The Jim Fortin Podcast

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  Ep 519: Throwback To Ep113: You’re Trapped In Your Beliefs 06.08.2026 42min

  And, as you read the headline you may have thought, “No, I’m not trapped in my beliefs.” If you said no you’re not trapped in your beliefs and if you don’t have what you want in life then yes, you are trapped in your beliefs. This episode is not a “Rah-Rah, Believe in yourself, You can win” episode. It’s about one thing…what if, what if you didn’t have any beliefs, how would your life be different? Many years ago, my mentor said to me, “Beliefs are archaic. Beliefs are blinding, and with beliefs you have no clarity.”In this episode, I talk about what that means and I talk about a more empowering way to think about your beliefs. Beliefs…such a slippery subject because you even have beliefs about your beliefs, which I talk about in the episode. Yet, our beliefs are unconscious so they generally keep us trapped in life.Ideally, I’d love to offer you a magic wand to erase all your limiting beliefs but I don’t have that power but I do have the power to give you a new perspective on your beliefs. With everything that is happening in the world, look around, people are driven by fear, frenzy, anger, and hysteria. And, all of this is driven by beliefs. On the flip side, some people like me, and maybe you, we’re cool, relaxed, and patient. If you’re this way, you’re being driven by your beliefs. Your beliefs drive your life. What’s important in this episode is that you start realizing that your beliefs come from your identity and they unconsciously trap you, and I want you to start seeing through your old traps by asking new questions in life. Transformational Takeaway Nothing has any meaning except the meaning you give it. Let’s Connect:  ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 518: Who Are You Beneath The Brainwashing Of Your Human Story And Identity? 04.08.2026 32min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim shares one of the most personal stories he's told on the show: the near-death experience he had during a 2020 stroke, and what it revealed to him about the difference between consciousness and the identity people mistake for themselves. He explains why the awareness he touched in that experience has reshaped not only his understanding of who we are, but the direction of his own work.  Jim distinguishes between the "surface identity," the body, the ego, the human story, and the deeper reality of consciousness beneath it. He explains why self-improvement keeps people trapped in an endless cycle of fixing the container, while self-recognition, knowing oneself as awareness rather than the body, is what actually dissolves fear, anxiety, and limitation at the root.  Listeners are invited to question what in them remains untouched by circumstance, and to begin recognizing themselves as the awareness beneath the human identity rather than the identity itself.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) Free will isn't free thinking — Jim reminds listeners they are spiritual beings having a human experience, and that fear and anxiety signal operating from ego rather than soul.  (03:50) A near-death experience reframed — Jim describes the stroke that briefly took him out of his body in 2020, and the awareness of "nothingness" he's only now come to understand.  (10:30) Surface identity versus deeper reality — Jim explains why self-improvement keeps people chasing a better container, while transformation comes from recognizing consciousness itself.  (15:53) Identity creates limitation — Jim shows how identifying as the body means inheriting its fears and limitations, citing people who transcend disability by refusing to identify with it.  (19:11) Why Jim stepped away from TCP — Jim opens up about ending his signature coaching program, since fixing the ego container isn't true transformation.  (25:30) The question beneath the story — Jim leaves listeners with a simple practice: asking what in them remains untouched by circumstance.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!    Transformational Takeaway  Every fear, worry, and limitation carried in life belongs to the container, not to the self. The body is not who a person is, it is simply what a person lives in. Beneath the human story and the human identity is a deeper awareness, untouched by circumstance and unshaken by the world. Recognizing that awareness, rather than trying to fix or improve the container, is where real transformation begins.    Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 517: Throwback To Ep263: What Causes You To Struggle With Money? 30.07.2026 1h 10min

  You probably believe in the Law of Attraction, but if you’re like most people you’re struggling with money. This is because you’re most likely using law of attraction against you. If this is you, listen to this episode now because we’re about to change all that for you! Transformational Takeaway If you don’t have it on the inside, you won’t have it on the outside. Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 516: Why You Have Free Will, But You're Not A Free Thinker 28.07.2026 25min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim dismantles a belief most people never question: that having free will makes them a free thinker. He reveals how identity, goals, fears, and limitations are installed early in life — long before a person is old enough to consent to them — and shows how this "brainwashing" quietly directs choices people believe are entirely their own.  