59) How I Manifested Becoming a Digital Nomad ( a pragmatic approach )

This episode is all about manifestation how I personally manifested my dream life and how you can follow the same steps that I took in order to manifest your dream life. And we are breaking it down into eight different steps that I think are critical to creating your dream lifestyle. By the end of this episode, you will have a really good understanding of what it will take for you to actually create your dream lifestyle, and hopefully give you a lot of motivation and the belief that it is absolutely possible.

I hold the belief that whatever it is that you want to manifest in your life it is possible, but there are of course a lot of things that you need to do in order to make that happen and that is by really understanding how manifestation actually works.

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Christa Romano: [00:00:00] Hey there and welcome to the Digital Nomad Life podcast. I'm your host Christa, also known as @christabellatravels on social media. If you're listening to this and you want to ask me any specific questions during the podcast or after, feel free to slide into my DMs there and let me know your questions.

Christa Romano: Honestly, the more specific, the better. So if you have a specific situation in your mind about how you can personally become a digital nomad, Honestly, it really helps me to hear your questions because it always inspires a podcast episode. And this podcast, I made it to help as many people as possible change their lives.

Christa Romano: If you go back through the episodes, there are so many really, really practical ones on how to become a digital nomad. There's a lot of philosophical ones about the kind of, um, thoughts that you need to have in order to create this lifestyle. But ultimately, I think this episode is going to be maybe? The only one that you actually need, or not the only one that you need, but definitely a very important one to [00:01:00] get you started in your digital nomad journey.

Christa Romano: This episode is all about manifestation and how I personally manifested my dream life and how you can follow the same steps that I took in order to manifest your dream life. Before I made, before I started recording this episode, I wrote down, um, eight different steps that I think are critical to creating your dream lifestyle.

Christa Romano: And there are practical things in there. There are mindset things in there. But ultimately, I think that you will, by the end of this episode, you will have a really good understanding of what it will take for you to actually create your dream lifestyle and hopefully give you a lot of motivation and the belief that it is absolutely possible.

Christa Romano: possible for you. I hold the belief that whatever it is that you want to manifest in your life that it is possible but there's of course a lot of things that you need to [00:02:00] do in order to make that happen and you know if you go on to TikTok for example or whatever there's just a lot of uh a lot of people talking about manifestation and um I just think that Usually people are giving little bits and pieces of how to manifest but unless you really understand like the full scope of what you need to do and how you need to show up in the world, these little tasks and So, if you're listening to this and you're like, okay, another manifestation tip, like, let's hear it because you've tried all the things, well, hopefully this will really put it all into perspective for you and show you the bigger picture of what's required if you do want to change your life in a super big way.

Christa Romano: Now, who am I to be teaching this information? Well, first of all, if you don't know me, I am a coach and because I'm a coach, I have become deeply, deeply, deeply invested in learning all about the subconscious [00:03:00] mind. Any coach that works with people needs to understand the subconscious mind if they want their clients to get results and Not to toot my own horn, but I have a lot, a lot, a lot of really amazing success stories of people that have come to me and have said, Hey, Krista, can you help me become a digital nomad?

Christa Romano: And then I take them through my process. And then on the other side, they booked their first one, my plane tickets, they start making money from anywhere and they start doing work that they absolutely love. So. I do have some credibility to back up the fact that I know how to help other people have transformations.

Christa Romano: And just if you look at my own personal story, I think you'll be able to see that I am my own best case study as well. So a little bit of background about me. I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, a cold and snowy place in the winter where people just don't I tend to live very traditional lives. Um, people are either really educated or they're in blue collar fields and there's not really a ton of like, [00:04:00] entrepreneurship or like, edgy, uh, lifestyles that are happening there.

Christa Romano: So that's where I came from. Came from a very middle class family. Never, uh, believing that I would ever be able to make more than six figures. But actually, if you asked me, like, I don't know, 10 years ago, what I thought would be the maximum amount of money that I'd be capable of making in this lifetime, I think I would have said, like 80, 000.

Christa Romano: Like that was my big reach goal. my family didn't travel a ton when I was younger. Like we took a trip to New York and to Mexico when I was in school. But other than that, like, I didn't. come from a family that I was really exposed to the, to the big world.

Christa Romano: And I didn't get financial handouts, really, from my parents, um, especially after I graduated. I was just completely on my own financially. And let's not forget the biggest one. The belief systems that I had about myself were not so great. Like, maybe on the outside people might have thought that I was confident, but I have definitely been a person that's been very [00:05:00] insecure, um, about my beliefs.

Christa Romano: about everything, just super insecure about so many things and specifically about how smart I was. So this is just what I'm just painting you this picture of like what my starting point was and flash forward to today. I'm now living on a tropical island, Bali, Indonesia, a desert island. Top notch destination people all around the world come here and always say oh, I want to live here And you know what?

Christa Romano: I've lived here for four years and before I lived here I was traveling for four years out of my suitcase where I literally managed to visit 65 countries so far before the age of 30 I'm now working in my own business doing work that I absolutely love and adore. I get to do meaningful work where my clients have a lot of respect for me and I'm able to, like I said earlier, help change their lives completely.

Christa Romano: And I have more self confidence in myself than literally anyone. And just some little details that I want [00:06:00] to share with you that will come up later in this episode. The house that I live in is a white house with an orange roof with coconut trees in the background. I have an adorable little dog that I take with me on a sunset walk on the beach every single day, and I live about a mile from the beach.

Christa Romano: I just want to share those details because I think that you'll see that I was literally able to manifest everything that's in my life and, uh, yeah, like I said, I can't wait to share with you what all the steps are that I know now that need to be taken if you want to create your dream reality. So with that being said, let's talk about the first step.

Christa Romano: So the very first step, if you want to start manifesting your dream reality, is step zero, which is having an open mind to knowing what your options even are in the first place. I really believe that my life has [00:07:00] manifested into something so magical beyond my wildest imagination because actually I spent so many years traveling that I was just exposed to a lot of different kind of people with a lot of different ideas.

Christa Romano: There was a time in my life where I never even imagined that living abroad would actually be possible for me. It's not that I didn't always want to live abroad. In fact, when I was younger and I studied abroad in Italy, the only thing I wanted was to be able to move back to Italy, but I just didn't see any way that I could possibly do that.

Christa Romano: So therefore I let the dream go for many years and I just carried on working and living in New York City. It wasn't until actually I started reading a bunch of blog posts about living abroad that I realized, oh wow, maybe there is a way to move abroad, and maybe this actually could be possible for me.

Christa Romano: So, if you are thinking about manifesting your dream life, [00:08:00] I just have a few things that I want to share with you right now, which is that if you can dream it, You can do it, and this isn't just a motivational quote, this is actually psychology. I've been listening to this Bob Proctor book, and if you don't know Bob Proctor, he is like the grandfather of, or maybe not the grandfather, but he's like an OG guy in the manifestation space.

