Episode 114 – Georgiana Danet

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Georgiana Danet 0:00
And I was telling people, I’m going to start the yoga schools, and they say, “Now, is not going to work. It’s too exotic.” It was the only yoga school in the whole country at that time. And I said, “You know what, all people want to be healthy and they wish to be happy, no matter the country, no matter the language. I will start and we will see.” So when I started school, in the first group, I had 70 people, 7-0 of me speaking in English to them in a small town where they weren’t not accustomed to having classes in English. So, my perseverance, tenacity.

Richard Matthews 0:46
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And welcome back to The Hero Show. My name is Richard Matthews and I’m live on the line today with Georgiana Danet. Georgiana, are you there?

Georgiana Danet 1:47
Yes, I’m here. Hi, Richard, how are you today?

Richard Matthews 1:51
I am doing wonderful and Georgiana. You said before we got on the line. You’re coming to us all the way from Sweden across the pond. Is that right?

Georgiana Danet 1:59
Yes, that is.

Richard Matthews 2:01
Awesome. So, I really look forward to visiting Sweden someday in my life. I have it on my bucket list of places to go. But for our audience who is following along with our journey, we travel full time and we are currently still in Kissimmee, Florida in our travels where we’ve been sort of stuck for our whole Coronavirus thing here in the States. So we can’t travel as much because of all the restrictions they have in place. So, anyways, that’s where we’re coming in from. So, what I want to do real quick for you, Georgiana is run through a quick introduction, and then we’ll get into start talking about your stories. Sound good? Awesome. So, Georgiana is a spiritual teacher, outright optimist and lover of positivity, and she runs the Holistic Life Hub, which is an online hub with the mission of inspiring and offering practical tools in the form of online master classes and resources to anyone who wants to turn your life into a source of balanced health and harmony. So, with that brief introduction, Georgiana, why don’t you start off by telling us a Little bit about who you are and what you’re known for? What are your actual products and services? And who do you help?

Georgiana Danet 3:05
So, my story’s a little bit when I was a teenager, I will make the long story short. I was, I was living. So I live in Sweden now, but I am from India. And so I lived in Romania, which was a communist country with the dictator. And everything related to spirituality was forbidden. I think it was the only country in the world doing that, like that. And when the dictator was killed, then everything that was related to spirituality really exploded because it was being devoid of that. And being a teenager, I was a little bit as probably most teenagers could relate to that I was, I felt that nobody understands me and I want to change my destiny. So I went, I saw a poster lecture about yoga. I went to the lecture, I listened to the it was like an introductory lecture to the yoga class starting soon. And then at the end of the lecture, the teacher said, “If you don’t have questions, please do ask. But if you don’t want to ask the questions in front of the whole audience, just wait until the end comes up on the stage. And you can ask us personally.” I waited till the end, I went up on the stage, and I asked, “Can I change my destiny with yoga?” And they said, “Yes.” Then I will start. So I started practicing yoga 31 years ago. And the main idea was this, I wanted to change my destiny by starting to practice and understood that Yoga is a very complex system, which does much more than just that. So I wanted to pay it forward, given myself after approximately three years after I myself started, and I really was hooked into it and I still am because it transformed my life completely to the better.

So, I am very passionate about helping others with almost any range of problems from physical problems, physical health, to mental health and everything in between. Right now, I am focused mostly on helping people eliminate stress, especially because nowadays I know this also because of the current situation with the so-called pandemic. It’s a stressful, it’s really an unprecedented and very stressful situation. So now I focus on helping people understand what stresses what is the root cause of stress and eliminate the stress not only managing because you manage stress, you just go in and circles you get stressed, you manage it, you get stressed, you manage it, and so on. But if you understand what is the root cause of it and you eliminate it, then you will get stress-free and you will have to stay stress-free.

Richard Matthews 6:18
Awesome. So, in all of that, how did you sort of get into running your holistic life up? Was it just sort of like natural outgrowth of practicing yoga? You started helping other people do the same thing like how did that happen for you?

