Ep. 20: Abundance & Prosperity Through Plant Medicines

Career Design Podcast

Ep. 20 Abundance & Prosperity Through Plant Medicines

SPEAKERS

Mindy, Lindsay

Lindsay 00:00

I'm Lindsay Mustain and this is the career design podcast made for driven ambitious square pegs and round holes type professionals who see things differently and challenge the status quo. We obliterate obstacles and unlock hidden pathways to overcome and succeed where others have not stagnation feels like death, and we are unwilling to compromise our integrity and settle for being averaged in any way. We are the backbone of any successful business and those who overlook our potential are doomed to a slow demise. We do work that truly matters aligns with our purpose, and in turn, we make our lasting mark on the world. We are the dreamers, doers, legends and visionaries who are called to make our most meaningful contribution and love what we do.Welcome to the career design Podcast. I am so freaking excited about this next guest. This is one of my best friends and her name is Mindy West. Let me tell you a little bit about her. I actually call her magical, because she has absolutely transformed my life. Now Mindy, and I met actually, in one of the high end masterminds, I joined in 2018. And to say that she is been like the accelerant catalyst to my growth is probably the understatement. In fact, I think on her website, I one of her top testimonials and I think I said if you hate money, then you shouldn't listen to her, because she just has this amazing way of learning how to turn inside. Look at what your money walks are and help you invite prosperity and abundance into your life. So I'm so excited to introduce you to her today.

Mindy 01:32

Thank you, Lindsay. I'm so excited to be here.

Lindsay 01:35

Well, do you mind giving us a little background on you?

Mindy 01:38

Yeah, I, for my whole life, I have been obsessed with money. And I just love working with money. My parents joke that my first word was cash. Obsession and as I gotten older, I I just started looking at like, how can not just me but like how can me and the people around me start creating more money? And is that from jobs? Is it from systems? And is it from strategies? And like? Yes, absolutely. Is it from creating businesses? Absolutely. But ultimately, I found that prosperity, it comes from within it comes from the way that we're vibrating the way that we're feeling. It's comes from like more than our mindset. It's not just in our mind, it's in our whole body. And when we can attune ourselves align with prosperity and with abundance. That's when everything starts showing up. That's when the systems and strategies become clear. That's when we're attracting those opportunities to us, we become prosperous and abundant.

Lindsay 02:39

And I want to introduce the idea that abundance in your life is actually money is the tool, it's the vehicle to create the things but abundance isn't everything. So enjoy and love and in financial freedom, that money is just a tool that we can use to create that right?

Mindy 02:58

Absolutely. Money is this sacred tool of exchange, and nothing more. It's never about the dollars and the cents, or your Bitcoin or whatever you have. It's about that tool that gives you freedom. For me, my biggest value is freedom. And it's time freedom. It's location freedom, it's the ability to be with who you want to be with and be able to create that from within. So money comes as that catalyst, but it's not the end goal. The end goal is your your happiness, really your happiness and your lifestyle, your ability to enjoy this life that you've been given.

Lindsay 03:38

Absolutely love that. Well, I think one of the things that are really interesting is that you take a look at healing, really from the inside out and looking to yourself as your own source of inspiration and have answers correct?

Mindy 03:50

Yes, definitely. I have gone through such a journey from finding everything within and I was incredibly prosperous to being told like, Oh, no, that's not right. You need to talk to your angels, talk to your guides, talk to this talk to that, like, get all the information from outside of you. And that was a huge fail for me. I will say like there's been it was an interesting experience. But as soon as I started looking outside of myself, everything fell apart. And I've come back around to how do you work with the healing with the spiritual dimensions, but ultimately finding all your answers inside of you because we are on our own source of abundance. We have like this internal internal knowing that when we when we can clear off all the blocks when we can clear off what everyone else is saying when we can disconnect from the collective ideas and really, truly get into ourselves. And that's what the healing is about. The healing is about getting into your own knowing and your own Guiding Light. That's when we become prosperous in a way that is it's really beyond our imaginations, right because we're creating everything exactly as we desire, right without the influence of others.

