Welcome back to the show. My fellow extraordinary Americans.

For today’s guests, we have Galina Lapina, an immigrant originally from Russia. Galina is a certified life and business coach with more than 15 years of experience, as well as an international speaker and trainer. She has also worked in the IT industry for over 15 years, where she managed projects for Google, corporations such as Boeing and Disney, as well as multiple startups. At one point, she had a vision of living a laptop lifestyle and earning six figures a year in passive income so she could travel the world and spend her time coaching and working on projects that inspired her. She set a goal to get there in two years and achieved it. 

At the moment, she’s part of a global network of corporate consultants trained by Doctor Zoe Dispenser, who is a New York Times bestselling author, lecturer, and researcher, to teach organizations how to apply the neuroscience of change to increase employee engagement, collaboration, creativity, productivity, and ultimately business results. 

Their knowledge, meditation, and neuroscience behind it have helped many people achieve the ability to overcome stress in their lives, whether it be in their personal or professional life. Galena is an extraordinary American, and I’m honored to have her on the show. Galina, are you there? 

Hi, cosmos.  

Hey Galina, I’m honored to have you on the show. Thank you for Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. 

It is going to be fun.

So, Galena, can you tell me in the audience a little bit more about your background, like how you got there, how you got started in your career, and all of that? 

I grew up in Russia. And all my life, I was just watching the lives of people who were all about survival. What do I need to do to make enough money to feed My family? And I always wanted something more, like some goals. I wanted some dreams. I wanted something more exciting, and I didn’t know what that would be, but I knew it was something about freedom. And it all came from, you know, feeling like I couldn’t do what I wanted. When I was young. 

So, I wanted to, and this was my first level of freedom. I went to college, got a master’s degree in computer science, and left my family home to live in the dormitory. Right after college, I was having a conversation with my manager at the time, and he asked me a question. What do you want to do? And I’m like, Well. You know, make some money, and do some things he likes. No, no. Like, what do you want to do? Like, what inspires you? Honestly, I don’t know. But if I could just, like, put the dart in the wall, it would be nice to, like, become an analyst and move to America. 

And I was doing developments at a time when I was writing code, and I wanted to do more of what people interaction Projects and… Yeah, that was July 2005. And then everything just kind of happened. Did nothing in July. I just kind of talked about it, and I let it go. And then in August, the company I was working for started the first-ever internal training for analysts.

So, they paid me a salary for a month and trained me to be an analyst, which is what I wanted to do, of course, I signed up, and then that was August. And then, in December of that year, I was already on my first business trip to Seattle. 

So, it came out pretty fast and kind of out of nowhere, but not really because I set the intention first, and that was the start of it, and I spent. After about a year and a half of flying back and forth, I went to Seattle, I came back to Moscow. I went to Seattle, came back to Moscow, and after spending In Seattle, about Four months and the end of the summer, which is like the best time and the best weather. And you know there are hikes and rollerblading and, like, beautiful mountains and parks. And I’m like, why am I? I was going back to Moscow kind of like it here. 

So, I told my manager at the time. Hey, can I just say, can you move me here? Like, can I just stop going back and forth? Can I just say he’s Like, well, we don’t have any permanent positions? Open at the moment, but I’ll keep you in mind. And a few months later, he called me back. He’s like, he still wants to move to Seattle. I’m like, yeah, and he’s like, pack your bags. So, it was in. March or April 2006, which is a little over a year and a half, I was already living in America, so that’s sort of how I got there.  

How did you go from being in America to becoming the sort of overall vision of you leading to the path of being? A certified coach. And what was the process that got you there? From getting to America, being in Seattle, and becoming who you are 

Good question. So, most people only get their butts, you know, they only get their ***** because of some pain, right? And I moved to America, where I became an analyst. A couple of years later, I became a project manager. And when I get there. And I ask myself, what do I want? 

And I couldn’t come up with an inspiring goal for about a year; I was asking myself that question every day. Read the books I watched The Secret. I did all the Things, and I just couldn’t come up with anything like, OK, I can make more money. I can get another house and another car. Like, what’s the point? And I couldn’t. I just didn’t know what it was. And a friend of mine, she said to me, He’s like, hey, I went to this transformational training, and it changed my life, and I remember how my friend was so happy and radiant and amazing. I’m like, well. I tried all the books; I tried all the try-it-yourself ways. Why don’t I just go and give it a shot? And I did. And those trainings were in California. 

So, I was flying there for like a week, then another week, and then doing three months of leadership coaching. And by the end of it, I was just blown away, like it completely shifted my perspective on life from being like a victim of life to being responsible for life. It’s a very common approach to personal development, but that training was very experiential. It was not just; Let’s just think about it. It’s like, no, you think about it, and then you do. And then your current results, and then you see how it works, and then you do it again. 

