#48 Money Is Energy
Money is an energetic exchange and in this episode, Kelly shares how to raise your vibrational frequency to attract more financial abundance into your life. She also reveals an experiment she’s doing this year in her business on a ‘Pay What Feels Light & Right’ basis, as well as a breakdown of her own investments in her personal, professional and spiritual life.
Also mentioned in the podcast:
Marie Forleo’s online B-School for starting or growing your business:
https://myprojectme.com/make-business-dreams-come-true-marie-forleos-b-school/
Kelly’s High Vibe Journey https://myprojectme.com/high-vibe-journey/
Liz Hancock EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for money mindset. https://theeftcoach.com/
Donna Roggio, empowering women to take charge of their lives, finances, and goals. https://www.donnaroggio.com/
Insight Timer Meditation app
The Magic by Rhonda Byrne
It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver
Project Me for Busy Mothers by Kelly Pietrangeli
Dakota Earthcloud Walker mentorship: https://dakotaearthcloud.com/
Read the Transcript for this Episode below:
Episode 48 of the Project Me podcast. Hi guys, welcome back. I'm finally recording another episode after completing the most amazing round of my High Vibe Journey program. This was the ninth time I've run this program, and this time was super unique in that instead of a group of 25, we had a group of 81.
There were 80 plus myself. 25 of them were first timers to the program and the rest were all alumni who've done the program before and wanted to do a refresh around in real time as a group. I had planned to host the community in two separate groups. I felt like the first timers would need my specific support and might feel a bit overwhelmed by a larger group, but a couple days before the start of the program.
I was doing a meditation by Ram Dass and he was talking about one love, universal love, not being separate. And this voice came through to me loud and clear. It said, this needs to be one combined group. And after the meditation, my logical mind kicked in and I was like, no, no, no, I've already done the, the, um, welcome video.
It's already talked about two groups. I've already made the two groups. I mean, my logical mind was resisting this idea so much. But. I now know the difference between my wise, intuitive voice and my kind of, you know, logical mind. And I could just hear the difference between the two. And I realized I need to listen to my wise, intuitive voice.
I mean, I talk about this in the high vibe journey program, how to hear the difference between both. And I am so glad I did having this combined group, the energies and the shares. It was just incredible. And in week four, something happened. I was watching my own week four video where for some reason in that video I shared this dream that I'd had the night before.
I recorded this in January of 2020 and my husband had heard me speaking in my dream and I kept saying nine times nine is 81. Nine times nine is 81. And I wouldn't even remember that dream except my husband told me that I was saying this out loud. So, In that week four video, I didn't even know why I was sharing about that dream, but here I was three years later watching this video again, and suddenly I went, hang on, how many of us are in this high vibe journey combined group for this round?
And I went and looked and that number was 81, nine times nine is 81. It was the ninth round of the high vibe journey. And even adding up the eight and the one from 81, you get nine. I mean. I don't know if it was a premonition, if it was a message, but all I know right now is that 81 has been a magical number over this past month.
And now I am heading into creation mode as I create my new soul explorers membership, the logo, the branding, the content, and I'm also creating my new soulful website. where I can finally put up my offerings. You, you hear me talk about these various things all the time and there's never anywhere on my website.
So soon coming, you can hear more about this pivoting in a new direction for project me. If, if you haven't already, that's in a couple episodes ago, it's called a new direction for project me today. I feel called to do an episode around money. I have a bonus video in the high vibe journey called money is energy and I've received such beautiful feedback around that with women saying that it shifted their vibration around money.
So I will turn that into this episode along with a story of course. Here we go. Episode 48. Every single thing on this entire planet is made up of vibrating particles of energy. You are energy. When we talk about being high vibe or low vibe, it's literal. You are energy, and your thoughts are creating your emotions, which all carry specific vibrational frequencies, some much higher, and some lower than others.