Georgiana Danet 6:33
I started teaching the holistic yoga system 28 years ago, and I still do. I run non-profit associations, which is offline. But then a couple of years ago, I came up with this idea. I can actually reach more people if I also do it online. So this is how I started with Holistic Life Hub, with online courses because even if I travel quite a lot, I have been invited to 15 countries so far. Still, I want people to have 24 hours per day so I can help. I thought that I can help more by starting an online hub. That was the idea.

Richard Matthews 7:24
Awesome. So, just to recap real quick. You started in a communist country where any sort of religious study at all was completely banned. Is that right?

Georgiana Danet 7:37
Yes, but they started right after the dictator was killed and the so-called democracy was installed. Yeah,

Richard Matthews 7:49
That’s really interesting because like, for a lot of our listeners who are mostly going to be American or British or Australian, they’re not used to like in our lifetime. We haven’t experienced anything like that.

Georgiana Danet 8:01
No. And I really wish that you will never experience it because it was not. It was not the life anyone should have. Really.

Richard Matthews 8:12
Absolutely. So it was, after you sort of had some of the basic freedoms installed in your country, you’re able to move into actually doing things that changed your life. That’s where you found yoga and sort of got direction for your life and moved that into now. You said 28 years later, you teach people online, you have a nonprofit organization that you teach yoga, and you have classes and whatnot that you teach online for holistic health. Is that right?

Georgiana Danet 8:40
Yes, exactly. So basically, I run two, I don’t, I will never call them businesses. So I run two spiritual schools, the offline, which is a nonprofit, so I don’t take paid anything for it. And then the online which is, I do my best to support myself with the headphones.

Richard Matthews 9:03
Awesome. So, from communist dictatorship to running to successful organizations, so that’s really cool. It’s a really cool origin story, right? We talked on the show all the time about it, you know, every good comic book hero has an origin story. It was really cool to share your … perspective. Because, you know, most of the people we have on this show they’re Americans who grew up with that freedom. So to sort of see that transition into having that freedom be able to grow your business the way that you have. That’s really cool. So the next question I have for you is your superpowers, right? We say on the show all the time, every iconic hero has a superpower, right? Whether that’s a fancy flying suit made by a genius, intellect or the ability to call down thunder from the sky. In the real world heroes have what I call a zone of genius, right? It’s a skill or it’s a set of skills that you’re either born with or you developed over your life that really energizes the rest of what you do this superpower so to speak, because what says apart allows you to help people slay their villains right and come out on top in their own journeys. What is your superpower in terms of your business? What is it that you do?

Georgiana Danet 10:09
I would have to say that is the tenacity, perseverance never to give up. Even when I moved to Sweden, I had one suitcase with me, with the yoga seat with the yoga papers, and some clothes. And I started the yoga schools in a city where I just now knew one person, I didn’t speak the language. I didn’t have any connection. So people were saying I was also I am still living in an area in Sweden where they have as a kind of a motto. That’s not going to work. And I was telling people I’m going to start the yoga school, and they’ll say “No, its not going to work. It’s too exotic.” It was the only yoga school in the whole country. At that time I said you know what, all people want to be healthy and they wish to be happy no matter the country, no matter the language. I will start and we will see so when I started the schools in the first group I had 70 people seven zero me speaking in English to them in a small town where they were not accustomed to having classes in English. So my perseverance, tenacity and I was sent to one of my friends … captured with a bird trying to swallow a frog. So the frog was holding the bird by the neck. You know, the frog almost in the mouth of the bird, but holding the neck of the bird and I was writing under the character told me the frog is me, and the bird Sweden.

Richard Matthews 12:03
That’s funny. So, just so I can get a clearer picture when you say you didn’t speak the language, What language did you speak and what language they speak in Sweden?

Georgiana Danet 12:12
So, in Sweden, I speak Swedish and when I started the yoga classes, I was speaking in English, I was holding the classes in English they speak English, because it’s the second language they learned in school. So the first language is Swedish and then English, but they are not used to having classes in another language than their own. But still, it’s worked. So perseverance, I have to say that my superpower is tenacity, perseverance.

