When Journaling, Manifesting & Chat GPT Aren’t Giving You Clarity & Inspiration: Try This Instead

In this episode of the Pleasurepreneur podcast, host Regan Fig discusses the transformative power of physically being in the room with other like-minded individuals. She emphasises the importance of human connection amidst the rise of AI and the isolation from recent years of virtual interactions. 

Regan explores how being in a physical space with others who are also striving for growth can create a powerful and supportive environment that fosters personal and business expansion. She shares personal experiences and highlights the significance of immersions, retreats, and workshops that offer a unique opportunity to elevate one's vision and strategy. 

The episode serves as an invitation to her in-person immersion event, 'Make it a Masterpiece,' designed to catalyse personal and professional transformation through connection, clarity, and tailored strategy.

00:00 Welcome to the Pleasure Preneur Podcast
00:49 The Power of Being in the Room
04:58 The Consequences of Not Being in the Room
14:33 Introducing 'Make it a Masterpiece' Immersion
19:27 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

Resources / Links Mentioned:

• Make it a Masterpiece : In-person Immersion : Click here for more details. This is your invitation to create your business like a masterpiece - with more clarity, confidence, and pleasure.

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome to the Pleasure Preneur podcast. This podcast will help you create what you desire in your business with pleasure. Whether that be calling in your ideal clients, making more money, or creating a balanced business life blend, I'm your host. Regan Fig pleasure and business coach, published author of a Mother's Pleasure wife and mama to three little Wildlings.

However, you're choosing to listen to this podcast. Ask yourself, how can I make this more pleasurable and do just that? I acknowledge the custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded and produced, the Wadi Wadi people of Doland. Now let's proceed with pleasure.

Hello, hello and welcome back to the podcast. Today I wanna talk about something I feel really strongly about, especially right now [00:01:00] in this, I wanna say in this day and age, right, where there is so much out there that is, AI derived. That is lack of human connection. That is, you know, chat GBT and AI agents.

and also after years of COVID and zoom rooms, and I mean, especially if you are feeling stuck and flat or like you are, you're kind of circling your next level, but you're just not able to kind of like break through the veil and get there. Yeah. So I feel really strongly about this. Both from the, the actual connection side as well as for those of you who might be feeling a bit stuck, a bit flat, and as I said, like circling that next level and that something is being in the room.

The power of being in the room. Now, this isn't a metaphorical room and it's not a virtual zoom room. I'm talking about, I mean like physically, energetically, intentionally in [00:02:00] the room with. Other women who are stretching themselves, perhaps even uncomfortably, right? Stepping into unfamiliar territory, looking for dreams that feel so big and that perhaps bring up like doubt and discomfort.

being in the room with other people showing up for their desires and letting themselves like go after what they want. Being in the room to like play in that energy of connection, like human connection and like personal and business expansion. There is something that happens when you say yes to being in that kind of space, right?

And it's something you cannot replicate through journaling. Or another free masterclass or thinking about your goals on a solo beach walk. Although like all those things are so great, it's reminded me of the times in the past when I have signed up to like being in the room, like [00:03:00] physically. Retreats and immersions and workshops with other people.

Like, I remember even just buying the tickets without even getting there, buying the tickets, and feeling so excited and like, ooh, the mystery of like, who am I gonna meet? Who I'm gonna make? Who am I gonna make connections with? What will be uncovered for me in that time? Like knowing there's like a palpable, I wanna say like power that comes with being in the room and being able to connect with other people's energies.

Yeah, like you get plugged in. You get plugged into your next level to perhaps your next like vision or version of yourself to a deeper truth for you and to a bigger, bolder vision of what you're actually here to create. And the reason I think why that is, is because you are with a whole bunch of other people who are there for the same focus, right?

Like there for the same reasons. Typically, when we go to these things that are. You know, immersions and workshops and conferences and [00:04:00] retreats. There's typically a, like a focus or like an intention for these kind of rooms. And so when we are like soaking in like, and brewing in this kind of like tea of the same kind of desires.

