The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation NowYou obviously know the name of my podcast is The Transform Your Life From The Inside Out Podcast and I want to go in the opposite direction in this episode and share a powerful way you can also transform your life from the outside in. Because I work in the transformational field I’m always watching people, looking for new ideas, and keeping my antenna up for podcast ideas, and this week a lightning bolt idea hit me about the topic for this episode. Einstein said, “Only a life lived in service to others is worth living.” And, as much as we think we fully understand what that means most of us do not and as a result, we suffer in ways that we don’t have to. I ask you to truly, deeply, and fully ponder a single question. The question is, “Do you seek first to take care of others or to take care of yourself?” I want to be clear. I do not mean this in an altruistic way or that you live your life for others at the expense of your own. I’m talking about service to others before service to self. I can safely make a bet about all and anyone who listens to my podcast: They want to transform their lives. Despite the desire for transformation, so many people spend years or a lifetime spinning their wheels in the same ruts and patterns because they are doing things in an ineffective way. What I recognized from one of my students this week is that when we serve others with an open heart and devotedly then our own life starts to transform. There is a lot I want to say about this but you have to listen to the episode so I can explain why this happens and how you can use it for your own self-transformation! The keys to everything we want in life are right in front of us and because of how we are conditioned by our parents and society we miss the keys to the life of our dreams. As you always hear me say, we have to first transform our lives from the inside out but when we serve others we inadvertently transform our lives from the outside in. Transformational Takeaway: Transform your life by first serving others.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: Transforming Your Life From The Inside OutLet's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowIn the past, I have often said, “Being stuck” in life, no such thing. Cars can get stuck, things can get stuck but people cannot get stuck. Why, because they have the ability to change things and do different things.So, in this episode I talk about – “Something” leads to something and what does that mean?It’s so simple that most of us miss the power of this simple phrase.Oftentimes in life, we are stuck or directionless when in fact the answers are in front of us all the time, yet we are too busy being stuck to see the obvious answer.I myself, years back, have found myself “stuck.” In particular, I remember 2014 when I was burned out, tired, and in limbo as to what I wanted to do with the rest of my professional life.I remember one day when I was pacing the den the answer came to me. The answer of how to get “unstuck” and to change my life came to me in a flash and had this answer not hit me I seriously doubt I’d even be doing this podcast today.This epiphany I came to, it’s available to everyone and it’s pretty much free, we just have to act upon it and when we do, I promise, something will lead to something. And, when new things come into our awareness then so do possible new opportunities.Be sure to listen to this episode, after all, before you listen to it you have no idea what it’s going to lead to, right?Well, after you listen you’ll perhaps have a new way to “get yourself” unstuck in life.As I said before, we’re never stuck. It’s just often that we have run out of creativity and action. And, when we add creativity and couple that with action, magic can happen.Transformational Takeaway: You’re Never Stuck In Life. Something Leads To Something.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowAre You A Turkey, Otter, Badger, Skunk, or Something Else? In all my time doing the podcast I’m surprised that I’ve never talked in depth about “Animal Medicine.” So, here you go. I was introduced to “Animal Medicine” two decades ago and I have consistently used it over the years for healing and guidance. Many of the students in my transformational program initially had not heard of it and when they start using it they become surprised at the true guidance it can help us within life. In this episode, I talk about how to use Animal Medicine and I share the various engagements I have had over the years and what that has done for me. Almost all of us humans have heard, “We’re all connected” and for most of us, it’s hard to get our mind around that. Let’s go further and it’s not just us people that are connected, all consciousness on the planet is – and that includes the animals. Animals can be incredible guides as they each have different abilities than humans and they are amazing at providing life wisdom/guidance if you just observe and learn from them. I mean, heck, your dog alone, if you have a dog. What could you learn from your dog? Specifically, most of us look at the fact that our dogs are absolutely happy all the time, even when they don’t feel well they most often wag their tails. There is so much to learn from life and in particular the animals and I dig into it in this episode. I talk about the meanings of certain animals that cross your paths and I talk about your lifetime animal totem and that’s what I mean in the headline, “What kind of animal are you?”Transformational Takeaway: Let the animals in your life be your guide to higher wisdom, knowledge, and guidance.Mentioned Resources:Medicine Cards & BookDisclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowSo, let me ask you…do you get upset, angry, pouty, and bent out of shape when you feel like people are ignoring you or not paying attention to you? Be honest!Well, if you’re like most of humanity you answer yes, you do get bent out of shape when you feel like others are not listening to you and that is what this episode is about.Many years ago my mentor, a shaman, someone who I greatly admire, and truth be told, I wanted him to pay attention to me – he ignored me for a year. Yes, for a whole year he would “kindly” dismiss me and ignore me. He was not mean or cruel or even disrespectful, he just didn’t give me attention in the way that I wanted it.That was one of the most valuable years of my life because that experience taught me to let go of whether or not others paid attention to me. We get so attached to people paying attention to us and candidly, emotionally, many adults are not any better than children when we’re trying to get some attention from others.As I talk about in the episode, we definitely want attention from our partner but we want healthy attention, not attention that fills in the holes in our lack of self-esteem and self-worth.The big payoff here is that when you let go of the “need for attention” as I discuss it in this episode we then let go of attachment and when we do that we start creating more freedom and liberation in our life!Transformational Takeaway: Pay No Attention To To Who Pays Attention To You Or Not.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowYes, you read the headline correctly. Fear is the cure for fear. Why? Because you’ll not go through fear until you go through your fear, hence, fear is the cure for itself. I could spend hours writing fancy copy explaining this episode but it’s as simple as this: Go through your fear or you’ll never go through your fear and when you go through your fear your higher essence and Spirit will be free to soar. You have probably heard before, “All the things you want are on the other side of your fear.” This is because mostly all the big things you want in life are coming from your desires which are many times coming from your spiritual essence. As long as you entertain your fear you’re going to hobble and hinder your spiritual growth. So many people who listen to my podcast would consider themselves spiritual but on the flip side of the coin, they have tremendous fears. Ask yourself, “How spiritual is it to get into fear, that which hampers my spirit?” In this episode of course I go deeper into this but it’s a short episode because when you really ponder the single phrase, Fear Is The Cure For Fear, and you come to know that, everything changes in life. Transformational Takeaway: You’ll not transcend your fear until you go through your fear and it’s one of the most spiritual things that you can do.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: “Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowHenry David Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” And, when he said men, of course, these days we can interpret that as most people, both men and women. Almost all of us have heard that phrase and it rings true for many many people but truly who owns it and what does it mean? In modern terms, a life of quiet desperation means being at the mercy of our circumstances and living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling with money, health, and relationships, or a combination of any of these circumstances. In my experience and observation, the best, easiest, and most rewarding way to start living an extraordinary life is to live a life in the service of others. So many people want and search for a better life when it’s in front of them all the time if/when they move the focus off themselves and move it onto others. Gandhi said, “The best way to find yourself is in the service to others.” And, that is the key, and let’s explore that. And, when you “find yourself” every single door in your life that is closed will magically open…I promise! I want to take you on a short journey with one of the greatest mentors and friends in my life, a woman name Virginia Cook. As my podcast has a global following but for those in Dallas, TX real estate and maybe even some in national real estate, they have heard of Virginia Cook. Virginia built the second-largest private real estate company in North Texas in just under a decade and one day I asked her how she did it and she shared her magical formula with me and I want to share it with you in this episode. The gist is, when we serve others we then inadvertently serve ourselves and the more we serve others the more we create and share in life and when we do this life becomes extraordinary. When we switch from self-service to self (survival and getting by) and we change to building others in the world, our life becomes magical and extraordinary. This entire episode is sharing stories and experiences I have learned from Virginia Cook. Transformational Takeaway: When we first serve others we serve ourselves.Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowOk, so Albert Einstein has not been on the planet for over 50 years but he can help you today and truth be told every day. A few times in my podcast I’ve mentioned one of Einstein’s quotes, “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” Having done what I do for many years and observing myself, what most of us do when we hear a great or powerful quote is, well, nothing to near nothing. Often we hear it and think, “That’s nice” and 30 seconds later we’re back to the tasks at hand. So, when hearing the Einstein quote, what are your thoughts? Have you really placed some deep and focused attention on how you use your imagination and what you imagine daily? If you have been listening to me for any amount of time you know I often say, “You are where your attention is,” and the more powerful awareness is what you’re thinking about is actually using your imagination because you have to use your imagination to “think about it.” When you’re worrying about work, family, kids, health, relationships, love and money…that’s ALL imagination and research shows that 90% of people spent a lot of their day imagining negative outcomes. Hence, if you’re thinking about things and circumstances you don’t want you’re then imagining it and when you’re doing that you’re imprinting your subconscious mind and actually creating the negative imagination in your life circumstances. Also notice, when you’re thinking about negative things and outcomes do you not want in your life and the more you do that the more you create what you do not want. So…..think about and imagine only what you want. Transformational Takeaway: See things as you want them to be and not as they are.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: “Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out”EPISODE 33: “AYNI – The Reciprocity Of Life”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowSmarter than a potato? That’s a stupid question, right? I could ask this another way. Are you smarter than the intelligence that works through a potato? Let me ask that again, and in another way. Are you smarter than “Divine Mind” that works through a potato?I start this episode talking about a potato. I mean, how does a potato become a potato? How does it know how much water to absorb, what minerals to absorb out of the soil, or how to maintain the genetic map that gives it the ability to create other potatoes? The answer is easy…Divine Mind, and Divine Mind is the intelligence that also flows through your life, and directs and empowers every aspect of your very own life. You can have anything, do anything, and be anything when you call upon the inherent power than runs through your body, and that is the power of universal mind or Divine Mind.Want or need to heal? Want or need money? Want or need love? Use Divine Mind to draw it to yourself. And, in this episode I talk about an easy way to do this…to use the power of mind to create the life of your dreams. I give you a simple exercise that I use myself and one that works. You can use it or not, and ignore it at your own loss…because it works! Transformational Takeaway: Don’t want it, don’t think it. Want it, think it, FEEL it!Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: “Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out”EPISODE 9: “How The Law Of Attraction Repels The Money And Abundance You Want”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowIn this week’s episode I dug into some old notes and teachings I have acquired and I wanted to share them with you. I’ll give you a hint as to what I cover in this episode and then you have to listen to the episode to discover more for yourself. The five random thoughts are: 1. You don’t get what you want in life, you get what you need. Have you ever noticed that many times you’ve wanted something and you didn’t get it? Instead, you got something you think you didn’t want and it turned out to be better? Higher mind does not give us our simply wants all the time, it gives us what we need to grow and evolve spiritually. 2. What are your biggest distractions in life? How often have you wondered, “Why do I waste so much time and why can’t I focus on things?” Distractions are the biggest thing that keep you from what you want in life. In this segment I talk about how we often distract ourselves from greater things in life and the 2×2 between the eyes is that what we allow as major distractions are also what we become devoted to in life. 3. Deciding what you want to do with your life. You’ve often seen social media posts with lists like, “The top five regret of those dying.” There is a reason people have these regrets and I’ll share that in this episode. When we “use our life” and we live it purposefully we have no regrets and we live our lives well! 4. Fighting with yourself You see in the world where people are fighting this enemy or the other but have you considered that the greatest enemy you have is yourself? Conquer that enemy and your life will forever be much happier. You may think that your greatest enemy is outside yourself and for most of us our greatest enemy is in ourselves. 5. Acceptance surrenderTrying to control things in your life? Trying to make things happen? Frustrated when things don’t work like you want? There is an easier way. When we accept ourselves and accept others for who they are life becomes a lot easier and peaceful These are five powerful lessons I have learned in my time working with a shaman and I share them with you in the hope that you’ll find power in them for yourself. Transformational Takeaway: Be purposeful and be in peace.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 1: “Transforming Your Life From The Inside Out”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin

Start Your Transformation NowI was thinking a few weeks ago, “What do I want to talk about this week on the podcast?” and I had a flood of ideas and topics pop into my mind and none of them were calling to me at that time and I thought, “So many people ask about spirituality, why don’t I dig further into and talk about my experiences with a shaman?”So, in this episode, I pull the curtain back a bit and share one of my most memorable experiences with a shaman/sorcerer. I could share many of these but that would be overwhelming so it’s better to just start with one and we’ll see how it goes.What I’m sharing in this podcast is a non-ordinary event and at the very least an event that may be a good story if nothing else.More than anything, my intention with this episode is to get you to start thinking about the world of the non-ordinary and the world that exists that you cannot physically observe with your sight or sound. My intention is to get you to really start thinking about the power you wield as a “cosmic being.”Think about the world of physics, energy, and what’s real and not real. Science shows that we can only observe about 3% of what exists on the electromagnetic spectrum which means we miss most of like and what’s available to us.Perhaps this episode can get you to start thinking about the world and your world of the non-ordinary and what’s really all around you.Enjoy Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 187: “The Power Of Synchronicity And Intention”EPISODE 6: “Here’s The Only Place To Find Your Highest Potential”Let's Connect: Instagram Facebook YouTube LinkedIn LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!Thank you for listening! With Gratitude, Jim Fortin