From A Personal Development Hip-Hop Rapper To Empowered Lawyer With Jim Narvios

A hip-hop rapper builds a career around words and rebuttals. Battle rapping people may be a powerful tool to tap into your subconscious, but it may also push you to a negative space all the time. Jim Narvios joins Yanet Borrego to share his transition from being a rapper to becoming a professional lawyer. He shares his personal development journey to elevate his mind, be in a more positive environment, and harness the law of attraction at its fullest. Jim reflects on how he dealt with people who judged him, his process of self-reinvention, and the power of reaching into your inner child for further personal growth.

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From A Personal Development Hip-Hop Rapper To Empowered Lawyer With Jim Narvios

I am excited for another episode of the show and this is going to be a very inspiring one. I introduce Jim Narvios. He calls himself an empowered lawyer. I love that term, empowered. He’s one of the people that have been the most inspiring in my life. Other than that, I'm also a loyal customer, so I appreciate all his services and he's amazing at it. Would you like to introduce yourself quickly?

 I hope everyone's having a grateful day. Hopefully, this is the best day of your life because this is the best day of our life. Say you mean it, fellow believer. Receive it, then release it. Let's bring justice to the Earth. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for that wonderful introduction. It's an honor to be considered to be inspiring and empowering, and to have clients like you.

At the end of the day, this is just the journey and you at home, you might be going through a journey. We're going to be adding a lot of value to your life because we understand that journey. We are continuously on that journey and we are on that journey with you. You want to work with a wonderful coach, that'll help you navigate through that journey because the important thing is to have clarity and purpose.

We're going to take you through our journey and share some golden nuggets and hopefully, it adds value to your life. We're going to set the intention here. I want you to understand that we're with you. We understand what you may be going through. Whether you're going through a struggle, doubts, insecurities, or hitting the next stage of your business or your life, it’s all interconnected. Relationships, business and health all connect. Let's go on this journey. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

We met a few years ago and I met you in my journey of getting clarity, which will never end. We are always seeking more clarity over and over through life. One of the things that inspired me the most about you is that you have had what I call an unconventional path, which I love because people that have an unconventional path are challenging their past conditioning, and creating the future in the present.

You went from a personal development hip-hop rapper to empower lawyer. The last time I saw you was several years ago. You are the same person when I met you being a personal development rapper and now into a lawyer, which truly honors who you are as an authentic and genuine being. Before we get into this journey of clarity for you. Tell us where you’re from and what your heritage is. Who is Jim or Rocko in your previous life?

I'm Filipino. I was raised in the Philippines. I speak Filipino. I was born in Dallas, Texas. My parents gave me an opportunity to be here in America. Thank you to my parents because America is a beautiful place. They sacrifice and gave me that opportunity. I always want to give gratitude and thanks for that opportunity. I never take that for granted, first and foremost.

I moved to Brooklyn, New York. In Brooklyn, I was raised and I went through school, and then I came to Houston. I moved around a few other places down South. Ever since then I've traveled the world. I've had a chance to go around so many different countries and experience that. My heritage is Filipino. Being Filipino, we get a chance to dive into a diverse mix because Filipinos are extremely mixed. If you've ever met a Filipino, they're usually with a smile on their face. We're island people. We enjoy it.

You started your journey as a personal development rapper. Tell me how you got there and how you knew that was part of your purpose, and how you gain clarity in deciding to go on that route.

English is my second language. I learned English through hip hop. I would listen to hip-hop songs and I would fall in love with the words and learn about the words. I decided that I wanted to be a hip-hop artist. My first chapter as a hip hop artist was to destroy people. I was a battle rapper. I would battle competitively against other people with my skills but it was to talk about the other person.

I realize slowly but surely that I was battle rapping the people in my life. It was a subconscious thing. Whenever you're battle rapping people for your enjoyment and your music, it's a very powerful tool to tap into your subconscious. I was immediately defensive in rebutting people when I would meet them, even my family and my friends.

Whatever you are feeding your mind, spirit, and environment, it projects and shows up in your daily life.

 

I realized that nobody liked me. I was in a negative space. As I transitioned and evolved throughout my hip-hop career, I started to understand the power of words and then read personal development books. I was like, "This is good stuff." I learned that words were powerful. They're the building blocks of your mind. Your mind is the most important thing to feed and nurture the right things, and plant the right seeds.

What happened was I realized that I can use hip hop as a tool to reprogram my brain because I had negative thoughts or thought patterns in my own pains and sufferings that I had to heal. I started writing words into my hip hop lyrics and writing the personal development advice into my lyrics. I used to never smile. If you notice, I smiled the whole time. I had a lyric where I said, “A smile filled with confidence is a dangerous kind, at persistence to the grind and supplemented with drive. In any industry, we are a dime a dozen from DJs to MCs or graphic designers. I choose to stand out and understand my doubts to the point that my mouth expresses what I'm truly about.”

I said, “A smile filled with confidence is a dangerous kind.” I would listen to it, rap it and perform it. Say you mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, release it. All of a sudden, people were like, "You're smiling a lot. You have a beautiful smile." I got the positive affirmation around me and I was like, "I wonder why I'm getting this. I never got this before." I heard it in my lyrics and I was like, "Do you mean to tell me that whatever I say in these lyrics are going to happen in my life?"

That's how I became a personal development hip hop artist because I wanted to architect my life, with my words and my music. Ever since then, it's been that way. Even becoming an attorney and getting married to my wife, it's in those lyrics. These were the things that I channeled into what I wanted to gain clarity and vision about. I created based on that.

When I created, I would add emotion and trap it into beats that I enjoyed emotionally. I would listen to it and perform it. I would share it with thousands of people when I perform it on stage, and it was like I was sharing it to the receiving end. When I make them say something, I'll be like, "I love life," and they'll be like, "I love life." I'm like, "This is a cool thing going on."

They are believing and saying it.

You never know who you'll impact. People are like, "You're so happy all the time." Trust me you all. We're human beings. We go through our journeys, our sadness, and the variety of emotions that a human being goes through. At the end of the day, the reason that I am who I am and the reason that you are. I know her for a long time and she's consistently a positive person. It's because you have a choice. You can either share the positivity and calibrate daily, or you can stay stuck and manifest the negativity. Whatever you are feeding your mind, your spirit or whatever you're creating in your environment, it does project and it shows up outside.

I love it so much that you said that. It's so vulnerable because it is true. Something that we portray in social media is we are happy. We got our stuff together. We are in control of it and we do have moments of lows. I would love to know your routine on how you overcome those moments on low. I can share mine quickly. The first one is awareness. I'm like, "I'm having a low moment." I'm an introvert-extrovert, so I need to get away from everything for a little bit and reason within myself, and then I release any limiting beliefs and negative emotions. I love NLP so I grow with it, and then I create a goal. What do I want to do instead? I then move to action and replace it. What is your routine for this reasoning?

Very similar. I want to learn her technique. I'm always about learning new routines and techniques.

He's an avid learner. I feel like every book I mentioned to your personal development, every author, you're like, "I've read it." You cite things from the book to me. You’re so impressive.

I love it. You can't stop doing what you love. My routine is very similar. I acknowledge it. I'm aware of it. I release it. What I do is allow myself to create the habit of making executive decisions. One of the most important things is you have to make a decision. If you teeter-totter and you're like, "I'm down. I'm low. I'm happy, but then I'm low again." You are the captain of your mind. You tell the mind what to do. It may have you hard in the beginning. It may not even show up in the beginning but I guarantee you, the more and more you say it, you deserve to be happy. You deserve abundance and to be successful and have loving relationships.

That's why I have to go back to say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it and then release it. You got to say it. Close your eyes and take a deep breath. You got to mean it and be able to imagine it, and tap into the things you once lost. That inner child that you lost through the judgment, the pressures of society and make the work. Tap back into that imagination. You say it, you mean it and then you start to feel it. After saying it, then you might be like, "I mean this," but it's not showing up. Eventually, after doing it many times, you're going to tap into that feeling. You're going to say it, mean it and feel it. You feel it enough and then you start to believe it.

Say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, and then you receive it because then you believe you deserve it. You deserve to have that calibration. It's like working out. You're going to get sore and be uncomfortable but after doing it many times, there are 365 days in a year. You do it for three years. That's so many days that you've done it. You start to receive it, you believe it, you say it, you mean it, what happens is the most powerful thing you can do after that to lock in this habit is to share it with other people, and that's why I say release it.

That's why people say, "Why are you always trying to be inspiring?" It's because I want to share this experience with other people because you never know who you might impact, and then it locks it into my life. That's a cheat code. I'm allowing myself to lock this into my life by sharing it. That's why they say, "Love is a gift that keeps on giving. You reap what you sow." These are laws.

 I might practice law but these are the laws I want to learn. The Laws of Attraction, the Laws of Reciprocity and the laws of being a human being. These are the most important things because it does translate into my profession and the way I treat my clients, and the way that all of these cases go towards success. Say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, then release it. Work it out every single day.

