The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now Wonder how mega achievers think in a “real world” kind of way? I’m not talking about coaching, sound bites, media interview snippets, etc. I mean, what goes on in their mind when it comes to success, life, and business? How do they approach their own life? In this episode, I interview a long-time friend, Shama Hyder. Shama is a very successful woman. One who is powerf...

Start Your Transformation Now I know the headline is bold, but it is true. You can Be Do And Have everything you want WHEN you become resourceful enough to create it. Look around you. Look at the millions of people who have created exactly what you want in life. Why have they done this and you have not? Easy, the have become resourceful enough to create it. Most people work backwards. They want re...

Start Your Transformation Now At first read, you might reactively answer and say, “No, there is no way I live a life of convenience. After all, I’m working hard, life is challenging and I’m doing my best, there is no way I’m living my life from convenience.”  If that or anything like it is your response, I understand.  However, have you fully considered what’s causing the current inconveniences in...

Start Your Transformation Now Yes, another episode on money and prosperity. Why another episode on money on a transformational podcast?  Easy, because to have total prosperity, even in a bad economy, requires internal transformation.  As you have perhaps heard me say, “Wealth is an internal game,” and if you want money to still flow into your life, even in the 2022 economy, then you must improve y...

Start Your Transformation Now I remember decades ago when I was talking to don Xavier, and he said to me, “You must learn to move your attention because where you attention is…is where you are.”  Thinking back to 2009 and the global economic collapse. I remember how much economic fear that caused in me, and one day it dawned on it, “Hey, where’s my attention?”  That is what is extraordinarily vita...

Start Your Transformation Now If you’re like most people, you have asked yourself this very question. And, even if you have asked,why are you still not getting what you want in life?  Let me get to the point!  The only reason your life is not changing like you want is because you won’t change to become the kind of person to have that life.  The truth is that you can change. You change your mind ma...

Start Your Transformation Now It’s July 2022 and there’s a lot of talk about a looming US recession. There’s a lot of economic chaos and fear, and millions, if not billions of people going into financial fear. The big question in this episode is: Are you letting what’s happing in the external world of the economy affect you, or are you playing a strong internal game?  Obviously, the title of the p...

Start Your Transformation Now “The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of questions you ask yourself.” Richard Bandler  What does that mean? The phrase was coined by Richard Bandler, the co-developer of NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming).  It means, as seems obvious, the more and better questions you ask yourself, the better quality of life you will create. And, who doesn’t want a be...

Start Your Transformation Now Money, money, money, it’s on a lot of people’s mind these days.  Why?  The economy and FEAR!  I was inspired to do this episode based on some thinking I was doing this morning about how I’d emotionally handle all that is going on in the economy these days if I had not changed my thinking about money years ago.  You know, inflation, gas prices, supply chain, labor shor...

Start Your Transformation Now This is a very special and also powerful episode. As you’ll hear I am interviewing Dr. Laurie Emery, PysD.  Dr. Emery is a coveted relationship expert, transformational coach, and also a former coach of mine. Her primary expertise and zone of genius is “Transformational Relationship Coaching.”  Candidly, I’d not even be doing this podcast had I not met her many years...

Start Your Transformation Now You’ve heard the old phrase before, “If nothing changes then nothing changes.” But, things don’t change, we change (or not), and if we don’t change then nothing in our world changes. My observation from doing my work over decades is that people will give lip service to change and they will dream and plan and fantasize about it but few actually pay the price and do the...

Start Your Transformation Now So, your first two thoughts are probably one, what is the human racket and secondly, how does that racket keep me trapped? (And, keep you struggling for money and prosperity?)  A racket is defined as “a fraudulent scheme, enterprise, or activity.”  And, we all are taught the “Human Racket” as soon as we pop out of the womb. We’re taught the rules of life and what life...

