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🔊 What Megan Fox can teach us about our intrinsic value

April 09, 2024 Christina Modaffari Season 3 Episode 35
🔊 What Megan Fox can teach us about our intrinsic value
Hot Genius: Main Character Tips
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Hot Genius: Main Character Tips
🔊 What Megan Fox can teach us about our intrinsic value
Apr 09, 2024 Season 3 Episode 35
Christina Modaffari

Ever sat next to someone who seemed to ooze an aura of value and think to yourself, "What's their secret?" This is your invite to an enlightening discussion where we peel back the layers of self-worth and value, revealing that the real magic lies in understanding we're already enough. Together, we dissect the intrinsic nature of our value, untethered from the snares of external success, and shine a light on the importance of self-awareness in recognising our inherent worth. Ready to embrace your true worth with unshakable confidence? Then this conversation is the key to tuning into that frequency.

Crack open the doorway to raising your "master volume" of value in a world that often plays the wrong tracks of worth based on societal hierarchies and biases. This episode isn't about chasing the spotlight or collecting accolades; it's about amplifying your presence and realising that the role you play in this grand symphony of life is inherently valuable. Through the compelling narratives of iconic figures like Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson, Megan Fox we examine how personal choices can enhance our visibility and impact. We're turning up the dial on the conversation around value, challenging you to step out of the shadows of societal standards, and into a life where your self-worth is a roaring anthem of your own making. Join us, and let's make some noise.

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Ever sat next to someone who seemed to ooze an aura of value and think to yourself, "What's their secret?" This is your invite to an enlightening discussion where we peel back the layers of self-worth and value, revealing that the real magic lies in understanding we're already enough. Together, we dissect the intrinsic nature of our value, untethered from the snares of external success, and shine a light on the importance of self-awareness in recognising our inherent worth. Ready to embrace your true worth with unshakable confidence? Then this conversation is the key to tuning into that frequency.

Crack open the doorway to raising your "master volume" of value in a world that often plays the wrong tracks of worth based on societal hierarchies and biases. This episode isn't about chasing the spotlight or collecting accolades; it's about amplifying your presence and realising that the role you play in this grand symphony of life is inherently valuable. Through the compelling narratives of iconic figures like Paris Hilton, Michael Jackson, Megan Fox we examine how personal choices can enhance our visibility and impact. We're turning up the dial on the conversation around value, challenging you to step out of the shadows of societal standards, and into a life where your self-worth is a roaring anthem of your own making. Join us, and let's make some noise.

Support the Show.

Speaker 1:

Welcome back to this week's episode. So we're gonna talk all things about value and self-worth and how to actually be in charge of that worth and self-value. And I'm really excited because today I'm going to take you on a really fun journey to help you truly see that you are so much more valuable than you think that you are. And it really does break my heart because so many people, including myself, have struggled with actually seeing our own value only because it really is this thing that us humans go through, where, unless we grew up in a family who were very intentional on building our self-esteem which unfortunately, I wouldn't say that is the majority of people then we're really going to struggle to believe our value Because, although I had, in a way, tricked you into believing that you must, in a sense, increase it, it's not really about being more. It's actually more about realizing that you're more Okay and that that slight difference between literally feeling like you need to add more versus just having this awareness and realization that you are more. I want you to see that your realization of your worth, of your value, is the volume, like a volume button on a stereo. That volume button on a stereo, in this analogy, is you actually just having a realization and turning up that volume with that realization, whereas the misconception that I see very often is that people think that the only way to turn up that volume is that you have to earn it in some way. You need to have a certain amount of beauty, you need to have a certain amount of money, success, achievement, fame, you know and this is something that hits very close to home for me, because it's something that I have personally struggled with in my past and where I'm at now with it is more so that I'm just going through the motions of turning up that volume. It's, it's something that I do, um, regarding the realization of my own worth, you know, and it's like it's a lifestyle now, it's a process and I do feel like, to some degree, it's never ending, but it's also the exact same time.

