Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

Emily Fletcher
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Welcome to Why Isn't Everyone Doing This with Emily Fletcher. Each week we’ll explore some of the most spine-tingling, potent modalities that can give you the kind of bliss and pleasure that is your birthright. No topic is off limits: We’ll dive into everything from breathwork to psychedelics, from meditation to BDSM. Join Emily in conversation with scientists, doctors, healers, and innovative thinkers to reveal the tools that have radically changed their lives, and that very well may change yours, too. We can’t wait to hear which one has you asking, “Why isn’t everyone doing this?”

  1. 6d ago

    Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose?

    What if you've been lied to about what it actually takes to find your purpose? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Suzy Welch — NYU Stern professor, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming You, and one of the most trusted voices in the world on purpose and career strategy. Suzy walks Emily through the research-backed framework she teaches at NYU (the same one that makes grown adults cry in the front row), and the two go deep on faith, grief, and what really pulls people away from the life they were meant to live. Suzy opens up about the “Four Horsemen of Values Destruction,” the forces she's identified that quietly hijack people's purpose: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security. She shares the eerily universal “widow's dream” she experienced after her husband died, and why she doesn't believe anyone can do life without prayer. She also tells the story of a woman whose family was torn apart after a tragic boating accident, and how Suzy's own decision-making method helped bring that family back from the edge, including pulling her father back from the brink of suicide. It's a rare mix of hard data, personal faith, and real transformation. In this episode, Suzy explores: The Four Horsemen of Values Destruction: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security Why only about 11% of people actually want to “change the world” — and why that's perfectly fine Her framework for finding purpose: values, aptitudes, and interests The Values Bridge assessment, and why it's built to strip out social desirability bias The “widow's dream”: the strange, common experience she and other widows rarely talk about What daily prayer has meant to her since her husband's death The story of a family nearly destroyed by tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide Why her NYU class is nicknamed “the class where everyone cries” Her real-time framework for deciding between two major life-changing opportunities Why she believes we're in the middle of a purpose crisis, and how AI is accelerating it Key Moments: 0:00 – Welcome + why this episode is called “Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose?” 3:00 – Suzy's definition of purpose: the intersection of values, aptitudes, and interests 4:59 – What prayer means to her, and life since her husband's death 7:38 – Her NYU class nickname: “the class where everyone cries” 10:29 – The student who kept “getting” Zumba teacher as her purpose and couldn't accept it 11:47 – Horseman #1: Expectations 12:05 – Horseman #2: Expedience 14:31 – Horseman #3: Events (and the story of going back to the Today Show after her husband's death) 16:11 – Horseman #4: Economic security 23:59 – The Values Bridge assessment, and why it strips out social desirability bias 24:17 – Why only about 11% of people actually have “changing the world” as a top value 29:10 – The widow's dream: the moment a friend asked, “Are you having the dream?” 36:57 – Deciding between two major opportunities in real time, using her own framework 50:13 – The stranger who stopped her on the subway mid job-decision 55:16 – The family torn apart by a fishing boat tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide 59:48 – Where to find Suzy, and her closing thoughts ✨ Where to find Suzy Welch: Book: Becoming You Podcast: Becoming You with Suzy Welch (wherever you listen to podcasts) Take the Values Bridge assessment: thevaluesbridge.com Website: suzywelch.com Instagram: @suzywelch 🔗 More from Emily & Ziva: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  2. Aug 11

    Why isn’t everyone creating a relationship with their intuition?

    Your intuition isn't quiet. It's just been out-shouted by your mind for years. In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Anna Gannon, an intuitive psychic and energy mastery teacher who has spent years training hundreds of people to hear their own inner guidance. Anna breaks down the ten distinct ways intuition actually speaks, from chills and gut feelings to taste, smell, and a knowing with zero evidence to back it up, and explains why the heart always talks first. Anna also shares her own story: starting Ziva Meditation while deep in postpartum depression, then a solo pilgrimage to India where a kundalini awakening left her getting electrically shocked every five seconds for three months. She traces how her meditation foundation gave her the nervous system capacity to hold that awakening, and how Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy work helped her channel that raw current into her creativity and her marriage. The episode closes with a story of using her intuition to help heal her mother from a jungle hammock in Costa Rica. In this episode, Anna explores: The ten distinct ways intuition communicates, from sensing and feeling to clear hearing, seeing, taste, smell, and guidance Why her almost seven-year-old son told her, “my heart always talks first, it's just my mind is so much louder” A kundalini awakening in an Indian temple that left her electrified every five seconds for three months Why she believes her meditation practice made that awakening survivable instead of destabilizing How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her turn that life force into creativity and connection Her mentor's line: “this work doesn't make your life easier, it just gives you more choices” Healing her mother's body from across the world using nothing but intuition Why she never says “just trust your gut blindly,” and what she teaches instead Key Moments: 00:33 – The Kogi prophecy: the end falling into the beginning 05:02 – What an intuitive actually is 06:24 – Her son's line: “my heart always talks first” 09:26 – The ten ways intuition speaks 17:15 – Smelling radiation: a reading that revealed a client's cancer 21:52 – Why cells have two jobs: take care of themselves, take care of the whole 28:37 – Postpartum depression and the login that changed everything 32:42 – A solo pilgrimage to India, decided in one scroll 38:03 – The kundalini awakening in the temple 44:29 – Home, and electrified every five seconds for three months 48:44 – How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her channel the current 51:11 – How to start developing your own intuitive relationship today 1:01:29 – Healing her mother from a hammock in Costa Rica ✨ Ziva Magic is open. This isn't just a course, it's a movement, a prayer, and the culmination of Emily's life's work. Ziva Magic blends ancient wisdom, modern science, and a powerful community of Magic Makers, all so you can learn how to magnetize the life of your wildest dreams. It's crafted to help you Visualize, Alchemize, and Magnetize the life you've always imagined, not only for you but for the planet. Grounded in science, but inspired by magic. Inside, you'll merge with your future self, become the version of you who is already an energetic match for your dream, transmute fear into fuel, and learn to use your pleasure to pray. The better you feel, the more magnetic you become. Enroll now: zivameditation.com/pages/zivamagic 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  3. Aug 7

    Why Isn't Everyone Giving Their Feelings the Microphone?

    What if the thing you've spent decades avoiding is the exact thing that's been trying to help you? In this bonus student spotlight episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Signy, a grocery store manager who now mentors underprivileged and neurodivergent people at work. Signy grew up in a deeply restrictive, religious household where women were raised to have babies, not opinions. Her father died by suicide when she was eight, and she spent decades pushing grief and anger down rather than feeling them, until those feelings started arriving anyway, in waves she couldn't predict or control. Signy shares how Ziva Meditation gave her a nervous system baseline, and how Ziva Magic's Alchemize practice became her real turning point, teaching her to give her anger and grief the microphone instead of letting them steal it. She talks about the tsunami analogy that reframed everything, the moment her boss asked why she wasn't losing her mind under pressure that was breaking everyone else on her team, and the appointment where her own doctor told her she was healthier in her mid-forties than she'd been in years. In this episode, Signy explores: – Growing up in a household where women weren't meant to speak, vote, or have needs – Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of grief she learned to push down – The tsunami analogy: why feelings that never get a pressure release eventually take over – Why Visualize was hardest for her at first: "tell me what I'm supposed to want, and I'll just want that" – Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind while everyone else on her team was struggling – Regina Thomashauer's line: "your mind can't handle any more, but your body is infinite" – Why Alchemize became her biggest game-changer, faster than years of therapy alone – Her doctor confirming she's healthier in her mid-40s than she was five years earlier – How drinking simply fell away, without willpower or a dark night of the soul – Turning her own healing into daily mentorship for people at work Key Moments: 00:56 – Life before Ziva Magic: meditation as a baseline, anger and grief as "unwelcome guests" 04:47 – Growing up in a restrictive household where women weren't meant to speak 06:00 – Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of pushed-down grief 09:10 – The tsunami analogy: why repressed feelings eventually take the microphone 13:58 – "Tell me what I'm supposed to want": the hardest part of Visualize 17:00 – Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind like everyone else 18:31 – Regina Thomashauer: "your body is infinite" 23:48 – Her doctor's report: healthier in her mid-40s than she'd ever been 26:00 – How drinking fell away with ease 28:18 – What she'd tell someone too scared to try Magic Maker 33:18 – Turning her own healing into mentorship for others at work ✨ The Ziva Experience is open for enrollment. This is the final window. Meditation to dissolve stress at the root. Embodied manifesting to turn your emotions into fuel. A mantra ceremony and a community built to hold you through all of it. Doors close Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59p ET. Enroll now: experience.zivameditation.com 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  4. Aug 6

    Why Isn't Everyone Believing in Magic?

    On his intake form, he wrote one word: skeptical. By the last night of his retreat, he said something completely different. In this bonus student spotlight episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Danny, an optometrist, father, and husband who came to Ziva Magic a self-proclaimed skeptic and left, in his own words, a believer in magic. Danny is exactly the kind of person this work is built for: logical, raised to equate happiness with achievement, and never once spiritual before this. He joined on what he calls a rather last-minute decision, simply because the message on Emily's podcast resonated. Danny shares the words that confused him at first—download, container, frequency—and how it felt to finally understand them. He describes the moment magic stopped being abstract and started showing up in a cup of tea, on a paddleboard, and playing trucks with his son. And he offers one of the clearest metaphors this show has heard for why logic alone isn't enough: a brand new laptop that never gets plugged into Wi-Fi. In this episode, Danny explores: The one word on his intake form, and the very different words he said on his last night Why he introduces himself as father, husband, optometrist, in that order Life before Ziva Magic: pure logic, no spirituality, and a constant need to do more Why the dream itself was never the point, and what it actually indicates His wife and coworkers noticing he's “happier at work now” The jargon that confused him at first, and how he'd define magic now Planting his first garden at 46, and finding actual magic in a carrot The Wi-Fi analogy: why a great brain disconnected from spirit doesn't get far Reclaiming the word pleasure, from tea to paddleboarding to playing trucks with his son Waking up the body's own internal pharmacy, without any substances Key Moments: 00:49 – His intake form: “I'm skeptical” to “I believe in magic” 02:54 – Life before Ziva Magic: pure logic, no spirituality 04:17 – Giving himself permission to ask what he actually wants 06:44 – The biggest shift: trusting things will fall into place 09:24 – The old pattern: always doing more to make his parents happy 10:00 – His wife's report: “you're happier at work now” 11:23 – The words that confused him: download, container, frequency 12:18 – Defining magic in his own words 15:24 – Planting his first garden, and finding magic in a carrot 18:58 – The Wi-Fi analogy: a great laptop that was never plugged in 21:27 – Reclaiming pleasure in tea, paddleboarding, and playing trucks with his son 22:47 – Waking up the internal pharmacy, and the lizard brain ✨ The Ziva Experience is open for enrollment. This is the final window. Meditation to dissolve stress at the root. Embodied manifesting to turn your emotions into fuel. A mantra ceremony and a community built to hold you through all of it. Doors close Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59p ET. Enroll now 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  5. Aug 4

    Why Isn't Everyone Manifesting With Their Whole Bodies?

    Twelve years of practice, and one of the worst nights of his life, met in the same body. In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Oliver Lehne, an actor, playwright, and Ziva meditator she's known for over twelve years. Oliver came to meditation, by his own admission, to impress people. He arrived anxious, low on self-esteem, and constantly deferring to everyone else's opinion. What's emerged since is a man who trusts himself enough to create from that trust, including a play that landed a London producer within days of one conversation. Oliver and Emily trace his path from meditation into embodied manifesting, and he shares the exact phrase that came through in his first real pleasure prayer, one he still writes in his journal every morning. He also opens up about the night his husband had a brain injury on Christmas Eve, and how the steadiness he'd built over a decade of practice carried him through it. In this episode, Oliver explores: Why he first came to meditation to impress people, and what he found underneath that What adaptation energy is, and why running out of it launches the body into fight or flight How surrender changed the way he shows up with his own parents Why visualizing was always the hardest part of manifesting, and how feeling replaced picturing The shift from performing his emotions as an actor to simply letting them move The mantra that came through in his second pleasure prayer, and why he still journals it daily How his play found a London producer within two days of one conversation The night his husband had a brain injury on Christmas Eve, and the steadiness that carried him through Why he believes meditation and manifesting compound each other Key Moments: 00:33 – Life before Ziva: anxiety and chronic people-pleasing 05:08 – Why he first came to meditation: wanting to impress people 09:52 – Adaptation energy, defined 12:59 – How surrender changed his relationship with his parents 16:31 – The embodied manifesting formula: visualize, alchemize, magnetize 20:03 – Permission over performance 24:12 – The pleasure prayer that gave him his daily mantra 27:02 – How his play found a London producer in two days 31:06 – His husband's brain injury on Christmas Eve 34:09 – The miracle: walking out of the hospital alone 36:33 – His invitation to anyone still on the fence 🎥 The Magic Maker replays come down Aug 7. If you haven't watched all three parts, or want to sit with them again before you decide, now's the time. Watch the replays: magicmaker.zivameditation.com 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  6. Jul 29

