Kim Serafini is an inventor, a changemaker, and a visionary who has inspired people around the world. Now with the development of an innovative transformative technology platform called Positive Prime, her life work culminates in a program that merges the latest neuroscience and study of happiness with a computer-based app that is transforming lives. 

Let Kim inspire you to envision what is truly possible in your life, whatever your most heartfelt goals may be. Whether you seek more fulfilling relationships, stronger leadership skills, more abundance, recovery or resilience, intention and vision can pave the way. The journey can be expedited when we use neuroplasticity and the positive effects of happiness to ease integration and transformation!

We’ll explore her varied path, from corporate change management to human potential optimization, and discover how “it’s all connected”, as the sages like to say.

In this episode we discuss: 

• How the quest for gratitude led to a best-selling book 
• Why images are so powerful at sparking emotion, and how to maximize the benefit 
• Expanding your capacity for what is truly possible 
• The “illogical” benefit of putting your happiness first 
• The impact of negative news and its influence on the rest of your day 
• Benefits of a happier workforce 
• Why gratitude must be more than an annual holiday event

Note: Since this conversation was recorded, Positive Prime has made an extended trial available. Visit https://3xlessstress.com/prime2thrive/ to view a sample session and decide if you’d like to dive in with a 30 day trial. 

Learn more about the science behind Positive Prime in this workshop recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8yL_5MZj8Y

If you’d like to view the Vision Casting Workshop recording, email susi@3xlessstress.com 

Susi: Thank you for joining us today on the Thriving Life Summit. I am Susi Vine, your host, and I am beyond thrilled to finally get to introduce you to the remarkable. Kim Serafini, visionary, phenomenal leader and community builder. Let me tell you a little bit about Kim and then we’re going to dive in because we have so much to explore and not enough time in the day.

Kim Serafini is the CEO, health and edu-tech company founder of Positive Prime. Kim is also an executive coach, business advisor, innovator in the spa industry, bestselling author, keynote speaker. And her experiences in the international corporate management consulting in the field of leadership opportunity to work with many of the world’s highest profile business leaders, acclaimed scientists and leaders in the personal growth and development fields. The synthesis of all of these models, methods and techniques to facilitate personal transformation are the foundation of Positive Prime, devoted to helping others make significant, long lasting, rapid and successful changes. Kim is committed to continue innovating and leading with advanced technologies. She is even more focused on how to influence our mind by maximizing the discoveries from the field of neuroscience. 

That’s a mouthful, Kim, and I’m afraid I didn’t do it justice, but your path has, I believe in retrospect, given you all of the foundations and building blocks to create this very unique position in which you find yourself today. I’m so glad you’re joining me. Thanks for making time in your busy schedule. 

Kim: Thank you so much, Susi. Hello everybody. It is an honor privilege and pleasure to be here and a joy. And you’re right Susi, for any of you out there, listening or viewing. Okay. So take a nice, big, deep breath, be truly present here.

You might even want a pen and a piece of paper to take some notes. I guarantee you there’s going to be something that’s of genuine value that you’ll want to take away and apply, so, without further ado Thriving Life Summit, the work that you’re doing Susi in the world is imperative. It’s absolutely essential.

And I applaud you for being a leading light in this area. And more importantly, somebody who walks their talk, which is obviously no, maybe not obviously, but certainly what I admire and respect.

Susi: Thank you. Thank you so much. And ever since our paths aligned towards the beginning of this year, and I look at the clock, it’s 1:11, nothing but synchronicities when I’m with you, Kim. When we were brought together at the beginning of this year, I was introduced to you and to Positive Prime. And it was the synthesis of so many things that I have been looking for and bringing together to better serve my clients.

So full disclosure, right upfront to our audience who is watching, listening and joining us. I am a member of the Positive Prime community, and it is one of my favorite tools. And one reason why I’m so excited to bring Kim on board the summit with us this week is to really gain the opportunity to see, the history of this. Why she felt it was so important to create this tool and where it could possibly take us. 