Christa Romano: And he was just talking about how our desires are sacred, which I had heard that phrase many times before, but I didn't really understand, and it didn't really click until he said, So the thing that he said is that you would never even desire to have something if you didn't think that it was possible for you, or if it were possible for you.

Christa Romano: You would never desire something that were impossible for you. Just a little bit of an example when I was younger growing up in Boston. I always dreamed of [00:09:00] being a surfer now Did I dream of being a good surfer? No, what I was actually dreaming of was I just wanted to be around surf I wanted to live near the beach.

Christa Romano: I wanted to be living in a laid back environment I wanted to be able to see the Sun set regularly and I wanted to be around nature and I think actually when I was younger that was what I was associating surfing with and So, I had no idea how I was going to be able to manifest a life that allowed me to surf, but that's what I always wanted.

Christa Romano: It's what I always dreamed of as a kid. And as a kid, You know, I didn't know how I was going to be able to have all of those things, but I believed that it would be possible someday to live by a beach and to see the sunset every day. So that's what I was dreaming of and eventually once I started living in destinations where I could surf, well, I started surfing and I started living my dream and that was amazing.

Christa Romano: And then I got to a point in my surfing where I was like, Damn, this is really hard. And [00:10:00] this is actually so hard that if I want to get better, which now becoming a good surfer would be the next layer of this dream. If I wanted to become a good surfer, I realized that what I would need to do would get out there and every single day and really be prioritizing surfing over other things in my life.

Christa Romano: And I just wasn't available to be planning all of my travels around surf. And I wasn't available to be planning my whole day around the tide schedule. So actually, once I realized like what I would have to do in order to manifest, being a good surfer, suddenly I no longer had the desire and that desire dissipated and now I don't mind not being a surfer.

Christa Romano: Actually I haven't surfed in like two years now and that's perfectly fine with me. I don't feel sad that I let that dream go because now I understand what it takes. I no longer want to have that dream. Here's another example that I think is really helpful. So [00:11:00] I have a dream and I have a desire. I have a thing that I want to manifest, which is I want to manifest.

Christa Romano: making a million dollars in a year. Now, I believe that making a million dollars in a year is possible because I know firsthand other people that have very, very, very similar business models to me, people that have similar personalities to me, people that have similar backgrounds to me that are making a million dollars in a year.

Christa Romano: So I know that it's possible and I want it. And I think that I'm available to do the work that You know, I'm not exactly sure how I will be making a million dollars in a year. I don't have that exact plan yet, but I know that it's possible. So I'm in the process of manifesting it and that's cool. But you know what?

Christa Romano: I'm not manifesting. I am not manifesting making a billion dollars in a year. I'm not manifesting making a billion dollars in my lifetime. And why is that? Why don't I desire to make a billion dollars? It's not that I. Well, I don't think that having [00:12:00] a billion dollars would be a bad thing. Like it would be amazing to have a billion dollars, but am I manifesting that?

Christa Romano: Do I even desire that? Well, no, because actually when I think about it, the actions and work that I would need to take in order to make a billion dollars, at least my belief system, as it is now is that I don't want to do those things. I don't want to become a big CEO. I don't want to be dedicating my entire life into growing a business.

Christa Romano: And I like the work that I'm doing. I feel good about the work that I'm doing. So if I can keep doing the work that I'm doing and become a millionaire, amazing. That's what I'm manifesting, but I'm not manifesting becoming a billionaire. Now, this is super important because what these examples illustrate is this concept that if you dream it, you can do it.

Christa Romano: But you need to be able to dream in a way where you can actually see yourself doing it in a real way and it needs to feel realistic. Or at least it needs to feel [00:13:00] somewhat possible. It needs to feel like in your realm of possibility in this lifetime. This is why if you go back and listen to the money mindset episode that I did, episode 49. How your money mindset will dictate your success as a digital nomad. One of the things that I share in that episode is that we tend to believe that we can make as much money as our parents made. And unless we challenge our belief systems about what we're capable of and what's possible in the world for quote, someone like us, someone in our family, we rarely do exceed the amount of money that our family members make. We tend to stay in the same class because people don't tend to always challenge their belief systems. Especially when people grow up in an environment and then they never leave that environment. Like, let's say that you grow up in the same town and then you live in that same town for the rest of your life.

Christa Romano: And that town is a town where all the, all the other people that are in that town have lived there for their [00:14:00] whole life. There's not a lot of exposure to other people. other ways of thinking, there's not a lot of exposure to new possibilities, new ideas, new concepts. But this is what traveling does for you.

Christa Romano: Actually, studies have shown that people who travel tend to be more creative than people who don't. And I think that the reason why is because you really only can ever know what's possible If you've seen options, you need to be able to see what your options are. So for you to start manifesting your dream life, I want you to think about what your dream life is and where did you get that idea in the first place?

Christa Romano: Was it from someone that you saw on social media? Because I get in my DMs all the time, people telling me, I never heard about being a digital nomad, Krista, until I saw your content. But now that I've seen your content, and I know that this is possible, I know that this is a lifestyle that I want. And I'm telling you, I get this message like every freaking day.

Christa Romano: [00:15:00] And so, So many of my clients who I've worked with now who have gone on to change their lives tell me that they didn't know that the concept of digital nomadism existed until they saw my content, and now here they are living that reality. So I guess actually step zero would be to open your mind and just.

Christa Romano: Just start thinking about what all the options could be. Expand your horizons, expand your social circles, meet different people, hear different ideas, and start understanding what is actually even possible in the human experience. If you dream it, you can do it, but you have to have the dream in the first place.

Christa Romano: So now that we've covered step zero, let's actually go back to step one, which is about now having that clarity. Remember that when you are getting clear on what your manifestations are, you don't need to know how they're going to manifest. That is why manifestation feels pretty magical. because you have this big [00:16:00] idea and you have no idea how you're going to get it, but you're still committed to the concept of manifesting.

Christa Romano: And that's okay. It is part of the process, but also, again, it The whole thing is actually pretty psychological, like manifesting in the law of attraction. Um, but we're still just on step one, where if you are only talking about clarity, it does feel magical because you don't know what's going to happen next.

Christa Romano: But one of my most favorite examples of how I was able to manifest my dream life was that it actually all started way way way back when I was 20 years old and Hold your horses. Don't get too freaked out I had a crazy accident when I was 20 where I drunkenly dove into a swimming pool I hit my head on the bottom And I broke my neck and in this experience, well, first of all, I was very low vibe for a while, but once I started to heal, which by the way, I'm fine now.

Christa Romano: Thanks for your concern. Once I started to heal, I was still [00:17:00] bedridden, but I thought, wow, I just came so close to the brink of death. Like I just came so close to the, to the edge of death. of my life and now that I know that I'm going to be okay, I have this newfound sense that life is short and I want to take advantage of every opportunity I possibly can to make my life amazing.

