525: Remove Money Blocks And Become Abundant

We’re talking about money and abundance today, and this is such a powerful topic because the word “money” alone can bring up so much contraction, fear, shame, and emotion for people.

In this episode, I’m joined by Shanna Stevens, a holistic master life coach through The Adult Chair, for a vulnerable and transformational conversation about money blocks, receiving abundance, and the unconscious beliefs that can keep us stuck.

Transcript

Hello, Hello everyone and welcome to the Adulture Podcast. We're talking money in abundance today. What a hot topic. I can't tell you how many people, When I just say the word, Oftentimes when I teach a live, A live group, Um, Or live or on zoom and I'll say, Okay, Just say, Or think the word money and people immediately contract, Not everybody, But most there are triggers around that word. There is a lots of triggers around abundance. Um, And most people have no idea why they're so triggered, Which is what leads me to what we're going to talk about today. So I just want to back up a little bit before I intro our very special guests today. I am someone that learned about, If you guys know, Abraham Hicks, Esther Hicks, She channels Abraham Hicks. Someone handed me a cassette tape. In 1995 or 1996 when I lived in Charleston, South Carolina. And she said to me, You're a really powerful creator. You need to listen to this. And I was like hooked. Immediately started listening every single week to Esther Hicks CDs and excuse me tapes and then they went and then she went to CDs went to see her live and my husband Graham and I were all about Law of Attraction and it was really interesting because We were dedicated to practicing, Visualizing all the things. As I know so many of you are, They're listening to the show. Yes, We were going to visualize and gratitude and affirmations and we're going to manifest this. I got into vision boarding. I started teaching courses on this. This is, We're going back into the year, The early 2000s is when I did this in mid 2000s. And I found the same thing happening over and over again, Which was, Why is it that some things manifest so easily and others don't? Why don't we, Why can't we all manufacture and manifest millions of dollars or whatever we want to make or the new car or the boyfriend or the girlfriend or whatever? Or the house, Why can't we? What's going on there? And that, That really intrigued me. And I started going deeper into it and realized it's because this is all adult chair stuff, You guys. I mean, This is what we teach in the coaching program. It's all about our inner unconscious programming or beliefs. It's the same word to me that we have in our system, In our bodies. From typically zero to six, Those programs or beliefs are actually creating the reality that you're living in right now. So when you consciously are doing the gratitude and the affirmations and all the beautiful things, And they're lovely. If you have a core belief that is the exact opposite, That's deep in your unconscious mind, You will not be able to create or manifest those things. You have to clear out that core belief or that root, That called the tap root. Like you gotta go get it. And I started doing this with my clients many years ago. Again, We're going back to the early 2000s and my clients are going, Oh my gosh, That's so cool. I got the car that I was looking for. Or I just attracted that partner or whatever it might be. So this to me has always been the missing piece, Not just to law of attraction. People go, That doesn't work for me. I'm like, How can it not work for you? Like, It's just, It's like saying gravity doesn't work for me. It's always on. It doesn't work when we have beliefs that are the exact opposite of the thing that we're actually trying to create that we're trying to attract. So let's just move that into just living life in general. As I say, This is why I love triggers because they reveal a lot of these unconscious beliefs. So let's fast forward again into this last week. I was on one of my calls with a bunch of my coaches, Like we meet every single Monday, And we talk about coaching issues, What's coming up, Let's clear blocks, All the things we do live coaching. And one of our coaches raised her hands and said, I need some help. And I said, Okay, Let's go. So I want to intro this lovely, Lovely human that raised, Raised their hand and said, I need help. I don't know what's going on. So welcome to the adult share podcast, Shanna Stevens. I'm so incredibly happy to have you with me today. Thank you for having me, Michelle. This is exciting. It's so exciting. And so I basically gave Shanna this mini session on the exact thing we're talking about, Money and abundance. I'm not joking. Shannon, Would you not say that people, If they heard your story, They might say, And you might even say like, It's sort of like some miracles have been happening this whole week since we did that. Absolutely. To put it in human words. Yeah. Miracles. Yeah. So I don't, I'm going to stop talking. Why don't you just introduce yourself a little bit, Tell people who you are in just a few words. And, Uh, We're going to jump right into teaching. We want to, We want to share your experience around money blocks, Blocking abundance, What we did and what you've experienced since and how easy it is to clear these blocks. So let's start out with who are you? Let us know. Give us a little short bio on your. Yes. So I, I'm Shanna Stevens. I'm a holistic master life coach