Blueprint for Bold Living

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1:34 just fascinating to see how people opened up and they were complaining against each other. So younger generation was complaining about the older generation. Older generation was complaining about the younger generation. And the key is that it's important to remember that societal events and as well as the technology does shape our thinking. So we were able to have them handshake and it was just interesting with the solutions that they came up with. And the key is that knowing that how are you going to impact others? What is your intention? Because yes, we've got one life to live, and yes we want to live a good life, it's also important to have that life that you is not only supporting yourself, it's not only about driving yourself, but it's also about leaving that impact.

2:38 And what better way to do that rather than using both of my books, because both of the books will position you to become an influencer in a meaningful way, not just the numbers in life. It's about impacting other people's lives and the entrepreneur's God and building that relationship with yourself and with others. And also remember that the partial profits from the book go to keep it dot org, where we are helping entrepreneurs all across the globe. And remember to keep the kindness circle going because an hour of your time every month it make a difference in many people's lives. It can be just a simple, cheerful good morning. And my friend were walking on this past Saturday, and this beautiful lady, you know, she's we walk on a hike. We were hiking on a trailer and it's one of my favorite trails and every time I've been on that trailer around that time, she goes by wishing good morning to every person she comes across, and it just brings a cheer and a smile to people's faces. So remember it doesn't have to be big or huge or a big gesture. So remember little kindness goes a long way. So let's bring in our guest. Welcome, Leah. It is so great to be here.

4:12 Thank you so much for inviting me. Now, it's a pleasure to have you, Celia. You usually start out in the childhood. Do you recall a moment or an event or a person that left a mark on you. Oh. I had a couple of fantastic teachers that absolutely completely changed my life, and I would go back to those teachers later on. I remember being in my much later years and I tried to find my fourth grade teacher and I tracked her down. It was sister Marie Bernadette, and I found her in a convent in retirement and they told me, well, we don't know how she'll be on the phone. She's had brain surgery to remove a tumor and she's now eighty six. And she said, oh, she said, of course I remember you, and how is your mother Mary Anne?

5:06 And how are your sisters? And I thought, WHOA. So I just I was amazed that she remembered me. But my memory of her is what had changed my life, and what I felt from her was love. I think that the most important quality any teacher can exude is love. Love, love, love, because that gives hope to these kids, they feel accepted. When you don't feel accepted, you are always in a state of defending yourself and that is so uncomfortable. So yes, oh, I remember those teachers. Well, that was just fabulous. And I had an unusual childhood and I'm not I don't want to extend this question, but I did not walk until I was set, so I had a rather extraordinary and not compared to other kids who had deformities or disabilities. But I had two club feet and I had muscles twisted around my leg, so I could not participate in games and I did not interact with kids my age. My mother took me everywhere in the neighborhood in a little red wagon and thankfully, that most amazing thing happened that I was able to begin walking. And then I felt so far behind everyone else. I didn't know how to play kick the can or

6:36 baseball or softball or any of the things the kids knew how to do, and didn't know how to talk to the kids, and it was another growth process. But these teachers were kind, and I think that's what all kids need. Yeah, now, as you're talking, and it definitely resonates with me because I still remember to this day. We went through so many teachers, but the teachers that I remember, Sister Olivia. He was just an embodiment of kindness as you walked in the door, and I remember, you know, it was one of doing my kindergarten or was great. I don't remember, you know, when you are still like a jesting to the school and finding your way, and she would just embrace every little child and welcome them in, and we felt that we were surrounded in a cocoon of warmth and love. So I definitely get what you're saying. So if you're okay, I would like to kind of go back. You said that you couldn't walk, and that must have been so hot. So what changed that you could start walking. Well, I don't even talk about that in a because I don't want it to sound woo woo, But all I will say is I was at a big picnic with my family and other families from the National Guard of this unit. And I always had a an invisible friend, and

8:07 I think that that would have been My mother told me never to tell anyone about that, and just in short, in a three hour period of time, my invisible friend coaxed me to come out from under the picnic table where I generally sat, and I crawled out and crawled over to see where kids were running a foot race. It probably was less than three hours, maybe about an hour and a half. But an hour and a half later I ran a foot race, and not only ran it, I wanted. And my mother was speechless, my father was speechless. It was showing me the power of all that we cannot see. And I call that quantum intelligence.

