Jack Canfield

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So one thing I mentioned in the book, it's something I learned from Jack Canfield.

And Jack Canfield, if you guys didn't know, he wrote the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

And he was in the movie The Secret.

And he has a book that I listened to years ago.

And let me share why.

As I got involved with the Unstoppable Foundation community, which was founded the same way you found a big birthday party with the transformational Jack Canfield and Bob Proctor and all these guys gave Cynthia Kersey all this money to start building villages in Africa.

Um, she told me that I was given this opportunity to give, um, uh, people an opportunity to give.

And that was greater.

And it is, it is such a big goal.

Jack Canfield has this statistic that shows that 82% of Americans want to write a book.

That's a huge portion of the population.

Consider that...

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And so that was kind of like the first, I think that was the first time that I really, saw myself as something more and i but i went from secretary to vice president of operations very quickly because i worked for jack canfield i mean he's really nice

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i was really bossy and i took over everything and said and by the way i'm changing my title i was probably the secretary for two months and um and he said okay are you gonna make cards i said yes i am it was just like we were just making it up michelle as we went you know but i think after that first book was published, it was like, oh my gosh, I'm actually an author.

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I went to San Diego State.

I'm not Jack Canfield.

I didn't go to Harvard.

Okay, so Alicia Das is an angel expert and communicator, ordained minister, speaker, and spiritual teacher with more than 30 years of experience helping people reconnect with their divine lineage and higher purpose.

She holds a degree in spiritual psychology, has led more than 500 seminars worldwide, and hosts the Live Your Love podcast, featuring conversations with leading spiritual voices, including Marianne Williamson, Jack Canfield, Neil Donald Walsh, and Lorna Byrne.

Prior to her work in the spiritual arena, Das worked as an actress and a DJ, experiences that continue to influence her dynamic teaching and communication style.

So we like to get our conversation started on a little bit of a personal note.

And interesting, you know, one of the descriptions of the way the nature of mind or, what one would experience with a full awakening what you're actually experiencing that level of reality is sometimes called ordinary mind and uh many spiritual teachers have unpacked the word extraordinary that just means extra ordinary right so that ordinariness i think is very powerful so um you've interviewed some um uh really interesting figures including um You mentioned Byron Katie, Neal Donald Walsh, Marianne Williamson.

I've interviewed Marianne for one of our summits before.

And I think we mentioned one other person in your bio, Jack Canfield, who I also had the privilege of interviewing not long ago.

And I imagine you've interviewed many others for your podcast.

It's us asking.

There's a great book, many years ago, written by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, The Aladdin Factor.

The Aladdin Factor.

Like, you know The Lamb? Yeah, great book.

The whole book, basically, it talks about the power of asking.

Like this book, The Power of Asking.

I think there's a same name audio program by Nightingale Conant called The Aladdin Factor by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson.

I have that in my library.

So that, uh, inspired me to become an entrepreneur.

And so I worked for a while with the government and local enterprise agencies, training and mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs, and then eventually led some trade missions to the US from the area of Louth and Newry and Mourne.

And over there in the US, I came across the concept of home technology.

Uh, and I came back to Ireland and I set up, left my job, and I set up, um, Ireland's largest home tech company called Smart Homes, where we went on to put in technology into many thousands of homes over the intervening period.