Start Your Transformation Now In truth, you have no limits. You may have certain physical limitations but I’ve seen people with what are perceived to be huge limitations do unbelievable things.  In this episode, I talk about how the concept of “go beyond your limits” was introduced to me. We are often told we have limits but how often do you think, “OK, I might have current limitations, and let me...

Start Your Transformation Now We all understand the concept of organization and things that we think we need to do in the world: Organize the office, clean the garage, organize the pantry, organize the files and the list goes on and on, right?  However, how many of us think about the concept of organizing ourselves, and what do I mean by “organizing yourself?”  I mean this in a spiritual way, and...

Start Your Transformation Now I go a few different directions in this episode. I talk about “Doing the work” in life and tie that into “What Makes Me Matter.”  When we come to what makes us matter, we metaphorically set ourselves on fire, and life becomes amazing.  Most of us fall short when it comes to doing the work and things that need to be done in life because nothing has set us on fire to do...

Start Your Transformation Now Have you ever wondered how truly powerful your mind is?  We all hear different stories about the “Power of the Mind” but have you experienced that in your own life?  Personally, I used my “mind” to heal from a stroke and heart failure, all of which happened in a single year, 2020. And, as I was healing I was searching Youtube for inspirational videos and stories.  I h...

Start Your Transformation Now When people read the episode title many think, “Well, that is an odd thought, what does it mean?”  Specifically, you are an energetic being. You are a spiritual and cosmic being, and according to physics, and scientifically, you are akin to a cocoon of energy.  All this said, being a cocoon of energy, do you “leak” your energy? What that means is that you only have so...

Start Your Transformation Now If you have tried to run from your life, then this episode is for you. And truth be told, most people in life are “runners” in that they try to run from jobs, circumstances, relationships and people. In 1990 I was waiting tables, and I hated my job. I mention cappuccino in the headline and this episode because in this job, I had to make a lot of cappuccino. And one da...

Start Your Transformation Now I’m asked that question all the time, “Hey Jim, what’s going on in the world?” At face value, how would I know any more than any other person on the planet who is not a behind-the-scenes power player? However, I have heard a great deal from my brother-in-law, don Xavier. He’s talked about this for years. Changes on the planet – human corruption, power plays, human ego...

Start Your Transformation Now That’s a bold question I think. I mean, who is to say what the value of life is and what a life well lived is? Let’s make it simpler. Are you over the moon happy with what you’re doing in life in terms of your productivity? OK, put simpler, your job? Do you absolutely love what you do for a living? If you do, then all of this week’s podcast may not be for you but I as...

Start Your Transformation Now This is an unusual podcast episode and one I feel will be both educational and inspirational to many. A few months back my Fall Transformational Coaching Program participated in a campaign to raise funds for a global charity called charity: water. charity: water brings water infrastructure to remote villages in the world where there is no water. I was blown away by th...

Start Your Transformation Now This week is a bit unusual because it’s not my normal podcast format. It’s an Instagram LIVE turned into a podcast episode. I got a lot of feedback from the podcast interview with Bruce Lipton, as I expected. 99% of if was positive and supportive and then, of course, you’re never going to please everyone, the other 1%. I want to highlight here what I covered in that I...

Start Your Transformation Now So, from the headline, let’s finish it: You probably won’t change your life until you hit threshold.  What’d does this mean?  It means if you’re like most people you won’t do anything different in your life until you’re in enough pain to do something different.  You may complain, hope, wish, want, and pray but at the end of the day you already know that won’t work and...

Start Your Transformation Now Wow, what a podcast interview this week. Bruce Lipton was my guest. What a great guy! Bruce was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and later performed groundbreaking stem cell research at Stanford Medical School. His pioneering research on cloned human stem cells presaged today’s revolutionary new field of epigenetics. He is the bestsel...

Start Your Transformation Now If you’re like most people and if you were asked “How soon do you quit?” you’d probably be inclined to not admit it if you were so inclined.  This episode is obviously about not quitting before you create what you want in life.  If we look at simple motivation we’ll discover and we have heard things like, “You have to keep your nose to the grindstone” but if that real...