Speaker 1:

There is an end point as well, and I know that seems like a paradox. It's because it is a paradox, you know, because it's when it comes to understanding our worth and our value. It really does begin by realizing that it's not what it's not Like. It's not you losing more weight, it's not you having better skin, it's not you having more money, more success. It's not even you having literally more confidence. It really is, once again, the realization that you are more, and so I want to share with you really awesome, thought-provoking I guess you could say case studies and examples that's actually going to help you raise that volume. Aka, it's going to help you realize just how valuable you are, just as a person, just as you are.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I actually want you to think about a celebrity for a moment. Think of anyone that you look up to. I'm just going to come up with like a celebrity, that's who's really well known, just for my point. So let's say Megan Fox. Okay, megan Fox. Um, we all love her. Um, she's. She's sitting right next to you. Okay, um, you.

Speaker 1:

It's very fair to say that most people sitting next to Megan Fox might feel like that they are less valuable than her, that they will feel maybe their worth isn't as high. Um, why? Because of one difference, um, and it's that she's very. She owns her space, she takes up space, she owns everything, despite her own insecurities. Right, and yeah, don't get me wrong, she's absolutely stunning. Yeah, but that's actually not what's making some of us, in this hypothetical scenario, feel like you are less worthy than her. You think it's her beauty, but it's not. And you also think it's her fame, also not true. That is just an illusion.

Speaker 1:

What I mean by this is that, when you really think about it for one moment, let's just pretend that Megan Fox was not famous and let's say that she never pursued acting or any of her careers ever. Right, and let's just say that she's the same person. The differences are like what she has in terms of her career success, her fame, and even the way she styles herself, the way she puts on makeup, the way she carries herself. Let's just pretend that she doesn't do any of that. So she's just. You know, someone from your neighborhood and you're just sitting around and her hair isn't all done up, you know, it's just up in a ponytail, all the things, and she, just, she's just hanging out, right.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to guess that it, you know, if she wasn't that famous and she wasn't, I guess, realizing her worth, she wasn't taking up her space, she wasn't owning all of what she is, you're not going to feel inferior anymore, are you Right? Because you're just going to feel like you're on the same, I guess, playing field and what? But nothing changed. Nothing, really nothing like grand change, like she's still her and you're still you, but what did change is perception, as well as the way that she carries herself. Right, because this is going to sound very strange, but self-worth and realizing your value it doesn't always link to self-love and I know that might be controversial, but hear me out, I love, love, love, understanding celebrities. I love the psychology behind them. I love understanding what they go through, because I do feel like they are very misunderstood, and it's a part of my job, right right, to understand the concept of self-love and self-worth, all the things, and it's something that I'm very passionate about to understand.

Speaker 1:

And if you watch some of her interviews, if you read some of the things she's written, you know for media outlets and whatnot, very consistently, megan Fox has been known to share that she doesn't feel like she's the sexiest person on the planet, even though that's actually what she's been named. She doesn't actually believe that she is, that, in fact, when she was, I guess, crowned as the sexiest woman on earth, she was actually quite confused by this. Yeah, in addition to all of that, she was also. She openly admits that she has a very low self-esteem, and so you might be wondering what? What do you mean, christina, like you just said, that she owns herself, she takes up space, but now you're saying that she doesn't, she has a low self-esteem, like what's going on here? Isn't that the same thing? Yes and no. And so self-esteem is what we think about ourselves really. If you have a high self-esteem, you think highly of yourself. If you have a low self-esteem, you think low of yourself. Yeah, um, because and so that's why I said earlier that it's not don't see self-love and self-worth as the same, because they they do intertwine, but they are not exactly the same.

Speaker 1:

Because with Megan Fox, she obviously does know that she has value. She had to have known that. There's just no way that she would have even put her foot in the door in Hollywood or whatever else if she didn't, on some level, know that she had something of value to offer. Right, and at that point she genuinely just really loved acting. That's what started this, and it was her art. It was actually her safe haven.

Speaker 1:

She went through a lot as a kid. She went through a lot of childhood abuse. She didn't come from a loving family, um, and so her art was her, her acting and her ability to express herself, um, and caring about the way she looked and really, um, owning those skills. That was the way that she what she was trying to do to make herself feel good. And so she, she had self worth. She saw that the shadow she had worth. In some way she owned it, she claimed it and, you know, she got so good that no one could ignore it. And then one thing led to another. She is Megan Fox and she owns a space.

