Culture Club - Manifestation Isn’t Just ‘Woo-Woo’ With Allira Potter

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00:00:12.340 is so important we're maggie and jasmine and you're listening to culture club

00:00:17.220 this is our monthly interview with a person we find interesting and that we think you will too

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00:00:49.080 today we're joined by the magical alira potter a yorta yorta person and the author of wild and

00:00:58.780 witchy a guide to manifesting a life of abundance in the past two years their instagram has grown

00:01:04.180 to over 40 000 followers with self-love and body positivity messages and candid takes on

00:01:09.740 wellness culture alira's corner of the internet is a truly welcoming space now she's helping others

00:01:16.040 to heal from trauma and bring in abundance through the power of manifesting.

00:01:20.460 Welcome, Aalira. So, Aalira, you're a person of many talents. How would you best describe yourself?

00:01:27.540 Oh, my gosh. A multifaceted human being who never stops. That's probably like the best description.

00:01:35.820 Yeah, I do a lot. So much.

00:01:38.880 And now you've just released a book, Wild and Witchy. Can you tell us about that?

00:01:43.720 yeah so I've got my book out wild and witchy at the moment and I think it was just a book that

00:01:49.280 I really envisioned that I would have wanted at a younger age so everything from spirituality

00:01:55.660 manifestation to things talking about relationships and friendships and love and grief so we just like

00:02:03.500 created this amazing book where people can just sort of dip in and out of and it's I don't know

00:02:09.500 it's just really surreal seeing my book in shops it's so wild oh my god can't imagine what was the

00:02:16.920 process like creating it all yeah I mean the process was really fun it was overwhelming and

00:02:23.620 I mean like because I'm sharing so much of my life in the book there was some parts that were

00:02:28.240 pretty triggering but um overall it was like a pretty crazy experience so I'd love to hear

00:02:35.140 more about how you got to the point of being an author like what were you working in doing before

00:02:42.160 you um became kind of more of a public figure and author yeah I mean I was like working in the

00:02:49.580 corporate world for years and I was doing pretty much everything that I'm doing now as like a side

00:02:54.820 hustle so that was like my side thing um and then a couple of years ago I just quit my job because

00:03:00.800 I thought I need to create space to do the things that I love and those things were empowering

00:03:06.020 people just to become the best versions of themselves and also the writing so I was doing

00:03:11.060 like lots of little like media writing for like publications and things like that and um yeah and

00:03:17.020 then I got approached to the book and I was like oh this is kind of crazy but it very much aligned

00:03:23.220 with what I was doing and yeah the rest is sort of history now yeah and we're talking about that

00:03:29.520 you know that moment where you quit your job and this will change and in early 2020 you had around

00:03:35.500 4 000 followers flash forward to today you have 44 000 followers um very lovely alignment of

00:03:43.500 numbers there as well but what's that rise in fame being like for you oh it's so bizarre like and

00:03:50.880 all my friends that know me like i've not changed i'm still the same person as what i was with 4 000

00:03:57.680 followers to now I it's my job social media which is kind of crazy um the fame I'm still coming to

00:04:06.820 sort of like I don't understand it but I guess I'm famous in my own little realm which is kind

00:04:11.460 of cool but it was a lot and it still is a lot because as much as I'm an extrovert I'm very much

00:04:17.640 an introvert and I'm very much a private person as well too so um there's still moments where I'm

00:04:24.120 adjusting and there's still moments where I'm like oh this is very overwhelming this industry

00:04:30.260 it's very overwhelming so I'm still learning just as much as everybody else who's like currently

00:04:36.000 working in the social media space. When you say overwhelming do you mean just like lots of people

00:04:40.920 pulling at your like lots of people wanting you and like you having to give lots of energy to

00:04:45.840 other people and brands etc? Yeah pretty much it's sort of I really had to understand what my

00:04:51.300 boundaries were. I had to understand that it's okay to say no to opportunities because it will

00:04:56.420 lead me to a big opportunity and that's okay. I needed to have stronger boundaries on social

00:05:02.260 media with people and let them understand that I'm not accessible 24-7 despite me working on

00:05:08.480 social media. So I really, that's where it was overwhelming. And I just had to be really strong

00:05:14.600 in those boundaries to be like, no, I'm not doing that. And no, I'm not responding to that message.

