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Mastering Feng Shui Secrets with Kristina Hollinger
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Welcome to the world of Feng Shui — where interior design meets manifestation. In this episode, Kristina Hollinger shares her expert insights and practical tips on harnessing the power of Feng Shui to create harmony and abundance in your home and life. Kristina unpacks the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui in a modern context, making it accessible and applicable to your daily life. Whether you're seeking love, career success, or overall well-being, tune in to align your environment with your intentions and manifest the life you've always dreamed of.
We chat:
- How Kristina manifested her way onto HGTV with Feng Shui
- What made Kristina fall in love with Feng Shui
- Where to find the wealth corner in your home — and what to put in it to attract more abundance
- Kristina’s 3-step manifesting method using Feng Shui
- Why we should be lighting candles and buying ourselves flowers
- How Kristina leans into her Soft CEO era
- One Feng Shui technique to implement TODAY for a better life
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Invitation to Become a 'Soft CEO'
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Welcome Guest: Christina Hollinger
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Welcome to This or More, a wild entrepreneurial podcast adventure for bold and brave creatives like you. I'm Tiffany Napper, your host, holistic business coach, corporate music industry dropout, a seasoned five-time multi-six figure entrepreneur, yoga instructor, and your go-to gal for heart-to-heart coffee chats.
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On this show, we're not just here to share stories. We're here to ignite a fire within you and make you realize that the reality you envision is just the tip of the iceberg. You're wildly capable of achieving that reality and so much more. So my friends, grab your cup of inspiration, settle in, and let's dive into another inspiring episode of This or More.
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Hello, everybody. We have a very special guest with us today. She manifested her way all the way to HDTV, and she is an expert at creating spaces for money miracles, which we love through the art of Feng Shui. So welcome to the show, Christina Hollinger.
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Hey Tiffany, thank you for having me here today. I'm so excited to be talking with you. Yes.
Christina's Journey into Feng Shui
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Ditto. And it's so fun because you had been on my radar from Instagram, you know, just the algorithm. We love it. We have some mutual friends, Amanda and Jessica, and then we were at an event and I didn't even know you were there until I saw the photos on Instagram afterwards. And I was like, oh man, I would have loved to have met you in real life, but here we are.
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I love that. Yes. Yeah. So we're going to dive into some really juicy stuff today about Feng Shui because you are the expert and I'm excited to learn from you today. But before we do that, I want to back it up a little bit. I want to learn more about how you fell in love with Feng Shui, how it impacted your life, and also just talk a little bit about your entrepreneurial journey because I know that you weren't always doing this.
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For a living and my audience is filled with you know, fellow high achievers entrepreneurs big dreamers creatives so I was reading something on your I think on your website or on Instagram about you live this feng shui lifestyle because you really truly believe that it empowers you to fulfill your dreams and I Would love to know more about your your early feng shui days. Can you tell me a little bit about that? I know you were living in Chicago.
Career Transition to Feng Shui Entrepreneur
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Yeah. Well, I'd love to share this with your listeners because I don't know where everyone's on a different place in their entrepreneurial journey, but I never saw myself as an entrepreneur. I didn't think I would become an entrepreneur. This genuinely, my business
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I
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came from a place of I just want everyone to have access to this ancient manifesting wisdom. It's just so easy and it's so effective and it just didn't seem fair that more people didn't have access to it. So it started in 2012.
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I was living in the South Loop of Chicago with my husband. We had recently gotten married. I had a new teaching job. And from the outside, everything seemed honestly like it should be perfect and everything was going great. But deep down, I just felt a longing that like something was missing and I couldn't quite
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figure it out. So in that moment, the next best action for me was just to like spruce up our apartments because the walls were stark white. It hadn't been painted in the three years we lived there. And at the same time, I grew up in a holistic home. My mom was a chiropractor and she had mentioned this thing called feng shui to me. And so I thought, let's try to enhance the energy. Why not? And so what ended up actually happening,
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is after I applied Feng Shui to the most important areas of my home, my front entryway, bedroom, and then there's a space in your home called the wealth area, which I'm sure we'll talk about a little bit later. Of course, I wanted to bring in the money, so I enhanced that space as well. And within six months, my husband got an unexpected promotion
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We found out we were having our first baby and then we bought our very first house with grace and ease, which was truly at the time against all odds. We didn't have a nest egg or anything like that. So that was the beginning of my journey of being like, whoa, this stuff works. Because for the first 27 years of my life, I had come from scarcity.
