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Jessica Zweig
Welcome to the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Zweig, multi seven figure serial entrepreneur, best selling author and branding and business coach. And this is a show where we are redefining the word hustle, reclaiming our true feminine nature of magnetism and putting down the self judgments and shame around loving to work and making a lot of money at it.
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On this show, you're going to learn.
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Jessica Zweig
How to stop hustling and start spiritually hustling by pressing play. You are now part of a new movement of women who don't hustle for money. We hustle for meaning. We don't hustle from lack. We hustle for love. We don't hustle from survival. We hustle for humanity's thriving. We hustle toward healing the ancestral programming of fear and step into a new understanding of safety in the body to receive.
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This shift isn't going to only heal your life. It's going to make you a whole lot richer too. This is the Spiritual Hustler podcast. Well, hello my beautiful spiritual hustlers and welcome back to the podcast here in another installment of the Unlocking series where each and every week, every Thursday, I provide you a little key. I have a whole keychain, you could say a mystical metaphysical keychain of all the different keys that I use to unlock my locks around, how to trust myself more and know myself more and love myself more and be myself more. And these are little keys that I am taking off of my keychain and extending to you here in this podcast so that you can put it on your own keychain and start to unlock the locks in your own life. And here on the Spiritual Hustler podcast, you know, this is a show dedicated to reframing how we as women build businesses to do it from a place of consciousness. The Spiritual Hustler combines deep work ethic and a commitment to purpose and wanting to make money and make a difference, while also never losing sight of her truer connection to the oneness that exists here on this planet and that we are all intrinsically connected in this deep multidimensional web of the universe here for a microcosm of time to play out the identity of us in these lives that we are blessed to live, all in the service of calling back the codes of the goddess, the matriarchy, the divine feminine frequency that was the generational power of this entire planet. And yet that's been forgotten, oppressed, repressed and written out. And so that's really the show's purpose. And thank you so much for being here. Each and every week, I've gotten so much amazing feedback about these unlocking episodes, specifically because these little minisodes, microsodes, sometimes they're longer. So it's kind of my opportunity to talk about all the things that make us women, whether that's talking about longevity, like I did a couple weeks ago, and how I've optimized my body to look and feel younger than it ever has at 43. And I. I go into coffee enemas in that particular episod. So I'll leave a link to it. You can go back and listen. We've talked about unlocking abundance and how to become the wealthiest woman that you know. We've talked about self love. We've talked about Instagram and the algorithm and how to hack it in today's world. We kind of do what we want on this part of the podcast, where each and every week, it's what's on my heart that I feel is calling to my community to go deeper in. And so if you have any ideas of what you want me to unlock on these Thursday episodes, come find me in the DMs and share with me what you want me to go deeper on. I'm so here for your feedback, as always. But today I really wanted to talk about something I know all of us experience, whether we experience it at us or we experience it towards other people, mainly other women, and that is jealousy. Now, I want to be very bold and say that I don't consider myself a jealous person. That's not to step on any soapbox and anoint myself as immune to that experience. It's certainly not true. I have had it in my life, for sure, but I've alchemized it. I was blessed to be raised honestly by a mother who wasn't a jealous person, wasn't a competitive person. And I think because I got that code of acceptance and compassion. She was a Chicago public school teacher. While we grew up in a very affluent community where everyone had a lot of money and nice clothes and nice cars and perfect bodies, my mom always taught me, like, beat to the tune of your own drum. No one is better than anyone just because they look like that or have this or live in that type of house. My mom was such a big influence on me, really, growing up to be a woman who really saw everyone pretty much as equals. But that's not to say that I haven't walked into the lion's den of being a woman on this planet, you know, especially in today's age with social media and being a female entrepreneur in the space of other women trying to get business and grow their platforms and just what can organically come up at times, and not only in my own experience as I look out