Authenticity Is Magnetic: The Neuroscience of Being a Pattern Interrupt

Hello everyone and welcome back to Planet M, a podcast all about neuroscience, spirituality, manifestation, psychology, and real life tools that you can use right now to better your life, get more of what you want and less of what you don't. I am extremely excited for today's episode. It came from a little bit of a revelation that I've had in my own life in the past, I think week or so. It's all about the neuroscience of how to be more magnetic and get more of what you want in life. Okay. Because science shows that you need to be a pattern interrupt if you want to be successful. And that means being one of one. That means being different, standing out. I'm sure you've noticed the people that you look up to the most in this life, they are the ones that stand out, not the ones that blend in. I'm sure you've heard that before. Authenticity is the greatest power that we have. Authenticity is the most magnetic energy. And authenticity is obviously the goal here. I mean, after all, we came to this planet to be the unique expression of life that we are. And so if we are not being that, if we are not being the unique expression of life that we came to this planet to be, then we're not in our power. It's as simple as that. And when you are being your authentic self, you are being a pattern interrupt. And we're going to talk all about the neuroscience of that and why that's so important, how to activate it a few steps in this episode. But first, I got a few announcements for you guys. I just actually want to say that this last masterclass, this live class that I held, if you guys don't know, if you're new to this podcast, never listened to it before, I hold free live classes teaching all about kind of my process, the exact system that I used to go from struggling with ADHD, with my physical health, with my mental health, diagnosed with depression, anxiety, a bunch of other things, a lot of problems, and kind of going on a journey of, you know, obviously getting two degrees in neuroscience, studying neuroscience. I went on a pretty deep spiritual journey as well. I studied with monks and through that process, you know, going to my PhD, studying neuroscience, I really, I completely changed my life and I completely rewired my brain and on these live free classes I teach the exact system like in order exactly what I did to shift my brain and completely change my life and if you guys have never been to a class before I highly recommend that you come to one but I wanted to give a little bit of a shout out to one of my listeners because I always say at the end of these episodes I'm always like guys if you have questions if you listen to this podcast if you have questions about the podcast episode, you have questions about my content, come to my class. I do a live Q&A at the end of my free classes. And you might be thinking, ah, there's no way. I actually, one of my listeners asked me a question about my last podcast episode. And it was about detachment and letting go and being authentic. And actually her question was about authenticity and kind of how that works alongside of detachment. And I answered her question on that class. And yeah, So shout out to Mira. I am super grateful for you listening to this podcast and also for coming to the class. I'm really happy that I got to answer your question. So guys, if you've never been to my class, come through. Also, at the end of my live classes that are completely free is the only time currently that I open up access to my program, Mindcraft. It is a coaching program and community and courses. And it's really, really incredible. And it has completely changed so many people's lives. And so if you're ever interested in that as well, I talk all about that. You can learn more about that at the end of my classes. But the class itself is free, so you might as well just come. All right, let's get into the episode. Before I dive in to the neuroscience of being a pattern interrupt and all of that, I feel that the story behind this episode is necessary. It's extremely relevant and it really paints the picture. As you may or may not know, I'm pretty true to myself and I'm definitely different. I've been different for a long time, obviously. I think everyone's different. We don't all give ourselves permission to be different and stand out and we don't all do that. but something that I have found and that has really allowed me to access my full power is just being the most alien version of myself that I could possibly be like I identify as a dolphin alien from outer space and I allow myself to be that and I let you know I've told people that before and they're like oh like yeah don't worry like I won't I remember telling someone that actually and they're like don't worry I won't tell like your following or your audience blah blah and I'm like no I tell that to everybody I meet I tell that to strangers I don't care if that makes you not take me seriously or not. I don't care if that makes you, you know, disregard the multiple degrees that I have or, you know, the businesses that I built or the platform that I built. I really don't care because I'm here to be myself, right? And that's going to repel people and that's going to attract people. But the truth is that if everybody likes you, nobody loves you. You got to be a little polarizing to make the dream work. Okay. I have learned that is very true in life, but it's also very true on social media. Actually in Minecraft, so many of my students, like A lot of my students at this point, they kind of go through the journey of revealing their most authentic self. And, you know, a big part of the process in Minecraft, especially the beginning part of it, is kind of investigating who you are on a soul level. Like, who really are you? Beneath all the programming, right? Because you grew up, your brain was programmed