Ep 1: Why You Should Listen to This Podcast

Welcome to the first in the many thriving life podcast episodes.

What?

And I am joined by my dear bad ass unicorn, brilliant, I would say friends,

colleagues, soul buddies, The unicorn ninjas from all around the world, but

they are here to be on the podcast with us called The Thriving Life.

And I'm so happy everyone is here.

First, I want to introduce Adam Lam.

Adam is actually the producer of the show, but also quite a brilliant thought

leader in and of himself who has been on his own journey, much like Genie Zelda.

So welcome.

Thriving life podcast, it is time to actually take the conversations

we've been having and streaming and bring them into the world of really

assisting as many people as we can.

To have a space to navigate that sense of urgency inside that there's something

more to life and to free yourself from the overwhelm that comes from not

knowing how to bridge into that clarity.

Really, it's about surviving this, Life is one way of living and how you know you're

surviving is that you don't feel clear.

It feels overwhelming.

It feels like a quantum leap.

You don't feel experienced into a place of thriving where you actually

get to understand the physics of living in overflow in every way.

I want you to know that we are right with you.

We've had struggles, and we are constantly receiving and researching and on that

leading edge looking for the people and the bodies of work that Truly helped a

quantum leap are thinking some of the struggles you might have are things like

feeling stuck feeling like these are times of great change and you go back to your

amygdala and try to keep yourself safe.

There might be an unfulfilled sense that you haven't gotten on

with getting on with what you're on the planet for and how do you.

Answer this question.

What's the greatest thing I can do with the least amount of effort,

even the skills I already have that would have you waking up inspired

and going to bed knowing that you did what you came to the planet for?

That's what this show answers.

We exist to provide you with guests and tools and insights and ways to, again,

quantum leap your way of being in life so that you can find joy and ease and

flow, and you can actually follow the threads of that little sense of urgency

inside that there's something more.

If you're going through a big change and you're a pretty successful person,

but all of a sudden something's calling you, you don't know how to do that, you

don't know how to get there, we're going to be talking about all sorts of things

that are going to bring you into flow.

So this podcast.

It addresses your sense that it could be easier.

It addresses this idea that we can transform.

And not only that we can transform, that we can go into a whole other way of being.

It's all about that thriving operating system.

And Adam Lam and Jeannie Selda and myself are well versed in that

thriving operating system and are in a constant state of mastery.

I think

evolving state, evolving.

Yeah,

I'd like to think that.

We have a little bit of mastery around it, but speaking for myself, I know that

there's times when I dip out of that too.

Right?

And I think that's what's so powerful about this podcast is because it serves

as a reminder when I might need it.

And I don't always have the time or the focus to be able to look at

a video or go on social media, but I listen to podcasts all the time

doing all kinds of different things.

I think it's a wonderful way to.

Again, remind myself back to myself, um, because I think we all need every

once in a while can be incredibly overwhelming, don't you think Jeannie?

Absolutely, and podcast for me is, I look for the easiest way, especially

when I love driving in the country and it's for me when I'm feeling

overwhelmed or feeling pulled.

Okay, show me a podcast that would just help me remember.

Reset.

It's funny, Adam.

You just said every once in a while, you need, we need something.

I'm like, every once in a while, okay.

Every once in a while redefined is I need that once an hour, right?

And sometimes I make those quantum leaps and full transparency in this podcast.

We are definitely going to provide.

Some, let's say platform to be able to make some quantum leaps instead of just

provide the platform and the information that might happen in the first podcast.

It might happen in every podcast.

You might have, I feel like I'm talking about orgasms right now.

It might happen.

I know.

Wow.

I know I went there, but anyways, it's really where you're at, but we are

so excited to be able to gather with fellow unicorn, bad ass ninjas who

maybe are looking how to quantum leap that bad ass ery into Another place.

We don't need to feel stuck.

All the information is there.

You know what I mean?

You guys like I think of you way back when and you guys are going to find

out that we know each other so well.

We've been working together for a long time.

But Jeannie.

I'm thinking about way back when I met you 30, 000 years ago, and we were talking,

I know this is wrong.

I shouldn't say this right up front, but you came into the workshop.

I knew you had a lot going on cause you had twin boys, but you would walk

into the workshop and for three days in a row, you walked in with either

the sweater on backwards or the tag outside, or it was pretty funny.

And so.

What are two concepts that have changed your life since then?

