The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now 

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin dismantles one of the most widely practiced habits in personal development: affirmations. Jim makes the case that affirmations — far from attracting what you want — are actually a confession of lack. Every time you affirm a truth, you're telegraphing to the universe that you don't yet believe it's real. And the universe keeps delivering exactly that: the absence of what you want. 

The real power lies not in projecting lack through affirmation, but in cultivating a quiet, receptive consciousness — one rooted in faith and knowing, not hoping and asking. Divine intelligence already knows your deepest desires. It doesn't need your reminders or morning rituals. It needs you to get out of the way. 

If you've spent years working hard at manifestation only to feel like you're running in place, this one's for you. 

What You'll Discover in This Episode: 

(00:00) Why affirmations are actually confessing what you don't have — Every time you affirm something, you're broadcasting to the universe that it isn't already true — and the universe mirrors that energy right back to you. 

(05:48) Your affirmations are ego insurance policies, not acts of faith — Most people affirm out of insecurity, not conviction. Repeating affirmations is the ego's way of feeling like it's doing something — and divine mind doesn't need your input. 

(09:06) The apartment story: what happens when you get out of the way — Jim shares a vivid personal story illustrating how surrendering to the consciousness of knowing — without effort or affirmation — delivered exactly what he desired. 

(17:46) The shift from projecting to receiving — Jim introduces quiet receptivity as the alternative to affirmations, and explains why it carries a fundamentally different energetic charge than projecting lack. 

(21:10) The question that replaces affirmations — Instead of affirming, ask: "What is God expressing right now about ___?" Then sit in silence and let supply do the heavy lifting. 

(25:58) Three-step noise audit to identify your hidden confessions of lack — List your top affirmations, ask whether you'd still do them if your desire were already 100% true, then take the silence test — five minutes without an agenda — to hear how loudly the ego is interfering. 

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

Transformational Takeaway 

Every affirmation you've ever done was a well-meaning confession — a signal to the universe that you do not have what you want. The shift Jim offers isn't a new technique or a better script. Stop screaming at the universe through the megaphone of your ego and start sitting in the quiet knowing that universal intelligence already has it handled. You don't need to remind divine mind of what's in your heart. Every time you feel the urge to fix, force, or affirm — label it as noise. Get still. Get receptive. And let the universe do what it has always been doing: taking care of everything. 

Mentioned Resources:

Dying To Be Me

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Start Your Transformation Now

When people say, “Do you have it IN you,” they're usually talking about resolve and grit and the fortitude to accomplish something.

I’m going a different direction with this episode.

The Dalai Lama said, “If there is no anger in you, you cannot be angry.”

The same applies to every area of your life. What’s in you is what you create. Poverty, wealth, health, poor health… it’s all created by what’s “in you” mentally!

In this episode I talk about:[9:25] Identity[10:57] Identity[24:17] Identity

Yes, I intended to state the word “IDENTITY” three times. What’s in your unconscious identity is what’s in your life.

Sun Tzu said, “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” Anything you want in life you must first be in your internal world.

Even if you think you understand the concept of “identity,” give this episode a listen, as I think you might hear some things you’ve not heard before.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway

If you don't have it on the outside, it's because you're not yet that on the inside

Mentioned Resources:

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Start Your Transformation Now 

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin launches a new series called Brainwashed: Exit the Lie — a deep dive into the conditioning that keeps us small, stuck, and struggling. After 30 years of teaching transformation, Jim has arrived at a profound shift: the goal is no longer transformation, but transcendence — not fixing the self, but rising above the very identity that created the obstacles. Drawing from his own turbulent 18 months of personal and professional upheaval, Jim reveals that the source of our limitations isn't circumstance — it's the brainwashing we've absorbed our entire lives. 

At the heart of this episode is one paradigm-shattering insight: the reason your mental and spiritual work isn't fixing your life is because you are trying to fix your life. Using the vivid metaphor of the Blue Monkey, Jim unpacks how the desperate need for outcomes is the very thing that repels them — every plan, every "but how?" is ego-driven brainwashing telegraphing lack to the universe, keeping you locked in a cage you're unknowingly holding shut yourself. 

This episode is the beginning of a journey that promises peace, freedom, and power when you finally stop living in the lie and recognize yourself as the ultimate source in the universe. 

What You'll Discover in This Episode: 

(00:00) The shift from transformation to transcendence — Jim introduces the series and explains why true freedom comes from transcending the ego-self that created your limitations — not transforming it. 

(05:48) Why working on yourself keeps you stuck — Jim delivers a major epiphany: the very act of trying to fix your life signals to the universe that you don't yet have what you want. 

(09:03) The Blue Monkey and the Brainwashing — Using the legend of the Alchemist, Jim introduces the Blue Monkey to illustrate how our conditioned doing, planning, and needing is the exact force blocking the gold we're trying to attract. 