by society, your parents, families, teachers, your environment. And you are somebody, you are the divine life force energy beneath all of that, right? You came to this planet with a unique set of gifts. So it's like, figure out what those are. Become very clear on who you are, what makes you special and unique. And when I have students that can tap into that, they pop off on social media, just completely pop off. I've had people, one of my students literally, but while she was in the program, she actually let me know that she got a brand deal and made more money in one brand deal than she had in an entire month prior to that through one deal. and I have people literally I have students of mine that come up on my for you page and I'm like hell yeah but it's really it's really powerful like authenticity is extremely magnetic and anyway though to kind of bring it back to full back to where we were at I've always been just very different I think in the sense of I'm not going to sit here and be like oh look I'm special I'm more different than you are but I mean that in the sense of like you know I was in a neuroscience PhD program fully, you know, wearing my cute crop tops and my outfits. And I definitely stood out like I did not fit in. And that definitely I had haters in the PhD program. Like I definitely had haters. I put it. They're probably still my haters. I had people that talked about bad about me. I had I actually had I'm probably going to get some shit for this, but I actually had a pet rat to whenever I was in my PhD. I feel like it's fitting like mad scientist pet rat, but I loved her. Her name was Dewey and she was absolutely incredible. Like she would, she was like a little puppy. Like she would lick you and cuddle with you. Anyway, we could tell so many stories about Dewey because she would escape and she would escape in the middle of the night from her cage and she would climb into my bed and cuddle with me. Anyway, she was adorable. And you're probably like, oh, that's gross rats. But, um, I, I swear to you, she was cute. And everyone that I show a picture of her to, they're like, damn, no, yeah, she was cute. Maybe I'll include her in my next My point here was that I definitely did things a little differently and I definitely stood out because of that. And, you know, when you stand out, that brings a lot of success onto you and attention just in general, it brings attention onto you. And so I've just that's just a little bit of background. But anyway, the real story here is that multiple times over the past few months, I will be on the phone in public, like either in literally this most recent time I was in the parking lot outside of a coffee shop, but I'll be on the phone and some stranger will come up to me and tell me to get off the phone. So what happened was I was at the coffee shop maybe a week ago, week and a half ago, and this, I'm standing, I was inside the coffee shop writing and working, and you know, people are inside, they're taking calls, they're having conversations. I, you know, I needed to make a call to my assistant and I was like, I don't really want to continue to sit in here you know I might as well use this as a brain break go outside get some sunlight in my eyes walk around look at the horizon it's really good actually to take brain breaks so that's just a little fun tip that I wasn't planning on giving but anyway um I gave myself a little brain break went outside moved my legs you know basically I'm on the sidewalk next to the parking lot and I'm on the phone and this man and he had been he's sitting at a table that's up against the building, probably like 10 yards, 10, 15 yards away. And he comes up to me and he goes, can you take that phone call somewhere else? Or can you get off the phone? And I just looked at him crazy. I was like, the audacity, that's insane. I'm outside. I'm literally in the parking lot. So I look at him and then I look over at his wife that he had been sitting with at the table and I look at her and she goes, yeah, we don't want to hear your conversation. and I'm just like excuse me I mean I don't say any of this but I'm thinking it I'm like excuse me like there are people having conversations in this inside the coffee shop outside there are people having conversations just because my conversations on the phone you don't like it but anyway I didn't I literally didn't even say anything to them I just looked at them like that's a crazy request to make and just kept talking so after that happened though I I was reminiscing on a past time where this has happened to me before that people will come up to me and tell me to get off the phone, whatever. I know, you know, I have the self-awareness. I'm pretty sure I do talk loud. I think I know that I talk loud. I know that I talk loud. I'm from New York, you know, us New Yorkers, like we talk loud. But anyway, so after that, though, I was talking to my fiance and I was like, why does this always happen to me? Why? Like what, what, what is there for me to learn in this situation? Right? Because I always say, you know, our triggers are our teachers in this life. And when we face like challenges, especially repeated scenarios like this that are so specific and unique and weird, it's like, what is this situation trying to show me? Like, what is it trying to teach me? What is it trying to show me? And what am I not learning that is causing this situation to repeat itself? I believe that situations or patterns, you know, patterns emerge. Like it takes, it takes two to create a pattern cycles will repeat until you disrupt the cycle. Right. And so I'm like, why, like, what do I need to do? What do I need to change here? So that like, what do I need to learn anyway? And so my fiance, he's like, he's like, yeah, I mean, I don't know. And I'm like, I don't know either. And so I kind of just put it out into the universe and I, you know, said a