(Ep. 23) The Secret to Getting Your Life Humming with Sheri Salata

Madness To Magic⁠ brings to listeners stories of real world encounters with what we all experience and yet feel shamed to keep silent. Embracing ALL of us is key to tapping into our own power to make all things possible.This episode of my podcast is with transformational entrepreneur of The Support System and The Prosper Network Sheri Salata. As the last Executive Producer of The Oprah Show, Sheri’s been on her own journey learning to evolve in mind, body, spirit, business, and more, alongside other like-hearted and like-minded women. You can learn more and join in at SheriSalata.com.

Here are just a few of the gems from this episode with Sheri Salata.

• "I think it’s big and could be a big epiphany for people. ‘You’re living the life of your desires.’ Yes. I’m gonna tell you, a lot of people listen to that and they say, no, I’m not. No I’m not. But you are, you are. Because this is what you’ve created.  This is what you’ve created so far. You’re living your limiting beliefs. You’re living the way you practice your energy. You’re living what you believe is possible. Maybe you don’t take the time to do any dreaming or any real thinking about how my life could really grow and be better. You’re living your desires. And so, the good and the not so great… You’re in charge. When you hear that, you might say, number one, yes. There’s so many things in my life that I desired, that I’m living now, that I manifested. Yay. And there’s so much more for me to dream up and get to work on. Because at any given moment, we are living our desires.”

• “If you are of a certain age in this human life, you have to remember we weren’t trained by people who had access to what we have access to, to any all kinds of spiritual work and all kinds of growth work and therapy up the wazoo and cold plunge and sound baths. And we weren’t raised by people who had access to any of that. We were raised by people of the patriarchy who grew up very fear-based. And you got, you know, that you’re not the center of the universe. Money doesn’t grow on trees, like all that scarcity. So part of our work being of a certain age is we have to re-pattern. We have to retell those stories. We have to really work on that until it becomes automatic. Because that’s how we were trained. And we were trained like that for a long time. And we’ve been practicing those limiting beliefs for a long time. So that’s why…to consciously work on your money story…"

  “We have a capacity for happiness or joy. And I think most of us would be stunned at how low ours is. That we can just only take so much. Because things get flipped. Like, you know, when’s the other shoe gonna drop? When’s the bad stuff gonna happen? When you were a little girl, it was not good to have people jealous of you. It was not good to be a tall poppy, as they say in Australia where all the prettiest or the smartest or the most successful or the luckiest…it was not a good thing. You couldn’t affiliate with a group…that’s what we were raised in. So to be gentle with ourselves and understand that we are re-patterning some things…”

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A storyteller at heart who built a career in writing, media & marketing, Paolina Milana is grateful for the magic AND the madness she's experienced. Her roots are entangled with mental illness and taking on caregiving roles -- something she has come to realize is not unique to her; rather, it seems to be common on several levels among others, especially the high-functioning women who from the outside looking in seem to have it all together.

Special thanks to the creators of the beautiful instrumental you hear during this podcast - Philippa Dowding & Allister Thompson - Original song “Sarah Tiptoes” from their album BIRCHES. Also love to the guy who's the master behind this podcast's production and audio engineering -- Joseph Dean Edwards.