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And I really did start my I've been a teacher and I've been working in education for 17 years. So to be able to step into more abundance and to experience a lifestyle that I only could have dreamed of. I don't feel that that is
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inaccessible to anybody. I feel that everyone deserves to step into greater abundance and just to fulfill their dreams, whether that is to be a parent or to move into a new location. So that's why I love Feng Shui because it really it's it can be tailored to anyone's hopes and dreams. And yeah, and that was the beginning for me. Yeah, 2012. Yeah, here we are. I love I love it. And I mean, I've you know, I've been an entrepreneur for 13 years now and and you know,
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Coached and guided and been friends with and met so many entrepreneurs over the years and I find that more often than not when we find success It's because we are able to pass along knowledge that we were able to receive Benefits from right like we learned it and now we want to pass that we don't want to be the gatekeepers We want to pass that along so Clearly, you know it resonates that you were able to do this for yourself and then you're like I don't want to gatekeep this information I want everyone to understand the power of
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of this, like you said, this ancient tool that really can be so accessible. And I'm excited to share some little tips. In fact, I did something this morning that I think you'll be proud of based on something I learned from your podcast. So more on that in just a minute. But okay, so you were a teacher. And then at what point did you decide, okay, this feng shui thing, I think this is going to be a career path for me.
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So the funny thing is you had mentioned that I manifested my way to HGTV. That was around 2020.
Manifesting Success and HGTV Appearance
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It was like right before the pandemic when I actually handed Alison Victoria of Windy City Rehab my business card. And then we went into this lockdown. And I always like to say like I kind of did this whole thing backwards. Like I went on national television before I had a real solid product suite or even a solid website. So
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You know, that was really like I just had such a passion for it that it was like it just kind of kept calling me to step into it. So I actually changed my language around my business around 2021 or 2022 when I stopped calling it my passion project and I started using the term that it was my business. And those semantics I think made a huge impact on just how I treated my business and
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you know, I started to invest in a business mentor and, and treat it like it was, you know, I, this is what I, I just started to realize, like at one point I was like, this is a really great passion project, but it's like, I either had to either jump all in and actually build a business or just say like, this is a hobby, you know? And it was like, at that moment I realized like, if it's possible for me to like, have you heard of the term Ikigai?
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I love Japan. So yes, you love Japanese culture. Yeah. Yeah. It's like when you identify like what you're good at.
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what you enjoy doing and how it could serve other people and you can be paid for it, that's like your ike guy. And it's like, I love doing this, so I'm going to try to make a living out of it. So it's actually a fairly new business, even though looking back, I feel like I'm in a place in my life right now that 12 years ago, I wanted to be.
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And yet, you've heard this term, it takes 10 years to become an overnight success. And I just feel like there couldn't be more validity in that. It just takes time to grow that.
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Yeah. 100%. And I think, you know, I'm a big fan and I wouldn't be surprised if you are as well, but I'm a big fan of Kate Byron and this concept of like, we are unhappy when we want something that isn't our reality. And I see that a lot with entrepreneurs. They just want it to happen right now. Like, why aren't I already making six figures, multi six figures, seven figures, whatever the goal is. And I'm like, well, because it's a journey. And if everyone could just skip ahead 15 steps, then we'd all be millionaires, but it doesn't work like that. And
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the goal in my life and with everything that I try to teach is like how do we enjoy the journey and you know and still get to the destination but also how do we enjoy the journey which was a phrase my grandmother used to tell me a lot when I was younger because I've always been a high achiever I've always wanted to like skip ahead and get to the next part you know so I love that that you have that awareness already and you know trusting that it all evolved exactly how it was supposed to evolve and you know now you get to
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show up with greater awareness and probably greater appreciation for where you are because of that. So I love that. Okay. So we can't skip over the Windy City rehab story because I'm a huge fan and I loved, I loved how much you kind of did manifest that. So tell us how that happened because for those listening, you were on HGTV, Windy City rehab, if you're not familiar, it's in Chicago, which is where you're based. So tell me, tell us the story of how that came about.
