Can You Manifest From Survival? with Izabela Oquendo

We explore how nervous system regulation accelerates aligned manifestation, sharpens intuition, and builds capacity to hold what arrives. We share tools like EFT tapping, bedtime visualization, seasonal timing, and practical action so wins feel sustainable, not fragile.

• grounding manifestation in regulation and embodiment
• manifesting while dysregulated versus aligned outcomes
• intuition blocked by emotional residue
• mindfulness and allowing thoughts to fizzle
• bedtime and morning visualization routines
• EFT tapping to interrupt fear and reprogram beliefs
• pairing inner work with outer action and opportunities
• seasonal cycles for momentum and rest
• capacity to hold money, success, and change
• starting messy, building neutrality, trusting timing

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Transcript

Grounded Manifestation Meets Nervous System Science

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to the UNR podcast Real Energy Real Talk. This is a leader-to-fanker conversation space exploring the nervous system, trauma, embodiment, and the work that actually creates lasting and death. Here, healing professionals think out loud together. We question what doesn't work, we clarify what does, and we bring grounded depth without rigid ideology or performative spirituality. If you're ready for embodied healing that works in real life, you're in the right place. And if you'd like to continue beyond the conversation, you can join our free Unanara healing community through the link in the show notes. Let's begin. Hello and welcome everyone. Today I would like to welcome one of our first guests to the show, Isabella Okendo, who is a licensed psychotherapist, somatic practitioner, and founder of the Mindful Waypoint. She blends nervous system science, manifestation principles, and embodied practices to help women create transformation that feels safe, sustainable, and aligned. Her work centers on the belief that expansion comes from regulation, clarity, and internal spaciousness. Through her community teachings and guided practices, Isabella helps women prepare their bodies and minds for the next cycle of growth. Inside of Uninara, Isabella guides EFT centered somatic sessions designed to help people regulate their nervous systems, gently release stored emotional patterns, and reconnect with the sense of inner safety. Hi, Isabella, welcome.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Hi, I'm so excited to be here and to be the first.

Isabella’s Early Wins And The Missing Piece

SPEAKER_00 1:46

I know you are literally one of the first guests for this podcast. I'm just so excited to number one, just have you here, introduce you as one of the founding facilitators for Unanara, and then dive into this really exciting topic today around manifestation, nervous system regulation. And so I'm curious. So when I think of manifestation, there's a lot of language out there nowadays. And what stands out to me about your work in particular is how grounded it feels. And manifestation can sometimes sound really big and playful and beautiful, but not always embodied, right? And I appreciate that you anchor it into regulation. So I'm curious when you say nervous system uh and it needing to be regulated for manifestation. What do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Okay, so this is something that I've kind of um realized pretty recently. So I learned about manifestation um like 10 years ago, actually, 2026. I'm celebrating 10 years of manifesting because I learned about it in 2016.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

I know it was 10 years for me too.

From Mindset Only To Embodied Practice

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Really? Yeah. So yeah, like the first time I ever heard of the concept was at this like real estate seminar that I attended, and like I just dove into it with The Secret on Netflix and Napoleon Hill, and then it just was a snowball from there. Um, so in my first eight years of manifesting, I managed to manifest quite a lot. Um, but then two years ago, I started getting like really reflective and intentional with like what I was doing and and the inner work that I was um working on at that time. It was a whole cascade of events that kind of launched that. But what I noticed is that everything started flooding in so much faster. Like in the last two years, like just my entire life is I live in Spain right now. Like it's just like in the last two years, everything is just my whole life has been flipped upside down in a good way. Um, but what the catalyst to all of that was nervous system regulation. I started with journaling and really working through my emotions. Um, so two, three years ago was a really, really emotional time for me. And um, I learned mindfulness meditation um as a form of stress release. And, you know, that kind of led me to my journaling um habit. And, you know, I really started unraveling a lot of the trauma and emotions that I was storing. And then from there, I kind of started learning how to move my body and learning how to kind of like talk to my body so that it would release the stress that it was holding, which turned out to be a lot. Um, and yeah, I mean, in the last two years, like, you know, since I've really adopted those principles and really lived by them, I mean, everything in my life is is different now and it's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Wow. Wow. So you started learning manifestation about 10 years ago, and it started working for you right away.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Uh yeah, it was pretty right away. Yeah, pretty much. Um so it's it all started with um like I manifested a job that I really wanted teaching at a university. So that was like it was pretty immediate. And then um I lost 30 pounds and like I got really into like um uh like self-development and I was learning real estate investing at the time. Um I was I had my real estate license, but we started getting into like the investing side of it, and we accumulated uh I think it ended up being like a$1.8 million real estate portfolio, which by the way, in those two years where everything came full circle, we like we sold everything and you know it was just like the at the absolute peak of the market and just like things that just don't logically make sense happened in my life.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Wow. Okay, so when the embodied piece did the embodied piece come at the beginning for you, uh like the nervous system work, or when did that kind of come into the picture when it came to no, not at all.

Can You Manifest While Dysregulated

SPEAKER_01 6:17

In the beginning, it was all mindset work, it was all like think positive and gratitude and you know, just like unicorns and rainbows type of thing, right? Like just positive mindset all the time, um, which is like I think a really core um probably foundational like teaching of manifestation. Um but what I noticed later in in those last two years was that when I really embodied, when I really paid attention to, you know, what was going on and the stress that I was feeling, because before I would just, I'm just one of those people that like I just push down my stress and I just keep it moving, pretend nothing's bothering me. And what I realized is that when I actually let my emotions cycle through, they don't stay in my body. And I noticed less tension in my muscles, for example, and less pain in my body. Like I noticed physically that I was feeling a lot different when I actually allowed the emotions to finish their cycles and to actually like I call it discharging the emotion.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah, yeah. I love that we're bringing this up because I think you can still manifest from a dysregulated nervous system because what comes to mind is in my earlier career days, I had a very successful business, but I was very dysregulated. I had a team, I was overworking. Um, there's a lot of fear of failure and scarcity mindset that's still kind of snuck in time to time. Granted, I was very familiar with manifestation and I was the person that journaled every day, gratitude every day, and like uh it was my ritual. Like, I mean, I was like diehard like every day I would stick to that, but I was still inside of my body just feeling like well, I know now that I was literally in survival and feeling this sense of control, I didn't have the best boundaries. Um, but I was still able to manifest a very successful business. And so I'd love to kind of like talk about that because I think people get this mixed up thinking that you have to be completely regulated in order to manifest, but I don't think that's always necessarily true, right?

Intuition, Emotional Residue, And Alignment

SPEAKER_01 8:44

No, no, not at all. I mean, my first eight years, I was completely dysregulated, and you know, I managed to manifest quite a lot of things, you know. I was pretty much living my dream life at that point. Um, you know, so yeah, no, I definitely think that, well, no, I know that it's possible to manifest from a dysregulated state, and you can manifest some really wonderful things, but when you're regulated, it's just like it's such a different experience because one, it happens a lot faster. Things come through a lot faster, and the things that come through are a lot more aligned because you kind of filter out the noise of a dysregulated, like the dysregulated body is noisy and you can't hear your intuition. So you're kind of at least this was my experience. I was going for things that I thought I wanted. I was like, this on paper looks great. So this is what I'm going to go for, and this is what I'm gonna strive for. Nobody in my family has ever had anything like this. This is this is what I want. But it turned out later that that was not aligned for me. I was chasing the wrong goals, and that's because my intuition was just not not really, it wasn't loud enough for me to hear. It was, it wasn't that it wasn't loud enough. My body was too noisy for me to hear it. And I'm a human design generator, and you know, so my intuition is there and uh it is very, very strong. But again, I just I couldn't hear it.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

My gosh, you bring up such a good point when you're dysregulated, your intuition isn't as strong. Granted, I have seen some mediums out there that I've worked on before that are dysregulated and they're still intuitive, but for me personally, if I'm dysregulated, I can't hear shit. Like I and I notice that like it just the door shut for that gift to be able to just flow through me. And I think it's so important in anything that you do, whether you're in the entrepreneurial space, you're a mother, a father, uh, you're in a different career, like relationships, where intuition is important to have. Because if you're operating and living your human experience from a dysregulated nervous system, then a lot of times that can create even more stress or like probably not the best decisions that you would be the most proud of because you weren't listening to that inner gut feeling, that intuitive nudge that you know would have been more aligned for you. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So intuition, yeah, I think is huge. You need to have that, especially to know what it is that you want to manifest.

Chasing Goals Versus Hearing Your Gut

SPEAKER_01 11:28

Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah, and like I said, it's for me, it was like 100% just like not being true to myself. It was creating this life that I thought was what I wanted. Uh, but then when I actually, when my intuition actually did come online, when I started kind of, you know, regulating my body and releasing the the tension and the stress and you know, the the I call it emotional residue. Um, when we don't complete our emotional cycles, it just kind of stays in the body and it interferes with the mind-body connection. So, you know, the body is speaking, the intuition lives in the body, not in the mind, I believe. And um, the mind can't hear that intuition because that connection isn't there anymore. Um, so again, you know, I was logically doing all the right things. You know, if you looked at my life, it was pretty good, but I wasn't happy and I couldn't figure out why until I finally unlocked that intuition.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yeah, I felt the same way. Like when I was that dysregulated CEO in the past, I I like it, I would make so much money and be like, and I'd feel that excitement for a little bit, and then it'd kind of go back to like oh, that's it. Like I want more. And then you're just constantly trying to chase this high instead of fully embodying the experience as you do grow. And then looking back too, I realized that the cost, the cost that it took to stay dysregulated. And you can't really put a price tag, yeah, you have the money coming in, and I'm just using that as an example, but like at what cost to your body, the stress, the relationships when you're dysregulated really does roll over into all areas of your life. So I you brought up a point, uh, discharging energy. So, would you consider that part of like a step that is necessary when it comes to manifestation? Can you expand on that a little bit and what you mean by discharging energy? I think that's what you said. Uh and yeah, just tell us a little bit more about what you mean by that.

Thoughts, Embodiment, And Reality

What Isabella Is Manifesting Now

SPEAKER_01 13:47

So glad you asked because I have this whole like theory that I'm working on for lack of a better term. Um, and I've been trying to like uh I've been really reflective of these last two years and like trying to pinpoint, I'm a very scientific person, trying to pinpoint exactly what was different about the last two years compared to the previous eight. And um what I'm what I've really been honing in on is um is those emotional cycles. So what I would do before is experience an emotion, it could be joy, it doesn't have to be necessarily be a negative emotion, it could be joy, and you know, I wouldn't allow myself to fully express it and to fully feel it, right? But then when I started, um, it all started with my journaling habit, and I started really like I'm not a very expressive person externally. So when I started putting it on paper, it was a form of expression. So it was those emotions actually coming out without me having to, you know, jump around and scream, and I'm not an extrovert, like that doesn't come naturally to me, right? So um, you know, so once I started really putting those emotions out on paper, I noticed in my body, again, I started hearing my intuition loud and clear. I started really evaluating, you know, what I have and what I want. Um, so to answer your question about whether I think that, you know, discharging those emotions is necessary for manifestation, I don't. Um, but I do think that it is very helpful in really um because we can manifest an unaligned life, as you know, right? Like we can totally manifest things that are not aligned with our higher selves. And it takes a moment of clarity and to actually wake up from that to realize that what we've manifested is not actually what we want. And then we undo it and then we start all over again. I think a lot of people go through that, it's like part of the spiritual journey. Um, right. So I think um, you know, having that charge uh like dispelled from the body and a neutral state is the goal, I think. So when you can think about a traumatic incident or something that is charged with emotion and you can really feel neutral about it, that is the actual goal because kind of like mindfulness, right? So that was another big component of what I think helped me manifest everything that I have. Um, mindfulness is not acting on the things that you observe, right? So it's kind of taking I this is some um, gosh, I forgot the author's name, it'll come to me, but he described it as standing behind a waterfall and your thoughts are the water, and you're standing behind them and you're just observing them fall. You're not doing anything about it, you're not interfering with them in any way. I like this, right? So um, yeah, so I think that like being neutral emotionally is kind of a similar thing. So putting yourself into that just like observational state um helps you really detach and surrender to what it is that you're trying to manifest because you're not trying to manipulate the situation in any way.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

So, what are your thoughts around your thoughts create your reality?

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Um I do believe that, yes. Um I mean that's a foundational It has to start somewhere aspect. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So um I think that you know, we are we definitely can control our thoughts, but the thing with mindfulness is that we don't necessarily want to um we want to just kind of like let the thought complete itself without interfering. Because and this kind of goes against like psychological training and cognitive behavioral um therapy, because that teaches that if there's a negative thought, we interrupt it and we replace it with a positive thought, right? And I tend to disagree with that. I think that it's much better to allow that negative thought to just kind of drift away rather than interrupt it starkly because I think if we interrupt something, just like cut it off in the middle of it, I think it's more likely to come back. If we let it just kind of fizzle away, I think it's more likely to stay away.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

I agree. Yeah, I'm in this habit where if I feel or think of a negative pattern in my mind, I put it in a trash can as soon as I can. Uh, and I think we all naturally just have those negative thought patterns. Not that we're, you know, want to think that way by any means, but we're human, those things are gonna happen. But when I think of manifestation, it's it's yes, it starts with a thought, but you also need to embody that thought too, right? You need to feel it, and I think that's where that manifestation begins to multiply, right?

Process: Reflection, Visualization, And Action

SPEAKER_01 19:07

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, and that's why I think well, so negative thoughts um have like less effect on our lives than positive ones because we don't embody them, right? Like if we think of something negative, you're not gonna be like, oh, I want to be that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

One positive thought is 10 times stronger than like a hundred negative thoughts. Is that the saying? I forget what it is.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

I I don't know. I've heard something like that.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

But I've always remembered that. I'm like, all it takes is one positive thought. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, I think that that thoughts are kind of the root of where everything starts. Um, and what we embody and what we kind of multiply and compound on is what we create in our reality. So when we dwell on negative thoughts, yeah, and when we keep bringing them up over and over again, scarcity and you know, everything else, um, that's the reality that we're creating. But when we don't focus on those thoughts, and like I said, I like to kind of just let them fizzle out rather than stop them because for me, they're less likely to come back up. And then just naturally, consciously bring yourself to a positive thought. Um, so yeah, I mean, I think that that is the root of it all. Um, but when our body isn't connected to our mind because of the emotional residue, I think it's harder to embody those positive thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Yeah, I agree. I'm curious, can we ask, what are you manifesting right now?

SPEAKER_01 20:37

Um, let's see, lots of things. Um, so I'm manifesting a big like career shift. Um, so I want to do a lot more in the healing space. Um, so I'm transitioning from a very rigid and structural business. I'm an accountant.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Yeah. So yeah, I know it's weird. I'm a psychotherapist and I'm an accountant. But what I'm doing for work right now is accounting. And um, so this is something that I've been like really kind of trying to like come to terms with and allowing both of those identities to exist in me. Um, and I feel like that's kind of been a big hurdle in my manifestation is like actually embodying being both because my brain does both things, it does numbers and logic, and it also does like empathy and healing. Um so I've really like now started to come to terms with that, and that's that's what I'm trying to, that's what I'm manifesting is to be both of those things.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Amazing. So can you walk us through your process and how that's going to manifest for you? How do you manifest that reality into your life?

SPEAKER_01 21:49

So I think that there's a big um like disconnect with the inner work we do and the outer work that we do because both are necessary for manifestation. Because we can't just think all the positive thoughts and convince ourselves that we are this fantastic perfect human and then not do anything about it because nothing's gonna show up in our reality, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

So can't just sit on the couch, right? And expect a career just to show up on your doorstep.

Night Routines And Subconscious Priming

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So one big thing that I'm like one big part of my process is being aware of the opportunities to, you know, to take my career to the next step. So um, you know, I think so many of us are just like, oh, this is what I want. And then like something knocks on the door and you're like, but not like that, right? So I think, you know, just exploring every opportunity, trying everything, putting yourself out there as much as possible, you know, like, you know, even doing this podcast with you, like, you know, I didn't even know you were gonna revive the podcast until you said you were like, okay, well, here we go. This is what we're doing now, you know. So, you know, just like being aware of those opportunities, and and that's like a major thing in my process, in addition, obviously, to continually monitoring my emotions and making sure that I'm like neutral in my body.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Okay, so you have to like you have to know what you wanted. You want this career shift. And then uh, do you journal every day? I do. Okay, so do you journal? Not every day.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

I'm I'm not great at doing it every day, but I do a lot of reflection and some people aren't gonna like this. I do a lot of reflection with chat GPT. I do too. Yeah. Me and chat will just sit there and be like, okay, here's what's bothering me today. That's not bestie. Exactly. So I feel like I do a lot of like like that stands in for a lot of my journaling because like I kind of trained my chat GPT to like ask me the right questions, and I just like go through this like reflective process with them.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Beautiful, beautiful. And so so you know what you want to manifest, you work with chat GPT to help with reflective prompts when you journal, when you journal. It's not necessarily every day. I don't believe you need to journal every day either. Uh and what what comes after that? Probably the action steps, or what would you, or the embodiment, or what would you say?

