00:00I'm Sharia Jackson, Essence Lifestyle Editor, and we are so excited to have in our Essence
00:12studio the one, the only, Essence friend, Essence Festival regular, Miss Lisa Nichols.
00:17Thank you so much.
00:18I'm excited to be with you, girl.
00:19Girl, we're excited.
00:20It's been like too long since we sat down together.
00:22And you didn't come by yourself.
00:23I didn't.
00:24You brought your incredible new book just out, Abundance Now.
00:26Yes.
00:27So talk to us, Lisa.
00:28We had no matter what, which flew off the shelves, which our audience loved.
00:31Why was Abundance Now the next Lisa Nichols book?
00:35Abundance Now is that conversation.
00:37So no matter what was about building my bounce back muscles.
00:41It was about how do you turn a crawl into a walk?
00:44And Abundance Now is how do you turn a walk into a run and into a soar?
00:50So it was what did the last 10 years show me about shifting my mindset and moving my mental
00:56zip code from hustle to thrive.
00:59Like that's a different place.
01:00And so many of us live in hustle and survival and that's okay.
01:04And that's what we learn.
01:05And I realized there's a whole nother atmosphere, a whole nother stratosphere called thriving at
01:12a whole nother level in multiple areas, not just financial.
01:15And I realized that finances was important to me when I didn't have any because I was trying
01:20to get my oxygen.
01:21But once you have your oxygen, all of a sudden you see abundance is really about so much more
01:26than just money.
01:26And so many people, 155 interviewers asked me the same question in 2009 when I was on my
01:33no matter what tour and that is, how'd you do it?
01:36How'd you go from a struggling single mom on government assistance to running a multimillion
01:41dollar business?
01:42And I couldn't answer in a sound bite.
01:45It really required some deep diving.
01:47If you really want to do it, you really want to take on these lessons.
01:50And so I said, let me just write the book from going from public assistance to taking my
01:55company public.
01:56How did, how did I do that?
01:58Everything in the middle is what, where we have an opportunity to transform our lives.
02:01And you've certainly transformed your life and you're giving us the blueprint here.
02:05I love that you have the financial assessment to help us really get clear about making that
02:09mark.
02:10But talk about that shift, you know, for black women especially.
02:13We've not always been exposed.
02:15We don't have millionaire mentors.
02:16We can call on the flip.
02:17So talk about how do you shift your mind to get comfortable to step in that abundance?
02:22Because sometimes prosperity is looked at as negatively or you're being
02:25superficial.
02:26So how do we own that abundance mentality?
02:28Yes, yes.
02:29So I think there's three myths about abundance that we have taken on.
02:33The first myth is that abundance is for some people, like those people over there.
02:38That hue, that cultural background, that geographical origin.
02:42It cannot happen to people like me.
02:44That's the first myth.
02:46And I guess if I back up and go, once you know something different and you know a truth,
02:52live like you know that truth and then chase that truth, chase it.
02:56So the first truth to chase is abundance is for everyone.
03:00It's not just for them.
03:02The second myth is abundance is just about finance and it's just about possessions.
03:10Abundance.
03:11Abundance, true abundance is a 360 experience.
03:15True abundance is about your relationships.
03:17It's about your health.
03:19It's about your finances and it's about your spirituality.
03:22True abundance.
03:24And the third myth is that abundance is something you have to go get.
03:28You got to chase it.
03:29You got to get your grind on to get it.
03:31And while you need to work hard, you absolutely do.
03:35Abundance is not something you go get.
03:37It's something you expand.
03:39You don't go get abundant relationships.
03:41You say, I love you more.
03:43You say, I apologize sooner, quicker, faster.
03:46You say, I forgive you sooner, quicker, faster.
03:48You make your existing relationships feel better and then you'll attract amazing relationships.
03:53You don't go get more finances because if you're not a good steward of your current money,
03:57then my grandmother says, and you've heard, if you mind your pennies, the dollars will flow.
04:03So become a good steward of the money you have, even if it's this much.
04:06Because until you treat this much right, this much will never come.
04:10And so abundance isn't something you go get.
04:13It's something you expand.
04:14Those are the three myths I had to understand.
04:16It's not for everyone.
04:17It's not for some people.
04:18It's for everyone.
04:19It's not singularly focused about money and possessions.
04:22It's about holistic 360 experience.
04:24And it's not something outside of me.
04:26When I learned those three, when you begin to understand that, but the reality is you got
04:30to understand something different before you will ever do something different.
04:35So instead of getting busy about what you're doing, you need to get busy about what you're
04:39learning and what you're knowing.
04:40Because when your mental mindset shifts, your life has to follow.
04:45When you change your mental zip code, your financial zip code will change.
04:48Your relationship zip code will change.
04:50Your health zip code will change.
04:53Your mental zip code change will only follow.
04:55It can't be the reverse.
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