What are two awarenesses that have taken you from a state of not even

knowing that you weren't present to yourself to today where God, I

go to you to activate my presence.

What are the two biggest concepts do you think that happened?

I think for me, the two biggest things that I always carry with me is actually

it's the carrying versus caring.

And for me, that was such a huge shift because I didn't

even know that was an option.

And I still remember that first day when I took your get out of your

own way course back in Markham, it's what would make you happy?

And I just found that to be so unbelievably unfamiliar because

as a mom of twin boys, the last thing on my mind was my happiness.

And when you started talking about caring versus caring, it was such a

shift of, Being able to recognize all the things that I actually carried, the

good mom, the good wife, the good girl, the house, even the fears of how the

boys would be, or my parenting, the way I was in business, and to be able to

discern that in my everyday life, it's, okay, how would I show up if I carried

nothing and no one, including myself?

And for me, being also able to identify.

That when I'm caring is when I'm actually feeling irritable or when

I'm feeling tired, when I'm feeling uninspired, things like that.

And you also touched upon this a couple of minutes ago.

The second thing is presence.

It's like, I always watched myself having to get.

Somewhere, you know, it's it was hedging my bets or taking scorches.

And I was never I never really learned the importance of being here

right now in this present moment.

What does it look like to be present to be in my presence?

In this present moment and especially in my race and culture,

it's always getting somewhere.

I got to do that.

I got to do the laundry.

I got to clean the house.

I have to take the kids here.

I got to plan this to feel safe versus what does it look like

to actually be right here right now without any of the polling.

That was huge for me.

Yeah, totally get it.

And Lam, I'm going to, I'm going to take it to the, to you as well.

And I got to say, Jeannie, the, the, the whole idea of carrying what helped helps

me even today because I still carry stuff.

It's like, I was so blind to how much I worry about things and people.

And it's not to say that I'm turning into an evil, bad person

because I don't care anymore, but carrying takes up space in my brain.

And it costs me being able to be present to what's actually

wanting to live through me.

What's inspiring me right now, because I'm so busy being there

for somebody else, or something else, which is worrying about it.

Then what happens?

Is with respect to the podcast or with respect to my husband or respect to my

household What happens what I don't carry is i'm available For the things that

actually do inspire me What happens is that I make quantum evolutions as opposed

to these linear evolutions where i'm just doing what I What a good girl or a

good wife or a good house owner should do It's i'm just not interested in that.

It's just It's meh.

It's M E H.

Meh.

Adam, the person who I know is least meh in my entire life, you, I don't

even think you've ever said the word.

So get out of here.

In a different, in a different context, in a different context, not literally.

But I would say, so one thing I really got, one of the things that I've,

that I've Come to appreciate is being around this work, taking the work,

hanging out with people like Jeannie and Susanna and so many others.

And Sonia is that not only is there implicit learnings within the work,

but there's also learnings that we get to share with 1 another.

So 1 of the things I think that.

Almost started it for me was sitting in the circle and get out of your own way.

And we went through the identity exercise, write down all the identities

that you are, which ones do you like?

Which ones do you don't like?

Which ones do you think you chose consciously?

And then you get done writing all that stuff.

And then you throw the notebook in the center of the room and

go, okay, so now who you are.

And I'm like, I felt completely naked for the first time in a long time.

Not that I don't mind being naked.

It was just like, Oh my God, I didn't have anything to hide behind anymore.

But what, what identity were you like wanting?

Did you like want to like, but I want my book back.

Can I, the rebel for sure.

Oh,

the rebel.

Because I had been holding onto that for so long, going all the way back

to probably 13, 14, 15 years old.

And so that was a hard, and not to say that throwing my book in the center

of the room actually shifted anything, but it was an awareness for me.

So who am I really?

And I had to come back down.

I'm just a big goofy guy who likes to be in relationship with people.

Like to talk a lot of laugh, like to be playful and I hadn't

been playful in many years.

So for me, that was a huge aha.

And I was having a conversation with Jeannie and we went through

this phase where we were calling our egos by a specific name.

So to differentiate that voice in your head as someone other than

you, even though it's always, there's a portion of our psyche.

And brain that is always going to have us fall back into a

defensive or a safe position.

That's the ego's job is to make sure that we don't get eaten by the lions and stuff.

But as we become more evolved, we've taken on.

Emotional pain by brain recognizes emotional pain,

just as much as physical pain.

And that's what PTSD is all about, like, being back in that remembrance

and having a chakras in our body.

