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Are you facing a crisis in your life or business? It's time to steer yourself in the right direction through the real experiences, passion and courage of our guests. We're taking the helm with your host, Lynn McLaughlin.

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Hello and thanks again for joining us. We are most certainly going to take the helm today with our guest, Benjamin Yeh. Ben Yeh. Oh my gosh. He's blown my mind and I think he's going to blow yours too.

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Benjamin left two careers after he saw a vision and he followed his vision, as difficult as it was from a left brain person to someone who's discovered his connection to the mind, body and soul. And now he's helping us do the same as an entrepreneur. Hi, Benjamin, thanks for taking the home with us today. It's such a pleasure to be here, Lynn, and I'm very grateful to share this time with you. I just want to share with people.

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Just before Benjamin I hit record here, he asked me what my intention was for this podcast and 104 guests. I've never been asked that before. Benjamin shared his intention, I shared mine. And we are in sync. And I really love the way that we did that, Benjamin, because you're right, it kind of brought our energies together, didn't it?

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It's interesting because it was one of the techniques I learned and we'll probably go into a little bit later, but back when I was an investment officer, the head of HR, I remember there was this really difficult conversation we're going to have with one of our partners and we brought in the head of HR to also have to be with us in this conversation. And he started a conversation in the very beginning to say, hey, I just want to declare my intention for today's call and my intention here is to create a win win, but to really be authentic with you in terms of what can we do to share what's happening, but what's the resolve and something about setting that intention. And he also even said anything I say, anything response that I have is going to be in line with that intention. I just want to be upfront with you on that. And when you do that, it just completely shifted and changed the energy.

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In a conversation where knowing from a different conversation, it wasn't like from anger or from anything was because the intention anchored what the energy want to hold. And so ever since I learned that technique, it's like, wow. Especially the work that I do now, it's all about energy and it's all about how to raise that vibration. I just found it a beautiful way to like, hey, why don't we just do that in the beginning? Because it also, like I said, it harmonizes a bit on what the energy frequency is for any conversation, any meeting, any interview.

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And I've been on the side of the table like you have as well. And wow. I can just see the tension in the room would just drop immediately because there's no dismissal, there's no termination, there's no breaking of the contract. We're here to find a solution. I absolutely love that.

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So thank you for introducing me to that today. No worries. Benjamin, tell us about yourself. Thank you so much, Lynn. Oh, gosh.

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Where I begin. So I am in my third chapter of my career. First started off with my first chapter as a real estate hospitality consultant. So essentially live out of a suitcase for about four Yehhars, right. Different time zones, depending on where the clients and the projects may take me.

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And I remember it was the day before Christmas in 2008 where I was driving into work and I had this gut feeling where I'm going to be laid off today. I remember going in and sure enough, I got laid off, which was lovely, heading into the holidays with that.

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And what's interesting is usually when one door closes, another one opens up if you're just being present, looking at the right way. Right. And sure enough, I had a really amazing opportunity that popped up to be an investment officer for a family office. And so family office is just a fancy term for investment team, usually for high net worth individuals or family that has come into wealth. Right.

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And I happen to work for the principals that made their wealth and continue to grow their wealth in the restaurant business. And so that's when I embarked on my second chapter of my career as an investment officer, where basically all the money they generated in a restaurant group. We bought a lot of real estate because that was predominantly in my background, but also investing in companies, start ups, private equity venture, I mean, anything under the sun, you name it, I've probably seen. And in that capacity, we invested well over a billion in the span of seven years. Right.

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And it was a lot of money, a lot of energy. And back then, if you hadn't met back then, when I was very much left brain, very much 100% logic based. And what was very interesting is I was very grateful to meet my wife there. So met my future soulmate and we got married. And halfway through in that second chapter, when I was on maternity leave, I was forced to turn off my BlackBerry because I had no incoming email coming in, so I was forced to unplug.

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And usually when you're put in those situations, it gives you time to reflect, which normally sometimes you might not, right, depending on the pace of life that you're in. And I remember very vividly, it was the second week of my maternity leave, I was laying BENX, my wife, staring at the ceiling, and had this vision come in. Really odd because I was seeing a house with a front yard and two kids were running around. I was there with my wife and I, everyone seems very happy. And I knew this vision was a vision of the future because at the time, my wife and I were still living in an apartment, and we just had our first child.

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But what was very conflicting and odd as I was watching this vision play out, was everyone was seeing very happy, but on the inside, I was feeling empty. Wait a minute. Why is what I'm feeling internally not matching with what I'm seeing in this vision? And it took time for me to sit with it, to really understand that. And my breakthrough was that, wow.

