What's up, you guys? Welcome back to the podcast. It's been a bit since I've been live. You may have noticed I did a bunch of re-releases for the podcast that I could take the holiday season and not have to focus on creating new content on the podcast, which I really enjoyed. I hope you enjoyed the revisits of some of the concepts that I've talked about in past episodes. We're back live and I feel rested. I feel ready.
I had a great time with my family doing Christmas and New Year's. You know, my kids are at very magical ages, eight, six, and four. And so it was such a fun time to make cookies and watch Christmas movies and go on walks as a family and just have a slower season. And I'm also happy to be back. So you're going to notice some things are not changing, but I definitely feel slower, not slower in a bad way, just more conscious of my business and what I'm doing.
I'm in an interesting season. If you're listening to this, let's see, it comes out on Friday. So I will have started my new programs, the Lighthouse Mentorship, which I'm excited about, and the Abundance Mastermind, which I'm excited about. And I'm in an interesting season where I really am focused on simplifying. And that's going to be kind of the theme you'll see in the next few episodes of like how to do that while still building the business that you want to build, right?
Like I've built a one person business that I'm really proud of and I still have goals, of course, but I've been in a season of pondering and reading and writing a lot. And so today is going to be about quantum leaping. It's going to be about the creator economy or the wisdom economy, however you want to call it, and high performance and writing. That's kind of what's on my mind these days. So I'm excited and I hope you're doing really well, too.
I hope you had a great, great holiday season. Okay, first order of business. If you haven't gotten my book yet, I'm going to make sure that the link to my book is in this episode. It's helpful mental models to kind of think through how to get what you want without sacrificing what you have. And I'd love if you got it and then shared it. Also, if you have an entrepreneur friend or a creator friend or an artist friend or someone who's trying to build something but wants to do it in a way that's not like hustle, grind, hustle, grind, share the book with them. I'd appreciate it.
And like I said, you can get on Amazon, Quiet Wealth by Amber Smith, and that would help me out a lot. So thank you. Let's dive in today. So today, like I said, we're going to talk about quantum leaps. That's the first thing that I want to talk about. And I feel like the word quantum leap is thrown out a lot. So what I think quantum leap means is the trajectory of your success is not predictable, right?
So like, when I think of becoming a doctor, I think of 10 years of school, right? But what's interesting about a quantum leap, especially in the creator economy, people who are creating their own career based on their research and gathering their own experience and consolidating that and curating that in their own content, their own coaching, their own writing, their own emails, their own podcasts, right, the creator economy, there is a lot more potentiality available because it is non-traditional, right?
When you study things in a non-traditional way, you get non-traditional results. And for me, that means exceptional results. And so I've been thinking about the word quantum leap. I also read the book, You Squared by Price Pritchett, also a worthy read. And he talks about quantum leaps. And so it's been on my mind. Like most of my clients are thinking about how do I have a quantum leap year in 2025, but not in the sense of like rushed, not hurried, not trying to get somewhere fast because here is bad.
Just like quantum leap, I'm like, I want to see what I'm capable of. I want to see how much money I can make without hurting for it. I want to see my potential without sacrificing all the rest of my life that's already working, right? I want to see what I'm capable of. And so I wrote this on my Instagram. I said, how to quantum leap in 2025, three steps. One, know what you want. And so let's start with knowing what you want. I think, especially women, we struggle knowing with specific clarity about what we want, our daily routines that would energize or fulfill us, how we want business to be, right?
Both from our enjoyment and fulfillment perspective, but also like the process and the results we're creating, the people we want to work with in our business, the projects we want to work on, the type of money that you want to create. And I say type of money because not all money is created equal, right? For me, I like making money in a way that like I'm excited to deliver what I promised. And the money makes sense for the time exchange, right?
Also like the energy that I want to bring to my business, the energy I want to bring to my family, to my body, to my body of work. The thing that has also helped me here is if you're not clear about what you want, I would start with what you know you don't want. So one of my, I guess, mentors, people that I study, his name is Dan Ko, and he talks about this idea of an anti-vision. It's like if you don't know what your vision is, starting with your anti-vision, getting clear about what you do not want will help you get clear about what you do want.
