Trump got shot.

Fist bumping in the air as he walked away alive, for his supporters this has left an unforgettable image of him as a survivor and leader.

For me at least, this has made it all the more real the 2024 election is coming and brought up a lot of fear.

While I've been strategically planning for months around preparing for a potential Trump administration, I didn't let myself feel the fear of that possibility myself until I saw the video of Trump walking away with his fist raised after being shot. I immediately felt in my gut what this moment in history will mean for his supporters.

For the people I focus on supporting in my financial empowerment work -- immigrants and heart-centered dreamers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs -- learning how to transform fear into faith couldn’t be more important in these times.

The biggest danger we face is losing hope -- of what better future is possible.

Tapping into faith is one way we can start to prepare for whatever is to come.

So that we can continue to be in a place of expansion and abundance and take steps toward building a better future - for ourselves, our families, our communities, and a more welcoming world.

>> In this episode, learn a step-by-step process I have started to go through personally to begin to transmute that fear into faith, and how you can do the same.

>> We're not meant to do this alone. That's why I've recently started a new free private community group for heart-centered entrepreneurs and immigrants, called HOME, to dig into financial empowerment topics together no matter what’s going on in the world. Join at https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

Members get to connect with like-minded individuals and receive early access to & behind the scenes episodes of the Finance Business & Purpose podcast + request episodes on whatever topics they need most.

Have you ever woken up feeling negative, even frowning for no obvious reason?

Sometimes divine timing happens and we receive the EXACT lessons and messages we need to hear in those moments.

Listen to this episode to hear the story of a recent experience I had flipping around a negative day into a positive one, thanks to some lessons I received during a much needed haircut removing some dead weight!

HOME free financial empowerment community group for listeners of the show: internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

MEMBERS RECEIVE:

The first chance to access new episodes of ⁠The Finance Business & Purpose Podcast⁠ hot off the press, before they are published on the show publicly

Access to an interactive financial empowerment community space, facilitated by FBP Podcast Host Adina Appelbaum, to digest the episodes together in a group setting with like-minded dreamers and aspiring and current heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs inspired to claim their financial abundance AND build a more welcoming world, together

The opportunity to ask follow up questions for the show & request specific episode topics

Special behind the scenes private access-only episodes not published anywhere else!

WHY JOIN NOW: This space will eventually morph into a paid membership. Folks who join now will enjoy complimentary access to this private community space for free, right up until the official launch when it will become a paid subscription!

Book mentioned in the show: The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, available at:

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361

Ask questions and engage deeper in the show's new free private financial empowerment community group HOME at internationalempowerment.com/freegroup.

MEMBERS RECEIVE:

• The first chance to access new episodes of ⁠The Finance Business & Purpose Podcast⁠ hot off the press, before they are published on the show publicly

• Access to an interactive financial empowerment community space, facilitated by FBP Podcast Host Adina Appelbaum, to digest the episodes together in a group setting with like-minded dreamers and aspiring and current heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs inspired to claim their financial abundance AND build a more welcoming world, together

• The opportunity to ask follow up questions for the show & request specific episode topics

• Special behind the scenes private access-only episodes not published anywhere else!

WHY JOIN NOW: This space will eventually morph into a paid membership. Folks who join now will enjoy complimentary access to this private community space for free, right up until the official launch when it will become a paid subscription!

Announcing HOME, our new free private financial empowerment community for heart-centered, mission-driven and social entrepreneurs.

Learn more and join the group here: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup

MEMBERS RECEIVE:

• The first chance to access new episodes of The Finance Business & Purpose Podcast hot off the press, before they are published on the show publicly

• Access to an interactive financial empowerment community space, facilitated by FBP Podcast Host Adina Appelbaum, to digest the episodes together in a group setting with like-minded dreamers and aspiring and current heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs inspired to claim their financial abundance AND build a more welcoming world, together

• The opportunity to ask follow up questions for the show & request specific episode topics

• Special behind the scenes private access-only episodes not published anywhere else!
  

WHY JOIN NOW: This space will eventually morph into a paid membership. Folks who join now will enjoy complimentary access to this private community space for free, right up until the official launch when it will become a paid subscription!

Lasting, revolutionary, disruptive change increasingly requires getting SUPER creative about financial strategy, business and legal structures, and values alignment in this day and age, where as a society we face massive challenges to individual's rights, opportunities, and freedoms.

Social entrepreneurs with big visions like our guest in this episode, So Good Pupusas and Pupusas for Education Founder Cecilia Polanco, don't allow themselves to be put in a box.

Instead of being restricted by the limitations of existing paths and models for social change, they create NEW ONES. They leverage what's available to create structures that allow for innovation and transformational change.

In this episode, listen to Cecilia's story of how she has followed her life experiences and purpose to create self-sustaining educational scholarships and jobs for her community, leveraging BOTH for-profit business and non-profit organizational models.

Free weekly trainings for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs:

https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup/

Learn more about Cecilia's work:

So Good Pupusas - http://www.sogoodpupusas.com

Pupusas 4 Education: https://www.pupusas4education.com

Cecilia S. Polanco is a local Durham community organizer and proud graduate of Durham Public Schools who believes #TheRevolutionWillBeWellFed. She is a daughter of the Salvadoran diaspora and indigenous peoples of El Salvador, a long time Durham resident, and local small business owner of So Good Pupusas social justice food truck, and founder of Pupusas for Education non profit community organization. She works in the fields of mental health advocacy, food and environmental justice, economic community development, youth development and organizing, and more just philanthropic and nonprofit systems. She values racial equity and anti-racism, intersectionality, the path from DEI to liberatory systems, building bridges of solidarity, freedom dreaming around decolonized strategies and systems, radical joy and celebration, and a visionary for a healing path forward together. As a facilitator she believes in co-creating brave spaces to grapple with both having experiences and being agents of harm, channeling our inner child in our work, and slowing down to prioritize connection, relationship, and heart centered work.

For the visionaries with big dreams to change the world:

Here's one of the top questions social entrepreneurs in the making have been asking me!

Here’s the thing. It doesn’t have to be either/or.

• You can have a business with a positive social mission that changes lives.

• You can have a non-profit that is financially strong and profitable.

• You can have BOTH a LLC & non-profit that compliment each other to support your vision.

Lasting, revolutionary, disruptive change increasingly requires getting SUPER creative about financial, business, and legal structure strategy.

Especially in this day and age when we face massive challenges to individual's rights, opportunities, and freedoms.

That’s why social entrepreneurs with BIG visions DON’T allow themselves to be put in a box.

Instead of being restricted by the limitations of existing paths and models for change, social entrepreneurs create NEW ONES.

So leverage structures currently available - like LLCs and NGOs - to build a foundation for innovative, transformational change.

Free weekly trainings for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs:

⁠https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup/⁠

Learn how to start the next big project/business weighing on your heart in my financial empowerment program for advocates and heart-centered entrepreneurs, Abundance Amplified: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/abundance-amplified

These lessons took me THOUSANDS of $$$s in investments and YEARS to learn, and eventually led me to embrace entrepreneurship:

It was 2017. I had been doing meaningful, impactful work I am super passionate about as an immigrants' rights lawyer and advocate. But something big was missing.

🔥 I felt a growing frustration starting to rage more and more inside.

🔥 I KNEW I could be doing more to help people, in ways out of the box of the current legal system — leveraging technology and new tools. 💜

🔥I WANTED to be able to express my creativity more. I wanted to get messy, innovate, and develop new solutions to some of the biggest problems.🎨

💡If only someone had walked me through these 3 lessons at the time:

1. Often, your body knows exactly what to do next, even if your mind doesn’t. Listen to what it’s telling you.

My body knew it was time to create my next dream project, which eventually became me and my husband's online business. Something was ready to get birthed inside.

As heart-centered advocates and entrepreneurs, we don’t create from our heads. Our hearts, souls, and bodies are where our greatest work comes from.

2. Pay attention to what you’re feeling most curious about. Your interests often point the way you are destined to go next.

There was a reason I kept finding myself listening to podcasts on online business & entrepreneurship. Business itself didn’t resonate with me as a mission-driven advocate. But my interests led me to the right innovative online tools needed to build my own path.

3. Frustration isn’t a bad thing. It’s a sign your energy is moving and you’re being pushed to grow into your next level.

These are the types of lessons I’m teaching heart-centered advocates and entrepreneurs how to get clear on to start their next impactful project or business in my newest financial empowerment program, Abundance Amplified: https://www.internationalempowerment.com/abundance-amplified/

Free weekly trainings for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs:

⁠https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup/⁠

What changed my relationship with money forever…

I had always conflated abundance with gluttony, thinking abundance meant having SO much that it was at the harm and expense of others. 😔

I definitely didn't want that. As a mission, impact-oriented advocate and social entrepreneur, I had zero interest in going in that direction.

But like many advocates and heart-centered entrepreneurs, this left me trapped at the other end of the spectrum: constantly struggling with money and living in scarcity. I thought this was the only option to live in alignment with my values. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Then I finally realized abundance is actually the MIDDLE point between scarcity and gluttony.💡
Abundance is about having just enough that you’re super comfortable. 🌊

This is the ideal state to be in to be able to turn the focus inward from just focusing on yourself to outward so you can truly serve others and expand your impact. 💜

More of the world’s future leaders need to understand the true meaning of abundance, as well as the strategies how to tap into it in their daily lives.

The world’s future desperately depends on it.
This is why I’m teaching my newest financial empowerment and business intimate group coaching program for heat-centered advocates and entrepreneurs, ⁠Abundance Amplified.

Message me on instagram @adinaappelbaum to learn more.

Abundance Amplified - https://www.internationalempowerment.com/abundance-amplified

Free weekly trainings for heart-centered, mission-driven, and social entrepreneurs:

⁠https://www.internationalempowerment.com/freegroup/⁠