So let’s just try to start at the beginning, if that’s possible. As I said, it’s been a winding path for Kim and all of the different work that she has done, but I love the part of your story where, I cheekily call you an accidental best-selling author, when you created the book, I am Gr8ful. Can you give us a little bit of an idea how this practice of gratitude became so important to you and why this message is one that you feel caught on as strongly as it did? 

Kim: What a great question. Alrighty.

So, let us drop into a moment. I was in Northern India. I’d been to Rishikesh for the Diwali festival. It’s a magnificent experience. And I was actually training Ayurvedic doctors and therapists at one of the world’s most exclusive and exquisite health retreats. It’s called Ananda. Ananda in the Himalayas. When I was looking out over these majestic mountains and I had one of those, epiphanies, the Ahas.

The like, “aah!” Now I was actually there as a supplier. So they were a client of mine. And as was the case, often then in the spa industry. I set up like a distributorship in India and I set up a distributorship in Abu Dhabi in the middle east. And I could go on and on and on about this particular business that I had.

And what I can tell you is that I, along with all of the people that I served seem to be afflicted with busy-ness and none of us, and I’m talking, I’ve noticed, it’s like billions of people on the planet really understand just how appreciative we could or would or should be, for our life and for life on this planet.

Now what I mean by that is, I’d started to do some research about ‘that which we take for granted get taken from us,’ that’s an energy. And I was enamored with what was happening in the field of quantum physics and the law of attraction. And this was nearly 20 years ago. The movie, “The Secret” had not yet become a phenomenon and. in fact YouTube didn’t even exist. 

And I thought I’m going to go around and interview to camera. All of the people who were outrageously fabulous bestselling authors and ask them how important they believe a practice of gratitude is. 

Now let’s fast forward and this positive prime technology, I want you to imagine it’s an audio visual experience. It’s an activity that you engage in. So you just sit there and view it. But what you’ve done is that you have personalized the experience by uploading through the software, your own photographs. And I recommend people put it in photographs of that, which they’re grateful for. Those whom have made a contribution to their life and they’re very thankful. And what that does is it puts you in a vibration of having received, right? And when you’re in the vibration of having received, you will receive more. Because we are a matching vibration to that which is coming through us. So that’s very esoteric, but we’re not going to tell you is that I’m really anchored in the science.

So what I actually discovered was the ways to justify and provide the evidence and the substance and the substantiation to all of these ideas that we had, and I’d actually come from the field of management consulting. And so it’s interesting because what I realized was that when we want to transform ourselves, we actually need a new identity and you and I need to spend at least a couple of hours explaining how does one change, transform in a really elegant way that’s very fast and enduring so that these changes that you make last, they’re sustainable. And the funny thing is, is that had I not found it so difficult to be mindful of who and what I was grateful for, with the distractions and the interruptions of life, I wouldn’t have thought about what could I create that would allow me to experience it, or live it, or connect with it easily.

So this Positive Prime experience, if you’re still following me, is viewing at least 1000 very carefully chosen flashcards. Imagine images. It is inside a special proprietary player. So it looks a little bit like watching a slideshow. However, every single photograph is curated, according to principles out of positive psychology and neuroscience. And all of these photographs are necessary to actually activate your brain.

See, we think in pictures, And so a lot of us are trying to change, become more relaxed, be more productive, go after our goals overcome their own procrastinating ways, maybe deal with our fears and our worries and our concerns. And yet we often try to do that with some kind of audio intervention. We must have a visual intervention because we think in pictures, and we need a technology where with those pictures, those photographs or images, they’re flowing past you so quickly, you can’t resist or reject them, and they’re then accessing your other than consciousness. And they’re not being stopped by this conscious, critical judgment factor of your prefrontal cortex, which prevents you from taking on board anything that you’re trying to change. And I’ll just give you a little bit of an example, because a lot of people haven’t done this are aah, now I understand. 

See if you’ve never made a million dollars a year, or if you’ve never experienced the most deliciously satisfying and rewarding gorgeous relationship with a person who’s absolutely ideal for you, or you haven’t yet radically healed yourself, you don’t know what you don’t know.

And the funny thing is, is that even if you do know, like you might be the kind of person who wants to lose some weight and get fitter, and you might even be somebody who’s got some qualifications and some experiences in the fitness field or in, some kind of nutrition. And so we as human beings, don’t do what we know.