So, I got to embody not just the philosophy but also the knowledge through application and practice. And my whole life started to change. You know, I get happier. And then I came back to volunteer as a small group leader in those same trainings. And since that time, I have never felt as fulfilled in my life up until that point. And I’m like, Oh, there’s some purpose here. There’s some fulfillment here. There’s some meeting here. I was like How could I do more of it? You know, volunteering doesn’t pay, 

And then I visited a friend in New York, and we were walking around, and we started talking about, like, hey, what do you do now? I don’t like coaching. I’m like, What’s life coaching? She’s like? Well, you know, I have helped people achieve their goals and dreams. Their goals and dreams are like mine. How do you do that? How do you know how to do that? He’s like, well, I studied it. 

I’m like, oh, and people pay you for it. She’s like, yeah. Well, then my passion from those transformational training turned into I can make money doing it, which means I can put all my attention on it and not have another source of income. And that’s. Where it started, there were a few iterations, which I don’t know if we want to go into because it will be a long story. 

But over time, all this time I had a Consulting job as a project manager, but in parallel my main passion was going towards coaching, transformation, and figuring out how to have a business. I started building it by, like, coaching people for free just because I wanted to be a coach, and then I started to charge for overcoming all these internal fears and around sales conversations and all of that. 

That’s, where it started, and since then, most of my attention has been on how to create the love that I love and what that means, and that keeps iterating like a spiral. Like every new iteration, it’s kind of the same, but it’s like slightly clearer, and a little bit more refined. 

So that journey of that transformation from the inner to the outer. You know, focusing on what needs to change inside So I can create what I want outside of what has been, you know, my last, I think, about 15 years since that training. 

So, Galina, one thing, I know I’ve met you in person, right? And what you have is what most people like about Gen Z, this thing called the laptop lifestyle. They always envision this thing called the laptop lifestyle like they want to travel the world, work from their laptops, and then live the life that they want, right? 

Because they want more of that time and financial freedom, but not many people get to do that. But you’re one of the few people who managed to Turn your business into something … because I traveled in the car with you, and you’ve managed To do A course while Inside the car, there is very little Internet, going on and off and then somehow doing all that So my question to you is, What is the motivating factor That drives you to do what you’re doing because you’re driven and whatever you set your mind to, You usually succeed. 

So, what is that internal motivation factor? Why is that what drives you In your life 

Well, I think the “why”…

 I like the simple answer freedom and self-realization. And of course, there are many layers to that. So, for some people, and like most people, when they think freedom, they think of financial freedom—having enough money. So, you don’t need to worry about it. 

So, you can do it. What you want through my quest for freedom. I found there are nine freedoms. Five external ones and four internal ones. And when people want some level of freedom, it’s usually one of them. Those and the external freedoms are financial freedom. That’s number one. You know, people think of freedom. They think, you know, cash flow and money are passive. Second, freedom is location, time, and freedom. Time freedom is when you do what you want to do. Location, Freedom Is when you can choose where you want to be. You want to travel, or you want to not travel; you have the freedom to decide. Whether where you reside at every moment People’s freedom is the freedom to have your relationships how you want. 

So have your friendships and the quality of friendships that you desire. romantic partnership or not? Family, kids, or not? It’s just really hard to define it. What do you want, and how do you create it in that area of life? And then the last of the external freedoms is purpose. Freedom is the freedom to live your purpose and change the world—the first three freedoms Tim Ferris talks about—he was the one who, like, inspired me through his work week book, and then the other two kinds of just came to me when I got all three. And I’m like, well, I’ve got time freedom. I got the location freedom. I’m still missing something. And that’s when people find freedom and purpose Freedom came to the forefront.

And what I realized through looking at even those five is that there’s still stuff missing because you can still have all those things and be unhappy, or you can be unhealthy and sick. And none of this would matter. So that’s when, you know, I realized there were also four internal freedoms. Which is the health freedom, the physical freedom. 

So, you can do what you want with your body—have the physical stamina to dance, perform, or run marathons—whatever the heck you want. 

Mental freedom. Is the freedom to work with your thoughts and choose the ones that you like, discard the ones that you don’t, and not fall victim to them like an inner chatter that drives the bus but is in the driver’s seat? 

Emotional freedom. Emotional freedom is the ability to understand your emotions, work with them, accept them, and healthily express them. Change them when you want to change them, so just really be a master of that internal part of yourself.

