morning. If you weren't there there would lock the door, and you would miss that session. So I learned a lot. And I got turned on by back in the day, I remember seeing the Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn. And all these gracepoint Tracy and I'm like, Yeah, I would love to this one day. Now I want to, I want to be able to do this. And I remember Les Brown, and one thing I loved him was, you know, every time people would do the same thing, I would leave the place. And then I would always ask myself how? Well he always he told me, Bert, how is none of your business? That's what holds you back. So I started saying, Well, you know what, back in the day, there was only two demo markets for motivational seminars or empowerment. It was Anglo whites and black Americans. You know, you had TD Jakes, we had Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, there was no space for a Latino guy called Bert Oliva perfect. And that's where it all started happening. You know, I went first thing I did is I started mentoring. And going to every single problem I can go to under these masters and getting involved. And then I realized that certain events and they failed at first and they got better and nicer studying and not a lot of those guys had been I was able to share the stage and have their share the stage with them. A lot of them. Not only are they they're still my mentors, but also personal great friends. They're great personal friends of mine. And again, I started with a dream. And the only difference between this Cuban American made guy has shifted his life is because I took action. And I take action every day. Even for people that are like, well, you really bert you're in a great position in your life, you know, and you come over you see how we live we're pretty laid back. We enjoy life. Really. My children around me travel the world, they come with me when they can when they can't they don't if they want some lifestyle. So at the end of the day, how can I build that? Because I work every day on my dream. Even when I get to a certain level, I do enjoy it. take a little break, like maybe a week. I go right back on it because it's not really work is what I love to do. So in 1994 is when everything really the pivot came in, you know what you were talking about the pivoting point, I remember 1994 you know, I was walking out of the house, and I couldn't find my keys and you know, and then I was upset. And then I said today's gonna be one of those bad days and you kind of programmed yourself with a bad day. Because whenever you say to yourself, whatever the mind whatever the mind conceives, whatever the mind can whatever words whenever you talk with

Ari Gronich 27:45  

whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve

Bert Oliva 27:48  

that whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. So you start telling this yourself However, when you voice it out, and you hear your own voice saying today's gonna be a bad day, chances are, even though it's a beautiful day, you will find a negative in that day, just to be right. So I said today's gonna be a bad day, I couldn't find my keys I get in the car, I drive away, I get into a fender bender. Now I'm upset the family's messing No, I go ahead, I get money behind schedule. And and you know, I get a ticket for that by the time I get to the office, I'm standing by the water cooler and telling everyone I knew it was going to be one of those bad days. And that's when I realized if I would have started my day different. And I would have shifted my words. And I would have said to myself maybe if if I didn't say it's going to be a bad day, and that was something else. But like they happen different. So that's when I started realizing that if you get wake up in the morning, you're not having a great day. And the first thing I said to myself, which will make it happen came about is you retire, you reach as high as you can, like you're reaching for the stars, and you just grab it and you pouring it down, you say what are you going to do? I'm going to make it happen. And it became a thing. And then you know, we go to the seminars when people love it. But there's more to it. But at the end of the day, when something bad happens in my life. I don't react. Like I used to back in the day. I'm more I'm able to like say, Well wait, wait, this is not anything. But what am I going to do? I'm going to make it happen. That's become my thing, right? So at the end of the day, you keep moving forward, but don't sit there and say oh my god, or you know, for those people who are waiting for the start. As soon as they got it, what did they do? Most people spent it instead of saying go ahead and partition it and save it and think smarter No, because they were expecting another one in three weeks. Now they didn't get it. So not only concern Oh my God, I should have saved it. No when I get this one. You know, already when I get this one I will save it. They'll get this one spend down to you got to go ahead and plan and look at And what is it you want to do? What What things do I need to go do to get to where I want to go? Right? So when I look at something like, I want to get in shape, the process of getting in shape took over three and a half years. And I'm still nowhere near where I want to be the coronavirus or the pandemic, kind of put a hold on it with the momentum I had. But you'd be surprised. I haven't gained weight. I'm not as buff, right? I got I don't have weights. But at the end of the day, I'm in pretty good shape. Why? Because maybe my body needed a break. I just stopped working out I stopped lifting weights.

Ari Gronich 30:43  

That's good. That's kind of what I've been telling you to do. Anyway.

Bert Oliva 30:46  

I guess a pandemic heard you and I said, hey, let's go ahead and stop Bert.

Ari Gronich 30:50  

Yes. You know, Jim Rohn had a had a saying and I don't know if it was his saying or somebody else's. But it's something that I remember a lot when I'm in the middle of a reaction. And the saying is don't wish it were easy. Wish you were better. And that has stuck with me, I've kind of watched that video where he says that, like 30 or 40 times because it's something I for me, I need to remember, you know, I, I always want things to be easy. Most people want things to be easy. But that that saying don't wish it were easy wish you were better has sparked that wish and that will, for me to I'm active to become movement to do take action, like you've said, and create what I want to create. Because in my world, you know, a bully is only a bully because of the silence of others. So we need to get loud, we need to get active, we need to activate ourselves and those around us that believe in the same things that we want that we believe in, so that we can shut down the bullies. Right? So or change the system. My other favorite saying is we made this shit up, we can make it up differently, how do we want to make it up. And let's start doing the things that it's going to take to get there. So it sounds like in 1994, you had a similar kind of realization. That what you say what you think is going to affect how your day is going to go. So if you're going to be in charge of how your life happens, you've got to be the one to make it happen.

Bert Oliva 32:43  

right choices. You can become a victim of life, way, Victor, the single day, every time you wake up and walk out that door, you have choices. Even when you wake up, what's the first thought process that comes into your mind? Once it comes into your mind ship, it is not something you want to be thinking about. Right? Because think about this when people get into self help. This is not a sprint, this is a marathon, you have to work it. What's the difference with a person that just got into self help. And a person has been doing it for 20, 30 years? Pretty much their thought process, their belief system, all these things Havor? Do they get upset? Yes, they get depressed. Of course, we're all human. It just doesn't last that long. Right? A person that doesn't have the tools will be the press per year, a month a week for something really dumb. A person has been working on themselves, their mindset, their body, their eating habits, they get upset, what would last a year for that person the last two hours for this person 30 minutes. These things, they change things, they collapse some anchors, why he studied it. So what it is, is you start getting better and better. And that's when luck comes in right being in the right place at the right time. But being in the right place at the right time and not having the right tools, you're back to not being lucky. That's why you got to work on yourself. This is why you said in the beginning of the show, I have been studying social media and digital programs and all this stuff for years or for a long time. You know, I didn't use it for a long time. But guess what, that's why it's become easier to you even though you may think is difficult compared to someone like us that we have a whole team that doesn't, that's fine. I guarantee you there's a ton of other people, they can't even get the software installed. So you're that far ahead. You got to look at it and be happy to celebrate. Celebrate everything that you do. reward yourself by saying you know, after this interview, not before the interview right That's another thing people reward themselves way too soon. Celebrate yourself. I'm gonna celebrate for you that you done six already. I want to I want to come back on your maybe no 25th Oh, actually 21 does I love the number 2121 days to change. When you're ready for 21 I want to come back and look at the difference that you've created in just a few sessions, a few shows, and people are like, well, you only have 21 Yeah, these other people like I have a podcasts and 5 million people listen to it. Yeah, well, you know, do they engage that because you're gonna have, like, that's one of the things people are going after what's called vanity, right? They're going after the back. Like, I have 2 million followers on Instagram. Cool, right? At the end of the day, you have 2 million followers. It was this young lady and I'm blanking on her name, she had 2 million followers, she tried to sell a $10 shirt, and no one bought. Then you have someone who doesn't have 2 million followers. And they're making $100,000 a year or even a month with only 1000 followers. Why? Because it's not the vanity num is the engagement, the community, the working the building trust, getting people to know who you are getting people to like you. So don't go after the number, go after the engagement.

Ari Gronich 36:25  

And that reminds me if anybody has any comments if they're watching, we're more than happy to answer any, any questions that you may have for Bert, or myself. So I just wanted to remind you of that. And if you're watching on the replay, we'll also be available to answer comments or questions on the from the replay as well.

Bert Oliva 36:50  

So something great, you brought up the way something you brought up. When you're doing videos like live videos, especially today get like 100 people to watch. And you might get them like 50 to drop off. And by the time you're done with your video, you might end up only two people watch. That's fine. Because you know why there's so much content going out there that they're just cross? What are the numbers increases after on the replay. Because then now they'll watch it when they have the time. And they'll enjoy it. And not only will they watch it, they'll share it. And then some of them even save it. So they can watch it two or three times like you did with that general video, same thing. So don't go after the number. Oh, after the content, the giving value, go after the engagement. That's what we want. I remember repeating that again, because the people are lost right now. They're like, I want to get 10,000 followers, you know, at 10,000 followers, I'll be doing so much better. You'll get 10,000 followers, and you're gonna be doing better because you're still not engaging with your people. You're still not doing this. You know, if someone calls you no matter where you are being honest, stop putting that prima donna concept of you know, are you I'm really busy. No, I have a meeting. I'm gonna be here for another 10 minutes. Oh, Bert, can you do it? Sure. Make time for those people that you care about buying time. And then it's going to be kind of hard. We went back and forth back and forth with my team and myself until we finally were able narrowed down. But why give up on the first time? You know, first time you know the dumbest question the one you don't ask God in us, you know, a we'd like to be on my show. They get no that's fine. Check. Milan. Next person. Don't blow over.

