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What if you could get more of what you want in life? But not through pushing, forcing, or pressure.
You can.
When it comes to money, time, and energy, no one’s gonna turn away more.
And Kate Northrup, Bestselling Author of Money: A Love Story and Do Less and host of Plenty, is here to help you expand your capacity to receive all of the best.
As a Money Empowerment OG who’s been at it for nearly 2 decades, Kate’s the abundance-oriented best friend you may not even know you’ve always needed.
Pull up a chair every week with top thought leaders, luminaries, and adventurers to learn how to have more abundance with ease.
In order to repattern our brain, all of that requires our body to feel safe first. There is a magnetism. There is a power that pulls people and money and opportunities to us. Welcome to Plenty. This is a weekly recalibration of money, power, and safety for high functioners.
Kate Northrup:If that's you, you are in the right place. This is where we dive deep into neuroscience based methods to rewire and upgrade your relationship with money, your experience of wealth, and to create a reality where you finally feel safe and expansive in your financial life. But not only that, this is the place where we talk about money and power and the body, because none of those things can exist without the others. This is not your basic budgeting advice. This is not, you know, spreadsheets and saving on groceries.
Kate Northrup:This is a sacred conversation around what it means to run life force energy through us into our work, into our wealth, into the world, and through all the way into our impact. So if you're looking for a more powerful conversation around worth, around what money even means, and about how you can make the world a better place with your earning and beyond, you are in the right place. This is where we find work and safety first in the body and then in our bank accounts. Let's do this.
Speaker 2:Please note that the opinions and perspectives of the guests on the Plenty podcast are not necessarily reflective of the opinions and perspectives of Kate Northrup or anyone who works within the Kate Northrup brand.
Kate Northrup:Hi there. So my phone is still blowing up with text and voice memos and DMs in the afterglow of our biggest ever, best ever Relaxed Money Live. Two weeks ago, at the time of this recording, we hosted our Relaxed Money Live event in person in Nashville, Tennessee, which is our new home, and it was beyond anything I ever could have imagined, and I was reflecting on why. What did we put in place that allowed this event to be not only so delightful to run, but also so deeply impactful for the attendees because I've never received feedback like this from anything we've ever done. The number one thing I have heard over and over and over again, and I just got another voice memo today from a big industry leader, and it said the same thing.
Kate Northrup:I go to a lot of events, and this is the best event I have ever attended. So what was that? Not that it's a competition. Right? There's there's enough space to have many amazing events, but anything I do, I want it to be world class.
Kate Northrup:And so if you're in the events business, whether it's an event for five people or 5,000 people, here's what I distilled in terms of the ingredients for this world class, deeply transformational event that is already rippling into the lives and beyond from the people who were in that room. One person said she had the most productive conversation that she has had with her husband in twenty eight years of marriage about money. They've been together twenty eight years, and they are getting on the same page around money for the first time in all of that time. People are setting boundaries in a really radical way, which is making more money come into their lives. They're making shifts that they needed to have been making.
Kate Northrup:They're acting out of integrity in a new way, which is magnetizing new clients to them. Amazing things are afoot. I will just kind of like the high level. I'll give you context. Relaxed Money is an event that was originally designed to have our Relaxed Money students have a place to gather in person.
Kate Northrup:Because as much as I love virtual learning and running an online business, nothing replaces in person connection. Looking someone in the eyes, giving them a hug, feeling the collaboration and the energy in the room. It shifts us like nothing else can, and it builds relationships like nothing else can. So you you have to get in the room. People say that all the time, but it is true.
Kate Northrup:If it is humanly possible for you to attend live events that speak to you, that are in your industry, that are around the topic that you wanna grow in, get your buns there. So we do this event. It's once a year. In the past, it's only been open to Relaxed Money students. And this year, we decided to do something different and open it up to our wider community.
Kate Northrup:So it was about 70% students in the Relaxed Money program, and then about 30% people from our general community, and then some of the people who were attending brought a friend. So it was a very cool, diverse group, and some of the people came and like had no idea what they were getting themselves into, which I love because I love a surprise. So the event happens for two days with a reception for our premium ticket holders the night before happens. And I'll tell you what we did during that reception for the premium ticket holders the night before, because I think it's important and it's also very disruptive in the event space. It's not what most people do.
