15:04Brenda Turner · Talking Head
How to Have More RICH Ideas | 3 Shifts You Can Make Instantly
A 15-minute case for treating creativity as a reception problem, not a production problem — and three moves to clear the static.
March 27th 2025The argument in one line.
The conventional path of doing safe, joyless work is no less insane than betting on your own creative gifts — so you may as well pick the insanity that has a chance of setting you free.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- A creative or highly sensitive person who has always felt slightly alien in conventional work environments and is looking for permission to go all in on their ideas.
- Someone with a business idea or creative calling they keep suppressing because it is not realistic or everyone around them is skeptical.
- An online entrepreneur who had momentum before, lost it, and wants to re-anchor to the mindset that originally made things work.
- A spiritually-oriented person who wants business frameworks that acknowledge energy, inspiration, and divine guidance alongside practical steps.
SKIP IF…
- You want a purely tactical, data-driven business tutorial with no spiritual or energetic framing.
- You are already executing consistently on a clear plan and do not need a mindset reset.
The full version, fast.
There are two kinds of insanity: waking up every day doing something you hate to stay safe, or leaping into a creative life with no guaranteed outcome. The speaker argues the second is actually the saner choice for highly sensitive, gifted people — and lays out six steps to make the leap: choose the art project paradigm, honor every idea by writing it down, run toward the discomfort rather than away from it, take one baby action at a time, do the work and share it publicly, and accept that fear accompanies both paths so you may as well feel it while doing something that could change your life.
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00:00 – 01:10
01 · Hook — the alien confession
Opens with the claim that she is an alien in human form, mirrors it to the viewer, establishes the audience identity.
01:10 – 02:52
02 · Promise — tools for the aware alien
Defines the target audience (highly sensitive, gifted, creative people) and promises tools to help them flourish rather than just survive.
02:52 – 05:14
03 · Introducing the Art Project Paradigm and spanda
Names the framework and introduces spanda as the primordial creative force trying to burst out of every person. Sets up the two-paradigm contrast.
05:14 – 07:05
04 · Two paradigms — Survival Mode vs Delusional Optimism
Shows the on-screen graphic contrasting the two ways of living. Personal story: corporate job at Wheels Inc., crying every Sunday.
07:05 – 11:22
05 · Jumping into Delusional Optimism — the Frank Kern book story
Story of reading a $6 Frank Kern free+shipping book in 2007 that confirmed the only thing missing was the choice to jump. Partner was also delusional, which helped.
11:22 – 13:33
06 · Steps 1 and 2 — Choose and honor your ideas
Step 1: decide life is a lottery ticket art project. Step 2: write ideas down instead of auto-killing them.
13:33 – 17:57
07 · Step 3 — Feel the discomfort, follow the energy
The clay metaphor: a big idea is a cold hard lump on your potter's wheel. Fear and chest-tightening are confirmation signals. 15-year track record of following this.
17:57 – 20:28
08 · Step 4 — Baby actions (YouTube Breakthrough Challenge example)
One action at a time. Example: putting together a 5-day challenge in 10 days, question by question, task by task.
20:28 – 24:03
09 · Step 5 — Do and share the work (the 300-page stack)
Shows a physical stack of roughly 300 pages of courses and trainings produced in 6-8 months. Also shows idea bundles that may never ship — both count.
24:03 – 26:52
10 · Step 6 — Accept the fear and take the leap
Both paths are scary. She trains herself to jump off the diving board because the universe catches her every time. YouTube Breakthrough Challenge results: 100% felt more comfortable posting.
26:52 – 27:57
11 · CTA — Fun Money Pop-Up Party ($1)
Paid event at brendaturner.com/fun. Explains why she charges even $1: RSVPs that cost nothing get ignored.
27:57 – 29:47
12 · Testimonials from challenge attendees
Short video clips from attendees sharing advice for people afraid to start. Closes with prompt for community engagement.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Both paths in life are insane — staying safe in a joyless job is just as irrational as betting on your creative gifts. You are choosing your flavor of insanity either way.
