The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

98. From Accountant to Awakener: How Nic Nierras Transformed Pain into Soul-Aligned Entrepreneurship

• Serena Low, Introvert Coach for Quiet Achievers and Quiet Warriors

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Meet Nic Nierras, founder of the Worthy, Authentic, and Abundant Method — a framework that merges quantum consciousness, spiritual science, and somatic reprogramming to help people unlock their highest potential.

A former chartered accountant turned transformation catalyst, Nic shares how a life-altering divorce, a global pandemic, and an awakening of self-worth propelled her from the corporate world into a journey of soul-aligned entrepreneurship.

We explore what it truly means to detach self-worth from achievement, navigate the tension between control and surrender, and embrace the beauty of living life with no regrets. Nic also opens up about the importance of feminine energy, cycles, and reclaiming our worth in a world that prizes productivity over presence.


Key Themes & Takeaways

  • Redefining success: How Nic’s Asian upbringing shaped her drive — and how she redefined success on her own terms.
  • From corporate to consciousness: The pivotal moment that led her to leave accountancy and embrace spiritual entrepreneurship.
  • The illusion of control: Letting go of rigid timelines and trusting divine timing.
  • Feminine and masculine energy balance: Why burnout is often a symptom of ignoring our natural rhythms.
  • Living without regrets: What it means to choose courage over comfort and purpose over predictability.
  • Collapsing timelines: The quantum concept of becoming your future self now.


Memorable Quotes

“If I’m not attaining something, that doesn’t mean I’m not worth anything.” — Nic Nierras

 “Our intuition is the higher intelligence that is always there to guide us — if only we take time to listen.” — Nic Nierras


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SPEAKER_02:

Hi, I'm Serena Doe. If you're used to hearing that introverts are shy, anxious, antisocial, and lack of good communication and leadership skills, then this podcast is for you. You're about to fall in love with a calm, introspective, and profound person that you are. Discover what's fun, unique, and powerful about being an introvert and how to make the elegant transition from quiet achiever to quiet warrior in your life and world. Anytime you want, in more ways than you imagined possible. Welcome. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Quiet Warrior Podcast. My guest today is Nick Nieris, a visionary transformation catalyst and founder of the worthy, authentic, and abundant method, a pioneering framework blending quantum consciousness, spiritual science, and somatic reprogramming to unlock embodied wealth and fulfillment. As a hypnotherapist and mindset alchemist, Nick empowers high-achieving leaders, creatives, and coaches to collapse timelines and rise into their billion-dollar identities through deep inner work, soul-aligned business strategies, and vibrational self-worth recalibration. Welcome, Nick, to the Quiet Warrior Podcast.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you so much, Serena, for the wonderful introduction. It always gets to me every time podcast hosts introduce me with the introduction. Because sometimes we tend to think that we've done so much, but yet still we're not enough.

SPEAKER_02:

And I know there will be a few listeners nodding as you said that.

SPEAKER_01:

And even in those moments, maybe it is time for us to take a seat back and reflect, oh, just be grateful that I've actually had all this, the body that I'm in, the vessel that I'm in, to just be grateful that we're here and we've attained so much.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Look how far we've come. Exactly. So tell me, Nick, do you identify as an introvert?

SPEAKER_01:

And have you always been one? I identify as an introvert now, but most of my life I wasn't, at least in my own view, um, identify as an introvert. Why? Because I've always had this very outward nature to me, and people often associate me with a social butterfly where I flutter here and I flutter there. And naturally I like connecting with people, but to but as I grew older, it made me feel like I wanted to serve them because I could tune in into their energies. Like whenever somebody is feeling down, I'd pour my heart and my soul and my time to be with that person to the extent of my own um boundaries. So, and I want to say that it is not wrong, but it is so important for you to remember when to draw the line in the sand. Yeah, so being an introvert, at least right now, I would say I'm a selective introvert. I'm very extroverted with my very close friends because when we do get around each other or hang out, it's an exchange of energy, right? And I fuel them and they fuel me up. And so it's it's intentional. So to answer your question, extrovert, there is no right or wrong between an extrovert and an introvert. I think both uh both of the verts has its have its own pros and cons. And for me, what works is really taking care of what I pour out and what I receive. Because I think energy is is our currency right now.

