Donna Ferguson:

0:14 hello and welcome to another episode of live love by design TV as always I have
0:22 an amazing guest with me who I am sure you are going to love just as I do it’s
0:28 Donna Ferguson and she is a rapid success therapist who assists women to
0:35 become extraordinary sounds amazing doesn’t it so welcome Donna thank you
0:42 Karen thanks so much it’s an honor to be here and I’m really blessed that you’ve
0:47 accepted the offer and collaboration that we’ve got going on here thank you Oh
0:53 look I’m just so glad that I said that you were actually a rapid success
0:58 therapist and not a rapid sex therapist I would definitely not be helping with sex
1:05 I reckon if you make them extraordinary you’ll be certainly helping them on that
1:11 way as well sex is sextraordinary and you’ve got all of these amazing
1:20 accreditations I’m just going to read them so you’re certified NLP practitioner a
1:25 published author a block decoder a psychic protection healer an alignment
1:30 Coates a coach I should say and you use vibrational energy and process to allow
1:37 instant shifts so can we please put that into English for some of our viewers
1:43 please All of it um that’s a mouthful isn’t it is powerful and well done for all your accreditation
1:54 no well on you for getting on oh yeah yeah look you know my life’s journeys
1:59 been pretty different I suppose and you know started
2:05 late but when I started I started looking into all these areas of you know
2:11 first of all NLP and how that works and I wanted to do more work and through
2:16 doing that I did a course in rapid success therapy which creates really
2:22 exactly what it says instant shifts in people when you use
2:29 certain processes and similar to the hypnotherapy processes but slightly
2:37 different so we do work under very similar processes as hypnotherapy and
2:42 then more recently I went and did a psychic protection healing course which
2:48 was fascinating and really does delve into the number of what’s the word the
2:58 number of links that are hanging on through in ancestry periods I suppose so
3:07 it goes really generational and when you can move those threads boom that’s
3:16 probably the best way to explain it you just go in leaps and bounds
3:21 fantastic so when you say instant success through the rapid therapy what is
3:27 instant is it today is it in a month when do you actually see the benefits of
3:34 that therapy when I was doing my courses in person like in small group sessions I
3:42 would see these massive shifts in people within two hours so from the
3:49 morning when they walked into the room they would you know try and have that
3:56 confidence about them and walk in with you know not really knowing what was
4:00 going to happen and then during those first couple of hours before we had a
4:06 morning break you would see them literally release a lot of negativity
4:12 they would literally be standing taller by lunchtime if not morning tea
4:18 and really move through the afternoon sessions with some fantastic new
4:25 philosophies on what they wanted to do with their life for instance I had one
4:30 lady who came in and had all her goals she was massive on building her goals
4:33 and creating goals and you know achieving her goals morning tea time she
4:38 said to me I knew what my goals were when I came in now I don’t but I know
4:42 it’s exciting and by the end of the day she was like now I know exactly where I
4:46 want to be so totally different turnaround but that’s just one person
4:51 they’re not all like that but you do see their strengths and then lift and hold
4:56 themselves with pride and a lot of them have been through it you know
5:01 extraordinary journeys as well so so you mentioned that you’re a late bloomer
5:07 into sort of the sort of areas of your business or even developing your own
5:13 business so what led you to actually feel that your life had taken you in a
5:19 way that you needed to actually start a business like this yeah look that’s
5:25 that’s a great question Karen and I think like anybody that runs a business
5:30 particularly when it comes to health well-being spiritual emotional kind of
5:34 journey we have all been through stuff and at 21 I was married and I married
5:41 into a domestic violent marriage where the journey started with the violence
5:48 very soon after the marriage so it was less than a month just short of a month
5:53 after and horrific circumstances on that particular night but I don’t want to
5:59 dwell on that too much and as I came out of that relationship 18 months later and
6:06 taking the power away I really started to feel like I wanted to do more with my
6:10 life and of course until you do the healing the inner work and you really
6:15 don’t establish the connections with the right people and I didn’t grow up in a
6:21 home where you know we’ll taught that you know you can you can have anything
6:25 you want in life you can you know create the goals that
6:29 you want to be being anything you want to be don’t limit yourself to you know
6:33 the safety of going out and getting a job and those sorts of things and the
6:37 motivation sorry Donna you did grow up in a home that actually gave you those
6:42 values no no no it was just you know we grew up with all the 60s 70s where Aussie