- The physical sensations you feel when a big idea arrives — chest tightening, racing mind, breath catching — are confirmation signals, not warning signs.
- An idea that arrives with a lot of fear attached is not a reason to stop. It is a reason to go faster.
- Most people kill good ideas in the first five seconds by asking how would I do this before they have even written it down.
- Writing undeployed ideas down and keeping them in a drawer still counts as honoring your creative relationship — those reps make you better even if the idea never ships.
- Business is not about men with leather suitcases on Wall Street. It is allowing your innate creative force to flow through you and giving it to people who need it.
- Charging $1 for an event instead of making it free changes everything: people respect paid RSVPs in a way they never respect free ones.
- When you step all the way into the delusional optimism paradigm, your business partner effectively becomes the universe — your scared ego is no longer running the operation.
- A 15-year online business spanning five completely different niches is possible when you follow energy rather than market research.
- The feeling of excitement and inspiration is not a random emotional state — it is part of the same intelligence that makes flowers bloom and planets turn.
Pick the insanity that has a chance of setting you free.
WHAT TO LEARN
Staying safe in a joyless job is not the rational option — it is just the familiar one, and the fear is identical either way.
- Both paths available to you — the safe corporate path and the creative leap — come with real fear. The fear is not a distinguishing factor; the upside is.
- The physical sensation of a big idea (racing mind, tightness in the chest, breath-catching excitement) is not anxiety to suppress. It is the creative force arriving with a packet of energy sized for how many people that idea could help.
- Auto-killing an idea in the first five seconds by asking how would I do this is the ego's primary defense mechanism. Writing the idea down first — before evaluating it — is how you override that reflex.
- Baby actions are the only unit of work that matters. One question answered, one task completed, one page written, stacked on top of the previous one, is how a 300-page course library gets built in six months.
- Keeping undeployed ideas in a drawer still counts as real work. Each fleshed-out idea you never ship is a rep — it deepens the creative relationship and sharpens the craft even when nothing goes to market.
- Charging even a small amount for events and offers changes the quality of engagement. A $1 ticket filters for people who keep their word.
- Across 15 years and five completely different niches, the common thread in every business that worked was following energy rather than market logic. The niche changed; the process did not.
Terms worth knowing.
- Spanda
- A Sanskrit concept meaning the primordial pulse or creative vibration underlying all of existence. Used here to describe the force of inspiration that moves through creative people and wants to express itself as work in the world.
- Art Project Paradigm
- The speaker's six-step framework for treating life and business as a creative experiment with no fixed outcome — replacing survival-mode scarcity thinking with curiosity-driven action.
- Delusional Optimism
- The speaker's term for the mindset of believing in your creative gifts and acting on them despite external skepticism or lack of a guaranteed outcome. Presented as the opposite of survival mode, not as a pathology.
- Dharma
- A Sanskrit term for one's purpose or righteous path in life. Used here to mean the specific contribution a person is meant to make — what becomes clear when you start living in alignment with your creative gifts.
- Highly Sensitive Person
- A psychological term for people who process sensory and emotional information more deeply than average. Used interchangeably with the speaker's alien metaphor to describe people who feel out of place in conventional work structures.
Things they pointed at.
07:38productFrank Kern (free+shipping book, 2007)
08:30channelSeth Godin
14:44channelRichard Miller (teacher, get your marching orders every morning)
17:01channelCaroline Myss (piss ant thinking)
Lines you could clip.
06:32
“You pick your insanity. The other paradigm that I am offering today is the same side of insanity.”
14:08
“I've had an online business for fifteen years that's sufficient, that's sustainable, that's generated multiple 6 figures — because I follow that through line. I follow the energy.”