Ari Gronich 38:42  

Yeah. So you know, you're you've been doing some lives on Instagram. And you're finding a lot of success with Instagram as a platform for doing lives. Zoom doesn't have a go to Instagram Live, they only have YouTube, or Facebook. So give us kind of like, if you were to discuss your passion, which right now for you is social media, as well as the leadership and behavior. And you're going to you're going to do your Instagram training. Right? So what time are you on Instagram? And give a little like, you know, before our we went on to video, you gave me some good pointers. So why don't you give the audience a little bit of demo, as well

Bert Oliva 39:33  

show media itself even though I prefer everyone has a preferred social media, right? For some people, maybe LinkedIn for other people, maybe Facebook and that's great. I recommend you're on every single platform. We are all everything. If you look up my name, which is right here, Bert Oliva, you can google me You can find me on every social media you want you coming you just look for me I'm gonna be there. And the reason I'm telling you is because I need To be there, because it's not about me, it's about you. So even though my preferred social media is Instagram, yours may be Facebook. So if I work only on Instagram, I'm going to miss out on already because he's using Facebook. So a lot of the times when we do training on social media, we have a module that focuses heavily on Instagram, but across the board, they all work the same, pretty much, right. And also remember, Facebook owns Instagram. So slowly, they're doing the conversion and moving people across how they move people across. By reducing the algorithm reducing the reach that you have on Facebook, I have over 75,000 people on Facebook organically. And I'm lucky 3.5 or 4% of the people get to see my posts. But now I go to Instagram, and I got a good 30% of the people seeing my posts that are the ones following. Why? Because they want to move you across. So just some of the tools that's just one of them. But some of the tools I tell people look, you have a phone in front of you. When someone goes live, and you're already used to being in front of a camera, when they're going live. And you are you have some time available. And you'll be surprised how many people you know how difficult it is when you first do your first live and no one shows up. Right? And you're speaking to the camera and you're like no one's here. There's no numbers, you get three people, four people, five people and then one. Right. So think about this, most people are going through. So when you have when someone is going on, right, let's say for example, you went live on Facebook, or let's say Instagram, you're going live on Instagram, I see you populate on Instagram, I'm done with this interview, I don't have another mean for like 10 minutes or 20 minutes, a half an hour. But I got a few minutes to spare. I'm gonna request to go live with you. You're going to see that you're going to bring me on. You and I are gonna have a conversation. We're cross promoting each other. Because Instagram will let my people know that I'm speaking to Ari, and let the people that are following you know that you're speaking to Bert. Now that the person that you reached out to be so happy, they usually give you kudos, right? Like they'll say, oh, oh, yeah, I'm gonna bring someone in Bert Oliva but just logged in, he's gonna go ahead and we're gonna have a chat. He is awesome. They're already gonna promote you. So now you're doing this 3, 4, 5 times a day. You're networking online, just by turning on your phone on life, you know, and you're not talking to yourself anymore. Someone already started it. They're just waiting for someone to reach out to them so they can have a conversation. So that's a good way to work and no one's doing it

Ari Gronich 42:37  

sounds like a good ninja hack.

Bert Oliva 42:41  

Well, all of our programs have what you would call ninja hacks. You know, I mean, we don't have it up here. But we have a free one hour webinar

Ari Gronich 42:50  

that pops up. You can switch it to the other

Bert Oliva 42:54  

day up and it doesn't have a domain name. So what it is, is Bert Oliva forward slash MYBO master your business online MYBO Okay, I'm forced MYBO, it's available for you to come in and get a one hour webinar of some of the tips that we're talking about, like this one, right now, these are applicable tools. And it's not a premium for your session. And every session is kind of different, even though it has a certain things that we always talk about. But like this just happened, and we've been using it my team has been stalking each other and is getting on right. So at the end of the day, like what I said earlier, is act as if you're starting your business when you were in your 20s or 18 or 30s. Whenever it was 14 when you had that hunger, that desire when you get there then what happens if you're hungry, Les Brown says the best in life you got to be hungry. be hungry, so be hungry. Wake up in the morning, say Oh, today I'm gonna take over the world Pinky. We're gonna do so we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna be on five lives. But you don't have anything set up. No, I'm gonna pick up my phone. Make sure we're back on it's good. Go ahead and RVs live. Let me go ahead and see if he wants to chat. You know, I'm Adam. Let me go see if he wants to chat. All those people you're doing a live and you say request to chat with them. They might on the feed. Now you have no one one you just got online. So when what there's no excuse for you not to defeat in today's world? What's happening? The only issues is you telling yourself that maybe I'm not ready. Or maybe I need a better camera. Or when I get a new haircut. And I'll do it. I remember what cut for four weeks ago with a 40 day beard. Not looking like cute Cuban It's easy. My good concern myself with that, no, oh yourself, people buy from people they know, and trust. And I don't think it goes in that order. My order is they like you, they trust you, the reason you're not earning them, you know, they're them to know you, this is a moment in time where marketing is pretty much free. Once you know the techniques, market yourself, get your name out there. And as soon as this is over, and there's a new norm, and events come around, guess what they're gonna call for the events, the person that was there in pre content when everyone else was gone. It's a no brainer.

Ari Gronich 45:50  

That's awesome. I am. I'm blown away always by by your multitude of expertise, right? You're you're not just the leadership and behavior expert, you know, you you've been doing this a long time. Now, you know, you have a, the benefit of having a great team. And even more so a great partner who happened to be an advertising executive for a very long time, right. And she's kind of transition, you know, her

Bert Oliva 46:24  

face about,

Ari Gronich 46:26  

again, getting person I am

Bert Oliva 46:28  

fortunate, and I am blessed, right. However, the me was brought ration. My wife was spending a choosing her degree course in University of Miami. And she's like, what should I take. And I remember when I was at Xerox, learning how to sell and being one of the best guys they had back in the day, I remember telling her the big boys in the in the company, they all marketing experts, why don't you become that take your major as a marketing, you know, as market, she goes, I'll try it, they should fall in love with it. Again, choices, becoming a wake up in the morning and think you're alive and you're awake. That's the first step. However, tick borne awake, when they open their eyes, they're aware, they see opportunities when other people don't. So become aware, pay attention. Yeah, these are both, you know,

Ari Gronich 47:29  

and this is a really great time to reinvent yourself, and to start living your passion, you know, that that pivot that I talked about, and we're kind of coming to towards the end of our call. So I want to kind of bring us back to that pivot, this is a really good time, to create what you're passionate about, and to pivot yourself into a new place with new life and vitality. You know, for me, I've I've been a therapist and a trainer for 25 years, I've, I've worked on some of the most elite athletes on the planet, and actors, actresses, you know, in Hollywood, and I've been pivoting for the last year and a half, towards more education. I've authored a couple books and courses, and, and been doing more consulting work. And speaking, that's been my pivot, but this particular time, has been a great time for me to refocus on that, and start putting out the world who I am and what I want to what I want to do. And so, you know, for the for the audience, you know, how can they do that in a effective? You know, at least it's going to be frustrating at times, because they're doing something new and different. But if they have that vitality, and interest, right? And so you've talked about state changes. So how does somebody go when they're frustrated in the process of doing this pivot? How do they state change, when they'd have never heard that term before?

Bert Oliva 49:20  

Oh, that's, that's, that would take another interview. There's a process there and we can talk about it in 10 minutes, but I gotta go. But what I do, this is something you in real life, they're doing their pivoting point, right? This is the moment you know, are calling a turning point, whatever you want to call it. But at the end of the day, this is when you create the shift. Why would you get depressed and disappointed? Why not? Think about being excited? Think about when you first drove your first car because other people that drive cars that first I'm going to call your friends for calling Tom, you know, whoever was your caretaker was like, Oh my god, make sure you put the foot on the brake. Make sure you did this and you're like, I got this. I got that. You all excited. Wake up excited, there's going to be some obstacles, they're going to be some fender benders, there's gonna be some things that you're gonna just, I didn't know there was a stop sign there. And I'll figure it out as I go. But at the end of the day is exciting. Wake up with that excitement. And then even though those obstacles happen cool, like I tell my children, and I've told a lot of people become a street student, fail fast forward, and then you'll figure it out. Right, make sure you move on. And Les Brown taught me years ago, he said, Bert, you're gonna fall down. And when you fall, make sure you land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. So just keep those things in mind. So before I go, a couple of things I want to say number one, if you want to go to my free webinar, all you have to do is direct message me on your prefers social media Bert Oliva direct message me and we'll send you a link. So you can actually choose the date and it's absolutely free. And then, Ari, thank you so much. And I love you, brother. Thank you for the opportunity, and hopefully looking forward to your 21st show where I'm going to be there again. And I just want to leave you guys my name is Bert Oliva Cuban born American made. Remember to live life and don't life live you. I will see you guys real soon. Thank you.

Ari Gronich 51:26  

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Bert Oliva 0:00  

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Ari Gronich 0:07  

Hi, my man on edge I am here with Brianna Bragg and the vacation of the mind, we're going to be taking you on a journey. When you have nowhere to go and nothing to do. What do you do? You take a vacation of the mind. And Brianna is an expert in that field. I'm going to let her give you some of her words of wisdom and mental journeys to increase your immunity actually, during the COVID Response Unit. Brianna, why don't you talk a little bit about who you are and why you're talking to people.