Speaker 1:

Now, even with all that fame, she was completely misunderstood. She was treated like crap, yet she's so famous, treated like crap, yet she's so famous. And so I'm bringing this up as an example because it's very interesting and it's very thought provoking, isn't it that we actually, as people, we don't realize our value and we don't realize our worth, and we confuse worth and self-love and self-esteem with each other? And they're not the same thing. And it's very important to understand that, because if you don't understand that and you don't actually care about these details, it's going to affect the way you see yourself, it's going to affect the way that you, I guess, evaluate your worth, you could say, because you might actually feel valuable at your job, just like Megan Fox did, you might feel valuable in your beauty, just like she did? Do you feel valuable as a whole person, as a being? Do you feel worthy of love, of money, of healthy relationships? These are different conversations.

Speaker 1:

Going back to Megan Fox again like she openly, like, admits, cause she has this, she has a strong self-awareness where she's like something on the lines of, you know, she didn't really see a healthy relationship growing up, so maybe on some level there was a level of her not feeling like that's what she deserved, or even though she knew she did, but when it came down to fame and and and going into Hollywood, she obviously believed that she could do it. But then, at the exact same time, to this day, to this very day, despite all of her success and all of her fame, she still has a low self-esteem. Do you see where I'm going here? Like she and like there's so many different levels to this. There's like, for example, she probably, in my opinion, doesn't realize her worth in certain areas of her life. Like she, she, for example, megan Fox, has a very, very, very high IQ, very high, okay, but because she's so gorgeous, right? So many people don't take her seriously for her intelligence, and so because of that although she also had body dysmorphia, by the way, she really struggled with her body image. I think she might still do. I'm not sure about that one, but I'm going to guess that she still does. Um, but even if she doesn't, she has what I call an imbalanced self-love profile, and a lot of people do. A lot of people do.

Speaker 1:

And my point here is that if you can see that there's so many dimensions that come with realizing your value, realizing your worth, and that someone who is as famous, or someone who a lot of people put on pedestal, which most people put every celebrity on one, to realize that you remove the fame for a moment, you remove the success, you remove all these concepts and perceptions even, and all of a sudden, you cease that person as an equal to you, because everyone is equal to you and it has actually nothing to do with how much fame they have, how much money they have, but our brain makes us believe that. Our brain makes us believe that our value and our worth is based on money, success and beauty, because our brain can only measure things that are quantifiable and we can measure and quantify success. We can measure and quantify success. We can measure and quantify money. We can measure and quantify. Literally working on something, achieving something. We can see it, we can touch it, we can measure it, but because there's no number or whatever, we can't quantify our heart and how much we care about people or our worthiness to be loved.

Speaker 1:

Our brain completely bypasses that, and so a lot of the time, a self-love problem is actually a self-awareness problem. That's really what it is, because if you get down to the nitty gritties of value and self-love, you'll actually realize that self-love is actually our ability to not feel differently about ourselves. Even in our mess, even when we can't stand ourselves, even during our insecurities. If you still have that love within you and nothing can shake that love and care for yourself, you love yourself. Whereas people think that loving yourself means that you never struggle and that you don't have any insecurities, and this is not true, you know. And that perception shift is is the thing that's going to help us realize.

Speaker 1:

Wait a second, I can raise that volume myself. I can understand that self-love is truly just. I can understand that self-love is truly just. It's like how I choose to feel about myself, in the good and bad, in my mess and in my strengths and my or your, our value is actually not based on metrics, even though it feels like that it needs to be. When you have this awareness, you go oh my God, this whole time I've carried the remote to raising the volume of my value, it's actually mine. And until you can raise that volume and take up space and truly own that like, fully own that you're always going to feel inferior.

Speaker 1:

And I use the celebrity example because it's the best way to show you that bias that you have, because you are actually no less valuable than a celebrity and if you're a celebrity, you're no less valuable than someone else that you put on a pedestal. You're actually not. And I don't mean valuable to society, that's different. I'm saying valuable, how valuable you are to the marketplace, that's different. I'm talking about on a self-worth level, like who we are. Our existence already grants us the ultimate, infinite levels of value and the only person truly in charge of that is us and us. And although we can get away with fame, success, achievement, beauty, even, and status, we can get away with that with certain level and one layer of self of value, maybe like one part of us, maybe that's our beauty, maybe that's one talent, our art, our work, whatever. Maybe that's one talent, our art, our work, whatever you know. We can get away with it, with not fully raising it in all areas, but you can't get away with it for your life. Because I just gave you the example that Megan Fox has what most people believe is the answer to feeling really valuable and happy and whatever else. But you now know that she actually doesn't have any of those things. She's not, she doesn't. She has so many things in her that she wishes that she could access, but she can't. You know she and I love Megan Fox right like this is me actually raising awareness, because I really do.

