finding freedom

In this episode, Jamie Hopkins, Managing Partner of Wealth Solutions, and Ana Trujillo Limón, Director, Coaching and Advisor Content, sit down with Elaine King, Founder and CEO of Family and Money Matters Institute™.

Elaine King's journey unfolds as she shares the story of founding her own firm and the deep significance behind the awards she's received. She provides valuable advice, from makeup and clothing style tips for TV to fostering financial literacy. Elaine's commitment to educating the community, particularly younger generations, is a true inspiration. She addresses the misconceptions in the financial industry about the Latino community both for clients and employees. Elaine shares what her path to freedom looks like. and emphasizes the power of making positive financial decisions, ultimately reclaiming one's time and pursuing their passions.

Elaine talks about: 

• How she came to found her own firm
• Which award and recognition is the most meaningful to her
• Her advice about improving your media appearance and becoming more polished and professional
• Makeup and clothing style tips for going on TV
• Why she is a big advocate for financial literacy and educates her community, starting with the younger generations
• Some of the misconceptions the financial industry has about the Latino community and how it can better reach the Latino community both as clients and as employees
• Finding freedom in owning one's time, doing what one loves, and making positive financial decisions
• And more

Resources:

• Framework | E123 | Terence 'Bud' Crawford: Fighting for Change
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• The Holiday

Connect with Ana Trujillo Limón: 

• Carson Group LLC
• LinkedIn: Ana Trujillo Limón

Connect with Elaine King:

• Family and Money Matters Institute™
• LinkedIn: Elaine King

About our Guest: 

Elaine King, CFP® is the founder of Family and Money Matters™, with the mission of empowering the family's financial and human capital to achieve financial well-being. She has served as the Family's Financial Planner for over 1,200 families and 100 multigenerational family enterprises crafting actionable family financial plans. Elaine is a Financial Education advocate, creator of the first family financial program in LATAM, and winner of the Best Latin book award. She was recognized as the 2023 Investopedia's 10th Most Influential Financial Advisor and in 2017 recognized by People Magazine's Top 25 lnfluential Hispanic Women. Elaine has been featured in the WSJ, Forbes, Telemundo, CNN and is a columnist for financial journals in the US and LATAM.

This episode of Framework was pre-recorded. At the time of recording Jamie Hopkins was affiliated with CWM, LLC. Jamie Hopkins is not currently registered with or affiliated with CWM, LLC.

I met for lunch today with an old friend of mine. We were talking about how much of life is determined by our work – it shapes where we live, how much time we spend commuting, where we send our children to school. In reality wherever we’ve lived for the last twenty years has always been strongly influenced by the work we do, how we get there and how late we need to be in the office.

My friend said to me, “I’ve always thought you should start with where you want to live, and then figure out from there what work you can do.” My immediate response was probably like yours – in the real world we don’t have that freedom. But then I thought, well who owns that freedom? We do.

Who's driving your big life choices? It's today's question for reflection in the Box of Keys.

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Sarah Joy Gaines is a writer, speaker, yoga teacher, fitness instructor, and the creator of joyflow® movement. She is on a mission to revolutionize what we have been taught about the body, reclaim it as our greatest guide and healer, and shift our focus to feeling good from within. She has been building wellness brands, communities and resources in service of this mission since 2013 and is currently pursuing her MA in Women's Spirituality, Gender, Religion and Social Justice. Sarah has taught around the world and has been featured in People, USA Today, and more. She’s also the founder of joydust™ biodegradable 100% plastic-free glitter, inspiring folx to embrace play and "be who you are."

Sarah shares her personal journey of shifting her mindset about her body through learning moderation, mindful eating, and spirituality. They discuss the power and wisdom of our bodies, the importance of self-expression and intuitive movement, and the impact of capitalism and societal expectations on wellness. Sarah emphasizes the significance of community in claiming one's truth, and shares her mission to revolutionize our understanding of the body and prioritize feeling good from within. 

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Carrie's back!  Join us as she share's the rest of her journey up to present day. May her badassery inspire you!

Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover their worth through practices of pleasure.  She believes that every single part of us is deserving of love and actively works to reawaken the spirit to a life of abundance.  When she's not tending to her children or seeking adventures around the world, she's busy hosting the "Clearly Connected Podcast" where she invites listeners to reimagine all the ways they can reconnect to themselves, to others, and to our natural environment.

Website: www.carriedoan.com

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Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover their worth through practices of pleasure.  She believes that every single part of us is deserving of love and actively works to reawaken the spirit to a life of abundance.  When she's not tending to her children or seeking adventures around the world, she's busy hosting the "Clearly Connected Podcast" where she invites listeners to reimagine all the ways they can reconnect to themselves, to others, and to our natural environment.

Website: www.carriedoan.com

           Clearly Connected Podcast 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clearly-connected/id1602454881

           IG @carriedoancoaching

Carrie's Dare to Desire Ebook
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Janice Selbie is a Registered Professional Counsellor and religious recovery consultant. She Divorced Religion after nearly 40 years in the Pentecostal (and briefly, Mennonite) denomination. After also divorcing her husband, Janice went back to school to become a counsellor and founded the Divorcing Religion Workshop, the Conference on Religious Trauma (aka CORT), and the Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture conference.

Here's additional details regarding Janice's offerings: 

• One-on-one consulting to help you understand your own religious trauma syndrome and what recovery can look like -- https://www.divorcing-religion.com
• The Divorcing Religion Workshop  an on-line, live,  6-week supportive small group designed to help you transition out of religion and into secular life --https://www.divorcing-religion.com
• Janice's first Shameless Sexuality -- An online conference for survivors of Purity Culture and their helpers will be held October 14-16, 2022 -- https://www.shamelesssexuality.org
•  The Conference on Religious Trauma (CORT) where past speakers represent a variety of fundamentalist religious backgrounds including Amish, Evangelical, Mormon, Muslim, and Hasidic Orthodox Judaism -- https://www.religioustraumaconference.org
• And -- lastly -- there's the CORT YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhyTXTIM9kdTJ1jW-Ckb5g

From CORT's vision statement: 
There are widespread assumptions that religion in general is good or at least harmless.  Yet people are seriously hurt by religious doctrines and practices every day.  This has to end.
        ---  Dr. Marlene Winelll

Work. Family. Vacations. Nude Beaches. Putting into practice the Speaking Up and Speaking Out. 

Alaine is back! In this episode she shares the pain, isolation and wonder associated with deconstruction.

It takes considerable courage to confront cognitive bias head on. Many of us, hoodwinked since childhood,  become driven to discover the truth. We're so over the BS!  We sprint forward – often times ignorant to the enormity of the fallout for doing so.

Alaine carried on. She kept asking the questions and fought hard to find honest answers.  

Still working through the aftereffects of her deconstruction. Alaine moved to the D.C. suburbs, leaving her family behind.  She’s starting over.

A new career. A new city. A new Alaine.

Alaine is a Gen-X former evangelical raised in the Deep South who found out the hard way that the unconditional love of Jesus had more than a few conditions.

When her world began to crumble following a difficult divorce, her strict, conservative family and Southern Baptist community were not there for her the way she expected. Their shunning pushed her to question all the beliefs she’d clung to her whole life. 

A support group for women of faith showed her how many verses in the Bible had been mistranslated and misappropriated through the years to support patriarchal theologies detrimental to women—and if this was possible, what ELSE in the Bible might not be the literal “Word of God”? 

Alaine’s intense journey of deconstruction has led her down new roads away from almost everything and everyone in her former world. Today, identifying as an atheist/humanist, she is rebuilding her life and career as a paralegal in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday"  where host Pooja Mottl highlights a piece of wisdom she has come across from her own readings, or shares an inspirational anecdote or insight that can help you lead a more calm and rooted life.

