Join Blaine Bartlett and Genevieve LeMarchal as they discuss the underlying energetics behind money and investing. They discuss how making money, attracting it and investing it involves understanding that it is first and foremost an energy rather than a physical thing. Money is one of the most obvious and clear external feedback signals as to our inner state and our beliefs. Blaine and Genevieve discuss how operating in lack and fear leads to a constrictive mindset and experiences in the world and with others, and how to generate good feelings that lead to rewiring our negative beliefs and associations with money.
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[Music] Hey adventurers we're back for another episode I'm so excited to introduce you to Blaine Bartlett this is adventurous and Blaine is definitely a fellow Adventurer he and I connected several months ago actually when I was on another podcast I was introduced to him through David Meltzer and we
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I immediately discovered that we have a kindred spirit together and I am so excited to show to share him with you Blaine say hello to the audience today well Genevieve thank you very much for having me here hello everybody I am very much looking forward to this conversation wonderful before we dive in and learn
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and get the offer or you can visit our website at adventurouspodcast.com. So Blaine let's start off I'd love to have you just share a little bit about yourself and a little bit about your background with our adventurers today okay well let's see where do I start yeah I guess the primary I'll just look
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at the professional side, the primary focus of my work for the last literally 40 years has been on leadership and leadership development and the focus has been there because yeah it's not commonly understood but leadership is about causing movement that's what leaders do they cause movement in organizations
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that cause movement in life not many people do that with a great deal of skill everybody's always causing movement all the time we can't not cause movement just by our very presence but how do I do that with Elegance how do I do that with intentionality how do I do that with with a focus that is generative that moves away from command
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and control and actually empowers others to come with me so that's been the focus of my work and I've worked all over the world we've had offices in four countries for a number of years now I worked with some of the largest companies on the planet as well as startups doing a fair amount of work in family
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offices right now and this is going to I think dovetail nicely into what we're talking about today yeah just kind of how is wealth actually leveraged for a greater good so the focus like I said has been on leadership and I've been doing it for 40 years and on the personal side yeah they've got four
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grandkids yeah I am an adventurer I'm a pilot a scuba diver a skier fly aerobatics just kind of fill in the blank the flyer batx fly aerobatics lie aerobatics yeah what is that oh you do loops and planes loops and planes yeah we haven't done it for a while but I was you know trained as an aerobatic pilot and one of
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my very first flight was an aerobatic flight and I got hooked oh wow my grandfather was a fighter pilot and oh my goodness gracious yeah yeah I flew with him one time not in not in the jet but just in a regular plane and I get carsick like in the back of a Buick so I was not doing so great I appreciate your skillset I will not
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ride in the place okay yeah I managed to make a Navy pilot sick one time doing some aerobatics oh that's actually she was in the back seat that's very commendable yeah I think we had to try though he didn't think so but that was another story entirely that's cool very interesting I'm a skier too I've been skiing since I was seven
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very awesome so you and I have had some conversations we've talked about in the context of venture capital in the context of investing the role of an investor I believe is to be a conduit for abundance and to create abundance and this requires people to think about money and abundance in an entirely
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different way so what would you say to somebody who you know was maybe talking with you and clearly had some blockers to abundance to wealth that were kind of ingrained in them but they didn't maybe necessarily see it I'm sure you get this all the time so I'd love to crack open the hood of your brain what's
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going through your head when you meet people who have blockers and they are blocked yeah and it's it's almost always a function of an internal mindset a reified I mean it's an established and unexamined mindset and by that is people will typically have one of three paradigms or you know mindsets that are
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present in a number of different domains in life but money being the most yeah obvious it's you know there's either enough money you know there's just enough there's not enough or there's more than enough now those three distinctions there's not enough money there's just enough money there's
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more than enough money informs how I actually work in relationship to money because it is a relationship I have relationships with this energetic that we call money and if my mindset my unexamined Paradigm about money which is typically learned a long time ago is there's you know money doesn't grow on trees there's not enough
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money or there's just enough money my behavior is going to be consistent with that and I will be attracting into my life circumstances and situations where I just get by it's just enough and if I've got a poverty mindset and that there's not enough in my experience is that there's not enough I'm going to
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be you know really focused on scrimping and saving and not on generating but on holding and it's a contractive experience and by contractive I mean there's fear yeah involved with it yeah and on the other side it's more than enough it's an abundant Universe even when I look at my checkbook and it says zero right now if
