You’re listening to the transform your life from the inside out podcast. This episode is titled today is a good day to die part two. Now, when I created the first episode, I didn’t know that I would do a second episode. And as I started looking, you know, at what I wanted to do this week, I thought and realized, okay, I need to add some more to what I just did. So when the last episode, we talked about the ego dying and we talked about the ego mask that we wear. 
 
And in this episode, I want to dig a little deeper in that. And I want to explore the ego wrapped up in that mask. When you listen intently to the last episode and this one, and you apply what I share with you in your own life, you’ll find your life getting a whole lot lighter and a whole lot easier. 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. Okay. So in the last episode, today is a good day to die. 
 
We talked about death of not the physical body, but the ego. It’s evolutionary, but something that pretty much every single human being carries. know of one or two people that I think may have transcended the ego enough to where they don’t fall into this classification, but most people get in the fear. Now, again, as I did say, part of it is evolutionary. 
 
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but soulfully we do not need the fear. So when you look at your fears, what fears do you entertain? People get into the fear of, I’m not going to fit in. I don’t belong. I’m not good enough. People are going to say things about me. I don’t have what other people have. I don’t know enough. What if I run out of money? 
 
And we get into all these fears as you know, the ones I give you as examples, but we get into all these fears. As I look at my own life, there is a quote that you’ve heard me mention before. One of my top three favorite quotes is by an occultist named Leofice Levi. And many years ago, and it’s made a profound impact in my life. A Leofice Levi said, fear is the idleness of 
 
will, meaning basically I’m going to translate a very simple way. If you get up off your butt and you do something, there’s no reason to be afraid as long as you’re doing the things that are going to create outcomes for you. But what I want to share with you, and I remember back in my 20s how fearful that I was. I lived in constant fear and my fear was all based around my perceptions and my realities based 
 
on money. And I’ve recognized as I’ve gotten older over the years is that fear is not personal. And these days where I work from is that any fear that I would entertain would simply be the entertainment of the ego. And if I were to get into the ego, then I would separate my ego from the wholeness of myself, which is my soul. I 
 
like you, I’m on the planet learning my lessons. We’re all here in Earth school, we’re learning lessons. So I’m not gonna sit here and say, okay, I never get into fear. But I remember when I had the heart failure, six years ago this month, the doctor walked in the ER and said, you’re in heart failure. And he said it very matter-factly. As I said, very matter, very matter of fact. 
 
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I’ll limit it to that. very, very matter of fact, he said you’re in heart failure. And what was interesting is that I never went into any fear because at that time I was also operating from the premise that everything always has been is now and will always be fine. So I knew that even though I was being diagnosed with heart failure, I knew that no matter what happened, even if I kicked the bucket, I knew that I’d be fine. But this is something that’s important to understand. 
 
is that fear is the vibration and energy of separation. And fear is all ego based. Please get that. Let that soak in. Your fear is not personal. It is the energy of separation. And separation is ego based. And that’s what we want to transcend is the ego. 
 
And for most of us, you know, you might’ve heard me talk about in the earlier episodes, the first 10 episodes, and I have along the way and you know, then multiple episodes on habits and the brain based application of habits and how, you know, how habits work. Everything we have in our life is a habit. Whether we choose to believe that or not, everything that we have, we created through habit, whether it be a habit of behavior or a habit of thinking. 
 
And when it comes to fear, many of us, if not most of us have gotten into the habit of being in fear and knowing ourself as ego. I’ll say it again. Many of us have gotten into the habit of knowing ourselves as ego and full transparency. I remember back in 1992, I was at an event 
 
You know, a holistic type of event, you know, speakers were there like Deepak Chopra back then and Wayne Dyer and people like that. Marianne Williamson. I remember listening to Wayne Dyer and he said we have to eliminate the ego. And my thought was, and he even said ego stands for edging God out. My thinking now is that you’ll never get rid of the ego because it’s part of your human experience. The key is in recognizing. 
 
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the separation between the soulful you and the ego you. But when I look back to the early nineties, when I learned this, working through eliminating the ego has become, I think, one of the most process oriented things that I’ve ever done because we become, as I said, so habituated to the ego and we identify as the body. Even in that same talk, Wayne Dyer said, you are not your body. 
 
And I’m like, okay, I get that. I understand that, but I am, I mean, I’m sitting here and I’m Jim and I am Jim in this body. So I am the body. I just couldn’t get my mind around it back then. But what we learn, we learn as children that we are all this ego identification and we learn it literally as toddlers. You know, your parents calling you by your first and middle name when you’re in trouble, you automatically know. 
 
they are talking to me or when you were classified as a certain way by people when you were a child and that sticks with you for many years. remember a client of mine. I won’t go into the longer story here. He was Mexican American, lived in LA, but he worked in Pasadena, very wealthy area, part of LA and a large white population, Caucasian population. And he hired me as his coach back then. 
 
And he said, quote, verbatim. And I mentioned this story before on the podcast. He said, I’m just the poor Mexican boy from the other side of town. And he was implying that he wasn’t fitting in the working environment that he was working in. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I haven’t talked to him in a lot of years. Very sharp, very smart guy, very capable guy. And he hired me because he’s like, why am I holding myself back? Why am I not performing at the level that I could perform? 
 
Now notice this ego. said it. I don’t even like speaking those words. He said it in that way. I am the poor Mexican boy from the wrong side of town. Well, what he was doing is he was identifying, identifying with the ego. That was his whole identity was that ego. And with all the identity work that I do, I hear this quite a bit. 
 
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Because we start this kind of work in TCP, working on shifting the identity. And basically in TCP, what we’re doing is we are working to shift your identity from where you are to the identity you must hold to create what you want to have in life. And I’ve heard multiple people over the years saying, but Jim, who would I be without being me? You may be thinking that as well. Who would I be if I wasn’t me? 
 
Meaning if I give up my ego, then I don’t know who I am anymore. And for me, speaking personally, I think it’s very powerful because I’ve recognized over the years that when you give up the idea of you, when the idea of you and all the illusions and limitations of the idea of you, when they no longer exist, and that moment you become more powerful. And that’s beyond transformation because I 
 
I’ve done for many years, the transformational coaching program. Well, I keep doing it. I don’t know. Maybe I will. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. I’ve got nothing on the calendar this year for TCP, but we shall see because we can transform. And that’s one thing, but what I’m really actually moving towards is beyond transformation into transcendence and transcendence. 
 
is when you know yourself beyond the ego. I heard this many years ago is that the ego who was afraid does not know itself, meaning whatever fears you’re getting into, you’re getting into because you don’t know yourself. And that’s akin to Saint Germain saying, said, you know, back, back in the 1700s, Saint Germain said, if 
 
Humans knew the laws of the universe or something like that. I know I’ve said it before. If humans understood how the universe worked, they would cease to believe in miracles. So what I’m saying here is akin to that. If you were truly aware of the totality of you, then your fear would cease to exist. And this is why I created a new program, a new group, a new community we have out called Soul Forge. 
 
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And Soul Forge is to help you start understanding the mechanisms of both your conscious ego and then the non-ego, meaning the soulful aspect of you. And I created Soul Forge to help you solve the problem of ego self-sabotage so that you become aware of who you are and what it means to exist. And when you understand that, you stop subconsciously recreating 
 
the same sabotaging patterns. Anyway, if you want to know more about that, go to jimfortin.com slash soul, jimfortin.com slash soul. Soul Forge helps you solve the problem of you. Now think about that, the problem of you. I often will ask people, what’s your biggest limitation? What do you think your biggest obstacle is? And eight times out of 10, I will hear people say, well, I am. And then they will say, 
 
If I could just get out of my own way. Well, in the context of this conversation, getting in your own way is engaging the ego because it’s the ego that gets in your way. It’s the ego with the shame and the fear and all these kinds of things that get in your way. And you’re literally trying to get beyond and past the ego because see, once you get past the ego and once you’re even aware of that, there’s that word. 
 
Once you’re even aware that you are beyond the ego, this awareness dissolves the ego’s hold on you. Your ego, if it’s truly scrutinized, it really can’t survive observation. And I mean that along the lines, for example, the darkness cannot exist in the light. You can walk into a dark room, you turn on the light, click, and the darkness is gone. 
 
Well, the same thing with you. When you come to know yourself from a level of transcendence beyond the ego, knowing that you are the observer of the ego and everything you think about yourself, for the most part, when you’re thinking about things you did today or you’re going to do tonight, you’re literally almost watching a movie of yourself, but you’re literally watching the ego of you, never even thinking there’s a soulful being. 
 
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inside of me. So when you begin to see yourself as first soul, it’s then the soul that watches the ego and the soul then has more power and more influence over the ego. So your ego perpetuates itself talking about fear earlier in habits. The way that your ego perpetuates itself is through your subconscious brain-based habits and your storytelling. 
 
