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You’re listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast. This episode is titled creating true freedom and independence in your life. have coached so many thousands and thousands and thousands of people over the years. And when we started working together, the first place that I start is I start having people explore what are their highest core values. And we pick things like friends and family and money and relationships and all these kinds of things we want to create in life. 
 
We literally pick things we want to be, do and have. But at the foundation of that, what most people pick is one of their highest core values and most important values is the concept of freedom. We want freedom. We want freedom in our careers, in our lives, in our communities, in our choices. We as a species, we crave freedom. And in this episode, recently I talked about seniority and another episode. 
 
And in this episode, I’m going to talk about seniority and using your seniority to create the freedom and independence that you want in your life. Keep listening. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin, and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation, and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here, you’re going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype. 
 
because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. 
 
And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. So last week we talked about seniority and seniority basically is knowing yourself a soul. As I said before, knowing and remembering that you came here with all this cosmic power and all these lifetimes and existence and being, and you came here with that power, but we forget it. 
 
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And an example of use in many places is kind of like we’re born on the planet and someone puts a bag over our head and we completely forget all of our learnings and all of our knowings from prior lives and different lives. And all of that knowing is our seniority. So I talked about seniority last week, but I want to compromise it in a little bit different way this week because I want to talk about using your seniority. 
 
to give you the independence, which is what all of us want, and the freedom that we all want. I also noticed, and I have not a deep apology, but a minor apology, as I was going through some past notes, I recognized that the podcast I did last week, I also did that same content, literally, back in February of 2021. And if I recall correctly, I don’t know the exact date 
 
that I did that in February, 2021, but the recording that I had from Don Hauvier was from February, 2021. And I think I mentioned that in the recording in the last episode. Anyway, as they say, repetition is the mother of all learning. And in my opinion, this episode is what I call a barn burner, meaning especially the last episode, not this one, but the last episode is what I call a barn burner. mean, it just burns everything else down. 
 
When we recognize that we come to the planet with seniority, we don’t have to earn it on the planet. We don’t have to pay for it on the planet. We don’t get it on Amazon Prime. It doesn’t have to be conferred on us. We are simply born, born with the cosmic seniority. We have that and that is pure power. So in this episode, as I said in the introduction, what I want to do, or attempt to do is I want to explore 
 
seniority as it relates to your freedom and your independence. As I said a bit ago, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want more freedom in life. mean, listening right now, if I was sitting right across from you and I said, do you want more freedom in your life? You’re going to say, absolutely. If I said, do you want more independence? And that can be from governments or financial constraints or parents or society or whatever it might be. 
 
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most likely you’re going to say, absolutely. Now, not everyone would say that because many people want the dependence of a religion or a nationality or a community structure or family, whatever it might be. And my observation doing this for many, many years now, but this current time on the planet, I attract people that are spiritually evolving, growing. They want to open up. They want to experience a greater depth. 
 
of themself and they’re here because they’re already exploring their seniority and opening up to it and they don’t even know that they are. But to have the freedom and the independence that you want, which is what I want to talk about and I am going to talk about in this episode is we’ve got to actually foster and open up and expand and become aware of our seniority because the seniority is the key to the freedom and the independence that we want. And I said a bit ago, 
 
And I said in the last episode and I said back in 2021 and I’ve said before, we’re born with it. I mean, it’s fact, it’s like a factory setting. It’s built in. Your seniority is built in, but we forget and we forget because we’re socialized, which I’ll talk more about later in this episode. You know, a word that Don Javier often uses, and I’m not sure the word fits the same way for me, meaning in the way that I choose to use my words. 
 
But he said one time is that we give up our seniority because we have become domesticated. And only in my model of reality, when I think about being domesticated, I think about, of course we are animals, but I think about dogs being domesticated or cats being domesticated. But if you really think about it, dogs and cats are trained. Human beings are trained. And I’ll talk about that more in just a little bit. But back in 2021, a question that I asked, because I actually 
 
I typed something in on my laptop, looking to see if I had any notes on seniority. And I wanted to look for something in particular that I wanted to talk about in this episode. And that episode from 2021 popped up and there was a question in my notes back then, and I don’t script any podcast out. I’ve never scripted out a single podcast episode. What I may do is I may create bullets and just go by the bullets and wing the rest of it and riff on it and just run with it. Because I’ve done this for so long, I could 
 
