Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs
with Suzanne Longstreet
Ready to shatter the mental barriers holding you back? This enlightening episode features Suzanne Longstreet, a mental fitness coach who transforms the lives of female entrepreneurs by helping them break free from limiting beliefs. Suzanne uses a blend of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), hypnosis, and other powerful techniques to rewire minds for success. If you've been feeling stuck, this discussion will provide the insights and tools needed to overcome those deep-seated blocks and catapult your business to new heights.
Key Takeaways:
Identifying Root Problems: Suzanne dives deep into the common root issues that hold many back, such as feelings of unworthiness or powerlessness.
Techniques for Transformation: Learn about the specific strategies Suzanne uses to help her clients achieve profound changes in their professional and personal lives.
Real Results: Discover the real-world impact of Suzanne's coaching through stories of women who've moved from six to seven-figure incomes by shifting their mindset.
Why Listen: If you're ready to move beyond the plateau and unlock your full potential, Suzanne's expertise could be the key to your next big breakthrough. Tune in to learn how to reshape your mindset and achieve the success you deserve.
About Suzanne Longstreet
Over the past decade, Suzanne Longstreet has coached six-figure, action oriented female entrepreneurs to blast though their limiting thought patterns, rewire their minds for success and achieve seven-figure revenues annually.
Through her coaching work, Suzanne has empowered many women to break through their own glass ceilings and unlock their full potential. Using a combination of powerful techniques, including Neurolinguistic Programming, Hypnosis, Positive Intelligence, Quantum Linguistics, Timeline Therapy TM and Neuroscience, Suzanne guides clients to reprogram their unconscious minds and overcome the limiting beliefs and negative patterns that hold them back.
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About Aleya Harris
Aleya Harris is the spark for your spark™. A trailblazer in purpose-driven story crafting, she is a marketing executive and ex-Google Vendor Partner who brings her dynamic experience to her role as the CEO of The Evolution Collective Inc. Aleya is an international award-winning speaker, the founder and lead trainer of Spark the Stage ™, and the host of the award-winning Flourishing Entrepreneur Podcast. She is also the author of the upcoming book Spark the Stage: Master the Art of Professional Speaking and Authentic Storytelling to Captivate, Inspire, and Transform Your Audience. Her unique approach as a Strategic Storytelling Consultant has revolutionized the way businesses communicate, transforming workplace cultures and market positioning. With her dynamic energy and proven methodologies, Aleya guides clients to unlock their potential, articulate their radically authentic stories, and achieve unparalleled success.
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[00:01] Aleya Harris: Are you tired of telling that story? You know the one I'm talking about, the hurtful one, the painful one, the one that keeps you from your potential? Are you tired of being frustrated because you are doing all of the things, or at least you think you are, and you just can't seem to get ahead? You have reached a ceiling. You have reached a plateau. Or maybe even the plateau looks real good for you because you are on the ground and you would love to plateau. Well, this episode is the one for you because we are speaking with Suzanne Longstreet, who is a mental fitness coach. She is a coach that has coached six figure business owners to become seven figure business owners as she teaches them to blast through their limiting thought patterns, rewire their minds for success, and achieve again, seven figure revenues annually. Through her coaching work, Suzanne has empowered many women to break through their own glass ceilings, bust through those plateaus and unlock their full potential using a combination of powerful techniques like neuro linguistic programming, or you might know it as nlp, hypnosis, positive intelligence, quantum linguistics, timeline therapy, and neuroscience. Suzette plan guides clients to reprogram their unconscious minds and overcome the limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns that hold them back. This episode was really transformative for me. And no, I do not say that in front of every episode. And if you've been listening, you know that that is true. This one got me in my gut and got me in the place where I know that I need to work with Suzanne. In fact, after we finished recording, I asked her to sign me a contract because she is that powerful and it was an instant connection with what she's offering and my goals. And I hope that you get to feel that same connection. All right, let's go.
[02:09] Yuliya Patsay: Welcome to the Flourishing Entrepreneur podcast with Aleya Harris. If you're looking for actionable ways to overcome communication and differentiation challenges by sharing radically authentic stories, you are in the right place. Listen in and learn how to stand in the power of your unique narrative to transform your personal life, business and workplace culture. And now your host, award winning international speaker, strategic storytelling consultant, and Japanese whiskey lover, Ruby Coral's mom, Aleya Harris.
