Manders Mindset
Are you feeling stuck or stagnant in your life? Do you envision yourself living differently but have no idea how to start? The answer might lie in a shift in your mindset.
Hosted by Amanda Russo, The Breathing Goddess, who is a former Family Law Paralegal now a Breathwork Facilitator, Sound Healer, and Transformative Mindset Coach.
Amanda's journey into mindset and empowerment began by working with children in group homes and daycares. She later transitioned to family law, helping people navigate the challenging emotions of divorce. During this time, Amanda also overcame her own weight and health challenges through strength training, meditation, yoga, reiki, and plant medicine.
Amanda interviews guests from diverse backgrounds, including entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, and wellness experts, who share their incredible journeys of conquering fears and limiting beliefs to achieve remarkable success.
Hear real people tell how shifting their mindsets and often their words, has dramatically changed their lives.
Amanda also shares her personal journey, detailing how she transformed obstacles into opportunities by adopting a healthier, holistic lifestyle.
Discover practical strategies and inspiring stories that will empower you to break free from limitations and cultivate a mindset geared towards growth and positivity.
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Manders Mindset
From Orphanage to Global Explorer: Rebuilding Joy, Resilience, & Purpose with Aisha Makara | 161
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What if the secret to living with joy wasn’t about control or perfection… but about rediscovering curiosity, wonder, and the courage to explore the unknown?
In this inspiring episode of Manders Mindset, host Amanda Russo is joined by Aisha Makara, a Mongolian-born artist, engineer, and entrepreneur who has journeyed from being orphaned in Russia to building businesses across the globe, sending her art to space, and traveling to more than 70 countries.
Aisha opens up about the challenges of growing up without belonging, the healing power of creativity, and the life-changing lessons learned from solo travel. She shares how she built her “joyful bubble” to protect her energy as an empath, why she believes curiosity is the key to transformation, and how adults can reclaim the childlike wonder that helps us feel alive.
This conversation is for anyone craving more joy, freedom, and purpose and ready to break free from fear, gossip, and limitations to live fully.
🎙️ In this episode, listeners will discover
🌍 How Aisha transformed her orphaned childhood into a life of global exploration
💫 The power of curiosity and wonder in building a joyful mindset
🛡️ Practical ways to protect your energy as an empath without isolation
✈️ Why solo travel can shift your perspective on fear, abundance, and connection
🧒 What children can teach adults about forgiveness, presence, and play
🔥 How to create your own “joyful bubble” and invite others in
⏰ Timeline Summary
[0:00] Introduction to Aisha and her extraordinary journey
[5:10] Defining herself as a “wonderous spirit” who sees the world as a playground
[10:45] Growing up as an orphan in Russia and building independence early on
[17:22] Learning boundaries as an empath and creating a “joyful bubble”
[25:50] Teenage struggles, belonging, and mapping out her life vision at 15
[33:15] Solo travel and exploration... Choosing adventure over fear
[40:05] Why adults should relearn play, forgiveness, and curiosity from children
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Welcome to the Manders Mindset Podcast. Here you'll find both monologue and interviews of entrepreneurs, coaches, healers and a variety of other people when your host, amanda Russo, will discuss her own mindset and perspective and her guest's mindset and perspective on the world around us. Manders and her guests will help explain to you how shifting your mindset will shift your life, will help explain to you how shifting your mindset will shift your life.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Amanda's Mindset, where we explore the power of shifting your mindset. To shift your life.
Speaker 2:As always, I'm your host, Amanda Russo, and I am so excited to be here with Aisha, and she is a Mongolian-born artist, engineer and entrepreneur whose journey began as an orphan in Russia and led her across 70-plus countries. She's co-founded a property business in Portugal, launched art and crypto events and even sent her artwork to space. Now based in New York, Aisha bridges art and tech to inspire transformation in both the real and digital world, and I am so excited to speak with her. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 4:Thank you, Amanda, for having me today. I'm like listening to what I have done already so far in my life. Wow, I have done like amazing things, and if I'm going was to have published a book that's called like Joyful Living Guidebook, it's amazing how far we can go right when we have ideas and dreams.
Speaker 2:That is true. It is amazing how far we can go and now you have done a lot of amazing things, but who would you say? Aisha is at the core?