Speaker 1:

Also, as, like a side note, I really want to advocate for celebrities because I just think that it actually I don't think I know it hurts them when people put them on a pedestal and because when you put someone on a pedestal, you actually also project all of your shit onto them, even if you love them. And that's why celebrities cop so much shit and they struggle so much with their mental health, because if they do anything that's like not perfect, people will just turn on them right, and it's really heartbreaking. It's absolutely heartbreaking because that causes them a lot of you know um, mental health struggles. They feel very alone, feel very isolated. They feel very misunderstood, unseen like it is. It is really heartbreaking.

Speaker 1:

And if you can start to shift your perception on on celebrities and stop putting them on a pedestal, bringing them to eye level, and you do that and you're also, by you doing that, is you increasing your value? It's going wait a second, I'm not better than them, they're not better than me. They just have more quantifiable metrics, like they might have. They have more fame. They have more quantifiable metrics like they might have. They have more fame. They have more money. They have more. Maybe they have more confidence in the way they carry themselves, better style, more resources, cool, cool, cool.

Speaker 1:

But the actual concept and of self-worth overall and self-love, self-acceptance and self-value, that is completely that's ours and that has nothing to do with any of those resources, those achievements, that money, that fame, that status. And remember, they, celebrities, get away with it on that one level. They chose to be like you know what, like I am fucking valuable. I'm so valuable and I'm going to do this. I'm going to do the thing. I'm going to be the you know the best actress. I'm going to make this. You know I'm going to be a pop star or I'm going to be a movie star, like I'm going to do that, like that's, I'm going to choose that. That's them raising the volume on that area of their life. You see where I'm going, and so that's great, it got them far.

Speaker 1:

But what I'm suggesting is that let's actually create a master volume and let's turn up the volume in every area of our life and that volume, in this analogy once again, is our value. Let's turn up the value on everything. Let's bring it up right now, bring up your master volume so that it doesn't matter what area of your life you're in or that you feel like you might be lacking in. You got to choose your value first. And let's say I was able to have a conversation with Megan Fox. I would tell her the same. I'd be like, hey, like you've got all these things. I hear you. I feel you actually have your own unique struggles that I wouldn't. That I completely empathize with and my heart's with you.

Speaker 1:

I'm holding space, but the exact same time, maybe don't fragment yourself and create a master volume, because you're the creator of your life, and actually just raise the volume, because you can raise the volume of your value in every area, even when people misunderstand you, especially because everyone misunderstands you, especially because people can't see past your beauty and refuse to acknowledge that someone with your appearance actually can be so fucking intelligent and has more to offer. You don't have to wait for them before you raise your volume. That's what I'd say to her. Like, if we're having a private conversation, I mean, you know and I don't want to single her out oh my God Like. But I mean like this is just an example and I'm using her as an example because the things that I'm bringing into this episode she's spoken about publicly and so I'm just really addressing it and I think it's.

Speaker 1:

I think the reason why she's so vulnerable and open about these struggles is so that she could help people. I really do believe that she means well and that she wants people to see that. Hey, like it's not what you think. There's so much more to me and I want to be a part of that conversation. Like, I want to bring forward what she said and I don't want people to misunderstand her, because if people misunderstand her, they're misunderstanding themselves.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because everything's a mirror and if you think that someone is above you, that also means that you're going to get real, like all of your dark side, like your shadow self, is going to come out on those people that you so-called idolize, that you worship. It's just the way it works, cause you expect nothing but perfection from them and because hello, hello, newsflash they are not perfect. Well, inevitably you're going to actually hurt yourself and also, you know, not going to hurt them because you might not meet them, but energetically will hurt them, right? Because what you, what you are giving off that energy, you're taking away your power and you're also really disempowering others. And so I want you to start realizing empowering others, and so I want you to start realizing that you just need to realize that you're worthy and that you're valuable. That's it you're.

