The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now

I was thinking a few weeks ago, “What do I want to talk about this week on the podcast?” and I had a flood of ideas and topics pop into my mind and none of them were calling to me at that time and I thought, “So many people ask about spirituality, why don’t I dig further into and talk about my experiences with a shaman?”

So, in this episode, I pull the curtain back a bit and share one of my most memorable experiences with a shaman/sorcerer. I could share many of these but that would be overwhelming so it’s better to just start with one and we’ll see how it goes.

What I’m sharing in this podcast is a non-ordinary event and at the very least an event that may be a good story if nothing else.

More than anything, my intention with this episode is to get you to start thinking about the world of the non-ordinary and the world that exists that you cannot physically observe with your sight or sound. My intention is to get you to really start thinking about the power you wield as a “cosmic being.”

Think about the world of physics, energy, and what’s real and not real. Science shows that we can only observe about 3% of what exists on the electromagnetic spectrum which means we miss most of like and what’s available to us.

Perhaps this episode can get you to start thinking about the world and your world of the non-ordinary and what’s really all around you.
Listen, apply, and enjoy!

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Start Your Transformation Now 

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin delivers an unflinching look at a truth most people never stop to examine, that the life they are living was not one they consciously chose. Drawing on decades of work in subconscious transformation, Jim makes the case that every belief a person holds about who they are, what they deserve, and what is possible was handed to them before they could ever question it. From family and religion to government, media, and the school system, Jim breaks down how every major institution has a vested interest in keeping people small, compliant, and dependent. 

Using the striking example of North Korea, where citizens are so conditioned they don't recognize they are living in a prison. Jim draws a direct parallel to the invisible walls most people in the Western world inhabit without ever seeing. The most dangerous prison, he argues, is the one with no walls at all. And the deepest form of this conditioning isn't political or religious — it is ontological. It is the lie that you are a small, limited physical being, when the truth of who you are is something far more vast than you have ever been allowed to believe. 

If you have ever felt stuck without knowing exactly why, this conversation is where understanding begins. Listen closely. 

What You’ll Discover in This Episode: 

(01:53) You were born into a story you didn't write — How the beliefs and limitations most people carry were already running before they took their first breath, inherited from family, culture, and institutions they never chose. 

(05:52) The most dangerous prison has no walls — Why the conditioning that keeps people trapped is invisible from the inside, and how defending the very system that brainwashed you is one of its most telling signs. 

(09:46) The illusions keeping you trapped were engineered — How governments, religions, corporations, and media share a common interest in keeping people obedient, dependent, and cut off from their own sovereign power. 

(17:56) The most damaging brainwashing is ontological — Why the deepest lie is about the very nature of your being, and how you were conditioned to believe you are far smaller than you actually are. 

(26:06) The core lie that keeps you playing small — Why every major system runs on one central belief that you are small, and why escaping it requires awareness, not techniques. 

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

Transformational Takeaway 

You did not choose the story you were handed. The beliefs running your life — about money, your body, what you deserve, and what is possible — were given to you by systems that needed you to stay small. That is not your truth. It never was. The work is not to fight the brainwashing or shame yourself for having been in it — every single one of us has been. The work is simply to become aware of it. Because the moment you can see the prison, you are already standing outside of it. 

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Jim

Start Your Transformation Now⁠ 

How To Have Peace of Mind In The Chaos All Around…that’s huge right? I mean,it would be amazing. And, I want you to know, it’s possible.

I’ve decided to change the content format of the podcast. I want to bring a more “spiritual” approach to the podcast and I start that this week. (Bear with me as I fumble a bit trying to find my content and delivery style for this new approach.)

In this episode, I talk about how to have peace of mind in the midst of what’s happening in the world and I approach it from a “spiritual” aspect.

In this episode I talk about:[11:47] How all the fear in the world is all “3D ego”[15:47] Reinforcement of the Be Do Have theme in the podcast and look at your BEing[21:15] How you’re responding to the world[22:50] What you’re learning about yourself in the world in the midst of this all[26:17] Taking advantage of the change in the world[27:32] Shamanism and letting a part of your ego “die”[29:15] Leaving your old life and routines for a new life[31:16] Letting your old “reality” die

And, overall, I talk about who you have to be and what you have to do to cultivate POM (Peace of Mind) through this huge life transition we’re all going through.

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

As I’m shifting content and thinking about what I want to share, again, bear with me and overall this whole episode is about you leaving the old you behind you as the result of this global situation.

Transformational Takeaway

Without fear you have POM.

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Start Your Transformation Now 

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin reveals a perspective on fear that most people have never considered — one that doesn't require techniques, hacks, or willpower. Drawing on decades of work with his shaman mentor Don Javier, Jim makes the case that everything most people do to fight fear — affirmations, breathing exercises, reframing, even sheer determination — is the very thing keeping fear alive. The real problem, he argues, isn't fear itself. It's the illusion that fear is real. 

Jim breaks down why fear has no place in the present moment, why it is always a story about a future that hasn't happened and likely never will, and why resisting fear is like throwing gasoline on a fire. From the neuroscience of the amygdala to ancient Buddhist wisdom, Jim draws a clear and practical distinction between being consumed by fear and simply observing it — and explains why that single shift changes everything. 

This episode doesn't offer a better way to fight fear. It offers something far more powerful: a way to see through it entirely. Listen closely. 

What You’ll Discover in This Episode: 

(03:51) Fear lives in the future, not the present — Why fear almost never exists in the actual present moment and how most people are unknowingly living now from something that hasn't happened yet. 

(08:16) Most of what you fear will never come to pass — The sobering truth that the vast majority of things people catastrophize about never materialize, and why suffering through fear is always optional. 

(10:12) Fear is a story, not a fact — How recognizing fear as a self-generated narrative — rather than an objective reality — is the moment it begins to lose its grip on you. 

(13:07) Why techniques and hacks make fear worse — The neuroscientific reason that fighting fear through tools and strategies actually amplifies it, and what Jim calls the resistance trap. 

(17:21) Observation dissolves what resistance amplifies — The Buddhist practice of naming and witnessing fear as an outside observer, rather than being consumed by it, and why this creates genuine freedom. 

(29:26) Surrender is not weakness — it's the only way out — Why accepting what is in the present moment, rather than trying to control an outcome that can never be guaranteed, is the true path to eliminating fear for good. 

Listen, apply, and enjoy! 

Transformational Takeaway 

Fear is not your enemy — it is a story your mind has been telling you so convincingly that you forgot it was a story at all. Every fear you carry is a thought about the future, lived as if it were a fact right now. And the harder you fight it, the more real it becomes. The way out is not force — it is observation, surrender, and the quiet recognition that right now, in this breath, you are okay. The next time fear comes knocking, name it. Recognize it as a story. You are not the fear. You are the awareness watching it arise — and that is exactly where your freedom lives. 

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Jim

⁠Start Your Transformation Now

Money, money, money…it’s what 80% of my listeners struggle with and it’s the thing that’s easiest to attract, really.

So, at least 80% of you can relate to my opening line and the rest are either doing “OK” or well and would like to do better.

So, if money is so easy to attract then how come you’ve had such a hard time with it? Easy, I give you that answer in this episode, and no, it’s not some “pie-in-the-sky” answer. It’s practical and it will make perfect sense to you.

Trust me, I know how easy it is to get lost in podcasts and episodes and books and content and this direct message will be easy for you,that’s why I titled the episode, “please get it.” Until you “get it,” you'll keep having problems.

So…..listen and listen several times if you need to and this episode is the “ah-ha” as to why you may have listened to other of my episodes and you’re still struggling.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway
Listen to the episode to discover it.

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