Un-Gatekeeping Why You’re a Victim

Summary

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Slay the Gatekeeper — “Un-Gatekeeping Why You’re a Victim”

Host: Courtney Johnson

Guest: Justin Amirah Salani

Date: September 9, 2025

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Episode Overview

Courtney Johnson welcomes Justin Amirah Salani for a deep and energetic conversation about “un-gatekeeping” the secrets to personal growth, success, and getting out of a victim mindset. The episode doles out “cheat codes” for rewiring your brain, reframing sales, overcoming perfectionism, tackling triggers, and building a powerful community. The tone is raw, honest, empowering, and often playful, mixing anecdotes, mindset frameworks, and real talk.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Authenticity, Taking Action, and Overcoming Perfectionism

• Delay in Recording: Justin admits his hesitation was about being seen and putting himself out there. Courtney’s influence and encouragement helped him finally “go for it.”

“You empowered me to start putting myself out there and just being authentic with my message.”
— Justin Amirah Salani [00:37]

• Reps over Qualifications: Both emphasize that massive success isn’t about being the smartest or most qualified—it's about taking repeated, imperfect action.

“The qualification for massive success is not your intelligence… it's the reps, it's the at bats.”
— Courtney Johnson [01:48]

• Perfectionism as Self-Sabotage:

“Perfectionism… waiting to have the qualifications… is literally just a limiting belief.”
— Justin [02:55]

2. Mindset, Subconscious Programming & Limiting Beliefs

• Intelligence as Self-Mastery: The real marker of intelligence is getting out of your own way and living your dream, not just being “good at your job.”

“True intelligence is, can you get over yourself? Can you get out of your own fucking way so you can live your dream?”
— Courtney [04:00]

• The Power of the Subconscious:

“98% of our decision making happens in the subconscious, in the unconscious. Only 2%… happens consciously.”
— Courtney [05:22]

• Cheat Code: Rewiring Your Beliefs:

“If you want to un-gatekeep something, rewiring your mind.”
— Justin [06:08]

• Receiving & Worthiness: Many people struggle to receive, which is a subtle form of rejecting abundance.

“Every time you say no, it's okay and you shoo it away, you're literally telling the universe, I don't feel worthy of this.”
— Justin [07:01]

3. Investing in Yourself & The Illogical Path to Success

• Ultrasuccessful People Invest First:

“It's illogical to drop 50 G's on a coach… I have yet to meet an ultra successful person that hasn't taken some risk on themselves.”
— Courtney [07:36]

• Show Up When You Invest:

“Anytime I have invested in myself prior, I've gotten very good results because of how deep I go, how all in I am.”
— Justin [08:44]

4. Communication: The Cheat Code of Not Arguing

• Ask Questions Instead of Arguing:

“People don't respond when you talk at them… especially in an argument. Especially when there's tension.”
— Justin [09:32]

• Justin demonstrates, in a playful back-and-forth about pizza (10:13-11:11), how gentle questioning reframes the conversation toward collaboration and enhanced outcomes.

5. Victim Language and Empowering Narratives

• Spotting Victim Language: Words like “have to” and “should” signal lack of gratitude and powerlessness.

“Have to is literally saying, I am forced to do something. You're not. You're never forced to do anything.”
— Justin [12:05]

• Shift to Gratitude:

“I'm blessed to” and “I get to” instantly upgrade your mindset and vibrational state.
— Justin [13:57]

• Courtney highlights how shifting language with clients can initially feel uncomfortable, but is critical for growth. [14:22-15:06]

6. Reframing Sales and Handling Objections

• Sales as Empowerment:

“Just them investing in themselves is an absolute blessing.”
— Justin [15:34]

• Handling Objections: Not Just About Money

“Offloading the decision is again the same victim cycle… really allowing people to take ownership over their life… and own it.”
— Justin [20:01]

• Objections Are Patterns:

“If they're outsourcing their decision making to their partner in this sales process, they're probably… doing it in other areas of their life.”
— Courtney [20:35]

7. Triggers as Invitations for Growth

• Triggers Are Neutral Data:

“Triggers are all within… they are beliefs formed around experiences.”
— Justin [27:01]

• Love Your Triggers:

“Imagine if you were to break through all of your triggers… only thing that mattered was your heart, your vision.”
— Justin [28:59]

• Acting from Vision Not Fear: Courtney passionately explains why it’s “selfish” and damaging to the world to play small or ignore your dreams.