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Well, at the time when Alice in Victoria came out with the first season of Windy City Rehab, I was just really excited about it. I had a, my son was about one year old and then my daughter was just in pre-K, right? So my kids were really, really young and that was like my me time. When they would go to bed, I would sit up.
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and watch HGTV, Wendy's City Rehab and just go, Oh, I know that neighborhood. Oh my gosh, I've eaten at that restaurant because she was like in the in the neighborhoods where I used to hang out. I used to live in the city for, you know, eight years before I moved to the suburbs. And it was just so neat to see how she would take these old homes and give them new life and design them with this beauty and sophistication. And it just like thrilled me.
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So then after HGTV's windy city rehab season one closed out, Allison was doing all these events across the city and I was really into it and I wanted to go meet her and see her speak and hear about her journey to where she got to this place.
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And the reason why I say I manifest this is that I, you know, I actually am a certified Gabby Bernstein spirit junkie. She actually has like this course you like get certified in it. And I've just been learning from Gabby Bernstein for many, many years now.
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And one of the things I learned through her is to be in co-creation with the universe, you ask the universe for a sign. So of course I was applying Feng Shui, setting my intentions of what it is I was calling in. And then I would say, universe, give me a sign if I should go to this event. Give me a sign if I should do this. I would go to open houses and look at the actual properties that she built.
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So I love it. Ultimately, the signs just guided me to when I should show up, when I should, you know, I ended up meeting her, speaking with her. She asked me for my business card because I just was in alignment and that genuinely
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That was it. Like it was just, it was like, I was just a school teacher and at that time actually an assistant principal, um, with two young kids and it didn't really seem like there would be any reason why I should be going on HGTV for Feng Shui, but that's how it started. And it was a really great, um, experience that truly, um, was a great stepping stone along the path of my journey as an entrepreneur for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Do you kind of feel like, have you read Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lights?
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Not yet, but I love Matthew McConaughey. You have to read it. It's so good. I feel like that would have been like a green light moment, you know, like, first of all, that you were able to have a conversation with her that felt probably really authentic for you didn't feel forced, right? That you came came with like, desires, but not expectations. And then for it to unfold the way it did feels like a giant green light that okay, this feng shui thing is really your future.
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Absolutely. And that was kind of the, that was a fun moment too, because when I gave her my business card, that wasn't the moment she invited me on her show. I had actually met her another time after that.
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Um, it was because of a sign that I got of an owl that, which I have a picture of an owl behind me. Owls are very significant to me that I wrote her a very specific inspired email. And that was really what caught her attention. And you know, my intention wasn't to go on her show. I just really was so inspired by what she was doing. I just wanted to work with her.
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I like how you kind of, I never really thought of it that way, but this is what I teach my students and my clients too. It's like, if we grasp too tightly to the outcome and we have a very specific outcome in mind, then we're not allowing the universe to get creative. And so I had to really surrender to like, I know this feels right, so let me lean into what feels good and then see what comes of it. And that's really how it all worked out.
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you know, taking a leap of faith like this and growing a business and doing something that's completely uncertain, that's like the most incredible self development course you could ever take, right? You know, 1000%. Yes, yes. I always say, you know, do not become an entrepreneur unless you are equally devoted to your journey of personal development, because they go hand in hand, and you cannot you can, you know, you just won't thrive. If you try to ignore the personal development part, for lots of reasons, I think,
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You can't be a good leader, you can't grow a great team, you can't have recurring clients.
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just all the things that come with this journey require you to really show up as a better person every day. Okay, so let's dive into Feng Shui, obviously, this will be a fun convo, because I'm gonna, you know, I want to talk a little bit about specifically some of the tricks and tools and tips you have for us for welcoming and more prosperity. But for those who maybe, you know, I heard the term Feng Shui when I was a child, because my mom was
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had a flooring company like we were always rearranging furniture in the house she just has an eye for interior design and she would always be like the bed has to you know she would she would tell me which way the bed has to position for and she would use the term feng shui but i never really fully understood and i'm not sure you know i'm sure a lot of our listeners are like what is it really so can you just like give us the kindergarten version of what is feng shui
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Yeah, absolutely. And I think what you're describing is like how we place the bed and how we place our desk in the command position. Ultimately, it's just to help us to have the most optimal flow of energy. So, you know, for example, like sitting at your desk, if you have a solid wall behind you, you're just going to have more confidence, and you'll be more at ease energetically. And it's really like the subconscious and the
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that Feng Shui is working with. However, what I would say is that the things you can see, those are the mundane things like how we hang out, hang different artwork or mirrors. Then there's also the transcendental or the invisible adjustments that we can't see.
