Christina Medina, Mindset to Manifestation

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Welcome back everyone to our podcast, unlocking your world of creativity, the podcast, where we go literally around the world now, virtually these days. But we go around the world talking to creative practitioners and idea generators about how they get inspired and how they organize those ideas. And most of all, how they, the confidence and make the connections to get their work out into the world. And I'm so happy today to be traveling to Manhattan, to talk to Christina Medina, Christina, welcome to the program.

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Hi, I'm so happy to be here. This is very exciting to speak to you.

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Well, we're overlooking central park. You're on Broadway Avenue in New York and Christina is not only a podcast host of a great program called mindset to manifestation, but she is also a real estate broker, a sales professional. She's a Reiki master. All these things contribute to your creativity, Christina, we can't wait to touch on all of these.

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Yeah. Definitely

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What's inspiring your creativity these days. Is there something on your desk, on your laptop that you would say needs your creative attention, your creative muscle these days?

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Well, it's kind of interesting that you say that because obviously we're approaching the end of the year and new year's coming up and I love to reassess and reinvent myself consistently. I do believe that we are the creator of our own lives. Like, there's a lot of higher powers involved. So I do believe in that, but I also believe that we have that free will to create the life that we want. And so right now I'm working on that and I'm, intentionally kind of laying out. I've got my book right here with everything kind of laid out, my areas of focus. And I've given a lot of energy outward over the last year. And so now I've decided to take this time to reflect on myself and what do I wanna give back to myself?

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So that is a big motivation for me right now, and a big drive. And I'm having a lot of fun coming up with these ideas. Okay, well, who is Christina Medina in 2022? who is this person? And it doesn't have to be an end-of-year thing or the beginning of the year. Sometimes I do this with my birthday, or, sometimes with seasons too, it could really be any time. So I love the idea of reinventing oneself and I love a good makeover. To be really honest here.

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We do find these milestones, like birthdays or, anything else, it's time for a restart button or time to refresh something refresh it.

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Refresh it. Yeah,

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There you go. Now, professionally, you've been involved in some great signature developments there in New York City. What, are some of them when you say creativity, boy selling real estate, but especially the high-end properties and the signature developments that you work on really takes a lot of different creativity.

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what you gotta approach every day, like a brand new day, because when you are, are working on the developer slash seller side, you're selling a product like granted, there are many different floor plans and opportunities within that product, but you're meeting new people with every appointment. And you're really using those creative juices. I didn't even realize how essential my art background and my creativity were for sales. Because I consider myself a very shy person before I got into sales. And from that I realized like, wow, having this creative artistic background has helped me see things in a very different way than, say someone who may not have that creative eye or have, have explored that because I do believe that we all possess that skill set, that creativity but just, me coming from an art background and training it's really helped me to open up and, and really just kind of approach each appointment in each person with a new zest, so to speak. We were talking briefly before about energy and I really do believe 80. Well, let me say more than that, 95% of sales is the energy that you're selling to people. Because that's what they're feeling. And then the other part is obviously the product because is it something they actually need or desire in their lives, but really it's about how are you making this person feel when they're around you? And are you bringing something that feels like, Hey, I wanna feel, I want that? I wanna feel like that.

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And what about on the developer side, that seller side you're talking about in terms of creating that desirable energy? Yes. And of course, we talk about design and function and, the actual bones of the property, but also, what is that energy that, cause we've all had the experience, you walk into a place and you say, this is me. Somehow it connects. Right?

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Yeah. I really think that's the selling from the heart aspect of it. And I, I feel like we may have heard this term before, but I don't think that the hardcore older version of salesperson slash like car salesperson kind of personality that does not work in the luxury market whatsoever, you can't convince someone, using mine tricks or persuasion to buy something that is like a multimillion-dollar property, it's a very different situation. So it's a lot of care. It's a lot of really stepping into their shoes and holding that space for them to feel comfortable around you to ask questions. I mean, I have a coaching background as well, and I feel like that really helped me also because you're really helping someone connect the dots on their end to see how that works for them. And so the energy is authenticity and being genuine. I've had people tell me, wow, you're not anything like a real estate salesperson and they'll tell other people and then they'll tell them, oh, you've gotta meet Christina. She's not like a real estate person. Which I think is hilarious.