“You are robbing the fucking world of that purpose.”
— Courtney [24:07]

8. Community, Environment, and Collective Upleveling

• Community Mirrors Mindset:

“If you are surrounded by people that are up-leveling themselves… your brain will do everything it can to belong.”
— Courtney [34:49]

• Isolation vs. Community:

“My mind then compared to now is… night and day. One of the biggest things ever is community.”
— Justin [35:53]

• Receiving Complements and Support: Tied back to the theme of worthiness, ending with, “Accept compliments.” [39:36]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Action and Success:
  “The one who is willing to try is the qualification.”
  — Justin quoting Courtney [01:08]

• On Limiting Beliefs:
  “Raw action solves all.”
  — Justin [03:55]

• On Healing Your Subconscious:
  “Rewiring your beliefs is probably one of the most beneficial things anybody can do.”
  — Justin [06:01]

• On Receiving:
  “Every single time somebody offers you something… even a compliment… you're literally telling the universe, I don't feel worthy of this.”
  — Justin [07:01]

• On Arguing:
  “You don't argue. It is wizard shit.”
  — Courtney [09:25]

• On Gratitude:
  “Why the hell would the universe give you more?”
  — Justin [13:57]

• On Community:
  “If you are around a bunch of broke people, your brain will do everything it can to belong.”
  — Courtney [34:49]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:37] Justin shares on overcoming the fear of being visible
• [01:48] Courtney reframes qualifications for success
• [04:00] Intelligence as living your dream, not just being skilled
• [05:22] The importance of subconscious programming
• [07:36] Investing in yourself and the “illogical” risks ultra-successful people take
• [09:32] Justin’s “ask questions, don’t argue” approach, with pizza example
• [12:05] Victim language and the power of gratitude
• [15:34] Reframing sales and the blessing of investing in oneself
• [20:01] Objection handling equals limiting belief handling
• [24:07] Courtney’s trigger: people not connected to their dreams
• [28:59] The power of loving one’s triggers
• [34:49] The cheat code of community and environmental influence

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Cheat Codes Shared in the Episode

• Take imperfect action — it compounds
• Reprogram your subconscious, especially limiting beliefs
• Actively practice receiving (even compliments)
• Invest in yourself, even when it’s scary or seems “illogical”
• Ask questions instead of arguing to reduce drama
• Use empowered language: “get to” and “blessed to” instead of “have to”
• Reframe sales as a blessing and help clients face limiting beliefs
• Triggers are neutral feedback — love them and learn from them
• Do your dishes and keep your space clean — your environment reflects your mind
• Find community — your tribe shapes your reality
• Accept compliments — don't block the flow of abundance

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In the Same Spirit

Throughout, Courtney and Justin maintain a playful, sometimes irreverent tone, peppering in jokes (“Eat mushrooms. It solves all the problems.” — Courtney [31:13]), personal stories, and reminders not to take life too seriously. Both encourage listeners to consistently challenge self-imposed limits and step into a life that reflects their aspirations.

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For more from Courtney, check out her Patreon for extra resources and “juicy shit.” For coaching, find Justin on Instagram (@JustinAmirahSalani).

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Transcript

[Courtney Johnson]

Foreign.

Welcome to Slay the Gatekeeper. I'm your host Courtney Johnson and I am here to un gatekeep the gatekeep. Thank you so much for being here. Enjoy. Justin. Amirah Salani. Justin, I've been looking forward to this podcast episode for a while.

Thank you.

I think we've been saying we're going to do it, but we haven't done it.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I do agree. I think it's very long awaited episode.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

What was in the gap? What was in the gap of us recording?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I think it was, I think it was mostly me. Yeah, I think it was definitely me. I think it was me not wanting to start being on camera, being on video and whatnot. And you empowered me to start recording. You empowered me to start putting myself out there and just being authentic with my message.

[Courtney Johnson]

Thank you.

Yeah. What, what finally clicked because you were talking about creating content for a while and one day you're just like, fuck it, I'm. I'm finally going to do it.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

What clicked for me is that number one, I saw people. The biggest difference between people that make it in content in my experience is they just go for it. And it's not about expertise, it's not about any kind of qualifications. You once said something to me which was the one who is willing to try is the qualification. Which literally blew my mind. So at that point I'm like, yeah, why not Just willing to try. And then, you know, certain other things that shaped my worldview that nothing really matters, especially not what other people think in a negative light.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah. I wanna, I wanna restate that for the audience that the qualification for massive success is not your intelligence, it's not how successful you are, already are. It's not how much you know about a topic, it's the reps, it's the at bats. Right. The qualification for a home run is not how great your swing is or how big or small the ball is. It's having a fuck ton of at bat.

Yeah.

Even if you're shit at hitting a ball, you're going to get a home run if you put enough reps. If I put in 20,000 reps and you just go to the gym and work on your arm strength and don't put in reps, I'm going to beat you every time. And it's the same for content creation. And what I think a lot of people pushes them over the edge is when they see people that are actually less intelligent, know less about their topic, more dumb than them succeeding and getting opportunities that they should have that's usually what pushes people over the edge.