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And I would just say to listeners, like what really made me fall in love with Feng Shui in the first place was this tool that I use with my clients, my students, and it's called the Bagua Map. And the Bagua Map, essentially it's a nine square grid and it divides your home into nine different areas of life. So, you know, when you walk into your home, you have a
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wealth area, career area, relationship area, et cetera. There's nine areas of life. So by identifying which rooms correlate to certain areas of life, you can truly target different things like to help enhance different areas of your life, which to me was always very exciting. Yeah. Fascinating. And Feng Shui comes from, do you know some of the base, like how old, when we say ancient, how old is this?
Understanding Feng Shui Practices
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So the original feng shui was called form school feng shui and it's been around for about 3000 years and originated in China. And then since then there's been different schools that have evolved. Traditional compass methods uses the actual compass directions. That's probably like a even more traditional and older school of feng shui. And the one that I practice, the one I teach is called VTB school feng shui.
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It originated in China and was brought to the United States by Professor Lin Yun in the 1980s. It is an ancient manifesting wisdom in the sense that there's a lot of pieces and components of the traditional methods and the form school that BTV follows. It's still very much ancient and comes from a lot of generational wisdom.
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And yet it's a very, what I like to say, it's very friendly. It's just very friendly, user friendly to use, I would say. Yeah. Okay. I love it. And I think you have what you call like a three-step process, like a three-step manifesting method for basically like the, maybe it's even related to like these nine areas that you just mentioned called the Bagua map, right?
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Am I pronouncing that right? Okay, cool. Can you tell me more about your three-step method? Yeah, so the first step is just to get familiar with the Bagwell map because I think that that's the most empowering thing you can do. For example, it's always starting at your front door, and so when you walk into your front door, I will tell your listeners where their wealth area is because I think most people want to know.
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It's also one of the power positions. So you walk into your front door and the far back left area of your home is the wealth. And then the far back right area of your home is relationships.
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Oh, okay. That's my laundry area. So that's curious for me. Yeah. Okay. Well, it's also really important because relationships represents the female energy of the home. So I think that it's like a really important space to focus on, not just for partnerships and business or partnerships romantically, but also like to nourish the female energy in the home. And then the front center area, like when you walk right in, it could be where your front door is. That's the career area.
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So I like to kind of point those out. And then like, once you can kind of figure that out, you can kind of identify the other spaces. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Love it. So, okay. So let's dive in. Maybe we can talk about career and or wealth or both. But if you were telling someone, okay, the back corner, left corner of your home is wealth. If they have two floors, does it not matter? It's really just your lower floor of your home.
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So I would just say start at the main level. And then like, when you do go upstairs, you're going to lay the Bagua again. So I would just say start the main level. And then if any, at any point in time, this conversation feels a little too overwhelming. Like maybe your floor plan isn't a perfect rectangle or isn't a perfect square that happens all the time. Right. So if that's overwhelming, you could just lay the Bagua map on your bedroom. You could even just starting your bedroom and you could literally go to the far back left area of your bedroom to activate wealth.
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Okay, so what are some things you would tell to some say to someone if they were thinking they're listening and they're like, man, I'd really like to activate some more money in my life, more wealth in my life? What would be some some tips you would give them for if they're evaluating the back left corner of the room or the home?
Enhancing Wealth and Career with Feng Shui
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Absolutely. So actually, step two in my method is to activate the area using the elements. So each area is actually enhanced by one of the five elements. So for wealth, for example, when we add the wood element,
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it's going to amplify wealth because would think about it's like growth expansion. And also another nourishing element is the water energy because water, you know, you water a tree, it's going to grow. So adding some water elements is going to be great. And water represents money and feng shui. So it's like think about the flow of money and clients coming in.
