Megan reflects on her recent retreat in Mexico, sharing how it sparked personal and professional breakthroughs. She talks about how trusting her intuition and visualizing success helped her sell out Zesty’s two-day event, Amplify Your Impact, in Virginia Beach—something she had boldly predicted.
Megan also introduces her new group coaching program, Quantum Leap Breakthrough, and shares an inspiring story of a participant who made $9,000 from one email by applying what they learned. She warmly invites listeners to join her upcoming events and goal-setting sessions to create their own breakthroughs.
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Transcript:
Megan Blacksmith:
Happy New Year. Everybody. Happy New Year. To the zesty crew. Welcome Back to Our Podcast. I hope you’re as excited as I am about 2025 it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be a good year. Are you feeling it? I know I’m already feeling it, and you’re probably wondering, what’s in store? What’s in store for 2025 for you, what’s in store for us? I have had such a huge shift in how I’ve felt in the last month after, let’s say, last two months, after this amazing retreat I went to in Mexico, and honestly, I keep saying I’ve never quite ridden the energy of a retreat so long. I mean, it’s two straight months, and I am still in the magic of Mexico every single day. And clients I’m working with have said things to me like, can I just call you every day? Because every time we talk, I make money. I have a new friend that’s also an NLP trainer, and he said the same thing. Every time we talk, he makes money. Every time I talk to him, I make more money. And there’s just this magic of the tools we’ve learned and things we’re applying that have sped up so quickly, and any little hole that I felt was missing or left in business got filled. It got supported. A resource was found at that training. So you know how that happens when you’re ready, like when you’re totally ready for the next level, the person, the program, the thing, the thing that will provide just that, that little missing link will show up. So super, super cool things have happened since, and one of them is many of you have noticed, and you reached out about, or you saw on Instagram that we sold out our two day event. So in January, in Virginia Beach. Every year we do a two day event. It’s called amplify your impact. And this is where people get to experience us. They get to experience what we call functional NLP, they get to experience applying new strategies, new habits, expanding their capacity for growth, expanding their capacity for helping more people, right? So what we want to do is help the people who are helping people get out of their own way. Get rid of those annoying money blocks, get rid of those annoying visibility blocks. Get rid of the story that they’re telling themselves, that they’re not ready, and actually just start to do the thing and make the thing happen. And it’s such an energetic game. It’s such a mindset game, it’s such a personal development game, and most people who end up finding us, least part of them, knows that even if they’re applying the strategies that they’ve been told to apply in business, when they’re wondering, why isn’t shit working out the way I want, they know it’s them. And I don’t mean this in a Blamey, guilty way, because we’re not going there. We’ve all done plenty of that. They just know that it’s them. They know that it’s an upper limit. They know that it’s a belief it’s somehow not safe to have that level of success. So it was so super cool to see as I shifted huge beliefs at the retreat recently. Me that the magic unfolding of just like really, really quickly we sold out, and my only regret is that we didn’t get a bigger space, because we’ve never sold out before. The this is the coolest part of the story, though. So in Mexico, in this retreat with my NLP trainers, it was the, the highest level you can go to, right? It’s like I just keep going and keep learning and keep growing. And so in this retreat, I were in Mexico, we went to Chichen Itza. We had this amazing guide, and learned so much. And one of the things happened, and that I was hoping would happen and inviting to happen in Mexico was to really lean into my ability to trust my intuition. And specifically, if you haven’t listened to my interview with Jenny Finley, go back and listen to it. But specifically my clairvoyance, meaning that I the way I receive image would be visual. So I always thought that this whole like psychic thing, clairvoyant, clairaudient, that this was just for a certain type of person, that it would never be me. And I’ve always kind of had this really good intuition mind comes through as just a knowing, just all of a sudden I know something. And so in my mind, I’m like people who are clairvoyant, they are seeing the future and it’s so clear, and they just drop right into wherever they want and see it how they want. And as I started to learn more, I realized that the place where we are actually receiving these visions