17:01
“That's piss ant thinking. So when you get a big idea, a juicy idea, one that feels really good in your body and also very, very scary in your body, we don't turn away from it.”
26:52
“Life is one big giant art project. So jump in my friend, the water's marvelous.”
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00:00Hey, everybody. Welcome to today's episode. Today, we're gonna start with an unusual but vulnerable confession that I am an alien in this world, come from somewhere else, wrapped up in a human form.
00:15I am an alien. You are also an alien in this strange, strange land.
00:22You are an alien. I am an alien. And here's the third part to this whole thing is if you're watching this channel and you're part of my crew, there's a very good chance, probably about a 99% chance that you already know you're an alien.
00:39So here's the thing. A lot of people don't realize they are aliens in this world, but the very nature of this experience called life is basically we are aliens here.
00:55We are visitors in this strange land. Souls put inside of bodies placed in this temporal experience called life that can be a lottery ticket, that can be seen as an amazing, incredible experience.
01:10And in today's episode, I wanted to give you some very valuable tools to help the aware alien, those of us who are aware that we're we're aliens in this time and space realm to help you to function and not just function, but flourish in this predicament because we find ourselves in a predicament, my friend.
01:33This is a situation we've gotten ourselves into. This is a very foreign experience and what I'm trying to convey and help you with today is to get to the business of enjoying this experience, not wrestling with it and more importantly as an alien in this experience.
01:50Also we can call it a highly sensitive person, someone who knows that you're not just a physical body, someone who knows that you're a soul inside of a body and someone you you very likely if you're watching this you experience yourself as a soul inside of a body.
02:05You're very sensitive, you're very emotional, you're very creative, you're very artistic, you're a big thinker, you're a teacher, you're a leader, you're a guide, you're an artist, you're gifted, you're talented and if that's you, I have really good news for you and really bad news for you at the same time.
02:23This experience for those of us who are highly sensitive, highly gifted, all those things that you are, a beautiful gifted alien in this world.
02:33This life can be very very hard, business can be hard, relationships can be hard, functioning in the structures that our civilization have put into place for this whole thing to run kind of with some modicum of order and dignity.
02:50It can be hard to make it in this world. The good news is that when we abide in certain just basic hygienes, certain basic truths, certain basic ways of being in this world, We as highly sensitive people aka the aliens in this world, we can actually flourish and thrive and we have a huge advantage and edge.
03:17So I'm giving you something called the art project paradigm. This is how we can actually come alive. This is how we can stop wrestling with this whole thing.
03:27The art project paradigm is a simple way, not it's not easy, but it's simple.
03:34It's a simple and brave way of living that at first feels very scary. But after not so long, maybe a couple weeks, maybe a couple months, you start to understand your dharma and it starts to be made clear to you and you start to be moved by something called spanda.
03:58Sponda is the primordial force that brings life to everything and then you start to move with the divine beloved and it starts to move through you through inspiration and the more that you trust that sponda that's moving through you anyway my friend and the more you take those divinely guided actions and start bringing your ideas out into the world, the more you're letting the flow of life move out and rushing out of you, .
04:28So when you open yourself up to the sponda, I'm gonna give you some very important simple step by steps here, but I wanna I wanna break break this down for you. The sponda, the primordial life force, the thing that makes the flowers bloom, the things that make the thing that makes the grass grow, the thing that makes the the planets evolve and turn and the thing that the the primordial energy and flow.
04:53Some might want to call this God. I don't care what you want to call it. There's something breathing your lungs every second of your life.
05:01There's something pumping your heart. It's flowing through you and millions of people every day and they wake up and they put a big lid on top of this energy that's trying to burst burst through you out into the world. Now here's the thing.
05:15There are two paradigms here in this time and space reality. There's the survival insanity paradigm wherein you wake up every day doing something you don't enjoy doing for the sake of surviving and or just getting by and or being safe.