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And perfectionism, like, like waiting to, you know, have the qualifications. All these things is literally just a limiting belief. And the person that is able to go over that limitation, I would qualify as smarter. I would qualify as more qualified. I rather be with somebody who's not. I rather work with somebody who's not limited by their mind in a negative way rather than somebody that could just go for it, do it, not be scared, and just own their truth. And another thing is a lot of people get stuck in the how to. They get stuck in the how am I going to do this? How am I going to post? What am I going to post? What are people going to say? It doesn't fucking matter. It doesn't. Especially in the beginning. You will figure it out. The more reps you do, the more raw action that you can actually put into place. Things just, they just, they just fall into play in a very, very awesome way. So raw action solves all.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah. And what you said about intelligence is like actually doing Naval Ravikant says the marker of intelligence in this lifetime is if you get what you want, basically saying you're smart. If you live your dream, that's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter how good you are at your job that you fucking hate. Are you taking steps to live your dream? And then true intelligence is, can you get over yourself? Can you get out of your own fucking way so that you can live your dream in this lifetime? That is intelligence.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

The most successful, smartest people I know are extremely humble. They don't flaunt that, they're extremely intelligent. It's just they're, it's known because of how humble they are, how willing to learn they are and the way they control their mind. That's, that's my experience, is that if you have control over your mind and not vice versa, that is extremely powerful. That's a lot of power. And you could do anything at that point because your mind, I mean, there's a lot of things that you know can, can limit you if you allow it, but your mind is one of the things that can really limit you.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Now if you are to break through that the polar opposite of your mind limiting you is like your mind giving you everything you want. And that's, that's really what successful people that I've experienced, they have as a character trait. Humility.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah. It's important to remember that 98% of our decision making happens in the subconscious, in the unconscious. Only 2% of our decision making happens consciously.

Wow.

So if you really want to set yourself up for success, do the work on the subconscious and that's going to inform your decision making with ease. Right. We don't think, we don't logically have to think through digestion or breathing. It just happens. And so when you can reprogram your mind and reprogram means limiting beliefs, everything becomes easier because your subconscious mind is doing the heavy lifting for you.

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Rewiring your beliefs is probably one of the most beneficial things anybody can do.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's the biggest cheat code.

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's. It's that if you want to ungid, keep something rewiring your mind.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So to not get triggered, not get, not, not put these self limiting beliefs on you that are, they're so powerful if you allow them to be, but if you can rewire it and you can create a number one. Being open to receive. Being open to receive goodness and blessings from the universe is something that is so valuable. And pretty much not many people talk about your relationship with receiving money, love, blessings, whatever it may be. Every single time somebody offers you something, gives you anything, as of goodwill, just even a compliment. Even a compliment. Every time you say, no, it's okay and you shoo it away, you're literally telling the universe, I don't feel worthy of this.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Imagine what that, what that's going to do to your surroundings.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, that's wild.

I. Another cheat code that I think we both have seen is the most successful people invest in themselves first. They get coaches, they do the programs, they do the ceremonies, they do this shit that really gets underneath. And I feel like that's also not talked about. Like you can't. And it's illogical. Right? It's illogical to drop 50 G's on a coach.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Illogical.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's illogical. And I have yet to meet an ultra successful person that hasn't taken some risk on themselves.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Like 100, 100. And it's like if, if you have this kind of conversations with people that, you know, are kind of stuck in, in the prison of their mind, they're gonna just, you know, shoo out words like in my experience, realistic or it's unrealistic. Just these things that are so limiting, but they don't get it because it's subconscious. And another thing, the going with, let's say, into mentorship, getting a coach, that itself is great. And investing in yourself is extremely beneficial. It's also the way they show up. For example, if I invest in myself, I'm going to show up fully. I'm going to show up all in, and I'm going to do and really suck the juice out of it because that's what it's there for. And anytime I have invested in myself prior, I've gotten very good results because of how deep I go, how all in I am. Because it's like, if you want to invest in yourself and then not follow the coaching, not follow the mentorship.

[Courtney Johnson]

What? Yeah. Why?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, it's like, watch, Stay home.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

You don't have to do it. It's like, it's. It's literally, it's. It's like mental masturbation. It's like you're. You're paying. You think you're doing something, but you're really not.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

Your input is your output.

Of course.

Okay. I have a really good cheat code that I want to ask you about, and you've done this to me a lot. Like, I'm like, justin, I thought you were doing some crazy Jedi mind tricks. And I'm like, this is good. I'm going to steal this. So, Justin, you don't argue.

I don't argue.

You don't argue. And Justin and I have been friends for like a year, and I would say we've had disagreements, of course.

Yeah.

And you don't argue. It's not a part. You ask questions.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I do.

[Courtney Johnson]

It is wizard shit. Tell me about this.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So people don't respond when you talk at them?