through the adult chair. And I, I have since joining the adult chair community, I have seen thousands of dollars come and go. And recently. It's just going in and I didn't know what it was and why it was going and things weren't coming in. And so what an opportunity I had to sit in our mentoring. Class. I didn't want to raise my hand. Everything was fighting in me not to raise my hand and ask for help. But my hand went on the mute button and unmuted me and then you saw that and then it just, We just kind of went in to the session from there. It was so, The space was held so beautifully too. Express what was going on for me, And I felt safe and held. So thank you for that. Thank you. I didn't realize all the things that I was sharing until. . . It was all out of me. And you started repeating things back to me. And you were saying, Shani, You're saying the word embarrassed a lot. You're saying the word worthy a lot. I was like, I am? And I, Uh, You didn't even know it. Like, Yeah, You didn't even know it. Can you, Before we jump there, Can you tell, Would you be willing to share just a little bit about what you're, What you're sharing? Cause I know people that are listening might. Might relate. And I want people to know, Like, If you don't relate to this particular topic, Like where else is there lack in your life? Right? Okay. Whatever, Whatever you're comfortable sharing. Go ahead. I appreciate that. Yeah, Bringing it back to lack and and scared, Fear. Of paying a bill of fear of so I changed jobs recently in the last since December and went on unemployment and was getting some bills paid and talking to my angels saying all the affirmations doing the meditations that the money was just going to come and a lot of the time. I ended up having hard conversations with people that I owed money to. To soften the blow that, You know, The money wasn't coming in. And it was hard. It was hard. So the benefit ran out. And the fear was, How am I going to eat? How am I going to put gas in my car? How am I going to find income? I did have clients every now and then, And They were. . . And I'm so grateful for the clients that showed up. I could do that work. That part was not hard to go into the work and help somebody else through it. For me? Once the client was gone and the room's quiet, Here comes the scarcity and here comes the fear of how am I going to. . . Pay bills, Eat, All the things. So that's kind of the backstory of where I'm at right now. Well, Where I was at. I'm going to say that right there. And I love this because it's not about, Do I have the right website? And I'm talking to anyone that's in any career, Right? Do I have the right website? Do I have the right photography or the copy on my website? Everything is about vibration and everything is about energy, Everything. And you were in this space because you're a fabulous coach. Fabulous coach. You got beautiful website. You're doing all the right things, Right? You have done wealth consciousness training with some very high level people in the world. Like you've taken these trainings from other people outside of me. You've done it all. You've done so many things. You've read the books, You've listened to the podcast, You've done all the things, Right? And yet, What the heck's going on? Where are the clients? How do I bring abundance in, Right? And I know so many of us have done that. Like, I've done all the right things. What the hell's going on? I'm imagining, I'm visualizing, I'm imagining money coming in open, I'm using the right words, Still not happening. Yes, That's what brought me to this unmuting during Monday morning. Mentoring was I've done all the things and I was frustrated. I was in so much fear. I went through you can call them hoops, You can call them the programs of the high-end programs out there. And I was so loyal, I was so good at what I was trying to apply. And I even had manifestations of the dead white guys, All the money, You know who I'm talking about? I don't remember their names, But the spiritual money-making Oh, Yeah, I usually like the guys and goddesses in the world like watch me and all that. No, The night the early 1900s mid 1900s guys. You see him on YouTube now. There's meant there's meditations that they'll take you through. Yes, But I was writing all of their stuff and I had papers on my walls and on my fridge and next to my nightstand. I was so loyal to the program and I wasn't getting what I wanted. I wasn't getting what I signed up for. This is a trap that humans fall into. And this is then when they would say. I guess it just doesn't work for me. I guess manifesting doesn't work for me. I guess I can't create this. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. So you were in that desperate place. So then on Monday, When I said, Does anyone have anything that they'd like to work on? Who wants to get coached? Let's go. And you said, You raised your hand. You said, I do. You said, I don't want to. And I'm like, Ah, It's time. Let's go, Babe. I did not know any of this that was going on with you. So you were really beautifully vulnerable. You shared all that was going on with you. And then we went there, You and me. They did. So yeah. So what, What we do with this model, This adult chair model is I'm listening for patterns. I'm listening for what people say. So if someone is sitting right now, Listening to what we're going to go through right now, I want you to think about, Again, There's what we really want to stop doing is blaming anyone outside of self. So if