8:56 I learned that at a very very young age. I learned the incredible power. And just the next was three days later. That was on a Saturday. So on a Monday Tuesday, my mother took me to the same store where they had drawn my foot three weeks earlier. Every year, before the school year started, they would draw my foot on a piece of brown paper, and my foot was generally looking more like a marshmallow than a foot. And they drew the new feet and cut them out with scissors and laid the new feet on top of the old feet. And I remember stepping back from this ottoman where all these four adults were staring down at what they were looking at, and nobody said a word, and I'm thinking, I can't tell them. I can't tell them about my friend. I can't tell them how he told me what to do, and so I didn't. And I believe that that was given to me to shape my entire life. And I haven't used it to perfect advantage my whole life, because the emotions cause us to forget what we know or to not use what we know, which is another factor. But it was the most important training I could have had. And coupling that with the fact that my family was we had very little money.

10:24 My father had worked three jobs, and everybody thought he had money because he had a high position in our community, but he was making less than a school teacher, and we knew exactly what he was making because that was shared in family conferences. And we were basically told not to grow too fast because we couldn't afford new clothes. So it was, you know, being born into that made me learn how to create with my mind. And I felt very bad about asking for anything that I didn't absolutely have to need, that I didn't need it for survival. And I remember this. We're coming upon the lent season, and I'm sure I'm hoping that this will be seen year round, but I've had miracles occur then, and it sounds like you have a similar background. At lent. You give up something, and we didn't have desserts to give up. All my friends were giving up desserts, and I thought, you have dessert, and so it was something else and I was. I got the message telling me go to church after school for twenty to thirty minutes every single day, and that's what I did. And I learned during that time and was guided during that time how to use my mind to create what I wanted. But first I had to get over being having a sense of guilt for asking for something that was extraneous to mere survival,

12:00 if that makes sense. And I think so many it's not just me, it's so many women do not ask for what they are valued do. They don't value themselves enough to ask for what they are worth. And so I'm convinced this first step of being able to ask, to form in your mind the goal you'd like to see happen. Please do that first, and make sure that you're not feeling guilty about it. Absolutely, and what did JOHNI? And thank you for sharing that. Thank you for being open to sharing that moment from your life. And as you said that you crawl underneath, you crawled out from underneath the table, and how powerful that can mean.

12:46 I have heard stories after stories of miracles, and I can guarantee each and every one of us have their own miracles because so many times we forget what we have achieved and reflect upon lives. Yeah, you think, huh was that me who did that? And we forget that that we do have the support whatever we want to call it, you know, the inner resource, nature, God, whatever speaks to you. It's important to do that. So as you continued growing up, what did your interest take you? Well, I knew I wanted to be a writer from the time I was nine years old, and I also was living in a part of the world up near Canada, in northern Minnesota where I didn't see anybody making a living as a writer, didn't know any I just knew I needed to be a writer.

13:39 But I thought I needed to do something to earn money, and so I got a law degree, and I thought, well, I think people make money at this. I've seen them. They wear these men wear suits, and so that's what I think I'll do. But I had an interest in so many things. My dad was a judge and a marine and a National Guard Army lieutenant colonel eventually, and he had no sons. And so the lucky thing for me is I was one of four daughters, and after I was able to be more mobile, my dad included me, and what he would say to my other sisters, Hey, go pick up the sticks before I mow. Hey we're going to get on the roof today and do some shingles. Oh okay, dad, And so I learned to do all kinds of things. I loved watching my dad build our house and I was just very young at the time, I was seven years old, but it was just a miracle. Then my dad continued on and he built a sailboat in our garage. And learning to see people make something out of nothing, that's what I benefited from so much, and that's what I wanted to do, make something out of nothing. The other thing I absolutely loved was languages.