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I have that mindset I know that it's going to be fine yeah my good friend Bob Proctor before he died and you know you know Bob and I knew each other for years you're so cool you knew Bob Proctor he's just oh he's one of my best friends yeah he was at my wedding. I mean he was just one of my dearÂ
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friends would tell a story about you know entrepreneurs that he would be working with and people would be saying well where do we get the money to do this and Bob with a twinkle in his eye would say wherever it's at and then people are like what does that mean kid you get the money from wherever it's at because money is ubiquitous and
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it's ubiquitous because it's energy that's all it is money is energy and this kind of goes back to the whole notion of causing movement money is always flowing is it flowing to and through me, that's the question I want to look at there's a lot of metaphysical Concepts that you're oh yeah discussing here and there so
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for me and many of the people who listen to this podcast who do have spiritual beliefs about you know that lead us to being people of purpose and impact who are Desiring to do something like that in the world and there's we seek we want to know the truth and many many people have been led to starting to understand like wait
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a minute it seems like every time I think about the thing that I don't want to have happened it has happened and if I think about things I want they happen maybe my thoughts actually create something you know and that leads people down a rabbit hole and almost everyone has that story what about the people like you the thing that's
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interesting about money is it is the most obvious feedback that you can get to the inner state of yourself if your interstate is off then the money you know the only more direct feedback that you could get is when the interstate is off in your rate it pours rain outside you know your
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your external situation is reflecting what you believe what about people who aren't yet there with their kind of on their spiritual path and understanding some of those underlying laws and principles that this is rooted in that's a great question I don't have to have a metaphysical lean in order to appreciate
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the fact that energy is money and you know everything in the universe is energy I mean yeah this modality that we're using right now on Zoom that's just an electrons and movement that's all it is the desk that I'm sitting at the microphone that I'm speaking at it appears to be solid it's
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not solid it's on it's actually vibrating Everything vibrates now that's a physical even emotion even emotions vibrate that was like human beings connection to Spirit yeah in that sense you know there's an emotional frequency and how I feel about something Now this is interesting how I describe something in my mind and this goes to
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that mindset question how I describe something in my mind not enough just enough more than enough generates an experience in my body and we call that emotion it also translates into a state of being if it's been habituated so my state of being shows up in in the emotional frequency and how I describe something determines how I feel
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how I feel drives my behavior I don't have just Behavior doesn't just happen Behavior happens as a consequence of back up the truck here the feelings that are in place that were caused generated by a thought process so excuse me so when we start looking at it through that lens I don't have to be metaphysical or even spiritual
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oh I have to be able to recognize as how I'm thinking about something is generating as a cause an effect out there in my world you can make it very logical as long as people believe that how you think and how you act as long as people are actually willing and able to take personal responsibility and say how I think and
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how I act has something to do with the outcomes that I generate in the world and money is not exempt from that money is not exempt from that to your point money is probably one of the quickest indicators of what's going on internally as it is within so it is without and it shows up now that being said what's interesting
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is I don't want to get caught my current reality and say that that is the way my life is my current reality is not in any way shape or form going to cause my future state my future reality and this is where people get hung up excuse me is that they will look at their current reality and well gosh you
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know I don't have money in my banking account and this is where Bob's admonition about where the money gonna comes from well wherever it's at I need to position myself in a way that allows movement to occur that positions me to actually be in a year in a receptive mode when money does appear now that
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sounds but that's essentially what we're talking about yeah we think about it and that thinking begins to create a frequency state in my body that it's called emotions I get connected I start feeling as if it's abundant and then I start behaving in that manner and you know we could euphemistically say fake
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it's till you make it but that's essentially what's kind of going on here we just got to play with that notion and how that looks pragmatically it gets really interesting I did some work years and years and years ago around the question of money and poverty structures in inner cities and one of the things that we had people
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doing was when they went shopping and these were people that were on assistance food stamps and that sort of thing instead of getting the cheapest can of soup as an example find you know when you're shopping get the can of soup that is not egregiously overpriced but it's don't go for the store brand go for the name