And then spiritual freedom is the ability to connect with whatever it is for you that’s bigger than you could be. God could be the source; he could be the universe, and through that connection, and like the intuition that’s part of it, you can fuel the rest of the freedoms. 

And what I discovered is that anytime I want to upgrade my external freedoms, I want more money, different relationships, or whatever. It always comes back to internal freedoms. I have to upgrade my mindset. I have to expand my energy so I can claim more of the space in this world, and like change, more people come with more visibility. It’s like they’re so interconnected that it’s like breathing. You know, as you go within and then you go out… and then you go in, and then you go out. And that’s for me. What is the difference between internal and external freedom?

 Like, there’s no separation, but you can kind of comfort mentalize to make sense of it first, and to me, That’s the quest. Is it like, how do I create my life exactly how I desire? And not the “I” that’s like the brain, which has some ego-level goals. There’s nothing wrong with that, but that, those goals, those goals—that’s like what you came here to do. That’s what you want to experience, and then how do you bring it from thought and intention to this 3D reality, whether it is financial freedom, a relationship with your dreams, or just pure harmony with yourself? How do you do that? So that’s what I’ve been studying, applying, and collecting, like, the most effective tools in the last 15 years, to be able to do it myself and then transfer it to other people and help them do the same.

Galena, that is amazing. The way you just described the 9 freedoms, even though I didn’t think of them, I knew them on a certain level, but location, time, and everything. But when I thought about mental and emotional issues for years, I only thought about self-realization. The meditation. 

But the way you put it, it was like you put it out into a distinct list, right? And it all makes sense. Ultimately, that’s what everybody’s looking for, whether It’s mental and emotional. And I agree with you. It’s like we’re all interconnected. 

But like my next question to you, Galina, it’s connected to this. What was one of the biggest moments during your journey? Is the biggest lesson. You learned about the interconnection between internal and external freedom and its relationship to things like meditation and neuroscience.

That’s a big, wide question, I think the most important thing is that our state defines our reality. We can have all sorts of dreams, goals, and ideas. But if we want to see it in our lives, we have to become that person first. The person that has it, and that always includes letting go of what Doctor Joe calls the old self and stepping into the new self. 

And that’s a never-ending journey because every day you’re in a new self, you’re a new self, You’re a new self.

But That journey works for me. There are like two parts to the skill set of being able to change and transform. One skill set is the ability to declare something and then go and create it. It’s kind of like proactive creation—the darkness to change the darkness, to commit—that gives you the skills to create something. Bring it from a thought to a reality. But there is also another set of skills that have to do with resilience and adaptability, because very often we have all sorts of goals and intentions, but sometimes life throws some curveballs that you did not expect. And if you cannot manage your state, you get angry and bitter.

And you get depressed, and you get either angry at yourself or others, and you get stuck in those thoughts and feelings. Loops, then you can’t focus on creation, because now you’re in survival and you’re in stress, so the ability to pull yourself out of the state to manage that state so that your state does not depend on the outside circumstances, that’s where mastery comes, can you step into the future and just really feel what it would feel like? And be that person now; that’s one skill.

And another one is to have something like a major accident happen. You know, business relationships breaking down, divorces, losing all your money, and going into debt like I did. Out of, like, being fully financially free, I went like, Ooh, right in the hole. and I stayed there for a few months. As it took me a while to master my state to be able to get out of self-pity, shame, guilt, and depression, that happened. Now what? 

And what helped me get through that time was meditation. It takes a lot of different practices to process my thoughts and emotions, as I realized. It was not losing money. That caused distress. It’s the meaning that I gave it that made me fail. I am not a successful person. Nobody would ever listen to me. I cannot teach people, and I cannot live my purpose. And if I cannot live my purpose, why live? 

All of those thoughts were in my subconscious. And then there was a lot of guilt. Around other aspects of some financial decisions that I made and too much trust that I had in some people. 

And when I uncovered what was causing the pain, I was able to shift. But until then, it was in my blind spot. I was just feeling crappy, and I couldn’t do anything about it; and that’s where, more self-awareness, more meditation, and more different practices allowed me to shift the Interstate. Up until I was able to shift it, nothing was going on in my external life, you know, like I got a little bit of money, but it was just like everything was at a standstill and it was getting worse and worse and worse because we attract what we radiate. And I was radiating. Guilt, shame, and hiding the energy of hiding from the world because I was ashamed. 

And the energy of hiding. I did not realize it at the time, but looking back later, I thought oh. Yeah, so being able to shift that state, no matter the circumstances, and that’s what I was able to do after a little while, then things started to change. Then I got into a more resourceful state. Then I started to create things. I created a beautiful relationship. I don’t know where I created, other sources of income. I started rebuilding my financial situation. 