I feel like it bolsters it. You know, it's a whole bunch of other people like literally cheering you on. a couple of weeks ago I went with my son to his district athletics carnival, and it always makes me so emotional, just like literally having their friends screaming and cheering for them to win.

Like how cool is that? And I think it's the same when we are in these kind of rooms with other people with. The same kind of focus or desired outcome. It's like we're, we're there. Even just being with each other, cheering each other on it is so powerful. Yeah. And like when you don't give yourself that space, you can really feel it.

So let's talk about what happens when you [00:05:00] are not in the room. and for those of you who have like done what I've done in the past of like, no, I am. I haven't, you know, I haven't signed enough clients to pay for that thing or, as in the sense of like deservedness rather than actual money in the bank.

or, you know, some version of, I haven't earned it yet, or I don't belong there yet, or whatever the kind of worthiness or permission piece is. Like sometimes simply buying the ticket to the thing is the first. Opportunity for growth right there because you are stepping into the identity of someone who belongs in that room, someone who gets to be there, someone who gets to connect with these other people doing these incredible expanding things as well.

Yeah, so even just from purchasing your place at the table in the room, that is already the start of the transformation. So as I said, like let's explore, like what happens if you don't let yourself. Have the [00:06:00] permission to do that. You know, when you try and do it all on your own, you know, you might get inspired for a minute, you might get that dopamine rush, but then the dopamine rush subsides and perhaps you start second guessing the big idea that felt so alive 20 or 48 hours ago, or the offer that you shared, and no one has bought within that 48 hours.

So you're like, okay, maybe I just. Close that down and hide it under the rug and hope that no one ever notices, right? Like you start to second guess and you start to like almost invalidate or push your dreams like down the road. I'm thinking like, you know, kicking the can down the road and maybe like shrinking them into like bite size of what feels realistic or what feels doable or maybe like.

Completely shifting to some other kind of thing that you think you should want instead, or you think that is available to you rather than like what you actually are visioning and desiring. Yeah, you can really stay in your head. you might bounce between other people's different [00:07:00] strategies or you might try to vision from the same environment or the same schedule that's really been draining you.

you might look around and think like, oh, well maybe I should just be grateful for what I have. And life is really good and like I'm all for gratitude. I think it's so great where you can see where you are winning, where things are working and celebrating all those things. The bigs, the small, and the stuff that even other people might not deem like worthy of celebration.

but yeah, you can look around and just be like, okay, I'm just gonna put that. That intention or that idea or that dream or desire on the shelf. Yeah, and it's not because you're flaky or like inconsistent or lacking motivation. Often it's because the vision needs to be told to be shared, to be given space, to have that opportunity for elevation to be witnessed and like mirrored back to you by someone who sees the bigness you have been.

Perhaps [00:08:00] squashing down to try and fit your schedule or your circumstances or your like beliefs about what is actually available to you. And the fastest way I know to come back to that, to actually remember what you really want and who the hell you really are, is to get into the room with other people who are desiring a similar kind of experience, desiring a similar kind of.

Elevation or focus or up level or whatever it might be that you are desiring. Yeah, there's something that happens when you step out of the day to day and into a space designed only for expansion. Let's just, yeah, let's just sum it up as expansion, right. Your nervous system will soften, although you might feel a bit nervous to start with, but your nervous system will soften when you start to realize that like, ha, I'm not the only one with perhaps like these delusional ideas or dreams.

You know, they actually seem a [00:09:00] whole lot less delusional when I'm surrounded by a whole bunch of other people who have similar delusional dreams perhaps. You know, like I don't actually have to take the lowest hanging fruit. I'm allowed to climb the highest tree and choose the highest piece of fruit, if that is what I'm desiring.