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So in Feng Shui, you can actually activate elements through shape and through color and through the actual element itself. So what I like to tell my clients, especially interior designers, like you do not have to like
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color code your house to align with the Bagua map. So you don't have to use green in the wealth area, but you could, because green is going to activate money energy in the sense it's the wood element, right? You could use decor that's a vertical rectangle that's going to activate wood energy. So there's a lot of different ways to represent the elements. And when you kind of add that element with that intention,
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It's going to really just activate that space and amplify it, which is really fun. It's like when I first started, I would like bring my Bagua map to, you know, any decor story that you can think of. And I'd be like, okay, I need a mirror that's this shape, you know, and it's just, it's fun.
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Yeah, yeah, I love that. And so that was that was kind of for activating wealth. What would we do for activating the career area of our career area is the only area that's activated directly by the water energy. So I love this space. It's just it's towards the front of your house, you want to welcome in the flow of money through your career. Also, this just involves like your life purpose, like feeling fulfilled in your day to day.
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So to activate career, the shape is like a wavy odd shape. So you could have something that's patterned that's a little bit wavy or odd shaped. You could have any even furniture or anything that's just like that asymmetrical shape. Secondly, you can activate it through the colors of black or deep blue.
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But yeah, I think a lot of people are surprised that black is a water energy color but it is, which is, you know, kind of a neutral so that's actually good to know. And then the third way is of course to the actual water itself so yes you could place a fountain or something but you could also consider mirrors our water energy.
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And then also paintings like a watercolor painting or painting with any type of water imagery would work as well. The one thing I just want to let your listeners know is if you want to activate water energy, you want it to be flowing into the house and not out the door. So just something to keep in mind. You want the money flowing in.
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Yeah. Yeah. So what is the difference? Like how would I know if I've accidentally had it where I've got water flowing out? What would that look like? So for example, like, and this might not be your aesthetic, but just bear with me just for the point of the story. If you had like a picture of a beach and there was a sailboat, but the sailboat was flowing out the door, then the energy is flowing out the door. So you'd want to change that. You know what I'm saying? So if it was like really obvious,
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Or if the fountain the water fountain that you have is like near your front door But the water is flowing out towards the street then your money is flowing out the house So you want to have it flowing towards your home?
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Yes. Yeah. We do not want the money going out the door. So, um, I listened to one of your podcasts and one of the tips you had, uh, given, and maybe this was specifically for 2024. I cannot recall, but it was about the plant. So this is behind me is kind of my, um, my wealth corner of my office, if you will.
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So, I already had the plant there, but you mentioned putting some quarters in the soil. Will you tell us more about that? Because I did it this morning. Oh, beautiful. Yeah, you can do that anytime. There are a lot of feng shui adjustments to do just for the specific year that we're in, and I share that every year in my course, Welcome the Wealth. But for this one, you can do this anytime. So, eight quarters, what you could do.
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let's go, I'll take it two steps back. So when you walk into your office or bedroom or just look at your home, the far back left area is the wealth area. So placing, like I have a fig plant behind me in the wealth area. It's the far back left area of my office. I see you have a plant as well. If you place a plant in the wealth area, that's going to help grow your money and grow your finances. And then if you take eight quarters, eight is the number of money in Feng Shui.
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So, it represents the infinity of abundance. And so, if you take those eight quarters, you place them in the soil with your intention that you're keeping. Not only do we want to call in money, but I have a lot of times when my clients are like, I'm making all this money, but it feels like there's always another hidden expense. And it just keeps flying out the window. Expense. Yes. And there's so many different ways.
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that that can be addressed through Feng Shui, but here's one of them. You can literally just take those eight quarters, put them in the soil with your intention that the money is staying in the home and that you're saving it. So, yeah, that's that's a very simple one. I love that.
00:27:59
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Okay, great. So if you're listening, plant in the back left corner of your wealth area and eight quarters. So make sure we not only receive abundance, but keep that abundance. That's such a good one. What would you say is the most surprising kind of tip or story you've experienced from activating feng
Client Success Stories with Feng Shui
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shui using feng shui? Oh my gosh.