Speaker 4:lot of amazing things, but who would you say Aisha is at the core, I would just wonder. I love to look at myself as a spirit and I'm just wandering around and I'm just curious and learning. I'm just looking at the world as this playground. With so much to do. I get overwhelmed by how much we can do by being here and I trust that I can have time for all of it. Every time when I'm thinking about kids dancing, I believe in the same time that we do adults and I'm just like if I would come back, be a kid again. So how much can you create actually in one day? That's going to look like myself, as a wonder, joyful wonder, something like that.
Speaker 2:Have you always been this wonder joyful person?
Speaker 4:Yes, I've been like this all my life, as far as I remember myself, and that was in Pat. So I feel other people very much with what they feel and I didn't. That time I didn't work on my boundaries like on my own bubble of protection of life. And when I started to work on that I realized that I don't need to take myself because I have this moment of isolation to recharge myself. And sometimes it's been like a long, massive isolation. And now I said to myself I'm living in my joyful bubble and I'm always like I know how to manage and communicate with the world and say no when I'm lost at my feelings or my emotions. So I've done a lot of work on that part of my life Because I said, and Pat, it's not easy when you feel all type of the energies that's coming through you and it's not easy to understand what is yours, what is not yours.
Speaker 4:That's why I learned through my own experience how to create this joyful bubble and just be in this joyful bubble myself and invite people. Of course, when they want to be in this joyful bubble, they get to be in this joyful bubble with me. And I understand many people have up and downs with their emotions and it's not easy for them to stay in the joyful bubble all the time. And I'm just telling them listen to your own words, stop the gossip, start to live. Because many people spend a lot of time on gossiping and they haven't done anything in their life and they just like to continue the gossip. And I used to say I don't have time for that, I have so much to do, I have so much to live. I'm getting very angry, I would say, sometimes with people gossiping too much. That's why I just used to say to people get life, stop to do that to yourself.
Speaker 2:I like that comment Get life when to do that to yourself. I like that comment Get life when you have life. Don't do that. They don't have time for that. No, I get that completely. Can you take us down memory lane a little bit? Tell us about your upbringing, growing up as an orphan in Russia, If you remember that.
Speaker 4:Whatever you remember about, that when my mother abandoned me, me I was like around two years old and of course in the beginning I was like always looking for her. He was crying, and one day I was asking for love and attention from adults. And one day I just realized that I had so many other kids who's fighting. I just didn't like I get to fight all the time with other kids for that attention. And one day I just kind of said to myself okay, I created my own world and I just go and leave it. And I started to wonder.
Speaker 4:I started to explore outside of the neighborhood, like just going outside of the building, running away, because it was yard around. So I always find a way to escape. And in the beginning I was always like catch. And one day I said to myself it doesn't matter how far I get, I will go, I will be caught anyway if these people bring me back. And I've been punished every time. So I didn't like the way of punishment punished every time. So I didn't like the way of punishment. And so I started. I one day I was feeling like it doesn't matter if I will be far away or just be like nearby, I will be punished anyway. So would I continue to go and explore? And I did. It doesn't matter how much punishment I would get. I was still so stubborn and so, like, dedicated, I would stay or committed to go and explore. And one day, many, like some kids, was telling me like I want to go with you. I want to go with you, take me with you.
Speaker 2:And I started to think About how old were you, about how old were you when you were exploring. I was maybe like a four or five.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I started to think About how old were you, about how old were you when you were exploring? I was maybe like a four or five, I don't know. I started to run away when I was around three and, like after that, I started to be way more, I would say, independent in my own. I didn't have so many like friends. I had people I hang out with. I call it like this. I'm not like a deep fried chips. I didn't connect with anyone in a deep level that I could call friend or it's my like best friend or it's my best buddy or sister or something like that.
Speaker 4:So when, like, I started to take these kids out and kids started to cry and I want to go back, take me back. And second time, when the people asked me kids asking me again, I was telling them listen, I'm not going to take you back, you get to find your own way. And if you started to cry, better, don't go. I was very like, very straight to the point and I already knew which kids I can take with me, which kids I don't want to take with me, and I communicated that very direct to them and sometimes I had conflicts and fights and all of that kids do. So I've been like natural leader from the beginning of my life and always being like direct with my communication, and I didn't feel that way. I wanted to belong and when I become a teenager I started to feel strong feeling of belonging. I want to belong to the group and I started to look what group I want to belong to. And the groups I want to belong to they didn't worth me. At school, for example, I had some group of kids that I would hang out with and they were always bullying me or calling me names and it's always been like a game of me protecting me and I couldn't figure out how I can communicate with them or play with them in that kind of mind game. So I connected with not good kids, street kids, and I started to do things that was not good. I just wanted to belong and I didn't look at it as if it was not good, but for society and the consequences of it was not good. Society and the consequences of it was not good and that was actually good for me because I stopped to go to the school for a while and even so I was very good at school, leader of the class for several years and when I ended up in this company, I stopped to go to the school. I started to drink a lot, get into some troubles, big troubles. One day one of my friends running away from the police and died. The people like started to die.