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Especially in an argument. Especially when there's tension. If you are talking at somebody, they're going to feel like you are trying to prove you're trying to get a gotcha moment. You're trying to. You're basically trying to like them, and that's not fun. People don't like when they're trying to be, you know, just be put down, told they're wrong. So I don't operate in right or wrong. I just try to figure out, number one, why is there tension? Why is there an argument? And I do ask questions. For example, off the top of my head, let's say if somebody tells me to do something, or wait, let's say.

[Courtney Johnson]

That I want to eat pizza and you want to eat healthy.

Yeah.

Okay, Justin, let's get pizza.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Do you think that's going to be beneficial for your health, Courtney?

[Courtney Johnson]

Probably not, but I really want pizza.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Okay, well, I mean, what do you think your highest self would do?

[Courtney Johnson]

My highest self would probably not eat pizza because she would want to feel good after eating and have energy for the Rest of the day.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Do you want to be and show up as the highest version of you, Courtney?

[Courtney Johnson]

I do. Yeah, I do. Why? Why, though?

Because, I mean, she's making such an impact in the world, and she's, like, empowered and excited, and she feels good all the time.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Okay, so what do you want to do?

[Courtney Johnson]

So I want to not order pizza.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Okay, there we go. And then I get my way. Or I can ask you, are you against not having pizza?

[Courtney Johnson]

No, I'm not against it.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Amazing. Let's go. Let's have healthy food.

[Courtney Johnson]

That's it.

Yeah. It's a lot less confronting than being like, no, you're eating steak.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, we're having this.

[Courtney Johnson]

We're.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's like. It's like, dude, I, I. I don't like drama.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I don't like drama. And this is. This is a very easy, fun way to get my way, but also not have drama because I don't want to have tension.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, it's bad energy.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, we don't like that.

[Courtney Johnson]

We don't like that.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

We don't like that.

[Courtney Johnson]

Okay, so ask questions instead of arguing. Love it. I have another cheat code from you.

Yeah.

You're programming your mind to make you a victim via your language. The cheat code is reprogramming your mind out of victim language into more empowering language. So first, how do you know if you're in victim language? Like, what are some of the words that you use that you're immediately like, you're in victim.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So before I get into the words victim, being in victim is lack of gratitude. Is lack of gratitude for this life, lack of gratitude for everything that you have. The fact that you're alive, the fact that you have a functioning body, the fact that you can be sad. You get to be grateful for being sad, being angry, not getting what you want, because that means you could feel things and what kind of a blessing it is to feel things. So let's talk about some of the language. Number one we have. And this just this. This kind of is one of my pet peeves when people use the word have, to. And have to is literally saying, I am forced to do something. You're not. You're never forced to do anything. You could do whatever you want. Everything is a choice. So at least if you make a choice, embrace it. Own the decision. So you could use words like, I get to do this instead of, I have to go to the grocery store. No, I get to go to the grocery store. I get to feed my family. I get to feed myself. I get to move my body. This is. It's. It all comes down to lack of gratitude. And you can even go further than that and just talk about how you're blessed to do things. I'm blessed to wake up. I am blessed to go to bed. I am blessed to do hard things. So these two is very easy shifts that can put you right away in gratitude. And gratitude is an extremely high vibration, and it's just going to help you attract more and more. And also, I want to add one of the main reasons why people get stuck in the cycle that they are in is lack of gratitude. If you're not grateful for what you have, why the hell would the universe give you more?

[Courtney Johnson]

Why?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

You get to be grateful for what you have and own it. Just own it.

[Courtney Johnson]

Well, that's powerful.

Okay. So we've identified that should have to. Is victim language, and we can reprogram our minds to get to. I'm blessed to. That's like ultra.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, it's ultra.

[Courtney Johnson]

Ultra.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's ultra. It's ultra gratitude.

[Courtney Johnson]

Ultra gratitude. I'm blessed, too. Beautiful. Yeah. I correct all of my clients all the time, and I know they get really annoyed, but they're like, amazing. Amanda's over here being like, yeah, why.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Do you think they get annoyed?

[Courtney Johnson]

Because it is an interruption of a flow. Because they're like, oh, I. I gotta. I have to finish the thing you assigned me. I have to finish the post.

Yeah.

And I'm like, you're blessed too. I think there's anytime people correct your language, I think it. It. It's also comfortable. It's comfortable.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So comfortable.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's more comfortable to be in the victim mindset.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Because it's autopilot. Yeah, it's autopilot pilot.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's really comfy, cozy.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's super comfy cozy.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

But we don't like that.

[Courtney Johnson]

We don't want comfy cozy. Okay. Another cheat code reframing your definition of sales. So a lot of my clients that I work with, a lot of the listeners on this podcast, are like, I feel icky selling. I feel weird actually pushing to make a sale. I feel awkward.

Yeah.

