Manifestation Is Not a Vision Board (It Goes Way Deeper) | Astrology and Wellness Tips | EP235

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Brett Chinn joins Amy Sherman on Wellness Junkies to explain how true manifestation extends far beyond vision boards into deep subconscious belief architecture. Drawing from

Key takeaways

• Brett Chinn blends corporate executive search experience with astrology and manifestation coaching to help leaders 40+ bridge the gap between current success and desired identity.
• She emphasizes that manifestation requires 'belief architecture' at the subconscious level, citing neuroscience concepts like neuroplasticity and neural pathway formation.

Main topics

• Belief architecture & subconscious manifestation
• Mindfulness & emotional awareness as decision tools

Notable quotes

"Manifestation is asking you to say no. Manifestation is saying change your idea of what, of who you are and what you are capable of being..."

Conclusion

Listeners receive a grounded framework for replacing limiting beliefs

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) You're listening to Wellness Junkies, where wellness gets real, not perfect. Speaker 2 (0:04) Before we get into today's conversation, make sure you're following the show so new episodes show up automatically for you. Just go to the show and hit the plus sign. Speaker 1 (0:13) Welcome to Wellness Junkies. It's Amy and I am thrilled to Speaker 2 (0:17) have Brett Chin with us today. I'm going to tell you about her in a second, but we've known each other for a little bit, I don't know, close to a year. We met through a business group and she just has the best energy and she's so cool and I'm excited for everyone to meet her. So let me give you a little bit of background on Brett. Brett is a chief intuitive officer who helps founders and CEOs get where strategy alone can't take them. She does it through what she calls belief architecture, a deeper, more robust version of manifestation. With two decades in executive search behind her, she pairs corporate fluency with psychology, astrology, intuition, and mediumship. Or as she puts it, she speaks both corporate and cosmic, which is so cool. Brett works one-on-one with high-performing leaders, 40 plus, who have the title, the team. and the income and feel stuck under an invisible ceiling, a gap between who they are and who they want to be. Most of the time, the thing in the way isn't the strategy, it's the belief underneath it. That gap is her specialty. So welcome to the show, Brett. So excited to have you. Thank Speaker 1 (1:15) you. I'm so excited to be here. Speaker 2 (1:17) Yeah. So we're going to talk about a million different topics probably today. Speaker 2 (1:24) Talk about manifestation, talk about astrology, talk about all the things that you know, but like really break them down simply for people that are listening. So it doesn't feel so overwhelming. So that being said, just tell us a little bit about yourself, the work you do. I mean, I just explained your bio a little bit and just some recent examples of how you've helped women, because I think this concept is so interesting. I've never heard anything like it in all my years of corporate. All of the kind of leadership stuff I did was like very corporate and not very helpful. So this would have been so amazing. So tell us a little bit more. Speaker 1 (1:53) So I do, I get that a lot. I, I tend to work with people who they, they've been successful in some capacity. So usually they've gotten the coaching or the mentorship, but they were just like, Oh, there's some sort of disconnect or they've done all of the therapy. And they're like, there's still something like, it's not clicking. So I have the. Speaker 1 (2:19) or the experience of being in rooms where, yeah, you have to be credible. You can't just be like, hey, guys, the moon's in Capricorn tonight, so let's charge our crystals and hope that this meeting goes well. Like, that's not going to fly. We actually have to talk about real-world strategy, numbers, all of those things. And I know how to do that, and I also know how people work because I was in recruiting and sales for so long. And I blend that with... All of the knowledge that I have amassed through, like, I mean, being born as an intuitive, teaching myself astrology and then really diving into manifesting about 20, not 25, excuse me, about 15 years ago. Speaker 1 (3:04) And it's looking at, like I said, it's not just the typical manifestation of how to ask for what you want, how to do a vision board. Great. All of those things. They're great. They're fantastic tools. But that's like manifestation light or like diet, the diet Koga manifestation. We've got to really get into the belief architecture. And so there's. There's so much data out there backing this up from a neuroscience perspective. So like for me, manifestation shouldn't feel woo to anyone anymore. We can measure, we can actually measure the energy waves of our brain, of different parts of our body. We can look at neural pathways and the neuroplasticity of our brains, our subconscious beliefs. I mean, there's so much that goes into it. To give you an example of how I've helped clients recently. Speaker 1 (3:55) It's generally that people will come generally people approach me and they say I want to grow my business or I want to be a better leader or get more credit, whatever it is, generally work related money or I want to make more money. There's another one. And. Speaker 1 (4:13) 99 % of the time that lever, that gap isn't about like just the money or just getting clients or just your sales strategy. It's about what you believe you're capable of. And when we start like pulling the threads, it's amazing how things will shift. So for example, I have a client and if she listened to this, she might recognize herself. She sells a very beautiful product. So I don't want to out her as I'll say that. And she said to me, We first started working together. The very first thing she said to me was, my dream is for someone to know my design by name, to go to my website and say, I want to buy one of XX's pieces, her name. And just like someone to make a sale on my website. And I was like, okay, amazing. And we pulled things out. It was like, well, you're. not taking the actions that support that or you're taking actions that don't support that but you're also not thinking about things in the right way like you're actually blocking things and within three weeks maybe she told me she's like I manifest she's got a text from someone who was like a friend of a friend of a friend who said I got your number I went to your website I'm deciding between these two pieces what do you recommend and Speaker 2 (5:28) she was like I'm a known like I'm Speaker 1 (5:30) a known Speaker 2 (5:30) name I'm Speaker 1 (5:31) a brand Speaker 2 (5:31) new Speaker 1 (5:32) And people are going to my website and ordering. They're not just like texting me and like saying, and like trying to put an order for a friend. So that's one example. Another one is, um, a lot of just getting people out of their own way. I have another client who, uh, Speaker 1 (5:48) who owns multiple businesses and has always said that she felt that something was, there was a disconnect between the fact that she's so entrepreneurial. She has all of these businesses. She's like constantly, she has more work than she knows what to do with, especially from the one business that doesn't feel her cup. And she always feels like she should, there's a question, should be giving back. I should be giving back. I should be giving back. Speaker 1 (6:18) And, you know, as a coach, my I do provide answers and guidance, but sometimes you have to let people get through themselves. And so, like, she had this little aha moment I was waiting for her to get to, which is turn some of your businesses into a nonprofit. which solved a lot of her financial issues, her money flow, her taxes. It solved so many. And it was a reminder of, hey, you're already giving back. Let's just make it official. And she's like, oh, wow, weights off my back. So Speaker 2 (6:51) those are just Speaker 1 (6:52) two examples I could. give more. Speaker 2 (6:55) Yeah. Great example. So how did you, and you mentioned it a little bit, but how did you first become interested in this like intersection and like just general and also generally speaking, astrology, manifestation, personal growth, like all of these things. I mean, it sounds like you were sort of born to do this, but how did you find my way Speaker 1 (7:11) there? Yeah. So, um, Speaker 2 (7:13) when Speaker 1 (7:14) I, I was like the quote unquote weird kid, I look at children now and I know there's so much out there cause we have phones and social media, but I also know like you can be like a little weird now. And, you know, growing up when I grew up and probably around the same time as you, like we didn't have, we were, you were a little bullied if you're weird. And so I used to talk to spirits, I would see them and my parents totally like, I think they believed me, but they supported me. And then I would know things about people long and short of it was I was bullied. Speaker 1 (7:49) And I started to really believe that there was something wrong with me. Speaker 2 (7:54) So, you Speaker 1 (7:55) know, middle school is really tough. And I just felt so out of place. Just like I just didn't belong in the world. And I went to self-help section of a bookstore and started reading all of these books, like trying to figure out what was quote unquote wrong with me. And I stumbled across a book. called Teenage Scorpio, because like you, I'm a Scorpio son. Speaker 2 (8:20) And Speaker 1 (8:20) I picked it up and opened it, and it was just like, wow, someone put me on paper, which was so validating. And I remember the last page of the book said, your horoscope, you will go wherever your heart wants you to go. And I'm sure they put that for all of the signs, but I was like, okay, like this is really encouraging that I can be me, and there's also other people like me. What is this? What's astrology? So I dove into it Speaker 2 (8:46) and Speaker 1 (8:46) I started teaching myself it at age 12. This is pre-internet. So I was doing charts by hand. I was reading all of the books about every planet, every asteroid. And I first was like, okay, now I understand myself. I've got a roadmap or a guide to myself that gives me a window to other people in the way that the world works. Astrology is also all about correlation. It's not causation. So the other thing I do want to mention is. Like any like with anything, hindsight is 2020. But when you do it with astrology, it's really fascinating as well. So astrology, astrological patterns are something really interesting to study. And I found that as like, oh, this explains things. This energy makes sense. So that's how I got into astrology. I always kept it like like my close friends growing up knew about it and like. My college roommates here or there, but it was kind of like my party trick, you know, like, oh, like, tell me your sign. Or I'd be the psychic friend that could like guess this about this person. But I was also always the the person that people went to for advice. Because I am highly empathetic and I know empath gets thrown out a lot, but I really am. And I also am. pretty pragmatic. So like, I know it works and it doesn't work and how it's like, how it works. So I was always doing that. And, um, the intersection really did come when I fell into recruiting, which was my, my dad's profession too. And I realized like, Hey, here's where I can combine my, my curiosity about people, my understanding about what makes people tick. Um, and like figure out who goes where. And like how things can translate and map. And so I was doing that for a long time. And that lends itself nicely to coaching because you're helping people who have no idea what they want to do Speaker 2 (10:47) at Speaker 1 (10:48) 18, at 30, at 60. And then that really, for me, there's, yeah, there's the, okay, yeah, here, let's fix your resume. But like, let's figure out what you really want to do. Like, why are you here? That was always so important to me. Speaker 1 (11:07) And then the long and short of it is I started my I felt really called to do my own business, start my own business. So I started career coaching in 2019 because everyone is always asking me for career advice. And I figured, why not? And very quickly, because it was 2020, I got very busy and I was helping a lot of people not just transition their careers, but like really do some soul searching. And so I was like, hey, I can read your chart. I can pull cards for you, all of this stuff. Speaker 1 (11:42) But I kept it separate. I did. I really did keep it like it would bleed in for people that I felt like, oh, like, oh, that person might like astrology, you know, or that person. Yeah. Crazy. And I was doing that. 2023, I had one of those. I get like just a really bad year. I was gonna say dark night of the soul, but it's just a really, really bad, tragic year. A lot of trauma. I don't use that lately. And I went internal to work in house for a client and was not happy. I was miserable, but I told myself that I had to do it for some stability. And I said, you know, I'm really miserable. And one of my friends said, if you could do anything, what could you, would you do? I said, well, I would be back working for myself doing coaching, but this time. This time I would combine all of my psychic stuff and I would combine all of my intuitive work She said why don't you do that? I was like, no, no, no, I can't do it. I exited that position I didn't know what I want to do and Speaker