Unlimited Possibilities, Focused Intention and Gratitude : Understanding The Energetics Of Money [E17]

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Think the Universe only shows up when you're doing everything "right"? In this episode, I share three wild moments where divine timing — not strategy — changed everything.  

Even when I was in deep s**t. It's about manifestation tips for entrepreneurs. It's about law of attraction business success, divine timing in business, and how to align with the universe.

From small signs to big surprises, these real-life stories reveal how surrender, clarity, and gratitude cracked open abundance in my business and life. 

If you’ve been fearing or doubting that the Universe has your back.. or believe that your have to be this "perfect vibrational human" to enact the Law of Attraction - this one’s for you.

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[00:00:00] But I also like feeling like there's something beyond us that's guiding us and helping us when we need it.

I wanted to take share something a little bit more personal. I'm gonna share three powerful stories about how manifestation and law of attraction and gratitude have shown up in my life, whether you call it divine intelligence, a quantum field, or synchronicity, I hope that these stories make you smile, and inspire you to stay open to the unexpected ways that your desires and your needs can show up in your life and your business. Anywhere from a freak cup of coffee to a hundred thousand dollars. Let's dive in.

I was reviewing the Law of Attraction versus Human Design episode that I released. In reviewing that episode, I had talked about two things. I had talked about. , [00:01:00] how I don't like this notion of passenger consciousness with the pure play Human Design space. , The body's the vehicle, mind is the passenger, and we're just along for the ride and we're just gonna exist and we'll be taken care of. It feels too passive to me, and it doesn't feel interesting to me.

And I also explained in that episode that I come from a long other school of different thought leaders before I discovered Human Design. Having discovered Human Design in my. Forties. So at that point I'd already studied Law of Attraction, Joe Dispenza, law of Assumption, Neville Goddard, Joseph Murphy, you name it.

 Subconscious mind, identity, all of that. And I believe that all plays into our future, our path. And I'd also talked about how in, in that episode, I talked about how manifestation. [00:02:00] In the law of attraction space is different than manifestation in the Human Design world.

Manifestation in the Human Design world literally means what the word manifest means, which is created into reality.

The law of attraction world actually uses it incorrectly because that's more about attracting it to you versus actually creating it. Slight nuance, but important nuance and whatever the terminology, it doesn't matter because this podcast is about none of that.

but the reason I brought up that episode is that I had said the reason why I don't find that default programming useful. Of Human Design is not just because I don't wanna feel like I'm this thing floating through space and life is happening to me.

It's that I find working with the divine fun. And I find it makes life , really interesting [00:03:00] because it is a reminder that spirit's got your back. It's a reminder to not take life so seriously, and it's a reminder that you're not in this alone.

I wanna give you three examples from my life that happened at three different times that illustrate this. You can apply this to business, you can apply this to life, you can apply this to mindset. You can apply this to anything. In that episode I'd mentioned, , I love, , saying I'm gonna get a free cup of coffee and letting the universe show me that I actually am gonna get a free cup of coffee.

It's not about the fact that I got the free cup of coffee. It's about the how you get the thing is usually so outside of what you could conceive on your own, that it's a constant reminder. That your human brain, as smart as you may be, is so much smaller [00:04:00] than what you would call infinite intelligence.

The divine plan source, goddess, all that is whatever the words you use, I use, you can call it the quantum field if you want. If you're a Joe dispenser person, we don't know what it's this thing that's out there that brings things to us, and that's why I get really frustrated with neuroscientists making the rounds where they say manifestation is just you using a combination of your belief structure and your reticular activating system.

You know, if you are thinking about cars, you're gonna see red cars. That's your reticular activating system or the identity play. If you rewire your brain. You think you're capable of doing something, well then all of a sudden you'll find a way to make it happen. And all that's true. I'm sure that's 80% of the time. I'm sure that's true, but there's a 20% grace that comes in that if you've experienced it. You know what I'm [00:05:00] talking about? It's coincidences and synchronicities and shit that falls out of the sky in ways that you could never engineer that on your own.

It did not have to do with I think I can, or I believe it's true. It just is. Speaking of coffee, let's start with a coffee example. I used to go to Starbucks a lot when I lived in California. I used to live near a Starbucks. I used to walk there this was before political correctness really became a huge thing. And they might've automated their systems, so I would say my name and they would print out. They write your name on the cup, or they print out a sticker and when your coffee's ready, you go to the other side of the store to pick it up.

 my name is Sunitha, S-U-N-I-T-A. There are six letters in my name. Old. I've had that name my entire life. I could never. In my wildest dreams come up with the variations that people came up with for my name. [00:06:00] If I posted them on a blog somewhere it would blow your mind.

The spellings, the different names. At some point, I need to just have a carousel post on my Instagram that does this. To me, it was always a hilarious reminder that we never are gonna be able to see the bigger picture.

There's always a solution to the problem that we have not thought of. To apply that to business, there's always a solution that you have not thought of. And when you focus on the problem, you're focusing on the problem. When you let your higher mind figure out the solution for you, you'd be amazed, which is why Einstein said, never go to bed without asking your subconscious mind a question.

Write a question. 'cause you wanna call it God goddess. All that is, you wanna call it subconscious mind, whatever. You're probably gonna wake up with an answer. That's kind of brilliant. Let's go back to the coffee . This story sticks out in my mind and it actually prompted me to wanna do this episode. I was a [00:07:00] freelancer for a lot of my time in living in California and I was living in a very expensive area. I was also an entrepreneur, and more times than not, I'd gotten myself in over my head. I have. Had a lot of ups and downs in my life, financially included, and I've made a lot of mistakes and I've gotten myself through a lot of very scary situations. There's a book in me one day, but that's not the point of today. The point of today is I was in a situation where I was cutting back on expenses and I really wanted an Americano, which is what I drink. When I used to drink coffee. And Americanos didn't used to be popular in America if you don't know.

But then they became trendy and then Starbucks came hit to that and they raised the price of espresso. So Americanos became like, I don't even know. I used to get soy, this and that, or a lot, it was like, it was a lot of money. Even if you just got an Americano. For me, it was more than I was willing to spend for a cup of coffee.

And so I said, okay, well you're gonna get a decaf. But what I really wanted was an Americano. [00:08:00] And I said to them, Hey, I'd love a decaf. And she's like, well, we ran outta decaf. . Now, Starbucks doesn't even sell decaf coffee anymore. This is a while ago.

But she's like, we're not gonna make another pot. We're gonna stop selling decaf in about 10 minutes. I'll make you whatever you want for free. So I got my decaf, Americano for free. It was what I wanted. And I just decided I want a free cup of coffee. And then I had this inspired action to go walk to Starbucks and I got that cup of coffee and it was an insignificant moment in my life, relatively.

And yet here I am on a podcast sharing with, I don't know how many people eventually are gonna listen to this about that. By the way, this podcast is listened to on every single continent. Besides Antarctica, which if you know how to be Antarctica, hit them

Stories are powerful. They stick out in our mind. What I take from that was numbered one,, you never know how the universe is gonna give you what you ask for. How was I gonna know that they ran outta decaf, but then they're gonna do this and this and that,

if this, I got [00:09:00] what I wanted, it didn't matter how, and I got what I wanted, not what I didn't want. So it's always about being clear about what you want. Sometimes when people say, well, I want that, , I try to manifest, or this or that, they're asking for something they don't actually want.

Maybe it's a partner. Maybe they don't really wanna get married, right? Then maybe they don't actually want a big house. Maybe they don't want that job. Maybe they don't want that promotion. Maybe they are trying to manifest something that they don't actually want. And that's what I was trying to articulate in that podcast episode about law of Attraction and I didn't articulate it in the way that I wanted to, is that I don't think we're ever going to manifest things using law of attraction that are not for us.

And so I don't think there's any. Reason to be like, oh, you're manipulating your life using your mind, and you should just be on default using Human Design. 'cause they can work together. I don't think you're gonna manifest something that's not for you. I said that in that episode. That's number one. The universe, first of all, has a sense of [00:10:00] humor. Second of all is always paying attention. Third of all, you are gonna manifest what you really want, not what you say you want. I don't really wanna decaf, I don't do coffee, I do espresso. And number four is that you're never gonna be able to anticipate the how, even if you tried.

What I like about that example is that it was an insignificant thing. It didn't matter whether or not I got a cup of coffee. And that's why I got it. Because when you are focused on things that matter, that's when your subconscious is gonna kick in. That's when your fear shit is gonna kick in.

Because it's gonna change your life, or it's gonna change your identity, or , your subconscious wants to stay stuck. So by just throwing out there, not worrying about it, and not even thinking about it in I would say, like I said, I walked there, I would say in under 10 minutes from declaring that I had that in my hand very, very fast.

Because there's no friction in the system, [00:11:00] and it wasn't about that I was this high vibration person, , I was in scarcity mode. If you think about it. I was like, well, I don't wanna spend another $2. Or I was in budget mode depending on your frame of reference. So I don't think you need to be this high vibrational being to attract.

That's why I think PE people, what I find weird about law of attraction is that it, it makes it sound like you have to do this perfect human for, to get what you want. And it's that it's out. You have to believe that it's possible. And because it was something simple and stupid, like a free cup of coffee, not that that's stupid, but , it was insignificant, relatively.

I didn't have any friction to believing if that was gonna be true or not. Whereas if I said I'm gonna, a million dollars is gonna show up in my front door tomorrow. There's a belief thing there, right? So let's talk about number two. Let's talk about when you are in need and the universe has your back.

And there's a couple of lessons in this one. One is the power of specificity, and number two, that universe has your back even when you're in deep fucking shit. Number [00:12:00] three is that yes, sometimes it can be this easy. Sometimes money can show up on your doorstep. Right before I left the Bay Area, I was in a situation where I could not pay my rent.

 the Bay Area is very, very expensive if you do not know. So not being able to pay rent there does not mean that you're broke, but it. Doesn't matter if you can't pay your rent. And there's so many reasons for this. Anybody who's run a real business, which goes beyond coaching or whatever, and you have a corporation, I had a corporation.

You play the money game. Sometimes you do dumb things. Like I said, I've done a lot of stupid things in my journey and I share them on a, on afraid to share them because that's that's real life and that's real business, especially when you've been in it for the game for a while. That's the unscripted path.

That's how you get lessons like this that I now share on a podcast for you. If I could pay my rent that day, it would've been a check that I wrote. And no fanfare, no story for you. , I played the money game. We do this. you, you take from this pot to put this pot, and often you forget, forget, you don't pay yourself.

And you're like, oh, I'll just [00:13:00] pay it outta the company. I'll pay it outta the company. But you don't actually pay yourself before you know it, you're broke,, and I couldn't pay my rent. And my rent was 1950 and I was like, I need $2,000 to show up. I just used that as a round number, right? I was like, I need $2,000. I need $2,000. I need 2000. And I didn't freak out about it.

I just was like, I need $2,000 now. I was not acting like the universe would just show up. I'm sure I could have pulled money from my company at a huge cost to myself. 'cause you pay double when you pay outta the company. I could have sold stuff, maybe I could have borrowed it from somebody. I'm sure I could have figured it out.

I could have, told the landlord, I'll get it to you and paid a surcharge per day like a fine and. What's important about this is it was the last full month I was gonna be at that apartment. I'd already given notice, so I just needed to come up with that month

I went to the mailbox [00:14:00] maybe three days before rent was due, and a relative who I'm not gonna name on the podcast, not my parents. Nobody knew I was in this situation. I had not shared it with anybody. It's not someone I was in contact with. Sent me a check for $2,000.

I'm not making this up. It literally showed up in my mailbox and my mailbox was so close to my front door 'cause it was a small apartment complex. It was practically at my front door.

Talk about a hail Mary, right? Did I ever put myself in that situation again? No. But in that situation, I was very specific about the money that I needed, and it showed up almost to the dime in a way that I could never in a million years have told you that [00:15:00] was gonna happen. I've not been in that contact with person for years.

He sent it me for a certain reason. That is not important. But it had nothing to do with the fact that he knew that I was in financial hardship or knew that I needed to pay rent or anything like that. Here's why that's important. Because I. If you read my bio and you're like, oh, MBA Ivy League engineer, blah, blah, blah. You've had it easy and you've never, you don't understand the reals ups and downs of entrepreneurship. No, no, no, my friend. That is not true. Not true at all. Number one. Number two, I've done a lot of fucking stupid stuff.

I want you to know that, and number three, people don't like to hear this, but sometimes the only time when you really know. How much the universe has your back is when you are so far up against the wall that you're about to be crushed, and that's when somebody intervenes. It's not about delusion, but it's about a sense of [00:16:00] faith in yourself that you got this in life and sometimes you need a little reminder.

As creators, as entrepreneurs, is anybody doing something differently? We need those reminders. We don't need to tax our nervous system like I did. But the thing was, is I wasn't even stressed out about it. That's the crazy thing about it. It, you could call that delusion, but I was like, it's gonna work out itself out.

Everything's gonna work out. There's that lesson there. Universe had my back. Universe had my back. You can see why these are important stories in my life where I do think there's something more than just the mechanics of Human Design or, the neuroscience of identity. There is something bigger at play in my experience. And speaking of

nervous system and having your back and all that, the third, and , just in time stuff. The third element is gratitude, and you're gonna hear this a lot once you tell the universe how grateful you [00:17:00] are for what you have, it'll give you more things to be grateful for. I've experienced this so many times.

I have a gratitude practice I try to do. Most days I've fallen off, but most days I try to do a gratitude practice top 10, 11 things every night before I go to bed. And a while back I had, taken a book out from the library. It was written by the woman who had done The Secret. Her name is Rhonda Burns. A lot of her stuff is really like mass appeal, spirituality, like what? , Manifestation, mass appeal, manifestation stuff. It was a book on magic manifestation or something. And I, the book was literally . Gratitude practice on crack. It was literally all of these weird rituals, like hold this rock and do this thing. But if you actually read the book, it's literally different ways that you are seeking ways to think the universe all day for the smallest things. And you're by doing it all day versus at night, you're scanning your brain all day to find stuff is basically what those rituals were.

It was gratitude practice on crack and I'd had a coach a couple years ago. He was doing a course on manifesting and I [00:18:00] took it, it was a workshop and one of those, he talked about something. This was Extreme Gratitude project where it's like extreme gratitude, every day you. You add to it. Like the first day you might, , do one thing, then the next day you do two things and by day 60 you're doing 60 things a day. It takes forever, but it's extreme. And I did find in that time it wasn't anything big. It would be like, I had a garden and all of a sudden like someone would be like, here, here's a bunch of free vegetables. Just those things that you notice and the universe likes it when you acknowledge it and you notice it and then you train your brain. That's just straight up neuroscience. You train your brain to notice something, you're gonna notice more of it. There's also the biochemistry of gratitude, which is that it's been proven that it lowers cortisol level, right? It releases certain feel good hormones. It lowers your stress hormones. It improves your sleeps, you feel better, and then you're less anxious and you're less angry. You could say your vibration is higher or whatever, but that's just straight up science, right? So gratitude, gratitude, gratitude. It was spring equinox in 20. [00:19:00] 15, and this was right around the time I had ended my contract life in the Silicon Valley area and I was thinking about moving . Cause I didn't really need to be there on a daily basis to look for work. I lived in the Silicon Valley and I wasn't in tech, which is basically suicidal because tech is where the money is and. That's why you would live there unless your family is from there. The reasons for me being there are not important at this time. But I was there and I felt a little trapped there, so I was in a financial situation. Now, this is three years before the thing I just told you. It was not like I was kept making this same mistake over and over again. Different kind of mistake. It was spring equinox I remember, and I decided to go into gratitude walk.

I decided to go on a gratitude walk, to just take in spring, acknowledge the turning of the wheel and all that kind of stuff. I [00:20:00] walk in the door, my phone rings literally the minute I open the door. Which is actually better because if it, rang when I was walking, I wouldn't have taken the call because I don't like to be distracted and I'm a weird, like I don't really like to talk on the phone in public.

I'm private that way and I wouldn't have recognized the number. And yet something made me pick up the phone. When I opened the door. It was my old manager that I'd work with at a big tech company as a contractor, and when I'd work with her, I'd work with her through an agency. When you work through an agency, they take a huge cut of your pay and you gotta interview and you're in the candidate pool with everybody else and blah, blah, blah.

It's a whole fricking long process. When you work with companies of that size, they have procurement agencies, they have to approve outside vendors. There's a whole fucking process. It's weeks. And then you work there, and then you might get paid, couple of weeks later, months later, she calls me up.

She's like, Hey, how you doing? Blah, blah, blah. What are you up to? I'll spare you the [00:21:00] niceties. She's like, I need you. She's like, uh, I, I hired this person to do this thing. She quit. Can you be here tomorrow? Bring your personal laptop. I will pay you a check out of my bank account tomorrow and we'll figure out the procurement shit later.

She's a very senior person in the company. She could obviously get away with this. You'll pay me back when you get paid. But don't, I don't, I'm not worried about it. , I need you here tomorrow. I need you here yesterday. Bring your fricking laptop. Which as you don't know, that takes a long time too, because they have, those companies have to issue you a company issue laptop.

For security reasons though. Nothing at that company was doing at anything to do with anything. No one will give a shit. But you know how that this red tape works, right? And so literally, I went a gratitude walk that was over a hundred thousand dollars contract.

Saved my ass. That is the money that I used to start my first e-commerce business and the rest is [00:22:00] history. In that situation, I focused on what I had and not what I didn't have, even though I had nothing at that time. And the universe rewarded me in ways that you could never fucking conceive that. And it wasn't a delay.

It was like, you're gonna get money tomorrow. And a large sum of money. It wasn't just about a scarcity play, like the second piece where it's like you're just gonna get what you need, and I'm gonna show you that you're always gonna have what you need and not what you want. It was like a, I'm gonna give you, you told me that you're grateful for what you got. I'm gonna give you 10 times more. I'm gonna give you more than you ever even asked for. I dunno what you'd call that. Are those three stories about law of attraction? Are those three stories about the universe? Are they three stories about business? But since this was a spontaneous episode, I'm gonna spontaneously off the top of my head try to remember what I said , and knock 'em down for you, and then apply 'em to business

the first one is be specific about what you want, focus on what you want and not what you don't want. Number two, act like it's a free cup [00:23:00] of coffee. Make your brain think that it's insignificant. It doesn't matter. The more meaning you put behind it, the more you're gonna put up mental barriers about why that's not possible, and then get outta the fucking way.

Let the universe give you the how, and even if the names on the coffee cup are gonna tell you something, it's that it has more possibilities then you could ever come up with. It would blow your mind the number of combinations people have come up with, just through Starbucks alone for my name, letters, combinations, names. It's crazy and that it can happen immediately. I got that cup of coffee 10 minutes after I decided I wanted it. You don't have to wait a long time to manifest something. Number two. Universe always has your back. When you're at your lowest point, the universe will show you sometimes that you have to take a risk. Sometimes you have to be at your worst place for spirit [00:24:00] to fly in and show you and help you, because before then you're gonna try to figure it out in yourself. And even in that situation, keeping calm, knowing it's gonna work out. Sometimes it does border on delusion. Some people I've heard of this term the other day, d Lulu is the sa, Lulu. Sometimes it is. And I had a specific amount I needed. The universe gave me that and no more just to show me like, don't put yourself in this situation again, but I got your back. And I never would've been able to figure that. And it was so easy. I literally walked to the mailbox to get my mail and that check was there.

Boom. And the third one is have gratitude for what you have. 'cause you never know what that gratitude is gonna give you. Sometimes it's a gigantic cucumber, like the person in my garden or a zucchini, and sometimes it's a hundred thousand dollars.

And then after that contract expired, I stayed on for more work. That was fully remote, which led to a whole [00:25:00] other ridiculous story that I'll tell you in the future. , If I do an episode in the future about when I decided to illegally Airbnb my apartment and what I learned from that whole situation came outta this contract.

So in that it's about having gratitude of what you have , it can show up faster than you think, and it can be more than you ever asked for. In business and life, it's about, there are solutions out there that are beyond what you can think of on your own and just let spirit guide you.

Number two, sometimes your when your back is against the wall, that is the best time to learn because would this story have been told if everything had been hunky dory? Would any of these stories have been told if things had been smooth sailing in life? No. If I could have just afforded that Americano, if I could have just paid that check if I wasn't in that situation, that's not an interesting journey to me.

And that's a lot of what this podcast was about. It's the unscripted journey is more interesting than the fucking [00:26:00] packaged bullshit that they're selling you. And I'm an unscripted. So my stuff is unscripted, literally on the mic. But I hopefully I captured the thread for you. I wanted to do a little pallet cleanser with all the Human Design stuff I'd been talking about. I knew that season one was going to be about sacral beings. It's just how it worked out. . If you've had some crazy manifestation stories, I would love to hear them. Text me in the show notes, share them on fan mail. I wanna hear about it. Because the crazy stories are what make life interesting and in my world of using Human Design where the body is a driver and the personality is the, you get it. Where we are vehicles on autopilot through space. That's fine. But I also like feeling like there's something beyond us that's guiding us and helping us when we need it.

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