There is nothing wrong with desiring more to life than what you currently have. Although finding the unique path to a fully realized life is an arduous task, all you need to do is make the journey enjoyable for you. Zach Levy and Andy McDowell chat with certified life coach and international speaker Galina Lipina about discovering the right path that will allow you to create the life you truly want to live. She explains how to unleash your creativity and passions by undergoing a personal transformation through neuro-change solutions. Galina talks about breaking the limits of your possibilities to achieve a life beyond merely surviving. She also shares insights about location freedom, gaining clarity of the present through dancing, and measuring heart coherence.
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Finding The Unique Path To A Truly Fulfilled Life With Galina Lipina
I got a great guest for you, a kindred spirit from the sense of starting in the corporate world and felt there was something more about helping people to find their purpose in life. That’s why I wanted to bring Galina Lipina into the show. It’s becoming typical for our guests. The bio rarely fits on a page, accomplished people do a lot of things, and that’s what we like to see around here.
Galina was originally born in Russia, a place I know well. I did 40 trips over 6 years to Russia in my Boeing career. I’m looking forward to knowing her story about Russia. She moved to the US after doing her Master’s degree in Computer Science with many years of experience in big corporations, startups, and project management.
Along the way, like myself, she found a huge passion for human transformation in helping people create and find the life that A) They deserve, B) They want, C) They were created for this Earth school. She became a certified life coach. She has several years of experience in that as an international speaker and trainer. She’s certified in NeuroChangeSolutions, which we’ll get into as Dr. Joe’s work, as well as something I had never heard of before, HeartMath certified trainer.
We’re going to get into that as well. That’s probably the piece of her bio I’m most interested in because I’ve never heard that term. I didn’t know it was a thing. I’m hoping it’s a thing. It sounds interesting as a thing. She has a passion for dance. She’s done ballet, ballroom, and salsa dancing, which if you know anything about Russia, you should not be shocked or surprised at all.
In 40 trips to Russia, I never made it to the Bolshoi. I always try to get tickets when I was there, but they’re in such demand. You had to plan one year in advance to get the tickets. One year in advance, I had no idea I’d be in Russia at that time. It was a lose-lose situation for me. I did make it to performances in one other side theater, a classical trio. It was a beautiful event and beautiful music, but I never made it to the ballet side of the world.
She loves to travel. She created freedom for herself that allows her to do a lot of traveling. She’s sitting in Mexico for a month. Can you imagine having a business where you’re like, “I’m going to go to Mexico for a month or run my business from there, then I’ll pick up and move somewhere else?” We all want that kind of freedom. She specializes not only in project management consulting, but services and change management, leadership development, executive coaching, so forth and on. I can’t wait to dive into this. Galina, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing your wisdom with us.
It’s nice to talk to you.
We like to tell stories here, and your story begins in the country of Russia. If you wouldn’t mind, share with the audience what upbringing was like in Russia, what motivated you to go to university, go get a Graduate degree in Computer Science and then make your way to the United States.
Growing up in Russia was interesting. Even though people are like, “Did you leave Russia and you felt not at home in the US,” I’m like, “No, I felt way more at home in the US than I ever did in Russia.” This is why. In Russia, the main level of people’s desires is to survive. It’s the question of, “How do you choose your profession?” The criteria would be, “What will allow you to make stable money so you can support yourself and your family?”
It was never about, “What are your passions? What would you like to do? What’s your purpose in life?” Those questions were not part of the culture. It was more about stability and making sure that the basic needs are met because when I was born, I was still in the Soviet Union. Half through my upbringing, it turned into Russia. There was a lot of instability in the country. It transferred instability, fear, and trepidation in people.
I don’t remember who exactly I talked to, it might have been my dad about, “I want to do. I would like to feel.” He’s like, “Dreams? Goals? No, that’s a luxury. It’s not the time for that. We have to have our needs met.” During all my time there, I felt like I didn’t fit in because I looked at the typical goals, which are to finish college, get a job, get a spouse, and have a few children. The highest achievement or the pinnacle of success in life was to own your own apartment. When I looked at that, I’m like, “If that’s all, kill me now. It’s boring.”
I always have that feeling like there’s something more there and I got to find it. Most of my friends in Russia couldn’t quite relate. When I went to my first ever personal development seminar in college, I wanted to learn about human emotions and how to overcome sadness after a breakup, and then I shared with my friends like, “I went to this emotional intelligence workshop.”
