Marie Diamond
Appearances
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
If your home is aligned with what you think and feel and want to do in life, what is your purpose, then it's like the first place of manifestation is where you live and sleep and work and not the outside world. So the outside world won't react if your home is not aligning itself.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
yeah so if that space is clutter if that space is in chaos and if you want romance but there's only one pillow and it's just like nothing shows romance then don't be surprised in the morning when you wake up that's the program you're receiving and that you start your day with yeah So go to your workspace and like, how is my desk looking like?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yes, of course. So for people that don't know me, I'm originally from Belgium, but I live in the United States. And so since childhood on, I was very focused on how to manifest a better life. And I started meditating very early on, like at seven years old already had my first meditation practice. And I started making vision boards. at a year of nine.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Even if it's your dining room you're using, make sure there's no plates, no cutlery from breakfast around. Just organize yourself better so that your mindset will be ready and focused. Yeah. And so I just want you to walk around your house and make some notes. That's the first step I would like you to do. And definitely the second step is let go of clutter.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Let go of things that you're holding back on. If you open in the morning your closet and everything falls on you, it's quite overwhelming. So don't be surprised the rest of your day will feel overwhelming too. So everything is something that you have to be aware of is part of your alignment or misalignment with the universal energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yeah, because you're creating space, yeah? So I always say the universe, I call it the universal FedEx airplane, is ready to land you all these opportunities, but there's just no space to land them because everything is full with your past, yeah? So how can you land opportunities and possibilities for the future if there's not a letting go of the past?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And you can do that emotionally for sure, but also physically we can start doing that because that's sometimes the easiest to do And then from doing that, you will also release some of the emotions and experiences from the past. So you created space for all these wonderful things to happen in your life.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yeah, I always say to people every six months, you know, we go through everything, also a bit of family. We go to the closets and we have a specific system that I'm using that works very, very well. I call it the five bag system. So we put five bags out. One bag is what you want to keep. The second bag is what is broken, what is not working anymore. That's trash.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Third bag is I want to give that to family and friends. I have post-it notes with me and I make a picture and I send it. Hey, this is a dress. It doesn't longer is something I want. You would love that. I know you like that dress. So just immediately start sending this information. And then if they don't say yes to that within a week, you will put it for sure in the fourth bag.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
That's a goodwill bag. Yeah, so giving it back to charity. And the fifth bag is perhaps to sell things like their vintage apps right now, eBay. I mean, it's so much easier to put things in thrift stores right now, online, in person. So perhaps you can still make some money from your decluttering. So by doing that, you will see you will be very fast released 20 to 30% online.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
of the things that are in that closet because you use that system. And thousands of my students have done that system and they really feel it's so easy. Sometimes it's hard if you have to do it by yourself because you're like, oh, I got this from my aunt. Oh, this is from that part of my life.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And I would start drawing and visualizing because I was not living in a happy place. So I tried to really find ways to manifest what people do now. I started quite on myself quite early. And it's only really when I was 15 that something major shifted. So I had a near-death experience. I was run over by a truck, declared dead.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So get yourself a declutter buddy if you want to, or stay very disciplined and ask yourself, will I use that in the next year? Because it's possible that, you know, it brings you joy, but will you use it? I'm very practical, right? And if you really feel it's something that you want to keep because it gives you a great memory, create what I call a treasure box.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So both me, my husband, my kids, they have a treasure box. Yeah. So we put things in there over the years. Like there's like a part of, you know, when they were toddlers or children or, you know, certain times of their life, they lived in a certain place. Like, oh, I want to keep that picture from my friends. I want to keep that little gadget.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So we have a treasure box and that you can keep, but don't make it like a treasure box as big as your home. Right. Yeah.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So the first thing is always to sit in what we call a power position. So, for example, what Vishen also had, he was sitting with his back to the door. So wherever you are working, you need to see, first of all, the main door of that home. of that space. So I'm sitting here, there's nobody here physically, you are here online and all the listeners, but I see the door.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So if somebody comes in, I can spot without moving my head, I can see the people coming in. then you're sitting in what we call a queen or king position. So the king or the queen would never sit with their back to the door. So if you sit with your back to the door, you're actually closing yourself off from all the possibilities that are there.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And you're tapping more into the negative energy of fear. So because then your focus will be towards the back of your head, you will think more about the past. You will think more about fear. You will not be focusing so much on solutions, but rather on problems. When you are able to see the people coming in, you're focusing on the front. That's a frontal cortex, and that is creative energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
