I BUlieve
I BUlieve
1. I BUlieve: The "Apple Pie" Episode
Broadcasting out of Malibu, CA, co-hosts, husband and wife duo, Alison Pothier and Jules Williams, introduce the IBULIEVE series and why now more than ever, it is important that we investigate the impact of our beliefs on our lives and our world. Meaning “B and believe in U”, this first episode of the series invites listeners to consider what they truly believe and whether our beliefs are having the positive impact we intend. A first step in the process of positive manifestation and self-actualization, the couple invite listeners to hone their statement of beliefs.
Links referenced in this episode:
https://www.ibulieve.com/
https://www.alisonpothier.com/
https://www.juleswilliams.com/
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Excerpt from the original song and composition by Deepak Ramapryian
We are living in a world that doesn't really fully know what we believe anymore or aren't really ready to commit that to the rest of the world based on you know, maybe social media kickbacks and appropriateness and political correctness and and wondering whether our beliefs really stick so we said let's do our first podcast on where I BUlieve came from, why it matters, what can be gained from stopping and asking ourselves that question,"What's the power of belief?"
Jules_Williams:This is the brand new podcast from husband and wife team, Alison Pothier and Jules Williams,
Alison_Pothier:Podcasting from the BU in the heart of Malibu. I BUlieve means B and believe in U. For those who have followed our I BUlieve visual series, you'll know that we've been hosting characters within Malibu, but all of the episodes that we have been doing lead out of and back to one thing: the ability to be and believe in you in the world and the ability to embrace what we believe as the way we frame our lives ... how our beliefs frame our lives or why our beliefs even matter in framing our life. It is a global context for what I BUlieve is about and it's taken us a little bit of time to start to build the platform to reflect what it is we always intended for it which was to tell stories and to share insights that help people reflect on what it is we truly believe, remember what it is we truly believe and reconnect with that so our worlds reflect a little bit more of our own beliefs rather than those being imposed on us. We decided to host a podcast right now to get us started. Because we feel there's a program and there's a time in the world where people are ready and in need of remembering what it is we truly believe.
Jules_Williams:I know there's three things there at the
beginning:Our external reality is in Malibu, that's where we live, that's what we see every day in nature, that's where we interact so there's the BU component. And, as Al said earlier on, the BU is also "B and believe in U", as well as
the 'believing' itself:What do you Bulieve? It's so easy to say what do you believe in, but what we discovered in filming our ongoing visual mini docu-series is that it doesn't just roll off the tongue. When we speak words, when we write things down, we are giving birth to something and that means we're also owning it. On very simple terms, it's why people say, with an
affirmation or a vision:say it, state it, write it down. You're giving birth.
Alison_Pothier:And maybe the best place to start before we talk too much about the process and the program is Jules why don't you talk a little bit about how how long the statement I BUlieve has been in your mind and where it came from?
Jules_Williams:At the age I was at - I was in college, late 80s, I was about 20 and watched the film Bull Durham. There is a very specific scene in there where he gets asked by Susan Sarandon's character, and his name's Crash as a character in the film and it's like, well"what do you believe in Crash?" expecting him not to be able to answer or catching him on the hop. And he goes straight into a monologue of certain things that he believes in. It's in watching that that you can almost tangibly feel or experience some of the things he's believing and it shaped him. He goes, "I believe in the soul. I believe in the hanging curveball, high fivers, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self indulgent overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. There should be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf and the designated hitter. ... " Already there's a few references in there that are showing he is a purist with baseball if he believes there should be an amendment against the designated hitter. So you're starting to see 'that's interesting'. And you know, who's Susan Sontag? I didn't know she was I had to go look it up and it's okay, so he stands on the fence that it's self indulgent over rated crap, and it was real passion and statement of ownership. Right from that day, I would always check in with myself and write my own I believe, "What do I believe?" and of course that evolves as I have evolved myself or owned it or became more embodied into what those beliefs are as time went on.