little prayer or whatever. And I was like, you know what, God, like, please help me understand this. Like, what, What am I needing to learn from this situation? The next day, I am walking into this store. I am in a different town literally I am walking into the store after I dropped my brother off at the airport actually And I walking into the store with my fiance and he I go up right and I order myself a matcha and the girl at the register she like I love your nails and I like thank you so much and then a different girl is like Emily like your matcha is ready and I go over to get it and she's like I love your top and I'm walking back I'm like oh my fiance he's like I think what I've realized about you is that you just attract attention. Like you just attract attention and comments and people approaching you, whether it's good or bad, you attract a lot of energy. And I was like, whoa, I think you're right. That is facts. Like that's, that's completely accurate. I do. Like I do. Everywhere I go, people say things to me. And it's actually really funny because after that, we went to a different coffee shop for me to do work again. And this woman comes up to me and she said something to me she's like oh my god your smile's so beautiful never stop smiling smile every single day or something like that and i was like oh thank you so much like you're beautiful too all that and she's like thank you i'm lebanese and italian and i was like no way i'm lebanese and italian and then we just start kicking it off and this was an older woman apparently she was like 70 or something but she looked young we ended up talking for like 15 minutes and it was really cool though because this was right after my fiance was like you know i think you just attract a lot of attention like a lot of energy comes your way and i'm like you know i think you're right about that It's not all bad. It's actually mostly good. Most of the time it's really positive. And so anyway, later, a couple hours later, when I'm at the coffee shop and this woman comes up to me, I'm talking to her. She sits down next to me and we're having a 15 minute deep conversation about this, right? And then I honestly brought up this situation, this exact story I'm telling you. I told her. And she was like, you know what? Same thing happens to me. And then as I'm talking to her, I'm writing about attentional networks in the brain. I'm writing about and I'm reading research papers and just reading about the different attentional networks in the brain, specifically, you know, the dorsal attention network and the ventral attention network. Those are something that some networks that I've been reading about more often recently. And I'm talking to her and we're talking about, you know, we get all this attention, this energy. We attract a lot of energy. And I said something to her. It just flowed through me. Like I didn't think it before I said it. my brain was obviously primed for it because I was reading about it. But I go, I think because we are pattern interrupts. We are pattern interrupts. We stand like we interrupt the pattern. And now when I said that out loud, I was like, oh my God, like, that's it. That's it. And after she got up and walked away, I was like, I need to journal about this. So I would journal for about 20 minutes about being a pattern interrupt and pattern interruption. And this is where we get really sciency and we start talking about the neuroscience of this, of course, interwoven with this story and the meaning of it. I basically was writing about, you know, being a pattern interrupt and what is a pattern interrupt? Okay, I'm going to explain it because you might be like, what the hell is that, Emily? It makes sense to me and it's going to make sense to you in a second. But a pattern interrupt is anyone that breaks the pattern or the mold or the model that your brain has for the world. Okay, your brain does something called predictive processing. And so it builds a model of the way the world works, the way that you think about other people, the way life is, all of that, right? And then your brain filters all new information, everything you see, hear, feel, touch, it filters all of that through this model that your brain has built based on the past and everything that you quote unquote know or think to be true your beliefs right and so anytime that something interrupts that pattern right because life you know we get used to these the patterns and this is actually how we habituate to things right so when you for example whenever I first moved to Arizona um literally everywhere it still is I never want to get used to it because it's so beautiful here. But when I first moved into the first house that we lived in, I remember just looking out at the view and being like, I never want to get used to this. I never want to get used to this. It is the most magical, beautiful view I've ever seen. Like truly it was. And, and unfortunately you do get used to it. Like I did get used to it. And every time I could bring back that presence and be like, and express gratitude and really soak it in again, you get all the rush of neurochemicals and dopamine and all that back. But the truth is that your brain starts to include that view into the model it has for life. And then it starts being a disruption or it stops being a disruption. It stops being a pattern interrupt and it no longer stands out to you. It no longer calls your attention, right? And we can use some other examples of this. If you're trying to get some work done and let's dive into the networks here, like the two networks that I was talking about just a second ago, the dorsal attention network and the ventral attention network, right? So the dorsal attention network is dorsal is back or top, right? So like top down, top down attention system. All right. And what does that mean? It means that you are in control. You're like, hey, we need to work