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I think the path that I was on was really a path created by others, by society, by my parents. It wasn't a path that my soul wanted to be on. And when I came to that realization I'm getting into chills right now even saying this, but when I came to that realization, it's like, what do I do with that? You walk away from a career that's serving you so well financially. Right.

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If my intention was to be an investment officer for a billionaire Ford 500 family, this is it. There's absolutely no better people to work for. And they were so loving, and it was such a great environment to nurture. But in my gut, I knew this is what my soul wanted to create, wanted to be on. And it wasn't until a few years later that I took that leap of faith, and I was like, okay, my kids are still young, or my child at the time just had one at the time, but was still young.

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But I needed to take that leap of faith because I knew I wanted my life to be more meaningful than a number. A number just being IRR, internal rate of return. I wanted to be more impactful. And so after close to seven years that's when I decided to leave and start my third chapter as entrepreneur to really figure out what is it that my soul really wants to create. And in the third chapter of creating different businesses with different partners, what I came back to and this is my wife being more intuitive than I am, but also always being right, she shared that, you know, Ben, I see your soul always lit up when you're coaching people.

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And she was right, because back as an investment officer, when you're investing into companies and you're betting on the CEO and management companies because you want them to succeed, right? Sure. We'll talk about KPIs. KPI stands for Key Performance Indicators. Right?

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Scorecards. And from a logic sense, how to improve your business economics. But I always see more of myself as a holistic perspective because at the time I met my wife, that's when I started really embarking on my spiritual journey. My family is Buddhist, but I wasn't like a daily practitioner. But I got experience.

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What's? A Reiki healing session. What's beta healing, right? And it opened a beautiful can of worms and it really opened up my eyes in the spiritual journey that I started to embark on. And the best way to describe what I do now when I coach and empower entrepreneurs and career professionals is how do I help them sort out what's really your true north?

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What's the direction that your soul is yearning to go towards knowing that, then how do you build success in alignment with your mind, body and soul? And it's a convergence of my personal, my professional, my spiritual journey into really this one path. Because I really see things from a lot of different perspectives and dimensions. And how do I share that in a language for people to understand? Because looking at my 30 year old self, I was very left brain, I was very logic based.

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And having those moments of feeling stuck, it's like, what do you do with that? There was no language out there for me to really comprehend, how to kind of sort it out internally. And that's what led to my coaching, to my Building Vision podcast and really kind of how I reached out to you because I love the name. Name has energy behind it. And taking the helm was like, oh my God, there's so much alignment with that when I share.

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And here we are today. Okay, I want to unpack a couple of things because I've shared with people the last year, I've really been on a quest to be more intuitive, to be more in touch with my own spirituality, meeting people like you and oh my gosh, so many along the way. I'm about to do a retreat. It's so exciting. But how do we and this is why.

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This is why you're doing what you're doing. You have to figure it out yourself. Then, as a left brain person, how do you watch for those signs? How do you follow? How do you know that, oh, I'm supposed to go this way, I'm supposed to go that way.

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What do we do? Give me just one thing that we could do to tap into our intuitiveness in a better way and an easier way. Oh, man, that's a beautiful question. And we could probably go 2 hours deep into this. Not too big.

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I know one little thing. Well, let me zoom out a little bit and show it in this context because everything is interconnected and it's good to at least understand what those bearings are. Let me explain it this way, Lynn. So what I share in my show is that there are three core pillars in building a strong mindset. And those three core pillars are imagination, voice and intuition.

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So you're talking about intuition piece, but all three are really interconnected. So what I mean by imagination, voice, intuition, imagination is what we see mentally. The voice or the inner voice is what we hear mentally. Intuition is what we feel internally, what we see, what we hear, what we feel, completely creates your inner world. That then amplifies you out of reality.

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So if you know how to strengthen what you see, what you hear, what you feel internally, then you're really strengthening your inner world that they can translate to what the world you want to create an outer reality. And you have to bring those three into alignment. Because sometimes what we see and what we hear in our mind is not what we feel we should be doing that's right. The easy way to break that down, if I go one level deeper is your imagination, for example, right? Are you imagining on an eight and a half by eleven piece of paper or are you imagining that the world is your canvas?

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How expansive is your imagination? The voice or intervals, right? Are you your best cheerleader or are you your worst critic? How I define that further is I think Dr. Bruce Limpton has shared that 5% of our data is really operated by a conscious mind, but 95% of it is from my subconscious.