6:48 battlers money is hard to come by all those sorts of things so you know life
6:52 was very ordinary for us growing up and it wasn’t a bad upbringing by any means
6:58 but it just didn’t show those things so I didn’t have the tools and strategies
7:02 or the connections with people to create that instant let’s heal within
7:09 and start moving forward so I created more of the same and had another few bad
7:15 relationships not physically violent but certainly you know there was some stuff
7:20 going on there and do you feel that not having the tools and did you take blame
7:28 for all of those relationships what did it become your fault not theirs
7:33 umm no I certainly didn’t take blame in that sense I probably blamed
7:41 myself for a lot that happened within myself after those relationships but I
7:47 certainly didn’t blame myself for those relationships over choices I made and we
7:51 all have a choice you know I never choices I made so when I turned 40 I
7:58 actually left our 12-year relationship and I said this is it you know it’s time
8:03 for me to really find out who I am and work with my you know with my inner self
8:09 and of course you know the teacher always turns up when the students ready
8:13 you know the old saying and so I came across a group that was very
8:17 motivational and inspirational and really the person that ran that he
8:22 became a mentor of mine and for years I kind of followed that group and learned
8:26 so much but then I wanted to get into more spiritual kind of areas because of
8:33 that really resonated with me more and I wanted to help other women under
8:39 stand that they could be anyone that they want to be they can be valued they
8:43 can be limitless and they can be extraordinary in their own life
8:48 regardless of what their background is and that’s the reason I started to work
8:53 with women which is good on you and like I personally work with women as well I
8:59 think it’s sometimes it’s easier having lived out you know as long as we have as
9:04 a woman and of course reflecting back on our life which is what the live life by
9:08 design is all about is to focus on all of your life so what do you feel when you’re
9:15 working with women what holds them back what what is their number-one fear
9:21 fear would probably be the number one fear you know they have these fears
9:27 about so many things and what other people think of them you know who are
9:33 they going to upset by taking the path that they want to take then then it
9:40 moves into all other areas I’m not good enough I don’t believe in myself I don’t
9:46 value myself I’m not worthy I lack self-confidence I’d never be able
9:52 to do that and this all comes from not only their conditioning years which is
9:59 where I really start to work with women right at the very beginning and I go
10:05 back as far as the womb if need be with some in some cases because there’s stuff
10:10 that goes on there that actually people quite surprised when they realize and
10:15 then they understand that they’ve had conversations with their parents that
10:19 they go oh that stuck with me for X number of years so sorry
10:28 they’ve normally misinterpreted those experiences but they are definitely a child-like
10:33 perspective as opposed to an adult perspective that’s it and you know they
10:38 would never have thought that those conversations would have affected them
10:44 but as we all know when you have emotional experiences they just layer
10:49 upon layer upon layer upon layer and when you have the
10:53 same feeling emotionally when something happens you’re just stacking it up and
10:58 you’ve got to learn to really get to the root of that and break it break it out
11:03 and you know that’s how we get the rapid rapid success through the shifts that
11:10 happen really quickly by recognizing understanding that whole life journey
11:16 and you know I don’t do a generational work but I truly believe while I can do
11:22 that with the psychic protection I haven’t utilized that so much because
11:26 it’s been a more recent thing but I would love to do more work without as
11:31 well and they I know people who do that and I’m happy to refer them to them as
11:35 well while I focus on what I I focus on so yeah it’s quite incredible isn’t it
11:42 that we don’t realize that we do carry a lot of I guess beliefs and insights from
11:51 our past especially on our female side all the way back you know like at least
11:56 7 generations and when you look back into you know like our great-great
12:01 grandmother’s and the times they lived in it certainly was completely different
12:05 to the times that we live in like even in my lifetime how different it’s changed
12:09 so yes carrying those generational beliefs and you know very limiting can
12:18 sort of unread like we have them without even realizing that we have them like a
12:25 lot of our beliefs aren’t even our beliefs are they know that’s exactly
12:29 right and that you absolutely nailed that Karen because you know we parents and
12:35 our grandparents and our you know and great-grandparents and so forth they all
12:40 did the best job they could with what they had to offer and you know don’t be
12:45 upset or angry with them about that because that’s not what it’s about it’s
