Passion and purpose are intimately tied together. Your passions are the clues to your purpose in life. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret, said in her upcoming
book, Happy For No Reason, When people are deeply happy, they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they’re in. So if they’re changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of purpose even to that.
Our guest tonight has brought a sense of purpose to everything she does. One of the stars of The Secret, Lisa Nichols is a dynamic, international motivational speaker and powerful advocate of personal empowerment. She is the founder and
CEO of Motivating the Teen Spirit LLC.
Lisa’s company has transformed the lives of over 60,000 teens, prevented over 1,800 suicides, reunited thousands of teens with their parents, and influenced more than 987 teen dropouts to return to school.
Despite being labeled one of the worst writers by her English teacher, she’s landed two major book publishing deals with the best selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She’s appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show; she was an expert Life Coach on NBC’s hit show Starting Over and has appeared on Larry King Live among many others.
Her highly sought-after no-hold-barred messages are delivered with powerful intensity as she connects through her candid conversational style with employees of major corporations, members of empowerment groups, entrepreneurs, small
business owners, educators, teens, and anyone who has the pleasure to attend one of her many standing-room-only presentations.
Lisa has been recognized for her work and dedication nationally and abroad. She has received the 2006 Rising Star Award, the 2003 Trail Blazers Entrepreneur Award, Lego Land Heart of Learning Award, Emotional Literacy Award, and November 20th
has been proclaimed Motivating the Teen Spirit Day by the Mayor of Henderson, Nevada.
Conducting Lisa’s interview is another giant in the field of teen empowerment and education. Bobbie DePorter is president of the Quantum Learning Network and co-founder of SuperCampâ, a learning and life-skills youth program that has changed the lives of over 45,000 students from the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
SuperCampâ success led to Quantum Learning school programs, now with 30,000 Quantum Learning trained teachers impacting over two million children. Bobbie is an early pioneer in accelerated learning and the author of more than a dozen books published in seven languages.
You can learn more about Bobbie’s program by going to www.QLN.com.
BOBBIE DEPORTER: Lisa, I’m so pleased to be invited to be your co-host. I thought, How perfect when they asked me. I do remember the very, very first time I met you.
LISA NICHOLS: Many years ago.
BOBBIE DEPORTER: You remember that, too. I can see you sitting there. I was just so inspired by your presence because you’re just so real. I kept thinking this is somebody who people really want to listen to and be with. I thought, Me included. That’s right where I was and I’m so pleased to now know you over the years. I always go back to that moment sitting there together. I’m really glad to be here with you.
LISA NICHOLS: You know what, Bobbie that moment is like a milestone in my life because when I first met you, I had dreamed it in my head. It was my passion. It was my synergy and my energy and I hadn’t yet manifested into the world.
Now, looking at it a few years later and it’s here and it’s out and it’s been birthed. When I think of you and when I talk to you, you were a staple in my life from when I was just birthing the dream, the passion in my life, which is teaching teens how to fall more in love with themselves.
BOBBIE DEPORTER: So here we are. Let’s get started. Lisa, how did your passions, the things that you care about most deeply, how did they lead you to the work that you’re doing today?
LISA NICHOLS: I love that question. My passion is for healing and helping people to turn their breakdowns into breakthroughs and helping people to turn a test in their life into a testimony. I’m even more focused on passions working with our children, working with teens.
My passion is working with teens because I really needed a lot of support when I was a teen. I wore a really great smile and I was a social butterfly and yet, I had some areas in my life I really needed some help with. I needed some help with learning how to be emotionally literate, emotionally healthy.
As I grew up, I remember saying, God, if You show me how to get through these darkest hours in my life then I promise You I’ll spend the rest of my days teaching others how to do the same, with the focus on teens, if You would just help me. I just developed this organic passion for working with teens and people to really reach for their best and reach through their junk, over their
issues and around their fears and really reach into their greatness.
I have to tell you that in my life today all I do is what I was born to do: my passion, which is to teach people to do those things I just mentioned. It has really impacted my life in such a profound way because it’s taught me possibility more
than anything.
BOBBIE DEPORTER: It’s about those breakthroughs and you being so authentic with your own, and then when you’re teaching others, they just get that so much from you that you want so much for them to get it as well.