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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose” concludes author Robbin Sharma (Monk Who Sold His Ferrari). But what is your purpose? If you don’t know, you’re no alone. Most people fly through life existing but never living, going through the motions, doing what they think they’re supposed to be doing but never really taking the time to figure out if that aligns with what truly energizes and fulfills them.

If you want to know one thing about your purpose, its about being selfless. Living and doing things that go beyond your individual gain. 

But to get to the heart of your unique purpose, you’ll have to put in the effort. You’ll have to take time out life to find it. And one thing that helps is silence. Often, when we get rid of the noise, the conversations, the technology, and all the stimulations of the material world, our mind calms down just enough for it to reveal to us what it is that we’re here on this planet for. What is it that our talents and capabilities are meant to work on? What is it that energizes us, uplifts us and fills us with joy? Often times, we can’t get these answers if we keep ourselves on the treadmill of life and reaching for distractions. What we need to do is find quiet. Make that time for quiet and it will help you find your purpose. Put it in your calendar if you need to. Turn off your phone – shut down your computer – sit alone with your thoughts. Calm your mind and give it the space it needs to reveal to you what it is that you’re here to selflessly do. 

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Twitter: @PoojaMottl

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Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.

Reagan's back! In this conversation she talks specifics regarding the multiple small businesses she runs here in the Greater Cincinnati area. 

Reagan is a career coach, professional photographer, CEO of a Nature Preschool, blogger, AND does speaking engagements. Whew! That makes me tired just typing it all out!!  

Reagan continues to inspire me -- she's changing the world by being herself! 

Here's Reagan --  sharing more of her journey -- from evangelical homeschool kiddo to earth loving, tree hugging inspirational homeschool mama and entrepreneur. 

Enjoy the conversation. I’m pretty sure you, too, will continue to be inspired by Reagan’s moxie. 

Find out more about Reagan at the links below:

https://www.playfulacre.com

https://www.instagram.com/playfulacre/

https://www.facebook.com/playfulacre

https://twitter.com/playfulacre

Reagan is a mom and owner of multiple small businesses here in the Greater Cincinnati area. She grew up in the church. She and her family frequented the same homeschool circles as my family. Her people played on the same homeschool sports teams as my people. Her sister actually dated one of my favorite human’s brother. We knew, and -- still know—a lot of the same people.

I’m not sure how or when I was first introduced to Reagan’s Instagram page. I don’t think I realized at the time that she was someone from our homeschool past, I was just attracted to the passion and pizzazz she oozed.  I loved what she was saying about preserving the magic of childhood and getting kids out in to nature. 

She inspired me. Reagan was raising her kid the way I wished I would have raised my kids. She was teaching me things. 

One day last fall I put two and two together and realized our families used to do life in the same Cincinnati homeschool circles. And I wanted to know more. So -- I reached out and asked Reagan if she’d be interested in sharing her journey -- from evangelical homeschool kiddo to earth loving, tree hugging inspirational homeschool mama and entrepreneur. Luckily, for me and you, she said yes. 

Enjoy the conversation. I’m pretty sure you, too, will be inspired by Reagan’s moxie. 

You can find out more about Reagan at the links below:

https://www.playfulacre.com

https://www.instagram.com/playfulacre/

https://www.facebook.com/playfulacre

https://twitter.com/playfulacre

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Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday"  where host Pooja Mottl highlights a piece of wisdom she has come across from her own readings, or shares an inspirational anecdote or insight that can help you lead a more calm and rooted life.

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In a fast-changing world, news about success runs rampant. It seems society wants to sell us it's own version of success and the fact is, most of us have bought into it.

If you’re connected to the internet, news about people achieving great wealth, respect or fame, grab your attention in the form of posts, tweets, headlines, and alerts. This kind of sensational success is more alluring and seemingly more accessible, than ever before in human history. 

From unicorn founders to voyages into space, stories about success mesmerize us and seduce us into wanting it, and the herd mentality justifies this narrative and keeps it alive.

There’s nothing wrong with working hard for financial freedom and recognition from our peers – but what we’ve collectively done as a society…is taken success to a dangerous level in the context of our mental wellbeing.