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And the best way I describe it is in terms of subconscious. It's that autopilot programming, right? There's times where I'd be driving down the same path in the same road where I'd take my drop off my kids to school on the weekends. I impose of your right to go to the market or the farmer's market. But if I'm deep in thought I'm on autopilot, I'm going to veer left as if I'm dropping my kids off to school.

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And then once I take the turn, I realize, oh my gosh, I was supposed to go, right? I was on autopilot. My kids will call me on my dad, are you on autopilot? That's my subconscious operating. And how it defines subconscious is SOS subconscious operating system.

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We get the programming from earlier really on age from zero to seven in terms of what we absorb through our parents, through our environment. And those programming that I share with my audience but also my clients is have you spent time to have the awareness of the existing program you have? Is it serving you and where you want to go? Or do you need to upgrade or. Do you need to leave some of it as baggage?

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Right? Some of them stick with us and you got to let that go too. So upgrade, ditch some things. Yeh that's exactly right. And to go even further of that baggage, I love how you brought that up.

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Lynn, is that in business or even career? Everyone's thinking about if cars a metaphor of the vehicle of your business. Everyone wants to upgrade your car. Everyone wants to upgrade from a camera to a Ferrari, like today. Right.

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I don't want to go faster or they always want bigger, faster, or whatever it may be. And what I explained is like, look, at the end of the day, it's never about the vehicle. It's always about the driver because you can upgrade your car today. But guess what? That 10,000 pound lime belief baggage that you have in your trunk that gets transferred over to your new car regardless of whether you want it or not, and by virtue of recognizing what baggage you might have in your trunk and letting that go, by virtue of that, you're going to already go faster.

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I love that analogy. That's an awesome analogy. It's time to take a short break.

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I've listened to several episodes. I got to say, I love your voice as well as well as the work you're doing and the messages that you're helping us all kind of grapple with. How did you come up with the name? I think I've shared with you taking the helm, how that all came about. How did you come up with Boom Vision?

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Yeh, it's a really interesting story. This is one of the times in the universe telling me that this is the name. So when I decided to create a podcast because my intention for creating a podcast was, I wish I had language out there that I can comprehend, and then because I couldn't find it, why not just created, right? And as I was thinking about name, because there's energy behind the words for you. So I wanted the name to be very symbolic of what it represents.

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And if I think about, okay, what is it that I'm representing here? It's about building and thriving on mind, body, and soul. But to strengthen the mind, it's imagination, voice, and intuition. So if I take those five words imagination, voice, intuition, body, and soul, if I take the first two letters of those five words and I scrabble it. Either you get vision, boom.

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Or you get boom vision. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. And I remember sitting in this office, I was like I said out loud, I was like, well, is it vision, boom, or is it boom vision? And right when I said, that a bird, because I have a window right in front of my office, a bird literally smacked right into my window. I was like, what?

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And I even took a picture of it because there's still feathers stuck to the windows. No one's going to believe them. I say that. I was like and the birds okay. Right?

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It was very random, but I was like, okay. I looked up and said, Universe. Got it. It's boom vision. Hear your loud and clear.

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Oh, wow. No, mine was not that clear, but wow, that's awesome. It's interesting how we all come up with names to represent what we're trying to do and say and portray all of it. Okay, Benjamin so how we start our day off very often is how we align how things are going to happen, either angry or upset or happy or having gratitude. You've got some steps to share with us.

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How should I start tomorrow? Yeh, no, great question. Lynn so I have a ritual, morning ritual that can help really set not just the intention, but to anchor the energy you want to create for that day, right? And so it's four simple steps. So the first step is being able to get into a comp state.

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You got to be able to come what I call quite the wind tunnel, because there's always 10,000 things going on in your head. And it's like, wait, how do you calm that first? And then you can get that clarity and what is it that you want to create for that day, that week, that month, and that year? So the first step is getting into the calm state. And I actually created a 1 minute breathing exercise for people that can play, that can share with you at the end, too, where people can just download, because everyone has different ways of calling.

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Like, if you're telling me to meditate for half an hour and sitting cross legged, I'll fall asleep within a six minute because that method doesn't work with me. But at least you can sit cross-legged for half an hour. Some of us would need a chair.

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So it's really about how to keep it simple. Because if it's simple, then it's a lot easier for you to adapt. So whatever it is, it can compensate. The second step is setting your intentions, right? We set our intentions before an interview.

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And so what's? In one phrase, you can say out loud in setting your attention. So a simple statement could be, my intentions for achieving X is why? Because it makes me feel Z. My intentions for achieving X is Y, because it makes me feel Z.