That's optimistic. You will also think more about the future and about solutions. So just changing that around is already a first thing you can do. Avoid facing a wall, like literally putting your desk against a wall. You're literally hitting an energetic wall, a financial wall. It's like nobody can sit on the other side. How can you attract clients?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So I have a chair on the other side of my desk symbolizing the energy of a client that is there. Yeah. My public is there. I can talk to them. Right. So I would not sit against the window either because you can say, well, I can see the view and said, yeah, but people don't come through windows and people that come through windows mostly don't have good intentions. Yeah.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So and then you're sitting again with your back to the door. So you position yourself. You can see the door and the window if that's better.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And when I was on the other side, I was given the message that I had to go back to enlighten more than 500 million people. I had no idea what that meant when I woke up. It was probably about making a difference in life or something, right? So I started working in the community and for the church, like really contributing to humanity and whatever small way I could do.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
The second very important thing is that your directional energy and how you tap into your flow is connected with your birthday. And so in the book, Your Home is a Vision Board, also in the online course, we talk about that you can get your directions right. So you can download the free Married Diamond app.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
You just put Married Diamond in into the Google or the App Store and you can download the app. And the app will ask you to put in your birthday and your birth gender. And then you will get a calculation. It's not typical numerology. It's a more... intense mathematical formula. And then you will get four directions that are good for you. Why are these directions important?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Because this is where the wind comes from. So the chi, the energy flows into your life from four good directions. There's one for success and money. There's one for health and well-being. One for relationship and one for your inspiration and your wisdom. So if people want to activate success, career, money, then they will need to download the app and they will get their own compass.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And so they will hold the compass, the diamond compass in the center of their space. And then they have to look what is in their success direction. So right now in my success direction, you can't see it because it's behind me. I have there my awards. I have there my books. I have there symbols of success.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
For example, I have a little golden chrome, not that I can put on my head, but just as a symbol, you know, I am very successful. So whatever works with you personally that you feel that could be great. It could be books from other people. It could be magazines you want to be in.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
I just was with one of my high end clients that he had put Forbes magazine in his success direction for a couple of years, and he just got asked to be on the cover of Forbes magazine. So he's like, Marie, it's working in my Forbes magazine. And I said, well, it's actually also working for me because I'm getting very soon an article in Forbes magazine.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And that's actually when I started connecting with the word feng shui. My master, spiritual master, I already had met at that time. I asked him, what did I do wrong to attract all this bad luck? And he said, oh Marie, you have bad feng shui. And I'm like, what's that? You know, you have to think back. I'm born in Belgium, Catholic family, no idea of any Chinese culture at that point.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So it's just like you put things there and it activates your energy flow. So you have to think of the energy comes in from a certain direction. I don't know what's yours. Heather, do you know?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yeah, look at the app and you'll see a number.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So your success direction is Northwest, yeah? So Northwest stands for the advisor. So you love advising people, yeah? And you love working globally. It's a very important, travel is one of your major, I would say favorite things in life, right? So what you would hold, you hold your compass and see what is in my success direction.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
In your case, it could be awards, certificates, a logo of your podcast, anything that you feel could represent that for you. Right. And then people also have a relationship direction.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So in my relationship direction was like in that corner over there, I have images there with some of my clients have an image of vision and means still I have, for example, Mindvalley there because the whole Mindvalley community, I have a globe there because I have students in more than 190 countries. So how can I represent them? So you put things out there that represents
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
what you want to manifest in life. If you have a vision board or a journal or a life book, put it in your success direction. Because even if you're not writing in it, it still keeps working with the right flow for you. So based on that, you activate your area and if you can, it's not always possible, try to look when you're awake towards one of your good directions and seeing the door.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So right now I'm facing my wisdom direction. I love doing that because I'm teaching right now. So wisdom is all about sharing your knowledge. Yeah. But for example, when I do workout, I love to face my health direction because then my chi, my energy is stronger when I face my health direction.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
But when I'm having like a conversation with my husband, you know, I would love to face my relationship direction. And actually what I've done is my bed is pointed towards my health direction. I still see the door. It's not always possible, but we try as much as we can. And, you know, we are 34 years together, so it definitely works.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yes, correct. Now, of course, your partner can have a different number and a different flow of chi. So, for example, my husband doesn't have an office anymore. He is retired. So the family room is really where he spends the most time. Yeah. So that's like where he make his phone calls, where he's gathering, you know, sitting, watching television, like that's like his place.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So I made sure that place was activated for him. I focus on my office and for my bedroom, we focus on both of us. So I make sure there's a picture of him and me in his relationship direction is a picture of him and me in my relationship direction. That is different. Yeah. So you can always activate other people's numbers. And then you try to, you know, combine things like above my headboard.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
