The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now “Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” Ernest Holmes  Slow down, read that again and when it fully hits you it will hit you right between the eyes like a 2×4.  Want to “find yourself?” Want a more fulfilling life? Want a rewarding life but you don’t know where to start? Easy, start inside.  Everything starts inside you, not out...

Start Your Transformation Now It’s a profound truth most of us miss for years, decades, and sometimes a lifetime. About a decade ago one of my friends wrote a book on alcoholism and he asked me to proof it for him before he self-published it. When I read the book one line hit me hard, and I wasn’t even an alcoholic but that line was, “An alcoholic waits to stop drinking tomorrow and that tomorrow...

Start Your Transformation Now This episode was inspired by a current student of mine. Essentially, he wrote me a note and was sharing how he’s feeling hopeless about the state of the world, the future of humanity, and the planet. I can definitely understand his fears, however, from my perspective, I’m not hopeless at all. Actually, I’m quite optimistic about the future. There are a couple of place...

Start Your Transformation Now In this episode, I visit with one of my students, Dr. Katie Deming, MD, Oncologist.  The predominant theme in this round of interviews has been transcending fear. Actually, I think that’s great and a perfect message for all listeners because it’s the number one thing that just about every human wrestles with yet most people never transcend.  As you’ll hear, until rece...

Start Your Transformation Now This week’s interview is colorful for sure. My guest is comedian Annie Lederman. Being upfront, she does not particularly censor herself so there may be an F-Bomb or two or three. And, that’s fine with me as I want people to be exactly who they are and want to be. As in all interviews we talked about a lot of things and in particular, we talked about four main topics....

Start Your Transformation Now In my opinion, this is an amazing episode. I think many listens will be able to relate and identify with Manuel. He’s one of my students from Austria and he talks about his extreme fears and how today his life is so “amazing he could cry.” We talk about a lot in this episode but the focus was extreme lack of self-worth, inability to even talk with people, disabling pr...

Start Your Transformation Now It’s that time again. I’m doing a few interviews with current students and they’re sharing dramatic shifts they have made in their lives and they give you tips so you can start doing the same in your life. This week I’m visiting with Trupti Karjinni. This hour is jam-packed with her sharing on how she overcame “extreme perfectionism and control issues” and a whole lot...

Start Your Transformation Now This episode is actually a coaching session that I recently did with a group that I have in group coaching.  And after I got off the coaching call, I thought I really want to share that on the podcast. So you'll hear some behind-the-scenes live group coaching. And being candid, I'm very, very direct in this episode with people that I'm coaching.  We cover a lot of dif...

Start Your Transformation Now In this episode, I'm talking about self-integrity and why it's important to show up even when you don't feel like it.  Recently I had scheduled an Instagram Live coaching session and had planned to do some live coaching. I was going to call the live a no BS coaching session.  When the time came, I was sick. Like sleep for 24 hours sick. But I showed up on time as I ha...

Start Your Transformation Now We all know what convenience is however most of us have never thought about how much we “get into it” and how hurtful that it is. In this quick episode, I discuss the two aspects of convenience that hurt us and a new way we can be to avoid the dangers of convenience. One way that we live from convenience is in the moment. We may not want to work out or mow the yard or...

Start Your Transformation Now You know what you were probably taught: When you do and achieve certain things you’ll be a success in life. You know, when you get good grades, graduate college, get a good job, get married and the list goes on. The reality is that in most parts of the world we are taught that in order to be happy we have to do a lot of achievement-oriented things and then we spend ou...

Start Your Transformation Now We’ve all been there. Someone does something nasty to us and some part of us feels compelled to do the same, to react, to toss stones back. And, in truth, one of the most powerful things we can do is “evolve” evolve out of that and be compassionate. I remember many years ago hearing Wayne Dyer say, “would you rather be right or be kind?” That’s a huge statement becaus...