Your emotions are really your useful indicator for whether your current line of thinking is giving you your best energy or your highest vibration. And energy is a two way street. So whatever you're giving off, you're also receiving back. The more in tune you are with your emotions, the easier it becomes to raise your energy when you notice it's not where you'd like it to be.
Now, this is not about having to be happy all the time because the whole range of emotions are what make us human. Learn to love your emotions. All of them. As you begin to pay attention and notice the correlation between how you're feeling and what shows up in your life, you begin to see that you are always attracting back whatever energy you're giving out.
So with that as a quick foundation, let's turn our attention to the energy of money. Money is something we humans made up as an exchange for goods and services, and now, more than ever, it's also used in exchange for knowledge, expertise, and guidance. Money, like everything else in this universe, is a form of energy.
The very first time I ever thought of it this way was around 11 years ago when the wonderful Dr. Hilary Fredrickson held a series of nutrition workshops in her home, teaching us about healthy eating, and then we'd move into her kitchen where we'd learn how to make the recipes, and then we'd all sit together and eat what we'd made.
Well, the dozen or so women who turned up for her workshops were mothers from school, many of whom were also her friends, myself included. And I was amazed at how casual and yet business like she was about the money side of it all. She told us about the price in advance, she had a money basket at the door, and people paid into that, got their own change out of the basket, and checked themselves off the list as paid.
I noticed that when someone arrived late, she'd make sure they went over to the money station to pay before they sat down and joined the group, in a really friendly and yet professional way. She was not embarrassed or apologetic about asking for money, even from her friends. And it felt right and right for us to be paying for this experience.
Soon after that, in 2012, I began running my first Project Meet goal setting workshops out of my home. And I felt all over the place about what to charge, and how to charge close friends who'd helped me spread the word about the workshops. My confidence definitely was not there yet. I remember asking Dr.
Hillary if she ever felt weird charging her close friends, and she said these magic words to me. It's all just an exchange of energy. If you don't charge, you won't feel energetically good. And if they get it for free, they aren't as energetically committed. If they really want to come and learn from you and have this experience, they'll pay.
And if they're not committed enough to do that, they probably aren't going to be as invested in getting results, which isn't good for them or you anyway. When she put it to me like that, it made complete sense. Money is a form of energetic exchange. Later, when I launched the Project Me website in 2013, I wasn't charging for anything, just creating helpful content and growing my community.
And I remember someone said to me, I know it feels good now to just give, give, give, but without a monetary exchange, Your energy is going to become depleted. You need to give people the opportunity to give you money for your time and dedication to keep your energy high. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just really love helping others.
And I don't really know what I'd charge for or how much. But they turned out to be right because two years later I was looking at how many hours I was putting into the blogging, weekly newsletters, social media, and fielding endless emails from a growing global community. And I was thinking, Hang on, if I were still doing freelance graphic design work at 80 an hour and working this many hours a week, I'd be earning a lot of money.
And I'm here earning nothing. My energy was so depleted that I nearly closed down Project Me. But I didn't want to go back into graphic design work. What I was doing I loved. So I started running online programs, selling workbooks and planners, and doing one on one master to do list calls, and my energy was lifted again.
So if you're working, Think about this in terms of your own work. Is there a healthy energetic exchange? Does the energy you put into the work come back to you, either financially or as a deeply emotional reward which balances the energy you put out? Some people love the work they do so much and it earns them what they need and the energy all around it feels good.
Others put a lot of energy into their work but don't feel a good financial exchange for it. Or they don't love their work and it takes them away from the things they really want to be doing so even though they're being paid well it's sucking the life out of them energetically. All of this creates low vibe emotions and low vibe emotions attract low vibe experiences.
It can turn into a negative downward spiral. Here's something important to remember. When you are in a high vibration you are automatically in receiving mode. When you're in a low vibration, you're not. All thoughts and emotions carry a vibrational frequency. As you can imagine, money worries, lack, feeling unfairly, unfairly paid, money disputes, all that stuff, it's all low vibration.