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I honestly don't even know where to begin because it has been wild. So you know how we talked about earlier in the show that I shifted my language in 2022 and I was like, this is no longer a passion project. This is a business. And I really built it out.
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I've helped dozens of clients one on one. I've helped so many more because now I have a group program called the 12 Month Manifesting Journey. I have helped almost 100 women in that program and it's fairly new. It's only like two years old. And so now that my reach is expanding, the stories that come through from my clients and from my students, it just like literally just blows me away. I'll say this one. Here's one that is a good one that I really like to share.
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And this is actually someone who was a Chicago cop, believe it or not, she hired me to do it. It's I say this, it was surprised me because I was like, Oh, Chicago cop wants to do feng shui with me. Like I was like, this is cool. I'm loving this. Right. So
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She did a one-on-one consultation with me and she worked overtime as she normally did after our consultation and within six months she emailed me and she was just like you know what Christina I can't believe I'm telling you this but at the end of the year after our consultation
00:29:52
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I ended up working overtime and made over $70,000 over my regular pay. And she's like, that has like never happened to me. So it's like, that's just one example. And then she, she had like a whole laundry list of things. She was able, um, her and her husband eloped in Hawaii and they wanted to do a traditional Catholic wedding in Chicago. She never thought she'd be able to afford it. And then like, she was able to. So,
00:30:18
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It's all of this. It's like, yes, Feng Shui is about manifesting money. And I like to share that story because I think it's like, of course, who doesn't want an extra $70,000 over what they typically make? I think it's like those are like some of the stories that you're just like taken back like, oh, wow. And it takes me back all the time, because that's like not a rare occurrence. It happens in different forms and in creative ways. But I'm always blown away by like these different stories. But ultimately,
00:30:47
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It's also like the stories of the fact that like she was able to like have her dream wedding with her family and friends. And it's like, I have people telling me like they just feel more deeply connected in their relationships. Or I even have someone in my 12 month manifesting journey, we've only been doing it, we're in month two now. But she already messaged me and she said, you know, I'm activating the family area of my home. And
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family, I'm one of 10 kids, family members have been reaching out, reaching out, we're staying connected, but then all of a sudden she got a message from someone who she had a falling out with the Stanley member years ago, and they wanted to like reconcile with her.
00:31:27
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And it's like I just have goosebumps thinking about that because it's like it's it is about money and manifesting money, but it's also so deep when it when like things miraculously fall into place or so you get you tap into solutions to problems that have been plaguing you for years. It's like, I don't know what this magic is, but feng shui just like unlock something in your life that takes care of things in ways that you could never imagine, you know?
00:31:56
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Yeah, I do know. I love that. And I mean, you know, I think you and I are similar in the sense of like, we're big believers, as we already alluded to earlier of like, continuing to always try to be better, you know, day after day and working on personal development, personal growth. And you mentioned you're a big Gabby Bernstein fan. What else do you use? What other kind of tools are in your, your toolkit to make you a super tractor and continue to kind of bring in more good in your life?
00:32:24
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I love that question because actually it's one of the ways that I sort of manifested, you know,
00:32:32
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my way into this new career, which by the way, I didn't really mention to your listeners, like I still work in public education, you know, so it's like I'm still growing this business simultaneously working in public education. And I would just say, what Feng Shui has done for me is that sometimes it guides me to the next right person that I need to connect with to work with.
00:32:57
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I kind of jokingly say I co-created with the universe as a solopreneur for a really long time. And then there was a point in my career where it's like, all right, we can't just keep like helping you with this invisible, like giving you signs. Like you need to actually hire the mentors, hire the business coaches, do those kinds of things. Because I, there's actually a place in your home on the Bagel map. It's called Helpful People and Travel. And when you walk into your home, it's the front right area of your home.
00:33:25
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And helpful people in travel influences your wealth. And it represents actual helpful people that can help you take you to the next level, that can teach you the skills that maybe you don't actually have for yourself.
00:33:40
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you know, my business mentor and coach like coaches, I should say I've hired multiple people in my business because as a solopreneur, I can't do it myself. They help give me the tools to like put things in perspective. So I do have like a meditation practice, and I do a lot of things on my own. But more recently, I've stepped out and surrendered and just said, Okay, I don't have to do this alone, though.