And even more than that, we compound that, by not knowing what we don’t know. So our brain, when anything is unfamiliar, so we’ve got no reference for it. So we don’t actually know it yet. We reject it and we resist it because as our reptilian brain, this ancient part of ourselves, protected ourselves. And if we didn’t really understand it, we immediately held at bay so that it couldn’t potentially be a threat was because we didn’t know if it was going to be a threat.

That’s the funny thing about making a million dollars a year. We think that we want something. We don’t want the money, by the way, we only want what we think we’re going to do with the money. But if you’ve never done it, you actually literally stack the odds against yourself because you’re not familiar with who you need to be and the kinds of activities that you need to take in order to make a million dollars a year.

Now, what I can tell you is that, I guarantee to you, it’s not anywhere near as hard as you think it is. It’s not anywhere near as hard as you think it is, but you must be of the vibrational match that you’ve already received the million dollars a year. That you’ve already had the idea about how you do that or the ideas. That you’ve already been in momentum for long enough, so that it just becomes a fait accompli.

It’s just a natural progression. It just is. Right. And, interestingly enough, it’s a bit like, I’m sure you’ve heard this, you’re absolutely sure it’s going to rain. And the person with faith shows up to the outdoor party with an umbrella, right. That person is demonstrating energetically, that they believe it’s actually happening.

And it’s exactly the same with any goal that you really want to have. And who would you actually be if you will already making a million dollars a year? It’s just an example. But I think that in this society that we live in, there are a lot of people who really want that. 

And they think that money is going to facilitate their ability to thrive.

And you and I both know the science says that if you thrive, it’s an inevitable outcome. Must thrive first. And then whatever is necessary to facilitate the million dollars a year occurs for you, with you through you. So that’s a very long intro, Susi. But it’s almost like, if you’ve only got a couple of minutes together, let’s get to the bottom. Let’s give you some proper value. 

Susi: Well, I love it. And I think it just perfectly demonstrates how interconnected your training, work experience, personal exploration, and self-development have brought you to this completely, it seems like a logical deduction. When you start putting together the illogical – big air quotes on that – way in which we are, we think we know exactly what we want and yet we can still be standing in our own way. And I love that you illustrated, I think it’s really important for people to recognize this, there are so many audio meditations, affirmations. We can queue those up on YouTube, usually with a static image. And thank you for bringing back to mind the fact that we are incredibly visual creatures, and I wasn’t able to take a look at your book, but I found it on Amazon.

There are all of two copies available. I have to get them out of someone’s hands directly. When I saw some screen capture some of the pages, it looks so much like a Positive Prime session. The way that the images, are stacked. It’s like a feast for the eyes. And before it was called Positive Prime, it was called Mind PT. So some people know it from that original iteration, but it is such a, an evolution from that starting place when you felt compelled to really go to the people who were speaking into this space, the law of attraction, the power of gratitude and bringing this information to the world. 

And that’s how I feel, and that was really the impetus for creating this whole event. Is there is information that we have to know that no one is talking about. And so to bring us back to where you just wrapped up, the fact that ‘illogically,’ when we put our happiness first, when we focus on gratitude, when we fortify ourselves and have the clarity of what it is we want to call in and really start to remove what, how we are holding that at bay, everything comes together remarkably easily. 

We take all of the friction out of the process. When we put our wellbeing first, instead of what society has trained us, focus on your goals, achieve success, then you’re allowed to be happy and that whole broken system. And so I love that we’re kind of blowing that up with the insights that you’ve built into this amazing platform, transformative technology, which is a whole field I hadn’t even become aware of until I started working with you and the folks behind Positive Prime. So thank you for demonstrating that. 

And I think that perhaps that opens up the next question that we can start to explain, and I’ve shared through my own work, some of the benefits of positive psychology, and the evidence that we’re finding that happiness, that higher levels of positivity bring us success more easily in addition to health and stronger social connections. So how are we turning the social norms on their head? And I know that we’ve got the attention early on in your work with Positive Prime, one of the foremost researchers in positive psychology. Shawn Achor cued in and saw the potential of what you’ve been creating in how it aligns with what his research has demonstrated. So I’d love to take a little bit of a look into that. 

