Samantha Lynn Peters
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Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
The knowledge that they know and for them to get where they are, it's just, it's incredible. And so I seek mentors all the time. I know that you're also mentoring us too. And I mentioned this previously, but you need to find someone who's been where you are and who has what you want.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And I think it's really important because mentors need to know the struggles that you've gone through and really understand it on a deep level. And I find a lot of times people can't go as deep with anyone else as they've been with themselves. So I think a lot of mentors that I look up to that I seek have done the inner work. They've came through so many challenges and struggles and adversities.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And that's what I really look for in a mentor when I'm seeking them out.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And Tony Robbin says this a lot too. He said, great mentors compress decades of learning into days for you. So like you mentioned, if you want to learn a specific skill set, go to that expert in that. And that's going to expedite your process and what you're doing so much faster.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And it's either you're taking the time to learn it or you're paying money to learn that skill a lot faster, which is going to help give you momentum in whatever you're doing. So I couldn't agree more with what you said.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, that's a great question. It's honestly transformed my life. I didn't have any external mentors growing up. I grew up in a really toxic environment. So I got into personal development at a really early age. And I'm sure all of you have heard that you are the five people you surround yourself with. So I'm like, I need to get in rooms with people who think bigger than me.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
So we talked a lot about different mentors. I wanted to provide my audience with the people, the guests, the tools, the skills that helped them become successful. And I wanted to provide that knowledge to our audience base. And so I think a lot of it is giving back what I've learned and the connections I make and the relationships that I've cultivated. And I
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I know some really amazing people, so it's great to be able to interview them and then have them share their wisdom. And my hope is that my audience can listen to the podcast and take an actionable step towards making their life become better. And then I also think it has to do with I was always terrified of public speaking growing up.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And I know that in order to overcome anything, you have to put yourself through it. So... This was also something that wasn't easy for me. And the more that you practice, the more that you interview people or interview, it's going to build up that muscle and that confidence. So I would definitely say those are the two main reasons why we started our podcast today.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
So many things I've been invited to. We were just talking before we recorded the podcast. I was invited to Trent Shelton's birthday because I had him as a guest on my podcast. I was invited to Secret Knock where I got to meet so many incredible people. And so you never know what opportunities can come from
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
opening up putting yourself out there and starting something and I know that if I've never started this it would have been constantly on my mind and I don't want to go through life thinking what if what if I started that what would happen so It's just been amazing. The people that I'm able to meet in the relationships, I think is the biggest piece that I was able to cultivate.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And I mean, everyone we brought on is just so smart in their different ways. And it's just fascinating to be able to connect with everyone.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, so we published it a few weeks ago. It's my second e-book. It's called Creating Happiness from Within. So Alexa and I published it together. And I think a lot of it was realizing that people seek happiness outside of themselves. And I think that's a lot of times what society teaches us.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
you know, that promotion, that bonus, that car, the watches, all of these things that are fleeting in the moment, but don't actually give you self-fulfillment because then you're always looking for something else. And so I find a lot of times our guests are truly happy within. And so it's taking the knowledge that they taught us and sharing it. And so it was a great journey writing that with her.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I love that question. So I think the biggest thing for me was picking up a meditation routine because a lot of times I feel like people are so focused on the past or the present and meditation puts you in the present moment and it makes you feel grateful for what you have. And so I combine that meditation with my gratitude practice because meditation
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
people who want to see me succeed, people who, and one of my coaches always tells me this, is like, you want to learn from people who have what you want, but more importantly, who have been where you are. And I find all of these networking events, a lot of people have been through so much adversity. They've been through so many different challenges, but they were able to overcome them.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
How can you expect God in the universe to give you more when you're not even thankful for what you do have? And so that has been pivotal in my life. I actually created and published a journal. It's called The Dream Bigger Journal. And so every single day I'm writing down at least three things I'm grateful for. And it starts your day on such a positive note. And when you're in gratitude...
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
your vibrational frequency is raised tremendously and you start attracting more positive things in your life. So I would definitely say that. And then another thing that has helped me is keeping the promises I made to myself. If I say I'm going to wake up and go to the gym at 6 a.m., I am showing up for myself because I It's a reflection outside of you, too.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
If you have that self-trust from within, other people are going to start trusting you. And that's a really good feeling because you're creating that from within and not seeking anything externally.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
So I do a lot of intermittent fasting. So I typically will skip breakfast and I juice right away. So I always juice celery juice in the morning, about 16 ounces. That flushes out your liver. I know a lot of people don't like celery. Already lost me.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
But it gives you so much mental clarity. And so I eat a lot of salads. I like to meal prep quite a bit too. So I don't do anything farm raised. It's always wild caught salmon, vegetables, anything you could think of, sauteed vegetables, organic chicken. I won't eat anything that's not organic. So vegetables, fruits, anything like that. That's what I'm eating for lunch and dinner.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I'm also – I like to do a lot of heavy metal detox as well. It just gives me so much more mental clarity. And so it has a lot of wild blueberries, an organic banana, spirulina powder, Atlantic Dulce, which is actually seaweed from the ocean, and then an orange as well in there. And so I find that I feel incredible after I do take that smoothie. So that would be my regimen. Yeah.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I would say for the grocery store, I like things fresh. So I like to actually go to the grocery store and pick out what my produce looks like, my vegetables, my fruits. So I probably spend about $100 a week on just on myself for groceries.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
What if you mix it with something? It might taste a little better.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And it's just really inspiring learning from all these people and getting to connect with them. So it's absolutely transformed my life.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I love anything with potatoes. So I do like truffle french fries and I'm a huge chocolate lover. So anything with chocolate, guaranteed, if it's in front of me, I'm eating it.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yes, I used to be a gymnast growing up.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I love gymnastics, yes. And now I don't practice gymnastics, but I love doing hot vinyasa yoga because it allows for deep stretching, very similar poses to gymnastics as well. And it just cleanses my body too, doing the hot power yoga.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Rural town. Absolutely. I love visiting the city and I like the hustle and bustle for maybe one or two days, but I love serene and feeling peaceful and driving through the mountains and just seeing forest and greenery all around. Yes.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Ooh, this is a hard one. We've had a lot of amazing ones. Obviously you were incredible. I can't wait for your episode to launch. Has it launched yet? But I would say Garen Jones. I don't know if you've ever heard of him, but his story is absolutely incredible. He was able to change his life around and he's such an incredible husband and father. And I love the impact that he's making on the world.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I would say he would probably be my favorite interviewer.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Ed Milet. I love him. I was actually on his TV show, but every single time I hear him speak, he just resonates with me on such a deep level. And I always end up tearing up and I always learn a tremendous amount from him. So I would definitely say him. And I love Jeannie Kern Lima. I mean, her story of resilience and what she went through is just incredible.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
So I would say those would be my two top. But then I would also include Joe Dispenza as well. He's just incredible the way he thinks and his outlook and perspective on life.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah. So like I mentioned, we just launched our ebook. We just launched our website. So we started off the light up your life podcast as just doing that, but we're expanding it into a brand and we're also starting weekly accountability meetings. So we're doing a women's empowerment group. So we're kicking that off really soon, which we're happy about. I feel like that's definitely the next step.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And we want to make a huge difference in the world. So that's definitely going to be an avenue for us to be able to do so.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
You can find me on Instagram. It's my full name. It's Samantha Lynn Peters. And then our website is lightupyourlife.org.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, so I grew up in a really toxic upbringing. My father is an alcoholic. He was heavy into Oxycontin, so that completely destroys your frontal lobe and your decision-making factors. And I find before I felt like I was a victim to my circumstance, but I really realized and I did so much inner work to realize that he's hurting so much inside and hurt people hurt people.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And so I looked at it from a different lens. And I looked at him as a little boy being hurt by his parents and being abused and growing up in that environment. And unfortunately, he projected all of his pain, all of his insecurities on his children. And obviously, I got the brunt of it.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And it was just really hard because your father is supposed to be the one person that shows up for you, that loves you, that nurtures you, where you can build that safe trust. And I didn't have have that. So I grew up putting a lot of guards in front of me and trying to protect my own peace and happiness. And I think the hardest part for me was understanding, like, why doesn't my father love me?
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And I grew up thinking that, but it's because he doesn't love himself. And so how can you love someone when you don't truly feel at peace with who you are, what you've been and worked through all of that? So It was really hard to go through those things. And I still honestly don't have a good relationship with him.
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But I feel like it's really made me dig deep to understand the psychology behind the way he is. And now I can show up and pray for him and give him compassion and love. But know that I don't have to live that way. I don't have to be defined by my circumstances and what I went through. And I can completely change the trajectory of my life.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, that's an amazing question. And I feel like I had so much shame around my house and where I grew up. My parents both smoked and I cannot stand cigarettes to this day. And my father and my mother are, they like to hoard things. So I would always be the one cleaning up the house and trying to make it look amazing if I had anyone over. But
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
To be honest, I've never even had this conversation with anyone. But I would always go to my friend's house. I would always make some excuse. We would always go over there. I was very embarrassed to go to have anyone come over. And it's still hard for me going to my parents' house, seeing the way that they live. And it's really sad. But again, it gives me a lot of compassion.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And I find myself, too, in my adulthood, because a lot of the generational traumas that you go through— there's trauma responses that you have to work through. And I realized that I'm bringing that into my adulthood. So, I mean, I love my place. It looks beautiful, but I still find myself going to other people's houses because that's how I grew up.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I'm amazing. Thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure.
Mick Unplugged
Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And yeah, I would say I had a lot of shame around that. And it was always going over other people's places.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, I think one of my mentors, Ed Milad, he talks about being the one in your family to break all of generational curses. And I know this goes into my because as well, but I wanted to be the complete opposite of how I grew up. I mean, I wanted to be the complete opposite of alcohol and drugs and that scarcity, that victim mindset, the disease. So
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I feed my body with the things that I need to feed my body with. I seek outside mentors who have what I want, and it's been hard. I think the hardest part for me was analyzing my thoughts and knowing that you create your own reality. I think it's a hard perspective because society doesn't teach that your thoughts precede what happens in your external circumstances and not the other way around.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
A lot of people react to their environment and what they're seeing, not realizing that your thoughts create that. And so for me, it was really realizing and stopping all of those negative thought patterns and rewiring my brain to think in a more positive way, saying that...
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Just because I didn't have this as a child doesn't mean I can't have the abundance, the success, the wealth, the happiness as an adult. So it was a really huge mindset shift to analyze all my subconscious thought patterns and to rewire them to think in abundance and happiness and joy.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, I've thought a lot about this and it goes back to what I previously said, but I'm going to be and I am the person that's breaking through all of these generational curses because when I grow up and have a family of my own, I never want them to have to go through what I went through, the pain and the suffering and the abuse and the neglect and just the negativity.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
And so I am that person that's changing it for future generations and But I think deeper than that, too, it's showing people what's possible. You don't have to be defined by your circumstances. You can rise above. And there's people that want to see you in. There's people that are going to show up for you. And I find a lot of times it's not even your direct family.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I know. It's been amazing being in contact with you. And I find going to these events, you never know who you can meet. You never know what relationship you can cultivate. So it's been awesome.
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It's strangers and people that you don't even know that really do want to help you. So now it's just sharing my story and empowering other people to uplift them and to know that they can do it as well.
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It became a passion when I actually started network marketing and I grew my team to be pretty large. And then I started doing individual one-on-one sessions with all of the girls on my team. And I really got to know their stories. I got to know their why or their because. And it really helped. And I grew up, I have my master's degree in educational leadership.
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And I used to be a teacher for over 10 years. So I think it's just that nurturing in me and wanting to help people get better. And so it really developed, I would say, network marketing. And it made me have the confidence and the belief in myself that I can help other women. And I don't have to be defined by the past.
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So that's where it really stemmed from when I started my business network marketing about five years ago.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I think it comes down to, I actually had this conversation earlier in our meeting, emotional intelligence and being able to regulate your emotional state. I find so many people let outside circumstances and validation and what people think about them and what people say about them define their character and who they are. But
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You have to realize that you have complete control over your emotional state. And you can say, am I going to let that define me? Am I going to let that upset me? Or am I going to rise above it? And not have to take that into account and hold firm to your values and who you are. And I don't want anyone to be able to bring me down or make me feel upset because I hold that power to resist that.
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So I really do feel like it comes. You don't want your highs to get too high and your lows to get too low. You want to have that even keel because I actually watched a video about this. If you're a leader and people are looking up to you, your emotional state is, they're called neuro neurons. So they're feeling that energy too. And they start to cultivate that from within. So
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I think that is one of the most important things in leadership. And I think a lot of people are failing with that today. I do see that a lot.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
No parasite cleanse for you, Mick?
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
Yeah, so growing up, I remember I was in second grade. My mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and I saw her hooked up to all these IVs, and it became really hard for her to walk. She ended up going on Social Security disability. She no longer works to this day, and she had cancer once. congestive heart failure. My father has a bunch of other disabilities as well.
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So I saw that growing up and I firmly believe that your environment does shape your thoughts and your thoughts. When you're thinking negatively, that is putting cortisol in your body and it's running through you. And it's toxic. It's acidic. So I had to really do a lot of work in wellness and know that what you put in your body, you become.
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And so if you're constantly eating sugar or carbs or things that are really unhealthy and processed, you're going to feel horrible. I don't know about you, but I eat something and I realize, okay, is this giving me energy? Or is this making you feel sluggish? And do I have brain fog from it? So if you want optimal performance,
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performance you need to be eating things that are very healthy for you and I think just growing up and seeing the disease in my family and my grandmother passing away from Alzheimer's I'm doing everything in my power to figure out ways to anti-age figure out ways to just optimize my health and wellness and so it's been a big part of my journey wow
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
I think it's always been a part of me. I've always been so fascinated about life and people and different things. And so when I find a topic I'm fascinated about, I do so much research and I'm constantly reading. I'm constantly listening to podcasts and getting mentored. So I don't know. I think life is so exciting. And when I find something that interests me, I like to dive in more to it.
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So I have a lot of passions, I would say.
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Breaking Generational Curses with Samantha Lynn Peters
It's been everything. I mean, I think the most valuable asset is yourself and investing in you. I know a lot of people take their money and invest it in cars and outside circumstances and things. But ultimately, you bring yourself everywhere you go. So I'm constantly seeking mentors to help me what I went through and to understand that, like I mentioned before, it doesn't have to define me. And