SPEAKER_00:

So that is my my take. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02:

I noticed that you started off your career as a chartered accountant, and you said that by 28 you had achieved all your career goals. So I imagine you would have been pretty ambitious at the start and had a clear idea of where you were going. So at what point did you realize that maybe this was not the path you want to carry on?

SPEAKER_00:

I love this question, and thank you for asking. Asian parenting.

SPEAKER_01:

I grew up in that kind of household, so dad has always been the my way or the highway. Knowledge is power, education is key to changing your life. I grew up as a middle class um in a middle class family in Malaysia, and my father has said, okay, I want you you being his kids to be better off than how I got you into this world. And so I'm gonna put you to school, but then you have to put yourself through the education. You basically you have to strive for the education and attain all the grades, and his version of success is getting a good paying job, climbing the copper ladder, and um attaining, amassing the wealth, the material possessions. And I thought that was my own version of success too. I didn't know better. So during high school, between 13 to 17, I remember, no, I deliberately made sure that at least um top five in schools, at least in my academic year, all the way because I knew that I had to work much more a little bit more, or twice or three times more than my other peers at the time that were pretty more that they're pretty privileged in a sense. So I did that, and I had my life planned out. I thought 30 was the pinnacle of life. 30 is the point where you should have kids as a woman, as a lady, you should have kids, you should have a loving husband, you should be subtle in terms of your career. And I used to think that I could have it all. Now I'm gonna come back to the I could have it all notion. So I planned myself, I planned my at least my career and my life um up until 30. And by 30, before 30, I had my divorce. I was at when at the height of my career, I got that divorce, but COVID also happened. I did not account for COVID, and that's when my the job that I actually wanted to be in badly started dwindling down in the sense that I no longer resonate with the project that I was um seconded in. The first two years at this job saw me rising the um the the rising in the ranks, up the ranks. But after the second year, it was like my time was up with this false or mask that I was trying to put on in on the way to my perceived success that it should be what I wanted it to be. And then so that was the first time I said, Oh, my self-worth is no longer attached to my own achievements, because I've always been a valedictorian, I've always been an A student, and so if I put my heart and soul into something, that means I'm gonna get it regardless. Life is not linear like that, and I got humbled in the worst way possible. But if somebody were to tell me, Nick, have you if you had given a chance, you're given a chance one more time to relive those lives, would you do it again? I would say yes and no, yes, because I wouldn't be half the person I am today if I didn't go through that. But no, probably I would have gone through a different set of circumstances, I would have a different set of circumstances, but I always believed I'm exactly where I need to be. So to answer, coming back to your question, I made the move from being a chartered accountancy in the corporate world because I wanted to see why I associated myself, my achievement to how to my value in the world. If I am not attaining something, therefore I'm not worth anything. But if you're a baby, nobody said that baby is not worthy of love. The baby poops, excuse my language, the baby, you know, peas in his or her, you know, diapers, but we don't say, oh, we're gonna we're gonna ignore the baby because he or she's not worthy of our love. So why as adults we look into these outwardly things, external validations to validate our self-worth. So when the divorce happened, when I was 28, as when I said, okay, I know I could transform this from this pain, I could transform this pain into power. What can I do? So I looked up, got up, got a certification, and went into rapid transformational therapy. Why? Because I started studying about the human psyche, started studying about psychology. And I I told myself, maybe corporate is is no longer where I needed to be at this point. I'm not saying no to it in the long run because I've always liked the business acumen of it. But I said, I wanted to help myself, how can I do this by helping others? So I made it my purpose, I made it my point to serve others as well. And that got me into, and that there were a whole series of ups and downs in between, and miraculous events that happened leading up to where I am now. So that was the start of my my change.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's been it's my sixth year in having this spiritual awakening. Thank you for sharing that.

SPEAKER_02:

You mentioned a couple of points that I think are important for our listeners to take note of because then you know it's something we want to reflect on too. The idea that if I'm not attaining something, then I'm not worth anything. And that is very typical of the Asian upbringing, but I'm sure it also stretches across other cultures as well, that our value in the world is tied to how economically productive and successful we are, which means we have to measure that. We have to have something to show people, not only so that our parents have bragging rights as we're growing up, but also so that we can prove if anybody were to ask us, because it's so much easier to say I'm an accountant or I'm a lawyer or I'm an engineer, and nobody will ask you anything else because they already have certain assumptions about what that is and the value of that, as opposed to I help people um eliminate anxiety or sleep better or feel good about themselves. And then they might think, um, you know, how do you do that? How do you make money from that? That's almost like the top two questions that will come up, isn't it? That everything has to have some kind of an economic value, otherwise we don't know where to place it. Is it worthy? Is it good enough? Is it does it do anything? And yet some of the most valuable things we can do in the world, some of the biggest changes we can make are at that fundamental spiritual level. Not at that head level, the intellectual and the theoretical, but where it's deep, where it keeps you awake at night, where it makes you think and overthink. Those are the the kinds of questions and the problems that we struggle with silently and we don't talk about.