00:34:05
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So like I've gotten a network of like other professionals who are, you know, I went on a retreat and I connected with other women who are in a sisterhood with me cheering me on. Maybe they're not Feng Shui practitioners, but that type of connection, it's so necessary in order to fly, you know? And I feel like I've been able to grow so much more because of the people around me. So Feng Shui guides me to real life people. That's what I would say.
00:34:35
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I love that so much and obviously I couldn't agree more. I wouldn't be where I am on this journey had it not been for my business coaches and the women I've met and my own masterminds that I've participated in and then obviously now I lead masterminds and retreats and I'm a business coach.
00:34:51
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Clearly, I believe in the power of, you know, surrendering at times, but also just leaning on others and finding a tribe of people who are equally dedicated and committed to this growth journey so that you don't feel, you know, when the days feel hard, because now and again, they will. You have someone to kind of lift you up and help you stay encouraged and continue on the journey.
00:35:14
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I love that and I couldn't agree more. Um, and you know, I think if you're listening and you've, uh, this is something I kind of like to bring up because I know that a lot of women have had not so great experiences when being around other, um, women, especially other high achieving women. And I always just like to say to you, if you've ever had a negative experience, please don't let that dictate the rest of your life. Don't let one negative experience hold you back from a lot of,
00:35:41
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Future positive experiences and and keep looking like don't give up It's kind of like if maybe if you had a therapist that you didn't love don't you know? You wouldn't say I'm never gonna try therapy again You would just try a new therapist and the same can be said if you haven't quite found found your tribe of women don't give up just yet because I promise they're out there and And they're rooting for you and and they will help you get to that next level for sure
00:36:04
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I personally have been on my soft CEO era journey. I don't know if you know this Christina, but last summer I've been kind of since 2016.
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I've been online in the online space talking about what I thought was a really toxic hustle narrative that I had subscribed to for many, many years that led me down a path of burnout and how to recover from that. And, you know, you can dive deep and learn about my yoga journey and just the entire kind of process I went through. But last year I started to get that familiar call. And so I started to embrace what I call my soft CEO era. And for me, that meant
00:36:41
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putting up more boundaries and saying no a little bit more frequently and really listening to my intuition and remembering that my soft feminine energy was just as important as my masculine energy. And so I would love to know from you when I talk about soft CEO era and what that means. I'd love to know if there's a way in which you feel like you also embody your soft CEO era and what that looks like for you.
Balancing Hustle and Personal Growth
00:37:04
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Oh my gosh. I love that.
00:37:06
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I'm definitely learning. I think kind of it carries on from what we were just talking about. Like, I was working five times harder than I probably had to when I was trying to do everything by myself. And I think I was doing. So okay. How do I lean into my soft CEO era? Well, first of all,
00:37:26
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Absolutely Feng Shui is like the tool that helps me to do that, right? Because that's how I can do less and attract more. I can align the energy of my home. And also in Feng Shui, we not only pay attention to our environmental energy, we pay attention to the universal energy. So the moon phases, if mercury is in retrograde, all of that influences us, right? And so by paying attention to like those moon phases and things like that, like I'm actually able to like identify
00:37:55
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Oh, it's a new moon. This is a great time to go within and give myself a natural rest period within the month because every month there's a new moon. And then the full moon is a great time to take action and to show up. So that kind of helps me stay in flow throughout the year.
00:38:11
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And then also in Feng Shui, we pay attention to our personal energy, which is how do we like you mentioned boundaries, but like how do we protect our personal energy daily? And that is like we can balance our energy through meditation. We can also, you know, crystals can help to protect our energy, you know, and it's not that other people have bad energy, it's just not your energy. And you need to be within your own energetic field in order to like show up and shine brightly in the way that you were designed to.
00:38:41
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Um, so that being said, like feng shui has absolutely helped immensely with being just in flow. Right.
00:38:50
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Um, and I always also like to say, like, if you've been trying all the strategies and doing all the right things, writing all the emails, posting all the things on Instagram, but you just can't seem to move the needle in your business and you just keep getting the same results. Maybe the strategy isn't what you need. And maybe it's more of the energetics that you need because it's like, that's mindset. That's, that's, you know, uh, setting your intention, surrendering and trusting, like let the universe swoop in. Maybe you're.