15:01 And even when I was nine years old, I was convinced that I was French, and I also was convinced that I was American Indian, and my mother had to correct me several times, but I said, no, I am, and I know that I'm Cherokee and so you don't know what was speaking to you or if it was an imagination. Sometimes it's important to you allow children to just be and there's so many different phases that they grow out of it. Oh oh yes, yeah, My seventeen year old daughter just we celebrated her tenth year anniversary of her arriving in our home, and I came across some pictures of her sitting out on the deck. She was preparing herself to become a mermaid. She was seven. She was shaking salt on her legs. Oh. Yes, we grow out of a lot of phases. She wanted to be a mermaid so badly, and I understand that absolutely. And as you mentioned, I can definitely see you learning what different things like, you know, as your dad was teaching, and I got to share that I didn't have that. My dad was not very hindy.

16:18 So first of all, thank you to your dad for the services to our country. And I really appreciate that. Yeah, And as you're talking about it, you know, when parents pass on those skill sets, they're so critical. So my dad passed on different skill sets to me, and I see like in our neighborhood, we have a family with two goals and a boy and the father is teaching them all the skill sets. And recently when I met one of the girls and she said, oh, yeah, you know what, I did this with my house and this and changed to this in my car and all that, And it's so amazing to see that regardless whether you're a girl or a boy, or a man or a woman, if you know how to fix things, it makes life so much easier.

17:14 So I know you mentioned about, like, you know, building houses, So tell us about how did you get into that. Well, I was in a bad situation. I was divorced and I had no money, and I thought that I had landed in an incredible thing. I was living outside of Atlanta, and I bought a house where I could assume the mortgage, which meant here I was single woman. I could get this mortgage and just keep paying on it. And I thought, this is the best thing since slice bread. Well seven years later I knew what I saw, and I thought I understood, but I really didn't understand that this mortgage had an interest rate that went up and up and up and up and up, and the principal balance on it did not go down. It went up and up, and up I was ready to sell my house. And then I realized that if I did, I had to pay somebody money to get out of it, because I wasn't going to make any at all, and so it was just a terribly bad mortgage. Plus by the time I had at seven years into it, I was paying eighteen point seventy five percent eighteen point seventy five percent on this tiny house. And it wasn't that I wasn't grateful. I

18:47 was. I was absolutely grateful. But I also realized that if I sold it, I needed to move somewhere. I needed to have something, and I did not have. I had nothing in the bank except for four thousand dollars after having sold a small motor home. I owned a little tiny motor home that took me around the US and Canada speaking at churches, and so I had been doing that for a long time, and I just decided it's time to sell this and then see what I can do with it. So I took my four thousand dollars, and in the months prior to that, I had been guided to a place where I started looking for a piece of land on a lake, and lucky me, I found this piece of land.

19:33 It really was the most extraordinary thing. I only had to pay one hundred and forty nine dollars a month to have a piece of land at the edge of a lake. Wow. And I said, I've got to do something. I'm fine with living in this tent. And what I did to continue writing my books was I would go into town and charge up my computer at a restaurant and then come back and write until I ran out of juice, and then I'd go back do it again. And it was it was a about an hour long round trip to do that. So I said, this is time. I'm going to build a house. And I had been sketching houses since I was about eight or nine years old. It was I loved it. I loved to design houses. So I decided to design a lean to made of wood, basically something with a shed roof where it's just this slow, easy thing. Put it together and I could move into something other than my tent because the tent was okay, but it just needed something more. I hired I don't need. I look back on this and think, how did I even find these guys. I found two carpenters to work with me, and I convinced a friend of mine to help, and the four of us went out to the property and the trees had already been cleared about a year before that. It took me two years to get started on this after I bought the property. But on a September the four of us went out there and started digging holes to put up this post and beam house.

21:06 Meaning you take those posts and bury them into the ground in concrete, and that creates a very solid storm hardy house. And so it's kind of curious, like do you have to pour the foundation first? No? No, And this is the foundation. These posts. Some of them are cut off when they're underneath the floor, and some of them go all the way up the exterior wall. So if a storm comes and the house should be pushed by extreme winds, the house moves, but it doesn't shove it off of its foundation, and it can't lift it up. There is nothing it can do. You just have to make sure the roof is on securely with what we need to put on with the with the metal fasteners we use now to have it be tornado proof, but it's not nothing as proof anything.