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Now, this is going to make you think about what X, Y and Z is in that statement. Because I'm going to do something because of what it is, because it makes me feel that way. That will give you clear why you're doing it.

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Exactly. Because the thing about intuition, you got to feel it. It's a feeling. If you don't practice that sensory of feeling, then guess what? It's hard for you to tap into it.

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So this statement is really the starting to practice of how do you set that intention? Right? And then once you make that declaration out loud, when you know that feeling, I want to achieve X because of Y, because it makes you feel Z, then now that you have that feeling, hey, what music can you listen to to raise your vibration that matches that feeling? So then the third step is picking the song. What song will raise your vibration?

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That's complimentary, and that would harmonize that feeling that you stated when you set the intentions. Do you need higher energy? Do you need to feel more confidence? Do you need to feel love, whatever it may be, what's going to support you in accomplishing those intentions? So the first step is listening to a song.

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Song could be like four or five minutes, right? And then the fourth and final step is making a declaration out loud. I am dot, dot, dot. I am powerful. I am worthy.

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I am love. I am confident. Whatever that word you feel associated, that will help you reach your intentions. Now, why is I am so powerful of a decoration? I am, I am I stands for intentions.

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A stands for actions. M stands for manifestation. What I put my intentions to, what I backed up with, my actions I manifest. And by saying it out loud with conviction, I am. That's literally the actions you're taking to make sure that intentions you have in your mind is being declared out to your outer reality.

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And that's what I want to create. What you just shared resonates with me.

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I really have struggled with the word meditation huge. So for me, meditating for me is walking in nature, sitting in my back yard, closing my eyes and using all of my senses rather than just vision to be in present and be in the moment. And I struggled with that for a lot of yoga. Okay, Yeh, to a point, Yes. But then when you pull in music, oh, my gosh.

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That just lifts me up right away. Benjamin because music is I mean, I crank the music to clean my house just to get through it, that kind of thing. And that's a very simplistic example. But now I think you told me you have a playlist to help us choose those songs. Yes

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No In the website, listeners. It's basically my website, so it's https://www.benjaminyeh.com/

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Thankyou you're. Able to download and if you subscribe to the Boom Vision community, you're able to download a 1 minute breath rough exercise to help you in that calm state where I just walk you through breathing exercise. Breathe in, breathe out. It just takes 1 minute. And then doing that I have three curated playlists, one for high energy, one for confidence, one for self love and whatever song that you feel you're gravitated towards to help you support that intention you want to create.

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There are songs already there for you to be able to pick and pick one that just resonates, that becomes like your anthem for the year, for the quarter, whatever it is, and helping to raise that vibration. Oh, I love it. Okay, I'm tuning in as soon as we log off. And I wanted to share a little something funny before we I asked Benjamin, is it Ben or Benjamin? And he said, well, you could call me Ben.

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Yeh like the French dessert, beignet I had to share that as we were laughing on the side. I have learned so much from you. I'm sure that our viewers and listeners have as well. And if nothing else, everyone please take the first step. Go to Benjamin site, maybe try the breath work, maybe just play a song to find out what resonates with you.

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But take that first step into becoming more happy and fulfilled and tapping into your soul. I think maybe that links I'm trying to link as well as I can with you, Ben. Thank you. Thank you. And one thing I'll just share too is that if the language of imagination, voice, intuition resonates with you too, I have my Boom Vision podcast that's available on all podcast directories.

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And so I invite you to also listen and chime in because it's really about how do you create a thriving life at an alignment with your mind buying soul. So I share frameworks, interview folks and experts to help you get different perspectives. That's all it is. And I love how you title your episodes with questions so you can scroll through and find something that resonates with you as a first time listener. So thank you so much.

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No, thank you. One thing I'll just add to that too is that when you start asking different questions, you start getting different answers that then profoundly can impact the reality you want to create. And so that's really the intentionality behind that. So now we have to learn to ask the right questions.

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Thank you again. And everything will be in the show notes, everyone, to go and check out what you need to for Ben. Thank you. I'm very grateful to be here. Lynn, thank you so much for having me.

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Well, I guess there's always something new to learn, isn't there? I suppose that's where the expression lifelong learner comes from. Alison Livingston is our next guest and if you got a combative strong-willed child, you'll want to listen in. A lot of us have been through that experience. She coaches parents and understanding their child's strong emotions.

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And she has a Five Steps to Connect framework which she's going to share with us. We'll see you in two weeks. Stay healthy and safe, everyone. Thanks for tuning in and posting your review of taking the helm on your favorite platform. We'll give you a shout out in a future episode to be inspired by people who are steering us in the right direction.

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