The common response I got was, “Why did you go there? What’s wrong with you? Are you broken?” That surprised me because if you want to get fit, you go to the gym. If you want to be better emotionally, you go learn about that, but that was not it. That’s why when I came to the US and it was way more like widespread transformation and everything, I felt way more at home here.
The old-school way of thinking in the US was the same way. The new generation is much more open to pursuing their passions and purpose. I know plenty of people are still stuck in that way of thinking. I call it a broke mindset. That’s beautiful. Speaking on that healing emotionally getting better, is that when your love for human transformation started, or was it at a different point in how did that start?
This was the seed maybe, but my main real start was when I came to the US. I achieved my goal of moving to the United States and becoming a project manager, then I’m like, “Now what?” I spent about a year trying to come up with the next goal that would inspire me, and I couldn’t come up with one. Everything I thought was like, “Not interesting.” I couldn’t come up with the inspiring one. That put me into depression. You know how they say when people reach their goals and if they don’t have their next one, very often, they get depressed. That was me. It was maybe 1 year or 2 after, I moved here.
A friend of mine recommended a transformational workshop in California. I was living in Seattle at that time. She’s like, “That helped me. That changed my life and allowed me to connect to my happiness and purpose. Maybe it will help you too.” I went and it was my first experience of a large group transformational training and going deep into your mommy and daddy issues and clearing everything out in a very short period of time.
That training was all about like, “How do we create our life? What if we do create our life? What if life doesn’t happen to us? What happens as an alternative perspective?” and all the healing and taking responsibility that comes along with it. It changed my life. I got to see how all the relationships and all the breakups I created were a reflection of my belief system and how the amount of money that I had or didn’t have was also a reflection of my belief system, which is good news because if I change my belief system, I can change my results.
Change your belief system so you can change your results.
That was my first real dive into real transformation, which is you make internal changes and you see external results. As part of that training, I would shift inside and the outside shifts the same day. I couldn’t unsee it. It was a new reality for me, then I came back to volunteer as a small group leader and the coach. it was the most fulfilling thing I’ve done to date at that time, and that’s where it started. Somebody told me there’s a professional called life coach where you can do that and get paid. I’m like, “My dream is coming true. I can do this as my career. This is amazing.” That’s where it all started, and it’s evolved since then.
As somewhat goes naturally in project management as somebody who spent a lot of time not as my main focus because the business that I led at Boeing was a consulting practice. Everything we did was about projects. I had project managers that worked for me in the business and so forth. project management in a lot of ways is about change management, which is not easy for human beings to want to change age.
As human beings, we get brought up through childhood. We get entered into the adult world, society, Hollywood, or everything that’s influencing and conditioning us in our minds because we are human beings. The mine was created to help us survive. Going back to your comments about upbringing in Russia, it’s about survival.
We live in an unstable world, and it’s about survival. In a lot of ways, even though you’re in the United States coming out into the adult world, it feels like it’s about survival. It’s about the mind, ego, “How do I survive, pay the pills, put a roof over my head, and food on the table?” and so forth and on. You were questioning, “There’s got to be something more to life than this.”
That’s the big change question, “There’s something more than this.” I reached that spot in the middle of my bad second marriage going, “There’s got to be more than this.” That’s when my journey started to get out of my mind and into my heart. It’s the path one must take to find joy, happiness, and success every single day in their life.
Fifty percent are asking the question, “There’s got to be more to life than this.” You reach that stage and you put 50% of the way. What does that other 50% look like for a human being who has reached a stage in their life where they’re asking themself that question, “I feel like I’m surviving and yes, maybe I got a roof over my head and there’s food on the table, but life has got to be much more than this?”
They’re asking themselves that. Putting your change management hat on, what does that look like for somebody? How do they get started? Are they pointing themselves in the right direction by asking that question? Share it with the audience. I’d like to know a different person’s perspective as to what that nuance looks like.
It touches on a lot of things for me. First of all, my first thought is about the shifts between the levels of awareness and the levels of consciousness. I don’t know if some of your readers heard about spiral dynamics and the level of human consciousness evolution. There’s a shift between the levels of consciousness when that question is asked. I would go through all the details because it will take forever. There are multiple levels of evolution that somebody goes through sometimes during their lifetime where the society goes through as part of their human journey. I’ll skip the first few levels, but I’m going to talk about levels 5, 6, and 7.