    From Overwhelmed Mom to Manifesting Magic

    What if you've been surviving your life instead of actually living it, and you didn't even know it? ✨ Enrollment for the Ziva Experience is officially open. Meditation to dissolve stress at the root, embodied manifesting to turn emotion into fuel, and a community built to hold you through all of it. Join us now → experience.zivameditation.com In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Tammy Lewis, a business owner, mother of two, and now a Ziva Guide, to trace what changed between the version of her quietly holding everything together and the version of her now manifesting a cross-country move, a new school, and an entirely different marriage, with speed and ease. Before Ziva, nothing was broken, but everything was heavy: she was managing everyone else's emotions while hers sat at the bottom of the list. "It was getting by," she says. "I was surviving my life instead of actually living it." She found Ziva in 2021, and between being consistent with her daily Ziva Meditation practice, two pilgrimages, and years of practicing Ziva Magic's embodied manifesting formula, she learned to tell a thought that's “of her” from guidance that moves “through her.” Now her emotional lows resolve in minutes instead of days, manifestations show up almost daily, and she sums up her reality in one line: "Honestly, everything feels like magic." In this episode, they explore: The “before” picture: a good, full, busy life that was still a constant clench in the body — holding, managing, getting by The internal tool of asking what's “of me” versus what's “through me” during meditation, and how it sharpened her guidance How clearing childhood-level stuff she didn't know needed clearing kept expanding her capacity to receive Manifesting a cross-country move, a new school, and a mountain home in the same ten days she got clear on what her family truly wanted Her first, reluctant encounter with emotional alchemy at a Costa Rica retreat, and why part of her still resists it today Growing up Catholic and the jolt of first hearing “use your pleasure to pray” Why the Ziva circles, not just the meditation, became the real differentiator — and her new role guiding them Key Moments: 00:00 – Meet Tammy Lewis: the before and after 03:21 – “It's literally all magic”: journaling on Persephone before the call 06:53 – Her most recent evidence of magic: leaving expat life in Panama 09:06 – Turning guidance into action, Michael Jackson-style 10:51 – The tool: what's “of me” and what's “through me” 12:11 – The before picture: who was Tammy pre-Ziva 13:43 – The weight of life as a constant clench in the body 15:19 – Clearing invisible cages she didn't know were there 17:47 – Life now: shorter lows, funnier meetings 20:59 – Her son's word of the year: friendship 23:15 – Describing the meditation: the first practice she's ever craved 25:31 – Embodied manifesting: it's the feeling, not the thing 28:26 – The speed of manifesting and collapsing timelines 31:39 – Her first emotional alchemy experience, reluctantly, in Costa Rica 34:39 – The myth of Persephone and the underworld 38:03 – Pleasure as prayer, and her Catholic upbringing 43:03 – Leading the Ziva circles: community as the real differentiator ✨ The Ziva Experience is open for enrollment. Meditation to dissolve stress at the root. Embodied manifesting to turn your emotions into fuel. A mantra ceremony and a community built to hold you through all of it. Enroll now: zivameditation.com/experience 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  7. Jul 24 ·  Bonus

