Hello, hello and welcome to the Borealis

experience. I'm very excited to have Louis Brantmeyer with me

for the third time. He's made it three times, I'll do a podcast

here. I wonder why? Well, just badass energy. The first time

around, we talked about his journey, out of depression into

success, out of a mess into fulfillment and living a happy

life. The second time around, we talked about pornography, how

Luis was able to conquer pornography addiction, and it

was very, very touching and insightful for many people out

there. And today, I wanted him back on my show. And we will be

talking about resilience, how to be resilient as fuck, and a

messy world like we live in today and how to not lose your

sanity. With everything that's going on right now. Louis,

invite us and share with us how you navigate through this crazy

world crazy, beautiful world. And yeah, maybe share some some

tools that you're using that you would love us to use as well. In

order to become more resilient, the more resilient we become as

individuals, the stronger our relationships are, the stronger

our society can be.

I can't tell you how excited

I will be back.

I didn't even know how exciting that would be until like just

now way back in the days to do this year, is to jump on reality

straight. So um, yeah, I'll set some context. And then I'll

throw out some tools and we'll have some fun.

Yes.

I have been in the startup world, which is a certain branch

of athletics, mind you. If you're doing it, right. It's

like it requires physical, mental, emotional, energetic

conditioning. For let's see, almost 10 years now. And now

what I do is I help heart centered women coaches scale to

six figures in their businesses. And all of that has required me

to take excellent care of myself. Now this, this is part

of the answer to the question of resilience, because why would we

want to be resilient? Most people are content to, quite

frankly, most people are considered to die with their

music inside of them, to live comfortable lives, and to live

lives of quiet desperation. And those are not the people that

I'm necessarily speaking. I'm speaking to people who want to

live life to the fullest, who want to conquer and master and

accomplish things and enjoy things and have not just a good

relationship, but the best relationship have not just the

modicum of wealth that they get from their social security or

their 401k. I'm talking like, well, of making more to give

more, doing well in order to do good in the world. So the first

question somebody has to answer about resilience is why would

they want it? For me, it became a necessity, because I'm the

only one or in the past until I've gathered a team around me

of support, like a village, I was the only one to keep the

ball rolling down the field, or to keep the needle moving. So

for me, I'm very early on in my entrepreneurial career, what I

noticed was, if I'm feeling good, if I'm taking care of

myself, it's kind of like, when you take care of a fine violin,

that violin, it plays better, it makes a better sound. Its music

is more appreciated and beautiful. And consider that

each one of us is like that fine violin. We are meant to

contribute something really beautiful to the symphony of the

world. And when we take exquisite like luxurious, like

I'm talking royal care of ourselves, resilience and the

ability to meet anything head on, shows up from that. So I see

this landing I'm so excited because it's a podcast, but I

get to watch Aurora the whole time. So there are a lot of

different things and I'll just walk you through some of the

most important tools that I use regularly. Right so I do breath

work. There is a little something called the nine

breath. Based on the work of Jeff prime Mac. I think you can

find it on And it literally relaxes and clears all the

muscles in the body, it can induce sort of psychedelic type

states of like clarity and focus, I use a breath called the

MBA or the mind body alignment taught by Kai von Bodhi, I do

the classic. If you're in yoga, you already know this. But the

Yes, the alternate nostril Nadi shodhana. I do the Breath of

Fire to help wake me up and help me digest things.

And to build an energy field. So part of it is noticing where

your energy is at and cultivating a high frequency.

And here's the thing, I'm not going to get through all of the

tools in the time that we've got, but I've got a PDF called

tools for owning your state that I'd love to gift, everybody

within the sound of the voice of this podcast, because I've been

working on like, how do we optimize how we're feeling? How

do we feel good in our bodies? How do we relax and recover from

states of high flow? Or states of high productivity or

activity? How do we, you know, feel good in the midst of our

lives? And there's so many answers. I mean, if you're in

communication, if you're in action, generally, you'll feel

better than if you aren't. But then there's also like

saturation points. So resilience is built through being aware of

yourself, and what your flow is moment to moment, into your path

of least resistance that lights you up that gets you excited to

be in action throughout the day. And also noticing when you're

done on my retreat recently, it was awesome, because I had such

a, and I still do on some level, I'm just, you know, more or less

present to it moment by moment, such a connection to my

intuition that I was teaching, and I was teaching for like an

hour and a half. And then there was just this moment, where it

became very clear, it was like, they're full, and they're

hungry, or, or it's time to finish. All I got the message

that I got was it's time to stop. So I literally for the

first time that I can remember in my teaching, I stopped

immediately and I checked in I was like, are you guys hungry?

And they're like, Yes, all of them nodded their heads. And I

was like, Okay, so we're stopping here. So it's it's

something that if you don't know when to stop, or you don't know

that relaxation and recovery is as important as being super

productive, then you can end up with problems like adrenal

fatigue, which I did, where I had insomnia, difficulty

sleeping for years. Because I kept pushing, I just kept

working, just kept fighting. And while it is the case that if

you're building a business or creating something in the world,

you're 100% responsible for making that happen. And you may

have to discover power and will and strength and focus in

yourself that you didn't know was there before or build it. At

the same time. Be careful where you point that thing. Like if

you point your willpower in such a way that you're abusing or

disrespecting your body, or not listening to your body,

ultimately, then you can end up as lots of six and seven figure

entrepreneurs end up which is burnt out, which is unfulfilled

by their life. And I've flirted with this several times in the

past six months or has not been fun, where I'll go through a

period of a week where I don't take a day off, or two weeks

when I'm hitting I'm hustling, hustling, grind, grit and

determination, which there's an ebb and flow to that in

business. Sometimes it's more allowing and receiving and being

in Ruston, Louisiana house sitting with my beloved doing

exactly only two hours of work per day and making five grand in

a week like Okay, great. Um, sometimes it's like, Alright,

I'm going to do four or five hours of work today. I'm going

to push myself I'm going to stay super focused. It's going to be

from like, 10am to like 8pm, somewhere in there with breaks.

Oh, take breaks and put whitespace on your calendar.

That's super big. Yes, still practice. Huh? So anyway, um,

what's landing so far? Go ahead. Yes,

yes. Like I totally agree with everything that you say like the

most important thing is that you take good care of yourself. And

then you can start thinking about giving to others

contributing to the world. I would like to hear your thoughts

on consuming content. What I've learned on my journey is that

it's extremely important. What kind of news I consume if at

all, I got rid of my TV and I'm so I feel so good about it. When

it comes to social media, who people like follow and what

content they are consuming. Can we talk about how What we

consume without eyes, our ears is also affecting our levels of

stress.

Yes, this is so good. I'm so glad you you introduce this

thread. Because everything, everything is programming

everything. And it's a question of who and what you're choosing

to program yourself with. So like, whatever you put your

attention on grows and expands, your attention comes through

sight, sound, hearing, taste, and touch. So like this morning,

I listen to my intuition. And my fiance was she's been sleeping

on this couch while she's, you know, finding her footing in the

Boston area. And my intuition was like, just go Hold her, just

go cuddle because usually we're very strict about like going and

doing your morning routines before we engage, which is

another lesson, I'll just point to, like, take time for yourself

with yourself without any content without anyone else

generally, to make that the first priority, because if you

don't, no one else will. But what my touch sense was craving,

in terms of nurturing was to touch her and to be touched by

her. And there's an oxytocin release, after 30 seconds of

cuddling or a hug that is really nourishing. And so anyway, um, I

spent the next hour hour and a half consuming no content from

anyone else, except for a yoga video. And I know how to manage

that yoga video so that I'm not sold to, because anybody who's

who's effective and powerful in giving a free yoga class on

YouTube, you bet your butt there, they're marketing really

well at the beginning and the end. And so like, I know exactly

where to start the videos so that my time my energy, and my

attention isn't consumed by someone else's influence or

programming. So we want we want an amount of time where there's

nobody that we're impacted by next, we want to hang out with

those who we want to be like. So those who you follow those who

you put your attention on, you want them to be the ones who are

successful in the areas that you're becoming successful in,

or have them be creative collaborators and potential

colleagues who you can contribute to, and add value

into the network of and are inspired and uplifted by I'd say

anyone and I do this regularly, I do a purge, regulate of my

entire friends list on Facebook every three months or so. And my

criteria is because I'm a creator I'm not Pratt primarily

on social media to be consumer, I'm here to power plant doesn't

need energy and power plant generates energy. So I'm I'm

here to be one of those lights and that lighthouse that draws

people into their highest expression. So if someone and

there's an app is called friend filter, you can find out if

you're standing in that power of being a creator, you can find

out who's acting, interacting with your content and who's not.