Richard Matthews 12:43
I love that. I can’t remember who it was. Exactly. I think it might have been Winston Churchill who said, “Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give up.” Right. And I think a lot of entrepreneurs who have get something started the reason that they don’t succeed and will have their businesses last over the long term, right? Like you said, you’ve been doing this for over 28 years. It’s because they don’t have that perseverance and tenacity to stick it out and keep going. And it’s definitely a superpower.

Georgiana Danet 13:09
And just as a funny thing. We had a lot of difficulties. I had a lot of difficulties with nonprofit organizations. But still, I never, I never gave up. And we almost had no locations, no venue any longer. But it was like, last minute miracle we found a new place to move and to have the classes there. So I had a person who knew me since the beginning when I started with the nonprofit association and he was kind enough to come to the inauguration to the grand opening of the new place and he compared me to wisdom. And he said, “It’s not about the looks. This one never gives up.”

Richard Matthews 13:26
Awesome, to be compared to someone like Winston Churchill. And it’s true, right? Like, it’s that that tenacity is really what sets, it sets anything apart, right? Whether that’s, you know, a long term relationship for a husband and wives once the last 50 plus years, so that your businesses to any skills that you want to develop, it’s you know, I tell people all the time it’s, you know, we vastly underestimate what we can accomplish in a year and vastly underestimate what we can accomplish in 10. Right? If you have the tenacity to put in the work every single day over the long term, you can grow a successful organization in pretty much any space you want.

Georgiana Danet 14:33
And I strongly believe that if you find something which is really good, really beneficial, and you believe in it, then no matter the obstacles, you just go for it. You go for it until you make it work until you succeed with it. So I usually tell my students, if you succeeded, continue if you didn’t succeed, continue, so don’t don’t give up.

Richard Matthews 14:59
Absolutely. You know, I have done some of that extreme yoga stuff. And it’s the same kind of thing, right? Even when you start some of those moves that are really difficult, you have to have that tenacity to keep trying and keep going. And I remember, there were a couple of the poses when I was first learning it, I can’t remember what they’re called, but they were really, really hard. And the first week that I did them, I couldn’t. I couldn’t even hold them for like a second or two before falling over and like three or four or five months in, you can hold them for a long time, right? You have to have the capacity to actually build up the skills that actually do the yoga that you teach.

Georgiana Danet 15:31
Exactly. And I have been practicing yoga daily for 31 years since day one I started. So I had experience when I was practicing 16 hours per day, because it felt so good. I couldn’t stop. So I was practicing 16 hours per day, then I didn’t have the time because you have a family and a job and other things to do, but still I practice at least four hours per day. My priority.

Richard Matthews 16:01
That’s awesome. And I would imagine that it makes you very fit and healthy as well.

Georgiana Danet 16:07
I haven’t been sick for the last 31 years, I just only had the cold. But I don’t remember when it was a long time ago and it was my fault because I went out without the necessary clothes.

Richard Matthews 16:25
That makes sense. And it’s interesting too, one of the things that I think entrepreneurs regularly forget is that you have to take care of yourself first before you can take care of your organization. Right? Before you can take care of other people. You have to be healthy, you have to be in shape. You have to take care of yourself because if you’re sick or dead, you can’t, you can’t take care of the organization, you can’t grow, you can’t help other people.

Georgiana Danet 16:49
Exactly. So it’s like a duty towards the others to take care of yourself first so that we are fit and you have good health and your mind functions properly and you can set them much better when you take care of yourself because otherwise how can you take care of others? It’s ridiculous.