Kate Northrup:So most people will do, like, a cocktail reception for their premium ticket holders. There's networking. There's small talk. There's alcohol. First of all, I don't drink.
Kate Northrup:I'm not saying it's bad to drink, but Mike and I don't drink, and it is not my preference to pay for alcohol as a budget item. I would so much rather go bigger on other items and save the budget, and people can buy their own drinks if they need that. And I don't like being at events where alcohol is just normalized, where this idea that in order to talk to people, we have to have a little bit of a buzz or a social lubricant. Like, I really am about presence, and so having alcohol, like, while widely available is just antithetical to my way of being. That being said, if someone wanted to grab a glass of wine or something and bring it, that is fantastic.
Kate Northrup:Anyway, instead of doing a cocktail party, what we did is a mocktail intentional connecting experience. I personally really don't like small talk. It's just I can do it, but I don't like it. I like to meaningfully connect and go below the surface and connect with people heart to heart. So we actually had a sign during this event, this night before event for our premium ticket holders that said, please refrain from telling anyone in the room what you do.
Kate Northrup:So we were really wanting people to connect around who they are, not what they do. So that started it out. And then after about twenty minutes of just people grabbing a mocktail, warming up, saying hello, hugs, whatever, I gathered everyone up, and we did these intentional authentic connecting exercises. Now I'm not going to describe them in detail because I want you to experience them in person, and it's not the kind of thing that will translate verbally. Like, it has to be felt.
Kate Northrup:But what I can tell you is that after we did about an hour, you know, probably fifty minutes of these activities that were not about, you know, oh, hi. How are you? Where are you from? What do you do? It was it it took the elevator about 20 floors deeper in terms of genuinely connecting.
Kate Northrup:What happened is people came up to me afterwards and they said, that was so exactly what I needed, and I could go home now. I've already received what I needed to receive from this event, and that was after literally less than an hour. So we had, I think, about 90 people at that event, maybe 80 people in that smaller event, and then we went into a larger room the next day of a total of about 200 people. There was a coherency that was created energetically by having those 80 or so people having done those connecting exercises so they set the energetic thermostat for the room. It was not hype y.
Kate Northrup:It was not like, let me compete to make sure I meet the most people or make sure I impress the most people or whatever. It was not that at all. It was walking into a room set to the tone of you are welcome here. We are here to collectively expand. We're here to build circles, not pyramids, and to really have a collaborative experience of transformation and remembering of our true power.
Kate Northrup:So it did that. Also, first morning, we had Shine Dance with Tato, who is our social media manager, and he also is an angel card reader, and he also is a Shine Dance instructor. So I know that starting the morning with movement, it was optional, but very well attended. Over a quarter of our attendees attended that movement session. And the second movement session the next day, which was a yoga flow with Takesha August, who's our head of community.
Kate Northrup:So those really set up the framework in such a beautiful way. If you are hosting an event and it's a possibility to include movement, people need to get in their bodies in order to receive new information, new skills, to learn, to grow, and expand. Why? Because in order to repattern our brain, which thinking new thoughts, learning new things, having new paradigms, making new neural connections, all of that requires our body to feel safe first, and what is required for our body to feel safe is to metabolize stress. And one of the most efficient, effective ways to metabolize stress is to move our bodies, especially movement in community, and and the female nervous system in particular is wired for co regulation and community.
Kate Northrup:So we are wired to connect relationally even more. So movement in community, synchronized with community, and then movement that's rhythmic, rhythmic movement that's bilateral like dancing is so good for signaling to your body that you are safe and releasing stored emotions and releasing stored trauma. So Shine Dance was absolutely fantastic for that. It's also super, super fun. And when we are having fun and feeling joy and feeling pleasure in our bodies, it automatically signals safety, and then it tells our brain, oh, great.
Kate Northrup:We're safe. There's no impending threat right now, so we have enough calories. We have enough resources to learn new things, to be awake and alert and present and aware, and to change our neural patterning. So and yoga also connects movement with breath in that rhythmic way, so it has many of those same benefits and additional benefits as well. So those things were huge.