I'm amazed by you so much. I'm absorbing all this amazing knowledge that you have. I feel ready to go. I can relate to that. I wrote a blog about the Knowledge Gap or Mindset Gap. I feel we all know what's right for us. Doing it and keeping the mindset to be consistent is something else. I love that you brought that up because it is so true.

It requires being unapologetic and consistent because we're surrounded by other influences and things that can impact us. It's hard when you're around that. You have to build yourself up so that way you become protected. You also could say that. That's the most beautiful thing about that, "I'm protected. I'm safe. My energy is protected. Nothing around me can move me."

Even saying that, you may fall over and stumble. You might be like, "That's not real," but I'm telling you to keep saying it. At the end of the day, everything is beautiful. I've said that this is going to be the best day of my life. My eyes opened up every morning. I've said this for many years of my life. When I lay my head down to sleep, no matter what happened that day, I'm just like, “Today was the best day of my life.” That's a very powerful gift that I've received.

You mentioned social or external pressures which play a big role. I feel that a lot of people are now living their purpose because of those social pressures from the past or the present. How do you deal with those? You're one of the most authentic and genuine people. How do you keep yourself being unapologetic?

It's a practice. In the beginning, it's not going to be easy. It's going to be hard because you're used to the people that you love. It's a funny thing. You are who you are. When you were in high school and people signed your yearbook and they say, "Dear Jim, never change. Always stay the same." They always keep it real, “Never change. Be you.” These can be very destructive sayings because who are you? Who would you be and how would your life be if you stayed the same person that you are today? How would it be if you stayed that way, all the way until your deathbed? That would not make any sense to me because life is expansive. It's meant for you to recreate yourself and become who you want to be in the season that you want to be.

Become the captain of your mind. Tell yourself what you want to achieve. The more you say it, the more you understand that you deserve to be happy.

 

To be able to evolve like that is a powerful tool to reinvent yourself, to fill yourself up with the right words, to study the right things, to walk and dress a different way. Whoever gave you the rules that you couldn't do that? To answer your question. The reason that I'm able to do that is because I've put myself out there in front of everybody in the most vulnerable ways possible. I did it in a way where everybody can judge me. When I realized that it didn't even matter and I was still safe, I gave myself permission to do it.

The funny thing is the people in your life that know who you are, they're the ones holding you to the identity that you believe you should stay with, “Yanet is an engineer. She's a corporate girl.” The old people will hold you to that. The new people that you meet, the way that you present yourself the first time you meet them is what they're going to hold you to.

That's why first impressions are so important. Always hold yourself to a standard of how you would like people to see you. The way people see you is the way that they're going to treat you. The way they treat you will cultivate a habit of how you evolve into the person that you want to be. The people in the past, even parents, brothers and sisters, you have to have a good conversation with them and let them know, “This is my season. This is what I would like.” Make them aware of it because they first see you change, they're going to be like, "What's wrong with this person?" They don't want to lose you.

That's where the social pressure happens. People are afraid of losing you. I noticed that a lot of the pressure that you get is more from the people that you love and care about than the people of social society. Those that judge you in social society is only because it lives in your head. The judgment that lives in your head is what's manifesting in the people around you in the social society of the people you don't know, but those that are being judged by the people that know you is because they don't want to lose you.

One more thing about the people in the social circle that don't know you and you feel like you're being judged and it's holding you back, that is an illusion. The only doubt that exists of judgment is inside of you. When you show up unapologetically, you look people in the eyes and you say, "This is who I am. This is what I do and what I love," they can't judge you. You might trigger them because you're showing them a part of themselves that they wish they were tapping into. That's where all the "haters," are standing. At the end of the day, if you're unapologetic to people that you don't know, the first time you meet them, they will accept you.

Do you ever watch a kid dance in a diaper? If I wore a diaper and I started dancing, people will be like, "That dude is weird." A baby in diaper dancing brings so much joy to you. He's enjoying himself so much because he's not afraid to be what he wants to be right then and there. That's who he is. You don't judge a dog. Not to compare human beings as a dog but if you look at a lizard, you're not like, "That lizard’s personality sucks. I'm judging him." No. He's a lizard. A dog is a dog. A human is a human. The only difference between a human, a dog and a lizard is the fact that you can create your personality and they can't.

You are one of the most inspiring people in my life. I love all of that. Something that I've read and I truly believe in and I know you truly believe in is going back to being a child.

Rescue your inner child.

