Episode #52: Money, Food and Manifestation with Liz Wolfe
Michelle Fox: [00:00:00] Welcome to Nourish. I am Michelle Fox Culinary Nutritionist Health Coach, and your host for this podcast. I teach busy professionals, how to get more nutrition in their bodies. And how to have more fun in their home kitchens. If you struggle with consistency. Or sometimes forget to make your needs a priority.
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So let's dig in. We are here today with somebody [00:01:00] I greatly admire. Oh my goodness. At the beginning of my full-time entrepreneurial journey, I was blessed to find my, well, as my husband would call her my coach Wolfe. He's always like, How's Coach Wolfe or it's Tuesday morning. So tell Coach Wolfe I said hi. And so with that said, we are talking to Liz Wolfe.
She is the business coach for entrepreneurs, and I have no doubt this conversation is about to heal. Both of us, you the listener, and me one of Liz's clients. And so before we get into the juicy goodness, I want to read her bio to you so you know who we have on the show today. So Liz Wolfe is a business coach, author, and a speaker who coaches entrepreneurs to get unstuck.[00:02:00]
And I'm gonna read that one again because. Now you'll know why and how I found her. So she coaches, entrepreneurs to get unstuck so that they can launch and grow an abundant business. She got her entrepreneurial start growing up on a sheep farm in Western Pennsylvania with her mother and two sisters.
Later she moved to New York City Where she created a successful computer consulting business with her husband, John.
Eventually she transitioned out of the technology business to coaching business owners to develop an abundance mindset. She recently published a book of the power of asking how your reluctance to ask puts your business at risk.
So Liz, welcome to the show.
Liz Wolfe: Thank you, Michelle. I'm so excited to be here with you, such great energy. I just love working with you, so thank you for inviting me.
Michelle Fox: [00:03:00] My pleasure. I'm just excited that you said yes, that I can share some of your wisdom with my friends, family, community. So, so excited to dig in.
But before we get to the good stuff, Let's do some fun stuff. Okay. May I invite you to play a rapid fire game with me?
Liz Wolfe: Absolutely. I'm, I'm very excited. Can't wait. Go.
Michelle Fox: Go. Alright. So, yes, that's right. I like it. Rapid. So when I say sweet, Salty, or savory,
Liz Wolfe: when I, when you say sweet salt, you're savory. I think about, popcorn, Indiana. Popcorn with the chocolate slash caramel slash salty thing, but what that makes me think of after that is how that's our snack of choice when I'm doing movie night with my family, which is harder and harder when now that they're 19 and 22 to find a movie that we all want to watch since [00:04:00] it's no longer just the Incredibles.
And so I get a nice warm feeling from that.
Michelle Fox: Hmm. Yeah. Nobody's ever taken that in that direction before that, that, that truly got my heart. I know this was supposed to be rapid, but I'm like, thank you for sharing that story. And I think part of that is 'cause now that I have teenagers, very similar, we almost never can find a movie that we can, I.
All five agree on,
But the imagery of your yummy chocolate popcorn, I'm like, ah, yeah, that sounds like a, an amazing memory. Yum. So, because
I
Liz Wolfe: know you are a business woman who coaches other business, women and men, I believe, when I say inbox zero or inbox 10,000, Which one Okay. I'm inbox like 90.
Actually, I did a blog about this recently where the, the whole idea of inbox zero is awesome. The thing is, is that when you send [00:05:00] emails, you get emails. So it's very hard to maintain, so it feels challenging, but I've also decided that I'm not going to answer the email that I got in 2019. I if I didn't answer it by 2023, I'm probably not gonna answer it.
No, ever. So
Michelle Fox: there is some coach list coaching right there. Alright. One of your favorite childhood memories in the kitchen.
Liz Wolfe: Baking bread. Baking bread. I'm a good baked bread baker. And the reason for that is because on the farm, as you mentioned in my bio, is our entrepreneurial start.
So one of the things we did was we made food products that we would take to, not like farmer's markets. And so I had homemade bread. Basically my entire life because once you make homemade bread, you're not gonna go back to making, [00:06:00] getting Wonder Bread or whatever. My mother was like, we're not doing that.