you're doing that, Drop it, It does not help you. It does not help you. So the first thing is, And I said this to you, Shanna, I said, I love that you're taking responsibility for your life. You have to own your current reality. That's pillar number one in the adult chair. Own your reality. You did it. You owned it all and you said, This is uncomfortable. This is, I just, I don't want to talk about this, But I have to get it out. Like there's something going on. I don't know why this is happening. And then I was listening for the words. We call it listening for the keywords. Like, What are the keywords, The key phrases that you're saying? And I'm going to let you go from here. Okay. I remember how uncomfortable that was. I was embarrassed. It was really hard to say the things out loud. So to hear myself say those things. And the first thing you said was, Thank you for sharing. No judgment, No shame. And I felt my body relax and feel safe. And then you had mentioned You said a couple, I remember saying out loud a lot of things, But I don't remember everything that I had said. So when you reflected back to me, The word embarrassed came up quite a few times. It did. Unworthy or worthiness. So you asked me, How young do you feel? What's the earliest memory that you have of feeling so embarrassed? And a five-year-old ended up coming up. And it was just the first number that came to me. I don't know why, But once that five-year-old number came up then the memory came and I remember I remember watching my mom cry standing in the kitchen as boxes and boxes of food and clothes were being dropped off at our house and watching mom cry I thought that I had done something wrong or I thought that it was on me. And so I asked her, Why are you crying? And she had said, I'm just tired. Mm-hmm. I remember saying, I remember asking you during our session, I said, How does your mom feel? And you said, My mom feels embarrassed. Because she's getting clothes dropped off. She's getting donations for our family because you have, What, 10 siblings? Yeah. So 10 siblings. And you said she feels embarrassed. And I said to you, Did you take her embarrassment on? Just answer that question, What feels like truth? And you said yes. Yes. Yes, 100%. And you were five years old watching your mom do this. So for people listening, I want to break it down a little bit more. So you want to first notice the patterns that you're having in your life, Like what's showing up repeatedly. So for Shannon, It was like, What's going on? I'm doing all the right things. Where's the money? Where's the abundance? Why is abundance not flowing in? And so notice what patterns are coming up repeatedly in your life. Then you want to stop and you want to ask yourself the question. Then we want to go find the program. So that's, That's what we did next for her. You want to ask yourself, How does it make you feel? That you're not getting the thing that you're really looking for, Though. You're not manifesting that thing. You're not creating that thing. What's coming up for you inside of your body? And that's the emotion that you follow. So a lot of times people say, I'm frustrated. Okay, Well, What's under the frustration? Oh, Well, I'm this, I'm this, I'm this. And we keep going under until we hit to the tap root. We get to the bottom of it. And that was when you're, We talked about also just receiving abundance was something that just felt there was like an uncomfortableness. And what we just, And what we found was to receive, Oh no, I remember I put it together for you. I said, Isn't it interesting? The ego is judging. Your mom's ego even, Was judging, And in our society we would judge this too, That someone that actually is getting clothing and food dropped off is actually very abundant. But the ego judges that it was a donation, So therefore it's bad, It's wrong, I'm not worthy, And I should have shame. Interesting, Right? Yeah. Your mom was actually very abundant, Manifesting in a beautiful way, Not in the traditional sense of let me make X number of thousands of dollars and take care of my family. But she had people dropping a ton of things off for your family. Just the feeling, The shift of, Oh my gosh, We were so abundant. Once that story was rewritten, The body totally shifted. I felt it in my body and I get giggles when I get confirmation and I start giggling. I'm like, Oh my gosh, We were so abundant. Isn't that amazing? It's so amazing. So telling that little five-year-old that she doesn't have to take this on anymore and it's not hers. You get to go play now. She took off immediately and started playing with animals. And then I was able to show up as my 50 plus self and say, Mom, What you went through is hard. And I remember feeling, She turns her head and looks at me with this gentle smile and says, Thank you. And just the feeling in my body was just so soft, Gentle, Gratitude, The shift. It was so beautiful. And that's all she needed. That's it. So, So the next part is to do the inner child work around it. So you go in and the way, What we want to do is update these old beliefs and the old programs that are running the show for you today, That are running your life for you today. And that's how we navigate as humans. I don't care who you are, What country, What color you are, What gender, It does not matter. We all have these old beliefs or programs that are running our lives today. So when you trace it back and you find what is a familiar feeling from the past that you're also experiencing today. In Shanna's case, It was again, Lack of receiving abundance and embarrassing. You bring in the inner child. So you go talk to that younger version of you that actually put that, Unconsciously remember, Put that belief in place. It happened without us knowing. It just slips into the unconscious. But what we need is our adult self to come in and then work with that inner child so that then we can update the program and release the inner child and then let the adult let us know what's true. So when we put it all together for Shanna, It was so cool. What we came up with in that moment was to receive abundance is embarrassing. And I remember using that statement with you and you were like, Yes, Oh my gosh. How in the world are they going to attract you in money? I was like, What? It was big. Yeah. That's so crazy. And it was gone. I mean, You look different. This is always what happens. Whether we're doing a live event or on Zoom, People are always like, She looks so different. Her voice changed. It's like, Yeah, That energy is shifted and updated and gone. It's a true identity shift. You then said at the end, You're like, I feel like a different person. I feel lighter. My body feels different. My heart is open. Like, Wow. Okay. So it was an incredible session. What did it take? 20 minutes or so? Maybe? I don't know. It was like, It's so, This work is so fast. Okay. So did the session. Later on in the day, I get a message from you. Is it the same day? It was the same day. Okay. So this is crazy. You guys, This is how fast, And it's just about shifting energy. And then boom, Tell us now what happened. Tell us about just in the last three days. Go ahead. So that session was on Monday. I, Monday morning. So I get off of our call and end up on the phone with the banks and the banks ended up giving me $150 in return fees back to me. And I was like, What? It's overdraft fees or something. I was like, It's that easy. Have a great day. I was like, I will. The ease of it, Though, Michelle, The ease of what it felt like after that session, The sun shone differently, Like the air was so different. It was so full of nutrients is what it felt like. It just felt clean and light and easy. So that phone conversation with the banks, It was like, Okay, It really is this easy. That easy. I know I loved getting that message for you. I was like, It's that easy and it's that fast. It's truly that fast that things start coming to us, Because now, And I used this example with you, I said, Oh, Because you had something else happen too. What's the next thing? I had a few things. Okay, Tell everybody what all the things happened. Then I want to explain to people what exactly happens and why things can then come in that were once stopped or blocked. So that evening, Monday evening, I was feeling so at ease that I had energy to jump on my rebounder to go on a hike to really ground in the grass and play with the animals. It was beautiful. Tuesday, I go to coffee with a friend and it was so easy to buy her coffee. Wow. Then a new client reached out that same day. Then Wednesday. I wrote these down because I was just like, Oh my gosh, All of these are happening on Wednesday. I received an invitation to present at a local gathering. It was so easy. Another new client paid in full. On Wednesday. And then another friend reaches out and is like, Hey, I've been thinking about you. Just wanted to reach out and let you know. Wow. Now you're able to receive. So your energy field shifted. Now you can actually receive because let's, Let's face it. If I'm embarrassed to receive any sort of abundance and abundance, Abundance does not have to be linked just to money. It could be like your mom, Clothes, Friendships, Just people that love me like an abundance of love of all of the things like fill in the blank abundance of what? Your energy. Cause I love when you said that to me, You said yesterday, I think it was, You said, I feel like the air, Like you said, Like the air is thinner and I can breathe easier. And the sun is shining. I feel fortified by the sun. What is going on? I feel so good in light. And it is that easy. It's an energy shift. We don't need to do all this hard work and all this crap. You don't need it. It does require an energetic alignment with more of who you truly are. And you've got to clear away. Old beliefs and programs that are just stuck in your field. Yes, That reminds me, All of the things and affirmations and meditations I was doing, It felt heavy, It felt forced, It felt like I was bumping up against something. And then I got an intuitive nudge or a download or something that It's my body. I have to work through the blocks. The angels don't work through the blocks for me. Interesting. Yeah, So yeah, A lot of people say, I've been praying about this. I'm like, That's wonderful. Now, Maybe you have a tool now that the angels brought to you or Jesus or God or Buddha or whomever in the universe. It's like, Here's the tool. Let's use it. Or here's the right person sitting in front of you. Here's the right group. Here's the right whatever. Here's the right book. Come on, Do it, Create that change. And I had said to you, This is what happens when we are doing our best to manifest and I'm visualizing, I'm creating and I'm saying all the things and I've got the affirmations all over the wall and I'm living as if it's already happened. And I'm again, Taking the wealth consciousness training and I'm doing all this stuff. And where the heck is it? What happens is, If you think about a river, Flowing. Every time you're putting a new creation or a new affirmation or a visualization or imagining something, It's getting dropped into the river and the river starts moving it toward you. But our beliefs or programs, Okay, Are like a dam. So it dams the river and they get stuck. If you've ever seen a dam that has like, Um, Tree branches and garbage and, You know, It's just like, It's all stuck and the river's trying to push forward. But this big wall is there, This dam, The dam are our unconscious beliefs or programs that are blocking our creations. So it's nobody else's fault. It's not even our fault. We just have to learn how to remove those things, Get them out of the way so that then we can receive all the things that we're trying to create, All the beautiful things that we're talking about, All the things that we want in our life, All of our abundance. Dents. So beautiful, That's a great analogy. I have what people call vision boards. I create of course boards. Of course that's going to happen. Of course that's going to happen. You know, Things were slowly coming along, But I wasn't feeling then like I feel now. Yes. And so I'm going back to do my of course board just a little differently. Okay, So what do you know what's different? Do I know? I'm a different version of myself. And what I feel is it's easy, Literally the ease and flow. The ease of what I want has changed from my last of course board. Yes. Talking about wanting the stage, Wanting to buy everybody dinner at the table, Wanting, You know, That just came so easily. I didn't have to struggle to figure out what I wanted. It just flowed in to what's aligned for me. Yeah. Because you're so aligned and you're in a more coherent state now with abundance than you ever were before. So what happens is we're always in coherence with what our inner belief systems are. Like whatever your inner beliefs are about yourself and others, That means we're in coherence with those things and that's what then we're attracting. When you shift those internal belief structures, Then you become in coherence with new things and you really aligned more with that true authentic self, Yourself in your adult chair, Whatever you'd like to call it. Um, So now abundance can easily flow in. That's, That's why you keep saying it's so easy. What's going on? There's an ease. How did this happen so fast? I don't get it. Yeah, You just got, You removed the dam. Yes. Yes. In the last three days, Thousands of dollars have come in, Literally. Thousands of dollars have come in in three days. Yes. Yeah, Because we did this Monday. And we are now in Thursday. Yes. Thousands of dollars. How the hell is that possible? Sorry, It's just energy It's just energy and when the energy is blocked That's when we can go in and be like, Hey, Why really? What is it from my past as a child? That is blocking this. For me, It was embarrassment. It was embarrassing to receive. Yes. Yes. Not anymore. So what is your new truth? What's your new statement? It's so easy. Literally, I wake up, It's so easy. To go there. To on a hike with a friend today. It was so easy because The energy is flowing so differently. Yes. It's, The river is moving. They're so damn. Oh my gosh, I love this. I love this so much. Ah, OK. Anything else you want to share that we might have missed? Uh uh. It's, You know, As a coach, I know all the things, You know, And I coach others to do all the things. To take myself down the same road that I coach others to do, It totally shifted. And I'm having different conversations with clients showing up now because I've been there. Yes. So the energy is just flowing differently in session. Yeah. Oh my god, I love it. Ah, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So let me recap for everybody. You're going to look for your patterns. We all have them. And a great way to find them is to notice when you're triggered. That's brilliant. I love that. That's why I love triggers or think triggers are a gift. So look for what is not coming into your life that you'd like to come into your life, Or you can look at when you're triggered. And then the next thing is you want to ask yourself what you could ask yourself so many different questions, But what is this showing me about myself? How does this make me feel? And just keep going. Until you get to the root of that. And once you hit the root of whatever the thing is that is making you irritated, What is your dam, What is the trigger, Whatever it might be, You want to then trace it back to a familiar feeling in your past. Like Shanna, She felt this embarrassment and lack of receiving and all the things. And when I asked her, Is this a familiar feeling from your past? And you said, Oh, And I said, Go ahead and close your eyes and see where your consciousness takes you. Bam, She went right to five years old, Sitting in the kitchen. Here comes my mom's there. She had boxes of clothing, Like just allow it to come in. Your unconscious mind will show you. You just have to create the space for it to be revealed. And then you do the inner child work and you update that little kid and you decide what's true today. And then everything changes and you physically feel the difference, Just like Shanna was saying. I love when you said the air is thinner, I can breathe easier, It's so wild. I didn't know the air was so heavy until it was lighter. Yeah, So cool. I love this. All right, My darling. All right. Thank you so much for being here today. Thank you.

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