You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled Wealth Through Consciousness. As you may remember, I said that I want to start bringing guests onto the show, and I’ve got that in the works. But I started thinking about 2026, we’re at the beginning of the year, and many of you guys in a very tumultuous economy may be challenged or struggling with money. So I wanted to do an episode, 
 
My intention is to get you to start thinking about money from a level of consciousness and not from a level of form, meaning from what your human experience is. In this episode, I want to reframe four particular points that will hopefully help you shift your thinking about money and will help you think about it differently so you can have an amazing 2026 financially. Enjoy. Hi, I’m Jim Ford. 
 
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 as I’d mentioned in the introduction, I’ve been thinking about 2026 and many of you guys and 
 
A lot of the chaos in the world, know, things that are going on financially, and we’re watching the markets fluctuate. The stock market is highly overvalued. You know, if you’re following commodities, precious metals, you look at the markets. mean, we’re in a world of transition right now, big time. Fiat currencies, the whole shebang. And many of us are feeling this at the supermarket, our bills, health insurance, whatever it might be. And in this episode, my attempt is to 
 
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And again, I don’t really enjoy talking about money so much, you know, bringing money content to you guys like I used to in the past, but I think it’s vital that we literally refrain and expand our thinking about money and wealth and what it is because I mean, let’s face it, we all do need money to live on the planet. Well, at least most of us. So if we look around in 2026, we see a lot of things that are moving. You know, one thing that 
 
we can influence is our own consciousness and where we hold our attention. And I speculate and a lot of prophecies have said this, that 2026 will be a year of great chaos and great change. However, let’s improve your financial stability no matter what happens in the external world. And hopefully what I’m about to share with you will make your life a lot easier. Money reframe number one, the big lie that we are told. 
 
And I lived this lie for 30 years of my life. That big lie is that I’m an individual autonomous being, which that part’s not a lie. But the second part of the lie is money is outside of me. It’s not in me. I look at my bank account many years ago. I don’t have any money. It’s out there and I have to go out there to get it. And I have to work and I have to hustle. 
 
and I’ve got to do all these things and jump through these hoops. Many of us treat money like a treasure hunt, something that we are looking for. And as I said earlier, something outside of ourselves. You know, we often think it’s out there in the job market and it’s out there in the economy and it’s out there in my stock portfolio and it’s out there in my real estate and my assets or 
 
my boss has my money and I get all of my money from where I work. Or many people that listen to the podcast are entrepreneurs. We often think that it’s in our clients wallets, meaning I am a service provider and if I do X, Y, then guess what? These clients will give me money. So then what we do, because many, many people preach this on social media and I’m a little reluctant to mention a specific name, but there’s one 
 
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media personality out there and there’s several but one, a very loud one that says you have to hustle, you have to grind, you’ve got to work. This person even says you’ve got to work until your eyeballs bleed. And I can understand why from their model of reality they would say that because that’s how they made their money. And they do have what appears to be a reasonable or a large amount of money, but they made it through hustle and networking and all these kinds of things. 
 
But the reality is that’s not the way of the universe. Now that person has created the money and ostensibly we look at them and go, okay, it’s through the hard work and the hustle. But what no one ever talks about, including this individual, what is the consciousness of that person working hard and doing the hustling? Because as you’ll discover in this episode, everything is not about the hustle. 
 
when comes to money, when I say everything, it’s not about the hustle. It’s not about the hard work. It’s not about the connections. It is first and foremost about the conscious. So we’ve been conditioned. We’ve been preached to, you’ve got to show up and you got to do all these kinds of things. And so many of us do that. I did for many years. And then when the money didn’t show up, 
 
We say this shit doesn’t work and we blame the world and for me, we would blame the economy. And many people listening right now, whatever their circumstance might be, many people are blaming the economy and they’re blaming the politicians behind the economy and they’re letting an external thing like the economy actually affect their own consciousness. What we have to recognize, because this is the truth, 
 
Money isn’t something that you chase down. It’s not a treasure hunt, as I said earlier, and it’s not something you capture. Money is, listen very carefully, it’s something you allow to take form through you. It’s something you allow to take form through you. Because when we look at money, that is form. But we create money through our consciousness. 
 