05:35So that's the paradigm that a lot of people follow because that's what we're told we should do and I've lived on that side of the paradigm and I told a little bit about this story before where I was working a job to supplement my personal training career.
05:50As a personal trainer I loved what I did but I didn't quite pay the rent and so I had to take another job And so I had to go to a corporate office called Wheels Incorporated in Niles, Illinois and it was a slice of hell and I really didn't like it, it didn't suit my constitution and I cried every Sunday and I came to realize at that time this is an insane way to live.
06:15Am I going to do this for the next four decades of my life? That's insanity. That's crazy.
06:23This experience is insane if you live that way. If you're waking up and you don't feel lots of joy, not every day but most days, about what you're going to be doing with your time, to me that's insanity.
06:40The other side of insanity, there's no escaping the insanity here. I'm sorry.
06:47You you pick your insanity. The other paradigm that I am offering today is the same side of insanity. And this is the art project paradigm and this is stepping into the Dululuville.
07:00Okay? Some people want to call it Dululuville. I'll go ahead and call it Dululuville.
07:05I don't care what you want to call this side of insanity. It's the other side of insanity. And I'm gonna call it the same side of insanity.
07:14And so I I took all the way I took a leap all the way into Dulululville. So I wanna tell you really quick about when I took the jump to Dulululville, and it has a little something to do with this book that you cannot get anywhere else.
07:29I have one of the only copies of this book. I don't even know how many other people have this, but this is, um, uh, this is actually a free plus shipping offer that Frank Kern had on one of his sales in 2007.
07:44He had this in 2007 before I started my online business. Frank Kern for those of you who don't know, he's a marketing genius, he's an excellent business teacher and I actually learned a lot from him before I even started my career. And so he had this free plus shipping offer, this is an old trick that marketers use, um, where you basically say it's free, you just pay shipping and then you pay the $6, I paid $6 for this book and then they send you the book but on the thank you page he has like a thousand dollar upsell offer that is like the one time you're gonna see this offer and I loved it but anyway so I spent $6 on this book, I waited anxiously I got it and I devoured it in about a half hour.
08:25When I got this book and I read it, it solidified for me, I'm going to jump all the way into whatever the sauce is that these business teachers are drinking.
08:36Because I was looking at Frank Kern, I was looking at Seth Godin, I was looking at a guy named the Rich Jerk, I was reading a lot from the zine queen, the e zine queen, just all these online marketing business people who were clearly crushing it and that were really doing the damn thing and there was something in their mindset.
08:56What this book basically taught me is that there was something in his mindset that it was like 99% mindset.
09:06It's a sense of entitlement to just having a good life.
09:12In the beginning part he talks about basically just choosing, you have to choose what's your goal?
09:19He takes you through a quick exercise that almost every single business teacher and spiritual leader takes you through and it's what's your goal? And so I thought there was going to be some secret sauce in this book, there's not really any secret sauce. What I got from it was well this is about the same exact book that all the other business books have said.
09:41This is a guy that I've been studying for a little while. He's saying the things that I already know. So really the only thing that's holding me back is that I need to just choose to jump all the way in despite the fact that everyone around me said it was crazy.
09:59Everyone around me was like this isn't realistic. I didn't tell all that many people but the people I did tell they were like what are you talking about?
10:07What do you mean you're gonna start a website and make a bunch of money online? And I was like kind of explaining and nobody got it except for my partner at the time, thank God. My partner at the time, we were together for a really long time and he was excellent and he was delusional too so that really helped.
10:26So he was delusional and when I would tell him my delusional dreams he would be like yes I love that and we would just help each other with our delusional dreams. Anyway I jumped all the way into delusional ville. I suggest you do too.
10:41The Luluville, this is one big giant art project. This can be fun, this can be joyful.
10:48Business by the way, it doesn't have to be some drama overwhelming overwhelming stress fest. This whole thing can be as fun as you want it to be and that's why I'm calling this the art project paradigm. If we think of it like an art project which is exactly how I treat everything, there's no skin in the game.