LISA NICHOLS: Yes. I believe because I’m a product of the work. I didn’t study the work as much as many of my wonderful colleagues and friends have done. Much of my lessons came from living the work. My passion is from a very core place. I know like I know like I know like I know. You’ve probably heard that before.
I’m a product. I believe that God has made us all special, however, there’s no sprinkle of fairy dust that came with me, there’s no magic want that comes with me. There’s just a core passion that, no matter what, I have the opportunity and the right to move forward, to forge forward, to play big, to play gi-normous. I believe that so I live it. I think I’m always on fire because I am a product of the belief.
BOBBIE DEPORTER: They call that earning the right to speak, too.
LISA NICHOLS: font-family:Georgia>I like that.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You’ve earned it.
LISA NICHOLS:
Why, thank you very much.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>Yes. Would you share with our listeners the story of
how you began to make your passions into your profession? It’s one thing to be
so passionate about it and you’ve lived it and you had that passion to give it
to others. What is the story behind how that actually became your profession?
LISA NICHOLS: I
just have to tell you that I tried many other professions before. I had this
calling on me. I had this energy and this calling to be a speaker at first. I
have to tell you that I believe there’s a big difference between a speaker and a
facilitator. At first, I was called to be a speaker to inspire people.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I have to tell you that when I first felt the tug in
my core, Oh, I want to be a speaker! my fear storms rolled up. I said, No,
wait, wait, wait, I can’t be a speaker. I got a D in Speech. I’m going to be
honest with you. I tied what I could do to my past and so for five years I felt
like God – I call Him God, you call Him whatever you choose. I have a tendency
to bring God into everything because He’s been so remarkable in my life. But God
kept saying, I want you to teach and inspire people. I kept saying, How am I
supposed to do that?
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I don’t know if any of the people listening have
ever questioned a calling or a purpose or a passion inside you because
everything didn’t seem crystal clear. I said, How am I supposed to do that? I
don’t know who to speak to or where to speak. Yet I just had this core passion
to speak and inspire people, and yet, honestly, I had this fear-storm going
along on with it, like What do I do? Where do I go?
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>God kept calling me to inspire people and I kept
saying, God, could You call me back later? I’m making a six-figure income. I
have benefits. I have insurance. I have a three-year-old child. It came to a
point, Bobbie, where the core of my passion burning to be a speaker began to
scream so loudly that it was uncomfortable for me to ignore it.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>As amazing as that was, I was living a very
comfortable life as a consultant in Los Angeles, you know, I have security and
benefits. But my passion was to travel the world and inspire people and
encourage people. I tried to actually ignore it for a while because I didn’t
know exactly how to shape it. I didn’t know about this world called
Entrepreneurialism and if that came with benefits or if that came with some form
of security.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I finally began to work on my fears some. What
happens if I don’t do it right? Oh, I get to do it again. What happens if I make
mistakes and I fall down? Oh, I get to get up. What happens if I don’t know how
to do a budget? Oh, I get to ask for help. I literally had to go through,
Bobbie, everything that I was afraid of and dismiss that so that I took all the
power away from the fear.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>Then I began to walk forward. I began to go to some
of the most brilliant minds in marketing and investors and in capital raising
and I began to just become a student. You have to know that I was a C average
student in school. I was the one who, when I got a C, instead of getting
frustrated, I did the happy-dance. I wasn’t the student who was exceptional. I
was the student who really, really tried hard and she probably ended up with a
C.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I immediately went into studying what it means to be
a speaker, studying what it means to be a facilitator, studying what it means to
be an entrepreneur. I went out and I started doing it for free. I started
teaching teens how to fall madly in love with themselves and how to make
integrity-based decisions for free, so that I could see if what I thought would
work would really work for them. As a matter of fact, when I first met you, I
was doing it for free still.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>Over the years I built my credibility up until I
earned the right to have a fee. I delivered the results. I made sure that the
work with teens and adults worked no matter what community they were in.
Affluent or disadvantaged, whether it was a Christian community or Buddhist
community, whether it was an African-American community or a Latino community or
a white community. I made sure I crossed all the boundaries. I just kept
trucking and never put my head up. I literally built my own career as a speaker
and as a facilitator. Now I live the life I love and I love the life I live.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You really listened to it. One is you knew your passion and
then you listened to it. I was wondering if you had some words for the listeners
out there when you talk about the line and I’m seeing the line there and it’s
this passion that you have and then the fear. It seems like you were so focused
on what you wanted, your passion and what you wanted in that profession and then
you listened to it and manifested it.