How have you reframed what sales really is?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So in terms of sales itself, you get to have very high internal belief that the fact that somebody just invests in themselves because people get scammed online, and that's not fun.

[Courtney Johnson]

Right.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

People do get scammed.

[Courtney Johnson]

Now, these are my clients.

Yeah.

They would never.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

They would never get scammed ever. So let's say somebody has been and been burned in the past or anything like that. They, you have to have very high internal belief that like they've been through that experience and they get to reinvest in themselves because number one, they're going to be able to find self trust and trust themselves that, yes, I've made a bad decision in the past, but I'm coming back because I trust myself, I trust my intuition, and that leads to a lot of greatness. Just trust. Also, you get to also have a very high internal belief that just them investing in themselves is an absolute blessing. Obviously, fulfillment is extremely important and it's going to skyrocket people's journey in their life. However, the action alone of investing a thousand, two thousand, a hundred thousand dollars into yourself is a blessing you are giving the client to be able to invest that much money into themselves. When you invest. Imagine your, your state of mind when you invest 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, $50,000 into yourself. To feel worthy of investing that much money into yourself is an absolute blessing. And it comes with being able to receive, being able to be in abundance and being able to tell the universe, I am worthy of spending $50,000 into myself because I am a worthy human being. And I know I am.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, that's powerful. Sheesh.

Okay, and then objection handling, like your approach to objection handling is really interesting. And for those that don't know what that is, basically someone saying, well, I don't have the money, I don't know if this is the right time, I gotta ask my wife or husband, I'm not really sure, or how do I know this is gonna deliver? So people have objections that are coming up in these sales conversations and you reframe objection handling. Almost like as limiting belief handling.

Yeah.

Tell me more.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

For example, if somebody tells you that they need to think about it or they need to, you know, speak to their partner or whatnot, this is, let's say if we take speak to partner, that is, bar none, offloading the decision to somebody else. And the way you can reframe that is explaining to them that who is really in responsibility, who is responsible for you doing the work, for actually getting the results, it's not somebody else. And nine times out of that, nine times out of 10, even like 99 times out of 100, the partner who's going to hear, yeah, I want to spend ten grand on this coaching or this mentorship, what do you think there is?

[Courtney Johnson]

I get it, you want to create content, but you're stuck. You feel like you start creating content and then you stop, you push and then you pull back you create this big strategy and you don't actually implement it. And, and I know you, I know that you have a million content ideas in your notes app that you just haven't actually started to create. This is exactly why I created Content Club. I created Content Club to be a place where you can come and bring all of those ideas and we guide you through the content creation. So what is Content Club? We meet every single morning at 8am Central Time. My team and I give you a prompt, we give you brainstorming, we give you coaching support. We all create the content together and we all post together and like and comment and engage on each other's posts. So if you are desiring a community and a container that can help support your content creation and bring you into being a extraordinary and results driven and consistent content creator, I will see you tomorrow morning, 8am Central on Zoom In Content Club. They're gonna be like, yo, that's crazy.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

That's crazy.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And it's like offloading that decision is again the same victim cycle of. It's not up to me. I don't make the decisions, I get to speak to somebody else. When in reality you don't. You can choose. And this is when people use language such as, I have to speak to my partner, I have to, I need to. And they're not taking ownership. So number one is really allowing people to take ownership over their life, over their decision making process and own it. And then you can shift that.

[Courtney Johnson]

Oh yeah. The objections that they have, if it's something that somebody really, really wants, they really want to make this investment in themselves. The objections that they have are going to show up outside of the sales process too. So if they're outsourcing their decision making to their partner in this sales process, they're probably, they're probably outsourcing their decision making to their partner in other areas of their life. If they're super in scarcity, they're in scarcity in other areas of their life. Like again, not everything is always a perfect fit. Not everything is for everyone. But if somebody's really saying, I want to be here, I want this, and they're throwing these objections at you, it is an opportunity to be able to start to reframe their mind and subconscious and guide them through that so that they can show up powerfully so that they can move into this next level. And again, like, this is all underlying that you have a strong conviction that what you're selling is, is worth it. Correct. Amazing. Like, that is a good, important part but like for example, for my level up on LinkedIn, folks like I will do anything to get them over the line because I see that everybody that goes through level up on LinkedIn makes an extra like 20 to 50k within a year. So I'm gonna fucking push you to spend fifteen hundred dollars because I know what's capable for you on the other side. Like I know what's available for you. And it's like getting people out of their own way.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's the decision making process that is keeping them at that uncertainty. Doubt is literally what is blocking them from success.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And that's as you just said, getting out of your own way.

[Courtney Johnson]

That's it.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And there was another thing I wanted to say. I forgot. Anyways, we'll.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, we'll come back. We'll come back.

Okay.

Tell me about triggers.

Triggers trigger as well.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Well, what gets you triggered? What triggers you?