As an example, I knew I did not want to work all the time while I was raising my babies. I knew I did not want to work outside of my home raising my babies. I have figured out over the years the type of client that I work best with and the type of client I'm probably not a good fit for. I want to work with clients who are excited for our work together, who feel that our work is expansive and abundant, who are creators, whether they're entrepreneurs, real estate agents, artists, life coaches. I've worked with all of those.
They're bringing something from their imagination into the world. I love working with people who have a vision that they want to make real that other people don't see, but they do. I believe if you have the vision, you are meant to steward it. And so getting clear about the vision, getting clear about, you know, who you want to work with is just as important. In fact, I asked this question to my Matrix clients, which, rest in peace, the Matrix is complete, you guys. It's so wild.
The Lighthouse Mentorship has taken its place. But for the last call with my Matrix clients, I asked them to kind of evaluate their year. And there's two questions that I like to work on myself, and I think it's a worthy question. And it's kind of this dual question. What clients do I love working with and what clients pay me the most? And that sounds like a shallow question at first, but the more that you start to see it, the clients that I love and the clients that pay me the most are the people that I innovate for. They're the people that I think of when I write the email.
They're the person that I think of when I make an invitation. They're the person that I'm thinking of right now. My person, the person that I love working with and the person that pays me the most would love a podcast like this in my mind, right? So once you know what you want, once you know what you don't want, and I would break this down like your perfect day, your perfect week, right? Your perfect year.
And I put perfect in quotes, even though you can't see that because this is definitely a podcast, but I put that in quotes, right? Perfect as in like an ideal. The point of choosing an ideal day, an ideal week, and an ideal year is to give you something to move towards because humans feel better when we're making progress. Also, if you want to quantum leap, you have to know which direction you are moving in, right? So it gives you a north star.
The point of knowing what you want is not to beat yourself up or feel disappointed every step of the way. It's to give you clarity on which direction you're heading, what to do today, how to use your time, what projects to build. That's the point of knowing what you want. Step number two is developing spiritual grit. And spiritual grit is, I think, a term that resonates a lot for me because it kind of resonates with like the spiritual aspect of what I like to study, like mindset and manifestation, presence. I think of teachers and podcasters and authors like Eckhart Tolle.
I think of Marianne Williamson. I think of Deepak Chopra. I think of Gabby Bernstein, right? I think of Michael Singer, who wrote The Untethered Soul. I think of these people who teach a different perspective of life with grit, which is more like high performance. So it's like Tony Robbins, Brendan Burchard, like Andy Frisella, people who are like hardcore, right? And the combination is where I find myself, where I take on a very spiritual approach to life. I have an abundant heart and I get things done. I write a lot. I take action.
It's not like I'm sitting around doing nothing. I am a creator. And so spiritual grit is this idea where it's like you are taking the approach of life where it's soft, but you are moving forward on your goals. And so, you know, step one of a quantum leap is knowing what you want. Step two is develop spiritual grit, which to develop spiritual grit, it's like basically five steps. One, you have to know what you want. We already covered that in the first step.
Number two is begin moving in the direction of what you want, right? So you start taking steps. You might start publishing content. You might start making offers. You might, you know, pitch yourself to podcasts that you want to be a guest on. You might start DMing people. You might start insert any action that moves you closer. If you're going to write a book, you start writing the pages. You start taking action. Step number three is that you encounter obstacles and setbacks.
Like that's part of the plan. I've never heard of someone who got on stage and said, you know what, I decided to be a decabillionaire and the path was pretty straightforward and nothing bad ever happened. And here I am. Like we don't hear about those people because they don't exist. Every single person that you look up to has overcome their own obstacles and setbacks, including their mindset, including failure, including people cheating on them, including people stealing from them, including not being good enough, right?
Including things not going according to plan, right? Like that's actually part of how you develop spiritual grit. It's part of how you make a quantum leap. So when you encounter those obstacles and setbacks, step four is to overcome those obstacles and setbacks with mindset work, increasing your skills and developing resilience. That's actually how you do it. And so to me, mindset work is key in everything that we do because I know that lots of people quit when they encounter obstacles and setbacks. They think I'm not cut out for this.
I don't know how to get past this. This just isn't for me, right? When really it's just a mindset thing where it's like the people who develop the spiritual grit have the mindset of like, I'll figure this out. That's part of the quantum leap too. One of the things that I said in this post that I'm referencing is failure isn't a problem. It's the path. The beauty is that you don't have to go through failure miserable. This is where spiritual grit comes in. You can grow your capacity for joy in every season.