Dangerous, because when we make the end game all about success – the fortune, the notoriety, the achievements - we make the biggest sacrifice: we give up our peace of mind.

See, when we’re driven by the promise that success will make our lives better, as the news and our culture want us to believe, we stop feeling grateful for what we have right now, a scientifically proven way to make our minds unhappy.

And in the competitive race for success, we feel inadequate until me make it, insignificant if we never do, and unsatisfied when we arrive, because hitting one benchmark only begins the chase for yet another.

To counter these emotions, we numb ourselves with food, with drugs, with shopping, with alcohol, with social media and by the dopamine hit that comes from just the idea that success can happen to me… if I just keep plugging away. 

So today I’d like to offer you this advice with love and compassion – I want you to ask yourself: is my definition of success bringing me peace of mind at the end of my day? Does it give me energy or does it take it from me? 

Does my definition of success help me sleep well at night? Does it make me the best colleague I can be? The best parent I can be? 

These are the questions you must ask yourself to ensure a calm mind, which by the way, is the foundation necessary to unleash the genius within you.

In the coming days, I will be releasing a full length video to expand on the process I use, personally, to define success in a way that brings me inner peace. It has been inspired by the likes of legendary coach John Wooden, the work of essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and the philosophy inherent in the Bhagavad Gita, the storied ancient Indian poem imbibed with time-honored wisdom . It will be both at my YouTube channel and on my social media channels. I truly hope these messages resonate with you and can add real value to your life.

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Podcast Producer: www.Go-ToProductions.com

Twitter: @PoojaMottl

Instagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  

LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.

Trigger warning: 

This episode contains material that may be difficult for some of our listeners to hear. 

Conversations cover porn, body shaming, Josh Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, statutory rape,  purity culture and abortion. 

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#bodyshaming
#JoshuaHarris #JoshHarris
#IKissedDatingGoodbye
#statutoryrape
#purityculture
#abortion
#sexuallycurious
#shamed
#dating
#relationships
#courting
#courtship
#exvangelical
#boymeetsgirl
#findingfreedom
#onestoryatatime
#speakingup
#speakingout

Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday"  where host Pooja Mottl highlights a piece of wisdom she has come across from her own readings, or shares an inspirational anecdote or insight that can help you lead a more calm and rooted life.

This week, learn all about the Calm & Free Podcast collaboration with the World Happiness Foundation, to bring you 3 special conversations for this year's World Happiness Festival. 

To learn more about the WHF, visit their website. 

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Twitter: @PoojaMottl

Instagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  

LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.

On this week's episode of 2 Girls 1 Blunt, the girls have on their dear friend, Ara Queen Bae, content creator, influencer, and entrepreneur. We get high and talk sexy workplace affairs,  how Ara Queen Bae made the change from corporate engineering to running multiple successful businesses, how she got flim flammed by The Crypto Swindler and which Disney characters we'd Smash or Pass.

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Welcome to our weekly segment, "Three Minute Thursday"  where host Pooja Mottl highlights a piece of wisdom she has come across from her own readings, or shares an inspirational anecdote or insight that can help you lead a more calm and rooted life.

If you enjoy these episodes, please text or email this episode to someone you love and subscribe.

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Last week we premiered a compelling storytelling video entitled Self-Worth you can check it out now by searching Pooja Mottl and Calm & Free Podcast on LinkedIn or YouTube.

The essence of the message of this video is that in a world where we’re told to measure our worth by external benchmarks and accomplishments – like wealth and status – we end up on a never-ending, futile chase that leaves us burned out and discontented.

As the chase continues, we get less connected and more cynical. More fearful, less trusting. Less joyful, more lonely. More diseased, less healthy. More anxious, less at peace. 

But the fact is, we’re not different than we entered this world as tiny, beautiful babies – we’re no less loved, we’re no less valid. It’s just the norms of society that change the very way we think about ourselves as adults – and it’s a racket.