Alison_Pothier:So what was your first I BUlieve, like? Was it poetic? Was it was a repeat of the Bull Durham thing or what was the process of writing your own first I BUlieve?
Jules_Williams:was a deep oul. I was a very intuitive oul, but my statement was.. probably not on the side of w at is my bugbear is today wit the memes of social media an statements that get said ... ut rather was, for example, I b lieve in Cymru which is Wales I BUlieve in Wales, but that's just a statement. "I BUlieve i the scrumhalf Pass", I think w s one of my statements I said. So when I look back on that, had to go and ask myself, is it a feeling? Is it an emotion? hich specific window of Wales d I love? So actually, you know, it becomes, you know, "I BU ieve in the ancient Celtic root of Wales, walking in a Woods hat's been touched since the dawn of time with that knowl dge and wisdom" or is t "I BUlieve in standing n top of the Sugarloaf, my loc l Welsh mountain and feeling hat all encompassing area arou d". If I went back and vi ited that now is it "I BUliev in the scrumhalf pass?", but what does that mean? I'm d ing this completely on the hop n w but am trying to explain th process. It would probably e, "I BUlieve in being the archi ect of getting that ball ut of the scrum as a scrum half and getting it away quickly to o en up opportunity." ... And then I could go down a whole differen ouevre
Alison_Pothier:For myself and I came at making a statement about what I BUlieve later. I BUlieve in the whole essence of he idea of needing to take tock and ask ourselves what we eally believe in. For me, the ery first statement that came o mind when I had to write my wn was, I BUlieve that what we elieve matters most in life. BUlieve that what we beli ve manifests into reality ... w at we truly believe, like it h s to be believed in the heart. S my beliefs were that what I believe matters the most a d that ultimately, I reall need to ask myself that questio, because that is creating .. and if what I'm creating is wo king for me, great, but if what I'm creating isn't working for me, I need to look at what believe that might be crea ing that outcome, because I BUl eve that life is born from the inside out, that what is happ ning to us is happening th ough us. And so all of that star ed me thinking, gosh, this i really important. We're living in a world against a backdrop o imposed belief. There is no ore factual news. And I'm not ure if there ever really was I mean, there's opinion. Th re was a time in my life where went over to England. I got sent over on an assignment sat in a group of internation l colleagues, Germans and Australians and Italians an English and there was a day th y were mad at me about someth ng ... because I was American. They said, "America showed up l te for the war". Apparently, the Germans weren't allowed to say a ything, but the Americans defini ely also couldn't. They were all mad at me for history whic actually preceded me, but I s id that's really interesting, I that what you're taught in scho l? I was taught history books re factual accounts of events an you're taught history is a fa tual account of events, b t your history book and my istory book, they don't say th same thing. We showed up and saved everybody, didn't we? Is't that what we were taught? Rea patriotism? Well done, U A, USA? And they were going, Oh, no, no, no, you should read our istory book. Well, that actual y is more significant to e as an understanding tha any in and out of the ar itself, because that means here's opinion in history. Th re's twists, there's spin and in the spin, that means there's erception and if there's pe ception, where is perception ve sus reality? And who decides what that is? It really sent m on a journey of understandi g that if I don't step back an think about what I BUlieve i all of it and my perception of vents, then what I am creat ng into the world can be an inf uenced perception and not nec ssarily an actualized one. And t's really time for me to understand that and think abo t what world do I want to crea e?
Jules_Williams:And that's the biggest part of when we consider this as a movement what I BUlieve is what do you believe? What do I BUlieve? What does the listener believe truly believe in, you know, if we look at my I BUlieve, I could read it out now, exactly the same in terms of I totally BUlieve our external reality is merely a reflection of what's going on internally. It will completely reflect what our beliefs are in our outside reality. So there's the two things What do you bulieve in? And wow, don't underestimate the power of your beliefs because you are creating into your outside world. It's interesting you talk about about the history books, I wonder Now, if you look at mainstream media, news, social media, there's global history being made, the same narrative is actually being given to all which is interesting in itself. So even then we were being manipulated and for want of a better word and being told a certain history to believe, whereas now, the world is.
Alison_Pothier:And you're right, it's global. So at the moment, on a global scale, the news says fear, and we say, okay, unless you don't say, okay, or it says, believe this or believe that and, you know, I quite like the kickback. I like the kickback against thoughts imposed. I don't necessarily like the judgement of everybody else's beliefs, because I think that shuts down the freedom of expression, which is necessary. But freedom of expression versus imposing that expression on everybody else's is, you know, when we're talking about, I BUlieve, it's not I BUlieve and therefore you are x or you are y. It's just like, no... I'm currently believing this thing and it is manifesting into a reality in my life and that's not working for me - means go back and look at that belief again, and see how that's working for you, and where did it come from? And who gave it to you? And where did it start? And is that the only possibility for you, and by not doing it, we're subjecting ourselves to Agendered belief, imposed belief. And that moves us away from actualization of the self and the soul, which I think for myself, I BUlieve is the purpose of being here. So I find it incredibly important to stop and ask ourselves that question like why now? because it's most important now.
Jules_Williams:It's never been more. So I literally BUlieve it's never been as important as it is now to reclaim that ability. Because it is an ability, even 30 years ago, it was 24. Seven, then. If we fast forward 30 years, this was pre internet, pre tablets, mobile phones, computers, social networking, and all of these things. And it was still people were rushing around hundred miles an hour, and not taking the time to take a breath and to say, 'what is it I truly buliev in,' and all of us are guilty f it. And you know, it is part f the modern world, but statemen s are being posted or rattl d about and told of each oth r that we have actually been fe? Where did I get that belief? H s it been imposed on me? Has t been indoctrinated into me? H s it been something I've actual y felt/experienced, and yet, and I love that. I'm gonna own t at. There's going to be both sid s in there, but there's a lot o us that do get told what to elieve, and perpetuate hat. Whereas actually, if we t ke that time and switch off, a d go within, it might not actu lly reso
Alison_Pothier:I think we're talking about discernment. A client once said to me recently, because I was choosing not to buy into a certain direction, on the news. And a lot of people were in fear as a result of following that direction. It just, I wasn't afraid, I'm just choosing something different. And he said, I would love some of your ignorance, just to save me from my fear for a day. And then he paused. He said, it's not the right word is it. I said It's the opposite of ignorance actually. It's informational discernment. I know the fear is it's ignorant. But if I truly can get behind my beliefs, there's nothing to fear. And I can even engage in beliefs and safety in a world that's telling me to be afraid. I can manifest safety. And I can discern agenda, which is incredibly important for me to be able to do, because it returns me to my intuition, and it returns me to the ability to trust and believe in myself. And the I BUlieve comes back to life. I think that's what you're saying is like, ask yourself, is that coming not just from others, but is that coming from an emotional fear of believing? Are you afraid to BUlieve in what you believe, or afraid not to believe in what you BUlieve? Like, okay, it came from maybe your religious background, so if I don't believe in it, oh, my gosh, what am I going to do now? Or it came from your parents, oh, I'm going to get rejected, abandoned, and here's the repercussions in life. It translates into some pretty heavy repercussions if I don't believe if I don't follow - or not. How can you create a new belief around your safety in that.
Jules_Williams:That's the beauty I think of going through the process of unraveling your own I BUlieve. The beauty is you start to see the jigsaw components that go together with this, it's like, aah, this is an authenticity of me, this is an actualization of me, this is a release of fear of me, hence the opposite. So, you know, it's no coincidence, I suppose that fears an acronym that can be made up as False Evidence Appearing Real. So if it's false evidence appearing real, then it's a false belief that might be appearing real in our world, and we'll make it that way. But by doing a self investigation to find out what it is you truly believe in, you suddenly get fruits of that labor, so to speak. So you start to recognize where our abandonments were put in place as a program in us when we were younger, and start transmuting those into a self worth and self love and self appreciation and self ownership. So you feel freeer, then to say, you know I actually BUlieve this, as opposed to have been, through rhetoric, just rolling it off the tongue that I BUlieve that. And that's part of the the joy of going through, I think, the process of finding out your I BUlieve.
Alison_Pothier:I feel there is an emotional freedom that comes in re connecting with and taking forward your own authentic beliefs and dropping off the ones that aren't working for us. You will always be right in life about what you believe. It will always prove true because the heart and the subconscious mind will co-create that truth and that reality for you. We BUlieve in the power of the subconscious as the creator within. And we BUlieve that that will translate out in the world. So you will always be right. But there's some things you don't want to be right about. Like do you always want to be right about how bad it's going to be for you? Do you always want to be right about how you're going to fail that thing that you can question in yourself that came from somebody else that got given to you for some failing that happened to you in school at seven years old, and the teacher tells you you're a big fat failure and now that now that truth is playing out. That can be healed, that can be reconciled, that can be corrected, but it requires First, the understanding that you running the belief in the first place. What we're talking about is like stage one of a manifestation process that changes the world from the inside out. We're talking about phase one. First, start with an understanding of what you think you BUlieve. And then move from there and keep asking, keep asking, do I really where does that come from.
Jules_Williams:It's almost chipping away, you know, the cliche of the block of stone and the model sculptures already in there. You're just chipping away the stone to reveal it. We're looking for almost like the poetic statement, the true heart-centered beliefs of what we truly BUlieve in, but you will uncover in chipping away all those stones and some of the ugly bits of rock, old limiting statements which were actually hidden I beliefs like all men are bastards, or, I never get promoted. I'm always looked over. The flip side of all the negatives of those beliefs, which you might have to go through, and that's a process to start with, well hang on, is it time? Should I keep saying, I'm fat? I'm unfit? these things, because you wouldn't write them down If you were doing your poetic statement. I BUlieve I am fat. But you might have to go through the swamp of some of our very powerful statements, which- what you're saying earlier on- which I BUlieve implicitly, our subconscious will go out and create in the world, these statements we say to ourselves. So it's going to be a double win. We can reduce, burn off, clear, heal - whatever you want to say to old limiting statements - as well as get to the fruits of the heart centered beliefs.
Alison_Pothier:Yeah, it's a it's a much more private process than people realize. When we're sitting down, we're asking ourselves what we truly BUlieve you start a ball rolling on something that's a bit of an internal journey and to come to something that gets more and more authentic and is working better and better for us. Because sometimes we say we BUlieve something that's not manifesting at all in our lives, not proving itself true at all. So if that's not actually coming out in the world around you, I BUlieve in peace, but everyone's around me is war. I'd be looking at the unrest inside of me. And really getting in touch with that that's co creating into into the world that I'm judging something quite harshly in myself or I'm hiding something there.
Jules_Williams:Bouncing off that when you're saying it is, and I know we've had this conversation before. Pre when we even met, we both recognized when The Secret for example, became you know, the Zeitgeist at the time. It's like well hang on. Yes, you can manifest and bring exactly what you want into your life. But your subconscious will bring up the blocks, the hurdles, the things you need to work on to get to That. There's the aspect of that in doing your I BUlieve, isn't it and doing your statement, we are going to face the hurdles to be able to imbue that statement.
Alison_Pothier:We haven't talked about this. But both Jules and I are coaches. We're both intuitives. We're also both filmmakers, and consultants and advisors to people on change and transformation. We're storytellers, helping people tell better narratives, both by telling narratives, but also by coaching people through the narrative they're telling each other. So you can probably better contextualize why we're saying certain things the way we're saying them. Going through my own process, The Secret's out, everybody's reading this thing and I was well aware at that point that one can write down I want, I BUlieve, or this is available to me now, etc. And what you're going to get is the true script. And in my case, I had been internally somewhat programmed where anger was a form of love an I was aspiring to love, relational love, better love than I had experienced. And boy was I bringing in angry people and I was working at the time. I was studying energy psychology, and the lady who was teaching me was like, you have this inverted truth, this true belief, it's 100%, written inside of you that anger is a form of love. It's just not working well for you. So it comes from a story, it has its history - I knew exactly what she was talking about - she was absolutely right. And how do you unwind that story? Well, she's like, well, they're not actually the same thing. You know, maybe look again, and look again, and look, again. Re-write that understanding, and then go, manifest love, then go manifest what you're asking for. So if what you're hoping for in life has this little underneath belief that undermines it, you're gonna get what undermines that thing as a full truth right in front of you.