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You know, to demonstrate that, what about the amount of people who believe that, the harder I work, the more money that I’m going to make. And the more that I hustle and the more that I grind, the more money that I’m going to make. Well, many years ago, I, as well as many of you, played out that very same story. Let me work my ass into the ground. I was naturally programmed to do that because I grew up a small town, Texas farm boy. And that’s what you did. 
 
You worked really hard and that’s how I was raised is work really, really hard. And when you work really hard, guess what? You’ll get ahead in life. But look at the amount of people that work really hard. You’ve heard me say that before and they don’t have two nickels to rub together. Money does not come from the hard work. It comes from the consciousness. And then something else that we do is we look at the scoreboard of the bank account. We look at it. 
 
And then we use that scoreboard to reinforce what kind of person we are, how hard we’ve worked, how hard we haven’t worked, what our standing is in the world based upon that scoreboard. And then society based upon that scoreboard will tell you how valuable or how effective you are as a human being. But notice all of that is outside of you. Take a note of this. Your wealth, your financial life is downstream from who 
 
You are being, not what you do. And if you listen for any amount of time, you’ve heard me talk about the concept of be, do, have, which by the way, I own the trademark on. I’ve done many programs on be, have. You must first be, before you can do, before you can have. And pretty much everyone wants to have more money so they can pay their mortgage or their health insurance or student loans or whatever it is, a brand new car. 
 
We want to have more things, but we are being broke in our mind, in our attention, in our awareness, in the external world. We are being broke in our mind. And guess what? Our external world is reflecting that. Know this right now. This was taught to me by a billionaire, and I did not believe it. It’s about 25 years ago. And it took me a little while to really get my mind around it. 
 
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He said to me, we were sitting at his office in New York City, and he said to me, Jim, you are already rich. And when I looked at my external world, I definitely would not say that I was rich. Notice what I just said. When I looked at my external world, I would say I am not rich. What I would have said is, okay, I’m getting by, I am paying my bills. Well, notice this, because that applies to many of you guys. 
 
is where my consciousness was. So everything is created through consciousness. Think about it. You can take two people. They can do the same action, the same launch, the same business, the same job, pitch to the same clients, whatever, but yet they get completely different results. Nothing has changed in the world while they’re pitching to that client. 
 
or while they’re working that job or whatever it might be. But two people can get wildly different results. Why? Consciousness. Now many times, and this was me for many years, and as I put this, you know, I started thinking about this episode and I was, you know, putting the thoughts together for you guys, I can see the former and old me and many of what I’m sharing with you guys are much of what I’m sharing and much of what I’m sharing. You guys learned the very same thing. 
 
Where most of us operate from, where I was taught to operate from is lack. And to get around lack, what I learned is if you work hard and then you hope, you pray, you wish things are going to change for you, guess what? Things just might change for you. Well, the reality is that’s not the way that it works. Because if you’re working from, I hope this works and I’m going to bust my butt so I can make more money. 
 
And I’m going to struggle. And you know what? Maybe if I get lucky, I might get this contract or get this job, whatever it is that you are after. Well, in that moment, without even recognizing it, even though you think you’re being positive, you’re working from lack. So your first takeaway is this. Money doesn’t correspond to what you do. And I talked about that a bit earlier. I look at the amount of people who do one hell of a lot and they’re still broke. Money does not 
 
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correspond to what you do. Money corresponds and wealth corresponds to the way that you be. And the way that you be is your consciousness. Now, of course, I’ll talk more about this, but the 3D fix for this, meaning your everyday physical life. I remember many years ago, I was in the car with a client of mine who became one of my closest friends. 
 
I mentioned her before she left the planet, I believe two years ago in her mid eighties. She built a multi-billion dollar real estate company in Texas. And she said to me something that many of you listening right now have heard before. She said, Jim, I teach my agents if they’re going to be rich and successful as an agent, they must first be that in their mind because see what you hold in your mind. 
 