LISA NICHOLS:
Yes. Here’s the thing. We get to, each and every one of us on this call, we get
to define what it looks like and feels like for us to be joyful, to be happy, to
live in our passion. What I did was I defined what felt good for me and what I
needed to do to move forward in that.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>So many people said, Lisa, you want to teach teens?
Like teens between 12 and 18? You want to teach them how to be emotionally
literate, emotionally healthy? What are you talking about? Every time I said
it, the hair on the back of my neck would stand up, Yes, I do. I absolutely
do. I didn’t allow anyone else to define my passion, to define my purpose.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>It felt good the first time I did it, Bobbie. It
felt so good. It felt so right. You know when you’re in your passion. You know
when you’re on purpose because it feels so right. It feels so good. I just kept
following that feeling, Bobbie. I just kept doing more of what felt good.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I didn’t know what I wanted to be until I was about
26-years-old because I kept trying different things. Believe it or not, I was in
accounting for seven years and I don’t know about any of you, but I need to stay
far away from numbers. But I tried it. I had to try it. I tried this and I tried
that.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>When I got in front of a room and began to make
people feel good about themselves, it felt good. I knew I was on point. There’s
an internal barometer, there’s an internal compass to all of us. What I’m doing
now is just more of what makes me feel good. Now it’s evolved to teens, women
and entrepreneurs. Those are my three areas, my three niches. I love working
with those three bodies of people. It feels really good.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>Once you felt that, I heard you say, No going back.
You’re hooked.
LISA NICHOLS: No,
I couldn’t. I wouldn’t let it go. Guess what? I didn’t allow the money to just
be the single factor of my success. I had more days where we were eating a
really skinny dinner than the hearty buffets that I enjoy today.
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>Mind you, this whole time I was a single mom. I had
a three-year-old son by the time I truly stepped out on faith and said, Okay,
God, I want to live my passion. I want to do my dream.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I was responsible. I put money away. I saved enough
so that I could give myself two years just focusing on my passion to make it
happen. I gave myself a two-year window to make something happen. In those two
years, I was able to raise $532,000 that was investor dollars because I learned
how to raise capital. I had no idea how to raise capital.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I wanted to teach teens how to love themselves and
teach women and teach entrepreneurs so much that I was willing to go and do the
uncomfortable. Asking for money and doing investor meetings – ick! That was not
what impressed me. I knew that as a responsible CEO and if I were going to give,
I would tell people, I want this company to outlive me. I want this company to
be around for your children’s children.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>The best thing I can do is learn every aspect of the
business so I can build a strong foundation so we can teach teens how to fall
madly in love with themselves and how to make integrity-based decisions until
the cows come home.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
I love
it. Right at the beginning, I heard you say the word Yes and all that you have
created out of that is just amazing. You also had so many excuses back then. You
talked about how you could have, that you had a young child. There are so many
people who I hear from who feel stuck at that time. Do you have some words about
feeling stuck and you have this passion. What’s that courage to cross that line?
LISA NICHOLS: I
appreciate you asking that. In the last, I think, 90 days I’ve probably been
interviewed over 200 times because of that wonderful project called The
Secret. People often ask, What did you learn about The Secret? I
just have to say that, and this answers your question, that in my world, I
didn’t know it to be the Law of Attraction. In my world, Bobbie it was the Law
of No Matter What. Literally.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I’m writing a book now. Guess what the title is:
No Matter What. To be honest with everyone, I didn’t study the Law of
Attraction. I didn’t study Quantum physics. I didn’t study Metaphysics. I didn’t
study any of that. In my world, growing up in south central Los Angeles, living
between the Harlem Crypt Thirties and the Rolling Sixties, and those are not
cheerleading squads, you guys. Living between gangs and being considered
academically challenged, living across the street from the police station and
going to bed to sirens and waking up to sirens, all I could hold on to was my
personal law called No Matter What.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I believe when you live by the law No Matter What,
it doesn’t matter. The circumstances don’t matter because the rule outlives the
circumstance, No Matter What. No matter how many times I got backed down, I knew
I had the birthright to get back up. No matter how many poor choices I made, I
knew that I had the right to make a new choice. I knew that I would be forgiven.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>No matter how many times I played small, I knew, in
the very next minute, I get to make a new choice and play big, play huge, play
gi-normous. I tell a lot of people in my workshops that the only difference
between you and I is I’ve just said yes a few more times. We all have the
opportunity to play big. We all have the opportunity to love unconditionally. We
all have the opportunity to forgive quicker, to apologize sooner, to love
harder, to play longer, to cry more freely. We all have that opportunity.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>We simply choose to say either no or yes.