at the world around me, but what I have unfortunately had to receive by other women's jealousy at times of me. And I honestly, I fucking even hate saying that because it's so weird and awkward and absolutely out of the veil of like anything I ever walk through life thinking about because I truly, because I'm wired the way that I'm wired, just don't have that as my locus of perspective. I really, truly see women as beautiful and necessary. But there is a shadow side to all of us and I really want to talk about how we navigate that with grace, whether it's coming from us jealousy or it's being casted at us. So I want to actually share a quote that I'm a big quote fan. I live with so many in my heart. Quotes truly inspire me and have changed my life, to be frank. But there was this one quote that I saw literally about maybe seven years ago that I saved. It was an Instagram meme, of course, but it stopped me dead in my tracks and to this day, something I truly live by. And I'm gonna read it out to you. I know it by heart. I'm gonna say it slowly and I want you to really close your eyes if you can. If you're not driving, if you're in your home somewhere, maybe just pause and close your eyes and put your hand on your heart. And I'm gonna read this twice. Okay? It goes like this. Your projection of me is a reflection of you. And my reaction to you is the self awareness of me. I'm going to say that again. Your projection of me is a reflection of you. And my reaction to you is the self awareness of me. So let's say you are a woman in the world who is shining her light and you get thrown a lot of jealousy and envy. Your way that projection, because it's a story that you're somehow wrong, full of yourself, fake, braggadocious, too confident, not really that great. All of those narratives that you might be absorbing as your own to carry have nothing at all to do with you and have everything to do with the person who is casting that projection towards you. Your projection of me is simply a reflection of you. And here's what I want you to hold. This is something that I have really had to integrate and work on throughout most of my life. Is when someone say is jealous of you, taking up space, being a star, having success, being in love, being beautiful, having a great fit body, creating impact in your community, whatever it might be. The jealousy that's coming your way, yes, is a reflection of that person and not you, but really what is happening there. And this is really important to remember. And this is to think of with only love and grace and compassion. And this is the real flex. But what is going on inside of that person that is making you wrong by being who you are comes from a point inside of themselves that is too afraid to be what you are. So they have to make you wrong for it. You picking up what I'm throwing down. And so it's really important to stop pause when you are receiving on the receiving end of jealousy to really remember that that person's reflection that you are holding up a mirror to what that person is potentially too afraid, too ashamed, too scared, too stuck to be themselves. And there are going to be people who see you not necessarily as wrong, but an expander and a permission slip and an activation for what's possible by them seeing you in their world and following you and understanding that by being reflection to you, that it is an opportunity and an invitation for them to rise into who they're meant to be. And so you being yourself is in many ways, yes, a trigger potentially for many. But you being yourself is also the greatest gift. Your reaction to say that person is the self awareness of you. As I said, your projection of me is a reflection of you. However, my reaction to you is the self awareness in me. So I can react by getting defensive, by getting angry, by feeling violated, by feeling judged. But we can come at it with a completely different level of awareness. The awareness that yes, what I'm bringing up in other people has nothing to do with me technically, but that I also have sovereignty and agency around what I make of that jealousy being cast towards me. There's a shadow side to it, like holding it like, like I'm. I must be special if people want to, you know, tear me down. That's a complete low self awareness vibrational belief that needs to be alchemized. That's you pandering most likely unconsciously to your ego. Or you can rise up with the awareness that your light is exposing people's dark as an invitation for them to find their own light. And you get to respond however you want from that point of neutrality. Neutrality is really the aim here when it comes to being the one getting cast jealousy upon as much as it is you being the person that feels jealous of others. If you are a person that feels jealous of others, this is again, the self awareness that this quote is calling us into. My reaction to you is a self awareness of me. And when you come across someone in your world, in the space, in your industry, in your community that you feel jealous of, it is such an opportunity for you to reflect as to what is underneath the trigger. Because there is always a treasure in the trigger. The more you fixate on