Lindsay 05:05

Oh my gosh. And I'm just gonna say that, as somebody who I not only is Minday, my really good friend, she is my money mindset coach and everything that I do with her. I mean, it just wields incredible results. In fact, I'm going to just give a shout out to one of her courses, which is dimensions of prosperity, which has literally transformed my life. In fact, I just closed a $200,000 deal. After going through that course, she absolutely changes your existence on this plane. So I want to talk a little bit about how can you turn into internal healing?

Mindy 05:38

Yeah, isn't that the big question, right? So for me, I have several tools in my tool belt, but I really love working with plant medicines to work with it, because plant medicines, they facilitate our opening, they facilitate our awakening, they facilitate us being able to see what's going on inside of us. And to release it like plant medicines have that amazing ability, both for both to help us, like guide us to connecting to our internal knowing and to release what's going on around us that is keeping us from that, right? They are the biggest healers that we have on on this earth, in my opinion. Because that's what they do. That's what they're meant to do. They're meant to heal us, right. And so I love working with plant medicines. And also, you can never discredit meditation, yoga, exercise, anything that just gets you out of your own head and into your body into your physical body. And that's when those insights come up like so often what's blocking us is something that someone said three years ago, or some idea that we have that, that we created in childhood, the top money blocks are, I'm not good enough. Who am I to do this? I don't deserve this, right? So we've created all these stories around, I'm not good enough for my to do this. I don't deserve this. And when we can start peeling back where those stories came from, where they originated, that those aren't actually true. And using plant medicines is the fastest way. There's definitely other ways, but it's the fastest way to go through that process. And getting back to what our truth is. That's, to me, that's what healing is.

Lindsay 07:31

I love that. So talk to me about because I think plant medicines can be taken a lot of different ways. So talk to me about some of your favorite plant medicines.

Mindy 07:39

Yeah, well, my very favorite plant medicine would cacao and I absolutely love cow. So for those of you that don't know, cacao is like unprocess chocolate, it's basically the cacao beans have been grown into a paste, and then you can drink them. I like cacao is a daily practice. And what it does is it opens up your heart, it opens up your channels have creativity of flow. It's a very feminine energy. So it's great if you're an artist and writer or just looking for more innovation in your business in your career and what the next step is, it really opens up those channels and cacao is something that you can use and drink every day I drink it instead of coffee. It's just a super nourishing, nourishing plant medicine. And it's delicious.

Lindsay 08:24

Is oh my gosh, so I drink cacao every day. And I love what you say that this is not the that coffee is like the energy of anxiety and cacao is the energy of abundance.

Mindy 08:36

Right? So yeah, let's go into the history of the cacao. Definitely cacao back in the Mayan and Aztec times was actually used as a currency money grew on trees, the cacao beans were the currency and Cacao has that frequency of abundance of that prosperity, right? Like literally money, and love and heart opening. So one of my big missions with cacao is that I think if every mother, your mom, I'm a mom. If every mom drink cacao in the morning instead of coffee. She has started with heart opening instead of anxiety. She started with love instead of like fear, which is what anxiety ultimately is. How different would she treat her children? Right? How different would those children treat other kids at school? How different would those kids treat their parents when they went home? But everyone wanted those parents treat their spouses, right like it's beyond, you know, financial prosperity. It's really about changing the way we feel and we treat other people and that always has a positive impact on on our lives and the lives of everyone around us.

Lindsay 09:43

I love that and if you have never had a chance to drink, pure ceremonial grade cookout, it makes you feel amazing. I can't even describe what it does because it is just this incredible full body experience. It just makes you feel and it doesn't take you out of your body at all. It just makes you feel gratitude and love. And it's just this transforming experience that you can invite every single day by just indulging in chocolate. And let me be really clear how powerful is the cacao when you compare it to like blueberries, which is a superfood?