We look for an image that we both like. Yeah. So we both love birds. So I put out an image of lovebirds. Yeah. So it's just you play with that. It's being creative. But the first is the no-no's. Remove the no-no's. The decluttering, the single images. looking at your success direction like, oh, I have there the garbage can. I mean, what are you telling the universe?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Everything goes into the garbage. I've had a very successful celebrity and he had in his success direction in his new house, He had the helmet of like a fake helmet, of course, of Darth Vader from Star Wars. And I said to him, do you play Star Wars? I mean, do you make music for Star Wars? I don't know. But he said, no, no, I just I love that. And I said, well, you're not Darth Vader anymore.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And so he told me that I had to move into another place, another bedroom and change the colors, what I did. And my life just turned around. I mean, literally from being lonely, bullied at school, having a very hard time with my health. I started really improving everything and had my first love, like all these great changes happened. And so I was like, oh, there's something to that environment.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So let's put there, you know, your wall of fame, like all your golden records, platinum records. Let's make that. And all the, you know, when you perform for major festivals, let's put pictures up there. Let's show what you want, you know, put your Grammys there, right? All your awards, put them there. And so, yeah. it totally shifted for him.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And so his career just, everybody thought his career was kind of down and his career is now bigger than ever.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
You have to just start thinking about what is it, what are my goals? What's my vision for my success? What's my vision for that? And then place things that your subconscious mind is getting nurtured by your environment, right?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So I would always suggest visuals because most people are very visual focused, right? So in that case, that man could paint it himself, right? Not everybody is so talented. So make sure that you get a picture. But it could be even like getting an image of two hearts, for example. You know, literally, I made that with ChatGDP, right? So I just put in two pink hearts that are connecting, right?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And it just came up with a picture. Or somebody else said, I want two golden hearts. So I just went to ChatGDP and created two golden hearts, right? So it's just like you can put pictures of people you know, but you never 100% know who is and how is that relationship, right? Yeah. So, for example, somebody put an image up of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
I mean, this is many years ago before they divorced. And I said, I'm not sure if that's a good relationship. Perhaps not do that one. Right. And ultimately it was shown that this was not great. Yeah. So it's better to put images of people you don't know that are more like out of a magazine or to work with the word love or two hearts are always very strong or Images even of like two lovebirds.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
But be careful when you put animals out. Like I had somebody in there put two tigers out above their headboard. And I said, if you check out the love life of a tiger, they only come together to mate and then they separate again. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And I started creating literally images around me. Like I was painting. I was painting friends. I was like creating what I call your home is a vision board, like three dimensionally, not just writing down what I wanted, but like creating a space of what I wanted to manifest.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
You know, moving forward with that, I became first a lawyer and I started teaching, you know, meditation when it was about 30 years old to my clients that I had as a lawyer. And so that's when I started really practicing more intensely feng shui. I went to Malaysia, got accepted by a grandmaster as a student. And so I started implementing that to all my high-end clients.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
I already had a lot of politicians, captains of industry that were working with me already at that time as a coach, a life coach in a way. And so I started adding that to that. And they started having all these amazing results, like results beyond what I've ever experienced. experience and I start teaching that also feng shui.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And by practicing that, I became very clear I had to leave Belgium because Belgium was just too small, you know, only 10 million people. And so this is before Internet. So I moved to the United States. And that is where I really, really got into. I have to create my office really as a three dimensional vision board. So I made my vision board. I put it in my success direction. We're back on that.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So I have an NFL player. And so last year in the summer, he didn't have a contract. And so people thought like he was like, yeah, given up, like he was too old. And so he said, I really want to do another couple of seasons. I feel I'm so fit, but nobody was calling him. So I took all his symbols of success. He already won two Super Bowls. I put all the symbols and I
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
which teams he wanted to connect with, I put that in his success rection. So we create like a success wall of everything he had accomplished and everything he still wanted to accomplish. We put it there. We put the right colors for him. That was royal blue because that's one of his colors. We put all these colors out.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
A week later, one of the teams he really wanted to be part of reached out and said, we would like to hire you. So he got his first season, he just did not get to the Super Bowl, like he lost like the half final. And now he said like, okay, I really believe this. I'm setting up my whole apartment perfectly correct. Of course, I train him mentally to make sure he's always in a positive sense.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Everything is perfectly in place because he was like, my God, it really worked. He tripled his contract. He just got at 33 years of what is huge and considered quite old for the NFL. And he just messaged me. He was chosen player of the month. Yeah, because he is like everyone is talking about how at his age he's on the number one list of the most scores.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So, and people are like, what is his juice? Right? So, well, his juice is literally, and it doesn't matter if they're spiritual or not, this works for everyone. Yeah. But it can be also somebody that just called me and said, you know, Marie, it feels like everything goes wrong in my life. And I'm like, okay. I checked their home. Of course I do consulting done for them.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And I said, well, you come into the house. the first thing i see is all images of water like still water like nothing is moving right and i come in the first thing is all clutter and i said what is that telling you each time you open the door that's what goes to your subconscious mind like calmness nothing is happening as i take these images out You know, put images of your family.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