00:05:18.760 I love that because it seems like we're also attached to our phones nowadays and I remember

00:05:23.760 speaking with you a couple of months ago and you were taking a bit of a social media break

00:05:29.240 how did that go yeah good everyone should do it it's like it's almost like people in our industry

00:05:36.100 a little bit scared to sort of switch off from socials because they're worried about number one

00:05:40.000 engagement number two how am I going to make money and it's like no this is the best thing

00:05:44.660 that I did was switch off because we need to recharge otherwise we just I don't know we're 0.82

00:05:50.520 sitting in a constant cycle of the same shit every day and it's just like I need a break and I took

00:05:56.760 that break yeah so true and just like the attention economy and always you want people to like think 0.98

00:06:04.560 of you first for opportunities but then you end up like not even enjoying opportunities because

00:06:09.140 you just feel burnt out would you agree with that a hundred percent the burnout is real and the

00:06:15.380 burnout culture is so real at the moment that it's just like be okay with saying no and be okay with

00:06:21.260 switching off your phone and agreeing that you don't have to do certain things because your

00:06:26.240 well-being is way more important than the money in your bank account and to switch gears a little

00:06:32.740 bit here. You've spoken before about how your mum was really witchy too. Would you be willing to

00:06:39.480 talk to us about your relationship with her and how that fueled your spirituality?

00:06:43.860 Yeah, definitely. I love speaking about my mum because she played like such a big pivotal role

00:06:49.280 in my existence and in my career as well too. So mum sadly passed when I was 17 and growing up with

00:06:56.840 her, she was very, very spiritual and really witchy. She would go to these like witch circles

00:07:01.460 once a week and me being a naughty teenager I was like I don't get it I don't understand this

00:07:07.520 I don't understand what you're doing um and it was just like a funny time because I never thought I

00:07:13.100 would be in this space but she always envisioned that I would be so when she passed away I got

00:07:18.960 gifted a deck of her cards like her oracle cards and I just remember thinking why am I getting

00:07:25.340 these cards I'm never going to use them and I put them away at the back of a closet and I was like

00:07:31.120 I'll deal with that one day who knows maybe I'll never get around to it and then a couple of years

00:07:37.280 ago I sort of reconnected with those cards and I just remember thinking mom you knew this whole

00:07:43.840 time that I was going to step into this space you knew that I was going to like not work corporate

00:07:48.800 and you knew I was going to be doing these like intuitive readings for people and things like

00:07:53.180 that so the connection with mom is so powerful despite her being you know not earth side anymore

00:08:00.980 So, yeah, she played a massive role in everything that I do right now, which is crazy.

00:08:09.300 And how old were you when you kind of opened up to that more spiritual side of yourself?

00:08:14.980 I mean, I've always sort of been, I guess, a little bit spiritual, but I never really tapped into it, probably until after I got divorced.

00:08:24.380 I've lived so many lives.

00:08:26.080 It's so crazy.

00:08:26.800 so I think that was when I was about 26 I lent into spirituality because I was having a really

00:08:33.980 tough time with alcohol and drugs a couple of years back and I knew that I had to sort of fill

00:08:39.120 that space by doing something that aligned with me and something that felt really good and

00:08:43.520 spirituality was exactly that and so from that point I just tapped into using those cards that

00:08:49.280 mum gave me I did spiritual development courses and then everything just opened up from there

00:08:55.360 So as someone, and I'm sure a lot of our listeners might feel the same, who is quite new to this

00:09:00.280 space, you know, when I hear about oracle cards or intuitive readings, I'm a little bit lost.

00:09:04.380 Can you give us a quick rundown of what that is?

00:09:07.340 Yeah, I mean, so there's so many different types of decks of cards out there. And I think a lot

00:09:11.620 of people get really overwhelmed with that. Firstly, I think the best advice that I can

00:09:15.780 give someone who's stepping into the space is don't overwhelm yourself and just intuitively

00:09:20.880 do what feels good for you within the spiritual space because it is pretty saturated especially

00:09:26.200 on social media at the moment do what feels good in terms of cards and things like that

00:09:31.820 I am not specializing like tarot cards because they're so confusing I think a lot of people

00:09:37.060 would agree with me on this one so I use oracle cards and they're like I've just got a little

00:09:41.880 deck in front of me but like for instance a card will have like a word or even an affirmation on

00:09:47.840 there. And some people will do readings, say like past, present, future, or they'll do what I do

00:09:54.020 pretty much every day and shuffle a card, a deck of cards, and then choose one. And whatever sort

00:09:59.480 of the message is, it's like my message for the day or my affirmation for the day. Otherwise,

00:10:04.440 sometimes when you do decide to open up your intuition, this is where you can utilize cards

00:10:10.220 to bring in messages from that sort of spiritual side or that spirit guide that's coming on in.