And many of us hold a lack in our mind. I want to be that thing. I want to be rich. I want to work my butt off and make a lot of money. Notice where we’re holding our attention. Our attention is on not that we have this now and we are being this now. Our attention is on at a future time, I will have that thing in my life. And that’s what we are projecting into consciousness. Secondly, 
 
This is a big one also. It’s going to tie into what I just said. But the second reframe about money is wealth is a state of consciousness before it’s a number. Ponder that. I’ll say it again. Wealth is a state of consciousness before it’s a number. And many years ago, I was sitting at a seminar and I heard someone explain it just like this. 
 
and I didn’t know what it meant when they said it, but they said, stop worshiping the shadows. Stop worshiping the shadows. Now, what are the shadows? The shadows are the job market, which many people are having a challenge with right now, the stock market, your bills, your credit score, the amount you have in your bank account, et cetera. These are the shadows 
 
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And they are the shadows because they are all externals. They are all things outside of you. Repeat the job market, the stock market, your bills, your credit score, your FICO score, whatever, all these things are shadows. They are outside of you. And here’s what I’ve said many times before, especially when I used to do the money master class, they are all effects. 
 
And what I’m going to say next, I know that you understand it, but do you truly know it? We live in a cause and effect universe. Repeat, we live in a cause and effect universe. Now the effect is money. And many, and I did for decades, many of us say, I want money. I want money. I need money. I’m broke. Shit, I’m broke. I ain’t got no money. Can’t pay my rent. I need money. 
 
When we work from that place, we’re actually focusing on the effect. But what we’re not focusing on is the cause because your consciousness and where you hold your attention and your mind is the cause of the effect. The effect follows the cause. And this is why Virginia said the Roller State agent, I’m telling you about the broker. 
 
said we first have to be wealthy in our mind. Well, if you’re wealthy first in your mind, that is the cause and the effect is, and I know this has happened to you, is that things show up in your life. You get an unexpected check, you get an unexpected phone call, you get the job offer you didn’t expect to get, you get a client you’ve not heard from and they’ve been telling you no. But when we change the cause in our mind, 
 
And imagine, that’s a simple word, imagine seeing ourself already having the wealth that we want. Now we’re setting into action a reaction. The action is I am the cause and the reaction is the effect, which is the wealth. Most of us spend our time and I did for decades in the shadows. And for me, my shadow, my big shadow was I was afraid to check my bank account. Why? Because every time I did online many years ago, I wouldn’t have enough money in it. 
 
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then that would put me in the fear. It was all external. So most of us spend our time literally trying to rearrange the shadows, which are the external things. And then we wonder why nothing changes. And let me give you a simple metaphor to understand this. One of my coaches many years ago said this phrase, and I love the phrase. What most of us try to do is if we’re on the Titanic and the Titanic is going down, 
 
We try to rearrange the chairs on the Titanic thinking that’s going to stop the Titanic from going down. You better do a hell of a lot more than rearranging the chairs. You better get on deck and get a lifeboat. But most of us, and I did for years, we spend all of our time rearranging the furniture. And that’s what I mean by the shadows, because you can’t fix a shadow. Notice you can’t fix a shadow by adjusting the shadow. You have to move the odd 
 
object that’s casting the shadow. And that object is you and your state, here’s this word again, state of being. And when you shift from, don’t have enough, to, listen very carefully, I am supply itself. When you shift from, I don’t have enough, to, I am supply myself, 
 
everything will change for you very, very quickly when it comes to your finances. Now, when I say the phrase, I am supply myself, I’ll talk about more of that in just a moment. 
 
You might have remembered a former episode, maybe about a dozen episodes ago, where I talked about something that was said to me again, 25 years ago. And what was said to me is as you are projecting, so you are receiving same thing. Newton’s third law of motion for every action, there’s an equal but opposite reaction. And the way that I switched it to work for me is as I am broadcasting, meaning as I am putting things out in the world through my thought and my consciousness, I am attracting back to me. 
 
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we have to recognize is wealth isn’t what you accumulate. Literally, it’s what you emanate and what you broadcast. And here’s your takeaway in this point. When you were wealthy in your consciousness, despite your external circumstances, when you were wealthy in your consciousness and you know deep down inside of you that you are supplying, see many people think that supply flows through us, meaning we’re going to get it from the outside. 
 
then it’s going to come to me, which I said earlier. But when we start knowing that all supply comes from the creator and we were created by the creator, therefore we are part of the creator and what the creator has we have because we are part of the creator. When we start working from that knowing, money starts to flow very easily. Point number three, the seed contains the oak. 
 
