I am excited to announce that I’ve been invited to be a guest on The Prosperity Student Radio Show airing Tuesday, April 24th, 1:00 pm CST.

Below is a sneak peak of the interview, beginning with my own story of stepping out of the “safe” job with benefits and taking that leap of faith to live my dream.

1. Please share your Prosperity Story:

After 10 years as a school teacher, I was bored and restless. I had dreamed of being a teacher my whole life and so I asked God, “If not this, then what?” I began on a spiritual journey to discover what this restless ache in my heart was from, that’s when I discovered hypnosis, got trained and began doing it part time out of my home.

Nine months later, business was booming and I was getting burnt out and I knew it was time. Time to leave teaching, but my husband didn’t see it that way. He begged me to keep my day job. I finally said, “I honor your opinion, but this is my life and I get to decide what to do with it and I’ve decided to leave teaching and become a full-time hypnotherapist.”

Six months after leaving my safe job as a school teacher with benefits, my husband broke his neck playing semi-professional football with our then 20 yr old son, Marcus. Our whole world turned upside down in less than 24 hours. Five months later, the day after Thanksgiving, we received a letter in the mail from his boss indicating that he was being let go. At the same time, his mother was diagnosed with Supra Nuclear Palsy which is slowly taking her life in an incredibly cruel fashion. It was the worst year of our lives, but it could have been much worse.

The Doctor said Curt was a medical miracle. He had walked around for 5 hours with a broken neck and was not paralyzed. Curt made a full recovery and decided to go back to school, but after a few years we were drowning in debt. The credit cards were maxed out, the second mortgage had reached its limit, student loans and Curt’s odd jobs were not covering the expenses and my business was about to go bust. Hypnosis was not in high demand.

I remember sitting one day praying my heart out. I said, “God, I can’t do this anymore. I am not seeing a way out of this mess. I am going to have to put this work on hold and go back to the classroom and teach kids again. If you really want me to stay doing what I’m doing you’re going to have to bring me some money so I can pay my bills and some ideas so I can be successful in this line of healing work.”

Prosperity comes when you believe.

Within a few months, Curt received a surprise settlement from a job he had gotten hurt at. It was just enough money to pay off ALL of our debt and help Curt get through the last 2 years of school.

Shortly after that, I received divine inspiration to change my business title from Hypnotherapist to Spiritual Counselor and my business name from Heaven Sent Hypnotherapy to Heaven Sent Healing and that year my income doubled!! And has continued to increase every year.

As I focus on divine inspiration and allow God’s will to steer my life prosperity and abundance overflow in unexpected ways.

2. What does prosperity mean to you? How do you define prosperity in your life?

Prosperity is about loving relationships, financial serenity, and peace of mind. Prosperity is in your mind not your bank account. “Having everything” isn’t about material things it is about spiritual, mental, emotional things. Staying focused on your goals, not letting life’s bumps and detours wipe you out, and staying true to yourself is prosperity.

3. What blocks did you encounter in your journey?

I have a wonderful mother but she passed on some pretty strong belief systems about “I am poor” that I have had to overcome. I also had a father with a fierce, driving force who passed on a strong belief system that “Anything is possible” which is where my entrepreneurial spirit comes from.

4. How did you recognize these blocks?

It was through some intense personal work that I was able to identify the belief systems that were holding me back and driving me forward. It’s just as important to identify your strengths and what motivates you as it is to become aware of your weaknesses and what’s holding you back.

I credit much of my inner and outer work to self help, spiritual books. Especially when you are on a tight budget, motivational books, cd’s and dvd’s from the library and family and friends got me through the toughest times. A few favorites are: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, & Loving What Is by Byron Katie.

5. Based on your definition of prosperity, do you feel that you accomplished your goals?

I have absolutely accomplished my goals of loving relationships, financial serenity and peace of mind. I do not have a dream life by any means, but everyday I fight for better and I don’t settle for less. My husband and I still argue, our finances are tight living on one income with student loans, and I battle daily with anxiety. But what I do know is that prosperity comes when you believe. And I believe that God is on my side, that I am truly blessed, that my husband loves me and is a fighter, and that financial serenity isn’t about money in the bank it’s about faith in your mind.

