The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now As you read that headline, Nothing Has Any Meaning Except The Meaning I Give It, what does that mean to you? I know that’s a simple question but it’s a powerful realization when we come to understand that everything in our life has meaning, and we are the ones who have given meaning to it. Life’s ups and downs, we give meanings. Life’s blessings, we give meaning. Divorce and marriage we give meaning. Sex life, no sex life, adultery, loyal partners, we give it all meaning. Having a job, not having a job. Having money, not having money, we give it meaning. The biggest mistake that most of us make is that we make the meaning about our own worth and value and we devalue ourselves when we compare ourselves against what others have and do not have, we give that meaning…and usually it’s negative meaning. Look at all the things you worry about in life, what does it mean that you worry and what meaning are you giving to the things that you worry about? It’s pretty simple and also conversely complex but your life is a big bundle of meanings and it’s you who places the meanings on your life. Do you place positive or negative meanings? Do your meanings build you or destroy you? Do your meanings keep you healthy or destroy your health.  Transformational Takeaway: You are the creator of your life because you create based upon the meanings you hold. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

2 Juni 202135min

Start Your Transformation Now Stop thinking and know more sounds oxymoronic, right? I totally understand because we have been taught since we were kids that we had to excel at “thinking.” You know, it was all about how smart we were, good grades, etc.  What if that cultural thought actually kept and keeps you trapped? Rumi once said something like to be silent is to know everything. When he said silent, he meant that we should slow down and stop the overthinking and quiet the mind. In this episode, I talk about some of the limitations of our “thinking” brain versus our “knowing” mind. As you’ll discover, I talk about meditation and how that’s the first place to start and it’s also a huge limitationsto get stuck in that place. I know those who meditate think what I just said contradicts what they think, however, to just “mediate” is to work from only one level of mind. Ideally, we want to learn to manage our thinking and brain, and when we do that the silent mind begins to open up for us. Transformational Takeaway: When you get out of your analytical thinking your silent mind begins to open for you. Mentioned Resources: EPISODE 6: “Here’s The Only Place To Find Your Highest Potential” Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Binaural Beats, Healing Meditation Music, Relaxing Music Meditation, Healing Meditation Music Calm Solfeggio 432 Hz – 1 Hour Positive Resonance Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

26 Maj 202139min

Start Your Transformation Now In this episode I have three themes: I talk about and read notes from an actual phone call that I had with my brother-in-law, the shaman, don Xavier. As well, I pull a lesson from them and share it with you, and then I extend that into a second big takeaway to help you create more freedom in your life. In January of 2001 when I lived in NYC I had a significant life-changing experience that I share with you. In the process, I got a tongue lashing from my brother-in-law and I share that with you verbatim, warts and all. The big takeaway from that call is that I had to “align” myself spiritually. I had to fall in line with my life’s calling. Candidly, I had been shirking my responsibilities and consequently was living from what I call “misalignment.” Overall, in terms of 3D life, it was no big deal but in terms of my spiritual evolution, it was costing me everything, especially my peace of mind. In this episode, I talk about the power of peace of mind and how it can set you free. Most of us live in lives of chaos and most of us live on the hamster wheel of life and it distracts us from our passions and quite candidly, wears us out. Secondly, I talk about being a slave to money. Most people are not money motivated, so to speak, but they spend their entire lives in the pursuit of money to maintain whatever standard of living they have. In this episode, I dive into that and definitely talk about freeing yourself from that soul-sucking hamster wheel. Transformational Takeaway: It’s hard to do anything in life if you don’t have peace of mind and money is a tool, not our master. Mentioned Resources: Episode 9: How The Law Of Attraction Repels The Money And Abundance You Want Join the Nail Your Niche Waitlist Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

19 Maj 202146min

Start Your Transformation Now Ok, so I decided to call this type of podcast a “Podside Chat” because I want these to be casual and comfortable so you can better absorb the content. Obviously, I can’t go super deep on episodes like this, and my objective is to get you to start thinking in new ways little by little. So for now, let’s use this format. This week, in this episode, I talk about several things and yet two main themes, Self-Love and Living In The Present. These are “slippery topics” and ones that are foundational for all of our lives and our happiness. The first topic, self-love. The foundational thought this week is this: The Only Way To Feel Love Is To Love Yourself First. We have such a lack of self-love in the world, if anything, the lack is of epidemic proportions. It’s like the invisible poison that just slowly kills people, so it’s something that needs to be addressed. Next, I talk about living in the present. We live in a world that has conditioned itself to be in the past and the future when neither exists. Transformational Takeaway: Until we can get a better handle on self-love and being present in our own lives, heartache and frustration are going to be our lots in life. Mentioned Resources: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on it by Kamal Ravikant Episode 6: Here’s The Only Place To Find Your Highest Potential Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