on this task. We need to write this book. We need to, I'm like, hey, we need to film this podcast. So my dorsal attention network is going to be like, hey, let's sit down and get some work done. We love when the dorsal attention network is doing its thing. All right. But what happens is then, you know, you're sitting there and you're, let's say your phone dings, notification, email, or even like some sort of alert or somebody walks into the room that's unexpected, anything unexpected, novel, stimulating, your ventral attention network pulls you out of the task, right? So I'm dorsal attention networking, writing my book, writing away, and then all of a sudden I hear a ding ding. My ventral attention network is immediately like, what's that? Now, obviously there are ways to train this and this is why you should remove distractions and all of that. And for me personally, if I heard a ding ding, I wouldn't turn and say, what's that? I would be probably a little bit of annoyed though, Because again, your attention is drawn to it, whether you want it to be or not. And that's my point. When something breaks the pattern, when something disrupts you, when something stands out, whether good or bad, you have no choice but to pay attention. No choice, whether you want to or not. You're walking down the street, you know, everyday people, but then there's somebody with some crazy outfit. Your attention is drawn to that person. or for example i went to a concert this past weekend and it was incredible absolutely amazing and there was it was after this golf tournament i used to play golf competitively in case you guys didn't know that but anyway so it was john summit and then there was this artist so the important point here is that there is this artist that opened up before him his name's bunt shout out bunt he's from germany but anyway so he is a magical performer like he gets on and he is just into the music like he's feeling it he is like you could see it on his face and when you are listening to somebody perform like that you have no choice but to be drawn into it right and I'm sure that makes sense to me now right well with my content people are always like oh like you're passionate you can feel it through the phone it's like yeah and honestly thinking back in in college for me personally when I went to undergrad at UT Austin I studied neuroscience for my first degree I loved all of my classes they were easy aced all of them had a 4.0 neuroscience GPA like literally loved them I had the best professors ever they love you could tell they were passionate about what they were teaching they actually loved what they were teaching and you could feel that right and that made you more interested in it right your attention was drawn to that energy versus whenever I went into the PhD, I'm going to be so honest, the professors, not all of them, but a handful of them, just boring, like just snooze fest, like just monotonous, like it doesn't seem like you really are passionate about teaching this information. And I'm sure you guys have experienced that in your own life. You've had teachers that you could tell really love and value and are passionate about what they're sharing, and it makes you passionate about it. And it's the complete opposite when your teachers are not. But anyway, and so I'm at this concert, and this artist is clearly very passionate about what he's doing clearly passionate about the music and I'm literally one of his number one fans now like I'm like hey when is he coming well where is he going to be next I want to go to another concert um and so anyway though he was a pattern interrupt because I mean most musicians are very into it right but his energy is just different if you look up him performing you will see what I mean his name's Bunt B-U-N-T if you're into like EDM or house music or electronic music, then you will like him. If not, then you probably won't. But you can just watch it on mute and watch him, watch him. Because it's just different. Like it's, he's so, anyway. So my point here though, is that he was a complete pattern interrupt for me, his energy. And you could just feel the fact that he like exudes love, like he exudes love. and you can feel that and it was it draws your attention you don't want to look away right and I'm sure you've experienced this in other areas too right like not a great not a happy example but driving if you've ever been driving and there's a car accident right everybody noodle next everybody noodle it next they look over to see does that make you feel good to go and look at a car accident I mean personally it does not make me feel good I would hope it didn't make other people feel good But it's oddly satisfying in the fact that your ventral attention network is calling you to look because it's novel, it's stimulating, it disrupts the pattern. You are called to it whether you want to be or not. You have to look. And so this is why being a pattern interrupt is so powerful. You attract attention, energy, and whether other people want to give it to you or not. right and so that makes sense to me now why you know a lot of it is great a lot of the energy that i tracked is amazing a lot like most of it is but then everyone the the scenarios stand out and it's actually only happened like a few times that someone told me about the phone and now i know right like it definitely absolutely happened for a reason because i was meant to have this realization and talk about this and realize this for myself too because i needed to i needed to give myself permission to be a pattern interrupt and to not feel guilty for being that. And it helps you understand and make peace with the fact that not everybody is going to love the fact that you drew their attention. Not everyone's going to love that. Some people are going to be uncomfortable with that interrupt right You disrupted their mold of the way they thought the world