Bobbie, I know what saying no felt like. I said no for years, living small,
thinking that someone who looked like me with mocha skin and full lips and round
hips that I wouldn’t be allowed to inspire millions, especially millions that
may not look like me. I never knew that world. All I did one day was say, What
if? What if we live our lives like what if? I’m going to say yes just in
case the what if? is possible. That’s really what I’ve done.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I had a lot of excuses and reasons to stop, but
those were also opportunities to say yes. Those were also opportunities to
build my resiliency muscle, to build my fearless muscle, to build my unwavering
like I know, like I know, like I know muscle. Those were also opportunities
and some opportunities come wrapped in a little sandpaper.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You are certainly playing big. When I see you, I see you
just stepping into the life. You don’t step back. You see things and
opportunities and things that need to be done and you just step right into it.
All these big things have been happening, and through that I know that being
invited to be part of The Secret. The movie is so big and such a
phenomenon. It’s all over. How did the movie first enter your life? How did you
get that connection?
LISA NICHOLS: We
would think now that as huge as it is there would have to be some huge strategic
plan or alliance, but I think it was some really great people like Chris and
Janet who just followed the opportunity to share this vision with the world.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>What I love about The Secret is that the
intention has always been so pure, which is why it’s doing so well because it
wasn’t created to make millions. It was created to inspire millions. When Rhonda
shared her vision, she was so precious because I was still learning. I’m always
learning. I’m still learning about the Law of Attraction and Quantum physics.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I’m just a girl from Los Angeles. Sometimes I’m in
these circles of my amazing friends and I understand every third word, but I’m
writing them all down so I can put them together later. I can really be inside
studying myself.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I’m in this group of highly evolved transformational
leaders. I’m the new kid on the block and I’m just saying, Listen, I’ve been
with teens for the last 12 years. There’s a whole other language with the
teens. So I’m learning this language of my transformational colleagues. Rhonda
comes in and she has transformational language blended with her Australian
accent, and I think, Now I get every fifth word.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I love her energy. I love what she’s talking about.
That’s an idea. I understand it and I like it. I really like it. So I said
yes. I didn’t quite know what I was saying yes to other than what I
understood the part where she said, I want to help humanity. She kept saying
that: I want to help humanity. I want to give a contribution to people. I
thought, I got that. I can do that. I can do that.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I didn’t know all the ways that we were going to
play it. I had no idea how it was going to be marketed. I had no idea what the
strategy was. But she came through endorsements of some very dear friends, Chris
and Janet. She was endorsed by some people who I respect the most. Her
intentions were good. I really felt her heart. I’m very intuitive and I go by
how I feel around you. I don’t care what your resume says. I could care less who
else says you’re phenomenal. At the end of the day how I feel when I’m in your
space.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>Her energy was really, really good. She was one of
those people who I just hugged as soon as I met her. I said yes, and then I
sat down. When I sat down, I still wasn’t quite clear what I was sitting down
for, but I thought let me just be present with her. She’ll ask the question and
I’ll give her the answer. If there’s some value, maybe she’ll use it later. Who
knows? But I gave it with good intention.
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That’s what came out of that. We just had a great
conversation. Before it was over, the makeup lady was crying and I’m crying and
we’re all having a good time because we connected heart to heart. That’s what
happened. Then next thing I know, this amazing, phenomenal, top-of-the-line,
first-class DVD is produced. We’re looking at the premier and I’m saying, Whoa.