Speaker 4:And when they were even like 17, they were a little bit older than me and one day I was sitting there and I was like, oh my gosh, would I survive until 80? Would I be still alive? What I want to do, what dreams I want to live? Because I always want to dream. I always dream to travel around the world and I have this idea of traveling around the world and this is like facing the death.
Speaker 4:In that time of my life and only age. I was 15. So I created around about 14, 15,. I created this idea of me, who I am, until I'm 60. Now I have already who I'm going to be until I'm 200 and I'm trying to extend it until to 400 anyway.
Speaker 4:At that time, when I was almost like a 14, 15, I was feeling like 60 years old. It's a long life, it's such a long life. So I started to create I'm going to travel between 20 to 30. I'm going to be a businesswoman between 30 to 40. I'm going to be a mentor between 40 to 50. And I'm going to be a valencer of the US and UN between 50 to 60 and after I just die. It's something like that. But that's not true. But it's enough. I've done a good job for the community, I've lived my life and now, when I'm thinking about it, it's funny, of course, but when you're there alone and your friend is dying and different accidents, you started to think what you have, what the tools that you have, what that mind started thinking what you have, what the tools that you have. That mind in that moment you have right, because you haven't traveled. You just explore your neighborhood. You maybe explore a little bit around your region, but you haven't been traveling around the country, so learning other languages and being extended to the next level.
Speaker 4:So I finished school, I went to the university and I started to travel, hitchhike. At first I was hitchhiking. I ended up in a hitchhiking club and after one day we went to Moscow, to the capital. I loved the capital. I was like, oh my God, it's so big, it's huge, it's so scary. Would I live in such a big city? Because I would live in that time, a small city compared to the capital. And that was there because I said if I want to travel around the world, I get to move to the capital. It's hoping me more opportunities for travels. And eventually I did it.
Speaker 4:It was, of course, different things I got to think through Because I was a natural leader. I was creating different forums, different events. At university I was again leader of my class, organizing a lot of things, making things happen, and I started to go to the orphan house because when I've been an orphan, I want to have an adult who's coming to talk to us, to bring like a tea or cake to share with us and share a conversation, to care about us, and I started to be that person. When I get older, like adult, and got my, let's say, life in the university, I was turned around so fast that we could not profit and be like a whole journey in such a short amount of the time and I moved to Moscow. Eventually, because of my leadership skills, they transferred me to Moscow. Eventually, because of my leadership skills, they transferred me to Moscow and from Moscow, six months later, I applied for the exchange student to Norway. It was just that Norway was one of the universities and I'd been selected.
Speaker 4:When I moved to Norway and my friends were like you just moved to Moscow, you shouldn't go so far away. And I said, listen, it's just a one-year program, I will be back, no worries. If I said, listen, it's just one year program, I will be back, don't worry, if I don't like it, I will be back. And I didn't. I was in love with Norway. I started to travel around the world. It was so easy to travel and I was just like I don't want to go back. Russia is so bad.
Speaker 2:Can I interrupt you? Can I interrupt you real quick Now, how?
Speaker 4:I don't know. I was just kind of like thinking. I was just thinking if I don't like it, I won't feel scared, because it's just exploration. I think because of my childhood, when I was like going exploring. Even so, I've been punished. I still have this stubbornness in me because I love to explore alone. Actually, many, many, hundreds of the times, thousands of the times.