00:10:16.100 so um so much to unpack with it so much so interesting and uh we're wondering as well

00:10:23.460 how does your spirituality and indigenous culture intersect i mean it's that's a good question

00:10:29.560 because i think a lot of people are so interested in that so in terms of me being indigenous i think

00:10:35.200 a lot of us first nations people were really born with this beautiful connection to country

00:10:41.100 and a connection to spirituality as well too that a lot of people wouldn't understand

00:10:45.900 in terms of it intersecting with the work that I do I'm always implementing practices and awareness

00:10:52.660 throughout everything that I do and I'm also just utilizing you know indigenous practices and tools

00:10:59.120 to keep me really grounded as well too in order for me to actually work as an individual so you

00:11:05.220 know how some people are like I've got to go out in nature and get grounded so then they feel

00:11:09.160 connected I do that but I do that on a deeper level so I have a deeper connection to country

00:11:14.960 which is really powerful how was it also growing up in Geelong how have you and you know you're

00:11:21.160 still living there now how has that been for you yeah I mean so I'm I suppose I'm a Geelong local

00:11:27.840 I've been here for nearly 15 years but I grew up in like suburban Melbourne as like the only black

00:11:34.180 kid and it was interesting to say the least very interesting having moved to Geelong yeah like 15

00:11:42.300 years ago it was almost like I stepped back in time because Geelong wasn't a progressive town

00:11:48.060 at all in terms of the queer space as well too and then just cultures and ethnicities it's changed 1.00

00:11:56.300 a little bit now but um it's in it's still an interesting town it's just it's very white it's

00:12:02.800 very white and speaking of queerness you use she they um pronouns how has it been um embracing

00:12:11.500 your queerness over the years and kind of putting that out there alongside your image?

00:12:18.880 Yeah, I mean, it's been so crazy. It's been amazing. And I wanted to sort of put, I guess,

00:12:26.220 my sexuality out there to normalise it to people that it's okay to just not love one particular

00:12:32.400 gender, that it could be energy that you're absolutely attracted to. As I sort of started

00:12:37.760 evolving as a human I tapped more and more into who I was and what I wanted to be and that's when

00:12:43.680 I initially chose my pronouns as she and her and I was like yep that's it like I'm born as a woman

00:12:50.040 that's it I'm gonna stick with those pronouns and then I think it was probably maybe like

00:12:54.720 maybe 18 months ago I was out with my friend Denny and we're having a really in-depth discussion

00:13:00.320 about our pronouns and I just looked at them and I was like I think my pronouns need to change I

00:13:06.460 think they need to be she and they and Denny was like let's go keep unpacking and I was like there 0.61

00:13:12.460 are some mornings that I wake up and I don't want to attach a gender to how I'm feeling or what I'm 0.98

00:13:18.240 wearing or how I'm acting and that's when I was like I'm dropping the hair and I'm putting a they

00:13:23.260 in there because I 100% am embodying me being gender fluid because some days I wake up and

00:13:29.820 I'm really feminine some days I'm really masculine but I just didn't want to label it as anything so

00:13:35.660 I think that's been a really interesting journey for me and I've loved sharing it on my socials

00:13:41.100 because I just get messages from people being like I never really thought of it like that like

00:13:46.160 this is unreal like this is beautiful so it's been pretty powerful and pretty special the last

00:13:51.340 couple of years. I love the way that you talk about it and it feels super empowering and feels

00:13:57.020 like that you are really entering your own but was it always that I guess sunshine sunshine moment

00:14:03.600 were you nervous because I think Jaz and I have both talked about you know queerness for ourselves

00:14:10.020 and there was a lot of apprehension and fear attached to that as well I mean I suppose there

00:14:16.480 was a little bit of hesitation sort of really understanding my sexuality and being okay with

00:14:22.960 you know liking people for their energy rather than the gender because I was married at such a

00:14:28.060 young age and divorced at a really young age as well too I sort of was like oh I'm worried about