Wow. This is awesome.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>You have to know that I love The Secret not
as a teacher necessarily, but I love The Secret as a student. I love it
as a student. I love it as a reminder, as a way to deposit into my spirit. My
son loves it. My family loves it. I was really just blessed to be one of the
people who they felt could contribute something.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>For me, because I teach teens, I come from a very
layperson. I need to simplify it. I need it in the simplest form. I believe that
I added that angle to the DVD as well for those who are just learning the
language and those who are younger. So I was happy to contribute to that.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>It’s captivating watching as you said that pure space in it
comes from. You being so aware of yourself then you have the opportunity to just
really connect on a heart space, as you say with it, and with the intention of
it being to help humanity, just having that vision that people can connect their
heart to it. What a phenomenon it’s been. Oh, my goodness.
LISA NICHOLS:
Yes, it has.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You talked about your law of No Matter What. In The
Secret, they talk about the Law of Attraction. How do you connect those?
What’s the Law of Attraction? How does it play a role in your life?
LISA NICHOLS: I
get that I’ve been operating it long before I even knew I was operating it.
There was a time where I wasn’t operating it to give me the best results. I
really realized that. I realized that it’s powerful, that it’s real, that it’s
Bible-based. Proverbs says, So a man thinketh, he is. Matthew says, What you
ask for in prayer, and you believe, it will be so. It is the oldest
conversation. And yet, it’s right in front of our faces.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I’m excited to understand about the Law of
Attraction for me because it keeps me in the driver’s seat in my own life. I
cannot stand the idea of the fact that I’m in the passenger seat of my live, or
I’m in the backseat of my life. There have been some times I’ve been in the
trunk in my life. I haven’t been driving my outcomes.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>What the Law of Attraction has done for me in my
life is it reminds me, like Oprah said, I knew it all the time. I just wasn’t
calling it that. I’ve always known it. What this has done is it has created a
community where I can have a conversation, a title that I can put on it. So as
my son and I are talking, we can use a language that we both understand. It has
been phenomenal for me.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>What I’m excited about is that I get to revisit in
my book all the times I was using the Law of Attraction, not knowing it was the
Law of Attraction, thinking it was the Law of No Matter What. Sometimes I was
using the Law of Attraction to my own detriment. I’d like to reveal that as
well. I’d like to reveal that, even as a teacher, I’m still learning. I get to
look back and say, That’s what that was. You mean the relations that I was in
that weren’t working? They weren’t all their fault? You mean there’s a role that
I played in that?
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>What’s exciting about that for me, even though
there’s a sour taste of ownership to it, there’s also a sweet taste of creation.
I get to create all the next phenomenal relationships in my life, with family,
with friends, with significant others. I also have more power in that as well.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>There’s no victim in it.
LISA NICHOLS: No
victim whatsoever.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>No. The word of putting it out and being responsible, that
we are responsible and how powerful with our thoughts. I notice when I listen to
people now that when people come from that place and there’s just every
intention in the words that they say. I hear it in your voice. Everything is
about you’re creating it with your words, with your intentions, with your
thoughts. You just create it out there.
LISA NICHOLS:
Absolutely.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>What would you say is the relationship between the Law of
Attraction and one’s passion?
LISA NICHOLS:
Wow. I think that your passion puts everything in quick-drive to come toward
you. Your core passion is where it all begins. It’s the organic place that what
you’re creating in your life will start. If you’re passionate about being in
love and loving others, then you’ll find love sure enough everywhere the Law of
Attraction is operating because your core passion is love.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I’m passionate about helping people to turn their
breakdowns into breakthroughs and teaching people how to just leap beyond
wherever they’ve ever been. You cannot imagine how many things come to me that
are in alignment with that.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>This weekend I’m on my way to South Africa. Our
friends from South Africa are on the phone. I’m going to South Africa to talk
about living The Secret. My natural gut core passion is healing and
bringing people together. I believe I was going to South Africa for Living
The Secret tour and speaking over about 11 days or 14 different events. I
saw an email last week that said, Lisa Nichols will be coming to South Africa
to help heal our cultural wounds from the past. I had no idea that that was the
relationship they had to me coming.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>But because it’s my passion, the Law of Attraction
will draw it to me from all over the place whether it’s conscious or it’s
unconscious. Your passion is the mechanism by which all your energy is emitted
from. It’s that radar inside you that sends out the little circle waves and it
goes out into the universe. It says, Draw back to me.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>No matter where I am, teens migrate to me, in South
Africa, in Jamaica, in Hawaii and in Australia. They just come to me because
they’re my passion. I don’t ever have to say it. They just show up and hang
around.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You’re speaking your passion, part of it being so connected
to the people. You’re so in tune to them that you’re speaking what they need to
hear or want to hear. You’re just connected in that way. It’s so beautiful
because anywhere you go in the world, you look at the people and I know your
empathy and being with them, getting in their world and who they are and then,
when you open your mouth, what comes out is just that connection and what’s
going to serve them in that way.
