Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

experience. I'm so happy to be spending some time with you

today. And very excited to be sharing an interview with mouse.

He wants to share his story how he was stuck in pain and misery

and depression for so long. But then got out of it step by step

and is now living a life where he attracts more and more people

that are in alignment with him. He has a job that fulfills them

and make him feel really good. He's able to help people when it

comes to their finances. And yeah, was able to get out of the

struggle. And I reached out to him, because I feel it's very

valuable to hear stories like that, especially when you are

still stuck in pain and misery. Or if you feel better, but you

want to find like minded people. This is what my platform is

about. I'm all about showcasing or Yeah, picking out guys that I

feel are awesome role models, people that if I had kids, I

want them to look up to. There's too many bullies and aggression

out there who are in power and in focusing and putting our

attention on. Good guys. So to say guys who went through

hardship, and are living from the heart now, I feel we can

make this world a better place. So here we go, mouse. It's your

show from now on. And, yeah, share your story with us where

it all began.

Sure. I mean, first of all, thanks for having me. It's

awesome. I've listened to a couple of your podcasts. And I

really liked them so far. So appreciate you having me on

today. So I'm looking forward to spending some time with you.

So I guess we'll start

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. I grew up in a

mall town of 600 people, so v ry small hick town, farmer

own.

And I, you know, had a really good growing up, but you know,

nothing too bad or nothing like that. I played lots of sports

and hockey, you know, lots of outdoor activities, all that

good stuff. up to the age of 16. You know, I got into

skateboarding and snowboarding. So I kind of quit hockey, I had

some, you know, issues there. I was always picked on in high

school. You know, I was the skateboarder kid in town, or you

know, people that were you know, had money or preppies, we call

them anyways. I mean, I was always nice and friendly, but I

didn't you know, I wasn't in part of that clip kind of deal.

So I was kind of like the black sheep, which was fine. I was

okay with that. I was I had a happy growing, growing up all

that good stuff. And then, when I was 18, you know, I decided to

go to go to college somewhere. And I didn't really think about

it. I just knew I was really good with numbers. I did really

well in high school, I was an honor student in most classes,

and really good with numbers and stuff like that. And I like to

draw, not that I was an artist, but no drawing on the computer

and drafting and stuff like that. So I was interested in

that. So I went jumped straight into high college from high

school, went to Nate and Edmonton and I took design

adopting engineering. And I got a job as a mechanical engineer,

technologist. And later on I you know, I did that for 16 years,

and I became a professional technologist. So that was great,

but we'll go jump back a bit there to my younger years. So

you know, when I moved to Edmonton, I actually got really,

really good at snowboarding. And I got recognized. So I got a

couple store sponsors within Edmonton, you know, I go to all

the contests, jump contests and handrail contests in Edmonton,

and then I would probably get the top five every time. One

year I actually went every single contest I went in, which

was pretty cool.

I went into some contests in Jasper and ferny and Lake

Louise, those areas I placed first tied for second and third.

And some of those so like I said, I was I had a really

successful career, you know, snowboarding and it was really

fun, but you know, it didn't pay the bills. So I always had my

serious career as a mechanical engineer, technologist. And

things are going great. You know, I was having a good time

in my young 20s I go to the bar, I'd meet lots of people. I spent

a lot of time on the bar. I won't lie. But you know, I

played a lot of pool so I wouldn't go to the bar to drink

and party I'd go to play pool pretty much but I went a lot so

I did end up getting really good that pool and I play in a pool

league right now as well.

But I, you know, my young 20s I had a great life, you know, I

was unstoppable, felt undefeated, I was, you know,

great health, um, and life was good. And then, you know, I fell

in love with a girl younger.

That didn't turn out how heartbroken I was. I'm a very

emotional reactive person. So you know, I wear my heart on my

sleeve. So I had my heart broken at a young age. And then around

age 25, I had another girl that I fell in love with, that didn't

turn out very well. And I mean, some friends got involved, and

it was not a good situation. So I kind of stepped away from from

dating.

And then, you know, a couple years later, like, 1015 years

later, I reconnected with a girl. And we started dating

again, and she had a child and she's someone I really liked

beforehand. It just didn't work out. So I gave her a second try.

Um, this happened around 2015 when oil crashed.