Persian Poet Rumi so eloquently advised to: “Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.”

We are already enough – we don’t need to overwork ourselves to burnout and needlessly compare and compete. We are worthy just as we are.

I’ll leave you to contemplate on this most profound piece of wisdom and encourage you to watch the entire video on YouTube.

I wonder what our world would be like if everyone - especially tech moguls, founders, investors and alike - took this message to heart and put a brake on the never-ending chase – would society be less polarized? Would we be individually and collectively happier and healthier?

If you want to read more of my essays on living calm and free, please sign up to my newsletter by following me on LinkedIn or signing up to at our new website at calmandfreepodcast.com. Please share this episode with someone you love.

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Twitter: @PoojaMottl

Instagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  

LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.

Welcome to "3 Minute Thursday"  where Pooja shares a weekly nugget of wisdom in just a few minutes.  If you enjoy these short episodes please text or email them to someone you love and subscribe!

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Today I wanted to share with you the last words of Steve Jobs prior to his death.  I hope they can help you, too, craft a more examined life.

I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In some others’ eyes, my life is the epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, my wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to. At this moment, lying on my bed and recalling my life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in have paled and become meaningless in the face of my death.

Material things lost can be found or replaced. But there is one thing that can never be found when it’s lost – Life. Whichever stage in life you are in right now, with time, you will face the day when the curtain comes down.

Treasure love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well and cherish others. As we grow older, and hopefully wiser, we realize that a $300 or a $30 watch both tell the same time. You will realize that your true inner happiness does not come from the material things of this world.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up they will know the value of things and not the price. Eat your food as your medicine, otherwise you have to eat medicine as your food.

There is a big difference between a human being and being human. Only a few really understand it. You are loved when you are born. You will be loved when you die. In between, you have to manage! The six best doctors in the world are sunlight, rest, exercise, diet, self-confidence and friends. Maintain them in all stages and enjoy a healthy life.

If you want to read more of my essays on living calm and free, please sign up to my newsletter by following me on LinkedIn or signing up to at our new website at calmandfreepodcast.com. Please share this episode with someone you love.

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Podcast Producer: www.Go-ToProductions.com

Twitter: @PoojaMottl

Instagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  

LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.

Responding to your questions -- Leah talks  work, Covid family relations, homeschool mama days and the kids subsequent trauma, as well as the movie Captain Fantastic with one of her crushes -- Viggo Mortensen. 

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#SpeakUp
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#OneStoryataTime
#BraveAssBeauties
#WomenBeyondFaith

You can reach us at womenbeyondfaith@gmail.com, Instagram or Facebook. 
New graphic by Dara Paul. Thanks, girlfriend! 
Special thanks to my personal assistant and editor @emmacatherine09

Welcome to "3 Minute Thursday"  (#ThreeMinuteThursday) where Pooja shares a weekly nugget of wisdom in just a few minutes. 

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I’d like to honor and celebrate Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietamese Buddhist monk who passed away last week.

Many of you have been listening for a while, know that much of my work and my own inner shifts have been inspired by the work of Nhat Hanh (lovingly known as Thay).

When I first got a hold of his tiny book, How to Relax, for under $10 dollars at my local bookstore, I had little clue what mindfulness was all about. I picked up the book only because it seemed like a "mindfulness for dummies" type book.

But what I found inside the pages was beyond belief, and quiet literally changed my life. Thich Nhat Hanh was one of those special beings – a genius at not only mastering the teachings of the ancients for himself but mastering the art conveying these teachings to beginners. I encourage everyone to pick up this book and others:

Peace is Every Step

How to Relax

You are Here

Plum Village: https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/

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For more from Host Pooja Mottl:  www.PoojaMottl.com

Podcast Producer: www.Go-ToProductions.com

Twitter: @PoojaMottl

Instagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  

LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

Special Thanks : 

Kris Kosach of the TPR Podcast for lending her VO for our Podcast Intro.

Jessica Panian for her help with our graphic design. 

Sufi Kaur for managing and designing our social graphics.