is the same place as where we have imagination and daydreaming. So it feels like you’re making it up. And when I started to understand that that is what it feels like, I realized that I was having visuals, movies, images come in all the time. So I made a vow at that retreat to really lean in, to trust to trust this part of my intuition, to trust the visual part. And I did get tested during that retreat, because I had a vision come in during a meditation, and it was a vision of me doing an eye gazing exercise that I had done at a different event with James Wedmore. And I saw a vision of me doing that exercise with my mentor, who’s there, my trainer, who was there the training. And in my mind, I was like, Oh heck no. So I did not want to have to ask this person to do this with me. I didn’t want to have to do it. Because I don’t know if you’ve ever done eye gazing, where you open eye just stare at each other for I think we did three minutes. It’s awkward. It’s one of the most vulnerable things you can do, you feel like someone’s looking into your soul because they are and doesn’t seem like a big deal. I don’t know if anyone here has done it, though, you know it is very, very, very vulnerable and so, but I saw the image, and I was like, gosh, I’m I said I would trust so I put on my big girl panties and went and I said, Hey, I got this image of us doing this open eye gazing. Would you be willing to do this with me? And it was a yes. So we did the awkward process, which turned into a huge breakthrough, actually, for both of us. And after that, I realized like, oh, okay, I didn’t want to do it. I did it anyway. I followed through with my intuition, and it led to a huge, huge shift in my understanding of really, it was fear around being judged. It brought to light some people in my life that I feel very judged by, and that this person represented, and I was able to clear that out really, really quickly, and moved from that retreat with a new with a new view of this. So after this training, I was like, Okay, I’m going to keep trusting. I’m going to keep trusting. So every single day since I’ve gotten back from Mexico, I’ve had a very specific morning routine, and it involves breath work. And I love Mason breath work. And in the past, I have not been able to get myself to commit to it consistently. I’ll do it for a month. I’ll fall off. I’ll do it. It’s almost like I know how powerful it is. And I get close to my power, and I things start to move really fast and go really well. And that part of my brain that says this is scary, you don’t deserve this. All the things comes up, and magically, I will stop my habit, although this time it has stuck and it has been way longer. I mean, to do it daily for over two months is long for me. And so in one of my daily breath work and meditations, I saw clearly, this was before Christmas that we were going to sell out our two day event. And I was like, Oh, wow. Well, interesting. My conscious mind was like, but there’s 15 spots left, right, so we can fit 50 in the space. And we. Still had 15 left, and we’ve never sold out. We’ve never had 50 at this event. And it was, I think, about a week away from when my brain was saying this date was the date came up as well. Sorry, in the image, the date was December 23 we’re sold out with 50 spots. So consciously, I’m like, that doesn’t make sense. I don’t see where these 15 people would come by. Then I really did know, I did have a knowing that we would sell out probably by the end, you know, by the end of the year. But by December 23 felt like a stretch, although I decided, and I had made the commitment, that I was really going to lean into these visions and these my my receiving of something to be true. So now this is where it gets interesting, because our brains like to make meanings of things. And if you’re like me, you want to know like, well, was that actually an image that came to me that’s going to happen? Or did I make it happen? Or both? And right now it’s I’m really leaning into the both. Because what happened was, because I have made the decision that I’m going to believe anything that comes to me like that, I then started to speak into existence that it was happening. So people would reach out and say, I’m thinking about coming. I’m like, Great, awesome. And you might want to go buy your ticket, because I’m pretty sure we’re going to be sold out soon. So that became what I told everybody. And there were people who had, like, they had a free ticket. So anybody who does our NLP essentials, they had a free ticket. There were people who had tickets, and I would message them, being like, Hey, by the way, you have the ticket. And pretty sure we’re gonna be sold out by Monday, December 23 so go do that. So of course, that motivated people to go faster. I’m sure that helped. And my words, I’m speaking my words into the universe. I’m speaking it into existence. And I was saying over and over and over, and we’re going to be sold out. Fast forward to December 23 and I’m about to it’s like, 9pm I’m getting ready for