So not only do we make bread to sell, but we could just make bread. And there's a wonderful bread recipe in the New York Times Cookbook for Cuban bread.
It's very
simple, very easy. The only thing is it needs to be warm. You know, it needs to be uh uh, which is a little tough, like can't do it in the winter in New York City.
'cause my house is big and it was cold Anyway. Cuban bread, New York Times recipe, and I spent many, many hours making kneading bread. And I miss that actually. Thank you for
Michelle Fox: reminding me about that. Hmm, how special, and of course the nutritionist in me is wondering, oh, I wonder if we can make that Cuban bread gluten-free.
Liz Wolfe: I wonder that too, because I know that you're about gluten-free and I, I, it's not a personal thing for me to do gluten-free, but certainly would be healthier. And, and by the way, just so we know, there was a lot [00:07:00] of whole wheat, you know, we were very crunchy granola people. You know, my sister likes to tell this funny story about how.
When it was her birthday and we had a lot of, we had like these wonderful college studenty people staying with us and then they made the
chocolate
cake. But it was like, you know, the gluten free whole wheat, rye, flour, whatever. It was like the whole thing where it was, you know, it was this flat. You imagine this big, puffy, beautiful cake, but it was this, you know, very flat cake.
'cause they didn't really know how to do it. So
Michelle Fox: yes, I have
Liz Wolfe: been, there have to be better cake recipes than the one they come up with at that
Michelle Fox: point. I was gonna say, I've been gluten-free a little over 20 years now, and the chocolate cakes I was making 20 years ago very different than the chocolate cakes I make today.
So yes, the, the information is definitely, growing with the times. Thank. Goodness.
Liz Wolfe: Yeah, we, we could use that. We didn't have that.[00:08:00]
Michelle Fox: Mm-hmm. Well, that is an awesome lead in when we're talking about food. And I know you and I actually both share a passion for money and a passion for other people to have money.
I wanna dig into a conversation about the intersection of money and health. Mm-hmm. So, just to start with, like, when I say those two words together, what comes up for you?
Liz Wolfe: Well, you know this saying how you do anything is how you do everything. And if you haven't heard that before, now you have. So how you do anything is how you do everything.
So there I, I believe there's a way in which we interact in an unhealthy way with both money and food in this, well, I deserve it kind of a way like. I gotta, I wanna, I worked hard, so I deserve to buy this thing or eat this thing. So there's this way in [00:09:00] which almost like we're a little defiant, you know, like, ugh.
And it may be to our detriment to do it. Like, I know I, listen, I know I'm not supposed to eat the fourth cookie or whatever it is. or. Do I really need a third guitar? I mean, I'm literally right now in the middle of negotiating with somebody, I've never even played the guitar. I'm like, am I, do I really need, I already have two guitars.
Do I really need a third one? So there's a way in which we, we are like, well, I deserve it. Or I could, I worked hard with this money. I can spend it how I want. And I think, I'm imagining you could tell me 'cause you're more on the food side. Like there's a certain amount of. I already exercised today. Maybe I should, maybe I'm, I'm good to eat the second cookie or whatever.
And I know it's not just about sweets, right? It's about healthy habits. Well,
Michelle Fox: and I call that the teenaged rebel mind. It's like, as soon as you tell me I can't have something, well that's, [00:10:00] gosh darn it. That's the exact thing I want. So if you say, Michelle, you can't have gluten-free chocolate chip cookies today.
I'll be like, oh really? Let's see about that. And so I wonder what that trigger is though. Like I can tell you. I absolutely believe in affirmations and I absolutely believe in positive thought. I don't think that's enough, because I think a lot of us, especially, you know, my listeners, most of us are over 40 female.
We have a lot going on in our lives, and we have a lot of wisdom that has come up and with us along the way, and so I. We've kinda, we know the affirmations, we know what we're supposed to be doing, but do you have any theories or thoughts about why we don't always do the things that we know we're supposed to be
Liz Wolfe: doing?