    Magic Maker Part 3: The Highlights

    Tune into the highlights from Part 3 of Magic Maker Live with Emily Fletcher. 👉 Watch the full replay (available for a limited time, Parts 1, 2, and 3) and join the priority list to be first to know when the doors open: https://zivameditation.com/replay On Thur, Jul 23, Emily Fletcher closed out Magic Maker with Part 3, the moment this whole series had been building toward. She revealed the full five-part Ziva formula and led the community through a live taste of Visualize, Alchemize, and Magnetize, back to back, in real time. You'll learn: – The visualization Emily uses to reconnect with the question, what would I love– Why alchemizing what's in the way comes before magnetizing what you want– A live taste of sacred rage and pleasure, back to back, and why both matter– How to bring pleasure up through the body and pour it over a dream– Why the power of this ceremony doesn't diminish if you're watching the replay– The full five-part formula, named for the first time this series Key Moments: 0:00 – Welcome back for Part 3: the moment this whole series has been building toward0:41 – Today's reveal: the full five-part Ziva formula1:24 – Why manifesting a dream requires accessing the quantum field1:58 – Getting curious: what would I love?3:45 – Imagining the dream already done5:22 – Getting honest: what's keeping me from being a match for this dream6:28 – Alchemize: inviting the inner ancestor and inner child to move8:43 – Finding a kernel of pleasure in the expression of what is real9:00 – Magnetize: turning the ember of pleasure into a flame10:07 – Sending pleasure up through the body and into the vision11:56 – Dancing as if the dream has already come true13:59 – Sitting down as the person whose dream has already come true15:15 – Naming all five parts of the formula for the first time16:05 – What's opening in just a couple of days16:26 – Closing reflection: this reaches you the same way, live or on replay ✨ Watch the full Part 3 replay, plus Parts 1 and 2. This is where the priority list closes before the doors open. 👉 https://zivameditation.com/replay 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

  8. Jul 22 ·  Bonus

    Magic Maker Part 2: The Highlights

    Tune into the highlights from Part 2 of Magic Maker Live with Emily Fletcher. 👉 Watch the full replay (available for a limited time) and save your spot for Part 3, live Thur, Jul 23 at 1pm ET: https://zivameditation.com/replay On Tues, Jul 21, Emily Fletcher welcomed the Magic Maker community back for Part 2, the day built to clear out every "yeah, but" standing between them and their dreams. In this episode, she shares the biggest limiting beliefs keeping people stuck, real stories of what's possible once those beliefs dissolve, and a live taste of the embodiment work that makes this training different from anything else out there. You'll learn: – Why a thinking mind was never a sign that meditation is failing – The timeline of scarcity and the timeline of abundance, and the one choice available to all of us right now – Why nature is not a vending machine, it is a mirror – Two student stories of manifestations that arrived bigger than what anyone dared to pray for – Why meditation is a skill like any other, and never something people are naturally gifted or bad at – What most manifestation teachings leave out entirely, and why it matters more than mindset – A live practice in sacred rage, sacred sorrow, and pouring bliss back into the body – Homework before Part 3: DJ your feelings Key Moments: 0:00 – Welcome to Part 2: today is all about alchemy 0:25 – Pronoia: choosing to believe nature is conspiring in your favor 1:07 – Saying yes signals to nature that you're ready for your dream 1:32 – Limiting belief: I don't have time to meditate 2:08 – Your brain prints every cell in your body and makes every decision you make 2:29 – Limiting belief: I already meditate, why would I need this 3:04 – Accessing the unmanifest: the quantum engine room where reality is formed 3:23 – Limiting belief: I can't stop my mind from thinking 3:59 – Thoughts are not the enemy of meditation. Effort is. 4:16 – Monks vs householders: the ancient framework behind the Ziva approach 4:42 – What most manifestation teachings leave out completely 5:10 – Nature is not a vending machine, it is a mirror 5:33 – Limiting belief: pleasure feels edgy 6:10 – Reclaiming pleasure and remembering the body as a temple 6:39 – The invisible cage of being afraid to feel your feelings 7:21 – Freud, defense mechanisms, and why we numb instead of feel 7:57 – Live practice begins: a taste of Alchemize 8:14 – Sacred rage: dancing out the frustration 11:05 – Asking the body: what am I ready to alchemize? 11:19 – Shaking, stomping, and punching out what's in the way 13:32 – Integration: honoring the inner child 14:21 – Sending bliss and love out to the whole planet 15:03 – Join the waitlist, share your magic, see you Thursday ✨ Watch the full Part 2 replay and save your spot for Part 3, live Thur, Jul 23 at 1pm ET. This is where the full formula gets revealed. 👉 https://zivameditation.com/replay 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation

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Welcome to Why Isn't Everyone Doing This with Emily Fletcher. Each week we’ll explore some of the most spine-tingling, potent modalities that can give you the kind of bliss and pleasure that is your birthright. No topic is off limits: We’ll dive into everything from breathwork to psychedelics, from meditation to BDSM. Join Emily in conversation with scientists, doctors, healers, and innovative thinkers to reveal the tools that have radically changed their lives, and that very well may change yours, too. We can’t wait to hear which one has you asking, “Why isn’t everyone doing this?”

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