6. Prosperity can be a continuous journey – what goals do you currently have?

My #1 goal is peace of mind. As an entrepreneur I get caught up in lots of projects and doing lots of fun things. I am learning not to take on more than I can handle, to live mindfully and every time I feel my heart is racing or anxiety overtakes me I stop for a moment and say to myself “peace be still” and amazingly enough my heart relaxes and a feeling of calm overtakes me. Because I know that when I come from a place of calm I create more prosperity and abundance and when I come from a place of overwhelm and hurry, hurry I create lack and limitation.

7. When looking back at your journey – from where you were then to where you are now – how did you get to where you are now?

I got to where I am now by 1) never giving up on my dream 2) having faith that if God brought me to it, he would see me through it 3) and believing with my whole heart and soul that truly anything is possible!

8. How have you helped others in the area of Prosperity?

A turning point in my life and my business was when I did a book study on a little book by Joe Vitale from The Secret called “The Greatest Money Making Secret in History.” It is an amazing story of how giving back creates incredible wealth and prosperity. When I embraced his principles and began giving back in my business by doing pro bono work and a pay it forward program that gave back to our community my business continued to thrive and I saw amazing results while others were closing up shop.

9. As people are defining prosperity for themselves, what are the top three things they can do?

1. If you want more prosperity you have to give more prosperity. I know this is hard to do when you’re living on mac & cheese for dinner but giving doesn’t necessarily have to be in dollars and cents.
2. Prosperity comes when you believe. Believe in yourself, believe in your service to do good for your community and the world, believe that there’s a universal intelligence guiding your steps and even though you can’t see what’s behind the magic curtain doesn’t mean there isn’t something wonderful coming just around the corner.
3. A miracle is simply a shift in perception. Don’t limit yourself when you are dreaming your biggest dream. If you don’t ask for a million dollars you’ll never get a million dollars. I am a millionaire, rich, successful and amazing in every way. The more money I make the more money I am able to give back. I am truly blessed in all I do.

10. What resources do you suggest for those deciding to venture on this journey?

1. Join a book club that focuses on spiritual development. See my new Spiritual Book Club eCourse program I just launched. Bonus #1: I am giving away 2 seats for our next book study on: “Kryon: The End Times” by Lee Carroll. Just email me and mention that you heard this interview and are interested in the eCourse.
2. Tap into the resources of healers and coaches. Sometimes overcoming a block can open a gateway of prosperity you wouldn’t otherwise have access to. An amazing technique I work with is from a book called: Spiritual Healing by Robert Detzler. Bonus #2: I am giving away a 30 minute session using the technique Spiritual Healing to remove any blocks you may have to prosperity!
3. A must read for anyone venturing on the prosperity path is… Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. This is a channeled book that provides a great framework for building a successful life filled with prosperity.

Please note:  The first 3 people that email me after the show airs on Blogtalkradio The Prosperity Student Tuesday, April 24th at 1pm CST will be eligible for the free bonuses!

Do you ever get performance anxiety?  If you are a blogger you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. 

I love to write and I love to talk but for some reason I have a major block when it comes to blogging regularly.

Hmmmm, let’s explore this.  It almost feels like when I was in college and I had a paper due but I kept putting it off and putting it off until I was almost out of time and then I’d sit down and do it.  Afterwards I would always think to myself, it was waaay easier than I thought.  Procrastinating only makes it worse.

After a few years in college I began to put a system in place so things flowed smoother and I rarely got caught up in that OMG, OMG I’ve gotta get this done feeling.

So the key is the SYSTEM.  Doesn’t everything boil down to that?  It’s like brushing your teeth.  Once you have a system it becomes so normal and natural that you don’t even have to think about it – it just happens easily and effortlessly.

Okay, here’s my system that I’m going to try for 2 weeks:  I’ve noticed that when I write things in my planner it gets done.  So I have written BLOG and circled it 2x/week for the next 2 weeks.

What system can you put into place to make your life more effective?

If you’ve ever wondered how some people naturally attract great relationships while you just sit around Friday nights watching movies with your dog here are a few tips and tricks to turn that around and become a LOVE MAGNET!