So I ended up by, you know, mean her data for two years. And it

didn't end very well, you know, she was that type of person. I'm

not, no, I don't want to sit here and badmouth anybody, it

just, she just wasn't a good person to me or anything in my

life. She was very

negative, and kind of, I don't know, like I said, I don't want

to bad mouth here. But after that relationship, you know, I

was heartbroken. And I kind of think I had some type of post

traumatic stress syndrome come from that, because anytime I met

a girl, like, four months later, I met a girl and I just I get

bad anxiety to my stomach. And I start to feel like throwing up

and stuff, and I got to get out of that situation. So I didn't

handle dating very well. So I just stayed single, because the

best way to avoid drama is staying single. I mean, I I've

always wanted to fall in love. But I found the pain of having

my heart broken was way worse than any love I've ever felt. So

to me, being single and staying away from girls, maybe hobby, if

I, if I, you know, became happy, learn to be happy with myself

being single. And you know, I've always liked being with a girl

like my ex girlfriend, like we were together every single day,

we were best friends. And that was great. But the pain of you

know, not her not wanting me ever again kind of deal and her

moving on and stuff. I just couldn't handle it. Um, at that

time, the oil crashed, and I was laid off after 16 years with my

job. So I wasn't in a very good emotional state.

Our economy in Alberta was the worst it's ever been since I've

ever been alive.

We've had some bad times. But this is the worst because I went

two years for searching for a job and couldn't find nothing in

life. You

know, I even look for work in other fields. But because of my

experience, and the wage I was working before and my workflow

background, you know, they were saying, why do we hire you if

you're just going to jump back into the oil when it picks up?

Because that was the thought going around? Right?

So I couldn't find a job for two years. So I mean, I did leave

with a severance package for my job. You know, I was debt free,

financially good. I had a mortgage and a nice car. But I

couldn't find work for two years, I got a nice severance

package. So I use this smartly. I was always good with money.

And finances. Like I said, I was debt free. And then during that

two years of not working, I you know, I was looking for work, I

sent over 200 job applications probably had about 12 or 13

interviews, maybe things just weren't going my way. So I

pretty much spent two years doing nothing but saving money

looking for work. And I'm staying away from people I just

I wasn't very sociable anymore. I was that type of person, I'd

love to see my friends and family, I would talk my ear off.

Whenever I see them. I was just that social, sociable type of

person. But those years when I was when I had a heartbreak and

loss, my joy just didn't feel like talking to anybody. So I

became a hermit. And I mean, which was great because you

know, it was gave me time to heal. Although, you know, my

finances kind of dwindle, I start going into debt, because I

couldn't find work. And life just I didn't know what to do.

Um, I wasn't like too concerned about it. But I knew I wasn't

heading in the right direction. So I started looking at other

opportunities. And my mom was helping me out. She works in

finance. She's a bookkeeper. And she came across this one ad for

a finance career. And she wanted to check it out. And before she

sat down with them and found out what it was all about, she

invited me to come.

So I went check it out. And it was a financial broker,

financial advisor, and to be 100% honest, so with my

engineering career of 16 years, probably after about eight or 10

years, I started thinking like, do I really want to be doing

engineering the same job for the rest of my life? Like I didn't

get a promotion, I kept getting, you know, more money, more

responsibility, but I pretty much did the exact same job for

16 years. So I was getting old.

You know, what am I going to do with my life and I mean, I

wasn't looking

changed, I was just having these thoughts and I, you know,

started the dream, what would I like to do, if I ever found the

ideal job, and I've always liked helping people like meeting and

talking to people. So I came up with an idea to start a company

like Google.

So instead of you typing in searching for things, you could

just call me. You know,

if I knew a plumber, or I knew, you know, I had so much

experience in my life, you know, driving around the city, the

fastest way to get here, there, I always thought it would be a

good idea that I could, you know, if someone wanted any type

of advice, like, they could call me, but, you know, I was just

daydreaming kind of deal. Um, and then, you know, I got laid

off, which was, to me, it was the best thing ever, I felt like

this big weight lifted off me because I knew I was getting a

severance package. And I wasn't sure if this was the job or, or

type of career I wanted to do for the rest of my life. And I

found out shortly after that, that that job that I was with

for 16 years, you know, the oil industry was a very poisonous

atmosphere, very negative.

But I didn't realize that I didn't know I always thought I

was a positive person. But you know, at that point, people

started saying that I was being a little bit negative, and I

didn't know, you know, didn't know what's going on. So

anyways, whenever I found this new career, and I thought it was

great, because it actually had a lot of the ideas in place that I

wanted to do when I was brainstorming at my old job.

