The Abundance Journey: Live From Your Inner Power

What if the happiness you're waiting to experience after achieving your goals is something you could give yourself right now?

So many of us pursue success believing that once we reach our destination, we'll finally feel confident, peaceful, and fulfilled. But what if that expectation is actually giving away our Inner Power?

In this episode, Elaine Starling explores how to create success without sacrificing your happiness, peace, or authentic self.

Through relatable stories and practical insights, discover why taking action builds confidence, how to stop depending on external approval, and why the experiences you didn't expect might be giving you something surprisingly valuable.

You can care deeply about your goals and still love your life while you're creating them.

Return to yourself. Reclaim your Inner Power. Radiate your gifts. Love your life.

Do you keep waiting until you know exactly how things will turn out? What if your Inner Power only becomes visible after you begin?

Elaine Starling connects three Divine Downloads about love, action, and the thoughts that shape your experience. Discover how to welcome Divine guidance, receive appreciation without dismissing it, and take one aligned step even when the whole path isn’t clear.

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What if the reason you still feel stuck isn’t a lack of knowledge—but something your reactions are inviting you to notice? Elaine Starling explores why even spiritually aware people can hesitate to receive the support, visibility, ease, and opportunities they truly want. Discover how Grateful Curiosity can replace self-criticism with understanding, and why your inner growth deserves celebration long before the results become visible. Explore The Consciousness Advantage™ free at https://MasteringAbundance.com

You’ve meditated. Journaled. Visualized. Practiced gratitude. Set Intentions. So why might peace, fulfillment, and abundance still feel just out of reach?

In this solo episode, Elaine Starling explores a possibility that can change the way you approach personal growth: the event is not the experience. Your consciousness shapes your experience.

Discover why you may not need more information or another spiritual practice, how curiosity and compassion can help you understand patterns you’ve been trying to fix, and why the first stage of manifestation happens within you—before anything outside you changes.

Elaine also guides you through a simple question you can use with a current challenge: “How do I choose to experience myself in this moment?”

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What if the most valuable book you’ll ever read is already sitting on your shelf?

You highlighted the passages. You loved the ideas. You may even have thought, “This could change my life.”

But did anything actually change?

Nick Hutchison, founder of BookThinkers and author of Rise of the Reader, joins Elaine Starling to explore the difference between consuming information and turning what you learn into lived experience.

Nick shares a practical SMART goal strategy that gives you a clear Intention before you begin reading, helping you recognize the ideas that matter and actually do something with them.

You’ll also discover why context matters, how conversation can deepen learning, when to read your most important material, and why engaging actively with ideas can strengthen your ability to think for yourself.

Because finishing the book isn’t the goal. Applying what matters is.

Want Nick to recommend a book specifically for you? DM him on Instagram and tell him about a problem you want to solve, a skill you want to develop, or something you’re curious about.

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What if that dream you can’t forget, the gut feeling you can’t explain, or the coincidence that arrived at exactly the right moment deserves more of your attention?

Psychologist Dr. Nic Sebastian and sociologist Prof. Michael Sebastian join Elaine to explore what happens when you begin treating your dreams, intuition, signs, synchronicities, and inner knowing as information worth noticing.

You’ll hear the extraordinary story of the dream Prof. Mike recorded three years before meeting Dr. Nic, discover why the pair believes many of us are conditioned to dismiss our internal guidance, and learn about HU, the simple vibrational practice at the center of much of their work.

Most importantly, this conversation invites you to experiment for yourself: become present, pay attention, track what happens, and discover how guidance uniquely shows up for you.

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What if your most valuable knowing arrives before you can prove it? In a world that rewards data, evidence, and rational thinking, intuition can be easy to dismiss even when it has been quietly guiding you all along.

Investor, medium, and global keynote speaker Naiana Miranda joins Elaine to explore what becomes possible when intellect and intuition stop competing and start working together. Naiana shares the experiences that shaped her leadership journey, how a near-death experience changed her understanding of consciousness and connection, and why she believes intuition grows stronger when we practice trusting it.

You will discover how to recognize inner knowing, build trust one moment at a time, meet uncertainty with greater self-compassion, and bring intention into the way you give, lead, invest, and create. The invitation is not to abandon intellect, but to expand the information you are willing to receive and use.