1.  If you don’t have loving relationships in your life it’s because you don’t love yourself enough.  In order for you to magnetize love you need to dig deep – inside.  Love Magnet begins with loving yourself.

2.  What you think about you bring about.  Switch up that negative self talk with some positive affirmations:  I am a LOVE MAGNET.  I attract loving relationships.  I am overflowing with love.  I am healthy, happy and whole.

3.  Act as if.  Those mental movies in your head need a major overhaul.  Quite whining about what you don’t have and step into NOW.  Create the movie in your head of falling head over heals in love with yourself and when you discover how great you are “they” begin beating a path to your door wanting to spend time with such an incredible person.  Yes, imagine loving partners calling off the hook and lining up at your door to spend time with YOU.  ♥

It’s official – I just finished painting my nails the perfect pink color and I am now ready for Valentine’s day!  I have my pink sweater on with pink eyeshadow and my favorite pink socks with hearts all over them and I am overflowing with LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

I know, just a tad bit crazy but I really love Valentine’s day.  A day where we stop and truly acknowledge what this journey is all about – LOVE.  Giving, Being, Having, Creating, Holding, Forgiving, Helping, Caring, Sharing – all in the name of love.

So whether you are in love or out of love do something nice for yourself today and pick one person (or thing…could be your pet) to shine your love on.  Go out and buy that box of chocolates or that bouquet of roses and keep it for yourself or give it away whatever feels right because YOU are worth it.

And on Valentine’s Day all chocolate and candy are guilt-free!! (the best part)  ♥

There it is.  It’s broke.  Brand new.  No one knows how it happened but it’s broke.

Ever have this problem in your house?  It happened a lot to me when I was a kid growing up in a house with 4 sisters and 1 brother – 6 total.  All of the sudden my dad would start screaming at the top of his lungs and we’d all scatter because we knew someone was in trouble.  He’d line us up in the living room or outside on the lawn and walk back and forth screaming and then pleading with the guilty one to confess and if they didn’t we’d all get punished.

It seems to me like it would have been a whole lot easier (on us all)  to just confess as soon as the incident happened.  But that’s not usually how it worked.  Usually you’d just pray nobody would notice or that you’d be gone when they figured it out.  It’s nice to be an adult now.  I don’t have to worry about someone screaming at me when I break something.  Just the other day I broke my exercise tape.  I was a little upset with myself and the vcr that ate my tape but it really wasn’t a big deal and then my husband told me he could fix it and I felt a whole lot better.

Stuff gets broken.  Most times it’s no one’s fault.  You don’t set out to break things and when it happens you take note of what you did to create that experience and try not to repeat it again.  It’s an opportunity to learn, certainly not anything to lose sleep over.

So the next time you break something or find something broken take a nice deep breath and know that everything is always in divine and perfect order.  And remember, it could be worse.  Your dad could be screaming and grounding you for a month!  ♥

UBC: Day 22

Hi my name is Julie and I wear reading glasses.

When I was 35 yrs old I remember giggling at my older sister because she had to get her glasses to see something she quickly turned to me with a serious tone and said, “Oh, you just wait until you hit 40!  You laugh now but trust me in a few years you’ll be scrambling for your reading glasses and then we’ll see who’s laughing.”

Now I understand what she meant.

I am now 45 yrs old and the whole reading glass thing is a real pain in the ass.  Talk about things I used to take for granted!  And seriously how many reading glasses does a girl really need?  And someone please tell me where they disappear to?  I swear it must be that same abyss that swallows up my socks when I throw them in the laundry.

I am proud to say I have gotten real smart about my reading glasses.  Instead of spending $15-20 at Kmart I now get them at the Dollar Store or if I’m feeling rich I’ll buy a pair at the craft store…Michael’s and Joann’s are a great place to pick up a pair of reading glasses for a couple bucks and Sam’s Club and TJ Maxx offer a package of 3 animal printed ones for $15.