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a brand that has actually got a bit of a little bit more of a qualitative experience associated with it something as simple as spending five cents more on a can of soup begins to shift the mindset it does I don't know if you've heard this book so I'll share it like a slight personal story you know I come
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my mother was a single mother she raised three kids and I come from the land of just enough like you know we would eek buy and we were always taken care of and so I have and had a lot of that in me which ultimately is a lack mentality because I didn't believe I could have more than enough I I stayed in this one
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area and I always had just enough to get by sometimes maybe not quite enough but not enough like I had a threshold you know what I mean like that I was meant to be energetic quickly operating it and you know but my grandparents were wealthy and I, you know had other family members who did well and so I knew that it wasn't
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necessarily the way but I could actually feel that in me that something fell off like it wasn't like I had blinders on and didn't see like I was just born into this like I knew that there was something different but I didn't know for a very long time and so when I decided you know several years ago
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that I said I'm Gonna Get Right with I'm gonna do the inner work in many ways and it wasn't originally going to be Financial driven I was trying to you know do work on myself in other ways but I started seeing improvements in my career and other aspects of my life and I thought to myself this is interesting
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like you know and so when I, you know realized that I had been given a gift in terms of learning how to become a venture capitalist at a young age and I said you know this is a gift that I can either take and use or it's a gift I can not use and I decided I would use it I had to examine some of my beliefs that I had
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about wealth because I realized if I don't get this clear in myself I am now a blocker to abundance and that is not my job my job is to become a conduit for abundance and so I need to make sure I've cleared out whatever that is and so I started taking courses and really diving in I started reading
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books and one of the principles about the soup can is something this one book I feel like I read it at the right time at the right place it's called the having yeah yeah and I don't know if you've heard of her Su Yun Lee I think is the author and that book she talks about that principle of in the moment that
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like when you're whether you have a dollar to your name or you know whatever in the moment that you are spending money generate a feeling that it feels good and tell yourself I have the money so you know like and so now I mean like obviously I can afford to buy the things I want but like sometimes when I sit in
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a beautiful hotel you know and I'm on a business trip and I'm exhausted and I'm tired or whatever and maybe I'm having a cup of coffee and the sun is rising and it's coming up over you know looks beautiful I'll stop and I'll say I have the money to pay for this ten dollar cup of coffee in this hotel and stay here and to have
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this egg sandwich Serena whatever it is I'm having and I'll soak that in I'll be like I have the money for this that is remarkable you know and it's just this moment it's like it's not like gratitude but it kind of is it's just it is I have the money versus if I was staying in a like really scary neighborhood at a
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really bad Hotel so I could scrimp and save and scrimp and save and try to like stretch you know the budget as much as I could and drinking a really bad cup of coffee because I love coffee it wouldn't be the same I wouldn't be able to be like I have the money to stay in this horrible Hotel drinking this
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awful guppy you know it wouldn't generate the feelings and it starts so small coffee yeah you know what's interesting and this starts to get into the practical ways that I began to shift my mindset that that notion of abundance and this is you know what I'm fascinated by the that whole the
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whole VC area in one sense because as a conduit typically well I'll be specific with you in specific here as a VC you know doing Angel you know whatever it is you know the way that you work with it you are actually setting yourself up as a center of distribution yes not as a center of accumulation and I want to be
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real clear about the distinction there anybody that is looking on accumulating typically has got a mindset somewhere in place that there's not enough so I need to have a rainy day fund as an example that sort of thing that's not how the universe works that's not how nature works yeah yeah it's always in flow
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nature is always in flow it's always moving everything in nature serves as a center of distribution and that mindset of you know kind of gratitude noticing where I'm at and acknowledging I am the kind of person who yeah I can't afford this and not just afford it I can afford it with abundance yeah it doesn't or even if you can't
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afford even if you can't afford it with abundance like even if you're buying a 10 cup of coffee and you're like really strapped and you know but you happen to be at a hotel and the coffee is 10 bucks and you bought it you still have the money supply the 10 cups of coffee and it was like kind of having that where it
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was like well yeah you know like we're on a budget and I can't like you know I can't buy this or I can't buy that I have the money to buy this and so one of the things that were a huge breakthrough for me was you know, especially in the moments when I would feel really tight you know because also being a center for