00:14:33.220 what people are going to say and then I just got to a point where I was like you know what people

00:14:38.280 don't have to understand but they need to respect me and that's okay so when I explained to my family

00:14:44.780 that you know I love everybody I love people I don't just love men they were like yeah cool

00:14:52.660 onto the next subject like no one cared everyone was like as long as you're happy that's fine that's

00:14:58.060 all we care about so I think my queer experience has been an absolute blessing and I'm so grateful

00:15:04.160 for that. And alongside that you're also known for your work in the body positivity space

00:15:09.640 what does true self-love look like to you? I mean for me it's really showing up in this world and

00:15:18.100 loving me for me and being okay with that little bit of extra body weight that I've got you know

00:15:23.380 down in my tummy that it's okay and that I don't need to change anything about my body for anyone

00:15:29.680 um so I think that's what self-love sort of really is embodied for me it's just loving me for me and

00:15:35.840 not worrying about what other people think so yeah I mean self-love it's not linear is that

00:15:41.140 body positivity it's not linear like we are constantly evolving it's like it's crazy yeah

00:15:47.800 and I think these words are always thrown around on social media and we've been talking a lot more

00:15:53.000 about you know body positivity and such could you take us through your journey with that as well

00:15:58.060 yeah I mean my journey is a big one and it's still going now as a 31 year old I'm having days where

00:16:04.360 I'm not loving my body and there's days where I'm loving my body but I think it all began probably

00:16:09.440 in high school where I did struggle with my identity being the only person of color in high

00:16:14.700 school and being the heavier kid as well too because back then I guess all we saw we would

00:16:21.000 know women in magazines who are a size six and a size eight and that was the norm and if you didn't

00:16:25.400 look like that then there was something wrong with you so I think high school is where it started

00:16:30.540 because I was severely bullied and I think that has impacted my whole journey because I really

00:16:37.580 struggled to love who I was wasn't until maybe my early 20s I started to just be like it's cool

00:16:44.520 it's okay that you've got these bits and bobs here and it's okay that you've got cellular and it's

00:16:50.120 okay that you've got stretch marks like it's so fine and I really had to implement you know

00:16:56.220 affirmations as positive affirmations every day and I had to start to surround myself with people

00:17:02.040 who really weren't high maintenance and didn't really like care about oh them looking a little

00:17:08.760 bit off one day and I think that's where my journey sort of really shifted and changed and

00:17:14.020 then probably the last two years that's where I've really I don't know like my social media feed has

00:17:19.400 completely changed because I want to follow people who look like me I want to follow people who really

00:17:25.120 love themselves and I want to just follow diverse people as well too so the journeys have been a big

00:17:32.260 one and it's probably going to be an even big one the rest of my life so yeah it's not linear

00:17:38.100 well completely and I think I find it so limiting when people you know flat out are like social

00:17:45.460 media is just bad for body image and it's bad for self-worth because I do think I mean it depends

00:17:52.020 where you're looking but it can be a source of not only inspiration but I guess body acceptance

00:17:58.260 and when you do kind of curate your feed to be reflective of yourself and something that you look

00:18:04.660 forward to looking at rather than something that you know makes you feel bad I think there's power

00:18:10.980 in that but I don't know if I'm just being too optimistic do you have thoughts around that

00:18:15.340 No, I think you're so right in saying that. Like, I think I say to young girls, social media, yes, it can be damaging in some regard, but we have the power to curate our feeds and to follow the right individuals.

00:18:29.200 So I think if people are doing that, then that's where we can change our mindset around, okay, I need to see like different bodies in my feed, diverse bodies, bodies that are bigger, whatever it may be.

00:18:40.460 So I think 100% change that feed, change that social media feed.

00:18:46.320 It's like there's power in social media.

00:18:50.120 And you also speak a lot and very openly about decolonizing wellness.

00:18:55.220 Can you tell us a bit more about what that looks like and why it's so important to you?

