🧠 Hypnotherapy for Anxiety & Trauma Recovery – Amy Koford

🧠 Hypnotherapy for Anxiety & Trauma Recovery – Amy Koford

👤 Guest Bio – Amy Koford (Amy the Happy Hypnotist)

Amy Koford, widely known as Amy the Happy Hypnotist, is a bestselling author, clinical hypnotherapist, motivational speaker, and dynamic performer. With thousands of one-on-one sessions under her belt, Amy has helped people overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction through the transformative power of hypnosis. Her mission is to show the world that hypnosis isn’t mind control—it’s mind liberation.

From battling deep depression to becoming a beacon of hope, Amy’s journey is a testament to the power of the subconscious mind and the healing potential within us all.

🗣️ Episode Summary

In this enlightening episode of the Give A Heck Podcast, host Dwight Heck sits down with Amy Koford to explore the subconscious mind, the myths and truths about hypnosis, and how self-love can transform lives. Amy shares her personal journey from self-doubt to empowerment, revealing how hypnotherapy became her calling and how it’s helped thousands reclaim their confidence and joy.

Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, addiction, or self-criticism—or simply curious about the power of the mind—this episode offers actionable insights and heartfelt inspiration to help you live life on purpose, not by accident.

⏱️ Timestamps & Highlights

  • 00:00 – Meet Amy Koford: The Happy Hypnotist and her mission of mind liberation
  • 02:45 – Amy’s origin story: Childhood comparisons and early depression
  • 09:50 – Why personal experience makes the best healer
  • 20:10 – Discovering hypnotherapy and finding purpose
  • 28:00 – Addiction, trauma, and the root cause of emotional pain
  • 35:52 – Hypnosis shows: Entertainment meets transformation
  • 44:45 – From self-critical to self-love: Amy’s healing journey
  • 53:43 – Final reflections: You are more than you think you are

🎯 What You’ll Learn

  • How hypnosis works and why it’s not mind control
  • The connection between fear, depression, and the subconscious mind
  • Why self-criticism is so common—and how to break free from it
  • How Amy’s personal healing journey shaped her professional path
  • Tools and techniques to reprogram your mind for success
  • Why embracing your inner light is key to transformation

💬 Notable Quotes

“You are so much more than what you think you are. You are full of light, love, and power.” – Amy Koford
“Living on purpose isn’t a destination—it’s a daily decision.” – Dwight Heck

 

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Full Unedited Transcript:

[00:00:00 – 00:01:20]
Welcome to another powerful episode of Give a Heck where we inspire you to live life on purpose and not by accident. I’m your host, White Heck. And today we’re diving deep into the fascinating world of the human mind. My guest is the brilliant and magnetic Amy Colpert, better known as Amy the Happy Hypnotist. She’s a highly acclaimed speaker, best selling author, clinical hypnotherapist, and dynamic performer whose hypnotism shows leave people feeling entertained and transformed. But this isn’t just about the spectacle. Amy has conducted thousands of one on one sessions, helping people break free from depression, anxiety, and past traumas. She’s empowered countless individuals to conquer their fears, stop smoking in just one session, sleep peacefully, love themselves fully, and rediscover a life of confidence, joy and possibility. Amy’s on a mission to show you how hypnosis isn’t mind control, it’s mind liberation. So get ready to explore how you too are hardwired to rise and live a life driven by love instead of fear. I’d like to welcome you to show Amy. Thanks so much for agreeing to come on and share with us some of your life journey.

[00:01:21 – 00:01:23]
Thank you so much for having me.

[00:01:23 – 00:02:43]
Yeah, you’re welcome. I’m. Thanks for, you know, investing your time in the Give a Heck podcast and the listeners and viewers. It works both ways, right? We’ve now investing time in one another to help elevate both of us. Right? I get to learn from you, the listeners, the viewers get to learn, and you get to showcase your greatness, which is greatness, because whenever we come from a place in our life where we’re always on, you know, the, the camping plateau, we’re not really climbing, we’re stuck. And those that climb are the reason why I do the Give a Hack podcast to showcase their brilliance and the fact that they’re willing to step out of their comfort zone and do whatever it takes to be successful. So one of the things I like to start off with off the top of the show is I love to ask guests about their origin story, not the fluff that some people say, well, I started college, university, I was a dropout, and I did all this. I’d like to get something out of the, out of the person that I’m having the conversation with about their life that they can look back and go, you know, this was really a pivoting moment. I may not have realized it until I was an adult, but it really did change my life. So can you do me a favor, Amy, and share with Me, your origin story from your earliest recollections that you’re willing to share up to where you are today.