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distribution being a conduit there are times when I'm like er where am I going to come up with this money it's a lot it always comes it always comes but as long as the purposes are aligned like I've got to get really clear on what and why but so that aside like for example this phone you know so
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let's say you know we only have ten dollars in our bank account we're sitting on the side of the road and we're like What are we gonna do you know and probably what I would say is we would have to Let's immediately change our mindset lets we gotta change our mind first before we go try to fix before we start a lemonade stand before
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we do anything we're gonna get right in our mind and I would say Blaine we have this phone we have this one and you know this phone call I don't know what an iPhone costs they're expensive you know but like let's say this phone was a thousand dollars right I would say two we have the money to buy this phone
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and this and the fact that we have this phone in our hands is proof that we have the money and because time doesn't matter it doesn't matter that I bought this phone three months ago or I bought it today because I have the phone, therefore, I have the money and so then I'd start looking around and being like I have these shoes
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I have the money to buy them you know I just maybe it's not my bank account at the moment but I have it and so kind of breaking that well I don't have it now and the number doesn't say you know is where I would always start with somebody who's in like an extreme cash Crunch and you know if that were us and we were
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sitting on the sidewalk and we didn't know what to do we would do that first and then from that place would come the ability to receive we would shift we could start to receive and we'd be like what's our lemonade stand and it would probably be the most pop and lemonade stand on that block because shifted you know and we were we
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recognized I have the money it's here what's interesting about the way that you frame that is then it kind of goes back to the idea that money is energy that's all it is that phone is money in a different form than it would be appearing in my bank account but it's still money yeah it's just it's money in a different form it's
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energy in a different form the shoes are money in a different form energy is always transmuting it's always transforming itself and when you begin to really understand what we're we are energetic beings living in an energetic universe and you cannot outgive the universe you just can't out give it and it's always looking for ways
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to you know manifest you know greater things that's the nature of life is manifestation greater things greater good so when you start playing with that notion and I mean literally playing with that notion yeah just laughing I've got a very good friend his name's Ken Honda yeah Ken lives in Japan and is as
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in like Honda cars well no yeah he's not related to that family but yeah Canada is the most published author in Japan he, I mean he's just wildly successful his latest book is called happy money and the idea behind happy money is exactly what you were talking about you bless money as you spend it or invest it
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or just move it you're always blessing it yeah if it's an unexpected expense it kind of crimps you a little bit that's fine you just bless the money as it goes away because it's going to come back and that's part I love that idea distribution I love the idea of blessing it because so I one of the people teachers that
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I learned from Amanda Francis and I'd love to have her on these podcasts one day but Amanda Francis you know we have all of these things that we have guilt about and so like maybe you're carrying a little bit of bounce on your credit card or maybe you've got you to know some bills or something like that
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or a lot of people are blocked about making money because they don't want to pay taxes they're like oh the government's going to take it out like you know and so she's changed your mindset where you say I you know I am thankful for the services of Chase Bank you know or American Express for providing me the ability to
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you know use some money that I needed and that served me at the time and you know I paid a fee for that service and I'm happy to pay that fee because that is the fee that I agreed to pay and that's I'm happy to pay it you know and it took it takes off this guilt you know and same thing with taxes like hey you
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know I I could complain all day about the potholes in the road and everything that's horrible you know but I could say I am receiving a fire department and there are police officers here and you know they've put new stoplights in and these are services and I'm happy to pay for them and start to that self-talk yeah takes
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away that stagnation and guilt feeling when you have to pay for things that you don't want to pay and because that ultimately blocks you from receiving money because now all of a sudden it's like well you're not going to get the money for whatever it is you need to do because there's a whole bunch of things that you don't want to pay for
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so you're not a happy Giver you're not a happy spender yes yeah so it has to be aligned you want to have happy money in your life you don't want to have somebody in your life you don't want to have Angry money in your life you want Happy money in your life yeah and yeah and how that gets created bless it just
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bless it yeah it's interesting so I'm curious I don't know if you have a story to share here but you know everyone sort of had in terms of coming to these realizations there are a lot of people who have kind of a moment or a time a turning point when they started to discover you know whatever it was but you know people's
