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Natasha Graziano
Hello, and welcome back to the Law of Attraction Secrets podcast. I'm your host, Natasha Graziano, and today I have a very remarkable guest, somebody who is very inspiring. In fact, they're leading the way in the world right now. This is a mission I truly believe in. I'm so excited to welcome to the show Laura Faulkham from the Independent Center. Welcome.
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Laura Faulkham
Thank you, Natasha.
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Natasha Graziano
So nice to have you here. We've been wanting to do this for a while.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes.
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Natasha Graziano
Very excited. Bringing you on is really exciting because I think this is really going to reach a lot of people. Tell us about the Independence Center.
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Laura Faulkham
So the Independence center has an audience of about 100,000 people who believe what we believe, which is that politics could be a lot better in the United States. We talk to independents all the time who are interested in having more choice in their life, and they would like to find ways to be more engaged. But of course, we just went through an election and an inauguration, and it wasn't very pleasant for people. And so what we're trying offer to people is more choice in their politics and just in their lives.
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Natasha Graziano
Overall, I think that's so important to give people that freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of happiness, something that one of your morals, I guess, that you guys believe in is around the freedom and fulfilling your potential and being able to do that. What does that mean to you?
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Laura Faulkham
So we think that, you know, of course, people know how to live their lives and what's important to them and who they are. They, you know, they're the experts in their own lives. And what we think is really important is a way of thinking about life and also politics and government that says you're the expert. What is important to you? Who are you? And how do we make a society where people get to do the things that are important to them? Because we're all better off when people are pursuing the things that make them passionate and that light them up and that are important to them. We have to trust people to do the things that are best for them, and we need more trust.
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Natasha Graziano
How do we get there?
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Laura Faulkham
So I think one of the things that's really important is that often we hear from our audience, from independents, that they don't want to participate in political life because neither side represents them. And so what we're interested in is finding ways for them to engage politically at the local level, at the state level, in federal elections. Right. But to find ways to participate so they can voice what's important to them. Because we think the really important thing is for them to have their values and ideas and policies represented in government, but also in all areas of their lives.
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Natasha Graziano
So does it almost play with the idea of not having a president? Almost. Is it like an independent sort of. Or do we. Do you feel like we need a president?
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Laura Faulkham
Yeah, I don't think anybody is open to revising that part of American life, but I think we could find leaders who seem more in tune with people's values. And what we don't want to happen is have people who say, like, well, I'm not part of either party, so I'm not going to participate politically. We think they can do a lot by participating. And what we saw in the last election actually, was a lot of swing voting are people who voted for different parties on the same ballot. And so the important thing there is to just make your voice heard. And, you know, you don't. It doesn't have to only be through voting. It can be through calling members of Congress. It can be through supporting a particular candidate or not.
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Natasha Graziano
Very interesting. You've got such an interesting philosophy as, well, around manifesting our own individuality and the power of choice. I'd love to hear more about the philosophy behind that and what it means for individuals.
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Laura Faulkham
So with choice, we think the important thing for people to kind of keep in mind is that, like, as we voice our preferences and our values and the things that are important to us in all aspects of life, we are happier. We feel like we have more agency when we're able to decide for ourselves about things. If you think about getting to choose things like healthcare or education, people know what is the best fit for them. And so when they have more choices, they can better match what's important to them or what's not important to them. So, yeah, I think choice can offer us a lot of different things, but, like, the main thing is just this feeling of control over your life and agency. Right. To be able to, like, realize in your life the things that are important to you and that are who you fundamentally are as a person.
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Natasha Graziano
I love that. Well, that is individuality is the being able to be who we are. Having our authentic voice, being seen, loved and heard.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes.
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Natasha Graziano
Being able to keep that beauty, that essence, the purity of who we are in our core. That is so important. That's what I coach, you know, I tell people to manifest that version of them. What do you want? If you don't like how you're living, transform your life. If you don't like the version of you, rewrite the script, go back, rewrite that script, rewrite the character you're playing, rewrite the scenario. And right now it's like rewriting the version of the world that we want. You know, write the version that you desire. How would you write the version of the world that you'd like to live in?
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Laura Faulkham
Well, I think what you were saying about the authenticity is so important. And not only do people want that for themselves, but they want it from their political leaders. Right. And from the people we admire. We want to know who you really are. And I think that living in alignment with your values and like having this feeling of authenticity in your life, like, once you start doing that, it's very hard to speak. Stop. Right? Because it's just such a good feeling. It's such a, like, empowering feeling. And I think the, the first part is like knowing who you are. Right. Like, to be authentic, you have to first have an understanding of who that actually is.
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Natasha Graziano
I agree.
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Laura Faulkham
So when I think about my vision of what that looks like, it's people participating in public policy debates and politics. This is a strange dream, maybe, but it's people participating and being really engaged. Because I think that's actually how we get along and solve most complicated problems.
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Natasha Graziano
I do agree. I do agree. That would be wonderful if there was a way. We were right back after the ad. If you aren't yet a member of our Law of Attraction app, the app that features everything about scripting for love, money, happiness, how to accelerate your career, how to accelerate your name and brand online, something your girl's very good at coaching on and doing herself, and results based baby. If you want to learn how to manifest love, how you can attract the partner of your dreams into your life. If you want to magnify the money coming into your life, you want to become magnetic. You want to be an attraction force to be reckoned with. You want to put millions of dollars into your bank account through manifesting. You want to learn the secrets behind scripting your dream life? Get into our app. The membership is here. All you got to do is join. And guess what? You also get access to our coaching calls every week with yours truly. Every Thursday at 10:00am Pacific, which is 1:00pm Eastern, which is, I think 6:00pm UK time. Wherever you are in the world, it is for you. We coach every week and I personally coach you on scripting for love, scripting for happiness, scripting for health, Scripting for money, Scripting for career. I show you how to manifest all of the things you want into your life. And all you've got to do is attend those live coaching calls every week. When you get into that membership, you get access to all of our courses, all of our programs. The meditations, the powerful, subconscious, reprogramming meditations that will help you to retrain your mind, reframe your mindset into believing that you are worthy of money, pouring in abundantly into believing that your soulmate is just around the corner or strengthening your current relationship. So wherever you are in life, if you feel like you want to better your life. Do you. Do you want to better your life? I'm sure you do. You want to better your bank account, you want to better your health. There is no one I've ever met that said, no, I'm good where I am. Never. Somebody always wants to be happy. Do you want to be happy? Do you want to be wealthier? Do you want to be more in love? Do you want to have better people being attracted to you? And I'm just not just talking about love. I'm talking about when you show up somewhere. Do you want to be magnetic when you walk into that room? If you do, if the answer is yes to any of those questions, or you want to learn how to grow your name online, you want to learn how to get more eyeballs on your work. Otherwise, what is the point in having that amazing business if nobody's hearing about it? The app has all the answers for you. Join our membership now, get inside of it, and I'll see you there. Laura, what would it look like if politics focused on giving people freedom to make their own choices?
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Laura Faulkham
I think there's a lot of areas where people could have some more freedom to do what they think is best for them. You know, whether we're talking about the ability to start a business, you know, to do the things that are important to them. I think there's a lot of ways that people could support policies and leaders who are more in favor of that type of freedom and trusting people to know what they need and what is best for them instead of being more prescriptive and saying what to do. And I think, you know, as women especially, I feel like we get a lot of direction of, like, we'll tell you what is best for you. We will tell you about parenting, and we will. We will tell you how to do a lot of things. And, you know, what would life look like if instead we focus more on the knowledge and expertise that these women actually have and that they bring to the table?
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Natasha Graziano
I really love this about the independent center because you guys really believe in women in leadership. I think that is the most awesome thing ever, obviously, as a woman. And I'm all about women empowerment, and that's why I was so excited to bring you on, really, because you have such a great view. It's equality. Let's talk about equality first. What does equality mean to you?
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Laura Faulkham
I think women just want the same opportunity that everyone else has to be represented in political life, in business spheres, too. And I think it's been very, very interesting to see so many women in the gig economy, inside hustle economy, realizing this is who I am, these are the things that I'm good at and that I can do that other people can't do, and can I bring them to the marketplace and actually, like, live my life based on these talents? So I love that we're seeing more of that, and I think it'd be wonderful to see more women in political life as well, because they're not even close to the number of female elected officials, isn't even close to the number of women who are in the population.
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Natasha Graziano
How can we get more women to take that leap to get into this circuit, to get into the speaking up for what's right, getting into, you know, I've got a friend, Shelley Zalas, who's, you know, got the female couchon, which is all about equality for women. And she's at the forefront of that, really leading the way, paving the way. I should actually connect you guys after the show. But that's, I think a really powerful thing for women is to take that leap and know there is a safety net, you know?
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Laura Faulkham
Well, I think there are organizations that support women who want to run for office, which is very right, regardless of party. Right. They just want to see women in political office. And a lot of them will tell you one of the big challenges is that if you ask a woman to run, she will say, well, I'm not quite ready. I need to prepare, I can do more to be ready. And men don't have that same reservation. So I think, like, we need to support each other. We need to. We need to encourage more women to do this.
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Natasha Graziano
Crowns on other queen's head.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes.
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Natasha Graziano
I think as a man, and I think men need to help that along as well. I think if a woman was to run a load of stuff like this, she'd be so empowered in the world, would be. It's wonderful. I mean, look, I came from a country that had a monarchy, right? Have a monarchy, like, it's a queen. We had a queen. I guess we still do. But, like, the reason I mentioned that is because that's how I've been raised with that power, with that idolization of a female.
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Laura Faulkham
You know, that's an interesting difference.
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Natasha Graziano
Yeah, we've been raised like that to know the utmost respect. It's why British gentlemen, slightly off topic, but some will like this today. It's a British gentleman. They are so elegant with their ways. They are kind. They. They're a very rare type. And there are many. I mean, I'm. You know, there are many across every single culture in the world. But I'm talking currently just about the Brit British people. But that's because if you go back in, you know, in the days, it's because you're looking at the monarchy and the aristocrats and the way they were raised and the respect they have for the Queen. And so that's something that we're raised to know. And I think if that were. I think women understand that they can be empowered and they don't have to be worshiped by men. We're not looking for that. We're just looking for equality, where it's like, hey, should we hear the woman's opinion as well as the man's?
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Laura Faulkham
Just representing a different experience, a different perspective. Right. Like, women bring something different to the table.
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Natasha Graziano
Yeah.
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Laura Faulkham
And it would be great to have that in politics.
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Natasha Graziano
Oh, no, I totally agree. Having women have that other aside, that other opinion. But this is really interesting. So I heard this thing yesterday. I wanted to share it with you, and it sounds like this. So men wake up with a hit of testosterone and cortisol. Right. And that is why men, when they wake up traditionally, can get up and go out there and do something really fast. They're like, they're up and they're. Women wake up calmer, more peaceful. It's because we don't get that hit of testosterone and cortisol until we ovulate. And during ovulation, for one week of the entire month, we have more drive in the entire week and can get everything done. For me, it's my month in that week. And so I think that plays a part. The chemistry, the makeup, where men feel more entitled to do a lot of these roles, because 30 days a month, 31 days a month, 28 days a month, whatever, unless it's a leap year, they want to get out there and do something because it's part of their genetic makeup. Whereas women, we do actually have that drive and we just get it all done in a week, you know. So I think there's definitely a place for women in this.
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Laura Faulkham
Oh, absolutely. I think that it's a different energy that women bring to that work. Right. Like they tend to be more collaborative, they tend to take in more viewpoints.
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Natasha Graziano
Yes.
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Laura Faulkham
So I think it would be nice to have both energies. Right. Like they're both important.
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Natasha Graziano
I love that. Okay, another question that I wrote down for you. Challenging the system. Really interesting. How is the independent center going to impact people's everyday lives?
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Laura Faulkham
So we are actually, we're just building a community of people who are independent minded and who want to join us. Where we, we do a lot of polling, we do surveys of our members because we want to understand who these people are and what is important to them. You are welcome to join us if you are, you know, a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent. You're confused. I don't know. You know, it's fine.
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Natasha Graziano
Schooled. Confused.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes. Just if you're just sorting it out. Yeah. Yes. Join us because we are trying to understand like what's important and how can we help people get connected to the things that are important to them, starting with political life.
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Natasha Graziano
I think the independent center should go into schools.
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Laura Faulkham
Oh, I really do.