Christa Romano: So what I did on this one day, literally I spent a whole day. Morning to night, still bedridden in my neck brace, but writing down all the things I ever might want to do in my lifetime. Of course, I made a bucket list. And on this bucket list, I wrote down about a hundred things that day. And now remember, this is like social media did exist.

Christa Romano: Like Facebook existed at the time. I know, I know I'm really aging myself here, but there wasn't Instagram. And it was a lot of energy for me to be reading all day, like my mental energy, etc. So, [00:18:00] um, I actually just, I feel like, spent a whole day in a meditative state, just literally daydreaming about all of these magical things that I might be able to do in my life.

Christa Romano: And, you know what, I'm going to pull up that list right now and read you some of them. Okay, oh my god, I have it open right now and I'm getting emotional because I haven't looked at it in like a few years, but we've got visit the Egyptian pyramids and the Mayan pyramids. Go to Sicily and find a piece of my heritage.

Christa Romano: Explore a rainforest. Have an insane birthday party. Walk along the Great Wall of China. Work in the travel industry. Get paid for something that I write.

Christa Romano: Learn about Greek mythology in Greece.

Christa Romano: Visit the Van Gogh Museum. Go scuba diving. Sleep on the beach for an entire night. Take a backpacking trip and go wherever the wind blows me.

Christa Romano: I love this one. Find a way to embrace my inner hippie and incorporate her into my life. Adopt a dog that will belong to me and only me.

Christa Romano: Ride a motorcycle. These are hilarious because so many [00:19:00] of them, like riding a motorcycle and adopting a dog, like, by the way, there's like 150 things on this list that I wrote. literally 15 years ago, and most of them have come true. But at the time that I wrote this list, like these were some of the most outlandish things that I could think of.

Christa Romano: I mean, I was like, me ride a motorcycle. Like how am I ever going to do that? Oh, here's one. Spend a Christmas in a place that has no chance of being white. I just, all of these things like ended up coming true. But. I had to get a really clear idea, like, and especially after making this list.

Christa Romano: After making this list, I was like, wow, I'm gonna need to live some kind of like pretty unconventional life if I want to accomplish all of these things. And I had never heard of the term digital nomad at the time, so I had no idea how any of these things were going to manifest, but the idea was I just got really clear on all the [00:20:00] things, and you'll notice in the bucket list, like the way that I read everything, every single thing that I wrote down has a verb, so I'm not just saying Go to Amsterdam.

Christa Romano: I'm saying visit the Van Gogh Museum like which is in Amsterdam, but It's like a specific specific specific thing because if I just had the thing on my bucket list go to Amsterdam, it's just not that clear, but going to the Van Gogh Museum, now what I can do is I can imagine myself standing in front of one of my of all time.

Christa Romano: When I read, learned about Greek mythology in Greece.

Christa Romano: Now I'm not just seeing a picture of Santorini or something, I'm actually able to see myself in the visualization. On the one where I say, take a backpacking trip, where I can go wherever the wind blows me. Well, clearly I can't just book a vacation like that wouldn't count because if you just book a vacation, then you ultimately have to [00:21:00] go back home.

Christa Romano: But being able to go wherever the wind blows you or blows me meant that I needed to create a situation for myself or that I wanted to create a situation for myself where I just had uninterrupted time freedom. So even though I didn't know what being a digital nomad was at the time, I still knew generally the way that I wanted to be living my life.

Christa Romano: So my invitation for you is spend a day in meditation, The more disconnected you can be from technology, the better. But just go out in the woods, sit by the beach, have a journal that you can write with your hand, and write down all the things that you would love to do. And just get as specific, specific, specific about each thing on your ultimate bucket list, or about what it is that you want to manifest, so that you can recognize it when you see it.

Christa Romano: Step two, which is pretty similar to step one, but it is just get in the [00:22:00] feelings and the emotions of that thing that you want to manifest. And this is easier to get into the feelings when you are really, really clear. So, the feelings thing is really about creating an energetic match within you for the energy of that thing.

Christa Romano: of the thing that you want to draw into your life. So I have here on my bucket list, see the Aurora Borealis, a meteor shower, or some other really amazing celestial thing. And I've seen a few really amazing celestial things, uh, including a meteor shower. and the Aurora Borealis, but I had no idea how I was going to see those things and, you know, they kind of happened by chance.

Christa Romano: The meteor shower was completely by chance. But, um, I knew that I wanted to just be awe inspired by the sky. Like, that's really what that manifestation was all about. And so, when I didn't just write down, see the northern lights,

Christa Romano: I wrote down some really amazing celestial [00:23:00] thing. And, um, That's the vibe, right? Like you want to be like, wow, I can, I can imagine myself looking at the night sky, seeing these colors, dancing, seeing thousands of shooting stars all at once. And the way that I would feel if I could see those things with my own eyes would just be enamored by the earth.

Christa Romano: So grateful for my position on this planet and just feeling so lucky and in love with, in love with the world. And literally just. By the nature of writing down something very clear and specific and using these kind of adjectives, it will help you get more clear on the way that it would feel if you were to accomplish those things.

Christa Romano: Our emotions are one of the biggest drivers of our behavior. So when we can get really clear on the way that something would feel, and if it feels really good, then we are going to be able [00:24:00] to more clearly see the way that we will get there because we're kind of chasing a feeling. And we'll be more motivated to chase that feeling if it is a high vibe feeling.

Christa Romano: But if you're thinking about the thing that you want to manifest and it's feeling like not so Possible for you or if it's feeling kind of scary or like unrealistic You're not gonna be chasing the feelings of scary and unrealistic In fact, you're probably going to be running in the opposite direction.

Christa Romano: So that's why it's so important When you are manifesting to really be in a high vibe state and really just try to imagine yourself living in your ultimate state, like in the ultimate state of joy, in the ultimate state of gratitude, in being enamored by your current situation. Now, I'm not a quantum physicist, but there is also a lot of quantum physicists that are talking about how, when you tap into the feelings of [00:25:00] this thing that you want to manifest, that is actually changing your emotional and vibrational state.

Christa Romano: And your vibe attracts your tribe. Your vibe is the thing that you're putting out to the world and like attracts like. So if you want to attract love in your life. Be in a loving vibration. This is also why they say hurt people hurt people. People that are in a low hurt vibe end up putting that out into the world and when they hurt people, those people react in a low vibe way and it really all is very cyclical in nature.

Christa Romano: And again, it goes the other way. So if you want to believe that you are so powerful and that you're capable and that you're smart, I need you to be able to feel what it would feel feel like to be embodying all those things. And by the way, if you want to be capable, smart and powerful, like what goal or thing might that manifest in [00:26:00] your life?