bed. And I went to check and I said, Oh, my God, we are. We’re at 49 there’s 50 spots, and we’re at 49 like, yeah, Heck, yeah. I mean, in my mind, I’m like, we basically did it. This is more than we’ve ever had. It’s gonna be such a killer event. Like, I’m so excited. We’ve shifted our content from the last time. It’s not habit focused anymore. It’s really focused on the impact you want to make. We’re using the NLP tools that we know make the biggest change in the shortest amount of time. We’ve really changed a lot, and I knew it would be awesome, so I’m like, Yes, like heck yeah. We did a lot of work, we made a lot of changes, and now the results are coming right like it. It’s, it’s flowing to us easily and effortlessly, because we’ve made these changes and put in the work. So I was super, super happy, and then my brain said, but, but you said 50, and you said you’d be sold out. And you saw that in that image, Megan, is it true, or is it not true? And so I had a choice to make, because it’s bedtime and it’s December 23 the day that I, you know, I’d said it would sell out, and so my husband and my mom are going to come to the event. So then my brain says, Well, why don’t you just go check them out? Like, just go officially check them out in the systems. No, then it’ll pop up on my Monday board and it’ll show I have 50 people, and I will have officially hit the goal, and I can celebrate for real and and call it, call it what it is, like, say it’s done, and have the visualization be true. And that just didn’t feel right. I was like, okay, it is what it is like, the fact that I turned I became the person who had the identity of someone who sells out, and I acted that way. I put information out in that way. I reached out to people I wouldn’t have reached out to. I followed up in ways that I hadn’t. So I became that person. So, like, that’s really what the goal was. It’s not really, I mean, who cares? 4950, it’s like, it that’s not really what it’s about. It’s more about me stepping into that role. So I went to bed, I said, just cool. It is what it is. This was awesome. Let’s call it, let’s call it great, right? Like, cool and, well, I knew we obviously would hit 50 eventually. So it wasn’t, it wasn’t like we wouldn’t sell out. And then I went to bed. I get up in the morning and I have a message from my VA. And she said, Megan, congratulations. So the 50th person came in at 1154, right before midnight on December 23 yo. That was so fun and so cool, especially because I made the decision not to essentially get my 50 by forcing it right by just signing my husband up and just allowing it to. Actually happen. And if you are really studying quantum physics, and you’re and how, you know the world is literally changing all the time. Like, did that decision actually change reality for me? So if I had decided to put my husband in, would that 50th have come through? It’s like a Mind Bender, right? I mean, I know that this gets really out there, although if you start to study quantum physics, then you know we have alternate reality options at all times, and every single choice point does change the future. So I don’t know it was cool, though, because I have found over and over, when we lean into the thing that it’s a little bit harder. It doesn’t satisfy the ego, it doesn’t totally check the boxes, and it’s maybe not what you would normally do. I found the more I lean into that, the better the stuff gets. Over and over and over i and it’s made my mind say, Okay, you already know this is what you’ve been looking for. You already know this thing has happened. So just trust. Just go ahead and trust you can be experiencing the benefits right now. All you need to do is take the first step. Go ahead and take this opportunity, right so it’s just these small, micro steps and reminders that now is the perfect time to get started. You already have what you’re looking for, right? So this whole shift was super it’s been super, super cool for me. For those of you who did miss the January event and you’re excited about coming to the next one, now that we sell out, I will remind you that the next amplify your impact will be March 8 and ninth in Dallas. So come join us for that one. We’ll make sure that’s in the link is in the show notes. It’s just becoming zesty.com. Forward, slash, amplify. And actually, depending on when you hear this, if you are in Virginia Beach, or you’re one of the people who had said you wanted to come and never really followed through, please reach out, because I did have one person yesterday who has said they need to move their ticket to march and can’t come to January anymore. So it sounds like we have one ticket, and people do move stuff around. So if you know you want to be there and you missed the deadline, do please just email us or DM us on Instagram. It’s always a great place becoming zesty. Yes, super cool. The other thing that happened in Mexico, and I think this is what’s such a cool story and so important, is that when you’re ready, the gifts and tools and things appear. So I had