What are the opposite emotions? Gratitude for all you do have, deep appreciation, love, joy, positive expectation, hopefulness. In order to attract more abundance into your life, focus on feeling good. I know that's not easy when you are genuinely worried, but you need to get your mind into a better place in order to raise your vibrational frequency and improve things.
The easiest way to do this is to reach for a better feeling thought. What that means is, notice what you're thinking when your thoughts are of worry or lack or frustration or disappointment. Reach for a better feeling thought. Either a quick reframe about whatever it was you were thinking about, or move your thoughts to a new subject completely.
Gratitude and appreciation are my go to's for this. There is always, always something to feel grateful for. And when I can reach for a better feeling thought about something in my life that is going well, I can hold that in my heart for a few moments to raise me into a higher vibe emotion. Or good old positive expectation.
I'll remind myself that everything always works out for the best. Even if it doesn't feel like it at the time, it just always does. Now, I'm going to share some helpful tools and resources to help you get into the specific mindset and emotions of financial abundance. I'll say it again, your thoughts create your emotions.
Your emotions carry the vibrational frequency, so it makes sense to look at how to get your mind into a positive state around money, right? So let's begin with a free option. The Insight Timer meditation app is free, including all the meditations. You don't have any meditations hidden behind a paywall. I used the little search feature, I typed in abundance, and it brought up you.
842 meditations of varying lengths and with different teachers. The more often you set aside even a few minutes to tune into one of these, the quicker you will notice a shift in your mindset around money. I already have a pretty healthy mindset around money and I listen to these meditations as a form of exercise to maintain it and strengthen it.
There was one month I decided to dedicate myself to these meditations and writing in my gratitude journal and creating a mini vision board around financial abundance. I was going through kind of a weird period of lack, very unusual for me, but I was in a downward spiral. And in that month that I've dedicated myself to getting myself into a, an abundance mindset, I won.
Lottery money that month and a huge business opportunity worth 20, 000. You can find my blog post about that in the money area of my project me. com. If you want to hear more about that amazing story, another free option, use daily positive affirmations. I am a magnet for money. Wealth constantly flows into my life.
It's easy for me to receive. Play with your own affirmations to see which ones feel good for you and then write them on to index cards or as reminders that flash up on your phone. There's a lot of affirmation apps available right now that will do that for you. Your mind is incredibly powerful when you use it in your favor, as is your heart energy.
So feel those affirmations in your heart as you repeat them daily. Inexpensive options are books around money and mindset and abundance. A book I love for getting into a daily habit of gratitude is The Magic by Rhonda Byrne. She's also the author of The Secret. I've done a whole podcast episode called The Secret and The Magic where you can hear more about these things.
But in short, The Magic is a 28 day writing exercise. You do it every morning and it really does create magic and abundance. Another book I love is Toshi Silver's It's Not Your Money, How to Live Fully with Divine Abundance. And I have to say that as little as a couple of years ago, I think I would have been put off by the reference to the divine and to her daily prayers.
But I have opened my mind and heart to hear these words now. And I just love her take on money and abundance. Again, that's called It's Not Your Money by Toshi Silver. If you have my book, Project Me for Busy Mothers, do read the money chapter there. It's at the very back of the book. So a lot of people who have my book and love my book and all that, I say, have you ever read the money chapter?
And they're like, Oh no, I didn't make it that far. Because people kind of get really caught up in the productivity and time management or the parenting or the health, all the other And the money is the last chapter there. And in there I go into the money stories that you tell yourself and I share a lot of great money resources there too.
Pay attention to the stories you tell yourself about what's too expensive or you can't afford or that cost too much or definitely don't use the words like I'm broke or I'm skint. The language you use is important. Even in your self talk is incredibly powerful. Now, if you're willing to invest in unraveling the deeper stories and ingrain beliefs around money, I highly recommend EFT, emotional freedom technique.
And I recommend doing it with a professional who will get to the root of it and release it right on out of your energetic field. Yes, this is possible. And yes, it is so much faster and more effective long term than any other any of the free or next to free options I've mentioned. I think the problem is when you're so caught up in low vibe emotions around money, you don't trust that something like this could possibly work or you don't believe you can afford it.