works And when you disrupt somebody model of the way the world works either one they going to be like Whoa I like that Or two they going to try to minimize you. And they're going to try to downplay you, or they're going to tell you to get out off the phone and remove yourself because they don't like the disruption. They don't, that they, it stirs something up within them. And that allowed me to just be like, to just have a lot of peace with this. Have a lot of peace with, you know, and it makes sense too when you think about even haters and having haters, especially on social media or just, you know, athletes, a lot of people, successful people. If you have haters, that means you're popping, right? And it's true though, because if you're not, if you're not doing anything, then no one's going to hate on you because you have nothing to hate about. So people, right, what your haters, like they, you're a pattern interrupt for them. You drew their attention in and they're mad about it. They don't like it, but you didn't give them a choice, but they don't like it. so what are they going to do they're gonna that's the coping mechanism that they have within them to try to downplay you or tell you you're wrong or tell you like to shrink or dim or dull your light and so this helped me make a lot of peace um with the situation and and and I know now that when this happens again I'm just like oh I interrupted your pattern I broke the mold that your brain has for the way the world works and you can't make you don't like that so you're gonna try to reconcile you're gonna try to reconcile and if you're gonna put me down that's okay right now I know for me personally I understanding the neuroscience behind why things happen it just helps me a lot in life because it just again it also just it helps you be less triggerable it helps you be less offended, like offended by things. But it helps you be at peace, but also helps you not to judge others, right? Because I, I like, I don't want to sit here and be like, oh, that guy that told me like, oh, he's so mad and angry at life. Like, that doesn't make me feel good to judge, hate, criticize. I don't like that. Like I talk bad about other people. Like I don't, I don't like that feeling. And so it allows me to be compassionate, right? It allows me to be compassionate for people that come up that for this guy, for example, that came up to me or his wife that told me, we don't want to hear a conversation. It allows me to be compassionate. And it allows me to be compassionate. Like this is a very, that's a very specific example, but it allows me to be compassionate for haters or other people that it's like, yeah, you're breaking their mold of what they understand about the world. And they're like, they don't, They're not being called to include you in their mold. And that's okay. I don't need to take that personal. So let's talk now about the steps, the individual steps to becoming a pattern interrupt or allowing yourself to be one. And that's actually step one is allowing yourself to be a pattern interrupt, to be disruptive, to break through the noise, to stand out, to be different. And, you know, I hate to be cliche here, but it really is, you know, we've heard this before. Like if you want to be successful, if you want to make it, if you want to even grow a platform, whatever it is, or you want to start a business, like it has to be different in some way, shape or form. It has to stand out above the noise. It has to, it has to be like a clear signal. It has to solve a problem or it has to stand out, right? And when I say solve a problem, like solve a problem that hasn't been solved before or, you know, be a perspective that hasn't been shared before. Like it needs to stand out. And I think the easiest way to be a pattern interrupt and to stand out is to be you because there is nobody else like you. There's nobody else like you. and I you know there are a lot of people that you know want to follow trends and just be kind of like the cookie cutter mold of what they see online especially social media um but but doing that and trying to dress like other people and and look like other people or act like other people or talk like other people um be interested in the same things other people like that that's not that's not how you become a pattern interrupt that's not how you stand out and that's not even how you be yourself. And so when I talk about being a pattern interrupt and being disruptive and, and standing out and, and interrupting somebody else's model of the world, um, that really the best way to do that is just by being you. And I remember back on my own journey in the beginning of when I started healing and realizing the power that I am and believing in myself and all that. And really realizing who I am really was what it is. Like realizing exactly who I, who I am, like on the soul level, not just my personality, but who I am on a soul level. And when I started to realize that I was glowing different, I was magnetizing things. And I remember walking down the street and people would come up to me and compliment me or say things to me. And that was kind of, um, that was, I don't want to say that was the beginning of when that happened, because I think people have honestly come up to me and said things to me probably my whole life. Honestly, I remember when I was actually a little, little kid, I was selling my paintings on the street in front of my house in New York and, or my parents' house in New York, not mine. But I remember I was selling my paintings on the street for like 50 cents or something. I was a little kid. And this person noticed me and actually hired, like offered me a job to model for a painting business and I was fully in painting ads in like Home Depot or Lowe's or something I don't know this is a long time ago but I was a little kid and so anyway I always had stuff like this happen but but