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talk about a lot of this in my sleep. But a question that I asked in that episode is a question to ask yourself is in which way do I manage my seniority? Think about that. In which way do I manage my seniority? And if you go back to that episode four years ago, and there were a lot of people that listened to the podcast that literally sit on the fence for years. 
 
because they’re mismanaging their seniority. But I had people say, know, Jim, I’ve been listening since 2019 when you started. I think we started in February of 2019 and people have said, you know, Jim, I’ve been listening since 2019 and they might find themselves in the same place financially today that they were in 2021 or 2020 or even 2019. And the reason why you find yourself exactly where you are today, 
 
And that’s a reflection of how you’re managing and your awareness of your seniority is to you. So ponder that. So if you’re struggling with things in life, it’s because literally you’re not working from and exploring deep diving into your seniority as a being. What does it mean? What power do you have as a being? What seniority did you come with? So if you’re where you want to be in life, 
 
then congratulations because you have managed your seniority well. But on the flip side, if you’re not where you want to be in life, then guess what? You have mismanaged your seniority and you’ve not managed it well. An example I’ve used before metaphor would be that of a factory manager. So if you were a factory and you look at your factory output, is the output above average? 
 
Is it average? Is it below average? Is it quality? Is it not quality? Your factory output is a direct reflection of how well, meaning your life, because that’s your factory outlet, that’s the factory production, because you’re the factory. You’re the manufacturer of your life. And if you’ve manufactured something that you really, really enjoy, then you manage your seniority well. 
 
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And you’ve used, so to speak, you’ve used your seniority. But if you’re struggling and you haven’t created what you want in life, then guess what? You have mismanaged your seniority. And I want to point out that there’s no better, there’s no worse, there’s no good, there’s no bad, they’re simply different. And everything I share in these episodes, not sure if you’ve recognized this or thought about it, but everything I share is from my perspective of reality. 
 
If you wanted me to teach you calculus, that ain’t going to happen because I have no perspective of calculus in my reality. Basically, I don’t know a damn thing about it. So to speak, I never took calculus in high school. My point is everything I share here, I share because it appeals to me and I’m on a spiritual path with a shaman, Don Hubier, and this is my reality. But what I want to point out also, 
 
You know, I think back as an example to Henry Cisneros, he was, think under Clinton, he was the secretary of HUD. And prior to that, he was the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. And he was a big time rising star in the Democratic party back in the late 1980s and early 90s. Very eloquent, very polished, well-spoken man. I mentioned Henry Cisneros for a reason because I remember him saying many years ago, 
 
He got caught having an extramarital affair. And what he said was, is if the public is so adamant about knowing things about public officials’ lives, they can’t be so squeamish when they find out the truth. Now, my whole point of that doesn’t matter who we are, me, you, any of us, we’re all doing the best we can to get through life. And the reason I tell you this is an example about seniority. 
 
podcast comes out of me and from me and I, I’m diligent. I do my best to live with impeccability, spiritually speaking, to manage my seniority, but there are times that I don’t and these are learning lessons for me. You know, to give you a great example, but to keep it really simple, this house building a brand new home was extraordinarily destructive to me energetically. 
 
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mainly because of the timeframe. took the contractor 39 months to finish a house. That should not have taken over a year. Long story short, he took on too many clients. He couldn’t manage them. And ironically, I was his highest paying client, most expensive home. He took on literally 13 other clients after me. He started taking building their homes and didn’t finish mine. It took him 39 months. And I remember sitting down with Don Javier one day and he said to me, 
 
Don’t give the contractor your power, your seniority. Now, I wasn’t giving my power to the contractor, so to speak, but we had to move into a home that was unfinished because at 18 months, it still wasn’t done and we had nowhere to move. We had to move in. I mean, we didn’t even have a bathroom in one of the bathrooms. Cabinet crew was missing in the kitchen and all that. 
 
And it wasn’t the contractor, but it was this scenario that the contractor created that took away a lot of our power because we were by choice. I allowed it without really realizing it because we were living in chaos. And instead of staying centered and grounded in that chaos, it really was very challenging for me to manage. So what I’m sharing with you about seniority, this is not about being perfect. It’s not about right. It’s not about wrong. 
 
It’s about awareness and managing yourself with awareness and managing yourself. Well, so the reason I told you that is I am no different than anyone else. I’m learning my lessons just like you are. I just happen to have the good fortune to have a shaman teaching me. And he’s even said to those of us that work with him, he’s like, guys, I am no better. I am no different than you guys. 
 
