For this episode of the podcast, Leah Ardent and I took our daily breakfast table conversation directly to your listening ears.

The topic?

Whether AI is more FAKE or more REAL than being "authentic" online

You THINK you know where you stand with this, but you may feel different after listening

This online debate is very hot right now, mostly among women, and Leah delivers hard-to-swallow truths to the conversation that few people aren't addressing

Leah doesn't consider herself an expert in AI, but she IS an artistic intellectual with a background in sales and marketing, and has a drive to understand all the angles of the AI debate

If you're a solopreneur who's building (or thinking about building) a personal brand or

If you have a personal brand and are tired of the diminishing returns of constantly showing up online, or

If you want to start a business but don't have 10K worth of business start-up costs to invest in the business

This is going to be especially relevant to you

And yes we also talk about environmental impact

Take a look at Leah's new and responsible AI teaching tool for kids

https://www.intuitive-ai.net/paper-first-pixels-second

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You can't outearn your identity

Your income (and/or whatever you define as success) will always calibrate to the identity you hold about yourself---your self worth, your beliefs about money, your belonging, and your safety

In this episode of the podcast I outline the 6 dimensions to increasing your identity so that you can hold more power, money, joy, i.e., YOUR LIFE FORCE ENERGY, so that you can have more impact in the world, both online and in your communities:

1.Self-awareness

2. Raising your associations

3. Expanding through experiences

4. Inner healing and trauma resolution

5. Taking radical responsibility

6. Vision and values alignment

I know you're going to hear something that's going to shake things up in a good way!

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In the 2nd half of my talk with Nadja Shafton Marks, transformative artist and creative mystic, she shares how to silence the inner critic and how to get PAID for your art.

What she said was like a therapy session for my starving artist within.

I was/am a talented artist who was constantly told I would not get paid to create, and that I would have to "get a real job" to survive.

And I did what I was told. I got hella educated and loved what I did.

But the truth is that we all return to the truest version of ourselves as we evolve, and for you that truest version might be ARTIST.

Visit Casa Nadja and join one of her transformative retreats: https://www.casanadja.com Follow Nadja on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nadjamarksshafton.art Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://in-service-to-wholeness.mykajabi.com/isha-financial-strategy Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/isha_vela

If you've ever felt blocked creatively

If you've ever struggled with feeling like what you paint/sculpt/draw/write is crap

If you've not experienced art-making as a liberatory practice

This episode is for you.

I sat down with Nadja Marks-Shafton, a young artist who turned her house into a gallery and living sanctuary, Casa Nadja, where she now runs workshops and retreats for people to tap into their creative abundance and artistic liberation.

Nadja is a mystic and philosopher whose work has appeared in international magazines, books, film, and television, but what matters most to her is how her paintings make you FEEL.

In this episode, she shares her journey going from extreme mental lack to finding infinite flow from Source within.

If this sounds like fluff to you, it's NOT, in fact Nadja shares some very specific practices she uses to meet herself right where she is, NO MATTER WHAT, to transmute and create from that well.

Visit Casa Nadja and join one of her transformative retreats: https://www.casanadja.com Follow Nadja on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nadjamarksshafton.art Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://in-service-to-wholeness.mykajabi.com/isha-financial-strategy Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/isha_vela

If you've ever wanted to purchase a home and didn't know how you would be able to afford a down payment.

Or if you've wanted to get into real estate and have not known how to, this mind blowing and revolutionary episode with Mel Dorman is for you.

Mel Dorman is a former social worker turned financial activist, real estate investor, and author of Bank on Your Neighbor, a book all about seller financing.

Mel is a TEDx "Editor's Pick," who's built a multimillion-dollar portfolio using seller financing and now teaches others to do the same through the Seller Financing Academy—a program that helps everyday people buy real estate without banks, while helping sellers turn their equity into steady income.

Their mission is to decentralize wealth and strengthen communities through win-win partnerships.