But if you can overcome that initial hurdle, I do have a top recommendation for you. Liz Hancock is an EFT money coach who offers one to one sessions via Zoom so you can do it from anywhere in the world from your home and she also runs programs around this and she has personally worked with several people I know and everyone raves about her.
That's Liz Hancock. Her website is theeftcoach. com. I'm going to make sure in the show notes, I put links for all this stuff I'm talking about. So if you're listening on the go and you haven't got pen and paper, you don't want to freeze. I will, I'll put all these links and things in this show notes. If you're in serious financial trouble, of course you need a practical plan and support.
And if you're just not sure if you're managing your numbers well in your business, maybe you're like me and you've got number phobia and fear of spreadsheets, well, hashtag no coincidences, I just had a call yesterday with a woman who runs programs and offers very practical coaching around money. We met in Ibiza just before Christmas and we really hit it off.
She geeks out on spreadsheets and numbers and budgeting and best tax strategies and all that kind of stuff that I tend to bury my head in the sand over. Her name is Donna Roggio and her website is donnaroggio. com and I may as well put her into the show notes too because she's fabulous. I told her we had this call yesterday.
I said, I'm actually doing a podcast episode tomorrow on money is energy. And so, yeah, it's, I just had to drop her in there too. Cause I think she's really great from like the The, the really practical stuff. Okay. So yesterday on my call with Donna, I told her something and now I am going to share it with you too.
This is an experiment that I'm going to try in my business over these next few months around money and energy. Since money is energy. What if I didn't put a price tag on everything I do? What if people could pay what feels right and light for them? And what if some people end up paying a lot more than if I put a set price on it?
And those who really can't pay a whole lot right now are not denied. And what if those people, because they have access to my work when times are lean, learn how to raise their vibrational frequency, get into the vibration of abundance, and later are able to pay me a lot more than if I'd initially put a price tag on it that they couldn't afford.
I have experimented with this previously and it's gone really well. I offered three price points for my High Vibe Journey program during COVID lockdown and those women who paid the lowest tier were so grateful and gained so much from the program that they continued to do more paid work with me. If I just had the normal price on it and hadn't done the kind of lower tier, they would have never done that and they would have never continued to work with me.
Do you see what I mean? I've also done, um, pay whatever you want kind of, um, little mini programs and things. And those women have just donated whatever they want. And I had kind of a price in mind for that. And I just decided, Oh, I don't know. That might be too much for some people. And in the end, some people paid a little bit less than what that price would have been.
And a lot of people paid over 100. More than what I would have put on it. So do you see what I mean? It's really interesting. And when you get a group of people who've all, who are all there in a program, for example, who have all paid what feels energetically right for them, you just get such an amazing, um, energy in the group.
You don't have anybody who's feeling like kind of ripped off or any, you know, the people who, um, who are paying what they want to get out of it, they are injecting this positive energy into, into me and my business. The women who choose the highest tier because they can and they want to, they have definitely helped like put positive energy into my business and keep me going.
You know, my programs are filled with a variety of women in a whole range of financial incomes and what everyone has in common is a deep passion for bettering their lives and getting into a higher vibration. I've been pondering about the olden days when communities exchanged goods and services amongst themselves.
Oh, you sew clothes and I need a new coat. Well, I've got chickens and I can offer you eggs, you know, that kind of thing. It makes me wonder, what if there were not price tags on everything? What if we were allowed to pay what we felt was right for various services? I'm not talking about, um, you know, um, product businesses because I understand product businesses, you've got manufacturing costs, you need to make a profit above the cost and for services, it feels a little bit more fluid.
It's about the knowledge and the time and the energy expended by the one providing the service and how much the one receiving value from that service is willing and able to pay. Of course, even service based companies like mine have outgoing expenses for running the business, but it's not the same model as selling physical products.