Briana Bragg 0:48  

Awesome. Thank you so much Ari. It's great to be here. And glad we got the the technology to finally cooperate a little bit today. I'm Brianna Bragg, the founder of vacation of the mind. And we're passionate about oneness through wellness. We offer workplace wellness programs, certifications, and trainings as well as large mass events. And it's just a pleasure to be operating during this time. You know, a lot of people's senses are heightened, you know, our thoughts create these feedback loops that then create behavioral patterns. And when this when this all started, we all got kind of thrown into a survival mode, and survival mode. You know, it's very interesting for the body because it pumps these hormones cortisol and adrenaline throughout the body on a consistent basis, telling that telling the body that it needs to survive, and it needs to do certain things to survive. And while that's great and wonderful and short term doses, over a long span, it can cause serious health issues. It can decrease immunity, like what you were talking about. And mindfulness. And meditation is such a great tool to help combat some of that stress, relaxing the central nervous system, boosting immunity, reducing stress and anxiety, as well as improving focus and productivity. You know, everybody's working from home, we're all being faced with some additional challenges right now, with the kids screaming in the background, not wanting to do their schoolwork, or, you know, just us feeling confined in one place. And so meditation and mindfulness is a great tool to help get ourselves out of that negative thought patterns into a more positive place.

Ari Gronich 2:26  

Awesome. Thank you. So what got you started in, in this field from where you started out originally?

Briana Bragg 2:35  

Yeah, you know, necessity, right? I've always been an overachiever mentality with that gogogo mindset. You know, I was able to utilize meditation and mindfulness to really change my life. And now it's my passion to help others do the same. I think I know, when I started out Ari, it was, you know, a lot of YouTube videos and researching on the internet. And while that's great and wonderful, it can be confusing at first, you know, am I doing this right? I can't get my mind to calm How the hell do I get my mind calm if it's not trained? And so I, you know, I learned some steps that helped me simplify the process helped me reduce some of the the guilt and shame over Am I doing this right. And then I formulated my own process that the more I practiced with other people or on other people, you know, if I worked every single time,

Ari Gronich 3:28  

so you mentioned corporate wellness and corporate programs, what benefit would it have for, say, an HR department to have somebody on staff that's trained in your system for their employees benefit and wellness?

Briana Bragg 3:47  

Yeah, absolutely. You know, first of all, I just want to back up and say that 80% of employees feel stressed. And there's $300 billion a year that's, that's B with its billion with a B, just in the US alone, that's spent on health related costs that are associated distress. Now, that was before COVID-19. I don't even know if I want to know what that that number is going to look like, once we come out of this, right. And, you know, stress causes a lot of, of health issues it can cause insomnia can cause high blood pressure, it can cause fatigue, burnout. And the list kind of goes on, you know, headaches, upset stomachs. I mean, there's there's a lot of illnesses and that are associated with stress. And so having someone on the team to be who is trained in mindfulness and meditation is a huge benefit to employers because employers are really focused on what productivity right they want as much out of us as we can possibly get. And you know, the time that we have to work well, what happens when a body is stressed out, is we're just kind of shutting down. We're left focused, I know for myself, I've had to even during this time, pick up my own meditation because there are days where I'm just like, I sit down at my computer, and I'm like, I don't even know where to start or what to do, you know, and I've really got to dive into being a little more focused, we're less creative, we're less able to make decisions and handle problems as they come up and finding solutions for those problems. And so when you think about this from a productivity scale, employers are losing, you know, thousands of hours of productivity, because they're just they're pushing, pushing, pushing, instead of giving their employees time to reset time to pause time to calm some of those stress responses. And so having someone on the team, who's trained in a process that works to help their employees reduce stress, and anxiety ultimately leads to more productivity, creativity, and focus on the job. 

Ari Gronich 5:52  

So when we look at those kinds of numbers, it really makes sense to use mindfulness and meditation and so forth in in a corporate wellness program.

Briana Bragg 6:03  

Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's an investment into the company and an investment into your team, you know, and one thing I will say about some of the up and coming generation is they are requiring companies to provide additional tools and resources for health and wellness, because that's one of the things that's important to them. And I think, you know, not just looking at your team is what can, what can it produce, but I love that you brought in that it's a culture, it's a culture shift in terms of supporting your employees, and really caring about them as human beings and what they're going through and, and how they're dealing with certain situations. And especially during this time, it's more important than ever to make sure that the emotional and mental well being of your employees is healthy. 

Ari Gronich 6:46  

What is the benefit that reaches over to the rest of the population, when the employees are not coming home with having had a bad day? That's, you know, cost them their emotional state, and their adrenal date? So what's the turnover around that? 

Briana Bragg 7:06  

Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, they have more patience with their family, more patients at home, with their kids, but their spouse, you know, being able to handle situations that come up at home, with a little more ease and a little more flow. You know, when you come when you come home, and you're in that stressed out state, your snippety you know, your shorts. I know a lot of that is happening right now, I've even had to check myself a couple of times with my partner, I was like, you know, okay, maybe I didn't need to respond that way. Right. And so when, when we're at a heightened level of stress, we do bring that home. And you know, you don't have the time that you want to dedicate sometimes to your family, because you just don't have the emotional bandwidth to.

Ari Gronich 7:51  

So let's talk about that responding versus reacting. And what mindfulness does when you become more and more and more aware of what state you're in?

Briana Bragg 8:05  

Yeah, you know, I love to use the analogy here on you're on a highway and someone cuts you off on the highway, you know, most of us react, right? We're flipping on the finger, we're cursing yelling at you, bah, bah, bah, I used to have road rage, I admit, you know, I used to be one of the worst road rage people probably meat on the planet. And I drove a fast car because of it because I wanted to get the heck out of people's way in hell. But what mindfulness does is it allows you to kind of calm those reactions down and really look at things from a different perspective. And so mindfulness is really the practice of becoming aware of your present moment, your reactions, what emotional state you're in with thoughts are going through your head. So most of the time, what happens in that scenario, and most scenarios in our life, you know, is worth thinking, this jerk just cut me off because of blah, blah, blah. Well, what mindfulness teaches you to do is instead of looking at it that way, looking at it from a different perspective, maybe he or she is on the way to the hospital, because a spouse is injured, or a parent is, you know, he just had a heart attack or something or, you know, maybe they just got a call that they needed to respond to something happening at their house, right? So what mindfulness does is really helps you to switch and change your perspective, on a situation, when you look at that situation of maybe their parent is just had a heart attack, right? You're not so reactive to the situation of them cutting you off. In fact, you'll probably hit the brake and slow down a little bit to let them over and let them go. 

Ari Gronich 9:39  

Give me kind of like a tool that you would use. 

Briana Bragg 9:42  

Yeah, absolutely. And I love these kind of scenarios, because quite honestly, I've dealt with them in my own life and had to use my own tools, which is why I know they're effective. You know. So the first the first thing to do, utilizing a mindfulness technique is just to become aware of the reaction. In itself, you know, take, take a moment to just pause. In my relationship, we call it freeze frame. And so it's like when we feel that we've been triggered by a certain something, it's like, okay, let's freeze this frame for a moment. And just take notice what's happening in your mind. What kind of thoughts are you having right now? What's happening in your body? You know, I found it very interesting through my studies that when we're in a heightened state, our heart rate is elevated. And when our heart rate is elevated above 90 beats per minute, we can't think logically, we actually cannot think logically. And so the technique that is the first go to is taking that moment to pause, recognizing becoming aware of what's going on, and then finding your breath.

Ari Gronich 10:45  

My next question to you is, how does one get more self actualized? How to how do we remember to use the tools that we may be given in the moment of intensity?

Briana Bragg 11:00  

sure, that's the hardest part, right? And by the way, I just want to say thank you for the inhale and exhale through the nose, I usually say that, and I, I forgot, because it does make a difference. It's 100%. You know, that speaks directly to your nervous system. So thank you for bringing that up. I appreciate you. elaborating on that. You know, that's the practice of mindfulness, you know, that becoming aware, we all have old thought patterns, we all have old behavioral patterns. And it's the hardest to actual life change. Because those are kind of on autopilot, you know, where they're responding from a subconscious state. You know, this triggers you and boom, before you know it, you're in an explosive fight with your partner, because you got triggered by x, instead of taking that time to freeze frame. And so it's really the practice of the awareness. And I talked to myself, I have conversations with myself quite a bit of you know, okay, all right, was a really that, you know, I understand that you're triggered, let's take a moment here and just do some deep breathing. So you're not, you know, you got to drop the guilt and shame, you're not going to be perfect, the few times that it happens, you're probably still going to respond in old behavioral patterns. But it's the practice of using these kinds of practices, when you find awareness, when you find yourself in those moments, because what what's happening in the brain is, every time you tell a negative thought pattern to stop, you're actually creating a new highway in the brain. So you know, you got to give yourself some patience, you got to have, you know, a little bit of remorse for yourself in the beginning of trying, right? But the more you do, and the more you practice these techniques, the better you become in that moment. And what's going to happen eventually is your brain is going to stop going to that net old thought pattern and come into the new one because you've retrained it to do so.

Ari Gronich 12:59  

Awesome. How can people get a hold of you?

Briana Bragg 13:03  

We're all over the place as vacation of the mind. So we're we have a Facebook group as well as a page. In our Facebook group, we are offering mindfulness discussions on different topics every week, three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, as well as a 10 minute meditation. We're also on YouTube, we have a ton of discussions on YouTube, as well as pre recorded meditations that you can go and listen to anytime you want. Some of them are around some of the challenges we're currently facing. Others are for stress reduction, visualization for protecting productive days at work. We're on insight timer, and SoundCloud and Instagram, you name it, you can find us and then you know, if you want to contact me directly, you can just go to our website, fill out a contact form or us info@ acationofthemind.com.

Ari Gronich 13:51  

Awesome. I was thinking about this while you were while you were talking earlier. And I think for some of the people who are out of work right now, and not really sure what prospect they'll have at going being able to go back to the same job that they've had. One of the things that they might think about is becoming a vacation of the mind practitioner and taking that into their corporations and their places of business and their families. So maybe we'll figure out getting a link for them. When when we air it. And so that somebody can if they're interested in exploring a possibility of a new career, they can become vacation of the mind practitioners.