Yeah, well probably 'cause we're supposed to be doing them and as you said, our teenage rebel, mind says, well [00:11:00] wait, what if I don't wanna do that? But I wrote down when you were speaking, so I would remember short term. Versus long term. Mm-hmm. And the short, there's a short term
enjoyment that we have that occurs, or a, or a satisfaction or a way in which we're, we're satisfying something in this moment, like it feels good that we're not always taking into consideration the longer term.
It's much harder to feel. Satisfied with something that didn't happen yet. So, right. So that could be a practice, like, how do I stay, how do I stay satisfied? How do I convince myself I will be happier with just two guitars, or I will be happier if I, if I don't be, because again, thinking about food and look, you know, I'm.
I'm a woman in my fifties and you know, we all have our ways in which we've, [00:12:00] foods we love, and foods we kind of know we shouldn't eat. And my, probably my biggest vice is beer. Like I really, if I'm playing music, I wanna, I wanna have a beer. So, and since I play a lot of music, that's a lot of beer.
That's a lot of beer.
but, you know, I'm not thinking, I'm thinking about this moment and how I'm enhancing, supposedly, not that I play any better if I drink beer, but it's enhancing my current experience. But tomorrow I'm gonna be a little more sluggish. I'm gonna, you know, be a little more puffy.
I'm gonna just have that, like, why, why did I need to have that? I really didn't need to have that. So, I think it's this defiant. Well, I could, like a immediate gratification. I wanna feel good now. I can't guarantee I'm gonna feel good later. How do I know for sure? And we do know that if we do certain habits, it feels a lot better to have money in the bank than not having money in the bank [00:13:00] feels a lot better than.
Buying something or being spontaneous or you know, I would use the
word
irresponsible. That's not a great word about how I'm spending my money now. We're eating my food now.
Michelle Fox: Absolutely. And I have a literal teenager in my house, and one of her favorite things to say is Yolo. You only live once. You know when I'm like, huh, this share's a lot of sugar.
I'm seeing you ingesting today, yolo. I'm like, mm. Okay, you're right. We only live once, but I would like to see that you want to have this life be this one healthy life with that. And so similar with money. I'm just, as I'm looking at you and certain memories are coming back, it's actually taken me way back to college.
And I remember when I got my first credit card and gosh darn it like. The things I know now that, you know, I guess I'm glad I, I had to learn along the [00:14:00] way, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. However, I'll just say I got that first credit card and it felt like freedom to me. I remember I
got like
a $500 credit limit.
First thing I did was went to the malls, of course. I'm a freshman, I gotta look cute. And then, you know, sadly learn, well I didn't really have the money to pay that back. 'cause again, I'm a freshman and didn't have a job.
Liz Wolfe: Then you get a bill at the end of the month. What, what?
That's funny. They do know. I mean, I'm not, not about the blame game, but it's exactly what they're targeting. Let's give her just, that seems like a manageable amount of money. $500. Let's give her that amount of money and then you spend it quite, by the time you're done with it all, it's not $500. Exactly.
Michelle Fox: We're gonna get her. Hooked with this little bit of credit, just like the sugar. that, that I will get on my soapbox for a moment. Just, you know, the marketing and the targeting towards children [00:15:00] with the sugar, like very similar. They're like, well, we're gonna feed you all this information. I call it health washing.
Like, oh, look at these honey Nut Cheerios. They have oats in 'em. It's great to help your heart, but then you turn it over, you look at the label and there's like, A ton of sugar in there. So it's like there's nothing healthy about Honey Nut Cheerios.
Liz Wolfe: And the other one that you remind me of is the eat dessert first. Mm, eat dessert first and I'll, I'll admit my little sugar thing is, Immediately after I eat lunch, I'm like, where's the chocolate? I wanna know where the chocolate is. And that's why we've gone through multiples of bags of chocolate chips.
You know, I just go and get a little bit, but you if, but I know that I need to nourish my body first. Like, okay, have a couple of chocolate chips. Who am I? You know, I'm not, I'm not saying don't ever eat chocolate chips. I'm saying, although it's not great to do that. But, but you know, this Eat [00:16:00] dessert first is this, like, you're entitled, you deserve it.