So, I am conducting a bit of an experiment with my new Soul Explorers membership. I'm keeping the base membership super low, So everyone's all paying this base membership, but I'm giving members the option to top up as and when they feel called to. Money is energy. And when they actively make a top up donation, say they attended one of my zoom workshops and felt super inspired by it, or they had a particular month where life felt more in flow than ever.
Ever because of something they learned from me or something they implemented that came up in the membership community, whatever it is, they just feel like they want to show their appreciation or whatever by paying more. They are encouraged to do so. There's just going to be a link. It's like, just top up whenever you want.
This flow of finances into my business will in turn, give me more energy to create more content, run more workshops. And that in turn goes on to inspire more transformation. Each individual is paying what feels right and right for them. And so the entire energy of the group is lifted. Nobody leaves because they can't afford it.
The base membership is low and the topping up is optional. It creates a container for a personal and spiritual growth that is not income dependent. And yet. I'm not running a free charity. I'll be making the income I need and want for how I wish to live my own abundant and prosperous life. Well, time will tell on that part, but this is the experiment over the next few months.
Will the money that circulates through the membership aspect of my business continue to give me the energy to run it this way? Let's find out. Watch this space. I am making it a prerequisite that all members of soul explorers have done my high vibe journey program. So we're all down with understanding ourselves as energetic beings and we have our high vibe practices in place.
So if you're interested in doing the high vibe journey again, I mean, or doing it again, if you haven't done it before, um, or sorry, doing it again, if you've done it before, you can be in my alumni group. Or if you have never done it before, I'm going to offer three tiers again for this round. So get onto my newsletter list at myprojectme.
com to hear when I'm going to run this program again. I want to add that I am deeply into investing in my own personal and professional and spiritual growth. I could just pick up free info off the web, I could read books about it, but I know that That the money I've invested in some key courses, programs, and coaching have moved me much further along than if I just DIY'd it.
These haven't been qualifications by the way. I'm not talking about getting a degree or a master's or higher qualifications in a specific field of study. I'm talking about much smaller investments of time and money. I spent 2, 000 doing Marie Forleo's Online B School in 2013. It was 10 years ago. I wanted to learn how to start an online business doing what I love.
And it was, I would say, my best investment ever. Six weeks of my life and at the end of it, Myprojectme. com was born. And I remember that 2, 000 felt like huge to me at the time. And now I just look at it like, Oh my God, I only spent 2, 000 to learn how to start a business. No, I didn't, I didn't go to like proper B, uh, business school.
I went to B school. Um, I would say that I've invested around 6, 000 more over the past 10 years on other forms of business training, mastermind and coaching around certain blocks I was experiencing at times when I felt I needed it. In hindsight, not all that money was well invested. Definitely not. Last year, I did a whole podcast episode called finding financial flow in life and business.
It's one of the most listened to episodes ever, interestingly enough. And in that episode, I shared about the unscrupulous business coach that sent me into a big downward spiral until Marie Forleo came to my rescue again by making me an affiliate of B School. At the end of this episode, I must remember to share that B School 2023 is about to start here now in February.
I'm a partner again, and I'm offering bonuses and support. So do listen at the end. I don't want to break up what I'm talking about here. So other investments I have made, Listen to this. I joined a 49 a month membership to learn how to create and run a successful membership when I was first wanting to start my membership.
And I only charged my own members 19 a month. So I myself was investing 49 a month. in something that I continued to pay for like the first two years of my membership, but I was only charging my own members 19 a month. I had this whole belief that my women could, could not or would not pay more than that towards their growth.
In 2020, I invested over 2, 000 to be in Dakota Earth Cloud Walkers Soul Warriors Shamanic Mentorship for a year that was so powerful for me and for my spiritual expansion, my growth, and that was a real eye opener for me because I never felt like I could charge more for my offerings because I was worried it would make it unattainable for those on lower incomes, but in Dakota's membership, yeah.