Christa Romano: Like if you're like me and you want to manifest making a million dollars in a year, then you need to really be able to channel the feeling of what it would feel like to make that amount of money. So, for me, I'm choosing to feel that making a million dollars is not going to require a ton of blood, sweat, and tears, that it's actually going to be easy and relaxed and all I need to do is have a few little strategy tweaks and then ultimately that is how I will manifest my reality.

Christa Romano: And I'm imagining myself Seeing that amount of money pop up on my bank statement, seeing an email that I'm getting from my course creation platform, Kajabi, saying, congratulations, you had a million dollars in revenue and feeling in my body how proud of myself that I would be and how good that would feel and how expansive it would be and just how I would feel so assured and knowing that I always [00:27:00] knew that this was part of my destiny, that this was part of my process.

Christa Romano: So that's what I want, that's what I want you to do when it comes time for you to manifest. So remember, step one is, well, step zero is know all your options so that you can choose a thing. Then get really, really, really clear and specific. Make your SMART goals, SMART, measurable, achievable, realistic. and timely.

Christa Romano: Set your SMART goal, get very, very clear, and then start trying to feel and imagine what it would feel like if you had already accomplished that goal. Raise your vibe to the level of where you will be when that goal manifests in your reality.

Christa Romano: So now we're on to step three, which is actually the biggest step, the most complicated step, and I think the most mysterious step, and also the hardest step. So step three, if you want to manifest your dream life, is believing [00:28:00] in yourself and believing in the possibility of your dreams manifesting. If you don't believe that the thing that you want is possible, you are naturally going to self sabotage and not take the necessary risky actions that you will need to take.

Christa Romano: In order to effectively manifest, but if you do believe that the thing that you want is possible, that is just inevitably yours and that you just have to patiently wait for it or that you're so worthy of it, that you're so capable of it, you will feel comfortable. First of all, Waiting for it to arrive, patiently waiting, and you also will feel safe and confident and secure to start taking the necessary actions that you will need to take in order to manifest.

Christa Romano: Jumping ahead to the next two steps. Step four is to actually ask for the thing that you want. You either are going to ask another [00:29:00] human or you're going to ask the universe. Doesn't matter, but you need to make the request. And then the step after that is to take inspired action. So, just know that believing in yourself, it's not just believing in yourself.

Christa Romano: And I think that this is what all the little TikTok gurus, that are out there talking about manifestation aren't sharing. They, they're saying that, like, you can literally just write on a piece of paper and, journal about it and then burn it and then magically your wish will come true. Like, no, that's not how it works.

Christa Romano: You actually have to freaking do something in your life. You have to, you have to bring in the masculine energy of your life. of your life in order to actually get results. You need to do something about your dreams, but you won't feel confident or comfortable, or that it's worth it to do something.

Christa Romano: You won't feel that it's worth it to take the inspired action if you don't believe in yourself in the first place. Now, let's say that you have a really big goal and [00:30:00] this goal, you have no idea how you're going to achieve this goal because in order for you to achieve this goal, Well, you would need to be really smart, or you would need to be really beautiful, or you would need to be really rich, or you would need to have a remote situation, or you would need to be 10 years more experienced than you are, or you would like need all these physical 3D prerequisites in order to manifest.

Christa Romano: So, You need to be able to believe in yourself, but how do you believe if there are these things that are in the way? Well, first of all, you need to get really clear on what are the things in the way. We call them limiting beliefs. What are the beliefs that are limiting the way? Your ability to believe in the positive thing or that the thing that you want is actually real and available to you looking at your limiting beliefs, surfacing them and confronting them is the act of [00:31:00] shadow work and when you want to rewrite your belief system because like if your belief system is saying, Oh, you're not smart enough for this or your belief system is saying, Yeah, but you're not experienced enough or whatever.

Christa Romano: When you want to rewrite this belief system, you need to do the shadow work first, and then you're going to do something which today I'm calling light work. And you need to do both the shadow and the light in order to rewrite your belief systems. Or you might not need to rewrite your belief systems, but you need to write in a new belief system.

Christa Romano: an improved belief system if you want to feel comfortable and secure to take the inspired action. So, how do you do that? And, uh, what is shadow work anyway? Well, if you go all the way back to episode six of this podcast, then you'll hear a whole long story all about what is shadow work and why is it so important.

Christa Romano: But essentially, it is the art and science and activity of looking, [00:32:00] analyzing, and showing up with compassion to all the parts of yourself that you have personally rejected, the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable, the parts of yourself that you think are unworthy. Now, you might be like, why the fuck would I do that?

Christa Romano: And I get it. I get it. Shadow work is not fun. And it's not meant to be fun. It's a dark experience to be looking at all of this stuff. And for a lot of people, it can be extremely depressing. triggering to do shadow work. Um, to the point that for a lot of people, when their shadows start to come up, what they do is they take anti anxiety meds or depression medication to push down the shadows so that they don't need to acknowledge it.

Christa Romano: But when you do these things, like, or if you self medicate, like with alcohol or, or other drugs, for example, and you're refusing to look at your shadows, what you're doing [00:33:00] is you're staying stuck in a low vibe state and effectively never giving yourself the opportunity to raise your vibration. Because if you're going to raise your vibration, you need to understand why it's low in the first place.

Christa Romano: But for so, so, so many people. who were never encouraged to be themselves and who were never ever told that they can create their dream reality or that they are worthy of having what it is that they want. They believe that they're not worthy. They believe that they're not capable and those things hurt them.

Christa Romano: So what they do again is they just choose to ignore those feelings and they just carry on with their little. dreams or their lack thereof dreams and just keep going about life in the same way that they always have been because staying in their comfort zone and not dreaming big and not potentially facing the rejection of not accomplishing their dreams is [00:34:00] still feeling better.

Christa Romano: Then, it's better to be in the comfort zone than to face the possible potential rejection and failure, um, if they don't accomplish their dreams. Like, people are scared to dream big. They don't have the audacity to dream big. So those people never look at their shadows. But if you are someone that's listening to this podcast, what I encourage you to do, and this is how you are going to manifest, right?

Christa Romano: Is you're going to get very painfully clear on all the reasons why you think that. That your manifestation will never take place. All those things where you're like, Oh my God, I don't know if I actually can do it because if I want to make a million dollars in a year, then, then I have to be an extrovert.

Christa Romano: And if I, and I'm not an extrovert and I think because I'm an introvert, then dah, dah, dah, this is my belief about that. You need to get very, very, very clear on that. And when you get really clear on that. The next thing that you're going to do is you're going to feel the feelings [00:35:00] of how bad that feels actually to have that limiting belief.