00:19:00.080 Yeah, I mean, me working in the wellness space, both on a level of me, you know, representing

00:19:06.720 brands with active wear or putting protein powders on my social media, all the way down to me being

00:19:13.460 an energy healer. That's all wellness. Me stepping into this space, I knew that I could be a little

00:19:19.120 bit of a game changer in terms of firstly, a black person in the whitewash wellness space. 0.68

00:19:25.040 Amazing. Secondly, I wanted to bring more cultural awareness into the wellness space because I think 0.98

00:19:32.160 there's been so many rituals and practices by a lot of white people that have no education around

00:19:37.800 where things actually coming from and the other thing too was there was no cultural safety as

00:19:43.840 well especially like I remember walking into my first yoga lesson and being like where's the

00:19:50.740 cultural safety why am I the only black person in this class right now what's happening this is

00:19:55.100 bizarre so I think decolonizing these spaces is really important just by doing like those tiny

00:20:02.680 little things in order to create change and make sure that people feel safe walking into these

00:20:08.380 spaces is that what you mean by cultural safety making sure that like lots of different cultures

00:20:14.300 feel safe and seen yeah 100% I mean like prime example walking into say a fitness studio isn't 0.69

00:20:21.860 it great if you see an acknowledgement of country on the side of the wall for an Indigenous person

00:20:26.240 that indicates them that it's a safe space it's the same if there's like a little rainbow flag

00:20:31.360 for the queer community to be like this is a safe space for you to walk into so I think just those

00:20:36.040 little things make it a-okay for people to be like I mean I am in a safe space I'm going to be okay

00:20:41.720 in this space so I think yeah that's really important and especially on again social media

00:20:48.800 you work so much with brands especially in this wellness space like you just mentioned there

00:20:53.660 how has that experience been especially yeah in the past couple of years have you seen a

00:20:58.600 progression of brands being more aware of cultural like sensitivity and safety do you think it's

00:21:04.520 working has it been performative where do you see this fit I mean there's still brands that are

00:21:10.720 very performative isn't there we won't name them but um 100 so performative but having said that

00:21:17.580 I always use this brand as an example so a couple of years ago Lululemon reached out to me

00:21:22.320 and they were like we want to work with you we think you're great and I was like firstly I'm a

00:21:28.100 size 18 secondly I'm black thirdly I've never walked into your stores before and the guy was

00:21:35.140 just sitting there on the video call like you're right you're so right and I was like why would I

00:21:42.160 promote something that I'm not like embodying and something that you're not embodying as a brand

00:21:47.540 i said come back to me when you've done better two years later i did a little post last year

00:21:54.080 and that was me being like yep i've given the okay because i went back and forth for years

00:21:59.380 being like i need to see change i need to see bigger bodies like represented in your feed

00:22:04.620 and they did they started showing up a little bit more and they started utilizing first nations

00:22:09.080 models they started you know saying yep we go up to a size 18 i was like perfect i'm gonna work

00:22:15.800 with you because number one that's like you guys showing that you have changed and you've listened

00:22:20.280 to me and number two this is me decolonizing the wellness space so important and yeah especially

00:22:27.700 when it comes to things like rainbow capitalism and then post black lives matter movement you

00:22:32.820 just have to be so careful with these brands I can imagine so careful and I think that's what

00:22:40.740 I think that's what sets me apart from a lot of, I guess, the influencers in this space in

00:22:45.660 quotation marks, is I actually do my research on a brand. I actually work with the brand for months

00:22:51.520 before I even promote it on my feed. I go back and forth with my manager. We make sure they haven't

00:22:57.260 had any like bad press associated with them. We make sure that they've used like black people in

00:23:02.180 the past and it's not a tokenistic sort of thing that they're utilizing me for. So I think it's

00:23:07.640 important especially in this industry like I'm I think I'm a conscious content creator in that

00:23:12.940 respect too and I love the fact that when you're talking about decolonializing wellness it's

00:23:21.540 important because you're paying it the respect that it deserves I think when people kind of

00:23:26.020 critique woo-woo culture and kind of minimize it to this throwaway thing it's so disrespectful for

00:23:33.200 you know traditions and practices that have been around for you know so long so yeah just wanted to

00:23:41.080 add that yeah well I 100% agree and I think I had that conversation with like a yoga teacher in

00:23:47.260 Geelong I was like I know you're a yoga teacher I know you've got your qualifications but like tell

00:23:51.720 me more do you actually know where yoga has stemmed from do you actually know the rituals that you're

00:23:56.080 doing before each practice and I was like do you know that you shouldn't be using Palo Santo during

00:24:01.220 your practices because that's cultural appropriation and I just remember her being like oh never thought

00:24:07.600 of it like that and I was like oh there you go take you know whatever advice you want to take