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Journey with money and with things like that is no different do you have kind of a time was there a moment was there a turning point where you said this is not what I thought it was it could actually be this whole different way you know when did you have your shift that was put you on a new pathway yeah that's a
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really interesting question yeah I'd probably go back about 60-plus years to find that because it's it has been with me for a long time I mean I grew up in a lower-middle-class family and we always had just enough yeah that always worked and you know Mama's a stay-at-home mom that sort of stuff
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but we always had enough so there was I never had the mindset of there's not enough there was always just enough and I think it happened when I was going into University going yeah going into University and I was I had an opportunity to take advantage of an overseas Exchange program
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and you know my family didn't have the money to pay for that or anything else but it was something that I really wanted to do and I didn't know how I was going to get the funds to do it but I knew that this really there was just something that was calling to me I can't say yes to this opportunity so
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I signed up and now and I do remember this it was a 25 register or sign up for your registration fee or there was a fee associated with it five you know 25 I think it was and so I had to actually scrape in this is back in the late 60s I had to scrape the money to you know that it wasn't like it wasn't just
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laying around but yeah I wrote a check and set it off then I forgot about it I literally just forgot about it four months later five months later I get this notice in the mail that I'd been accepted and you know I just kind of there were two experiences I had one was oh my God and then the other one was oh my God
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because you know it was a fair chunk of change and I, you know there's an old aphorism about you know there are two wolves that you can feed one is The Wolf of you know the aspiration the other one is The Wolf of fear and Desperation the challenges which wolf do you feed yeah and this is you know mindset so I had
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both of those experiences oh my god I've been accepted oh my God both Wolves yeah both wolves and I started feeding the wolf of oh my god I've been excited I accepted and I got excited and it was fascinating to me just I never ever considered at that from that point that I wouldn't have what I needed to have in
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order to get what I wanted and then that's carried on and that happened when I was 19. so I mean that's almost yeah well I won't tell you how many years it's a long time ago but from that point forward every time I've looked at my bank account and it hasn't had the number in it that I wanted I've never worried about it I've
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always had this new sense of belief this now sense of certainty that it's always it's already happened I just haven't arrived it's already there it just hasn't shown up yet I'm not worried about it it's always going to be there yeah and that has never not been true it's never not been true I cannot think
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of a single instance where that has not actually manifested itself for me I've always had enough money to do what I wanted maybe not exactly when I wanted but to do what I wanted and to buy what I wanted and I mean I've never found myself in a position of having to compromise that desire and it was rooted in that experience
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yeah and it was literally a choice which wolf I feed yeah you know the thing about that too is before I was feeding the proper wolf you know a long time ago when you know when I was much younger I was feeding the other wolf of fear and black and all these things I still always ended up being taken care of and
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getting what I needed and things like that and so I realized this journey from point A to point B can either be awful and I can be miserable and stressed out or it can be I can be a little more relaxed about it because it's gonna happen and you know and I started looking back over my experiences and
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realizing every single time that I needed some whatever I needed I always got it somehow and you know you got to move your feet you can't just like lay on the couch and you know but like you know there's it always came and I was always taken care of and so that was my first step before then I could say
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what if I could have more you know and that was heavily triggering for me you can't have more oh my gosh you don't deserve that that's like what do you need why do you need all that you know and I ran into that with a lot of people all the time especially in Venture Capital you know especially people I work with when you start
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talking about returns and you start talking about like you know various aspects of you know this is the carried interest and it's you know projected to be worth it because people immediately reject the money nope I don't need that I'm just gonna give it all away and I'll be like that's fine you know if you if
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you want to you do that you know but it's it's coming from the energy behind it is I can't rejection rejection rejection instead of I receive and I will it will flow through me to whatever I decide it should go to you know nope I don't need that kind of money I'm good with what I've got yeah okay two different mindsets
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and again I kind of go back to nature always seeks increase it always seeks to express more of who I am more of what we are yeah growth is natural in nature and growth requires energy and in this world that we live in yeah money is one of the growth mechanisms or one of the fuels for the growth that we aspire to I like
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to share with people that money is not good nor bad it only amplifies what already is and so it's it flows as an expression of the current state it amplifies what already is I'm curious especially with some of the work that maybe you've done with family offices and maybe some of the work that you've done with some of the