Christa Romano: Now, don't worry because it gets better from here. That's like the lowest part, right, is feeling the negative feelings. Because what you're going to do after you've surfaced all of those limiting beliefs and the negative feelings is that one by one by one by one by one by one by one, you are going to write next to each limiting belief, the new belief that will serve you better.

Christa Romano: The light belief, the positive belief. Now you might need to go in steps in order to rewrite your belief system. But, um, let's take the million dollars a year example. So, um, if you asked me even like a few years ago, I would have said, I, I would have said, A million dollars in a year. Like that's insane.

Christa Romano: Like me? No way. so we have to go step by step by step. I didn't just snap my fingers and become someone who suddenly believed that I could make a million dollars in a year because I decided that I wanted to. it's a process of [00:36:00] changing your inner identity. It's a process of changing your self concept.

Christa Romano: So, let's say that, Well, we don't have to say it. This is a real example. I used to believe that I was not smart. Not only was I not smart, but I believed that I was a bimbo. That was like a dumb blonde, like a, you know, a mean thing that some of the boys in high school would call me. So, I believed it. And it wasn't until I saw I left high school and started working in the professional world and starting to have other friends who didn't know me when I was in high school, that I started to see other people perceiving me in a slightly different way.

Christa Romano: And then that opened up my mind to, huh, maybe I'm not dumb. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm just normal. Maybe I'm just normal. Um, and that was an improvement and that was better than me believing that I was done. So, then the next level of that is not only am I not dumb, but I'm smart and I'm capable. [00:37:00] Also, I learned to believe that you don't actually have to be super fucking smart in order to change your life.

Christa Romano: You just need to be smart. motivated and determined and energized enough to do the actual work. So now that I have this new belief that in order for me to create my dream reality, I just need to be energized and motivated and, capable to do the work. Now that's a much easier belief for me to Come to terms with then I'm the smartest person in the room I still don't believe I'm the smartest person in the room and I probably will never believe that because now I'm at a point Where I don't need to believe that like I actually think that I can do Anything because I'm determined.

Christa Romano: I think that I can do anything with a little bit of strategy and if I I'm not smart enough to do the thing. I can hire somebody else who is smart enough to help me do the thing. That's mentorship. That's why mentorship is so powerful. And actually now this is going to be how I can see myself, how I [00:38:00] can imagine myself How I can visualize myself making a million dollars in a year.

Christa Romano: do I think that I will do it all on my own? That would be a different manifestation or that would be a more specific one. I'm just manifesting making a million dollars in a year. And because. I don't know how to do that, but I know other people know how to do that, and I know that I have money to hire other people.

Christa Romano: Now, I'm just like, oh, I just need to hire somebody else to show me how, and then boom, I'm going to have my manifestation. I'm going to manifest it. So, why haven't I hired a coach yet? Honestly, as I'm recording this episode, I think I do have a belief that I am going to have to work pretty hard at least for a period of time.

Christa Romano: So I've kind of been waiting for the opportune moment to do that. And I'm literally like doing shadow work as I speak, like I'm realizing a limiting belief that I had or that I have had. And it is that I'm [00:39:00] going to have to put in a lot of work within a short period of time in order to make this happen.

Christa Romano: And that's why I haven't hired. a coach to help me do this. But literally, I think after this episode, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go hire a freaking coach who's going to help me scale my business to a million dollars a year because that's now my belief. And that is the inspired action that I am going to take now that I have done my shadow work and my light work.

Christa Romano: I'm not sure if I actually fully explained what lightwork is, but it is essentially writing down next to all of your shadows that you have surfaced, the opposite belief or the one that is the next step towards the eventual belief that you will need to have in order to manifest the thing that you want.

Christa Romano: So let's say that you want to manifest a really hot guy into your life or a really hot girl, like you want to manifest a really hot partner. But if you don't necessarily believe that You are a match for that super hot person, [00:40:00] well, you'll definitely never manifest attracting a really hot person into your life if you believe that you're ugly or that you're unattractive.

Christa Romano: and you're not going to snap your fingers and start believing that you're the most attractive person in the room. Um, and the only person that the hottest person would be attracted to, that would be too big of a jump. But what you can do is replace your belief of, I'm not attractive with something else that is closer.

Christa Romano: So for example, I might not be the hottest person in every room, but I am still beautiful on the inside, and my personality more than makes up for the way that I look physically. And now, if you believe that about yourself, like let's say that you believe that you're beautiful on the inside, the way that that belief is going to start affecting the way that you show up in the world.

Christa Romano: You're probably naturally going to start attracting a higher caliber of person than who you were [00:41:00] previously attracting. And now that you're going to start having examples of the fact that you are attracting more attractive people, that's going to help you start to believe that you are yourself actually physically attractive.

Christa Romano: And it's a step by step process. Maybe eventually you will get to the point where you do believe that you are the hottest person in the room or by then you will have the beautiful loving relationship that probably was a thing that you always wanted in the first place and you're not going to need to believe that anymore because you already attracted the ultimate thing that you were looking to manifest, which probably in this case was love.

Christa Romano: Now let's use a digital nomad example because that's what this podcast is about. So let's say that you want to be traveling the world full time with a really healthy income, feeling so secure, and you know that you want to spend a month living on a boat in Croatia. Okay, so like that's your super crystal clear thing that you have decided that you want to do [00:42:00] and you've felt the feelings, you can feel the The breeze on your skin, you can feel the laptop keys underneath your fingers, and you've just felt like the awe and the gratitude that you would have if you were to have this manifestation, if you were really to be living this moment.

Christa Romano: As a digital nomad on a boat in Croatia for a month. So now you've got to look at all the things that you think are in your way. All the reasons why it wouldn't be possible for you to manifest that. So if one of the things is, well, I have no freaking idea what I would do for my remote work. Well, okay, that might be the case that you're in right now and that might be a shadow.

Christa Romano: It might be a shadow that you think, um, you don't know what you're going to do for your remote work and you're not even capable of doing remote work. So if that's your, if that's your thing, if you're like, I'm not even capable of doing remote work. Well, what's a new belief that might not be a the exact opposite, like I am [00:43:00] so capable and I am so worthy and I'm, and I know how to do things online, like that might not be the next thing that you're going to believe.

Christa Romano: But one step above I'm not capable is I'm capable of learning new things. Or I have access to the internet or I'm willing to put in the time and effort to learn something to get me closer to being a more skilled person so that I eventually can create this dream reality for myself. Another thing that you can choose to believe, which is true, is that you also can hire help.

Christa Romano: You can always hire me. That is a service that I offer, actually. I do something called a career assessment with all of my clients, and essentially what my clients do is they give me a full and completed worksheet asks so many questions about their personality, their background, their skill set, their interests, et cetera.

Christa Romano: And even if that client has no experience or no education, and that's true, like I've [00:44:00] worked with people that are 18 years old and fresh out of high school, people that come from the service industry, et cetera, hospitality, and people that are 30 years into a specific career. It doesn't matter how old you are, what you do.

Christa Romano: I can look at your and suggest to you a remote career path that would make sense for you. And um, it doesn't necessarily mean that the thing that I'm going to suggest to you right now is something that you're going to be able to be making money from immediately. But on that call, I will also give you a path of how you can learn that skill within a relatively short amount of time so that you can actually start working online as quickly as possible.

Christa Romano: My goal as a coach is to help show you a path. Of not just what it is that you're going to do, like to give you that clarity of what it is that you're going to do or that you can do, but also how to eventually accomplish that goal. I essentially help you lay out all the first steps of your [00:45:00] manifestation.

Christa Romano: Of course, taking into account, does this career path that I'm suggesting to you align with your ultimate lifestyle goals? So I'm also going to take into consideration, do you want to be working fully online? Okay, well, where in the world do you want to go? And how many hours a week do you want to work?

Christa Romano: And how much money do you want to be making? I take all of those things into account before I suggest something to you on that career assessment call. If you're curious more about how this process works, write it down. You can go listen to episode 33, how my career assessment works. And you can always slide into my DMs on Instagram at KristaBellaTravels and ask me about it.

Christa Romano: So, bye! Remember, if you want to become a digital nomad, you literally have everything that it takes. But what you need to do is get really clear on what it is that you want in the first place. And if you can't imagine what your digital nomad career is going to be, that's what I'm here for. I can help you with that.

Christa Romano: And then you're going to feel how it would feel if you were If you were, [00:46:00] for example, having a fully fledged copywriting business or a fully fledged video editing business or a fully fledged coaching business, while feeling that breeze through your hair on that boat in Croatia, helping people, taking out your phone and making a selfie video and posting it to your thousands of followers and how you would feel so proud of yourself and inspired and excited and fulfilled.

Christa Romano: You want to feel all of those feelings and believe that it is possible. And if you don't believe that it's possible right now, you're going to make a big inventory list of all the reasons why you don't think it's possible, all of your limiting beliefs. And then you're going to write down the light from each of those shadows.

Christa Romano: You're going to literally bathe each one of those shadows. In light, in a counter belief that is more positive, that is easy enough for you to wrap your head around, easy enough for you to believe, and that ultimately will lead you into feeling fully competent [00:47:00] and capable and willing and ready and secure to do the next step, which is to take the inspired action.

Christa Romano: Now, taking inspired action is the thing that I think is what most people that are talking about manifestation online leave out. And are they leaving it out because they are just not really caring about people getting results, I'm not really sure, or maybe they just think that it's obvious that you need to take inspired action.

Christa Romano: Or, that the inspired action will naturally happen if you have, actually, been able to effectively do the first several steps. So maybe they think that if you do know exactly what it is that you want, and you've felt how good it would feel in order for you to have that thing, and if you fully believe in yourself that you are capable of doing it, of having that thing and that you are worthy of having that thing and that you're willing to [00:48:00] do what it takes to have that thing, but you actually will take action.

Christa Romano: but it just, I can't leave it out. Like you are actually going to have to get off your butt. You can't just be writing things down in a little journal and expecting your life to magically change in front of your eyes. A big part about the clarity, as I mentioned earlier, is also recognizing the opportunities when they show up.

Christa Romano: And becoming a yes person, becoming someone that just says yes, yes, yes to opportunities because you are so clear on what it is that you want and you felt it so now you're willing to say yes to things and you're not just going to be sitting on your butt and letting opportunities go past you. Right now I want to share with you two examples from my real life of the most like jaw dropping things that I ever did.

Christa Romano: Manifested. And I think that you're going to really love these stories and see why inspired action is actually [00:49:00] one of the most critical parts of the process. So as you know, I wrote a bucket list when I was 20 years old. And on that bucket list, I wrote all these things that I had no idea how I would ever accomplish.

Christa Romano: But one of those things was play with the elephants in Thailand. Now for me, as someone who's from the United States, Thailand is very, very, very far away and um, a lot of Americans think that it's kind of like a dangerous place and don't ask me why, I mean, whatever, it's just, we're not gonna get into that right now.

Christa Romano: The point is, I had no idea how I would ever get to Thailand. So I wrote that down when I was 20 years old and then I kind of forgot about it and then flash forward five years later I'm living in New York City, which was something on my bucket list too, by the way I said I wanted to experience being a real city girl and live in New York Um, so after I did that and I got five fired from my job.

Christa Romano: What I could have done in that moment was just go get another job in New [00:50:00] York, but because I had all of these things on my bucket list, and all of those things, or a lot of those things involved travel, it was very clear to me that Losing my job was actually an opportunity for me to get closer and a, and a space for me to start taking action in the direction of some of my dreams, the dreams that were on the bucket list.

Christa Romano: So one thing that I was very clear on was that I wanted to travel and I knew a lot of the kind of travel that I wanted to do because it was on the bucket list. Long story short, it took me a lot, a lot, a lot of research to figure out how I would get to Thailand. Um, honestly, I mean, I spent, like, probably six hours a day reading blogs every day for weeks and weeks and weeks because I was like, fuck, I really need to figure out what it is that I'm gonna do.

Christa Romano: Um, but eventually, I figured out a way to get myself to Thailand. I decided to teach English there. [00:51:00] And I'm telling you, When I got on that airplane, or when I was on the airplane, and I remember flying over The island of Koh Samui, which is the first place that I went in Thailand, and I ended up spending a month there.

Christa Romano: I saw this white Buddha statue, this huge white Buddha statue, sticking out over the bright green jungle of the island of Koh Samui, and having this full body, overwhelming goosebumps everywhere, tingling sensation everywhere, that oh my god, I Manifested this moment. I had been dreaming of this moment of being able to be free with my travel in Southeast Asia, like able to explore the jungles.

Christa Romano: And now here I am. And just this instant, It was an insane feeling that I was exactly where I was supposed to be. That like everything, all the little pieces [00:52:00] of my life connected and suddenly boom, there I was in my living manifestation. And I'm not saying that it was easy to get there, but what I had to do was first of all get clear on the fact that I wanted to be in Southeast Asia as a traveler, as a backpacker in the first place.

Christa Romano: And when I made that bucket list, I felt how it would feel to have accomplished those dreams. And while I definitely was terrified of moving to the other side of the planet all by myself with, side note, very little money in my bank account, I still held the belief that I could figure it out if I needed to.

Christa Romano: I had the belief that I at least knew how to make money and that I was a very determined person. person. Remember, I didn't believe that I was super smart, but I did believe that with enough determination and willpower that I could accomplish my goals. So that was what gave me the [00:53:00] confidence to move to Thailand.

Christa Romano: And I took the action, right? Like I booked the plane ticket. I saw losing my job as an opportunity rather than something to get into a low vibe, sadness hole, depression hole into. I thought positively, like, okay, like, what's the high vibe way to think about this? Alright, well, losing my job, yeah, this sucks, but also, it's an opportunity, and let me do something, let me take action on this opportunity, and then there I was, suddenly, on my first ever one way plane ticket, living out a dream that I had written on my bucket list five years earlier.

Christa Romano: Here's another really cool example. So after I had been living in Thailand for two years, I realized that living in Southeast Asia, it was just really far away from home, especially when I had a job and I could only travel when I had vacation. So I was [00:54:00] basically like when I was living in Thailand, I was like, I need to figure out somewhere else that I want Now, keep in mind, I had no idea still that the term digital nomad Existed like I didn't know what that was.

Christa Romano: So because I didn't know what it was. It wasn't possible for me to dream about it Therefore I didn't dream about it. What I did dream was being an expat What I did dream was living in another country. So Thailand by the way has a very high quality of life for for foreigners. Um, it's a very low cost of living there and it's tropical and it's beautiful and just, uh, yeah, there's a lot that Thailand offers.

Christa Romano: So I thought, well, how can I live somewhere else that's closer to home in a closer time zone, but still checks a lot of the same boxes that Thailand does? So the answer that I came up with was Medellín, Colombia. And I did a lot, a lot, a lot of research on I'm telling [00:55:00] you, when I get into something, I like really get into it.

Christa Romano: I get tunnel vision and I get obsessive. So, just like years before, I had spent so, so, so many hours researching Thailand, now I was spending so, so, so many hours researching Medellin, or Medellin, or it looks like Medellin on the map if you want to look it up. Anyway, I had looked up so many pictures of this city.

Christa Romano: I knew that it was a city in a valley, in a mountain valley, and that there were lush green mountains all around. The city is called La Ciudad Primavera, like the City of Eternal Spring. Um, so I knew that it was always going to look green and the buildings there are very distinct. It's like very tall, green.

Christa Romano: Brown skyscrapers, like every skyscraper is made of the same kind of like clay looking material. They're probably not made out of clay, but that's the color. Um, it's a very distinct looking city and just flowers everywhere. And again, the mountains in the background, I knew the neighborhood that I wanted to live in.

Christa Romano: I had literally looked up, [00:56:00] um, co working spaces. I had looked up cafes. I had looked up expat groups. I had joined expat groups. And there was a period of time where I was like, Obsessed with learning all about Medellín, Colombia. Now, if you know my story, you know that when I lived in Thailand, there were a bunch of disasters that happened back home.

Christa Romano: And, um, there was actually a point where I was like, you know what? Screw living abroad. Like, I need to go back and live in Massachusetts and just be with my family during this time. So, I did that. I packed up my life in Thailand, I left it, and I moved back home to Massachusetts. But after a few months, the weather started to turn, and I started feeling like, okay, I did what I needed to do at home, and now, it's time for me to get another job.

Christa Romano: It's time for me to start making money again. So, I couldn't really decide where I wanted to live, and I, and, uh, At the time, I didn't really understand, again, what a digital nomad was, so I really felt like I needed to move somewhere that I could get a job. I had actually [00:57:00] applied and gotten and accepted a job in Malta, so I was planning to move to Europe at the time, and I was gonna, like, live and stay in Europe.

Christa Romano: so But I couldn't get my visa for a few months, basically. So I was like, all right, well, I need to find some other gig to hold me over financially until I can get my visa approved and move to Malta. So I went online and I found a freelance writing job, this freelance writing job. I took that freelance writing job or gig to Costa Rica, where I was on a 10 day vacation with my friend and on this 10 day vacation.

Christa Romano: The guy who had hired me to do the freelance writing offered me a full time marketing position, completely remote. And I was like, Oh my God, wait, this means that I can just stay here or I can go anywhere that I want to go. This is amazing. And long story short, obviously I ended up taking the remote job.

Christa Romano: I decided to [00:58:00] tell the remote job that I wasn't coming. And then I was just in Costa Rica. And then I was like, Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Suddenly I have all this freedom and the whole world in front of me. So what did I do? I called my mom and I was like, mom, I'm not coming home. I think I'm going to stay in Costa Rica for a little bit longer.

Christa Romano: And then my mom is like, oh my gosh, it's winter in Boston. Like I really want to travel. I'll come meet you in Costa Rica. And I was like, you know what? I'm kind of, I feel like I'm, I'm wanting to move on pretty soon. There is a place that I always wanted to go, but I don't think I just wanted to go by myself.

Christa Romano: Do you want to meet me in Columbia? So my mom said yeah, and um, the cheapest flight to get to Colombia for both of us was to the city of Medellin. Okay, now in the story, I land in Medellin, Colombia with my mom. We get into the taxi. We are driving from the airport into the city. And you know that moment when you're driving towards the city and you see the first sign of [00:59:00] the skyline?

Christa Romano: Well, this skyline somehow to me was so familiar, as if I had seen it a million times before and then I remembered. I manifested this, there it was, that city with all the green mountains around it and these tall brown skyscrapers in the center. I had seen this image over and over and over again. I had imagined what it would be like to live there.

Christa Romano: I knew the neighborhood. I knew where I was going to get my laundry done. And suddenly years later, after I completely detached from the dream, after I forgot all about the dream. I continued to take inspired action and there I was, there I was living my manifestation. Was it exactly in the context that I had originally imagined?

Christa Romano: No, originally I thought that I would get a job in Medellin, but I had lots of other manifestations [01:00:00] going on in the background too with my bucket list that required me to be more free. Remember I had one on my bucket list which is backpack so that I can go wherever the wind blows me and that actually that same trip where I showed up in Medellin I spent six months in South America the first two weeks.

Christa Romano: Yeah, my mom was with me, but the rest of those six months, I literally was just booking one way plane ticket after one way plane ticket, extending the hostels that I was staying at day by day by day, meeting people at those hostels and just tagging on with their plans saying, Hey, we're going to take a bus to the next country over.

Christa Romano: Do you want to come? And me being able to just say yes. And honestly that those six months were just like the freest. and most spontaneous I've ever been able to be or feel and I just know that I never would have been able to see the opportunities in front of me if I hadn't actively [01:01:00] manifested all of my dreams in the first place so many years before.

Christa Romano: At this point in the story, by the way, I am 27 so I had made the bucket list. Seven years before, and this is my reminder to you to trust the process and don't try to rush the timeline of your life. As long as you are focused on what it is that you want now, you can have it, but you just, you can't force it.

Christa Romano: You really do just have to let go and surrender knowing that and trusting that the universe has your back and that there are divine plans for you and that If you desire something, it's because you are capable of it. Your desires are sacred. Your desires show you what's truly authentic to you. So get in touch with those desires.