Level 5 is when somebody achieved a certain level of success in whatever society’s definition of that is. You got a job, car, family, or few toys. The top of level 5 is like a jet, a private yacht and what have you. You achieve all that, but you still don’t feel as happy as you thought you would feel. That’s where that question usually comes up. It is like, “I got all the toys and all the things I thought I wanted, but I’m still not happy. Now what?”
Some people transition to the next level, which is level 6, where the focus goes away from the material possessions and the achievements in the outer world and goes within into, “Who am I? Why am I here? What’s my purpose or my mission? What lights me up? What brings me joy?” The focus goes into self-awareness, the knowing of the self is when people in that transition from 5 to 6 like some people sell all their possessions and move to India for one year, or they start going to personal development workshops one after another, or they get a yoga certification training.
There are some transitions between the values level of those levels. At level 6, you go all within. For me, that journey was I moved to Sedona, Arizona. I learned all about chakras, crystals, angels, and everything. It was a big shift for me going from the corporate, 3D, practical, and measurable. Once you get to that certain level of level 6, then you go into level 7, which is the merge of the tip. If level 6 is all about flow and, “I’m going to see what feels like flow for me and what feels right,” level 5 is the action item list and to-do and deadlines.
Level 7 is where you come with your skills from level 5, all those skills that allowed you to achieve your success and blend in with your passion. You focus all your skills from level 5 on the business, idea, and project that is aligned with your purpose, then you go out in the world and do it and make changes. It’s interesting you said change management and project management. The realization I had years ago is every profession and everything that I’ve done is all the same. What is project management? You define point A, where do you start? You define point B, what do you need to finish? You define the steps to get there, go through the steps, arrive at the destination, and you’re done.
What’s change management? It’s the same thing. What’s life coaching? It’s the same. What are your goals? Where you are? What’s stopping you? How do you go on your way and get there? My whole life, even the technical part was helping people and teams achieve their goals, whether it’s through project management, speaking, coaching, or transformational shifts. It’s all the same. You define where you want to be, where you are, and where the gap is and you figure out what you need to get there and go it.
To a certain degree, you are preaching to the choir. How often do we talk about that “overlap” between business and life?
Every episode.
What I often talk with my coaching clients about is that we as humans have a tendency to want to draw that straight line from point A to point B, what’s the most efficient, what gets me there quickest, and so forth. They’re not looking at the different shapes and sizes that value comes in that you’re still going to get to point B, but the path and the journey are as important as arriving at your destination. It could be the best path for you because the value that gets generated or collected along a path may not be the most efficient either based on money or time.
You may take a slightly different path that costs you a little bit more time and money, but the richness that your organization or you yourself arrive at point B is much better than it’s worth that extra time and money to do so. Are you taking that into consideration when you’re choosing or looking at your path? It’s because there are one million different paths you can take from point A to point B.
What that makes me think about is the importance of finding your own path. The path that seems the fastest on paper may not be the fastest for you. That looks good and easiest on paper, also may not be the easiest for you. Someone talked about the true goals and doors AKA path to get there and how when you’ve focused on going towards your goal through your door, things are inflow, easy, and fun.
The fastest path on paper may not be the fastest for you. What looks the easiest on paper may not be the easiest for you.
Even if it’s a detour, it’s a fun detour. If you try to cram yourself towards somebody else’s goal or your goal, but through a commonly known path, that might be a harder terrain. It may take longer, be harder, and is not fun. In our culture, it’s common like, “We’ll struggle today, but we’ll achieve it tomorrow and then we’ll relax.”
What I got to find and many teachers confirm that is if you don’t enjoy the journey, you probably are not going to enjoy the destination. If you don’t enjoy the journey, that’s maybe a sign that maybe you’re going in the wrong direction or you’re not going there in your own way. It’s not going to be as fulfilling as you thought it might be once you get there. That inner barometer of finding the path that feels right for you that’s close to who you are and your value system is the fastest and easiest way even if it doesn’t look like it.
I wanted to bring up Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work, NeuroChangeSolutions. I’ve watched a number of his interviews with Lewis Howes. It’s been fascinating to me, but maybe you could illuminate a little bit of Dr. Joe’s work and how it’s changed people’s lives. I want to pull us out because going back to the path in the journeys, maybe it’s a path or journey that somebody needs to take to get to their destination. I would be remiss to not give us a couple of minutes in our conversation to highlight his work and what it’s all about.