[00:02:45 – 00:09:37]
Yeah, of course. Thank you. Well, you know, I was, I had a kind of an interesting childhood. It was a good childhood. Happy. I can’t complain as far as what shaped me. Man, that, that’s always a very complex answer for everyone, isn’t it? We all have many things that contribute to that. I was raised in a way that this will become relevant later, but I was raised in a way that I just didn’t feel good enough. Now that’s not really my parents fault. Right. I. They were doing their best, but yeah, so that affects a lot of your decisions. Right. A lot of things that you do. So as where I am now is completely different because I’ve had to let go of some of those things from the childhood. And again, I don’t blame my parents, but yeah, pivotal moments, there’s many. So as a hypnotist, you mentioned that I help a lot of people with depression and anxiety. So the first time that I ever experienced a real depression was when I was about 26. And so that was something that hit me out of the blue. I had never experienced anything like that in my life and it was so difficult and lasted a long time too, like a year. And so throughout that experience, you know, I’m the type that’s just, I take something and just go all in to try to figure out how to solve it. I’m a problem solver just by nature. That’s just how I was born, I guess. So with that first depression, yeah, I was reading all the books I could figure out, going, doing everything I could possibly do and eventually I came out of it in an, in an interesting way and I was just happy to come out of it because for anyone listening, if you’ve been through a severe depression, you just feel like you’re in a dark hole that you are having a hard time climbing out of. And so yeah, when I did come out of it, it was just heaven to be back out be to be myself again. And so I’m getting a little bit ahead. You were kind of asking more about my origin, so yeah, I was. I’m number four of five kids. And when you’re in a family with several siblings, sometimes that can have an effect on you. And I was comparing myself not only to my friends but to my siblings. I had a little bit of a complex with one of my older siblings where I felt like she was in the spotlight and I was in the Shadows, everything was about how great she was. And so you learn kind of how to compare. And then I guess I just kind of perfected the art of comparing in so many ways. And that will easily make you not feel good enough. But add to that that I was in a religion that constantly gave me reasons to feel not good enough. And that actually lasted until, I would say, in the last 10 years, where I finally figured out how to stop feeling like I was never good enough. And that’s pretty common for a lot of people. You know, I. I’ve had a lot of clients who say that a lot. I just. It’s just pretty common in our human experience to in some level feel not good enough. For some of us, like me, it was really extreme. And for others, they just can handle it better or maybe it’s not as severe. So, yeah, different aspects of my life contributed to that. And then, like I mentioned, I went through this depression. And that gets you thinking differently. And you don’t take things for granted anymore that you used to, like just feeling normal. I had never been through that. So just even feeling normal, you just don’t take it for granted anymore those days where you just feel good. And so I, during that time, I went to therapy, I tried antidepressants, right? I tried it all. I did it all. And that none of that is actually what ended up pulling me out of it. And what did pull me out of it is actually getting having pregnancy. I know that that’s not what anyone was expecting, but it is. So I guess the depression, I knew it was physiological. I could tell that I was like, there’s nothing in my life that I’m bothered about or, you know, feeling depressed about. I could tell that there was something physiological. And sure enough, a few months into my first pregnancy, with my first baby, it was honestly like someone flipped a switch just back on, flip the switch on, I’m back to myself. But then, you know, later in life, I go through other bouts of depression, some of them very long. And so I had to learn the physiology of depression and the psychology of it would come later as a hypnotist. But, yeah, all of these experiences helped me understand what it’s like to go through that and things that can work to get out of it. And so because of that, now most of my clientele that I’ve ever worked with is for depression and anxiety. Most of the people that have come to me for hypnotherapy have been depressed, anxious, and they want to resolve that. And so, yeah, some of These origins have helped me to be good at what I do because I’ve been there. I, I come from a place of personal experience.

[00:09:39 – 00:09:41]
Isn’t that the best though, right?

[00:09:41 – 00:09:50]
It is, yeah. That’s what makes you good. Nothing can replace experience.

[00:09:50 – 00:09:51]
Well, exactly.

[00:09:51 – 00:10:02]
I like, you know, you can be told about it, you can try to understand it, but until you go through something yourself, you can’t quite understand it the same way.

[00:10:03 – 00:10:37]
That’s why I’m gonna, I’m gonna just sidestep here for a second before I let you go on. When you said feeling normal. Right. And I wrote down know the difference. How do we ever know we’re at a plateau or camped in our lives and we don’t have. They don’t know the difference of how it should feel. And I like how you talked about the fact of feeling normal right after the, after the pregnancy. I think that’s an amazing segue to what most people wouldn’t even realize would be a defining change and moment in your life. So I appreciate you sharing that.

[00:10:38 – 00:11:04]
Oh, thank you. Yeah. Don’t ever take those normal days for granted. You know, appreciate them. So normal is different for different people. But for me, my normal was just feeling really excited to be alive and just, I mean, not overly, but just content, you know, just content satisfied.

[00:11:05 – 00:11:44]
Well, I wish people that were listening could see you. The people on YouTube, they’re going to be blessed because you’re smiling. You can see the happy energy coming from you even as you’re discussing this. So that’s a great thing to do, to achieve, to level up to. So, yes, I hope people that are listening as you, as you drive, don’t grab your phone and try watching. Do it at home. Any to watch this episode, it’s going to be very impactful for you because the energy coming off of Amy is. It’s very good. Right. So it’s something that if you’re a bit, if you’re a visual learner, perfect. So appreciate that.

[00:11:44 – 00:11:48]
Oh, I’m a very visual person. Everything has to be in writing.

[00:11:49 – 00:13:10]
That’s good. So you talked about, you know, your siblings. The art of comparing that is such a huge issue. Right. Especially in larger families. I had, well, still have them, but they’re all adults now. I was a single dad raising my five kids. I eventually got full time custody of them and raised them through their tumultuous years. Four of them being girls, just to add out of the five. And the comparison game was plentiful. I heard it all the time or I’d see That child that was living in the shadow, I could see it. Right. And it was very character building, to say the least. To make somebody feel that they can shine though that one person has a specific talent that they are so good at, let’s say dance. The other one was semi okay and quit. And they really haven’t found their place in this world. So already I seen a problem that could escalate into adulthood and it did. Right. Comparing I can’t do as well as this sister. This sister’s always getting the spotlight. Well, that sister was getting the spotlight because she was putting in the effort. She knew what she wanted, whereas that other child needed more guidance. Unfortunately, sometimes parents, we can’t just guide them enough, can we?

[00:13:10 – 00:13:10]
True.

[00:13:10 – 00:13:11]
Right.

[00:13:11 – 00:13:30]
And interestingly, the family I grew up in had four girls and one boy. So yeah, I was the number three girl. Number four out of five. And then I have five kids of my own and I had four boys and one girl.

[00:13:31 – 00:14:24]
The exact opposite. One of the chances, a polar opposite to get, to get that I know. And everybody’s got an opinion about which is easier to raise. I think they all have their own challenges and their character building moments. Boys, everybody says boys are easier to raise, but it’s because they don’t get the same emotional connection or conversation or relatability that a girl would. And I found that out as being a single dad of four daughters, I had to communicate with my son and make sure he didn’t fall off the, you know, and be in that shadow. Right. And, and caught up in the fact that, you know, are you okay? Everything’s fine. And I let it slide because thought it was easier. But as they grow, I realized he needs to have that moment. He has to have his ability to shine and communicate. And it was hard because he’d run and hide in his room from his sisters.