[Courtney Johnson]

Courtney?

What triggers me is.

I feel like.

A lot of things trigger me.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, I've seen you triggered.

[Courtney Johnson]

I don't know what triggered. Nothing triggers me. I'm perfect. Hey, what triggers me? You can't think of anything?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I can think. What triggers you? That's a good question.

[Courtney Johnson]

Oh, okay. What really triggers me is people that aren't connected with their dreams. Oh yeah, that really triggers me. If people like I have a hard time having compassion and empathy if somebody is not on like their dharmic path.

Yeah.

And I get to not I. And I get to have more compassion because not everyone has had the same tools that I've had to see. See that your dream is possible. Like I have 100% conviction that anybody's wildest dream is their dharma. And that's possible for anybody in this lifetime. Some people, it might take multiple lifetimes. But I believe that if you're connected to that vision, how cruel would our God be to give us such a strong desire that we can't actually accomplish? So when people are disconnected from that, people don't see it as possible. I get really triggered when people aren't taking steps towards their dream. I get really triggered because we can make decisions from love or fear. And when we make decisions from love, we are making decisions, taking steps towards our vision and our dream. And our visions and our dreams are what heals and helps the planet. Or we make decisions from fear and making decisions from fear is making decisions that keep us safe. Making decisions away from our dream and that actively harms the planet, that actively perpetuates these cycles. We say, oh, fuck the patriarchy, fuck the government, fuck Big corporations, whatever. If you're making decisions out of fear, you are perpetuating these organizations, these institutions, these pendulums that you don't like and you're contributing to it. Like we have, we know that violence, like an outcome of violence is like hurting people and murdering people and war and all of this. And also we are in cycles of perpetuation of those systems that we don't get to break out of unless we connect with our dreams. So it's, it's. What triggers me is not even the fact that people aren't connected with their dreams. It's like you don't see how you're harming the world and other people by, by keeping that decision to stay in your full time job because you know that by and again the full time job is an example, a lot of people's dreams and their purpose is to be in a full time job or whatever. Like, I'm not saying everyone has to like start a company. That's definitely not it. Maybe your dream is art, music, parenthood, friendship, community, whatever. But using the example, let's say you're in your nine to five that you hate and you know you have this bigger purpose outside of it. You are robbing the fucking world of that purpose. You are robbing the world of your amazing technology or art or music or creation or whatever it might be. And with our dreams, like that is heart centered, that is heart led. That is what helps other people. So I just feel like it's selfish when people aren't connected. And again, I know that's a lot of explaining and I get to post more about it so people can see the vision more.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Absolutely.

[Courtney Johnson]

But that isn't my number one trigger. What's your number one trigger?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Before I get into that.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

That your dream is connected with God.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Your dream is connected with the divine world and it is infinitely powerful. So to, to not act on it. It's. In my experience, I genuinely believe that if you're not coming from a place of vision, of love, you are coming from fear.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And it's very sad.

[Courtney Johnson]

And it hurts others.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It does. It hurts others because.

[Courtney Johnson]

Traumatizes the world.

Yeah, yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

My trigger. I have a few trigger I have. I've really been getting good at like noticing my triggers and like, whoa, if there's a trigger, why is this a trigger? Because in my experience, triggers are all within any, any kind of discomfort you feel is within. Whether it's from a past trauma, whether it's anything you were thought, these are certain things that you were you formed beliefs around experiences that you had that caused you to be triggered.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And this can literally be beliefs formed around content, and it can be either positive or negative. So, I mean, content is extremely powerful because it literally impacts everything. My trigger is. I mean, if I. If I get any kind of negative, if people speak negatively of me, do I get triggered? Yes. However, I love it. I love. Like, I love. Yeah, I just love it. And also, I try to figure out, why does this bother me? Because it doesn't really matter. We are all gonna die. Like, everyone's gonna die.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And nobody's gonna remember us unless our brains are, like, put into some AI and we could live forever, but that. That wouldn't be fun. So we're all gonna die. We're all gonna be part of this nature, which we already are. And it doesn't really matter what people think, especially if it's negative, especially if it limits you. Why. Why take that into account? Now, let me be very clear. I'm not saying suppress your triggers because that's very different. Every time you suppress and say, it's not there, it's not real. This is not what I'm supposed to feel. You are literally baking it into your nervous system, and that's going to create tenfold more triggers. So you might feel good in the moment when you suppress. And in reality, it is going into your nervous system. It is going into your body, into your subconscious. And as we spoke, 98. 98% of the decisions that are made are from subconscious. So why would you literally ravage and traumatize your subconscious if that's what dictates everything?

[Courtney Johnson]

So.

So what I'm hearing as a cheat code is identify your trust triggers and love your triggers.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Love them.