Kate Northrup:What was interesting is right before the event, Nashville had this wild, somewhat apocalyptic ice storm in which large part of the city didn't actually have power for over a week. And so still, the damage in the city is pretty intense in terms of the trees down. We luckily did have power the whole time other than a few flickers, but our girls' school did not have power and also had a bunch of pipes burst. So the girls were out of school for over a week because of the repairs at their school. So I had booked an entire week for, you know, spacious prep.
Kate Northrup:I was gonna sit and receive the divine downloads for what wanted to come through for this event. I was gonna spaciously work on my slide decks. I was gonna work on my frameworks. I was gonna have so much extra time. I love myself for booking that on my calendar, but what ended up happening is we had kids home unexpectedly, plus this crazy storm, which added a degree of stress and just, you know, checking on our neighbors, checking on friends.
Kate Northrup:There was just, like, a lot in the energetic frequency going on here in Nashville, not to mention what's been going on in the news cycle and then the ensuing antics on the Internet of which I'm not even gonna get into. So there's just, you know, a lot of different things in the field. And what I reminded myself of when I was feeling really frustrated with the kids being home and me not having the space, the guarded space to prep that I wanted to, was that every expansion is preceded by a contraction. And, honestly, all of January for me had been really prickly. I felt like I was walking through molasses in January.
Kate Northrup:And even though it I wasn't walking through molasses, I was walking through feeling irritated, walking through feeling low grade depressed, and walking through, you know, crazy ice storms. That was January, and a girlfriend of mine who's very smart reminded me that every expansion is preceded by a contraction. And so I realized that this ice storm week with the kids home when I was supposed to be getting everything squared away was just part of the ritual. And if you've been a listener here on Plenty for a while, you may have heard me tell the story of Mike and my wedding, where the night before our wedding, there was a hurricane, Hurricane Arthur. And some of our guests couldn't end up making it to the wedding due to the weather.
Kate Northrup:We had a crazy scenario where I didn't think we needed to have a a professional tent set up at my mom's house for the rehearsal dinner. And so as a result, we had this tent up that was like sort of crashing in with water falling on the guests, and it was it was kinda chaotic, but also fabulous at the end. And I remember as we were prepping for this hurricane the day before our wedding, and wondering, like, ah, is this gonna be okay? You know, we had an outdoor wedding, and then the whole reception was in a tent, so sort of indoor, outdoor. Somebody posted a tweet to me.
Kate Northrup:Like, they tweeted me, you know, back when there was Twitter. And I don't even know who this person was, and I apparently, at the time, was checking Twitter, which I don't anymore. She said, don't forget. It's all part of the ritual. And I held that really close to my heart, so all of the glitches, all of the things that happened in the lead up and during the wedding that weren't exactly the way I would have wanted them, I I held it in the in the embrace of it's all part of the ritual.
Kate Northrup:And so I remembered that in the run up to Relax Money Live. It's all part of the ritual. And one of the things that happens is when we are spinning in this isn't the way this is supposed to be, you know, and trying for things to be perfect and trying to control the world around us, we actually are leaking a lot of energy, and we are draining our power stores. We're draining our battery when we're pushing up against the way things are. Instead, when we can surrender to the way things are, it doesn't mean we're giving up, But it does mean we no longer are leaking our energy in resisting what is.
Kate Northrup:And so I surrendered to, okay, well, the kids being home is and this ice storm are part of the ritual, part of what we are meant to experience to create this event, and so I'm gonna embrace it instead. So I did. I could feel my power come back online. I could feel my energy come back online. That was just an interesting part of the puzzle, and I have so many girlfriends and clients who have described kind of being put through the ringer in their own lives, preparing for leading a retreat or a big event, or it's almost like you show up to lead an experience for a bunch of other people.
Kate Northrup:And in order to prepare you for that experience, life has a way of bopping you around a little bit to soften you up and make sure that you really have embodied the lessons that you are going to be teaching. Now I will just say we have the best team in the industry. It's not a competition, but if it were, we would win. And what was so beautiful about this experience is we really had everyone fully committed to the experience of our participants at the event, and everyone was seamlessly doing their thing from our social media manager to our head of community to customer service specialist to our incredible unicorn project manager to our our incredible head of tech working behind the scenes from home to our wonderful household manager who came in and supported at the event to our social media manager's husband who volunteered, to our project manager's daughter who came as an intern. It was just absolutely incredible to see the way our team came together and rode in the right in the same direction.