[00:14:26 – 00:14:51]
Right. And yeah, you ask him, how was your day? Good. So they know I don’t want good, tell me more. But yeah, they and you know, think to its personalities. Some of my boys or just a little more self assured and yeah, just different personalities. But it’s no right or wrong. Some of them were a little easier to raise than others. But different personalities.

[00:14:52 – 00:15:56]
It’s tough though, because how do we as parents that are continually elevating or trying to elevate our own lives and deal with it, give that individualized time. It was tough, especially as a single dad, you know, supper, homework, laundry, okay, do this, do that. And then I’d be so exhausted and I, I thought to myself, oh, Goodness, that kid’s already gone to bed. And I told them hours ago that I was, didn’t have the mental capacity, let’s talk later. And that later never happened. And then I’d sit there and I’d feel guilty, right? I’d have that guilt, that parent guilt, that religious guilt. And I’d go, go to bed to go, oh man. Okay, what did I learn from today? Okay, I got. Tomorrow is another day. First off, talk to that kid, apologize, give them the attention first thing in the morning. Right. And if they say no, it’s not. Watch their body language. Is their body language telling me that it is still serious? They just don’t want to bother dad because I never give them the energy. Like being a parent. Being a parent is like being in a blender, just.

[00:15:58 – 00:16:29]
And you know, even though it was busy with five, I was, you know, they’re at different ages and so I was able to spend quite a bit of one on one time. But part of that’s because for a while there I was a stay at home mom which allowed that. But even now my youngest two are 13 and 15 and my next up is 21 and I still. Yesterday I spent one on one time with each one of them.

[00:16:29 – 00:16:30]
Good for you.

[00:16:30 – 00:16:46]
Played pickleball with my 21 year old. Yeah. So it just. Different times of life, you’re able to spend time but you. Yeah, you know, we just do our best. But I do love my kids and spending time with my kids is my favorite thing to do.

[00:16:46 – 00:16:47]
Oh, me too.

[00:16:48 – 00:17:00]
Yeah, I, it’s my very favorite thing to do. For me it’s growing kids cry and have a hard time when they grow up and leave. And I just don’t want them to grow up and leave. It’s sad, but they do anyway.

[00:17:01 – 00:17:03]
Well, you can’t stop that. And then you hope.

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I know you hope. Like me, the days when they all lived at home.

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Now I have the grandkids they came over and hung out on. I took the day off Friday and they came over, we watched, made some supper, watched a movie. It was too darn hot out, we weren’t gonna go out. And they wanted to do have a big fire area in the back of my large yard. They wanted, they wanted to do that. But I said it’s, let’s see. So you’re in, you’re in Fahrenheit, right? So we would have probably been about in the 90s and I don’t like that hot to be outside. So we decided just to have a good time and so you Elevate from your kids, leaving in your heart going, oh, I want them to be here. I, I, honestly, as a dad, I can remember my one dog daughter going off to nursing school and only three hours away and being in the shower the next day after I drove her and moved her and cried. Right?

[00:17:58 – 00:17:58]
Yeah.

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As a dad going, oh, yeah, that’s me. Right?

[00:18:02 – 00:18:10]
That is me. I cry every time one of my kids advances to some new grade anyway.

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So, yeah, crying’s not bad though. It’s not.

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No, it’s not. And sometimes. But getting back to what we were talking about. Yeah, the comparing, it just didn’t serve me. But I couldn’t quite grasp that. Right. And like I say, I also had a lot of religious issues that way. That was telling me, you’re not good enough. And I believed it, you know, until recently I’d say, yeah, within the last 10 years. So it’s just not a healthy way to live. But yet we do it so easily.

[00:18:51 – 00:18:55]
Well, we pass on all that learned behavior to our children. Right.

[00:18:55 – 00:19:07]
Well, I hope I didn’t pass on too much, but yes, I. And you know, having overcome it in the last several years has helped. Now they are going to remember that more.

[00:19:08 – 00:19:10]
So powerful example. Good for you.

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Yeah. And what I do, right. I’ve learned a lot with that, helping others and I didn’t want to tell them and not be a product of what I’m telling them. So I don’t ever want to be hypocritical, you know, I want to be able to honestly say, yeah, I do what I tell you to do too. And I do.

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That’s awesome.

[00:19:33 – 00:19:55]
Does it mean I’m perfect? Not at all. But it does mean that I’m always aware of. Yeah, I want to be true to what I tell my clients, that I am that person that I’m asking them to be, that I genuinely love myself, that I don’t compare, that I’m not criticizing myself. You’re right. That I’m actually a product of my product.

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So. So based on that, when did hypnotherapy enter into all this? You talk about the last 10 years and, and your children and stuff. When did it enter into it and how did you get introduced to it?

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Yeah, so when my youngest was about to go into kindergarten, I had been a stay at home mom for about nine years. Prior to that, I had worked full time, sometimes part time, sometimes I had done human resources. After my third, I worked at Disney World. We were living in Orlando at the time, so just kind of a fun Part time job. But here I was, you know, I had been a stay at home mom for years while I had five kids. And then they were growing up. So I was at this crossroads of my life, right? Like a fork in the road, okay, my youngest is going to school. So now what do I do? Want to go back to human resources. And so I was just really, really reflecting on all this. What do I do now, right? And so I literally started praying about it and I started to put it out there in the universe. I would say, hey universe, I, I would love some guidance with this. I don’t think I want to go back to doing human resources. It just doesn’ like the thing I’m meant to do right now. It worked great in the past. I just don’t feel like that’s my calling now. And so to my surprise, I started to look up hypnotism. And I still don’t know why. Just one day I was like, hey, you know, I, I don’t even understand why it came into my head, but I started to look into it, I started to research. I decided to go to a hypnotist myself so that I would know what it was. I was asking others what they thought of it and I started calling schools and I, I learned that my sister in law had recently done hypnotherapy and so I just was really interested in it. And then I found a school and certified and started doing sessions with people and it was working and that was very thrilling to me. When I first became a hypnotist after just a few clients, I thought, wow, I absolutely love this. And I now that I know I love it, I want to be the best hypnotist in the world. So to that end, I started to travel and find a hypnotist to train with and to learn from and, and all that good stuff. So that’s amazing. The way it started is me just asking the universe for guidance. You know, what, what am I meant to do now? What, how do I make the world better? Those kind of questions.