But I remember Jeannie just telling me.

I was telling her what Sluggo was saying one day and she said, just agree with him.

Logo is what

I nickname my ego slug.

Oh, and that's from the old Nancy comics, spiky hair and,

and walking down the alleyway.

And I, that, that was like a great interior visual for me, but he's talking

crap about, you're not going to do this and probably don't want to try that.

And you're going to fail anyway.

And that, that, that, that, that, which is his way of saying, Hey,

dude, don't put yourself out there.

This is going to hurt.

And I don't want you to be hurt.

And, and, Jeannie said, just agree.

And I'm like, okay.

All right.

So I go, you know what?

You're right.

Yeah, I'm no good.

I can't do that.

And the weird thing was, is that voice immediately fell silent because

there was no contrast there, right?

There was no energy to push against it.

I made it.

Okay.

That was the reality for him.

And that played a huge part in my experience with ayahuasca that I wrote

about in my book, Initiated Men, um, yeah.

Finally, there was a scene where me and my ego are sitting in this movie theater

and he's drunk below me and he's yelling because he's hammered and I walked down

there and the screen was playing my life and instead of going down there and

fighting with him, I just grabbed him, put him in a headlock and gave him a

good noogie in the top of his head going.

I love you, brother.

It's okay.

It's all good.

And then he just fell asleep in his chair.

It was a unique representation of that particular moment that I had

with Jeannie plant medicine ceremony.

Yeah.

Got it.

Those 2 things have lasted with me for a while, and I just want to say for those

who are just now experiencing this podcast and the work that we do, I can promise

you 1 thing that this is not a big deal.

Any of us sitting up on a soapbox telling you what to do.

These are things that we've been going through.

We just have a little bit more experience and maybe a

slightly different perspective.

And we're not going to show up on this podcast as having it all

handled because I think the power comes from the transparency and

the vulnerability of our journeys.

Because when I can see myself in someone else's story for me,

that makes a huge difference.

Amen.

Amen.

So it brings me to something that happened last night.

And before I share that story, I just want to say, you guys,

I'm so happy to be doing this.

Sometimes it'll be all three of us, you guys, sometimes it might be two of us.

Sometimes we might have a guest that I'm interviewing and Jeannie or

Adam won't be here, or maybe they'll be the ones doing the interview.

But I want you to know that.

It really is all what's in the highest in service to you, speaking

of which, one of the things that's happened that is an interesting

insight that I really appreciate.

Got even more deeply ever get that you guys where you have insights

and then you have another experience and it just goes deeper where you're

like, oh, my God, I already get that.

I've been a victim of the past.

I already get that.

Sometimes I look at life.

Probably 15 years ago.

I would have looked at what's happening in the world right now and just completely

wanted to go under the covers and be a victim of what's going on as an identity.

I can't do anything about it.

I'm powerless, men, men, men, men, men, right?

Instead, last night I'm listening to my I'm having a phone call

with my mom https: otter.

ai I'm realizing that I have not called her all week, and I usually speak to

my mother twice a week or three times a week, sometimes four times a week, and

I love talking to my mom and my dad.

I love to connect with them.

And what happened last night was that I connected with them, but.

I hadn't realized honestly how much I miss talking to them when I

don't and how grounding they are.

A dear friend of all of us, her father just passed and that's

her second parent that passed.

It just really struck me like one day we all don't have our parents and one

day we as a parent will be gone and our kids will, all of that will move on.

And I just.

Realized more deeply the relationship with their heart and their essence matters

so much because that relationship is going to transcend time and I just had

one of these teary moments relating to the death of the world, the way it's

been the death of some stuff around.

Parents, the death of old ways of being individually, and that the excitement is

one of those concepts that I really love.

That's part of the thriving operate the evolution of this thriving

operating system that we're talking about that our relationship.

With our future self, our relationship with what's possible is so our

relationship with possible it's so Adam shaking his head because Adam and I

have been typing and we can hear it and we're such perfectionist is you can't

do that, but we can't help ourselves.

So there's humanness in the middle of podcast.

Which is, and Jeannie just, Adam had to tell both of us that we're

not allowed to breathe either.

So the point is, that we're human, right?

We're all human, but I love this idea of the old dying.

Do we have to mourn it or grieve it for long lengths of

time because we're attached?

Or if we hook our wagon to the future that we're creating and the

relationship to the essence of what's growing within us, how does it change

our relationship to what's leaving?