Start Your Transformation Now When you hear that question it catches most of us off guard. I mean, we’ve all grown up hearing about all the things that are bad for us. Too much alcohol leads to alcoholism, gambling can lead to an addiction, sex can be an addiction, and even exercising can be an addiction. The twist in this episode is that yes of course addictions can be harmful but what if addicti...

Start Your Transformation Now The title is misleading for many or rather they misinterpret it. When we think of authority the first thing we think of is that word in a social context. Meaning, we have authority as parents and preachers and doctors and lawyers, etc. This is the lowest form of authority as it’s determined by social structures, norms, values, and socio-economics. When I say authority...

Start Your Transformation Now In this episode, I go in a few different places…which is not new. I’m doing another episode on attention and I know you’ve heard me say, “You are where your attention is.” The motivation for the episode is that I got the first iTunes review less than five stars in a long time. As I read the review my first thought was, “Yes, XYZ about the podcast bothers her because t...

Start Your Transformation Now So many people will say things like “So and so is my Guru” and when they do that they are giving a lot of their power to that guru. As you already know from listening to this podcast, our lives work from the inside out and we have to recreate our lives from the inside out. All this being said, we create our lives from the inside out so what you have in your life has a...

Start Your Transformation Now As you know, I’ve only had one guest on my podcast and that person is James Wedmore. James is an industry leader in online business building and online entrepreneurship. He’s back with me in this episode and we talked about so much I had no idea what to title this episode. We talked about many aspects of money so I kept it simple and titled it – Money, money, money. A...

Start Your Transformation Now As you read that headline, Nothing Has Any Meaning Except The Meaning I Give It, what does that mean to you? I know that’s a simple question but it’s a powerful realization when we come to understand that everything in our life has meaning, and we are the ones who have given meaning to it. Life’s ups and downs, we give meanings. Life’s blessings, we give meaning. Divo...

Start Your Transformation Now Stop thinking and know more sounds oxymoronic, right? I totally understand because we have been taught since we were kids that we had to excel at “thinking.” You know, it was all about how smart we were, good grades, etc.  What if that cultural thought actually kept and keeps you trapped? Rumi once said something like to be silent is to know everything. When he said s...

Start Your Transformation Now In this episode I have three themes: I talk about and read notes from an actual phone call that I had with my brother-in-law, the shaman, don Xavier. As well, I pull a lesson from them and share it with you, and then I extend that into a second big takeaway to help you create more freedom in your life. In January of 2001 when I lived in NYC I had a significant life-ch...

Start Your Transformation Now Ok, so I decided to call this type of podcast a “Podside Chat” because I want these to be casual and comfortable so you can better absorb the content. Obviously, I can’t go super deep on episodes like this, and my objective is to get you to start thinking in new ways little by little. So for now, let’s use this format. This week, in this episode, I talk about several...

Start Your Transformation Now As I was thinking about this week’s episode and what I wanted to share I had an epiphany: I have tons of things to share with you sitting right on my desk. For decades I have taken notes when talking to my brother-in-law, the shaman. Over the years I’ve gone through the notes and taken an inventory of myself and my own growth and often I add to the notes with my own a...

Start Your Transformation Now I did an episode very similar to this last week and it’s such a HUGE and vital concept I decided to do another episode on Ayni. As I was thinking about a topic for this week’s episode I ran into an old journal I had from a decade ago and it had a handwritten note from a friend of mine who built a wildly successful and large company. Years ago she told me the four thin...

Start Your Transformation Now This is one of the most powerful concepts in life. It has universal awareness but very few of us truly “know” this concept and we don’t exercise it in life. Your external life is a reflection of your internal life and what you have in your external life is the objectification of what you have in your internal life. Hence, if you’d like to observe the quality of your t...

Start Your Transformation Now Ok, so last week we started this topic and I asked you to do an exercise for an entire week to see how often you did or didn’t do what others wanted of you just to please them. What did you discover about yourself? If you’re like most people you found that you do a whole lot of what you don’t want in an effort to please other people and keep them happy. In this episod...