Tell me about it. What do you go through or what tips can you leave everyone else?

I have a picture of myself as a young child on my fridge. I look at him and say, "I love you." We all have the pains that we went through as a child. Those are the most impressionable pains because there are fewer distractions. That's when our minds are being formed. It's our formative years. We have to acknowledge those pains and heal them. Somebody else might've caused those pains or other situations. You had no control. You were a child. You had no choice.

You're now an adult and you can parent your inner child. What I do is I tell that inner child, “I love you,” because he'll freak out. If there's a situation or there might be something that triggers your inner child, it's like, "No. I'm afraid." You're like, "I'm the adult. Take a deep breath." Imagine that inner child. I put him on my lap and I said, "Jim boy.” That's what they called me when I was a kid.

It’s those words. Words are more powerful because if I refer to myself as the term that they called me when I was a kid, there's something deep in there. I say, "Jim boy, it's okay. I'm here for you. I know you're afraid. I acknowledge it." It’s the same process that you were talking about. “I'm aware of it. I’m aware that you're afraid. I know why you're afraid but it's okay. You can release that because I'm here now and you won't be hurt. You'll be okay.”

Just like the words that I was telling you, say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, then release it. What happens is the more and more you do it, the baby is going to get comfortable. Whenever those typical situations arise, then it's going to trust you because you have now delivered every single time that you're going to keep him safe.

It's like programming repetition. Reprogramming your mind. I love that you said that when you were in the early stages as a hip-hop rapper and you realize, "The people around me don't like me. The words I use are not impeccable,” like The Four Agreements. You did that and you gain clarity through moving away from something, and then you gain knowledge.

You started to move towards something. You started to make decisions in terms of the person you wanted to be, rather than the person that you didn't want to be. How do you keep that in your life now? A lot of people wait until crisis or pain to heat. They have a bigger motivator to move away from that so they can start living a different reality. What are your thoughts on that?

My journey is different from everybody else's. The reason that I do that is because it’s a habit now. I made it my priority. I break down my life into chapters or seasons. I believe that distractions are the killer of dreams. You can accomplish a lot if you focus. Our firm has doubled in size. If you focus, you can accomplish what you're supposed to accomplish.

I break it down into seasons. Within that season I ask myself who do I have to be every day. I don't know how it is but let's say 30 or 45 days to build a habit. I believe in repetition. Maybe if I do it 30 times a day, maybe it'll happen right away, depending on what level of ability to create or where you are. The season is what I do. I create the season and what it is supposed to look like. I changed my environment a lot. I change the colors of the wall and decorations. I put things into my environment that remind me of the season that I'm in and the goal that I want.

I put images or symbols everywhere that remind me of the season that I'm in so I can keep being around it. My intentions are clear to everyone around me. I asked them humbly, "Can you please refer to me as, or can you speak to me or remind me consistently of these particular goals and the season that I'm in now." I use social media as my magic wand too. I consistently create what season I'm in, and then it becomes a habit.

Distractions are the killer of dreams. If you focus everything on your goal, you can accomplish a lot.

 

You were telling me about some might be experiencing a previous career, and then they make that shift. They have difficulty making that shift. I knew that was an issue and I would encounter that. I have a program that I put into place for myself that I offer to other law school students when I mentor them. Even other people from other industries. What I do before they graduate, I immerse them into a program of six weeks where they are forced to act and be referred to as an attorney. I book restaurants and I'll say, "This is a book on the table for Attorney Narvios," before I became a lawyer. Let's say, Attorney Borrego. Let's say you're my mentee. I'll be like, "Go to this restaurant and go up to the hostess and say, ‘A table for Attorney Borrego.’" They're like, "What do you mean?"

Being an attorney is like, "You got to believe it."

Even if you don't eat there, just go there. They'll walk you to the table and then be like, "I got to meet somebody outside." Go book hotels. Do what you think a lawyer would do. Go to the courtroom. I would go to the courtroom and I would shake hands with lawyers. I'd be like, "It’s nice to meet you. I'm Attorney Narvios." Get that out of your system.

A lot of people might frown upon that because they're like, "You're an impostor or fraudulent." It’s not if you're not making any money and you're not transacting. I'm not encouraging anyone to go out there and fraudulently claim that they're a lawyer. What I'm saying is the premise of the idea is to get comfortable in your new role.

For example, you're a world-class international speaker and coach. You train people from around the world. It's a huge accomplishment. When people do their introduction of you, they should be introducing you like that because that's the season you're in. You're transitioning into that. The more you hear it from other people, the more it becomes.

I'm always going to be an advocate for you, “She has clients internationally, nationally and all around the world. She is a world-class thought leader and coach. She helps people break through their goals. Her podcast is amazing. She's got tons of people that watch it every single day and she adds value to your life.” As you go through these seasons in your life, it transitions from the way that you feel and the way you're now accepted. In the beginning, it's weird.

You were there in the beginning with me. A few years ago when I was in corporate, I could barely say, "I'm a coach.” I was certified at that time. I would hesitate and now you saw me saying that. It's such different energy of like, “I'm confident of who I am.”

It's effortless now. It's like the say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it and release it. You get used to it. It's important to start. If you don’t, when you are blessed with the opportunity and you have the opportunity there in front of you, you're hesitating because you don't feel worthy. Never label yourself as, “I'm not worthy,” or you don't deserve it. That's weird to me because you may not even be feeling unworthy or undeserving. You may be unfamiliar with the opportunity. Never label yourself as, “Maybe I’m going through the struggle now because I’m unworthy.” Once you label yourself, it's like a disease. You have now claimed it.

I always tell people to reconsider their words when they say, "I'm feeling unworthy.” Say, “I'm uncomfortable because it's new.” When you sit in any environment, you're going to feel a level of anxiety. Just accept it and experience it over and over again. Go visit your favorite car dealership and test drive that car over and over again.

If you drive a Honda and you want to drive a Bentley, go test drive the Bentley. When you go to your Honda just be like, "I'm going to my Bentley now." You’re driving a Honda but you’re like, "It feels so great to sit in my Bentley." Go get a Bentley key chain and put it on your thing. Start to imagine and when the opportunity arrives because it will if you work towards it and you believe it, say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, and release it, then it will happen.

It's not a matter of if, it's when.

You want to be ready and part of that readiness is the feeling of being familiar with it. Are you familiar with it enough to be like that? Trust me, at the end of the day, it's not easy but it's worth it. It's not difficult either. It just requires the work. If you need guidance or somebody to help you push through, work with a coach. She's helped me navigate through things. Before I became an attorney when I was going through, "I need calibration," she shook me up. I believe in the support that you provide. The clarity and the purpose that you help people navigate.

I appreciate it, Rocko and Jim. I don't know which one to use. I met him as Rocko and now he's Jim.

That's another weird thing because our names are attached to many memories and identity forms. People still call me Rocko. It's all good. I'm promoting myself so much as Rocko. It's a great marketing thing. The thing is the name had many attachments to the activity that I was doing. I couldn't focus on school nor could I focus as being an attorney.

When I went to my government name, which I hadn't used in many years, it was interesting because my name is Jim Banque Narvios. I was telling you the story. I never used my government name all the way. My middle name is Banque but my mother pronounced it as Banke. One of my colleagues said, "In France, that's in front of every single bank and you pronounce that as bank." I was like, "Manifest it today."

I have many questions but I want to keep them concise and simple. I want to discover everything. You were a very successful personal development rapper. What drove you to start exploring this legal career, a new identity and new life. How was the process?

I traveled the world. When you fly around, you travel and stay in Airbnbs and hotels. It's cool and glamorous. For my own journey, my inner child and my personal story, I wanted consistency. I wanted, something that I didn't have a complete understanding of which was a home base. I'm a big believer in doing things differently. In order to get new things in your life, you got to do things differently.

What would happen if I did things differently? I was always traveling. What if I stayed in Houston for an extended amount of time without having to do a lot of traveling? I met my wife. I was manifesting my wife because your wife can't find you if you keep moving around. As you're moving around, your wife will be like, "Where are you?"

I met my wife, fell in love, the most beautiful woman alive, gorgeous, smart, intelligent and loving. She's my better half. My absolute lover. Nimmy is her name. She's Indian. I met a beautiful Indian girl, fell in love and I was like, "I'm not going to be able to be happy if I travel around. She can't travel around. She's got a career." I had already been looking to be consistent and have a home base. I was like, "What better opportunity?" I met her. I made a decision. It's always important to make a decision in relationships. Fellows, if you make decisions, your better half will follow you. It's something powerful about being unapologetic about business, love and intention.

I set my intention with her. I was like, "I want to be with you," but I have to figure out where I'm going to take the business because traveling isn't going to work. It might work for other people but for me and her, it wouldn't work because I always want to be with her. She always wants to be with me. That's what I wanted to manifest in my life, a counterpart or a significant other that was going to work with me. At the time, we never thought we would work together but I knew that we would work together in my heart. I don't think she knew at this time.