Kate Northrup:And and my amazing husband, Mike, who's also the COO of our company, everyone was just so deeply committed to creating this amazing experience. And one of our company values is we really care. And that value was oozing out of everyone's pores, and it was so evident in the event itself. So that's a note on when you are creating something, make sure you have the right people on board who have a deep heart of service. It was just it was really magical.
Kate Northrup:Same thing with our AV guy and our video guy. It was just, like, all really, really magical. Next thing is this event is a fulfillment event. It is not a sales event so far, or for this year, wasn't. I had decided that we are working on something.
Kate Northrup:And if you want to be on the early notification list, you can go to katenorthrup.com/rml20six. That stands for relaxedmoney Live 20six. So r m l twenty six. That link will be in the show notes. We are working on something around growing your money in an aligned way that has a huge impact on your life and other people's lives.
Kate Northrup:However, it wasn't ready to invite people yet, and it's still not ready yet. And so I didn't wanna pitch something just to pitch something. I don't do things just for the money. And so we knew that this event, in order to break even, we were gonna need to have sponsors because events are just there's a lot of hard costs. We haven't priced it to be profitable.
Kate Northrup:That may change in the future. I think it very well will just from a reciprocity perspective, but at least for this time, we didn't price it in such a way. And so we started to look for sponsors, and we created a beautiful sponsorship deck, and we were doing some outreach, and it was it was really great. And then all of a sudden, from out of the blue, we got an email from someone who wanted to come in at our headline sponsor level, which was really interesting because I have never met this person. We have never connected.
Kate Northrup:They hadn't done any of our programs, and there was no way that they could have known we were seeking sponsorships because the sponsorship conversation was completely behind the scenes. There was no public place where we were saying, oh, we're seeking aligned sponsors. She dropped out of the sky right in our laps. It was such an incredible manifesting example of when we are aligned, when we have a container to receive. Right?
Kate Northrup:We had the sponsorship deck. We had a world class event planned. I was working on the content. We had the people signed up. So we had the container, and we had the intention, and we had the vision, but you wouldn't be able to put, like, connect the dots of exactly how this happened.
Kate Northrup:There was nothing we did strategically to get this sponsorship. It literally dropped out of the sky. And that is I've been really thinking about manifesting a lot from that perspective. Like, what are we calling in energetically that we are not consciously I wasn't like, oh, what I want is a top sponsorship to fall out of the sky. Like, I didn't ask for that, but that is what happened.
Kate Northrup:But my energy and our whole team's energy and the energy around the event because we were really intentional about the event. We there's so much heart infused into this event. It is such an act of service and, quite frankly, a labor of love. There was a real magnetism that I know her team could feel, which is how we ended up collaborating. So that was a really cool story, and it's just a great reminder that we can be an energetic beacon of light, and people will be able to find us if we stay clear on our vision, if we stay aligned in our with our values, and if we essentially build it.
Kate Northrup:And then they will come because there is a magnetism. There is a power that pulls people and money and opportunities to us when we are acting in integrity. We are filling ourselves and our intentionality with love when we are be essentially, like, collaborating with the divine on creating an a transformational experience for people. The next thing I wanted to talk about was talked I about this a little bit with the movement at the beginning of the day, this shine dance and the yoga, but we also had two additional pieces that were really important. So one of our values is body first, business second or body first, bank account second.
Kate Northrup:So what we know is that your business and or your bank account will grow more faster, more easily, and in a lasting way that you can actually receive when you put your body first, and that means your nervous system. That means signaling safety to your body. It means hydration, good sleep, getting natural sunlight, you know, prioritizing comfort and well-being. It it means a lot of different things. But one of the things it meant is including the body in our itinerary.
Kate Northrup:What often happens at big events is that we are staring at LED screens all day long in a dark room. There's no natural light. It's just not conducive to the well-being of the body. Right? We're eating quickly.
Kate Northrup:We're probably underhydrated. We're sitting all day, which is not good for you. A lot of it is cognitive. It's like all left brain intellect. Oftentimes it's not very experiential.