I came across Dr. Joe’s work. A friend of mine introduced me to that by sharing the story of her healing, how she had an accident, felt high the second story or something, landed on concrete, and broke her back, and then she did this meditation and breathing work. She healed herself. She said that when she was in the hospital and the doctors are measuring everything and observing her, they told her that, “We don’t know what’s happening. Your bones are healing ten times faster than humanly possible.” My ears perked up hearing that. I’m like, “What did you do? Dr. Joe who?” That’s pulled me into wanting to learn more. After watching his online intensive progressive retreat, I went to a weeklong retreat in Niagara Falls and sit in that room.
It was such an amazing experience. A weeklong retreat is a very unique experience where it’s a combination of lectures, you learn about neuroscience, how you change, how you heal, and all of that, but also a lot of experiential parts of meditations of all different kinds. Sitting in that chair, not only did I look back and saw that every single teaching I’ve ever had and all the coaching certifications I got tied together in Dr. Joe’s system in a very simple, concise way. I’m an efficient person. I love systems that are good. I love that.
There was a second part to it for me when I was sitting in that room and I had that feeling of being truly deeply on purpose. When you feel a strong emotion, you sometimes remember the last time you felt that way. When I was in that room, I felt that level of purpose and realized I haven’t felt that level of purpose since many years ago when I did those transformational training and I was volunteering there.
Even all my coaching that I’ve done since then one-on-one did not get close to the level of fulfillment when I was coaching groups that were a team. I knew that there was something there for me. It’s not just one-on-one coaching. There’s something about group transformation. I had that thought of like, “I haven’t had this feeling for twelve years. I’m not about to lose it now. I got to follow this thread. I don’t care where it takes me, but I have to follow it.”
Two weeks later, I was volunteering in his retreat progressive workshop in Moscow, Russia. Four months later, I was in Dubai, and then the pandemic happened. After the pandemic, I got back and did pretty much one year nonstop. I attended a couple, and then it was volunteering nonstop. To your question about the transformations that I see in people, while I was there, it was very mind-blowing. You hear those stories of people coming in a wheelchair, and you feel like it’s science fiction, but it’s not when it’s in front of your eyes. I had a veteran coming out of a wheelchair running across the beach and my volunteer friend running behind him with crutches can’t cash out because he was running too fast.
It’s those kinds of stories like veterans healing from all sorts of things that doctors say aren’t healable. There are all sorts of measurements and healings that have been documented before and after all sorts of conditions. For me, Dr. Joe’s work is all about possibility. It is Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself. That’s one of his books, but also breaks the limits of what we think is possible, what is possible and how we heal and how can we create what we want in life.
There are three types of people that come to Dr. Joe’s work in my observation. 1) Those who want physical healing and the medical system doesn’t work. They said that there are no solutions, it’s unhealable, or whatever. They come to Dr. Joe’s work. 2) The people who want to master the process of creation, manifestation, and creating your life the way that you want. 3) People who are chasing mystical experiences. How can you have the mystical spiritual experience without the psychedelics or the drugs by tuning into your own inner chemistry in your brain? Those are the three main groups that get gravitated toward that work.
It’s about the power of the mind that can either get in your way, or it could be a powerful friend and get what you want out of life.
That brings me to NeuroChangeSolutions, and that works. NeuroChangeSolutions is Dr. Joe’s brand that he formed for focusing on creating change in the business context for teams and corporations but also works for personal change. That brand is week-long. He’s the one who leads all the workshops. In NeuroChangeSolutions, he certifies consultants in his work and the training that he has developed so we can go into organizations and teams and do workshops and retreats and deliver that to people.
One of the main concepts of our course that we teach called Changing Mind Creating Your Results is how your personality creates your personal reality. Your personality is made up of the way you think, act, and feel. The present personality sitting here called you created your present personal reality called your life. Most people are trying to create a new life without changing themselves. They’re staying the same personality and somehow expect their life to.
It does not work. You have to become someone else, somebody who thinks, acts, and feels differently that is in alignment with your vision of your future. Breaking down like that process of change on the level of neuroscience. What’s going on with your brain? What’s going on with your hormones and your feelings, how will they all be tied together? What does it take to create a new habit? What does it take to create not just mental and emotional but physiological and biological change? That’s what NeuroChangeSolutions is for. It is to equip people with an understanding of the tool of the true and deep process of change that you can then apply to any kind of change, whether it’s a corporate change, personal life change, or any of the contexts.
