What if the very essence of wealth and abundance is as tangible as our beliefs, emotions, attitudes, and thoughts? What if giving these elements a positive spin could drastically change our financial station from scarcity to prosperity? Tune in to our enlightening chat with the phenomenal Jackie Woodside, a best-selling author, TED Speaker, and founder of the Curriculum for Conscious Living and the Conscious Living Summit. We delve into the depths of Jackie's latest book, Money Vibe, redefining our relationship with money and abundance through a vibrant shift in perspective.
Let Jackie's inspiring journey from homelessness to owning multiple seven-figure assets fuel your drive to transform your money mindset. We'll explore how Jackie utilized a positive money vibe to overcome financial adversity and build a life of abundance. She will share practical steps to raise your money vibes, and strategies to convert the energy surrounding money into a channel of financial success. Jackie's strategies go beyond financial prosperity and delve into personal growth, emphasizing the power of investing in relationships and the transformative role of mentors like coaches or therapists.
Get ready for a wealth of resources and strategies that will propel you towards financial liberation. Jackie's experiences and insights underscore the power of mindset and conscious living. You'll learn about the importance of creating a positive energy field around money, and the benefits it can reap. So, join us on this journey of financial enlightenment, and allow Jackie to guide you towards a future of financial abundance and prosperity. Prepare to redefine your connection with money, and leverage your energy to manifest a life of abundance. The power to transform your financial future is just a listen away. Let's raise our money vibes together!
What if the very essence of wealth and abundance is as tangible as our beliefs, emotions, attitudes, and thoughts? What if giving these elements a positive spin could drastically change our financial station from scarcity to prosperity? Tune in to our enlightening chat with the phenomenal Jackie Woodside, a best-selling author, TED Speaker, and founder of the Curriculum for Conscious Living and the Conscious Living Summit. We delve into the depths of Jackie's latest book, Money Vibe, redefining our relationship with money and abundance through a vibrant shift in perspective.
Let Jackie's inspiring journey from homelessness to owning multiple seven-figure assets fuel your drive to transform your money mindset. We'll explore how Jackie utilized a positive money vibe to overcome financial adversity and build a life of abundance. She will share practical steps to raise your money vibes, and strategies to convert the energy surrounding money into a channel of financial success. Jackie's strategies go beyond financial prosperity and delve into personal growth, emphasizing the power of investing in relationships and the transformative role of mentors like coaches or therapists.
Get ready for a wealth of resources and strategies that will propel you towards financial liberation. Jackie's experiences and insights underscore the power of mindset and conscious living. You'll learn about the importance of creating a positive energy field around money, and the benefits it can reap. So, join us on this journey of financial enlightenment, and allow Jackie to guide you towards a future of financial abundance and prosperity. Prepare to redefine your connection with money, and leverage your energy to manifest a life of abundance. The power to transform your financial future is just a listen away. Let's raise our money vibes together!
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Douglas James Cottrell:Welcome to Wake Up. We're here today with a wonderful guest, jackie Woodside. She is a US Today and five-time international Amazon bestseller. She's a TED speaker. She's international trainer and professional coach. She is the founder of the curriculum for conscious living and the Conscious Living Summit. Besides being a best-selling author and a coaching expert, she has wrote this stunning new book, money Vibe. So today, get your recorders out, get your notepad going. This is a wonderful lady that is going to give you some tips on how to go to where you always dreamed of, where you want to go, and she's going to give you some down-to-earth factual information. Welcome to the show, jackie Woodside. It's great to have you here.
Jackie Woodside:Well, it's so, so great to be with you, douglas. Thank you so much for having me and for just this wonderful show that you produce, this storied history that you have and and the contribution that you've made to humanity. It's just lovely to collaborate with you.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, thank you very, very much. That's very kind of you. I'm very grateful for those kind words. Today we want to know who is Jackie Woodside.
Jackie Woodside:Gosh, the girl next door, I guess you know I, like you said, I'm an author, a speaker, been a coach for 30 years, so I'm an old-school coach. I was before that I was a psychotherapist in clinical practice. I those careers overlapped for 15 years, so I'm not like 90 years old or something.
Douglas James Cottrell:You don't look over 30. Let me tell you Thank you.
Jackie Woodside:Thank you, we're friends already.
Jackie Woodside:I love that. So, yes, those are some of the things that I've done professionally as a clinician. I had the really blessed opportunity to work in schools and prisons and inpatient wards, psychiatric programs, outpatient psychiatric programs, nursing homes. Like I just have such a rich and varied experience as a clinician and I'm also, ironically fluent in American Sign Language. I'm married to a deaf person. We've been together for 23 years and before that I had a deaf partner in my early 20s and just became very fluent very, very young and it influenced my career. So even still, as I do a lot of corporate organizational development, consulting and leadership training and development and I do a lot of that in American Sign Language, because there's not a lot of people that do that I'm married.
Jackie Woodside:I have an 18 year old son. I have a summer home in the Thousand Islands of upstate New York on the Canadian border and I have a that's on the St Lawrence River and I have a lake front home here in Central Massachusetts. So I'm a waterfront home snob a little bit. I love being in the water. It was raised on the St Lawrence River and it's just something that I really deeply enjoy and it feeds my soul. Beyond that, I'm a racquetball player and basketball player and skier and pickleball player. So you know, let's just say, I never get bored.
Jackie Woodside:I never run out of things that I love to do.