Briana Bragg 14:45  

Yeah, thank you so much for saying that. Ari. I appreciate that. We are offering our course at 50% off right now to help given you know the landscape of everything the COVID challenge. I really like that I'm going to adopt that into my language. We're offering 50% off, I'll certainly provide a link. And it's a self paced online course. So we've had a few teachers take the course, we've had some people in the health and wellness space, take the course. And we're in talks with a couple of organizations to launch it through their organization as a way for people to earn an additional certification or switch careers right now or just earn CEC credits for those people who might need additional credits for the year. Now's a great time, we have the extra time on our hands. Thank you. I appreciate you saying that.

Ari Gronich 15:31  

Yeah, no, absolutely. I think even for nurses and doctors that are going through this, it was, it would be a great opportunity for them. There, a lot of nurses and doctors are being furloughed right now. So being able to use this with your patients, you know, it lowers the, you know, the stress response, cortisol levels, and raises the immune system. So might be a good, you know, a good place for for people to be able to do that is inside the hospitals. And, and like said, I'm an outside of the box thinker. And I think very strangely about different things. But, you know, I also like to put pieces together. And I think that what you're doing can be so valuable for the community at large for teachers, like you mentioned, teachers who are taking them, when they come back, they're going to have this skill set that they'll be able to translate to their, to their students. Yeah, especially kindergarten, and, you know, kindergarten on up preschool teachers, nannies daycare workers, you know, this is something that police officers, this is something that they can use in order to not only calm themselves, but help calm situations and problem solve and so on. So Well, we'll see if we can get a link out at the bottom of of the video when we're done with the technological, technological devices and, and thank you so much. And if you'd like to get a hold of me, you can reach me at Ari Gronich, at basically anything calm. So Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, I'm Ari Gronich, on all of those. Or you can go to Amazon and check out my new book, a new tomorrow, activating your vision for a better world, which is all about creating the world that we want to live in. Might one of my favorite sayings is we made all this up, we can make it up different, it doesn't have to be the way that we made it up. I love that in always, like, you know, like Legos, we could tear them apart and create something new. And obviously, you know, we've got a system that isn't quite working. So let's just take it apart, you know, brick by brick, and rebuild it in a way that makes what we want more easily and readily available. So you know, if if you'd like more information about that, please do get ahold of me and I look forward to chatting with you. And thank you so much, Brianna for your time, your energy, your wisdom and knowledge.

Briana Bragg 18:21  

Thank you, Ari. It was a pleasure being here with you and really excited to partner with you.

Ari Gronich 18:26  

Absolutely. Thank you so much.

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Ari Gronich 0:01  

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Hi, my me. I am here with Brianna Bragg and the vacation of the mind we're going to be taking you on a journey. When you have nowhere to go and nothing to do. What do you do, you take a vacation of the mind. And Brianna is an expert in that field, I'm going to let her give you some of her words of wisdom and mental journeys to increase your immunity actually during the COVID Response Unit. So we're in this quarantine, everybody is shut down. And that means that your immune system is getting shut down too. And when you can do anything to help your stress levels, relax your mind, relax your body, it's going to boost your immune system. So Brianna, why don't you talk a little bit about who you are and why you're talking to people.

Briana Bragg 2:03  

Awesome. Thank you so much Ari, it's great to be here and glad we got the the technology to finally cooperate a little bit today. So I'm Brianna Bragg the founder of vacation of the mind, we're a mindfulness company with a passion of for oneness for for wellness, oh my goodness, let me start that over. I'm Brianna Bragg, the founder of vacation of the mind. And we're passionate about oneness through wellness. We offer workplace wellness programs, certifications and trainings as well as large mass events. And it's just a pleasure to be operating during this time. You know, a lot of people's senses are heightened, you know, our thoughts create these feedback loops that then create behavioral patterns. And when this when this all started, we all got kind of thrown into a survival mode and survival mode. You know, it's very interesting for the body because it pumps these hormones cortisol and adrenaline throughout the body on a consistent basis telling that telling the body that it needs to survive, and it needs to do certain things to survive. And while that's great and wonderful and short term doses, over a long span, it can cause serious health issues. It can decrease immunity, like what you were talking about. And mindfulness. And meditation is such a great tool to help combat some of that stress, relaxing the central nervous system, boosting immunity, reducing stress and anxiety, as well as improving focus and productivity. You know, everybody's working from home, we're all being faced with some additional challenges right now. With the kids screaming in the background, not wanting to do their schoolwork, or, you know, just us feeling confined in one place. And so meditation and mindfulness is a great tool to help get ourselves out of that negative thought patterns into a more positive place. Awesome. Thank

Ari Gronich 3:54  

you. So what got you started in in this field from where you started out originally?

Briana Bragg 4:01  

Yeah, you know, necessity, right? I've always been an overachiever mentality with that gogogo mindset that, you know, I thought to be successful or to have the kind of life that you want to live, you always have to be in go mode constantly responding constantly on living that hustle and bustle life. And that led me down a path of being very sick and ill at a very young age. And, you know, I was able to utilize meditation and mindfulness to really change my life. And now it's my passion to help others do the same. I think I know when I started out Ari, it was you know, a lot of YouTube videos and researching on the internet. And while that's great and wonderful, it can be confusing at first, you know, am I doing this right? I can't get my mind to calm How the hell do I get my mind calm if it's not trained? And so, you know, I learned some steps that helped me simplify the process. helped me reduce some of the guilt and shame over Am I doing this right? And then I formulated my own process that the more I practiced with other people or on other people, you know it, it worked every single time. And so now it's my passion to help other people. We have certifications and trainings where we teach the process to people who want to be an instructor, I think that, you know, that's going to help us reach the masses. And you know, we do our own one on ones and group trainings as well to help people learn simple steps that they can use, it doesn't have to be you don't have to go climb the entire mountain.

Ari Gronich 5:40  

So you mentioned corporate wellness and corporate programs, what benefit would it have for, say, an HR department to have somebody on staff that's trained in your system for their employees benefit and wellness?

Briana Bragg 5:58  

Yeah, absolutely. You know, first of all, I just want to back up and say that 80% of employees feel stressed. And there's $300 billion a year that's, that's B with that's billion with a B, just in the US alone, that's spent on health related costs that are associated distress. Now, that was before COVID-19. I don't even know if I want to know what that that number is going to look like, once we come out of this, right. And, you know, stress causes a lot of, of health issues it can cause insomnia can cause high blood pressure, it can cause fatigue, burnout. And the list kind of goes on, you know, headaches, upset stomach, I mean, there's there's a lot of illnesses, and that are associated with stress. And so having someone on the team to be who is trained in mindfulness and meditation is a huge benefit to employers, because employers are really focused on what productivity right they want as much out of us as we can possibly get. And you know, the time that we have to work well, what happens when a body is stressed out, is we're just kind of shutting down, we're less focused. I know for myself, I've had to even during this time, kick up my own meditation, because there are days where I'm just like, I sit down at my computer, and I'm like, I don't even know where to start or what to do, you know, and I've really got to dive into being a little more focused, we're less creative, we're less able to make decisions and handle problems as they come up and finding solutions for those problems. And so when you think about this from a productivity scale, employers are losing, you know, thousands of hours of productivity, because they're just they're pushing, pushing, pushing, instead of giving their employees time to reset time to pause time to calm some of those stress responses. And so having someone on the team, who's trained in a process that works to help their employees reduce stress and anxiety ultimately leads to more productivity, creativity and focus on the job.

Ari Gronich 8:04  

Absolutely. So I have a bit of a background in corporate wellness and corporate culture. And it amazes me, whenever I talk or consult with a company, that they're only looking at what they consider to be hard costs, when the largest cost to accompany is what's called presenteeism, and presenteeism. For those who don't know that term. It's not like absenteeism, which is when somebody is away from the office completely. presenteeism is when somebody is in front of their computer in front of their job at the job. And they're doing nothing, they're present. But they're not present. And that is 100% caused by outside distractions of stress, whether it's relationship issues, health issues, financial issues, those kinds of things. And so they they average it, so an average worker in a three or an eight hour day, is only productive for two to three of those hours. The rest of the time, they might as well be on the computer playing freecell

Briana Bragg 9:24  

Yeah, that's insane, isn't it?

Ari Gronich 9:26  

Yeah, that's how how productive they are. So if by using mindfulness, you cut that stress response down, you allow more focus and creativity, that productivity goes up. I mean, how much of a hard cost, we'll say, versus soft costs. How much of a hard cost would say getting five hours four to five hours of productivity out of an eight hour day versus two to three? How much would that earn that company? So When we look at those kinds of numbers, it really makes sense to use mindfulness and meditation and so forth in, in a corporate wellness program.

Briana Bragg 10:10  

Yeah, absolutely. Well, it's an investment into the company and an investment into your team, you know, and one thing I will say about some of the up and coming generation, as they are requiring companies to provide additional tools and resources for health and wellness, because that's one of the things that's important to them. And I think, you know, not just looking at your team is what can What can it produce, but I love that you brought in that it's a culture, it's a culture shift in terms of supporting your employees, and really caring about them as human beings and what they're going through and, and how they're dealing with certain situations. And especially during this time, it's more important than ever to make sure that the emotional and mental well being of your employees is healthy. Otherwise, you know that those, those three hours are coming down to even less right now with with our situation that we're facing,

Ari Gronich 11:01  

right. And with employee loyalty, as well, taking care of your employees equals more loyal employees, they leave less because they feel taken care of. So even if you're maybe not paying them as much as the next job, but you have more of those kinds of benefits, that loyalty is going to create less turnover and less issues with having to retrain and find another employee and then get them on boarded, and etc. So it really, really affects the bottom line of companies. How about for just individuals, family members of companies, right individuals who are in the home, so I used to say, as a massage therapist, right, I used to say, if the police officer who pulled me over gave me a massage instead of a ticket, I might go home a little more happy.

Briana Bragg 11:58  

I love that analogy.

Ari Gronich 12:00  

asked, and and I might you know, be nicer to my family and so on. So what is the the benefit that reaches over to the rest of the population? When the employees are not coming home with having had a bad day? That's, you know, cost them their emotional state and their adrenal date? So what's the turnover? Around the Yeah,

Briana Bragg 12:25  

absolutely. Well, you know, they have more patience with their family, more patients at home, with their kids, but their spouse, you know, being able to handle situations that come up at home with a little more ease and a little more flow. You know, when you come when you come home, and you're in that stressed out state, you're snippy, you know, you're short. I know a lot of that is happening right now I've even had to check myself a couple of times with my partner, I was like, you know, okay, maybe I didn't need to respond that way, right. And so when we're at a heightened level of stress, we do bring that home. And you know, you don't have the time that you want to dedicate sometimes to your family, because you just don't have the emotional bandwidth to. And so when you're able to bring some of that down and operate from a more relaxed state that absolutely is going to carry over into the home in terms of time, you're able to give emotion, the emotion that you're able to give your spouse or your children and the patients that you're able to have to handle some of the little things that really aren't so big if you're not stressed out, 24/7.

Ari Gronich 13:33  

So let's talk about that responding versus reacting. And what mindfulness does, when you become more and more and more aware of what state you're in, and are able to then respond versus react, which is an issue we all tend to have at some point or another we react to the threat versus responding to the issue, right?

Briana Bragg 14:02  

 Yeah, you know, I love to use the analogy here on you're on a highway and someone cuts you off on the highway, you know, most of us react, right? We're flipping them the finger, we're cursing, yelling at them, you blah, blah, blah. I used to have road rage, I admit, you know, I used to be one of the worst road rage people probably meat on the planet. And I drove a fast car because of it because I wanted to get the heck out of people's way in hell. But what mindfulness does is it allows you to kind of calm those reactions down and really look at things from a different perspective. And so mindfulness is really the practice of becoming aware of your present moment, your reactions, what emotional state you're in with thoughts are going through your head. So most of the time what happens in that scenario and most scenarios in our life, you know, is we're thinking, this jerk just cut me off because of blah, blah, blah. Well, what mindfulness teaches you to do is instead of looking at it That way, looking at it from a different perspective, maybe he or she is on the way to the hospital because a spouse is injured, or a parent is, you know, just had a heart attack or something or, you know, maybe they just got a call that they needed to respond to something happening at their house, right. So what mindfulness does is really helps you to switch and change your perspective, on a situation, when you look at that situation of maybe their parent is just had a heart attack, right, you're not so reactive to the situation of them cutting you off, in fact, you'll probably hit the brake and slow down a little bit to let them over and let them go. So you know, the practice of just being aware of your thoughts can and and your reactions and your emotions can really help you move through life with more ease and being in a state of response instead of reaction. And then, you know, meditation is the process of retraining the brain to think process and react differently. And so things like utilizing your breath work, things like calming mind chatter, or you know, coming to stillness in the mind, even if it's just for a few seconds, those kinds of techniques and practices, start helping train the brain to think and process differently. And so you can think of it like this as a, you know, we have all these neurons inside of our head. And I like to think of neurons as the little highways that we're driving on that messages or reactions or responses are driving on in the brain. When you start practicing meditation, you know, maybe your little car in the brain is used to driving the major highways. But what meditation can do is it might show you a short, a shortcut Hall, or it might show you that backward that you've never recognized before. And so that just the practice of calming your mind of finding your breath, refocusing some of the thoughts that you have in your mind, shifts you out of that state of what you're what's normal to you the highways that you've known, and helps you find different solutions.

Ari Gronich 17:07  

So, on that, on that kind of a note, here's, here's my question, I'm going to give you a scenario. And I'd like if you if you're willing to share a tool, right, so let's say you're a 20 something year old. And your, your new spouse does something that reminds you of somebody when you were a child, that you reacted to that situation, and now you're reacting the same way to your new spouse, right? So give us a tool on how you might redirect your thoughts. And remember, okay, this is not the person that injured me, you know, or influenced me in that way. 20 years ago, this is somebody new. So give me kind of like a tool that you would use?

Briana Bragg 18:09  

Yeah, absolutely. And I love these kind of scenarios, because quite honestly, I've dealt with them in my own life and had to use my own tools, which is why I know they're effective. You know, so the first, the first thing to do utilizing a mindfulness technique is just to become aware of the reaction itself. You know, take take a moment to just pause. In my relationship, we call it freeze frame. And so it's like when we feel that we've been triggered by a certain something, it's like, okay, let's freeze this frame for a moment. And just take notice what's happening in your mind. What kind of thoughts are you having right now? What's happening in your body? You know, I found it very interesting through my studies that when we're in a heightened state, our heart rate is elevated. And when our heart rate is elevated above 90 beats per minute, we can't think logically, we actually cannot think logically. And so the technique that is the first go to is taking that moment to pause, recognizing, becoming aware of what's going on, and then finding your breath, using your breath to get yourself out of that heightened state. Inhaling for a count of four and exhaling for a count of four is a very effective tool for just calming the moment calming the response, calming the central nervous system, so that you can get back into logical decision making and figure out you know, maybe why you're being triggered that way, or even at least just have a normal conversation with your partner versus reacting and who knows what your behavioral pattern is at that point, yelling, screaming, throwing things, whatever it might be. The breath is an amazing tool, you know, it's free to all of us. Using that kind of a technique, inhaling and exhaling for a count of for about 10 times will get you out of that reactive mode and into a place where you can think more calmly and respond.

Ari Gronich 20:03  

Awesome. So I'm just going to add to that. Breathing in your nose and out your nose, calms your nervous system breathing in and out your mouth. heightened z is your adrenal glands and heightens that cortisol response. So one of the techniques that I always learned and use is, make sure I'm breathing from my nose. And then the second part of that is from Chinese medicine, you have this central meridian that connects here goes all the way around to your tailbone, and then the central governing meridians. And so they say, if you put your tongue at the top of your teeth right here, you're going to activate those energy channels to be in the correct direction to flow in the correct direction. So you create much more flow in your body. And I've always found that that helps me to relax faster. And you know, I've had, obviously my share of reactions and reactivity, versus, versus responding. And it's one of the things that even though I'm really well trained in tools and techniques, I'm not really very well trained in self actualizing, those tools and techniques. And so my next question to you is, how does one, get more self actualized? How to how do we remember to use the tools that we may be given in the moment of intensity,

Briana Bragg 21:44  

sharp, that's the hardest part, right. And by the way, I just want to say thank you for the inhale and exhale through the nose, I usually say that, and I, I forgot, because it does make a difference. It's 100%, you know, that speaks directly to your nervous system. So thank you for bringing that up. I appreciate you. elaborating on that. You know, that's the practice of mindfulness, you know, that becoming aware, we all have old thought patterns, we all have old behavioral patterns. And it's the hardest to actual life change. Because those are kind of on autopilot, you know, where they're responding from a subconscious state. You know, this triggers you and boom, before you know it, you're in an explosive fight with your partner, because you got triggered by x, instead of taking that time to freeze frame. And so it's really the practice of the awareness. And I talked to myself, I have conversations with myself quite a bit of you know, okay, all right, was a really that, you know, I understand that you're triggered, let's take a moment here and just do some deep breathing. So you're not, you know, you got to drop the guilt and shame, you're not going to be perfect, the few times that it happens, you're probably still going to respond in old behavioral patterns. But it's the practice of using these kinds of practices, when you find awareness, when you find yourself in those moments, because what what's happening in the brain is, every time you tell a negative thought pattern to stop, you're actually creating a new highway in the brain. So you know, you got to give yourself some patience, you got to have, you know, a little bit of remorse for yourself in the beginning of trying, right? But the more you do, and the more you practice these techniques, the better you become in that moment. And what's going to happen eventually is your brain is going to stop going to that old thought pattern and come into the new one because you've retrained it to do so.

Ari Gronich 23:44  

So do you have with with your practitioners do you create practice groups,

Briana Bragg 23:50  

practice groups, I Well, in order for them to become certified, they they have to have a certain number of hours and group training that they have to do? Absolutely, because it's the repetition is what's key with mindfulness and meditation, you know, it's very similar to going to the gym, right? Like just because you go to the gym, the first time you pick up that weight, new workout, your bicep, you're not leaving the gym, like super toned, and you can lift 400 pounds or whatever, whatever people want to do, right? You have to have that repetition, in order to build the muscle in order to build the tone, it's the consistency of practicing, that that makes the difference.

Ari Gronich 24:29  

That's awesome. You know, for corporations that would be great to have practice groups with within the company, within teams in the company to have that, you know, that period of time where they get together in a circle, so to speak, and listen to each other's issues and then practice their responses and that mindfulness, I think that it helps with productivity helps with employee morale, and, and so on, but that would also probably be a good Good idea to do inside of a home?

Briana Bragg 25:03  

Absolutely, yeah, we have I know, in my own personal home, we have implemented certain strategies and, you know, certain techniques that that we go to first, as a way to practice and become better, you know, we're all human, we all make mistakes, we all are triggered by different things, and those old patterns are going to come up. But it's, it's really when you can start putting those things in place in your home, you know, have an agreement with your spouse or with your children to take that pause to freeze frame, or to take a few deep breaths before you respond. And then having that that agreement with yourself, as well. It's important.

Ari Gronich 25:43  

Yeah, for me, I, I've been homeschooling a lot, Oh, goodness, my son is six. And, and, you know, I, I grew up in a reactive environment. And so I am a very perfectionist environment. And so getting frustrated easily is one of one of my current traits. And, and so what I've asked my, my six year old to do, is if I start getting frustrated with him, then he's gonna just say, I think you need to breathe now daddy.

Briana Bragg 26:26  

And like, at the buddy system,

Ari Gronich 26:29  

it really is cuz it's like, oh, you know, you're probably right, I probably need to call myself that wasn't the reaction that I got, you know, response I wanted to give. And, and, you know, for me, it's a lot of retraining, how I was treated, you know, by teachers, by whoever it was like, Okay, I was treated, like, if you don't get this, right, you're, you're a bad person, you're a bat, you're not smart. You're, you know, like, all these different kinds of things. And so I'm retraining in me so that I don't cause him the same kind of damage. Yeah, sure.

Briana Bragg 27:12  

And, you know, it's really, that's why I said that the agreement, right, because sometimes, when we're so emotionally charged, we can't even see that we're in that phase that that we've, you know, we've stepped across the line and entered into that, okay, now I'm reacting from a place where I really don't want want to be reacting. And so having that agreement with another person to kind of help call it out, as long as it doesn't lead into another area of a fight. Right. So important. Yeah. I love that you're doing that with your son. That's great.

Ari Gronich 27:46  

Yeah, you know, I, I think that it's a great technique for any of the parents who are now, you know, homeschooling forced to homeschool. It's a skill set that people go to school for, right. It's a skill set that people take for years and get a degree in education to be able to teach their kids or teach our kids. And, you know, we're not trained, we're not qualified. Yeah. We're, we're having to do that. Yeah, it's been, it's been really an interesting part of the COVID challenge. You know, I'm calling all these things, the COVID challenge, rather than this, that inner pandemic, because, you know, it's all what's the challenge? What's the solution? What's the challenge? What's the solution? How do we find a solution to this? How do I find a solution to this? And so when you've got nowhere to go, and nothing to do, you know, take a vacation of the mind. So what kind of journeys Do you like to take people on?

Briana Bragg 28:57  

Yeah, nature 100% nature. And I just want to backtrack for a moment. You know, as parents, it's so important that we teach our children these practices from an early age, kind of like what you were saying, so we don't pass down those, those traits that we learned that are not so great. So you know, taking a mindfulness moment with your kids or teaching them to breathe when they get irritated is another great tool that you guys can both practice together. But we love journeys through nature. I've always been a big proponent of being in nature, it's very healing. You know, there's a lot of research being done about this right now. Even just listening to nature stick sounds for a couple of hours a day can reduce stress levels by 200%, which is insane. It's it's such an insane number when you think about it. And so we love to walk through forests or rain forests, go to the beach, you know, to a mountain top sitting at a waterfall, by a lake a peaceful lake at sunset or sunrise. And so all of our journeys are designed, we like to call them recreation scenes. And so most of them are designed from real life experiences that someone has taken in their life. And I teach in my program, how to recreate that scene for someone and walk them into stillness from there, because it's my personal belief that, you know, it's very hard to sit in stillness unless you're trained. And being able to distract the mind first, really helps, especially people who are beginning their experience with meditation really helps them with the ability to sit and stillness for longer periods of time.

Ari Gronich 30:35  

Yeah, you know, you as a, as a hypnotist, we've always used outside sources of things like, use a candle light, right? So we'll have the candle flickering. And the goal is to focus on the candle or a spot in the room, or the, you know, what is it the tempo thing that is going tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, right. So we use these outside sources, to get into the inside sources, but as a meditation, you know, it's more the internal dialogue and the visualization inside of yourself. And so it's it's very interesting, the differences and similarities between say, hypnosis and, and meditation tricks that you can give somebody if they think I can't get out of my mind, my mind just won't stop.

Briana Bragg 31:36  

Absolutely, one of my favorite techniques for those that have a mind that they can't calm or quiet is to become the observer of your thoughts. You know, it's a very simple technique where you are more witnessing your thoughts. So you kind of take a step back. And you can either see yourself standing or sitting and just watching your thoughts float by as if they're on a movie reel, as if you're kind of watching a movie, detaching your emotions from them, detaching the judgments that you might have from them, and really just watching them being the observer. You know, with practice, obviously, this is going to get a little bit better, because we tend to chase our thoughts, which is usually what ends us up in the dark rabbit hole as I like to refer to it as versus when you can observe your thoughts, you're not telling your mind to completely shut off. If you have that issue, you're not, you know, trying to push them all out and get your mind to completely become still and quiet. You're still allowing the thoughts to be there. You're just shifting the view and the perspective of them.

Ari Gronich 32:40  

Okay, so let's say we're in the COVID line at the grocery store, where we've got to wait, you know, for 20 people to leave before the 20 people in front of us can go in. Yes. Right. So, I've seen I've seen people doing this where they're, you know, they're frustrated, they're getting angry, they're, you know, we should be able to get in, why are they you know, why aren't people leaving? Right? So there's that. And then there's the people who are just sitting there calm as can be Hmm. Right?

Briana Bragg 33:13  

Yes.

Ari Gronich 33:14  

What, what kinds of things can people do? During this particular time in our history? When we are isolated, were told to quarantine and stay home, when we go out. At least there's not the road rage as much because nobody's on the road anymore. But it's true. But no, there's there's the line rage or somebody just you know, what went into the, into my six feet of space, right? How do I develop when I'm inside of that fear? also being able to be in the mindfulness of, I'm in fear, but I am not fear, right. So

Briana Bragg 34:05  

yeah, you know, there's, there's a couple of different things here. You know, first of all, just again, finding your breath, using your breath, right, inhaling through the nose, exhaling through the nose, you can count your breath, you can there's, there's all different kinds of techniques that you can utilize to make focusing on your breath, not so boring as it can be. I know I've had to use that a couple times myself not so much from the rage of being online, but more from just the emotional overwhelm that I was experienced. And I'm standing there in a grocery store. And, you know, we're all in masks, and there's elderly people out shopping, and I just I'm like, please go home, you know, we'll bring you your groceries, right, like, and the shelves are empty. And there's all of these emotions that that I found myself feeling when I'm out grocery shopping. And so I've had to find my own breath a few times, you know, inhaling deeply into my lungs and exhaling and just getting myself recalibrated. You know, The other thing is perspective. I, there's a video I have on YouTube where it's titled the blimp perspective. And I talked about, you know how you can shift your perspective in certain moments to look at I use a football game specifically of how you know you have the the players on the field, you have the coaches on the sideline, you have the fans in the stands, you have the coaches in the box, and then you have the blimp at the top. And, you know, sometimes we get so in the game, right, as the players on the field that we forget that there's a whole community around us that's feeling certain things too. And they're going through their own emotional roller coasters with all of this. And so being able to change and shift your perspective. Instead, again, instead of you know, that person on the road who cut you off, being a jerk, maybe that person that got too close to you in line wasn't paying attention. And as simple like, hey, do you mind to step back a couple steps is sufficient versus you know, losing your cool and yelling or screaming or being all emotional and causing a scene, having some patience with yourself and with others. I mean, the bottom line is, we are all in this together. And I know everybody wants to get back to work. And I know everybody wants things to be back to normal. But we have to respect the process of this virus and, you know, have have just shift your perspective just a little bit, I mean, maybe you find a game to play on your phone, or maybe you have a conversation with a friend while you're standing in line or, you know, there's so many other things that you can do, to kind of shift out of that reactive phase of I'm mad because I have to stand in line and they're pacing me to, I can have some patience during this time to make sure that I am safe and others are safe.

Ari Gronich 36:49  

So I'm going to take it to the to the last kind of nth degree on what's been going on quite a bit. So we've had an increase in domestic violence, we've had an increase in child abuse, and we've had an increase in suicides. And I believe all of which can be reduced through mindfulness and meditation. Agreed. So I just want you to kind of address those things on what's going on when you're inside, it's kind of like you're in a prison, right? And what happens in a prison typically is a lot more violence and a lot more damage than what's happening on the outside world. And that's just because you're in a confined space. So, you know, can you help address for those people who may be either going through that kind of thing, or, or feeling the way that those people might feel? You know, how can we help reduce what's going on in that respect?

Briana Bragg 38:06  

Well, that's a that's a lot. That's a loaded question, given all three of those scenarios, you know, because I personally believe if everyone would just learn to breath the right way, a lot of that would be reduced, right? You know, instead of getting mad and angry and taking it out on your spouse, or your child, you know, learning to take that pause, learning to take a moment to timeout before you respond or react to a certain situation, could reduce these things. Having a different perspective on the situation could certainly reduce some of these things. And so I wish that we were all trained from a very early age in mindfulness and meditation, because it's really the art of becoming self aware of how you're reacting and how you're responding that minimises that, you know, unfortunately, a lot of these people are just reacting, they're, they're just in old, behavioral and thought patterns that are causing them to react. And then a lot of them, you know, put alcohol and things on top of it cause even more of an explosive reaction. First and foremost, you know, learning to if you are the person who's the victim in one of those situations, you know, learning to try and calm your own internal reactions is important as well, trying to get out of that situation. You know, can't really go anywhere right now, but going into another room. You know, and getting calming self soothing your own self can sometimes help to de escalate that situation. From a suicide standpoint, you know, really, in the purse in perspective, the thing that I've I struggled with my own depression at one time, and what I think found fascinating when I started really studying the brain of what happens in depression is that again, going back to those neural pathways, when we are depressed, neural noon, highways are created in the brain right to think and process things in a negative way. And the reason that depression is so hard to fight is because once your brain has that new highway, so to say that it's going down, that's its go to, that's the highway that now becomes traveled most often. And so when it's a depressive my state of mind, you know, one negative thought is going to lead to another, another negative thought, and then you're just going down that highway and down that dark path, the dark rabbit hole as I refer to it, and so you really have to practice even more stopping the car from going down that highway to begin with. And that takes a lot of practice. And that takes, you know, it was for me, it was almost eight months coming out of my depression, where I was practicing mindfulness for 45 minutes meditation for 45 minutes to an hour and a half a day, of just consistently repeating that one method that I've found to be very effective, especially in this time, for people who are facing extreme amounts of anxiety and depression is when you know, we, we may not always know when the negative thought patterns are going to start. But we usually can find ourselves there, somewhere in the middle of all of it, and just saying stop, three times out loud, is one tool that can literally put a stop to your thoughts. Another tool that I found is writing them down, journaling them, sometimes it's, it's really important to get those thoughts out. And then once they're out, and maybe you go back and read them, maybe you burn them, throw them away, whatever you choose to do, or you save them for a later date. But just having those thoughts out of your mind, helps to provide some reprieve for you. And again, you know, using utilizing your breath to help calm that central nervous system in the state of fight or flight that we tend to get into when we're in those different modes of reaction.

Ari Gronich 42:21  

Thank you. Anything else that you would like to, you know, to talk about and address? Before we we end the call? Normally, I would take questions right about now. But you know, we'll go back to after I put this on. On the on Facebook, we can go back and answer any questions that anybody might have in the comment section. Yeah, and do it that way, but

Briana Bragg 42:53  

happy to answer them, then

Ari Gronich 42:54  

if somebody just had a really good question for you.

Briana Bragg 42:59  

Well, one thing I just want to leave with is, you know, that we, we are the only it's so important for us to remember that we're the only species on this planet that has the ability to control our thoughts, that truly has the ability to control where we allow ourselves to go or not go with within our mind. And I know it's difficult for everyone right now. And I'm certainly not up here with a message of don't feel through your emotions and don't allow, you know, when the feelings of overwhelm or isolation or anxiety come You know, just push them down and don't deal with them. That's not what this message is about. What this message is, is you don't have to become them. You don't have to stay in them. You know, it's okay to recognize your feelings. I had to do this earlier today, I woke up in one of those moods. And you know, I went for a walk, change your state, move your body, you know whether you do something with exercise, you get out and take a walk in nature, you dance around your living room to your favorite song, shifting your state can help you get out of those patterns. You know, knowing that you have the ability within you to control your mind to manage your thoughts, instead of allowing them to manage you is an important factor here in being able to utilize some of the tools we've discussed. And there's so many more. But just being able to utilize some of the tools that we've discussed, to help you manage where you are right now. And you know, we have a blog where we're sharing different ways. In fact, in one of our last articles I shared you know, if you were let go from your job, or if you have kids at home, how are some of the ways that you can actually shift your thinking for the time being, to get yourself out of that negative state and into a more positive frame of mind. And so just knowing that you can shift and change your mind is really important utilizing the tools that are available to you And I know we're physically distancing, but having that social interaction with people, whether it's through zoom, whether it's through Facebook Lives, whether it's FaceTime, there's all these third party apps that have come up that people are using, you know, connect with people, just sending a simple text message and getting involved in a conversation can get you out of those feelings of isolation, for example. And so try to, you know, if you think about somebody reach out and ask how they're doing, and caring for other people will help to shift your own state.

Ari Gronich 45:32  

Awesome, how can people get a hold of you,

Briana Bragg 45:35  

we're all over the places vacation of the mind. So we're we have a Facebook group, as well as a page. In our Facebook group, we are offering mindfulness discussions on different topics every week, three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, as well as a 10 minute meditation. We're also on YouTube, we have a ton of discussions on YouTube, as well as pre recorded meditations that you can go and listen to anytime you want. Some of them are around some of the challenges we're currently facing. Others are for stress reduction, visualization, for protecting productive days at work. We're on insight timer, and SoundCloud and Instagram, you name it, you can find us and then you know, if you want to contact me directly, you can just go to our website, fill out a contact form or us [email protected].

Ari Gronich 46:23  

Awesome. I was thinking about this while you were while you were talking earlier. And I think for some of the people who are out of work right now, and not really sure what prospect they'll have at going being able to go back to the same job that they've had. One of the things that they might think about, is becoming a vacation of the mind practitioner, and taking that into their corporations and their places of business and their families. So maybe we'll figure out getting a link for them. When when we air it. And so that somebody can if they're interested in exploring a possibility of a new career, they can become vacation of the mind practitioners. Yeah, thank

Briana Bragg 47:18  

you so much for saying that. Ari, I appreciate that. We are offering our course at 50% off right now to help given you know, the landscape of everything, the COVID challenge, I really like that I'm going to adopt that into my language. We're offering 50% off, I'll certainly provide a link. And it's a self paced online course. So we've had a few teachers take the course we've had some people in the health and wellness space, take the course. And we're in talks with a couple of organizations to launch it through their organization as a way for people to earn an additional certification or switch careers right now or just earn CEC credits for those people who might need additional credits for the year. Now's a great time we have the extra time on our hands. Thank you. I appreciate you saying that.

Ari Gronich 48:04  

Yeah, no, absolutely. I think even for nurses and doctors that are going through this, that it would be a great opportunity for them. There are a lot of nurses and doctors are being furloughed right now. So being able to use this with your patience, you know, it lowers the, you know, the stress response, cortisol levels, and raises the immune system. So might be a good, you know, a good place for for people to be able to do that is inside the hospitals. And, and like I said, I'm an outside of the box thinker. And I think very strangely about different things. But, you know, I also like to put pieces together. And I think that what you're doing can be so valuable for the community at large for teachers, like you mentioned, teachers who are taking them when they come back, they're going to have this skill set that they'll be able to translate to their to their students. Yeah, especially kindergarten and not, you know, kindergarten on up preschool teachers, nannies daycare workers. You know, this is something that police officers, this is something that they can use in order to not only calm themselves, but help calm situations and problem solve and so on. So well we'll see if we can get a link out of the bottom of of the video when we're done with the technological, technological devices and thank you so much. And if you'd like to get a hold of me, you can reach me at Ari Gronich, at basically anything dot com. So Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, I'm Ari Gronich, on all of those. Or you can go to Amazon and check out my email. New Book a new tomorrow activating your vision for a better world, which is all about creating the world that we want to live in. Might one of my favorite sayings is we made all this up, we can make it up different, it doesn't have to be the way that we made it up. I love that. And always, like, you know, like Legos, we could tear them apart and create something new. And obviously, you know, we've got a system that isn't quite working. So let's just take it apart, you know, brick by brick, and rebuild it in a way that makes what we want, more easily and readily available. So, you know, if, if you'd like more information about that, please do get ahold of me and I look forward to chatting with you. And thank you so much, Brianna, for your time, your energy, your wisdom and knowledge.

Briana Bragg 50:54  

Thank you, Ari. It was a pleasure being here with you and really excited to partner with you. 

Ari Gronich 50:59  

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Ari Gronich 0:07  

Welcome to another episode of create a new tomorrow I am your host, Ari gronich. And I have with me one of my, my dearest friends, Iman Khan, he is an amazing person. He's led mindset transformational programs for almost 10 years, he and his wife, Afrin have created a company called Red elephant that has impacted hundreds of entrepreneurs lives. So in mind, I'm going to have you give kind of your background a little bit more in depth, so that you can really focus on what you wanted to mention.

Iman Khan 0:45  

I don't know how much gravity that has. But we're all out here trying to make a difference for people, I think. And for me, that's kind of been always the case, all of my careers because there's been quite a few have been organized around making a difference for people first I my first career was in international diplomacy. And then I transitioned into being a journalist. And then I led mindset programs, and transformational workshops for close to about 20,000 people over the past. My bio is a little dated over the past 16 years now. You know, that's our hustle. We want to get out there and change the world through doing the work we do.

Ari Gronich 1:27  

Yeah, so you know, I want to go into that international diplomacy area a little, because you and I have a somewhat similar background in some of the work that you've done with the Israeli Palestinian conflict. And we don't really get that conversation too much. So I wanted to just kind of expose that a little bit. And what you what you were had done during your time working with those two factions? Sure.

Iman Khan 1:57  

Yeah. My time there was limited, it was very short lived. And mostly it was founded in one of my professors in college was an is the founder of Americans for peace now, which is from the American side of the negotiation process, one of the largest players in that process. So he was not just my professor, he was like a, he's, he was a mentor, he turned into someone I've modeled myself after and emulated since then. And that was, you know, almost 20 years ago. That's how I got involved in the processes because he was involved in the process. And my time, there was short lived pretty much for two reasons. The first reason was, I could see once I was in that process, that that process for me, and I don't want to be political or get anyone upset. But for me, that process had very little to do with peace. That processes by my understanding of it mostly about other things. And that wasn't the game I wanted to play, I really wanted to play the game of peace. And at the government level, it doesn't seem to be about peace. For me, it still doesn't. It's about, you know, air rights and water rights and land rights and a whole bunch of things that I think weren't for me what I signed up for.

Ari Gronich 3:18  

Absolutely. So, you know, for me, I I used to have a roommate who was a Palestinian Muslim woman. And she was like, my sister, I'm a Jewish male, right. So not necessarily what you would consider to be what most people would consider to be compatible roommates and, and friends, but she was basically like a sister to me. Yeah. her cousin, on the law firm that does all of the negotiations between Hamas PLO and Israel. So we would have these conversations about how, you know, she would say something about how Israel is oppressing Palestine, and I'd say something about the bombing, and we would be talking and we would have these heated conversations. And then I'd hear her in her room talking to her cousin. And she'd be like, okay, when you talk to them, you got to we got to, you know, talk about this particular thing, and she would state some of the solutions that we had come up with, during our conversations. It was kind of fascinating that I had that kind of a direct

Iman Khan 4:37  

Yeah, I got it. I mean, what some of the best conversation, I think when you're an open dialogue with people and that's something my professors name was Mark Rosenbloom, and that's the thing he really brought me into was dialoguing with all different concerns and people from all over the spectrum one of the one of the groups that he had me in we had a former member of Hitler's youth in that group, you know, and so having all those different perspectives and being able to look at a lot of different perspectives is I think what actually leads to understanding and leads to the promotion of things that end up leading to peace. Um, I think there's a basic understanding in Israeli culture from all the Israelis, I met that, and I mean, in the citizenry in the, in the populace, that Palestinians are their brothers and their sisters, and among Israeli citizens, it's a different ballgame for the most part than I think it is, with the Israeli government. Um, and I think those are definitely two different bodies of interest, but two different sets of goals and milestones that they're looking to achieve. And I think when we talk about any nation and what's going on politically, we're always talking about the nation and the government, and not talking about its citizens necessarily. But you know, I've met some of some of my closest friends, some of the people I've learned more from, have been people who I was introduced to who are Israeli through this process? And I don't think there's any question I mean, I'm a little bit removed from it now. But there was a time when there was as many civic organizations in Israel as there were in Palestine, working on behalf of Palestinians. So I think that speaks to how the citizenry and the government aren't always necessarily walking the same path towards whatever they're looking to achieve.

Ari Gronich 6:28  

So let me ask you a question. If 80% or so of the country has a liberal way of being more liberal mindset, what's going on in the country to mean the last 30 to 50 years have been kind of held on the country as far as being progressive, you know, progressing in the world, we've, we, we tend to not act within our own self interest in our politics, in our behaviors, and things like that. And so I go back to like, how do we get to eliminate the bully? You know, for instance, I'll just give you an example. Because it's my world is healthcare. Right? So in health care, the reality of health care is that it is so far removed from giving people good health. Yeah. And so why is it that we allow these systems that are very conservative in nature, if we're liberal in nature, and the system is a conservative and nature system, then how come we're allowing such disparity between reality of what is happening, and the ideals that we're promoting?

Iman Khan 8:00  

Short? Again, I, I'm no expert on this. This is just kind of what I think and what I know, based on what I see. And what I study. I've got no degree in this, I've got no career in policy or social understanding or anything like that. But I'll give you my two sense about it. And I think it's a complex question. So first thing is, I think the mindset of the citizen, and the systems of government are two very distinct things. systems of government are very conservative, they're very old. And they take a lot to transform or change, to keep up with the liberal mindset. So I think that's the first thing I think they're two different groups in terms of what they care about what they're listening for what they want to see happen in society. So that's the first thing. The second thing is the systems of government that are in place, we now know are in place in a way that empowers a very small percentage of the population. There's a reason 5% of the country controls 90% of the wealth. So I think the systems we have in place in government support, if not completely empower are enabled that reality. So when you have that reality, and most of a nation is poor, in debt, overworked, what happens is it's not like it was in the 1950s, where people went to work from nine to five, and then they came home and they have this central family unit and they gathered around the dinner table and discuss the issues of the day and had the spare time to go be a part of civil society and go be civilians who voted and acted on behalf of the things they cared about. people now are working 12, 14 hours a day, six days a week. Those people are still surviving off of EBT they're taking their EBT checks to the places where they work often. To the people that aren't paying them enough to not meet EBT, and spending those EBT checks at those very places to be able to eat, when you work 12 to 14 hours a day, and you have one day off that day off goes to laundry, paying bills, spending time with the kids, if you have any time or with family, or whoever, the time is completely usurped by maintaining life. So people are fried, they're, they're burnt out. And when they get home, being an active citizen, which is already stress inducing is not the thing that they're going to want to do. I think the corporation's know this, I think the people who wield the power and hoard the money know this, and they've created systems to keep people tired, and the keep people unable to participate, unable to advocate for themselves. And then the people who do advocate, the people who step out of that, and who actually go the extra mile and do the difficult work of advocating, the way social media has sort of grown, what it's grown into in the last 20 years, is that anybody can say anything about anyone and it doesn't need to be fact checked. You know, I was on a thread this morning that someone tagged me about wearing a mask or not wearing a mask. And I know I don't want to debate that. There's a lot of discussion about that. But when someone asks someone else to cite their sources, about why wearing a mask is a hoax, their sources are things that q anon and YouTubers have put up. It's not data, it's not empirical data, it's not evidence, it's not numbers, it's my friend who I really trust who did a YouTube on this.

Ari Gronich 11:39  

My saying is, a bully's best friend is the silence of its victims, and the silence of others. And, you know, we see this every day on in the playground at school with a kid who's you know, got 30 other kids in his class scared. And the 30, kids don't know that they could kind of band together and blow out that bully, we've got 90% of a nation that is being ruled by about 1%, one to 5%. And we don't know the the 90% don't know that they have an option to get loud. And say, no more, let's banded together, create a movement, create a stand,

Iman Khan 12:32  

I would go a step further and say it's not even that they don't know, it's that they've been conditioned into believing that it's more risky, to band together 30 kids to take on that one belief, and that there's less risk, if you just join with the boat. If you join with the bull, you'll be safe. If you band together and fight the belief, that's a risk. So even though it defies logic, the safe bet that we've been conditioned to believe is to go with the system go with the bully. And you know, again, I could talk about this for hours. But if you look at who designed our current education system, who got together, they weren't educators, and professors, and PhDs and doctors, they were the barons of the 1920s and 30s and 40s on the big corporations, and wanted our education system to groom employees. They didn't want our education, the group of thinkers or innovators or entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, they wanted our education system, but good, able bodied thinking people in the employees so that they can continue to grow their organizations and their corporations. And so we've had almost 100 years of this kind of acculturation. So I know it seems separate that like the guys who were inventing education, what does that have to do with the modern bully, but it's a mindset. It's the way we've been designed and acculturated to go with the bigger guy. And it's all over television. If you watch any reality TV shows like survivor, other shows where people have to strategize to vote someone out, people will never be together to get the bully out. They always side with the bully to get the protection of the bully. So we've been acculturated this way for quite some time. And you know, depending on what you believe in what you don't believe, when you're acculturated this way for this many generations, it becomes part. You know, it's like fish to water. It's part of the air we breathe. It's just what is in society. Fish would never question that they need water surrounding them. Same way we don't question that. You just got to go with the bully to be safe.

Ari Gronich 14:43  

So so then here's the question because I watched the riots. I watched the protests happening. Recently, I was in the middle of the Rodney King riots like having flaming trash cans thrown over my car. So I've been in the atmosphere of rioting and protesting. But as my buddy AJ has said, Where are you today? Where you were there yesterday at the protest? But where are you today? What are you doing today to extend the reach beyond a protest? Especially beyond a violent protest? into policymaking? Right. So how would you, you know, as somebody who helps people create their stands, right? How would you shift somebody from the need to be an employee who's working 10 to 12 hours, 16 hours a day and has no time to really do what they are passionate about? And they have a stand about? How would you suggest somebody get out of that world so that they can be long term activated in the protest? On a more internal basis versus external basis?

Iman Khan 16:10  

Well, I, again, there's just so much, unpacking lessons are complex, there's so much unpacking them. So the first thing is, I don't know. First, you'd have to see if they have that desire. If they don't have that desire, I wouldn't, you know, you can't pee for people. So if they've got that desire, great, it starts with educating themselves, and setting themselves up to be able to be viable and sustain whatever future they're moving into and away from. And if it's not viable, it'll fail. So I can't, when I I'll give you an example, when I left my corporate job and became an entrepreneur, I had to be able to see that I could sustain myself that way, and then go after sustaining myself that way, and give myself enough room to be able to eat and not be financially threatened in the interim. Because when we know that financial threats are the biggest kind of threats are people when facing a financial threat, people will give up their passions and what they stand for, and what they're committed to, to deal with the financial threat. Very few people have that kind of where with all where they can withstand a financial threat for the sake of what they stand for, they're committed to, it's just too much of a threat to their existence, our ego, our brain does not register it in a way in which is conducive to us fulfilling our commitments when we're threatened financially. So I think the first thing that has to get handled for people is they have to be able to look and know that they're going to be financially okay. And if they're competent about their financial future becomes way more easy, way more risk reduced for them to be able to step into that. 

Ari Gronich 17:55  

Awesome. Thank you so much, Iman, for coming on. I know that you've got a busy life. And so it was, it was important for me to have you on here. I wanted to have these kinds of conversations with you. I would look forward anytime to continuing the next 10 hour conversation. And

Iman Khan 18:18  

a couple of hours mixed

Ari Gronich 18:20  

in with us, you know, but I appreciate it. You're You're an amazing and inspirational person.

Iman Khan 18:28  

Thank you, you too. And thank you for the opportunity.

Ari Gronich 18:31  

So thank you very much. audience. I hope you got a lot out of this conversation. This has been another episode of create a new tomorrow. I am your host, Ari Gronich and my wish for you is that you can create a new tomorrow today by taking some of these bits and pieces of information and gems that the guests have shown and implementing them in your life right away. So thank you so much and we are out.

Iman Khan 19:04  

Thank you