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Natasha Graziano
You know why? Because. Well, if I look at financial literacy, we are not taught here or where I grew up and my son's at school here, my children are American. So I look at it and I'm like, we're not actually taught in today's world. Financial literacy, credit cards, taxes, that's not something traditionally that is taught in schools. Likewise, who to vote for. Likewise why this party represents this. What the hell does right or left even mean? You know, it's something that's thrown at you and the media shows you what you want to lean towards or what you should lean towards. But how about in schools if the independent center went in and went and spoke about the freedom of speech, the freedom of thoughts, this freedom of individuality, the ability to be who you want to be. And we teach it from a young age. Like Navy, that's great. You guys should do.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes, thank you.
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Natasha Graziano
Think about places to get. Yeah. Like be, you know, even in this, like the universities, the schools and then high schools. Going in at that young age by the, you know, going in at that, I think that young age, I think teaching them from like 15 upwards or whatever age just to understand we weren't taught that. And I wish we were.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes.
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Natasha Graziano
You know, it was, it's a, it's a shame because this is actually what contributes to our everyday life, what we see around us. Right. Our outer reality is a direct reflection of our inner self beliefs. And if we do not feel worthy and good enough and empowered, or that our thought or our position even matters, then what's the point?
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Laura Faulkham
I think that's really what we believe is that, like, all of these people's values and positions and what's important to them is important to us as well. And we want to help people be able to get those things for themselves through their daily lives. And, you know you can do that regardless of which political party you support, right? Like, the main thing is not that there's a party that you belong to, that's the answer, but, like, you decide you're the expert in your own life and let's have politics work for us.
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Natasha Graziano
So good. When you were a young girl, what was your dream? What. Who did you want to be? What did you want to do?
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Laura Faulkham
I. When I was very young, I wanted to be a politician for some period of time, I did. And now what I've realized through, like, kind of getting to know what my talents are and what's important to me, I don't really have a side. I don't know that I would want to run for office. What I want to see is people coming together to talk about how we solve our problems together. So I'm very excited by the idea of people engaging in political life and public policy discussions, because I think that's how we, as a people with diverse needs and beliefs can all get along and prosper together.
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Natasha Graziano
So beautiful. How did it start? How. So I know your dream, but then what was, like, the next step? What took you to this incredible movement? It's a movement, you know, it's a. It's a movement. It's a mission. I love it.
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Laura Faulkham
So I think I was always interested in psychology and how people work. And what I eventually did was do a PhD, which was about consumer psychology, but that's really human psychology. And I was interested in, like, what motivates people and how can we connect with each other better? Like, do we have to be so divided? Do we have to be so argumentative with each other? How can we connect better with other people?
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Natasha Graziano
Wow. And then.
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Laura Faulkham
And then I was a marketing professor for a number of years, and I realized that, you know, our field knows so much about how you communicate with people and how you help them connect with the things that are important to them. Right. The needs they have in their life. And I started to think, like, I actually would like to come back to this political work that was always so interesting to me and public policy conversations and see if we. If there's not a better way to get people involved in these conversations. Right. Like, help them see that, you know, we don't have to get along with each other with like division. Right. And animosity, like that's not necessary, doesn't.
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Natasha Graziano
Work in any area of life.
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Laura Faulkham
It's not making us better off.
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Natasha Graziano
Definitely. How does it grow to like the, you know, big number of people involved with this and a part of it. How did you get there?
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Laura Faulkham
I think what's really incredible about the Independent center is that it's a bunch of us working together and we kind of all came to the same conclusion but from different directions and met each other and, you know, things aligned and we came together. But we all had the same idea, which is that like, you know, what we're doing right now in the United States is not working for a lot of people. And there are a lot of people who feel like their voice isn't being heard because they don't want to participate in a political process or even conversations. Right. Where they feel like, you know, people will get angry at me if I say what is important or who I voted for. Right. And so we, I think we have all kind of felt like we could do this a lot better. We could offer people more choice in their lives. We could offer them more choice in the policies they vote for and the candidates that they vote for. But we have to, you know, we have to like, understand what's important to people and how to reach them and get people to get engaged in politics again.
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Natasha Graziano
I like that getting engaged is a, is a big part of it is how do we do that with today's world? Like, I personally, from my perspective, believe social media is the answer to so many problems because it's also the lead of so many problems. But it could also be the solution. It's the place to get people engaged. You know, I teach that like if you post enough content about something and it starts to go viral, people start to see it and you have the right people involved with your content. Others will see it and then they'll want to engage, making a conversation, a two way dialogue versus a one way dictatorship. For example, when I post on social media, I don't put something up. That's all the time, right? I will sometimes do this and sometimes won't. If I was caused like I, I, me, me, me instead of, what do you think about this? What's your favorite way to do this? What photo do you like the most? How do you think you could manifest this? What have you manifested today? What have you created better in Your life. How have you made some viral content, et cetera. That's a two way dialog.