Kim: Well, let’s start with Shawn, who is a very gorgeous in his soul, a man married to a beautiful woman very smart. Both of them are brilliant, more than that, they are generous.

They’re kind. And I reached out to Shawn, I really wanted him to be involved with what we were doing. And you talk about how there’s some iterations. I started to develop what is now a Positive Prime session, by the way, we call this exercise or activity that you’re doing a Positive Prime session. I developed that when I still had the, I am Gr8ful and grateful was G-R with a numeral eight for the infinity symbol, G R 8 F U L for the infinite number of things and people and places and experiences you can be grateful. Anyway. I originally actually called this Enriching Visions because these visioning processes really enriched you. They empowered you as a human being? Anyway, I reached out to Sean and he had already become very famous through his Ted talk and his work at Harvard University.

And his wife had already become quite famous with work that she was doing with Martin Seligman, who is considered one of the fathers of positive psychology from the university of Pennsylvania and a piece of research that we’re joining with Arianna Huffington, who was still then at the time, the head of Huffington post or HuffPost.

And interestingly enough, they were actually researching negative priming. And then they came to these conclusions that watching 15 minutes of the news was physically destructive, damaging, and discipling and quite frankly, confronting and very scary. And so there are these adverse effects, serious adverse effects because negative priming actually does something quite interesting to you physiologically to your actual body and indeed your mind and your emotions. And it has a full on impact that we’re able quantify with respect to productivity and pain and lost days, or absenteeism. And what’s even worse is presenteeism in organizations and so forth. So anyway, I reached out to Sean at precisely the most perfect time. But what most people don’t know is that I had photographs, because you know how I said you personalize a Positive Prime session just before? Well, I had photographs of all of the people that I wanted to meet and work with. I had photographs of all of the extraordinary experiences that I wanted to have in my life. So I had actually found photographs of everything that would be on my bucket list and I’d uploaded it.

And so what was happening was that as I was viewing one of these sessions, and I was speeding it up. So there’s variable speed inside this very special player and the faster you go, the more you’re in surrendering and letting go. So for any of you who are into the esoterics, you’ve got to surrender and let go so there’s non attachment to what it is that you want in order to help bring it about.

Well, I was watching all of these sessions that have been personalized with photographs of Shawn and Michelle, at speed. And so of course the universe arranged for me the absolutely precise moment when Shawn had just done a deal with Oprah Winfrey to create his Science of Happiness course. And they’d already pre-sold it to like 50,000 employees at Google and so forth.

And I reached out to him and I said, I’d really love for you to have a look at what I’ve created. I’m not a scientist, I’m not a computer programmer. I’m not a psychologist. What I have done is synthesized lots of different areas and, like a polymath, because I’m so objective and I don’t have any of the biases from inside these industries, I think I’d done something revolutionary. Anyway, you wouldn’t believe that he had a look at it and was enamored and shocked and astonished. And he just was like, this is extraordinary. And so he actually presented it to the Oprah Winfrey Network as one of the aspects he wanted inside his course to bring about the happiness advantage.

So if you could all go and have a look at Shawn’s work, his book, I would recommend that you buy it, in fact, I would strongly suggest that you do. It’s one of the real game changers. And so what happened was Shawn and Michelle had to actually organize the efficacy research on what we had created or what I had actually personally invented because we needed to prove that it actually did work.

The, what we were claiming was true and real. And they were the ones that discovered that if you view a Positive Prime session for a minimum of three minutes, the effects last for six to eight hours. You’re more creative, you’re more resourceful, you more solutions orientated. You make decisions faster. If we were to give you puzzles, you would actually come to these conclusions and solve the puzzle more quickly.

You would actually get it ‘more right’ faster. And so there’s a lot of scientific validation to what happens, where when we’re in a state of being positively primed, right? Now, being positively primed means you’re thriving. So Susi’s point being positively primed is about being and not doing right. So we’ve all heard about that.

Being positively primed is being in a higher vibrational state of frequency. And do you know what? We can put some of the fanciest new wearable health tech devices on you and I, because I’m involved in the transformative technology think tank of all of these founders who created these scalable, revolutionary, phenomenal technologies, whether that’s the Oura ring or the whatever Calm and Headspace has apps all of these kinds of people, we all hang out together.

