Episode 254
Title: Experience is the Teacher of All Things
Host: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Dr. Nick Carruthers
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Transcription:
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Integrative View Radio. You have Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick here. I'm not going to talk in my Jersey accent again, like on our last podcast. Never know what you're going to get. So we actually wanted to do a podcast, very short and sweet, about this idea of experience. It's actually been such a buzzword that we've been hearing. We actually went to London.
a couple of weeks ago and we were, for those of you that don't know, we were the producers and Dr. Nick was the narrator for the Demartini documentary, which is being released this year. So keep your eyes out for it. It was a really fantastic experience. But of course, being around a group of a lot of very driven facilitators and entrepreneurs, they were
talking about this idea of how so many people now are looking for an experience. And, you know, that's one of the reasons why a lot of them are actually pivoting their business model. And I thought it was kind of ironic because we moved to Italy, for those of you that don't know, and we are here at the Sorrento Amalfi Coast. And we naturally, because this area is absolutely phenomenal,
wanted to bring together our knowledge and expertise of integrative medicine, human behavior, and our method called the Higher Self Architecture, and bring that together with an experience here at the Sorrento Coast. And we had a very specific intention with the creation of this. And part of it was helping people to get out of
the day-to-day of all the things they have to do and to be put in an environment where they can actually just live in the present. part of this was because it's actually embedded in the culture here. This is it's really amazing to see how Italians have this natural I don't want to say natural ability. I think we all have the natural ability. I just think that it's
Dr. Nicole Rivera (02:21.236)
remained in the culture here. hasn't been sucked out of the culture the way it has in the US that people really are present. Like if you are at a restaurant, a cafe, or a bar, no one is on a phone. I think it depends what part of Italy you're in.
This the cities are a little different, but I will say for the most part it is significantly different than anywhere you will go in the US yeah, and it's it's just driven by culture as in anything the the environment around us dictates the expression of the particle so the people are the particle the environment is the you know the society the country and Overall what you're saying is
Italians, they care more about the community. The US, they care more about money. Yeah, they a lot of Italians will we always like to ask the perception they have of Americans. And that's a common conversation is they feel that in the US most decisions and most things people do are driven by
making money and they make a lot of decisions about what is going to allow them to live. And obviously everyone has a little bit different of a definition of what that looks like for them. know, some it's huge priority on family and some it's a huge priority on travel and some it's just a huge priority on just being in nature and seeing the sights. Yeah, the got me thinking of the quote of, know, are you working to live or you live into work and
both are wrong in my mind is that you should just be living and everything that you do should be helping you be just a better version of you. Whether that's your vacation, whether that's your spirituality, whether that's your relationship with your finances, family, et cetera. Like you should just be living. And that is when you understand simply life.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (04:40.714)
makes most of its decisions based on the past. One of those big past things that are the biggest drivers in forming the blueprint of our mind, our unconsciousness, experiences. So when you think about wanting to make a change in somebody's life and somebody's blueprint, it can actually best be done by creating an amazing, inspiring experience because it's the experiences that actually drive the creation of our future.
Literally the quote that I absolutely love is, of course now it just went off of my screen. But it's by Julius Caesar and it is that experiences are the teacher of all things. Well, he's my Amici. So we're pretty tight. Well, I think it's interesting, you know, what you're talking about as well, because as
entrepreneurs and having a big business that unfortunately ran our lives for over a decade. know, this was experiences were put on the back burner. And in previous podcasts, we talked a lot about this getting sucked into the rabbit hole of hustle and reward. And we worked really, really hard. And there was rewards with little dopamine hits from mashed potatoes and wine and, you know, online consumerism.
But one of the things that was on the back burner was travel and was experiences that would create memories or create these experiences for vision and life changes. it just, there was all the reasons why. There was all the reasons why, because we were too busy, what would happen if we walked away from the business.
And, you know, all of the other things that come up in between. you're if you're someone who has kids, what am going to do with my kids? Am I going to bring the kids or the kids going to be, you know, are they going to like it? Are they going to enjoy it? And really at the end of the day, when we started to really think about in our experience and how we want to help inspire vision, inspire change, inspire a life that's more purposeful.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (07:05.354)
We knew that one thing that could be extremely valuable is taking people out of their current environment where it is filled with potential chaos. It is filled with to-do lists. It's filled with priorities and obligations. And, you know, because we've worked with people from a healthcare perspective and we've seen people that live in chaos or they have a really stressful business or a really stressful career and it hindered.
their progress and. you're and it's something that's really hindered, but your body and your mind, your brain, everything's geared to work as efficient as possible. So if you've been in that environment for months to years to decades, like it doesn't have to think that hard. It knows how to react. It's wired to react. So you have to take that body, mind, spirit and put it in, like you said, a different environment. But this just follows Bruce Lipton's work is that
You know, you put a liver cell and a Petri dish that's surrounded by kidney cells. That liver, that's not a liver cell. was a stem cell, cell, liver stem cell. And it's supposed to turn into a liver, but it's turned into a kidney because that was the environment surrounded by it. So we're just pretty much taking in all these like scientific concepts and structuring that into.
an experience to create inspiring change. Yeah. And it's kind of interesting because as we were putting together the website for our limitless experience, I remember the individual that was helping us, he just kept drilling me about, yeah, but what else are you doing? Like, what other workshops are you doing? And I was like, I gave you all the information.
And he was so confused because he was under the impression that people had to do eight hours a day of this higher self-architecture work in order to see a result. And I was like, no, we literally do the higher self-architecture workshop for an hour to an hour and 15 in the morning. And then we go through a guided meditation.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (09:28.844)
that helps to lock in and synchronize the work that we did. And then we go have a fuck ton of fun. And we literally go drink wine, eat food, hike, beach, beach club, and go out on the boat, and we chat, and we laugh, and we have fun. And of course, we talk about the insights that we had from the workshop, but like, we're living. We're really living.
And it's not all work or all business by any means. And he was almost just confused because he was reading the testimonials. He was like, so you're telling me that one of the people that came, like, went home and within one week she landed her dream job and you guys literally just did work for one hour each day for like six and a half days. It was probably three hours a day.
with meditation. It was less than that. But of course, like I said, we were continuing the conversations all day. And he was just like, OK, I'm intrigued. So it's really it's not about the amount of work, the quantity. It's the quality, the quality, and the focus. It's what you do. It's how you do it. But going back to the topic of this.
It's the experience. It was the experience about around being around like-minded people. It was the experience of being in a place that's so beautiful. You don't want to be on your phone. You don't care about looking at your emails. Like you truly are living in the moment savoring every part of that day that you are not thinking about social media. You're not thinking about checking your email. You're not, you're just like, my business will do what it needs to do. Like,
I'm here. I'm getting the most out of this experience here. But that's when you just like meditation when you let go and you surrender and you're just being present. That's like the true manifestation. That's when creation occurs. Surrender. So it's just beautiful that, you have the meditation to be able to do that. But then we also just continue to put you into that present meditative state without you even knowing it for the rest of the day.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (11:53.624)
with a glass of wine or two. But also, I don't think people realize the power of laughter and fun and playfulness. That is equally as important, maybe more important than doing the visionary work and doing the values work. Because so many of us have lost that.
We life has been really serious. Life has been heavy, especially as entrepreneurs. Like there's periods of time when we get started in our business, you know, we can call it the honeymoon phase where it still feels fun. It feels exciting if we get to be creative and then we grow and we grow. And all of a sudden it feels like every ounce of fun has been sucked out of the business.
You know, we always, we always joked that once we reached over eight employees, you know, we had to put our big girl and big boy pants on. But if I am being honest, at that point in time is when business started to feel really hard. And, you know, looking back, there was so many misalignments that we can now acknowledge it got us to where we are. But now we're such huge advocates for helping people to see what they can't see.
so that they can either redirect and make sure that they're still maintaining that level of fun and creativity in their business or they're pivoting. Because what is this journey of entrepreneurship just to feel like you have a never-ending to-do list and it's just, it's not enjoyable? You're not even circling back to the mission and the reason why you started in the first place.
And if you're that controlled by your business, guess what? You're not that friendly to be around at home or with your friends. Yeah. Well, I think that, you know, a lot of us lose sight of those parts of life. And hence this is why the higher self architecture was created, which is the methodology that we implement in our limitless experience. It's something we implement when we work with people one-on-one.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (14:09.996)
but it was created because we felt like there was a seesaw constantly happening. It was like, business is doing well. we haven't talked to any of our friends or seen anyone. We've missed birthdays and holidays, et cetera. And then it was like, okay, we're prioritizing, making sure that we're being good friends, prioritizing us, date night, family, et cetera. And it was like, now everybody on the team feels unsupported. Like we've been distant and...
you know, we're really disconnected from the business. And it was just kind of like, what is happening? Why can we not get ahead? And there was just a lack of synchronization. But there was also, we were trying to be everything to everyone all the time. And that was because we had a lack of clarity on who we were and what our vision was going forward.
Because you can't just have a vision for your business. You have to have a vision for all of those other parts of life. You have to have a vision of yourself. Who are you? How do you show up? What do you look like? Like, are you laughing? Are you not? And then what do you look like in your family life? What does it look like in your social life? And all of that. Like, that all has to be synchronized with the business. Otherwise, you're just going to feel like...
Okay, one thing is good, but everything else is shit. And that doesn't feel good. That's not what we're here for. That's not what life is supposed to be. It's a bad experience.
So the moral of the story is that this is something that we've experienced firsthand is that an experience is literally inspiring the trajectory of the creation of your 2.0 life. And that 2.0 looks different for every single person. But if you feel like you've been really wanting a change,
Dr. Nicole Rivera (16:11.17)
You've been really wanting a shift, and maybe you've hired coaches, and maybe you've done things, and you've gone to Tony Robbins, and you've done an online course, and you've been making these efforts, and things are not moving. Things are not changing. Things are not shifting. It might be taking a different approach and taking yourself out of the environment of all the things you have to do and need to do, and having yourself an experience that inspires the trajectory.
of your 2.0.
Dr. Nicole Rivera (16:45.006)
Is that a mic drop, Nick? You got nothing? All right, guys. So for those of you that were like, gosh, I need an experience. Definitely head over and check out our page, Limitless Experience. We will drop the link below. We have multiple dates coming up in 2025 from June all the way to October. We have...
specific events that are going to be specifically for male entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs. And we are curating these experiences custom to you guys. And it is going to be jam-packed with adventure, expansion of your mind, of your physical body, fun, lot of fun, lot of amazing gastronomical experiences.
Food and good wine are a huge part of you guys experiencing the Italian culture here. And we're doing all these amazing adventures from boats, boating out to the Isle of Capri, swimming in grottos, going to beautiful beach clubs where the water is crystal clear. So it is chock full. The itinerary is there. Check it out. And we really hope that you join us in inspiring the trajectory of your 2.0 life.
