Spirit · 18 episodes
Manifestation & Law of Attraction for entrepreneurs
Every guest who talks about manifestation on this show lands on the same mechanical point, even when they come from wildly different disciplines: feeling the emotion of a goal before it happens changes what your brain notices and acts on. That's not mysticism, it's attention. Lori Rogers calls it going to the emotion of having it now. Teresa Wornstaff calls emotion the fuel for intention. Dean Radin's decades of lab data on precognition and executive profitability suggest there's a measurable correlate underneath the metaphor. The disagreement isn't about whether intention matters. It's about what you're supposed to do while you wait.
Here's where the guests split. Some, like Anthony DeNino and Don Estes, treat manifestation as close to literal: speak it enough times, as a mantra, and reality reorganizes around the words. Others, like Mel McSherry, push back hard on that version. Her Human Design framework argues that 90% of people aren't 'manifestors' at all; setting an intention and waiting for magic ignores your actual decision-making wiring, and for most people manifestation means initiating an idea and then waiting for information, step by step, not casting a wish and sitting back. Scarlett Stanhope and Ruchi Rathor come at it from money specifically: the block usually isn't the goal, it's an unconscious relationship with money formed in childhood that no amount of vision-boarding fixes without first becoming aware of it.
The throughline that survives all the disagreement is this: belief without embodiment doesn't move anything. Sara Gilbert's line about living 'below the neck' versus 'above the neck' summarizes it — most people run pure logic and wonder why intuition never gets a vote. Whether you get there through EFT tapping (Randy Lyman), breathwork that trains your amygdala (John Mangogna), or a controlled DNA-conductivity experiment (Caroline Cory), the pattern is: intention plus a real physiological or emotional shift, tracked and repeated, not intention plus hope.
What holds across every conversation
- •Generate the emotion of your goal now, in the present, rather than waiting for the achievement to produce it — several guests independently point to this as the actual mechanism, not a platitude.
- •If pure intention-setting keeps failing you, check whether you're a 'manifestor' by design; for most people, manifestation works as initiate-an-idea-then-wait-for-information, not set-it-and-forget-it.
- •Track your money with actual visibility before working on money mindset — Scarlett Stanhope's point is that most money stress is an awareness problem, not an earnings problem.
- •Use a physical anchor phrase like 'this or something better' after a setback to interrupt the failure narrative before it compounds, then move to the next action within the day.
- •Pair any visualization practice with a body-based check — tapping, breathwork, or simply noticing tension — since emotion stored in the body will override language-level affirmations every time.
- •Rehearse the specific physiological state you want before you need it (Chris Streveler's pre-game breathwork, John Mangogna's breath holds) rather than only rehearsing the outcome — training the nervous system beats visualizing the scoreboard.
Feeling the outcome before it arrives
The recurring mechanism across guests: emotion generated now, ahead of the result, changes what you perceive and pursue.
“Our brains work in the opposite way... Be it first before you see it, right? So I don't mean pretend, but I mean, go to the emotion of having it now and then see what happens.”
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 16:55· listen →
“When you want to manifest something, you want to identify what you want and why you want it. From those two fundamentals, you begin to daydream. You begin to envision what that looks like when it occurs, and when you envision it, you begin to infuse it with emotions. And emotions are fuel for intention.”
Teresa Wornstaff: Using Intuition to Grow Your Business · 28:24· listen →
“If I have the thought I'm going to be successful, I get to live a life of someday I'm going to be successful. That's not success. But if I live the life I am successful, because if I am successful, then the physical world, my physical life has to reflect that back to me.”
The Spiritual Is Scientific with Rev. Tony Senf · 31:57· listen →
“The only way to feel fulfillment and freedom and abundance is to feel it now in the present. If you don't feel it now in the present, you'll never feel it now in the present.”
Money Stress, Scarcity & Abundance with Scarlett Stanhope · 15:06· listen →
This or something better
Setbacks reframed as redirection rather than failure — a mantra that shows up almost word for word across several guests.
“On top of my vision board, it says, this or something better... The universe says, no, no, no, this over here is gonna be amazing for you and you don't even know it yet.”