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That’s awesome though. Like at, at the end of the day, people always, you know, why did this happen to me? No, things happen for us, not to us. You just have to understand the message. You have to frame it into maybe something palatable that you can actually understand or communicate with people that speak at the level that you resonate with. But you know, things happen. We can pray to pray to God, we can pray to the universe, we can pray to a tree. Whatever the case may be, the message comes. Are you going to be able to know It’s a message. Are you going to be able to know? You should research it. And, and that’s amazing. Your story how you just.

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Huh.

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I decided to hook up hypnotism. It was just like, wow, that’s a great.

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I just think it was one of those inspiration where God kind of put it in my head.

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That’s awesome.

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Hypnotism.

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I love it. I love it.

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When I was certifying it took about three months and it was about 13 to 15 hours a week for that three months. So it was quite a bit. You know, that’s a lot. And there was one day when I was in class and I literally thought, sat there thinking, what in the. What am I doing? The hypnotist. What am I doing sitting here in this certification course? And while I was thinking that, I literally had just this voice come to me inside that said, you are going to touch many lives and this is really important. I need you to do this. And it was the weirdest thing. I haven’t had many of those in my life. But I literally looked around, made a seat. What am I imagining this right? And there was other people in the class with me. And sure enough, as soon as I certified and started seeing people I was touching lives and it was making a big difference. And now I’m going much bigger. You know, I’ve written a book that comes out this week and I. I’m going to be doing in person seminars so that I can have one to many. And so yeah, it’s. It’s just been a huge adventure that I’ve loved and never in a million while I was sitting in that class to certify would have imagined that I. It would take me to where it has that I would do so much with it that it would be so big and so amazing.

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That’s what I really like about that is you discussed and mentioned the journey most people will. They don’t want to sit in that feeling their. Their thoughts and go, oh, I was sitting in this and I’m going, what are you doing in here? And now to a point where you advanced, you got past that imposter syndrome, right? Thinking here, why am I here? I’m not good for this to now helping yourself. And again, the joy that’s in your face and when you communicate really will shine out. For those that are watching it on YouTube, you can pick it up listening to it too. Obviously your energy and your tonality. But I’m quite enjoying your delivery.

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Your Storytelling, I mean, it’s genuine. It really has been an adventure that I never could have imagined. And you know, Dwight, when I was in those dark moments of life, you know, I went through a few bouts of long term, extremely severe depression. And I never at those times in my life could have imagined that those would end up helping me and helping others and that eventually it would be okay. Right. I would come out of these depressing, depressing episodes and I would learn a lot and use what I learned to help others and that I would travel the world and write a book. And, you know, I think I just. When you’re going through hard times, you just can’t imagine how it could possibly work for your good or the good of others. Sometimes it’s really hard while you’re in that moment, you know. And there was another time, one of those depressions was when I was very, very sick. And I. I was really sick for a long time, about nine months. And we just could not figure out what was wrong. And that was another time where I just thought, what is this for? I. This is so stupid. But lo and behold, it really helped me. You know, eventually I learned a lot from it, and it was. It ended up being a blessing later in life, but. And I came close to dying, you know, I was really, really sick. And we could not figure out what it was. And I had all five kids living at home at the time, and it was a very difficult period. So we, you know, we do learn a lot. Not only while we’re going through hard times, but afterwards we take what we’ve learned and we run with it. And when we do, it can be huge. It can really be a positive.

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Absolutely. Too many people, though, run away from their challenges and they compartmentalize and stick it back and, you know, in some part of their brain and don’t realize that it’s still affecting them on a conscious level. Right.

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I’ve had a lot of clients in that situation. Right. Alcoholics, people that are drug addicted, a lot of issues there, and smoking. Right. But yeah, some of them don’t even mean to do that. They just don’t know what else to do with their difficulties in life. They don’t know how to cope. And so they’ll turn to something to, to escape. But yeah, I’ve worked with a lot of clients, you know, alcoholism, drug addiction and so forth, that when they come in, I’ll say to them, this, alcoholism is actually problem B. It’s not your main problem. Your main problem is problem A. We have to get. We have to resolve problem A. What are you running from? What trauma or what thing? What is it that you don’t want to face and feel? That’s what we have to resolve. And then it’s easier to get off the booze and, you know, it’s. It’s easy to. To stop being addicted to drugs and all that. But we have to resolve problem A.

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I love that because I do that in my own business. I do a lot of lifestyle coaching in the finance industries. My going on to my 23rd year as of September. And I tell people like, okay, we start having conversations. Well, what does this have to do with anything? Well, unless I figure out your life and money monsters, no matter what I do to help you get out of debt, save for a future, you know, do whatever, maybe you got a big inheritance to help you decide where it should go, how it should be implemented, I need to understand your 6 inches between your ears because you’re going to make decisions based on learn financial behavior that you’ve seen your family go through. The conversations you didn’t realize that affected your mind as a child. Well, yeah, I don’t, I don’t want to do all that stuff. Okay, well, now, 23 years later, I don’t take clients on unless they’re willing to get to that personal level before, you know, three, four meetings. And then we talk about numbers. It’s breaking down the barriers that they’ve created and that camped mindset that they’re living their associations. You mentioned associations like alcohol. You know what? There’s a huge addiction issue in North America and the world to people spending for that dopamine hit and then having buyer’s remorse, huge problems. And then they cycle into more debt. And then. So when you talked about primary problem versus secondary problem, their addictions are an issue now. Now they become addicted to stuff because they’re. They’re swimming and drowning in debt. They don’t know how to control it. Nobody’s taught them past learned behavior of childhood or even adulthood. It can happen in adulthood where they have a significant other or a partner that causes the challenges with them. So, you know, it’s just amazing how you talk about it. It really. At the end of the day, we need to build relationships. We need to understand people’s monsters, their trials and tribulations, whatever the case may be, and really put in the effort. Those are out there dealing with the general public. People don’t care what you know. They want to know that you care first. Then they’ll know what you care that you Care.