12:49 about recognizing that see this is another area where women don’t believe
12:54 those beliefs can be changed but it’s simply an opinion and you can change your
13:00 opinion at any point in time and with the right tools and strategies
13:03 we can certainly you know work through that
13:06 have you understand exactly where that’s come from and know how to control that
13:11 in the future not going to say that it’s never going to come back but you’ll have
13:15 the tools to be able to work with that and manage that in the future to stop
13:20 those self-sabotage procrastination and people talk about the glass ceilings you
13:26 know glass ceilings are invisible you know that’s how I see it how do you know
13:31 there’s a glass ceiling when you can’t see it and you know I’ve become really
13:35 passionate about that phrase because you know people say oh no no I don’t have
13:41 any blocks or limits so why aren’t you taking your business to the next level like you
13:45 want to well you know I’m probably just happy sitting here doing this they
13:49 change their mind and what it is is you know there’s a limit there let’s have a
13:54 look at where that comes from and move through that and you know refocus
13:59 everything that’s around you and about you to what your real passion and
14:03 purpose is that can be simply which brings me to my next question which is
14:09 which has just come up actually through that conversation is one of the pillars
14:13 in the live life by design is all about your wealth creation now a lot of people
14:19 don’t realize their emotional attachment to money they probably haven’t even gone
14:24 into it probably don’t even realize that they may have a limiting belief around
14:28 money but a lot of the time we also can put ourselves like a limit or a ceiling
14:36 on how much we can earn so busting through that ceiling is I’m sure
14:43 something that you will assist your clients with am I correct yeah
14:47 absolutely and really if they’re already in business and you know I’ve helped and
14:54 one of the work is something part of the work that I do do working with
14:58 businesses who are stuck and we refocus exactly what they’re where they’re at
15:05 and we really drill into what they’ve got and often people are packaging their
15:10 information incorrectly to limit the way that they do it and you know when you
15:17 have say for example somebody who runs a business where they’re running all over
15:21 town to make appointments and meeting with these people because they’re
15:25 working on behalf of somebody else and then they find that you know they might
15:30 get four appointments a day instead of what they could do like this through
15:34 zoom or through you know other means they can do six or eight of these
15:41 appointments because they’re not traveling and all the initial inquiry
15:45 stuff can be done up front and then they package that as an initial enquiry and
15:51 then you know then they can bring that plus something else into the next part
15:58 and we went from having three prices which were quite quite a lot of work for
16:05 that person to having five or six packages where even if they only took
16:13 the bottom three she would have been only more money than what she was with
16:16 her top package and it all came down to time and the way that she was actually
16:21 the way she could create it and so those things you know people just don’t
16:27 realize that that’s the block it’s about seeing outside that and you know it’s
16:32 like anything I suppose we can all see that for other people we don’t always
16:35 see it for ourselves and that’s why I continually have work done with myself
16:41 inner work and healings and you know consultations with people who can
16:47 actually enhance where I’m at because I almost stop here i want to keep going exactly
16:53 and every don’t we all but then that comes and that brings me back to another
16:57 thing though and I always love talking about Marianne
17:00 Williamson and one of the things that most of us are actually really scared of
17:06 actually being over successful by shining our light because of the beliefs
17:13 of who am I to be that person yeah what gives me the right
17:19 you know when well what gives me the right I didn’t go to university I
17:24 finished in year ten I married into domestic violence I lost my way along
17:32 the way I had another two really bad
17:34 relationships what gives me the right what gives me the right is that all my
17:39 life experiences and the work that I’ve done since then has enhanced my natural
17:46 skills to create more for other women so every woman was put on this earth to be
17:54 extraordinary why are we sitting around being ordinary when there’s so much more
17:59 to life so true and the good thing is and we haven’t
18:03 even touched on this that you know is like my second pillow all about your
18:06 relationship you have found an amazing relationship haven’t you after all your
18:10 trials and tribulations oh look I was really blessed when I met my husband who
18:17 and still does literally worships the ground that I walk on and you know we
18:24 have really built a great life together and we’ve been together now 18 20 years
18:32 oh wow congratulations I think 18 years we’ve been together married for 14 in general in