Eat, deserve yolo, and what we're just not considering, and I'm, I'm curious about that idea. Like what would have me think that I'm better off spending the money or eating the whatever. There must be some conversation underneath it that says, well, I'm probably never gonna have a lot of money anyway. Well, I'm probably never gonna really have that healthy body that I desire anyway.
So, eh, let me just, lemme just do this now. 'cause it feels good in the short term. 'cause we can't guarantee it'll, feel better in the end.
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Well, and I'm glad you just used the word guarantee because as a business coach, I imagine a lot of us raising my hand here. Not saying this was me in particular.
However, a lot of us, when we are starting our businesses and we're seeking a business coach to. You know, help us find the way, like we are kind of looking like a guarantee. Like, Liz, give me your, you know, crystal ball. Tell me what my business is going to look like and how much money I'm going to make.
And so [00:18:00] how do you walk people through as far as one, calming our nervous systems, and two, and I promise I'll let you talk in a moment, but I have to say related to this, It's been a while, but every once in a while I still hear your voice in my head saying, it takes the time. It takes. Like that's my favorite coach, Lizism, is it takes the time.
It takes. So back to you when a newbie comes to you, it's like, oh my gosh, I have all these great ideas. Tell me how, how can I make it happen? What are some of the things that you start with?
Liz Wolfe: Yeah, that's a great question, and this is why marketers use the words easy in their marketing. They use the words step by step.
They use the words, formula system. These are all words new entrepreneurs wanna hear because they want to know what the system is. [00:19:00] And again, relating it back to food. Well, we do know that like you're gluten-free and whereas I'm sure that gluten has an impact on all people, it doesn't have the same impact on me that it has on you.
Obviously, I don't have the same allergic reaction. Okay. So that would be like you coming to, you know, me coming and you going, oh, Michelle, help me get healthy. And you'd be like, cut out gluten. Meaning that's the answer. Now, I'm not saying that isn't the answer for a lot of people, but it's probably not the answer for everybody.
So business coaching is very similar to that or any kind of coaching is. So, whereas I I've, I have a method which is to have a clear vision. You need strategic action, and then you need to uncover the hidden barriers and the mindset issues and do all three of those things in order to begin to see results.
So it's a three part system. People say, okay, so I can handle that in like three months, right? I'm like, [00:20:00] mm-hmm.
Michelle Fox: Right. I'm making six figures every month straight in like three months. Right? Coach,
Liz Wolfe: six figures in 60 days. Mm-hmm. You know, six figure funnel and nine, you know, whatever. It's. Drives me crazy because there's so much to it now, if you do just like anything, if it, it does take the time that it takes, so it can feel very, very frustrating at first.
'cause you want it to be going faster than it is. But if you, I'm sure many of your listeners, if they're interested in food, are probably also gardeners or those types of folks. You would never go out in April and dig up your garden and then plant your seeds in May. You know, I think you're supposed to wait till after mother's day, I forget the rule.
Yes. And you plant them. Right. And then you wouldn't go and stand across the, you know, looking at your garden going, well, where's my tomato plant? Where's my tomato people? Where's the bit, you know? And everything grows at a different range. You're [00:21:00] gonna get zucchini way before you're gonna get tomatoes and.
You're gonna get way too much basil and it's all that's gonna happen. But it only happens at this rate that it happens. So along the way there's maintenance to do. You guys still gotta water it, still gotta weeded it. You gotta pay attention. 'cause sometimes little beans pop up and then, then they're too big.
You know, you gotta do, have to pay attention. So growing a business is very similar to growing a a, a garden and. But you would laugh if I were to say to you, so after two days after you, or even a month, a, a month after you plant your garden, just go out. It'll all be there. You'd be like, no, it wouldn't, you know?
No, no.