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And they also want the results.

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Absolutely right.

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They want what works. And that’s what my whole thing is. Right. You want results, and I want those results for you. We’re not.

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We have to.

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We have to work around. We’re here to give you the results.

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Exactly. You have to be willing. You have to be the willing. Otherwise.

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And I agree. When I get. When someone calls me to stop smoking, I’ll say, how done are you with smoking? And then I’m listening very carefully to how they answer that. If they say, well, I, I, I’ve got to quit because, you know, my body’s falling apart, I’ll say, well, okay, it’s probably not going to work. If I ask them, how done are you? And they say, oh, I’m so over it, I can’t stand it anymore. I’m just done. And I’ll say, it’ll absolutely work then. And, you know, Willpower Gums and patches has like a 30 success rate, and I have over 92% success rate.

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Wow, that’s amazing.

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Well, because we’re working with the subconscious mind, which is where habits are.

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Oh, of course. But it’s amazing that your results are that high. That’s amazing. Wow.

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So anyway, yeah, you meant. But I brought that up because you were saying that you have to have them be willing. Right. You’ll take on a client that’s willing. It’s the same with me and smoking. If someone wants to stop smoking, I have to hear that in them. They’re done.

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Yeah, exactly. So it’s a simple question. Why are you here?

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Yeah.

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All right. What are you looking for from me? And I stopped, and the first person. People, this is a really simple tactic you can use on anybody to get them to release what’s inside of them. Ask a question and shut up and listen. The first person to answer loses. The other person wins. Oh, that doesn’t sound very fair. Well, if you truly want to help somebody, absolutely, it’s fair. You need to. Manipulation is both good and bad. People say manipulation is bad all the time. I disagree. If I positively manipulate you with a proper question, a statement, a result, an action that you’re looking for and it helps you release, that’s positive manipulation. Everybody’s manipulated every day. Your kids manipulate you, your adults around you manipulate you. Do you manipulate in a positive way? Are you manipulating to be somebody that’s always winning at the expense of others? Right. But I’ll get off my soapbox.

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Well, no, it’s true. And, you know, that’s one of the things that I bring up. So I do, I do hypnosis shows too.

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Yes.

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Now hypnosis shows are a lot of fun. Okay. We’re getting lighter, right. I help people with severe traumas and all that, but I also do hypnosis shows and those are a blast. It’s very common for me after I’ve done one of my hypnosis shows for someone or many people to come up and say that is the hardest I’ve laughed in years. And incidentally, on a side note, when I do one on one hypnotherapy, I often get the comment that is the most relaxed I’ve ever been. It is very relaxing. But yeah. So one thing that I was going to get to that you brought up, when I start a show, I do a little kind of a pre talk where I’ll say you’ll see people come up here and do funny things, right. When they’re hypnotized. But what if I could hypnotize them and tell them that they’re a millionaire and they go and make a million dollars because I told them they could and they believed that they could because I told them that that’s hypnotism. Right. So I’ll bring that up and. Or what if I tell them that they can go take some fearless action and they do because they believe me. Right. So you were talking about manipulation. Yeah, I mean I’m not. You know, some people think that hypnotism is mind control and it, it is not. The important thing with hypnotism is when the subconscious accepts it, right. And says yeah, okay, I’m a non smoker, great. And they go off and they never touch a cigarette again.

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Them that’s so powerful.

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It’s not manipulation. It is giving the subconscious what they want, right? The what the client wants. Because the subconscious is merely a computer. It takes things that you give it non critically and it accepts it just like anything that you do on a computer. You’re going to type those words, it’s just going to do what you tell it to do or do what it, you know, click and all that. And so your, your subconscious is merely a compute. So that’s the great thing. But it’s also not mind control. And a lot of people think it is because of the way that hypnotism is portrayed in movies, right. And shows and things like that where they think it’s mind control. And honestly some people want it to be mind control. They’ll come to me and they’ll like, can’t you just make Me do this or can’t you just. I’ll say, well, yeah, but you have to let that through, and it has to be positive and it has to be for the right reasons. And you can’t resist it if you, you know, you can’t put up any resistance if that’s truly the best thing for you. So there’s a lot to it. But yeah, it’s. It’s powerful and. But it’s definitely not manipulation.

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Yeah, that’s not what I was getting at. I was talking.

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I know, and I know you weren’t. Just so that the listeners understand, because there are a lot of misunderstandings about hypnosis.

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Yeah, I was, you know, and I. I get that a lot with people because at the end of the day, we sometimes have to. You may not. Hypnosis may not be manipulation, but maybe you have to make a statement to somebody to make them actually be aware or think about the fact of, like the smoking question you asked and whether one was going to be helped one, whether or not you couldn’t help them. It’s the same thing. You manipulate in the sense of asking the question to the person and saying, hey, this is what I want. Right. Or this is what you need and we want from me. I manipulate whatever I need to manipulate. But the end result isn’t manipulation. It’s still their choice. It’s still there. All I’m doing is trying to bring that out of them so they have a realization for maybe once in their lives that there is a challenge. Right. So obviously, no, I don’t think hypnosis. I wouldn’t have you on if I thought it was. It was like you’re talking about, like, the Betrayed movies, because I’ve had. I know somebody that’s hip, does hypnotherapy in my city. I’ve known them for 25 years, never seen them myself, but I constantly am intrigued and enthralled by the industry and what it’s developing into. And why I wanted to have you on is so that we could highlight to people that it is such a powerful tool because some people aren’t going to listen to this episode and, and, or they will listen to it and they’re still going to discount it. They just aren’t the willing. Yet.

