Have you ever felt like you're standing at the edge of your dreams, unsure of how to take the leap? Join me as I welcome Star Magee, a powerhouse manifesting life coach and yoga therapist, whose journey is a testament to the transformative power of manifestation and inspired action. Through an honest and engaging dialogue, we peel back the layers of Star's "Glowing Well" podcast and personal growth app, diving into the heart of meaningful connections, the struggle against limiting beliefs, and the art of embracing our roles with unwavering confidence.
Turning dreams into reality is more than a game of chance; it's a strategy of clarity and dedication. This episode is a treasure trove for those ready to debunk the myths of manifestation and to understand why vision boards alone won't suffice. We share stories of individuals who learned the hard way that lofty aspirations fall flat without aligned actions, illuminating the necessity of clear, actionable goals. Discover the subtle yet critical shift from passive wishing to active doing that can truly revolutionize your life's journey.
If you're ready to sculpt your own success story, this conversation is your chisel. We delve into the synergy of positive self-talk, affirmations, and the often-overlooked power of a supportive community in fueling personal transformation. Join us as we celebrate the weight loss journeys intertwined with personal growth, and the empowering clarity that comes from self-awareness and gratitude. Together, we champion the role of inspiration and empowerment in not just finding your voice, but in resonating it out into the world to author your own narrative of success and fulfillment.
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Have you ever felt like you're standing at the edge of your dreams, unsure of how to take the leap? Join me as I welcome Star Magee, a powerhouse manifesting life coach and yoga therapist, whose journey is a testament to the transformative power of manifestation and inspired action. Through an honest and engaging dialogue, we peel back the layers of Star's "Glowing Well" podcast and personal growth app, diving into the heart of meaningful connections, the struggle against limiting beliefs, and the art of embracing our roles with unwavering confidence.
Turning dreams into reality is more than a game of chance; it's a strategy of clarity and dedication. This episode is a treasure trove for those ready to debunk the myths of manifestation and to understand why vision boards alone won't suffice. We share stories of individuals who learned the hard way that lofty aspirations fall flat without aligned actions, illuminating the necessity of clear, actionable goals. Discover the subtle yet critical shift from passive wishing to active doing that can truly revolutionize your life's journey.
If you're ready to sculpt your own success story, this conversation is your chisel. We delve into the synergy of positive self-talk, affirmations, and the often-overlooked power of a supportive community in fueling personal transformation. Join us as we celebrate the weight loss journeys intertwined with personal growth, and the empowering clarity that comes from self-awareness and gratitude. Together, we champion the role of inspiration and empowerment in not just finding your voice, but in resonating it out into the world to author your own narrative of success and fulfillment.
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I never told no one that my whole life I've been holding back. Every time I load my gun up so I can shoot for the star, I hear a voice like who do you?
Speaker 2:think you are All right. Everybody. Another day, another dollar. Another one of my favorite episodes. Yes, I'm always biased it's my own podcast. What if it did work? This episode I've got a guest Star.
Speaker 2:Mcgee stars a passionate manifesting life coach and yoga therapists with over a decade of experience in the beauty and wellness industry. Her dedication lies in powering women to live well, feel beautiful and harness the power of manifesting. Through her expertise in life coaching and yoga therapy, star guides women towards a balance and fulfilling life. Star also hosts a popular podcast where she shares her insights, interviews experts and provides valuable tips for personal growth and self-care. Her Podcasts glowing well with star has gained a loyal following and continues to inspire listeners worldwide.
Speaker 2:Furthermore, star has developed a transformative app which I can't wait to talk about With you, also called it's glowing while, which offers a comprehensive toolkit for personal development and self-improvement. The app incorporates guided meditations, many yoga routines, goal-setting exercises and Manifestation techniques, all designed to help users unlock their full potential and live their best lives. With our expertise, compassion and supportive approach, she helps individuals tapped into their inner strength, overcome obstacles and Unlock their true potential. Stars mission is to inspire and uplift women, providing them with the tools and knowledge to create positive and lasting Transformation in their lives. Welcome star.
Speaker 3:Hi, thank you so much for having me, omar. This is just really wonderful. I'm very grateful to be here.
Speaker 2:Well, I put I told you before we start taping to me it was meant to be, but you're gonna laugh at this. Usually, people that I am like, hey, do you want to be on my podcast? They'll be like Crickets, but it's always. Usually my guests come from agencies, people that that pay what am I? It's Grand Cardo's agency 10x stages and then just Referrals, and people that pay other people to get them on is guests. I'm glad that you didn't say, oh well, hey, no, I'm not, I'm not doing your show, I'll pay someone, then I can be on your show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no see, and I think like there's. It's such an interesting thing that you bring that up, because, as I've been coming in to my first official year in podcasting, it's very interesting to me to find these things out, because that has been like such a discovery. But what's interesting is I'm like I feel like it should always be like as organic as possible. You know like I feel like it's such a good community of podcasters and I feel like we should all be there to lift each other up and Exactly and isn't it just common sense that I personally said, hey, would you, would you like to be on my show?
