What does it actually mean to feel rich? Can you feel rich without feeling poor?

These are some of the questions I want to explore with you. I'm certainly not here to give you the definition of richness. This is simply my contribution to the conversation, and I want us to feel into it, not just think about it.

If you keep thinking you'll feel rich when you have the money, the relationship, the body or enough clients, or if you catch yourself comparing and coming away feeling behind, this is an invitation to look at richness from the inside.

Money definitely matters, and circumstances matter too. But what I'm offering here is a perspective on another dimension of wealth that isn't captured by those external measurements.

In this episode, we explore:

• What if richness isn't primarily about what you have?

• Why comparison can make an objectively abundant life feel poor

• What your jealousy might be trying to show you

• Why the richness can be in what happens after you react

• Where you're investing your life force, and what it's returning to you

• Why you can't become richer than what you have the capacity to hold, and something to try with the next compliment you get

• How to begin to cultivate more richness in your own life

• Whether you can reach a state of richness and stay there

So, my dear fellow explorer: what does richness mean to you? And how much life do you have available to yourself right now?

If something here made you curious, press play and stay a while.

Find me

I'm Louise, founder of Crystalline Clarity. After more than twenty years in business and leadership, I now work one to one with people who sense there's more available to them.

Website: https://www.crystallineclarity.com

Work with me one to one: https://www.crystallineclarity.com/private-1to1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystallineclarity

Questions or thoughts? Write to me: louise@crystallineclarity.com

Chapters

(00:00) What does it actually mean to feel rich?

(01:33) When did you last feel rich?

(03:13) How much life are you available for?

(04:17) Comparison and your own reference point

(07:09) What if it's already here?

(08:20) Can you feel rich without feeling poor?

(09:33) What jealousy might be showing you

(11:17) Seeing your own patterns

(15:18) Where are you investing your energy?

(17:12) How much richness can you hold?

(19:34) Cultivate and circulate

(23:17) Playfulness and being many things

(25:15) Connecting to something larger

(26:07) Richness in the body

(27:55) Is richness the same as life force?

(28:57) Depth, not quantity

(31:19) Can you stay rich?

(34:23) So what is richness?

(35:29) Back to your moment

Look in the mirror today and look at your eyes. How alive do you feel?

That's where I think it's easiest to see what I call life force. In this episode I call it the only currency you need to care about. Pretty bold statement, I know, and if it doesn't make sense to you by the end, please challenge me.

This episode is an invitation for you to explore your own life force, and to let more of it in.

Content note: this episode includes some strong language.

What you'll take with you:

• How to see where in life you're stuck, and where there's more potential for you to grow
• Why someone can look young and still not feel young
• The inherited programmes that tell us to play small and not be too much, and what it takes to break them
• What I call fake life force, and the kind that's a long-term healthy investment
• Why feeling more alive has more to do with folding the laundry than with going on a retreat once a year
• Why a really painful day can be one of the biggest gifts you give yourself
• Why the person who is "never going to change" can suddenly seem so different

And I leave you with something small to observe in yourself this week.

If something here made you curious, follow the show and stay a while. And if you haven't heard episode one yet, that's where I tell you how I got here.

A rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps fellow explorers find their way here, so if this episode stayed with you, I'd be so grateful.

Find me

I'm Louise, founder of Crystalline Clarity. After more than twenty years in business and leadership, I now work one to one with people who sense there's more available to them.

Website: https://www.crystallineclarity.com
Work with me one to one: https://www.crystallineclarity.com/private-1to1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystallineclarity
Questions or thoughts? Write to me: louise@crystallineclarity.com

Chapters

(00:00) Life force, the only currency(02:31) How alive do your eyes look?(04:04) What I mean by alchemising dilemmas(06:02) Why we need to earn it(07:47) Quick fixes and fake life force(09:42) Something to observe this week(11:25) Why am I doing this?(13:43) Bringing love into folding the laundry(15:49) Yesterday was a painful day(17:20) When life feels against you(19:12) They're never going to change

Have you ever had the feeling that there has to be more life than this? I've had it for as long as I can remember, and it never left me.

If you're driven and have never been quite sure what's driving you, if you're very good at living and very, very bad at stopping, or if you've read the books and done the courses and some part of you still says "surely this can't be it", come in and take a seat.

In this first episode I tell you how I got here, including why I went to Costa Rica for two months and came home after one. But mostly I want to leave you with some things to look at in your own life.

What you'll take with you:

• Another way to think about being rich
• Why scarcity isn't only about money
• The two questions I asked when I finally stopped, and what they showed me about what was driving me
• Why inner strength sometimes looks like having no armour at all
• What freedom turned out to be once I had it
• Why I think laughing changes more than almost anything else we have, and how an existential crisis can turn out to be hunger
• Four questions to take into your week

You don't have to agree with any of it. Actually, please don't. Take what's useful and leave what isn't.

If something here made you curious, follow the show and stay a while. Episode two is already waiting for you.

Content note: this episode includes strong language, and I talk about my mother's death from cancer (from 01:35).

Find me

I'm Louise, founder of Crystalline Clarity. After more than twenty years in business and leadership, I now work one to one with people who sense there's more available to them.

Website: https://www.crystallineclarity.com
Work with me one to one: https://www.crystallineclarity.com/private-1to1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crystallineclarity
Questions or thoughts? Write to me: louise@crystallineclarity.com

Chapters

(00:00) Not about becoming a millionaire

(01:35) Losing my mother, and deciding to live

(03:01) Scarcity isn't only about money

(04:01) Ambitious, or just terrified?

(04:48) Burnout

(05:35) From armour into vulnerability

(06:35) I've been a searcher

(09:01) Why I left Costa Rica early

(13:33) Why a lighthouse?

(15:43)Who am I to be talking about this?

(17:46) What if you're already rich?

"I'm rich. Not because everything has worked out perfectly, not because of what's in the bank, but because of how much life I have available to me."

That sentence came to Louise a couple of years ago and hasn't left since.

Over the last few years Louise has gone deep into learning how to create, receive and cultivate richness, in relationships, work, money, spirit, and most of all in how she meets life itself.

When life gets difficult, most of us tend to want to turn away. We protect ourselves, or we distract ourselves, until it feels better again. I AM RICH is about the other option: turning towards it, with curiosity and openness, and finding out what was underneath.

Louise turns the lens on the question sitting beneath the obvious one and shares a little of her own journey as she goes.

Some of the questions this podcast sits with:What if the life you thought you wanted no longer fits, for a reason?What if wanting more isn't selfish, but a clear sign you've outgrown something and you're ready to be more you?What if the trigger you carry is a gift you haven't seen yet?And what life could be unleashed if you turned and looked?

Some of it will land immediately.

Something might shift in your body.

Something else might meet you much later, in the middle of something entirely different.

If you leave feeling a little richer, a little more alive, a little more connected to your own power, that's the whole point.

If you've ever had the feeling that there's more available to you, come explore and claim with me.

About Louise

Louise Olsson spent over two decades in leadership, organisational development and business transformation before burnout became her turning point. She's the founder of CRYSTALLINE Clarity, working with individuals and teams worldwide, and is trained in Jungian Coaching, CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Reiki Holy Fire II, Emotional Intelligence and Change Management. She's based in Malmö, Sweden.

Website: crystallineclarity.com

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