21:59 We just have to get hardy. There's hardiness is what we're looking for. But here's the amazing thing. This process of building was so fast that we put the walls on and in the middle of the whole thing, we were going to cut off some of these tall posts, and I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, if we leave them, we go up higher and I could have a second floor. I could put a sleeping loft up there. We were able to get it high enough that not only that, but I got a bedroom and another bathroom out of it. We continued to do the framing with the wood I already had that I had figured out how much I needed, and I ordered it. We put the roof on it on the fourth day, and on the fourth night I slept in the house because it was dried in for four and a half days is what It took us. Four and a half days, and I had a structure to move my sleeping bag and my dog into, and it was. It was extraordinary. And then I put plastic over all the window openings, and then in short order, after going to surplus stores, had got my windows.

23:10 I put everything all the windows in. I had one person helping me. I built. I then taught myself how to do electrical wiring because my dad, who was up in Minnesota and I was in Georgia. My dad said, just get three books from home Depot or Lows and you're going to be able to figure it out. And I said, what about the big panel. He said, hire somebody for that, but you can do all the rest. And I did. And then I had a plumber come in and give me an estimate and he said, well, that'll be forty five hundred and I thought, I can't. I don't have that money. So I went out and bought another three books. So that took me a little longer to get ready, but all told, after putting in the electrical wiring, hiring somebody to do the panel, putting in the plumbing myself, then putting in the insulation, and I hired a man to come in and do the sheet rock. I had a house. I painted it, I finished it.

24:08 I had a gorgeous, two story, two bedroom, too bad house. And when I went back and looked at how much time it had actually taken me to work on that house. In between going out and speaking, which is what I did all the time, seminars and keynotes and all different kinds of things, I found out I'd only been working at it twenty five days. So what I am saying, what I'm deciding, what I've decided to do is teach people and especially women, teach people. And a group I'm focusing on also is women veterans, especially women veterans who have children, because they're so tell us, like, you know, if there's a veteran, or even if there's another woman, how can they go about Because you mentioned that people can build their houses like around forty four thousand something like that, so tell us like in short quick process, well a place to go?

25:14 Is that what you're asking? No, like, how would they build a thousand around like forty four thousand dollars? Well, part of it is I train people to do that. I have an on I have an online course, and you can just do the quick course and see if this is for you or not. And then if you say this is I'm going to I want to do this, you can become part of a group coaching at a distance, and if you really are ready, you come here where I'm building and you you're part of a workshop that lasts for four days and you will show you hands on how to do this. So that is the best way learn from someone. Don't do what I did. It took me so much time in between to teach myself. But if that's all you can do, do that. Do whatever you have at your disposal, Just take it bantage of your mobility and your determination. Do it. Because when you have a house that you have paid less than fifty thousand dollars for, you will find out that it appraises for at least three times what you have in it, and suddenly your net worth has mushroomed. And if you want to borrow against that, you can. But what I would highly advocate is that people start building their wealth that way. Stay in that house for two years, sell it, and move on because the tax laws say when you sell a house and you make less than two hundred and fifty thousand, you get to keep it all with no tax. So if somebody had told me about this, I wish they had. I would have moved every two years and continued

26:45 to increase my wealth until I finally reached a point where I said, I'm going to stay here. I love this, I don't want to leave, but get started, get a foothold, start somewhere that is excellent. And you did talk about, you know, building your own house, So definitely you want to get a land, piece of land. Oh yeah, about going about that. It's one of my favorite things. There's land all over the United States that's available for a very low cost. Some of them are not in the most perfect of areas. But what I would say to look for, and you can find this at a reasonable way, a community that has a community well first of all, so that water is already piped past your lot, so all you have to do is tap into that. And so at the same time, they have electricity there. All you have to do is tap into the electricity. When you are finding a piece of land that is very cost effective, you're going to be a little farther away from the town or the city, but not exorbitantly. What's the difference between driving an hour and in northern North Atlanta traffic to get into Atlanta as opposed to driving from somewhere that's at the edge of Atlanta and driving into the edge of Atlanta for an hour? What's the difference. Nothing? And it's more pleasurable because you're not in tight traffic. But it's not just Georgia, it's all

28:17 over the United States. There are pieces of property, even in California, even in New York, everywhere where. You can get a piece of property for anywhere from and I say this carefully, but anywhere from fifteen thousand to twenty five or thirty thousand, which is a reasonable amount. Then the only thing you're going to have to add to that is a septic tank. And the key is you must have the soil tested. I just met with the soil scientist yesterday and found out my new lot is perfect, is beautiful, it's wonderful. The lot has to percolate. It has to be able to let the water filter down fast enough so that it's not resting near the top of the soil. It goes down, it runs through channels, and it's purified through the water through the land. And it has to qualify for this.