Speaker 2:compared to well, I paid this guy and he said I need to be on your show. It's like, well, yeah, you paid him, you're paying a middleman. You could have just saved money by, you know, going through me exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3:I just I don't get that. I'm like I just feel like it should be. It should just be free-flowing. It shouldn't be anything where it's about money or you know it. Just that doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 2:Well, congratulations on When's your anniversary.
Speaker 3:I'm becoming it's actually at the beginning of the year because I started January 3rd of this year of 2023, so now it's coming full circle and it's been a wonderful process. It's very interesting to see how it all unfolds and how you start to find your voice and all of that. It's been a very wonderful journey.
Speaker 2:Now some people it's milestones until they can say they're officially a podcaster. Do you feel that way? Or once that first episode, it you're like, I am a podcaster.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a good question. I feel like I Feel like it took a few Episodes to really get that feeling and I think, once I got into summer, I felt like I found a flow and I'm like, yeah, I'm a podcaster, like this is, this is part of what I do with my business and this is really cool.
Speaker 2:You're gonna laugh with me. Always those limiting beliefs. It was always like, well, if I hit this number, maybe one year, maybe if I go to the pod fest, which I've done all those things and it just hit me, I'm like it's my limiting, it's my little inner voice Tell me I'm good enough, I need to do this, I need to do that. And the the best part about it is once you recognize that, once you declare I am a podcaster, once you put an episode, once you put two, three, you are one. You know you don't need someone to. You know it's not like God in the universe is gonna come back the gates that the sky is gonna open up and they're gonna say, star and Omar, you guys are official podcasters. No, no, you are one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so much so. And those limiting beliefs, boy, they can be. They can be a tricky business, without a doubt, and it's very interesting how, if you can really become self-aware of those limiting beliefs. Oh my gosh, it's, it's a practice that I feel is like. I feel like that's almost a lifestyle of being self-aware, like it's not even Like it's such a way of being.
Speaker 2:Now this is something, too, that I tell people all the time, and they're just shocked. Your limiting beliefs are with you for life. You're just gonna have to Be louder than that voice and then just be aware when, when that little inner voice is telling you You're not enough, who are you? And why not just say, oh, I know what that is, I'm not gonna pay any attention to that.
Speaker 3:Oh, 100%, 100%. Yes, the, the thoughts, and like hearing them and then just taking the moment to be like, well, that's not actually me, that's just a thought. And thoughts are things, they're not anything. That is, thoughts don't really necessarily. How do I want to say this? Like it's not that they necessarily have to define who you are.
Speaker 2:If you can really sort out If I'm making sense here If you can actually sort out what is your ego and what is actually your authentic self, Well, we, so many people, we all wear a mask because, right, so fearful of being judged like, oh my gosh, I want to try to be this cool guy, or want to be this alpha male, or let me wear this mask that I'm Successful, and especially with social media. We, we're like realtors, we're like Showcasing, we're staging our lives so that we can get approval, we can get likes, we can get fans, we can get people to say, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, star, you guys are pop stars and it did through through.
Speaker 2:The matter is it depends on everything that it's what you feel, which you know inside. You don't need, we don't need affirmations or confirmations from anybody.
Speaker 3:No, that is so true that validation Isn't, isn't going to do, should not define you. It should really be the matters of your heart and soul. And yeah, I couldn't agree more with that 100%.
Speaker 2:Well, here I'll give because I mean, okay, we're in personal development, clearly our likes, clearly our views will never be Towards just the entertainers, towards good-looking women that just want to showcase their bodies, I dudes that want to hit themselves in the nuts yeah, because people just want to tune out. Yes, I mean, if we look at the top people in personal and business development, they're likes, their fan bases is nowhere near the Kardashians, nowhere near like the Travis Scott's. I mean, I tell people all the time you and I could be walking With, well, john Proctor's dead, but we could be walking with John Maxwell, we could be walking with Trent Shelton and Tony Robbins.
Speaker 2:Tony Robbins, maybe because he's been around forever and because it's documentary and well, shallow how everybody. But if it wasn't for shallow how nobody. And that's.
Speaker 3:Nobody would know the difference.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes. So that's why I mean I would hear it all the time from like naysayers Well, this person or these people, these videos or I can get more likes. It's like, okay, well, I'm in service, I'm not, I'm not here. I didn't write a book, I didn't write two books, I didn't go to that talk to get fans. I did because if I can be in service and help out one person, two people, three people, create a movement, then that's something different. I mean we would personal development if we were, we would be like running mansions and Evergainies and trying to get likes right, and so, to rest assured, I do not own a Lamborghini.
Speaker 2:Now I know you're a manifestation coach. Yes, now was this before? Everybody dipped their toe into personal development and they read the book and they watched the movie, or was that a big influencer with you?
Speaker 3:um, let's see so back in 2007, that is probably when I would say that I had my big awakening and I was in a pretty in a pretty it not a great place overall. I was very much playing the victim in my life and thinking that it was just the way it was supposed to be, and my manifestation coaching actually didn't come and tell about Gosh nearly nearly a decade later. So I had really I went through a lot of my own experiences and my own transformation where I had I was 100 pounds overweight in 2007. I was in a pretty toxic relationship and I was in a career that I did actually love, but I was worked to the bone and completely burned out and so, after the sense of empowerment and confidence, just the massive confidence that took over, it just started to change everything and it was like a domino effect and once I made it through and I was I feel like the journey is always going, but I feel like, through that rough area of my life and losing the 100 pounds, leaving the toxic relationship, all that, and establishing my own business, that's when I'm like you know what I want to make a difference for somebody else out there, because I know I'm not the only one out there, and I know there's other people that need help, and if I can even just cut out half the workload that it takes for someone, I would absolutely be there for them and that's more.
Speaker 3:That's all of it really, in a nutshell, anyway, is to just genuinely be there and be the supportive person, because I think, all too often too, the people that you surround yourself with can, sometimes, because they love you it's not necessarily anything that's bad, but they can definitely bring out a negative aspect or make it come across negative, because they're scared for you, or there could be possibly even self projecting onto you. So I was like you know. I think I really want to go into the coaching business and I feel strongly that I could really truly make a difference for someone anyone, and that's where it all began. So that was a pretty long answer to your question, sorry.
Speaker 2:It was the right answer. So much blowback, so many people angered that they they truly did not understand manifestation. They saw the movie, they bought the book. They might have followed Dr Joe, vitaly, bob Proctor and all the greats and they literally went to Walgreens, cvs, bought a poster board, bought a bunch of magazines, cut out mansions, cut out pictures of money, cut out pictures of big women and bikinis, threw it on on a poster board and waited and waited and then said oh my gosh, just what's? What's snake oil? Man, I can't believe this. This manifestation doesn't work. I'm a great guy. What happened? I'm sure you heard that over and over.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, yes, yes, and it's like manifestation is not just wishful thinking. It's like it's not. You have to be willing to take inspired action. You have to be willing. You have to be willing to meet the universe, god's source. Whatever you resonate with, you have to meet them halfway.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I tell people congratulations, you got clarity. It's like congrats God is like saying congratulations. You know what you want, you have complete clarity, you have sound mind, you have sound body. Now take consistent action. What are you going to do now to get those things that you want?
Speaker 3:Yes, precisely yes, yes.
Speaker 2:It's funny because I would hear it all the time and I'm like, because you're a good person and you wanted a Lamborghini, and you wanted to mention oh, I, I get it. It's like, inherently we're all good people. Oh yeah, 99. Something percent. We're not Ted Bundy, we're not. We're not a serial killer, we're not Jeffrey Dahmer. God, the universe, whatever you believe in, knows what you want. That's the first. You have to know what you want, but you have to yes, the first step.
Speaker 2:I mean, if it was so easy, everybody would have a six pack, everybody would be driving whatever car they want and everybody would either be living in the high rise or a mansion.
Speaker 3:Totally, yes, I completely agree, and I think that one of the things that is so interesting is, you know, when you hear people talk about manifestation and the what they want to manifest, a lot of it is things, and it's like I tell a lot of my clients to I'm like dig deeper on that, because is it really the thing, or is it the feeling and the freedom of what that actually feels like to you? So what are you really after? Like I encourage going like seven layers deep on anything you want and keep asking yourself why do you want it? Why do you want it? And really get to the core of that, and that's going to be your real reason of why you want to manifest it. And it might turn out that it's not even the thing anymore that you want to manifest. You actually not want to manifest this. Why more than you want the thing? And I think that's you know. I think that's such an enlightening process to do for people.
Speaker 2:Exactly. I'll tell you a story here. I guess you can call him a prospect. He was never a client.
Speaker 2:His mother bought both books, listened to the podcast, watched all my material and go I need this for my son. For starters, the only way any type of personal or business development coaching is, you yourself must want it. It can't be gifted to you, like if somebody's like okay, it has to come from within and I try to explain that. So I just wanted to have a conversation, multiple, with the prospect, with her son, and he's like you know what? It's bullshit. I tried personal development. I bought the law of attraction and it doesn't work. I'm like what do you mean? It doesn't work manifestation. I'm like I know personal, I know business development works because I'm in both. He's like it doesn't work. And then I'm like well, what, what, what did you do? And the gist of it is he wanted to own a ski resort. This is his idea of one. He would be happy Once he made a certain amount of money, which I try to tell him there is no no, there is no, never going to happen.
Speaker 2:I was chasing those numbers and you wake up and you're like I'm happy, there's no. Well, if I do this, then I'll be happy.