[02:57] Aleya Harris: Hi Suzanne. Thank you so much for joining us here today on the Flourishing Entrepreneur Podcast. How you doing today?
[03:04] Suzanne Longstreet: I'm so well, thank you. I'm so excited to be here with you.
[03:08] Aleya Harris: I'm excited to have you. And we were talking about some really interesting topics before I pressed record. But before we get into potentially that and other things, let's have you tell the people about two or three sentences who you are and what you do.
[03:24] Suzanne Longstreet: Who I am, I am a mental fitness coach. I coach female entrepreneurs to get. Who are stuck at six figures and in overwhelm and frustration and self doubt, to get out of that place, overcome the resistance, clear the root problems so that they can go out into the world and make more money.
[03:45] Aleya Harris: I like making more money.
[03:47] Suzanne Longstreet: Good.
[03:48] Aleya Harris: Yeah, I think that you're, you're talking to the right people in the right crowd because I think, you know, all of our listeners like to make more money as well. So you're in the right place. Suzanne.
[03:59] Suzanne Longstreet: Yay.
[04:00] Aleya Harris: When you work with your clients, what are some common root problems that you see?
[04:07] Suzanne Longstreet: So in the work that I do, I get them right down to the feeling of powerlessness or unworthiness or even unlovable. And then of course, there's the other one, which is not good enough because we all have a version of that playing around. And that when we have those deep, deep, deep roots that are basically weeds, they're not serving us. We need to go out and remove them. And it's not just about clipping them off at the top. I love to garden. You're going to hear some. And I love flowers. I don't know if you could tell that.
[04:44] Aleya Harris: I would love to be in your flowers. Look at me and they scream because they know that they have met their end. So that is a true gift, Suzanne.
[04:56] Suzanne Longstreet: I do love my gardening, so. And I'm starting, I'm starting to play with an orchid. So we're just, yeah, just starting to see that. But if you can just get it at the right place and pull it all the way out and get all the roots, then it's amazing how people really shift in their identity. They, they become a different person and yet they don't feel any difference. The work that I do honestly is convincing them that the problem is gone.
[05:21] Aleya Harris: Interesting. Convincing them that the problem was gone. Do you believe that there. How do I say this? Do you believe that there is a problem? Whether there was a true problem or it was just a belief that shift.
[05:35] Suzanne Longstreet: No, no, no. I believe that it was a two problem. And the true problem is that they truly believed at some point in their life that they were one of those root problems. Not good enough, powerless, unlovable, or unworthy, they really, they made a decision, usually before the age of seven, that that's how they're going to do it. And guess why they did it? For protection.
[05:55] Aleya Harris: Oh, my God. This is like telling my story. So story time with Aleya. Welcome. Welcome in. I At the time of this recording a little while ago, I just produced my very first in person speaking engagements, which was very cool. There were 10 speakers, me being one of them. And they were all short stories about women and women's shoes. And all of us had our own stories. And mine was literally about my daddy issues and how from a young age my dad was in my life, but he embedded in me that I was not good enough by the actions that he took, that I wasn't worthy. So there was one time when, and literally in the story I say I'm about 7, where he was with his girlfriend, living. They were living together and she had her two kids. And the girlfriend told him, oh, no, Leia's staying with us for the summer, but don't give her an allowance, just give it to my kid. And he took $5, a little $5 bill out of my little hand and gave it to her son. And I remember that distinctly. And it was moments, little moments, little moments, little moments, one after the other, that embedded to me I wasn't worthy, I wasn't worth it, I wasn't valuable. And you're absolutely right. That ran my pricing as an entrepreneur, ran the gigs that I would go after. It also embedded in me like, oh, I'm not one of the people that get the cool things. I'm not one of the rich people. I'm not one of the. Those people over there, the beautiful, wonderful people. I'm not one of them. And so it's. When you're saying that these ideas embed young age, I really, really resonate with that. So not that I am wanting free coaching or anything, I am. What is what.
[07:47] Suzanne Longstreet: No problem.