With my new financial job, you know, I'd cover many areas in

finance. Um, you know, like, I do so many different things that

I'm kind of like your one stop shop for everything financial.

So now, I had that idea of giving people advice. If they

needed something, they could just call me. Now I am that

person. They need advice on anything financial, you know,

I'm an expert now, so I can help them, which is great. But

another part of my business, too, is meeting people

networking. So I just like meeting other people, not

necessarily for business, but just to make connections, but by

making connections with other people's and their businesses.

When I talk to a client and say, I'm sitting down doing some

finances, but I never say Oh, your your kitchen isn't

finished, what are you doing or doing some renovations, like,

Hey, you know what I know a guy that can help you. And so that

idea of being the go to person helping people out was just,

this is just awesome. So I've really loved my career. I've

been doing it for almost four years now. Now another thing

about this career that I like is it provided a very positive

motivational atmosphere 100% 180% different are no 180

degrees different from my engineering job. And the

negative poisonous environment. This is you know, you bring

people up honestly, if you're not our office, and nobody high

fives you within five minutes is weird. Like, that's the type of

positivity people always happy to see, you know, if you need

help people there. So just being getting out of the bar scene

hanging out with a lot of those acquaintances, I thought were my

friends. You know, they were not necessarily driving me down, but

they weren't really serving me any greater purpose. Now, with

my new career, you know, I'm hanging out with very successful

people, people with dreams, people, visions, people that

want to make a difference in the world. I started realizing, hey,

you know, that was how I used to think. So now, no, being just

around different associations was first step for me of healing

and being better. Now, I just, you know, I had a place to be I

belonged, I was starting to get happy, I was actually, you know,

I tell this within my company all the time, you know, I've

changed my life. I've been happier now than I've ever been

in my entire life, which is awesome.

But that's only part of it. So within my company, you know,

we're always developing and looking or looking for good

people. Because we want to develop leaders, you know,

people to be role models, or, you know, if you're going to be

running a business and running a team of people, you've got to

be, you know, a very good person of credibility, you know,

integrity, all that good stuff. So personal development within

my company is highly recommended. So we do lots of

classes, lots of teaching, you know, recommendations on stuff

like that. So I got into personal loans. So first of all,

I hated to read books, I hated reading period.

So reading books tend to struggle. So I didn't do that

for the first couple of years of my business. Um, they kept

bugging me and I kept saying, Oh, I get it all. But I said,

the reading aspect, so I didn't do it, you know. And then

finally, I started finding books that I wanted to read, not

necessarily, you know, the act of reading, but the stuff in the

books that I'm going to learn and I started to like that a lot

more than the actual act of reading. So now I like reading a

little bit better. Like I was painfully I'd read 10 pages and

probably an hour, an hour and a half, because I kind of have a

little bit of ADHD maybe a little bit. So I read a couple

pages and forget what I was thinking. So that's why I've

never liked reading. But now that I'm liking the information

I'm reading about and taking it in, I'm starting to really like

reading. So I've been reading a lot of personal development

books, a lot to do with my business, my industry, but a lot

of it has to do with mindset, too.

Our company, we don't just help people with lifestyle or with

finances, we help them with lifestyle. So you know, if if

they aren't eating healthier stuff like that, you know,

that's the type of stuff we don't, you know, we are not paid

to do that. But that's the type of lifestyle that we're,

what's it called, that's the type of lifestyle they want us

to have. Because it doesn't, you know, you're not happier when

you eat healthier, and all that good stuff. So, you know, I

started reading books and getting better at that. And then

I read a couple books that changed my life.

There they are books by Dr. Joe dispenza.

The ones called becoming supernatural. So read them in

the wrong order. I read becoming supernatural. And I'm now on a

book called breaking the habit of being yourself.

And they talk about it's the science behind meditation and

why it works. Which was awesome. You know, I always thought

meditation like and I'm not religious, I don't really

believe in spiritual stuff. Although I've had weird

encounters, where now I'm starting to believe it, but in

these books, explains the science behind them. And I'm a

science and numbers guy. So it relates a lot to me. So now I

understand, you know why meditation works. And all this

stuff, I started to be more aware of my brain is changing my

mindset, and a different person. In doing so with reading his

books, he teaches you how you can become trapped in a past

present loop, meaning you're letting your your past emotions

and memories influenced the way you feel now, and that manifests

some of the same stuff in the future. So if you're negative

attitude, you're gonna manifest negative stuff, it's because

you're trapped in a kind of tight, weird loop. So I started

to understand that and started to, you know, learn the science

behind why that happens, I'm not going to go into too much

detail, because there's a lot to it. It could be confusing, but

you know, just first step is being aware. So the kind of some

summarize, or kind of what I got from these couple books so far,

is

once you become aware of what you're thinking and what you're

doing, you can actually control your future, you can control how

you're going to feel so the way that it works is most people

live in survival mode. They're not aware that you know, their

brain is so powerful, they just live on survival instincts.