She said, yeah, my family is never calling me. They're always, you know, upset with me. I said, let's put happy pictures of your family up there when you come in. Let's set the sofas up because it was like one chair in that space. Let's set some sofas up. So there's multiple people come in. decluttered area. And she's like, Marie, it's been miraculous.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
It's like suddenly they start calling me out of the blue, like, when can we visit? We haven't seen you for a while. Right. And she's like, I thought it was me. I said, no, it's not always you. It's your home telling the wrong story. And you accepting it. Yeah. And when you change, sometimes you cannot change what's in your mind.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
But if you change your home, your mind start adapting to the new program. And then the universe reacts.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
I put a fake Oscar statue out with my name on it, Marie Diamond. I put on my vision board. A little post-it note, I'm going to be in a movie seen by millions of people that will transform the world.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So when you come in and the flow goes right away out to the back, the wall, the window and out into the water. So the first thing you always want to slow down the energy. So when you come in, put as you walk in a carpet that's like brown, beige or orange.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
earth energy to calm the energy down and then what you would do is even if you have glass there put some beautiful plants in front of it or put a sofa that kind of blocks that energy so that literally you're slowing down the energy and you have like a coffee table there put a beautiful orchid on it so your eyes don't go directly out Yeah. So you come in and it's like a staircase, for example.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Some people have that and say that where you want your energy, your focus to get away from the staircase because the energy goes up or if it's a window, energy goes out. So put something colorful at your entrance or a plan. So something that your eyes naturally go towards.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So it doesn't go out all the time because the way you have it right now is that money will come in, but money will go out as fast as possible. Yeah. So you need to slow down the energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Well, it's on Amazon, of course. And in all good bookstores, it is available.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Thank you so much, Heather. And thank you for doing this wonderful work and sharing all these great people and their tools and wisdom with the world. Thank you for that too.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And before I knew it, the first thing that happened is I started attracting transformational authors like Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, Marianne Williamson, John Gray, that all felt they were like stuck in their expansion of their business.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
of their impact and I became their mentor and I started working with them on spiritual level, energetic level and adding Feng Shui to the whole basket of tools I had. And so, you know, before I knew it, I was accepted by the Transformation Leadership Council. who is a mastermind group organized by Jack Canfield. And that's where the film The Secret was filmed.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And that actually was my first ever interview I've done in front of camera. So I was never interviewed before. And so I was, you know, in magazines here and there, but never like interviewed on camera. about my work. And yeah, The Secret went on to become a movie that has impacted more than 500 million people.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And so I was the only European part of it, a total unknown because all the other people very known. I was a total unknown, but I got following the flow. I got into it. And then also having this Oscar out, I started having Oscar winning clients. Yeah. One after another. And they just found me, you know, they're just like mouth of word, you know, just moving forward into that flow.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And of course, part of that is also I became one of the teachers in Mindvalley. And that was also on my vision board, by the way. And I put a picture of vision and me on my vision board and wrote down on it. I'm ready to be a teacher and speaker for Mindvalley. And so last year I was actually elected the number one speaker for the Mindvalley platform.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yeah. So one of the things I want to suggest and to understand is that something my grandmaster in Feng Shui and Feng Shui is an energy system that we can compare like with acupuncture, right? But acupuncture is on the body, right? And you activate certain spots on the body. So your energy and your health is improving. Feng Shui is using the same system as acupuncture.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
energy systems of putting activations in your home, colors, images, the way you position yourself to tap into the flow, to tap into the energy field. So it is a quantum physics experience of the environment. But my grandmaster really made it very clear the first time I met him. He said there are three parts to manifestation. The first part, he said, is our spiritual aspect.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
That is when we are born already, we are receiving already some talents when you're born. Like you have like a spiritual package, your name, your identity, where you're born, who you're born with, the culture, but also your talents and some challenges sometimes in the beginning. We would call that the destiny or karma. But he said also your connection with God and how you express yourself
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
your connection through prayers, through rituals, through meditation is part of your manifestation. The part you can address daily. But are you able to change your spiritual luck? Sometimes, yes. Like if you're born somewhere, like was born in Belgium and decide to live in the United States. Well, I changed my luck there, right?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
If I would have stayed in Belgium, probably I would never have been able to use my talents in such a big way yeah still i would have been successful but smaller the second part is what we call the human part and that is what the self-help is really focusing on so using your mindsets using your behavior your actions so the thing we can really impact from our own human self Yeah.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So if we think positive, if we feel better about ourselves, if we take actions daily, I mean, it requires a lot of discipline. But to be honest, for some people, they feel like they're hitting the ceiling with doing that. Yeah. Because or they don't have the discipline or they don't have the right frequencies in their mindset or in their behavior.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And so a lot of people say, well, manifestation is not working for me because or they're focusing on the first part or the second part or both parts, but they're missing out on one last big part. And that's your environment. And your environment is the location where you are, but also how does your location look like?
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And that is what in the Chinese tradition for thousands of years, they knew that was as important as your mindset, as your connection with God. So each part is divided in like one third of your good luck. So that is, for example, what Vishen Lakhiani experienced himself. When I met him, I explained that last part and he was like quite reluctant towards it. He was like, yeah, how can...
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Changing my desk can make me more successful. It's kind of strange in a way, right? And so at that time, and he expressed himself, he was about $700,000 in debt. And he was like, we're going to close Mindvalley, right? And so he reminded him of the little app I had at that time.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
that explained how he had to change his death direction towards his success energy and so he did that and the next month he made $800,000. So they had like $100,000 left. And from that moment on, it stayed growing. And now they're a multimillion dollar brand. And he was not like, oh, I'm not sure if that really works, if that's just coincidence.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So he, at that time, his wife at that moment, she was also struggling with her company. So he did the same thing. He changed just the direction of the desk of his then wife. And so she, same thing happened. They just went up with so much percentage. And they were like, he said, wow, there's something to this. And that's how I ended up having the course of Feng Shui for Life on Mindvalley.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
But since then, of course, anything that Mindvalley does, any place that vision stays, it's always Feng Shui by me.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Yeah, it is literally because you are in the flow of the energy field. We see the change within nine days. Yeah. So within nine days, something positive starts happening or within nine weeks, it's like nine days to nine weeks, depending how much clutter there was. So if people have a lot of clutter around them, that will stop the flow of energy.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Thank you so much, Heather. I'm super happy to be with you and all your listeners and viewers.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So one of the things I always say to people, OK, I can direct you in the right direction, but you need to clean up. You need to organize the energy around you. And so the more you activate, the faster it goes. But I've seen people overnight getting promotions, getting job offers, checks in the mail. And you see it in one of my shows, the first episode of my Feng Shui Your Life TV show.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Where this lady who has been really struggling, single mom, four children financially, that literally within a week she got a check for $4,000 out of the blue, a tax rebate. She got paid better within a month. So what happens is that most people have done already a lot of inner work. Yeah. And so they have already improved all this mindset and their behavior and they have taken actions.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
But if your home is telling a different story than you, if your home as a vision board is giving you wrong messages. Now, who will win? I always say, well, the home will win because it's stronger, it's bigger and it's the images and what you have placed there is nonstop happening.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
While if you think about some positive energy or do affirmation, do it five minutes, ten minutes, a half hour, I don't know how long, but it's only a fraction of a time. But if your home is aligned with what you think and feel and want to do in life, what is your purpose, then it's like... the first place of manifestation is where you live and sleep and work and not the outside world.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
So the outside world won't react if your home is not aligning itself with you.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
Well, the first thing, I want you to become aware of your home, right? I want you to walk through your home like you would be God. You would be like the universe, or you would be like somebody visiting your house. Like, what do they see? Like, let's say you want to have romance, but everywhere where you go are images of single women or single men.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
You actually have given yourself the subconscious program because it's all subconscious level of, okay, it's all right to be single, right? Like I was talking to somebody also on a podcast and she was like, oh my God, I have just hanged above my headboard an image of a nude woman because I thought it would be sexy. I said, yeah, but you've been telling yourself It's okay to be by myself. Yeah.
Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Your Home Is Your Vision Board–Transform Your Space and Transform Your Life with World-Renowned Feng Shui Master, Marie Diamond
And I just will love myself. Yeah. So just think about that. So I want you to be aware and walk around and make notes of where is their clutter. Okay. Make a deal with yourself. I'm going to release that clutter. I'm going to organize this area, this area. First of all, check out always your bedroom because your bedroom is where your energy starts every morning.