11:07There's nothing to lose really. It's one big giant art project then we're coming at it from curiosity then we're coming at it from wouldn't it be cool if, wouldn't it be awesome if, wouldn't it be great if, do you know?
11:22Okay. So let's break this down into practical steps. Okay.
11:26I want to just give you some practical steps so you can jump all the way into Dulululville with me. Today, this is a choice you have to make.
11:35Nobody can make this choice for you. So number one, you have to choose that life is one big giant art project lottery ticket. This experience, like I said before, is one big giant art project lottery ticket.
11:52Number two, you made that choice, here's what's gonna happen. You just open the floodgates for the universe. You as an alien, a highly sensitive person, you're given ideas on a regular basis.
12:04That's the nature of of your role in this world as a leader, a teacher, creator, artist, performer, whatever.
12:12If you're on this video, it's because you have something to contribute and you're getting ideas all the time but you you're you might not be honoring your ideas. You might not be dancing with your ideas.
12:25And so if you want to start increasing your income by a lot, building up a business that's great, that's successful, that's consistent, that's fun.
12:36If you wanna start going into ease and flow with the whole thing, when you get your ideas, you're gonna honor them and you're gonna start honoring them by writing them down.
12:46So what a lot of people do is they get great ideas and I saw this in the YouTube breakthrough challenge. There's a lot of people with a lot of ideas that they don't even let the ideas bubble up.
12:57The idea comes and it's like oh that that might be a good idea and then they automatically shut it down because it's not realistic, I don't know how to do it. Stop doing that.
13:06Step three, you're gonna have this big uncomfortable idea now and it's a ball of hard clay that's that seems like a big huge impossible like cold bit of clay on your potter's wheel.
13:25You don't know what to do with it. So you're gonna experience the emotions of fear, frustration, doubt, excitement and all the other things that come along with having a really, really, really juicy idea.
13:43And it almost takes your breath away. You're gonna go right into that experience as a regular routine.
13:51You're gonna go directly into it. I want you to go directly into that feeling. When I get an idea and it really excites me and thrills me and I'm feeling uncomfortable about it and my mind starts racing, how am I gonna do this?
14:05How am I gonna get it done? I don't know if I can. I don't know how.
14:08Yep, bingo. Ding ding ding ding ding. That's it.
14:11When I follow those ideas and I bring those to market, this is why I've had an online business for fifteen years that's sufficient, that's sustainable, that's generated multiple 6 figures is because I follow that through line.
14:27I follow the energy. Where is the energy leading me? It's not arbitrary.
14:32The energy that's coming through you, it's not accidental. That again, like I started this episode with the responder, it's moving through you, it's gonna be guiding your way.
14:44One of my excellent teachers named Richard Miller, he says get your marching orders every morning and you follow that energy. It's not like gonna possess us and make us do something we don't wanna do, It's gonna be in alignment with what you're here to do, what your gifts and talents are. For instance, when I got the inspiration to do the YouTube breakthrough challenge, I got that inspiration about five days before I posted the monk mode video that was the last episode.
15:10Okay? And so I got the idea. I didn't know what would come of it.
15:17I thought this would be really, really fun. I would love to put this on for people. I'd love to take people through a five day YouTube breakthrough challenge.
15:26It comes with every single time everybody of an idea that really loves that I really love, an idea that loves me that I can't get out of my head, it comes with a lot of fear. Every single one of them.
15:40I feel an intense feeling in my chest, feels like something's trying to explode out of me because it is. It feels very intense. I also feel a twisting in my diaphragm and now a lot of people when they're not dancing with the Sponda they haven't opened to that energy, they're not used to allowing the Sponda flowing through them like a Russian geyser, just come on baby just like flow right through me.