I can see it in your smile.

I manifested it. Beautiful things. I was like consistency, home base, marriage and wife. One day there was an issue with the phone. I got on the phone and solved the problem. I realized that every time there was an issue with a corporation or with somebody else, I always got on the phone and communicated and I found a solution. I enjoyed it.

Being a hip-hop artist, I was always finding solutions. When I would perform I would wear a suit. There were many times that people came up to me and they'd be like, "Do you have a business card? My cousin has got in trouble. Can you help him?" I’m like, "I'm a hip-hop artist. What are you talking about? I'm not a lawyer.” I would refer business out to my lawyer friends. I referred a few out and I started referring some more. They would take me out to eat. They'd be like, "Get whatever you want." I'd be like, "You all that happy with my referrals?"

You knew it was talking to you like, "The opportunities are here for you."

The lyrics that I would speak were about justice, life and personal development. When people ask me, "What's your specialty?" I say the Law of Attraction. My number one client is life. I don't like people messing with life that's why I get so passionate when I hear about the injustices of the world. I want to go after it and find a solution for them.

Diversity was also a big part of my career and I realized that I had many different diverse communities, thousands of them. In Houston, I'm packed with these communities that I would be in front of. I would be engaging with hundreds of community leaders. I'd be in front of thousands of communities and these people were wanting more from me, not just the music. They were asking me to solve their solutions.

I became a liaison to find resources for them. I started helping them out, donating my time, finding resources, non-profit organizations and connecting the dots. I started to realize that there was a bigger need. I needed to serve in a bigger and different way. I can still serve as a philanthropic, activist, motivational speaker and a personal development hip-hop artist, but I had to serve in a different way. It was beckoning me and calling me to use the other side of my potential.

Sometimes, the feeling of unworthiness is only caused by your unfamiliarity with an opportunity.

 

I had to solve problems on the phone and I solved problems. One day, Nimmy was joking and she's like, "You're like a lawyer." I realized that all my life people have said this. I thought about it but there was a block because I had told myself, "I am an entrepreneur. I am not going to go through academics. I'm going to grind and become a business." I labeled myself as my identity that I’m never going to go through studies and academics. I even have a lyric. I said in my first album, "Be a doctor, be a lawyer, be a nurse to pay but I’d rather be a lunatic with musical ways, creating all day. I will carpe diem.” These are all the lyrics that I said it and I became it.

My wife is a wisdom woman. She says something and it is the right thing. She gets quiet, mellow and she just says it. Like this office, she picked it. She's like, "This is an office. This is going to be the conference room." When we first moved in here, this was my office but she said in the beginning, "This is going to be our conference room."

She sees through.

Wisdom and foresight. She said those things. I thought about them. I'm like, "I'm going to tour these schools." I toured the schools and after touring all the schools, there was one Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Shout out to TMSL. I love my school. The rest is history. All the manifestations opened up. I was accepted. I did well in school. I had so much fun and ate up these books. I studied and graduated early and passed the bar. I had a good time doing it the whole time through. That's how I gained clarity, by trusting the clues.

Also, taking action.

Write out a list. If you don't know what's your next point of action, it’s just what's the next logical step? Do that and then all the rest of it will appear. It'll start showing up. “How am I going to do business?” I don't know. What can I do now?” Go get a DBA and LLC. Next, get some business cards. It’s just the next logical steps. Keep moving forward. “How am I going to get the money to start my business?” How can you get $100?

Before you know it, you'll have a business and be consistent. I find that the number one killer of dreams is the inconsistency of sticking to the goal and the dream. We are talking about how I transitioned from one career to another. It's okay to transition but don't do it prematurely if you have a dream and you know that it's supposed to be your dream. Oftentimes, we'll self-sabotage and then we'll justify it so well. We're good at justifying them. “It's because of this,” and it's a great reason but it's because of fear.

If you feel that fear, just make the decision to do it. Your life is so precious to deny yourself the opportunity to experience what you're supposed to experience. There are a lot of things that you got to go through, hurdles and self-sabotage. Don't view it as a place of the victim. View it from a place of a child and experience it. When a child runs and falls over, they're not like, "I wasn't meant to walk." That'd be weird. View it as a process like, “This is the way it's supposed to be. This is not forever. I'm going to learn from that. When I learned from that, I'm going to take that with me and that's going to empower me.”