• 0:00 What do you know before you can prove it?
• 5:02 Trance mediumship, shared intention, and combining energies
• 9:09 Trust the process, step by step
• 11:14 Naiana’s path from the Amazon to leadership training
• 14:12 The experience that changed Naiana’s relationship with intuition
• 19:04 Abundance as unwavering faith and Divine reciprocity
• 22:17 Why intellect and intuition work better together
• 24:45 Practicing intuition and the Mindsight experience
• 29:39 Self-acceptance when intuition feels uncertain
• 31:16 Rebuilding trust one present moment at a time
• 37:21 Giving more without fear and living within your means
• 39:49 Impact investing, women, and aligning money with values
• 44:04 Practicing intuition in community
• 46:10 Trust yourself and stay open to the magic

• Intellect and intuition do not have to compete. Naiana sees them as complementary ways of knowing that become more powerful together.
• Intuition becomes easier to trust through practice. Small experiences of noticing, testing, and recognizing inner signals can build confidence over time.
• Abundance can look like unwavering faith that life remains meaningful and Divine even when circumstances do not feel abundant.
• You do not need perfect certainty to move forward. Returning to the next present moment can help rebuild trust after a major disruption.
• Self-approval matters. Learning to support the person you see in the mirror changes how willing you are to trust and express what you know.
• Your resources can express your values. Giving, sharing, and intentional investing can become practical ways to participate in the world you want to create.

1. Notice the signal: Pay attention to the hunch, feeling, bodily response, image, or inner knowing that arrives before an explanation.
2. Practice in small ways: Give yourself low-stakes opportunities to notice and test what your intuition is communicating.
3. Return to the present moment: When trust feels shaken, focus on enjoying and inhabiting the next ordinary moment rather than solving everything at once.
4. Reinforce what supports trust: Use reminders, music, practices, and experiences that help you remember that possibility and magic are still available.
5. Let intellect become a partner: Bring strategy, evidence, and practical thinking into the conversation without requiring them to silence what you already sense.

Listen to the episode for Naiana’s personal examples and the conversation about practicing intuition without abandoning practical judgment.

• How can I trust what I know before I can prove it?
• What changed for Naiana after her near-death experience?
• Where do highly intellectual people tend to struggle with intuition?
• Can intuition become stronger with practice?
• How does Naiana define abundance?
• What small steps can help me rebuild trust when I feel disconnected from my inner knowing?
• How can giving and investing become expressions of the world I want to create?

“To me, you can’t have intellect without intuition. They go hand in hand.” - Naiana Miranda

“It’s a journey. Be okay with when you’re not feeling okay.” - Naiana Miranda

“Tudo vai dar certo, which means everything will work out.” - Naiana Miranda

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• Mindsight - referenced during the conversation about practicing intuitive perception.
• Portfolia - referenced by Naiana as an investment platform focused on women and thematic funds.
• Kiva - referenced by Elaine while discussing small investments in entrepreneurs.
• BMW - referenced in Naiana’s early career story.
• Babson College - referenced in Naiana’s path into investing.
• Harvard - referenced in Naiana’s investing education journey.
• Impact investing - referenced as investing for positive impact as well as financial returns.

Naiana Miranda is an investor, medium, and global keynote speaker working at the intersection of consciousness, impact, and human transformation. Born in the Amazon jungle of Brazil and raised in the United States, she became one of the country’s youngest leadership trainers at 22, has trained thousands of leaders, spoken at the United Nations, consulted family offices, and invested in more than 50 women founders. She holds an MBA from Babson College, serves on the board of the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth North America, and is co-founder of MSH Partners, helping high-achieving leaders trust what they know before they can prove it.

Instagram: @iam.naiana

LinkedIn: Naiana Miranda

Substack: Naiana Miranda

Elaine Starling, The Abundance Ambassador, is an international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach, and host of The Abundance Journey. Through her signature program, The Inner Power Protocol, Elaine guides spiritually-minded women to reconnect with Divine guidance, awaken their inner wisdom, and activate abundance in every area of life.

Website: TheAbundanceJourney.com

Facebook: Elaine Starling

LinkedIn: Elaine Starling

YouTube: @ElaineStarling

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Book: The Abundance Journey

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Loved this episode of The Abundance Journey: Intellect Meets Intuition with Naiana Miranda. Big aha: intuition does not have to replace intellect. The real power may come from letting both ways of knowing work together. Listen or watch for practical ways to strengthen trust in your inner knowing and bring it into leadership, life, and the choices you make.

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What if creativity is not a talent you either have or don’t have, but a form of life force that can reconnect you with your truest self?

What if your creativity isn’t missing?

What if you’ve simply been trying too hard to find it?

Creativity isn’t just about writing, painting, singing, or making something new. It can be a powerful inner guidance system—pointing you toward who you really are and what wants to emerge through you.

Award-winning author and creative and life coach Marisa Handler learned this through a profound dark night of the soul that left her unable to access the creativity that had once defined her.

Her way back wasn’t through trying harder.

It was through receiving.

Listening.

Opening.

And learning to trust what wanted to emerge.

In this episode, Marisa and Elaine explore why everyone has a unique creative genius, how striving and comparison can disconnect you from yours, and why authentic self-expression can open the door to greater energy, joy, abundance, and surprising synchronicities.

Marisa describes your creative genius as “one in eight billion.”

You don’t need to become more like someone else.

You need to discover what is already uniquely yours.

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What if your body knows what you want before your mind can explain it? Artist, photographer, movement teacher, and Permission Project creator Elizabeth “Liz” Janowski joins Elaine to explore why authentic inner knowing often begins below the neck—and how freeform movement can help you hear it.

Liz shares how motherhood led her back into her body, why desire is a life-giving force, and how years of social conditioning can make women override their own yeses and nos. You’ll discover simple ways to slow down, notice sensation, use touch and music intentionally, and create enough inner safety to recognize what feels true for you.

This conversation invites you to stop outsourcing your knowing, treat your body as a trusted partner, and reconnect with the clarity, coherence, pleasure, and self-trust that become available when mind, body, and spirit are aligned.

• 0:00 What if your body already knows the answers you’re searching for?
• 3:55 Three conscious breaths, the episode Intention, and noticing Divine signals in the body
• 7:35 Why freeform movement is not about learning dance moves—it’s about authentic expression
• 9:07 “The body knows first”: desire, social conditioning, and learning what you actually want
• 10:24 How motherhood led Liz to movement and the creation of the Permission Project
• 13:00 Using the body as a receiver for intuition, inner knowing, and “warmer/colder” guidance
• 15:34 Liz’s definition of abundance: alignment and coherence of mind, body, and spirit
• 18:55 The body stories women carry—and how pleasing others can drown out your authentic response
• 21:01 Why safety, slowness, and embodiment can expand the story you hold about yourself
• 24:31 Coming home to the body in a screen-driven world—and expressing your unique yes
• 26:16 Touch, self-validation, and creating the feeling you want from within
• 28:56 Two simple practices to hear your body: sensory pleasure and making space to feel
• 32:34 How listening to your body can reduce reactivity and reveal what is really happening
• 33:39 Liz’s music-compilation gift for dropping into your body and clarifying desire
• 37:04 A final reminder: give yourself grace, listen a little more, and bring your body to the party

• Your body may register a true yes or no before your thinking mind has words for it.
• Desire is not something to suppress; it can be a life-giving signal that helps you recognize what is aligned for you.
• Freeform movement creates a way to express emotions and experiences that may be difficult to reach through thought alone.
• Self-trust grows when you create enough safety and quiet to notice sensation instead of automatically responding to other people’s needs and expectations.
• Small sensory choices—comfortable fabric, warm water, affectionate touch, music, rest—can help you rebuild an intimate relationship with your own preferences.
• Abundance can be experienced as coherence: mind, body, and spirit arriving at the same wholehearted yes.

Come Home to Your Body

1. Create signals of safety → slow down, get comfortable, reduce expectations, and give yourself space to feel.
2. Notice what feels good → pay attention to texture, temperature, taste, touch, music, beauty, and other sensory cues.
3. Let yourself feel what is present → rather than immediately managing or overriding emotion, give it room to move through you.
4. Listen for the yes and the no → notice what expands, contracts, excites, settles, or feels distinctly “not for me.”
5. Express what you discover → move, reach out, ask for affection, have the conversation, or make a choice that honors your authentic response.