Speaker 1:

You have a master volume and maybe in your life you have raised different parts of your work, your value maybe in your work, but you only raise that volume as you became more successful in your work. And maybe you have raised your volume in your beauty because you had to wait till you felt beautiful enough before you raised it, and you're doing it the hard way. You know I'm here to be efficient for you. Like, let's make this easier, fuck off all those separate volume knobs and just create a master volume. Again, because you're that powerful, you get to make up the rules. Create a master volume and this volume is the volume of your value and raise it the fuck up because you can, because you are valuable, because you exist. And only until you make that decision. That you are valuable is only when you can start actually seeing that in different areas of your life.

Speaker 1:

That's just the truth, you know, like you know, when people want to create something new, or they want to go after something like a career in some way, or maybe start a business, and they have this everyone's gone through this where they're like but who am I to do that? Who am I to do that? I want you to ask yourself something. Imagine right now if MJ, if Michael Jackson God rest his soul you know, during the moment, just because he was a kid, he's been, he was famous like since he was a child. But can you imagine if he was like oh, but you know, who am I? Who am I to be a singer and a performer? Imagine that you realize that that one thought is enough for someone to not actually pursue what they want. You realize that, right, what a fucking tragedy. What a tragedy, we would not have the magic, the iconic. I don't even have words to describe what Michael Jackson has provided Earth Like. He is, just I don't know. I consider him a freaking musical prophet and you know, like there's.

Speaker 1:

Imagine that, and imagine if Megan Fox all those years ago was like but who am I to be an actress? Imagine that Seriously. And imagine Britney Spears going. Who am I to be one of the most famous iconic superstars on earth? Who I to do that? Oh, I can't do that. Could you imagine that? Oh, my god, I kind of I don't want to think about that. It gives me anxiety because, like, a quarter of my personality is made up of britney spears. Right, like, and the list goes on like, can you seriously for a moment just imagine that these celebrities, whoever they are to you, that you believe have impacted your life in some way, sat there and went who am I to become that? That? That what a tragedy. And no matter how many of them there are, you still, you still love them, they still, they still are. They have a place, there's a place for them.

Speaker 1:

But then when we, when people who I guess aren't famous or aren't what you call your stereotype of made it. We sit there and go, oh, but who am I to do that? And I get it. I, I did it. I sometimes still do it.

Speaker 1:

Like I said, I'm in the process of that, you know, of raising my volume, so to speak. But like, let's like twist it around right, like I just said, like what if Britney Spears, megan Fox, michael Jackson, justin Timberlake, whoever else said who am I to become that? And then they never became who they were meant to become? Whoever else said who am I to become that, and then they never became who they were meant to become? Really, think about it. And now I think about someone thinking that, about you, like you not realizing and raising your value is heartbreaking for someone else out there, because you, raising your volume is the only way that you're going to become who you're meant to become. It's just truth.

Speaker 1:

And no, that does not mean perfection. I just gave you very clear case study that it doesn't mean perfection, because Megan Fox, for example, raised her volume in one area of her life and she openly admits that she's not perfect and nor should she be. She's human and admits that she's not perfect and nor should she be she's human. But that's the difference, because she still struggles, but she raised her volume at least in one area. And what I'm saying is that you can do that. You can do what she did and what most people do, and raise the volume in one area. Or you can do what I'm encouraging you to do, and it's raising your master volume, can do what I'm encouraging you to do, and it's raising your master volume. That means you're raising your volume just as a whole, being indefinitely Like. That's it, like you. Just, you get to realize that, and only from this place of of constantly, this almost process, this almost lifestyle of raising a volume, can you truly become all of you.

Speaker 1:

And that does not, by the way, mean fame. Not everyone wants to be famous, nor everyone should be famous. Okay, the law of polarity there is a good and bad to everything. Okay, some people don't want to lose anonymity, because anonymity is actually a luxury in itself, but being famous is a luxury in itself. There's different kinds of luxuries. Yeah, what I'm saying is that by you just going up and raising your own volume, your master volume of your value, just as a person, you get to become your version of that.