Douglas James Cottrell:You never, never stop, it sounds like, and all that history with dealing with people in difficult situations through your developing years has with your understanding of expanding the consciousness. Listening to that is impressive to me, and thank you, I really have.
Jackie Woodside:I've loved, loved, loved my career. I love being a psychotherapist but as I got more and more into the study of consciousness and conscious evolution and my spiritual growth and development, I really wanted to be on a bigger platform, have a bigger platform, write books, do talks and eventually I was able to make that transition.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, let's get right to it. What is this book? Money, vibe, tell us about that.
Jackie Woodside:Okay, sure, so we have a relationship with everything and that relationship that we have with everything. So let me just do a few categories. Like you have a relationship with fitness. For some people it's like, yes, I'm like so miserable if I don't make it to the gym on a given day, and you know, for other people it's like, oh, you know, I don't want to, I don't even think about it and I love my couch and thank you very much. You know, you have a relationship with your spouse. You have a relationship with your job and your home.
Jackie Woodside:Like all of these things, when you call up a mental image of them, there's a felt sense that you have about that thing, whether it's fitness or your religion or politics or a certain politician. We have an inner experience of all of the outer things in our world and that is what I call your vibe. It's your, your. The sum total of the energy, the vibration that gets created by your beliefs and emotions and attitudes and thoughts. So that's what your vibe is. Your beliefs, emotions, attitudes and thoughts creates this external felt pattern of energy. So, like when you meet somebody and you're immediately taken with them, you're like, oh, I really like their vibe you don't even know anything about them, but upon the first few minutes you let them.
Jackie Woodside:What is that? That's the energy, the vibratory pattern that I'm talking about. Or maybe you meet someone else and very quickly you're like I don't know what it is about him, or? Her.
Jackie Woodside:I just don't like their vibe or a place and you walk into somebody's home and you just kind of tense up or you go into another home and you just feel the sense of peace and ease. That's what I'm talking about with Bob. Now. We have a vibe about money. Right, probably very quickly when I say that, you're like, oh, do I ever? And as a therapist and as a coach for all of the years that I was in practice, I saw that one of the areas that people really, really suffered and is with their money vibe and I just felt like I had some things that I could offer to people that would help them understand that, the impact of it and then how they can go about changing it. So that gave birth to the book.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, yeah, you know, very true, everybody has this money vibe about paying rent, can't pay the bills, not making enough money, working two jobs here in the US.
Jackie Woodside:The latest statistic that I heard was that kind of the average American family cannot bear an unexpected bill of $400.
Douglas James Cottrell:And they're living paycheck to paycheck.
Jackie Woodside:Right they're living paycheck to paycheck. So they've got no more access to ready capital that if the car breaks down or they have to go to the emergency room or something happens, the furnace goes up or whatever something happens, beyond $400 they would not be able to pay that bill.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, I agree with that. In all the years I've been talking to people, they want to know how to make more money. My standard answer is be of more service. Do the best service you can possibly provide, charge the best fee and you'll make more money. And money becomes a benchmark, at least from my perspective. But in the money vibe, in reading your website, which I believe is Jackiewoodsidecom, there's more information there about how people can understand the vibe and I believe you're going to give us some, if I can call them secrets, or maybe just common sense on how to change the vibe from being perversed to being comfortable.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, yeah, scarcity mindset to prosperity mindset, if you will.
Jackie Woodside:A lot of people are living in with a sense of lack and scarcity and insufficiency and it colors your whole experience of life and of the world. So the first thing people need to do before they go about trying to change their money vibe is to really get a good sense of what their money vibe is. So there's a really simple, quick litmus test that I do with people to help them very quickly see where their money vibe is. Is it in the lower realm, where there's scarcity and stress and suffering, or is it in the higher realms, where you know money is just a tool. It doesn't really have that much impact on my life. Whether I have any or not, I know I'll always have my needs met and you're in this kind of free-flowing, higher vibe, higher energy. So most people that I meet are in the lower vibe because we associate money with our very survival and when people are experiencing outer scarcity, that impacts how they see the world. I have a lot more I could say about that, but I'll leave that there for now.
Douglas James Cottrell:No, no, no, that's a good point, Jackie. I mean people. Do you know? Like? I didn't mean to interrupt where you're going, go ahead, go ahead.
Douglas James Cottrell:But that is a very, very good point. I mean, people have this failure mentality, if I can call it I can't get ahead. They blame themselves and they start blaming other people. Yes, and I think that's always somebody else's fault. Mahatma Gandhi taught people if you want more, if you want clothes, make your own. You want to eat food, plant your own food, do something. And I've used that as a mantra, but there's a very good point. So I'm sure people listening to the show, now that they have this I'm going to call it mirage that they can't make it, that they have to be in porn, that they have to endure. Sorry, this is your interview. I'm not trying to preach here, but no, no, you're absolutely right.
Jackie Woodside:That is what I call survival consciousness. It's in the lower realms of vibe, the lower vibe of human existence is merely in survival, where, exactly as you said, the belief is it's just hard, it's so hard I can't get ahead. Notice that's not a fact, it's a belief.
Douglas James Cottrell:That's a very good point. It's a belief.
