Full Transcript for OneAnswer: Yoga w/ Tammy Lashchyk PART 2 || EP29 ~ How to Embrace Responsibility for Your Joy

to a place of what they call zero limits. And you're doing this also by taking 100 % responsibility and accountability for everything that is in your life. And you are the common denominator between, between YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Mmm. Tamara Lashchyk: you and everything that you're witnessing. this psychologist, the common denominator between these prisoners that were criminally insane was him. And he took full responsibility for their behaviors and their actions. Like he took responsibility for the rape, for the murder. And he was doing clearing on himself because he's the common denominator in this whole thing. And he's doing this clearing work, clearing work. And over time, and it wasn't even that long of time, YOGI RICH: and Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: prisoners started to heal, people, the staff was coming to work, the morale improved, and prisoners started to be released. Like they were actually healing and were getting released. And eventually they closed down the prison because they had healed everybody. And so he has taught Ho'oponono and he's even partnered with Dr. Joe Vitale ⁓ on a bunch of different things. But I had heard about it. YOGI RICH: Wow. Wow. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Did he have a book that he wrote himself? Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, he has many books now, but when he wrote... I do think so, and I think he's now... Radha Metro-Midkiff: Not Jova Kelly, but the person who did the Ho'oponopono. I he has a book. I just can't remember his name, but you could look up Ho'oponopono. ⁓ H-O apostrophe O P-O N-O P-O N-O. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, yes. YOGI RICH: What does it sound like? Let's hear it. ⁓ wow. Tamara Lashchyk: Well, it's actually just a repeating of four phrases. You literally just say, ⁓ you say, I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, and I love you. You repeat those four phrases. And I have the beads that I got from India because you want to do it at least 108 times. And you want to it at several times a day. I've only been doing it in the morning. Sometimes I try to do it later, but I haven't been consistent. But I do it every morning. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: And I started doing it because my younger brother's an alcoholic and he doesn't want help and there's nothing I can do to help him. And I figured if this healed these prisoners, maybe this could help heal him. And so I started doing Ho'opon'o and I started to take accountability for my brother's drinking and how I feel about the emotions that I feel about his drinking and all these things. And it was interesting because four days later, my cousin called me. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: and she had said that my younger brother reached out to her and said that her husband was an alcoholic and he died, but she had pills that help wean off alcohol, and my younger brother requested those pills. And I was like, ⁓ my God, Hope Alone is working. And then a week later, she called back and she said, I texted him to get his address

and he said, forget it, I don't want him. And I was like. Radha Metro-Midkiff: and YOGI RICH: Yeah. Dope. Yeah, that's cool. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Woo! That's juicy! YOGI RICH: You're not allowed. Tamara Lashchyk: So, it's something, it's something I know. Radha Metro-Midkiff: That's okay though, that's a step. mean, you know, the process is not easy. It doesn't just let go along a flat line or a upward trajectory. It can go up and down. YOGI RICH: It is a step. Tamara Lashchyk: something. I will say that in doing the hope and I've only been doing it for I would say to maybe two months now. But my stress level has decreased substantially. Like I feel like I've gotten to a new like I have a little bit of anxiety that still exists with me that I you know, it's like the first thought I wake up and there's still that that stress and anxiety. And Radha Metro-Midkiff: Hmm. YOGI RICH: Hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: It's so much better than I mean, it was five years ago, four years ago, three years ago, and it's getting better as I'm clearing and healing. And I feel like in the last few months with Hopo Ono, like I've had some things financially happen. Like I haven't paid my taxes in two years. Finally, I got a letter from the IRS saying like, need to pay your taxes. and, know, like I've been living off of. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Not awards, No kidding. Tamara Lashchyk: Because I've been on this journey and haven't been as focused on my business and making money. I've been living off of savings and retirement and draining the accounts. And at some point, I made this conscious decision when I was like, OK, do I start tapping into retirement or do I go back to my corporate job? I started to say, this journey is way too valuable. I'm all in. And if I have to spend every single dime YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: and maybe that's part of my learning lessons that the universe has in store for me, I'm all in. I'm still all into this journey because what, like when I came back from India last year, I felt like, or even when I was in India, I was in the ocean. It was a day where there was no wind, there was no waves, and I'm lying in the ocean like floating, and the sky is blue, eagles are circling, the palm trees are swaying in the wind, and I literally felt like I was in God's hands. like in the palm of God's hands. And I realized that this is the feeling that we should be getting, this is the feeling I should have every single day. This is what they say, feel that joy now. Like you don't need to wait for that joy, feel it now. And I got to that place where I understood that feeling of joy. And since I came back, every day has been a feeling of joy. And I feel like I've crossed the Rubicon, like I'm out of the fire now. YOGI RICH: you Tamara Lashchyk: Like I've done the hard work doesn't mean the work stops because it goes on forever. But I feel like I've done the hard heavy lifting and now I'm through the wilderness. And now I'm super inspired because now I also feel like I have this this playbook on how to live life. And I realize what it's now all about. So that's a very exciting place to be. And YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, so. YOGI RICH: I mean, that's beautiful to hear. I love the, like it's very inspiring, I guess. Like most people who just hear about yoga or any of this stuff that we like talk about that, they don't, it's like so hard to explain, but it's like, you know, they see the postures, they see meditation or they see like, you know, maybe we're like smiling a little bit more in our interactions with like our friends and family and stuff like that. how like, it's like flexibility and strength where it's like, okay, you do your lifting, you go through like your bulking phase or whatever. And like, even if you were to like... stop or you to do it a little bit less frequently or you to kind of change like your fervor with it like that strength that flexibility kind of stays with you now it's just sort of maintenance work and and it's interesting like to hear you say even