The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation NowIn this segment I interview Chelsea, a former student, and she shares how she’s dramatically changed her life in the past year.It’s almost impossible to title or classify this episode because we talked about so much and the major themes are Gratitude, Control, Issues and Choice.I picked this interview because it’s a simple yet power sharing and most of us can relate to where she was stuck in life.We talk about… [03:19]The power of inner peace and the power that gives you in life. [04:26] Why it’s VITAL to pick a focus in life and disregard all else that pulls you off track. [19:46]The pitfalls of worrying about what others think of you [39:59]Her take on mastering BE – DO – HAVE. [44:04]Why it’s important to not let our external worlds drive us [45:38]The sheer power of knowing what you want in life [49:11]And, her steps for going from a life of struggle to more abundance than she has ever had. As I just said, it was hard to categorize this interview but I promise, you’ll find some valuable takeaways.As well, her story and sharing will apply to both men and women and I think some women will find it especially powerful.Mentioned Resources:Sign up for the upcoming BE-DO-HAVE Training here!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’m sharing an exclusive sneak peek of Part 1 of my BE-DO-HAVE training series. In this clip of the training, you’ll hear how your identity drives everything you do, how your identity is formed from a very young age, and most importantly, how your brain is working to keep you stuck in your old ways.During the 3 Part BE-DO-HAVE training series, you’re going to start learning how to change your core-level subconscious thinking so you can get started living the life of your dreams, have better health, more money, better relationships… you name it.This will all be yours when you learn to transform your thinking.To get access to the full training, register now using this link.Mentioned Resources:Sign up for the upcoming BE DO HAVE Training here!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 NowNic was a recent student of mine and we visit about his transformational path and how much he has changed in the last six months and how you can too. This episode is near impossible to title as we talked about so much. The primary things we talked about are: subconscious values, self-talk, subconscious habits and choice. And, a whole lot more but this gives you an idea of the treasures in this episode. As you’ll hear, Nic thought he had life “dialed in” and thought he had it all together until we worked together and he quickly discovered that he was working at a small percentage of his ability. An amazing story he shared and this applies to many, many people is that even though he had his life “all together” he was struggling with why he could never get to the next level in life. He reveals his huge “ah-ha” moments with me and I’m certain this will apply to many people. As stated in the headline, we dive deep into his realization of how his subconscious values were driving him, and yet he did not know it. This will be a huge and eye-opening segment for you listening. Another key takeaway is the importance of “inner-outer alignment” and how he’s used this to better align his entire life. Candidly, there is a ton in this episode and there will be pretty much something for everyone so give it a listen and enjoy! Mentioned Resources:Sign up for the upcoming BE DO HAVE Training here!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 NowAs you read the headline you probably thought, “What…what the heck is intrinsic ratitude?” Right?Totally understandable and “ratitude” is my word for ‘radical gratitude’ and intrinsic is what’s deep inside of you and inherent to your BEing.When I say intrinsic to your being, I mean things like your ability to see, smell, taste, feel, and even your ability for your heart to beat and for you to breathe.Oprah has said, “Gratitude is the attitude” and many of us have heard that before but how many of us truly live that? How many of us embody it? How many of us understand that to the core of our being? When we do, it changes everything in us and around us, and when we live it in our daily lives they radically transform.In this episode, I talk about my journey to finding “intrinsic ratitude” in my life. And, I assure you, it has been a journey and all of us can do it if we commit just 5 minutes per day to having intrinsic ratitude.The great thing about ratitude is that it’s literally an avenue to all that you want in life. It’s free and yet most of us overlook it in our lives or we’re tepidly and mildly grateful but we’re not really embodying it.Let me ask you, do you take time during your days being immensely grateful for all that you have? I mean genuinely grateful, not perfunctory gratitude. I mean instead of just saying you’re grateful because you’re “supposed to” can you feel it in your bones, do you embody it. Do you savor your gratitude?You’re not fully aware and alive until you can reach this place in yourself and all else is just being externally influenced. All else is not being fully present in life and not being fully immersed in life.When we start immersing in life we start infusing with life. And, when we infuse it, it’s as if we are co habituating and living in communion with all of life…and that is power.In this episode I discuss:[7:04] How having gratitude will change your life[13:57] How once you are living in gratitude the Universe will start reflecting that back[18:55] Having gratitude for your breath, your heartbeat[23:15] An exercise in being grateful for your handsTransformational Takeaway: What if you woke up today with everything you were genuinely and intrinsically grateful yesterday? Ponder that….Mentioned Resources:Sign up for the upcoming BE DO HAVE Training here!