LISA NICHOLS: We
get to build bridges from my heart to your heart, from my soul to your soul,
from my core passion to your core passion. We get to find our likenesses. We get
to celebrate with our likenesses. We get to dance inside our likenesses. We get
to love, laugh, and cry inside our likenesses. We get honor and respect our
differences.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>Bobbie, there’s a likeness in everyone. I don’t care
if it’s a man who doesn’t speak English. I’ve never seen him. He’s never seen
me. We both want love. We both want our children to be joyful. At the end of our
lives, we both want to say, I did my best. I don’t care where we come from,
how much different we are, there are some likenesses.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I believe when we run to those likenesses and we
celebrate our common denominators and we respect our differences, we now have a
community that’s so broad. We now have a society. Our human society gets to play
together. There are no boundaries.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>The more we know about each other and spending time
together, too, there’s that connection. When people are willing to just be
themselves, just be themselves and then spend time together, that’s where those
hearts connect. You hear about their passions and we get along with everyone
when we come from that place.
LISA NICHOLS: Not
only spend time with me, but peel back some layers and show me the you. Show me
the you you. Show me the part that others may not see. Play with me a little
bit in your heart space. Tell me what you’re excited about. Tell me what your
passions are. Tell me the hurdle that you’re getting over. Tell me the speed
bump that you don’t want to turn into a stop sign in your life right now, that
you’re really working through right now. Tell me about it. Tell me as a child
what did you love the most? What did you want the most? Give me more of you.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>One of the things that I do, and Bobbie, I
appreciate you for recognizing it, I work to give you as much of me as possible.
I believe that if I give you more of me, then that’s more that you can celebrate
with me. I invite you inside that share to give me more of you. Then we truly
have intimacy.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>I think intimacy is not about an experience between
two people. I believe intimacy really starts off with into-me-I-see. When I
see into me and I’m comfortable with who I see, then I can invite you to see
into me as well and then we get to see into each other. That’s a true
connection.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>Wow. You know that just listening to each other, my mind
went to about four months ago or whenever it was where we had an opportunity
just to spend time together sharing, me and you.
LISA NICHOLS:
Yes, we did. We did.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>It’s so beautiful just to spend time with somebody and have
somebody really listening to you. Your heart does open up and you feel so
respected just to remember sharing that with you. I just value that time so
much. It meant a lot to me to do that.
LISA NICHOLS:
Thank you.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>You’re traveling around and speaking so many places. I did
catch you on Oprah which was so fun to watch you.
LISA NICHOLS:
That was really fun. I enjoyed Oprah. To answer the question everyone has, she
is as fabulous in person and during the commercial break as she is on screen.
She’s very, very consistent. I couldn’t even tell when the cameras weren’t
rolling or when they were rolling because she was in conversation the whole
time.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>It was really an experience. There was one of those
moments where I sat there and said, No matter what. No matter what. Because I
felt like I had had a conversation with Oprah years ago. She just didn’t know
what the conversation was about. I had already seen myself there. I didn’t know
what the topic would be. I thought it would be about teens or about women. Lo
and behold, it’s about The Secret, which is a perfectly wonderful topic.
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12.0pt;font-family:Georgia>When I sat there, I just said, We all have a right
that, if I can make it to this seat, then we all have right. There are no but,
what ifs. There are no but, what ifs. We all get to kiss, hug and pray inside
of bliss.
BOBBIE DEPORTER:
font-family:Georgia>I was watching your face during the show, too. What’s going
on inside side of Lisa right now? The part I loved the most was right towards
the end when they showed your Vision Board. That was unbelievable. You see it up
there and then the cameras focused right in the middle where it says, Lisa
tells all on Oprah. I want to hear you talk about it because I wondering
and watching you. What did it really feel like to have your dream realized like
that in that moment? What was going through your head? Tell us all of it.
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