Because man, I know a lot of people being catalyzed right now to something new.

So Jeannie, you were going to say.

Oh, no, I'm feeling the same way.

Like it just feels I know you and I had this conversation last week about it

just really feels like there's a rebirth thing happening and I can feel it.

And I know where my mind and especially my ego, it wants to judge it.

It wants to take score that how I'm feeling is not the greatest.

And there has to be something that I need to do.

Give me the happy pill.

Give me the magic pill.

Protocol, give me the specific meditation to get me out of my rut and at the end

of the day, it's what would love for myself do from a space of where I've

been attached to my identities as a mom, as a wife, as a friend, as a sister,

as a daughter, it's like, it's always been serving others versus what does

it look like for me to be able to, what does grounding look like for me?

And it's even judging.

You know that it's also staying open to that because I've never been much

of a meditator because it's like, I find it boring, but you know what?

I love walking with the dogs.

I love, you know, going out in the garden and pulling weeds.

It's meditative for me.

I love vacuuming.

So from that space, it's what does it look like to be really a champion

of my vibration at every moment?

Oh, yeah.

Reset meaning.

And just so everyone understands, it's like going out and.

Making sure that we actually take space between.

The projects and the conversations and the things that we're doing such that

we plug back into the creativity and the beauty of life to have spaciousness a

reset our energy reset our relationship to life, not just go from one thing.

I think in the corporate world, they call it.

What is it?

Adam channels channel changing.

No, it's not called channel changing it.

Yeah, and there's another word, too.

I can't remember what it is.

Uh, it's all good.

We don't have to get the word right.

So, the whole thing is that using one part of your brain and then going to

another part of creativity and then going to another part of creativity,

it really requires a clearing of the decks of what you've done before.

And, and, The thing is, I think that's partially what grieving the old is,

right?

And it's also wisdom.

It's also the wisdom of knowing that you cannot get to that place

of peace from the space of overwhelm and being pulled and irritability.

It's that's where for me, it's okay.

What does it really look like to be a champion of my frequency?

No matter what.

And yeah, absolutely.

And by the way, one of our listeners, Carolyn just came up with the word.

It's.

Context switching.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

We're sharing a brain cell Carolyn.

So guys We're coming up on an era shift and that era shift really

requires a certain level of being able to plug in that we call

the thriving operating system.

And that thriving operating system is something that is threaded through

every single one of our programs.

We're all about that system that allows us to shift with the shifts,

even when everything is sped up in a quantum way and an AI way.

Adam Lamb, what can they do to make sure they're always connected to this program?

Wow, what a pitch.

So we're very happy to announce that the thriving life podcast with

Jennifer Huff will finally be going live across all podcast platforms that

include Spotify, Apple podcasts, all the other aggregators like cast box.

And some of those coming this Wednesday, Wednesday, the 15th at

5 am in the morning, there'll be 4 brand new episodes that will appear.

Uh, we'd really love your help if you could like comment and share those

particular 4 episodes, I think you really like them curated them over the last 20

shows that we've done and moving forward, we're going to be releasing a new episode

across all the podcast platforms every Wednesday morning so that you can go into

your weekend with a weekly dose of the thriving life podcast with Jennifer house.

Just a little activation of what's possible for your life, but not just

a little activation sometimes just a boot in the butt and remember,

or a hammer to the head,

the big cosmic two by four to the side of the head when you just haven't

been listening, but we promise it.

So, guys, I'm excited.

And I want to thank Adam in advance for just being the bad ass that you are

around the back end, just a type in a way.

But I bought specifically a silent keyboard so I can do that.

There are such things as silent keyboards.

It is not silent.

It's yes.

Not to wait.

Jennifer

needs to use.

It's inside

inside.

And then Jeannie, thank you.

Actually, both of you are so vulnerable.

You guys activate that in me.

But Jeannie, thank you for bringing that sort of grounded wisdom.

Of the real in that, in that wonderful house, you have of dogs and kids and

sweeties and stuff, and we're looking forward to flying with you guys.

And of course, when you catch us on social media.

Then you can ask questions and we can bring up in some of the podcasts.

So make sure you do.

We're looking forward to it.

Here's to the launch of something we're so proud of called the thriving life podcast.

Here's to all the future guests.

Here's to our evolution and being way out ahead of all the change in this world.

Thanks for being a part of the thriving life podcast.

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Love you guys.