Michelle Fox: In fact, just, two weeks ago I planted some beets from sea. This is my first time, so fingers crossed. 'Cause I actually am that one that goes out every morning. Like, do I see any spreads yet? Do I see any spreads yet? And I still don't. So, [00:22:00] Right. I feel like they're calling me out right now, coach.
Liz Wolfe: But the other thing is, is that, you know, what do they say? The watch pot never boils, right? So there's a way in which we, it would be fine if, if what you did is you went out and said, oh, I wonder if there are any beats, sprouts. Nope. Don't see any. Okay, let me go on through my life. We don't do that. We go, there's no, there's wait, there's no, they, that package said seven to 10 days.
That package said seven. I don't see any. No. Wait. Is that a grass or is that what, oh my goodness. Did I plant them wrong? I think I might've planted them wrong. Were they too deep? They set an eighth of an inch. I think I might've. Did I water them enough? Did I not water them? And the right, the, the, the, the.
We're not even letting the beats just grow in peace. We're crying out loud, like just the beats. And then we like, we like the beets or we don't like the beets. Oh, the beets is too big. It's knobbly. It's too small. I mean, you know how much food gets wasted in this, in this [00:23:00] country just because it looks bad.
Mm-hmm. It has nothing to do with taste. Just, you've seen these like ads for ugly fruit and people are saying, By the way, quick side note, do you know that's why baby carrots were invented? Do you know how baby carrots came to be invented? No. Please don't. You know those little plastic bag of like, they call 'em baby carrots?
Yeah, we get
Michelle Fox: them at Costco. 'cause my kids plow right through 'em, right? Yes.
Liz Wolfe: Okay. There was, I read, it was an obituary of a man that basically invented them. He grew carrots and he had to throw away about a third of his carrots. Because they didn't look like you see in the, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't just carrots don't only just grow in one direction.
Sometimes they grow knobbly and, and people wouldn't buy 'em. Oh wow. So he
bought
a string bean machine, a string bean cutting machine, and they figured out how to get the string bean cutting machine to peel and [00:24:00] cut the keratin round off the edges. And he called them baby carrots.
Michelle Fox: Brilliant. I mean,
Liz Wolfe: millions.
More of those who buys just unpeeled carrots these days. I mean, I'm sure some people do, but not nearly as many. Not
Michelle Fox: nearly. Oh my goodness. No, thank you for sharing that. That makes perfect sense. Like I knew baby carrots came from big carrots, but I didn't know the origin story, so thank you for sharing that with us.
Liz Wolfe: No, no more ugly carrots. So he was able to save a lot of his crop. Hmm. And therefore make more money.
Michelle Fox: So now I wanna go back to what you said about planning, because I know for me and my work with you, you sat me down and you're like, we
are going
to block off the next five years. And I shouldn't even say block off, plan out.
And it was beautiful. Like I had never. Sat down [00:25:00] and like thought about my next five years in that much detail. And then also to have a witness across the screen from me holding space like that was so powerful and it did such an amazing job at healing my nervous system. And so you did that plan for me.
And then for my clients, I strongly recommend they do meal planning to keep them on the straight and narrow so that they can. Make the choices that they truly do want to make for their bodies. And so when we're talking about the intersection between money and food, I think planning is one huge tool.
Would you
Liz Wolfe: agree? Absolutely. Yeah. I mean,
you would
never get in a car with your G P S and just put in a random address or not use your G P s, like, I'm just gonna drive around for a while, and you've driven a lot. You put some mouse on your car, you used up some gas, but you didn't, you either [00:26:00] got someplace you weren't expecting or you really didn't get anywhere at all.
And so it's actually two parts. The, as I mentioned earlier, the the system, my method. Begins with the vision, and that's what we did when we started. We did a, what I call a vision roadmap, which is, let's just think about what would we want it to look like five years from now. Mm-hmm. And it, it doesn't have to look that way eventually.
So for an ex, as an example, I have thought I wanna be going around to music festivals in, in my rv. I wanna, I want to be
going
and spending my life just driving around in an rv, but, I, I realized after I got the RV that I probably really didn't wanna do that. I really just wanted to go to a few more.