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There’s a lot of skepticism and partly because there’s a lot of misunderstandings about it. But yeah, the only reason I brought that up is just because there are misunderstandings.

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Oh, of course. I appreciate you bringing it up. There’s nothing wrong. That’s what Conversation’s about is trying to understand one another so that other people can understand via what we’re talking about. So it’s great that you mentioned that. I honestly think it’s a very powerful one of many different things. What’s the word they use? You know, the different things. Modalities. Right, the different things we can use. Yes. The things that we can utilize within our lives to strengthen ourselves. We go to the gym, we. We do this and that, but we. We feel that we don’t, you know, that we’re. This is our life. This is our happy little life. But at the end of the day, you mentioned about the subconscious mind, too. What people, if you aren’t aware those are loyal listeners, know what we talk about a long time. Our brain, as a giant computer, doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie. You give it information, you convince that it’s the truth, and then you continually spread that truth. And you never have anything that really puts that monkey wrench in there, makes you go, oh, what? I thought that, you know, and. And then you feel uncomfortable because of the associations of people you hang out with and they’re saying. And you’re afraid to tell them, hey, I changed my mind. Right, because you’ve never been taught how to articulate yourself and say, hey, I’m growing and changing. I’m on the climb. I used to believe this. Now I believe that because they’re worried about losing that association. I’m here to say it. Sometimes it’s time to break the chains. Right?

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Yeah.

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Maybe hypnosis and hypnosis could be that thing for you.

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Right, Exactly. So when I work with clients, I’ll, like, work with their unconscious and just say, okay, unconscious. You gotta understand that this person doesn’t want this or need this or if I’m working with past traumas. So emotions are in the subconscious, so say, unconscious. Those emotions were appropriate at the time, but that time came, and that was a long time ago. There’s no reason to hold on to these emotions anymore. It’s okay to let them go. And so, yeah, there’s. There’s a number of things. And I. I do motivational speaking, and when I do a motivational speech, I will always do a group hypnosis with the audience. And it’s funny because, you know, with earlier I was bringing up the misunderstandings with hypnotism, and one of them is, but sometimes, and it just happened recently, where I’ll meet a stranger and somehow that’ll come up, they’ll ask me what I do. And I’ll say, I. You’ll never guess what I do. You know. And anyway, I’ll tell them I’m a hypnotist. And they’ll say, I don’t even dare look you in the eyes.

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Oh my God. You know.

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Or they’ll be like, oh, you know, they’ll shield their hand or their eyes or whatever. They’ll say, oh. And then. Then all of a sudden they’re kind of scared of me. Doesn’t happen a lot. Most of the time I get wow, that’s cool. And they want to know more. But once in a while I get that person who’ oh no. And so when I’m doing a motivational speech, I’ll tell them, you will benefit by participating in this and it’s just to benefit you. But every time I give a speech and I do an audience hypnosis, there are always at least a few people that just refuse to participate.

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Well. And they’re refused because of lack fear is driven by lack of knowledge. Right?

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Oh, for sure. And I bring that up in my book.

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Yes. And we’re going to discuss that in a moment before we run out of time actually.

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Right.

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Books. Your contribution book. I want to talk about there’s so we could have like four episodes I’ve got.

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I do a lot of so much to talk about.

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Well, I do a lot of prep. Right. A lot of prep.

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Wow. So impressed with that.

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You have no no idea how many times I read this under to make sure I feel the flow of the conversation on my side. So I feel more comfortable having a conversation with you. I spent probably two hours already before we even said hi. Right.

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So amazing.

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I’ve been on your website. I do it for all you are.

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Very impressive to do that.

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I’ve been a guest episodes. All 250 episodes I got here’s notes I’ve been writing about you.

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That is amazing.

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This is my classroom. This is my classroom for me for sure. And my and my followers. Right. So to not.

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I’ve been a guest on many, many podcasts and you are by far the most prepared that way. So most of them just show up.

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No, I don’t want. I don’t want that.

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We’re gonna.

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We’re gonna have to miss about four or five segments because we got 15 minutes left and we’re gonna have to have you on again if you don’t mind. But I want to get into. Sorry to people watching or listening. Yes. The other things I had to ask are important but I really want to dive into the fact of what Amy has done in regards to her collaborative book that she worked in as well as her solo book, Spotlight. And I’m sure, you know, for those that are really itching to learn something and ever asked, you know what the power of the Internet, go on to Amy’s website, which will be in the show notes, right? As well as all our social. Don’t.

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Yes, easy.

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Don’t let this opportunity pass you because I honestly do believe that hypnotism can work. I was just one of the stubborn, right? So I’m wanting to learn more. Even in my late 50s, I’m never too late. It’s never too late to give a heck, right?

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Oh no, it’s never too late.

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So the Gifts of Pain, you contributed a powerful chapter titled From Self Critical to Self Love, if I’m correct, to the collaborative book the gifts of pain, 31 voices, one volume, all sharing the truth about growth through adversity. So some of the questions I want to ask is why is self criticism such a widespread inner battle?

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Oh, man, Dwight, I tell you, over the years as I’ve helped people, worked with a lot of people, I have been so surprised at how pretty much everyone criticizes themselves. Now when I do a speech, I’ll even ask the audience, I’ll say, who here criticizes themselves? Raise your hand and a few hands go up. I say, are you sure you’re being honest? You know, and more hands go up. And then I will say, okay, so one of you that raised your hand, go ahead and stand up and tell all of us all the many benefits of criticizing yourself.

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That would be interesting.