You know, what's the phrase about? Like you are the five closest people who you hang out with. Like the more rooms that you hang out with, the more people you hang out with in rooms that are aligned with what your desiring to create and achieve and experience in your life and business. The, the more like normal and obvious and, inevitable they become.

Yeah. Now being in these rooms, chances are you're going to have that experience of like, huh, this feels good. I actually can't do this. This feels like so possible. And what happens then is you're gonna be inspired. You might feel extra creative and start to really tap [00:10:00] into those visions and then start to explore like, ooh, you might even get some ideas of what, what the next step might be when you get a desire that tells us what our next step is, right?

Like follow the desire that is the next move, and suddenly the thing that has been feeling like boring or confusing, or. Just like same old day to day, like how do I stop circling this next level and like actually claim it for myself? It can click. Yeah, because immersions and like being in the room with other actual people, they don't just give you ideas.

They can shift your actual state. You'll not walk out of the room the same person as when you walked in. Yeah. I remember I did a five day retreat in Byron Bay when my second son was almost two. and I remember, one of the facilitators talking about like, when we step out of this room after this retreat, like what we've created in here, it has actually shifted everything outside of these doors as well.[00:11:00] 

And that really fricking blew my mind because we all shift, we all change. And when we're in a room like that, the world responds. Yeah. Immersions don't just give you ideas. They shift your state. You're not being pulled into a bunch of different directions. you're not answering dms while, like during dinner.

Is that just me? you are not, you know, moving between like mom and influencer or coach or wife or CEO or like housekeeper, right? You get to be you just you. Focused and nourished and resourced and lit the fuck up, and you are surrounded by other women doing the same. And that does something to you, not because you are comparing or competing, but because it activates something.

It activates a, a new standard, a new level of clarity, a new sense of, oh yeah, this like this is who I came here to be, because you already know that that version of you is inside of you. If you didn't know that, like, let me [00:12:00] remind you, your next level version that you feel like you perhaps are circling that vision that you feel connected to, or maybe that feels a little unclear right now, but you know you're meant for something bigger.

The version of you that has that and gets to have that is already in you, right? It's just about becoming her.

And it's not that you don't know what to do, like I bet you have probably already got a million notes and ideas and screenshots and like saved reels and strategies that you could follow. But I think what a lot of us either don't realize or don't allow for ourselves is that like we don't need more in, we don't need more information.

We need like elevation, we need to be in the room with other women who are also expanding and growing themselves. You know, not talking about it but doing it. Women who are claiming perhaps more pleasure, more income, [00:13:00] more alignment or abundance, that is, you know, on their terms, women who are perhaps moving through the same doubts and decisions that you are.

But doing it with devotion, I wanna say, instead of like delay, right? Like doing it with devotion like, and commitment obviously, because like they're there, they're committed. Yeah. There is something so electric that happens when you are surrounded by that, you calibrate to it, you feel yourself rise, you stop.

Making yourself like wrong for wanting what you want. You stop waiting to feel ready or to, as I talked about in the imposter syndrome episode, like you stop waiting to have that person come around with their clipboard and say, yes, you are. You are totally valid and legit. You are not a fraud. You can absolutely do this work and, and sell these offerings and help your clients, right?

you stop shrinking your desires down to what feels safe. Because in a room like what I've just [00:14:00] described, you are reminded what is actually possible. You know, you, it's like you borrow, borrow courage. you take the step, you say the thing, you move, not because you have been given like a new magical strategy, but because you remember who you are.

When you're not trying to figure it out alone, like you remember, you connect with that version of you that that woman with inside you who can have those things and reach those goals and live those dreams and those visions.

I mean, this is one of the main reasons why I created my in-person immersion. Make it a masterpiece. Yeah. It isn't a conference. it's not a busy day full of notetaking and networking. It is an energetic reset. It is a space where your nervous system gets to exhale. It is. I'm calling. I said to a friend of mine recently, I was like, it's like a spa day for yourself and your business, you know?