I. music festivals in the summer so that I would feel like I had the freedom to be able to, to do that. [00:27:00] So I don't, so how I envision it and the reality of what it comes to once I actually bought my RV and had the experience of being in the RV and driving it, which is a lot of fun. but that's okay.
So the planning of it gets you moving in the right direction and then you can make adjustments as you go along.
Michelle Fox: That's so powerful. And as you mentioned, the rv, that actually brings me back to what you said about wanting this third guitar. I think I need to hear both stories. So one, I've always known you as Coach Liz, a ukulele player, so that's
one.
So clearly now it's Coach Liz, the guitar player, and then two I wanna talk about if you want that guitar, how can we get you that
Liz Wolfe: guitar? Right. So let's go back 40 years.
Mm-hmm. So I am, I'm a singer. I've always, my whole life I've sung. Now it's not my profession, [00:28:00] but I have, I've always, and I always wanted a guitar because I always wanted to be the one that was, I, I saw the people that were doing that playing, and they were like the ones people wanted to be with because they were, they were bringing joy to the.
To the collective fire pit experience, you know, they were bringing joy. Mm-hmm. And so I never learned how to play the guitar. So number one. First of all, it wasn't nearly as hard like I tried, oh, turns my fingers. Like when I think back to the things that kept me from learning, like I didn't own a guitar.
Okay, go buy one.
I just was on Craigslist earlier. They were like $50 guitars everywhere. I mean, you could, on a guitar, you can find a guitar. So then finally a friend of mine said, you know, I keep hearing you talk about this. You should play the ukulele. It's a lot easier. And I could show you right now.
So I said, oh, okay. And it turned out actually that it [00:29:00] was a lot easier. It's only four strings, not six. It's a lot smaller, quite portable, very easy to play. And I got very good at it. I mean, I didn't get like virtuoso good at it, but I got, what it did was it gave me an opening to understanding that it wasn't, As hard as I thought it was gonna be.
So all those conversations just about how I couldn't do it, I realized it was silly, but it was an incremental, I'm all about incremental progress. Take one step. You know, sometimes the problem with six figures in a 60 days is that it's, that's a big mountain to climb. Mm-hmm. How about let me get my first client, or let me just not eat sugar today.
Or you know, like, let's go with incremental. So once I learned the ukulele, then world started opening up for me because that's when I started playing bluegrass. Mm-hmm. And that's when I started getting, more, more and more musical opportunities to play. [00:30:00] More and more people encouraging me to play the guitar, try a different instrument.
And then one day I discovered that many of the chords on the ukulele are actually similar to the way they are on the guitar. But I had to learn the chords on the ukulele first. In other words, it seemed intimidating on the guitar, but it wasn't intimidating on the ukulele. Interesting. So as I, as I was mentioning to you earlier that, before we started recording, in the bluegrass world, the ukulele is not a particularly well respected instrument and there are very few women.
In the bluegrass world, which is really a damn shame because there's a lot of really talented women musicians. But I go to these jams, it's all men, which is great. I love men. I just don't, I just would like some women too, right? And I, I just wasn't getting the respect. So I decided to learn how to play the guitar, and immediately after I [00:31:00] decided that, I said, because I needed to take some lessons, I said to my friend, Hey, do you have an extra guitar?
Because, You know, I need a guitar. I said, oh, my neighbor's giving one away. Aha. Within two days I had a guitar, and then I just said, okay, now I'm ready for the next thing. I'm, I'm ready to, to do that. Now, the ma, if, if it weren't for bluegrass, I probably would still be doing the ukulele. I do own five of them.
I got that guitar for free, so that was guitar number one. And then there's this vintage guitar that my, dad's. Girlfriend had she passed away and I said, I'll take that guitar. So I have two, but
Michelle Fox: you know, powerful manifester, I need to like pause and put that out there. 'cause I know that's part of your work as well, the manifestation.
So nicely done
Liz Wolfe: ask, the first step is to ask, ask powerfully, ask for what I want. And I said, do you have a guitar? I was willing to borrow it. And then there was a free one, [00:32:00] so, But like anything else, you wanna get better. So you want a guitar that's better suited for you. I don't need another guitar. I just would like one.