Jules_Williams:I know when we talk about it and when we're both coaching, or running workshops, or retreats is, be it our emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and physical. Those four are very big components of ourselves. So when we say a statement of belief, it might sound the most poetic and the most lovely, and the most beautiful, and the most enchanting belief because we BUlieve in it. I've many client over the years where I BUlieve in being generous, and I BUlieve in celebrating other people's birthdays, or making that apple pie for the neighbor. And truly that isn't a belief deep down to the soul. Because when you start questioning it, the well what about me? Why do they never take care of my birthday? why do they never make me a pie? And suddenly it unravels a bit. And that's, all of what we're saying is when we come up is sometimes, to get to what you truly BUlieve in, you have to realize what you no longer need to BUlieve in.
Alison_Pothier:You mean, you no longer have to make apple pies?
Jules_Williams:You can do it because you genuinely, unconditionally can make that apple pie without any expectation of a return favor.
Alison_Pothier:Yeah, what you're trying to say is just, make sure you're not making the apple pie in order to be loved and not abandoned. If you're happy to do it, because it's just something you are doing and it has no need for some other tie, you're good.
Jules_Williams:I'm using the apple pie to say, you know, any of those archetypes that we see. And when we clear: mothering the mother, the need to be needed the being of massive value to everyone else, because we're trying to fill a hole inside I'm getting that returned - told through the apple pie.
Alison_Pothier:One of the things that brought up the podcast was that actually durin the interviews for our BUogra hies series, most of them t rned around and said, You do re lize this is a whole process you have put us through and in fact you could run a whole progr m on this process is what w saw happen. And what they saw h ppen. We thought, okay, we're go ng to do this series, and i's going to show how people thro gh their life stories and he things that happened to th m, and the beliefs they fram d, created this life. This is hat they've done with those eliefs. And people had some eally deep stories to tell bout what framed what they Ulieve in now, but when we pened up the floor for an nterview and thankfully hadn't urned the cameras on because I hink they'd have frozen even ore - they froze. You can't lea with what do you BUlieve Everybody got agh - they choke. So we ended up learning that he most important thing was j st Where did you come from? Wha's your background? What were those influences? What did they ave to say? what'd you take fro that? etc. And then we wrote th ir I BUlieve from what we heard them say, and then they debated t. And even when we turned t e camera on for them to actually finally present what they the could own, their mouth still d dn't necessarily state it. Bec use they could see this person i their eyes or that person i their eyes saying, Do yo really? or are you allowed t say that? and so it became a h aling process, even with the cameras on and we said, you kno, something, it would take ev ry single one of us including urselves that same process, and ven after it was recorded, we' still be asking ourselves, do I really BUlieve that. But wha we watched is everyone who ot very clear, had extraordinary repercussions follow those ideos. So in fact, what they sta ed evolved into an even bigger r ality for them.