00:39:18
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um, micromanaging everything. So then the universe can't step in and the universe is trying to open up doors for you, but you're too focused on the one door that you want to open, you know? So it's kind of like leaning into the energetics I think helps. Um, so yeah, that I could probably go on about how I've softened as a CEO in my business, but, um, hopefully that kind of gives like a good overview of kind of how, how I found flow.
00:39:49
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Yeah, it's perfect. And I love that you called that out because the concept of like, you can do all the strategy in the world, but if your mind, if your mind isn't right, if your heart isn't centered, you know, if you're not, and if you're not, if your hands not open to receive, you know, if you're just clenching at like do, do, do, and you're not, your hands not open to receive and you're wondering why things aren't working, usually that's the answer is like,
00:40:12
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release, step back, take a beat, take a breather, you know? And it seems so counterintuitive and especially for a lot of us who grew up in this world where we were kind of told like, don't quit, keep going, grind, hustle, do, do, do. And I'm always like, there's a season for that and there's a season for rest. And it's only when you really start to balance the two that suddenly it feels like miracles are happening, right? When in reality, it's just like things are unfolding the way they were always meant to unfold.
00:40:41
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I love that. Okay. This has been such a really fun conversation and I feel like I could talk to you forever and ever, but I love some of the nuggets, like really tangible nuggets you've already given to our listeners. If there's someone listening right now and you're like, okay, if you go away and you do this one thing from feng shui, like if I can impart this one piece of wisdom on you, is there anything else that you'd want them to go out into the world and kind of implement or do? Oh my gosh.
00:41:09
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There's so much to feng shui, but at the same time, it really is as simple as some of those daily practices of opening the shades to let in natural light, treating yourself to fresh flowers every single week.
Simple Feng Shui Practices for Positive Energy
00:41:26
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Lighting a candle daily, candles clear energy, flowers act like crystals and radiate positive energy. Natural light is a free chi energy booster, right? It's just like these little practices that are going to make a huge difference in your life.
00:41:45
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Um, and really what I would say is they can get my free mini course and they can, I have a manifesting meditation in there to connect with the wood energy, which is that money energy. Right. Um, but once you kind of learn like, okay.
00:42:02
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Fire can activate fame and reputation, which is going to help my career. It's going to help to see how I'm perceived by the outside world. It's going to help me to show up to the ideal clients. It's going to help me to get great opportunities. You can light candles with intention and not only are you clearing energy, but then you're also
00:42:22
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Um, going to attract what it is that you desire in your life. And it's like that simple, but I guess what you could say is like, you know, through feng shui through trying the mini course or whatever, you're going to just essentially learn how to like live an intentional life and day by day.
00:42:39
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It just builds on each other and magic happens. Please send me a DM once you start trying some of this because I just feel like I love, first of all, hearing where you've met me because I think it would be really cool to hear that you heard me on Tiffany's show and then just let me know how it works for you because honestly, Tiffany, I've shared simple Feng Shui adjustments on podcasts just like this.
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people will call me and say like, oh my gosh, like I just got a job interview that I've been hoping for for months and it just finally unlocked. So just give it a try. That's what I would say and see how it works for you.
00:43:17
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Yeah, like, what do you have to lose? Like, what do you have to lose by, you know, intentionally placing the plant in that wealth corner or intentionally, you know, lighting the candle, like you said, you know, like, we really have nothing to lose. So I love, I love, it just goes back to what we said at the very beginning, what you said at the very beginning was, this is such an accessible tool. So
00:43:37
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Um, you know, thank you for coming on and sharing some of your wisdom. I really appreciate it. And I would love for you to tell listeners how they can connect with you, how they can go deeper on this journey. Just follow me on Instagram. That's pretty much where I hang out. I'm a projector. I'm like, I can only focus on one thing at a time. So follow me on Instagram or just go to Christina.com. You can find everything you need there.
00:44:00
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Okay, we'll link all of that in the show notes below. Thank you so much for spending some time with me today, and it's been a pleasure. Love it. Thank you, Tiffany.