Speaker 3:No, it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2:And he's like okay, well, I want to own a ski resort. I originally thought he meant like a condo on a ski resort, which is doable, but he wanted to own like Vale or steamboat springs or something like that. I'm like, oh, I'm like really, and he's like I also want to own he was specific the Atlanta Braves and I was like, excuse me, like super awesome. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like super awesome aspirations, but but if you put yourself, I mean, and then he none of none of the things that he was doing was in alignment anyways, to achieve those things, that's like me saying my goal is to win an Academy Award Well, am I a script writer? No. Am I an actor? No. Well, of course, I'm going to be disappointed if my short term goals, none of my consistent actions, go in any way to be hidden, that or to get an Emmy or anything like that. So I try to tell him that he never became a client. He said that him and I didn't mash. I'm like no, it's because I'm being. I didn't want to steal it, I didn't want to take your mom's money. I'm just giving you a dose of reality because he's also too busy to have goals.
Speaker 3:How can you be too busy to have goals? That's very perplexing to me, but Exactly.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine if your pilot, you know you're flying to Las Vegas and he's like you know what? I'm just going to wing it? I don't, I'm flying out west If once we hit mountains and I see mountains in the desert, I know we're in Sin City or we're around there, right, like we're close, we're close, yeah, so yeah, yeah, that's so, that that was, and that was recent, so that's. I hear all the time, though, about manifestation and law of attraction and that, oh my gosh, bob Proctor and Joe Vitale and all these people, and it's like I don't know about you, but manifestation works, it's, it's clarity, in fact, I mean.
Speaker 3:It's scientific. And we are manifesting all the time, whether you choose to believe it or not. You are manifesting in every moment, exactly If you wake up and you're like I'm going to have a shitty day. Then guess what? You're probably going to have a shitty day.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you see this all the time, every Monday. Oh, I'm having a bad case of the Monday.
Speaker 3:Oh, I hate that this sucks.
Speaker 2:This sucks. Oh my gosh, when's the weekend? Oh, it's like.
Speaker 3:People could just like for those out there that struggle that way, if you could just change it around and just change your vocabulary. It may sound silly at first, it may sound like you're lying to yourself, but eventually you are going to reshape your subconscious and reprogram it, and that is when the good things are going to start to fall into place. And the more you believe it as cheesy as this might sound the more you're going to achieve it.
Speaker 2:Well, when people ask me, how am I doing? I'm like I'm doing amazing, I'm living the dream, and they'll roll their eyes, but I am living the dream, I'm alive, I'm healthy, I have a sound mind. Well, I think I might have a sound mind. I've got another day from God, the universe, to be a better version than who I was. And my daughters are healthy too. They're teenagers, but I can't even ask. But that's fine.
Speaker 3:That comes with the territory of being a parent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those are blessings To me. That means I'm living the dream. So, you know people, oh, you're like a little Anthony Robbins or a little Grant Carter. No, it's just common sense. What are we going to say? Oh, how are you doing? Oh, my gosh, it's Tuesday and I can't believe it's. You know, it's Tuesday and I've got like three more days to the weekend and oh, this year's just horrible.
Speaker 3:Yes, oh, and that is quite the thing that is out there right now too is, you know, the end of 2023. I have been seeing a lot of oh, I can't wait for this year to be over, and it's like you know. That's very interesting because I also feel like this is something where you see this often and it's like you could change it. It doesn't have to be that way, it's just a date on a calendar.
Speaker 2:If we all lived, like on the island of Lost or Gilligan's Island or Casita Ware, you wouldn't know if it was Monday, if it was Wednesday, you wouldn't know if it was January 1st.
Speaker 3:Right, because time is really ultimately just an illusion. It's not, you know, it's not real.
Speaker 2:Someone told us it's December. Someone told us it's December 26. It's because of that. But if we lost track of the date, we didn't have a calendar, we couldn't tell you if it was January, february or March. How can it be? You, you, me, you've been saying that for 10, 20, 30 years of your life and you're not going to change. You keep on doing it. It's like OK, january 1st, your life is going to change because it's the calendar flipped.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's an even year. Even years are your year.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's very interesting. It's like I don't think, you know. I feel like, yes, there is this sense of renewal, but there's still. You still have to look at where you were in order to know where you're going and it's not just the flip of a switch. Again, going back to the fact that it does involve inspired action, you still have to do work.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sure you visualized losing a hundred pounds. I do.
Speaker 3:I do. I'm, you know, when you had brought up the whole like vision board thing, I initially had done that and one of the things. That was really an interesting thought, because I do see a good purpose in it.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's a great purpose, as long as you do action.
Speaker 3:Yes, exactly, and I feel that all too often what can happen is you know you make the vision board and say you have a really bad day one day and you look at that vision board and it feels so far fetched and so far away because you're letting all the outside things affect how that is on the vision board. And I have found that, if you do, one of the things that I actually like to do now is I actually either make one digitally or I actually make like a manifestation box and put in what it is that I'm trying to manifest, and then I review it at the end of the month and don't touch it, because then that way it's like I'm handing it over, I'm handing it over to the source, I'm handing it over to the universe and like I know what it is that I want, I've made it clear Now I'll do what I need to do, whatever I think it is because it's not the how, it's the what and to become more aligned. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, completely, I'm a firm believer. Yeah, probably above. But it's supplements. Affirmations work, they do Visualize it 100%. Works, manifestation works, but it's like going to the vitamin shop and buying your proteins, buying your pre-workouts, your multivitamins, what have BCAs, all the above? They're called supplements because you need to do your own work. I can use an athlete. I can say, every day and every way I'm getting stronger and stronger, or all I need is within me now. But if I'm just sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, it's not going to do anything.