Speaker 4:I do so many solo trips around the world, like many places, and for me, I didn't consider myself like as a woman. And then people said, oh, you're a woman, you're a beautiful woman, and how does it you're doing so many solo trips? How does it actually possible? How can you manage to do that? And I'm just like I don't know. I'm just looking at everything as a family and I look at everything like a we. Everything is a wholeness, oneness. I don't know how to explain it. This is how I feel and this is how I look at it, and I feel like this world around me, especially when I left my little town. I just feel like everywhere and anywhere I go, it's like family, people meeting me with a smile and just hugs and giving me a good meal and a good place to stay. And I just love it because when I started the hitchhike I know so many things Like people really helping you in so many magical and beautiful ways that you cannot even imagine People give you money, people give you clothes, people give you. I didn't have in my environment when I grew up. I didn't have like my room or my clothes, my toys. I got to always share with other kids. I never had this work like mine. It's always been ours. So it's kind of a different perspective.
Speaker 4:When I moved to Norway, I started to experience this mind because I got my room and my toys, my clothes. So for me it was weird because I always share and here I am living alone. I was living alone in Russia as well, a little bit, but I was sharing in a student residency. And here I am having my own spot, traveling, having so many clothes that I never, ever when I was living in Russia, had, and so many shoes, so many bags, whatever Got my car. So for me it was like a process of exploring a new reality what is mine? And even so, I didn't feel it. I always shared. I was like, hey, I don't have that feel it, I always share it as a case, I don't have that.
Speaker 4:The thing is that's probably switch, like that's kind of like the problem with different, between of being abundance or being scary of living. Because in my case, when I was a child, I always explore going so many places by myself. So when I'm exploring the world right now, I go to so many places by myself, I don't know, I'm just feeling like I just go somewhere I haven't been and it's so. My family's there, my other family that I haven't met yet. So that's kind of in my mind and people look at me I'm a little bit crazy and I'm saying like I don't know. Crazy and I'm saying like I don't know what's cool, what's crazy.
Speaker 4:Sometimes I don't know and like the reality is that people have this ideas of protecting themselves and I feel we don't need to be protected. We're always protected. We get to be curious and learn about new cultures, about new countries, about new people. It's a curiosity, a key. Adapting it is another key. Curiosity is something very beautiful. People haven't looked into that because as kids, you're always curious, you're always asking questions, you're always present in the moment. You don't have yesterday, tomorrow, you're just having now. And I feel like the more we access the curiosity and again, be so present in the moment and learn to listen carefully and play Really.
Speaker 4:Just be playful. Don't think about outcome or expectations or attachments. Just play as a kid do. Kids just play because they want to play. They don't think about what they will get from that what I like. They always just do things because they're just having fun in the moment.
Speaker 4:They fight with each other in the moment and after they ask for forgiveness in the moment. Everything happens so fast In their life they don't even think like why I fight with that person, why I fight with that kid. Everything is in the life. They don't even think like why I fight with that person, why I fight with that kid. Everything is in the moment. Adults are doing so much, spending so much time when they fight. It takes them weeks or months to go and ask for forgiveness, so sometimes years. At first we get to learn how to forgive ourselves. Kids are doing so easy. So because they just like to play, they're just like I like to play with you. Please give me a hug, I love you. And they just continue let's go to play. That's it. Yeah, no, for me, I'm learning a lot.
Speaker 2:You're learning a lot from what.
Speaker 4:They're great.
Speaker 2:From kids, from children. Yeah, you're learning a lot from what they're great from kids, from children. Yeah, no, I like how you mentioned so many people are protecting themselves and then, but I feel like they're not allowing themselves to fully live. There's, I understand, like the mindset of protecting yourself and there's certain things of realisticness. Whatever, I'm thinking in terms of the solo travel. We're recording this as I'm getting ready to go on a solo trip myself and as a woman, I'm sure you've heard a lot of stuff about solo traveling Like I'm, I'm leaving the country for a month by myself, traveling to Bali, and so many people are like, oh my God, I could never do that as a woman and I understand the fear, but like I'd rather face a little bit of fear and do this than look back at 60, 70, 80 and be like man. I wish I would have faced a little bit of nerves and did the thing.
Speaker 4:I've been in Bali. I mean, bali is very safe, super safe for women, and it's such a magical place and it's a beautiful, magical things. There you will learn so many things and, plus, when you come back, you will be a completely different human being than you were before. So don't listen to the people. Listen to your heart. At the end of the day, we are our best friend. We are here to live our best life that we imagine for ourselves. Nobody else would do it for us. We get to do it for ourselves. Nobody will stop us. We do it. That's why the most important thing in life is to understand and get clarity what we would like to be and why. Just enjoy. That's how I like it.