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Yes, exactly. Well, with that success you've also then kind of started with training and helping others, as you mentioned, coaching not only in your own sales and real estate group but also outside of that. But you talked about being a sort of innate creative, you were the hands-on artist you worked at a gallery, you really appreciated the art. So now as you think about transferring that energy to other people is it teachable? Can you teach other people absolutely? To approach it this way?

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Absolutely. But I absolutely believe it's teachable. And I think the first thing you have to do is you have to unlearn some things and then build it back up because people have this preconceived idea of what sales is like. And that's why, you hear people saying, oh, I don't like selling myself. if you're a business owner, you are always selling yourself and you are selling yourself, even if you're not in business because you're selling yourself to your partner, friends, whatever life situations, you know? And I think that people have these ideas of what sales feel like to them. And I really am feeling-based and they have this idea of how it feels and they don't like it. And I think that's because they have a caricature idea of like, what that looks like sounds like acts like and feels like then they just, disassociate with it. They're like, that's not me.

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And I wonder how receptive some of these colleagues are to your messages. In other words, when you talk about a mindset of manifestation, do they think, oh, great. She's gonna tell me to do a vision board and chant and, somehow I will quote, manifest my dreams. It's a little more behind that. I think, don't you?

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Totally. Yes. There are people that think that, and those are kind of fun exercises that, you can incorporate, but then, then the really serious people that stick with me realize that there's a lot more work to this than just that vision board or those things. I mean, I don't even use those things now because I'm so accustomed to knowing what I'm energetically available for and what I'm not energetically available for that. That's what I use as my compass in terms of, what direction I go weighing a decision and things like that, so that,, I mentor people too. And that's what I teach them. I teach them how to unlearn a lot of things and then build that backup. And it incidentally, everyone that is in my mentorship, some are in real estate, some are creatives that are selling their work as a photographer and building a product as well. And then another person works in sales, in stereos, like something completely different, but he's looking at coaching wanting which people on sales too. So it's very diverse. There are so many ways to incorporate this kind of unlearning and then learning into your life

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And maybe you could help us understand, even this manifestation idea. I read one of your articles that was saying, if all you do is manifest, you want a Tesla, that this somehow is all monetary. There's so much more to It.

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Yeah. You know what, I've, I contemplated changing the name of the podcast, because I felt like there was such a, cliche attached to the idea of manifestation now, like what it would look like and what it would be like. And it felt very superficial to me because of the kind of work, and that's why it's mindset to manifestation because it's not just like, Hey, it's a vision board and I wanna manifest this car and I want, all these clothes and these purses, I see a lot of that on Instagram and it just happens, be a lot of women, but I see guys doing the same thing, the guys in the the Lamborghini and like all this kind of stuff. And number one, I find that very irritating because I know the secret behind a lot of that stuff.

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A lot of that stuff is rented, for the sake of the gram. It's sales and marketing and I work in sales and marketing for a luxury products. And so it's a way of them for them to sell and market their product. But I feel like it's misleading because there's so much better. Like they could do so much better, like getting deeper and really holistically changing their entire life. Like so much more, you could get a car and you could get whatever clothes of Chanel purse or whatever you are trying to manifest, but why not get the whole shebang, why not get the whole amazing life that's completely different from where you began, like bigger and better beyond anything you could imagine. Why would you settle for a Tesla?

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when you be, could have a life beyond your dreams, and maybe you can't identify that or define that right now, because our mind can only conceive what we believe is possible, but there's a whole world out there and there's a greater force and a greater power. I believe that can help. as long as we tune into that navigation system, we can like look for the synchronicities and the signs and feel the gut impulses when we start really listening to them and make those decisions that take us to places we could have never imagined.

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Well, Christina, I could drill down on that a little bit because a lot of people listen to a podcast like ours, having this conversation saying, well, that's easy for her to say, she's a successful real estate salesperson. She's had all this great success. She's got the magic, she's got the personality, but you didn't art this way. It didn't come in a magic kind of wave a magic wand, fashion. Tell us where this came from.