16:06They feel these feelings, they shut it down, they turn it away and then they numb themselves because they don't want to feel the anxiety, quote unquote the anxiety. Well when you have a creative process, an idea that's been given to you by the divine beloved, the divine beloved kicks it over to you like a mega, we think of it like a mega shooting star in your court landing right into your soul.
16:27What are you going to do with it? Of course it's going to be intense, of course the ideas that are given to you are not arbitrarily given to you, of course it's going to be intense.
16:37What comes with this is a packet of energy that's going to be helpful to at least a couple 100 people probably, if not thousands of people and who knows maybe millions and maybe it might ripple out into eternity. So of course it's going to be intensity with it, of course, and of course your ego is going to try to fight you tooth and nail.
16:56No, no, no this idea might not work. Who gives a damn? As Caroline Miss says, that's piss ant thinking.
17:05So when you get a big idea, a juicy idea, one that feels really good in your body and also very, very scary in your body, we don't turn away from it and say, but I don't know how I'm gonna do this. That's what the ego wants you to say, the ego wants you to take that little excuse run with it and go do something comfy like numb yourself and get on Instagram.
17:25Get on Instagram after you give your idea some legs and get a couple of actions taken and get out of that piss ant thinking as Caroline Mills says. Okay?
17:34So you get a big huge lump of clay, it's sitting on your desk, you're gonna feel fear, you're gonna feel terror, you're gonna feel frustration, it's gonna feel like something's trying to burst out of your chest, especially with those big juicy ideas. You're gonna take that clay and I want you to put your hands in it and get it nice and warm.
17:52You're gonna start shaping it and chipping at it and chipping at it and chipping at it.
17:57And what does this mean? It means step four. Step four, you're gonna start taking little baby actions and those actions pile one on top of the next, one on top of the next, one on top of the next.
18:10You just take one baby action at a time. So when I was putting together the YouTube breakthrough challenge, I said I don't know exactly how this is going to go, how many days do I want it to be?
18:19I want it to be five. How many people am I going allow? What day am I going to have it?
18:25I want to have it February 3 that's awfully close. Can I do this in the next ten days? How would I do it if I needed to do it in the next ten days?
18:33Who would I need to hire for help? What would the landing page say? And then I'd start getting these things together and I sit down at my desk and I do the damn work and I bring this stuff into the world over and over and over and over over over over again.
18:49And so when I put that stuff out into the world, again, I don't ever come at this with the whole thing of I wanna make a bunch of money, but it just so happens the way the system is set up, like I said, it's insane one way or the other, if you step all the way into Dulululville, guess what?
19:05Your business partner is now God. Your business partner is no longer the manager, the boss or whoever, the guy that sits around your that comes around your cubicle with his coffee mug saying, hey did you read that report or whatever the hell.
19:19Your co pilot is no longer your scared little ego suppressing your ideas, batting things down, no you're stepping into Dulululville where guess who your co pilot is, it's God And guess who writes your bills or pays your bills for you when you're in Dulululville? It's God.
19:35And guess who finds you the perfect customers? God does. Because guess what?
19:40God is in this in this whole scheme of things, in this whole crazy experience. God is in all of it. God is certainly in all of it.
19:50God is never not in any situation. God has never left your side. But when we jump all the way into the same side of the the loo loo bill, the sanity part where, hey, maybe I wasn't put on this planet to suffer for four decades doing something I don't like doing.
20:11But it's the most sane way to live our lives to have that partnership with God who is then writing your paychecks.
20:22You know you're taking your orders now from the Divine Beloved, that Sponda is now your boss, that Sponda is now in charge, that Sponda is now guiding your way. So I'd like to just share with you really quick what this looks like for me in real practical terms.
20:36So I gave you step number four, now we're gonna go on to step number five. Step number five is actually bringing all of your work out into the world. This is business in action.
20:45So a lot of people when they hear the word business, their brain shuts down and they think of men with leather suitcases on Wall Street and they're like, oh, I don't know, business.