Jackie Woodside:It's not a fact, it's a belief. Have you ever gotten ahead? Did you ever in your life win a race or get a good grade or be acknowledged for some skill or make a contribution that you felt good about? Chances are. At some point in your life you have, quote, gotten ahead. You got the job or you got the promotion at some point in your life. But what we're neurologically programmed to do it's called the negativity bias is, rather than collecting all of this data that shows that you have gotten ahead many, many times in life, you look at this one time that you got fired, or this one time, or maybe 10 times, that you couldn't pay the bills, and you focus right there. How many times, over how many years, have you paid your bills on time? Chances- are way more
Jackie Woodside:than that handful of times that you couldn't make the rent or couldn't do that thing. Now, maybe it was a hard, maybe it was a struggle, but what our brain naturally does because it is geared for our survival, not for us to thrive is the brain focuses on those things that it perceives to be a threat or that it perceives to be some form of danger, and it says that's my truth, it's not the truth, it's not a fact. So one of the things I like to teach about how to raise your money by is be careful not to believe everything you think, because most of your thoughts are tainted by this thing called the negativity bias in your neurological structure.
Douglas James Cottrell:That's a good point. I say it a little differently. When you look out the window, you're looking at the spec on the window or you're looking at the view beyond and you're putting it into really practical terms that anybody listening to you should begin. The wheels in their head should be turning now, or their brain, and they should be thinking yes, I've been right 99 times. And why am I focusing on that one time when somebody in my past told me I was not going to ever get ahead. I'm married, I got a job, I have a car, I got this, I got that. How can they be right? So how do you convince people, if I can put it that way, jackie? How can you convince people to not pay attention to this vibe? That's wrong. They're focusing on this, I guess. How do you get them to undo that?
Jackie Woodside:So let me go back to the very beginning. The only way that you can change anything is to be aware of it, and when most people start having the conversation about what their vibe or their consciousness is, they very quickly assume that they are operating day to day at a much higher level of consciousness than they actually are, or they see themselves as a much higher vibe person than they actually are operating in. What I mean by that is we have this kind of optimism bias when it comes to our own self-assessment. We are. It's really funny 60% of drivers think that they're better drivers than other people.
Jackie Woodside:So yeah, I mean so what does that tell you? We tend to overestimate those kind of specific skills when you're thinking about them Now, when you're not thinking about them, you probably have a lot of negative monologue in your head about various things maybe not your driving, but certainly about your money. So the first prerequisite to raising your money vibe is to get aware of where your day to day, moment to moment experience of money is, and for most people that is in the survival and stress range of consciousness. Survival and stress survival like oh my God, it's hard. So if somebody else's fault and just screw it, I'm going to set this one out. It's just too much, you know, and rejecting any help that might. It's really difficult being in that survival mindset and then stress mindset is it's really hard and I'm working really hard and I've got to work harder. I need to do more. So it's driven, it's pressured. So you can, I mean I work a lot, but I never feel a sense of pressure around my work. I don't work a lot because I have to. I work a lot because I choose to, and anyone can take on that mindset. So the first thing that people have to do there's just three simple questions that I asked to help people associate their day to day experience with money.
Jackie Woodside:First question is when you think about money, when you know you've got money in your head, when you're paying the bills, what do you most often think? What are your predominant thoughts about money? I've asked this of thousands of people and most often people say I don't have enough. Where am I going to get more? What if it's going to run out? I'm worried about my financial future. There's some level in that question. What do you most often think about money? That people have this sense of survival, scarcity and lack?
Jackie Woodside:The next question I ask is how do you most often feel when you're in this discourse about money, applying for a loan, paying the bills, thinking about getting your paycheck how do you most often feel? And again, what I hear time and time again is I feel pressure, I feel stress, I feel worry, I feel anxiety. Those emotions are in the lower realm on the vibratory pattern scale. They're in the survival and stress levels of consciousness. Then the third question is what do you most often say, actually outward, verbally express about money? And again, most often people say things like I hate money, I hate having to pay the bills, I hate that I'm barely getting by, I can never get ahead. Those are the kinds of verbal expressions that again represent people being in the lower realms. So let me just juxtapose that to what someone who's in a high vibe position might be. They might think things like I always have enough to get by, my needs are always met. They might feel things like hope and optimism.
Jackie Woodside:Maybe it's not great right now, but I have a sense that things are going to get better. Things have a way of working out, so I feel hopeful. I feel open-minded, open-hearted and optimistic. And then, what do they most often say? I'll find a way. This can't be that hard For one of my personal favorites money's everywhere. I just have to learn and focus on channeling that money into my life. So that's just to juxtapose what a high money vibe looks, feels and sounds like versus a low money vibe. So that's the first place to begin. So once again, just in case people want to write this down what do you most often think, how do you most often feel and what do you most often say? Start paying attention to that and you'll get a really good idea on your day-to-day where your money vibe is.
Douglas James Cottrell:Some people are quote unquote co-dependent. It's always they need somebody else to help them do what they have to do, and I've kind of defined that into responsibility and duty. Responsibility is something you have and you can hire somebody to take care of your responsibility to cut the grass on your house. You can hire the neighborhood boy to cut the grass. But there are things in your life that are your duty and no one else can do this but yourself. And so, if you can discern between those two, the responsibilities can be given away or hired or somebody else can take care of it, but there are duties that you have to focus on.
Douglas James Cottrell:And then, listening to your comments about how people feel, think and talk about money the people who are comfortable and the people are wealthy in their last comment, they have no doubt in their mind that they're going to be able to get money from some place, somewhere or somehow. People at the other extreme, when they're paying the bills, it's like here's my $10. I'm never going to get that back. So it's kind of like they're giving something away, not going to get it back. And the other point of view is like sure, here's $10. I'm going to invest $10. I'm going to make $11 in profit or $11 back. These are simple steps that people can take because it's their duty to take it Nobody's going to take care, nobody can do it for you, yeah.