Spiritual grit is a philosophy of detachment, awareness, appreciation for the journey. You don't have to hate your life on the way to success. The next piece of the quantum leap is the live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, which again, we're back into more of a spiritual principle. Spiritual grit includes a lot of action, right? So you're taking the best action you know how to take every single day. You're focused on moving the needle. You're focused on making progress.
You're chipping away at an ideal. Phase number three of a quantum leap is simply to live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. Live every day feeling like everything you want is already here. How would you do the dishes if you just saw that potential client paid the invoice? I love these questions. I actually live on these questions a lot. How would you experience driving to the gym if you just had the biggest month in business ever? How would you welcome your kids home from school if you noticed you got record downloads on your podcast?
It may sound silly, but doing this mental work expands your capacity and imagination, but also expands your body's ability to feel success, which is key. One of the people I love to study is Joe Dispenza, and he talks about breaking the habit of being yourself means you have to practice feeling new things, right? If you practice feeling stress and doubt every day, it's going to be really hard for you to tolerate success, but if you practice feeling success, it'll be easier for you to accept it and receive it. It's a daily practice.
And so these three things together to quantum leap, you have to know what you want. You develop the spiritual grit, so you're taking a line to action and you don't stop. And every day you're living in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, like you will have a quantum leap. The problem is most people stop this process when they get into step two and they're developing spiritual grit. They hit an obstacle, they hit a setback and they retreat or they take their foot off the gas or they hide, which I understand. Like I've been there. It's not an easy game.
Anyone who tells you it's easy probably is selling you something because it's not easy. Now your experience, this is where I think I differ, your experience of the journey, even though it's difficult, doesn't mean that you have to hate yourself or be miserable. That's different, right? So I've done hard things in misery and I've done hard things in appreciation and joy. Both work. And that's what's funny, is like I could have saved myself a lot of misery if I realized what spiritual grit was or like living in the feeling of the wish fulfilled was.
I could have encountered obstacles and setbacks as more of like a curiosity or a puzzle to be solved instead of like a problem to get rid of. That is worthless sitting to again, because many of you are hitting obstacles and problems thinking this is something bad. This is something I need to get rid of. This is something that's not supposed to happen versus, oh, interesting. Like I've had two failed launches in a row. I'm really curious how this next launch will go and what will I do differently? And like, how am I meant to solve this?
More of like a curiosity and an abundant heart. Like there's this spirit of problem solving and spiritual grit. That's what I think is possible. So what's interesting about this, you put this all together, how it looks is like you're taking action, you're believing big, you're living in the wish fulfilled. So like every day is magical. Not in that like everything is working out exactly how you thought it would. It doesn't mean that it's your ideal every single day.
It's like you're putting the pieces together, you're living in the miracle, and you're seeing the better it gets, the better it gets. You appreciate the tiny moments where your kids come home. You appreciate the tiny moments where the client says, hey, you changed my life. You appreciate the tiny moments when someone says, hey, I binged your podcast this weekend. And you're like, this is the coolest career ever. Doesn't mean that all your money goals instantly take place. But the way that you experience your day to day is appreciative, full of awe.
I think that's the way that you can experience entrepreneurship if you want to. Doesn't mean it's the only way. I know some people love like the hustle and the grind and the struggle. And they feel a lot of value from that. And they actually like like it, right? And you probably can imagine some of these people that enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with it. The hardship of entrepreneurship is inevitable. But the experience of the obstacles and setbacks is up to you, right? And that's where, how do you want to go about solving these obstacles and setbacks?
That's a mindset thing. The next thing that I wanted to talk about, if that's how to quantum leap, I wanted to share some thoughts about working in the wisdom economy, right? Because first, your business is just an impossible idea. Then it feels like a real possibility. Then you start to see how it could actually happen for you. It starts to feel inevitable and then it becomes a reality, right? Many of you are in that process. Either you've done that process or you're on a new iteration of that process, whether it's a new money goal, a new type of client, a new business model, a new offer, right?
We start with an impossible idea and work the process until it becomes our reality. What's interesting to me about the wisdom economy or the value economy or the creator economy, however you want to describe it, there are so many possibilities, right, that exist. This is where people love reading the book Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley and Rich as F by Amanda Francis and all these amazing money mindset books. We see the possibilities of what could be and then we feel a little trapped when our business doesn't work immediately or the client doesn't sign or we've had a lower month than usual or we get six nos in a row, right?
