Empowerment and Self-Discovery: How to Unlock Your Potential with Teri Karjala

Self-sabotage is a common behavior that involves sabotaging our own goals and desires. At its core, it involves engaging in actions and behaviors that directly or indirectly sabotage our progress toward our goals and desires. How can we shift our self-talk in a way that leads us to the life that we want? In this episode, I sit down with Teri Karjala, a Life Transformational Strategist, Speaker, and Author. We delve into the various forms of self-sabotage, examine why we engage in this behavior, and explore strategies for overcoming it. With over 20 years of counseling background, Teri shares her insights and expertise that help us unlock the potential within ourselves. Join us as we explore and learn how to overcome self-sabotaging and achieve our goals. --- Listen to the podcast here: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Unlocking Your Potential with Teri Karjala Welcome to Actions Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today I want to talk to you about a term that you probably have already heard called self-sabotage. Self-sabotage is something that I think a lot of people didn't hear about 15, 20 years ago. At least, I don't remember hearing about that. But nowadays it's kind of a common vernacular. It's what our thoughts are doing to our life's outcome. And I think we've all heard some version of the phrase, "Thoughts create form. Your thoughts are what your life is going to become." Unfortunately, some studies have shown that up to 80% of all human thoughts can be negative. My guest today, Teri Karjala — who is the coordinator of Talking with Teri — she has coaching events, as well as a podcast of her own about the subject of how we can reframe our talk, our self-talk, in a way that's going to lead us to the life that we really want. --- Teri, welcome to the program. Thank you. It's so great to be here with you. It's wonderful to have you. Can you start by telling us a little bit about Talking with Teri, what you're all about summarized at a really high level? In essence, what is it? Yeah, so, it was really an evolution. I used to be a therapist. I was a therapist for 26 years. I built a very successful business. It went owner-independent about nine years ago. And so, back in about 2010 I — actually, even before that, it was really interesting. Because I was telling my social media person at the time. She goes, "What's your retirement plan?" I was just word vomited on her. I said I'm going to be traveling around the world. I'm going to be sleeping. I'm going to be doing this. It will be called Talking with Teri. She goes, "Oh, my gosh. I love it. You should buy the domains." I knew I wasn't ready for it. It was funny, because when I told her that, I was absolutely terrified of public speaking. Oh, wow. Okay. That's how you and I met. I was speaking at an event. So, I've come a long way. But it was so funny because, again, I think that the counseling — you have a master's degree in counseling and have tons and tons of certifications, and things of that nature. That then created the foundation. As I was counseling, I realized that there were faster, easier ways. I started studying with brain researchers and people that talked about how our brain is formed, but also how our thoughts, our behaviors, our habits all get connected inside of our brain. And what is that programming? And so, really looking at how our brains get programmed based on these previous belief systems. And so, what I've found over the time of working in my therapy practice is that there was faster wait. I mean, I had a client one time. I was her 19th therapist. She's been in therapy for 32 years. I told the person who referred her to — she's like, "Well, Teri does things differently." And so, she referred to me, and she started with like, "I want to tell you, my story." I said, "Well, you know what? Let's not start there." She looked at me, like, "What? What are you talking about?" I'm like, obviously, it hasn't been working because you've done it for 32 years. You've had 19th therapists, da, da, da. Would you be willing to do something different?" And so, we ended up having six sessions. I started incorporating energy and energy psychology and quantum physics and all this other stuff that was available to all of us. It just was one of those moments where the light bulb went on. It's like, oh, my gosh, we can do things faster, and we don't have to sit in that suffering. It serves a purpose. Once we understand the purpose, we can move through it and release it and really go back and reprogram the brain.Share on X That started this curiosity, if you will, around helping people in a different way. And so, Talking with Teri was created. I started speaking. I'm overcoming my own fears, overcoming my own limitations in the process of doing this. Now I'm working with mostly women entrepreneurs. I have a few guys in there as well, but mostly women entrepreneurs that know in their heart of hearts that they're destined for something more. Meaning, I call them my creative visionaries. They know that they're ready for something more in their lives, to have a bigger impact. These are the people that are wanting to create the movements. They are ready to have a bigger impact. Whether that's 50 people, 500 people, 5 million people or 5 billion people, they are ready to be seen and heard in the world. Now, working with these women, I'm all about what are the barriers, the blocks, the baggage that we've been carrying that is holding us back? I utilize tools and resources to clear them out, and then actually teach them the tools on how to continue to generate and create long after I'm out of their lives and out of the picture, so that they can continue generating and creating really based on the concepts of law of attraction. It's really the law of vibration. And so, how do we get in alignment with ourselves so that we can start to attract and become like a human magnet for people? So, that's where I'm at now. I absolutely love it. I do do events. I have coaching, group coaching. Then we also do — we have our live event coming up. Then also, we just launched Talking with Teri TV, where we bring in influencers and local celebrities. Now we get to have a platform to really honor people where they're at and share their message that the people that wanted to have a bigger impact in the world. And really, I'm all about, let's change the vibration of this planet. As this recording is being done, we understand that the planet right now is in a little bit of a crisis. It feels like it's been kind of turned upside down. It's gotten stuck there. I think that this is an opportunity for all of us to look in the mirror and have an opportunity to start really doing the deeper work on ourselves so that we can start releasing the negative stories, the negative belief systems that are no longer serving us so that we can get back on track. As we do that, as more people really wake up, if you will, to their own potential, their own gifts and talents and really start to move forward with it, what happens is we start to raise the vibration of the planet. And so, that's the juicy part. It's raising the collective vibrations of the planet. That's what I'm all about, and that's where my passion is. Well, I don't know about you. But if I've been doing therapy for 32 years and had seen 19 therapists, I'd almost be demanding a different approach. I'd almost be saying, "I am not trying the same thing again. Why would I try the same thing again?" I did listen to her story. In the last session, she goes, "I didn't tell you my story. Can I tell you my story?" And I said okay, fine. She told her story in under two minutes. She had this epiphany. She's like, "Oh, my goodness. This is the first time I shared my story without going into a panic attack." I actually have gratitude for it. That's where we all, myself included — for those that know me, I didn't have an easy childhood, I had multiple adverse situations that I had overcome multiple times in my life. But what I found is that, when we get to a place of gratitude for those things, our mess becomes our message. We can really transform people's lives in being a leader in that movement. So, with age. You add age to mess, and you get message vernacularly. Yes, I love it. I love it. Look at you. I've been trying to get my creative side out a little bit more on some of these things. I was at the Mind, Body, and Spirit expo a couple weekends ago. There was an event about failure. I actually came up with my own acronym. Like, feedback about improving life, undoing regressive emotions. I think it was what I came up with just trying to be creative about things. Now, one thing I think some people listening might not be 100% familiar with is, what do you mean when you say raising the vibration? You talked about raising the collective vibration? Does that mean raising an individual vibration? Our thoughts, our feelings all have a vibration. Everything on this planet has vibration.Share on X So, if I pick up my cell phone, my cell phone, if we were to put this under a high-powered microscope, it has a vibration. This pin that I'm picking up, same thing. As humans, we are very much a vibration. And so, we are energy as well. And so, my belief is when we are living in our zone of genius and we wake up, we are excited about what we're doing, we are in love with what we're doing, we will vibrate at a higher functioning vibration. We will vibrate from a place of love and gratitude. And so, when we have more people stepping into their brilliance, into their power, they will too be waking up in that place of really just returning back to pure positive energy. When we have more and more people waking up and stepping into that as a collective energy across the world, we actually,...