You already have the wealth and money pattern and energy inside of you. You know, I think back to an episode I did, I’m just laughing because it’s probably three and a four years ago, How Times Lies. And the title of that episode is Are You Smarter Than a Potato? And the whole point of that episode was is that how does a potato seedling, which is like a quarter of a potato, how does a potato seedling know how to grow into a potato? Well, easily, universal and divine intelligence. 
 
There is an intelligence in the universe. So that potato did not go to potato school. It doesn’t have a pep talk every day. It doesn’t have a mama and daddy potato teaching it how to be a potato and how to grow in a potato. And the same thing, I mentioned the acorn. An acorn doesn’t beg the soil to become an oak tree. It doesn’t look around at other acorns and trees and feel inadequate. It doesn’t hustle and strive 
 
grow into an oak tree. It simply surrenders and lifts from the pattern already inside itself. And that pattern again is divine intelligence. And just like the oak tree or the potato, you’re no different. The infinite intelligence that runs through the acorn and the oak tree and the potato seedling, every bit of that intelligence is in you and of you. 
 
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right now. To demonstrate that, explain to me how you make your heartbeat. Please explain to me how you make your fingernails grow. Explain to me how you develop tooth enamel. Explain to me how your body, let’s say you eat a really salty meal, how your body literally regulates the salt and pulls different amounts of salt out of the food or whatever it does. I mean, I can’t even explain it. 
 
How does your body do that? Well, that’s all infinite intelligence. And the infinite intelligence keeping you alive right now is the same infinite intelligence when you are being a particular way, is the same infinite intelligence that brings wealth and abundance into your life. But what we do is we create the separation through what I talked about earlier. We’re always wanting the effect and we’re looking at the external world. 
 
and the external world says my bank account doesn’t have any money, let me struggle, let me hustle, we’re working completely freaking backwards. We’re not even working from the essence of who we are, we’re working from the external world outside of ourself. Now, let me give you a shift here that changes everything. Candidly, probably is not going to happen overnight, but when you start literally holding your attention here, I promise you things will start changing. Stop seeing yourself 
 
as separate from Source. I will say it again. Stop seeing yourself separate from Source. Because the second you see yourself as separate from Source, now everything that you want is outside of you. But when you see yourself, you imagine yourself, you come to know yourself as Source. Source is God. 
 
what belongs to source because you were created by source. What belongs to source belongs to you. And in this moment, you’re not asking for supply anymore. In the moment when you go to that place, you’re not asking for the supply outside of you. You recognize you are the supply because as I said earlier, and I mentioned this many times, you were created by the Creator, call it God, divine force, whatever you want to call it. 
 
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You were created by the creator and being created by the creator as is the creator as is you what the creator has you have think about that. So your takeaway from this section is stop seeing yourself as separate from source. So when you identify with the body like I can identify and say I am Jim and this is my entire reality when you identify in that kind of way you are separating yourself from source. 
 
So as I’ve said before, you were created by the creator and what the creator is, you are. And all supply on the planet, listen very carefully, all supply on the planet, meaning water, homes, everything, everything comes from source. There’s no other way around that. Call it God, whatever. Everything comes from source, from the creator. 
 
And if you’re part of the creator, then guess what? Everything doesn’t come from outside of you. It comes from within inside of you. Okay. And your final point, and this was a big aha for me when I got it. Your finances are simply a delayed echo of your past consciousness. I’ll say it again. Your finances are the delayed echo of your past consciousness. And when I heard this, it was like mind blown when I recognized that guess what? 
 
I’m creating mine, which is what many of us do, which is why I’ve done other episodes on this. It’s so important to live in the now. Many of us create our now from the past. And so in the past, we learned to have, you know, like poor prosperity consciousness and we create our now from the past. But here’s the thing. And here’s what we do. Recognize this. When you look at your bank account and you look at the balance in your account, you are looking at yesterday’s thoughts. 
 