20:56Business is nothing more than allowing that sponda to flow through you and contributing it to the world, giving it to the people who need it.
21:04So I'm gonna just show you what this looks like for me in real time. So step five for me looks like this.
21:11This is this is a stack of papers, um, that are I I don't know.
21:17There's probably like 300 or so pages here or maybe more. This is just from the past six months. This is about six to eight months of of ardent work, courses, programs, teachings, free training, paid training that I've wrote up.
21:32This is about a book's worth of content from just six to eight months of me showing up and letting Spondo work through me. And this has been this has been helpful for my students.
21:42This has helped thousands of people create new businesses for themselves, to teach themselves how to bring their passions into profits. Um, there's all kinds of trainings in here and workbooks and lessons and guides.
21:57And so this is what happens when we let Sponda move through us. This is also what happens when we let Sponda move through us. I collect my ideas and so these are two little, um, these are two little stacks of paper that I've actually I actually when I get ideas and I don't know what exactly to do with them, I take some time and I flesh them out no matter what, if it has a little bit of energy, I give it some time.
22:27Um, I have thousands of ideas but then there's some that really have some energy so I give those their due their due diligence and I spend a little bit of time with them and sometimes they go somewhere and sometimes they don't. But I don't know exactly if I'm gonna use these or not. My whole point is I have tons of ideas that are really nice sitting in a drawer that I honor and I don't know if they're ever gonna see the light of day but these are also precious to me because these signify, uh, little reps, little repetitions, me getting better, me honing my craft, me honoring that relationship with the Sponda, with the Divine Beloved and doing my part.
23:08So I don't I don't care. I don't care so much if every single project yields me a great profit.
23:17What I'm most concerned about is that deep relationship with the divine beloved and honoring that sponda that wants to flow out and through me.
23:29That's my livelihood. So this is an art project for me. Life is one big giant art project and living like this is scary.
23:38Living like this is scary. I'm not gonna tell you that it's not but again, insanity, you can't escape it and it's scary for me one way or the other.
23:49So what I suggest, this is step six, is that you accept the fear that comes with either way you're going to feel fear, but I accept the fear that comes with taking a leap into faith off of the diving board into the unknown that when I take those leaps off of the diving board into the unknown, the universe, the divine beloved catches me every single time.
24:17I take a leap and I do it scared and I say, I don't know how this YouTube breakthrough challenge is gonna go. It's scary to do this. You know, I'm scared every single time I do something like that and I do something like that all the time.
24:30I'm doing new projects like that all the time, multiple of them a year. So it's scary for me to say I'm gonna host a Breakthrough Challenge, hopefully people come, hundreds of people came, hundreds of people came and came and sat with me every day to get beautiful training to get their YouTube channels up and running.
24:48I did not know how that was gonna go, I didn't know if I could put it together in, uh, less than ten days, I didn't know exactly if people were gonna like it or not, I hadn't taught that material yet, not those frameworks, I hadn't taught them in public before and I took that leap.
25:04 and I've trained myself to jump off the damn diving board because life is an art project for me and that's my job. So when the divine beloved says to jump, I say how high?
25:21And I've learned that every single goddamn time, excuse my language, that the divine beloved says, you better jump off that diving board. We've got a very special gift for you. And I take my marching orders, as Richard Miller says, the divine beloved catches me every single time and gently places me somewhere that I could not even have imagined.
25:44I could not have imagined attracting an alien like you, my friend. I could not have imagined the hundreds of people, the hundreds of weird little amazing glitter covered aliens that came to join the YouTube breakthrough challenge a few weeks ago.
26:01All their beautiful faces now posting on YouTube. 100% of the attendance attendees that came to the YouTube breakthrough challenge reported that they feel more comfortable posting now.
26:13Unbelievable! We had people who linked up and started collaborating, we had people, we had a couple that started dating in the challenge, I'm not going blow up their spot.
26:24I couldn't have imagined, I made friends during the challenge. So anyway, um, I got new clients from the challenge.