And you can start deleting those who are automatically and with a

clear line in the sand drawn saying, hey, it's nothing

personal, nothing, I don't love you. It's not that I don't want

to be connected to you if that this platform is for my mission

and purpose, and so on is that you keep are those who impact

your mission and purpose in a positive way. Whether by

consuming your content receiving your gifts, or harmonizing

synergizing with your gifts. And there are other interesting

habits. I have like on Instagram, everyone follows me,

but I follow almost no one same on clubhouse, like I there. I

know it's polite. Probably. This is the assumption, the covert

agreement that everyone thinks they're making on Instagram is

that if you follow me, I have to follow you know, maybe, maybe,

but I also reserve my rights shoes. Yeah, so like, I don't

have to follow. And I judge based on their vibration based

on their energy based on their level of accomplishment were the

average of the five people we spend the most time around. And

if we're spending an hour or more on social media, we're

spending time around either people who are not living the

life of their dreams, not expressing resilience, or

strength of character or consistency of focus, or we're

choosing people who have all of those things.

So I'm very strict on what I lead in. With the notable

exception of Star Trek and other science fiction. That is a

simulation to my mind. I I've read that certain sci fi has a

really high vibration. And I've had this experience of having my

heart open. So I'm also careful in that way. There used to be a

time when I couldn't watch like violent movies or whatnot. I

think there's a balance point that people reach Where they're

not over consuming material that is negatively charged, but

they're consuming it with an ability to buffer it and not not

be impacted by it negatively. So yeah, I don't watch the news, by

the way, I do occasionally gets specific news fed. To me, that's

interesting by Facebook, they've managed to worm their way into

my consciousness for about like, five to 10 minutes a week,

because because it's news that I actually care about interesting

stuff. Just because the news is there, just because there's five

different variants of COVID or whatever, doesn't mean it's

something that we need to care about. I mean, it's, it's

useful, it was useful for me to know like how long the blizzard

was going to last our first Blizzard in a decade here in

Austin. So I use the news, but I don't let the news use me. Yes,

thank you. I'm not Thank you, thank you. Because so many

people I experienced right now run around like chickens with

their head chopped off. Because they react to everything.

There's so much out there, that triggers you emotionally. And

people react to everything and need an opinion to everything, a

reaction to everything. And I just think, Wow, that looks so

exhausting, that looks really exhausting. And we have to at

least give tools out to people to try it out to see hey, what

happens to your stress levels to your sleep. When you don't watch

TV and follow the news on a secondary basis. And you're a

busy man, we're running out of time, what would be the three

things can be repeat, that we advise people to do if they are

close to a burnout, if they are feeling very low and have ideas

and are very inspired to go do something but they just can't

seem to find energy for it?

I'm glad you asked. So there are three things that have been most

impactful for me. One, meditation, whether it's 15

minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour a day, that will calm and

relax your nervous system because we're built in his

culture to go go go hustle and grind, push and fight and

struggle and stress and strain and eventually suffer. We're not

told, hey, it's as important to relax and calm down and gather

your thoughts and clear your head. So there are so many

benefits to meditation, mystical, energetic, emotional,

spiritual, physiological, that are measured and documented,

and, you know, too many for me to go into here. But I've had a

practice of between 15 minutes and an hour a day for about nine

years. Yeah, nine years. And what I'd say is, so long as

you're consistent with it, it will improve every aspect of

your life. Every aspect, like there's so much available. So

that's number one. Number two, and I'll just be super rigorous

and super clear. What I found, and this is coming from somebody

who is on pharmaceuticals for ADHD, this is someone who was on

supplements just to focus after I went off even when I was still

meditating. What I have found that has facilitated me being

the highest energy possible. And you've seen it, you know, when

I'm here, for our podcasts is a high fruit, high alkaline plant

based diet, like super simple. I have a strong belief and there's

a good amount of evidence that there's a lot of conversation to

have around it, that we're meant to eat fruits and vegetables.