that other person and what they have versus what you don't or what you don't have, what they don't have that you have, and playing some sort of hierarchy monopoly in your brain of why this person sucks and why you're better or vice versa, you miss the magic of the trigger and what it's really here to offer you and teach you about yourself. And so, as we become more awake, remembered conscious women here on the Spiritual Hustler, you know, it's interesting to even talk about jealousy since it's so not a part of my world and I have, you know, the highest vibe, community of sisters in my feminine frequency, business school and my retreats and my friend circle. It's just not a part of my reality because I worked on my own projections and reflections and reactions and self awareness. And it is really so alchemizing when we're able to really own our own triggers of jealousy. Like, full stop. A couple years ago, in fact, this was probably a decade ago, truly in the very, very beginning of my entrepreneurial career, I was running my magazine, Cheeky Chicago. Okay, and this is such a past life, but I'll never forget this. And Cheeky, because we were a media platform, we did a lot of work with NBC 5 Chicago. We got to do a ton of partnerships with a ton of local media. And the producers would engage me and my business partner at the time to go around town and like, interview cool restaurant owners and boutique owners and local businesses and hotel openings. It was a whole chapter of my life. It was a really fun ride. One of those particular stories that we got to cover was of this young woman. She was about our age, and she had opened up this massive retail shop. It was a luxury consignment brand, and she was killing it. She was like 27, maybe, maybe younger, had 30 people working for her, was making millions of dollars, had this massive storefront brick and mortar space on the most expensive street in all of Chicag. And we had to interview her. And I remember just feeling so triggered by her. I immediately judged her I mean, this was when I was a lot younger, in my late 20s, and I was casted upon her that she was a diva, that she was full of herself, that she wasn't a nice person. And, you know, we interviewed her. It was. The interview was fine and good, but I just remember having such a bad taste of this girl in my mouth. Not necessarily by anything she did, but by the story that I had created about her because she reflected my projection, that I couldn't have what she had because she was more successful than me at the time, because she was so in her power at the time, because she was getting all of this media and press in a way that I wasn't at the time. It sounds so small, but it's where I was. I had to form an opinion around her that she was a bitch. Okay? And for about a year or two, literally a year or two went by, and she and I kind of ran in the same circles, and I just never really liked her. Like, that was my perspective on her. I didn't know her. I interviewed her for five minutes, and I had this wall. And one day, I don't even remember why or how or what inspired it. I really don't. But I remember one day recognizing how it didn't feel good, how I had created it, and kind of how dumb it was. And so I emailed her and I said, hey, girl, I know we know each other. We've never really gotten to know one another. I said, I think you're rad. Because I was able to identify what was really underneath it. And I said that I use the word rad. I go, I think you're rad, and maybe one of these days we can have lunch. And I sent that email expecting never to hear from her. Like, I didn't send that email for her. I sent it for me. And she wrote me back in literally three minutes. And she said, hey, Jessica, So good to hear from you. I think you're really rad, too. Are you free next Tuesday? And we ended up having lunch. And that girl has become one of my ride or dies. And I root for her. She roots for me. We've been on this journey of entrepreneurship together for forever. Like, this was past life, maybe 10, 15 years ago. We follow each other intently on social media. I am so freaking inspired by her. She is inspired by me. I buy her products. She supports my books. We share each other's stuff on social. We DM each other. It's like a whole beautiful sisterhood that I would have missed out on, had I not remembered that my projection of her was a reflection of me, and that my reaction to her was the self awareness of me as well. And so I leave you with that story to hopefully diffuse, maybe melt, dissolve, and ultimately transmute and alchemize what is keeping you locked up from opening your heart to other women by unlocking your own jealousy and giving yourself the permission to step in to a whole new level of consciousness, of feminine frequency, and ultimately of love. And that is some New Earth shit that I am up to with you, you, my beautiful community of spiritual hustlers every single day. So thank you for joining me on this installment of the Unlocking series. And I just love you all so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you, as always, for listening. And I will see you on the next episode of the Spiritual Hustler. Bye, guys. It.