a couple areas of NLP, you know, as an NLP trainer. It’s a world filled with a lot of details, like, there’s a lot of names for different things. There’s a lot of very specific structures you learn and language patterns. There’s the meta model, there’s the Milton model, there’s all sorts of ways to speak and slide of mouth, and I found, as a past type, a past people pleaser, that sometimes my brain would say, you don’t know enough, you’re not an expert. There were a couple different categories that I felt like I was not an expert when it came to NLP. And so what happens when I show up to Mexico, I meet some people and get some resources. I didn’t even realize I was going to be getting actual scripts and resources there. I thought this one was a little bit more just for me and my personal development, which it was, but there were also some tools. And every single hole I felt like I had that I didn’t know really, really well got filled in there. And every single resource I was missing. So I knew Facebook ads were really important for us, and it’s just been a something we’ve ridden the struggle bus with and met somebody who’s going to do them for me. Like it. Just every single thing really, really lined up after that. And I also found that people were asking for a way to come work with us that did not involve being in person, so that did not involve coming, committing to a two day event, or our seven day certification when they don’t quite know what the heck it is we do. We’re getting better at explaining it, and they’re like, What? What do I need this language for? What do I need persuasion skills for like, who needs to be a good communicator? Is it just for coaches? Is it for any business owner? And so as we were getting more of that question, I realized that I’d like a way for people to experience, like, a breakthrough with the NLP tools like experience it, not become trained or certified in it, but. Yet experience it. So that was another thing I found was missing. And I have gone all in, I think I have eight one on one clients now who are experiencing what I’m calling a beta breakthrough. Which is funny, my friend was like, This is not a beta. You’ve been doing this for 10 years, coaching four years in this specific structure, although the reason I’ve been calling it a beta is that I added all my new tools, which makes it even faster and more magical. And I’ve been doing it in New Order, very different than the way I was coaching. So I decided to just say, hey, because of this, it’s a $5,800 breakthrough that I normally do, which is going to be 3800 for the first 10 people, right? So I was able to then really test it out and get people to come in quickly so that I could fine tune. And so I did that. I still have some of those. So if someone’s really interested and wants one on one, please reach out, although. And what I realized was there’s lots of people who also want to experience a breakthrough and want a lower investment. And so I said, Okay, could I do this same structure in a group? In a small group would have to be capped, so I am going to do that in February. I am going to run a small group again, calling it a beta. It’s really not a beta, but a small group, group, I’m calling it your quantum leap, a quantum breakthrough, your quantum leap breakthrough. And that group, I’m going to cap it at, I think, 10, maybe 1515, Max, because I want to be able to do each step where there is enough interaction and everybody gets their questions answered, although it is going to be done in a group. Because, as I keep getting the feedback, because I did a test run of the very first session with my amazing BBD crew, and I got great feedback. And I got some feedback of, like, how to improve something in a group and how to make the follow up better. I immediately were like, we need an audio for this stone walk. And I was like, Oh, of course you do right? Like the homework had something missing. So great reminder to just go ahead and do it and test it and get the feedback, and then the feedback helped me make it even better, so that now when people leave, and even the people who have tested this out, I had someone at BBD live who I was sitting next to just at lunch and on a napkin, or it was like a little piece of paper. We just wrote out his strategy, his strategy for something that wasn’t working well in his life, and then figured out the strategy for for the things that were and it was just a really quick process where we figure out, you know, what was he feeling? What was he saying to itself? There’s, you know, just a few steps in it, and I don’t know, 1015, minutes max, and he came up to me the next day. He was in charge of hosting one of the panels at BBD live. He was going to be a facilitator and a speaker, and this was new for him to be doing that. And he said, I everything we did in that little exercise changed how I showed up. I got the best feedback ever. I feel so good about it. He said that was so powerful. And I realized that this small exercise that I do really changes how people