let's also recognize the fact that like what got me to that opportunity I was selling my paintings on the street like who does that um you know I wasn't just having a lemonade stand I was selling my paintings on the side of the street and not that there's anything wrong with lemonade stand I had those too but I did those different too because I sold two types of lemonade. One of them was the jug lemonade and the other one was the real deal where we homemade it and we charged more for it. I've definitely always been doing things a little differently than other people. I remember also like when I was in elementary school, I used to give people tattoos with highlighters at recess. I used to paint kids nails at recess and charge them for it. I guess I've always been an entrepreneur at heart. My point here is that you attract, I remember when I first started becoming like very magnetic and attracting things. And when I've actually, I guess now I'm realizing that all of the times in my life when I have been very attractive, when it comes like not just attractive physically, but attractive energetically to opportunities, people, places, things is when I was being really authentic and just being weird and letting my weirdness fly and, and sauce some people up with my flavor. Like that's, that's the time when I have been the most attractive energetically. And so the first step really is giving yourself permission, like giving yourself permission to be disruptive, to be polarizing, to stand out from the norm and to be different. That's step one. Give yourself permission to be a pattern interrupt. It is a requirement for being magnetic. It is a requirement for being magnetic is to allow yourself to be fully your authentic self. And if you dim your light, if you compromise, if you let people walk all over your boundaries, if you let yourself walk all over your boundaries and you don't hold true to your boundaries or your values in life, if you're not true to yourself, you don't stay true to who you are, you're not going to be as magnetic because you're not going to be in your authenticity. And authenticity is the greatest power that you have because again, that is the reason why we are all here. Every single one of us was made different. we were all made different on purpose if we were meant to be the same we would have been made the same we would have been constructed the same but no every single one of us was born different with our own unique set of skills and gifts and energy our unique energetic expression of life all of us were and that is on purpose we were made different on purpose we were made who exactly who we are on purpose. And every time you forget that and you dim your light and you don't stay true to yourself and you shrink or you hide, you take yourself out of your power. So give yourself permission to shine, to be you, to stand out, to be different. Something that I, like I said, I like to say, like I want to be as alien as possible. I've had every single hair color that you can have, By the way, I know a lot of people have been commenting about my blonde hair. Obviously, my hair isn't naturally blonde, although it does pretty much look natural. It's not like a permanent thing for me. Like I always change my hair color and I don't think people realize that. But I have been ginger. I've had red hair. I've had like like I've been ginger and I've had red hair, like like the color red in my shirt. If you're listening and not watching a video, you won't be able to see. But it's like bright fire engine red. I've had that color hair. That was on accident. But still, I had it. I've been platinum blonde. I've this color blonde. I've had blue hair I've had pink hair I've had purple hair I think the only color hair I haven't had is green but anyway my point is that that's just a part of who I am is I like to have fun and be different and I don't take it too serious it's my hair it's whatever the one time I was ginger it was not even on purpose I had black hair and I was trying to go blonde and I couldn't go blonde from black and so I ended up ginger and I was like well if you can't beat it join it I like to be I like to feel alien. And for me, like having different colored hairs, it makes me feel different. And it does make me feel different, right? Because changing your hair makes you feel different. Just like how changing your app, it makes you feel different. It helps you identity shift, which is a cool, fun hack. But that is really step one. Give yourself permission to stand out, to be different. And then I think step two was what I unlocked after my story that I shared with you what happened. Step two is to stop feeling guilty or feeling bad when somebody else doesn't like the fact that you disrupted their mold that their brain has for life. Stop feeling guilty for it and recognize that that's just what it is. That's just what it is. You broke somebody else's mold and they don't like it. And that's a reflection of them. That's a reflection of their mold, right? That's a reflection of their brain. That's not a reflection of you because you break other people's molds and they love it. If you are liked by everybody, you're loved by no one. I'm over here sharing a lot of details about my life in these episodes and my past and how I grew up and all that. And you know, there are probably, I know for a fact there have been people that are probably triggered by certain things that I say, but I also know that there are way more people that feel more connected to me because of this podcast that feel more connected to me because of the the deeper things that I share the more vulnerable things that I share I know that there are a lot more people that love me right because of this and because of me and my vulnerability and being open and sharing right and so this was actually something that I had to make peace with before starting this podcast I actually