Well, we’ve actually been able to see with our own eyes with some of these new headsets, brainwaves changing. And so we know for a fact that when you watch a Positive Prime session that’s actually being personalized you actually drop out of high beta, which is terribly damaging for you, by the way, there’s a lot of research in the field of medical sciences about high beta thinking.

So these brain waves that are really about you being in flight or fight mode, and you’re having lots of adrenaline in your body and you basically being on the fast track to diabetes or heart disease or inflammation in the body and so forth. So we know that those brain waves are associated. We know also the heart waves are in sync with the brainwaves.

So if we do heart rate variability, many years ago I went to Heart Math which is an Institute in the US. And I showed the founders and the executive directors positive prime, and they all sat there with the session and some of them are long-term meditators and they could not drop into, a perfect coherence as fast with meditation as they could with Positive Prime.

And so I’m not saying that, viewing a Positive Prime session is the only way for you to become positively prime. Yes. If you’re a long-term meditator, you can actually drop into this beautiful coherence in your brain waves and your heart waves. But most of us don’t meditate regularly enough or long enough to bring about this rapid improvement inside 3 minutes

Funnily enough, even when you are meditating and you’re not supposed to be thinking of anything. You’re actually imagining with your mind, you’re seeing in pictures. And so it’s very interesting. People don’t really understand how mindfulness and meditation activities are so closely linked to what we’re actually doing with the Positive Prime, more overtly, we’re just addressing the fact that we’re human. The other thing that most people don’t necessarily see it first with Positive Prime is every single time you press play and you watch one of these experiences every single day is that it reshuffles. And you see everything in a randomized order and you need to do that because the brain needs novelty from a neuroscience research point of view in order to bring about sustainable change that is really quite rapid. If you want quick results, you must have novelty built into the process. And so if you see the images in a different order, the brain recognizes that as, oh, this is slightly different from before, and it’ll never be the same. So you might see a photograph of the Eiffel tower. Along with the elephant and then the next one is a rose.

And the next time you won’t actually see the rose, but you know, there’s a photograph of a beautiful paradise, in the Pacific ocean an image of an over water bungalow, for example, and then you might see a horse. And the funny thing is that you’ll create new neural pathways of the rose with these other options, which actually brings about this out of the box approach that you then have to life. And so we can actually generate that just simply for ourselves, by viewing a Positive Prime session and watching the same piece of content. There are hundreds of pieces of content, by the way, from lots of bestselling authors, whether it’s Jack Canfield and his success principles, and I can go on and on and on and on. 

Well, if you watch the same piece of content, like twice in a row, You’ll actually create these new neural pathways with that content. And it’s mixed up and jumbled up, and that also allows you to be in the state of surrendering, letting go and bringing in perhaps the insights that you’d desperately needed, but you didn’t even know that you need to actually achieve what it is that you’ve set out to accomplish.

It’s a bizarre, and quite frankly beautiful way to harness and leverage the strengths and the gifts and the talents you actually have, you are more incredible than you give yourself credit for.

Susi: So true. So true. And really, and in the program that I’ve created, that’s where we start. We start with worthiness and recognizing that we deserve to be more confident of our innate skills and talents. We let the world negatively prime us and we start to not recognize our value, our merit, our potential.

And so that’s one of the things that I love also any tool that is fast and effective and efficient. And that’s another reason why I fell head over heels for Positive Prime, because as you said, it’s new and novel every single time and you can expand it. If you want a longer meditative experience. Now, up to 50 minutes, I love this new innovation.

This is evolving all the time. There’s always new things to explore. And in as few as three minutes, and then in and of itself, that helps it be more effective because we don’t have the time to argue with those affirmations or be skeptical as to what we’re seeing in the session. 

So I love how it all plays together. And but I would like to explore, you know, initially your initial work was in change management and that sort of consulting work with corporations. So I find that fascinating and I, and then you made a pretty big shift to go into sports therapy and physiotherapy. Do you feel like that experience in seeing the way that businesses are run and the ways in which they needed to change to be successful, do you feel like that informed what you’re creating now, or do you feel it really came from your deeper self exploration or is it of course a product of all of the above. 

Kim: It’s a product of all of the above. You know, one of the things that we observe when people go through dramatic change in these, hectic environments in the corporate world where large organizations emerging and there’s acquisition activity and so forth people check out emotionally and mentally, and so they’re not efficient and effective and they don’t actually contribute to the business. And the reason why is because effectively we’re in overwhelm and in that process, we can’t think straight. So when you are negatively primed this versus positively primed, your brain doesn’t work for you.

So if you are negatively primed, so if you’re super stressed and you’re super worried and you’re super anxious, which by the way happens in change situations, because we don’t know we’re going to survive the fallout in these situations where lots of people are made redundant. And when you’ve now got to gone work on a different part of the business, because you’re being, moved to the side or moved up or move down and, everything’s being positioned in such a way that the company’s trying to retain you, but it doesn’t necessarily mean the next chapter is going to be better. 

And usually the process is very uncomfortable. And so we noticed that during these times people took more vacations because they just didn’t even want to be at work. Right? And even if they were at work, that’s where this term presenteeism them came from 20, 25 years ago. People that weren’t paying attention and they weren’t actually juicy, you know, they weren’t thriving. And so the crazy thing is that we’re now some 20, 30, 40, 50 years down the track. We now know with all of these workplace wellness programs, of which, by the way, Positive Prime is the most ideal solution to integrate. And we have lots of organizations already doing that globally.

We have a whole division that looks after that corporate work. I speak by the way at conferences with all of these CPO’s, chief people officers, and HR directors, and so forth. We’ve started to understand that people really and truly are quite frankly the key asset. And we’re at a point in business where we pay people so well, we need them to be at their maximum capacity at their optimal performance levels. We must. It’s economics for sure. But it’s deeper than that. See none of us are going to develop our full potential unless we’re positively primed. And that we know. And we know if that as a fact. And so there are organizations that genuinely and sincerely care about their customers and about their employees and they want these people to actually want to come to work.

They want these people to actually want to do business with the organization. And when that happens, yeah you get profitability, you get performance improvements. You get cost reductions because people don’t, and it’s interesting because when, in a manufacturing sense when people are positively primed, they don’t hurt themselves as much.

So there isn’t the expense of all of the slips and falls and the breaks and the this’ and that’s. So it has a bottom line impact these days. Yes, it’s very airy fairy and I think that we’re evolved enough to know that the soft really has a hard impact. 20 or 30 years ago only those very progressive organizations in the world had enough courage to develop this soft skills of their people. There were early adopters of things like emotional intelligence and there are early adopters of being positively primed as well. And so we, I wouldn’t imagine in 20 years time, we’re going to be a little bit like where emotional intelligence does now. There will be very few employees, managers, executives, but don’t go through courses that understand the art and the science of positive priming, because it’s essential for how we actually fulfill our full potential. And we will not have innovation at the rate it’s actually occurring. If we don’t have positively primed people in organizations.

When I think about what’s happening with artificial intelligence and with immersive technologies, and, I live a little bit in this, you know, I’m a futurist, always have been. I was even in the spa industry 20 years ago. What I can assure you is that we will be able to I’m going to these, I want you to imagine it, pods. I had these visually designed long, long time ago, but you’re in this immersive experience, right? You might be standing there. And because of the field that you’re in, it’ll be measuring your heart rate and your brain waves and everything else like that.

But this immersive ,experience will be a positive prime session that we watch, but in augmented and virtual reality. So we will become the kinds of people who just step into this and maybe it’ll be something that’s inside your home a bit like, I don’t know, the Swedish people go into their saunas. Australians driving into the backyard swimming pool and whatever, we’ll go into these experiences because it’ll actually be necessary for us to our survival. I don’t. I think the world’s going to become the place that is less of an assault in terms of negative priming. And so I think we’re going to need these protective. Experiences that actually allow us them to them cope with the negative priming of the world.

And that’s why I start with positive priming every day, because I need that protective barrier for my mind and my heart and all organizations, by the way, just to bring it back to kind of management consulting, need the individuals who come to work to bring their hearts and minds with. So it will become inevitable that people will be required to be positively primed before starting work.

Susi: And, and how timely, and, there are cycles in everything, but I’m really thinking of how you were explaining your role with these corporations as a consultant, helping them navigate change. And the one thing that has been a part of the last two years has been the dramatic amount of change that we have all had to navigate.

And to your point, the level of stress that we’ve all been carrying and the fatigue that we’re all at, because the stress has been as consistent as it has been with its peaks and valleys, but there hasn’t been much of a relief to the stress. And so, the benefit or the way that we can take control and choose to positively prime ourselves to bring on an armor, to buffer ourselves against the world, which, I mean, we can’t even turn on media without having to try to avoid the negative priming.

It is, it is coming in on all channels. And so when we can strengthen our selves in going into the workplace. And as you mentioned for corporations to have that awareness and be making it available to their teams, I love that we have that ability to be a partner with corporations. I’ve heard extraordinary stories of some of my fellow practitioner and her experience in bringing it into the classroom. So even younger children when we recognize the impact of the negativity that is in our world and the way that they’re navigating and the change that can result when we bring positivity to them, I think is extraordinary. And as I’ve discussed with other experts in the course of the summit, The changes that we are bringing about, the healing that is happening, the way that the younger generations will come up with a whole vocabulary and personal awareness that wasn’t necessarily available to us, I think is really what’s going to facilitate the change that we all know we are needing in the world.

Kim: You know, what’s very interesting is that I was talking to my niece the other day she’s 17. She’s a remarkable young lady, accomplished, she’s actually school captain. Anyway, she was saying to me that she had made a decision to post less about herself or her friends on Instagram and that she was going to do more posts that were more storytelling about what makes her happy and what she’s grateful for. And I thought, wow, see I think that people thought it was personal development and self-improvement, and this, spiritual growth journey was, woo woo, and not necessarily for everyone. I now believe that given the world that is on the, rocket going to the outer edges of space, but we’re moving so fast in terms of exponential technology, the children of today must have tools that positive psychology and a science based. They must, it’s going to be nature theory for this survival. They live in times and the environment that is so negatively priming. And I do agree with you Susi. If, you know, the 17 year-olds are taking it upon themselves to do something that we might think is a little more enlightened or a little bit more evolved, that’s exciting. 

But they going to need to, interestingly enough, because it’s only going to get worse in terms of the negative priming everybody out there, I’m sure. you’ve seen the documentaries on Netflix about the algorithms of social media, etcetera. We could go on and on about, the politics of this issue.

The point is that we as human beings can be conscious. And we can make decisions and be accountable and responsible for doing that, which is necessary to give ourselves the best chance. We all know that preventative medicine is not anywhere near as popular as the interventions that are necessary when you’re at a point of crises.

But I think that what’s going to happen is more and more people are going to be at points of crises. And then they’re going to actually explore pools like Positive Prime, and it’s going to be essential. So it’s a very interesting world that we’re actually creating right now, two years post the of COVID.

Susi: Right. And I believe. What you are illustrating is the value of that. The importance of that, and your niece is such a beautiful example of empowering ourselves to make our own choices, to decide how we’re going to step into that. 

Kim: I just want to also add, she has me as an aunt, and as a godmother.

And so. I’m going to urge everybody out there to use Positive Prime, become a subscriber. There’s actually a five for one offer. So you can share it with full family members, be the role model that actually demonstrates to these 17 year olds that they have the power to actually post something that’s empowering something that’s enriching something that’s uplifting something that’s, quite frankly wholesome.

I think that’s what I love. And in terms of me being somebody who guides others, and I’ve clearly being, guiding her very subtly for her life I, I actually want everybody to know that if you spend the time getting really clear about what it is that you want to experience in life, you will find the resources necessary for you to bring that about.

Most people don’t spend the time. Maybe once a year. We do a lot of this in the spa industry and the retreat world. We encourage people to go away for extended long weekend or a week when go to these health retreats and to just give yourself some time to recalibrate and regenerate and rejuvenate and so forth.

I believe that at least once a year, if all you do, we Positive Prime is use it as the process that forces you to go through a visioning, you know, your vision board and your bucket list and defining your goals and so forth. What I’ve helped my beautiful niece to do is to really think about what is it that she wants to experience in this very short and precious life.

And who does she want to be? And she’s doing a spectacular job of that by the way. Incredible. 

Susi: Beautiful. And I’m so glad that you brought that up because it is, it’s something that we rarely make the opportunity for to get crystal clear on the future that we want to be creating for ourselves as we are in the act of creating it.

And that it should be more than an annual exercise. It should be something that we create that opportunity for, that we really feel into, and like you were describing the potential of having almost a virtual reality session where you can step into a more atmospheric experience. Ooh, that’s delicious. I’m so excited to see what’s coming up around the bend.

You’ve made available a really extraordinary opportunity. So as you mentioned with a membership for Positive Prime, you get not one but five seats if you will, in the program. So what that does is it lets you customize your sessions by uploading your own images and you can share that opportunity with four other people on your account.

So you really can have a family plan if you will. And what Kim has very, very kindly offered after the summit has wrapped up. So anyone can try Positive Prime for free. For 10 days, there was a free 10 day trial available. What Kim has offered is the opportunity to join us in a goal, setting a vision casting, a workshop where you can be supported and guided and getting that kind of clarity in finding images that you want to incorporate in your session.

So you can literally create this experience for yourself. 

Kim: You know what you’re invited. So if you’re listening, give yourself a gift you’re worthy and deserving of it does come and join us. You might not really know what is the why, how but all will be revealed. Have a little courage, a little faith just step in.

Go yes. I don’t even know what it really is, but I’m going to say yes anyway and come and spend some more time with us. I’m pretty sure you’ll go, “Wow. I’m so grateful that I did. that”

Susi: Definitely grateful, definitely inspired, motivated, energized. There are so many delicious states of being that come along with this opportunity to positively prime. I will share similar resources on this webpage where you are catching this during the summit event. So you can learn more about some of the folks that we mentioned.

The data that is coming in from science and research that is happening right now around the U S and around the world. And the opportunity to check out a session and to get yourself on board for positive prime. So you can start to see the potential. I know that you’ll feel it right away. 

So. Is there anything else, Kim, that we didn’t have a chance to explore? There’s always volumes. I know we could go on for decades, 

Kim: Absolutely Susi, I think you do a fine job by the way of leading workshops that explain the science of positive priming. And for those of you who are listening, if I was you, I would invite Susi to actually present, teach, inspire you and or a group of people.

 I’ve seen some recordings of some workshop that she’s done, and I feel like it’s a blessing that you’re a part of our professional leaders community. I feel that it’s a blessing that you’re one of our featured authors. And I do know that your participation makes what we do a lot more valuable.

We have literally, we have tens of thousands of people who view Positive Prime sessions every single day and all around the world. And there is a rare opportunity for each of these people to watch something new 365 days of the year. That’s how much content we have. So, I dunno, just like dive in, right. 

Dive in, start the trial. I promise you it’s going to be worth it. Even if you stay for a month, it’s going to be worth it. You might then realize actually you don’t want to be without this. I wouldn’t want to be without it. And I promise you, I really know the science and if Sean Achor thought it was that good that he included it in his Oprah Winfrey Network program, and then sold it to tens of thousands of corporate employees, quite frankly, it’s that good.

Susi: Right. We don’t need to keep inventing our own wheel looking for solutions. This is a really extraordinary opportunity. So I hope that you’ll take our word for it and take a look for yourself. And I had so much fun putting together that workshop. Absolutely. There is so much under the hood that we can’t do a justice within this conversation.

So I’m glad we got to explore a little bit of the history, the origin, the inspiration and I do, I love to share the science, the data, what really makes it hum. So on all aspects, I think it’s an extraordinary gift and I can’t wait to see it reach the saturation that I know that it will. And, the potential is extraordinary.

Thank you, Kim so much for all that you do, for joining me early in the morning and Australia to accommodate my schedule. And I look forward to collaborating with you in this workshop and beyond. 

Kim: Thank you everybody. See you soon. Go on. Go sign up. All right, 

Susi: Thanks. Take good care.