Douglas James Cottrell:Yeah, and you've got to do this yourself. So how do you get people who are convinced that their life is going to be horrific, tragic, they're going to be impoverished, this is the way it's going to be forever, when they come and meet you and they listen to you, if you will. Hypothetically, somebody comes and they say help me, and you just explain in detail how you start that. Would you have clients to come? You do coaching people, so can you give a little bit of how you would get that person from that moment and say here's where you start?
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, absolutely. Before I go into that, Douglas, let me just back up a little bit. In my intro I didn't say some of these things that I think is relevant to this piece of the conversation. I just want people to know, because when you listen to me talk about money and my vibe is there's money everywhere and I just have to bring it into my life and I work a lot because I choose to, not because I have to. It can sound like I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
Douglas James Cottrell:Oh no, no, I was going to bring that up a little while you had. You came up, like the rest of us, I guess, from the bottom up. I came from the bottom up for sure, Please let people know that yes.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, it is important for people to know that because otherwise it's very simple to discredit what I'm saying. If you have in your mind that I'm one of those people that was born into wealth have always had my means met. So I was born into a lower middle income economic status. My mom was widowed when I was two years old, with three kids in a high school education. She did what she could, working two jobs. I barely saw her all through high school. She was a school what is it called Teachers Aid at my school. So I got to. I would get study hall passes and go visit her when I was in study hall so I could actually lay eyes on my mom because she would be driving bus before I got up in the morning and then she was a teachers aid and then by the time I got home from playing sports she was working her second job often didn't get home until I was in bed. So that was kind of my early years.
Jackie Woodside:I did go to college, thank you God. I was very grateful for that. But I went on a basketball scholarship. I worked full time in the college kitchen and got put on their payroll instead of work study because I worked so much for them. And I worked two other jobs, one at the college horse farm and one in a residential program for autistic, developmentally-delayed adults. Then I went on to graduate school. Thank you God I was able to get a good education. I worked awake over nights while I was in graduate school, again with developmentally disabled adults, so I know what that's like.
Jackie Woodside:And then after graduate school I literally had no money left. But for my graduation gift when I completed college thank you my uncle, tom, sent me a $500 congratulations card that was paying. I used that to pay my rent that month. I had no money, so I used that $500 that came from nowhere to pay my rent. I was buying groceries with my mobile credit card, so like a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, some orange juice. Back then you couldn't use credit cards at a grocery store, so I had no other means of getting food. Not long after that, the next couple of years after that, I got into a very difficult relationship that turned to be a domestic violence situation, after which I was homeless. Oh my God.
Jackie Woodside:So, yeah yeah, I was literally homeless, so anybody listening?
Douglas James Cottrell:to this, Jackie. They ought to be paying strict attention. They can't come to I'm not talking about late. You don't know what it's like you could say yes, I do, yes, I do.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah. So I say I'm blessed. I'm blessed to have gone from homeless to multiple seven figure assets. And I didn't do that overnight, I didn't win the lottery. What I did was I changed my consciousness about life, about myself and about money. And when you change your consciousness again, what I mean by that? Your vibe, your inner world of belief, emotion, attitude and thought. If you notice, that's an acronym B-E-A-T your beat, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and thoughts creates your vibe. That creates your outer world.
Jackie Woodside:And I wouldn't you know, going back to when I was in that very difficult time in my life with tumultuous relationships and oh, by the way, I've also recovered from addiction and depression I was on multiple psychiatric medications. If you would have said that to me back then I would have thought it was complete hogwash. But here I am, having finally, you know, gotten sober, did enough therapy, I was finally well enough to actually look at the science and the philosophy behind the power of our thought and emotional world and that that stems from your beliefs. So that was the work that I had to do and I just wanted to share that with people so they don't listen to this next piece. Like you know, some Harry Ferry philosophy that I think is great, but I was born rich and have been rich my whole life.
Douglas James Cottrell:No, I'm glad you've brought that up. I mean, that's your authority, that's your credibility, and people listening to this broadcast now can relate Exactly my idea is when I say that, god you thank God for your accomplishments and your gift, one. We have to practice gratitude, that's for sure. I'm listening to you working in the cafeteria, working these other jobs, getting out of school with you know you were well-educated but broke.
Jackie Woodside:Well, broke Right. I have a bright future ahead of me, but nothing in my bank account.
Douglas James Cottrell:So there's a lot of students right now. They get out of school and they're going. Oh my God, I'm $60,000, $100,000, and that, what am I gonna do?
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, I had college loans as well. Not that much because it was, you know, quite some time ago, but it was that much, probably proportionality to what people earn today. I can even right now I remember the day that I paid off, made that last payment to my college loans. I remember it so well Free to be honest yeah, I did.
Jackie Woodside:I walked out of the bank, I went into the bank and made my final payment. As I was walking the car, I called my mom. It was like I was so excited because I had paid off my college loans. I remember it really well. I'd bless you for that, so I've lived with all of that stress, all of that turmoil. I was not that psychologically healthy in the earlier part of my life, as you can probably tell from me saying things like I was on all kinds of psychediatric medication.
Douglas James Cottrell:Sure, I mean a toxic relationship, an abusive relationship, not seeing your mommy, so you had to be your own mommy and yourself while you're at school. God bless your mom. What a lady she had been for working all that and taking responsibility after being widowed and things like that. You know. I gotta say you know your mom was a great person, is a great person if she's still alive.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, she's still alive. She has Alzheimer's disease.
Douglas James Cottrell:I think she passed on my admiration for her. She's a wonderful lady. It's so funny, douglas, because she gets on me about how much I work now and I just laugh and I'm like mom you don't have much to say it's in my genes, Bob.
Jackie Woodside:you gave it to me, my brother and sister and I are all really hard workers, and not like with a complaint. We all love what we do and, yeah, it's definitely in our genes to be hard workers.
Douglas James Cottrell:Is that a point that people should consider that you have to love what you do and then you can make money at it, or do you learn to love what you do and make?
Jackie Woodside:money? No, that's a great question. I certainly think it helps. I do think it's harder to maintain kind of this high-five mindset that I'm talking about when you just don't enjoy your day-to-day activities. So, yes, I do think it's easier. But I'll tell you a coaching plan I had years ago was one of the head custodians at one of the local universities in Boston and he was amazing.
Jackie Woodside:He's like he created team. He would have these guys be like we are the nuts and bolts of this university. We're gonna make this the most well-respected, cleanest, most admired university in the East Coast. So he had this vibe of happiness of who he was. I think that's pretty rare. So I do think it's easier to engage in work with this sense of high vibration when you at least enjoy, if not or passionate about, what you do.
Jackie Woodside:If you're not, I would look to see what are your options. Can you move into something that you're more passionate about? And if he wants, for that is no, look, I'm just getting by, doing this or doing that kind of work that I don't really love that much, then I would say how can you express your passion in that job, like, is it a passion of yours to be kind?
Jackie Woodside:If you have a passion for cooking, we'll bring in a pastries for people or things that you like to cook. Is your passion for making a difference? Well then, make a difference where you are in that workplace. Find some part of you that wants to be expressed, even in that job that you don't love, and express it. And I had.
Jackie Woodside:I mean, I worked on a blueberry farm sorting blueberries on the conveyor belt and working on the machines that pick the blueberries and that's exactly, even as a younger person, that's exactly what I did. I was like the happiest blueberry picker there.
Douglas James Cottrell:Okay, let's hold that thought. We'll be right back in a moment. Look after you.
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Douglas James Cottrell:And just before the break you were talking about being a blueberry picker. That would drive a guy like me crazy.
Jackie Woodside:I had lots of strange jobs. But my point is, even if you're doing a job like that, that it's not like I'm out saving the world or saving the planet or saving the whales, but I'm just picking the blueberries or I'm just cleaning or I'm just doing whatever you can do, whatever you're doing with a sense of enthusiasm, enjoyment, passion. One of the things I teach in my Money Vibe course is the five E's of financial freedom and it's the energy of enthusiasm, excitement, expectancy and expansiveness.
Jackie Woodside:So, when you put all these together, that creates the vibration that you need so that, even if you're the blueberry picker, you're going to get promoted to being chief blueberry picker and overseeing the other blueberry pickers. Whatever it is that you're doing. When you come at your daily activity with the energy of enthusiasm, excitement, expectancy and expansiveness, you will create an energy where people want to be around you, they notice that you're different and they'll have a level of respect and respond to you in a more positive way.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well said. I mean, work is worship, as we all know, and people are in positions where they're enduring their job. They're not enjoying their job. And if you just laid out is to find something in your job, your vocation, your, whatever your activity, and enjoy it, and that raises the vibe because you're going to work with some expectation of having fun that day and nothing is forever. You did not graduate as a blueberry picker and now are here to be about blueberries.
Jackie Woodside:Right, exactly right. I did. I was a nanny for a while. I worked in blueberries. I worked at the cafeteria as a cook at college. I worked in a horse farm. I know what it's like to be in the trenches, for sure.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well said, well said. You know. So in a practical way, how can they get from where they are listening to this interview to where they need to go?
Jackie Woodside:Sure. So let's go back to how you raise your vibe and the foundation of your vibration, of your beliefs, emotions, attitudes and thoughts is what you believe. So the next step is also a step of awareness, which is about getting clear on what you believe about money, and in my book or in my money, by courses of several courses, and it's also in the book I have a beliefs inventory in the book where people can look at high vibe money beliefs and low vibe money beliefs and score to themselves.
Jackie Woodside:I love I'm a coach and coaches love self assessment inventories. So the high five money beliefs or I believe that money is everywhere and I just have to channel money into my life. I love money and money loves me. Money is simply a means of exchange. Money is energy. So these are kind of high vibe money beliefs, as opposed to the low vibe money beliefs that are things like it's hard to make money, I never I never quite get get ahead, I'm always just getting by. I don't trust myself with money. So, you know, going through these inventories and looking, and then, once you determine the low vibe beliefs that you have, I want to give you some steps on how to change those low vibe beliefs into high vibe beliefs, which will also change, if you will, the kind of person that you are. You. You know a rising tide lifts all boats. If you raise your money, vibe energy, your overall energy as a person will also raise. So does that make sense? Douglas, is the way that I just explained.