When you're going to arrive, which you will arrive, at your biggest opportunity where you're in front of 10,000 people or your business reaches a certain level, and you feel that little fear, you're going to remember that little one that you felt in the past. You're going to be like, "I've been here before," and once again, say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, then release it. You expanded your capacity now. In your ability to expand your capacity, you can experience more risk. Your risk tolerance will get bigger.

You're going to smile and trust me. You're going to be like, "I remember those moments." If you talked to all the successful people and you read about them, they will always tell you, "I remember those moments." I met a paleta man selling ice cream. He owns fifteen marble slabs now. I talked to him and he was just a paleta man. He walked around with a cart going, "Paleta." He sold the paleta, the ice cream. I asked him, "What's the secret to your success, and what is the best thing you can tell me?" He said, "Enjoy the journey because my happiest moments were when I was selling the paleta." He's like, "This is cool but I love those moments." I got to give him a golden nugget. I'm like, "Your moments don't have to end now."

I like that one. You keep evolving. I've always thought of you as a super good manifestor. You're in touch with your intuition. What are some practices that you follow to connect up and continue bringing the spiritual into the physical?

Don't numb your emotions. We tend to numb our emotions. We don't honor when we're sad or when we're happy we hold it in. We laugh, cry and shout. Honor your emotion. Do it appropriately. Go off to the privacy of your own safe space, express yourself and honor that. When you honor your emotions more and more, what happens is you have access to it. Not just emotions like how I'm feeling, it's deeper than that. There's a spiritual emotion. When you have access to your emotions, those emotions you can use to manifest the intensity and the veracity to be able to go after your goals.

Intuition is a mirror. The more you're real with your emotions and accepting of them, what happens is you can see somebody else's emotions. When you're vulnerable about your insecurities, fears and doubts, you can now feel somebody's emotions. It's crazy. It is a secret of life that should be talked about more because empathy is bred that way. If we understood more about our personal fears, insecurities and doubts, we would now have mercy and grace towards other people, with their fears, insecurities and doubts.

That's my whole objective. When you tap into that, you become a mirror. You become sensitive to other people. You can help assist them and understand that they're not where you're at and you're not where they're at. You won't be judgemental. That's another thing that I find about personal development. You can become entitled like, "I know this information and they don't. You're being negative. I don't want to be around you."

That's not the case. You have to be empathetic. You have to understand that I got to love you from a distance because I have a path that I'm carving in order for me to be at my best potential. In order for me to serve the world and those that I love in the best way possible, I have to protect myself but I can be empathetic. I can be understanding and I can drop seeds along the way.”

Hopefully, that person maybe one day will remember or be guided in a direction. If it weren't for the people that drop seeds for me, I don't know where I would be in life. I am so grateful for the people that believed in me and that drop seeds. I didn't understand that in the beginning. At first, they were saying this stuff and that's weird. It's making me uncomfortable but then years later, I'm saying the same thing.

You're saying those things to everyone else. That is so cool.

We all can make an impact.

I love your journey because you're still an entrepreneur. That's something you wanted at least.

I'm still. I own a firm. We're here and we run our own business. We get to be creative. We go to trial and we're creative. We talk to our clients in a way. We dress and expresses ourselves any way we want. Entrepreneurship is not limited to a profession.

Tell us more about it.

You're not limited to a profession. As you evolve, you discover things about yourself. As I said, life is a journey of self-expression, reinventing yourself, evolving, and you have to honor that. If you're feeling lost in your profession or you’re feeling bored and you keep asking yourself a question, "Is there anything else?" It's probably time that you honor that. As you honor that, you'll discover parts of yourself where you can transition.

I agree and it's important to get to know yourself and what you stand for. Based on that, you'll continue to make decisions that are aligned to that path. Something that I said that I've heard before and I truly believe it is your why remains the same or very similar, but your how changes. Talking about that, what is your why and your purpose?

Your journey is yours alone. Love yourself, heal your inner child wounds, and reframe the negativity in your life.

 

My why is to live life. I can't begin to try to categorize what my why is but my why to love life and honor life. Whatever direction that I go, carry that with me. Take care of my family. My family is a why. I love taking care of my home, my family and my parents. The opportunity to do that is a beautiful thing. That motivates me.

The why is about evolving and challenging myself to become the greatest. I want to give it all I got. That's interesting and fascinating to think about because there's so much more. No matter how much I got, there are so much more. It's not even about monetary. It's not about business. It's about life and how much expansion and evolution can we do. It's a personal journey. My why is living my life with as much integrity, and loving life as much as I could possibly do it and sharing it along the way.