Using the metaphor of a smartphone loaded with pre-installed apps, Jim illustrates how culture, parents, and early environment download default programs into the mind by around age seven. He distinguishes this work from traditional subconscious reprogramming, explaining that real freedom comes not from managing the brainwashing but from transcending the identity it was built on.  Listeners are invited to question where their choices really come from — and to consider what it would mean to exit the illusion entirely rather than simply rearrange it.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) Free will isn't free thinking — Jim introduces the episode's central paradox: having the ability to choose doesn't mean your choices are actually your own.  (02:54) Your limitations were given to you — Jim explains how identifying with a limitation ("I am broke," "I am stuck") keeps a person trapped in something that was never truly theirs.  (05:45) Brainwashing is salesmanship, not just coercion — Jim redefines brainwashing using the smartphone metaphor, showing how default "apps" from childhood shape identity without consent.  (09:12) The sleepwalker's pride — Jim reveals how what feels like free choice, like an attraction to a certain home, is often just early programming playing out unnoticed.  (12:04) Transcendence, not transformation — Jim describes moving his work beyond fixing the ego to helping people recognize themselves as consciousness rather than the human identity.  (18:00) You're a hostage to the body, not your circumstances — Jim reframes the real prison as the belief that a person is the container they walk around in, not their external life situation.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!    Transformational Takeaway  Every limitation carried in life, financial, physical, relational, was installed, not chosen. True freedom doesn't come from managing or rearranging those programs; it comes from recognizing them as brainwashing and stepping beyond the identity that holds them in place. The self was never the container. It was always the consciousness within it.  Everything else remains unchanged.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 515: Throwback To Ep49: Using Your Subconscious Mind To Tap Into Who You Need To BE To Create The Life Of Your Dreams 23.07.2026 30min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠  You’ve heard me talk about the power of dreamtime and using your subconscious mind to problem solve and in this episode I go further and talk about how to make dreamtime work even better for you. Relative to “who you need to be,” I’m often asked….“Jim, if I’ve never been a millionaire before, what ways would I need to be in my mind to make it happen?” Even when I give people ideas, they many times struggle finding the right way of being to help them create the life they want. So….in this episode I talk about:[1:57] Of course, about dreamtime[7:39] A recapitulation of the fact that your identity drives you[15:19] Who you have to be to have the exact experience of life that you want[15:40] Your primary and secondary identity[26:04] Why I trust dreamtime guidance more than my analytical mindAnd, the specific question you can ask your unconscious mind for deeper understanding. As well, I talk about “setting your intention” to maximize your mind’s direction during dreamtime. Not only do I talk about asking your subconscious mind for assistance, I go deeper and share how to ensure your answers come to you. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Transformational Takeaway  Set your intentions for dreamtime answers. Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 514: Who Told You That You Are a Body? 21.07.2026 24min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim challenges one of the most basic assumptions people carry: that they are their bodies. He asks listeners to ponder a simple but destabilizing question — who told you that you are a body? — and reveals how every limitation a person experiences, from health fears to financial lack, traces back to this single point of identification.  Jim unpacks how conditioning from parents, culture, science, and society trains people from childhood to identify as the body rather than as the awareness inhabiting it. Using examples like family-inherited illness and Angelina Jolie's preventative mastectomy, he shows how this identification keeps people trapped in the body's limitations — and offers a series of deliberate questions designed to shift that identity toward consciousness, life, and source instead.  Listeners are invited to sit with each question Jim poses and let a lifetime of body-based conditioning begin to loosen its grip.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) Who told you that you are a body? — Jim opens with the central question of the episode, introducing the idea that the body is only a container, not the true self.  (02:57) Change starts with awareness, not effort — Jim explains that focusing on "fixing" yourself keeps you trapped in the identity you're trying to leave, and that real change begins with a shift in awareness.  (05:52) Your body is only an assumption — Jim breaks down how what you believe about your body, including inherited illness or limitation, is conditioning rather than truth.  (08:48) The body is a container, not you — Jim introduces the core distinction between the body as vehicle and the life force, soul, and awareness that inhabits it.  (12:12) Life doesn't need the body — Jim explains that consciousness is the cause and the body is the effect, and that identifying as life instead of body dissolves the limitations tied to illness, fear, and lack.  (17:53) You are not confined to the body — Jim explores how consciousness isn't limited to physical space, touching on dream time, astral travel, and remote viewing as evidence.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!    Transformational Takeaway  Every fear, illness, and limitation a person carries exists because they've identified as the body rather than as the life animating it. The body is simply the vehicle; the truth is consciousness, awareness, life itself. Letting that identification shift — even slightly — is where real freedom begins.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 513: Throwback to Ep115: Spirituality, Business, and Prosperity 16.07.2026 1h 9min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠  Are you one of those people who believe that money and spirituality are incompatible? Do you believe it’s OK to make money and be rich? As you know, I’m a “spiritualist” and I’ve also learned that one of the most powerful things we can do for the world is to become rich, then use that as a tool and we can better the world. In this episode, I have a guest, James Wedmore, and he’s a good friend. Not only that, but his business also attracted $9.4 million dollars last year.In this episode, we talk about Spirituality, Business, and Prosperity, and specifically, we talk about guiding principles that have helped him to become financially successful. James is very spiritual and he lets his spiritualism guide him in business. I do the same, and working from this place has been financially good for both of us. This is a candid, fun “interview” and my intention is that you see how we approach business and the rewards of prosperity and service that it brings us. You deserve to be abundant and prosperous! Listen, apply, and enjoy! Mentioned resources: Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 512: Why Taking Sides Is A Huge Source of Inner Conflict 14.07.2026 31min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores why conflict isn't something that exists "out there" in the world, but is instead created the moment a person takes a side. He argues that all division — political, religious, personal — is a product of the human ego identifying with a single, limited interpretation of reality, and that true peace only returns when a person stops defending a position and remembers themselves as consciousness rather than the body or the belief.  Jim illustrates this with a personal story about getting scammed by a fake towing company, his upbringing around fundamentalist preachers in Texas, and a Coca-Cola versus Pepsi metaphor he uses to describe "mastering neutrality." He also examines how this same dynamic shows up in parenting, where trying to control or judge a adult child's choices is really just another form of taking sides.  This episode offers listeners a practical way to recognize when they've fallen into righteousness or division — and how to return to peace instead.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) Where conflict actually comes from — Jim explains that disharmony isn't a lack of peace in the world; it exists because people don't know themselves as source rather than ego.  (07:38) Why institutions divide — Jim points to preachers, politicians, money, and religion as forces that split humanity by disguising ego and dogma as morality.  (11:02) The Coke and Pepsi metaphor — Jim introduces "mastering neutrality," showing that both sides of any argument are simply two versions of the same illusion.  (13:53) Whatever you fight weakens you — Using a Mother Teresa quote and Wayne Dyer's tree metaphor, Jim reveals how opposing anything grants it power and traps a person in conflict.  (20:00) Why the "correct side" winning never brings peace — Jim challenges the belief that healing the world means making one side win, and reframes what true unity requires.  (27:45) Peace as a realization, not a result — Jim closes with the truth that divine mind has never been divided or taken a side, and neither should the listener.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Every time a person declares one side right and the other wrong, they step out of consciousness and into the ego's illusion of division. Peace was never meant to come from winning an argument or fixing the world outside — it comes from remembering that the listener, at their core, is the same undivided source as everyone they're tempted to oppose. Letting go of the need to be right isn't weakness; it's the doorway back to harmony.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep511: Throwback To Ep110: This Is Your Greatest Advisor 09.07.2026 35min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠  You’re already thinking, “What is my greatest advisor?” Let me get to the point and be blunt, your own death is your greatest advisor. We, humans, spend a large part of our lives avoiding the one thing that is inevitable in our lives, our own transition of the planet, or what we call death.The truth is this, when we embrace the totality of our being and we accept our “death” we can then use it as our “life advisor” and we can use it to understand what’s important to us and how best to live our lives. Most of us persist in seeing our lives from the smallest “part” of ourselves and that keeps us blind. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  How would your ascension advise you? Let’s Connect:  ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people.  Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 510: How You're Brainwashed Like A North Korean And You Don't Even Know It 07.07.2026 34min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim opens a new series comparing North Korea's overt, state-mandated ideological conditioning — its real "Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System" — to the covert brainwashing many Westerners experience through consumerism, nationalism, and religion. The difference, he argues, isn't whether brainwashing exists, but how visibly it's enforced.  Jim details North Korean practices like mandatory portrait care and weekly self-criticism, then shows how Western consumerism and the need to feel "good enough" condition people just as thoroughly, only without coercion. His goal: separating listeners' true identity — their consciousness — from the conditioned "container" of the body and ego.  This first episode in a multi-part series is an essential starting point for anyone ready to question who they really are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The hidden link between North Korea and the West — Jim reveals that the only real difference between a brainwashed North Korean citizen and most Westerners is the name and method of the conditioning.  (05:18) Who gave you your thoughts? — Jim challenges listeners to question who actually taught them their fears, preferences, and even their own name.  (14:31) Inside North Korea's Ten Principles — Jim details real mechanisms like mandatory portrait care and weekly self-criticism as a mirror for subtler Western conditioning.  (19:49) Consumerism as covert brainwashing — Jim traces his own teenage desire for Polo shirts to a culture that uses advertising to convince people they're incomplete.  (28:22) Who chose your reality? — Using a scene from The Devil Wears Prada, Jim shows how decisions we believe are our own were often shaped long before we could choose them.  (30:17) You are consciousness first — Jim reveals the series' foundational truth: listeners are consciousness that inhabits a body, not a body that has consciousness.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Most of us believe we are free-thinking, autonomous beings, but the truth is that nearly every thought, preference, and fear we carry was downloaded into us by family, media, culture, and society long before we were old enough to question it. Recognizing this isn't a cause for despair — it's the first step toward real freedom. The body is a container, conditioned and shaped by the world around it, but the listener is not that container; they are the consciousness, the life force, that inhabits it. Reclaiming that truth is where authentic power begins.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 509: Throwback ToEp57: Life Is Choice 02.07.2026 26min

  Start Your Transformation Now Do you love where you are in life right now? Happy with your money? Your job? Your relationships? This will be a short write up because it all comes to this: Where you are in life right now you have chosen to be there. Yep, it’s your choice. Life Is Choice. Life is a continuous process of choice which means “Life IS Choice.” In this episode I talk about:[1:32] Unconscious V Conscious choice[2:45] The definition of choice[4:08] Making choices before you find yourself having to make a choice[12:47] Why choosing from your feelings is self-sabotage[20:52] And, the ultimate choice you have made in your life. This is a simple episode and a powerful one. When you fully embrace the power of choice your life will change forever. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  If you don't like where you are in life, start making different choices Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim
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  Ep 508: You Have No Birth Date 30.06.2026 35min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores a provocative idea: the listener has no birth date. While the body has an incarnation date, the soul — the true source of power — never dies and therefore was never born. Jim explains that most people live exclusively from their 3D, mechanistic identity, completely disconnected from the continuous soul-consciousness that is the actual source of all power, peace, and creation.  Jim unpacks why chasing external power — money, status, recognition — is an outdated model of consciousness that is rapidly collapsing as humanity evolves into higher levels of awareness. He reveals the single word that secretly sabotages most people's ability to create what they want, and offers a radically different way to relate to desire itself.  This episode challenges listeners to stop chasing and start remembering who they truly are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) You have no birth date — Jim introduces the central idea that while the body has an incarnation date, the soul is continuous and was never born, and explains why this is the seat of true power.  (03:24) Continual vs. continuous — Jim distinguishes between the body's continual, repeating incarnations and the soul's continuous, unbroken existence, and why identifying with soul changes everything.  (10:13) There is no point A and point B — Jim dismantles the manifestation myth that separates a person from their desire, using the metaphor of a small wave and a big wave both being made of the same substance.  (15:56) Old power structures are crumbling — Jim explains why external forms of power (money, politics, status) are an outdated 3D model collapsing as consciousness evolves into a 5D paradigm.  (23:15) The hidden danger of "I need" — Jim reveals how the word "need" instantly creates separation from the thinking substance that creates all things, and why this keeps people stuck.  (27:10) To need nothing is to have everything — Jim shares the epiphany that anything available to others is available to the listener, and closes with a final truth meant to be felt rather than analyzed.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  The body has a birth date, but the soul does not — and remembering this is where real power begins. Most people sabotage their own desires by living from "I need," a word that instantly creates separation from the one substance that all things, including the listener, are made of. There is no point A and point B, no chasing, no struggling to close a gap that was never truly there. The invitation in this episode is simple but profound: stop relating to life from need, and start relating to it from wholeness. To need nothing is to have everything.  Mentioned Resources: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 507: Throwback To Ep29: Why Are You On The Planet? 25.06.2026 22min

  Start Your Transformation Now Have you ever asked yourself why you’re on this planet? I don’t mean “what is your purpose while you’re on the planet, but the bigger question is…why on this planet? I attempt in this episode to get you to start thinking from a much higher perspective about the nature of your existence here on Earth.Most people search for a lifetime looking for their “purpose,” and they spend their life like a dog chasing his tail looking for this answer. When people think about their purpose, they are mostly thinking about how that gives their life meaning relative to others, but have you ever thought about the bigger cosmic purpose of you coming to this planet? In this episode I talk about:[4:12] How most people see life only in the context of time on the planet[5:39] How do you grow and evolve beyond your perceived time here?[7:09] How we are all born into a world that traps us in a small reality[11:53] Where is your predominant focus on your life right now?[17:27] And, the two biggest reasons you are on this planet. The point of this whole episode is this. Are you living fully into the duality of self and have you evolved into someone who lives from the higher value, meaning and purpose of your cosmic self or have you lived for the sustenance and convenience of your 3D ego? Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Do you live to serve and make the world a better place and do you live to serve and EVOLVE your higher self as much as you can? Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim
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  Ep 506: How Amazon and Henry David Thoreau Can Help Deliver Your Dreams 23.06.2026 30min

  Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim draws on an unexpected pairing — Henry David Thoreau's timeless wisdom and the mechanics of Amazon's fulfillment system — to reveal why most people never advance confidently in the direction of their dreams. The culprit isn't a lack of ambition or effort — it's the deeply ingrained belief that one must know how to create an outcome before taking the first step.  Jim illustrates how the moment someone clicks "buy now" on Amazon, they hand the process over to an intelligent system they don't understand, and trust it completely. Yet when it comes to their own desires, most people do the opposite — worrying, strategizing, and attempting to micromanage a delivery they were never meant to orchestrate.  This episode offers a paradigm shift that could change everything — and a single affirmation listeners can begin habituating today.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The Thoreau challenge — Jim opens with Henry David Thoreau's call to advance confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and poses the central question of the episode: why don't most people actually do it?  (02:53) The real reason dreams stall — Jim identifies the core obstacle: not knowing how to create a desired outcome. When people can't see the path, they stop moving — and this episode dismantles that pattern entirely.  (06:18) The Amazon metaphor — Jim uses the mechanics of ordering on Amazon to show how effortlessly people trust an invisible, complex system to deliver results — and why they should extend that same trust to the universe.  (10:36) Stop micromanaging the delivery — Jim humorously illustrates what it would look like to try to control every step of an Amazon delivery, making plain how absurd — and counterproductive — it is to do the same thing when pursuing a life goal.  (15:06) It's not your job to know how — Jim shares his own shift from being "the king of how" to trusting that the universe is far more capable of orchestrating outcomes than the analytical mind ever could be.  (22:17) Action + trust, not action + worry — Jim explains why taking physical action while simultaneously worrying and strategizing cancels out results, and what it looks like to act from a place of aligned consciousness instead.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Most people abandon their desires not because the dream is too big, but because they can't see the path and have mistakenly made it their job to map every step. The universe doesn't need help figuring out how to deliver — it only needs to know what is wanted. Jim offers this affirmation to begin habituating: I do not know how [my desire] will come, and that is fine with me. The universe has channels I cannot see, and I am open to all of them.