(17:45) The need that repels what you want — Jim breaks down how desperation for abundance, love, or health creates the energetic repulsion that keeps those things out of reach, because consciousness responds to state — not want. 

(24:08) To need nothing is to have everything — Jim shares a personal turning point: the things that showed up most powerfully in his life came when he held them as already on their way — without desperation or the Blue Monkey in charge. 

(29:00) There is no dualism — the exit is dropping the ego — We are not a physical body and a soul — we are one — and the brainwashing that keeps us living as separate from Source is the only lie we need to exit. 

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

Transformational Takeaway 

You have been brainwashed by a lifetime of conditioning that taught you that life is hard and you must do in order to have. But every time you desperately reach for the outcome you want, you send one clear signal to the universe: I don't have it yet. That signal is the Blue Monkey — and it is the only thing standing between you and everything you desire. The exit isn't a new strategy or another affirmation. It's the recognition that you are not apart from Source — you areSource. Stop digging up the acorn to check on the universe. The gold isn't something you have to force or fix your way into. It's already yours — the moment you stop needing it. 

Mentioned Resources:

Dying To Be Me

Seat of the Soul

You Were the Ultimate Power in the Universe

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Start Your Transformation Now

If you’re like me you’ve heard it a million times growing up… “You have to work hard” to have a great life, get ahead, have financial security, etc, etc.Right?

It was drilled into our heads by society and our parents and family, and here’s the thing, it’s just not true.

After all, you see people working hard for a lifetime and they have little to nothing to show for it.

In this episode I talk about:[1:13] Why working hard mostly likely won’t make you rich[9:58] How physics demonstrates that we don’t have to work hard to attract wealth[16:59] Why physics applies to your life and your money[19:41] How science and ancient wisdom merge in this area[20:02] Why worrying about money actually repels itAnd three powerful books that will actually help you develop your wealth and prosperity consciousness.

The truth is this, great abundance does not come from hard work, it comes from your money consciousness.

Many of the motivational speakers and internet personalities are yelling all day long about “hustle, and hard work and grind” and none of them have a clue that that approach generally repels the very wealth that you want.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway

You will not be rich until you feel rich.

Mentioned Resources:

Abundance Book- John Randolph Price

Science of Getting Rich-Wallace Wattles

The Kybalion’s “The Seven Cosmic Laws”

The first cosmic law is, everything in the universe is divine mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kybalion

Double-slit Experiment

We as observers of the universe affect the material universe.

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Start Your Transformation Now 

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin explores one of the most overlooked forces shaping our lives: the fear of silence. Inspired by watching visitors in Sedona bury their faces in their phones rather than soak in the stunning surroundings, Jim dives into the science behind why we're addicted not to our devices, but to avoiding ourselves — unpacking dopamine loops, variable rewards, and how constant scrolling has become a tool for escaping self-reflection. 

Jim reveals that the average person spends just three minutes a day in genuine self-reflection yet two and a half hours on social media. That imbalance isn't just a time problem — it's an identity problem. Every major spiritual tradition, from Buddhism to shamanism, points to silence not as a practice but as a natural state of being. The noise of our devices keeps us living on the outside, cut off from the authentic power within.

This episode is a call to stop running and start listening — to yourself. Jim offers one simple, powerful challenge that can begin your transformation today.

What You'll Discover in This Episode: 

(00:00) The phone addiction hiding in plain sight — Jim opens with a striking scene in Sedona and reveals that our phone obsession isn't about devices — it's about avoiding the silence and depth of our own inner world. 

(05:51) Dopamine, doom scrolling, and the slot machine in your pocket — Jim breaks down the brain science of variable rewards and why we're wired to keep scrolling, chasing the next dopamine hit the same way a gambler pulls a lever. 

(11:09) Silence triggers the default mode network — Why the brain literally interprets stillness as danger, and how burying ourselves in social media is a way to sidestep self-reflection, anxiety, and unresolved emotions. 

(18:24) Social media steals your soulful identity — Constant stimulation keeps us trapped in a 3D external identity, disconnected from the higher, more powerful essence of who we truly are. 

(25:30) Every spiritual tradition points to silence — From Buddhism to shamanism, the path to wisdom and transformation has always run through stillness — not apps, algorithms, or content. 

(32:00) The 60-second practice that starts it all — Jim's practical challenge: before you scroll, pause for one minute and notice what arises — because what surfaces in that silence is exactly what you've been avoiding. 

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

Transformational Takeaway 

You are not addicted to your phone — you are addicted to avoiding yourself. Every scroll is a retreat from your own power and wisdom. The silence you've been running from isn't empty; it's full — full of the answers your analytical mind can never find. The next time you reach for your phone, pause for 60 seconds. The discomfort that rises isn't a signal to scroll. It's an invitation to evolve. Stop digging the hole. Get quiet. The power you've been seeking externally has been inside you all along. 

Mentioned Resources:

Dying To Be Me

As a Man Thinketh

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With gratitude, Jim