Douglas James Cottrell:I just want to add to that yes, it does, and I'm going to add to that If you make a little changes now in time, they make big changes. So people listening to what you're saying, you know with all the energy and knowledge and wisdom you have, I want to contribute by saying it makes sense Just make a little change today, just a little one today, and put that problem off for tomorrow. Don't quit, quit tomorrow, but make that change today. That makes perfect sense. I mean, how can people get hold of you, jackie? We got it. Look at that. This is so exciting People.
Jackie Woodside:Sure, my website's Jackie Woodsidecom and my email is simply Jackie at Jackie Woodsidecom. I do respond personally to my emails. My assistant sometimes has to tap me on the shoulder and tell me that I have one waiting. I do personally respond to my emails, so Jackie at Jackie Woodsidecom, so people can get in touch with me. I, of course, is on fake if it, which is an educational platform and the books obviously can be bought on Amazon.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, I'm looking at more than money by. I'm looking at claiming the chaos.
Jackie Woodside:No, that's okay. It's calming the chaos, which is about time. Productivity and self management.
Douglas James Cottrell:And then you have that time for a change, right.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, yeah, that's your vibe about change. Those are the three things that often get people kind of wrapped up. You know, time, money and change or things that often get people kind of wrapped up.
Douglas James Cottrell:Wow, it's amazing, amazing life, so I always admire people like yourself. Never quit, get to it. It might be hard, but you know. It's hard at the beginning but it gets easier in time. Yeah, and you're here to tell people from wisdom. Wisdom means knowledge plus experience to me, and and you can have a lot of knowledge, but if you don't do something, you know well.
Jackie Woodside:Right, yeah, one of the beliefs that I had to turn over was exactly as you just said it's not going to be easy, it's going to be hard, but I'll just get by. And that was the story of my life, from a young child watching my mother roll pennies at the kitchen table to send us to the movies because she didn't have enough money for it.
Douglas James Cottrell:Oh God, that's your.
Jackie Woodside:I got to college on a basketball scholarship, plus working three jobs to graduate school, you know. Then finishing, you know, working over awake, overnight during graduate school, finishing graduate school and having no money. But my uncle sent me that check. So I had this belief it's not going to be easy, it's going to be hard, but I'll just get by. And I realized that that really was the belief that was driving my experience of money and creating my financial success, or lack thereof. I went to work on changing that belief, so let me give you some strategies on how to. And now my belief is money is everywhere and I just have to channel the flow of money's energy into my life.
Douglas James Cottrell:That I agree, I had to say that all the time.
Jackie Woodside:Money's everywhere. Right now, tons, thousands, billions of dollars are being exchanged in the world, and what you and I need to channel some of that into our lives. So that's just my belief, and it's easy, it's fun. I make a game out of it. So let me give you a few strategies for how to do that. The first one and you've mentioned this already, douglas is simply this to be grateful for everything that you have. It's kind of a passive. What does that really mean anyway? So every day I wish I had a year next to me. It's over in the other room. I have a gratitude journal, one of those small ones, nice leather bound, and every morning I fill a page of gratitude things I'm grateful for. Good morning, god. Today I'm going to thank you so much for this day. Today I am grateful for and then it's and it's simple things like this warm coffee on a cool fall day, my cat sitting on my lap and purring while I do my gratitude list. My assistant.
Jackie Woodside:Chris, who makes my life so much easier because she takes care of my responsibilities but not my duties. You know, it's simple, simple everyday things spending time with my spouse, my son smile as he said good morning. It was just simple things. It happens when you do this practice over time is you start reprogramming your neurological structures away from the negativity bias and towards all of the blessings and the abundance that you have, because our brains are initially programmed to notice the negative. So if you've ever wondered what's wrong with me, why I'm, you know, is my inner world so negative? It's just the survival mechanism of your neurology. But as you do this practice and I don't mean once or twice, but it's a practice- you do it, you know, daily, or a few times a week, morning or night doesn't matter
Jackie Woodside:middle of the day, but you actually do it in writing and the research shows that even just as few as three things you write down, three things at night that you're happy for, grateful about. That happened during the day increases your sense of self-esteem, decreases your stress, increases happiness and your mood, so it's a wonderful way to raise your vibe. The second one that I have people do in a lot of my courses is something called an abundance log, because people, especially when they're struggling financially, what they focus on is what they don't have. They focus on their lack, they focus on the stress, so I literally have people in some of my classes.
Jackie Woodside:my courses do an abundance log and it's all that is is writing down a list of all of the things that you have an abundance of. So I live in New England. I have an abundance of winter gear winter coats, hats, mittens, scarves. I'm an athlete. I have an abundance of athletic equipment and athletic gear. I have three waterfront homes. So I say I have an abundance of waterfront homes. I have an abundance of kayaks.
Jackie Woodside:I have an abundance of warm socks in my drawer, so it can be, anything from the big things to the little things.
Jackie Woodside:I have an abundance of love and happiness in my heart. And again, what you're doing, all of these are geared and they're scientifically proven that it changes how you neurologically process your outer world. You're working on the inner world to change your experience of the outer world. As you do that consistently, over time, what you sense you know kind of hairy-fairy, but what you bring to you energetically because like energy attracts like energy, similar energy is attracted to each other what you bring to you begins to change. So instead of having lots of problems, you start having lots of opportunities. I know that sounds like wishful thinking, but it's actually scientifically proven. So let me give you a couple more and then I want to give examples of what I just said.
