05. The Five Shifts I Made to Manifest My Most Abundant Year

In this episode, I’m sharing the story of how I used the energy of spring to manifest everything on my vision board—after one of the most difficult seasons of my life. I take you back to 2010, when I was rebuilding from the inside out, and walk you through the five powerful shifts I made that led to my most abundant year.

We’ll talk about how nature mirrors the journey of business growth, what it means to align with your future self, and why your magic—not your strategy—is the real catalyst for everything you desire. If you’ve been planting seeds but haven’t seen the bloom yet, this episode is your reminder: it’s all still unfolding.

Topics Covered:

• How spring energy mirrors the natural rhythm of business growth
• The five energetic and strategic shifts that turned my vision board into reality
• The deeper purpose of forgiveness and shadow work in creating space for abundance
• How nature and intuition unlock clarity, magnetism, and aligned action
• Why embodying certainty activates your next level before the results arrive

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Transcript

Welcome to the Rooted Women Rise Podcast with host Jennifer Whitaker, feminine business mentor, divine Feminine Guide, and former executive who scaled multimillion-dollar organizations and now supports women in doing the same. This is for the woman who's ready to break free from hustle culture, reclaim her feminine power, and scale her business with simplicity and ease.

Here we blend strategic growth with ancient wisdom and nature-based practices to support the rise of a wildly successful business rooted in your feminine energy and divinity. Every month we'll explore topics like feminine energetics, seasonal cycles and rituals, and aligned business growth, transforming them into simple, actionable steps so you can expand your abundance, nurture your soul, and embody your most magnetic self.

Are you ready to rise into her, the sacred, wise and prosperous woman you came here to be? Let's [00:01:00] get started. Welcome to the podcast. I am so happy to be here with you today. This is gonna be a really fun episode, one that I have been meditating on all week. Spring is. Finally here where I live in Tennessee, the red buds are blooming.

The cherry blossoms are alive with bees, and the evenings are so warm. Just warm enough that I've been able to eat my dinner outside on my patio, but just a few weeks ago, it snowed. It is so wild how quickly things can change, and as I was walking in nature this week, I started to reflect on the lessons that Spring has to offer us in business and in abundance [00:02:00] because one moment.

Everything looks like it's frozen, like it's still, or even lifeless or dead, and then suddenly out of nowhere it seems life bursts into full bloom. I. And it had me reflecting on how similar this is to our businesses and our abundance, because sometimes it can look like nothing is working. Your launch wasn't as successful as you had hoped.

You spend an hour on Instagram preparing your post, writing out your caption, and then you only get two likes. Or you are not attracting as many clients as you like, and then all of a sudden, just like spring, it all shifts. All of a sudden you've got [00:03:00] dream clients dropping into your dms that feel like they just came out of nowhere, or your latest post goes viral or all of a sudden your program is fully sold out.

And I wanted to share a story of a sudden winter to spring transformation that I had years ago, and it started where I was in one of the lowest seasons of my life, and then all of a sudden I manifested everything on my vision board following what felt like a forever winter season. For those of you who are new here and haven't heard this part of my journey, first of all, welcome.

I'm so happy you're here, and the story that I wanna share, in summary, I'm gonna go into depth in just a moment. In [00:04:00] summary, what happened is that I went from barely covering my rent to becoming the youngest executive in my field. Working with Dr. Jane Goodall, being featured in the New York Times and on NPR all within three short years.

And it all started with some construction paper, a big dream, and my vision board. On today's episode, I'm gonna walk you through the five powerful shifts I made to manifest everything I desired and ultimately create my most abundant year. At that time, I've created other abundant years, many of them since.

But I wanna underscore that this wasn't luck. It was intentional alignment. And in this episode, I'm gonna walk you [00:05:00] through those five shifts that I made that changed everything. If you're in a season of planting and not quite seeing the full bloom yet, this episode is your reminder that it is all unfolding.

It's all unfolding right now and everything is about to change. So let's dive in. Let me take you back to 2010. I was living in Chicago and was slowly putting the pieces of my life back together After leaving an emotionally abusive relationship, I had been spending a lot of time following that relationship, really anchoring and rooting into self worth practices.