procrastinated doing it for a long time because I knew that if I was going to do this podcast and be vulnerable and be in long form content like yeah it help people feel more connected to me But also it leaves me more open, right, to criticism or people not liking me or whatever. Anyway, and so that I had to make peace with that. And I had to realize, you know, yeah, there are there might be people that don't like it, but there are going to be a lot more people that feel even more connected to you and that love you even more because of your willingness to share. And so stop feeling guilty for interrupting other people's patterns of the way the world works. And I'm just going to give you an example here because remember when I was saying, you know, the pattern interrupt when I first moved to Arizona was my mountain view. Over time, that became the mold. But in the beginning, it was a pattern interrupt and it was beautiful and it was wonderful and it was magical and it made me just so happy. I got so much dope of me from looking at it. That pattern interrupt of looking at the mountains and all that makes me feel great. I've been on the phone with people before, someone I know listening right now, that I've shown the same view and they're like, it's just dirt and rocks and dust. And you know, they didn't like that pattern interrupt, right? They didn't like it. All right. So there are going to be people that love it and there are going to be people that don't like it. But what determines, the mountains are the same. It's the person. It's the beholder, right? The eye of the beholder. Beauty's in the eye of the beholder. It's the person perceiving the view that determines whether it's not good or good, bad or negative or great and positive. It's the person. It all depends on the brain that is perceiving the thing. And so I want you to hold that close when you are, you know, maybe recognizing that, hey, oh, I'm going to go, I'm going to give myself permission to be a pattern interrupt. And I'm going to give myself permission to shine and be different and stand out. And then, you know, just kind of knowing like, yeah, there are going to be people that there are people that love it. Don't get me wrong. But then there will be people that don't like it so much. And making peace with that and just being like, yeah, you know, and not feeling guilty for it and be like, yeah, okay, then like, that's not my problem. That is not my problem that you don't like it. I'm not sorry that you're offended. That's not my problem. That's a reflection of you. That's a reflection of your brain's model of the world. Not me. With that being said, I want to start a little bit of a new segment on this podcast and it's called Wonders of the Week. The Three Wonders of the Week or something like that. I don't really know the name of it yet, but I just kind of decided that I want to start doing it literally right before filming this. I want to incorporate this into the podcast because I want to train my brain to look for miraculous moments because as I was filming this episode, literally, I realized that my brain is remembering the two times in the past few months that people have told me to get off the phone, but my brain hasn't been paying attention to all of the times people come up and compliment me or say something positive or, you know, whatever, all the positive interactions that I have with people. And in my story, literally, my fiance was the one that told me, hey, you know, you just tracked a lot of energy and attention in general. And I think after telling you guys all this and doing this episode, I'm realizing that I want to go back and even with the mountain example, right? Like I want and I make it a habit, by the way, guys, when I'm driving, I always make it a point to look out the mountains and reinforce how beautiful they are. And I'm just like, damn, like they're so beautiful. I love it here. It's so magical. I love watching the sunsets here. And I make it a point because I don't ever want to get used to it and I never want to take it for granted. I want to start incorporating this into the end of every episode. I'm habit stacking. I'm leading by example here. I'm habit stacking. So obviously filming this podcast is something I'm doing no matter what. And so if I want to start a new habit of training my brain to look for more of just the wonderful moments in life, then I think that, you know, that's a habit that I want to do. That's a habit that I want to have. And I think stacking it on top of this one is great because I'm already doing this. And also sharing them with you will hopefully inspire you and motivate you to do it yourself in your own life. My wonders of the week. That's what we're calling it. The wonders of the week. That might change, but for now it's the wonders of the week. Oh, and by the way, I am a huge fan of celebrating your wins. And even in Minecraft, I have people every single week share their wins and how important wins are. And it is really important, like celebrating your wins and sharing with other people the things that you've done great the past week. It's so good. It helps to boost confidence, boost belief in yourself, boost self-esteem. It's so helpful to celebrate your wins and train your brain to look for all the great things that you're doing and recognize that because a lot of times we overlook our own accomplishments. But I think I want to take this one step deeper with our wonders of the week. And this is something that I used to do actually a lot. I used to, I used to keep track of my vortex moments. So moments wherever I knew I was in the vortex. For example, there was this one time when I bought this hat, this like crochet bucket hat at the store at the mall. And I went online for this brand's website because I love this crochet hat. And I saw that they had a matching dress and I was like, Oh damn, like that dress is