Kate Northrup:It's not particularly embodied. And so we incorporated nervous system breaks where we would actually take breaks to reset our nervous system and to conscientiously metabolize stress and threats so we could build capacity in our body for even more, and build capacity for our brain to take in more information. And then we also had two things that were really powerful. One of them was a song circle from my friend and former client, Tarzan Kay. So Tarzan is known for disruptive and brilliant email marketing wisdom, but she also has felt the call to be a carrier of songs.
Kate Northrup:And she started offering these song circles at events, and I didn't really know what this was particularly, but she had pitched me to come do a song circle at Relaxed Money Live. And I really love Tarzan, and I've I've sung with her a lot actually at some of my mastermind retreats, and and I just I trust her. And so I said yes. And she came with two beautiful assistance collaborators. And at the end of the day, the first day, everybody sang together, which sounds like, what?
Kate Northrup:Like, out of money event? What? And they were just these gorgeous songs that she brought that were we did rounds. We did simple songs. We did chants.
Kate Northrup:We did all different kinds of songs that, you know, anyone could participate. My kids were there, and they participated. And we had a woman actually who was in the audience who's deaf, and she said she has always longed to sing in community, but she never felt safe to do so, and this was her first time feeling like she could sing, and that was really, really beautiful. That singing circle did a lot of things. Number one, when we sing or or tone, it activates our vagus nerve, which signals to our body that we are safe.
Kate Northrup:So it naturally regulates the nervous system. It naturally metabolizes stress, and we naturally feel more present, more resilient, more aware, more energized. It was so beautiful. So it has a a live digestive effect. It also creates a deep sense of interconnectivity.
Kate Northrup:So, you know, we were 200 people who not all knew each other, and yet it created this shared experience that was far, far, far beyond language. It was a circle, number one, which is symbolic. It was a shared experience. It was not about performance. It was about how it felt, not even how it looked, and not even how it sounded.
Kate Northrup:Now I will say it sounded absolutely beautiful, but it was about group resonance. It was about finding harmony. We did actually harmonize with one another, and the way that sound and making sound in community actually connects us and heals us and allows us to rewire our brains and to just feel better, which allows us to get more work done, be smarter, make better decisions, be more present with the people we love, and be more helpful for making the world a better place. So the singing circle with Tarzan was absolutely amazing. If you are running an upcoming event, reach out to Tarzan about it.
Kate Northrup:She's the only Tarzan Kay in the world. Okay. So the singing circle. And then the final night, we did a silent disco. So if you've never been to a silent disco, how it works is there's a DJ, and then everybody has noise canceling headphones on.
Kate Northrup:And your headphones, you can turn them to different channels. So there were three different channels playing. One was, like, early two thousands hip hop per my request. One was sort of more like a top forty, and one was more of a honestly, the guy played a ton of Taylor Swift on that station. That wouldn't have been my preference, but sometimes it was a little Abba, sometimes it was like some other country, sometimes it was Carly Rae Jepsen.
Kate Northrup:So I that was that station was a little rogue. But anyway, what ended up happening is once we got the lights down because at first, the lights were up, and I was like, it is way too bright to be dancing in here. But we got the lights down, and the silent disco creates this incredible insular experience where you get immersed in the music, and you're able to go into your own world of rhythm and dance. But then you're also in community, so you really can have the choice of, like, being in your own world because you have the headphones on. You can't talk to anybody, which I love.
Kate Northrup:I love getting rid of any pressure to talk to anybody while I'm dancing. I just wanna move. I wanna move and come in and out of making eye contact and dancing with people, but then going and doing my own thing, and the silent disco is perfection for this. The other thing that's really cool, your headphones light up according to what station you're on. So, like, if you're on red, you could go in the room and find other people who are dancing to the red station.
Kate Northrup:And then if you wanna switch channels, you can do that, and then you can go find the people who are, like, dancing to green or dancing to blue, or you can just keep dancing where you're dancing surrounded by other people who are on other channels. And it is like a metaphor, which is that we literally can change the channel we are on at any time. So if we're feeling frustrated, if we're feeling stuck, if we're feeling victim y, irritated, whatever, we actually do have the option to change our channel. My favorite way to change my channel is through shifting my body. So signaling safety in my body, metabolizing stress, and that's one of the things we practice in Relaxed Money.