feel and think. And I’m like, why am I not why am I not doing this in a group? Why am I not offering this more? Why do you only get this when you come to a seven day practitioner training with us. And so there came the next hole that was filled, another way for people to experience NLP breakthrough in a group. So if you’re interested in that beta, please email. Actually, I think we have, we do have, I will put in the show notes. We have an official wait list for that. This is going to be again, since it’s since it’s beta style, meaning it’s the first time I’ve done it like this in a group. Will be it’s like a $3,800 breakthrough that I will do for 1800 because it’s in a group. So those are kind of the fun new things that I have going on. The feedback has been amazing. The stone Walk is a process that you learn in that in that breakthrough. And I had someone who started back in December, she said, I didn’t really plan on December being a working month. I didn’t really plan on making much money. I kind of was like, okay, the year is what it is. And she did reach out to me, because she felt like she was in a funk, and she was ready to change that funk, but she wasn’t really planning on changing the funk in December, if you know what I mean, and so, but we started. We just started early December, and she was doing her daily process that I had asked there was two tasks every single day, and she said one of the things that she had written down was to write a very specific email, an email to an offer that she again, wasn’t planning on doing in December and wouldn’t have done if we hadn’t done this exercise. And she said I made $9,000 from that one email. She actually ended up having the biggest month of the whole year, in December, when everybody’s busy and with their family. Family, because she commit to herself on December 5, joined the breakthrough process and actually took the actions, the daily actions, to follow through and what she had committed to, and to take the next step and do the next thing. And I thought that was so cool that that happened in December, that happened at a time when you’re not even having it happen. And I think that’s what happens as soon as you show up and say, I’m here to show up. I’m here to invest in myself. I’m here to change. I’m here to do this program, or whether it’s free or not free, but I’m here to do it. For those of you who did the possibility series in all of December, during a busy month, it’s still there. You all can go back and listen if you didn’t, because I got crazy powerful responses from that. The people who did that turned in their workbook, did all the things. They had results. They had stuff changed, and that’s in December when you know it’s supposed to be like, Oh, wait for January when people are ready to change and all the new year’s resolutions and all that, etc. So really, really cool things can happen in a short period of time when your brain and your body and all your what we call the vacag, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory are on board, which reminds me, I’m not sure which day this comes out, but once a month I do a virtual I call it kind of like a mastermind. It’s not really a mastermind officially, but a virtual group session where people, business owners and online entrepreneurs can gather and I’ll facilitate something, but we can also kind of meet and greet each other so we can have more people in our corner. And on Thursday, January, let’s see. Is it ninth, I am going to be doing a goal setting process that’s open to everybody. I’d love to have you join. I’ll make sure that’s also in the show notes. So lots of good stuff coming up that’s at noon, eastern standard time there will be recording. So just jump on the list if you want that. We do goal setting in a very different way, a very powerful way, because most people don’t know that if even one of your internal representation systems, your vacag, the things you do in your mind, the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory, if just one is out of alignment, you will not get your goal. What that means you gotta come to you gotta come join me. I’ll tell you more. I know you all are ready for this. I know you’ve been looking for a place to go deeper, to clear out your stuff, to become a more powerful communicator. We believe that the tools we teach do help people stand out in a crowd, in a very crowded marketplace, whether you’re a health coach or whether you’re in a different online market, it feels a bit crowded, and we see the people who have NLP along with their specialty, doing very, very well. So if you’re more interested in hearing about our two day or seven day, our online, our group, our one on one, there’s a lot of options. So please just reach out happy to get on a phone call or zoom with any of you and see how best we can serve you in 2025 I know it’s going to be our biggest year ever. I know it’s gonna be your biggest year ever, and I can’t wait for that for all of us. Honestly, I’m just I’m ready. I’m just so ready. So let’s go.