Speaker 4:It's like life is full of adventure and I'm just feeling so joyful and so happy to live and be here on the planet Earth, and I look at myself and I look at people as winners. We're here to win. Being on planet Earth is already a win. To experience things we experience is already a win. And when we started to look at ourselves as winners instead of looking at ourselves as victims, it's a completely different perspective.
Speaker 2:So I'm inviting people every time to read as a first yeah, now I'm curious do you have suggestions for people to embody the childlike joy and the childlike wonder more than they are?
Speaker 4:Get classy and vision on that. Start practice day by day Us. But practice is our habits right. Become our actions and our habits. So always be aware what you create and what you communicate with the world. That means something else, same as she does. So it's here to learn and experience things and enjoy them. We have this one line that I used to say it's how cool it is to get a joyful life.
Speaker 2:That's so true? No, it's completely true that we have one life and I love how you mentioned clarity on what is joyful to them. Like everybody's different, like in what brings me joy versus what brings you joy, versus what brings somebody else listening to us joy it might all be different. Like I went to Bali a year ago and I'm going back and so many people are like, why are you going to Bali again? I want to go to Bali again. Like it brought me a lot of joy. So, whatever the thing is for you like maybe traveling to different countries isn't your thing Try something, whether it's an activity, a hobby, whatever. You don't know how you enjoy something until you do it. I'm thinking of just different activities. But if you don't ever try it, you won't ever know. Even like back to what you said, like we don't know what we don't know, Like we don't know what we enjoy if we never do it.
Speaker 4:Exactly. You continue to live in your city and be attached to your family, your friends, dogs, whatever. It's just that you never want to keep the life there. For you, it's a choice. I'm there. For you it's a choice. I'm feeling like people like to go next. How many people care to be put to the next stage? Well, I'm not human. They say to go to the country, but that was like a whole journey of that. I don't know if they will actually do it one day. 90% of people. They don't do things. They change. You know, they need a chair, like a pool or something to happen. I think they start to shake something to shake them so that they can actually start to do something without it.
Speaker 4:It's always going to stop any excuses and make them choose.
Speaker 2:No, that's really true, that's true.
Speaker 4:So I used to say stop the victim. I stopped almost all the excuses, that's true. So I used to say stop the victim, really like stop almost all the excuses, things, solutions, please. To the friend that I'm like oh, we'll be doing best to communicate, as as all about the principles. And people like to gossip. People like to bring a lot of excuses. They don't want to do anything. They're always blaming you about what. And people like to gossip, people like to bring a lot of excuses. They don't want to do anything. They're always blaming you about what's happening in your life.
Speaker 4:You say, oh, it's because of you being like this. Oh, because of you, you make me feel like this. No, I mean, I have made anything. You're creating a project. Oh, feel me, I'm just many things that I have made anything. You're creating a project, things. I feel me I'm just many things.
Speaker 4:Like mirror. Look at yourself in the mirror. What do you see? I'm asking people like what do you see in you? You see someone that you like like proud of, but you someone like, what proud of I was feeling? Someone like what proud of I was feeling, like to be me. Choose to be miserable instead to choose to be successful. It's all the same thing, but it's just the perspective, so I'll box it below when people don't understand that. It's about mindset. Mindset is very powerful. Just practicing with a meditation can switch your life. Practicing with a chant can switch your life. Walking in the mornings can switch your life, like just doing something different. Just one habit, add just one thing into your life. 30 minutes can switch your life. Just intentional, like intentions, switch your life. Get grounding into it, get more clarity. We may be going into this level of awareness and the sadness and I can't do anything.
Speaker 4:I said myself I can't even help anyone. I cannot do that because I can't help myself. I'm here to please myself. I cannot please. I am a pleaser, a saint, that is enough. I cannot anymore say the time of dragging people up when they went down, why? Why am I saying again and again they won't do that anymore? And when I see people dragging them down, I don't want to know these people. That's it. I'm very clear about that. That's it. I'm very clear about that.
Speaker 4:But don't deal with the context of God, who wants to be miserable and make excuses all the time. You know, deal with it. I'm so tired with my life. I said Listen, you have done right, it's your choice, it's your call. You continue to be like this and drive bad people around you. No, and you don't know it is. People don't even know it's a death. They don't even see that. Blaming other people about whatever is happening in their life that's the sad part. You don't see me like blocking people being bad to themselves. Why, that was the sad part. You know similar. Why people be active, self-meaning, why. Those are the part that they will ask. The question that we do because we want to know.