26:31Beautiful clients, dream clients. So anyway, this is how it's worked for me for the past fifteen years. And again, I've done this across multiple niches, nutrition courses, spirituality, somatics, meditation, yoga, weight loss and now business.
26:47It doesn't matter, it's across all genres. Life is one big giant art project. So jump in my friend, the water's marvelous.
26:55Okay? Last thing I wanted to mention is that I'm doing a quick little fun money pop up party.
27:02So that's happening this Friday. It's at 12PM Central Standard Time. You can get more information about that at brendaturner.com/fun.
27:10The tickets are $1. I I do I do not like doing free events because people people don't, um, respect people don't tend to respect the RSVP there.
27:21So put your money where your mouth is, plunk down a dollar and come boogie with me on Friday afternoon. I'm going to be telling you a little bit about how to make more money in your business and how to make the whole thing way fun. I'm all about learning through joy and having more fun.
27:37So if you wanna stop being a busy, overwhelmed, super stressed out business owner or you wanna start making great money online, doing what you love, having so much fun, come and join me at the pop up fun money pop up party, brenda turner dot com slash fun.
27:55I'm gonna close today's episode with some beautiful words from some, uh, attendees that came to the YouTube breakthrough challenge.
28:04I asked them what would you tell somebody who's afraid to follow their heart and get their YouTube channel up and running? And so here's a bit of advice that a few of the lovely participants wanted to just share with you.
28:15You are ready. You're more ready than ever. I know you can do it.
28:19Now you just gotta believe in yourself. You're gonna feel the fear.
28:23You're gonna feel all of the doubt and the anxiety, and you're gonna do it anyway. So just do it.
28:30Do it afraid.
28:32So the message I have would be to bask in the ex frightenment more.
28:41I was very caught into the fear, fear of rejection, fear that I'll make a fool of myself.
28:52Actually, I realized that this fear is actually a form of excitement. Let's dwell in the excitement more.
28:59And lastly, if you have any words of advice and or and or encouragement for fellow aliens here in the community, how you've how you manage to enjoy your life, how you manage to kinda turn this thing into an art project as well, What kind of income strategies do you enjoy as an alien?
29:18And, um, let us know what your your favorite little takeaways from today's episode were. I'd love to hear from you.
29:25Okay guys, I'll see you in the next episode.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
She opens with a confession most business teachers would never make: she is an alien. Not metaphorically at first — she holds the frame long enough that you have to decide if you are one too. By the time she tells you that 99% of her audience already knows they are aliens, the hook has done its work: you are either in or out, and the people who stayed are exactly the ones she is talking to.
Named ideas worth stealing.
03:14list
The Art Project Paradigm
- Choose — declare life is one big art project lottery ticket
- Honor your ideas — write them down, stop auto-killing them
- Feel the discomfort — go directly into the fear, it is confirmation
- Take baby actions — one on top of the next like warming clay
- Do the work and share it — business is spanda flowing through you
- Accept the fear — both paths are scary, choose the productive one
A six-step framework for creative, sensitive people to move from survival-mode business to inspiration-driven business by treating everything as an art project with no fixed outcome.
Steal forAny course or coaching program aimed at creatives or highly sensitive entrepreneurs who freeze before shipping.
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Two Paradigms of Living
- Survival Mode: live to survive, stay safe, avoid pain and failure and fear
- Delusional Optimism: live to thrive, grow, create, prosper, dance with fear
A binary contrast used to reframe the choice to pursue creative work as the rational option rather than the reckless one.
Steal forOpening slides for any workshop or webinar aimed at people stuck in unfulfilling jobs.
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
26:57product
“I'm doing a quick little fun money pop up party. Tickets are $1. brendaturner.com/fun.”
Soft sell, well-framed — explains the $1 charge rationale before stating the offer. Clean and brief after a full-value episode.
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PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
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