EFT Tapping To Interrupt Fear

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Yeah, well, the I do a lot of um visualization. So um before I go to bed at night, I always um I like to listen to like a visualization meditation. And what I've been finding recently is that um the ones that I look up on YouTube are like all AI voices, and they sound like some some of the things that they say, I'm like, okay, that's a little bit questionable for me to be feeding my subconscious as I'm falling asleep, right? So I started recording my own, and um, I've actually uh a couple of them are up on Unanara already, and I'm gonna continue doing those at least one a month. Um, so I think I put them under meditations, but they're um nighttime meditations. So there's like a separate category for that.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Ooh, check them out, check them out.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Yeah, for sure. Um, so that's been something that I really have been liking to do. Um, you know, just like putting good stuff into your mind before you fall asleep because you know, when we're in that like theta stage, we're really receptive to subconscious programming.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Okay, yeah, I agree. Like before bedtime can literally make or break your next day. I feel like it's if you're going to bed like stressed out and bajillion things on your mind and just dysregulated, it well, one, you're gonna have probably a horrible night of sleep. Um, and then two, like you wake up and you're just kind of like yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

It's and it affects your dreams and like you know, it's it's a whole thing. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Oh, yeah. Whereas like you just slow down and right before bed, go listen to one of your manifestations just to re-ground you and re-anchor you into something nicer. Yeah, like what am I supposed to do tomorrow? Yeah, it makes a big difference. Yeah, okay. So we have we have the meditations, which by the way, if you all want to check out those meditations, you can join the uninara free community. Um, those are gonna be in the show notes below. Go ahead and click on that. Join the join the Uninara community for free. And then if you want to check out her meditations, you'll see that within the on-demand premium section. Yes. So yeah, tell us tell us more, Isabella.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

So yeah, so that um that's a that's been a big thing I've been doing a lot lately. Um, and then I do um like morning meditations, not every day, because I like to do those really early morning, and I don't always wake up really early morning, um, even though I try to. Uh so I do like early morning visualizations where I kind of um I go about my day like in my visualization, but then I add like cool things that can happen. Like, you know, I picture myself drinking my coffee at my desk and oh, an email popped up with I don't know, a podcast invitation or you know, something that will accelerate my career, right? So it's it's putting myself in a very normal routine with these like extra little um pop-ups that will help get get me to my goal. Routine.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Okay, yeah. Yeah, so that would be something. Yeah, that's been something that I think do you think manifestation is like a one and done thing, or if it's something that you need to continue to practice on a daily and every day?

SPEAKER_01 27:35

I think an individual manifestation could 100% be a one-and-done thing, especially if you're making the claim for if you're making the statement and declaring your desire from a neutral body, you know, emotionally regulated. I think that that's like a clear beacon to the universe. Like when you're regulated, I if it's like a direct signal, like to God or source or sphere, whatever, you know, whatever it is called in your life, it's like you were speaking directly to it, and it only takes one time, it only takes saying it once.

Seasons, Cycles, And Momentum

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Yeah, you just gotta claim it and you're like, hey, I want this. Okay, cool, thanks. It's like putting an order in for a cheeseburger at a you know the restaurant, like you already know it's gonna show up at your table. Like, there's no like, oh, I don't know if it's gonna show up or not. Like there's all these fears coming in. Yeah, yeah. But there's I would say, would you say if there's like there are the fears that come in, like say somebody wants to manifest$10,000 next month? Uh, could they they could do a one and done if they're neutral about it, from what you say. But if fear starts to come in and scarcity and they start to lose track of this this goal, is that wouldn't you would say maybe start to come back to these methods that you're speaking of, that these visualization techniques, the meditations, um, journaling and whatnot?

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Well, I think interrupting the fear pattern is important before you go back to the manifestation practice. So yeah, you don't want to manifest from fear. Yeah, exactly. So I am partial to EFT tapping. So whenever I have a limiting belief pop up, um, I just like I'll start, I'll do a tapping routine where I just try to just, you know, condition it out of me and replace that fear with something either neutral or positive. And then I go back to the manifestation practice.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Can you explain what EFT tapping is? Because I know that's what you do mostly inside of Uninara uh for the members. Can you just touch on that a little bit and how that works when it comes to manifestation?