Jules_Williams:We actually got to witness I suppose that energy in motion, didn't we?They went through a process, they stated it out into the world, and that energy in motion made changes, changes that they weren't prepared for. The whole essence of that comes to what we said right at the very start is - there is a real power in words and our emotional statement of those words. The terminology of you know, energy in motion emotion. So if we state word with emotion, they do have real power. And that's what A and I are talking about - why i's so important in this period of time, to reclaim your langu ge and to reclaim your stateme ts of what it is you BUlieve in or all of us. Because so many of us are being told what to say. W're having words put into our mouths. That's a whole r cky road for us to go down - con rol for want of a better word r a dis-ownership of our own se ves or a lack of our intuition. hat a perfect time to reclaim hat so that all our words are sp ken from an authenticity and an own
Alison_Pothier:They resonate as our own truth. (Yeah.) And when everybody is in their own truth, effectively, you become the puzzle piece you're here to be. We're all here to resonate with the actualized self, the part of us that is intended to be and become and express itself out into the world. Most of which has been layered on top of and dummied down and twisted into trying to get everybody to be the same puzzle piece stacked on top of each other so we never can design the picture we're here to co-create in this world. But the more you come back to your own story, your own beliefs, your own truth, your own expression of yourself which generally actually amplifies into a loving expression of itself in the world. It can connect with other people who are doing the same and co create and co collaborate into what is actually here to manifest and actualize into the world becomes very important. We talk about this as set beliefs. People also talk about mind, you know, it's in the mind, let's get mind exercises, let's get your mind around this and we think no - beliefs come from the heart. The mind follows in fact, it has to add up and accept them, the beliefs, they're truths, they got defined, as soon as we popped out into this planet, if not - for those of you who can go there - before... and brought in with you. But those beliefs have been being unwound and shifted and changed and impacted by the world around with a whole journey back to the authentic version of you. Which is why I BUlieve has be you in it. You're probably wondering why we're saying be you in it because we spell I BUlieve, for the purposes of this program is I BU...lieve.
Jules_Williams:Sometimes we skip over the big soul journey. But we also like confronting that head on and whether you do believe in the soul, I BUlieve that I BUlieve in the soul. That is one of my beliefs. But if whether you believe in it or not, there is in our DNA we call it familial lines. So you've got definitely within your own DNA, some of granddad's story or great granddad's story or great great great granddad's story or great great grandmother's story, etc. So whichever way you look at it, you know, the world has gone through a patriarchal fearful, fire and brimstone course of religion, for example. So we might be born into this life with the most spiritually nourishing denomination or church or even just a spiritual life that we're living. But that doesn't mean to say that there could be a very deep rooted anger or a frustration or a feeling of being abandoned by God for want of a better word. I say that because everyone might have many different words for God, or even a higher source or a higher self, whichever way you want to go. But it's funny that whether you call it a past life or whether you call it just DNA passed down from, you know, your great grandparents We do bring these beliefs with us the second we pop into the world as well. They might not be as obvious to us because we didn't go through a physical experience in this life, that we can remember, we can relate to, we can go back and heal, we can go back and clear. (Yeah,) but it's something we brought with us from a past life that takes a bit more unearthing if you know what I mean.
Alison_Pothier:I think it's clear though, what you're saying is, at the end of the day, our beliefs are things that frame our existence. They have been in us, not necessarily consciously, from the beginning. And when we start to try to articulate our beliefs, we tend to start with the surface, I BUlieve that party/person should win and that one should lose. Okay, well, that's fair enough. Start there, start on the surface. And then ask and then ask and ask, Where did that come from? And there will be beliefs where you don't know. But it's okay in that scenario, you don't need to necessarily know where it comes from the analysis of it. But you can ask yourself, whether it's working for you, and what the process is, in letting that go. What have you got to lose in evolving into a new one? Are you afraid that the new one will fail you? Are you afraid that the old one is the only outcome or opportunity? It's a healing process. We're living in a world which is blame, name, shame. It's project out ,rather than evolve from within and transform from from the inside out. And it's not working for us because it's in denial of, and lacking accountability, for the Co-creation, and the collaboration of everything we see. We're involved. But if we evolve, we can evolve and transform what we're seeing. But it has to be through self accountability, rather than name, shame, blame, look within if it's out there.