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Well, that’s how I get us some like, kind of laughs because they. That’s right, there are no British. There’s no benefits. Right? There are none. And so my next book will definitely be centered around that. In fact, that’s one of my speech topics is stop criticizing yourself and connect to your greatness. And I’ve delivered that speech to a few different audiences because people by and large are so self critical and it’s not benefiting anyone. So you asked why is it so widespread? I think that there’s a number of reasons and one of them is right how someone is raised, are they comparing? It just seems like nowadays there’s a lot of reasons that people hiccup to compare. But also one of the other reasons I think that it’s so widespread is because people think it’s fine. They don’t, they don’t think it’s any big deal. They just oh, it’s fine. Everyone does it. Or they just. They. They don’t think that there’s. That it’s that bad. That’s what I’ve observed. Right. Literally, pretty much everyone that has ever come. And I’ve done thousands of sessions. I’ll ask the client, do you criticize yourself? Oh, yeah, all the time. Right. Like, I get that all the time. That’s the most common answer. And so it’s just. It’s too widespread for. Because people just think that it’s not a big deal, but it’s ingrained in our culture.

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It’s ingrained in our culture.

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It is. I’m here to tell all of your listeners it is a big deal. It is actually a very big deal. And I used to be very critical of myself. And I can tell you that when you come out of that into the sunlight, life is so much better. It is so much better to not criticize yourself. It is so much better to love yourself. You’re happier. It has a positive effect on every aspect of your life. So, yes, my next book. So this book that I just finished, that’s coming out, that took me two years. It took a ton of work and time. It’s all me. No ghost writing, no AI. It’s just me and my experiences. And I wanted to make it the best book about conquering fear that is available in this world. So I poured my soul into this book about fear. And God specifically told me to write this book. That’s another story. But, yeah, the next one, I’m going to write it about how important it is to love yourself and just to stop criticizing yourself. Because I have personal experiences, you know, that came up at the beginning when you asked me about my background. And so I see it with clients. There’s a huge need for this book that I need to write about. Stop criticizing yourself and love yourself, damn it.

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Which we need to like.

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It’s just so much more important than people realize. And I was the same. I was one of those. I did not love myself. Right. I was highly critical of myself until probably within the last 10, I’d say probably about eight or nine years ago. And. Wow. It is so much better to love yourself.

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Absolutely.

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So I do touch upon that just a little bit in my book. This one that just came out, you’re.

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Talking about hardwired to Rise.

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Hardwired to rise, yes. So let’s go back to the gifts of pain, because I kind of jumped ahead. I apologize.

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That’s. No, don’t.

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Yeah. The gift of pain was Just a little snippet of my journey of what it was like to feel not good enough and how I overcame that. That’s kind of interesting, that little story, isn’t it?

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The whole thing is.

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Did you read it?

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It’s amazing. At the end of the day, you got to realize that most people would never even get to a point where they collaborate in a book, let alone go through the cathartic nature of writing their own book, which is what I want to flow into. You know, I’d love to spend more times in the Gift of Pain, but we’re running out of time and I really want us to spotlight Hardwired to rise. Right. Okay.

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Can we just really quick talk about what comes up in the Gifts of Pain? Sure. Because I want to inspire the listeners. Okay, so for all of you listening, here’s what happened in the Gifts of Pain. That chapter that I wrote about, from self critical to Self Love. Just real quick, what happened is that I was able to have a nice vision of who I really am. And so you’ll have to read it in the book. But basically, as quick as I can, I got a glimpse. I think it was a mercy from God in this particular experience where I literally could see this beautiful being of light. Often my peripheral vision, I had my eyes closed and it was so compelling. I thought, wow, who is that? You know, she’s beautiful and she’s strong and powerful and you know, I. It was just this life changing when I realized, that’s me, that is me. Like that’s my spirit or my soul. Right? We all have different names. I do believe that I have a spirit within me. Right. And she was so amazing that I thought, I want to spend time with her. She is just like, I just feel so good around her. And then when I realized that was who I really am, like that was my spirit that occupies this body. It’s just a passenger in this body. It changed everything. I thought, okay, I can love her. And so it really did. It got me to stop criticizing myself. It got me to love myself. And not everyone is going to have that experience, but let me help you. Right? Because I want everyone to help to love themselves. This world would be a lot better if people would stop criticizing themselves and just love themselves. So yeah, that’s all I wanted to say is just real quick, what comes up is how I learned, you know, from self critical, self love. It was just having this amazing, like little vision of who I really have always been underneath and wow. So let me just. If, if you guys get One message from this podcast. Please know that you are so much more than what you think you are. You are more beautiful. You’re full of light. You are full of love. You’re powerful. You’re strong. You are so much more than what you’ve ever thought about yourself. So if you get this one message, please believe me, because it’s true.

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Well, we could have one podcast episode because I have questions. I have five specific questions I wanted to ask about gifts of Pain. We just don’t have the time.

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I know. I. I know. And.

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And that’s okay, right? Sometimes this happens. And. And again, let’s have you back on. We can. We can dive deep into just your. That gift of gifts of pain and then Hardwired to Rise. Because we’ve got, like, a few minutes left here, and we haven’t really talked about your most defining thing that’s happening right now, which is that book, Hardwired to Rise.

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Yeah. So I am so excited about it.

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So let’s talk the last few minutes about that. I don’t want to take you over too far from what you said your timing was. I know myself. When I wrote my book again, we mentioned that it was very cathartic for me. It helped me understand. Right. Pieces and parts of my story that pushed me to get that accomplished. Right. Or to some of the things that I never, ever pat patted myself in the back or really analyzed the journey of how I got to that point. So, you know, I didn’t. Mine took me five and a half months to write my book. A lot of tears, a lot of anguish, a lot of highs, laughter. It was the complete roller coaster. Right?

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Oh, for sure.

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Until finally my editor said, okay, you’re being too picky. This is good. Let’s get it out. Right. So one of the things I wanted to know, though, was it cathartic for you, and what did it teach you?