Survival Mode is what it's called. It's you know, that's

living with your past memories, emotions being attached to your

past, and all that stuff. So what it does is it changes your,

your circuitry in your body to do the same, some of the same

that you did in the past. So now that you're now that I'm aware

of my mindset, and that I can actually break these habits of

being my old self, I can learn how to create a new future.

So just being happy. You know, gratitude. Meditation has been

wonders for me. And I, like not lying at all. I started

meditating in November, and I seen instant results in my life.

I started attracting good things in my life. I was had that

mindset for years where I thought, you know, this world

sucks. Why is everything bad always happened to me? Stuff

like that. I was like, not that I was a victim. It was more

like, why'd Why am I living in life in hardmode.

And I just had those thoughts. But now after starting

meditating, I'm starting to learn how to manifest and bring

good things into my life. And things are starting to roll

really well now. So like I said, My business is way better than

it's ever been, and we happier than I've ever been. And I'm

just so grateful for all the books that I have read. And you

know, I'm looking forward to the books I'm going to read. I'm

looking forward to meeting my future self, because I know now

that I'm on the right path now that I've learned how to dream

again, how to, you know, have a vision and goals for the future,

I'm going to achieve them and now I feel you know,

unstoppable, I feel happier, more in control of my life than

I've ever been. And it's great. You know, the biggest thing

about having a good life is you got to be you got to be thankful

you got up gratitude, you have to project happy thoughts in

your brain, you got to kind of force yourself to be happy. Does

that tell you break your phone can be native, once you start

getting into the habit of that, you know, you'll be happier,

life will get better. But you got to continually work on it.

It's not something you can leave because if you let your life go

back to autopilot, you know, you'll pull back to those same

things. You always have to you know, put effort into being

happy, being positive, make a difference in the world. You

know, you can't just make yourself be happy, but you can

prepare yourself for the day. So my meditations I do them first

thing in the morning.

I'm very reactive person. So what my meditations helped me do

is all are first of all, you know, think about things in the

future. I want to be healthy in the future. Be grateful for the

future I'm going to have but also it prepares me for the day.

So, you know if I got to drive somewhere and be like, Oh,

great, I gotta go into city traffic. Someone's going to cut

me off. I'm going to get road rage and get mad. You know, so I

prepared

myself for the day, you know, negative things are gonna

happen, just be happy, don't worry about it. And now you

know, I'm a little bit less carefree if I go driving, I'm

you know, instead of giving that guy a finger, I'll be like, Oh,

he must be having a bad day. And oh, wait, you know what, you

just change your mindset. Because once you change your

mindset, your life starts falling through with the same

stuff. So,

um, yeah, I guess that's kind of most of it.

I'm not sure if I missed anything else, or anything like

that. But yeah, that's kind of the gist of my story so far. So

this is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing all this.

And being vulnerable here with us,

is very inspiring, and empowering. And I can also see

how you're becoming more resilient with your practices.

With the experiences you attract into your life now, you will be

able to trust again and one day, soon, probably be able to open

your heart again and be open for dating, maybe not that it should

be a goal. But it can be something that you want to try

out again, and then with a different Yeah, mindset with a

different approach mindset.

Yeah.

So you talked about the books that you read that changed your

mind about meditation? How was it for your family, your family

sounds like, very supportive of you like from the beginning, but

they must have noticed the change.

I think I want to talk about

feeling lonely at times with the new part like that you have you

said acquaintances that kind of fell off? Because maybe they

couldn't relate to you anymore? Or you to them? How was it

within your family? Did they see Oh, yeah, this is what needed to

happen. And this is good, or was it scary for them at times?

Well, for them, it was more they were going through their own

stuff. So it wasn't like we were very supportive of each other.

We're like, we just weren't aware of each other.

Um, now that I live in the city, you know, I live two hours away

from most of my family, so I don't see them as much anymore.