Speaker 3:Precisely.
Speaker 2:When I used to run marathons mile 20, 21, 22, with zero athletic ability, yes, I would say, I would use affirmations and sometimes I would say I'm out loud and people would think I was crazy because you're so tired and fatigued. You don't know, you're talking out loud. That works because it helps you push you towards your goal. But just like working out, just like losing 100 pounds, you took action.
Speaker 3:Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:Was there a defining moment for you that, because I had to lose a lot of weight too, I've lost the 50, the 70 pounds? Was there? Like, oh my gosh. The pain got so intense that you're like this is it? I need to change right this second.
Speaker 3:Yep, oh my gosh, I remember it so well too. It was actually the night of my birthday, and this was again back in 2007. And I stayed up late and I can't remember. I'm a huge documentary buff, I love documentaries and it was the night of my birthday. I stayed up late, I didn't do anything, I was 27 at the time.
Speaker 3:It was my 27th birthday and I decided to go to bed and I walked up the stairs and I was out of breath One flight of stairs and I'm like this is ridiculous. I have no excuses. I can do much better than this and if I keep going this way, I'm going to walk the same line as my parents with diabetes, vision problems, high blood pressure, like all the things. And I was like I just need to be able to break that, because I feel like I am painfully close to this and this is ridiculous. I went to bed that night. I remember this is two days before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:The next day, I went to my health facility that I was living in back in my original hometown and I walked in and I said here's the deal I am not squatting, I'm not running, I'm not eating salads and you're going to help me lose weight. They all kind of laughed and they're like OK, and they're like, well, we can work with that. And I said, ok, good, and thus it began, and I was just committed. I had decided Like there was no going back. I made the decision and I wasn't turning around for anything, and that was it.
Speaker 2:And you had patience, so you knew it was going to take time. You weren't like everybody that's waiting for January 1st. I need to lose 30 pounds within the 30 days, because Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels did it on the biggest loser years ago.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness, and don't believe, oh my goodness, television.
Speaker 2:Well, you do know that all those contestants gained the weight back. Yes, they never worked on the psychological aspects, the limiting beliefs, the things that were deep down inside, the trauma that created them. Because people eat like that to run away. It's a drug.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 2:Nobody's inherently saying I need to eat two large pizzas because I'm bored.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 2:So did you manifest it Like you're like within this? Did you write like a goal Like I will lose 100 pounds. By how long did it take you?
Speaker 3:It took me about a year and a half to do it to do all of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's about right.
Speaker 3:And I remember the whole point, for one of the first initial goals that I had is because I broke it down and I'm like, ok, I'm going to be going out to California in April, because this was November. If I could just lose 50 pounds by then I would be super stoked and I think I had lost like 53 or like 54, I want to say Because I wanted to surprise my best friend. I was seeing my best friend, I hadn't seen her in so long and she was like, oh my gosh, she's like you look great. And I was like, thank you, I am losing weight. But yeah, I did.
Speaker 3:I wrote it down and I definitely had the help of a coach through all of that and helping me just sort out what the big picture really was, but also what could keep me focused in the moment and to not lose sight of what I was trying to accomplish, because I think that's another part of being in alignment is you've got this big picture in front of you and sometimes it can feel so farfetched. So what can you do? Not, how can you do it? But what can you do so that you can take small steps at a time to reach that?
Speaker 2:Well, when you went out to California to surprise your friend, you lost the 50 pounds, you lost a little more than that. Did you do what everybody usually does, the self-destructive pattern that you got there and you're like let me celebrate, let me go to In-N-Out Burger, let me just but. You see that right, everybody. Yes.
Speaker 2:I'm out of debt, yeah. What am I going to do? Spend money, yeah, and go right back into debt. I'm at my goal weight. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to throw a major rager all weekend. Then they get on the scale, they start beating themselves up. This doesn't work, and they go back. They're in that hamstring world, though.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:I know what you're going.
Speaker 3:Yes, nope, I did not do that. I shared with my best friend where I was at and what I'm OK with and what is not OK, and she is kind of a health but herself. So she's like, no, oh my gosh, we've got all those things, we can do all that stuff. That's totally fine. So she's like whatever you need to do, we'll make it happen and we'll stay supportive for you. And that's huge.
Speaker 2:Well, you told her you had boundaries, yes, and you told her straight up, and the best, the beautiful part about it is she's like, ok, I can do that. Because every time that I've done 75 hard, they're like, oh, you can drink. We just won't tell anybody and it's like that's not the point, that's not the point of all this. No, it's one day. It's like, no, no, one day. That's why you have to have the support group. And when you say you lost weight because of coaching, yes, that's what coaches are for. You want to be a better snowboarder or skier? You'll just go up there.