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep505: Throwback To Ep109: An STD Just For You 18.06.2026 44min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠⁠⁠  OK, OK, so you read the headline and you were probably thinking, “Jim, what the heck is wrong with you?” I totally get it and I don’t want you to have the kind of STD that most people dread, I want you to have another kind, well, the acronym with the letters – STD. What does STD stand for? Easy: Surrender, Trust and No Doubt and that’s the topic this week. In this episode I talk about:[1:16] What my definition of surrender, trust and doubt are[4:23] How control is woven into not wanting to surrender[5:19] Your greatest cause of unhappiness[7:30] Accepting what “is” in life[8:37] The energy waste of “fighting” one’s self[19:08] Allowing yourself to trust your unconscious mind[24:58] Why you can trust your unconscious mind and the universe[33:02] Trusting all is well and not doubting yourself[35:45] And, letting go of the illusion of control I’ve never been a “control freak,” per se but I used to get into my share of control, and it’s toxic and debilitating. You probably already know that it’s just a complete energy drain and it exhausts you. In this episode, it’s my intent to ask you to take a look at yourself and to look at the ways you’re trapped in control and maybe don’t even know it. When you live from the paradigm I propose in this episode, STD, life becomes so much easier and free. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Control is an illusion and when you get into the illusion of control you are controlled by the illusion of control. Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim
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  Ep 504: Separation Is The Cause Of Your Pain 16.06.2026 25min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠⁠  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores one of the most overlooked truths behind human suffering: the belief that we are separate from source. He unpacks how centuries of conditioning have led most people to operate as mechanical beings — doing things to create outcomes — rather than recognizing themselves as the consciousness that is the source of all creation. Whether it is money, love, or health, the struggle to achieve these things stems not from lack of effort, but from a fundamental misidentification of who and what we truly are.  Jim traces this separation from René Descartes' mechanistic worldview to childhood lessons about earning and doing, showing how deeply the belief that we must work to deserve is wired into the human psyche. He also draws a sharp distinction between dogmatic religion, which reinforces separation from the divine, and the direct knowing that each person is not a human having spiritual experiences, but infinite consciousness inhabiting a human form.  This episode is an invitation to stop trying to be human and start recognizing the truth: you are source, you are consciousness, and everything you are seeking is not something to attract — it is something you already are.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The origin of pain — Jim connects the pain of money, loneliness, and health to a single root cause: the belief in separation from source, and why most people never close that gap despite intellectually agreeing we are all one.  (02:44) Descartes and the mechanistic lie — Jim traces how René Descartes' mechanistic worldview conditioned humanity to operate as doing machines, separating action from consciousness and setting the stage for a life of polarity and struggle.  (06:06) Consciousness vs. mechanical behavior — Jim explains why effort alone rarely produces the desired results, and how the real issue is the mismatch between what someone is doing and the consciousness they carry while doing it.  (09:31) The brainwashing of religion and childhood — From Southern Baptist fire-and-brimstone to a dime earned cleaning flower beds at age five, Jim illustrates how early conditioning and institutional religion quietly sever people from their true identity as source.  (15:19) You are not human — you are consciousness — Jim makes the case that most people have it backwards: they believe they are humans with consciousness, when in truth they are infinite consciousness that has taken on a human form — and that distinction changes everything.  (20:12) The transformational question — Jim closes with a powerful question to sit with: What would be true if I were pure consciousness having this human experience? — inviting listeners to explore it not analytically, but as a felt, living awareness.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  You are not a human being trying to find God, abundance, or peace. You are consciousness — infinite, whole, and complete — temporarily inhabiting a human form. Every struggle and every painful pattern traces back to the moment we forget that truth and begin identifying with the container instead of the consciousness within it. Stop trying to be human. Start recognizing yourself as source. Sit with the question Jim offers, let it move beyond the analytical mind, and allow the awareness to settle in. That shift — from doing to being — is where transformation actually begins.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 503: Throwback To Ep91: Your Life Has No Meaning, Except… 11.06.2026 30min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠⁠  No matter what happens to you, it has no meaning except the meaning that you give it. The very same thing can happen to two different people and it’s obvious that each person will give it a different meaning…and reaction/response.The concept isn’t new however, so few people live by the power of this concept. In this episode I talk about:[1:18] Various scenarios that each of us give different meaning to[4:09] Why you give everything meaning[6:05] The fact that you’re a “meaning-making machine”[7:57] The implications of living from external meanings[9:25] When people are judging you they are simply giving meaning to you[15:48] What it means when people “die”[21:46] Why good/bad meanings lead to indecision And, like I say in every episode synopsis…a lot more. This concept has the absolute power to literally transform your life, yet, we have to integrate this concept and start working from it. This concept will set you free from the ups and downs of life. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Nothing has any meaning except the meaning you give it. Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim
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  Ep 502: Escaping Practical Attachment 09.06.2026 35min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores the concept of practical attachment — not as an abstract spiritual idea, but as a very real, everyday force that quietly steals joy and peace of mind. Inspired by his own experience of packing up and moving on from the stunning Sedona home he spent 39 months building, Jim takes listeners on a journey through the many forms of attachment: possessions, relationships, jobs, success, identity, and even deeply held beliefs about reality. The Buddha once said that the root of suffering is attachment, and Jim makes that truth impossible to ignore by grounding it in ordinary life.  From designer clothing and Rolex watches to soul-sucking jobs and controlling relationships with adult children, Jim walks through the subtle and not-so-subtle ways people cling to things — not because of the things themselves, but because of the meaning and identity they project onto them. He shares personal stories, including the half-million-dollar loss he accepted without hesitation to finally move on, his brother's intentionally homeless life, and what it felt like to live at both ends of the financial spectrum. The real insight emerges: attachment is not about the object — it is about the energy spent protecting what we believe defines us.  If there is anything in life causing unhappiness, there is an attachment hiding beneath it — and this episode is the invitation to find it.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (00:00) The root of suffering — Jim opens by framing attachment not as a spiritual buzzword but as a practical, everyday pattern, challenging listeners to honestly ask: what am I actually attached to, and how much is it costing me?  (08:46) Attachment to things — From homes and cars to designer clothes and family heirlooms, Jim explores how we attach to physical possessions and the emotional weight that comes with protecting them, even long after they are gone.  (15:04) Attachment to people and relationships — Jim examines how attachment to partners, children, and even adult kids can quietly become a form of control — and how one TCP student's breakthrough came when she finally released her grip on her 23- and 24-year-old children.  (19:43) Attachment to jobs, fear, and identity — Jim unpacks why people stay in miserable jobs, how attachment to success and achievement is really about what others will think, and why peace of mind must rank above all other currencies.  (26:59) Attachment to beliefs and ideology — From MAGA to money to self-importance, Jim explains how the more we are attached to an idea, the more we must defend it — and how mistaking our perceptions for ultimate reality is one of the greatest sources of inner conflict.  (30:00) The transformational reframe — Jim closes with a grounding reminder: we are born with nothing, we own nothing, and any lack of happiness is a signal pointing directly to an attachment waiting to be examined and released.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  You were born with nothing — and in truth, you own nothing. Every possession, relationship, job, and belief you cling to becomes a source of suffering the moment you mistake it for your identity. Attachment is not just about things. It is about what you have decided those things say about you. When you stop and ask, "What am I attached to right now?" — especially in moments of unhappiness or fear — you take back the one thing no possession can ever give you: peace of mind. That is the ultimate currency. The moment you can release your grip, even just a little, is the moment life stops being a prison and starts becoming a journey you are actually free to enjoy.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim 
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  Ep 501: Throwback To Ep132: Five Random Thoughts To Change Your Life – Volume 3 04.06.2026 29min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠⁠  Here’s another in the “Five Random Thoughts” Series. OK, full transparency, I was pressed for time this weekend and traveling so I put another random thought episode, and given the feedback, it appears many of you guys are loving these. So, the five random thoughts this week are:1) When you run your life by emotions you’ll find yourself in the ditch.I used to find that it was hard for me to follow through and one of my coaches pointed out, “You don’t follow through with your commitments because when your feelings change so do your commitments.” This was a huge life-altering ah-ha moment. And, if you’re not following through in life perhaps you are the same as I once was? 2) Your life is this way or that way because you tell yourself life is this way or that way.Life is a reflection of you. Kahlil Gibran once said, “Words are but simple dripping from the mind.” So, how do you tell yourself that “life is.” Exactly as you tell yourself will be your