Speaker 1:

What does that mean to you? To be someone who's like, infinitely valuable for existing. What does that mean to you? It can mean. It can mean becoming an actress or an actor, becoming being in Hollywood. It can mean becoming a doctor, and it can also actually mean becoming a mother, becoming a father. It can also mean becoming a high school teacher. It can mean absolutely anything. There's no right or wrong. They are all equally valuable, a hairdresser and a lawyer equally valuable, equally. And if we can start seeing that no one's above anyone and everyone serves a purpose and everyone is equally important and valuable.

Speaker 1:

And the only reason why it doesn't look that way, the only reason why we have such a hierarchical hierarchical I can't say the word properly approach to everything, such as people will naturally think that a lawyer is more important than, say, I don't know, a lash technician. They think that because of a bias. But it's not true, because let me show you something Imagine that the lash technician and the lawyer raised their volume at the full, fullest volume, their master volume. Then you can. Can you see that Like? Can you see that in your mind for a moment? Their values are the same, but, but. But. But because of society, because of biases, because of social, societal conditionings. The reason why people, people's biases, negative biases, will go on Lawyers are more valuable is because because of that conditioning, because of the conditioning that people think that is the case, while the person who becomes a lawyer, it's just easier for them to raise their volume. It doesn't mean that they're literally more valuable. It doesn't, because it really is about the person you know. Let's look at another person Like Paris Hilton is the original influencer.

Speaker 1:

I fucking love her. She was the original, like, let me, let me say this again she was the original influencer. Without her, there would have been no Kim K. And then the it just kept going right. Kim K was her friend and she also, I think, worked for her. And so Paris Hilton wasn't necessarily famous or valuable, iconic at the beginning for actually doing anything that was like, let's say, she wasn't a lash technician, she wasn't a lawyer, right? She was literally a person who chose to raise her volume and she became famous for being a socialite. She literally became famous for being like a party animal, right, and that's got to say something. It's proving my point to you right now, because it has nothing to do with your work, it's you as a whole being yeah. And again, when someone wants to pursue something so high in status, such as fame, it's just easier for that individual to raise their master volume because it makes sense. Does that make sense If someone like imagine right now, like Paris Hilton I forgot how old she was when she first got into that, into under the spotlight, um, where she was rebelling from her difficult childhood, you know?

Speaker 1:

But let's go back to the moment and let's imagine it, and there's a hypothetical for a moment. She obviously had to make a decision to be like I just want to do me. I just want to like I'm sick of feeling caged up. I'm going to fucking rebel and just be me. I'm going to turn up my fucking volume, um, and I'm going to do what the hell I want. And blah, blah, blah, right. Her decision in doing that right Was her raising the volume Again. She didn't even have to love herself to do that, it was just a decision. Now, I might contradict myself here, because this is a paradox, but to some level that was a sense of self-love, but she probably didn't see it like that right, but I do see it. That's self-love in action. And she raised the volume because it's easier, once again, to raise the volume when you make a decision to do something so bold.

Speaker 1:

Megan Fox, she obviously had a day. One day she literally decided that she wanted to be in Hollywood. Okay, the actual mere thought of wanting to be in Hollywood would have made it easier for her to raise the volume. It doesn't actually have anything to do with Hollywood itself, because do you have any idea how many people are actually in Hollywood who actually have created a lot of movies and have had a lot of success, who actually didn't fully raise their volume to the extent they wanted to? And they don't. They don't feel a certain way that they want to feel, like you know.

Speaker 1:

And so the whole message that I want you to get from this episode is that value is completely up to the person, and it's you got to actually raise the volume yourself. And if you spend your whole life waiting for something to happen or something to be achieved, and if you're actually waiting to earn your value, you might actually spend the rest of your life fighting for it and you won't ever be satisfied because your value doesn't come from that. Again, that's not the same as your value in the marketplace. It's a completely separate subject. I'm talking about your value as a person, right, right, and we all, we all are a hundred percent valuable, regardless of our job, regardless of our upbringing, regardless of our genetics, regardless of how we look.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and it's a really about no longer putting celebrities or certain careers, like you know, or certain academic standards on a pedestal, and it's instead raising your own volume of value and worth and realizing that when you do that, you start to see the truth. And the truth is that everyone is actually equal to you and the only reason why it doesn't look like that is because those people never rose the volume, or you didn't. One of you haven't. But when you raise your volume to 100, to full capacity, then you get to see everything clearly. Everyone becomes your family in a sense. You see them at eye level, and only from this place can you truly take up your space and not feel like you have to earn that value the same way that I.