Kate Northrup:We actually have an emotional metabolism practice, and I teach a series of techniques and a specific method for signaling safety to your body and metabolizing stress and pressure so that you can change your channel. Right? A lot of people say, oh, just change your frequency, but we can't just change our frequency with our mind. We have to do it also including the body because our body is mitigating our emotional state, not our conscious thoughts. So it was really cool.
Kate Northrup:This one particular moment, I was dancing with a woman named Bridget and Takesha, our head of community. And all of a sudden, Takesha and Bridget, and I think maybe one of our students, Nichelle, were all close to each other, and they all made this face where this particular song came on. I think either I was on the same station or I wasn't, but I got on the same station with them, and I recognized shortly that it was the wobble. I don't know if you've ever done the wobble, but it's like one of those group dances kind of like the electric slide, but way better. All of a sudden, Takesha and Bridget started, and Michelle started.
Kate Northrup:I was with them. I don't know the wobble as well as they do, but, like, I picked it up quickly because I've done it a bunch of times. I just had forgotten. And what ended up happening, somebody from outside the group, it was like people saw that core group dancing of those three women, and they were on green, and they had, like, a vibe. And so the next ring of people turned their headphones to green, and then the next ring of people turned their headphones to green.
Kate Northrup:And it was the living embodiment of the way someone's frequency when it's strong actually changes the frequency of everyone around them, which was so cool because that was one of the core tenets that I was teaching how to do in my content for Relaxed Money Live, but the silent disco I didn't plan on this. I just love silent discos. But the silent disco became a metaphor for the way our frequency and the channel that we decide to be on actually impacts the world around us, and so then before we knew it, everybody was on green, everyone was doing the wobble. Was so much fun, and it was such a great way to just be in our bodies, in community, but not need to talk. I think there's so much I guess this is a theme here, honestly.
Kate Northrup:We have so much pressure on talking as our primary way of connecting, and honestly, our bodies really need connection that is nonverbal. So a lot of the authentic connecting exercises that we did on the first night were somewhat nonverbal or certainly not verbal in the way, you know, small talk would be. Then we had our nervous system tools throughout the week, and we had Shine Dance, and we had yoga, and I taught some dance. And then we also had Elizabeth Kristoff, the founder of the Neurosomatic Intelligence. She actually had delivered for us a morning nervous system practice and an evening nervous system practice for all of our attendees to do during the event so that they could create that space and capacity in their system to receive, and then she led also a twenty minute breakout for a live experience of that.
Kate Northrup:Then we had the singing circle. Then we had the silent discos. There were so many opportunities for us to connect and be in community without talking so that our bodies could be in connection without words. And it was so good, and I wonder now that I'm saying this, maybe that's why people loved the event so much, because there wasn't so much pressure on talking and being in your head. It was a lot about being together and being in our bodies.
Kate Northrup:I also wanna talk about something really magical that happened, which is that as I was thinking about the event and who would be my dream, dream, dream, dream speakers, I thought of three people. One of them is my friend Patrice Washington, and she freaking brought down the house. She was so funny. She could have been talking about literally anything, and it would have been amazing, but she did deliver some very powerful wisdom about her six pillars. She has been on Plenty, so we'll link the podcast episode with Patrice Washington below this episode so you can listen in there.
Kate Northrup:So it was Patrice, my friend James Wedmore, who talked about the three skills that you need for money, which is making it, managing it, and magnifying it. It's a very powerful talk. And then the third person that I wanted to have come was somebody I didn't know, and it was like a stretch ask for me because this woman is a freaking legend. She is 80 years old. She has been working in global transformation for basically over fifty years.
Kate Northrup:She sat at the feet of Mother Teresa. She's worked with Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winning women, all sorts of, like, incredible delegations globally. She's always on a plane to a new country. And her name is Lindtwist, and she wrote The Soul of Money. I just got up my chutzpah, and I emailed her, and I asked her if she would come, and as I was writing the email, I found myself typing, the theme of the event is overflow, and I didn't even know why I was writing that, because that is, was not something conscious that I had decided, but it came out of my fingers as I was writing the email, so I was like, okay, I guess the theme of the event is overflow, and there were so many ways that that theme intertwined and powerfully, powerfully, powerfully lofted the entire event and wove it all together, and I can't explain all of that.