And it could be as simple as one of mine from many years ago, part of my ego many years ago. And I learned this literally in first grade was I’m not good at math. Now I held that as a belief and that belief became interwoven with my ego. And my ego was until high school, till my sophomore year was I believe that I was someone not good at math. And I lived in the density. 
 
of that ego. When I say density, I freaking failed ninth grade algebra. So when you watch your life without the belief of the ego, then all these things, these obstacles, you being in your own way, they start to fall away. And even though I had mentioned about today’s a good day to die, it’s not that you’re killing a part of yourself and it’s not that you’re destroying a part of yourself, but you simply 
 
And I love this one word. It’s that you’ve outgrown not through the ego, but through the awareness that you are also carrying an ego. When you live from the awareness that many times you’re living from the ego, now it’s easier to outgrow the ego. And that’s what it truly means to die to yourself. There’s no physical death. Like I said at the beginning of this episode in the last episode, there is no physical death. It’s simply a dis-identification. 
 
Meaning you no longer identify with the old part of you. 
 
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There’s a phrase from shamanism. I love the profoundness of this statement. The statement is, when the false ego self dies, the witness, meaning the soul, walks the world. I’ll say it again. When the false ego self dies, the witness, meaning the soul, walks the world. 
 
When I talk about the soul as the witness, the soul watches everything in your life. All this crap you get caught up in the bills and the visa bill and student loans and politics and where you live and all these kinds of things. When you get caught up in that, it’s almost like, you know, if you take a parent and you’ve got an adult supervising some toddlers and the kids are four years old. 
 
and they’re getting wrapped up in all these games. And then somebody gets hurt. Somebody falls and bumps their head, scrapes her knee, whatever, and they start crying. Well, the adult is watching this and recognizing kids are just doing what kids do. But I, as the adult, know that they basically just scraped their knee and they’re going to be fine. Well, that’s akin to how your soul functions. It’s the parent, so to speak, to give it a little concretization. 
 
It’s the parent observing the child, meaning you and the ego doing all the crap that you do. And you doing all the crap that you do might think, this is bad. I’m in a bad place and I can’t pay my bills. And what about my health? And I’m tired of being lonely and all these kinds of things. Whereas the soul, the parent is watching from the other side, almost kind of begging you to expand your awareness, your perception. 
 
to recognize that you are more than the limitations of the ego. So when your ego dies, and back to what these people were saying, well, who would I be? That was already creating fear in them. They weren’t even recognizing that the fear they were creating in themselves was that all fear created from ego itself. So when the ego dies, it’s not that you’re gonna be empty. It’s that you’re now going to be present. 
 
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I remember Don Juan Matus saying to me one time, which is such a profound statement in my interpretation. He said, beliefs are archaic. I mentioned this on two or three other episodes. Beliefs are archaic. The belief that you can be a billionaire, the belief that you can be a hundred percent healthy, the belief that you could be in a beautiful relationship. 
 
Or the reverse of that. It’s all beliefs. All these beliefs, they can supplement your 3D journey, but all these beliefs for most people are extreme limitations. I can’t be, I can’t do, I can’t have, I can’t go. I am not that kind of person. So when you think about, we talk about habituation, you learn the beliefs. Just like this person learned, quote, 
 
I, when he said, I am the Mexican boy from the other side of town, there was no truism about that, but that was his beliefs. And then the beliefs create the ego circumstances. Are you starting to see the illusion here? All the ego circumstances are exactly that circumstances created by the early life indoctrination of the ego. And then we live in this fricking indoctrination. 
 
10, 20, 30, 40 years, we live in the indoctrination and then we say, well, if I could just get out of my own way, the way to get out of your own way is not to fight the ego, but it’s to become aware, to become aware that there’s a higher source energy. You’re that. And when you are aware and living from, and I’m going to be candid, it takes some conditioning and it takes awareness. 
 
And it takes awareness to keep this awareness in front of you. Because in my own experience, it’s very easy to fall right back into the ego bullshit again. If we haven’t literally done this long enough to create and it’s fine. I’m not contradicting myself here. Confidenting a new belief because at least a new belief that you are not the ego, even though that’s a belief will support you on your journey, as opposed to pulling you backwards on your journey. 
 
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So once you evolve, once you have, I don’t like the word evolve here. Once you have the awareness to see beyond the 3d ego, you were no longer owned by the 3d ego. You’re no longer threatened by the 3d ego. You’re no longer threatened by circumstances. You no longer bargaining with your life for what it is that you want in life. And in this place, 
 
When we have the awareness and we have the peace now and see people think love is an emotion. Love is not an emotion. Love is a frequency and most of us actually take love and wrap it around the ego. how nice you love me. I love you. My ego loves you because your ego loves me. That’s not love. That’s simply reciprocity of egos. 
 