Speaker 2:Many people don't yeah, I, I like how you mentioned you being intentional and switching even one little thing, whether it's a meditation, whether it's going for a walk, and I like how you mentioned both of them. People have mixed opinions on the word meditation. Even you don't have to be sitting like cross-legged, like a like Buddha, but I think both of those to me like resonated getting quiet, like we're such a distracted world whether it's our phones, like technology we're always hearing something, looking at something, viewing something. Like, even if it's not a 30 minute walk, even if it's a 10 minute walk, like without your phone, take meditating, closing your eyes, taking a few. It doesn't have to be a very specific way that you do it. Like quieting the external world a little bit can help you get clearer and figure out what it is that you're actually looking for.
Speaker 2:I think it's very difficult for people to know because the outside world is so noisy. Like we have all these notifications, we have emails, we have texts, we have calls. Like we have all these notifications, we have emails, we have texts, we have calls. Like we have social media, we have constant distraction, we have our family, we have all of these things that, even if it's a little bit of time quieting. All of that will help us figure out what we want. If our minds aren't off, how the hell are we gonna know? Great?
Speaker 4:I think, by seeing people's state or level of awareness. The zombies and the mice are traveling around the world like peas and mares and running in a field. Chimpanzees even came into the forest from slide to slide with TikTok and Instagram and other social media. Like people, even like, don't understand all these dating apps, like you know, and those siblings' distractions. The people can't even realize how much they're distracted. They stop, observe, they will see how lonely they are. They don't have any more emotional intelligence. They don't like to go emotional either. They prefer to lose to the next instead to grow, instead to learn Stancing. They don't know and it's there for them. They don't understand that. It's not in there for them, they simply just go. Why?
Speaker 4:do you work with that, they don't really think work. No one wants to work. So there are both. Many of them can't meet so many women. You know, like I'm one of them. We talk about it. I'm going to have family, I'm going to have kids. Some people decided to have it, but it is also still the greatest. Be intentional about that. Make that response a key responsibility. Be responsible for your choices. This is easy. Make some studies easy. Makes them so easy, but in turn, you decided to do that. So take responsibility and consequences out of that. Don't be shady. Don't build a thing that you'd be not proud of Because you're feeling like, oh, it's too easy for me to be a partner with now. I'm a mother right now. I'm not going out with my friends without a house I have. It's just me making the decision. That's which I make. I make my question decision about her, that I don't want her.
Speaker 4:And at the same time, I will not feel sorry about myself after 10 years or 20 years, when I'm not having kids or being a sick woman. It's my choice. It's my choice because it's what I choose. It's what I choose. So my choice, because what I choose will be what they choose to do. So my choice will not even help if they choose to blame people or their choice that they created and they make action to break these choices. That's the only way to improve life.
Speaker 4:Each case will have more and more lonely people, and you can understand that they're lonely. You can be in marriage and be lonely and at the same time, how do we can feel more connected with each other? Because now we have the internet, we can travel around the world, we can the internet, we travel around the world, we can be connected, and so it's disconnected. Why? Because of the fear, because of what I don't know. These things are like. We have this opportunity to travel, to explore, to learn the languages. We're absolutely aiming within the world.
Speaker 4:If you decided one day to move to Bali, it's super easy to move to Bali and live in Bali for you and at the same time, it's a different lifestyle. It's a completely different way of being right and it's like you're going gotta give up on your friends there. Remember some of your friends who come with you Long do I have. I'm a big, like most of Bali, and they move all their friends there. Some of them they stay with me. Anything is possible. It's just a decision like, and we think there's not so many people brave enough to make that decision and to continue the action with decisions without putting themselves away. I'm saying it's not for doubt, in my land at least, I don't have time for that. I'm doing things first and I'm dealing with consequences.
Speaker 4:So, like now, I'm a little bit more grounded, so I have less thinking too, and when I really want to do something, I just do it. I even don't think about it. Whatever, even I just have my $200 in my pocket. I'm like I'm going to jump from the plane right now. I don't care Money in my pocket. I'm like I'm going to jump from the plane right now. I don't care, money will come anyway, I'm just enjoying today. This is what kids do. They don't think about how we get more money tomorrow. They're just enjoying today.
