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Hello, hello, beautiful souls, and welcome to the Claim Your Power podcast, the ultimate show for all things New Age spirituality, entrepreneurship, and embodied leadership. I'm your host, Kim Peretz. I'm an author, entrepreneur, and yoga enthusiast. If you're ready to step up, tap into your gifts, and unleash your potential, you are at the right place. It's time to claim your power.
Hello, my beautiful friends, and welcome back to the podcast. I'm so excited for today's episode because this topic, like I feel like a lot of the things we talk about is very like spiritual, very zen-like topics. But today I'm coming out with...
a spicy episode. Like we're going to be talking about confidence, how to put yourself on the pedestal. And this episode is really the essence of why I started this podcast, Claim Your Power. We're going to be diving deep all about how to authentically express yourself, be powerful, and most importantly, how to put yourself up on the pedestal. I want to start off by saying that you are the main character of your life.
And this deeply connects to manifestation and the confirmation bias and the belief that you create your reality. But the truth is, like, you are the main character of your life. You are the author of your book. You always have the conscious choice to start a new chapter. Like, think about it this way. You could decide tomorrow that you're going to move cross-country with a backpack and start a whole new chapter of your life.
Like that, the ball is in your court. The choice is yours. So many people walk around unconsciously believing that they are a victim of their reality and therefore that is the life that they live. They live a life of victimhood, a victim mentality, and you will never be satisfied because you believe that you are a victim of your circumstances instead of a conscious creator.
And I'm not saying that you can control every single aspect of your life because in fact you don't, but you can always control the way you respond to the circumstances of your life, to your experiences. You can control the way you think, the way you react to emotions, the way you respond to others, and that really is where your power is. So when you realize this, you also realize that you are the main character of your life. You can always start writing a new page or
open up a brand new chapter you can eliminate characters from your life you can add characters from your life hence like you can introduce new people you can set boundaries with people um you can decide to start following a new dream to start a new plot like you are the main character and when you realize that your life will change because you also realize that every obstacle every unfortunate event every challenge or thing along the way that
awakes something within you is actually for the plot. It's for your highest growth. It's for your soul's growth. It's for a lesson in disguise and you need to walk around assuming that you are the main character of your life, that you are the star of your movie because you know what happens when
So many of us put so many other people in our lives on pedestals. We put other friends on pedestals, partners, family members, creators, celebrities. We're putting everyone on a pedestal instead of ourselves. And that leaves us feeling energetically depleted because we're constantly giving our energy and love to others instead of saying like, taking a moment and being like,
Damn, like I am the star of my life. I am the main character. I should be up on the pedestal. And PSA, putting yourself up on the pedestal doesn't mean that you are conceited. It doesn't mean that you are selfish. It doesn't mean that you have a big ego. It just means that you are prioritizing your own inner peace and your own self-love. And that's not selfish.
And anyone in your life who tells you that it is selfish or conceited to put yourself first and to empower yourself in some amazing ways is actually deeply intimidated and wounded by that power that you have and that light that you have. So that like,
You spreading your light and being conscious actually reflects something to themselves, an unhealed wound that they have, and that intimidates them. So they come back at you telling you that it's selfish, that it's conceited to put yourself first, to put yourself up on the pedestal. But I'm here to tell you the exact opposite. Like, I hope that every single person listening to this after this episode's
Walk around feeling like the main character of your life. Like I want to empower and motivate you so badly to believe that you have such a deep purpose in this lifetime that you walk around with intention, that you walk around knowing that you are the baddest there is, that you are the most beautiful, that you are the most worthy, that you are the most valuable and no other person can tell you otherwise.
The second that I started putting myself up on the pedestal is the second my life changed. Like, you know how we tend to really overthink and over obsess about other people?
I just started like doing that to myself. Like for example, let me give you like a really easy example. Let's say you have a crush. So what a lot of people tend to do is like over obsess about the crush. Like we'll stalk them on Instagram. We'll find out what their grandma's name is. We'll look at all their photos and we'll think all about all the good qualities that they have. And that's a beautiful thing like appreciating another person. But what if you started to have a crush on yourself? What if you started doing that to yourself?
Like you started looking at photos of you. Like I have days where I sit on my phone on my camera roll and I look at photos of myself and I'm like, damn, who is she? And two years ago, if I like learned that I do that to this day, I would be like, she's crazy. She's so selfish and self-conceited. But the truth is like, no.
That's self-love. That's confidence. That's power. And you should be able to do that and you should enjoy doing that. And this all connects back to the law of assumption. And if you don't know what the law of assumption is, it's basically one of the universal laws that states if you believe something, if you assume something, then that is the reality that will be shown to you. So if you walk around assuming that you are beautiful, that you are worthy of all your desires, that things just happen and flow to you with ease and love, then you're
then that is the reality that will be reflected to you. If you want people to empower you, to respect you, to love you, to be inspired by you, you need to be the first person to do that. Even when nobody else does it in your life, you need to be the one empowering yourself, believing in yourself, inspiring yourself, motivating yourself because that energy expands. Energy follows intention. So if you set the intention every morning, then no matter what happens on the external world, internally,
I will feel inspired. I will feel love. I will feel motivated. I will feel empowered. Then that is the reality that will be reflected to you. If you started walking around every single day being obsessed with yourself, obsessed with how beautiful you are, about how worthy you are, about how much light you have. And I'm saying the word obsessed not as like a negatively connotated thing, like obsessed in the sense that you were so
invigorated and so curious about who you are and so inspired by who you are and you walk around with that energy
Like that is the energy that you put out in the world. That is the light that you put out in the world. And you will see physically in your reality how that manifests and how people reflect that to you in your life. But if you put yourself on the bottom of the pedestal and you're just like the last priority in your life, you don't respect yourself, you don't love yourself, you don't honor yourself in different ways, how can you expect other people to show up with that same energy in your life?
