I'm trying to not forget what it was like to have the mentality of working and making $10 an hour and being where I am today, where I'm like, my first, my first commission check in sales. Do you want to know how much it was? $70,000. Just on a random Tuesday into my bank account. So there you go. Dropped into my bank account. Now, of course, taxes are our thing. So, what I ended up with was $45,000 in the bank account. But still, if today you're getting $45,000 dropped into your bank account, how do you feel about that? Feels pretty good. And here's the thing, I don't know the neuroscience of money is a thing, but I have a degree in neuroscience and I love talking about money. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about how your brain, literally, this is not just mindset stuff. This is actual neuroscience. Will limit you from how much money you make. Because there's a part of your brain called the interior singular cortex and its job is to create a mental model of reality and it's constantly checking against your lived experience. Hey, does this match what we expect life to be? And when it doesn't match the expectation, it triggers like an error response and there's a dip in dopamine. And in that moment right there, that moment when you're like, oh, fuck, this is not what I thought was gonna happen, and I'll explain what that looks like tangibly in a second. You have two choices you can make. It's like when a railroad has like two tracks, you can either flip to the switch to the amygdala, which is fear, which is fight or flight, safety, and safety to the brain means keeping you exactly the same. Scientifically, that is what the job of the brain is to do when it's trying to keep you safe. It's to keep you exactly the same. So, how many times have you heard other people making more money? Yes. Are there billionaires out there? Yes. Are there trillionaires out there? Yes. And I might have just triggered you. But stay with me. Does that exist? Yes. Okay. Your interior singular cortex, when the dopamine drops and there's an error, it's to give you an example. You might be watching this video right now and being like, she made $70,000 on one commission check, that's not possible. That's your interior singular cortex being like, bro, we're gonna keep you the same. We're gonna keep you the same. Nothing's happening. You're gonna stay at $10 an hour, wherever you're at. So, your response when you hear other people making more money is like, bro, how did you do that? Tell me what your Tuesday looks like. Your prefrontal cortex. Your prefrontal cortex is the part of your brain that's in charge of emotional regulation, decision making, um, thinking about the future, and impulse control. In that moment, when the dopamine drops and there's an error, and that error is picked up from your interior singular cortex, that is the difference between protection and action. So, why? Because creativity generates dopamine. Dopamine is the fuel that gets your brain to travel to the prefrontal cortex. So, all that to say, I spent a lot of my life when I was making $10 an hour and I heard people making more, I was like, that's impossible. I was really stuck in survival mode. I had such a poverty mindset. And it wasn't until this person, Rachel Rogers, I'm not a huge fan of her as a person, but I'm very much a fan of the concept that she has. She was the person who allowed me to switch the train tracks to my prefrontal cortex and say like, oh shit, it's okay to want money. It's okay to desire this. And it's possible. So whatever you need to do to convince yourself that it's possible and it's for you, no matter what diagnosis you have, no matter where you live, no matter what your education level is, it is fucking possible. That's the difference between the amygdala or prefrontal cortex. So, the thing that gives you leverage to get your brain to start routing towards the prefrontal cortex and away from the amygdala in that situation is you have to ask yourself this question. What would need to be true to make that possible? Why? Because creativity generates dopamine. Dopamine is the fuel that gets your brain to travel to the prefrontal cortex. So, all that to say, I spent a lot of my life when I was making $10 an hour and I heard people making more, I was like, that's impossible. I was really stuck in survival mode. I had such a poverty mindset. And it wasn't until this person, Rachel Rogers, I'm not a huge fan of her as a person, but I'm very much a fan of the concept that she has. She was the person who allowed me to switch the train tracks to my prefrontal cortex and say like, oh shit, it's okay to want money. It's okay to desire this. And it's possible. So whatever you need to do to convince yourself that it's possible and it's for you, no matter what diagnosis you have, no matter where you live, no matter what your education level is, it is fucking possible. That's the difference between the amygdala or prefrontal cortex. So, the thing that gives you leverage to get your brain to start routing towards the prefrontal cortex and away from the amygdala in that situation is you have to ask yourself this question. What would need to be true to make that possible?