Speaker 3:And go down the black.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you're unhappy to me, always go with the person development coach. Yes, you have goals, go with the coach.
Speaker 3:Yes, 100%.
Speaker 2:Exactly. So, yeah, when you said it like that, it's like yeah, because I remember someone laughing and like they're like how many coaches you have? Because I, at the time I was running Marathon, so I had a running coach, I had a business coach, because I own five businesses, I had a personal development coach and I had a nutritionist. And they're like, well, and I'm like, yeah, can you imagine if I didn't have all these? Right? And that that was my answer to them and they looked at me like well, imagine all that you would say, but that's a scarcity mindset.
Speaker 3:It is, it is. And the funny thing is is when, when you want objects or when you want things, if you can just take the step back and, like you're saying, have the coaches to obtain the way that you want to be and personally coach you through to those steps, the things will inevitably come if that is what you want. You know what I mean. Like you, if you can invest in yourself and grow yourself it'll all come together and it will happen.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sure you've heard oh my gosh, why are you doing another one of those seminars? Why are you doing one of those programs? Why are you buying one of those books? The only people that make money is the presenter. Oh my gosh, I've heard that for the past 20 something years.
Speaker 3:Yes, totally, and you know it's. It's interesting to me too, because it's like, well, I, you know, I in order to to obtain what I want to obtain as a coach and to be, hopefully, a speaker one day and be on a stage, that is something that I wish to manifest. It's a matter of okay, well, why don't I go ahead and start following and paying attention to the people who are already doing that and see what kind of coaching they provide? Because maybe then they could coach me and that's how you can obtain those things. And, um, sorry, I kind of lost my train of thought on that.
Speaker 2:No, no, here I'll help you out with this. I was getting rejected left and right Be on a TEDx stage. So what I did was I hired someone that knew how to, how to, how to work the process and how to get me accepted. And it and because of that, and because of following and watching all the videos of other past speakers, after a while, it wasn't because of luck, because everybody, oh wow, you're, they never see the process, they never see the hard work, the rejection, and that's that's how I got my my TED talk out in Houston. So I I hear it's a process.
Speaker 3:It is, and I think all too often it gets um there. There's a certain type of thing where it's like, when you see somebody who comes on like a like we'll just use like a celebrity A-lister, um, I don't know, we'll take like Brad Pitt or something, and it seems like it's an overnight success. But it's like you don't know how many auditions that took, you don't know how many like, how long he was busing tables, waiting tables, doing all the work to get into that position of being, um, you know, a celebrity or being that top grade actor.
Speaker 2:Well, his story funny he's. Uh well, he's a little older than me, people with journalism. He was only a couple of credits short of having a degree in mass communications from University of Missouri. But he had this passion he wanted to be an actor. So everybody told him he was crazy. So from Columbia, missouri, dropped out of school, his last semester moved to California. Nobody was like, say hell, brad, you're going to be in Fight Club, you're going to be in seven. You know everybody's like, oh my gosh, are you crazy? And yes, he had the bus tables.
Speaker 2:Do all that and like a bunch of people, just be an extra in movies and just, but it takes courage because, yes, the city of angels, the city of dreams, so many people go there to do it and to me it doesn't. If you don't make it, you still don't have regret, because how many people wished they could have moved to New York City to become a Broadway star and do all the auditions, or go to SoCal and become a movie star. They didn't become a movie star, but they have that. What if that? What if? What if that? One day it's never because it's too late.
Speaker 3:Right, exactly, exactly, totally.
Speaker 2:So that's your next step. You want to be a speaker?
Speaker 3:I would love to speak to audiences. For sure, I absolutely would.
Speaker 2:Well, you have a compelling story.
Speaker 3:So thank you. And right now, like doing the things with the podcast, I feel like that gives me a great platform to start with, and I now have my Glowing Well app and I love the fact that I can help and reach people on so many levels and that's a lot of ways where I offer like workshops and like that kind of thing too, so that also gives me a platform for actually teaching things as well.
Speaker 2:Here.
Speaker 2:I'll give you some free advice to get on that stage. Just start Googling whatever type of seminars that you want, whether it's local or regional, and just ask, ask the organizer. And then, on a level, there's always they're always looking for speakers the Kiwanis Club for the chamber, stuff like that and just speak oh, I love that. They're all looking for speakers. And eventually you build a following and yes, you'll get they.
Speaker 2:People ask me to be in webinars. I'll be in a webinar, I'll be in whatever. I'll be in a person's first podcast, I don't care, because I have that same passion. And yes, sometimes I have to check the ego at the door because there's rejection. But you know what. You have to have that mindset. You know what we'll come back and I will prove to you that that was a long decision. You don't tell them that, but you know right. But, but you have to check the ego out because there's plenty of rejection. But that's all I mean. You've got something I don't talk to me about. Talk to us about this app. Are you tech savvy? What got you in the same? I need to have.
