Own Your Choices Own Your Life Marsha Vanwynsberghe

In this episode, I am sharing an answer to a question I was asked as a recent podcast guest on my friend Fallon’s podcast, Prosperity By Design, and she asked me a question that had me reflecting.  She was a guest on my show back in 2021, a little over 400 episodes ago, crazy I know, and she said she was listening to a few recent episodes and wanted to share how much my confidence, and certainty in my voice have changed. She wanted to know what I had done differently.  I wanted to share my thoughts and answers.

In today’s episode, we discuss:
1)  I actually think I have failed way more than people would realize, more programs and ideas haven’t worked, collaborations that didn’t continue, projects I started and stopped, and that left me with a lot of doubt and frustration, yet failure can be your friend.  It is required, it will teach you more than you can imagine. “Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success.” ~ Unknown


2)  The work of NLP, aka OUTSPOKEN has definitely had an effect on my confidence, also because subconscious reprogramming has helped me to recognize my blind spots, to see those old stories pop up, to not make them mean anything about me, and to know that with every NO that I am closer to the yes’.  The no’s have taught me a lot these past three years; pivot is an understatement. It has been a non-stop pivot journey but instead of throwing tons of spaghetti on the wall, I go inward first, quiet the noise, listen to what lights me up, say yes to that more, and allow myself to fail and get back up again. 


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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share and publish their stories. 
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders and build platform businesses that create massive impact.
 

In this episode, we speak with CEO, Founder, and Master Instructor, Dave Albin.  Dave was born in 1954 at Queen of Angles Hospital in Hollywood, California to a single mother. He was adopted by his Aunt and uncle on his mother’s side at the age of 5. His adoptive parents told Dave they were not his parents at 11 years old. Later that year both his adoptive parents started drinking. This is where Dave’s life took a hard turn. Dave tried alcohol at the age of 12. By the time he was 14, he was experimenting with hard drugs. Grossly addicted to drugs and alcohol he joined AA some 20 years later in June 1988. This is when Dave was introduced to the personal development industry. He attended a seminar with Tony Robbins in 1995 where he did his first firewalk. Dave went on to work for Tony Robbins for just shy of 20 years as Tony’s Firewalk Captain. Dave retired from the Anthony Robbins Companies in 2014 shortly after GOOGLE hired him to put on an event for them in Mountain View, California Corp Headquarters. Firewalk Productions, LLC was born in 2014. 
Dave has done gigs for NASA, Heineken, The Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), RE Max, Chick-fil-A, Pruvit, Google, NI, NC Chiropractic Association, Wayne Dyer, T Harv Eker, CRISP Video, Tony Robbins and many others. Dave currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains in Ashe County North Carolina.

In this episode, we discuss:
1) Dave’s experience with Firewalking, how it changed his life, and how it led him to work with Tony Robbins for over 2 decades and then to run his own Firewalk Adventures for business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs.

2) Dave openly shares his back story, the years of addiction, his sobriety journey, and how he has conditioned himself to focus and live in gratitude.  Fear and gratitude cannot occupy the same space and learning to see the story differently is how you change the story.

Connect with Dave
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/firebuilder2
Website: https://firewalkadventures.com
Email: davidalbin@firewalkadventures.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-albin
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/firewalkadventures

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation.
Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves, and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support, and impact others

In this episode, I am sharing the tools of NLP, subconscious reprogramming, and how these tools have changed how I operate in my life and business over the last 3 years. I don’t even recognize myself, and I smile when I see those old versions show up again. Now this is not a slam myself moment, because that is not productive at all. I wanted to share how these tools have made a huge difference in my life and business and maybe you will see yourself in my story. 

In today’s episode, we discuss:
1) NLP, neurolinguistic programming, came into my life around 10 years ago, although I had no idea what it was.  Tony Robbins, his work impacted me tremendously years ago when I realized the words I was speaking had power in my life. It officially came into my life 3 years ago when I took my NLP practitioners, signing up while in the hospital trying to figure out how I was going to recover from back surgery. Let’s keep this super simple, someone asked me on a recent podcast what the difference NLP brought into my life and business and I decided to actually visit that question and write it down.

2)  Before - I did not trust my voice or my message, and deep down had that perfectionist/people pleaser message on repeat.  I pushed super hard, to burnout regularly as thought it was a badge of honour, I didn’t listen and I was in the constant spiral energy of proving my self-worth.  I made my thoughts, my results mean something about me and my self-worth.  I believed the limiting beliefs were true and were predicting my success or lack of success. I was on a constant search for more strategy as I was convinced I was missing it and it would help me move my “blocks”.  Another coach and another program would have the answer I was missing. When you search for or sign up from these things from a space of lack, you will never find what you are looking for.  These decisions need to come from a space of empowerment. 
 
3) After NLP - I am not going to tell you that it’s perfectly smooth without any challenges because that is ridiculous.  In fact I can tell you that we have been walking through one of the toughest years with so many challenges and all things considered, I am damn proud of myself for how I am navigating it all.  I trust my voice, message and live my life OUTSPOKEN, not in the reactive, waste energy way, but in the way that I honour my voice, energy and message.  I pick my battles.  I listen way more than ever, I honour my energy and I ask what I need and I honour and value it.  I prioritize rest, self care, healing and my subconscious reprogramming tools.  I recognize my thoughts as thoughts, and literally the building blocks to beliefs.  Rewriting and reprogramming new empowering thoughts, hello subconscious reprogramming.  Limiting beliefs, I go to the root cause with the techniques that I have access to create lasting changes, and I understand the power of my SBM to support my conscious mind in going after my goals

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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share and publish their stories. 
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders and build platform businesses that create mas

In this episode, I am sharing the tools of NLP, subconscious reprogramming, and understanding how your subconscious mind works.  It literally doesn’t understand time, at the subconscious level, the mind remembers everything and it can travel time. Our subconscious mind is constantly trying to protect us, keep us safe, and prevent us from feeling pain.  So you might hear that you have to stay present with your thoughts, yet sometimes that doesn’t feel possible. Here’s a permission slip to see your thoughts differently, give yourself some grace and know that your mind is trying to navigate the challenges you are facing. Also while knowing that whatever you are resisting will always persist.  It is you against you and this is one way to give yourself some grace and compassion. 

In today’s episode, we discuss:
1)  I heard Tyler Henry on a podcast, he is a medium with a show on Netflix.  I heard him say, as humans we are multi-dimensional species, we live in the past, present, and future all at the same time.  “He said we live in the past through our memories, we live in the present through our choices, and we live in the future through our dreams”.  When all 3 are integrated, we live at our optimal level of health and wholeness.


2)  What if all 3 parts play a role in who we are and how we show up?  What if we’re not doing it wrong? Our vision for the future pulls us forward, the present choices keep us grounded in the present as our best selves, allowing us to be focused forward, and the past calls us backward.  Our memories are important, they shape us into who we are today.  However, our past experiences are not the defining ingredients in our lives, it is our interpretation of those experiences that create us. How we remember them, and how we interpret them shapes us. This is the story vs the narrative, and Joe Dispenza says within 2 years our memories are only 50% accurate.  If you pull on memory and create anxiety and stress, the body is stronger than the mind, and the memory creates an emotion, and that emotion will pull you in the direction of that feeling.  What thoughts do you want to think, what feelings do you want?  Your brain then no longer becomes a record of the past it becomes a map to the future. 
When you learn to use your subconscious mind to your advantage it will change your trajectory!

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Bonuses, save $1000, kick-off in January 2024
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — NLP Storytelling Trainer, Author, Speaker, and Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share and publish their stories. 
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life.  She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders and build platform businesses that create massive impact.
 

In this episode, we are speaking with Author, Artist, Speaker, and Survivor, Amanda Blackwood. Amanda is an accomplished artist and author, public speaker, podcast host, trauma recovery mentor, and a survivor of human trafficking. Amanda has spoken on a multitude of stages, international summits, and radio programs, and has published over a dozen books. She launched two podcasts - one that focuses on interviewing other authors of trauma, and the other that discusses the long-term consequences of trauma and how to fight back for a better life. A portion of every book sale goes to help fight human trafficking. Amanda lives in Denver, Colorado with her rescue cats and supportive husband who keep her sane. 

In this episode, we discuss:
1) Amanda is a survivor of human trafficking who was not “rescued” by anyone.  She had to own her own life to get out alive.

2) Amanda shares her story of being trafficked on multiple occasions, how she supported herself in her healing and recovery, and how she is openly sharing her story on multiple podcast episodes and publishing 13 books since 2017. Amanda’s story is full of hope, and possibility, and creating an impact by sharing a vulnerable story.

Connect with Amanda
Amanda can be reached or my books can be found at the following social media pages and websites:

https://detailedpieces.com
https://growthfromdarkness.com
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmandaBlackwoodSurvivor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/detailedpieces
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/authoramandablackwood
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DetailedPieces
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@detailedpieces
WordPress: https://amandablackwoodthesurvivor.wordpress.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17646596.Amanda_Blackwood
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/amanda-blackwood
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/LadyBlackwoodShop/

Website: https://www.GrowthFromDarkness.com

PR Email: AuthorAmandaBlackwood@gmail.com
My primary podcast can be found at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amandablackwood
My collaboration podcast is at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/growthfromdarkness


Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker and Life Coach
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation.
Through her programs, coaching and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support and impact others

In this episode, I am celebrating and sharing that it has been 6 years since my 6x Bestselling Book release When She Stopped Asking Why. I am a completely different person since that book release and I am so grateful for this experience. I wanted to share some lessons that still ring true for me, some new lessons, the power of asking different questions, and how the dots always connect even when we don’t think they ever will make sense. 
 In today’s episode, we discuss:
1) A number of lessons, takeaways, gratitudes, and a quick reading of an excerpt of When She Stopped Asking Why.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support!
2) It starts with building trust within ourselves first, if we don’t trust ourselves we can’t expect others to trust us. When you don’t have obvious trust, go back and look for proof, limiting beliefs questions, what is the truth, where is the evidence, rewriting in a new empowering way.
3) We haven’t met the people we are meant to impact yet – the most incredible people in my life, I didn’t know when I wrote that book, and so much of it started from that point.  What if your idea is trying to lead you in the most incredible, expansive direction?
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Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Author, Speaker, and Life Coach
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”.  She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse far past the level of normal experimentation.
Through her programs, coaching, and live events for women, Marsha is on a mission to teach you how to “Own Your Choices” in your own life.  She teaches women how to own their stories, lead themselves and pay it forward to others by creating businesses that serve, support, and impact others.