in your morning routine like and same thing with me too and is like it it's continuously evolving because like as you get deeper in the rabbit hole of ⁓ doing the work or however we want to phrase it. Like you get introduced to new people, you get shown new techniques, know, okay, maybe no screens two hours before sleep. Okay, let me try that now. Okay, well, maybe I shouldn't do this, we do that. And like. I guess you could say like you're sort of like, okay, I ayahuasca or I did this or I did that. And it was you get to get a you get to experience like these different levels of bump bump up business like less stress, less stress or more tools that are available or like sort of like this more easeful experience of life. But then it's like, as you get to that level, then like the Tamara Lashchyk: All YOGI RICH: quote the things that used to stress you out, like let's say not having security, like these, like you're saying, like traveling through Costa Rica, being in India, like now you're in like hypothetically more stressful experiences than you would have ever been comfortable with in like say your previous life and the corporate life where like, no, I can't just do this and not have certain things like clearly delineated for me, but as you get like further down the path of like, okay, you are the sense of security in a way like, you your practices are what's keeping you Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank YOGI RICH: grounded and that like everything else is just like, everything else really is a mystery and your practices help keep you grounded. So as the practices advance, I guess you could say, right, so it's like, okay, you're drinking water, now you're gonna be more hydrated and now you're doing the prayer. It's like, it's also like, there's also gonna be a correlation between like the amount of... chance in your life. I wonder, this is kind what I'm trying to say, when we're rigid in our lives and we're rigid about our

thinking, we almost aren't even able to take those adventures that God wants us to take because our minds aren't even allowing us to see these adventures. I bet you all of our lives before we... became more awakened, like you get these urges like, no Quentin, you should consider moving or doing something different. I'm like, well, I can't move, I'm gonna lose my job. And you do like this thinking and it keeps you from that feeling. But then you reach this point where it's like, no, I'm gonna go with that inner voice, I'm gonna go with that voice. And then next thing you know, that voice is leading you to feel like you really are in connection with God. And then you can go back and you're like, wow, I have this experience of. Radha Metro-Midkiff: you YOGI RICH: like listening to that voice and then maybe it's like this crazy adventure I go on but this adventure will be full of moments that are opening up my worldview and giving me that sense, that real sense of divine security that like... ⁓ that gives you that confidence to move forward in your life in the future. I don't know what's gonna happen, but I do know that God's got my back and he's not putting me in situations that I can't handle. For you, you've been in Costa Rica. I don't know how much Spanish you speak, but I'm assuming not super fluid. And I feel like we can go on and on in stories like this, but throughout our lives where you're in this strange land or you're in this strange experience and then you meet someone who's like. from Chicago or someone that's familiar to you, someone that can help you see through, you have a guide. And I feel like, and it was funny, I was just in Virginia, and Virginia really reminded me of this, like driving through Virginia, like you really can't see far ahead at all. it's like, really you only see like one hill at a time, then you're going here, then the tree line, the hills, the winding roads, all that stuff, like that is what life is like. Like, I don't. Tamara Lashchyk: That is a perfect metaphor for life. you know what? The thing is that what keeps us stuck is this idea that we need to be able to see the whole landscape, but you don't. You only need to see a couple steps ahead of you and the rest will reveal itself. Because the other thing is too, I don't even know that the whole landscape is already mapped out because we have free will. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: And again, if you go to this theory that life is a matrix and we're living in a simulation and there's all sorts of fractals and any change will change the direction or trajectory of your life and there's a limitless amount of timelines happening, you only see those first three steps because that's just the decision you're making. If you choose three steps in this direction, that's gonna change the trajectory as well. So I don't even know that the universe really has it all like late. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Yes, if you stay on this timeline, this is why tarot card readers are actually indeed somewhat accurate. They're actually reading your point in time and given if none of the circumstances change and you continue on this trajectory, this is the probability of these things happening or this is the likely outcome. But you make one decision that's different and deviates, then you're now on a new trajectory. And so it's super, well, it's super, I mean, Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank you. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Ooh, I love that Timmy so beautifully said it. Ooh, that was good. YOGI RICH: Yes Tamara Lashchyk: But this is why doing this work of healing also, like by releasing all of these feelings, you start to actually live life in wonder and you don't, you're not so scared about everything and you release this anxiety and this fear and you're finally starting to enjoy life. Every day becomes joyful and it's, I know it sounds a little hokey or whatever, but. Radha Metro-Midkiff: you Tamara Lashchyk: When you've done the painful work and you start to feel this every single day and you start to realize, wow, like this is, and then you start to realize that the money is irrelevant because you're feeling, like right now I feel like I am a multimillionaire, okay? Now that does not mean that I still am not inspiring to, like, you know, I've been there once, I've spent it all going on this journey and I can't wait. YOGI RICH: Yeah. it. Tamara Lashchyk: to the day that I write my post on LinkedIn saying, I've gone down this journey. I absolutely believe this was the right course. And now I plant the flag to tell you that I've now made more money in my business than in my Wall Street job. I still do want all that. I still do aspire to have a multi-million dollar business. But it's for a different purpose than it was five years ago. It's not ego-based. YOGI RICH: Yeah. 100%. Tamara Lashchyk: You know, like I'm still, if I were to lose everything, and I essentially somewhat have, although not entirely, but I mean, given up a lot, and I'm happier, I'm happier now than I think I've ever been. And I was never really like a miserable person. I was always pretty happy, but it was also driven by so much that was external. And now it's, it's a lot sort of simpler and doesn't require anything. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Like just the state of being is a happier place every day. like I just love the whole, I do love like the living life in wonder. I mean, it's just been sort of amazing. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Okay. Tammy, of the things that Shanda would always say, Shanda Sumner by the way if I think I've mentioned her before but she's the owner of Hardcore Business and Hardcore Leadership along with her husband Ash Gundahari. ⁓ Shanda would say and I don't know if this originated with her, sorry if this quote goes to somebody else, but she's the one who told me, so I heard it from her, was that the amount of money you make is directly correlated to the number of lives