[07:48] Aleya Harris: What is something that you do to help people? And it doesn't need to be everything. Maybe one cool, clear thing that you do to help people shift that belief and to realize that that problem is gone.
[08:01] Suzanne Longstreet: Yeah, I have an incredible technique, and it's using hypnosis. And first of all, we identify it. We first have to go in and figure out what it is. And sometimes in the session, the unconscious mind will bring up a story like that, like just me talking about it. You were able to go, wham, right to that thing. And that often happens because the unconscious mind is looking for somebody safe, somebody that they like, that they can share this information. And then they. It'll say, okay, we're. You're ready. You can. We can bring this up now for you. And then what I'm going to be doing, what I look for is all the other times When I run, find out how your brain's doing the problem, run the strategy. Like, what's the trigger? Right through the behavior. And then I'm really looking for. We spent hours looking through this. It takes about three hours at the beginning and to just get to what you identify. So you very quickly went there with not good enough and unworthy.
[08:54] Aleya Harris: Oh, no. Girl says, this is years of work here.
[08:57] Suzanne Longstreet: Oh, okay. Yeah.
[08:58] Aleya Harris: No.
[08:58] Suzanne Longstreet: Okay. So in my session, it's about 90 minutes to get there.
[09:02] Aleya Harris: I love it.
[09:03] Suzanne Longstreet: I remember I will get to the technique, but I just want to take a little side jaunt over. I was my first ever. I learned these techniques, this technique, in 2015. And I went to a past client who is a registered psycho psychotherapist and a cognitive behavioral therapist. So, like, she has some credibility and some credentials. And I said to her, hey, I've learned this new technique. Would you want to do it with me? She goes, yeah, sure. And so I went through and I did the whole process with her, and she was. She really was going in. I like to choose to work with people that are analytical, and she was going in to prove me that it wasn't going to work. Good. First client to work with Suzanne. And after 90 minutes, she looked at me with disgust on her face, and I'm like, what's. So I'm brand new to this technique. I've been coaching before, but brand new to the NLP neuro linguistic programming and hypnosis technique. And I was like, what's going on? She goes, you have uncovered my root problem in less than three hours. And it took my psychiatrist 18 months. She was not happy with me or the process, but she continued. We did the work, and she went and fired her psychiatrist.
[10:24] Aleya Harris: If you're a psychiatrist listening, do not feel threatened.
[10:27] Suzanne Longstreet: Sorry.
[10:28] Aleya Harris: Do not feel threatened. You have other worth and value.
[10:32] Suzanne Longstreet: Exactly. All techniques work. We just need to do different things. So when we get to the root problem, we identify it and how you're doing the problem. Then the next session is all about. We do something called timeline therapy. And we go up above your timeline and out into the past to before. Before the event happened. Get the learnings from that, and those become your affirmations that you then say for the rest of your life. Because this is your real truth. Because what you've been telling yourself may not be your real truth. You might be programming things that aren't serving you, believing that they are, and they're not.
[11:07] Aleya Harris: Yeah, I love the thought of writing a new story. That's. That's you know, I'm a strategic storytelling consultant and a speaker. So that's what I do. I use stories and storytelling to help people understand their world and then the world that they want to create. And that sounds very similarly to what, similar to what you're doing. How did you get into doing this, Suzanne?
[11:34] Suzanne Longstreet: Yeah, so I got to step back to a couple of years before I married a not so nice man. Narcissist abuser, not a, not a kind person. And I stayed in that relationship for just under three years. And I was like, okay, I'm out. Phew. That's done. What I didn't realize is that his voice lived inside of me for many, many years. So I'd be doing something in the kitchen, and I'd hear his voice, and it really kept me stuck in a cage in not in a relationship, not having good friendships, not like, just really basically working. I was working. I had a corporate career job. And then I just thought I was doing fine, but I thought everybody else was the problem. And it was 20 years too long. Yeah. And I'd started a business coaching business, but business coaching business. And I kept sabotaging it. I would create great results and then connect with great influencers, and they'd refer business to me, and I had some success. And then I would sabotage the relationships. And I thought, and it was always them, they were doing something to me. And finally, in late 2014, early 2015, I got a call from a woman who was leading this neuro linguistic programming course. And she said, hey, Suzanne, this is the best line ever. If you're ever reaching out to people, use this line. Hey, Suzanne. Well, use hey, first name. I think you're my ideal client. I would love to connect with you to ask you some questions. Would you be open to having a conversation with me? Sure. I'm your ideal client. Absolutely.