Trying to create a new life without changing yourself will never work. You have to become somebody who thinks, acts, and feels differently in alignment with your vision.
It gives you the tools to change and handle stress. It shifts out of survival into creation and uses the master in of your brainwaves for your benefit. How can you get to the brainwave state that allows you to change your blood system? How can you use your brain state and your heart coherence to get out of stress? All of those are very specific practical tools that people can use to shift from stress to coherence in a matter of minutes and not sit there for the whole day. That’s the power of that work.
It’s all about having that thought, “Life controlled.” At the very root is most people’s mind controls them instead of the other way around. It’s the past experiences, fears, and scars. Our natural DNA coating is in survival mode because we used to live in a cave and have predators after us. I love it. To change gears, this stuck out to me because there is a massive box I have not checked on my own list of to-dos. You like to travel. What do you feel like that experience from traveling the world? What has that brought to your life, and how has it created even further change for you?
I have always been fascinated by traveling, but when I had a job, I had two weeks of vacation a year and that was the only time I could travel. At a certain point, I read Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek, which I’m sure many of your readers read. I was like, “I like this lifestyle way better than working for the majority of the year and only having two weeks to live and travel. How do I do that?” I set the goal to create a freedom lifestyle within two years. I did that. I created enough passive income that didn’t have to even have a job. There were a few iterations on the way there. First, I created the ability to work remotely from anywhere with very little time. I came back to work and then created enough income to fully let go of my full corporate income stream.
That got me to the freedom of like, “If I don’t have to be in a physical location,” at the time was Seattle, which is a lot of rain. Seattle winters were an upgrade from Russia because, in Russia, it’s freezing cold and a lot of snow. Rain is better than snow, but at a certain point, I’m like, “What if I can live in the place that is fully the space that makes me feel happy? What is that? That’s a lot of sunshine and heat,” it isn’t Seattle. When I created my retirement, that allowed me to be whatever I want to be. I spent some time in Arizona and Mexico, and then I spent almost three years in Costa Rica.
Now I’m back in Mexico because I came back to the US and I was like, “Let me see if I can be in the US. I heard Florida is warm in the winter. Let me check out Florida.” I came to Florida. At the moment, it hit like 40 or 50, I’m like, “I can’t do this. I’m out of here.” I put the little things that I have with me in Florida in storage, landed my cart with friends, and bought a ticket and here I was. For me, the part of what Tim Ferriss talks about, which is location freedom, it’s not necessarily about traveling all the time because I’m getting to the point of feeling a bit tired of traveling.
I feel like I want to set a lot of people, “You can travel anywhere.” I was like, “I don’t want to travel right now. I want to chill and be in a place where I feel good, but I don’t want to move around. I am a little bit full of airplanes, airports, buying the ticket, and looking for Airbnbs.” I came to Mexico this time with the intention to stay here for multiple months and settle and crowd next to my favorite beach around the awesome people, the food, sunshine, and lots of kizomba dancing that I love.
For me, location freedom is the ability to choose where you want to live and how you want to live there. For some people, it’s a lot of traveling like a digital nomad like I did for some time. For some people, it is moving to a place that they prefer better. For some people, it’s a combination. For me, it’s all about what is best. How much travel do you want to have or not have? What’s the location that opens up your soul and happiness? The moment I step onto the ground of Mexico and I come out of the freezing airport terminal and I start sweating in the sunshine, I’m like, “Yes.” I know that’s what I love, but many people love the four seasons and winter. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s all about finding what works for you.
For me, I like to travel to the cold to snowboard and then leave. I’m like you. I need a beach and heat. That’s my ideal.
I want our audience to pick up on something. In my coaching, I try to hit hard on business owners that they need to create white space in their week to be working on their business with the hope that they can rise to the level of just being a business architect. You’ve got the capital funding, ideas, and so forth. You can create the lifestyle that you want for yourself. If that means living in Costa Rica and being by the beach and the warm weather all the time, you’ve created a life for yourself because you’ve done the strategic work.
Like the 4-Hour Workweek, you’re creating enough white space in there that you can investigate the dreams, continue and keep that role of being the business architect. Everything else you’re pushing to other people or creating a business model that allows you to be the architect. You’re creating all these paths like you’ve done, creating these passive income resources. I know Zach and Megan are in the middle of doing that for themselves. How difficult of a process was that for you?