That we benefit from fruits and vegetables. I'm not gonna argue

with people who want to say like, Well what about meat or

not, I'm just saying emphasize more fruit and vegetables, it's

easy to start consuming more of those plants. And especially

high alkaline, especially high fruit. Because when we do that,

the body is not heavy, it's not sluggish. It's not working

overtime to digest stuff. We're not forcing we're not losing

energy to the process of digestion. Like it, we're still

digesting things, but we're not forcing our body to digest

things that are difficult for it to digest. That was dramatic for

me that plus meditation. I mean, I was able to do a 10 hour days

of work while preparing to different events on a grape

juice fast sleeping five hours a night, for like weeks in 2017,

just because I had meditation and I had excuse me this this

high fruit mostly vegan diet, right and again, if you want to

build a true resilience, eating and a high fruit high alkaline

way will also trigger and unleash potentially trapped

emotions. Because the frequency the energy of fruits and

vegetables is so high compared to what most people eat in terms

of processed foods or lots of coffee or refined sugar or

alcohol like that, literally, your body will start removing

crap, not just physical toxins, but you know, it'll start

detoxifying emotionally. So the more you detoxify emotionally,

the easier it is to just be about your life and face

whatever happens, right without resisting, I get to come up with

a third one, the third one because those two are super

clear to me, that's clear those two are like what

the third one is actually a practice for getting into your

heart, or eye and or your body. So whether it be Qigong, Tai

Chi, yoga, whoo, Sue Kung Fu, like the martial arts, or just

shaking, moving and dancing. There's something about the

intuitive intelligence and wisdom the body that tells you

how to do just what is most necessary and needed and, and

smartest from the highest perspective, rather than

hustling and grinding. And that that's a whole world to explore.

is a practice called the Yeshua method that can be done where

you and what whether you're Christian or not, doesn't

matter. It still works. Whether you believe disbelieve whatever

it's it's the Aramaic name for Christ's Yeshua, close your

eyes, repeat it for 20 minutes, silently in your head, and then

ask after that 20 minutes, which is built sort of like mantra

yoga, to clear away the clouds of chaos in the thinking, and

then ask what is it that I meant to do do next in my business or

in my life, and I had amazing results moments where I got

super clear, intuitive insights into what I was supposed to do

next, that was super impactful in my life and world. So do just

as much as you're meant to do, but don't do more than you have

to do it a, basically vegan diet, and tune into your

intuition.

This is so beautiful, Louis, thank you so much for sharing

this with us. Because you again, you make it very, very clear and

simple to understand. And today, I learned that through your

body, you influence your mind, if you take care of your body,

it influences your mind. It influences the way you see

yourself and the world. And that can make you a more resilient,

calm person.

Yeah, yeah, I think it's helpful to end on this this note. Most

people have their bodies and their minds as adversaries. And

they're, they're literally fighting against the momentum of

their bodies, through the programming of how they eat, how

they take care of themselves, how they sleep, whether or not

they relax, and life becomes so much easier. When we just take

better care of our bodies, then our bodies become our ally. And

and that's what I look forward to in this world is people who

are super resilient through just being kind to themselves

ultimately,

yes, yes. And see your body as your best friend. And because

sickness and obesity or problems with weight, is the body

basically telling you Hey, you're not taking good care of

me. And we have to change something. And it's not about

resenting and feeling like a victim. It's about seeing Okay,

what do I need? And then becoming, yeah, one with your

body, your mind and your soul. Louis? This was so endlessly

precious. It is not about spending hours and hours on

time. It is about having the precise message that we want to

send out there and I feel we totally nailed it. You are so

precious. Your mission is so precious. And yeah, we stay

connected, please. And you take really good care of yourself.

Absolutely. You

too. I love you. I love your audience. You're

amazing. Let's do this again. Love you too. Bye bye bye.