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you know investors and things like that who have that level of wealth how in tune are they to some of these principles that you that we're speaking about it's kind of a mixed bag I mean it truly is when we start getting into a third generation not so much second generation in this family office structures the third generation
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now there's you know that's been the wealth has been there for a long enough period that there's a sense of entitlement that starts to creep in some of the conversations and behaviors so there needs to be a greater for the sake of what that we're using our wealth for and it's not just to maintain our
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lifestyle because that's where entitlement comes in but if there's a bigger for the sake of what that we can you know applaud this yeah applaud this energy bless this energy in service of this greater for the sake of what that starts to transform how these family offer these wealthy wealthy wealthy
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billion-dollar family offices actually begin to look at where they direct their energy yeah slash monies yeah so yeah it is a mindset shift yeah it really is and then part of the difficulty in working with some of these family structures your family system family offices is the notion of a center of
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distribution versus a center of accumulation and centers of accumulation tend to want to hold on to things and I'm not talking about being crazy silly about them just kind of throwing stuff out to the wind but I am talking about being judicious about where am I in what's the greatest impact that this
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wealth could have I get to direct and this is the great beauty of having a family office is I get to direct this immense resource to make something happen out there and is that something generative that we can that we as a family can really get behind and feel good about
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you know it's yeah questions of legacy and everything I'll start to come into play here but yeah it's a great wealth has it's interesting it doesn't have any distinctions outside of having more money than folks that don't have great money they're the same it's all a relationship and if People's relationship with money
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isn't squared away it shows up regardless of where you are on the wealth Spectrum I have started to get get to know some family offices recently just in my journey of in raising a venture fund and I can even feel it sometimes when I'm talking with the people whether it's the actual family themselves or even if
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it's just the who whoever is their manager or their allocator you can kind of tell the difference between a family that is clutching and they're like we don't want to become you know like we're going to do things the way that we've always done and you see that like the original money was made and some
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sort of Industrial Way and they're looking for industrial things to invest in and it comes from a space of being of constriction we don't know you know we're going to do what we've always done because this is the way we've always done it and we're trying to preserve and preserve and preserve because we want to make sure we have
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enough for ourselves and we have enough for our next Generation but there's not a lot of expansiveness and then and then you sometimes run into families as well as you know maybe they're managers who are like hey you know like I know that the family originally made their money and you know oil or whatever but I promise you like
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they're really really looking to expand they want to get into these other areas they're interested in data they're interested in global health and it's like they start selling to me the fund manager because which is fascinating but you know they're looking for opportunities to put money to work in
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an expansive way and it's very different and being in a room you can feel the difference between the different investors and kind of pick like you I want involved you guys really nice we can hang but you're not the right energy for what we're doing here which is you know you're going to be looking for what kind of returns are you
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generating you know like invest in real estate or something you know because this is you know this is global Health Equity and impact and it's going to be high returning but it's not going to be the same and families who say I want to be a part of it you know and it's like understanding you know my work is of
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high service and I want other people who are aligned with that and who want to put their money to work in a way of high service High service yeah yeah for me and this kind of goes full circle back to you know your question about tell me who you are what you up to my perspective on business is that
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the purpose of business is to create the possibility of thriving on the planet that's the purpose of business create the possibility of thriving and if we're doing that well we're going to be you know in business for quite a period of time and we're going to be making a fair amount of money did you get a landmark
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I'm curious did you ever did I go to Landmark no I say create the POs you use a lot of phrases and I'm like yeah no I actually predate them but I know all I know everybody there yeah it's great yeah anyway continue on create the possibility of you know possibility to thrive just the possibility right and if businesses are
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doing that well as opposed to we need to make a profit to satisfy our shareholders in the quarterly in the next quarter of these yes payout two very distinct mindsets and one is a much longer in the work that I do with some of my clients you know from a leadership perspective I will invite them to create a Thousand-Year vision