Capacity: Holding What Arrives

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Yeah, so EFT is um emotional freedom techniques, I think. Yes. I know I just call it EFT for my entire life. So I remember life, yeah, emotional freedom techniques. Um yeah, so what it is is uh it's tapping on the body's meridian points. And um when so we start at the crown of the head and we move down to like the eyebrows, and um, so it like kind of coincides loosely with the chakras of the body. And um what it does is it opens the line of communication to the subconscious. Um, so the tapping kind of like um, I don't know, it's it's not exactly distract the subconscious mind, but it like gives us a direct channel to um kind of reprogram it. So my EFT technique starts with getting on the level of the subconscious. So if your subconscious mind tends to like talk in fear and scarcity and you know limiting beliefs and things like that, we want to acknowledge it's limiting beliefs, right? So it's kind of like talking to a child. You wouldn't just like go to a kid and be like, no, you're wrong. Here's what it is, right? You would be like, I understand that this is what you believe, but here's why this is more correct. So you're doing the same thing to your subconscious. So my technique starts with speaking to the subconscious, like, you know, saying things like, even though I believe X, Y, and Z, I am actually this, this, and this, right? So I go through three, four, sometimes five cycles where each cycle has a different purpose. So the first one is just getting on the level of the subconscious to make it like feel comfortable that you're talking to it. Um, you know, and then it's um acknowledging why things are the way they are. You are you feel scarcity because that was part of your upbringing, that was how you were raised. It has this, you know, this limiting belief has protected you up until now. So it's validating the fear, and then it goes into um reprogramming it. So here's what we are replacing it with, and then it ends with an outcome. So once I replace this limiting belief, this is what is going to happen. And you know, while you're you you talk while you're tapping on on these different points in the body, and it's like it doesn't happen like right away. For some people it does. For me, it doesn't. It's kind of like it's a gradual thing where you know, when I finish my EFT tapping, I will kind of just be like, okay, I feel calmer, and then I'll think about the thought that I'm trying to reprogram. And I'll be like, okay, it feels a little bit better, but then it's like usually for me, it's like hours later. I'm like, why did I even think that? That's kind of ridiculous. Because we're human and that's what we do. Yeah, exactly. Like it's like nonsensical things that we believe. Like, why would I believe that I'm gonna be poor forever? Like, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

We think the darnedest things, right? Yeah. I'm curious before we jumped on this recording today, we were talking about seasons. Seasons when it comes to manifestation, how to harness the power of maybe even springtime momentum. I'm curious from your perspective, like how the different seasons like summer, fall, winter, play into effect. Uh, I didn't even know this was a thing until you brought it up. And so I'm just so curious. What can you share about that?

Where To Find Isabella And Final Advice

SPEAKER_01 33:16

So there is momentum in nature, right? And in the wintertime, nature is resting. So um, you know, I have this thing where like January be the new year being in January drives me up the freaking wall. I think it's the dumbest thing in the world. I think that like the new year should begin in the springtime when everything comes back to life, you know, and I like to kind of operate in cycles with my work, with um with my manifestations, with my reflection, with I mean, pretty much everything I do now operates in a cycle, even my work. Like I do taxes because like I like to do that in the wintertime, right? So um, so yeah, I think that in the springtime when you know, when nature is returning to its full potential, you know, when the seeds are sprouting, when the flowers are blooming, when the animals are waking up out of their hibernation, there's this literally creating yeah, forward-moving momentum that like is just happening all around us. And I think that that's like the perfect time to put our intentions out there. So I take winter for rest. So December, January, February, like is pretty much just like just I do work and things like that. But as far as like, yeah, yeah, exactly. As far as like inner work, I just allow myself to be. And then in March, when you know, when everything starts to kind of wake up, which in Spain, fun fact, everything's waking up now in February. Flowers are blooming. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Um, and you know, so you just harnessing that movement. And I like to take March for setting intentions, all right. So, you know, thinking about what I want to see in the next cycle and what I want to manifest. And then spring is like that forward push, summer is when it kind of comes to full bloom, and then fall is when we start winding down again. So I like to just, you know, use this the season that we're in as kind of like a guide post for you know where I am in my own.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Nature has your back in this sense. So it sounds like springtime is really the best time to manifest. You can manifest at any time of the year, yeah. But yeah, if you want a little bit more momentum, just like how a horse year kind of gives us momentum when it comes to seasons, yeah. If you have springtime in your area, or if you want to go travel in the thinking, like, wait, what if I'm like in the Caribbean where I don't really get spring? Right, summer, so it's good all the time, then, right?

SPEAKER_01 35:55

Yeah, but you also have to like consider that even in the warm climates, there are cycles. Like if you just look at trees and how they change, how the leaves change. No, that's true. You know, they still do operate in in cycles to some extent. So just tuning into those cycles, even if where you live doesn't necessarily happen.

SPEAKER_00 36:13

Yeah, places have rainy season or like hurricane season. I don't think that would be a good time to manifest. Yeah, or maybe it is because there's a lot of power there. Yeah, true. Why not? Let's just try it all, guys. Why not? Just manifest all the time. Yeah, I'm gonna manifest today. Why not? Oh, I love this. Okay, so anything else when it comes to manifestation that you're like, oh, they have the people listening just have to know this and I have to share this. What would that be? Anything come to mind?

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Yeah, so um I'm writing a a 10-part sub a 10-part series on Substack about my reflections um on my 10 years of manifestation. And I'm coming to the point right now where I'm thinking about capacity. Okay. So I've covered surrender because I think surrender is a big, big component of manifestation, which we didn't really get too far into. But I think even more so that a lot of people don't think about is capacity. So what happens after those manifestations show up, right? Do they just like can you just like be a millionaire and just be happy for the rest of your life? Like that's it. Like, no, like you know, we have to also be able to hold it, right? So many lottery winners go broke, right? So many superstars blow through all of their money and end up poor again. You know, it's like we when we get something that we want so badly, but we aren't able to increase our like what's the word I'm looking for? If we're not able to embody the person who can hold it and really make something of it, we're gonna lose it.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Where we embody it and neutralize it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I feel like that's happened to me a few times as I've grown in my career. I went from waiting tables and making, you know, a few grand a month to like thinking, oh, that's the most I'll ever make, to, you know, and then normalizing 5k a month and then 10k a month in my bank account. And but it couldn't just jump completely because god forbid, I would have been like so excited at first, been like, oh my god, I don't know how to handle all this money. So to me, it's always been kind of around like normalizing and maybe taking baby steps too as you begin to manifest, um, and sort of I mean, you can I guess I guess go big if you want, but for me personally, it has been like okay, manifest in small amounts first to get the body on board as you go.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Yeah, yeah. And I think that if you do manifest big, if you just like go all in, I think that once it arrives, you need to kind of like let it sit for a bit before you're able to like really be like, okay, that's actually mine. That's actually mine, you know.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

Yeah, like see it in the bank account and be like, Yeah, that's my bitches.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

Yeah, that's that's what happened to me when I, you know, when I cashed out of all my real estate, I was like, oh my god. Like I I was a victim of this capacity issue. Like, you know, it so much of it went out so fast, and like, you know, this is like it's I'm still in I'm still kind of reeling from all of that. So I'm not like ready to share about it or anything, but I will um because this this season for me has been a huge lesson in capacity.

SPEAKER_00 39:41

Wow, this is incredible. Thank you so much for coming on this show today. There are many other ways to work with Isabella instead of just through Unanara. Can you share a little bit of where people can find you, maybe what you have going on right now? Tell us a little bit about all the good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

Sure, yeah. So um, yeah, I am kind of in the process of transitioning. Well, not transitioning. Again, I'm holding both identities right now. So um, you know, I'm trying to bring this like healing identity online. And I started that with um a coaching community. So it's called the Mindful Waypoint Collective, and um it's a monthly subscription to my group coaching. Um, I share a lot of like insights into the work that I'm doing, and um I'm going to be coming up with some, well, I've already come up with them. I'm gonna be releasing some pretty cool uh like coaching containers, and it's gonna be for now exclusive to members in the collective. Um, so if you're interested in that, you can find me um on mostly on Instagram, so isabella.okendo, it's my name is spelled funny, I-a-b e l a dot o q. And I'm also on Substack, so those are my two main platforms.

SPEAKER_00 40:58

We'll leave all that below for you all to go check out Isabella, give her a follow on the gram and check out her new offers that she has going on. So any last piece of advice before we jump off that you want to end on a note, a good note with?

SPEAKER_01 41:16

Um, I think my best advice is don't wait until you're like internally ready to start manifesting. Just start. Yeah, just start putting out the positive thoughts. Yeah, it's there's no like real perfect technique, there's no perfect way to do it. I started messy, I'm still messy, and you know, anything is possible. So just put your biggest desires out there. The universe doesn't have a budget, so order up.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

Order up, boom. That is a good way to end this episode. Thank you everyone for listening, and we will see you on the next one.