Really owning and embodying my divine worth, my confidence, and I had [00:06:00] also applied and been accepted to a master's program and I. At this time, I was almost at the end of that program, just to give you context. So I was closing another chapter and I was ready to start a new one, and I was crystal clear on what that vision looked like.

I. And so I decided that I wanted to create a vision board that embodied and represented this vision that I had for my next chapter. So as I got my pictures and my poster board and construction paper, I scattered it all over my little apartment room floor, and I created a vision board that included a map of the southeastern US because I wanted to live closer to my [00:07:00] family.

I included pictures of apes because I wanted to work at a primate sanctuary. I pasted on words assistant director because that was the title that I wanted for my next position, and I pasted a fake check written out to me for my dream salary. Then in the center of this poster board, I had the date, April 15th, 2011, written on a piece of construction paper because that was my desired deadline for securing my dream job.

April 15th came and went, and I still remain focused on my dream. I still remain rooted. I. In the vision on [00:08:00] April 15th, three days after my desired deadline, I discovered that a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana was looking for an assistant director, and I immediately applied that day. They responded, and they told me that they were actually about to offer that position to someone else.

And when they saw my resume, they decided to wait to make that offer and they asked me to fly to the sanctuary. I flew there that week. I met the team and I was offered the position. A few days later, I. Wild, right. Everything on my vision board came true. The location, the title, the job, the salary, and the date, just shy of a few days, and since then I have used the same process to continuously [00:09:00] create my most abundant life.

So what did I do between the vision board and the manifestation? Well, that is what I wanna share with you today. I did five key things. Number one, as the date approached, I spent every day in nature. I felt into my expansive and future self in nature. I allowed the stillness and the quiet to bring forth past experiences and beliefs that needed to be released.

I heard so clearly my intuitive wisdom and that guided my next steps, and on the days that I couldn't get outside, I listened to. Sounds of nature, bird sounds, um, rain [00:10:00] and thunder. I listen to nature sounds on CDs. Yes, I am dating myself, but it worked. It worked because when we are aligned with nature. We enter into theta states where our brainwaves actually put us into these states where they're similar to that in meditation and hypnosis.

And so we are more open to receive intuitive downloads. We are more open to be creative. We're more in tune with our divinity and our magnetism. And so when you think about manifesting your deepest desires and connecting with nature, I don't want you to think about this like a checklist. I. This is so much [00:11:00] more.

It's about becoming intimate with yourself, intimate with nature. I like to say that if you don't figuratively or literally have dirt underneath your fingernails, you are not deeply connecting to the power of nature. So get outside. Allow yourself to remember who you are and be led to your next step through the wisdom of nature and by aligning yourself with the rhythms of nature.

Number two, I tapped into my future self every single day. I knew exactly what she felt like. I knew exactly who she was. I knew the decisions that she made. I knew how she dressed, how she talked, how she thought, how she shopped. I knew her. So every single day as I [00:12:00] tapped into her energy and I felt into her, it was very much a feeling tone of leaning into how she felt.

Every time I did that, I closed the gap between her and who I was. In that moment. When it came time to making decisions, I would ask myself the simple question, what would you have me do? You was my future self. So spend some time really connecting with your future self. Who is she? What does she feel like?

How would she move forward through her days? And when you start doing this every single day, I guarantee you, you will close the gap between where you stand right now and where you want to be. Number three, I made peace with my past, my present, and my future. When it came to my past, there were [00:13:00] people that I needed to forgive.

I needed to forgive myself for past decisions, and I needed to ask for forgiveness from bridges that I burned, and so I. Had those difficult conversations. I wrote forgiveness letters and I did a really deep forgiveness process that I now lead my clients through. It's a three stage forgiveness process because most of the time when we go through a forgiveness process, we do it on a very surface level.

We say, okay, I forgive you for doing X, Y, or z. At the core, at the root, there really isn't an embodied forgiveness. We're doing it because we know that it's good for us, it's healthy for us. It's a way for us [00:14:00] to move from the past and into a healthier future. But when you really unpack it, you know that deep down, you haven't truly forgiven the person or yourself for the experience, for the decisions that were made.

And so my three part forgiveness process really gets to the root and creates soul level transformation. I had a private client that I led through this process and I. I received a text from her just a few days after the process and she said, oh my gosh, I wrote 19 pages of forgiveness and now I feel so light, I feel so free.