Speaker 1:

This is the conversation. By the way, everything I'm sharing with you in today's episode it's stuff that I talk to myself about. I always tell myself you know, christina, like I'm, you're in charge of your value, you, you don't have to earn it, I just got to choose it, raise it, raise it, raise it, raise it. And you know, if you want to really humor this analogy, if I were being real with you, like maybe growing up, for the first 20, 25 years of my life, I would say my volume was at one. Like I really I had a very low self-worth. And where I'm at today and, for some context, at the time of recording this, I'm 28 years old and I would say that my master volume of my worth is I'll be real with you is at 68.

Speaker 1:

And so I want to ask you where is yours? If you could quantify it out of a hundred, like, where do you? Where have you stopped the volume? Because the truth is you were born with a hundred volume. So was I okay? We weren't born at zero.

Speaker 1:

When I said that the first 25 years of my life I felt like was at a one, it wasn't because I was born at a zero, it's because I was born at a hundred, it's because I was born at a hundred. And as everything went by and the things that went through, I turned that volume down, lower and lower and lower until it got to one and I have spent a long time raising it and it gets easier and I feel like the more that I just work through this, the higher it gets, because a hundred is what we're born with. It's what I was born with, it's what you were born with. It's not something you have to earn. Okay, and it gets easier every day and I wouldn't be surprised that in as little as a few months, even six weeks, that that will get to a hundred. In fact, I'm actually going to tell you right now I'm going to get it to 100.

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And I could get it to 100 right now if I really wanted to. But the truth is that I know that I have a lot of blocks within me for me to get there. But the reason why I'm saying I could do it is because I want you to start realizing that this is not a chronological or a logical process that I have to earn. That you have to earn. It's really, it's really letting go of all the bullshit and I obviously still have some bullshit about my own value, but I'm aware of that. Because of that awareness, I have that realization.

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Now all I do is, every day, I clean it out, I declutter, and the more I declutter, the higher. My value volume goes up and up and up, the more that I realize that I really is the master volume. It's not, it's not. You gotta have value for your work and your beauty and then your relationships as separate things. No, you are a whole being. Raise it all up, because when you, whatever you do the master volume in my hypothetical um stereo system of your life, what what you do do the master volume in my hypothetical um stereo system of your life? What what you do to the master volume you do to the rest? And I want you to truly always remember that you are in control of your value and your worth.

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Okay, and don't idolize or put celebrities or certain careers on a pedestal right, because Because they are equal to you and the only reason why you, if you were to feel inferior sitting next to Megan Fox, has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with the fact that your volume has been shut down, you've turned it too down and that all you got to do is raise it to a hundred so that you get to see everyone at eye value, at eye level, sorry and then from that place you become a kinder person, you have more confidence and now your value, your self-worth, your self-love stops being fragmented, right, and it gets to be holistic and it gets to be easy. And when you can own that and you can realize this really important, important concept, nothing can get in your way, because everybody better watch out when I, when I raise my volume back to its original order of 100 out of 100, right, because for someone who doesn't have it there and look at all the things that I'm doing with myself, although all the audacity that I have, right, can you imagine what happens when it's at its highest capacity? Right, I'm doing some good damage there, and so can you, and there's enough space for everyone. In fact, we're all waiting on you, okay, and whatever that means for you, and just remember that holding yourself and owning your entire value and turning up the volume to 100 on your master value volume has nothing to do with fame or status or academic stuff. It really doesn't. It's your version of what it means for you to be living your dream life. That's all that is. And everyone's are perfect the way it is, because every single person's fullest expression of themselves serves a purpose into the tapestry of the perfection of being a human during this time.

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Okay, so I love you so much. I would love to hear your thoughts on this episode, so please leave a comment below if you're streaming this on spotify. If you're listening to this on any other podcast streaming platform, please slide into my dms at Christina Modavari. I'd love to hear your thoughts. All right, guys. So much love Until next week. Ciao.

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