It was not as hard as other people thought it would be. It started with the intention. I had no idea how. I checked. It was like, “That intention feels good.” I connected with an elevated emotion of how that would feel, and then I let go. I didn’t plan anything. I was like, “I got to figure out how to get there, but I’ll figure it out,” then I went to a bunch of workshops, learning different ways of investments, trying it on. It was an exploration journey until I landed on 1 or 2 ways that worked for me. I double down on them. For me, any journey and any kind of change all start with attention. Once you have that, the house shows up, but you have to stay in action for it and proper. That’s the journey.
I’ve talked to Andy about this. He amazes me because he is a modern-day Renaissance man, technical, and artistic, and you seem to be the same. You’ve got a large passion for dance by nature. How does creativity bring value into a person’s life? You talked about going from survival to that creative space. How does that bring that value in?
I’ve done a lot of kinds of dancing in my life from ballet, ballroom, and all sorts of stuff to salsa for twelve years for dancing. What I found in that specific dance is that to me, it’s like a walking meditation with a partner to music. The effect that kizomba dancing creates for me, which is different from salsa and all the others is it allows me to tune in very fast to the hard coherence and brain coherence. Knowing what I know with NeuroChangeSolutions, my brain waves slowdown from beta and high beta, which is stress to alpha, which is flow and creativity. My heart goes from incoherence to coherence fast by the half of the song I’m there.
It puts me in the present moment because very often, when we’re stressed, we’re in the past and the future, we’re worried about yesterday and we have anxiety about tomorrow. In dance, one of the things that put me in the present moment put me in the perfect creative brain state and heart state and also brings a lot of joy, bringing a lot of feeling of connection with the music with another human being. I can use that creativity to create other things like the webinar that I’m going to teach or the new project that I’m going to launch. For me, dance in some ways is an enjoyable path to a perfect interstate. That gives all benefits to all areas of your life.
I hope people take the time to reread it. Creativity gets you in the present moment into a flow that allows that white space for which you can then brainwave slow down, allows you to be present, to be thinking, feeling, and bring out the best in you that you are created for because otherwise, the mind gets too overactive. You worry too much about the future or the past, and all that activity is not allowing you to get into the heart space and be creative.
In order to get into that creative space for you, it’s the dance. For me, it’s music. I’m a singer and guitar player. Oftentimes, if I’m in a bad run or bad space, I get the guitar and start playing or sing along with a song or something to get the mind out of the past and be present in the moment and get into that flow, particularly if I’m about to start an activity where I need that flow to be creative and generate value in some way for the world.
You mentioned something in that phrase, and it was in your bio. I want to finish up our conversation with you on this topic. You talked about heart coherence. Your HeartMath Institute work was very interesting to me because I’ve never heard that before. Can you define what heart coherence is and how it benefits a person?
Heart coherence is a heart rhythm pattern that can be measured and seen very easily and visually. I’m going to spare you the technical details. There are differences between the heartbeat and beat-to-beat. It’s not stable. 1 second is like 1.01 and 1.08. When you look at the heart rate variability graph, the heart coherent rate variability looks like a very smooth S curve. The incoherent heart rate looks very jagged and very sharp. That thing can be measured and seen. HeartMath has spent many years studying the science of heart and heart coherence and what it does to our biology, productivity, and inner state.
What they found is that heart coherence correlates with the emotions of peace, joy, harmony, and fulfillment, and whereas heart incoherence AKA stress correlates with anger, judgment, sadness. All the emotions that are draining are on the stress site and the energy-renewed emotions, the ones that give you energy are connected with the heart coherence. Heart and brain coherence very often go together because our brain constantly monitors our hearts. When our heart goes incoherent, our brain goes incoherent. When our brain goes incoherent, the same goes for the heart. When we practice heart coherence, it also contributes to our brain coherence.
Why is that important? Because then we can think straight, focus better and produce more. It’s that inner state of harmony, comfort, and happiness in the present moment. The inner state of creativity and imagination all line up with coherence. For me, by practicing the skills and the tools of achieving coherence and sustaining coherence and reaching coherence as your baseline becomes your default, then all areas of your life and changes that you want to create flow better.