Jules_Williams:The whole construct almost of political correctness, if you look at it on one level is to reduce our vocabulary, to reduce our ability to have a voice, to reduce our ability to state a belief. Whereas that's not what I BUlieve is all about. For example, when we talked there about this party or that party, when you deep dive it you go well, actually, what do I BUlieve? And then you keep questioning it? And you question again, then question again. It will only then go deeper to our own investigation, or actualization that we're after. So really it will come out, I BUlieve in authenticity, I BUlieve in honesty of humanitarianism. And there'll be qualities that you would like to see in a person in a particular party, whereas political correctness would want to take you down the fear based side, the reductive statement of life side, to shut you down, as opposed to our own spiritual and human essence of ourselves. And that would come out by asking, even if it's a racist statement, if it's a feminist statement, if it's a sexuality statement, all of those ones that are always punishable and negative words. That isn't what I BUlieve would come anyway, from our own heart, it comes down to the humanity and spirituality trying to be shoehorned into this conflict, this duality this two way of thinking. It's not even one way of thinking, it's two ways. Let's create conflict, the narrative is trying to be written that way, and beliefs are being imposed on us. And it's almost like, take back our beliefs, you know, that that should be the March, take back my own belief, you know, for ourselves.
Alison_Pothier:Take back, myself. Is take back being you in the world. Take
Jules_Williams:Myself, yeah. back the ability and the freedom of self expression. Not imposed expression, self expression. The version of you that's you. We talk about diversity in organizations and things like that and organizations have talked about, you know, how to classify people in order to serve them better which is actually undiverse. We're not talking about classification of beliefs, the acceptability of beliefs. We're talking about a human journey. Everybody not classifying You know, this versus that, there's no polarization, it's all an AND existence. It all is okay. What if all of you could be loved and accepted? What if 100% of the human version of yourself in all of its bumps and bruises can be accepted, that's what we're working on. And I BUlieve that's the goal is the ability to say that I matter in all ways and have that reflected back at me in the world. And so any belief undermining that inside of me should be looked at and reconciled. Not blaming the worl and telling it it needs to ch nge but taking myself through hat it is I don't really bel eve about my own self worth th t's emanating that in the world and creating a reflection back a me of le It's endemic out in the world at the moment. The rage, the fear, the anger, the blame. The negativity, it's a pe fect storm of all those ne ative emotions, which means al of us, every single one of us in some form or co creating th t because exactly what you're s ying there. We haven't fully re onciled ourselves to love and acceptance to the deepest art of our marrow. And so what etter place to start is okay, th external judgments and rage - b it the keyboard warrior to the placard blamer - it's just fuel ng, in our outside world that we're all seeing, and what s going on externally. So to t ke that breath and go, okay where is that disc mbobulation within me? What laye s are getting in the way of me i ternally to get to that love and acceptance.
Alison_Pothier:Like you says it's fueling in the world around us as fires rage everywher, it is fueling fire. It's f eling rage. And every time w say I don't love that person I don't love that in the world. We're saying I don't love that i me. And I wouldn't accept that in me, I wouldn't find t at acceptable in me. Okay. o therefore, you're living internally in a polarized existe ce within yourself and creati g a polarized existence in the world. Where does that come f om? Who told you that's right, that's wrong, that's good, hat's bad. that's accept ble, that's not. This is why t is is the beginning of a large journey. And then this is why t e people who had to do their stories at the beginning said, Oh, my goodness, what I've had t go through to come to even tate this much and I know I'll c ange it right after I walk a ay, but what I've said here i beautiful within me and is a t uth within me so far. It's rue, you know, we've seen what ot produced from that creat on, on the other side, from o many beautiful hearts worki g so hard to be able to make hose statements. And we decid d on the basis of that, not o the basis of the judgment of th world around our own selve, but as an invitation to help nyone else who's inter sted in that. Jules and I, we ar coaches. So if people liste ing do feel that they they' e aware enough of the confl ct within or the desire to trans orm their own worlds, their own existences and you're feelin a little bit stuck, you can re ch out to Jules at his website he's www.JulesWilliams. om and I'm Alison Pothier, ww.Alison Pothier.com. You can see that written in the otes for the episode. And you ust write to us and say, Hey, l stened to your podcasts. And e'll give you 10% off on a co ching session, if you lik. We are also planning to help people work out your I BUli ve statement Jules you want to t lk about that?