Mindy 10:16

Yeah, it's significant. I want to say it has 40 times more antioxidants than blueberries. So don't quote me on that, I'll have to fact check that but it is a it's an incredible antioxidant. It's very high in magnesium and iron is so good for your body. It's one of those foods that like if you were stranded on a desert island, and you had nothing else to eat, you could live on cacau alone, because it has those nutrients that you need to survive as a human. And so it's one of the most like healthy, powerful superfoods that we have on the physical level as well as on the energetic level.

Lindsay 10:54

Love that. Well, there's also another practice that I use every day, which you introduced me to, which is using essential oils. So true plant medicine, which I don't think people understand that essential oils are actually healing mechanisms, in my opinion.

Mindy 11:08

Yeah, well, they're the essences of the plant. Right? We I think for the last, you know, 1015 years in marketing, we stopped, we hear essential oils, essential oils, essential oils, and I love working with the essential oils on the energetic level for aligning my chakras, right, I can put essential oils on each of my chakras. And within two minutes, I feel like this amazing alignment and I don't have to worry about going through and spending 20 minutes of meditation, cleaning and clearing and none of that it's just the plant medicines come in, and they do the work for us. That's what I love so much as I'm a big fan of efficiency, right? That's why I love fluffiness it's because they do the work for us to just put our bodies into alignment with with our soul's essence with where we are what we need to do today. So it's really, it's really fascinating, like how the tingling of your body starts and it just you can feel it right, all you're doing is putting a drop on each area of your body that you're each chakra and it's um, it's incredible to feel that go through your body and feel how it like basically moves everything into alignment.

Lindsay 12:18

And I always like to say I have a love affair with wild orange because it's so amazing. And I think that one of the things I want to introduce here is that the medicines that we have in Western society, they didn't just come out of a lab where they inspired from Minday

Mindy 12:34

Plants.

Lindsay 12:39

This is the misconception of true programming from the collective consciousness is that the where this originated was in plants and plants are in their most original form. But we have commercialized it and and caused it to be so much more strong, because we've literally numbed ourselves with the food, the things that we eat, and the things that we choose to ingest in our bodies, we can't actually get as much benefit out of it. So we spend a lot of time clearing our energy clearing some of the crap out of our body that way we can actually feel some of the impact of plants, but really everything that we do inside of Western medicine started from plants.

Mindy 13:13

Yeah, it is I always think the Amazon jungle is the biggest pharmacy or world hats, right? And I I know one day in my future it will be exploring more the plant medicines down there. Like I have this whole vision of, of my college jungle it's kind of my joke in my head, like how, how can I go and work more with the indigenous population to learn what what they're doing with the plant medicines and then bring it to more Western medicine. And that's, that is a tangent.

Lindsay 13:44

I love that though. So I'll give you one little small story is that my my kind of path around essential oils was I had this skin virus and this really viral skin virus that it created like these like welts on your body. And I have gone to the doctor and had them freeze it off. So I have scars on my arms from where they had to use liquid nitrogen to freeze it. And the thing is, it didn't do anything. And I got an essential oil blend. And I was able to use that. And within a month everything cleared up. I've never had a reoccurrence. And that's when I realized that really like this is actual medicine. And if we started to invite the idea that we can go back to the source of which was true healing is right inside of the earth, that we can embrace that natural idea of how we can heal ourselves, which is really through things like a cacao and essential oils.

Mindy 14:32

Yeah, it's really incredible.

Lindsay 14:34

Well, maybe if somebody wanted to learn more about you, where would they go.

Mindy 14:38

So you can go to mindywest.co slash prosperity if you want to check out dimensions of prosperity and lovecacao.com so love c a c a o dot com is where you can get all of your cacao needs met and learn more about cacau and you're also welcome to just email me, send me a message.

Lindsay 15:02

I love that. Thank you so much for coming on today Minday. You are amazing. Thank you for changing my life. I am so thankful for you.

Mindy 15:09

Oh, thank you, Lindsay.

Lindsay 15:11

Okay, we'll talk soon.