00:24:11.920 me right now because I think we do need to see change it is so important I remember I was in

00:24:17.580 Bondi a few weeks ago and I went to a yoga class and it was obviously I'm white as well but it was

00:24:23.320 only white people like maybe 40 white people um and the white a white instructor from America and

00:24:29.260 she i was like okay here we are in bondi but then she started doing the kind of like indian

00:24:34.540 traditional chants and i felt super uncomfortable like the the arms and stuff and i was like does

00:24:41.700 she have permission from a culture to do this like she was also burning palo santo and i was like oh

00:24:47.720 this feels so icky when it was meant to be like a relaxing sunday um so those conversations i think

00:24:53.340 are so important in so many spaces like offline as well as online on social media yeah I agree

00:25:00.940 completely I think it's so important and I know I feel icky when yoga teachers do that and I don't

00:25:07.360 even say namaste at the end of the practice anymore because I'm like that's not my word to

00:25:12.060 say right that doesn't belong to me no yeah I'm glad that we're bringing up this conversation

00:25:18.020 around cultural appropriation and I think you know we love our culture club listeners and they

00:25:23.560 are a smart bunch who want to do good I'm just going to blanket put it out there but the thing

00:25:28.240 is I think it can be hard to navigate this sometimes and people just don't know where to

00:25:33.460 start or what's right and what's not I mean do you have advice around that I know this is such a big

00:25:39.640 convo but yeah yeah oh definitely I think my best advice is be uncomfortable with understanding

00:25:47.320 that you don't know everything and get comfortable in being like yep cool no worries like I'm gonna

00:25:53.860 do better and that's okay I think there's a real beauty in acknowledging that you don't know

00:25:59.540 everything and that you may have like fucked up in the past and that's a okay but get comfortable

00:26:05.020 being like yep I'm gonna do better and that's okay I would love to go back to manifesting I'm

00:26:12.140 such a big manifesto grew up around positive affirmations and um kind of working towards

00:26:17.820 your dreams but there is a kind of interesting conversation happening especially on tiktok at

00:26:23.020 the moment which is people saying that manifesting kind of also relates to that like disparaging of

00:26:28.340 woo-woo culture right and kind of just saying that manifesting is just privilege in action

00:26:33.500 like you didn't really manifest that you manifested it because you're a white young pretty woman

00:26:39.080 etc um how do you feel about these conversations that are happening around manifesting and what do

00:26:45.660 you say to people who believe that because obviously privilege does play a big factor

00:26:49.660 in achieving things but yeah what do you say to those things yeah a hundred percent I had someone

00:26:57.160 actually slide into my dms recently and being like you're coming from a place of privilege being able

00:27:01.780 to manifest and I'm like yeah I am I actually am a hundred percent but I also had to say to that

00:27:07.420 person it's actually it's a belief for me and that should be respected and I explained to the person

00:27:13.200 that I came from a really poor background I had a single mom and so learning to manifest was a way

00:27:20.840 for me to secure that I knew that things were coming to me and that it's a-okay so I think yeah

00:27:27.100 it does come from a place of privilege but it's also a personal belief that somebody has and if

00:27:31.900 they believe that it works then it works for them and I think that's where it should be respected

00:27:36.200 I totally agree with that yeah just has always been someone in my life who is very big into

00:27:42.540 manifestation and I'm someone who just wants to learn more but I've never really you know

00:27:48.060 especially growing up I was never exposed to it perhaps in smaller ways but never explicitly

00:27:53.620 so I'm wondering if you can provide some tips and advice around meditation that we can yeah we can

00:28:01.260 learn from yeah yeah definitely I mean like manifesting it's so easy I feel like it is easy

00:28:08.020 but I mean that's me being like years of practice I think there's sort of ways in which that you can

00:28:15.100 manifest and bring in things by changing our mindsets a little bit in the mornings and like

00:28:19.860 having those positive affirmations not in a way that it's like a toxic positivity or something

00:28:24.580 like that but just in a way where we're waking up and we're saying something nice to ourselves

00:28:29.240 um i always love the old writing it down on a piece of paper when we're manifesting and just

00:28:35.140 letting the universe do its thing i think that's really important to acknowledge that you're worthy

00:28:40.500 of being open to receiving as well too and i think the whole worthiness self-worth does come into play