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Gosh, it's a very long and layered story, but I, I came from extremely humble. Crumble working-class beginnings, both of my parents dropped out of high school. They were teenage parents. My father had issues, like from what I understand, I didn't even know him, but he had issues with drugs. My mother was from an abusive family and long story short, everybody was an alcoholic in that family, and that's the family that raised me. And so I grew up around alcoholics. I felt, I felt loved in my own way, but I also grew up with a lot of stuff that most kids don't have exposure to. And being an empath, which I've learned since then, is that a lot of people that are empaths developed, that sensitivity because they're in that situation, that's really hostile.

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I mean, I grew up worrying about where we were going to live. In the middle of the night, my mom would come into my room and we would be leaving or she would just be having one of her fits and she would tear up my room and make me clean in the middle of the night. So I grew up with a lot of insecurities about who I was because I never felt, and that's just, this, that's just a small fragment of it, but I did not feel comfortable in my own skin. I grew up, I had body dysmorphia. I had very low self-esteem. I was consistently getting in relationships that were highly toxic with wounded men because I was very wounded and I needed that distraction from my own healing that needed to be done. I moved to New York married 15 years ago.

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And within a few months after that, we were separated. I lost my job twice during the recession. I put myself through college, knowing I was an older student, but, it was important to me to be able to graduate high school. it took me like 10 years to get into college, to make that commitment again. But it was really important for me to get a degree it's from my self-esteem like, it helped build up my self-esteem, but I still had low self-esteem. Went through the divorce, went through losing my job. I'm I was like 30 something. I was almost 40. I remember. And I was bartending, in the west village of New York City. And it was not easy. It was busy. I was older than everybody else there. I was tired. Luckily I looked younger.

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So that helped. I took really good care of my skin, so that helped me. But if it wasn't for that, all that happening, I wouldn't have had like the one, like dark night of the soul that happened to last like six years or whatever that got me on a spiritual journey that got me working into a yoga studio that got me into meditation. all those, those dark years, of falling down and just settling for very little, I did not have money for years. I mean, I only started making money probably within like what I consider money, like comfortable in New York City, which does require a lot.

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It's a little higher than most.

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To have a normal life in New York City sounds like crazy money outside of the city, but it's really not. You're just like living a normal life, but making that kind of money where I can enjoy buying whatever I wanted clothes-wise or taking vacations, living, buying a beautiful home, buying, some land and building a place upstate that kind of, that only has happened probably in the last five, six years. And I've been here for 15 years. $40,000 a year in New York City is not a lot of money to live on. I don't know how I survived. I seriously think I had guardian angels helping me buy organic food. And pay my rent. And I had an angel of a landlord who, I paid him a late fee every month, but he was okay with letting me pay my rent two weeks late every month, it was just like always barely surviving. Well, it started off that way.

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Well, see, this is the point. And I think a lot of people who look at the after picture and say, it's always been that way, miss the before picture. And so totally long before we called it an empath.. It's like we sponge in every, everyone around us and then somehow that's the life we live, but you're also describing, I guess, since the topic is creativity, you're describing and problem-solving and yeah. Sometimes cutting the corners and begging for forgiveness, or whatever. But yes, I'll be the oldest bartender in the west village, and I'll sleep sometime. I dunno,

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I have to pay my rent.

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I will figure it out, but also describe it. And I think it, maybe it's been so long and we sound like the old-timers sitting around the bar telling the old stories, but it's been so long since that great recession. Yeah. That we forget what, '07, 08, '09, 10 it pounded us down.

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It was really tough. And I could have left the city and I could have moved back home to Kansas city, but I was committed to being here. I was like, this place is my home. I'm gonna make it. And sometimes I was like, why am I even here? But I knew that I had to keep going. And, and I really lost my way. I didn't even know where I was going for a long time, but I, as I said, I had to pay my rent and I was responsible for myself. And, I didn't get to buy new clothes. I mean, that, for the longest time, it was like, if I wanted to buy anything like I'd try to go on dates and stuff like that. I had to go buy secondhand clothes. That was just, and that wasn't because I thought it was cool.