So I would please, please, universe, send me a three quarter size guitarist. My hands are a little smaller.
Michelle Fox: Yeah. Well, bam. Now that you have an audience and you have witnessed. That guitar is yours. I have a feeling that guitar's gonna be in your hands before this episode even goes live. Let's see. That'll be interesting to see if it does.
Mm-hmm. And the only reason I brought that part up as far as you know, how we can get you that third guitar is. To that point. Exactly. I know part of your journey has been in the manifestation world, and so for my friends who are listening who are like, well, that sounds fun. Like maybe they don't necessarily want a guitar, but maybe they want, I don't know, how about some new fancy shoes.
And they're saying that to themselves like, I don't need the fancy shoes, but it would be nice to have, like, I [00:33:00] want my friends to have whatever they want. Do you have one or two tips that they can take along with them to. To manifest. Yeah, I think you said the first step was
Liz Wolfe: ask, so asking powerfully, so the first step, ask asking powerfully.
Okay. Right. Lemme write that down. and it brings to mind the, Wayne Dyer, He's, he's no longer with us, but he does a lot of his work is around abundance and says there's three, three. I'm paraphrasing.
There are three levels of manifestation. Level one is I want a yellow umbrella from Burma.
So I go online and I buy a yellow umbrella from Burma. The second level of manifestation is I want a yellow umbrella from Burma. It's hard to say. And then I find out my friend is going to Burma and I ask them to bring me an umbrella back, and they do. The third level of manifestation is [00:34:00] I want a yellow umbrella from Burma.
I come home and on my steps is a yellow umbrella from Burma. So it's really, and he says, abundance is not what you acquire, it's what you tune into. So we all have this, those experiences of. Oh, I needed a red scarf and I was in the subway and
I found a red scarf, or I needed a ride and somebody offered it before I asked.
So we have that. We all have that ability. So what I want you to know is one, one is not better or easier than the other. If the way to get the expensive shoes is to be you want them and you go online and you buy them. Okay? But speaking of money that may or may not be feasible for you, so what other places?
I think this is one way that [00:35:00] we limit ourselves in what we receive is because we don't creatively imagine, well, where are all the places I. These shoes could come
Michelle Fox: from, especially in this world of Amazon where you just click a button and it's here in four hours. Yes. That definitely, I think, hampers some creativity.
Yeah. But carry on.
Liz Wolfe: Yeah. So, one of my favorite things in the whole world is to go on Craigslist and. Through the free or to give away things on the free site. As a matter of fact, I have two pairs of vintage dress shoes in my possession right now that I'm ready to let go of, that I've posted for free.
So there are shoes on the internet right now waiting for you to get them if you live in New York City. Mm-hmm. but, but also the. There's the buy now, buy nothing local Facebook groups where you can just post things. So there's a whole world of, of a way there. There's so much abundance. What it is, is it's a matter of [00:36:00] remembering there's so much abundance in this world and that what you want is available to you and it in fact, it's coming for you.
So you ask for it, and then this. Not the, it's not the second step, but the third step to creating it is to receive it. To receive it graciously, because a lot of times it's coming to us and we don't, we're very conditional on how
we receive
things. Oh, I don't, you know, I'm just using the shoe example. I don't know the shoes.
I've wanted pink, but those are more rows, you know? Okay. Don't accept them if you really don't want rose shoes, but know that shoes are coming to you. Mm. And in our conditionality of receiving, we often repel exactly what it is that we want. We did this in relationship quite a bit actually.
Michelle Fox: Mm-hmm. Very conditional.
So are you familiar with human design?
Liz Wolfe: [00:37:00] Yes, I'm familiar with
Michelle Fox: it.
Yeah.
So in that I'm a manifesting generator,
So I feel like a lot of the work I've done, I know how to call in what I want. To your point when you're saying the third point is receiving, I feel like I need to kind of call myself out so that just in case some of my friends can see themselves.