Speaker 4:And others don't have this idea. It's always funny. But two years more money, but two years mortgage this, that, 76, that, from the end of the day, you get the joy. You're just one person. And I was like, as far as I'm just one person, why I get to worry about the mortgage, why I get to worry about all these credits, about this and that. Yeah, like I have a choice, it's better to play. I don't think the community or society wants us to do that. They don't want us to do free singing. Like I said, we're free singers for ourselves. They don't want us to be free.
Speaker 2:I love how you mentioned you have no time for doubt. Like I love that. I love that you have no time for doubt. It's true, if you want to focus on the fear, want to focus on the doubt, I believe it'll bring it more in and it's also it's just not going to help you. What is that going to help with? Like I have the mindset of there's a will, there's a way, everything's figureoutable, you can figure anything out. And I agree society is designed to set us up to have this year of life, of living. But we get get one life and life's the longest thing we'll do, but it's also super short, it'll. It's gonna fly by very fast and so many people aren't brave enough to do the thing, but it's.
Speaker 2:I'd rather face it with a little bit of nerves, not saying that I don't have any nerves going into some things, like I when I went to bali a year ago and I had never left the country before, so obviously there were nerves. But it's I going to let the nerves stop me completely? No, I'm going to do it with the nerves what do you mean? Like it transmuted to excitement a little bit, and just also recognize that it's normal, like anything new. You're going to have a little bit of nerves, even if it's not a fearful thing. So it's like just do it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's what I used to say to the people, saying just do it, because what you have to do like ask for support, all things you can get to know it's okay to be attached to know you will get your answers. You get to continue asking the same question and you don't need to have just one yes and that's it. And I used to also accept what you have instead of what you don't have Because, like me, publishing my book, many people said, oh, you have to do it with a publisher this and that, and it's so expensive. And people said, oh, you have to do it with a publisher this and that, and then it's so expensive, and blah, blah, blah. And I said, yes, it is, but the thing is, when I started to move forward, the things were coming naturally and what's meant to be is that to me.
Speaker 4:I'm the creator, because I don't know the way when I will do that. I just know I should be open, flexible and listen very carefully and be open to learn. Be a student, because I know and I know that many other people have done it Lost the events in the process and not alone. Instead of doubting myself because I don't have anyone around me who have done it. I'm going and explore, find solution, look for the solution. Yes, it takes me one year, maybe 10 years, I don't know.
Speaker 4:I need to continue to move forward with that idea and with the action because it inspires me. It's my passion, I feel alive by doing that. That's what matters for me. I'm not thinking about how much money I will make out of that. I'm thinking like I'm creating the impact. It matters because it matters for me. You know and this is what I do with this power living life Like it matters for me in the first place, and I used to say I'm here to please myself in the first place. When I'm creating something in the first place, I'm creating for myself and I'm enjoying it. It seems like I'm not attached to that. Either I love it and I'm just it it's incredible times to that either I love it and I'm just okay. So if somebody wants to do that, all they do I'm very happy with that human being as well, because in reality, I cannot take absolutely anything from this world, and I'm not saying my body cannot take it, you see. So what to worry about, to enjoy all of it. Really, all your heart was all your heart?
Speaker 4:I was asking myself every time what rich person would do or the rich person who is like absolutely everything in the world. What would do? She would go and experience this experience. She would go to this country or that country. I know that she really wants to do that. I know, if I would have all the money in the world, what I would have created now. Just go and do it.
Speaker 4:Look, speaking like when I'm thinking I have all of it. You get to practice and you really get to do that. You have opportunity each day, billions of opportunities to present this process itself, especially with social media. So many opportunities you get to just look at it. So much to do and we have this 24 hour. We gotta be mindful. I will wanna use this 24 hours today. I got to be mindful. I will want to use these 24 hours. Today.
Speaker 4:I was, in a way, on my road trip. I was editing my book, my second book, and maybe what's being and whatever doing Instagram, doing Dirstama. I'm just sitting and slowly my book and it's something that I think it's matter for me. So I'm just feeling like sometimes people are aware of what you're doing, the way you're spending it. Yes, I've been also a zombie looking at my Instagram, spending hundreds of hours At the same time, I use it as a way to learn to out the social media, because for me, instagram has algorithms to do something. I don't like it. Don't put the some people who actually have the great potential and have the great message and they don't have money to promote themselves At any other platforms. They just want to make money and they don't think about the message, they just think about the profit.
