Unleashed Podcast

Hello and welcome back to The unleashed podcast, I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund and I want to thank you for tuning in today. What I've been noticing lately, is a lot is competition with others, as far as where you're going and what you've been accomplishing. I feel it's so important for us to reflect on ourselves and where we're at, and reside in the present for ourselves because your day is coming.

Every single podcast that I record, my goal is to touch one person, and open the floodgates for every person who hears it, who hears my words. And I also pray that this podcast is the one that people can't wait to share with everyone that they know.

That's my goal. We've talked about this before, that I don't care if it's a million people or it's one person, I want to touch that one person's life where they can then use their light and light up other people. And I feel that that's really hard for us because if we don't know our relevance to others, sometimes we don't feel relevant to ourselves, we've all experienced it, whether you know it or not.

Okay, let's talk about the podcast. If I don't know that I have touched somebody's life or made a difference in how they felt for that day, then I don't know that my words were relevant. My words mean something. I don't speak cheaply, I hope that makes sense I want my words to matter. I choose them carefully and I very much walk in faith each and every day, I'm so thankful for the blessings that I have in my life and I know that that creates a light in me and I can bring that to others. And the only way that I can really do that is through words.

I want you to know that I want you to walk in faith, I want you to have faith that you are where you need to be. When you realize that you have the ability to walk and to be present, to be able to be present in the now.

Welcome back to the Unleashed podcast, I'm your host Kristina Sjolund, and I want to thank you for taking the time to listen in today. If you are building any type of a business, whether it's a brick and mortar, online or network marketing, you need to have a tribe, you've gotta have a team of people, and that goes for whether they are business building people, to employees, or even customers.

So today, that's what we're going to talk about, and I guarantee that by the end of this podcast, you are going to understand the importance of connection.

So when you are connecting, you are building relationships.

That's what we need to do in order to create a customer base, create a team of employees, or create a team of business builders, if you're in a network marketing company.

Now when starting a business, how do you make it grow, by building connections through relationships. Those relationships and those connections strengthen as you build a trust. And then how do you build that trust? They have to know you. So who are you?

How do companies build a trust with us?

They put a person as their spokesperson, Flo from Progressive to or even the guy Kenny, 'Can You Hear Me Now'. That character, those people, the companies create those characters so that we relate, and it's sort of, in a weird way, builds a trust. Because we relate to those people, and the company knows that. If you relate to those people, then you'll go and shop at that company.

And I'm not saying to hire someone, because that someone is you. People want to know you, they wanna know who you are, what do you do? Share those things.

I find that when I share something that's more on the personal side, and it's something that I believe strongly in, it creates a lot of engagement and that also draws people to you. But it also draws people away from you. It pushes them away because sometimes they don't agree with you. So unfortunately that happens, but there will be a stronger engagement with the connection of those people who relate to you.

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Hello and welcome back to the Unleashed podcast, I'm your host Kristina Sjolund, and I want to thank you for taking the time to listen in to the podcast.

On today's episode we're going to talk about laziness or self sabotage, and I promise by the end of this, you are going to be able to stop yourself from getting in your own way and you're going to take the steps to move forward. You're going to know how to get through the times that you feel like you're lazy, but you're really in your own way.

Do you have big ideas or you know these visions or goals, but you find yourself getting sidetracked by the latest binge watch on Netflix, or you get caught up in the social media scrolling? Maybe you don't work out because you've got the treadmill sitting there, or the Peloton bike sitting there, staring at you. But you just get sidetracked.

There's other things that you want to do, but what if I told you that it's not out of laziness? You're self sabotaging. Self sabotage is a form of unworthiness. It's not doing what you should be doing because you feel like you're not worthy of success. And at some point in your life, somebody made you feel that way. You know why? I don't know why they did that, but what I can be sure of is that it wasn't you. That's their issue, not yours. In the limits that they've put on themselves, they often put on others, you know, especially when they're talking to somebody with ambition. So why do we let those things get in our heads? Why do we think that we're not worthy of more? Why do we get in our way?

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Welcome back to the Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund, and as always, I appreciate you taking the time to listen in today.

Today we are going to talk about action, actually we're going to talk about a little bit more than that. And by the end of the podcast you're either going to go, "Oh my gosh, this lady is crazy, she's a little bit brash". That's okay, that's why they call me Unleashed.