18:41 February so you know what it’s just it’s it’s just been amazing and we even go
18:49 from that when sorry where you can go from that when you’ve got somebody who
18:54 truly supports you you know I’ve never had to be or put on being anyone other
19:01 than myself I’ve always been extremely true to myself I haven’t tried to
19:05 impress him in any other way mind you age comes with that as well I was over
19:09 40 when I met him so you know it’s it’s just yeah I mean just being when you find
19:18 out who you are and you’re true to yourself then you can actually truly
19:21 have a great relationship with somebody else and everybody else that comes into
19:25 your life that’s what I was going to say before you met your current husband you
19:29 had started to do the work on yourself hadn’t you you had to start taking the
19:33 hard steps looking in the mirror figuring out who you figuring out who
19:37 you wanted to be that’s right Karen you know and that’s
19:42 such a big important step you know get up everyday look at
19:46 yourself in the mirror tell yourself that you’re enough it’ll feel weird to
19:50 start with but you know then one client that I have had you know she texted me
19:57 text message earlier this year and she said you know what and she’s been doing
20:02 this way she kind of my course over two years ago and she said for the first
20:06 time Donna I actually told myself I love myself and I meant it oh wow how
20:12 beautiful is that that makes me cry another saying I heard quite recently and i thought was a
20:19 little bit better than fake it till you make it
20:21 I think it’s face to you make it because the more you face where you’re
20:25 at the more you’ll design a better way of doing things and then your not faking the
20:31 process like you know you’re on the road to becoming who you so want to be that’s
20:37 true and you know in the wording when you look at fake it till you make it
20:43 well you’re not being authentic no because you are faking yeah that’s why
20:48 I like face it till you make it yeah my number one pillar is all about
20:53 you so how do you look after you how do you have your downtime Wow how do I have
20:59 my downtime look I really listen to my body that’s the first thing I would have
21:02 to say good on you because when it makes a noise you know. I hope you don’t mean a bottom burp no no no well you know, I have to have a laugh
21:18 but when your body is telling you stuff quietly if you don’t listen to it it’s
21:24 going to start screaming at you and it’s all too late you’ve got to do so much
21:29 more work so my downtime is I listen to my body and come weekends if you know
21:36 I’m working in my office and I just go you know what I just can’t think
21:40 straight it’s time to go whether that’s lunch time whether it’s 5 o’clock in the
21:44 afternoon whatever time I just say you know what it’s time to wrap it up
21:48 because there’s no point in continuing I’m just going to push to the point and
21:53 I’ll go and sit down and watch a movie with Graham oh that so beautiful good on you
21:57 yeah so we’ll do that or you know we’re going to spend some time at the beach
22:02 and paddle our feet and just in and reground I have regular healings done
22:08 every month to detach anything that might have come into my field during
22:14 that month just for our viewers so that could be something like someone else’s
22:21 energies or what sort of other things might come and attach themselves to you yeah
22:26 look it’s energies it’s sometimes it’s parasitic sometimes it’s you know when
22:34 you when you push yourself as we all do because we know that there’s certain
22:39 things we have to achieve or want to achieve we choose to achieve and you
22:44 know you really can have your guard down a little bit if you’re a little bit
22:49 tired and you might walk into an area and haven’t done your protection
22:52 properly and therefore you know that’s and I know I feel it immediately I just
22:58 go oh my god I haven’t done it enough today and I just felt that come on and
23:04 there’s stuff that I can do to help myself I also go to a kinesiologist once
23:08 a month to just keep my gut and everything else working well and they
23:15 help with vitamins and things to get rid of you know any any bugs that I might
23:20 have picked up because you know there are things you don’t actually realize
23:24 you’ve got until it’s too late and then you know I’ve I’ve always had gut issues
23:29 for many many years and I’ve been going to this kinesiologist for over thirty
23:34 years now and you know really keeps me getting out of bed everyday I suppose on
23:41 a physical level but and mentally and emotionally and spiritually
23:46 it’s about meditation that’s about being positive it’s about creating a space
23:52 where I can actually feel happy doing what I’m doing and the minute I don’t
23:59 think you know it’s time to sort of look at that yeah so there’s many different
24:06:00 things that you can do to create that self self nurture and self-care and you
24:14:00 know there’s there’s probably more things that I do that I just can’t think
24:18:00 of off the top of my head as well I eat really well like eat really clean
24:23:00 obviously can’t do that when you go out a lot but you know my my eating habits