really cool. And then I was at a restaurant literally a couple of days later. and I looked out to the restaurant and through the window of a store, I saw the dress in the window of a store right across the way. And I, for example, so that was something that I wrote down in my vortex moments because it was like, damn, I was just thinking about this and now it's happening. And actually, now that I say that there have been many times in the past, I think two days where, um, I've had vortex moments of moments where I know I'm in the vortex moments that remind me that God is real, that everything is interconnected in the interweb, that everything is connected. We're all one in this universe. And so really, and just to kind of bring it home really quick about the wins, this is different from celebrating your wins because it's not results driven. It's not, you know, outcome. It's really just noticing the small things and practicing joy in the small moments because real true happiness and joy comes from like being cracked out on life about the tiniest things. And so Wonders of the Week is going to help us do that. It's going to help us train our brain for that. And so anyway, the first one is actually the fact that our frother died a couple days ago, our milk frother. And, you know, it's a shame when your milk frother dies and it wouldn't recharge. It wouldn't charge. And it's really just, you know, it's like, damn. But this sucked because the specific milk frother that we had, it was so good. It was so powerful. And anyway, so it wasn't charged. And we were like, damn, it's not charging. this happened two days ago yesterday I get a PR package and guess what's inside of it a milk frother and it's the same exact one that died and I and I literally said to my fiance I said that's how you know God is real that's how you know it's my first wonder of the week um just a moment that really just reminded me that yeah wow like this really like we really just live in this we live in a really wonderful world of everything is interconnected and the magic is there if you look for it and i think it's especially important right now because yes the world has its issues and its problems and i think that's why it's it's even more of a reason why we need to train our brain to look for these small moments these little wonders um because they are the things that are going to allow us to keep our joy and stay in our joy and in our light because you cannot help other people and you cannot benefit the world and make the world a better place and help other people if you aren't in your light. You have to be in your light. You have to be on the path of love. Being on the path of love is how we propel positive progress in the world. My second wonder of the week is very similar to the first in the idea that it is about sort of like synchronicities and things like that but I actually was writing about belief yesterday I was writing about belief and I was right I was using athletes as an example and talking about how our beliefs and our belief in the possibility of whether things are possible or not actually determines whether they are possible for us or not and when we believe something is possible it allows us to break through mental barriers our brain can actually help us go and achieve goals when we believe they're possible. If we don't believe they're possible, doubt is a dopamine destroyer. Like we're not like our brain is not going to put energy and resources towards something that it's it finds that there's no point in. It doesn't can't find a point in doing right. So if you don't believe in the possibility, your brain's not even going to help you like put in effort to try. And then I go out and I'm taking a break. I'm eating dinner, actually. And I'm standing in the kitchen and the TVs on the Olympics are on. And it's this commercial about athletes, of course, go to the Olympics and it's it's talking about mental ceilings and believing in the possibility and how oh the question was it was it was like an ad for like AI or something and it was asking a question about and using the Olympics it was asking the question you know how do athletes keep breaking records and the answer was like you know breaking through mental ceilings and belief in new possibilities and I was like damn because that is exactly what I was writing about in my book I was talking about the four minute mile record being broken and how before that everyone thought it was impossible and then after someone did it all of a sudden now new athletes started being able to do it why because they woke up to the fact that it was possible but that is my second wonder of the week because it was literally the universe being like oh yeah mirroring back to you what you're focused on 10 minutes after you're focusing on it my third wonder of the week is a shout out to my wedding planner because we're actually planning a trip next week to go and visit where we're thinking about getting married our wedding venue and our wedding planner actually reached out yesterday and she let us know that she was able to get us like 60% off per night for our trip to stay at this amazing incredible resort so I you know like shout out wedding planner she's amazing and two extremely grateful for her and also hell yeah this is such a that's so cool that this just happened so anyway that's my third wonder of the week just like a just one of those moments where something works out for you that you wouldn't i didn't even ask for she was like oh maybe we can get you a discount i didn't even ask for it so anyway guys you're amazing never forget that go out there and sauce people with your flavor today and every single day be you break up people's patterns. Make them question life if that's what you're feeling called to do. If not, just go be you. Just go be you and be unapologetic about it. I will see you guys in the next episode. Bye, everyone!