Things can feel trickier. What I love about the wisdom economy is it's this co-creation where you have to respond to the market and the market is going to respond to you. It is not a singular activity. This is what makes business different than fitness, right? Fitness is it's pretty much me and my body, right? I'm in charge of what I eat. I'm in charge of how I move. I'm in charge of the supplements I take. I'm in charge of what doctors I see. I'm in charge of what blood work I get done, right? Like it's up to me. Business though truly is co-creation with other people.
So I get to bring to the table my experience, my research, my desires, my passion, but I have to meet people with their desires, their passion, their problems, and their vision and in the middle is the niche of one. That's where I exist. My job is to curate the wisdom, bring together information, bring together processes, bring together ideas, help them with their mindset and their belief work to get what they want out of life and that's what makes my business thrive.
I would make the case if you are in the business of the creator economy or the wisdom economy, that is yours too. And so what we have to do is find a way to do what we love, combine our interests and ideas and vision into a meaningful project, which I have done multiple times, that other people can benefit from. What this looks like is either content, podcasts, offers, right? You use what worked for you and then you share it with the world so that it can benefit them. You publish your work so people can see it and you do this in writing, videos, and with your voice, right? Like I'm doing right now. You do this in conversations in public and in private.
You get to create your dream career when you figure out how to match your interest, experience, and ideas with the market's interest, problems, and desires. That's why I love business because it's not just my psychology that I'm focused on. I mean, obviously I am improving my psychology and my mindset and my beliefs and my abundant heart and my ability to see things differently and my perspective and expanding how I see the world and believing bigger than I used to believe and doing the daily abundance mindset work so I can see the miracles, right?
That's why I journal. In fact, actually, I didn't even announce this on the podcast, but I have a guided journal. If you want to get the six questions that I ask every day, like I ask myself and I answer them, I decided to make a journal because it was fun. It's called the Lightning Alignment Journal. That is also on Amazon. You can just search, you know, Lightning Alignment Journal, Amber Smith. It'll come up. And there's six questions that I ask myself every day because alignment is important, right?
I could focus on all of the tactics of business building, but if I'm not in alignment, I'm not going to execute the ideas because we want to stay in integrity. We want to do things that feel good to our soul as well as things that generate revenue, right? We want both. And if you're listening to this podcast anyway, my guess is it lands for you that you want both. And so it's good to match and align what you want with what the market wants so that it benefits you and them, right? Good for us, good for them. Good for me, good for my clients.
Good for me, good for my family and my clients, right? Ideally, it's a triple win. Good for me, good for my family, and good for my clients or community. Some of my favorite quotes that exist in this world come from Naval Ravikant, who, if you haven't read his Almanac, it's a good read. It's kind of high level. He's a really smart guy, but he has two quotes that I love. He says, there are almost 7.9 billion people on this planet. Someday, I hope there will be almost 7.9 billion companies advocating for the one person business.
He says, the internet enables 8 billion monopolies. Same idea, just said a different way. But you have something of value to offer people. And I think when we start seeing ourselves, not that we need to be original, not that we need to invent something, although you probably will invent ideas based on your ability to curate different ideas and gather information and a researcher to present to your clients, there will be people in this world that can only resonate with the way that you share ideas, right? So you might have learned mindset from a book, but the way that you present it and your unique stories and experiences, it will land with them different.
And so I like thinking that if you feel called to this type of career, there are people who are wanting you to show up even if they don't know who you are. One of the things that I shared in my Instagram, I said, instead of trying to go out and find your people, share what lights you up, what you can't stop learning about, and what has helped you get results so your people can find you. That's been my whole business model, right? Like the lighthouse, shining your light, letting people find you, sharing what you love studying, right?
One of the things that is really helpful for me and honestly has created a lot of connection and community in my own life is believing that there are other people who like reading the books that I like to read, who like talking about the ideas that I like to talk about, right? And then they join my program so we can talk about it at a high level so that they can apply it and grow their business and make more money and live an abundant life, which I love.