[Courtney Johnson]

They're not a bad thing. It's not good or bad. It is feedback.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's neutral.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's neutral. And you get to see that as an access point to everything you want.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah, literally. Because imagine if you were to break through all of your triggers. Imagine if you literally would be so immune to what people thought, and only thing that mattered was your heart, your vision, your connection with the universe. Source.

[Courtney Johnson]

God. God.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Imagine what you can create. Now, I'm saying this. Obviously, I'm not at that point. And I am also aware of it. I'm aware of the power that that can bring to the world. Not just me, the whole world. And we've talked about this a lot off camera. If everyone is living their dream, it is literally heaven on earth. Yes, it's literally heaven. And it's like, why would I not partake in the possibility of that being real?

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

It's so beautiful. My. My VIP clients know this because they've got to do dream storming with me. But every single dream that I've seen has patterns, and there's consistent patterns with the dream. Every single person on their dream puts. We live in stronger communities and we have access to healthy food, and we. We have, like, we're not being triggered. Like, it's so crazy because on top of the dream of the people, there's like a planet's dream.

Yeah.

And the planet's dream I see reflected through these dozens and dozens of dreams that I've helped facilitate and bring out over the last few years. And it's like one meta dream of everybody living their dream and we're all well. And again, that's your heaven on earth.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's heaven on earth.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

What is something that you've never shared online?

[Courtney Johnson]

That's a good question.

Yeah.

I think I've shared everything on my Patreon. My Patreon people know everything. Yeah, I get freaky on the Patreon.

Whoa.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's spicy.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's really spicy. Yeah. So I think that you guys get to go listen to my Patreon and then you get the spicy.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

That's cool.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

What about, like, psychedelics and stuff?

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah, I've shared about psychedelics. I'm pretty. I. I have a few podcast episodes about it. I'm pretty vocal about it. And every time people ask me questions on Instagram, I just say, eat mushrooms.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

What? Like, what kind of. Is it mushroom related question? Or just questions about, like, no, people.

[Courtney Johnson]

Will be like, I'm feeling really scared to pitch this client. Eat mushrooms. Or. Or like, I'm struggling. Should I get a divorce? And we eat mushrooms. It solves all the problems. The mushrooms know the mushrooms will tell you exactly what you need to know.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Will tell you exactly what you need to know. And again, same thing when it comes to successful people. I don't know a single fucking successful person that doesn't do mushrooms.

[Courtney Johnson]

I know, I know. It's so gay, Kev.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It's really gay, Kev.

[Courtney Johnson]

I also don't know even the sober people. Even people that are, like, super successful. I'm sober. I never touch drugs. And I'm like, I saw you on mushrooms last weekend. What are you talking about?

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And also, like, dancing and having fun. How important is that for success?

[Courtney Johnson]

Really important.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So important.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

You got to be silly.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

You gotta be silly. Like, you.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's not Serious.

No.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

We're all gonna die. And you. You. You really get to have fun. You get to dance. You get to be, like, in your. But not dance for other people, but, like, just dance for the universe. Dance for. For source. Don't focus on you, especially when dancing, because dancing is very spiritual.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It gets you. And it's. It's.

[Courtney Johnson]

It's.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It is a real spiritual experience, especially when you're really in it and not in your. Your ego.

[Courtney Johnson]

Right.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Which. Your ego is. This is what I think other people are thinking of me.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Which is not fucking real. It's not real. And it's literally just a survival mechanism that was created to not die back in caveman ages.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

That's it. Because, of course, if people hated you, if people didn't like you back in the day, like, long, long time ago, they would kill you.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And people didn't want to die. No biology. I think it's. It's, you know, they didn't want to die.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So.

[Courtney Johnson]

Well, I have two more cheat codes.

Go.

All right, first cheat code. Do your dishes.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Do your dishes.

[Courtney Johnson]

Do your freaking.

Guys. Justin came over to my house one day, and he's like, you get to start doing your dishes. I'm like, no. Why? Why did you bully me into starting to do my dishes?

[Justin Amirah Salani]

So this is. This is what I said. I said, either you do your dishes or you get someone to do your dishes. But they get to be clean.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Your dishwasher gets to be clean. Your space gets to be clean. Everything is better when your space is clean, because your house. Specifically your house, but obviously your. Your whole material life, it is a representation of your mind. So if your mind is clouded and dirty and not. Not dirty, but, like. You know what I mean?

[Courtney Johnson]

Not.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Not cluttered. Cluttered, Exactly. It's gonna physically represent in the reality in the real world. So you get to, number one, figure out why you are in this. This pattern of keeping nothing, not keeping things clean. And if it is a pattern, then you get to do the inner work. You get to figure out why. You get to figure out why this is a habit. Why it's like, in what ways it's holding you back. Because, again, if it's holding you back there, it's holding you back in other areas. And doing your dishes is just. It's very relaxing.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And it's. It's soothing.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

When things are clean, it's. It's so soothing.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah. Very important.

And make your bed.

Make your bed.

Okay, last cheat code. Justin.

Yeah.

This one's really good. It took me a long time to figure this out. Okay, find community. And, and this is. Okay. You guys listening are like, yeah, playing community. Like live, laugh, love. Like, I get that that sounds trite. And also community has been. If you are surrounded by people that are up leveling themselves, that are successful, that are healthy, our brains are literally wired to want to be part of the tribe. And that 98% of our subconscious is. Is going to do everything it can to belong. So if you are around a bunch of broke people, your brain will do everything it can to belong and be on the same level as a bunch of broke people. If you're around a bunch of rich people, your brain is going to do everything it can to fit in and it's going to copy their behavior subconsciously. If you're around a bunch of fit people, like it. Same thing. So tell me about your journey into community and why this is such a important cheat code for you.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

This is really interesting and I had no idea that you. You were going to bring this in.

[Courtney Johnson]

I'm so happy. You posted a great post about it.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Really?

[Courtney Johnson]

That's where I got it.

Yeah.

It was after yoga.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Oh my God. Community is so important and I'll tell you why. So I'm originally from Montreal. I grew up in Canada and I moved to Austin about a year or so ago and I lived very, very far from the city. I. I was isolated and I really did not have a community. My mind then compared to now is obviously I can say night and day, but I wouldn't be able to literally put it into words. One of the biggest things ever is community, because being around people literally releases fun hormones in your body.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

It releases good feeling in your body and it, it releases just things that make you want to feel close to people and community. One of the, one of the things that people, especially men, and this is actually, it comes back to, let's say even porn and stuff. Your mind, men's mind on porn is so terrible because it literally shapes it in a way to think and see everyone as. In a sexual way.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And when you, when. When that is reality, that's not fun.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

At all. And if you get to break through that, you can create community with men, you can create community with women, and you could literally be in synergy with the world and just feel amazing.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Just feel amazing. So these are some things to also create community because I used to struggle with a lot of anxiety. A lot ADHD anxiety. I hate when I don't hate, but I Do it get. I do. So here's a trigger. I get triggered when people say, oh, I do this because I have adhd.

[Courtney Johnson]

Me too.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

As a, as a, cope, as like.

[Courtney Johnson]

A, it's like, look, and I've got guys, I've struggled with adhd and I hate when people use it as a excuse.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Yeah. Because again, it comes back to victim, me having adhd. I'm like, I'm blessed because obviously there's goods, there's bads when it comes to adhd. And I'm extremely blessed because I used my ADHD in a positive way.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

And a lot of people that say that, I'm like, okay, well, number one, it's very overly diagnosed. It's, people are on medication and it's very, the medication is pushed, pushed a lot. And that's not fun. So when people use that as a, a reason why they're being a certain way, I'm like, would you not want to take full control and full agency over your life? Like, why not? Why outsource your power to something called adhd? Yeah, I, I, I take my power and I'm like, look, I have adhd. Perfect. How can I benefit from it? And anxiety was something I really struggled with. I, I did not want to, I basically, I did not want to fund community. I wanted to deep down, but my ego was so strong and it was keeping me small because this anxiety was very crippling. And some ways that I worked through it was heavy exercise. Heavy exercise, good food, clean diet, and also just reprogramming your subconscious, reprogramming your relationship with receiving, like we discussed before. Because if you can't receive, why would you allow people into your life to give you blessings and to just love you?

[Courtney Johnson]

That's so powerful. Yeah.

Okay, so last cheat code. Accept compliments.

Absolutely.

Yes. That's what we're leaving them with. Okay. Justin, how can people find you? How can they work with you? You're such a good coach.

Coach.

You get to our listeners that are like, whoa, this dude is awesome. They get to book coaching with you.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

I would, I, I, you could find me on Justin Amir Aslani on Instagram. And if you want my number, just ask Courtney.

[Courtney Johnson]

And maybe if you're a cutie single.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Girl, you're cutie single.

[Courtney Johnson]

I'm just kidding.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

But yeah, if you want to, I, I, I, I post. I also, I do like imessage, but.

[Courtney Johnson]

Your posts are fire lately.

Yeah.

Thanks to Content Club.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Thanks to Content Club.

[Courtney Johnson]

Yeah. Courtney Johnson, tomorrow morning, 8:00am Central for content Club.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Amazing. Let's go.

[Courtney Johnson]

Okay. Thank you, Justin.

[Justin Amirah Salani]

Thank you for having me. I am an angel. Sweet.

[Courtney Johnson]

Okay, y', all, if you like this episode, you would love, love my Patreon. Okay? You get exclusive access to me, exclusive content, tons of other resources, and a lot of juicy shit, okay? So I hope to see you on my Patreon.