I can see myself in every one of you guys. I just find myself at a different point in my life. But he said, we’re all learning our lessons just in different ways at different times. And he’s often said, I’m on the same path as you guys. I’m just five minutes ahead of you. So for people listening with the experiences, which are most of them paranormal experiences I’ve had working at Dawn of the Year, I’ve seen a lot. 
 
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I’ve experienced a whole lot of non-ordinary things over the years and I take it very seriously, but I’m no better, no worse. I’m in a body and I’m just living my lessons as well. So anyway, I wanted to point that out. I don’t know why that popped into my mind, but we’re all doing the best we can. But if you want to create more in life, get out of the ego and start exploring this episode in the last one about seniority. Now this one, I have been there before. 
 
It is so easy to listen to a podcast, to watch a YouTube video, to consume information. And we are awash in a world of information. It is so easy to consume information and go, yeah, yeah, let me take notes. This is really good. This is really good. I like this right on. That relates to me. You turn around and one minute later you’ve forgotten every bit of it because your attention has been hijacked. 
 
by Facebook or Instagram or social media or the news or some electronic outlet. So we have to be hyper vigilant. And I look at seniority as, well, how do I manage myself in the 3D? Because how I’m managing myself in the 3D, meaning the physical world, will definitely determine how I access and interact with and understand and attune to my seniority. 
 
A couple of years ago, after we were finished building the house, I’d recognized that I had to better manage my seniority, which is better managing my 3D, which is better managing my attention. So that has literally put me back on track again and got me back in touch again with the source of my energy, of my seniority. And I’m just gently sharing that it serves us well to recognize all the things that take our seniority away from us. I want to shift the topic a little bit. 
 
So today is July the third and tomorrow is obviously July the fourth. It is a federal holiday in the United States. It’s the birth date and the independence of the United States of America. And that day for people is about freedom, freedom from Great Britain and freedom from all the tyranny and the laws and the rules and all the subjugation from the British empire from, I believe it was King George. So tomorrow, 
 
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that day will already be passed when you listen to this is about freedom and doing the transformational coaching program and being a coach for many years. As I’ve said before, early in our time together, when we start the transformational coaching program, the very first week is all about your values. What are your subconscious values? What drives you subconsciously? Not all, but most people their highest value is freedom. 
 
And what they’re doing is they’re materializing that they want freedom in their relationships and their money and their health. And we generally don’t call it freedom. We just say, I want more money. I want better health. want, I want a lover. want a partner. want a relationship. But what we don’t recognize is these things. They provide freedom to us in some way, maybe not so much as the one about relationships, but the one definitely about money and health. 
 
they provide freedom to us. We just said we want health and money. And what I look at is the way to create more health and money is through managing your seniority because it is your seniority or lack of seniority that actually brings the abundance to you or takes the abundance away from you. As I’ve said before, we’re not born with beliefs. You can’t name a single belief you were born with. 
 
He’s a really nice guy, my podcast engineer, and he’s listening right now behind the microphone. He was born in Venezuela. He and I connect very well. And I look at him, but I’ve got, in TCP, we have students from 20 different countries and we’ve surveyed before. I remember one cohort, we had students from 21 different countries. And then I look at, okay, born into a Russian culture. We’ve had Russians in TCP. 
 
born into an Australian culture, born into a Venezuelan culture, born into a Canadian culture, born into an American culture, Greek, we have all these people in PCP. I look at, what way did that culturalization take away their seniority? What way did that culturalization influence their beliefs about the life they would live? Because as I said a bit ago, you were born without beliefs. 
 
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You learned your beliefs. If I said what I’m going to say now outside of the podcast, it would probably get me a lot of blowback and a lot of flack. Before I say what I’m going to say, I remember it’s so profound. When I think back, Don Javier said to me one time, he said, the more we believe, the more we have to defend. Ponder that the more we believe, 
 
the more we have to defend. Well, beliefs are not seniority. Beliefs are human created. They are created once you incarnated on this planet. Now I said, I might get some blowback. I am grateful for the country I was born into. I’m grateful for where I live. I’m grateful for the freedoms that I have and the opportunities that I have been given. Not every one in the world has the opportunities and the freedom that I do. 
 