Christa Romano: Write them down on your own bucket list. Make a goal. Set goals for yourself. Make a vision board. Get really, [01:02:00] really, really clear on what the image of your manifestation will look like. Me, for example, I had done so much research on this specific city of Medellin, and I had meditated on all of the magical things that I wanted to do, and wrote them down on my bucket list.

Christa Romano: I also always live with a vision board as a background on my phone, by the way, and I recommend that you do that too. And I am someone that says yes. I say yes to opportunities and I look on the bright side of things, like I could have been in a situation when I lost my job where I just let my depression take over.

Christa Romano: But instead what I did was I really looked at why I was feeling so shameful, why I was feeling so sad. Scared, and then I talked myself out of it like, no Krista, you're not actually that bad. It's okay. It's going to be okay. Even if you move, what's the worst that could happen? And really exploring that.

Christa Romano: What is the worst that could [01:03:00] happen? And usually when you do that, usually when you. say what is the worst that could happen and you actually look at it. The worst thing that could happen usually isn't that bad and that can give you a lot of confidence and belief in yourself that you are capable to take the inspired action and that you can say yes to the opportunities and that you'll recognize the opportunities when they come up.

Christa Romano: And the final step of the process is to let go. The final step of the process of the manifestation process is to just trust, trust the process, trust that you are worthy to receive this. Trust that when you just keep taking little step by little step by little step, eventually the whole picture will come into vision.

Christa Romano: It will become clear to you and the opportunities will be there. But you've got to do all the preliminary work in order to make it happen. So in summary, um, I think I went a little bit out of order as I was explaining all these. [01:04:00] So here we go. Step zero or step one is open up your mind to all the possibilities.

Christa Romano: Just start exposing yourself to different people, to different ideas. Talk to people who are where you want to be and get clear on what is even possible in this big abundance universe. Get really clear on those ideas. Again, write it down. Channel the feelings of how good it would feel if you had that.

Christa Romano: Believe in yourself. And in order to believe in yourself, you're gonna have to do the shadow work. and you're going to have to do the light work. Then ask for what you want, right? Like, ask the universe, ask other people for their support, put it out there that this is something that you're looking to manifest so that other people and the universe can hold the vision for you.

Christa Romano: Then just take the action a little bit every single day, And trust that those actions ultimately will lead to your [01:05:00] manifestation, not on the timeline that you've decided, but on your grand divine timeline. Now, I have ways that I can personally support you in manifesting your reality. And I just want to quickly walk you through step by step how I can support you every single step of the way.

Christa Romano: And as you heard me say before, I have so many people that I have supported in helping them manifest their life. So this is the work that I do with my clients following this manifestation process. Thanks. So step number one is again, opening up your mind. When you work with me, you literally get to leverage all of the life experience and all the travel experience that I have and all of the people that I've met, all the data points that I have, all the things that I personally have tried.

Christa Romano: When you work with me, you get to access my energy and I get to give you that open mind. I get to ask you what it is that you value and. [01:06:00] show you just like literally give you the answers of what's possible for your life. I will guide you through different meditations to help you get really, really, really clear on what having that thing actually feels like.

Christa Romano: And when I say that thing, I mean Yes, determining what career that you want and also what your lifestyle can actually look like. I think that a lot of people just literally don't even know what kind of lifestyle options are available to them. I have a whole episode on that too, by the way, but, um, we can work together for us to come up with your divine manifestation plan.

Christa Romano: When you work with a coach, it is so much easier and so much more fun. it would be so much softer to be doing now that shadow work because you have another person a coach such as myself reflecting back to you what your limiting beliefs are the thing about limiting beliefs is that we live with them and we can't see them because they are our blind spots there are things that we don't want to look at if [01:07:00] we could always look at our limiting beliefs we probably wouldn't have them because we need to be constantly in a state of shadow work but we're not so, And that is one of the most game changing things is they get to show you what your shadows are and then immediately help you feel those feelings and then bathe them in the light, help you build up your confidence and show you how there is another way to operate.

Christa Romano: There is a better belief that you could be installing into your mind. And then a coach, myself, will give you a step by step by step action plan so that you're not just taking action and throwing spaghetti at a wall, trying something new and different every single day in a trial and error process, but you're actually getting a proven step by step framework so that once you have the idea, once you know the thing it is that you want to manifest, I can just be like, okay, do this, okay, do this, okay, now do this, okay, now do this, okay, now do this, And that's [01:08:00] how you're going to be able to change your life within a few months, just like so many of my clients.

Christa Romano: This podcast is also loaded with different examples of clients that I've worked with and the amazing transformation, transformations that they've made, the powerful stories that they have of how they went from having no idea to what they wanted to do to living their absolute dream lives, making money from anywhere.

Christa Romano: And yeah, just really living out their manifestations. Just like I have. Remember, your desires are sacred. And if you even have the desire, if you even have the interest to living the digital nomad life, it means that it's possible for you. But there's a lot of things that you need to do in order to manifest it.

Christa Romano: And, you know, you can choose to try it yourself and go the slow road and just Like, take a long and meandering path to get there, or you can just work with me and work with [01:09:00] my company, my business, the Digital Nomad Life Academy, to expedite your manifestation of becoming free, and then you'll be able to move on to the next manifestation, which who even knows what that could be.

Christa Romano: Like, first, you have to be able to dream of making money. 5, 000 a month from anywhere before you can dream of making 100, 000 a month from anywhere before you can dream of making a million dollars from anywhere but you can build yourself up to that point and whoever it is that you are listening to this like no matter what your self concept is or um.

Christa Romano: Who you believe that you are, or what you believe that you're capable of, or what skills you think you don't have, I guarantee you, if you've listened to this whole episode, you are so capable. But it's going to be up to you to take that action. So one action that you can take that could move you closer to your dream life [01:10:00] is actually just shooting me a message on Instagram at @christabellatravels  with the keyword, manifest manifest.

Christa Romano: podcast. You have to spell it like that, manifest podcast. And if you send that, you will get an automated message from me that says, Hey, thanks for listening to the podcast. I'm curious to hear like about your story and what it is that you're doing with your life. And if you answer those questions, I will be able to engage in an actual conversation with you.

Christa Romano: And, um, yeah, do my best to support you. Maybe. Maybe I'll invite you into my program or maybe I'll say, you know what, there's probably a better thing for you to do based on your story and your situation. I recommend that you do this or that you do that. For me, no matter what, anybody who DMs me, it's always valuable because I get podcast inspiration from it.

Christa Romano: So whether you and I end up working together or not, um, it really doesn't matter. I'm just curious to hear like what, what you want to manifest. And I'm curious to hear why. [01:11:00] you're currently being held back from that manifestation. So again, slide into my DMs at @christabellatravels, with the keyword manifest podcast and let this be the start of your new life.

Christa Romano: Okay. I think that's all I wanted to say. Have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye.