FINE is a 4-Letter Word

This meditation is based on the New Potentials meditation in Dr. Joe Dispenza’s book Becoming Supernatural. It's designed to take you beyond your SELF. Beyond your physical identity and consciousness. To take your focus away from the external world of people, things, places, schedules, etc. And to put it on the inner world of energy, vibration, frequency and consciousness.

Joe’s research shows that when you do that, you are encouraging different parts of your brain to work together in harmony. Your heart and your brain become more coherent. Your autonomic nervous system is activated and is able to restore order and balance and bring wholeness to your heart, brain, body and energy field.

Before you get into it, you'll need to do a little advance preparation. Think about a potential experience you’d like to bring into your reality. Do you want to improve a specific health condition? Create a new financial situation? Improve or manifest a new relationship? It could be anything you can possibly imagine.

Once you have this experience in your mind, pick a capital letter to represent this idea and write this letter on a piece of paper. Writing it down solidifies this idea and your intention to create it. Then draw two squiggly circles around the letter. These circles represent the electromagnetic field that you’re going to tap into to manifest this.

Now clarify and write down 3 or 4 more specifics about what this experience looks like for you. The only thing off-limits here is a time frame.

Once you have those details, add the emotions you’ll feel once this experience comes into your reality. Grateful is my favorite and the most powerful. You could also include excited, joyful, energized, relaxed, enthusiastic.

These emotions are what carries your intent into the field and attracts it into your world. Once you've done this, you're ready to go.

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Today, I am chatting with Christina Robinson Race about how her traumatic childhood in a tight-lipped Evangelical Christian household filled with secrets, abuse, and conditional love affected the way she raised her children. We talk about surrounding yourself with the kind of people you’d like to become, managing your professional reputation, and always finding the silver lining. Plus Christina shares a bit about how much her mom loves shopping at Target.

Christina passionately believes in living a life of kindness and grace. She describes herself as a mom, wife, and salesperson and notes being a salesperson is both a description of her career and her personality. After living in five different states, she calls the mountains of NC her happy place.

In addition to traveling and cooking, Christina’s obsessed with plants and indoor gardening after managing to keep a plant alive for more than a year in 2021. She had strong motivation because it came from her biological father, whom she finally found two and a half years ago, thanks to a common home DNA test.

Christina's hype song is Whatever it Takes by Imagine Dragons.

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Are you enjoying this show? Please tell three other people about it. Let’s get these stories get in front of more people who can benefit from hearing them, so they can know they're not alone and there's nothing wrong with them. And so they, too, can realize it’s possible to say F*ck Being Fine.

If after listening to this, you would like some more personal attention on adding peace and gratitude and groundedness to your life, I can help you with that. Pop over to the Zen Rabbit.com web page and sign up for my VIP list. That way, you'll be the first to get all the tools and tips on finding calm amidst the chaos of life.

Today’s meditation comes from my friend Julie Boyer, host of the Wake Up With Gratitude podcast. This is a great one for relaxing and feeling gratitude for every part of your body.

Check out my interview with Julie on her show HERE.

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Today’s guest has been on my list of people to invite to the show for a long time. Lisa David Olson’s humor has kept me laughing on social media for a couple of years. She’s one of the reasons I’m still on Facebook at all. And as you’ll hear, she’s indirectly responsible for introducing me to two of this show’s past guests.

In fact, humor is the tool Lisa has used to get through her fine and less than fine life situations. I was eager to talk with her about this because it’s not a tool anyone else has mentioned before. We’re discussing humor as a deflector, a connector, and an escape. And we’re chatting about beliefs around working hard, pretending everything in your life is normal, and reaching out to people when you think of them, just because.

Lisa David Olson is a keynote speaker, podcaster, business humorist, speaker trainer and embarrassing mom. She had two TEDx Talks released last year, proving the pandemic did have its happy moments.

Whether in-person or online, she delivers high-energy presentations that challenge attendees to think creatively and choose the lighter side of life.

Learn about Lisa’s 'Project in Bravery', her comedy album, book and journal at www.LisaDavidOlson.com

Lisa's hype song comes from the band Cake, "The Distance"

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Part of love that we don’t often consider is forgiveness. When we’re able to forgive, we’re able to make space for and allow more love into our world.

Forgiveness is not forgetting or condoning what someone did. It is acknowledging that they made a choice that wasn’t to your liking.

When you forgive, you set yourself free. You open space in your heart for love. Who is it you need to forgive today?

If there’s a specific topic you’d like to explore in a meditation, please let me know. Simply send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “meditation idea.”

Today's episode is a solo one. I've been hearing from a lot of people that they're running around like hair on fire, stressed out, and wanting to feel more calm and grounded. So the question becomes, are you willing to do the things that will take you from chaos to peace? That's what we're going to talk about today. Five simple steps to go from chaos to peace.

If you have another way of going from chaos to peace, that involves not doing any of these five steps, I would love to hear it. Email me or find me through my website.

I'd also love to hear from you if you do implement anyone or all of these steps, because I want to hear what's happened, how did it change your outlook? How did it change how you feel as you move through your day?

If you find value in what I shared today, please share this episode with three friends or colleagues or coworkers or networking associates.

Here's a link to Nicole BZ's episode, reference in today's episode.

And here's the link to Brene Brown's values assessment tool.

Today's meditation is delivered by our friend Billy from the Mindful Midlife Crisis podcast. This is a great one for letting go of daily concerns of life. Simply listen to Billy's soothing voice, without any background music to distract, and allow your body and mind to relax.

Check out my interview with Billy and his podcast co-host Brian HERE.

And if you enjoy this meditation, buy Billy a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast

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Today my guest is Lizabeth Wesely-Casella. Lizabeth is the founder and CEO of L-12 Services; a Washington DC firm focused on internal communications and organizational development. She and I met a few months ago at a brunch organized by our mutual friend Janette Gallardo. You may remember, Janette’s the one who turned the tables and interviewed me for episode 25.

Lizabeth and I are talking about the downside of growing up valuing social justice, the discomfort of celebrating your wins, and what happens when your calendar looks like Walt Disney threw up on it. Hear who she wanted to be when she was growing up and how she’s doing with visualizing that person now.

With more than 20 years of experience as an administrator and policy and programming consultant, Lizabeth works with businesses to improve workflow, processes, and culture by leveraging the institutional knowledge of existing team members.

Based on what she said about the importance of social justice in her upbringing, it makes sense that one of her favorite quotes is “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Here's a link to L-12 Services Attrition Prevention Survey (7 quick questions): https://l12services.com/quiz/. It’s for leaders to take a quick 'gut check' on what's just under the surface in their organization.

Lizabeth’s hype song is High Hopes by Panic at the Disco.

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizabeth-wesely-casella/

If after listening to this episode, you can relate to Lizabeth’s over-booked schedule and lack of personal care time, and you’re ready to add a bit more peace and groundedness to your life, I can help. Pop over the ZenRabbit.com webpage and sign up for my VIP list. That way you’ll be the first to get all the tools and tips on finding calm amidst the chaos of life.

This meditation is designed to help you fall asleep and get a good and restful night's sleep.

Before you get into this meditation, if you’re listening on a podcast app, you may want to change your settings to disable continuous playback or autoplay. Otherwise once this meditation is over, the next podcast episode will start and that might wake you up.

To do that on your iPhone, go to settings, find your podcast app, and turn off continuous playback.

In other apps, go to the settings and turn off autoplay. Now you’ll be able to drift off to sleep without interruption.

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In this episode, you get to hear our first interview with a guy and his story of being stuck at fine. Brian Merrell’s account is very different from the stories you’ve heard in past episodes, and also very similar. We’re talking about why he didn’t leave an abusive marriage, why when he finally did leave, he still put up with abuse from others in his life, and how he finally made the decision to hold himself to higher standards.

Brian Merrell spent most of his professional life in sales. He hosts the podcast Tattooed in Business. He's a former bar owner, an Army veteran and former Combat Medic. A single father, Brian's daughter didn't speak to him or see him for six years. In 2019, he buried 8 of his closest family members and friends and struggled to find a way to pull himself out of that darkness. By working with counselors and a coach, he learned how to open up and tell his story so others could learn from it. And to rediscover success through his failures.

Shoutout to Success Champion Networking, which is where Brian and I met. It’s a network of get shit done business leaders looking to scale and grow their businesses.

Listen, we have just passed 5,000 total downloads of Fine is a 4-Letter Word. Help me reach the next milestone of 7,500. If you enjoy this show, please tell 3 other people about it. The more listeners, the more publicity. And that means these stories get in front of more people who can benefit from hearing them. So they can know they’re not alone. And there’s nothing wrong with them.

It’s about building connection and community. We need that now more than ever.

Brian's hype song is Remember The Name. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPNVEB8O7E

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