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It was. I already knew a lot of it. So a few years ago, out of the blue, the universe, God. However, my. Something told me you have to write a book about fear because you have a very unique perspective. Now, what I mean by that is working with lots of clients over the years with depression and anxiety, I learned. I discovered at some point, wow. Like, I had this epiphany. It’s actually just fear. All of it. Every. Everything that people have come to me for is just some type of fear. It’s fear manifesting itself in different ways. It’s holding people back. It’s causing them suffering. And so I was. I was told to write this book. And it. It took me a year and a half of writing, and then it took me another seven months to get all the revisions and all the proofreading and all that. So it’s finally coming out. But, yeah, you know, earlier, Dwight, you mentioned that misunderstanding leads to fear or something to that effect. And so I wanted to talk about how I bring that up in my book. I am a movie lover. I love watching movies. And so I bring up that one of the. The movies are full of good quotes, you know, a lot of times. So I bring up the X Men movie where Magneto says, mankind has always feared what it does not understand. And then I relate that to all these different areas of life where, here’s how fear causes this, and here’s how fear causes this and how it’s so much a lack of understanding, you know, how fear is just not having a full understanding of things. And. But I. I mean, I bring up so much more than that. This is just one little tidbit of so much. So many things that I bring up. But, yeah, I just wanted to bring that up because you had said that I was like, oh, yeah, it is. I bring that up. I quote Magneto from X Men.

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That’s awesome. We’re definitely gonna have to have you back on to. We could have another hour just on this book alone.

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Oh, for sure. And you’ll see that I love movies. The back cover of my book, the first line is, this is not a book. It’s a space station.

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Do you know what that.

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What movie that’s from? From Star Wars.

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Yes, I should know that. I was looking at the back of your book. You posted it. You posted a cover of it on social media.

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Yeah, yeah. So at the top, the very first line of my back cover says, this is not a book, it’s a story. Space station. Referring to Star Wars.

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Yeah, I love. I love movies, too, but I’m not. I’m not great at remembering which movie quotes come from where. Unless it’s something.

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Well, I’m hoping that people will be, like, getting that reference instead of, what the heck is she talking about?

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Well, my. My daughter would. My one daughter is a huge Star wars fan. All over her.

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Yeah, same. I’ve always been a big Star wars fan. I. So anyway, yeah, I. My book, it. It’s just so much. And I’ll tell you that every chapter has techniques that I would use with someone in my office or, you know, several techniques that I would use in my office. It has hypnotism. It also comes with a free hypnotic audio that you just listen to to reprogram your mind. So I might into included everything I could possibly do with this book to make it excellent, to really make it work, you know, to help people conquer fear. And so the book is not only about conquering individual fear, but our world has too much fear. So I bring up, you know, our world, what is it doing to our world and how do we overcome it globally. And I don’t, I don’t focus as much on that as I do individually. Right. Hey, here’s what fear’s been doing to you and here’s what, you know, first you got to understand it. And so I have a whole chapter about what is the purpose of our emotions. You know, I have a chapter about the nervous system and the subconscious. And you know, I go on and on. I mean, I like I say, I just. What does it do to your body and, and how do. What’s the ultimate solution to it? And I’m not going to tell you because you have to read the book.

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That’s, that’s awesome. But we have now run out of time and that was only seven at a. I still had like a bunch more to go on with, but unfortunately. Do you, I gotta respect you back. Do you have another meeting coming up? And I do, I really, that. Don’t be sorry. I really want you to. You and I communicate in the next couple days and get you booked for another episode because I think we can’t leave this now. We’ve given this teaser to people, but we still need to fill in some gaps. Right. If you wouldn’t mind.

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For sure. Yeah. So normally I help all the listeners to be helped, to get to feel better, to live better and I want that for you, all of you listening.

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That’s awesome. So normally I ask people, you know, to give one last closing message in regards to giving a heck and never giving up, but we’re run out of time. I’m going to wrap up the show and we’ll leave that for the next conversation.

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Well, and I did leave a message that you’re so much more than what you think.

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Oh, of course, of course.

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So I think that’s a message that I want everyone to know you’re more than what you think you are.

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Absolutely. And don’t let fear control you. For the loyal listeners of the show and those watching, you can go to give a Heck.com, go to podcast, you’ll see a picture of Amy as well as a detailed show notes and how you can reach her via her website or social media, as well as there’ll be the full unedited show notes as well as chapter summaries for you to easily find information that you have been listening to that you want to, you know, evaluate better and relisten to. That being said, I’m going to close off the show and we will get you on again very, very soon. Thanks for coming.

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Thank you so much for having me.

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You’re welcome. So today, Amy reminded us that healing is possible and often simpler than we think. Whether through hypnosis, mindset work, or radical self love, her message is clear. You don’t need to be ruled by fear. From her optimized greatness program to her solo book, Hardwired to Rise, Amy shows us that transformation begins in the mind but is fueled by the heart. And if you’re seeking raw, relatable stories about pain can shape growth, don’t miss the Gifts of pain. Amy’s chapter as well, from self Critical to self Love might be just a light bulb moment you’ve been waiting for. I look forward to listening to or part of me reading some more about you. Unless you’re going to have this on Audible in a soon fashion.

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I will. I’ll have Hardwired to Rise on Audible. I’ve actually started working on it, but I have to restart it.

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So I’ve been trying.

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I definitely will have the audio version of that book for sure and I’m trying to get it done as. As soon, fast as I can.

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I need to do mine too, but it ha. It is what it is. For those new to the show again, go to GABAHEC.com and you know, writing is often one of the most powerful healing tools we have. It helps us face what needs releasing and confronts what demands action. Whether it’s Amy’s deeply personal solo worker or contribution to their broader tapestry of her voices, her message is clear. Healing is possible. Transformation is real. And you deserve both. You’re not broken. You’re rising. You’re not alone. And so, until next time, always remember, it’s never too late to give a heck.