Richard Matthews 17:10
It’s like the whole airplane thing right? Put the mask on yourself first before you put the mask on the person next to you. It’s just like a rule for life. When my next question for you is about your fatal flaw, right? So, every Superman has his kryptonite, and Wonder Woman can’t remove her bracelets and victory without going mad. You probably have some sort of flaw that has held you back in your business, something that you struggled with, for me, it was things like perfectionism that kept me from shipping or lack of self care that I allowed my clients to walk all over me. Maybe it’s being something like a visionary and not being, you know, lacking the discipline to actually implement on all the things that you want to do, which are all things that I struggled with. But more important than the flaw is, its rectification like how you solved it. So how have you worked to overcome that flaw? So you can continue to grow in your organization and hopefully sharing that will help some of our audience. You might struggle with the same things that you’ve struggled with.

Georgiana Danet 18:03
So I will have two big ones, which I’m still working on patience. I am not the, patience is not exactly my forte, or a strong point. And I have a certain image speed, so to say. So, now I’m not always very patient when I’m not, when I noticed that not everybody has the same speed as I do. I want to learn at a quick pace.

So everything with me is a little bit high speed. And it’s not always good. Because I understood that quite early, that we all have our own speeds or whatever. I call it the speed of evolution. And now I have to respect that everybody we have our own tempo, our own spins of transforming and pushing, pushing it, it will do more damage than good. So now I’m much better at having patience with everybody around me. For many years, 25, 28, 30 years ago, I was getting annoyed by people who are slow. Now I don’t have any problem with that anymore. But I know I have to work having patience with myself because I’m pushing myself all the time. So this is my kryptonite. Unfortunately, I still work on it.

Richard Matthews 19:37
And it’s an interesting thing. I love the idea of having you call it the revolutions, the speed of revolution, which is a really interesting way to think about it. Right. And I know we’re dealing with that a lot right now in my family because we got kids going through school and realizing that like my kids don’t learn at the same pace that I do. They have their own pace, and they have their own things that they’re going through. And getting upset at them for not learning it the way that house quickly is I would have learned it or in the same way that I would have learned it is not helpful.

Georgiana Danet 20:09
Wow.

Richard Matthews 20:11
And the same kind of thing, I’m learning and you know, I’ve got employees now in my organization, that same kind of thing with, you know, the way that someone might do a task or the way that someone is different than I would do it. And I’m having to learn that like the journey for them doesn’t have to be the same as the journey that I would have gone through as long as we get to the destination that we’re looking to get to.

Georgiana Danet 20:32
Yes.

Richard Matthews 20:32
And that’s an important skill to learn. And it’s something that I’m working on learning as well. But yeah, that’s an interesting point.

Georgiana Danet 20:40
Yeah, I am. And because my training does not consist only of practicing physical poses. It also consists of observing a lot, my mind, my attitudes, my thoughts, my reactions, and paying attention, a lot of what goes on inside So to say, so when I noticed that I’m about to lose my patience, I always ask why. What do you want to achieve? And to what is annoying you what is irritating you right now and why? And then this is enough to understand that many times what makes me a little bit irritated when things go slow is my ego. And I understand that I just relax. I put the ego aside and then I allow everything to happen at their own pace. No matter if it’s a situation, if it’s other people, and I do this also with myself, not as good as I would like, but I do my best.

Richard Matthews 21:50
That’s really, really smart. I actually had someone on my podcast A while back. His name is Dr. Nick Lucas. Anyone who’s listened to this wants to go back and listen to that episode. He talks about that concept of questioning your instincts, right? So you know, you’re when you have things like, you’re losing your patience, you have things that maybe you’re angry or you’re afraid. Those are like, they’re physical responses in your body. And they happen for a reason, right? And like you mentioned, a lot of times yours is ego. And all it takes is just questioning those physical responses, you know, why am I afraid here? Or why am I upset here? And sometimes you have to go a few layers deep to find out what it is. But once you find out what it is, you can be like, Oh, that’s just my ego, right? My ego is not, you know, I don’t I don’t need to, I don’t need to stroke my ego, that’s fine. You can set that aside, right? Or if it’s a fear, you can be like, Okay, so what’s the worst thing that could happen here? Right, and you can lay that out and play out. Okay, that’s actually not as bad as I imagined and you can, it’s that questioning of those fundamental physical responses you have to situations, you know, those were built into us, right? They’re not bad. They’re just a manager. You have to learn how to manage them. And I think It’s super smart that you’re learning to question those responses and learn how to move past them.