Learn more about Mel on their website: https://www.meldorman.com

Get their book, Bank On Your Neighbor for FREE! https://melissa-dorman.kit.com/freebookpdf

Watch Mel's TEDx Talk "How I Turned $500 into 6–figure freedom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptadc1hNEi8

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Most people I know struggle with SOME form of scarcity, mostly:

Having enough

Being enough

That's why I felt it was important to share a very recent challenge I've been grappling with behind the scenes of my life in Bali

It's not a huge thing, it's not even that complex, and for whatever reason, it's had me in a deep exploration of what minimal conditions I and my kids require to feel satisfied, i.e., in alignment with our basic needs

And I'm giving you the inside look in the context of my journey into minimalism, uncolonization, and healing developmental trauma

Because it's all interconnected

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I've been sitting with a lot of business owners who are following common business advice that's preventing them from building wealth through their business.

In this episode, I take you through the 5 most common mistakes people make in the first 5 to 10 years, and listening to this episode is NOT ONE OF THEM!

Let 20 minutes with me orient you and your profits in the right direction.

Download my 3-session money magnetism activation, PROSPER, to increase your financial confidence and cash flow: https://ishavela.com Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://in-service-to-wholeness.mykajabi.com/isha-financial-strategy Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/isha_vela

Passive income, at least PURE passive income, doesn't exist.

In this episode, I break down

-the myth of passive income

-why it's harmful to perpetuate, and

-4 reasons why LEVERAGED income is absolutely necessary in the current economy.

You'll also learn about different models of creating leveraged income so that you can create the time freedom that allows you to be present, creative, and connected to yourself.

Download my 3-session money magnetism activation, PROSPER, to increase your financial confidence and cash flow: https://ishavela.com Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://in-service-to-wholeness.mykajabi.com/isha-financial-strategy Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/isha_vela

Are you ready for some big money breakthroughs?

Then look no further than your relationship with FOOD.

In this episode, I share my story of shifting from "foodie" (and secret binger) to cultivating a relationship with ENOUGHNESS....and how it all mirrored my relationship with money and consumption.

You'll learn how animism can play a major role in healing your relationship with food and money while ALSO supporting a more sustainable future.

Sounds crazy, right?

I also share practices and prompts that will help you expand your capacity to receive, which is central to money healing.

Download my 3-session money magnetism activation, PROSPER, to increase your financial confidence and cash flow: https://ishavela.com Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://in-service-to-wholeness.mykajabi.com/isha-financial-strategy Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG:

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You say we want more money, but what if that's a cover for your true desires?

When you take money off the table, what do you really want?

I sat with Amanda Abella a while back to talk about how her enormous success triggered money trauma, and how she was forced to take time off to heal and later streamlined her business for greater time freedom.

Amanda has been an online entrepreneur for 15 years working as a financial educator and a highly successful sales trainer. In 2023, she moved to Mexico with her husband where they co-founded Entrepreneur Expat, a YouTube channel, podcast and relocation company that helps successful entrepreneurs move, invest and build wealth abroad.

Even though I don't believe in "selling" a country you're not from to wannabe expats, Amanda speaks from lived experience and drops some brilliant, shoot-from-the-hip nuggets about how you can overcomplicate your business to the point of cockblocking yourself from the very thing you say you want.

Wanna do some shadow work for your biz?

Buckle up and let's grow.

Download Amanda's money guide: https://www.entrepreneurexpat.com/money-guide

Follow Amanda to you YouTube channel:

https://youtube.com/@entrepreneurexpat?si=mqakS6RxQLbS_61O

Download my 3-session money magnetism activation, PROSPER, to increase your financial confidence and cash flow: https://ishavela.com Apply to book your free financial strategy session: https://vortex-financial.ck.page/71853aa421 Apply to join my team of financial revolutionaries on a mission to empower women with financial education and resources: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjU5QXtEnJiBA6kNK46JB4C9M5zJGOHhY2RsZJXwK66gYqjQ/viewform Access free content on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@isha_vela Follow me on IG:

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