Highest Self Podcast® — Episode 629

Manifest Abundance, Purpose + Love Through This Shift with Mimi Bouchard

Host: Sahara Rose
Guest: Mimi Bouchard
Date: November 17, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode is a deep, practical, and inspiring conversation between Sahara Rose and Mimi Bouchard about creating abundance, manifesting purposeful careers, and attracting deep love by shifting your internal state and beliefs. They discuss Mimi’s journey from scarcity and fear around money to living abundantly, the science and soul behind “activations” (her unique audio programming tool), and actionable steps for anyone ready to up-level their life without struggle. The episode blends practical advice, personal storytelling, energetic tools, and spiritual truths, aiming to help listeners manifest their dream life with greater ease and intention.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Redefining Money, Abundance, and the Spiritual Path

• Contradicting the Narrative: Traditional upbringing often taught that spiritual fulfillment and financial abundance are mutually exclusive. Both Sahara and Mimi bust this myth through lived experience.
  • Sahara: "My biggest block was, you can either do what you love and be broke, or sell your soul to make money."
  • Mimi: "My parents are artists... the one thing growing up that they would fight about was money. There was sadness, fear, and negativity around money."
• The Realization: Abundance is not reserved for those born into wealth or privilege. Mindset is the most critical lever to shift.

2. Limiting Beliefs About Money

• Common Blocks:
  • "Money can’t buy happiness."
  • "Rich people aren’t happy or cheat on each other."
  • "Having money makes keeping relationships hard because people use you."
  • "I'll be happy when I have money."
• Mimi: “If you want to make money and you're holding on to the belief ‘I'll be happy when I have money,’ then you're never going to be happy... you live in a perpetual state of lack.” ([09:38])

3. Abundance as Effortlessness & Intuitive Alignment

• Following Your Dharma: The more you align with your soul’s purpose, the more abundance flows.
  • Mimi: “You’ll make the most money when you’re so in line with your soul’s purpose... Intuition, especially as a woman, is our biggest strength.” ([14:04])
• Don’t Copy—Create: Trying to duplicate someone else’s dream backfires energetically.
  • “If you’re copying someone else, you’re not in your soul’s purpose. The universe just doesn’t support that.” ([14:04])

4. Understanding & Using Activations

• Mimi’s Innovation:
  • Activations are not meditations; they are energizing, motivational guided visualizations paired with cinematic music, designed for listening while in motion.
  • “Activations... are essentially programming you to feel like your future self... It's reprogramming the brain in a subliminal but also conscious way.” ([16:49])
  • Stackable with daily routines—skincare, walking, etc.—to rewire identity and self-worth.
• Key Difference: Activations help you be that version of yourself, not just visualize—bringing energy into everyday moments.

5. Shifting from Scarcity to Clarity & Action

• Step 1: Clarity: Get honest, remove numbing distractions (endless scrolling, binge-watching, etc.), and allow your authentic desires to surface.
  • “Most of us have clarity deep down, but can’t access it because we’re numbing all day long.” ([21:37])
• Step 2: Intuition & Self-Reflection:
  • Use journaling: List “what I want” vs. “what I don’t want,” “what I’m good at” vs. “what I’m bad at.”
  • Seek uniqueness in your venture; a small twist can set you apart.
• Business Reflection: Your business growth mirrors your personal growth.
  • “The years where I’m thriving in my personal development are the years my business grows the most.” ([23:07])

6. The 10x Principle for Entrepreneurs

• Big Shift: Focus only on the 1-3 actions with potential to 10x your business instead of many 2x actions.
  • Mimi: “10x is easier than 2x. My entire team's focus is on one or two things. We stopped 90% of what we were doing and doubled our growth.” ([25:59])
• Practical Application: Evaluate activities by their 10x potential, drop the rest.

7. How to Choose Focus When Multi-Passionate

• Experimentation: Try many things (throw spaghetti at the wall), but use intuition to know when to let go or lean in.
  • “When you feel connected, the path unfolds itself. When you’re disconnected and numb, you are confused. Taking action brings clarity.” ([31:37])

8. Feeling as the Magnet for Manifestation

• Embodied Visualization: The most powerful tool is to feel the desired state in your body, not just see it in your mind.
  • Mimi guides listeners: “Don’t think your visualization—feel your visualization. It comes from the heart... Feel how it is to be that future self now.” ([33:51])
• Layering Emotions: Start with abundance, then layer in health, love, joy. Make it normal—not on a pedestal—to ease its arrival.

9. Love, Relationships, and Manifestation

• It’s All Connected: The frequency you cultivate for money, purpose, and relationships is the same—what matters is “how it feels” in your body.
  • “Stop focusing on the external, focus on how your dream partner makes you feel.” ([45:11])
• Personal Stories: Mimi manifested her now-husband Ben less than 24 hours after recording an activation about love.
  • Mimi: “I described how he made me feel, not how he looked or who he was. I met him the next day.” ([48:00])

10. Manifestation: Feeling vs. Controlling the Outcome

• Essence Over Specifics: Manifestation isn’t about exact outcomes but about feeling the frequency of what you want now.
  • “All I knew was that I wanted to live a big, interesting life... I didn’t know the details. There are many realities that can give you that feeling.” ([51:41])
• Patience and Surrender: Drop obsession with the “how” and “when”—trust timing and the mystery.