You’re looking at yesterday’s consciousness. And that number isn’t telling you the truth about right now. That number is telling you about your truth yesterday, last week, last month, the fear you carried back then, the lack you carried back then, the separation you carried back then. And recognize that, please. If you’re still carrying your air quote back then, now, 
 
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You’re going to bring what you had back then into your now. And that doesn’t work. And here’s something that I can share that you may be able to relate to. It used to scare the hell out of me to check my bank balance because it always reminded me of what I did not have. But I noticed many years later what I was doing when I’d look at a bank balance, you you get your little ATM receipt, your little thingy, and you look at what you don’t have. 
 
We treated that, I treated that as a verdict, meaning I’m stuck. This is where I am. And what I learned to do differently is I learned to look at it as a feedback loop, meaning, okay, this ATM slip tells me where I had my consciousness maybe earlier today, last month, last week, six months ago. And all that tells me it’s a feedback loop is guess what? If I’m looking at my ATM, 
 
slip and it says I ain’t got no money, properly said is I don’t have any money in the bank. If I ain’t got no money, well, that is a feedback loop for where I am holding my attention and my consciousness. And it also means that I’m holding my consciousness on the external world and letting the external world control my internal world. And that is completely backwards. Think about the name of this podcast. 
 
transform your life from the inside out. It’s not titled transform your life from the outside in, it’s transform your life from the inside out. And on the inside of you is your consciousness. And on the outside of you is what you have created based upon where you’ve hold your consciousness. So many of us, which is what I did, used to scare the crap out of me. Back in the 80s when I’d get bills and you have to open that envelope and. 
 
It would say urgent past due, whatever. And trust me, I got a shit ton of those back in the eighties after college. And it used to literally, I’d be scared to open my bills. So what I would do is I would see the bill and I would react from the bill that I was seeing and not even recognizing that that number that I’m seeing, that panic that I’m feeling, that fear that I’m feeling had come from my consciousness at some point in the past that I’m experiencing in the now. 
 
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Einstein said something like this, is that no problem can be solved at the level that was created. Now, I don’t know exactly who said it. Some people attribute it to Einstein, but recognize this. You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created that problem, meaning you can’t create wealth from broke consciousness. And if past fear created today’s lack, present fear will create 
 
tomorrow’s lack. I’ll say it again. If past fear created today’s lack, present fear will create tomorrow’s lack. What’s the solution? What’s the way out? Very simply stated, and this is your transformational takeaway, stop reacting from the world of appearances, meaning what you see in the world. 
 
Let me say it a different way. Stop reacting from form. Because ask yourself, what’s the identity of that lack? What’s the identity of the appearances? And the proper identity that we want to hold is the identity of I am consciousness. And a little, just a little hack here, a little tip. 
 
talk to yourself about this because we speak our lives into existence. So when you look at your bank account, and I really wish somebody had taught me this years ago, so I went through the 1980s after college and a whole lot of stress and a whole lot of worry. And something you can say to yourself, make a note of this, you open a bill and you can’t pay the bill, you don’t have the money today. You can say to yourself, this is old information. I’m no longer the person 
 
who generated this. I am supply and supply is materializing now. Make a note of that, go back and listen to it, make a note of it, write it down, type it out, put it on your fridge, your office desk, whatever, but start talking to yourself in a different way because we literally speak our lives into existence. Final thought, because I gave you the transformational takeaway already, is stop waiting. 
 
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You’ve heard me say before, there is no future, there is no past, there is only now. You must hold this consciousness now, even before you see it show up in your physical world. So you must hold wealth consciousness now. Remember what I talked about earlier is what you’re seeing now is just a reflection of yesterday. So let’s change today and what you hold now will change your tomorrow. And if it doesn’t change your tomorrow, just sit in a knowing that guess what? You are the consciousness. 
 
and that is what you were broadcasting through your consciousness and that is what you will bring back to you because your current circumstances right now today, your current circumstances are not who you are. They are an echo of who you used to be. So stop reacting to form, stop reacting to the external world and start actually being from and knowing 
 
that you are consciousness and consciousness is all supply. Thank you for listening and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.