00:28:47.900 hugely when you're manifesting so just understand that you have the capability to bring in absolutely

00:28:54.200 anything that you desire because i'm like manifesting is you curating and creating your

00:29:00.180 own reality in your own existence so if you firmly believe that you're able to allow five

00:29:06.080 thousand dollars to come into your bank account then it's coming your way yeah and i think it also

00:29:11.600 manifestation also challenges our um love around instant gratification like sometimes i manifest

00:29:17.800 things and then because you've like let it go right and then you forget about it and then maggie

00:29:22.840 be like oh my god we got invited to like this thing or we're gonna do this and I'm like oh yeah

00:29:27.320 that's what I wanted like three or four months ago but you just kind of let it go and then it'll

00:29:31.820 come back to you and I love those little moments where you're like oh thank you universe like

00:29:35.440 it may not have been instant but it got there in the end exactly and that's why I think the beauty

00:29:41.640 of manifesting it's like okay it may not come tomorrow it may not come next month it may come

00:29:47.320 in a couple of years and that's cool we've just got to sit back and like hang tight totally oh

00:29:51.980 I love it um I'm not too sure if manifestation is like what do you know when you blow out the

00:29:56.840 candles of a birthday cake and you're not supposed to tell people the secret that you made I don't

00:30:01.900 know if it's something that you share you don't like or you don't disclose but just generally as

00:30:06.320 well like this year what do you have in store like what would you love to I guess do this year as

00:30:12.240 well um this year I actually want to slow down this year I really like I've got it on my manifesting

00:30:19.460 bored at the moment and it's like slow down and be present um and just do more things for me

00:30:27.380 because I feel like I've output so much energy the last two years to everybody else that I haven't

00:30:32.920 had a hot minute to appreciate everything that's happened and I haven't had a hot minute to just

00:30:38.180 slow on down so that's what I'm hoping this year brings oh so beautiful and I want to know like

00:30:45.480 i want to hear about your ideal day let's say it's a sunday you've you've woken up in geelong

00:30:51.160 what does that look like for you oh my gosh i'm such a simple gal like a beautiful ideal day for

00:30:58.380 me it's like well like getting up taking cosmo for a walk going down to my favorite cafe which

00:31:04.260 my friend owns and just having like a big brunch then coming home and like putting netflix on for

00:31:10.500 the rest of the day like that is the ideal Sunday for me of the ideal day like slowness is like

00:31:18.220 perfection for me simple pleasures and I think that's something that I've learned a lot uh post

00:31:23.780 pandemic is and also since learning meditation more recently um is like finding those little

00:31:31.800 moments of joy we kind of spoke about it on our last guest chat with Wendy Seifert but like

00:31:36.560 you can create your dream day right now you don't have to wait for some like moment in the future

00:31:41.660 because when you appreciate the little things like going to your friend's cafe or just putting

00:31:46.420 netflix on and having nowhere else to be more kind of abundance comes into your life because

00:31:51.280 you're like grateful for those little things and life just feels easier right i love that exactly

00:31:59.020 that it's like those simple beautiful pleasures and just like sit back and the universe will

00:32:03.640 gift you what you need to be gifted. I love this outpouring of gratitude. I was, you know,

00:32:10.340 we were having a busy day at work and feeling a little bit like in a slump, but this has really

00:32:15.100 just lifted me. So thank you so much for this, Alira. I know we are talking about the small

00:32:20.600 things, but I also want to know, what are you proudest of yourself for? I think like at this

00:32:27.080 present moment I'm really proud that I'm still here and I'm still like living and thriving a

00:32:34.460 couple of years ago I was really unwell mentally and I didn't want to be outside at all but I

00:32:39.820 pushed through that and here I am just like absolutely living my best life and I'm just so

00:32:45.700 like grateful for that and so proud of that oh my gosh making me tear up that's really

00:32:51.840 really beautiful and yeah so important yeah well that was a beautiful chat thank you so much for

00:32:59.940 your time and if people want to learn more about you or chat with you more where can they find you

00:33:07.640 um instagram at the moment just alira.potter but there's big things coming i'm about to release

00:33:14.260 some like coaching for people and like yeah so there's big things coming so yeah find me on

00:33:21.220 Instagram so exciting perfect we'll talk to you later thank you bye

Culture Club - April 18, 2022

Manifestation Isn’t Just ‘Woo-Woo’ With Allira Potter

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