In this example, which is just last week, I was out to lunch with a few girlfriends and my friend Barb was like, Michelle, I got this. And I'm like, oh ha. No, no, no. I've got the cash. Here's the cash. And as I went to grab my cash, like something like pinged in my head, I'm like, Stop it. I'm like, this is a gift.
So I just like put my hand down and I turned back to her. I'm like, Thank you. And so it just kind of made me giggle because I feel like I've come so far and like here in this moment, you know, is this beautiful gift and I wasn't in that receiving space for some reason. So, but I caught myself. Yeah. So that's just one
Liz Wolfe: example.
That is a, a great [00:38:00] example because we've all been there. Yeah. Are you sure? Really? you know,
I went
out with a client, met her, she was in the city, and so I was like, oh, great. Let's go and have a, a quick coffee. You know? So I said, oh, of course this is on me. She said, no, no, it's business trip. It's on me Now, I could've sat there and argued with her, what would've been the point?
Oh, thank you. You know, let me just say thank you. I want money. I want money. So when somebody gives me money, Okay. Give it. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Here's, here's another example. I created these, music books of, of songs of bluegrass songbooks, fun and, bluegrass song of songbook of bluegrass songs. And so I would print them for myself.
And over time, you know, people would say,
Oh,
you know, can I have one of those, whatever? And people were offering me, you know, money. So I was like, yeah, sure. Okay. And so I've probably made, you know, I don't know, 500 [00:39:00] bucks something. I don't know how much from now. I just, I, and now I'm to the point where I have grown my email list around, 'cause I organized jams and I just put it right at the bottom.
I have songbooks and then if you want one, let me know. And I just put $10 requested in it. And people happily, they want to gimme that money, they happily, oh my God, it's the best thing ever. They have the book, they go away. They know now they know what songs are. They're so happy. I'm like, thank you. I could go through the whole thing of like, oh, I should just give it for free.
You know? It didn't really cost me. No, I, that was a lot of time and effort and printing and binding, you know.
Michelle Fox: And it's part of your gift, like you should be compensated for your gifts.
Liz Wolfe: I created it. It was a lot to do that. So just looking at these ways in which we receive conditionally, we receive money conditionally, and, and I would, you know, again, to relate it back to food too, it's like how well are you receiving [00:40:00] the health of your body?
Mm. How, how, how embrace, how embracing are you with I. Taking care of yourself and receiving that. You know, people talk about self-care, okay? I am not an expert in that area. Binary stretch. But, you know, I wanna, I wanna receive that experience. That's really what it is. And we're, in a way, we're very, we're blocking that.
Why would we block abundance people? Do we all do it?
Michelle Fox: Well, you are an amazing guide to help us to stop doing that and and incredible coach in so many ways. And so for my friends who are either thinking about getting into business or who are in business, where can they come find you? Yes,
Liz Wolfe: my website is Liz Wolfe Coaching.
So in case you didn't get the joke earlier, I did grow up on a sheep farm and my last name is Wolfe. [00:41:00] So, there, there you go. Wolfe's the name sheep's the game. But my last name does have an e, Liz Wolfe with an E. And what I would love to invite everyone to do, it's a free on my website, is a quiz that you can do if you're interested.
And it's, it's really about leadership styles, but it's. your c e O type, so you could take the quiz even if you aren't in business because it'll tell you about your leadership style. And so there are four entrepreneur types, c e o types, and it is a quiz that will help you to figure out, That. So if you have areas of your business that, or, or around finances, et cetera, that you're struggling, then it will help you because it'll show you what your strengths are and it'll show you where some of your areas of development are for that.
So, and it's a fun quiz, so I, I invite you to jump on there and take that. Hmm.
Michelle Fox: Thank you. Great. I will absolutely add that to our show notes. Yeah. And in perfect Coach Liz form. [00:42:00] We covered a whole lot in a small amount of time and I could honestly continue talking to you, but I wanna be respectful. Thank you.
That's all I can say right now. Thank you for sharing with us.
Liz Wolfe: Thank you. Thank you for having me. I, I love it and everything you're doing is amazing, so keep going.
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