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Laura Faulkham
Right.
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Natasha Graziano
And I think if more people did that, then it would create a better movement generally anyway. Asking the opinions. Like you say you guys do polls.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes. You, you do all these focus groups. Like we talk to people. I think it's so important. I don't know, like, when is the last time you heard a politician say to the electorate, like, well, tell me what is important to you? Like, what do you need? And I think if we have independents voting and being engaged, we can insist that that's what political life is like, is to say, you tell me what's important instead of the other direction.
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Natasha Graziano
You know what would be awesome? What if every single person in the whole of America received an email, little palm it, that said, what's important to you?
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Laura Faulkham
What is important to you? Yeah.
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Natasha Graziano
There's another thing that we should send out. What's important to you? You probably already do that. What's important to you? What do you believe in? I'll tell you what really goes viral right now and everyone listening, you're learning it. Agree. You're literally in the, I feel like in the living room of me and Laura from the Independent Center. But quizzes go viral.
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Laura Faulkham
Yeah.
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Natasha Graziano
If you create an incredible quiz. People love quizzes like Human Design. It's this other quiz that somebody made about what type of human design you are. And then if you. And then that helps you with like, oh, you're this. And you hear people talk about, oh my God, you're the generator. Oh, you're this, you're this. And I'm like, oh my God, that's so funny. That's really gone viral now. If you create something that's like, what type of X are you? And what's important to you? And it's made up of all of your values. Oh, you're a blue. Oh, you're a pink. Oh, you're a red. Like something that doesn't even have a name. It's just like a color not associated to a party, just where they are on their journey. People might start to engage. You know, things like that. Quizzes are really good.
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Laura Faulkham
Yeah, I think that that could be really helpful because I think people want to be more connected to who they actually are. And sometimes it can be hard to find out who that is.
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Natasha Graziano
Yes. Well, that's because of the way we are in the world. We've had so much suppression. That's not just, that's just from upbringing. That's just from, from you know, you're not meant to use your voice. You're not meant to go and do something greater. They want to keep the world suppressed into following a system, following an order. And, like, that's why I broke free and became an entrepreneur. And I know you guys are really big into entrepreneurship. What's the backbone behind that?
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Laura Faulkham
I think entrepreneurship is just incredible because it's offering people a way to create the life that is important to them. And like, you were saying, like, this authenticity, right? Is it like, you can build these things? You can create these. These things? And yeah, under. Often people are struggling while they're trying to do that with, can I get a license? Can I get permission for this thing? And I think what's really been amazing and how the economy has shifted over the past few years is seeing all these people creating in their own lives. And it doesn't just help them. It helps the people around them who said, like, oh, I didn't even know I needed that thing that you can help me with. That's the beauty of entrepreneurship.
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Natasha Graziano
Well, that's very interesting because that also leads on to people's side hustles. And you were saying, like, that skill, helping someone, that's all. A side hustle is creating something that adds value to somebody else. And if you do that side hustle enough, right? Check this out. You do three goals a day, every single day for a year, three goals towards your side hustle. So let's say you want to get out there, you want to be more independent, you want to become an entrepreneur, you want to be even as a woman or whoever. But let's just say for anybody who wants to build a side hustle, you know, particularly for women, three goals a day, right? Or three hours a day on your side hustle is 10, 95 hours a year, honey. Your side hustle is your main hustle.
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Laura Faulkham
Yes.