And through it all, I still kept my free lifestyle. I didn’t go back to the office. I got back to consulting. Yes, you’ve got to make money. You’ve got to do something, but I didn’t go back to the office. I kept my pretty lifestyle even when I lost all the money. It was fascinating for me to see because, at first, I thought, I lost it. Not free like ah back to the shackles Like, what the heck? A lot of resistance. But resistance only keeps in place, like what you resist persists, and that took me a while to realize, too. It’s like, oh, I was resisting that circumstance. 

So Interstate and the Interstate management were my full focus, and that’s when I started getting into the work of Doctor Joe Dispenza and just really diving more into the meditation. And that’s a whole other chapter in my life.

So, Galina, as a continuation of this, normally people have calamities happen to them. They go into this deep-seated cycle of depression, guilt, and shame. So, my question to you is…

 it’s up to you if you want to, share more about the story and it, and you don’t have to…

The thing I wanted to ask is, how did you like the transition where you went from that state of depression, shame, and anger, to a state of self-awareness? And you came up with the comeback because very few people can do that, but you managed to pull that off, in a state in which most people don’t come out.

And it’s so interesting how, like everything is perspective, one step at a time, I’m like, *** **** it, it took me 6 months to get out of that state. But looking back, it’s like, yeah, most people stay there for years, maybe forever.

So, I’m like, OK, six months, good. I think what helped was That belief that I instilled in myself at the time of those transformational training, and I got to see it over and over again. So, like, I could not believe it anymore, which is that I can create anything I can commit to. And two, I’m responsible for everything in my life, and everything that shows up is my creation. 

So, nothing happens to me unless I create it from that perspective, even when I know the financial internal crash happened. I was like, OK, how did I create it? You know, I invested in a project and trusted some people, and it didn’t go how I planned. So, I underestimated the risk. Essentially, what happened was that they didn’t do enough due diligence. That’s also what happened. 

How did I come out of that state? It was that. I looked into how I created it and what lessons I needed to learn so I could create something different, and I just could not let go of it. Oh, I created this thing. Why? 

Not Because I’m a bad person now. Because whatever. But it has to be for my benefit. Everything that happens in my life happens for my benefit. What’s the benefit? I could not see it. I’m like, what do you mean? The benefit I have is that I can go back to work. My money is in the trash. I don’t feel like I can teach anything because I want to transfer the knowledge to others after I’ve already mastered it. And like here, I felt like I missed something. 

So, I’m like, no, I’m not going to teach. I’m not going to do any of that. It was just really fascinating to see how the more aware I became of all those thoughts that were holding me back, the more power came back, like when they were lurking in my subconscious. The guilt, the shame, the worthlessness—the biggest transformation for me happened when I realized it at that time. Time, which I completely did not see before, was that. My self-worth was directly tied to my accomplishments. When I was Galina, who retired at 33, moved to the United States, and could do what she wanted. I felt good about myself, and when I lost all the money, I felt like I had to go back to work and all of this, and I’m like, I have no accomplishments right now. And everything tanked, and I looked at it.  “Oh, interesting.”

So, I feel like when I produce something for the world, I’m good. When I don’t, I’m bad, nothing, or worthless, or I’m like emptiness like it was just fascinating to see. And that’s where the journey of true self-love and self-acceptance began for me. Like, can I accept myself with the flaws of making a mistake or a decision? Can I understand that Galena is also human, that she can miss something, and that she’s not somebody who always makes everything perfect and everything right? 

Can I love that person? Can I allow myself to make mistakes with the same graciousness, I allowed other people to make those mistakes, that took a while, and it’s like layers upon layers upon layers of whether I can love and accept myself. 

So, for me, kind of losing everything, it was a journey of Self-love… Because that’s what I was supposed to take away from it? I mean many obviously, there are practical lessons too, but this was the deepest transformation you asked for. What was the deepest transformation that was the one? 

There are so many layers over here, and it’s very, very profound because a lot of people are fighting against feelings of low self-worth. And they go about it in different ways also like the fact that you took responsibility for your thoughts and that you realize that you are the master of your fate and destiny. 

Like a lot of times, a lot of people, whenever calamities happen, find a scheme going in the environment. They’ll blame everything except themselves. But like you when you blame yourself, you also blame yourself for it. So, you understand that. 

But also fighting back and creating an Internal source of validation is something that is the reason why you are successful in what you’re doing, and I would want the audience to also understand that you have to ultimately take responsibility for everything that happens to your life. It’s the hardest thing to do because it’s easier to blame everything else. But when you start doing that, that’s when success starts happening. It’s also a realization that I came to in my life as well. 