Some people have more, many people have less. I’m grateful for that. But what I want to share right now, and we’re seeing heavy evidence of this right now in the United States and in many places in the world, is the amount of people that have given their freedom to their patriotism or the amount of people that have given their freedom, so to speak, meaning they’ve given their seniority and their freedom to their patriotism or to their religion. So basically the patriotism 
 
the nationalism and the religion has taken away their seniority because no one pops out of the womb waving an American flag. No one pops out of the womb waving a Venezuelan or a Russian or a Greek or an Australian flag. saw a cartoon one time, a little caricature, an image. I never know the right words. I’ll just say an image in a magazine. And it was this, and I’ve mentioned it before on the podcast. 
 
There’s doctors in a delivery room. This baby has just been born and the doctor’s holding the baby up by the feet. And instead of spanking the baby, the doctor’s reaching over to a surgical tray of instruments and they’re all branding irons and the branding irons. One is Christianity. One is Hinduism. One is Islam. One is Buddhism, et cetera. And the doctor’s reaching to pick up a branding iron to brand the baby. Well, 
 
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You were branded and that branding has taken away and eroded your seniority because whatever you were branded as a result of the human influence and the human culturalization and the domestication, whatever you were branded then takes the place of your seniority because you weren’t born with any of those brands. You weren’t born with any of those flags that were imposed upon you. 
 
And where I endeavor to work from is like Thomas Paine. I think it was Sir Thomas Paine who said something along the lines of, he was a citizen of no country. He’s a citizen of the world. And unfortunately the planet’s not far enough along yet in terms of their evolution and awareness to work from that place. But the truth be told, whether or not you want to admit it, understand it, agree with it or not, we are all a world citizen. We are all citizens of planet earth. 
 
in this current incarnation. And you can live however you want to live. That’s your free will. But what I choose is I choose my sovereignty. I choose living from the higher aspect of me. I choose connecting with the divine mind. I choose higher frequency for myself. freedom. Freedom is releasing all of it. And that’s a big statement I’m making. 
 
Freedom is releasing because what you hold on to takes your freedom away because as I said, the more you believe, the more you have to defend. Before I go into what I was going to say next, this may piss some people off and it is what it is, but I look at the Vietnam War, for example, and I look at the amount of American personnel and this can apply to any war anywhere on the planet. 
 
The amount of personnel that I think 58,000 American boys were killed in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. They were conscripted. They were drafted. Many did not want to be there. And the reality is that by virtue of being born into this country at that time, your seniority was stripped away from you. So just pay attention is what I’m really saying. Pay attention. 
 
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to how the world and your citizenship, and of course we need the citizenship because that’s a requirement of the planet that we live on. I mean, you might be thinking, well, Jim, that’s huge idealism. Well, it is, but I also am pragmatic and practical and I understand why we have passports, why we have governments and all these kinds of things, because without governments, we would have anarchy on the planet. So I understand why we have these things, but what I’m asking you to do, 
 
is look at how you’re letting these things affect your seniority, how you’re letting it take your seniority away from you, how, so to speak, you’re letting these external things that are human created smother the higher version of you, meaning just burying your seniority, because your power and your independence is in your seniority, not in the almighty dollar, not in the American flag. 
 
not in the Australian flag or the Japanese yen, your seniority is in you. So speaking of independence, give me a bit of a stretch what I’m going to say here, but I remember and actually I’m sitting in my office right now and I have a picture on my shelf over here of a conversation I was having a Don Javier probably 14, 15 years ago. And he said to me, and I’ve mentioned that probably once, maybe twice in the podcast, 
 
He said to me, a spiritual person asked nothing of no one. What he’s meaning is that a truly spiritual autonomous person, a person who understands your seniority doesn’t need to, and I didn’t understand this for a lot of years, but what I understand now, and I didn’t know it for a lot of years and I know it now. 
 
Because when he said it to me, the way I interpreted the statement was, and he said, a spiritual person asked nothing of no one. The way I interpreted that statement was, well, okay, if I need help with X, Y, Z, but I’m spiritual, I’m not going to ask anyone, I’m going to do it myself. And what I’ve come to realize over time, that’s not what it is. What it is is that a truly a person that lives in their seniority goes to source. 
 
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goes to divine mind, goes to the universe to ask. And that’s what he meant when he said a spiritual person asked nothing of no one, because what he didn’t say is that a spiritual person asked nothing of the universe, because he constantly is asking the universe. He’s constantly asking his guides. And I know that because I haven’t observed it. But when it comes to the 3D world, mean, for crying out loud, I was talking to him a couple of weeks ago. 
 