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for themselves and for their company now their company and themselves are not going to be around in a thousand years but the idea of working with a Thousand-Year Vision typically takes the ego out of the conversation because there is a recognition that this is corporeal me is not going to be around so then the
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only question I'm left with is what am I generating what am I causing what am I kind of movement and what's that movement in service of yeah I think about that a lot what are you at cause for what are you the cause of you know and that's why I asked if you're in Landmark because that's something you
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know we learned to be at cause of something because create that possibility you know but if you don't know what it is and you know and that's how you create a future that doesn't look like your presence right and it's not a mirror of your past but you know the end and so I want to go through I want one last
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piece of wisdom from you before we wrap everything up what would you say to somebody who is you know maybe an entrepreneur or maybe they just they know that there's more in them in the in their financial World they know they want to have a better Financial experience than they're having today and there's a disconnect
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what would you tell that person what kind of advice would you give them what would you what would people have to pay you your hourly rates to learn that could that you could share with them in a couple minutes okay probably the best thing that I can do for a young entrepreneur that's getting started and is wrestling with
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this money thing is find somebody that has actually cracked the code yeah not totally perhaps but somebody like you is an example yeah somebody that has got a mindset that is something that you would like to emulate yourself hook yourself up with them and ask them to be a mentor for you and yeah
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you don't have to do this by yourself I mean changing the mindset that we have by ourselves is bloody difficult work because our eyes look out our ears point out everything points out we don't see ourselves yes yeah 95 of their studies after study after study on this but by the time we're 30 years of age 95 of our
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behavior is dictated and generated by a subconscious mindset 95 of our Behavior is generated by a subconscious mindset we don't know what that is and we can't know what that is until somebody points it out someone else shows us yeah and once it's pointed out then I get to make some choices and they typically are kind
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of small incremental choices where I start you know Shifting the trajectory and if I've got a long-term plan I'm in a one-degree shift in where I'm moving will end up being a significant shift 10 15 20 years down the road I mean it will be an enormous Vector from where I started out but you know if I've got a mentor that
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can guide me if I can give you know and it may not be just in one domain you know but find people that are doing already and being already what you aspire to do and be and then find ways to work with them yeah I would say to make yourself your own inquiry like be in constant inquiry of your own self yeah and and
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oh wait for me I think one of the biggest hardest lessons I had to learn was I am 100 responsible for every single thing in my life and you know even you know I don't get to put the blame out on any other person or any other circumstance or anything it is always my responsibility you know and sometimes it's hard for me to take that
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responsibility but if you're constantly inquiring yourself why is it that I keep avoiding to do this thing you know stuff like that I had a teacher I have friends that we talk with and we discuss these things this is something it's that's very normal and when I started to do this with people and I started to really
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experience major shifts and I've been doing it for a long time I started to notice you know some of people who are like me also had people like them and we were all you know we're all teaching each other and it's like little chat Breads and whatever like that but yes exactly but to keep it current the conversation becomes the
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relationship and the relationship that I have with money I have to have a conversation like the conversation I have about money and money shows up in the money I have yeah just like any relationship yeah you can't have not you can't you can't not have conversations about your romantic partner relationship either and
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the conversations that you have or don't have will show up in that relationship with your partner absolutely for sure well I would love to have people connect with you what would you like to point people towards if they'd like to learn more about your work there is much more work that Blaine does outside
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of just these money energetics but I wanted to discuss this because I ran the topic by a few people and everyone was fascinated to talk about it so where would you like to direct people toward probably you know all of the social platforms LinkedIn Facebook Instagram you know present there yeah at
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Blake Bartlett I've got a YouTube channel but most immediate would be my website blainebartlett.com and also my podcast the Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett okay very useful I will link those in the show notes so there you guys have it I am so thrilled to have gotten this opportunity
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to sit down and talk with Blaine Bartlett about this very important topic that I think everyone needs to talk about and start talking about it immediately because you will experience the benefits and the rewards in your financial life and your relationship with money guaranteed so that is today's episode of
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adventurous and we will see you all on here for the next one they should be who okay [Music]Â