That’s what HeartMath Institute is all about. It is giving people tools to practice to get to that state, to maintain that state, and be a baseline to that state. They also have a piece of hardware technology that allows you to measure it in numbers so that you can see how coherent you are or not in real-time. You can use that device when you meditate or when you do whatever practices because then it’s objective data. We all know what gets measured gets improved. They have a combination of the ability to measure and the tools to improve it, and they have a lot of studies with a lot of amazing results to prove that it works.
I know I went through some marriage therapy where we went through exercises of breathing together in rhythm, listening to each other’s hearts and so forth, all in that effort to be in the present moment, and connect with your partner. It’s a fascinating field. Zach, time to wrap it up.
I’m giving you a warning about this in the green room. We always wrap up every episode by asking our guests the same question. There’s no right or wrong answer, but it’s your answer. We collect these and try to find overlaps and common themes. What do the words that generate your value mean to you?
There are three parts to it. 1) Generate. You have to create something. 2) It has to be yours, not a copycat or a copy paste. You have to put yourself out into the world. 3) Value. Value is in the eyes of the beholder. Things are as valuable and as useful as people will take them and use them. You can share what you think might be valuable for other people. Go create, make it your own, and share it with the world and make it as easy and accessible, understandable and so both people can apply it and get results.
Things will only be as valuable and useful as the people who actually take and use them.
She went through the same exercise I did about why I need my business, “Generate your value.” This is the exact business of, “I have to come up with a name. What kind of name am I going to come up with for the business?” Now the podcast was that exact process. Generate. It has to be your creation. It has to be yours and unique. It needs to be a value to businesses, people, or whatever to the world. Zach, any takeaways?
The theme throughout this whole conversation has been to take control of your thoughts, and creative nature, and get out of your survival mode. Go create. Go make your world happen like you want it to happen. Speak it, make it happen, and it shall be.
For the audience, we can’t thank you enough for tuning into this episode. We know your time is valuable. Hopefully, between the two of us and Galina, you took away some golden nuggets that you can incorporate in your life and business that will lead you to a life of joy, happiness, and success every single minute of every single day that you are blessed to be on this Earth. We hope you will follow.
We are on a journey to generate value in people’s lives. Be sure to check me out on Brainz Magazine or write articles on a monthly basis to help generate some value in your life. We hope you tune into that and the next episode. We’ll have another great guest like Galina that’s going to lay down some wisdom and some golden nuggets for you to use in your life.
Have a great day. Stay in the present moment. Be creative. Take your mind out of it. Slow the mind down. Don’t think about the past and the present. Think about the now in life and allow joy, happiness, and success to fill that void that you’ve created because you’re not busy thinking about the future in the past. Take care.
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ABOUT GALINA LIPINA
Galina Lipina was originally born in Russia. She moved to USA after completing her Master’s in Computer Science.
She is a project manager with 12+ years of experience in big corporations and startups. She also has a big passion for human transformation and creating the life you want. She is a certified life coach with 10+ years of experience, an international speaker and a trainer. She is a certified NeuroChangeSolutions consultant (trained and certified by Dr Joe Dispenza to deliver his work to professionals and companies) and an Heartmath Certified Trainer (HeartMath institute spent 20+ years researching the science of heart coherence and its impact on person’s health and wellbeing).
She also has a passion for dance. Having done ballet, ballroom and salsa dancing for many years, her main love of the last 10+ years is kizomba and semba dancing, which is an amazing heart centered partner dance from Angola. She traveled all over the world for kizomba dance festivals, taught and performed internationally and won 2nd place in an international semba competition in Lisbon Portugal, only having practiced with her dance partner Phillyp Chanlatte for a week prior to that.
Galina loves to travel. And after working in corporate for a while while having a life coaching business on the side,, she decided to create freedom lifestyle after reading Tim Ferris’s “4 Hour Workweek” book. She set a goal to get to $100K/year passive income so she can travel the world and spend her time coaching and working on other projects that inspire her. She set the goal to get there in 2 years, and she did. So she quit her corporate consulting, traveled the world, focused on coaching and training. She lived in Costa Rica for 3 years.
She is now combining her passion for transformation and business, and while still doing project management consulting, she also provides services in Change Management, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and neuroscience-based trainings teaching professionals, entrepreneurs and teams on how to create change effectively (personally and professionally), how to manage stress, how to move from the state of survival to the state of creation that leads to greater productivity, creativity, better communication and fulfillment.