Jules_Williams:If I say I've condensed of what we have been talking about is to open that door for self investigation to find out what each individual believes we are gonna go thr ugh that process of starting the questioning. Starting to turn th page internally and write th se beliefs and to start the in estigation of those beliefs. I use that word a lot because hat is actually what it is. W're going to do a self invest gation, a self deep dive, a se f unfolding to say what it is b t framed obviously purely by hat is it I truly BUlieve in And then once we start etting that out the question o the question on the question n the question, do I belie e that? Where did that belief c me from? Was I given that be ief? Do I truly believe th t? Am I fearful that I'll be to d off if I don't believe that nymore? Why do I believe tha? Yes, I believe that because I went through it physically an it shaped me. No, I don't beli ve that anymore because some ne battered it into me for sev n years of childhood as a belief. No, I don't belie e it any longer and let that go. That'll be the process. That' l get us going. And we're going o give you time to write it out and to start framing that statem nt of beliefs that you can tru y own and love owning those wi hin you.
Alison_Pothier:So part one will be getting to the ability to even have an outline of a statement. It doesn't have to be the end statement. Really, it's the beginning one ... and part two, if that really motivates you would be to start honing in on that and starting the process with that to get it working for you so that your world can start transforming to what you hope it to be, hope it to look like, want it to be a statement of... It would be wonderful if, at some point, you loved your I BUlieve so much you'd frame it. One of the things about our platform we're hoping for is obviously to continue to build content to support everybody who is trying to work their way back, be that through programs, stories, narratives or podcasts, and also a movement. So at some point, you know, when people are ready, we just start sharing and inspiring. At the end of every visual story, the person throws out the challenge. Now it's your turn, what do you BUlieve? That's where we're at in this podcast, we want to come to that challenge for you. Now, it's your turn. What do you BUlieve. We've shared a lot today about what we BUlieve. We'd like to challenge anybody listening to this podcast, to stop even for an hour today, or 15 minutes or five minutes and say, do I actually believe that thing I've been believing all this time?
Jules_Williams:But that's the beauty that's come out of our process of going through it and our sharing of that process is - we can revisit and hone and recreate our I BUlieve, for the rest of our life. It's a tool. And it's a tool of almost our lifetime's work of self-actualization tools formed through an I BUlieve statement for ourselves. People get worried, like I said, on two points, one, when they start to say it, they have to truly own those words. So hence, there's their hesitation. And two, they think you're going to pick up the pen and suddenly there's going to be a work of Shakespeare out there of what you believe in that's, that's done for good. It's a process. It is definitely one of those where it's a journey as well as a destination and that's the joy of it. To take that pressure off ourselves and to say: I'm going start with one belief, I BUlieve in this do I believe in that? Where does it come from? What's the flip side of that belief. And before you know it, you've taken some time for yourself, you've come out of the fray of the noise that's out in the world and are reconnecting with yourself, your discernment, your intuition. And in essence, if you want to call it that - your soul.
Alison_Pothier:To bring some closure to our conversation today, would it be helpful if we published our I BUlieve statements onto the website so people could go there and have a look and see on I bulieve.com, so www I bulieve.com.
Jules_Williams:And that's bulieve... BU.
Alison_Pothier:Yeah, I BU...lieve. You can go there, you can have a look at our own beliefs. You can have a look at our background, you can look at the stories, the BUographies that we did that we're referring to and see how those guys ended up making the statements of their beliefs in their little seven minute episodes. Their visual stories. If you do connect with us there and you're interested in a one on one process to put your I BUlieve together just write to us on that contact page, quote this podcast and we'll turn that into a one on one coaching session for you for how you can start down the road for yourself reconciling and framing beliefs that work for you and the world around you. That's our goal. Our goal is to challenge you Now it's your turn. As Al said earlier on. What do you BUlieve?