[13:20] Aleya Harris: That is, that is a good line.
[13:22] Suzanne Longstreet: So I, I, then she invites, she had the session with me. She invited me to her free weekend. Then she invited me to her course. And I went home and I said to my new husband, who's a lovely man at that time, and I said, so, what do you think if I do this course? And he goes, well, you haven't got any clients anyways. Might as well take a course. So I got the designation as a neuro linguistic programming practitioner, coach and hypnotherapist. And what I realized is I finally found the tools that were helping me. And I was finally properly diagnosed with something called complex post traumatic stress disorder. And when I realized that was the behavior that I was running and how I was sabotaging my relationships and my friends and my business. I went, oh, and there's a. There's a way to change this. Yay. And it was quick. Like, so quick. I couldn't believe how quick it was.
[14:19] Aleya Harris: Wow, that's amazing. So then you now no longer suffer with complex ptsd? That's.
[14:25] Suzanne Longstreet: No, I don't, because. Well, I did a couple of techniques with some of the people in class. Right. That's how you learn to do it. And then about a year after I had finished, I was in the back of a classroom supporting the. Anyways, just supporting. Volunteering my time. And another trainer came in and said, we were getting coffee. I'll never forget it. And he says to me, we were side by side at the coffee place. And he says, so when are you going to get rid of the rest of the ptsd? I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. So he said, come to my office. So I spent a day with him doing these techniques. And. But it was just. He has developed. He's gone further and developed more, which I've learned from him. Deeper trauma techniques. Because you'd be surprised and horrified at how many people have suffered some sort of trauma. And.
[15:18] Aleya Harris: And so I'm sure. I'm sure. Almost like, I want to know but don't want to know.
[15:23] Suzanne Longstreet: Right. No, yeah, that's. That's an over wine.
[15:25] Aleya Harris: Yeah.
[15:26] Suzanne Longstreet: Conversation. So, yeah, so we. We. He.
[15:30] Aleya Harris: He.
[15:31] Suzanne Longstreet: He really cleared it for me. And I. And I remember him saying to me, at the end of the day, it was August 31, 2016, so about a year after I'd taken the trainings. And he says, okay, so we've really done a lot of work on your neurology today, and I want you to be gentle with yourself. And I remember thinking, again, the inner critic, eh? I'm a trainer. I can do this. And so. But what happened is the next month, I was just behaving differently. I was more relaxed, I was more confident. I would say to somebody, oh, you're interested? Okay, well, let's do it. It's this much. And I would just say it, and they say, okay. Then they would come. And my revenue went from $5,000 a month to 15 and $20,000 a month. And I went, hey, I guess this thing's really gone now.
[16:16] Aleya Harris: Oh, that's amazing. And I also love that it's connected to money, because I don't think people realize that. I think people think that, like, oh, I'm gonna take this trauma, and I'm gonna put it in this bag and carry it around with me. But it's not really weighing me down. It's not really preventing me from doing anything. It's fine.
[16:35] Suzanne Longstreet: It's fine.
[16:36] Aleya Harris: And it actually really is preventing you from doing the things, all of the things. Right. If you're like, oh, why can't I just move forward? Oh, what is. Well, I can tell you that that bag that's weighing you down is going to prevent you from everything that you're trying to do.
[16:53] Suzanne Longstreet: Exactly.
[16:54] Aleya Harris: Yeah. And then we have this beautiful knack as humans, as. Okay, we let go one bag. Oh, we're healed. Yeah. And then now let's go fill up another one.
[17:03] Suzanne Longstreet: Well, I have a theory that what happens is, yes, we release this one bag. It comes up. It's like, oh, finally we're released. And then just like the beer bubbles on the beer or the pop, Then all of a sudden, more start coming up. It's like, oh, no, I got more of these things to deal with.
[17:20] Aleya Harris: So many things. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, Yeah. I totally. I totally believe that. I have seen that. And some of the trainings that I've done, they call them beach balls, like popping up to the service. Right. And it takes some. You're spending all of your energy trying to keep the beach balls underneath the service, and one pops up, and then you have to deal with it, but then you just let. Let them pop up, let them deal with them. All of a sudden, you have clear water. Right. But that's not, you know, how most humans work.
[17:50] Suzanne Longstreet: Right. I like that analogy. Beach balls, I'm going to use.
[17:52] Aleya Harris: Yeah. Feel free. That's a free. That's a free analogy for you for on today. You're welcome. You're welcome. So what you've. You've talked about the limiting beliefs that we're running. You talked about the. The way that they have helped you transcend. What then would you say your story is your. That you're telling now is going to be in. How is it different than the story you were telling before?
[18:18] Suzanne Longstreet: Ooh, gosh, yeah. My story used to be, oh, it's not my fault, it's somebody else. I didn't do this very much. Victim. I was really the victim. And I remember working with a woman a long time ago, a therapist, and she said, wow, your story is really shiny. I'm like, what do you mean? She goes, oh, you talk about this a lot, don't you? And I reflected on that and thought, yeah. Anybody I had met for the first time, they would know that I had been a domestic, a victim of domestic violence. They would know that I had been suicidal. They would know that I thought I had ptsd, but I didn't know if I had. And the first time you met them.
[18:58] Aleya Harris: All of this happens?
[18:59] Suzanne Longstreet: Oh, yeah.
[19:00] Aleya Harris: Oh, wow.
[19:01] Suzanne Longstreet: Yeah, I was running around with it as, you know, a placard on. On. On like a sandwich sign, you know, sandwich.
[19:09] Aleya Harris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[19:11] Suzanne Longstreet: Because I wanted them to know that it was my fault that I would. However.
[19:15] Aleya Harris: However I'm going to treat you understand that it's all of these things. Fault, not mine. Oh, yeah.
[19:21] Suzanne Longstreet: They would know, like the shop person, they would know that I had been doing this. I was going around telling everybody. And it wasn't until she reflected it back to me, I thought, oh, I actually have been. But then I didn't know how not to do that. I could only do that. So then I had to find other things. And then, of course, I would find other ways to be a victim. Oh, I got fired. Oh, my sister said this. Oh, my friend did this. It was like I was just piling on victim stories. So the story I tell myself now is that I'm not a victim. Even when I went through the breast cancer journey several years ago, I wasn't a victim. I was. I took it as, this is my health journey. I'm just going to get. Get rid of that lump because it's not working for me and continue with the process and focus on the good and tell myself a different story. That I am whole and healthy and happy and lovable and worthy and powerful and all of these things. Might as well do all of the roots, you know, just go with all of them. So there's a different story that I tell even when something happens. And like, you know, I'm a business owner, I'm a solopreneur. The market happens, the client comes. The client doesn't come even when things happen. It's like, okay, next, moving on. It's a much more resilient place rather than a. Oh, what was me. Well, of course they didn't come because, you know, like that.
[20:49] Aleya Harris: Yeah, that makes sense. Why, in your thought or expert opinion, do people like being in the victim place? Because if we're honest, people are victims because they like it. They're not going to tell you that, but it's the truth. Why do they do that?
[21:05] Suzanne Longstreet: My opinion, my belief is that, and I know I did it to get the attention it was. There's an energy that we get from Other people that we think we need. And so we do it to get the attention.
[21:19] Aleya Harris: What does the attention give it? Like, why. Why would a victim want attention? I'm not. I'm not understanding the connection between those two.
[21:30] Suzanne Longstreet: Yeah, well, I know. Well, for me, I remember I didn't get a lot of attention as a kid. Like, I was one of four kids. I didn't get a lot of attention. And so the way that I got attention from mommy was if I broke my leg, did that, like, was what happened. This is horrific. My sister burned herself very badly when I was 2, and she was 10 months old. And so all of a sudden, the person, the. The. The injured party in my family, my sister got all the attention. So I then, as a little kid, went, oh, hurt equals attention. Victim equals attention. And that was the story I learned before I could talk.
[22:20] Aleya Harris: Wow. Wow, that is so powerful. Imagine, dear listener, if you worked with Suzanne and you could identify as clearly as she is all of your stories, and then, more importantly, stop telling them.
[22:39] Suzanne Longstreet: Stop. Stop the insanity. Stop the story. Because if you did it, I. If you were doing it as a little kid, you're doing it in your business today.
[22:51] Aleya Harris: Absolutely, you're doing it today. And you probably don't even realize how heavy you are, or maybe you do, and there is a sense of helplessness with the weight. I've gone through postpartum depression and depression and anxiety, and there is this weight when you're in it. You're like, I don't even know how to move through this or get help with this or lift this off. Well, if you're listening, I have a resource for you. Her name happens to be Suzanne Longstreet. She's the one who's been talking to you this whole time about her techniques so that you can find the weight off. And also if it feels cloudy, I guess I felt like that as well. It's like I'm trying to put one foot in front of the other, but there's the fog that I'm moving through, a confusion that I'm moving through. Right. Well, you might just need someone to help you clear the confusion. I think that there's also. If you're my personality type, I don't. Victim. Well, I superhero it out. The exact opposite end of the spectrum, but equally as detrimental. Right. I'm not going to be a victim, but I will power through everything. There's a brick wall. No, there's not. I'm going to use my bare hands to claw that thing down. So do I need help? No, I got this. Do I know that there's a weight there? Yeah, I do. But I can take it off myself. I can do anything myself. I am an independent woman. Right. Jeez Louise. It's exhausting. It is. It is exhausting. Exhausting.
[24:38] Suzanne Longstreet: So. And that's just it. It is exhausting. I had one client who you were talking about fog and cloudiness. Had a client I was working with in 2020, and not the greatest time to be a videographer in 2020. Right. And she came to me and she said, Suzanne, I just have this muddled thinking and I don't know what's going on. And she had a good business. She was at mid six figures, like good business, but it was a pandemic. And she. We worked together, we cleared the problem at the root. And then afterwards she looked at me, she. We've been working together a couple of months. She goes, Suzanne, I just got a message from my team. We're going to crack seven figures this year by August. I've never done that. And she said, it was just. We didn't even work on the business. We were working on, like, childhood issues, but the business flourished.
[25:36] Aleya Harris: So how did that happen? You gave some examples of how that happened for you, but do you know how that happened for her? What was she doing differently?
[25:48] Suzanne Longstreet: The story she was telling herself was that she wasn't lovable and she had to do more to people Please, with her team, her clients and everybody. And so then when that was released, she didn't have to expend all that extra effort doing extra things. She was just her natural person and her natural, loving, light, lovable self. And people gravitated to her. More things happen, more she was able to stand up and not discount as much. And she got more jobs and, and, and, and the team came together and supported her. She turned out she had a really loving team. She even puts that it's all on my, my website under success stories hers. That's why I can talk about it and because otherwise it's confidential. But yeah, she just, she just realized that she was lovable and therefore everybody else. The filter changed inside of her head, the way that she was looking at the world. And then everything shifted.
[26:49] Aleya Harris: For you, is there a connection between the story that you're telling in your head and the grander connect universe? So if I tell a story in my head and I shift a story in my head and I shift a behavior that I am doing, like, if I am, like you said, discounting. If I was discounting, and now I Stop discounting. Then I will make more money. That's cut and dry. But I am also hearing from you that there's something about just shifting the story and then how your energy shifts and then the things that magnetize towards you. Would you also say that there's a connection there that's maybe not so cut and dry?
[27:30] Suzanne Longstreet: So what I've seen, we. NLP has a lot of names for things, so reticular Activating system, which is an actual part of your brain, and it's a filter that we run. And so it's how we look at the world. We were just talking about this, my husband and I, at lunch, and how.
[27:49] Aleya Harris: Your husband talk about the reticular activation system over lunch.
[27:52] Suzanne Longstreet: No, we didn't talk about that. We talked about how, if you choose. Well, we were just talking about the election.
[28:00] Aleya Harris: Oh, God. But we're recording this, by the way, on November 7, just in case anybody was wondering.
[28:07] Suzanne Longstreet: So we, you know, if you love a particular individual, you're only going to see the good. And if you don't love a particular individual, you're only see the not good. And so the filters that we run, the stories that we tell ourselves in our head, the words that we use, how we. This is. You're going to love this statement. Your words don't define your world. Your words create your world.
[28:36] Aleya Harris: Absolutely right.
[28:39] Suzanne Longstreet: And so the stories with that, the stories you're telling yourself create your reality. So having said that, I was recently going through a journal, and I found all my affirmations from 2013 before I had pulled the root out. And it said, I am rich, I am successful. I am lovable, I am powerful. I had all these lovely things, and I would say them daily, but they weren't working because I was planting seeds into a garden that was full of roots, roots with weeds, so the flowers couldn't germinate. And so what I know now and what I didn't know then is when you pull out those roots, when you do the inner work, then the new seeds can land easier. And so the new stories that you tell yourself are easier, and then you have different results.
[29:32] Aleya Harris: I'm loving this.
[29:33] Suzanne Longstreet: Oh, good.
[29:34] Aleya Harris: I'm loving this. Suzanne, if you. Flipping this a little bit from a different perspective, if you. When you pass into the great garden in the sky and people are telling a story about you, what would you like that story to be?
[29:52] Suzanne Longstreet: One thing that's really bothering me right now is that too many women entrepreneurs aren't reaching seven figures. In fact, I've seen statistics from I'M.
[30:01] Aleya Harris: Not at seven figures. And it bothers me as well.
[30:05] Suzanne Longstreet: Yes. Less than 10%, less than 5%. I've heard all sorts of different numbers. I'm doing more research on it for my new book, and that's bothering me. And so what I want to be is that person that people go, oh, my gosh. She's the one who helped me to get more clear, more focused, take action differently. Because I shifted into being who I really am. And I was able to get to seven figures and more in my business. I already have a beautiful group of 12 entrepreneurs that I've worked with to get them from anywhere from 120 up to a million dollars and more. And that's what I want to be known as. And that's what I want is one of my clients calls me the Millionaire Maker.
[30:50] Aleya Harris: I mean, there's worst titles. That's a pretty cool one, Suzanne. Especially when someone calls it. If someone gives it to you and you don't take it for yourself. Oh, I didn't.
[31:03] Suzanne Longstreet: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't. I kind of went like. And you'll notice, even when I told you my title today, I didn't mention that.
[31:09] Aleya Harris: Yeah, you're not like, on the podcast, please make sure under my name it says Millionaire Maker. Thank you so much.
[31:18] Suzanne Longstreet: And I am co writing a book called the Millionaire Codes to Success, coming out next year in 2024.
[31:25] Aleya Harris: Oh, I love that we'll have to have you back so we can hear all about that.
[31:29] Suzanne Longstreet: And my co author. Yes, you'll love.
[31:31] Aleya Harris: Oh, and I love that I love interviewing more than one person at once. Are there any final words of wisdom that you would like to leave our dear, dear listeners with today?
[31:46] Suzanne Longstreet: You have all the resources inside of you to be the success that you desire. If you're willing to let go of what's not serving you.
[31:59] Aleya Harris: I'm going to let that soak in for everybody. I had to let that soak in for me because it is so, so true. Suzanne, this was a pleasure. There are so many other things that I wanted to talk about. I had to keep myself focused because I find you to be just a joy and a multilayered, just blessing. So thank you for being here with us today. I appreciate your time.
[32:28] Suzanne Longstreet: Thank you. This has just been delightful. Thank you. Just so lovely.
[32:34] Aleya Harris: Wow. What a powerful experience with Suzanne. Right? So I have a question for you. What stories are you wanting to change? Do you even know? And if you don't, maybe you should work with Suzanne. It could be good. It could be good for you. And if you do know, what are the steps that you're going to take? Because only when your story changes will your life change. Only when your thoughts and your beliefs and your patterns of behavior change will you be able to break through those barriers, bust through those plateaus, and reach your goals. And that's what I want for you. As always. My name is Aleya Harris. This is the Flourishing Entrepreneur Podcast and I'm sending you today and every day, lots of love, light and abundance. Bye for now.
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