Speaker 3:Okay. So actually I wound up getting an entrepreneurial coach who was also specializes in manifestation and the subject came up on my coach's podcast, talking about this program called digital CEO, and it was like interesting, okay, and talked about like how the growth in the expansion of apps is ever climbing and more and more apps are becoming popular and people prefer to have an app and the demand for apps is just becoming very much a thing. I am definitely not a tech savvy person I still struggle with zoom sometimes but she she had a wonderful way of assuring me that you know this, I am here for you, we can do this together. I will walk you through everything. And she totally did. And she had a wonderful way of really making me feel comfortable in it and I'm like you know what this is a fit Like there was just an internal calling where I felt like, yeah, I think I am, I feel that I am meant to do this and that I can do this and I could really truly bring value for whoever needs it, for whatever woman is really trying to live a more harmonious life and wants to manifest a life of their dreams, wants to manifest leaving their nine to five, make something more passive in their income, whatever the case may be, finding love, whatever it is.
Speaker 3:And I'm like you know what I can do this.
Speaker 3:I know I can do this and I think I would be really good at it.
Speaker 3:And as I went through the program and I started I mean the, the, the inspiration and the flow of how I wanted this to be came together so fast for me. And I don't know how much you know about human design, but I am a manifesting generator and we are definitely people who are energy blazing and we are very much go getters and very much like, once we make that decision, all else is in the on the back burner. So I was just like so locked in and the feeling that came over me because, going into self awareness, I'm like, yes, this just feels exactly what I should be doing and it all just happened that way. And I have a wonderful team of people who now help me on the technical side with it and you know they're like, oh, okay, yep, we'll handle that, but you need to, you know, sign this document or whatever the case may be on the business end of things, and it's it's been a really incredible journey, an awesome process so far.
Speaker 2:You know, it's the one thing you forgot to mention. Oh, you want me to, or are you?
Speaker 3:going to? Yeah, I did so. The app is called. It's glowing well.
Speaker 2:Now I'm an iPhone guy on both platforms, right.
Speaker 3:Yep on both platforms. Yep Subscription base. There. It is free to download and there is also premium content. So inside there are a lot of. There's like a few main pillars. You've got law of attraction and manifesting. I've got things in there for nourishment, which includes yoga, and I'm a big believer that yoga and manifesting go hand in hand. They're kind of besties with each other and I've got a lot of things for mindset. I'm very much into meditation, very much into subliminal and, of course, affirmations and gratitude. I think those are absolute essentials.
Speaker 2:I'm big time into gratitude and doing the meditation. I've tried yoga, but I'm one of those guys that never stretch when working out or running, so I'm as limber as Herman Munster and the times I've tried hot yoga and I've tried normal yoga and let me tell you it's super tough. After doing those classes I'd say every time I was sore is running the half marathon.
Speaker 3:Really See, and I'm a big believer. Okay, so when it comes to yoga, I will definitely affirm with you as well that when I first started, I literally had the flexibility of like a bowling ball, like I just did not have that ability. And my yoga journey did not start until way later, not until well after I lost all my weight and everything. It actually didn't even happen until after I had my daughter. So, but what was interesting about it is I found a very good yoga instructor who had a way of addressing the fact that yoga is not about how far you can bend or how much you can touch your toes. It's about releasing and what feels good on your body.
Speaker 3:So just because I look one way doesn't mean you're gonna look the other. I'm merely the signpost and you'd use me as your guide, and that changed everything, because it is hard. I mean, everywhere you look on Instagram and everywhere else, if you look up yoga, what do you see? You see a beautiful woman who's bent into a pretzel and makes it look glorious and it's like no, that's not really how that goes. There is a big process to that before you can even make that happen, and it's that journey, and it's really not about getting yourself into that exact shape. It's about what is feeling good and what release happens for you through that yoga and as you open those energy channels and let go. That is gonna provide more manifestation to come in.
Speaker 2:And the reason why you said it best, it's the way it feels on you. So if you can't touch your toes, a lot of people including me it's that fear of looking bad. Well, everybody in the class is doing such an outrageous job, but I don't wanna look like the loser or I don't wanna look like the idiot that the newbies that cannot follow and that cannot be as flexible, even though common sense says, well, these people have been doing it for years. Well, this is my first, my second class.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, and I think for anyone who is starting out, I do feel that the energy of a class is wonderful, but I highly encourage actually starting a home practice. I really do, because then you don't have to worry about anybody else judging you, it's just you and that person on the other side of the screen who can't see you anyway. So it's really for you in that moment and I think that's really the best way to start. And once you feel comfortable enough, absolutely then go to a class by all means. And if you really feel confident enough to do that right away, of course do whatever works best for you, but if you're nervous about it, that's my recommendation.
Speaker 2:No, it's the same thing with meditation. Everybody has perceived notions that you're in a monastery with Buddhist monks with the dong, the dong and thinking about nothing and it's like knowing you're not thinking about nothing.
Speaker 2:Yes, no, unfortunately, I've been doing it for years and you still, you know, you'll still have outside noise. That's not you know. It's just in a sense of being and doing a little more every single time that you do it and that you do become aware of the voices, of the distractions. You do become aware and you start growing because you are aware and you're just at a place for peace. And what people don't understand is prayer too, is meditation.