In my position, in my business, I am a leader on a team of many, many, many people, and I get messages throughout the week, every single week. And one of the most common issues that people have in their business is time. Well, I don't have the time to...blah, blah, blah. And I don't have the time. Yeah, they have the time to be watching binge-watching Ozark or Tiger King or whatever the new Netflix series is. They've got the time to do that. They've got the time to be scrolling through Facebook or making memes or whatever it is that they're doing, that screen time. I call BS guys. But seriously, when you start thinking about time, and who has time and who doesn't have time, do you know how many people have been in this quarantine? They've been holed up in their homes. Do you realize how much time they've got? And it was never time that held them back before.

Hello and welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and today we're going to chat a little bit about transforming versus conforming, and at the end of this podcast, I think you're going to be able to decipher what direction you are going to take this during this time.

We have been talking every week for the past few weeks about this crisis that we're in, because honestly, let's face it, this is life-changing. I don't care who you are. This is a disruption in our lives that we've not ever had to experience before.

And so a lot of people have trouble navigating through it.

A lot of people, they're kind of like...I picture a lot of my friends as boats out at sea and they don't have any direction, they're just kind of floating and they don't really know where to go. And it's time to pick up the oars and start taking charge of what's happening so that you can have some control out of how your outcome will be once we get through this.

So what I have noticed with a lot of my friends, whether they be personal friends of mine, or their contacts on Facebook, on Twitter, social media, people have expectations. Okay, we all have expectations. We have expectations of how our lives are going to go. We have expectations of what everybody expects, they have expectations of how their life is going to play out.

Now, what happens when something comes along and disrupts your expectations? You're like...Oh no, you didn't have a backup plan. Well, this was different than any other time, right?

But I can tell you this, that it all comes down to how you handle every single situation.

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Hello and welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and I thank you for joining me today. Today I want to talk about raising your vibration, I want to talk to you about how you're showing up and how to show up in a brighter light, how to show up stronger, how to show up for yourself and make a difference. Because really, that's exactly what all of us are here for. We are here to make a difference. Whether it's for yourself, your family, your friends, your network. I want people to grow. As I was in a Mastermind session, something popped into my head and I feel like I need to make a graphic, and this needs to be across my Facebook banner. I'm not here for the people who want me to fail, I'm here for the people who I want to win. Don't ask where that voice came from.

I was like, "Oh my gosh.

Where did this come from? This is so loud in my brain and in my ears, and I thought, "Holy crap, I hold myself back”. If anybody knows me personally, you know, I will call myself out, I totally hold myself accountable. I will call myself out and I don't care who I call myself out in front of, I'll call myself on my own crap. okay, I know that I've got my own BS that I got to deal with, and really the only place that I don't show up, really is online.

I am figuring it out, I haven't quite...I think I have a few more things to really tighten up, but I'm getting to the point, especially this past couple of weeks. I'm like, "Man why am I holding back? I can jump on my podcast, I completely…I unleash. I don't hold back my thoughts, my feelings, because if I hold back my thoughts and feelings, I hold back from you and that's not what I'm about. I don't hold back with my kids, I don't hold back with my friends, but when it comes to being online, I'm always worried about offending somebody because every fricking body is offended by everything.

Oh my gosh, are you kidding me right now?

It doesn't matter what you say, or people may twist your words. I had it happen to me, and I'm like, "You know what, I don't think I should really care about that anymore. I'm showing up, as we talked about in a mastermind session a couple of weeks ago, what is your flavor of ice cream? Not what your favorite flavor is, but how you show up, what kind of flavor do you have, what are you as a flavor?

We show up as vanilla online, and I'm not vanilla, I'm like a cherry Jubilee man.

I have so much to say. And those who know me, those who appreciate me, want to hear what I say, you are the same. But I hold back how I show up, so as not to offend people. Then I show up as vanilla, but who am I attracting the vanilla?

I want extra flavors, for myself and probably many of you do too. We need to increase our vibration, we need to increase the vibration in our thoughts, we need to think bigger.

Hello and welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and I want to thank you for taking the time out today to tune in. And I have to tell you that I had to go for a little drive before I recorded this so I could bring myself down a couple notches, because I know that if you come into something at a level of fire that people aren't ready for you're going to lose them, and I don't want to lose you. But today, I'm so excited that I can hardly even contain myself.

I would imagine that everyone knows that we're in a shift, we're in a shift in our world that we've never ever, ever seen before.