Yeah, yeah, it seems easier to blame it on others, but it’s more disempowering because if it’s up to others you do not like, you can do nothing about it, but the choice of responsibility is the ultimate empowerment because it is all up to you. If you choose to believe that way.

And if you don’t like your creation, you can uncreate it and create something different, but if somebody else created it for you, you have no power. So that was also one of the fascinating discoveries: that taking responsibility for something that I don’t like is empowering. For me, that was fun. 

Wow, Galena. So basically, if you could go back, let’s say to the beginning of your career when you were in Moscow, and then you had to advise the person that is now, let’s say, the 18-year-old Galena, who’s about to go to college, you could advise her on something. What would be different from your perspective right now with all the knowledge that you’ve gained? 

That’s a great question. I think I would love for her to keep her innocence and a full life, and I like believing that everything is possible and believing in people. But I would add a little bit more trust but verify. I do believe in good but read the contract and send it to the court. They do but ask them for the track record of similar results in the past before you hand them your money. Those are the lessons that I learned. Like it doesn’t. Have to be one or the other. It’s like, oh if I trust people, we don’t. Need an agreement? No, we do. It’s OK like the agreement just clarifies the understanding that we’re on the same page regarding the agreement. It is not a sign that I don’t trust you. 

Yeah, I think those lessons and also… It’s fascinating. I did believe that I could create anything I wanted, and I was so good at it. Like everything I commit, I create, I commit, I create, I commit, I create, like it was just going up and up and up and up and up. 

Until that time, and then it started going down and down and down. And I commit, and nothing happens. I committed, and I was like, is that not working, like I was under the illusion of what happened? But what I realized when I got to the next level of the money game, there were skills that I did not yet have. And I didn’t know. I did not have them, and I didn’t know I needed them.

So, it was a little too … What’s the best word to say? Arrogant, I guess. That’s like, I can do anything. I probably need to do a little bit of this. You know, brush off the chips from my shoulders and come back to You know what? There are a lot of things in this life that I don’t know. And there are a lot of things in this life that I can use the help of other people to advise me with their experience instead of thinking that I can do it all myself and I don’t need anything because life always works out for Galina, like having a little bit more humility and a little bit more of knowing that every next level comes with the next set of rules and the next set of skills.

And just because I mastered a certain level doesn’t mean I can just overlay those skills on the next level and it’s going to go the same way so yeah. 

Like when you go into bigger deals, there are all sorts of, you know, stones. You need to turn over and make sure. It’s just fascinating. I love the process of all this. 

No, I mean, it’s true, right? Normally, when we have humility, we’re more open to learning from different sources. And then, ironically, it is our humility that gets us more expertise, and experience points in life. 

And then, ironically, much better, if we had an ego, we would just be at a certain level that we would never have the necessity to learn from people who know more. So yeah, I See the point of that.

So, Galena, as a continuation of this and also from an American perspective, America is the land of the free and the place where dreams are made. So as an immigrant who came to America, what do you think of that? And do you think that’s true?

I do think it’s true. I felt freer in America than I felt in Russia. In many ways. There are a lot of There’s a big variety. The desires that people have, the hobbies, the purposes—there’s no one-size-fits-all. Just like, oh, you’ve got to go to work and you’re going to, you know, make X amount of money. And that’s the only path because that’s kind of how I grew up in Russia. And like my experience of Russia at the time.

But in America, they’re paintings. They’re like painters who, like, sit on the street and do nothing. They’re bums. They’re like businesspeople. There are, you know, Wall Street people. They’re like movie stars. You can pick any game you want to play and go play it. And that, to me, is freedom: you choose the game you want to play, and then you can play, and there are many games. Available in the United States that you can try on if you want to be an employee. Sure, you want to be a consultant. Sure, you want to be a coach? You can do a freelance job. You want to be a photographer like you can. You can choose anything. And you can go and figure it out. 

And there are a lot of education opportunities, even beyond college personal development. There’s so much of it, like in Russia, that I did not see an extensive variety of it at that time, and I was really craving it, and I didn’t even know until I had a taste of it. And I moved to the United States. And I was like this coaching Program in that group and This was like Wow, it’s like people are diving into the internals of everything. This is great.

And another thing I appreciate about the United States. To me, at least, it feels safe to do business. I’ll give you a little bit of background. Like in Russia, you open a business. In Mexico, it’s very similar, by the way; in Russia, you open a business. If it’s a physical business with an office space, yeah. You pay a lot of taxes. 

So, half your money is out to the government, and then you need to pay the health inspector. The fire inspector This inspector, that inspector So like. To do business the legal way. You come away with very little money. And then people are trying to figure it out, even if you do everything perfectly. If somebody wants more money out of you, they will find a reason to write up whatever the heck they want to write up, and they’re going to shut you down until you give them the right. 