SPEAKER_01:

When you were asking that question, a few things popped in my head. Um when we're on our deathbeds, what do we actually what do we ask? Do we think about the money that we have left in the bank or do we think about the time that we spent or the time that we did not spend with our loved ones? I like to deduce because I used to operate from my headspace, and only recently I've started to use my heart space. And headspace is very analytical, very logical, an accountant accountant accounting train, therefore I'm trained to think about all the risk, how to manage risk and whatnot. But I ask I remember asking myself, if I were to leave the world today, did I do a good job of being present to my family, to my friends, and to the community that I sort of serve? Or was I self-centered, was I selfish, only to attain my own desires because I wanted to show and prove people of this is Nicolette, this is what I've accumulated so much, and this is me.

SPEAKER_00:

Earlier on, I thought the whole idea was to be the performer, but after my humbling journey, humbling event by the universe, I started rethinking about who I who am I?

SPEAKER_01:

So I said to myself, if I were to strip me down to my very the flesh and just the soul, who am I as a person? Did I did I call my mother as um I promised her? Or was I really stuck in my old nighters as a consultant, delaying my promises to her that I would come back home because I was in KL. Now I'm I'm in I'm in my hometown. If he if she was to leave, then I don't want to leave with that regret. So I want to come back also to the part where if I don't take this decision right now in five years, I don't want to live with what ifs. So that has given me the path, but it's and both good and bad. But again, if we come back to it, we're exactly where we're meant to be. So to coming back to your question, if people listening to this and they're thinking, oh, it's easy for Nick to say because she may have figured this out earlier on. But if something is stirring within your soul right now, it is worth paying attention to it. Because I believe I'm a I'm a person of faith, and I believe there's universe, and so the spirit and we're always connecting with we're the spirit is always trying to connect with us if only we take the time to listen. And in quiet and stillness is when we if they are the loudest. If they don't believe that you can carry out something that is planted within you, why would they even give you that vision?

SPEAKER_00:

And so I believe in this very much that if I could think of it, I know God brought me to it, God will bring me through it.

SPEAKER_01:

And it is not an easy feat, Serena, coming from a nine to five, transitioning into an entrepreneurship, especially if you've been just if you've just been pushed. Now I did make some preparations, but when are we ever ready for something big in our life? A marriage, right? Having a kid, or even jumping into entrepreneurship. When are we even ready? So it's the same for me. I got laid off last year, 2024, but a year before that, in 2023, I started my certification. I started the whole idea, I started shifting my trajectory from the corporate into psychology, into helping people, and I got acquainted by setting up my own podcast.

SPEAKER_00:

And it's been two years in, up and down journey, but I wouldn't trade this for the world.

SPEAKER_02:

That comment, I wouldn't trade this for the world, as well as that other reflection earlier on, where your friends asked you, you know, if you could go back and change things, would you? Is a very intriguing one. Because I think all of us at some point have asked ourselves that question. Knowing what we know now, if we could go back in time to those pivotal moments, would we have made a different decision? Would we have taken a different path? And it's fun to ponder. It's like those stories, right? Those stories where you can choose your ending, choose your own adventure. We love that. We love the concept of, you know, having parallel universes, multiple personalities. You know, if I could clone myself, if I could send 10 different versions of me out, you know, what could each of us achieve? You know, what could each of us do differently? Maybe finally I would achieve all my goals because there's 10 of me to do it. And then also you said at the same time that you are meant to be where you are. You're exactly where you are meant to be. So it doesn't matter. It sounds to me like it doesn't matter what decision you made or are going to make or make tomorrow, because ultimately there is a higher purpose, there is a higher intelligence and a design that is guiding you through all this, back to where you're meant to be, back to your home, your spiritual home, right? So you can go through all the scenic detours on the trail. You might even go into the wilderness for a while, but eventually you come to that place where it looks familiar, it feels like home, you recognize it. You realize this is right, this is where I'm meant to be for now. And that idea is something I'm still playing with because it's so mysterious and it's so far removed from that black and white, you know, theoretical understanding we have that things have to be this way, not that way. It's got to be this path, and this is the right path, not any other path. And so when you open your mind up like that, it's it can be confusing to those of us who were conditioned to think and follow only one path. So you've already done that very brave work of pivoting away from that, consciously moving away from that, exploring, getting to know yourself, figuring out what it is you are meant to be doing, and doing that thing so that you have no regrets when you look back. And I think living a life with no regrets is extremely important because that's the one thing we can't go back and change what has happened before, but we can accept where we are right now, make the best of it, set some new intentions, maybe, go on a different path perhaps. But just accepting and being at peace with what's currently happening in our little world. I think that's enormously important for our internal sense of balance and harmony, because a lot of things are so uncertain right now and chaotic, and people are feeling anxious and they're grasping at anything that would give them some hope or some feeling of security. That's what we are looking for, isn't it? The safety, the stability, the security. So to hear you telling your career pivot story of trading the security to come out and start something new on your own without exactly knowing what it is or how to go about it and figuring it out as you go. I think that's a journey of courage.

SPEAKER_01:

I prepped him at least a few, a good few months before this happened. But I kind of know there's a deep knowing within me that I gotta do what I got to do. And for him, he is a I think he's classified as a I can categorize him as a boomer. So a boomer means you accumulate things and you I read this somewhere: a boomer, a boomer, an ex and um a millennial, and then Gen Z and an alpha. So somewhere along the lines, they secured the basically the stability is secured, and then the next generation, it's about increasing your standard of life, and then somewhere it's increasing your quality of life. So for him, I under I understand where he is coming from, however, he I think in my head, and I believe in this as well, that he made sure that the family is fed well, that I'm educated, but it is now raising the family upward. It's it's treading into a territory that is unheard of before. And I also want to go back to a point you made. People are grasping and they're anxious because there's nowhere to grasp. That that is a very human thing of us because we should and somehow need that degree of control. Control means we can control certain outcome. Control means we by the end of first week or second week, we can get an income and we can sort of figure out what to pay and how do we go about our lives. And oh, next month, by this calculation, I can go to this city and do my yearly or quarterly vacation. But on the other hand, the the because life is a it's about duality, right? I'm gonna talk about law of um the law, the the law of duality, hermeticism. If you are denying the very nature of a human, the very nature of your desire, you're denying the very nature of being human. And why I'm gonna tie it back to this. Being human means you are allowed and supposed to feel all the whole range, the whole spectrum of emotions: sadness, rage, joy, happiness, peace, sorrow, love, and ex excitement is related to you not knowing about what's gonna happen. What I'm trying to say here is if you have lived your life most of your life at least, in a very predictive, rigid or structured way, I think you have earned some excitement, some spontaneity, some um thrill in your in the later part of your life or even right now. If you're hearing things and something is if you're hearing a podcast such as this, and something within your soul calls you to do it that is out of the ordinary, there must be your higher self leading you because and you said it, I think we mentioned it before, our intuition is there, it's the it's the wisest, the higher intelligence that is always there to guide us. The human minds are there for us to survive, and during ancient times, it's there to protect us from dangers, but right now we don't have that anymore. But our stressors are the things such as um uncertainties, economic uncertainties, political chaos, or riot, or you know, geopolitical tension and whatnot. But if you were to remove yourself out of that as well, now I see myself as a macro and a micro. Because at the end of the day, we are just a speck of dust, and we're here for what 80 years, 100 years, 120 years, just for a short while. And who do we, depending on your belief, who do we come back as? We come back as a soul, and also, Serena, I we signed up for our lives here on earth, to be honest. And when you said you're still grappling on the idea that you're still how do I balance? And the word balance even is missed mostly, I'd say um loosely used because you can never achieve a balance. Even people say work-life balance, or how do you balance between your career and your yeah, your home life? Do you really balance or because when you're at work, you have to give 200 or 100% at work, and when you are at home, you give 100% to your family, to your husband, to your wife, and to your kids. But you choose, and people have every one of us has free will. You choose that, and you make the decision at that very moment, and that opens up a new trajectory of your life, a whole new decision three after that moment. And I know I'm maybe all over the place, but whoever gets this will get this. I want to come back to the part where you say what is collapsing timelines, right? Collapse, and then you mentioned about parallel universes as well. I toyed with the idea, but I believe that idea is. I don't know, I I'm not sure about the statistics, but it is, I think it is it is it is possible and it happens. Because if you think about it right now, whatever that we have at this very moment, we have prayed for it at some point. It's whether we accept to settle or we go and put our foot on the pedal on the gas and then go forward. But as human, because we're limited by our vessel and time, time is a construct, time is just there for us to show that. Oh, we evolved, but truly, we are here, but we are also in the past, and we are also in the future. So I guess what I'm trying to say here is if people are still grappling with the idea of control, and I urge you, it is not right, it is our very nature of being human, but inject some of that um excitement and thrill in your life. If you can even take one step right now, if you wanted to go to take, if you've never had this dream or never had this opportunity to book a trip tomorrow to go to that place that you wanted to go, and you've saved already for it, for example, and you kept on postponing it because oh, my dad is not well, my kid is not well, but you know you gotta do it, go do it now. This is your sign.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that.

SPEAKER_02:

I I bet a few people will be thinking, but but but I can't. It's it would not be responsible for me to do that thing right now. So it's always there will be another reason, another story, another circumstance that needs another piece of the puzzle needs to fall into place. It has to be the perfect timing, it has to be when everything lines up beautifully. Finally, then I can breathe, I can let go, I can go on my holiday, I can go do this random project that I suddenly felt drawn to. We need a reason. I I think we're so used to operating from that, you know, what you called it, the the logical, the rational, the analytical. If we can explain it and reason it out and give you, you know, 10 good reasons and support it with evidence and all that, then it's good. It shows I'm using my brain, it shows I'm being a responsible human being. I'm adulting, right? But if I want to do things randomly, impulsively, and just take off and do things just for my own pleasure, I can't. And I find that women especially find it so hard to give themselves that permission. We wait for someone else to give us that permission, and even when it is offered to us, we feel guilty.

SPEAKER_00:

So interesting, isn't it? What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_01:

We live in a patriarchal, patriarchal world at this point. But if you study ancient times, matriarchal were the ones revered and worshipped before until it was overturned by the men. Because if you could think about it, we are the ones that grows heck, we grow human beings in our body. Um, they give the seed, but we actually nurture it until it comes to full term, right? But um right now, men are there to provide and protect, but we are the idea of the masculine and the feminine energies are distorted to the point that women want to be on par with men, and I am one of those people that say, by nature, by human design, we are not supposed to, we are supposed to nurture the young, but our innate nature is to provide and give love to people now. They tribe on nature, um, on on structure, on everything, and everybody in each one of us human beings, we have masculine and feminine energies. And I, because I'm doing my spiritual thing, I wanted to see what is there truly it is not just us here in art, and the 3D world is just one dimension. So I and I attach this to this idea, I studied how the men and the women operate. The men operates akin to the sun 24 hours, right? Um, and they they thrive on on this. But women, and as you all know, and there's statistics done on it as well, we are akin to the moon, we follow cycles, and that's why we also have our menstruation cycle. Men, morning, afternoon, evening, night time, and then they start again the same day every day. But women, the first week of the month were this we can be S the most um accomplished person in the household, at least, because we're go-getters, and then the second week, we're like, oh, I feel differently in my body. The third week, oh, it's coming, and I I can. That is just the very nature of us, and so coming back to your question, man is the one to provide and women is the one to nurture in the house. But we are also asked to work right now. Why? Because of the economic conditions of the world, everywhere is expensive, inflation, yes, yada, yada, yada. But what caused it at the end of the day? I mean, in the beginning, in the first place. As humans, we distorted to the idea of now if I want to bring in the the the thought of the the I not idea, the question about greed, yes, there is. The question about um, if I could just deduce into one, it's just greed. Greed for what, greed for power, greed for status, because we know when we're powerful as a human being, one gender is more powerful than the other. There's always that envy, there's always that resentment, right? So women right now are conditioned that we number one have to fulfill have to live out our very nature, which is to birth, but also on top of that, take on the secondary um occupation or role in the household to provide for the family, to support. And women are often not not because I'm just a woman, but I see this not only we're asked to perform well at work, but we're also asked to perform 1000% than 1,000% than our male counterparts at home. So where does that leave us?

SPEAKER_00:

Stress, burnout, anxious, and depressed.

SPEAKER_01:

And at any moment we want to go and see our girlfriends and just you know go for brunch, we say, Oh, but my my kid is is at home. My kid is not my my husband is gonna go out and play golf with his with his with his friends, and I have to take care. Why couldn't you just now I believe of course the most important decision that we make in our life is our partner, and I only knew that after I got af after I got divorced, but again, we are exactly where we're meant to be, right? So now assuming that you've gone through um some of your life stages chapters with your counterpart, your your your partner of your choice, there'll be some degree of communication, at least. Hey, why don't you take up or can I take some time off and then leave it and then leave the kids to you? The Hassan on the other hand, because you know it all right everything starts from self. So as a woman, if you don't know what self-love is, what self-worth is, then you'll be bending yourself over for these different people in your life. And at what expense? Your own expense. So my thoughts are you as a woman will need to know your own worth first and foremost. And somebody tuning to this right now would say, Oh, I wish I I realize, I wish I'm aware of this fact um years ago. And uh what I'm going to say to you, you're not late, you're never too late to anything. You're meant to hear this right now. Because if you had known it before, probably some of the decisions that you've made at this point will not serve you for your highest good. So, coming back to your question, women that are being taught or they have taken up the perception and the projection of the world of society on them. I urge you and call you to just let go. And I'm not asking you to be irresponsible, you're not letting go completely. I'm just asking you to let go and allow that space. Make space in your life and in yourself that hey, I'm human too.

SPEAKER_00:

Remember your own power from the very beginning.

SPEAKER_01:

Because how you treat yourself is how you teach others to treat you, and how you respect yourself is how you treat others to respect you as well.

SPEAKER_00:

So that is my takeaway. I like how you started off with the macro perspective.

SPEAKER_02:

And that is setting being aware that each person carries with them the context of the time they were born into, what that represents in history, and what that means. For instance, somebody who has was born during, say, the Great Depression or has been through a world war has a certain perspective of life that they then pass on to their children and grandchildren. And so each of us, in a sense, is a byproduct of our history and our ancestors' history. And so where we are placed in history, while that is divinely decided, and there is a purpose for it, but it also gives us that larger perspective to realize that we are shaped by our times. But at the same time, the counter to that is that we also have free will, like you said, and the ability, the choice, the responsibility to then say, How best do I want to live this one short life, the 80 years, 100 years that I've been given? What am I going to do with this time so that I live without regrets? And when you contrast it, you know, the matriarchal versus the patriarchal way of society, of living, of community, how that shows up in our everyday decisions, in families, in the things we do for our children, say to our children, and then pass on to our children, and then they look back and say, Oh, I had this kind of a parent, you know, this is how I grew up. And that becomes their conditioning. So we need to be then very intentional and very conscious in what exactly we are passing on. What is this legacy we are handing to the next generation? And how intentional am I being in passing on these values? Are they the values that I unconsciously absorbed? Are they values that I've thought through and filtered carefully for myself based on what my own values are now? And am I also making space for my children to walk a different path? Because they will have their own purpose, which is different from mine, and each of us has to figure out what our own divine purpose is.

SPEAKER_00:

That's right. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you summarized it perfectly exactly, um, Serena.

SPEAKER_01:

And it is our responsibility, at least for me, because we're given this higher intelligence, right? And the brain that we use to survive during ancient times and we develop and evolve to think about why things are done, things are done the way they are, but also if you contrast it with what we have right now, because I don't know if I I I'm not sure of this effect. What was this effect? There there's there's a t there's a test study on if you see, if you perceive a certain thing this way, I don't know why it's escaped my brain right now. If you see, if you focus on one area right now, and if you focus a few seconds after that, you focus on a different area. Is that did that and and if you see there's a how would I say this? There's a point in one area, and then you look the other way, is that one area that you look is actually present, or was it a perception of your mind? So if you could look at that, and it's it's physics, I think it's physics. Yeah, they did they did this test, it was a slither test or something. If you could look at that and apply it into your life, because everything again, everything is energy in life, right? And you can change it, but we because everything that we see right now, it is all made from human mental um imagination, the fan that I have in front of me, the iPad that I'm on, the microphone that I'm holding, it was birthed through through the mind. And so if the mind is so powerful and it could change the trajectory of your life, what would happen if you could use that mind and think about something that you actually want? But the problem is we don't know what we want sometimes. We don't know what we don't know. There's this pie, right? A pie chart of life. We only know at least 3%. There's this there's I'm I'm I might be butchering the the percentage, but one percent is what we know, one percent is what we know we don't know, and the whole other big the biggest chunk of the pie is we don't know what we don't know, and knowing that we don't know what we don't know humbles you in the way that hey, there is a bigger order outside of me and a higher order outside of me that is orchestrating all of this, but that order is also giving you free will for you to change and replicate what you want in your life, so it is truly up to you. So, whatever, whichever point you you are, wherever that you are in your life right now, that's why people say you can change it, you can. And if you believe, I know Henry Ford said it right. 50% of the time when you said you can't, you can, you can. 50% of the time you said you cannot, you will not. So truly, truly, it is up to you. It's the act of all of this is self-actualization and being very aware and being very conscious.