you touch. And I think that's why we also have this longing for our business to be successful, because we know that it will be, the success is not the number of dollars. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: It's like the number of lives that we have affected, like the number of lives that we have been able to support and help in all of those things. And so when we have this longing for like, ⁓ my business is going to make more money than it did in my Wall Street job, what we're really also saying is like, I have touched that lives that this business is this successful. And I think that's a beautiful... Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Okay, so it's such a beautiful thing to want to support and help that many people. I think there's a lot of people have this like, will touch a million lives or I'm going to touch, you know, a lot of ⁓ people in our coaching world will have goals. Because it's not just a monetary goal. It really is like, I am going to have an effect and an influence on the world. ⁓ And if my message isn't being heard, am I just like a tree falling in the woods, right? YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: So we want our message to be heard and we want this to get out there in the world because the world really, really, really needs positive messages right now. Like urgent, it's important that we get these things out there in the world. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah. 100 % and what was interesting is I'm still in touch with pretty much all my clients from my first year in coaching and I spoke to this one woman who went through one of my first programs and she was diagnosed with bladder cancer and she just had her bladder removed. When I spoke with her, she said she sounded fantastic and I was like saying to her, go, Radha Metro-Midkiff: Mmm. Tamara Lashchyk: you may have had your bladder removed, but you sound amazing. And like you're so positive and so strong. And she said to me, that was you Tammy. She's like, you taught me that in the program. And this is like five years ago. And I mean, and I just talked to her like two weeks ago. And I was just like, like I got off the phone and I cried. Like when somebody tells you something like that, I mean, that's everything. Like, you know, like. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: And even talking to my clients, like, you know, I didn't talk to him for a couple years and then I just reconnected with a lot of them in the last six months. And they're all like, we watch you all the time, we're rooting for you. Like the impact that I made on people in that first program and when I was like still feeling uneasy and worried and not enough and all those feelings, you know, they're like really, I mean, Radha Metro-Midkiff: Hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: I see how their lives have changed because of it. And it just really inspired me to really dig in and really build this business in a way that really helps people. now, mean, when I was sick and I went to Costa Rica the week before I did Ayahuasca, I had run into this woman. She was actually a transgender, but. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: I didn't even actually realize that until later and I was like, what? anyway, I was thinking maybe she was a woman. ⁓ she was a platinum album music arranger for like the big dogs, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, lived in Atlanta, Georgia and she had written a book and she just finished the book and ⁓ I ran into her and I'm coming, like I'm feeling depressed. I've been in my house for six months. YOGI RICH: You got me! Tamara Lashchyk: and having this dark, what I was calling a dark night of the soul. Like I have no idea who I am. The world's going to hell in a hand basket. I went down every political rabbit hole. I'm seeing like things are collapsing. Nobody's going to want to coach. It's like Armageddon. And so she gives me her book and I start reading it that night. And I hear I'm thinking it's going to be the music industry. And basically what she says in the book is that everything is a sign up and we're living in a simulation. And I'm like, Radha Metro-Midkiff: Mm-hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: Okay, that's not helpful. That's not helping me. So then I have dinner with her and her entourage and she's like, what's going on in your life? And I'm like, well, I'm having this dark night of the soul and I'm explaining her. And she says something to me that I will never forget and I repeat it all the time. She says, when people wake up having their head buried in the sand to a world unrecognizable, they're gonna kill themselves. Like, and we see this, the suicide rate is the highest it's ever been. I and she's like, but you're going to help them through because you're going through this now. And when you see and understand what's happening, you're going to be able to connect the dots for them and you're going to help them. And that immediately snapped me out of my depression, but it didn't give me clarity of purpose either. But I knew I had a bigger role and even sort of the political that I went down that helped me connect the dots on what's happening in the world politically, what it means. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: to our metaphysical world and how all of that interconnects because none of that is mutually exclusive. It's all interconnected. And the people who are running the world, they know these principles that we're learning in yoga, this manifestation. They understand energy. And this is why the world in its third dimension, in its heaviest density, is designed as it is. in order to keep us angry, order to keep us divided, in order to keep us stuck, because if we truly knew the power that we have, which we've just talked about in this pod, I mean, that would be devastating to those global elites. that is, their hold on humanity is already, it's, it's, that's all collapsing. It's all falling away because we are rising in consciousness. We have more people that are awakening. We are all