So, for me, I was watching that. I’m like, I will never do a physical business, like a brick-and-mortar business, in Russia, because it feels like even if you do everything perfectly, something can still happen, and you can either be shut down or know somebody will come after you. Whatever. Similar to Mexico is like, except here, they call them cartels. 

And, you know, they get their fair share of things. And the United States. You make money, you pay taxes, and you’re good. Nobody bothers you. No one threatens you. I mean, unless you get to certain levels and there are other games in the play, but… I felt safe to go and try things. I felt safe to go and explore, you know being an employee, being a consultant, being self-employed—all of those aspects felt safe to me. 

I mean, at least on that level, of course, there are always, you know, emotional risks. And I’m not talking about that, but I felt like I could create, and I don’t need to feel like I’m in survival mode, nor do I need to be in fear of being in business. And that, to me, was much more liberating than in Russia. Where I came from. 

No, I mean that it’s so interesting understanding that contrast because yes, many chunks of America are pro-business, and they believe in doing everything possible to support the business, the businessman, So, what you’re saying is true. 

I think even other parts like If you, even. If you go to places like China and India, although in India and since 1991, it’s improved drastically, but before that, you had to pay; you had all this bureaucracy that you had to go through, and it just disincentivized people from doing business. And you know, if you don’t do business, you’re not creating jobs. And if you don’t create jobs, you’re not spurring the economy.

So, you have to be professional. Business if you want to support the economy, but a lot of people just don’t get it, you know. You have to be able to create a foundation where people are like, OK, I want to start a business. I want to take that risk because It’s not easy. Start a business like you and I both know it. It’s a lot of financial risk. It’s a lot of emotional and mental risk. But like the people who are entrepreneurs, they will do it for the right reasons, but it helps a lot if there is a proper environment. So yeah.  

Yeah, absolutely.  

So, Galina, you talked about the nine freedoms, right? And I found, like, the way you put it out and laid it out so interesting. And you know, American identity is all about freedom. So, from your perspective, what is the biggest challenge that most Americans face when it comes to experiencing the nine freedoms in their lives? And how would they overcome that and attain it? Those freedoms.  

In my People don’t achieve freedom because they don’t choose to. 

They don’t commit to it, and it was like that for me too. I wanted to have a freedom lifestyle for 10 years, and nothing was changing, but I wanted to. I dreamed about it. I fantasized about it. It was so good to think. About it, but nothing was changing. Until one day, I looked at my life. And was very puzzled. And I asked myself, why is it that all the other goals that I set I achieved, but this freedom lifestyle, like 10 years now, nothing is changing? 

And then I asked myself two questions. I usually ask when I want something. Is not happening. There’s no progress.

 Question #1, – which is usually the reason – What’s my level of commitment on a scale of 1 to 10 to create that thing? And when I asked about the freedom lifestyle, I realized I never really committed to it. I always stayed in the stage of wanting it, wishing for it, and thinking about it like I never actually chose it. 

And then the 2nd question that I asked, usually because the first one is usually not a 10, And the question then is: Well, if you you were a 10, what would you do now that you haven’t yet done? Ahead of time, and that’s going to be a whole other story, but the answer came from your job. Which was a whirlwind that, in the end, gave me my freedom lifestyle in a month. 

And that’s when I realized the power of commitment. Like most people, don’t commit. We think about it and want it, but we don’t choose it for ourselves, and when we don’t choose it, we can’t have it. It’s like if you’re coming to McDonald’s and you’re placing an order and they bring you a burger, right? It would be the same as coming to McDonald’s but not placing an order, and expecting the burger to show up, it’s not going to happen. 

So, it’s the same with our intentions and our commitments. It’s almost like you’re placing an order with the universe. God, whatever you call it, the quantum field Without that choice, with that commitment, there’s no order in place, so there is no need for the oneness of everything to take care of you and help you out on your journey. You haven’t chosen it. 

How come? Do you want to get support? A journey that you have not yet undertaken, I think most people that I have seen… Their lives are not becoming freer, because they didn’t choose it. Not because they tried and failed. Because if they try and fail, they’ll just try one more time and succeed. Those who never chose it, those that you know have it—you know there’s a saying—those who like it, want it, look for solutions, and those who don’t look for excuses It’s this with freedom. It’s the same with freedom; people say, I want to have this.

Let me go figure it out. Let me go talk to my friends. Let me go hire a coach. Let me go read a book. Let me go binge-watch YouTube of successful people, whatever, or there could be somebody who says, no, I can’t have it because XYZ fills in the blanks, and then they stay where they are. So that’s my opinion. Many different people have different opinions. That’s mine.

No, I mean the point is that you have to commit to freedom, and you’ve got to want it badly enough because a lot of people think they want freedom, but then their actions kind of prove that they don’t. 

They’re not showing the intensity, or they’re not having the will to act and follow through. One thing I’ve noticed about successful people… is one thing I’ve noticed about you as well. Whenever I met you in person, I thought that you were very driven. There is some sort of energy that’s driving you no matter what like you are a workaholic. You know, I don’t know. 

I’m not working on it. 

Like when you’re at work. When you’re working, you are focused; you have the will to act. And then I think that’s like a quality that people have, and they’re geared towards freedom, and they have that high drive and motivation that they’re going to succeed in whatever they do despite their circumstances because, where you came from… You may have come from humble beginnings, but you succeeded through sheer willpower because you would not be where you are now without it. 

Yeah, yeah, that’s what, to me, is the commitment, the commitment in my definition. What came from the training back then that changed my life was a commitment, which is the willingness to be and do whatever it takes and not stop until you get it done. And the commitment, like the willingness to be and do, means you’re willing to step into the states of being. You haven’t stepped into it. It could be courage. Whether it’s more openness or vulnerability, or whatever it is, the next version of you has all those qualities that we all have within ourselves. We just don’t step into them. We step into some other ones. 

So, like we’re changing your beingness but also changing your doing this, that’s what. Create it, and if you’re willing to fine-tune it, then go again and again and again and fine-tune that process until you get there. Kind of like picking the lock and picking the lock. Then you’ll get there, and if you don’t, then you get up in the middle. That means your commitment is gone, and then you won’t have it. 

Well, I could talk about this with you forever because this is a really deep subject. But it’s all. It’s only a 45-minute podcast, but I wanted to ask you the next question, Delina. I know what you’re doing with your coaching business and with your intern, neuroscience, and its application, meditation, or something. Can you tell me and the audience a little bit more about the work that you do and how it works?  

So, I do work well. It’s in the field of helping people create harmony with themselves and other people to achieve their goals with ease and flow and be able to change. I have some personal offerings. I work with people one-on-one or in workshops and groups, and they also have some corporate offerings with which I work with teams, corporations, and companies. 

And they’re all around the same thing, but we call them different words, right? In personal development, you call it responsibility in the corporate world you call it leadership; in the personal world, you say, in personal development, you call it responsibility in the corporate world you call it adaptability. 

It’s the same thing, but that ability to change through life, change with business changes, and change with team changes the whole change by yourself—those are the skill sets and mastering the inner state that allows you to do all of it. 

So, I have some work that I do with people one-on-one that is pretty intense and kind of laser-focused in that we go and rewire things in a relatively short period. So, for some people who have some formal traumas or triggers, or there are some patterns that they’re sick and tired of, they just want to change them now. Then we have one set of work to do, where it’s like deep work with me very involved. Some over the phone. Some fly to me for a VIP Day. And we just, like, dive in and get it done. 

And I also do some work with groups and in person, like teaching training that I’m certified to teach. Some of them include Doctor Joe Dispenza’s training program, which is about the neuroscience of change, and how we change internally. And how do we change our lives? And then there is also the training, like the Resilience Advantage Training by Heart Math Institute, which is all about mastering the state of coherence. And the coherence of the heart, with which comes the coherence of the brain, really helps people to get out of stress and burnout, to recharge their batteries, make sure that they have enough energy to create what they want to create, and that they’re in the most balanced intuitive collaborative state to be able to do that. 

So those are the things that I teach. Or you know. People separate people who come to me from companies. I also got certified in a modality called AQ AI is the name of the company, but what it is an adaptability assessment, so you know there’s IQ. There’s EQ. You can be smart; you can have national intelligence. So AQ is measuring your ability to adapt. That is also measured on, like, 15 different subdimensions. It’s not that you’re adaptable. You’re not. It’s more like, oh, you’re good at bouncing back, but you’re not that good about unlearning and relearning. 

So, there are 15 subdimensions, and they’re all measured separately and combined into a single score. When I found that a friend of mine connected me with this, I could see how all the other things that I offer fit together because the corporate training that I do is essentially adaptable. How do we change from the neural spine’s perspective? That’s adaptability, and resilience is part of adaptability. 

So instead of me offering the companies and teams training on adaptability and resilience, I saw that all fit so much better if we start with an assessment first, so people can take an assessment and see where their strengths and weaknesses are, and if they’re low in resilience, low in adaptability, and they want to increase some of it, then they can come and do my training.