24:30:00 at home are really really clean because of because of the gut issues I’ve had as
24:34:00 well I have to be careful I eat yeah which is perfect and do you just very
24:39:00 quickly do you do your house environment as well do you cleanse your house energetically yes
24:44:00 yes I do I am I have a sage stick that I go through and just cleanse from time to
24:52:00 time I feel energies in the house and I feel in this particular home that we’re
24:58:00 in at the moment there’s some spirits that are around and I see them flash out
25:04:00 the corner of my eye but they’re all good there’s nothing here that is makes
25:10:00 me feel uncomfortable so I just you know I just let them be
25:13:00 but I do smudge from time to time when I feel a bad energy or when I feel that
25:18:00 something’s slipped so very much so we have crystals around you know I’m very
25:25:00 big on feng shui although if you saw my office today probably not so much but so
25:32:00 you know lots of little bits and pieces yeah no that’s perfect and it fits so
25:37:00 well in with the live love by design which is obviously why we’re having a
25:41:00 conversation today so I believe that you’ve got a free gift for our viewers
25:48:00 today I do Karen I’ve got 1-2-1 raise your vibration session that
25:56:00 I’m offering the listeners and viewers today so we’ll pop the links and I guess
26:03:00 I’ll have the links below this video where they can not only get in contact
26:08:00 with you but also download that free gift which is fantastic
26:12:00 yes so you know I’m happy to do that and if you’re interested you just need to
26:17:00 answer those questions and then I’ll email it back to me and I’m happy to set
26:22:00 up a call with you it doesn’t matter where you are in the world yeah we’ll
26:27:00 work a time out so yeah I work with people all around the world just so you
26:33:00 know and you know I can work around time zones no problem excellent so what is
26:40:00 the one thing that you want to be known for when you decide to leave this realm
26:46:00 and go on to your next adventure ah yes that’s kind of exciting to whatever that
26:52:00 might be I feel really good things about that I you know it’s really weird but
26:58:00 it’s been really in my focus lately and I don’t know why I should get it out of
27:02:00 my focus maybe you know it’s all in a good way it sound quite quite bizarre because
27:09:00 I’ve consciously been thinking about those things but what do I really want
27:14:00 to be known for I want to be known for you know I believe I was put on this
27:19:00 planet this time around to create a cultural change with women and you know
27:25:00 by them demanding respect by being respectful by demanding cultural change
27:32:00 by creating that cultural change in a movement of women and also by you know
27:39:00 being valued being limitless and being extraordinary every day and you know I
27:45:00 truly believe that women are such a force in numbers and I want to create
27:53:00 those numbers and move around the globe so that everybody can experience
27:59:00 magnificence and extraordinary lives and I’m sure you will do it Donna
28:04:00 I just think your an extraordinary woman I’ve heard your story I’ve heard you
28:08:00 speak on stage and I found you quite inspirational thank you and I’m really
28:13:00 grateful that you had time to chat with us today
28:17:00 it’s been fun and it definitely has been fun Karen so you know I love being able to help other women so that
28:27:00 as you do like you know that’s what we’re here for and to be able to work
28:32:00 together such an honor thank you so much No thank you for being our guest and
28:38:00 that’s the key that you’ve just touched on there is the fact that doing
28:42:00 it together it really is time that women actually raised each other it’s okay for
28:48:00 us to say the men are keeping us down but we’re not only keeping ourselves
28:52:00 down we’re also keeping the other women down and the more we actually bring
28:56:00 everyone along and assist everyone the more that we can actually have the
29:00:00 movement that we all want and desire exactly and you know what we’re
29:06:00 not in competition with anyone so let’s just start supporting wholeheartedly
29:11:00 with our emotional physical mental and spiritual being yeah I totally agree and I always say I’m only in
29:19:00 competition with yesterday me and that’s it yes well thank you again and I am so
29:27:00 grateful that you came along so thank you very much thanks Karen it’s been
29:32:00 absolutely great I’ve loved it bye-bye and that is another episode of
29:38:00 Live Love By Design TV don’t you just love Donna Ferguson she’s the most
29:44:00 extraordinary lady that I’ve met to actually move on from her initial
29:50:00 relationships that were not ideal that actually taught her that she could love
29:57:00 herself she could be anyone that she wanted to be so much so that she could
30:03:00 become a rapid success therapist that helps women to also become extraordinary
30:10:00 so make sure you take up her offer with the links that are just below this video
30:16:00 and reach out to her on social media and make sure you send any woman her
30:22:00 way who is ready to become extraordinary thank you and I look forward to sharing
30:29:00 another episode with you real soon