Speaker 3:Yes, it absolutely is yes, 100%.
Speaker 2:So, and you have a podcast with glowing wall, with star, because you see I'm helping you out here. Yes, it's supposed to be a promoting machine. Yes, I have a podcast. I have an app. Yes, so yes, my podcast.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my podcast is very much coincides with the app, but there's a lot of different conversations that I discuss with nourishment, with manifesting. That is always a big topic for me, as well as yoga and meditation, one of the. I'm actually on a small break right now, but it'll be back January 1st, so I'm already set to go and it is it's called it's Glowing Well where you can live well, feel beautiful and harness the power of manifesting. And it's every Monday, weekly every Monday.
Speaker 2:Every Monday, weekly, and it's the road to success, it's the road to nirvana, it's the road of enlightenment. Just be better. Do better by knowing that you can be better.
Speaker 3:Yes, 100%. Beautifully said.
Speaker 2:So you're a yogi, it's a yogi. Is that how you?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm a yogi.
Speaker 2:Yep, so you're a yogi, you're a coach. Did you ever see all this happening years?
Speaker 3:ago.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:If someone would have told me back in 2007, or even in 2015, even that this was going to be the future, I would have said no way. But I knew that I was always meant for something greater and meant to provide more to the world, and I feel as though that that is officially unfolding, and I think that's really cool, and to see it come to that is like wow, that's really incredible. I followed my heart, I followed my gut, I followed what felt good not what I necessarily thought would be good, but what felt right for me, and I think that's essential.
Speaker 2:Isn't that amazing, though? Because I tell people that all the time, we were meant for so much more. We weren't meant for just the scraps of success, the scraps of love, the crumbs. You were meant, if you were created, to live an outstanding and outrageous life on your terms or the master of your life or the creator of your destiny. You weren't designed just to settle, just to live for the weekend. You were designed to thrive.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:We become trapped, we become prisoners, we become checked out.
Speaker 3:Oh right, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:No, nobody. As a little child said, I just want to stream, I want to do absolutely nothing, I just want to barely survive. I want to struggle, I want to just Nobody says that yes, but yet somehow, because we listen to the naysayers, we listen to other people or we just don't believe in ourselves, or we don't believe that we have the power to create our own future. We're stuck.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, and I feel that's where we come in, that's where I feel like we can come in.
Speaker 2:Well, star, you're specialized, which I love. Always have an edge. Usually, people believe that everybody is your customer. Not everybody will be your customer, so congratulations on that. How do women find you, how do women follow you and how do women book you and download this app so they can live their best life now? Not 2024, not 2025, not January, not on their birthday, but today.
Speaker 3:Right on, ok, so first thing you can do I'm a Graham girl. I love the Instagrams, so you can follow me at glowingwellwithstar. You can check out my podcast on Apple or on Spotify, and it is called it's Glowing Well. The it's is always very important because it gets lost somehow sometimes. You can check things out. If you do want me as a coach or if you do want to work one-on-one, I will tell you that that is a customized thing. Where you do need to reach out to me personally, it is from it's glowingwellcom and that is also where I have my blog. And then, of course, for the app, it is it's Glowing Well and that is available on any app store, so Google Play or Apple.
Speaker 2:And I watch your content. That's how I found you.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:It works. So everybody has a voice. Everybody has a message. Just post, Post on a consistent basis and be in service. Put amazing content out there. Because, that's what the world needs, and I've seen yours too, and you've got great content.
Speaker 2:I thank you. You're going to make me blush. Here's my question for you. My last question what words of wisdom do you have towards that woman that is sitting on the sidelines? She thinks this is it. It is what it is, it's whatever. I've tried everything and it's not me. I'm not lucky. Success, love, life. Everything was meant for other people.
Speaker 3:I would probably use the words of Wonder Woman's Wisdom you are stronger than you know and if you can just take even half a step forward, you will take giant leaps ahead. If you can just take that small step and empowered women, empower women. Definitely. Find someone that makes you feel inspired and can give you that inspiration and ignite that heart so that you can take the step needed that you need to take. And maybe that's a coach, maybe that's some sort of a personality that you value, like I will tell you I'm a big pink lover, so I love pink, but I feel like those inspirations will motivate you and you won't always have it, but if you take that little step forward, you can do it and you will notice it and it will feel amazing and you will realize that you are so much stronger than you know.
Speaker 2:Well, that's powerful and those words, what a way to end the show. Thank you, star, thank you for being you, thank you and thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:And thank you for being on my show. You could have been like who's this guy? But no, that's the way to grow is just to by being on as much platforms. I've been on webinars that are based in India, and I'm not even Indian, I'm Hispanic-American. So, ok, well, 2024, just like all the years before, is your year, because you create your life. You're the master of your life, you are the writer of your story and you're doing an amazing job and I'm just glad to be just watching you, watching you grow, watching you grow your audience and helping people out. So, thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Thank you so much.