ascending and elevating, and they can't control us when we all ascend. That is why this work and the meditation and all of that is so critical to do. And I tell people all the time, because even when she had said this to me two years ago, all I knew for sure, because I didn't have clarity of purpose yet, all I knew, my message to everyone was, y'all better start meditating. because that is the one thing that is gonna give you that mental resilience that you're gonna need in order to get through where we're going. Because where we're going as a society is a total system collapse. And I truly believe that what's going to morph from that is going to be more beautiful and more pure because the systems are corrupted and they're unsustainable and they're collapsing under the weight of their own corruption. So they're falling. YOGI RICH: Hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: And if you have eyes to see, you will see that they're falling. Nothing is working. You know, our healthcare system, our education system, people aren't even going to college anymore because they're realizing the scam that that is. You know, more people are leaving corporate, more people started businesses during the year of COVID than ever in our history. I mean, all of it is coming down. And before it becomes this beautiful revival, it's going to be a painful birth. So if you're not preparing for that, you're going to be one of those people she talked about. You're not going to be able to navigate through that. And I see people calling me all the time, and they're like, what is happening? Why is our government doing this? Why is this happening? And when you start to realize what everyone's role is in all of this, then you start to realize that then you actually can sit back and enjoy it. Like I'm at a point where I'm just like, nothing can hurt me now. and I'm like sitting back and watching with popcorn. Like this is the most interesting time to be alive. I'm so blessed that I'm here. So. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: I love that you're comparing it to a matrix. ⁓ Quentin and I often talk about it being like a video game. So life is a video game, essentially. And, you know, meditation was one of the tools you use to like level up to the next level. And so I don't want people to like just sit in the fear because the fear can be really overwhelming and you can look at what's happening and just really believe that this is what it is. And so one of the things that we talk about is like, YOGI RICH: Mm-hmm. Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: This is the Maya. This is the illusion. This is the fun. Remember, self wants to experience itself. And so in order to experience itself, it has to be fun. And what is better than the most juicy, crazy? I mean, if you were watching a movie of our reality right now, it's the best movie ever. It's so good. Everybody's like buying tickets and being like, that was the best movie I've ever seen. So just remember that, like, ⁓ that's why often YOGI RICH: Yeah, really. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Swami Satchitananda would say be in the world, but not of the world. Remember that you can engage in this, but don't think that your peace, your joy, your security is tied into all of this superficial stuff that's happening out in reality or out in the world or quote unquote reality. ⁓ Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Radha Metro-Midkiff: that honestly, like, and that's why the meditation is so important because it's in that silence and that peace that you get in touch with that inner self that then see you're like, I am part of something bigger and greater. I am connected with a higher consciousness. I don't have to be afraid as I'm watching the ups and downs. I can ride the waves, right? And be the surfer on the waves. Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. Radha Metro-Midkiff: And then when you step out of that, which is what Tammy and I were really talking about in our personal conversation the other day, is that you can step out of that chaos anytime you want. And so you can be part of it. And it's totally fun. Like, let's be engaged and let's be like, ⁓ my God. the conspiracies like what's so fun to like it's like gossiping right it's so funny and ⁓ like we'll get all excited but then you have to be able to step back out of it and say however my inner peace is here inside me and so I don't have to be afraid and that's part of I mean coming from somebody who forgot that very seriously forgot it and wanted to check out so bad I attempted suicide that I was like, gotta check out of this world. can't do it anymore. It's too intense for me. I had forgotten that I could step out of it. Any given moment, I can step out of it and be like, okay, my security is here inside me. The peace, the joy. Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. Radha Metro-Midkiff: that is inside me, I don't have to look outside for it. And when you continually remember that, one of the things that was very challenging for me at that time was that when I was in meditation, I would remember. But when I had to step out of meditation and engage with the world, my mind was being so crazy that it was really hard for me to have that disengagement. So that's where we have a lot of the practices now where you can do somatic yoga work. Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: that trauma calmed the nervous system down. ⁓ The training of the mind, chanting is a really great thing. Chanting is a great way to bypass that. So like if you're sitting and you're like, okay, I get it when I'm sitting in meditation, but then I step off the mat and all of a sudden I'm watching the news or it, you know, not even choosing to watch the news. It's just coming at me because that's what it does now. It just comes at you from everywhere. You can be standing in the grocery store and suddenly like the news is just like, you know, throwing itself at you. YOGI RICH: you Radha Metro-Midkiff: So anytime that's happening, you can also

use these other tools, right? You can use the chanting and the chanting will adjust the vibration in your body to really bring you back into that sense. You can use yoga, the body, the movement could be Tai Chi, could be, you know, yoga could be any of those like smooth moving, moving the energy through your system. ⁓ You know, Quentin often talks about martial arts also and how that can move the energy through your system. But you have tools where you don't have to be like so fearful and Tamara Lashchyk: way. Radha Metro-Midkiff: engaged. As soon as you start feeling that fear come up where your security is like shaky, it's just a sign that you need to step back out of it for a minute and be like, okay, I started taking the game just a little too seriously. I started really thinking the matrix was real. It's okay. Just step back out of it and say, it's okay. I got this. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah. Well, the interesting thing about sort of the matrix and even the fear, and this is again why it's so imperative to do the work, is because it's the fear on an individual and collective level that is creating the chaos that we're seeing. So it behooves you to actually stop choosing fear because these are choices and you have those tools to help you pull out of that fear but know that you are creating Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: the reality that we're living in. you having the news on is also a choice. Like, shut it off. And what's interesting is, I'm watching Instagram, and I was in New York City, and it was like some kind of flood was happening, or something was happening on the subway, and I was literally in the subway station that they were reporting that this was happening. And I was like, I'm right here, and I see no water. Like, what is? This is fake news. I'm literally in the same subway station that I'm looking at on the video. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank you. YOGI RICH: Hehehehehe Tamara Lashchyk: And I'm just like, this is all such bullshit. And then I realized at that point, I'm like, you know what? I'm going to shut it down for a while. And because I often sometimes like to see, like I see the world in a certain way, but not everyone sees this happening. Like I'm like, you know, at one point I was like sort of hair on fire. Do you not see this or whatever? And then when I shut all of it down, I'm like, is any of this really happening? Cause I look outside my window and I'm living in Jersey city and YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: You've got mothers walking their babies in strollers, people walking their dogs. None of this chaos that I'm seeing on social media or in the news or whatever is happening outside my window. It's not happening in my neighborhood. Is it even happening or is it being fed to us in order to induce fear? And so I realize I'm like, if you just literally shut it off, it doesn't really exist. And that's one way to pull yourself out of fear long enough. YOGI RICH: him. Tamara Lashchyk: for you to choose a different reality. And that's what's amazing about the Matrix is no one's controlling it other than you and your consciousness. And that is where you can take your power back. When you start realizing that it's not Elon Musk sitting there with his controls controlling the Matrix, it's really you and us and you can choose and Radha Metro-Midkiff: and Tamara Lashchyk: Again, I keep going back to the inner work because the more you can clear emotional baggage and fear and let go of those things, the more pure and the more joyful and the more loving your emotions will be. And then you begin to create a reality that matches those feelings. I look, a good barometer is like, what's going on in your immediate world? Like even things like... Radha Metro-Midkiff: and Tamara Lashchyk: You're driving to work and all of you spill your coffee and then you stop the car short and then somebody hits you. Okay, that's that inner chaos that needs to be cleared out. If you're one of these people that is constantly attracting bad shit happening, that is a sign that there's clearing work that needs to be done. And we all know those people. We all know those people that just constantly attract chaos. And I think that that's like when things are going peacefully and... YOGI RICH: Hmm. ⁓ Radha Metro-Midkiff: And I've been in that myself. mean, it's just those people. All of us have been in those cycles where you wake up and it's always the stub your toe thing. You stub your toe getting out of bed and then your whole day turns into chaos. So we've all been in those cycles where we're like, ⁓ I created such a chaotic time. YOGI RICH: Yeah, yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: No! ⁓ YOGI RICH: You just Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah. YOGI RICH: You just made me Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, but having that accountability is, you know, this goes back to the ho'oponono. When you start to realize that you've created this and it's your responsibility and now you need to clear it, whether you do it with this ho'oponono prayer or you do it with just by waking up and allowing yourself to feel the feelings, not running from them, not like, ⁓ I feel stressed, I gotta get up and, you know, get my day going so I can forget about this. No, allow yourself to sit in those feelings. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: and allow yourself to feel them and let them pass through and let them go. And you can also ask yourself, where are they coming from? Why am I feeling this way? What is it reminding? What is the trigger? Why am I feeling this way? And then it just passes through and you can let it go. And these are all techniques that we can use. you know, to heal ourselves. And I think that it's really important that we do this work because again, we create the reality we're living in. And if we want a world that's peaceful and harmonious, then it's going to require, you know, all of us to do that work. And we're all interconnected. So it's Radha Metro-Midkiff: You can't have peace outside if

you don't have peace inside. Tamara Lashchyk: ⁓ no, no, and we're all connected. you know, you suffering contributes to my suffering. We're all in this together and there is no, you know, everyone is connected. So. YOGI RICH: I like how you said, I like how you used the word, like passion. Passion keeps coming to mind because like. It's one thing to like like your life. It's one thing to be like, okay, everything's cool. But it's another thing to have like passion, like to wake up in the morning and feel like even if I lay down, I feel passionate. Or even if I'm doing nothing or if I'm doing something, I still feel like this passion to be alive and enjoy myself. I have the same amount of passion to go take a nap that I do to like, you know, have a meeting that I do to like do my journaling that I do. You know, it's like this, but then at the same time, passion so often can go into panic. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Noooo YOGI RICH: if things don't go well, it's a quick transition. Like, I'm passionate about it, it's not going according to plan, no, I'm panicking. And I think, like what we're saying, these are all ultimately tools to fight panicking, like to counteract panicking and some of the mental... ⁓ not detriments, but some of the side effects that come along with panicking, like what you're saying. The news, I mean, ⁓ my God, I feel like almost all the stories are fake. That was my great awakening when I'm sitting here and listening to this podcast and I'm like, they're just reading. You can just tell they're reading off a piece of paper. This is not like, this is so-and-so reporter and then they're saying these are their opinions. It's not their opinions and you're on the news. That's not really what they think. And so, Radha Metro-Midkiff: No. YOGI RICH: Yeah, like realizing that like, and also not allowing your passion to get manipulated also, like, you know. We all, and I think like one of our baseline passions that we talk about Swami Satchinanda and all of us is like, you we wanna have a peaceful, easeful, like we wanna have a happy life. We wanna be productive in meaningful ways. We want our opinions to be ⁓ heard and respected. You know, even if they're not followed, at least you have that sense of, no, you heard me out. you know, like that dignity. And we're all very passionate about that. And then it just seems like to keep us disconnected, the opponent. if you will, like whatever level of opponent that is, quote unquote, in this game, this game called life, like they use like different counter strategies. And I think another thing that you brought up that was really dope that a lot of us don't always say enough is that like, yeah, like there is... ⁓ opposition that is wise. In order to be a very good opponent, you have to know all the moves. I say this to Rada, if I'm trying to choke you out in a fight, you have to know how to counter that choke. and I gotta grab the arm, I gotta spin and roll, I gotta do this and do that. And that in

our society, and with this great awakening, more and more of us are being ⁓ cognizant of how like, our mental faculties can be used against us. Okay, no, it does matter what you watch before you go to sleep. ⁓ this sense of always wanting, this consumerism actually can contribute to like a sense of depression and a sense of lacking and how that can harm our society. And as I think... as we as a society level up like you've been saying, I also do notice that like the opponent's also gonna target the transition. Okay, like, all right, as you're getting back on your feet, Quentin, Tammy, Rada, we're gonna hit you with this. That's why like right after meditation, literally, I think it like the other day, it like I got right out of meditation and I'm over here trying to not eat cookies all the time. Like I tell Rada this, you know, and then it's like, I'm getting a call. I got some cookies for you. I got some stuff for you and how like, so. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah, I'm still worried. you YOGI RICH: Like part of the game is, part of the game is like standing up for ourselves. I think in the corporate world, it's very obvious. like being in the CEO mindset that you have, like part of the CEO thing is you can't run from problems. You got to turn around and face the problem and then tackle the problem. But I think like in life, everything is sort of that same thing. We have to almost promote ourselves internally to CEOs of our lives and of our very experience in a safe way. Every CEO knows that Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah. YOGI RICH: not everything's under their control, but they do know that what they say matters. It has an influence. People will act and things will move. And I think understanding that on a... Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. YOGI RICH: invisible level, right? If I sit here in this morning meditation and I pray for my wife or her father or you or, you know, I might not be able to see it, but I know that as a CEO, as this universal being, as this powerful force, like no matter what, it'll have an implication. And I think that's like another big reason. and this is what I try to share in my classes is like, you will certainly have some benefits from this practice, right? You might get a little bit stronger, a little bit more flexible, a little bit more detox, like whatever, but ultimately, like, you'll get even more benefit when you dedicate this to someone else, right? Like, ⁓ Radha Metro-Midkiff: Mm-hmm. YOGI RICH: Yeah, I'm doing this medication, Yes, I wanna have a clear mind, but if my brother can be healed of his alcoholism, like how beautiful would that be in addition? And I think like, all of us that are passionate about the world and politics and geopolitics, like that panic energy will keep you from doing the practices. It'll keep you in the sense of, ⁓ there's nothing I can do. All I can do is run away or just like, know. rather that, but that passion energy, like I'm passionate about this play. Like I know it's just a play when I want to

be passionate about it, I can be. My role in this play is X, Y, and Z. I know that because my heart's saying fight, you know, fight or fly or defend or whatever. And, but at the same time, you can step back and be like, Hey, look, I'm not really, this isn't even about me. Like. I know I have this heart, it's not my heart. I didn't choose to have this heart. I didn't choose to have the interest that I have, but I have them. And if I don't exercise them, then I'm not really fulfilling my life to the highest magnitude. And as you're saying, even not living in alignment really adds to that system that you're so. not you, but people are afraid of that we panic against. Like living in an out of alignment, working for that corporate job, working for Raytheon or working for whatever, you know, this thing is actually contributing to that with what you might be panicked about. And I've met so many people who are. Tamara Lashchyk: Hmm. YOGI RICH: in our world, they're being introduced to yoga, they're being introduced to certain plant medicines, and at the same time, they work corporate jobs, right? They live in this system, they support this system that they also see is hurting them. But I love how you're saying it's like, what I've also found too, like Rod and I have talked about it, like as soon as you have a mental and a heart shift slash realization, like your external circumstance will change, right? You start to get... introduced to these different philosophies and then now maybe your heart doesn't really fit that corporate setting or that previous business that you're in and then you know like I got fired suddenly too like sort of not not in the same situation situation but sort of along the same lines where like you know this is good for me but then it's like no as soon as you recognize no my heart is looking for something beyond this something different than this and that your circumstance will change immediately Tamara Lashchyk: Mm-hmm. YOGI RICH: And so the last thing I'll say on that is like Swami Satchinanda used to say this, or at least I heard him, I read this in the book where it was like, as soon as the karma is resolved, as soon as like all your life you're building to want to do this, but as soon as that's like resolved and taken care of, the situation changes like in a second. And I think that's very hopeful for us in our life, like a little political here, like Donald Trump, that came out of the blue for a lot of people, like him being president, it came out of the blue. you know, the next president, the next politician, the next thing, like it can come like that in a second. And your solution that you've spent all this time panicking about can come like in one second. And I think like, like, and I think you have a lot of lived experience like in Costa Rica or these different experiences where like just in the nick of time, like salvation comes, a blessing comes and like. It happens so often that it is like logical at this point to feel that way about the life. Like, okay, if I do my practices, if I change my ways, if I change my perception, there will be an immediate result. Like it might not be what I think it is, but something will immediately shift. And I think it's very helpful for all of us in this generation who want to create a build a better world to truly believe that, yeah, our practices and our intention, our prayers, they do have an impact. And our frequency of doing them does have an impact. And our intention and our passion does have an impact. And so like thank you for like reminding me of that today as you're like telling me about your life story and all the experiences you've been through that like yeah like There really is a force behind the scenes pulling the curtain, you know pulling the strings and keeping us alive I think rada might not mention it today, but even when she did try to kill herself like she was kept alive, you know, and you know, and so Yeah, like just letting go being passionate but letting go of the result understanding that like hey, it's gonna happen either way ⁓ Tamara Lashchyk: moment. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, and choosing not to participate. I mean, as someone who ran for office, you know, so I have a lot of like, still political friends and things like that, and I get into events, and I've gone to a couple events even recently or whatever, but I'm not participating in this anymore. You know, like, ⁓ yes, you're my friend, so I'll support you kind of thing, but I'm not giving it any emotion. I don't care. I see that it's all fake, and I'm not even gonna vote again. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: Like, unless I see something that's substantially changed, but as far as I'm concerned, the whole thing is rigged. And to your point of Donald Trump, we created Donald Trump with our consciousness. So you have the people who are living in fear and, ⁓ my God, he's horrible, he's Hitler, he's this. We created the fear, the villain Donald Trump. And then you have people who love Donald Trump that believe that he's the savior. So they created the savior with their consciousness. whatever, however you view him, YOGI RICH: Yeah. difference. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank you. YOGI RICH: 100%. Not every single ⁓ Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: you YOGI RICH: Yeah. Amen. Tamara Lashchyk: You created him. But he also has a specific role and a purpose in all of this. Part of what I see his role is the destructor, like is to take a sledgehammer to a system that's already crumbling in order to expedite its collapse. So love him or hate him, whatever, I do see that as his role. And ⁓ again, it's coming, it's happening, whether... YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: you know I wanted to or not, I'm not changing it. know, so I, you because again, it's the collective consciousness and this is what is happening. But, but I am doing, you know, the work that I need to, I'm detaching from any outcome, which is also part of the,

you know, the tools that you have in the toolbox is not giving these things power. You know, like you were saying, you know, this, opponent has this, you know, tactics or whatever. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: well, you can choose not to participate. Like someone said to me, you know, if things are going to get really bad and there's going to be civil war in the street, are you going to get a gun? And I'm like, no, because I'm really not going to kill anyone. Like I just can't do that. I once killed a pigeon with a BB gun and I still haven't gotten over that. don't really. I'm not opposed guns like, you know, second amendment and, you know, all of it. Although when that was written, you know, YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Right. Tamara Lashchyk: The government didn't have you know stealth bombers and the capacity that ⁓ And the weaponry that they have now, but you know so I don't think your guns are gonna really help if they're really common for us ⁓ But I'm not killing anyone and in fact that's not even gonna happen in my world You know like there's certain things that I believe just don't exist in my world like I don't lock my door when I leave because People don't steal from me like I I have like these YOGI RICH: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: you know, beliefs and that's where I choose to, I choose to live. Now, am I delusional? Usually not, but I think more people would probably say somewhat yes in the last few years. But you know, I've read so much and I've studied so much that if you're someone who just gets your information from the news and you think that I'm so out there in terms of what I know and what I believe, like, Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank you. Tamara Lashchyk: You know, it's not really a comparison. Like you can't say you can't really give a fair assessment when all you're doing is getting your information from the news, which is, you know, a source of misinformation and disinformation. So but choose to believe what you want. Again, that's you know, that's you know, if it's working for you, if you like feeling stressed and anxious about the world and you like, you know, your Trump, I believe Trump arrangements is a YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: perfect example that you have inner work to do because nobody should be so triggered by another. I'm not that triggered by Adolf Hitler. if you're not triggered by Donald Trump, that is a good measure that you have some work to do. YOGI RICH: Yeah, he should be true anybody. I love it Radha Metro-Midkiff: But the most of you are like listening and can't see my face. My cheeks hurt so bad because I have been smiling for like an hour, like almost two hours straight right now. the conversation is so good. ⁓ so fun. Tammy, you have brought so many cool things to the conversation. Like, so, so fun, so good. YOGI RICH: Hahaha! Tamara Lashchyk: I'm ⁓ I know. It's so fun. Thank you. Radha Metro-Midkiff: I want also I would be remiss if we didn't give you an opportunity also to tell people how to find you and if they want to learn more from you or read your book or whatever. Can you give us a little bit of information about all that too? YOGI RICH: Yes. Tamara Lashchyk: Yeah, Yes, so I'm Tamara Laschchik on every social media platform. The best way if you want to reach out is through LinkedIn message. Connect with me there and reach out to me there. I am on Instagram. do ⁓ respond to people who comment and message me there. But it's harder for me because I have a couple of Instagram accounts. So sometimes I'm not in the right one or whatever. LinkedIn is the best way. And in terms of the book, ⁓ The book that I wrote years ago, I mean, that's called Lose the Gum, a Survival Guide for Women on Wall Street, Main Street, and Every Street in Between. But if you really want to do more work and do, if you want to buy a book that's going to help you, I recently created something, written something called Empower Her, the Money Mindset Journal, ⁓ and it's available on Amazon. And that is all about confronting your money wounds. and it's set up like a journal so there's questions and exercises and it's really designed to help you really confront and uncover your feelings, your relationship. I mean, I say this all the time, your relationship with money is more important than your understanding of financial mechanics. ⁓ So this is what I've learned from my 26 years of finance and doing deep money work for over a decade. It is more important to heal the money wounds to free yourself from money as a lever of control. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: than it is to understand financial principles. So if you heal that, you will already be better off. And it's set up like a journal so you can write and work through the issues. But I've set it up so that you can understand how money works, money being a frequency, and the emotional charge you're giving it is based on some kind of childhood wound or experience that you've had. YOGI RICH: Man. Tamara Lashchyk: And that is what is keeping you stuck. And if you don't address these, these follow with, these come with us forever until they're cleared. So it's important work to do if you want to start living freely as an autonomous human, because again, money is the biggest lever of control in our society. YOGI RICH: Hmm. Radha Metro-Midkiff: You also are doing some coaching with Women Now, teaching them negotiation. Will you talk a little bit about that too, about like how you support women with that? Tamara Lashchyk: Yes, I'm teaching women how to negotiate and negotiation is really a, when you're underpaid, I believe that that is a symptom that you're playing small in every aspect of your life. And so the course on negotiation, while I will teach you how to negotiate, it is really a proxy for helping you step into a bigger role altogether. Because the tactics and strategies that you need to, in order to have a successful negotiation, things like, YOGI RICH: Hmm.