I had no idea that I was carrying this much weight, this much resistance over decades of my life. And just a few days after that [00:15:00] process, she attracted a investor for her business. And up to that point it had been crickets. And so I definitely see this direct correlation between deep soul level forgiveness of others and yourself, and making peace with the past.

But I don't stop there. I also make peace with the present. I accept that this is where I am and it is good. I'm supposed to be here, and if where I'm at feels a little uncomfortable and I wanna be somewhere else, I explore that. I get curious around that, and that allows me to re release any resistance that I have in my present.

So making peace with your present is also really, really important to do, and then I make peace with the future. [00:16:00] Sometimes the future can feel so far away and it can feel like, oh my gosh, I feel frustrated and resentful that the future is taking so long to get here. And so I make peace with the future as well.

So making peace with your past, your present, and your future will dissolve that resistance. This is shadow work. This is that deep inner work that has to happen before you manifest your deepest desires. Number four, I listened to and followed my intuition. There was a moment right before I manifested everything on my vision board, where I had realized, wow, I haven't been applying to jobs lately.

And up to that point, I had been applying to jobs [00:17:00] continuously, and then I realized one day. It's been like three or four weeks since I've applied for anything, and my intuition said, you need to get online right now. I remember so vividly that I was actually in the middle of something. I was busy, but the thought came to me.

You need to get online right now and look for a job at a primate sanctuary. So I got onto a job board. In that moment, even though it wasn't convenient, I got onto the job board and I saw this listing, the listing that for the job that I ended up getting, and I immediately applied. So I didn't delay. I followed through right in that moment.

The next day when I went back to look at that job description, it had been taken down and later on I talked to the hr, um, [00:18:00] director and they told me, yeah, the day that I went on was the last day that it was listed. The posting expired that day. So my intuition guided me at the perfect time for me to reach out.

And then I did my part by following through without delay, without questioning, without getting caught in the busyness of my day. And I followed through, which allowed me to manifest everything on my vision board. So if you get an intuitive nudge, listen to it. Don't question it, follow through immediately because you never know where it is going to lead you.

Number five, I became an authority in my field. I called every single well-known primatologist that I could find around the world, and [00:19:00] I asked them how they got into their field. I asked them for advice and guidance and mentorship. I started my own. Primate education program for kids. I spoke at conferences.

I volunteered at the top organizations in town. I read every book. I looked for gaps in my field and I filled them. I. This is the strategic action that comes from intuition as well. So yes, I have mentioned and shared a lot of energetic shifts that you can make, but it has to be coupled with action and not the hustley type of do it all.

Hustle around the clock, doing all these things. What I listed and shared with you, I did over a long period of time. It wasn't all at once, but follow what lights you up, follow [00:20:00] those intuitive nudges and take those steps. So those are the five shifts that I made to manifest everything on my vision board.

One thing I wanna highlight here is this. This is how I manifested. It's not that the steps were magical, it's that I am magical. I tapped into my magic every day because the magic wasn't in the steps that I took. The magic was in the alignment with my essence, with my truth, with my path, and what I teach inside My six month mastermind.

Your most abundant year isn't a rigid step-by-step formula for success. It's where we weave in yes, business strategy, but we weave in your feminine energy. I teach you how to align with your magic, [00:21:00] your formula, your unique way of thriving. There's a word I love in tele. It's the sacred life force within every living thing, and it's what transforms an acorn into the oak tree, the bulb into the flower, and even you, you, into a thriving entrepreneur.

In other words, you are literally wired for success and abundance. So if your business isn't where you want it to be. If it feels like it's not working or it hasn't happened, I wanna invite you to reframe that because a gap doesn't mean that it's not coming. Spring reminds us that a gap means that it's on its way.

So instead of saying it hasn't happened, [00:22:00] say it hasn't happened yet. I can't wait to see how it turns out. Embody that certainty because it's the certainty that will activate your magic. And if you're feeling called to join your most abundant year mastermind, I. Let's hop on a possibility call. I'd love to learn more about you and your business and how I can support you in creating your most abundant year.

I'm gonna drop the link in the show notes, but until next time, I wish you the most beautiful start to your spring, and that you awaken to the certainty that your most abundant year is on its way.