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That was because that's all I could afford. And I tried to do my best, to look my best. And I never forget though, to be honest, every Saturday that comes up and I'm not taking a nap at like three o'clock in the afternoon, because I've gotta go to the bar and work that night and, and adult babysit. Every Saturday, even just like two weeks ago, I was telling my, my fiance, Jerry, wow. It's Saturday and it's wintertime in New York City. And I remember this so well, walking from my apartment, my fifth floor, walk-up studio apartment in the east village that I could barely pay the rent and I'd walk like 30 or so minutes to the west village, to the bar that I worked at. And then I'd come home the same way and it was cold. And I remember even walking on that path, like, you know what, someday I'm gonna remember this and I'm gonna be so grateful that that time in my life happened and that it's over and it's true. Right. Because every time I'm like, wow,

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But for sure your mindset is to take all that and use that as a launchpad rather than to dwell on it rather than to put stuff in it. So let's look ahead. We've been talking about what 2022 and beyond looks like, what do you see over the horizon for yourself?

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I've been working on a book, I wrote over 30,000 words and it's about energy. And I realize that there's more to this book. So it's kind of on hold for a minute because I'm not on anyone's timeline, I'm on my timeline. And, I'm open to that. I'm open to the way that it unfolds. There are moments when I know I need to push and use that ego to push me forward. And then there are moments when I need to allow the beautiful unfolding. That's what I call it because I also have another word for it. The under workings, the things that are under we can't see, they're all working in my favor. And so sometimes when my ego really wants something to happen on my timeline, it has to, take a pause for a minute and recognize and remember that there are the underworking so people, places, and things that all are lining up to make, whatever it is I want to happen in a way that is beyond my expectations.

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So I'm at peace with that book. A copy of it is sitting on my coffee table. It is there, so it's not going in anywhere, but I have also been looking at some things. I'm thinking about, do I want an MBA? Does that mean something to me, I also really wanna explore conscious leadership? And so I think that's the next level for me because I keep getting, I was trying to pull out of real estate development and business and get into just more spiritual, like, I got my yoga certification. I'm thinking maybe I do yoga. Maybe I do all this stuff while I love those things. I don't know that that's really where I need to be. I think I need to make an impact more on a big corporate level because I feel like those leaders in those companies need to have that awareness as well, but maybe they need it from rather than from being potentially attacked from the outside and shutting down. Maybe they need those messages delivered to them from a source that they're familiar with or someone within their company. That's trying to make those changes

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To make that more acceptable and palatable. Yeah, totally, exactly. But I love what you're describing. And I think listeners, we can learn from this, that when Christina was about what's ahead for her, there were inner workings. we can make a list of our external goals. I want this, I want this, I want to achieve that. I want to increase sales. I want to, whatever it is, but those external things, it sounds like for you, Christina, come from the inner goals, and the inner workings.

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Absolutely. I have a vision for who I am who this soul is in this body, in this lifetime. And that is kind of like my guiding light. I'm very in tune with what I call my inner guide, which is essentially my intuition slash my connection to God, whatever kind of God or universe you believe. But I listen to that and I make time for quiet to listen to that. Even when I meditate, I no longer listen to music. I sit in the quiet where before when I first started, it was guided meditations because I couldn't really focus. And then it was music. And now it's just silence. I want to receive the information

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Without the interruption.

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Totally. I don't need the distraction. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, Christina, what a terrific conversation. I've really enjoyed getting to know you better during our conversation here. And let's continue it as we go and keep us posted on the book on the podcast when you restart it. And all the things that you're working on, great YouTube channel listeners. There's a lot of places you can connect with Christina. Her website is mindsettomanifestation.com. And as she mentioned, great Instagram page @ChristinaMedinaNYC find that New York City at the end there. You can follow all things Christina and of course mindset to manifestation on almost any social platform you can think of.

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Yeah, basically. Yes. So in other words, I've just decided to keep that name because I feel like it's really important to change the perception of Manifestation.

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Yes, exactly. Perfect. Well, keep us posted on how everything's going. Our guest has been Christina Medina in New York city. It's been great traveling to New York. I miss the city. Can't wait to get back on a plane when all things are right and proper in the world and get back out there and have a real coffee instead of the zoom coffee we've enjoyed today. Listeners come back again. Next time. As we continue talking to creative people and practitioners around the world, we'll talk about how they get inspired for new ideas and how they organize those ideas. And most of all, they gain the confidence and the connections to launch their work out into the world. So until next time, I'm Mark Stinson and we're unlocking your world of creativity. Bye for now.