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 18:42· listen →
“I hold my vision. This is my goal. And I say, this or better. And I keep working towards my goal, but I'm always open to other opportunities and other guidance.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 27:15· listen →
“I've always stuck by the phrase of you'll flush it. That play's over. I'm going to flush it. I got to move on to the next thing... how do you have the mindset to just accept that, take the positive from it, learn from it and move forward and not make that same mistake again?”
Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 62:48· listen →
Where manifestation breaks down for most people
Mel McSherry's Human Design work and the money-mindset guests argue the standard 'set intention, wait for magic' model fails for the majority — the real work is unconscious belief and design-specific action.
“So that isn't in alignment with quote unquote manifestation is that, oh, I'm going to set this intent and I'm going to initiate it. And you know, for some people that's just initiating it with a certain word or a certain practice or what have you. And then it's going to magically work. Well, unless you are a manifester and you're doing it in a way that isn't aligned with your design as a manifester.”
Mel McSherry: Human Design & Mental Profitability for Founders · 32:03· listen →
“The first one is not enoughness. This is the idea that there's not enough to go around... nature proves to us that there is an infinite abundant amount available. For example, if you have one tomato, that tomato is full of seeds to create an infinite future amount of tomato plants.”
Money Stress, Scarcity & Abundance with Scarlett Stanhope · 16:04· listen →
“The third one, and this is especially important for entrepreneurship as well, is starving artist syndrome. This is the idea that we live in an either-or life. Either I can have lots of money and hate my life and be unfulfilled, or I can love what I do, but be broke and be a starving artist, but I can't have both.”
Money Stress, Scarcity & Abundance with Scarlett Stanhope · 20:29· listen →
“Your business revenue will never outperform your relationship with money.”
Redefining Prosperity: Money Mindset & Spirituality · 20:37· listen →
Trusting the body over the head
Multiple guests independently locate intuition below conscious analysis, in the body's felt sense, and describe learning to trust it as a business skill.
“Everyone's living above the neck, but trust is below the neck. So we all live here and we think that our body's useful purpose is just to carry our head around. But all the magic and all the knowing and the intuition and the gut feeling, it's below the neck. So can we trust that a little bit more?”
Sara Gilbert: Intuition, Language & Leading with Courage · 5:42· listen →
“Resonance for me is what vibrates truthfully in my body. So for me, if I resonate with something, I'm connecting with it holistically... and it is an intuitive feeling because it isn't based on one thing or the other.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 14:58· listen →
“Intuition is simply an expansion of all of your physical senses. Sight, smell, taste, hearing, knowing— our brain— feeling— skin. So it's what we've done is over thousands of years diminished our capacity to read energy and to receive information from anything except our core senses.”
Teresa Wornstaff: Using Intuition to Grow Your Business · 12:58· listen →
“So it's very, very helpful. Same with remote viewing. I use remote viewings every day. Like let's say I have a trip to take, you know, so I can remote view and see, you know what, I don't think I'm gonna stay in this area because it just feels, you know, you can feel things, you can see things, you can.”
Consciousness, Intention & Healing with Caroline Cory · 22:41· listen →
The science underneath the intention
Where controlled experiments and physiological training turn 'manifestation' into something closer to measurable probability and nervous-system conditioning.
“Probably the longest running series was at Princeton University. It was called the PEAR Lab, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory. So they used the same random number generator for a sequence of experiments over 12 years... When you look at the results, the cumulative results over the 12 years, it's very clear that probabilistically people can push the system in those— in that way.”
Dr. Dean Radin: Consciousness, Psi Science & Intuition · 25:53· listen →
“Yeah. So in the 1970s, a former colleague did an experiment with executives at different companies. And so he used as one of the variables of interest, the degree of profit in the company. He gave all of them a precognition test. And he found a significant positive correlation between profit in the company and how well they did on the precognition test.”
Dr. Dean Radin: Consciousness, Psi Science & Intuition · 37:43· listen →
“So for those who don't know, haven't seen the film, working with scientists, you create baselines and you do it over time and you repeat it and we have controls. So we did do that. But of course, in the film, we show the part. And so what was fascinating was when we work with the DNA, the idea, the intention was to increase the electrical conductivity.”
Consciousness, Intention & Healing with Caroline Cory · 11:58· listen →
“3 minutes of deep breathing, strong, and you have to focus on it a bit, it can't be very passive, followed by a maximal voluntary breath hold increased circulating human growth hormone in the blood by up to 550% a half hour after that was done.”
Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance · 37:45· listen →
“At the end of the study, they measured the increase in strength from the group that actually did it versus the other group. And the numbers, and I hope I'm quoting them properly now, was a 57% increase in the people who physically did the action. But there was a 34% increase in the people who just thought about it.”
Anthony DeNino: SMART Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 31:45· listen →
Words, mantras, and repeated self-talk
Language repeated becomes belief, and belief drives behavior — the case for treating what you say to yourself as a working input, not idle noise.
“It's not having nothing in your head. It's deciding what you're going to have in your head. So if I decide that I want to feel the feeling of the wind in my hair, I'm focusing on something. The brain can't do nothing. So you have to give it a task, but give it an intentional task versus a reactional task.”
Sara Gilbert: Intuition, Language & Leading with Courage · 12:42· listen →
“If you don't remember anything else about what I've said, remember that, that you have to watch what you say. Because if you say it just one time, uh, and whatever, it just kind of comes and goes. But if it's a mantra, something that you say over and over and over again, it sets up reality through those sine and cosine ways to make that come true. So you have to really watch exactly what you say, uh, because otherwise it will come true.”
Don Estes: How Words and Waveforms Shape Reality · 13:37· listen →
“I am not my story and you are not your story either. Because with the ego and with our own self-talk, sometimes we can forget that the things that we tell each other and the things that we think about ourselves are not a set part of our identity.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 24:14· listen →
“Remember, every thought system is founded on the cornerstone of what you think you are. A soul that fervently believes it is separate from God will create a building of thought based on that faith, and her mind will show her that she is right, even if it is not true. Ask the mind to show you the truth, it will. Ask it for anything else, and it will do it for you.”
The Spiritual Is Scientific with Rev. Tony Senf · 30:31· listen →
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“How is this happening for me? Not to me. What is this teaching me right now? Okay, a little patience, a little calmness. So when your brain is working from a higher vibration and it's more positive and optimistic, ideas flow to you easier.”
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 12:23
“I don't know if I believe in balance. I think some days it's like 80/20 and some days it's like 60/40. We had this business now for 27 years... I never had balance. Somebody something always got left.”
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 20:55
“I asked him one day how he knew so much about love, and he spelled out, I learned it from Jesus Christ.”
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 32:14
“I think we forget how often we get stuck in our logical mind because the logical mindset is just the natural landscape in terms of how we work in business and our 9-to-5 life. And I think we forget that's not the only way of being. We have another way of living which is far more intuitive.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 2:07
“It's not the point to make something beautiful or to make something perfect. It's actually getting in touch with your physical senses and it's being playful again. And getting adults to come back to a place of play is a wonderful invitation.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 6:12
“I really felt like I was tapping into extraterrestrial energy. I really felt like that there was potentially a portal or a pathway where there was energetic energy coming and going. And there's no other way that I can sit with that experience other than to just let that be the case.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 9:51
“People actually fear success more than failure because you have to be visible. You have to, you know, you're there standing up for what you believe in. People are going to be looking at you. You're going to be in plain sight. And that is terrifying.”
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity · 32:17
“Society tells us we're going to be happy when we get there. And you're right, they get difficult because in order to take a business beyond a certain level, we have to be able to connect with people in the way they can feel us.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 2:55
“So, people need 3 things... They need to be acknowledged for who they are as an individual. They need to feel like they're contributing to the cause. They want to have meaning in their life... And then, they want to feel like they belong to the group and they want to feel safe within the group. So, those 3 things are more important than money.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 6:38
“If I'm vulnerable at all, then I won't be respected. But it turns out, when I do it from a place of intelligence, then people felt more safe. Because when I'm vulnerable, then they can let down their guard.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 8:05
“It's a 3-legged stool, and we could sit on a 3-legged stool, but you take one of those legs away— thoughts, actions, or emotions— and don't consider all 3, then we tip over.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 22:25
“When I started incorporating the emotional side of life into my own growth, and then my business, the business grew 30 times. We're not talking 10x. We're talking 30x.”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 22:25
“Our power as leaders doesn't come from our title. It doesn't come from our intellect. It comes from, are we able to get the people we work with to get on board with the vision?”