The next quote I'm going to share is by Brendan Burchard, and I love this one. He says, student first, teacher second, servant always. That is my entire business model if I could sum it up in one little sentence, right? Student first, teacher second, servant always. And so one of the things that really works for me and like this is kind of comes back to this idea of like the creator economy is an intersection of what you want and what the market wants.
I believe the more I study, right, student first, the more ideas I have that I can pull out of my brain and give to people of value for them, that they can apply this concept that I learned from a book or this thing that I learned from the launch last year or me, you know, executing ideas that I took from courses and programs and mentors and coaches and books and I consolidate it into my own process that worked for me, I can share it with someone and their life gets better. And so I think it's the coolest career, but it's not just like an overnight success.
It takes time to build an audience, to build relationships with people who trust you enough to pay you money. It takes integrity, it takes skill, like different kinds of skills. One of the things that I love thinking about is that business is just a stack of learnable skills. And so all of this, this idea of like making a quantum leap, building your business in the creator economy, being the niche of one, right, like your unique experience and ideas consolidated into offers and words and emails and content and podcasts that benefit humanity, like what better career can you imagine?
I can't imagine anything better. I mean, I just love it so much. And so as you're thinking about these ideas for your own quantum leap, for how to grow your business, one of the things that has been helpful for me is just to like really trust that what I am interested in, it's like the cutting edge of what other people are interested in. And so as I package it up, as I share, as I push into the unknown, right, and live what I taught from the quantum leap, know what I want, develop spiritual grit, live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, I've created miracles for sure.
And I've watched my clients create miracles, not because they're special. I mean, they are special, not because I'm not special, but I don't mean it that way. It's like, oh, this is like a workable process that I can execute in my life and get results. Know what I want, spiritual grit. So I'm learning skills, I'm strengthening my mindset, I'm taking action. And then I live in the feeling of the wish fulfilled. There's really nothing I can't create. And so that's on my mind as we begin this new year.
And I hope that helps you as you're planning ahead, as you're thinking about what you want to create, as you're thinking about the kind of clients that you want to work with, and kind of like get familiar with where you're going. I think so much of our life comes in seasons or like ebbs and flows, right? There's times of clarity, there's times of non-clarity, there's times where everything feels like it's working, it feels like nothing's working, right? Both are required because we can't have one without the other. And so if you're in a season of lack of clarity, that is okay.
That has to exist for you to have clarity. We couldn't have hot if we didn't have cold, we couldn't have happy if we didn't have sad, we couldn't have clarity in business if we didn't also experience lack of clarity in business. And so if you're stuck on the knowing what you want, my recommendation is go on more walks, write in your journal more, take time away from social media and get quiet so you can hear yourself think.
Your higher self has so much wisdom, spirit has so much wisdom, but we tune it out with the voices of other people on social media, thinking that they know best, thinking that there's going to be this secret solution, thinking there's going to be that one thing that makes a difference. And I would say that one thing is probably hearing yourself think, hearing what you really want, getting intimate with your visions and your goals.
It's been such a journey for me, you can scroll back and listen to my lightning alignment podcast where I had this like moment of total clarity about this year, and it's like fun to see it all come together in miraculous ways, in ways I couldn't have expected. But I think it's funny because like sometimes people say like if you try to quantum leap, you won't. But I think if like you have the intention of creating a quantum leap, I love that for you. You can't need it.
And this is something, a principle, a true principle that I learned from Rich Litvin, which is like you can't need clients. You can't need money. You can't need your business to work. It ruins the energetics of the whole game. Because like that quote from Anubhashari, right? Student first, teacher second, servant always. You have to be here to give. You have to contribute. You have to participate. You have to put value into the creator economy, not just extract from it money.
And so if I could share one thing that has changed my life the most is like the question, how do I make my brain more valuable for my clients? Answering that question and living it and doing that work, it's of course made me more money, but it's also given me more fulfillment because it's like I want to be a resource for my clients. I want to be someone that they like having in their life, not just because I can coach them, not just because I have like a skill in coaching, but because I have made my brain very valuable for them as I help them make their brain more valuable for their clients.
And so anyway, something to kind of end this thought on, but I wanted to say thank you for being here. Thank you for being a part of my community. If you want to read more about my Quiet Wealth membership, you can do that in the link in the description of this podcast episode, as well as finding my book and my journal. Thank you for being a part of this. And if it feels alive with you, share with a friend. Okay, I'll talk to you soon. Bye.