SPEAKER_02:

I think another way of saying that would be whether you think you can or you can't, you are right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, yes, that one. That is the brain.

SPEAKER_02:

And also, I think you were referring to that quantum physics experiment, the double slit double slit, yes, the split. Double slit experiment, yes. Yes, so the idea of does that thing that I observed get affected because I'm observing it? And if I'm not observing it, and what is actually happening? Is it behaving differently? But I can't know because I'm not observing it. So it has to be measured. Somebody has to, somebody or something has to be watching it all the time to know how it's actually behaving.

SPEAKER_01:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02:

So interesting.

SPEAKER_01:

Interesting, right?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it tickles the mind. It's like you can't stop. Am I supposed to be looking at it all the time? You know, I will not look at it right now, but what is it doing when I'm not looking at it?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and and and you expand it into life, right? This is the direction that you take. Like you're at a crossroads, you are taking part B, but then you cannot help but think about what's happening with path A. But you've made the decision to go to Path B. But truly, is it really a wrong path or is it the right path? You're exactly where you're meant to be.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So make the decision, whatever decision that you make, yeah, that you think of that is for your highest good, make it.

SPEAKER_02:

I think that's a good way to sum up. We can't know which is the right path. Maybe there are no right paths, maybe it's just the road less traveled. It's just the one that we're not familiar with, and that's why we are fearful of it. But it could also be the path that leads to greater freedom, the path that leads to adventure, the path that leads to something beyond our current circumstances, something we will be uh very glad for, that our future self will thank us for, for having the courage to try. Because that circles back to you know what what we will be thinking about on the deathbed. Maybe we want to be thinking, wow, I am so blessed. I have such a wonderful life. I'm so grateful for all the people that love me and the people that I love. I'm so grateful I tried that I had the courage to do all those weird, wonderful, crazy things when I was younger, and I have no regrets, and I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yeah. So, what's the best way, Nick, for people to contact you and work with you?

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. I am available on all social media, but I hang around most on LinkedIn. My nick, my full name, Nicola Janeuras. But if you want to know more about me and my story, you can find me at www.denick Nieras, holisticlifestyle.com. There's a w in front of the H. So I try my best in the website to make it as pack as I could. But truly, if you go to the landing page, there's a program, my approach, worthy, authentic, and abundant. And then the next page would be my podcasts, my media appearances on all other podcasts, as well as testimonials, and my whole array of offerings. So, people and I do energy reading as well. Um, I saw one message on YouTube yesterday, and I take it as a sign or as a message from the divine. Stop putting yourself in a box. If you know that you are capable of doing a few different things, stop labeling yourself to be just one thing. Explore. I mean, the reason why God gave you that is for you to live your life fully through all those gifts and all those talents. Now these does not have these um talents, they do not have to be monetized. You can just enjoy them during your free time or with your friends. So it doesn't have to be monetary at the end of the day. Sometimes you just need sometimes you just need to do them to come back to yourself.

SPEAKER_02:

And coming from an ex-accountant who's all about numbers, I think that's a beautiful and very serendipitous way to end this interview. So thank you so much, Nicolette Nieras, for sharing your time and your wisdom with us today.

SPEAKER_01:

Serena, this has been. I think this was divinely orchestrated too. And I want to say thank you and I want to acknowledge you for the work that you're doing for becoming for being the voice for all those quiet warriors out there.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02:

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