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 23:40
“I think that our businesses are physical representation of the inner work that we have to do on ourselves—that's what I found.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 13:20
“We're also spending about 7 figures. If that's what they don't tell you when you're going after that big goal is that it's not about that big goal at all. It's about the profitability number.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 16:30
“I was spending money almost like it wasn't my own and treating the money like it wasn't mine... I am the business. Caitlin and I are the business. It is ours.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 17:16
“The inner voice is the quietest. I think that's what I've learned. And no, I definitely don't always listen to it. No, I think I most often listen to the fear.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 12:18
“I think we feel like I'm failing if I'm not doing it every day. I set a goal and I want to be a meditator, but I do it for a month and then I drop off. So I must not be a meditator. And it's like, well, that was for me years of that before it just slowly became that thing. And that's okay.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 22:28
“I don't think you can always balance all of the time. And I think it's about reducing judgment on yourself.”
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 36:18
“Many of your listeners probably will resonate with this, but I think I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I will go back to when I was 5 years old, I would wake up in the morning and think maybe I could sell perfume to the neighbors, like using our rose bushes or things like that. It's just in my blood.”
Dr. Julie Causton on ADHD, Burnout & Remote Business · 0:43
Every episode on manifestation & law of attraction
19 conversations, oldest to newest.
Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers
Daily positive activities like affirmations, gratitude journaling, and meditation are scientifically linked to increased sales, productivity, and resilience.
Jordan Harcourt-Hughes: Intuition, Resonance & Creativity
Entrepreneurs over-rely on logical, scheduled thinking and need to balance it with intuitive, embodied ways of knowing.
Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman
Business success without emotional awareness leaves entrepreneurs unfulfilled, even after reaching high levels of financial achievement.
Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work
Businesses are a physical representation of the inner work founders do on themselves, so scaling requires addressing limiting beliefs, not just tactics.
Dr. Julie Causton on ADHD, Burnout & Remote Business
Leaving a secure tenured position for entrepreneurial uncertainty paid off because the pull toward consulting work had become unsustainable to ignore.
Reset Your Nervous System for Peak Performance
Pain is an output created by the brain's processing of threat signals, not an input from the injured body part, so changing sensory information can change pain perception.
Sara Gilbert: Intuition, Language & Leading with Courage
Potentiality is the invisible expansion beyond what we consider our maximum potential, and most people treat their ceiling as a stopping point rather than a floor.
Mel McSherry: Human Design & Mental Profitability for Founders
Entrepreneurs should prioritize mental and emotional profitability before financial goals, or financial success becomes unsustainable and leads to burnout.
Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs
Mental rehearsal and visualization, standing behind the starter and simulating throws, prepares you to seize opportunities when they suddenly appear.
Money Stress, Scarcity & Abundance with Scarlett Stanhope
More income doesn't resolve money stress because the problem is an unconscious, emotional relationship with money, not the amount earned.
Redefining Prosperity: Money Mindset & Spirituality
Prosperity is an inside job driven by subconscious money beliefs, not just practical financial tactics like bookkeeping and budgeting.
Dr. Dean Radin: Consciousness, Psi Science & Intuition
Noetic science studies intuitive knowing and psychic phenomena like remote viewing, precognition, and mind-matter interaction using the same rigorous tools as conventional science.
Anthony DeNino: SMART Mindset for Entrepreneurs
Success follows a four-step SMART process: mindset, emotion, confident speech, and action.
The Spiritual Is Scientific with Rev. Tony Senf
The body is an effect of the mind and spirit, so entrepreneurs should prioritize source and spirit first for real effectiveness.
Consciousness, Intention & Healing with Caroline Cory
Controlled experiments filmed for Superhuman showed human intention measurably changing DNA electrical conductivity and the pH of water.
Teresa Wornstaff: Using Intuition to Grow Your Business
True success should not be measured by money, which is an outcome rather than the goal itself.
Don Estes: How Words and Waveforms Shape Reality
Waveforms have three components—frequency, phase, and amplitude—and phase, which is usually ignored in sound therapy, actually determines the shape and geometry of a wave.
Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living
Ashley Black's chronic childhood illness and a near-fatal infection directly led her to invent the Fascia Blaster and build a $200 million company.
Somatic Therapy for Entrepreneurs with Chelsea Horton
Somatic therapy addresses emotions by working through the body's sensations rather than only intellectualizing feelings through the mind.