experience of life! 3) Mastery Is repetition and sacrificeThese are all simple and this one is as simple as the others but so simple many of us miss. What have you “mastered” in life? We live in a world of mediocrity and most of us have “mastered” little. Most of us just get by in life. The title is obvious, to create mastery in anything it requires repetition, and most of us get that yet what most of us don’t like is that it also requires sacrifice. For everything in life, there is a price. And to be masterful at anything you must pay the price for it. 4) Changing your life is very simple but requires devotionChange is easy. Becoming who you are now was not hard. You didn’t fight to become who you ARE, you learned it. Like the last random thought, you become who you are with repetition. It’s EASY to do most things with repetition and where and what is your repetition? 5) If I don’t have humbleness I lose everything.It took me MANY years to get this. I got it when I tried to quote what I was taught. “The common man is hooked to other men, the spiritual warrior is hooked to infinity. “ MEANING: If I lose mySELF in my ego and I then am not humble I then lose “who” I am, which is a spiritual being. There is obviously a lot more and humbleness is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. And, it requires that you place you either above or below anyone. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  1) When you run your life by your emotions you’ll find yourself in the ditch. 2) Your life is “this way” or “that way” because you tell yourself life is this way or that way. 3) Mastery is repetition and sacrifice. 4) Changing your life is very simple but requires devotion. 5) If I don’t have humbleness I lose everything. Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim
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  Ep 500: How To Cure Your Money, Health, And Life Challenges 02.06.2026 24min

  Start Your Transformation Now⁠  Most people absorb personal growth content with genuine desire to change — yet the moment they stop listening, they slip right back into the same patterns, the same struggles, and the same quiet belief that something is fundamentally wrong with them. Jim Fortin has heard it countless times: I must be broken. This just doesn't work for me. In this episode, Jim dismantles that belief entirely. The problem is never the person — it is the direction. Nearly everyone is approaching life from the outside in, trying to fix visible problems with visible solutions, and wondering why nothing sticks.  Jim draws on decades of coaching and his own personal history with money and health challenges to explain why the cure for what ails us — financially, physically, relationally — cannot be found in the 3D world. The body is not who you are. Your bank account is not who you are. These are conditions being experienced by a soul temporarily housed in a human form, and when you misidentify yourself as the condition, you stay trapped inside it. The real shift happens when you stop fighting what's wrong and start opening to the divine consciousness that has never once been sick, broke, afraid, or broken.   You are not damaged goods. You have simply been looking in the wrong direction. It is time to turn around.    What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (01:26) The outside-in trap — Why most people keep repeating the same struggles despite consuming endless books, programs, and motivation, and how misidentifying with the body locks you into its limitations.  (04:23) You are not your body — Jim reframes the common language of illness and lack, explaining that saying "I have rheumatoid arthritis" or "I have no money" keeps the soul trapped inside a 3D identity that was never the full truth of who you are.  (07:19) The part of you that has never been broken — There is a dimension of you — your soul, your consciousness — that has never been sick, never been afraid, and never been touched by any illness or lack. Jim challenges listeners to think and identify from that place instead.  (11:44) The three-minute morning practice — A simple, practical protocol Jim learned from a shaman: sit quietly, breathe, and gently hold the sentence I am open to being loved by something greater than my fear — no forcing, no agenda, just openness.  (15:55) Why silence is the cure — Using the analogy of cutting a finger and simply putting on a bandage, Jim illustrates how healing flows naturally when we stop the noise of analyzing, fixing, and fearing — and step into the quiet space where divine mind can be heard.  (19:43) You are not alone — Referencing the parable of Footprints in the Sand, Jim reminds listeners that the same consciousness carrying every breath they take is fully capable of handling money, health, relationships, and everything else they are struggling to control.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  You are not broken — and you never were. The money challenges, the health struggles, the loneliness — these are not evidence of a flawed soul. They are evidence of a soul that has been looking outward for answers that can only be found within. Your soul has never been sick, never been broke, never once been touched by fear or limitation. When you stop fighting the condition and start opening — just three quiet minutes a day, no agenda, no expectation — you create the space for divine consciousness to move. Like rain soaking into the ground, you don't have to force it. You only have to stop blocking it. That is the cure — just the willingness to remember what you actually are.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim