We all know stress, worry, fear, and negative anticipation, pull us out of the generous present moment. My mission is to teach and encourage you to connect consistently back into the NOW, where your true power of creation resides. Our current state, as it related the world, is full of negative and anxious moments. I am here to remind you of the power that lives in the pure focused energy of your connected heart. This is the only way for the collective consciousness to elevate the globe, one NOW-IST at a time.

“And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.” — Isaiah 30:8

There comes a time in every person’s life, the existential question is asked of oneself: “Who Am I?” I maintain that every sentient being on the planet is programmed to ask this question. It relates directly to the truth of our oneness. After all, we are on a journey seeking to get back home. What I find most interesting about the question, “Who Am I?” is the fact that the answer is in the question, similar to the anagram Now-Won, which is the word NOW spelled backwards. This reminds us that when we are in the Now, we have Won our presence in any of life’s moments. Who Am I, when read in reverse, is I AM. 

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Life is the journey of the heart. We take our strides and steps toward a faith-filled future that is our soul’s desire. Most unknowingly, we travel and journey in a direction that is guided by hopes and dreams. This is indeed an adventure of will and persistence. However, many human beings feel as if the world just gives them what it will and fate is the force that ultimately decides. I am here to tell you, there is something else: a force that is always with you. A sign from the divine that is here to show you the way. A light for your path on your journey! Synchronicity is that force and that light. Spiritual bread crumbs are left for you to follow home. 

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“Your mind does not know the way, our heart has already been there, and our soul never left… welcome home.” — Emmanuel

The movie Taken is a popular story about an ex-mercenary whose daughter is taken while traveling with a friend in Paris. His speech while talking to the capture on the phone has become legendary, I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. - Liam Neeson

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“Death is the best thing in life. There is nothing in life like death, but people take such a long time in dying. At least, their neighbors never see them rise from the grave.” — William Blake

What are our greatest fears? I am quite certain that if you polled one million people on this planet, you would find death at the top of the list. It is not so much that we spend our waking hours up right and solely focused on this fear. It is the movie score that is playing very low and distant in the background of your “Movie Mind.” I full-heartedly love going to the movies. Most days, music is constantly playing in my mind and heart for whatever is manifesting in my life. If I am playing with my daughter, a sweet string section fills the moment.

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

When I first learned about goal setting, I wrote them down. I even thought if I wrote down all the steps it would take to accomplish the goal in reverse, I would have a fool proof plan. It was not until I abandoned this practice that the truth was revealed to me. When I was in my thirties, each year on my birthday I would set five or six goals. I loved working on my Mac computer with the list of goals. Using creative fonts and colors to liven up the page that would hold all my hopes for this year’s list, I remember the uneasy and restless feeling I got every year setting these goals, not really accomplishing many of the previous year’s attempts and having uncertainty as my companion on the entire journey. Why was this such a hopeful yet hopeless process?

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“The great saint in India, Muktananda, was asked, ‘What is real?’ He replied, ‘What is real is that which never changes.’ When looking for what is real and unchanging about ourselves, we can apply this definition. There is an unchanging spark from the Creator in each of us, our highest self, a piece of God. And we are all connected.” — Wayne Dyer

Have you ever thought of someone and how they are feeling, then out of the blue they call you? In 2016, I had a thought about a client with whom I had not seen or heard from in many weeks. I had been the instrument that enabled him to acquire a great win-fall of abundance. Working as his property manager, I helped him for six years. Then he wanted to sell his town-home. I attempted to do just that but to no avail. I took the real estate off the market due to the fact that it was over-priced.

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“The law of floatation was not discovered by the contemplation of the sinking of things… but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.” — Thomas Troward

Success leaves clues. It makes perfect sense to not reinvent the wheel. When one person has a loving connection or union with another, it is logical to repeat the steps to that outcome. Thomas Troward (1847-1916), an English author, observes the mind-set that an optimistic person would endeavor to take when charged with inspiration. I imagine that the team at NASA never thought, We cannot go to the moon, it is just too far away. Likewise, Christopher Columbus’ focus was not on an unknown adventure that just might yield the discovery of the new world. Energy flows where your focus goes. We get what we think about all day and all night long. Yet, in a relationship, this energy more often than not, seems to get misguided and focused on what we do not want.

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” — John 18:36

If human beings can reconcile this mystery within themselves, life will become a balanced abundant existence. The counter intuitiveness of life can seem confusing and disjointed. This is why being a Now-ist is essential to living. One must learn to live in the physical restraints of time and the infinite oneness of the spirit. When you can be in the present moment with all of its variety and challenge, knowing that you are ONE, you have just mastered your life. Time, space, and circumstance will not hold sway over you.

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber

“Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.” — Rumi

I am a big kid. I realize when I announce that statement I am expressing God within me is a big kid. Fore the name of God is I AM that I AM. Just ask anyone that truly knows me. They would regale you with a great variety of examples and accounts of my child-like behavior. I have always been this way. When I was very young, my father would constantly have to stop my drumming at the dinner table. Spoons, knives, glasses, plates, or whatever was near me, that was my instrument. He would say over and over again, year after year, “Bill! Stop making that noise.”

Billy Mandarino is an artist, musician, and business owner. He fell in love with his wife and Santa Barbara, California at the same moment. After eleven years of marriage, they experienced the greatest day in life, the birth of their daughter. Billy experienced a flash of enlightenment, one very unusual day on a golf course. A mystical series of synchronistic events led him to find his ultimate calling: teaching, speaking and sharing his inspiration and love of The Now-ist with the world.

Growing up in a five-sibling, multiple-divorces family, with all its dynamic layers and change, initially shaped the author’s spirituality. Transformed by various religious practices and study through-out his life, he has recognized via life experience, the treasures that reside within us all to be discovered. It is his ultimate calling to light the way, for the ones called to the same magnetic energy that inspired him to create this very podcast series!

www.BillyMandarino.com

https://www.instagram.com/the_nowist

https://www.facebook.com/BeTheNowist

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-mandarino-3320369

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaF8-Q4rMu6orBVOK2QZUew?view_as=subscriber