{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Embodied & Wealthy Podcast","title":"Shaolin Qigong Master: The Truth About Flow, Energy & Success","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3534,"description":"There's a version of building your business that feels like the current is with you.\nAnd there's a version that feels like swimming upstream.\nIf you're a multi-skilled, integrity-driven coach, therapist or expert — you feel that difference in your whole body. Your sensitivity is your gift. Which means when the flow is gone, it doesn't just feel hard. It feels wrong.\nIn this episode of the Embodied & Wealthy Podcast, I sit down with Darryl Collett — Shaolin Kung Fu and Qigong master, and my teacher of 20 years — for one of the most alive conversations I've ever recorded.\nWe go deep on three things: flow, energy, and success. And by the end of this episode, you'll have a completely different relationship with all three.\nWhat Is Flow — Really?Most people think flow is something you create. Something you work toward, optimise for, chase.\nSifu Darryl reframes it entirely.\nFlow is the natural default state of the universe. It's already there. The question isn't how to create it — it's how to stop interrupting it.\nIn this episode, Darryl gives what he calls his best definition of flow: effortless outcome. Depending on what effort we're making — habits, plans, ideas — and how hands-off we are in letting our correct actions become non-action, is how deeply and consistently we stay in flow.\nWe talk about why multi-skilled coaches and experts are particularly sensitive to being in or out of flow — and why that sensitivity, as uncomfortable as it can be, is actually one of your greatest assets.\nWhy We Knock Ourselves Out of FlowThis is the part of the conversation that stopped me.\nDarryl introduces the idea of reasons — the stories, habits, and patterns that feel so convincing in the moment. The \"I've always done it this way.\" The \"it didn't work last time.\" The immediate retreat from a new idea back to familiar ground.\nWe do what we do because reasons. But we rarely stop to ask: are these reasons actually bringing me toward what I want?\nWe also talk about the difference...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Waon9sHh2LiYlXTiVVYTbdGG4e74rvL8qKDboK6rRPI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84YjI5/YWE0MGNmYWRjMDU5/YTNiN2Y5NDIwNWQ0/OTNiZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}