My fellow members were from all walks of life. I could see it on our live calls. I could see many people sitting in simple farmhouses or cabins feeding their horses. It wasn't full of super wealthy people for whom two grand was no big deal. We were all there for our growth and expansion and I saw firsthand that people spend their money on what's most important to them at that time.
I know that when I invest in something financially, I am all in. I am not the kind of person who joins an expensive gym and then just goes once in a while. If I'm paying for it, I'm using it. So during my Dakota earth cloud Walker mentorship, I never missed a live call. I never missed a piece of recorded content.
Thinking about it now, during, during Marie Forleo's B School, I was all in too. During those dedicated weeks, I watched every video. I took notes. I completed every worksheet. I asked questions. I attended the live calls. That's just my personality. My financial commitment aligns with my overall commitment to whatever I'm paying for, and I believe.
That is why I get so much out of my investments because I'm invested. Money is energy and when I'm financially invested in something I'm energetically invested in it. So I am hoping that my members feel the same way and want to invest in their growth and be all in for also investing their time and their energy.
You get back what you put in. Plus, it's occurring to me now that I'm sharing about my own financial investments in my growth, that all this money I've invested is helping my members and those who do my programs because all of this has brought me up to a higher standard, right? That's why you pay a private doctor or a dentist so much.
They have invested a lot of money and time into their own education so they can serve you best. And I see the time and money that I've invested in myself as benefiting all who work with me. And since it's that time of year for Marie Forleo's B School, as I alluded to before, she only runs B School once a year.
So I'm just going to use this opportunity in February of 23 to give a shout out to the online Program that helped me to take the seed of an idea for project me 10 years ago. Oh my God, it's the 10 year anniversary and turned it into my dream business. And now with my upcoming pivot. I am going to do B School again with this new incarnation of my business in mind because before my, you know, customer, the person, the people I wanted to reach were like a different kind of person.
And I have a whole new kind of business model I need to create now. So I am going to do B School again. You get lifetime access with B School, so I don't have to pay a penny more, even though I've I did it 10 years ago. And Marie has recorded all new videos and materials this year, which I'm super excited about.
I want to hear what she's changed. And I'm sure over the years, even the way that we, that we market is changed. So I'm really looking forward to doing B School again. I'm a partner again this year, which means that if you join B School under me, you get my own set of free bonuses. And I've decided that my bonuses are going to be a place in the next round of my High Vibe Journey program.
If you've already done the high five journey program, I'll give you a place in my higher program. If you've already done my higher program, let's talk, we'll come up with something. And I'm a six month membership to soul explorers. And I'm also going to create a support and accountability group for those doing this round of B school.
And I'm going to be in that group because I'm doing B school with you. I am all about ease and flow in my life and in business. So in my group, it's going to be very much about getting into alignment before action. As a productivity and time management mentor for so many years, I'm also about accountability and sticking to the program, but With self compassion because I know that life throws out a curveball And so i'm gonna have nobody beating themselves up if they need to readjust the plan Like I said, you have lifetime access So if you can't finish it in real time, like i'm just going to be there making sure that everyone's kind of um, You know doing it So if you want to do B School with me, go to the blog section at myprojectme.
com. I've written several blogs about my experience of doing B School, how I got my book publishing deal, how I created my business, how I met Marie Forleo, how I, there's all kinds of blog posts in there. I'm kind of like Marie Forleo mad in there, but you'll find my special link there. There's a, there's a blog post called my B School bonuses, and you can read about that.
And you need to use that link in order to get my bonuses. I'm also happy to answer any questions you have about B School. So you can just drop me an email at myprojectme, uh, hello at myprojectme. com.
Dear listener, relax your forehead, take a long, slow, deep breath in and let it out with a sigh. How does thinking about money make you feel?
Is there a certain aspect of money that feels emotionally triggering for you right now?
Are there any repeated patterns around money that keep showing up?
What would it feel like to be free from this? How would it feel in your mind, your body, your soul, to be fully in the vibration of financial abundance? Repeat this affirmation. I am a magnet for money. I am ready to receive.
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