One more question, we said we were going to talk about finances or financial. For those trying to figure out their purpose or gain clarity on their journey, one of the things that we agree is one of the biggest fears is finances or the financial situation. What would you say to those people that are trying to figure that out? They are in their journey and they are afraid of not having that financial stability, based on what you have learned.

You may be at a point where you're wondering, struggling, confused and disheartened about your situation. Finances is a flow. That's why they call it currency, and there's an abundance of it. That's the hardest part to transition into thinking when you don't have it. I understand how that feels but you have to find something that adds value to other people.

If you are a specialist in it, you are more valuable because you have something different to offer. By establishing the understanding of that value, you build value within yourself, and then you no longer have fears to ask and receive that. That's also a big thing. Can you accept it if I gave it to you? Do you believe that you're worthy if I give it to you or what you are asking for.

That requires practice. Once again, how do you practice it if you're not in a position to receive it? It's very similar to the whole bootcamp that I go to. You have to create opportunities for yourself to receive it, whether it's getting play money every day. Tell somebody to give it to you. You practice it and create a recording that says, "Your account balance is X amount."

It’s like Jim Carrey. He wrote that check for $1 million and he would see it every morning.

Acquiring it is one thing. Receiving it is another thing. Believing that you should keep and maintain it is another thing. My whole thing is, "How are you developing yourself now to become a person that's worthy enough to keep it later?" It's because you can get it.

It’s like the lottery. A lot of people get the lottery then three years after, they're broke again.

Family member kills them or terrible stuff happens. That's about developing yourself and being intentional with it because our day gets past us. You get tired, you go to sleep and watch TV. You have to be intentional every single day. You have to set a time for that repetition. I have reminders on my phone that's like, "I'll do this." You have to surround yourself with images. Go into the stores that you typically wouldn't go to. Imagine the things that you want. Don't shortchange yourself.

Don't allow your current situation to shortchange your imagination. Allow your imagination to expand, and then develop yourself into a person that builds a good, healthy relationship with money. Be aware of the fear of lack. When you're aware of lack, then you can do the process of releasing lack and replacing it with abundance. If I ever felt lacking before, what I would do is I would donate money. I would go give money away. Immediately, when I was like, "I don't know if I'm going to spend my money on this,” I'll go give it away. I said, "There's a lot more where that came from.”

By the action of giving it away to somebody who needed it more than me, it programmed me to believe that there was more, and it would always show back up more. It did develop the habit. I have it within myself. This is something deeper. Hard work is always there but can you keep it? Do you believe that you deserve it and can you keep it? That is probably the most important thing to share about money.

I could tell you to go out there and grind out and hustle. We can make money, make these bands, cover this whole table up with $100,000. That won't help you. It will make you think that I'm cool or whatever. That's something to also keep in mind. Don't compare your journey with somebody else's. Nine times out of ten, their journey is fabricated.

They might be manifesting their own stuff. Your journey is yours. Respect it and love it. Love yourself and heal those inner child wounds. Reframe the lack of mentality and the negativity. You have to develop a love for money. Not like love as in greed but adding value to people's lives. I should be replenished and be given what I deserve and don't compromise that. We might compromise it.

It’s negotiating with ourselves.

You’re like, “I'll just take this.” You got to be unapologetic. If it comes from a place of not lack and you want to negotiate, cool. If you're like, "I don't know if I'm worth it," you got to develop a good relationship. Once again, it's about developing worthiness, for example, your title, profession, success, money. It's very similar. It all ties together because if you don't believe you deserve it, you will not going to get it.

The first is if you brute force where you grind and you work hard, you'll get it. You'll get the position, the money, the girl and the wife. Do you believe that you should have received it? Can you receive the relationship? You got it. She's showing you love, and then you don't believe that you deserve it, then you're going to cause problems. Money, business, identity and profession are the same way. If you don't believe that you deserve it, then what happens is it's going to repel. If I give love to somebody and they don't want my love, then I'm going to be, “Okay.” Money's going to be the same way.

I’m taking all these tips and I'm going to start applying them now. That's awesome.

It's an honor.

Thank you so much. Tell our audience where they can find you. What do you do for these amazing people to continue creating this impact? All your info.

Once again, ladies and gentlemen, we’re here with Yanet Borrego. This show is doing amazing things, impacting millions of people. Clarity and purpose are something we all need and should all receive. It's something we all deserve, which is say it, mean it, feel it, believe it, receive it, then release it every single day. We are here at the Narvios Law Firm off of Fondren and 59, right in the heart of Houston. In between Fort Bend and Houston. We're serving everybody from all around the world.

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