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 episode, I continue what I started in the last one and I quickly address FATA, some causes, and how to live a better life without them.For the most part, most people are living their daily lives full of any or all of these to some degree and they can be deadly to our health.Medical research has shown that around 90% of all illness is stress-related and stress comes from a variation of these four things.In this episode, I briefly address each one and the potential causes.What causes fear?I talk about two categories of fear, physical and psychological, and what causes them and what drives them.Surprise, to a large degree they are driven by the issue to control something, someone, or some outcome in life.What causes Anxiety?I address two categories of anxiety, brain-based and psychological and my bout with brain-based anxiety, depression, and anxiety generally speaking.Surprise, to a large degree, general anxiety is called by control issues. Specifically, trying to control an outcome.What causes tension?Basically, tension is wrapped around unresolved issues. It’s intertwined with something where we don’t know the outcome or what’s going to happen and that causes tension within us.Surprise, to a large degree tension is driven by control issues.What causes anger?Anger is caused by something outside of your control or when we think we’re not getting something that we deserve or we’ve been wronged.I take a twist on anger and share that there is no such thing as anger, it’s simply what you’re feeling when we experience fear, hurt, and frustration the latter two come from expectation.And guess what, I talk about what drives anger. What drives it is when we’re not getting something in the way that we want it.It’s a control issue but we don’t see it as that.And finally, I suggest ways that we can eliminate all this from our lives.In this episode I discuss:[5:44] How most illness is stress-related[7:12] Types of fear[12:11] Looking at anxiety[16:40] Defining tension[21:34] Getting into angerTransformational Takeaway: When we let go of the attachment to ourselves and how things are supposed to be in the world most of FATA disappears from our lives.Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 109: “An STD Just For You”Sign up for the upcoming BE DO HAVE Training here!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 NowYou’re probably wondering what FATA is, right? It’s an acronym I just made up and it stands for Fear, Anxiety, Tension, and Anger.When you really think about it, we humans bathe ourselves in these emotions and most of us take this bath for life…and then we wonder why we’re not getting what we want in life.When we look into it we can all agree that these emotions and thoughts rob us of well-being and happiness and what most people never think about is what they cost us in terms of our health.In this episode, I start laying the foundation for ways that we can begin eliminating these mental poisons from our life and how our lives will immediately change when we do.The fact is this, most of us have gotten into these negative emotions for decades and we don’t even identify with them or recognize when we’re in the emotions and yet they are “running in the mental background like a cell phone app.”Not only do we want to eliminate these negativities from our lives for reasons of emotional well being, we also want to eliminate them to raise our spiritual connections and vibrations to source.In this episode I discuss:[6:50] Living life with low-grade anger[16:00] How habituated anger and fear is self-deception[18:16] How do you define fear? Anxiety? Tension? Anger?[23:34] What is the frequency and vibration of FATA?