So yeah, there's, there's not much to that they're I mean,

they're, they are doing their own struggles, and I'm trying to

help my mom my best with, you know, everything I've learned,

like when my mom is going through some stuff right now,

and I'm thinking the stuff that I'm reading right now, would do

her very well. Um,

so I'm starting to now that I read these books, and they've

changed my life. Now I want to, you know, give these books to my

families and friends who might, you know, I think might need

them and stuff. So,

yeah, yeah, that's beautiful. And everybody heals at their own

time. I know, for myself that I used to get very impatient when

I saw someone in pain, and they just didn't want to read that

book. And they just didn't want to be aware of their toxic

behavior that was kind of self destructive.

Like, we can only offer and communicate and maybe live by

example, and then see what other people do. And they will heal

and grow at their own time.

So if we think about people who are listening, who might just go

through depression, or being laid off, what is the tool? Or

what is the, like, advice, closing advice that you would

love to give them in order to not give up?

Yeah, so I mean, maybe my situation is a little bit

different from others, because I do know, you know, some mental

illnesses Can't be helped.

Some people need to go on medication and stuff. But before

you make that diagnosis, you know, check your environment,

check the people you're hanging out with which associations, you

know what, because it'll probably a lot of them are

negative,

aren't serving you any well. So first of all, check out your

association.

And then second of all, you got to be aware of

your own consciousness in this world. So what I mean by that is

you got to be aware that you're hurting or you're a negative

person, or you're doing this or that you got to be aware of all

the bad trades, because the first step to changing or

getting better is first being aware and pointing it out. So

maybe you got to do some self reflection, you know, why, you

know, why? why are people negative to me all the time? or

Why do I seem negative all the time? You just you got to figure

that out? And then once you figure it out, then you can you

know, of course correct, or try and figure out why it's going on

kind of deal. So I mean, the biggest thing I've learned in my

life is pretty

First off, you know, because I do get a little bit of anxiety,

sometimes, you know that feeling of helplessness, helplessness.

But what helps me is, you know, you're not in any immediate

danger. The biggest lesson I've learned in my life is patience.

You know, even with a breakup with my ex girlfriends, or

whatever, Time heals all you will be, you will get better,

you won't die, things will get better just take time, you just

got to allow yourself that time.

You got to allow yourself to heal, you got to figure out

what's wrong, understand it, and then take the steps to heal. And

a lot of it a lot of is change. I mean, if you're doing the same

things all the time, you're attracting the same things in

your life, maybe there's something in your life, you need

to change.

So that's a big thing. And a lot of people are just scared of

change, they don't want to change or it's uncomfortable. I

mean, I'm not saying we I don't like change, it takes a lot of

energy to change something. So if something doesn't need to be

changed, I just don't want to deal with it. Right? I don't

want to change it. But, you know, some things do need to

change. And you do need to understand it does take a lot of

time, a lot of energy to change. So you know, just be patient,

give yourself time.

You know, try to be grateful for what you have right now, that

helps a lot. A lot of the stuff I've been eating kind of shows

the power of projecting positive thoughts into your brain. So

it's like tricking your brain into being happy ahead of time.

And then eventually your brain will be open to that, and you'll

just be happy.

Yeah, very good. Very good advice. Thank you so much for

making the time today and sharing your story and the tools

that you use to feel better and be a beautiful, confident human

being not out there helping other people. Thank you, for my

listeners to supporting our show here and sharing and reviewing.

I'm always curious to hear what you think. And yeah, just leave

a comment or a review. And I will be out there very soon

again, and maybe Clinton audience mouse will be

on with financial support, I was thinking of making an episode

with you, where you can share maybe a couple things that

you've learned that people can just start using right now and

being more financially healthy.

Yeah, that'll be great. Because I mean, you know, looking at

your financial health, it's almost the same as your

lifestyle, your your mindset and stuff, you know, yeah, you've

got to be aware of where you're at. And if you want to have a

better future, you got to start putting effort into it. So I

mean, you know, well, we can get into that later. But it's, you

know, I think it's the same way if you're your lifestyle, as

your finances, you know, your financial health, you got to put

some effort into it. You got to be feeding good things into your

finances in order to you know, create wealth and protect your

wealth.

Well, thank you so much for listening to this beautiful

interview with Clinton Johansen here. And I'm excited to be

posting a new interview with him soon where we talk a little bit

more about financial health. I think we can all learn a little

more about money, how money works and how we can make money

work for us. So have a beautiful rest of your day. And we will be

out there very soon again. Thank you.