29:07 So you have to check the land out before you agree to buy it or after you have it under contract. But sometimes land can be purchased by owner financing or some other kind of financing, and that makes it so much easier to acquire that piece of property. I mean, just like I acquired the land that I bought first for one hundred and forty nine dollars a month. I pushed myself to do that, but I afforded that I could do that. So I'm just telling you there are people that make it their business to find land that other people bought a long time ago and then decided not to build one. But I would recommend not to buy in an area where the electricity isn't in there yet. It's just too much of a challenge.

29:48 Don't do that the first time around. Get electricity and water first, and then you decide where the driveway goes in and you're good to go. Oh. I can definitely say that's because you know all these things, like you know, simple things to think about, and I definitely see the value they would get working with you. And as you mentioned that, you know you can keep on building that well. So now let's say if people just kind of buy a piece of land and don't want to build a house, So how would they like is that worth it? Well, you have to choose so wisely. It does it have a view, is it on water?

30:33 Does it have anything that sets it apart from other kinds of properties, because otherwise you are at the mercy of the surrounding area. If you buy in an area that is not rising in value, you're very much at risk. So just choosing a piece of property to wait until that raises value is not really an ideal thing to do because you have to be so very, very very good at choosing property, and usually that takes years to figure out. But some people may have had a mom or a dad, or an aunt or an uncle who was good at this, or a grandparent who said this is how you choose. So I'm not saying that you're foreclothes from doing that.

31:17 I do have a friend who bought some mountain property up in North Carolina and she turned around. She bought it for something like six thousand dollars, and she sold it probably three years later for twenty six thousand dollars. I mean, even then, that's a great boost. I mean, as my father would say, twenty thousand dollars is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Yeah, oh, definitely definitely. Your father sounds like a wonderful person. So now you have mentioned that you know building about valves. So then maybe entrepreneurs are thinking, you know, I am handy, I can go and learn with Leah. So if they're thinking and now you know, they want to build the houses want and maybe they want to be known for it in the market. So you do talk about visibility to tell us a little bit about how can these entrepreneurs or other entrepreneurs create visibility for themselves. Oh, and that's another topic. That's another big topic because one of the things I do when I'm working with entrepreneurs is to help them find their voice and first of all, before anything else, to give themselves permission. Now, I would say that one out of forty entrepreneurs I work with has no problem with stepping forward and saying this is who I am, this is what I have to offer, It's wonderful, it's great. You should do this. Most of us have to convince ourselves to step forward because

32:52 we want the product or the service to speak for itself. We say, well, you should know, this is what you know. I'm an attorney. You're going to get a will that should stand for itself. No, I'm sorry. People buy from people they feel they know and trust, and they've got to see you. So today, every entrepreneur has to be able to step forward and express So I teach people how to become better speakers. But underneath that, underneath the mechanics of that is every bit of what is the most important thing that we are living on, which is our self image, our self value, or our self permission. All the voices or the voice that's in our head telling us to stop or not do something we want to do. We have to overcome a lot of things to get to the point where we allow ourselves to get on a YouTube video or to get on a Facebook ad, or to go out and say I'd like to speak to your group about what I do. You know, you could be a professional, you could be an author, you could be an artist, you could be an entrepreneur of a brick and mortar store. But still people need to know who you are. And today this is like, this is like the corner market. Being online is the most and best and greatest opportunity anybody could

34:24 ever have. All you need to do is get comfortable enough with yourself. But it's not just a matter of speaking what you need to speak. It's a matter of holding the vision in your mind of what would be wonderful, what would be fabulous. You got to find something that you love, that you're in love with, and here you would say, here is the outcome. I would like to have. Wow, this is the outcome I would like to have, And you hold that firmly in your mind as you do everything, because you know what, over the internet, all of us can feel desperation, all of us can feel anger, all of us can feel a sense of irritation. So we better not be feeling those things. We better be feeling a sense of joy and love and all the good things we want because people can see it and feel it. And you know, Divia.