Well, you really [00:15:00] reconnect with that vision, with that creative fire, and you leave with your next big move fully mapped out for those of you who stick around for the second day. So day one is about the clarity. It's about the inspiration, it's about the remembering, you know, the inner work and, the, the energetic reset and the, oh my God, like this is what I want, like this is my why.

This is exactly what I want and where I wanna go. And day two is all about the actual strategy. Yeah. We need to see and be led by the desire and the vision first before we map out the strategy. Strategy without a vision that you are excited by, that you look forward to, that you're desiring, that you want so bad to happen that you are connected with that is just like really flaky strategy.

I don't wanna say flaky strategy, that's just like anyone can give anyone a strategy, but if you don't have that vision behind it, it's not actually gonna be [00:16:00] helpful. Yeah. Like we take the vision that lands from day one and in day two we make it real. Your offers, your message, your next steps, all like put together from alignment and desire and, connection to your vision and yourself, and that version of you, that woman inside of you who has that in the next level.

You know, not from a place of like urgency or not enoughness or like, I'm missing something, so I need some secret formula, or, you know, this is a missing puzzle piece. So if you have been craving clarity, if you have been desiring expansion, if you have been, as I said earlier at the start of the episode, like really circling that next level of growth for yourself and your business, or that next level of like enjoyment and satisfaction and fulfillment and like excitement for your life, and you are done with where you're at here, not again, not as if it's.

A problem, but [00:17:00] you just know you're meant for more. This is the room to be in, like make the time, book the flights, give yourself what you actually need and what you are craving and what you actually want. You know, a full fuck yes. Environment designed to let you up. And I wanna say like, move you forward, like as in it's a, a pool, right?

Like the desire is like pulling you forward. It's like. Floating you downstream. I think I've used this analogy before, like floating downstream on like one of those floaties with like cocktail in hand. That's the kind of the vibe, you know. so I'm going to, put the link in the show notes. I want you to check it out.

I want you to send me a DM if you have any questions. There are two options. As I said, there is day one, there is day two. I want you to get curious about like what might be possible for you when you're in a room with other women wanting big things like you. Yeah. And if you are also thinking like, well, I don't have, like this hu super big [00:18:00] desire.

I bet Whatever desire you do have, I bet whatever vision you have, there is elements to it that you are, that you are not allowing for yourself for whatever reason. Yeah. And so part of the strategy is clearing back like unpeeling the layer of the onion, like unlearning the parts of you that don't think it's available to you, that don't think it's possible for you, that you don't know enough or you don't know how, you know, or you have to earn it first or you haven't worked hard enough for it.

Yeah. Like day one we connect with that vision. You like have the vision for the masterpiece. Day two, it is painting the masterpiece. You'll go home with everything mapped out as to like how you begin to create that masterpiece. I'm so excited for it. Blended in, of course, with some sauna time, spa time. maybe swim in the pool, some cocktails or mocktails in the champagne garden, some breakfast out at a like local cute little farm yard cafe, right?

so yeah, get yourself in the room. If this [00:19:00] isn't the room for you, find one that is, find one that is like, so like deeply aligned with you that also feels a bit edgy and a bit scary even. You know? And when I say scary, I mean like, oh, it feels stretchy. You know, find somewhere where you can have that time and space to really focus on what it is that you desire and be with other people in the same room doing the same thing, you know?

I'll wrap it up there 'cause I wanted this to be a quick episode. Let yourself be in the room. Let yourself sit at the table, give yourself and your time, uh, give yourself and your business that time and energy and playfulness to explore and experiment and see what's available for you. And then give yourself.

The opportunity to be with others who can guide you like myself in the immersion. I can help coach you and we can put together a strategy for you to actually see how that can be a reality for you. Yeah. [00:20:00] And go away with the thought of like, what would it look like if I actually made this my reality?

Like what could be some really cool shit that changes for you? Alright, go and have a daydream and I'll leave that there. Bye for now.