Listen to the episode for Liz’s lived examples and Elaine’s reflections on using the body as a receiver for inner guidance.

• How can I tell what my body is trying to communicate before my mind talks me out of it?
• Why do so many women lose touch with what they genuinely want?
• How can freeform movement help emotions and inner knowing become easier to access?
• What does abundance feel like when mind, body, and spirit are aligned?
• What are simple ways to begin rebuilding trust, pleasure, and connection with my body today?

“I actually think the body knows first.” — Liz Janowski

“Abundance is being in alignment with your mind, your body, and your spirit all in one place.” — Liz Janowski

“Just to remember that you have a body is already a success in itself.” — Liz Janowski

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Liz shares a series of short music compilations designed to help you drop into your body, listen more deeply, and begin moving with your desires. The transcript describes the gift, but does not include a public download URL. Use the guest-resource link supplied for publication once confirmed.

How to Start a Movement — YouTube video

Havening — YouTube video

S Factor — mentioned by Liz as the movement practice that influenced her early training.

Sonia Choquette — referenced for the idea of the mind as broadcaster and the body as receiver.

Lynne McTaggart — a forthcoming book about music and the intelligent universe is mentioned.

Elizabeth “Liz” Janowski is an artist, photographer, movement teacher, and creator of the Permission Project. Her work uses freeform movement, immersive experience, and photography to help people reconnect with the wisdom of the body, feel safe in authentic expression, and explore themes such as desire, belonging, relationships, spirituality, money, and self-trust. Liz lives in Boulder, Colorado, and her work is rooted in helping women experience their own power, magnificence, sensuality, grace, and depth.

Website: https://www.permissionary.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/permissionary_art/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethfranko

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1014855085

Elaine Starling, The Abundance Ambassador, is an international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach, and host of The Abundance Journey. Through her signature program, The Inner Power Protocol, Elaine guides spiritually-minded women to reconnect with Divine guidance, awaken their inner wisdom, and activate abundance in every area of life.

• Website: https://www.TheAbundanceJourney.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elaine.abundance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainestarling/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ElaineStarling
• TEDx: https://youtu.be/tMQ0D4sfEys
• Book: https://books2read.com/u/3kD9AR

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#BodyWisdom #EmbodiedIntuition #SelfTrust #SomaticAwareness #AuthenticExpression #InnerKnowing #SpiritualAbundance #WomensEmpowerment #ElaineStarling #AbundanceAmbassador #TheAbundanceJourney

The life you want may not be blocked by a lack of knowledge. It may be waiting for your nervous system to feel safe enough to receive it.

In this expansive conversation, Elaine welcomes Sam Kukathas, creator of Neuro-Resonance Optimisation™ and founder of Soul Purpose Leaders, to explore how sound, consciousness, words, and nervous system coherence can help release inherited patterns and reconnect you with the wholeness of who you truly are. Sam shares the deeply personal turning point that moved him from more than two decades in philosophy and legal scholarship into energy work, sound transmission, and his soul’s mission.

You’ll discover why even highly successful people can remain constrained by unintegrated fear, how the body reveals what is ready to be witnessed, and a simple process for sensing your capacity to receive what you intend to create. This episode invites you to stop treating healing as another task to complete and begin experiencing it as a practice of presence, self-trust, and continual recalibration.

Topics Covered

• 0:00 When the nervous system carries the weight of the past
• 2:45 Why sound and resonance can shift your experience
• 6:42 Intention: Using focused sound to support coherence
• 8:19 From grief and rock bottom to a new life mission
• 13:04 Abundance as freedom and the wholeness of who you are

15:48 What visionary leaders carry beneath success

17:44 How sound, words, and energetic transmission work together

20:25 Why the right word can change what you receive

24:40 Alignment may change the goal you thought you wanted

29:27 A practical process for revealing what is holding you back

33:40 Resonance OS and the power of conscious co-creation

38:37 Freedom as a practice of continual remembrance

Key Takeaways (Skimmable Wins)

• Your nervous system may be protecting an earlier version of you even when your present life is safe and successful.
• Abundance is more than money; it is freedom, wholeness, and connection with the Divine intelligence within you.
• The body, recurring thoughts, and emotionally charged words can reveal what is asking to be witnessed and integrated.
• Alignment can dissolve the need to strive, prove, or pursue a goal that no longer reflects your soul’s direction.
• Resonance is not a destination. It is a practice of returning to remembrance and receiving at deeper levels.