And he told me that he was doing some things at a property, spiritual property that he has. And I’m like, dude, why didn’t you? And I call him dude jokingly when I’m with him in spiritual ceremony, I show reverence. But as my brother-in-law, sometimes I’m like, like, why didn’t you ask me for help? And he goes, well, you know, he goes, I don’t ask for help. And that’s not because it martyrs him or any of that. He just doesn’t ask. But I’ve watched over the years when I’ve asked him, 
 
like different guidance on different things almost always are almost never diseases blurted out. He’s like, I don’t know, let me ask. And what he’s doing is using his seniority to ask higher intelligence, higher being higher energies. The answer is to get back to me. So he works from his seniority is seniority is, is his awareness of knowing of himself, knowing that he is source knowing. 
 
that he is universe. And when we live from that place, it creates independence and gives us freedom. So as I was saying just a bit ago, most people want more freedom and in particular, most people want financial freedom. What they don’t recognize is all freedom. All freedom is internal first. 
 
And that comes from your seniority. And that’s why, you know, we can talk about this till we’re blue in the face, but what I’m sharing with you in this episode, last episode, and in the episode in February of 2021, these are monumental episodes. When we grasp, when we understand, when we come to know that we are infinite, we are of God, we are all divine, we are all holy. 
 
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And you know, what I look at also, as you look at the 4th of July, for example, there are going to be many people tomorrow out waving flags and all the kind of things that they do. And I respect that because that’s where they are on their journey. But I also look at is what seniority did they give up for the illusion and perception of security and identity? What did they give up in terms of their seniority? 
 
an exchange for the illusion of safety and security of being an American. So a question that I have for you is what seniority, what of your seniority have you given up to subscribe to all of these human fabricated and human made mechanisms in your life? Because all the mechanisms that you describe to and you really identify with by choice, by free will, these things take your power. 
 
And you need the power, you need your power to manifest, to create, and to be healthy while you’re on this planet. So pull your seniority back to you. So a little twist here also, one I sharing, is we want freedom. We all do. I I love my freedom. But freedom also comes from a lack of attachment. And I know you’ve probably heard me say before and you’ve read before. 
 
the Buddha said that attachment is the source of all suffering. And I know, this is exactly what I do. If I am suffering in any way and we had that, we call that many different things. We call it being lost. We call it being angry and pissed off, resentful, whatever it’s something negative. And I know if, if for any reason, and for me it would be if I’m pissed off about something. 
 
which I rarely get into anymore. mean, I’ve never had major anger issues as I’ve talked about before, but I used to have low grade anger where I just would be pissed off at things and not say anything about it. And when I look at now, things that make, you know, if something were to make me angry, even, you know, I don’t agree with everything that’s happening in the U S government right now, because it affects or it could affect many, many millions of people’s quality of life. 
 
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And a lot of it’s all fabricated narrative coming out of Washington. It’s all propaganda. It’s all ideology. It’s all belief systems. I don’t like a lot of it because it hurts a lot of people. But what I look at is I’m not going to attach to it because that’s part of the human experience. So the Buddha said, your greatest cause of suffering is attachment. If I’m irritated or frustrated about anything, 
 
Number one, that’s taking my seniority away. But what I ask myself is what am I attached to? Because what I’m attached to weights me down. What I’m attached to is all. What I’m attached to is all 3D ego. And the attachment takes my freedom away from me. Why? Because the attachment causes me to live in the attachment and not from my seniority. 
 
But the interesting thing is that I have the seniority, the freedom to attach to anything that I want to. So this is why it’s important to explore, please explore the last episode again. And as I said a bit earlier, we can listen to an episode and go, that’s really good. And hopefully the last episode resonated. But if I could make a request, listen to the last episode, not one, not two, not three, but 10 times or more. 
 
Listen to it because we have to discover our seniority, which is knowing ourself as soul and your transformational takeaway is your true freedom is your seniority. And when you know yourself as soul, that, as I said, the seniority. So to get there, you’ve got to let go of attachment. But see, we attach also because we want control. It’s very complex topic we’re talking about here. 
 
We attach to things because we’re trying to control things. And when we can finally come to the knowing, not the realization, but the knowing that we control nothing. And now moment, we then move back into our seniority. Hopefully this all made sense. Thanks for listening. And by the way, on the secret podcast, I’m going to be talking about creating true freedom and independence in your own life. But I want to give you a different perspective in my spin personally on the concept. 
 
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of freedom and seniority. Thanks for listening. By the way, you can listen to that. to jimforton.com slash insiders, jimforton.com slash insiders. Thanks for listening and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.