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 NowLife And Death, whoa, what a huge concept to tackle in an episode. This episode doesn’t tackle it, but I definitely want to talk about it and get you to thinking about how you experience the concepts.How much thought have you really put into your own life and death? And, as I ask that question, if you’re like most people you have very simplistic definitions of those very words. You probably see them as black and white, meaning dead is one thing and living is another but there is no in-depth thought and deep understanding of what they both really mean?I mean, what are your definitions of both life and death. How do you define life, how do you define death?What does it mean to “live” your life? Are you truly living or are you just simply existing, going through your days? Are you just marking time until you die?What if I said to you that there is no such thing as death? That even sounds weird when you read it, right? I mean, what if there is no such thing as death then how does that even affect how you live your life?What if I said, there is no death, there is only life? And, should you be able to fully integrate that at a deep level of knowing, how would you live your life differently?Many in the West look at “death” as something to fear or better yet, something that is not even thought about until later in life. What if you lived your life as if you were going to die and your time here is limited?So, this episode applies to everyone because everyone on this planet is going to live and die, and I dig into what that could possibly mean for you.Transformational Takeaway: Everyone on this planet is going to live and die. How do you define life? Define death?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 NowEver wondered why you’re not getting the results you want in the gym, in your business and perhaps all the areas of your life?There could be many reasons but a huge reason is talked about in this episode, self-integrity. Are you being 100% integral with your word to yourself relative to your desired outcomes?Do you eat the way you say you’ll eat? Do you go to the gym when you say you will go? Do you lead generate for your business like you say you will? Do you do what you say you’ll do when you say you’ll do it?If you just said no to the above questions you’re going to love this episode because it’s all about self-integrity! It’s all about doing what you say you’re going to do when you say you’re going to do it.In this episode I discuss: [4:20] How you can have a 100-500% increase in your productivity when you keep your word to yourself. [9:46] How I used to lie to myself about integrity (and you probably do too). [20:37] How we speak our lives into existence. [23:10] Why not keeping your word affects your self-esteem. And, of course, much much more.Self-Integrity is VITAL to your success in any activity and according to a Harvard business professor who studies it, it’s one of the most over looked concepts in business and life.When we’re out of self-integrity, nothing works, we keep failing over and over in many areas of life that we think are important to us.Let me rephrase the last paragraph, things work in life but they rarely work the way we want when we’re out of integrity.Transformational Takeaway: Be 100% impeccable with your word to yourself.Mentioned Resources:The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)Disclosure: 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 NowIn this episode we look at your identity and why you do what you do. You’ll learn that it doesn’t matter what you think you want and it doesn’t matter what you do because you only create in life what you are. Your identity is created from experiences in your life, then you create an interpretation from those experiences and then you tell yourself a story about it for the rest of your life. So, I order to change your identity, you must first ask “What would be the identity of someone who already has what I want?” Look for someone who already has what you want. Listen to the entire episode to learn about changing your identity!In this episode I discuss: [4:00] How your identity is formed when you’re a small child [4:29] How you have created an identity loop and it’s keeping you stuck [6:18] How to determine what identity you have (hint look at your environment) [14:01] Discovering your internal barometer [22:06] What identity do you want? How do you get it Transformational Takeaway: What identity would I need to have to create __ in my life?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 NowTrying to control your life? Control others? Getting into control in general?HINT: You have NO control, even if you think you do. Like it or not, your brain does all the “controlling” for you and that’s not a matter of opinion, it’s scientifically proven.Stop fighting life and stop trying to control life, it’s a waste of time and energy.In this episode I discuss: [2:00] How science proves that you have zero control over your life [4:31] How your “habits” actually control you [6:25] Why your habits are what they are [8:40] How parts of your brain work against each other [15:18] Why your emotions are stronger than your thinking [20:44] Why your habits are more important than your beliefs And, like I say over and over…much more.If you want the next 12 months to be your happiest and best ever then stop thinking about what you want and start focusing on your habits. You don’t get what you want in life, you get your habits and for the most part, CONTROL is a habit.Transformational Takeaway: You’re not in charge and you have no control, your brain is in control, not “you.”Mentioned Resources:EPISODE 5: “Why Your Bad Habits Are So Hard To Break”The Magic of Believing by Claude M. BristolDisclosure: 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