Life is a mirror, truly. People will mirror to you how you feel about yourself, your family, your friends, your partners, your experiences. It's all a mirror internally. And I know that that's a hard thing to grasp because this is a mentality that takes you out of the victimhood and asks you to step into perfection.
power and responsibility and vulnerability and not every single person is ready to be on that path of truth. And really quickly, I want to mention that when you put yourself on the pedestal, you're not striving for perfection. You're striving for self-acceptance. So putting yourself on the pedestal is basically claiming your power and saying, okay, this is my life.
These are my choices. I choose how I react. I choose how I respond. I choose who I surround myself with. I choose day to day my life. And I want to give you guys a really good example of this that I learned two years ago from a mentor that I had in my life that changed my life. You need to believe in the power of choice.
And what happens when you're in a victim mindset, when you don't put yourself up on the pedestal, you believe that things happen to you and not for you. So you walk around unconsciously giving out the power of choice to everything in your life by yourself. So you say, I have to go to work. I have to see this person. I have to go to school. And you just keep reaffirming this belief system that you have to do all these things that everyone is making you, the universe is making you, that it's not actually your choice.
And what happens when you flip the switch and you say, okay, I choose to go to work because at the end of the day, it's your choice. You choose every single day to get up, go to work, get in your car, drive to work and do your job. It's
It's your choice. And I'm not saying that choices don't have consequences. You can choose not to go to work and maybe you'll get fired. Maybe you won't get your paycheck. You can choose not to go to school, but you'll get an absence. You can choose not to see that person and maybe they will react in some way. They will make you feel bad. But the choice is yours. And the way that other people in your life respond to you is up to them. That is their work. That is their shadow and healing work.
But the way that you choose to live your life is completely up to you. And it's really a mindset switch because if you looked at your life with a pattern of choices instead of like, I have to, I need to, like your life, your entire life will change.
you start telling yourself, I am choosing to see this person. I am choosing to drive to this place. I am choosing to respond to love. Even if it doesn't feel like you are making that choice, even if it feels like if you're not making that choice, you're going to have a bear. You're going to sit in a banquet of consequences.
you still tell yourself, I'm making this choice. And just like that, you put yourself back on the pedestal and you put yourself as the main character because you realize that this is your life. These are your choices. And you can choose like tomorrow to wake up and do something completely different, completely irrational, something that scares you, that is out of your comfort zone, that will change your life. So I want to invite you every single day, now that we're talking about the power of choice,
To every day, every morning, to choose yourself, to literally go in front of the mirror and tell yourself, today I choose me. Today I choose to honor my boundaries. Today I choose to love myself. Today I choose to share my light in the world. Today I choose to express myself authentically and make that choice happen.
every single day and show up for yourself. Even if nobody else in your life shows up for you, show up for yourself because if you can clearly and lovingly show up for yourself, eventually that energy will expand and you will attract and manifest all the right people that will reflect that energy to you. But you need to be the one to do that first. You need to be the one to choose your own power first, to put yourself up on the pedestal, to set the intention, to clearly love yourself, to clearly honor yourself, to clearly respect yourself,
Because if you're not going to do it, nobody else is going to do that for you. And that is the hard truth, but it's also the most beautiful truth because it shows you that all you need within is yourself. All the answers are within you. You are whole and complete on your own. And anybody who comes into your life and tries to fill up a void will end up
kind of leaving your life in some form of way until you learn to come back into your alignment, to come back into your own heart, into your own source and know that all the answers and all the love that you need resides within you. And the second that you put yourself up on the pedestal is the second that you tell the universe that you are ready to level up in life. It's the second that you tell the universe that you are ready to allow more abundance, more love, more
amazing experiences and joy to come into your life because you believe that you are worthy and valuable and the universe rewards this courage. The universe responds to that vibration. If you put yourself up on the pedestal, then the universe puts you up on the pedestal of life and the universe rewards you and the universe gives you gifts. Just the other day, I decided I was putting myself up on the pedestal
And guys, I literally got a flight for free, a flight that cost $500. I'm impulsively going on a trip to Barcelona because I put myself up on the pedestal a few weeks ago. I put the intention that I want to take a trip that I really, really am claiming that and intending for that to come into my life. And long story short, I got a flight voucher that basically covered my entire flight.
Is that not crazy? My flight was free. And this is all like just a mere example. Like things like this happen to my life all the time. It's because I put myself on the pedestal because I believe that I am worthy of all the good the universe has to offer. And I want to invite you to believe in that too, to believe in the power of your choices, to believe in the power of your intention.
And to believe that when you put yourself on the pedestal, the universe does so as well for you. And the universe will surprise you with so much magic. I'm not even kidding. Like you will see, I can't wait to like hear you guys how you feel about this episode. Like I would love for you guys to message me
if you kind of like utilize the things that I talked about in this episode and how that changed your day-to-day life because I can guarantee you that if you take the things that I told you today and you consciously put yourself up on the pedestal every single morning, oh my God, the universe, you just become irresistible to the universe. You're just like this manifestation magnet.
Beautiful souls, thank you so much for joining me in today's episode. As always, feel free to DM me on Instagram if you have any topic suggestions for future episodes or if you would like to apply to be a guest on the show. I hope you feel inspired to claim your power today. Bye.