Tamara Lashchyk: you know, researching and gathering all the information that, you know, the accomplishments that you've done, positioning yourself in a way that showcases, you know, the value that you bring, looking and researching your job ⁓ and finding out how much your job is worth, not only in your company, but in the street so that you have that leverage that you can go into the negotiation and you... you and your energetic frequency vibrating to the energy to that dollar amount that you want to ask for. Meaning if you make 50,000 but you want to ask for a raise bringing you to 70,000 but you really feel like you're worth 50,000, you're not getting that $70,000 raise. That's not happening. So you have to do that work clearing whatever it is that baggage those wounds. YOGI RICH: Yep. Yep. Tamara Lashchyk: that are holding you back at that $50,000 number and bring yourself to that dollar amount that you want to ask for. And that's a little bit of a process. So this is what I'm teaching. This is what I'm showing women how to do. And it's really a first step into playing a bigger game and preparing people and giving them that mental resilience that they're gonna need to prepare for what's coming. I mean, we didn't touch upon this, but with the AI, I mean, I've been talking about for five years, this is what's coming. We're in the layoff economy right now. So you want to position yourself. And I feel like this negotiation program gets you in the right mindset so that you're well positioned in order to face what's coming. And it gives you the best option to. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yep, you can stop. Tamara Lashchyk: Be the one who doesn't get let go, because there are gonna be people that are gonna be managing the AI, and you wanna sort of maybe be in that, or you wanna start thinking about, okay, what is my plan B? And all of that will get those wheels in motion and start preparing you for what is coming, because it's coming. Actually, it's already here. So. YOGI RICH: Yeah. My friend just got laid off like a week ago. Just, just like, yeah. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: I got friends who get laid off every single week. So it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. So ⁓ this is all about getting your ducks in a row and starting to get you ready for, it's almost like a boot camp, I would say. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah. And if someone's interested in this program, do they find you on LinkedIn or do you have a website? Tamara Lashchyk: I have a website, it's tamarilaszczak.com. You can reach out to me through LinkedIn, I can talk to you more about it. And I'm hosting a master class, I think the next one is Wednesday. The link in my, ⁓ it says it on my LinkedIn banner when the next master class is and how you can register. And also there is a link in my bio on Instagram and you could go there and sign up, that's free. The master class is free. So, and it's called Command Your Worth. YOGI RICH: Thank Radha Metro-Midkiff: ⁓ so good. It just ties into all this stuff that we were talking about of like, am enough. I create my own reality. I am a co-creator with, you know, the higher power, all of these things that really tie into being able to, it's just a tool, right? Negotiation as a tool, but the underlying stuff is showing that you've done the work and you really are resonating with this energy. ⁓ so exciting. ⁓ Tamara Lashchyk: Exactly. Yes. Yes. So exciting. YOGI RICH: I'll put all that information in the description too for those of you all listening and want to reach out. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Thank you. Thank you, Quentin. We love to wrap it up with just giving a few little tips or tricks and practices that we do. So is there one specific practice? I know you mentioned ho'oponopono and you've mentioned, ⁓ we never even finished your whole morning routine. Can we just go back to your morning routine? I'm sorry. We're not going to end without giving you guys her morning routine. We're going to be quiet and let you just finish your morning routine. Tamara Lashchyk: Thank you. Thank you. It was great. YOGI RICH: Yeah, Tamara Lashchyk: soon. It's very brief. So right after hopon. So I do the water the whole polono and then I meditate for 30 minutes and then after that I go to the gym. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Beautiful. ⁓ So what is one of your favorite, just like little snack practices that you do that really gives you a lot of value in your day or in your life? Tamara Lashchyk: ⁓ One thing that, there's sort of a couple that I do. One thing that I learned, like when you're feeling stressful and stressed and anxious during the day, a self hug and rubbing your arms really helps very quickly. ⁓ I know, a self hug. A self hug. Yes, and I started doing, ⁓ Radha Metro-Midkiff: No, I want to do that right now. We're just going to self hug right now. What the? Tamara Lashchyk: Couple months ago I started doing, ⁓ I'm a member of Mindvalley and there was a synomic breathwork course and I didn't do any of the modules other than the first two. And the first one is increasing your breath hole time, so it teaches you how to increase your breath hole time and you do that first and then you go into what's called the daily practice where ⁓ Radha Metro-Midkiff: Mm-hmm. Thank you. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Tamara Lashchyk: this guy, from India, and he developed this, and it's to music. So you're doing breath work to music, and then at one point you hold your breath for a really long period of time, like a minute, and it basically releases all sorts of endorphins. And I remember the first day I did it, it's only a 20 minute meditation, the first day I did it, afterwards I went to the park and... I was so happy that it almost scared me. I was like, I just feel super high without any real reason. And I was like, it's almost scary, like how good I feel. so whenever I need an energetic shift, I turn on that meditation from Mindvalley and I do it in like, again, 20 minutes. And it just, it's just incredible. YOGI RICH: Yeah Radha Metro-Midkiff: I love you. YOGI RICH: you Radha Metro-Midkiff: Yeah, it's beautiful. Tamara Lashchyk: incredible and it taps into your inner pharmaceuticals. It's healing. It's just incredible. ⁓ I would say that does it for me. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Hmm. of that somatic breath work is powerful stuff. Yeah. I mean, any kind of pranayama breath work is amazing. Yeah. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. Tamara Lashchyk: 100 % Radha Metro-Midkiff: Well, Tammy, thank you so much for being here. This was such a wonderful conversation, such a joy. Thank you for being our first guest. I think you have shown us that this is definitely the direction we want to go in because this is so much fun. And I hope that you will come back and join us again sometime and talk more. This has just been absolutely delightful. You have any parting thoughts, either one of you? YOGI RICH: Well... Yep. Absolutely. Tamara Lashchyk: Not true. me too. think I've talked enough. Radha Metro-Midkiff: Well, on that note, thank you all for being here. Thank you for listening. We're grateful for all of you and we look forward to being with you next time. Omong. YOGI RICH: Yeah. Peace y'all. Thank you, Tammy.