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Natasha Graziano
You know, it's easy. You got to just commit to something and work on it and decide, I'm going to do this. And everybody has something that they can offer the world. Everybody's born with a gift. That's our purpose. And without doing our purpose. Like, you're living in your purpose. I can totally see that. You're glowing. You know, when I. When I saw you advance today, you're glowing. There's an energy, there's a. A presence about you because you're living in your divine purpose of what you're meant to be doing here. Whereas if you're in the rat race, you're just working, eating, sleeping, repeating the same Thing around the clock. You're not in your divine purpose. You're not living how you're meant to to. And therefore you feel down, suppressed and back into the cycle. The best thing to do is look at what you're good at. Are you good at tapestry? Are you good at poetry? Are you good at helping people make money? Are you good at makeup? Are you good at speaking? What is your passion? What are you good at? You know, I never ask people, what do you do? People don't care what you do. They care what you can do for them. So when I ask somebody, what do you do? I'm looking to really see how can you help me. But now I ask people, what are you passionate about? My first question, whenever I meet somebody, you know, in an event, I'm like, what are you passionate about? Because that will really tell me who you are, you know? Well, I'm passionate about skiing.
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Laura Faulkham
Right.
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Natasha Graziano
I'm passionate about helping the world come together. Right. Rather than what do you do? Well, I work an office job. That doesn't tell me anything about you. Your career doesn't define who you are, but your talents and your purpose does.
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Laura Faulkham
Absolutely, absolutely. And I think it's really exciting to see all of these people who are more in touch with their divine purpose. Right. With this version of who they are and what the world needs from them that they have to offer uniquely that nobody else can do.
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Natasha Graziano
Okay, as we come to the drawing near to the end of the show, give me a book that you're reading right now that's really fantastic thing the audience could benefit from.
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Laura Faulkham
Oh, that's a tricky one.
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Natasha Graziano
Maybe a self help book or something that you particularly loved or read recently.
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Laura Faulkham
So one book I have that I haven't started yet, but I ordered, my friend Kurt Gray wrote a book called Outrage that is about what it is specifically about human beings and how our brains work that's making us so angry about politics. And I think that it would be great if more people understood like what are these things that are upsetting us and can we move, set those aside so that we can actually communicate with each other better. Because you know, the first thing we're going to have to do if we're going to make a movement of independence and make the world a better place is set aside that division and actually talk to each other and see what other people's, you know, purposes and what is important to them and who they are.
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Natasha Graziano
Beautiful. I love that. That book sounds very good, very exciting. Hopefully you'll enjoy my book next. One of Those be it to become it. But, well, I think that's all we have time for today. I love talking to you. I really have enjoyed. Is there anything else that you'd like to share with our audience where they can reach you? Perhaps anything that final message you want to give across?
- [30:56]
Laura Faulkham
Yes. Well, if you are, you know, feeling like you don't have a political home or like politics is not the place for you, I hope you will come join us. Our website is the Independent or is independent center.org we have a newsletter that we send out and we are asking people like, hey, tell us what you think. Tell us what is important to you. Here's how we can all make our lives better together. So if that sounds like you, I hope you'll come and join us.
- [31:23]
Natasha Graziano
The newsletter is awesome. The link is below. Get the newsletter. I think that will just keep you up to speed with a really nice version of the world. That's a great place to start. The Independence center is fantastic. Get that newsletter. You guys. How can we reclaim power ourselves?
- [31:38]
Laura Faulkham
We have to know ourselves first, right? Like we have to be connected with ourselves and have a relationship with ourselves first. And then I think we feel safe enough to go and build strong relationships with other people. And that's how we start making politics better too.
- [31:53]
Natasha Graziano
You guys have focus groups that people can join?
- [31:55]
Laura Faulkham
Yes, we would love for people to join. Tell us what you think. Tell us what is important to you. We want to know. We put it into our research and it's part of our work.
- [32:04]
Natasha Graziano
Are they in person?
- [32:06]
Laura Faulkham
We can do it virtually so you don't even have to come to us. We can, we can make it convenient, but the important thing is to just make your voice heard.
- [32:15]
Natasha Graziano
That's so beautiful. And there's people in every state.
- [32:17]
Laura Faulkham
Absolutely fantastic.
- [32:19]
Natasha Graziano
I can't wait for everyone here to let us know how the newsletter goes for you. Join it. It's below. The link is below. Laura, thank you for coming on. It's been a pleasure having you here. The Independent center is the way forwards. I think we need this in the world. Thank you so much for being here, guys. The links are below. If you have any questions, please feel free to DM you guys. We're going to put your Instagram handles below so that you're they're able to ask you questions about how do we do this?
- [32:46]
Laura Faulkham
What do I do?
- [32:46]
Natasha Graziano
I'm sure people have lots of questions. Thank you so much for tuning in, guys. I'll see you again next week.