12 Maj 202139min

Start Your Transformation Now As I was thinking about this week’s episode and what I wanted to share I had an epiphany: I have tons of things to share with you sitting right on my desk. For decades I have taken notes when talking to my brother-in-law, the shaman. Over the years I’ve gone through the notes and taken an inventory of myself and my own growth and often I add to the notes with my own assessment of self-growth. As I was thinking about this week’s episode I had a stack of notes on my desk that are simply personal notes to myself and I thought, “Why don’t I share this with people?” The podcast is never contrived or orchestrated in any way others than to serve you and perhaps give you food for thought, and when I had this idea earlier I decided to just share with you some of the bullets from my personal notes. The thoughts I share this week have been life-changing for me and I think you’ll also find value. I could give the bullet points I talk about here in this write-up but that ruins all the fun of new discovery, so, listen to this week’s episode and I’m curious so to whether or not you like the impromptu format of this episode. The general theme this week is random thoughts regarding spiritual responsibility for our lives and our personal evolution. And, because I have a transformational takeaway each week, let me pick just one from the bullets I talk about and it’s this… Transformational Takeaway: What you’re in agreement with is what you’re in alignment with. Mentioned Resources: Episode 2: Who Are You And What Is Your Identity? EPISODE 83: You speak your life into existence. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

5 Maj 202141min

Start Your Transformation Now I did an episode very similar to this last week and it’s such a HUGE and vital concept I decided to do another episode on Ayni. As I was thinking about a topic for this week’s episode I ran into an old journal I had from a decade ago and it had a handwritten note from a friend of mine who built a wildly successful and large company. Years ago she told me the four things that built her business were Love, Care, Concern, and Giving and I expand on that in this episode. If you’re like most people you probably think you’re a concerned and giving person but are you really? Seriously, have you deeply examined why you give? Here is a subtle distinction that most people miss. Most people think they give because it makes them feel good but even that in itself is giving to get because you’re giving to get something in return, which is a happy feeling. I have a few vital questions for you in this episode to explore. I also touch upon many of us think that if we’re generous then we’re all good and we “did good,” but have you asked yourself why you’re so generous? And, here is something most of us overlook for many years, even if we’re generous are we simultaneously selfish? I’ve always been very generous in life but I never realized until several years back that I was selfish with my generosity. That was a definite blind spot I had and I’m sure as I talk about it in this episode many people can relate. You’re only on the plant for two things….to evolve and serve, there are no other reasons and hence, this is why another episode on this, because service helps us further down the road in our own evolvement. Transformational Takeaway: LOVE, Care, Concern And Giving Are The Surest Way To Transform Your Life. Mentioned Resources: EPISODE 163: “AYNI – The Reciprocity Of Life – Part 3” Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

28 Apr 202135min

Start Your Transformation Now This is one of the most powerful concepts in life. It has universal awareness but very few of us truly “know” this concept and we don’t exercise it in life. Your external life is a reflection of your internal life and what you have in your external life is the objectification of what you have in your internal life. Hence, if you’d like to observe the quality of your thinking, look at the quality of your life. They are one in the same. As it pertains to prosperity, what you have in prosperity is a reflection of your prosperity consciousness and your consciousness determines to what degree you serve others. Ok, so where am I going with this? Easy, it’s subtle yet this determines all…and that is to what degree we are fully immersed in the cycle for life or the reciprocity of life. The truth is this, life is reciprocal and it reflects us back to ourselves and what we have in life is a reflection of what we give in life. Listen to this episode where I dig into AYNI again, as it pertains to service to others, and I talk about how to bring it more fully into your life and create my health, wealth, and abundance in your life. Transformational Takeaway: You get what you give in life. Mentioned Resources: Episode 33: AYNI – The Reciprocity Of Life Episode 35 : AYNI – The Reciprocity Of Life Part 2 Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

21 Apr 202136min

Start Your Transformation Now Ok, so last week we started this topic and I asked you to do an exercise for an entire week to see how often you did or didn’t do what others wanted of you just to please them. What did you discover about yourself? If you’re like most people you found that you do a whole lot of what you don’t want in an effort to please other people and keep them happy. In this episode, I want to share seven points to consider so you can stop caring about what others think and how you can stop giving your power away: 1. What meaning are you putting on people liking and approving of you? Does it validate you? Do you feel higher self-worth? 2. Just be you. Some people won’t like you but when you’re you, those who like your values, vibes, and thoughts will gravitate towards you. 3. Do not take people’s thoughts about you personally? People do not like you or not like you because of you, they like you or don’t because of their interpretations of who they think you are and the relevance of that to their own value systems. 4. Self-Acceptance. Just accept who you are. Some will love you, some will reject you…that’s a way of life. You cannot grow in life until you accept yourself. 5. Your life is not a popularity contest. What do you want to do in the world? Many times it’s the crazy people who are not liked and they do the most in the world. 6. Are you the problem? Take some life inventory. Maybe when you’re repelling people it’s “not them,” maybe it’s you exhibiting some undesirable social characteristic and some people don’t want to be around it. 7. And finally, stop caring what others think or do not think of you. You cannot control that. Some will like you, some will not…so what! Transformational Takeaway: You give your power away when you live your life by what others think you should and should not do… Mentioned Resources: Episode 19: Why People Who Trigger You Are Your Greatest Blessing Let's Connect:  Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people. Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! Thank you for listening!  With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

14 Apr 202143min