35:16 Something else I really didn't say is my mom died when I was in my twenties, and my mom's so sorry to hear that I didn't know what a child I was in my twenties, because usually most young men and women, they're like either men child or a girl woman child that trying to find their identities and yet have not grown fully because they're testing the waters adulting as we speak now. Oh absolutely, I hear that I was on my own. I went to college and I applied to colleges without my parents even knowing that I was applying to colleges. I didn't want them to have any financial burden or have any concern about it. I protected them from that whole process.

36:00 Grown I was mature. I knew what I was doing. I had, I had traveled, I was, I was writing, I was doing a lot of things and going to graduate school. When after before she even passed away, but when she passed away, I realized that I was still having long episodes of depression. I was the kind of person and had been since I was thirteen years old, that I would get hit with these uncontrollable I thought, uncontrollable bouts of feeling paralyzed, immobilized, and I could not function. And after she passed away, I just looked in the mirror and said, Leah, if you don't figure out how to be happy now, you may not have all the years you think you're going to have to learn how. You better start getting it right this minute. The biggest change of my life happened when I finally, finally, finally got a grip on my own brain, on my own thoughts, on my own focus, and was able to direct myself toward what I wanted instead of toward what was bringing me down. And everybody needs to start there. Every every pathway begins with getting yourself into a great foundation, the firmest foundation ever, a mindset that is storm heardy, because life is going to hit you. It doesn't matter what You're going to have a flat tire. It's just it's just life. Things

37:32 happen and nobody's out to get you. It's just that we have to learn resilience, bouncing back quickly, coming back, being able to talk to ourselves like the best parent in the world or the best coach in the world, and talking to ourselves like, hey, is that helpful if you talk like that? Is that helping you get your energy back? Really? Yeah, you definitely on in that that life is so short that if we may think that, oh, life is big, but the eternal truth is that we all got to go sometimes we all get Yeah, nothing wrong with that, but because of that keeping inside, because my dad just passed away and I thought I was ready for it than you. I thought I was ready for it, but I wasn't. And it's his legacy and his just you know, his spirit of enjoying life is what, like you know, shows up in every little, anybity thing in my life. So as you're mentioning that it's if now it's not the time, then when to bring that join into your life. So as we kind of bring our show to a close.

38:52 Where can people find you and where can people reach you? Well, one of the places is it's a program that I developed for getting yourself out of a rut and reminding yourself. It's at happy tune up dot com. Happy tune Up everybody knows how to be happy when everything's going great. Happy tune up dot Com will take you to a description of a program I've put together that's like a having a happiness tutor for thirty straight days, and then you can do it again and again and again and again if you want. But it is a wonderful. People have told me they thought they knew everything and this has really helped them. If other people are interested in looking at the building for a house, I have a YouTube channel that has just started.

39:37 It's called home and then the number four Home for the Heart for the Heart on the YouTube channel, and it has a video of the first house I ever built. It is so beautiful. I want you to see it because it doesn't look like affordable housing. And then finally, this is a little longer. If you want to look at some of the things I've created to help people, even about how to get yourself to attract more wealth. It's at learn dot lifecraft craft with a k dot com. Learn dot lifecraft dot com, and you can see what I've been up to as I want to share all of this before I leave the plane, and I just I have managed to the great thing about having stubbed my toe in so many ways and had held myself up in so many ways is that I've learned. And if I hadn't had all those blockades, I wouldn't have learned. And so then because I've learned, I want to share it. I can see so clearly now why I had such difficulties early on making money and opening the way.

40:50 I know what it takes now, and I still work on myself. I still work on myself, but thank you God that I don't have to work on myself every minute, have every day. It is more like roller skates and then sometimes hit a hit a door, you know, but it's easier, an easier and easier, and that's beautiful. And as you were mentioning, I was thinking, there's opportunity in every obstacle to be found and taken, not only just to discover it, but take it by the horns and go turn things around. So thank you Leah for joining us and sharing your thank you Beyond Confidence. Yes, I love the title of your podcast.

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