Jackie Woodside:So the third one that I like to have people do is this is from the work of what's his name, father of Positive Psychology. It'll come to me. It's adapted from the work of Positive Psychology and it's writing down your three money blessings every day. So maybe you're like what do you mean? I don't have any money blessings because I don't have any money. Well, do you have a shirt on your back? Do you have a pair of shoes on? Do you have a house that you're walking out of? Do you have a car? Chances are the answers to those questions are yes. So my money blessing for today is I have enough clothes to meet my needs. And then the next thing there's a two part of this one. It's not just a gratitude list. The next thing is and what does that say about me? And what does that say about me?
Jackie Woodside:Well, I've been successful enough that I've been able to have the clothes that I need. Another money blessing I have today is that I got paid. I got my paycheck today. What? Does that say about me? Well, it says that I'm a reliable employee that's been able to maintain this employment. I'm not an employee, I'm self-employed. But you get my point. The third one another money blessing. I have plenty of healthy food in my refrigerator and I've had the money to buy that. What does that say about me?
Jackie Woodside:Well, I care about my health and nutrition and I use my dollars to make good choices for my nutrition. So that's called the three blessings exercise and you focus it on the money blessings that you've had for today. Again same premise it rewires your neurology. That changes the energy you're putting out, which results in getting different energy coming in. So let me give you a couple concrete examples of this.
Jackie Woodside:Douglas, when I was still in clinical practice, again fluent in American Sign Language, and a friend of mine who's also a clinician was calling me a lot and saying, like Jackie, I need to know how to do this and this and this about setting up a mental health program in the community for deaf people, and she didn't know the first thing about it.
Jackie Woodside:So she called me every couple of days and she'd asked me the simple, basic things like how do deaf people use the telephone? I mean the simple basic things. Where can I buy this? Where should I be running ads? So finally, after about two weeks of this, I said to her on the phone look, brenda, why don't you just hire me to do this? She's like do you have time? I said, well, do you have money?
Douglas James Cottrell:And she said well, you can find the time, I can find the money.
Jackie Woodside:I said, if you can find the money, I can find the time.
Douglas James Cottrell:Very good.
Jackie Woodside:Douglas resulted in a 10-year consulting contract where I had a blessed opportunity to set up six residential programs for deaf people, all in the Central Massachusetts area that still runs today.
Jackie Woodside:Wow, congratulations 10-year consulting contract. So what I'm saying about that is my money buy was such that this person contacted me and then this person, this opportunity, came my way. When I told that story to a number of people, they were all like I can't believe. You just said why don't you hire me to do that? How forward of you. That's not like that. I was being inappropriate. Now imagine if I had that belief that I was being inappropriate by saying why don't you just hire me to do this? The program would have not gotten off on the right start. My friend would have been a lot more stressed, the clients would not have been as well served and I would not have had a 10-year consulting contract with a wonderful organization. Exactly, yeah, that's the difference. I'm talking about A similar one.
Jackie Woodside:I was doing some construction renovations on my home and my friend who owns a bunch of real estate properties is like oh, just hire somebody, hire a GC. You can't GC this general contract. You can't general contract this yourself. Contractors are awful. You can never get good help. Well, thank goodness I didn't have that belief, Because one night I was laying a hardwood floor on a Friday night and I couldn't get the pneumatic hammer. The nails were just sticking out just a little bit. I couldn't get them to go in all the way. So I called Home Depot where I had rented the pneumatic hammer. And the Home Depot guy says well, I can't really tell from what you're saying, I get off in 10 minutes.
Jackie Woodside:Why don't I swing by and take a look at it for you? So in 15, 20 minutes the Home Depot guy showed up at my house, determined that the hammer was in fact broken and said well, I thought it might have been broken, so I brought one with me.
Jackie Woodside:And he stayed until midnight helping me finish my floors. Wow, now imagine if I had the belief that my friend had. You can't get good help. People aren't useful. They'll take advantage of you. I had this wonderful experience with this guy coming over to my house helping me out the rest of the evening, and we got that job done. That's what I'm talking about. Where you don't have problems that constantly show up when you raise your vibe, you have wonderful opportunities.
Douglas James Cottrell:You have the challenges that appear and you aren't afraid to ask.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, you're not afraid to ask. So what I see, Douglas, is I can promise you, me, everybody else will have circumstances. Whether or not you have a problem depends on your level of consciousness. So yeah, I've got circumstances. I've got a son who has disabilities and a mother who has Alzheimer's disease and all kinds of things to take care of with my business, but I never have problems. I have circumstances that need to be addressed and so long as that's my vibe, we always have exactly what we need when we need it.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, the expectation is that you help everybody. When that lady called up and for a couple of weeks was what can I call it was politely picking your brain on how to find out all these things. She would have continued on, but obviously she didn't know what she was doing and failure in my mind was inevitable because she didn't know. But she had the intuitive wisdom to call you and then you had the ability to say well, why don't you hire me? And that evolved. And again, all those people that you've helped over those years, that point was why don't you hire me? It was that question. I find a lot of people that are impoverished or have impoverished thinking or don't have that vibe, yet they're afraid to say no, they're afraid to ask and they superimpose that everybody's going to refuse them anyway.
Jackie Woodside:That's a belief, right. That would stem the superimposition of they're not going to hire me anyway would come from a fundamental belief of things don't go my way, I don't get the job, I can't catch a break. So you have to change that belief to think there's opportunity everywhere. Things always go my way.