And also with an adaptability assessment. It’s not just for the individual people but also the managers. There is also a team report that’s getting generated so they can see a snapshot of their team and what the highs and lows are, and if they have certain business outcomes that they want, maybe they’re going through a big change in it. You know, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, or they want to prepare people for something that’s coming, like a change in the market, and people are not adaptable. It won’t work right away, but with a very little time investment and a very little financial investment, you can.

It’s kind of like an insurance policy. You can just check and make sure that your people are ready to change. And are ready to support that next level of evolution for your company. And that, to me, was just so beautiful. And of course, I still do project management consulting. I got a little bit into change management because there are so many couples working closely together are the corporate offerings that I do. 

So, Galina Is there, like, any project that you’re doing right now that you’re working on that you want to meet with the audience to get a glimpse into? 

Well, I have a consulting contract as a project manager with Disney, but that’s not necessarily Something to share in detail. 

What is the project? 

Well, I recently started to produce content and reach the audience of my home country, and I did not like that all my coaching, all my training, was in, English in the US and around, and a friend of mine reached out and said, like Galina, why don’t you teach in Russian? I said, Well, like what? I don’t know anything about Russia right now. I haven’t been like I haven’t lived there. Oh God, since 2006. How many years is that? I don’t even know 17 years. 

It’s like I don’t know how marketing works in Russia. I don’t know how to reach the audience in Russia. I don’t physically reside in Russia, and he’s like, Oh. Don’t worry, I’ve got a guy for that. So, he introduced me to a guy who is now, you know, heading my marketing team in Russia. And I got on Instagram. I got a telegram on YouTube. 

So, I start, instead of trying to figure out exactly what I do. As I do so much and know exactly what my niche is because there are like a million of them, I just really focused on putting everything I have out there. So, I guess for the audience to know what it’s like You want to follow me if you want to learn more on the topics of inner freedom and outer freedom, if you want to improve your life, or if you want to improve your relationships. Chips, find the platform that works for you, and find me there. So, I’m on Instagram on Facebook, I’m on Telegram, and I’m on YouTube, and I have one in English and one in Russian.

So, pick your language too. And yeah, I want to know. I guess I want feedback from the world. Right now, I’m just putting everything out there. Everything I’m teaching a little bit of everything to see what half of my teaching gives the biggest resonance to people and produces the biggest impact, and that’s where soon I will start following kind of target market research, developing specific programs and offerings that are more uniquely solving specific problems and getting specific outcomes, and yeah. I want to know what the world wants from what I can get, I don’t need to guess, and I don’t need to choose one thing that my brain thinks is the right thing because that’s not how the flow works like I want. I want it to be revealed to me in this process, and I want to share more of myself with the world and be seen, and that’s a whole other level of personal growth that comes with it. And yeah, for now. 

That is awesome, Galina. So, Galina, how can our audience connect with you to get to know more about you and your work? And what are you doing? 

I have some gifts that people can take if they would like. If you go to my website, Turning Point.Pro/gifts I put two assessments there. They’re completely free. One is the 9 Freedoms Test, so you can take the test and see how free you are in each of those nine areas. So that gives you a starting point. And then I also have the turning point quiz that tests your readiness for change, and if you want to create a change, a turning point in your life, what are the things that you already have that’s like rocking? 

And what are the things that maybe you need to tweak to be able to run smoothly into the next chapter of your life so you can get it on my website? Pro gifts, and of course, you can find me on Instagram at Galina. In Russian with an underscore at the end, Galina. Lupina has an underscore in English, but if you find my name, you’ll be able to see if the profile description is in Russian or English, so just pick one. Yeah, and YouTube is the same as Galina Lipina. There are two of us, so that should do it. And my telegram channels. All of it. If you go to my website and click Contacts. All of those platforms are listed, so you can just go there and find them all. 

Galina, I love that you have the nine freedoms thing, and since extra America is all about freedom, I endorse my audience to take a look at the nine. Freedom’s test and apply and see and see that because it will change their lives for the better. 

Excellent. Yeah.  

So, Glen. Glen, I want to conclude this show by letting you know that it’s an honor and that you have so much value to give. And I’m grateful that you took the time to do this interview with us. And I would. I want to have you back at the show at a later time.

We can dive into any of them. These topics go deeper. I’m the same as you in that I like these topics. I can talk about it all day, every day. So, it’s good that you kept me in check, and thank you for having me. It was an amazing time. I hope our audience will enjoy it. 

And I want to conclude this show by letting my extraordinary Americans know that, hey, look, there’s something extraordinary within every one of us. We must awaken it and unleash it until next time. Bye for now.