Step-by-Step Process Shared

Sam’s Resonance and Self-Witnessing Practice

1. Name what you want to create → Connect with the desire or vision that wants to emerge.
2. Sense your capacity to receive it → Notice whether your whole system feels like a yes or whether something pulls back.
3. Locate the resistance → Feel where it appears in the body or identify the recurring thoughts, fears, and concerns.
4. Write and speak the words → Witness the pattern and listen for emotional charge or language that feels inherited or out of character.
5. Meet the part with presence → Ask what this part wanted to experience or did not receive, then welcome the inner conversation without judgment.
7. Listen closely to the episode for Sam’s lived examples and his reminder to let each step be its own gift rather than another item on a to-do list.

Questions Answered in This Episode

• Could unresolved emotional patterns be limiting your ability to receive what you consciously desire?
• What turned Sam’s path from philosophy and legal scholarship toward healing through sound and resonance?
• How can you identify the fears, thoughts, or bodily tension connected to a vision you want to create?
• How does Sam define abundance, freedom, and connection with the wholeness of who we are?
• What simple practice can help you witness yourself without judgment and rebuild trust with your nervous system?

Pull Quotes (1–3)

“Abundance is connecting with the wholeness of who we are and allowing infinite intelligence to wake up to itself.”

“Self-love is being willing to be present for yourself so your nervous system can trust you again.”

“The greatest gift you could give is to experience who you truly are for yourself.”

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Experience Resonance OS: Visit ResonanceOS.io to experience a free transmission and begin dissolving what has been keeping you from embodying the abundance you already know is yours.

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Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Resonance OS — Free transmission and conscious technology platform: https://resonanceos.io
• Soul Purpose Leaders — Sam’s work with visionary founders, investors, and changemakers: https://soulpurposeleaders.com/
• Neuro-Resonance Optimisation™ — Sam’s sound-based approach to nervous system and cellular coherence.
• The Abundance Journey episode video: https://youtu.be/yp9GtepyGGo
• The Abundance Journey podcast episode: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/559f7a98-7c90-4420-91d8-6ff6c95f03cb/

About the Guest

Sam Kukathas is the creator of Neuro-Resonance Optimisation™ (NRO) and the founder of Soul Purpose Leaders. He works privately with a small number of visionary founders, investors, and changemakers, supporting them to collapse the time between their vision and its real-world embodiment. Using his voice, Sam channels specific sound frequencies intended to support nervous system and cellular-level coherence.

After more than 20 years as a philosopher and legal scholar, a personal rock bottom in 2017 led Sam through personal development, energy healing, and a guided experience that clarified his mission. He is also the creator of Resonance OS, a conscious technology platform designed to help people restore coherence and activate higher-performance states through brief sound-based practices.

• Website: https://soulpurposeleaders.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samkukathas/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sam.kukathas/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soulpurposeleaders/

About the Host – Elaine Starling

Elaine Starling, The Abundance Ambassador, is an international TEDx speaker, bestselling author, coach, and host of The Abundance Journey. Through her signature program, The Inner Power Protocol, Elaine guides spiritually-minded women to reconnect with Divine guidance, awaken their inner wisdom, and activate abundance in every area of life.

• Website: https://www.TheAbundanceJourney.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elaine.abundance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainestarling/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ElaineStarling
• TEDx: https://youtu.be/tMQ0D4sfEys
• Book: https://books2read.com/u/3kD9AR

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Loved this episode of The Abundance Journey: Resonance with Sam Kukathas. My biggest aha: the obstacle between you and the life you want may be a nervous system still carrying the past—and resonance can help you return to coherence, freedom, and the wholeness of who you are. Listen or watch: https://youtu.be/yp9GtepyGGo