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Jackie Woodside:I know it sounds like magical thinking. It's not magical thinking. It's today, science and philosophy are merging more and more together, where we see there's been really a lot of truth to this hundreds of year old philosophy that says what you think about, you bring about.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well we're going to take another short break. The point is that when you ask somebody a question, they can only say no, that's it. We're going to be right back with more with Jackie. We'll be right back after this.
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Douglas James Cottrell:As we were saying just before the break, you can ask anybody anything. All they can do is say no.
Jackie Woodside:Well, they'll say yes or no.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, yes, pardon me.
Jackie Woodside:They'll say yes or no, and each of those creates a different future.
Douglas James Cottrell:Right.
Jackie Woodside:Yeah, and that's it. People are so afraid of rejection or afraid of that. No, it's like well, you won't know until you ask. I mean I really had no investment. When I said to my friend why don't you hire me to do this? I didn't need the job, I had no investment in her answer, so it was, and we're friends. In fact, I expected her to say oh my God, I'd love to do that, but I have no money. That's what I expected her to say.
Douglas James Cottrell:I like your comeback, though. Well, if you can't find a buddy.
Jackie Woodside:I can find a friend. I can find money. I'll find a time.
Douglas James Cottrell:There was no self-imposed restrictions whatsoever. I love it, but because of that, my point is all this other service and all these other places you've established is the result of that, and we need to encourage people you and I and others that for those people listening to this today, that they can take some sort of direction and maybe become enthusiastic and say, well, if Jackie can do this, maybe I can do this.
Jackie Woodside:That's exactly. There's nothing special about me.
Douglas James Cottrell:Well, yes, there is Sorry. Yes, there is.
Jackie Woodside:I just feel like, if I can do it, anybody can do it, because I was a hot mess when I was a young person.
Douglas James Cottrell:I agree you were the lump of clay that needed some mold. They put it that way and I'm saying that in a way that's suggestive that we can all get to be successful. So the point being, as we come towards the end of this interview, is in summary, I'm hoping that people listen to you, jackie, and can appreciate your path. Your way may be similar for them and they should go to your website, jackeywoodsidecom. Opportunities knocking my friends. If you sit there and go, well, good for her. She did wonderful and you don't look at yourself in a different way or attempt to do anything, well, so be it. But if you have, if you're listening to this interview today and you want to take the next step, go to Jackie's website.
Douglas James Cottrell:In summary, in a couple of minutes or so, we have about five or 10 minutes left as people move forward in this changeable world, this world of chaos. The one thing you mentioned a moment ago is that things back in the day weren't so free and available as they are on the internet. The conscious out there is just overwhelming. People can go anywhere they want. So, again, I asked it earlier. But for people right now, what should they do this moment as they listen to you?
Jackie Woodside:They should send me an email, get in touch with me. I'll say have a conversation.
Jackie Woodside:If you're really serious about changing your life. I guess one of the ways I see myself, douglas, is that I'm an activator and I'm really good. I'm a really good coach for people who are ready to be activated in a new way in their lives. I sometimes say I'm more of an ass kicker than a hand holder, because I know what it takes to create a different life. I know what that takes. I've lived it and I've also helped thousands of people over the last 30 years do the same thing. So certainly, getting the book the low end of the risk factor is by the book. It's like $15. Read the book. In the first part of the book, the first thing I tell people is to get your accountability partner what do I call it? Your VIP, your VIP accountability partner. No MVP, that's what it is. Your money by partner, that's it. Mvp, your money by partner. And go through the book with a friend, with a partner, because most people go through the book and they don't do the exercises.
Jackie Woodside:They read for entertainment, not for transformation. Transformation for the most part does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in relationship with a transformative agent a coach, a therapist, an educational program, an educational institute, a 12 step program, recovery. But very rarely does deep level change in transformation happen from just reading a book. So read the book if you need a low level of engagement. But for those people that are like, look, I've done all the books, I've done the low level of engagement, I'm really in for transformative change, then send me an email because I'm a gas coach.
Douglas James Cottrell:And how do they do that? How did they get a hold of you? Yeah?
Jackie Woodside:So just Jackie, Jackie J-A-C-K-I-E at JackieWoodsidecom is my email, or my website is JackieWoodsidecom. I'm very easy to find. If you Google me, you'll find lots and lots of hits. I have lots of videos for free on YouTube if you need to check me out more before doing this work. But for people who are ready to be activated to a new level of life, I'm really a good coach for that kind of thing.
Douglas James Cottrell:Thank you, jackie. It's been wonderful talking to you today. You are an amazing woman, you are an amazing counselor, you are an amazing person. You are a light onto the world. It's close to me. I had a handicapped child in my life and, having listened to all the work you've done with special people, congratulations, thank you. And thank you for being on the show today.
Jackie Woodside:Oh, it's just been delightful, douglas, thank you for having me as your guest. I'm honored.
Douglas James Cottrell:Okay. Thank you, my friends, for tuning in to our enriching exploration of human consciousness. Remember, the journey towards personal growth is ongoing. Each moment is a new opportunity for discovery. To delve even further into these compelling topics, visit our website, douglasjamescottrowcom, where you'll find an array of resources, extended interviews and more. Stay engaged by checking out my podcast Wake Up, as well as the Douglas James Cottrell show on YouTube. For those interested in going beyond listening, my website also offers a selection of books and an opportunity to contribute, supporting our mission to guide you on your path to unlocking the innate power within you. Until we meet again, continue to explore, question and grow. I'm your host, douglas James Cottrell. Signing off. Take care, my friends, and be the best you can. God bless.
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