But when we learn to see beyond the illusion of the ego, in that moment we start to experience unconditional love. Because everything that you do not love is all ego-based. And by the way, I said love is not an emotion. And the flip side, everything you do love, whether it be chocolate, chip ice cream or whatever, is also ego-based. And we have to learn to operate outside and beyond the ego. 
 
You know, in the transformational coaching program, TCP, well, the whole thing is about identity. Every single bit of the work is identity work. But on week number three, we do deep level work about storytelling. What stories did you learn subconsciously as a child that you carry with you today? There’s also an identity training in that particular week. And from identity research, what 
 
scientists have found, and I’ve talked about this before on the podcast, is that whatever your ego identity is, you will look for other people who reflect your ego identity. And then many times what we do is we say we love these people that reflect our ego identity. Now, if it were all pure love, that would be one thing. But many times in the world that we live in, 
 
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Maybe a person demonstrating a whole lot of hate will look for other people that have an ego that hates and that person demonstrates a whole lot of hate. And now you’ve got two people living from hate all through ego, not having the awareness that there’s nothing to hate. So at this point, and here’s part of your transformational takeaway, you may be wondering why I’m talking like this now. 
 
because I’m being called to move even beyond transformation. I think transformation is vital for the ego because we all live in the physical world. But I’m moving more into the work of transcendence, transcending the ego. So a takeaway for you in this episode is all of your fear, your pain, your anger, your shame, your resentment, your jealousy. 
 
All of your struggles are ego related. And when you’re living from the ego, you’re living from the smallest container and aspect of who you are because you’re living from your experience of the 3D container, not even recognizing that you are a soul, like the parent example I used earlier, observing the container. You are the soul watching the container. 
 
But many of us don’t live from the soul. We live from the container. And then we wonder, why is my life such shit? Why am I so unhappy? Why am I so stuck? Because we’re living from the ego. And you know, I hear this a lot. People saying they want to become more spiritual. That’s a misnomer. You will never be any more spiritual than what you are right now, this moment, ever. 
 
Becoming more spiritual is not about becoming more spiritual. It’s about remembering who you were before you began the story after you incarnated. Off topic, but on topic about incarnating. was my birthday last week and thankfully, and I appreciate it. A lot of people said happy birthday. The reality is you, I, you don’t have a birthday. Think about that. 
 
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You don’t have a birth date. I do not have a birth date. Now, last week I had an incarnation date, but I did not have a birth date. Birth date implies something is being born. So the way that humans use that word in that context, birth date, those words, implies that you were nowhere and then you birth and then you got here. And then guess what? You die and you leave here and the rest, well, 
 
Who knows? And we don’t even pay attention to the rest. We pay attention to this entire experience here. You don’t have a birth date. You have an incarnation date. And when you recognize that you don’t have a birth date because you’ve never freaking died, in that moment, you start operating from a soulful position. So when I said it’s not about becoming more spiritual, it’s about realizing and recognizing at a soulful level, you were truly the essence of source. 
 
of divine mind, of the essence, the quantum field, God, if you want to call it that. So the reality I’ll leave you with is this, is you don’t necessarily need to destroy the self, which is, heard Wayne Dyer say that, and that’s fine. I mean, I get why he did what he did. You don’t need to destroy yourself, meaning the ego. You simply need to stop. 
 
I’m going to slow down and say it again. This is to me when I, when I learned this, it changed everything. You don’t need to destroy the ego self. You need to stop believing that it is you. No, I don’t know about you, but when I hear that and it may impact you right now, you might be going, holy shit, I get it. And you may also be thinking, 
 
What the hell is this dude talking about? What is he smoking? I don’t get any of that. I don’t know. We’re all in a different place. We’re all in our journey. But that’s helped me a lot. For me personally, when I’ve ever had, and I’ve had as many as you, just different kinds. One, I’ve had different experiences in my latter years, the last 10 years or so. I recognize that it’s not my soul having that circumstance 
 
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It is my ego having my circumstance. And if I choose to live in that circumstance, then in that moment, I am trapped by believing that my ego is trapped in that circumstance. And in full transparencies, I said just a bit ago, this is one of the hardest things for me. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the word hard. This is one of the most arduous things for me. 
 
in my earlier years was the mindfulness to keep reminding myself to guess what? I am not the ego. I am not the body. Here’s a big word and I’m going to talk about this more in other episodes. I am the awareness of the body. When you recognize you are the awareness of the body, you take away the power from the ego body and you start pulling it back into 
 
the soul again. Hopefully this makes sense, but for now your takeaway is this, is stop believing that the ego is you. That is who you learned to become and all of your limitations belong to that humanness of that ego. When we abandon the ego, all those limitations start falling away. Thanks for listening and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.