My husband is pretty sweet – he loves it when I wear my glasses.  He thinks I’m HOT.  I guess when he comes home with a wig and pair of stilettos pumps is when I’ll need to worry, but for now HOT is good.  ♥

UBC:  Day 16

Anyone who knows me knows I do not cook.  It’s not that I haven’t tried it’s just that I easily lose interest and end up burning it or I follow the directions in the wrong sequence or while reading the directions forget an important part which ruins the whole dish.

Well, I am happy to report that I’ve moved to a whole new level of cooking in the kitchen so those of you out there who can sympathize with my lack of success in the cooking arena listen up!

Learning 2 Love 2 Cook: 3 Tips 4 Success

1.  Attitude
As with most things in my life I realized I had the wrong attitude.  Instead of being resentful that my husband wasn’t cooking (although we now divide kitchen duties down the middle) or feeling rushed to get the job done you need to walk into the kitchen with the RIGHT ATTITUDE.

2.  All We Need is Love
I know it seems cliche but they really do know what they’re talking about when they say to cook with love – it really does change the vibrational frequency of the food and makes for a completely different experience.

3.  Spirit of Adventure
Once a week (okay, I’m lying it’s usually more like once a month, but there’s nothing wrong with aiming high) I try something new, even though my family cringes when I announce this.  Don’t let them get you down.  They are creatures of habit and if you don’t introduce new things into their life they’ll never know that pea soup is quite delightful when it’s made the old fashioned way, from mother’s heart with love vs. poured out of campbell’s metal soup can filled with salt.

So there you have it. I am thrilled to announce that the last 3 NEW meals I made my family actually applauded with “WOW this is great!” (instead of OMG do we really have to eat that?!?)  Even though it’s taken me 25 years to learn how to cook – it’s never too late to find your Inner Divine Chef.  ♥

UBC: Day 7

I must admit that I am a church goer.  My reasons for going to church have evolved over the 45 years of my life time, but overall the reason I go to church is because it makes me feel GREAT!

Growing up I went to church because my parents made me go.  Now I’m happy to say that I’ve passed down that tradition to my own children forcing them, sometimes dragging them out the door listening to their plea’s “But Whyyyy?”  “It’s sooooo boring”  and the #1 argument “I’m TIRED.”

There’s something to be said for consistency.  I believe even though consciously I didn’t want to go to church just like my own children when I was growing up that attending church sets the foundation of long lasting faith that has gotten me through some REALLY REALLY tough times in my life.  There are many, many things we have to do in life even though we don’t want to.  Making your children attend church with you sets that building block of “sometimes we do things just because.”

Once I moved out and got to decide if I wanted to go to church or not the OR NOT reigned.  Sometimes it’s good to take a break. Then I became involved in a serious relationship (with my now current husband) and I found a small spark of desire forming and we went occasionally.  It seemed to strengthen our relationship and it was fun to try out different churches and compare services; albeit, sporadically.  But the BIG kicker was when we began to have children of our own.  Then all of the sudden we both wanted to go to church and regularly.

There came a point in time when I got bored with church and began to question if it really mattered.  After some deep contemplation and personal reflection I began to realize I was going to church for all the wrong reasons.  I was attending because I wanted to ensure that my children grew up with the same values I had as a Catholic Christian, that was certainly noble, but I was beginning to feel like I was going because it was the “right thing to do” and for some reason that wasn’t enough.

Suddenly I had a SHIFT in consciousness; I began attending church because it had deep meaning for me.  I began seeing it as a place where I could purge the stress and emotional trauma of the week and be renewed and replenished.  It was a time where I could pray for my family and friends on a completely different level.  I began to connect with the deep spiritual vibration only found in a church or center where others come together to seek solace.  I began to realize we are all one on this journey of pain and suffering and for a brief moment we can unite and heal leaving with hope that next week will be better or at the very least next week I can come back here again.

So there you have it. To go or Not to go is a VERY personal question that can only be answered by you. But as I always tell people who express frustration over religious dogma in a church setting:  “It’s all about perception. Focus on the semantics of the word and the division of religions, and that’s what you’ll get. Focus on love and healing in a church setting and reconnecting with your spirituality and that’s what you’ll get.”

Remember…whatever you choose to see is really just an illusion anyway.  ♥

UBC: Day 5