Speaker 2:I love how you mentioned how are you spending your 24 hours, like time is the only thing we can't get back. Time is the only thing we can't buy. It doesn't matter how much money you have in the world Like you can't buy more time. It's a clock ticking that we can't buy. It doesn't matter how much money you have in the world Like you can't buy more time, it's a clock ticking that we can't see. So what's important to you, what's most valuable to you? And I think even as Aisha mentioned, getting quiet and figuring that out, putting the distractions away a little bit, is a really great way to start to uncover that. I really appreciate you speaking with me. I really enjoyed this. Have you heard?
Speaker 4:of a man named Jay Shetty.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course Some people haven't, and it surprises me, to be honest. So he ends. I'm a big fan of him, I love him. He ends his podcast on purpose with two segments and I end my podcast with those two segments as well. The first segment is the many sides to us, and there's five questions that need to be answered in one word each. What is one word someone who was meeting you for the first time would use to describe you as Beautiful? What is one word that someone who knows you extremely well would use to describe you as?
Speaker 4:Happy.
Speaker 2:What is one word you'd use to describe yourself?
Speaker 4:Joyful.
Speaker 2:What is one word that, if someone didn't like you or agree with your mindset, would you use to describe you as Annoying? What is one word you're trying to embody right now?
Speaker 4:Elaborate A commitment.
Speaker 1:I don't like commitments.
Speaker 4:I have commitment Alignments. I'll do it for a second, for a second.
Speaker 2:Second segment is the final five, and these can be answered in up to a sentence. What is the best advice you've heard or received?
Speaker 4:If you can dream it, you can do it, but I won't this time.
Speaker 2:Why is that the best advice?
Speaker 4:I think in a mystery. It's like when we have a dream, it's a way to achieve it, to create it. I swear like if you dream of do it and what, like? What world you stay in?
Speaker 2:have a world like we have this day world, so many different parts of the world, but what, in the worst advice you've heard or received, what is something that you used to value, that you no longer value?
Speaker 4:Probably the playfulness or the patience. I don't know if patience would be better. I still value the patience. If you. Sorry, what was that? It's not easy. I actually know about a lot of things that I still don't know about. All the things that have created so far like them. Can you give me some examples? It's easy to think through.
Speaker 2:Some examples of what I don't understand right now like I've heard so many different types of answers, anything from sometimes material things, sometimes maybe alcohol, you don't know.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, it's true, I would say eat Slucky wheat or like slucky cannabis. I don't do that anymore. It doesn't fit such value in my mind.
Speaker 2:It would be good.
Speaker 4:What was that? Can it be like that? I don't smoke weed anymore? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:If you could describe what you would want your legacy to be, as if someone was reading it, what would you want it to say?
Speaker 4:She lived to the fullest and she created and she achieved all her dreams.
Speaker 2:If you could create one law in the world that everyone had to follow, what would it be? And I want to know why.
Speaker 4:Joyful living. Why? Because if we live in a joyful state, we always have so much to give and to create. That's very hard to do. The joy is very powerful and people don't use it so much.
Speaker 2:That's true, that is so true. Thank you so much. That's true, that is so true. Thank you so much, aisha.
Speaker 4:I really appreciate it. Yeah, me too. Thank you very much. It was actually very deep, and grounding.
Speaker 2:I'm glad, I'm so glad to hear that and I do like to give it back to the guest. Do you have any final words of wisdom?
Speaker 4:anything else you want to share with the listeners. Leave your dreams to the fullest. Have as many dreams as possible, because all of them can be true and real during this lifetime, and also travel as much as possible. Give yourself permission and opportunity to find a way to travel, but special notes, simply always looking for solutions and be an example for others. Joyfully, make it Namaste.
Speaker 2:I love that. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4:Thank you very much. I would like to appreciate your time and I would like to love you. You've been amazing by creating this podcast and continue to do it. Continue to participate in SPAO and other videos.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:And thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Mander's Mindset, in case no, one told you today I'm proud of you, I'm voting for you, I'm rooting for you and you got this, as always. If you enjoyed the show, I would really appreciate it if you would leave me a five star rating, leave a review and share it with anyone you think would benefit from this. And don't forget you are only one mindset. Shift away from shifting your life. Thanks, guys, Until next time.