Kate Northrup:You really had to be there to see it, but one thing that happened was Lynn said yes within five minutes, and she also insisted that she bring her, as she refers to her work wife, Sarah Vetter. They do tons of different kinds of work together. Sarah is the CEO of the Soul of Money Institute, and she's the major fundraiser for the PACHAMAMA Alliance, which is the organization that Lynn cofounded with her husband, Bill, and another person who wrote Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I think his name is John Perkins, but I could be wrong about that. We'll put it in the show notes.
Kate Northrup:He also wrote Shape Shifting, which I'm reading right now. It's phenomenal. They partner with people, the indigenous people who protect the sacred headwaters of the Amazon River. And Sarah and Lynn are going to be upcoming guests on Plenty, so stay tuned for that episode. But what happened is, first of all, Lynn and Sarah attended, but they didn't just attend for the fireside chat where I interviewed them on stage.
Kate Northrup:They actually sat for the entire event in the back of the room and took notes. Lynn is 80. Sarah is 65. These women have been at it. They have been around some of the smartest, wealthiest, most impactful people on the planet.
Kate Northrup:You know, Sarah is a good close personal friend of Warren Buffett, and they sat at Relaxed Money Live, and they took notes. Let's just take that in for a minute. In terms of a beginner's mind, in terms of letting life wash over and through you. You know? They didn't come in with, oh, we already know this, or, oh, we're too important, or, oh, whatever.
Kate Northrup:They fully received, and Lynn and Sarah really got what we do here on a deep, deep level, and there will be more coming. But when they came up on stage and I was interviewing them for the fireside chat, you know, they refer to each other as their work wives. They asked me if I would be in a throuple with them in a work capacity to collaborate, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is the best moment of my life. I was obviously a full heck yes, and it's just such an honor to have been able to celebrate and amplify and honor Sarah and Lynn's work with both the Soul of Money Institute and the PACHAMAMA Alliance. And it was a great example of, number one, just ask.
Kate Northrup:You never know. You know, if right? The Wayne Gretzky quote, you'll miss a 100% of the shots you don't take. So I'm so glad that I simply emailed and asked, you know, if Lynn would attend, and and it's begun what I know is a lifelong friendship and collaboration with these women. And I will just say the last thing is that one of the things I heard over and over again is that the event itself was a living embodiment of the promise of the event.
Kate Northrup:And I felt the most relaxed, honestly, that I have ever felt during an event. I felt such deep trust that people were receiving what they needed to receive. I felt so held by our team. I really trusted the content that I was delivering, and I allowed myself to have the best time. And I know people could feel that.
Kate Northrup:People could feel the heart of the event. People could feel the vision and the service of the event, the love that was so present. And because we didn't make the body an afterthought, we included the body in the design of the event, and I'm pretty sure that's why people loved it so much. In summary, when you do a live event, I guess the key lessons would be, number one, remember that everything is part of the ritual. Number two would be collaborate with humans that have aligned shared values with you.
Kate Northrup:Number three is build your vision strong. Build the container strong because you'll never know who you will attract, and that's our sponsorship manifestation. Number four, include the body in the architecture of your event so that people can truly receive the offering that you are offering. And number four, make the ass Go out on a limb. Be courageous because you'll never know where you'll get a yes, and you'll never know who you will get to become lifelong collaborators with.
Kate Northrup:If you were at Relaxed Money Live, thank you so much for being part of the magic. If you were not and you wanna make sure that you're on the list for early registration for next year, we are gonna be announcing the dates soon. So there's gonna be a link below this video or below the audio in the show notes, So you wanna make sure you get on the wait list for Relaxed Money Live for next year, and I just appreciate you. I can't wait to meet you next year. If you were there this year, I loved hugging you and saying hi.
Kate Northrup:You know, we gotta keep gathering together. It's really, really, really, really important, and I can't wait to do it again next year. See you soon. What if managing money felt effortless? You've worked so hard to earn money, so why does it feel stressful?
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