11. Rewiring Your Brain (The Bunny Trail Analogy)

• Changing Thought Habits: Old negative thoughts are like a well-paved road; new empowering beliefs are like forging a bunny trail—awkward at first but eventually become the new default.
  • “The first few times are uncomfortable, ducking for branches... But soon the trail gets worn in and becomes the new easy path.” ([61:20])
• Act As If: Be “her now” in daily life. 
  • “That is 90% of the equation—when you act, think, and feel as her, you’re already there.” ([54:18])

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Ease in Abundance:

  “What I’ve discovered over the years is that it doesn’t actually need to be that hard, which is very controversial... You just need to know what levers to pull, and then it becomes a lot more effortless.”
  —Mimi, [00:00] and [10:09]

• On Activation vs. Meditation:

  “Activations are motivational guided visualization audios with cinematic music… programming you to feel like your future self.”
  —Mimi, [16:49]

• On Frequency of Future Self:

  “Don’t think your visualization—feel your visualization… Your heart is literally the most powerful radio signal to what you desire.”
  —Mimi, [33:51]

• On Manifesting Love by Feeling:

  “Stop focusing on the external—focus on how your dream man makes you feel. That’s the only thing you should be focusing on.”
  —Mimi, [45:11]

• On Letting Go of Excess Potential:

  “I wanted something really badly, and things were not manifesting… I realized I created excess potential. The key is to get comfortable with it, be in the energy, and then it’ll come.”
  —Mimi, [41:11]

• On Multi-Passionate Paths:

  “Taking action is the number one thing that will give you clarity. If you don’t know what direction to go in, throw the spaghetti at the wall, see what sticks.”
  —Mimi, [31:37]

• On ‘Be Her Now’:

  “If you take anything from this episode, remember: Be her now. That’s 90% of the equation.”
  —Mimi, [54:18]

• On Breaking Old Patterns:

  “Thinking a new thought is like taking the bunny trail beside the paved road. It’s uncomfortable at first but gets easier every time.”
  —Mimi, [61:20]

• On Self-Sourced Abundance:

  “True sacred feminine liberation is about us not waiting for a man as the vehicle for money… I get to be abundant for who I am.”
  —Sahara, [59:00]

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00-06:19] – Sahara & Mimi introduce the episode theme, personal backstories, and set up the abundance/manifestation framework.
• [07:46-10:22] – Mimi’s childhood scarcity, early beliefs, and the early catalyst for growth.
• [14:04-16:49] – Finding purpose and the difference between copying vs. alignment; intuition for abundance.
• [16:49-21:07] – The science and soul of activations; everyday reprogramming, confidence tools.
• [21:37-25:21] – Getting clarity, breaking numbing behaviors, practical exercises for self-discovery.
• [25:59-28:24] – The “10x is easier than 2x” philosophy for entrepreneurs.
• [31:18-33:51] – Multi-passionate clarity; value of acting now; future self frequency.
• [33:51-39:28] – Guided feeling practice; embodying abundance, love, health, and joy.
• [43:11-47:12] – Manifesting love, focusing on internal state vs. physical characteristics.
• [48:00-51:41] – Mimi’s manifestation story, practical advice on surrender and awe.
• [54:18-59:00] – “Be her now,” acting as your future self, self-worth, and practical application in work and love.
• [61:20-63:22] – Rewiring beliefs with the “bunny trail” analogy.
• [63:22-end] – Resources: activations.com/sahara, Mimi’s book “Activate Your Future Self,” and closing encouragement.

Resources Mentioned

• Activations App: activations.com/sahara (special free trial and discount for listeners; includes Sahara’s favorite playlist)
• Mimi’s Book: Activate Your Future Self (Hay House; available on Amazon)
• Sahara’s Links: Courses, community, and Instagram (see episode description)

Final Thoughts

This episode is both deeply relatable and actionable for listeners seeking more abundance, career alignment, and love. It merges spirituality, neuroscience, and lived wisdom, offering genuinely useful techniques and mindset shifts. Mimi’s “be her now” mantra and the concept of actively feeling your way into the next version of yourself—supported by daily activations—provide listeners with tangible steps they can implement immediately.

Key takeaway:

“You can’t hate yourself to a life you love. You can’t feel negativity now and expect to finally get what you want. You must feel joy, abundance, and confidence now—it’ll bring what you want so much closer.”
—Mimi ([54:18])

Connect further:

• Try Activations with the special link
• Check out Mimi’s book for more on this process
• Share the episode to inspire friends on similar journeys

(Summary by Highest Self Podcast Summarizer — all key moments, quotes, and actionable steps preserved.)