The Art of Lost and Found with Brooke Estin

In this episode, I discuss the concept of the "Upper Limit Problem" or better known as the Fear of Success. We explore the fears that arise when you are outgrowing the life you currently have. This fear is deeply rooted in a fear of change and a lack of self-worth, one must explore this fear and build a new relationship with it in order to achieve success and fulfillment. We go into practical tips for overcoming the upper limit problem so that you can move closer to the life you actually desire.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:42 The Upper Limit Problem

04:23 Fear of Success is Fear of Change

06:25 Grieving the Loss of Familiarity

07:24 Self-Sabotage and Unworthiness

10:29 Overcoming the Upper Limit Problem

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In this episode of The Art of Lost and Found we explore the crucial yet delicate balance between generosity and profitability for creative entrepreneurs. We delve into the challenges faced by creative entrepreneurs in maintaining a sustainable business model while staying in alignment with their values.

We start with an exploration of boundaries, then move into stories with practical insights, including a client's journey toward balancing accessibility with financial sustainability in her healing practice.

We get into self-worth and values and how they relate to setting boundaries that honor both generosity and financial stability.

Finally, we briefly discuss intentional financial strategies, like cash flow management and the diversification of revenue streams to ensure long-term sustainability.

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Today on the podcast, we welcome author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Adam Vibe Gunton. Adam is the founder of Recovered On Purpose, and he's the author of the book From Chains to Saved.

Through his book, TED talk and online presence, his story of addiction and recovery has reached millions of people worldwide. With an entrepreneurial sales and marketing background, Adam broke sales records in two door-to-door industries and built a multimillion-dollar B2C marketing company with a team of 23 employees in three states.

Now, as the founder and executive director of Recovered On Purpose, Adam lives by the affirmation, “I am the example of what is possible for an addict when they recover.” Adam shares how he started as a joyful young boy with straight A's and a promising athletic career before experiencing the depths of addiction, surviving an overdose that nearly took his life, and then finding his path to recovery.

He shares a profound spiritual experience that solidified his faith and connected him with a larger vision for his life that led him to create his nonprofit, Recovered on Purpose, which now helps millions of people around the globe who struggle with addiction.

We spoke about a variety of related themes such as identity, self-trust, building community, and fully stepping into a purpose that is much bigger than just oneself.

You can find more about Adam's work here:

Non-Profit: https://recoveredonpurpose.org/

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

TED TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuvHBlyLTro&themeRefresh=1

Today, we welcome creative extraordinaire, Nadine Hanafi as she shares how she monetized her creativity using strategic visual design. She's an award-winning designer, creative entrepreneur, and founder of We Are Visual and Digital Brand Kit. Nadine believes that beautiful branding is not a vanity accessory. It's a growth catalyst. When you have beautiful strategic branding, showing up is not just easier, but it's more exciting. And that confident glowing energy that you get from having impeccable branding permeates through everything you do.

Nadine is a master of personal branding. She's known for her incredible digital business strategy capacity and her visual storytelling. Her work focuses on helping online experts package their knowledge and uniqueness into irresistible brands.

Nadine and I first met several years ago when we were both working for the personal brand strategy firm, Brand Builders Group, where she was leading creative direction.

What I loved most about this conversation was something that Nadine said towards the end. She said that one of the things that she wished that she had known earlier was that the growth of her business and her external success in the world was dependent on how much internal growth she had done. When your external success exceeds the work that you've done internally, you can't continue to grow and evolve.

So the fact that she would give herself advice about being more focused on internal wellbeing and personal growth and development, excavating the things that are keeping us small and amplifying the things that are magical and amazing about us, just endeared her that much more to me.

To follow more of Nadine's journey, head over to nadinehanafi.com or Nadine.Hanafi on Instagram.

If you're a coach, consultant or creator who is need of beautiful, fast and budget-friendly branding, then head over to Digital Brand Kit and use the code "CREATIVEAMPLIFIER" to get 10% off your purchase.

In today's quick solo episode, I share a story of how my biggest client taught me to work with my intuition. It's the story of how I came to work with a client who I helped take from $0 to $3 million and how I learned to distinguish my intuition from my fear, and then identify past triggers I was bringing to the current situation that were keeping me playing small.

Working with this multi-million dollar client helped me learn about my own intuition and how it can be harnessed to make better decisions in both my personal and professional life. It helped me better understand the space "where the woo meets the work".

We explore the importance of translating intuition into action and creating structures that support intuitive decision-making.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: The Woo Meets the Work

01:40 Understanding Intuition

04:06 Listening to Intuition: A Personal Story

09:44 Deep Contemplation and Meditation

12:14 Translating Intuition into Action

19:43 Developing Intuition for Better Decision-Making

21:10 Practices for Connecting with Intuition

23:06 Protecting and Honoring Yourself

24:06 The Magic of Combining Woo and Work

Emily Lane is a futurist and founder of the Evolutionary Intelligence Academy. With a professional background in business, a near-death experience catapulted her into a 20-year quest for deeper meaning and purpose. Her journey led her to distill, explore, and apply some of the most leading-edge inner technologies of our world today. Emily works multi-dimensionally and she shares practical tools of evolutionary intelligence so that leaders and pioneers can solidify their clarity, purpose, and of course, their creative power.

Emily consults on the birth and direction of evolutionary projects, and she shared the stage with luminaries from academia, the World Bank, the United Nations, and World Economic Forum, among many others.

She's spoken in front of royalty, in front of governments, Silicon Valley executives, and thousands of pioneers around the world. She's been published by Mindful Leader and taught at the Omega Institute in New York. She was a founding partner of the groundbreaking Conscious Business World Summit and former host of the world's largest Mindfulness in Business Conference, Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco.

All of her work is infused with uplifting activation energy and of course, her Irish sense of humor. This comes through quite a bit in the podcast. Our conversation focused on the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership and personal development.

As woo or esoteric, as some of these ideas can feel at first, Emily is the master at making these concepts accessible, understandable, and actionable. In this conversation, she guides us through a step-by-step process to help us identify and connect with our inner guidance. This is part of what she calls connecting to evolutionary intelligence.

We do this so that we can access that power to make practical decisions in our life and our work. Stay tuned to the end where Emily introduces her six week program for evolutionary leaders, which I very much look forward to participating in myself starting January, 2024.

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To sign up for her Evolutionary Intelligence Academy, click here:

https://www.evolutionaryintelligenceacademy.com/evolutionaryprofessional

Today, we welcome a creative powerhouse and true soul sister: Joanne "Jo" Garcia.

As a first-generation all-American girl raised by Filipino immigrants in the US, Jo is one of those rare breeds of creatives who's equal parts creative thinker and master executor. She's a creative who gets shit done.

While meeting Jo was a blessing, the circumstances of our meeting were heartbreaking. My dear friend Elaine battled breast cancer for four years before it took her life this time last year. During this time, Jo stepped into the most demanding role of her life - being the caretaker of our dying friend.

In this episode, we speak about Jo's creative journey, the love, loss, and redemption she has experienced, and how her creativity has been an essential part of her burnout recovery that she's used to reclaim her life in the wake of extreme loss.

This week's mini-episode is a dive into how I'm managing to counter the dip in energy and spirits that often occur during the fall-winter seasons.

For the next 21 days, I am committing to random acts of kindness as a way to cultivate my intentions of bringing in more love, abundance and freedom into my life. I share some of my own reflections on not meeting my own expectations and the disappointment that followed and why seeking perspective and recalibrating is essential during those lower moments.

In setting the intention to manifest more love, abundance, and freedom, I've decided to challenge myself to align my inner world with the tangible external world.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

00:37 The Decision to Do 21 Days of Random Acts of Kindness

03:00 Reflecting on Expectations and Disappointment

04:26 Seeking Perspective and Recalibrating

05:26 Setting Intentions for Love, Abundance, and Freedom

08:47 The 21-Day Kindness Challenge

10:14 Aligning Actions with Internal Cultivation

13:17 Opening Doors for Love, Abundance, and Freedom

14:37 Being Opportunistic with Acts of Kindness

15:35 Cultivating Energy of Love, Abundance, and Freedom

17:02 Commitment to 21 Days of Acts of Service

18:29 Invitation to Join the Challenge

Today, I’m diving into website templates and how to confidently choose and customize one so you feel clear and confident moving forward. 

Be sure to stay all the way through the end where I’ll share my favorite website template partners and a 15-20% off your website.  And if you listen to this before Black Friday, then you’ll be able to get up to 40% off. 

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your business journey, this podcast will equip you with the knowledge and tools to create a website that reflects your unique brand and effectively serves your target audience.

Find all your website templates (and discount links) here:

https://brookeestin.com/websites

In today’s episode, I continue my conversation with Rudy Hexter. Rudy is a man of many talents. He’s a builder of homes that are designed to facilitate thriving as well as a teacher of Qigong and the Life Mandala Training.

In our last episode, we talked about finding stability and community in the face of isolation and how inner exploration and spiritual practices provide the spark and fuel for daily life. Today, we explore how this is expressed in the tangible world.

After a near-death experience from a motorcycle accident, Rudy had to radically alter his day-to-day life and set aside his self-reliance in order to accept the love and generosity his community offered. With fresh insights and a strong calling, he joined us my signature program, Aligned x Design, where he called in the support he needed, right when he needed it, to intentionally shape his path forward.

Join us as we explore resilience and hope in the face of adversity.

You can learn more about Rudy here:

https://www.facebook.com/artofasha