Right?

You're probably feeling it. We're in a time of uncertainty, but like we talked about last week, you've got control over how you handle the situation. And today, through this whole thing, I've had this level of excitement that I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to see the outcome of this, I can't wait to see what happens in this because I love to see opportunity in everything, and I don't know how to explain it, it's just everywhere I look. I try to see where is this going? To take me, what can this do to help people, what kind of opportunity is in this moment? That's what I look for all the time.

I'm looking to see growth everywhere I am, everywhere I go. I want to see growth.

So in this time in history, because let's just face it, let's call a spade a spade, this is history in the making, they're going to have history books, not just a chapter.

This is going to be an entire book in and of itself. And it could have sequel.

I'm just saying... So for myself, I feel this level of excitement and sometimes I feel bad. I have to bring my level of excitement down a little bit because I know that there are people around me who are really nervous and they're really scared, and there's a psychological block that I feel a lot of people have in their mind and they've got to break down that barrier.

They have to break down the barrier and see they are made for something more. Listen in...

Welcome to the Unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund. I wanna thank you for joining me and for taking a few minutes out of your day, to hopefully get a little bit of inspiration in these times of uncertainty. And I think that probably everybody who is listening is affected by what's going on in the world right now.

We have some craziness.

We've talked about this before a couple of weeks ago, we talked about being the calm in the storm, and you know the more that I am on social media, and with my friends that I talk to, the more I've realized that not everybody really knows how to be that calm yet.

There's too much uncertainty. There's family members, everybody's in their homes together all the time, and sometimes it's not that fantastic.

We just got the notice today that the kids are not gonna go back to school for the rest of the year.

That's a heart-breaking.

In fact, I had a little shed of some tears because my daughter's in eighth grade, and this is her last year of being at her school that she's been at since 4th grade. They're not going to have their eighth grade graduation. They had to cancel their mission trip to Costa Rica. They are cancelling graduation. They have an outdoor education trip, that they go on, they have an end of the year party, they've got all of this stuff and what makes me a little bit emotional, these kids don't get to experience that this year, and now next year, they'll go straight into high school, and I know some of them will not be able to see any of those friends that they've grown up with.

Maybe you have a senior in high school where there's no prom. Maybe they're trying to get into college on a scholarship and they're not able to play their last year of baseball or softball or track or whatever it is. I'm telling you, it's heartbreaking and in these times there's something that you can be certain of, and it's how you handle the situation at hand, it is going to determine how strong you come out of it.

So what are you going to do with the time that you have at home right now, and what are you doing with it as far as your family goes? What are you doing with that time as far as your business goes? If you're a business owner, how you handle this now is going to determine how strong you come out of this, the growth that happens afterwards. And how you handle the situation in front of your family, with your family, is going to determine how they get through this as well. Here we deal with things as they come.

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Hello and welcome to The unleashed Podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund and I can't express to you how excited I am to bring it to you today.

My friend Dean Eric Smith, and you must leave the Eric in there because that's what sets him apart.

He has a tremendously amazing message. I'm so grateful to have him in my inner circle, because the way that I met Dean is through my Mastermind group. His message that he has struck me in a way that I was like, "Oh my gosh, this message needs to get to so many people. It's so important to have this as part of our lives. It is another one of those F-words called forgiveness.

Hello friends. Welcome back to the Unleashed podcast, I am your host Kristina Sjolund. And as always, I appreciate you taking the time out to listen and hopefully gain a little bit of inspiration, hope, whatever makes you move forward.

We are in some pretty testing times in our lifetime, aren't we? We are going through something, that I'm pretty sure most of us have never experienced before. It is very different. Sometimes for some people it's hard to function. It's hard to find your way. It's hard to be grounded. It's hard to for a lot of you out there. Maybe you're used to being away from your home working. Maybe you're a hiker, biker, camper, doing things outside of the home all the time, so being in your home right now, you are a little on the crazy side. So, I wanted to put together some things that will hopefully help people get through this. Right now, there's several people who are in the middle of a shelter-in-place order. There's a lot of people who maybe have that compromised immune system. Or somebody in your home has that compromised immune system, and you can't go out because of the fear of bringing something back in. I really wanted to share some ideas with you to be able to get through this in a positive and productive manner, and I feel that some of the things that I have here today, that I'll be sharing with you, are going to be helpful.