Georgiana Danet 23:07
Yes, because it helps a lot, having a little bit of distance, so that you can be much more aware of what is going on. And instead of just reacting on autopilot because of your habits because of your mental and emotional patterns, when you question when you take a little bit of it helps you take a little bit of distance and be aware. And then you choose consciously how you want to act instead of just reacting automatically. So I think it’s a good practice, I find it a good practice.

Richard Matthews 23:44
I completely agree. So my next question for you then has to do with your common enemy, right? So every superhero has their arch nemesis, a thing that they constantly have to fight against in their world. In the world of business. It takes many forms, but generally speaking, we put it in the context of your clients, right? The people that you actually work with. And it’s generally a mindset or it’s a flaw that you’re constantly sort of running into, that you have to fight to overcome with them so they can get better results for whatever it is that you offer, right? So for you and your clients, what’s the thing that you constantly sort of have to fight against with them so that they can get the results they come to you for?

Georgiana Danet 24:19
So one thing that the number one thing that I notice is that people have a misconception about what the yoga system is. They think that Yoga is just practicing some funny looking strange poses, chanting mantras, and that’s it. But actually the real yoga authentic yoga is a super complex system, which comprises physical training, mental training, psychology, medicines, philosophy, astrology. Understanding the cycles of life, understanding the cycles of nature, events. So it’s amazing when you draw a parallel with science in yoga, many of the aspects in yoga, if you read the quantum physics book, or you read the authentic Yoga Book, they speak the same language. So it’s absolutely amazing. So, Yoga is not just some exotic, funny looking pose, practice. It’s a science of self-development. So this is the number one aspect I need to clear it up with people. So they understand that when we practice something together, it will not just be about some physical poses, which are unusual. It’s much more than that.

Richard Matthews 25:47
My question that is sort of in response to that is how does understanding what they’re doing change the outcome they get? Right? So if you’re looking at what we’re doing at these companies, likes poses whether or not you understand the system you might still get the physical benefits but does understanding everything that’s going into it actually change the results that people get?

Georgiana Danet 26:09
Of course, because if you don’t understand what your practice is only aerobics so of course you’ll get some muscles working better but you’ll not get the results you can get when you have, when you’re conscious about what physical, medical, psychic mental, intellectual and spiritual effects every single technique you practice has. So, for example, and then there are some exercises which are similar in gymnastics and people practicing them in gymnastics don’t get the same results as Yoga’s practicing exactly the same physical exercise with this awareness with mental concentration. So if you don’t understand what you practice, you will get some results, maybe 10% of the results but not 100%. So, if you don’t know what you do, if you don’t have the awareness and the mental focus upon what you do, you’ll not be able to get the results. No matter how tenacious you practice, you can practice them eight hours per day, still, you’ll get some muscles toned. And that’s it. But if you practice yoga as you should, and, again, it’s not only physical training, it’s much more than that. Then you can get you to improve your health to the point that you will never get sick. Basically, you will enhance your emotional abilities a lot. You will expel a lot of unhealthy emotional patterns and build healthy ones. You will improve your mental abilities to the border of paranormal powers so to say. Yes, we if you are speaking about superpowers, then you can even there are people and I know there are people who increased their IQ. And if you speak to a scientist, they will say, you are born with an IQ you will die with the same. It’s not true. And we can prove it. There are people with enhanced their IQ, and much more you will discover who you really are, we are a little bit more than just born flesh, some thoughts and some feelings, much more than that.

Richard Matthews 28:37
So, just a follow on question that since I think it might apply more broadly, is the idea of learning and understanding what you’re practicing. Do you think that applies to things other than yoga? Right? So like is your self development, your business skills? How do you think that sort of understanding what you’re doing, how do you think that applies in other areas?

Georgiana Danet 28:59
So I’m on the practical ones, like can you run, say pragmatic? So I noticed since I was quite young, that if you understand what you do, you can obtain maximum results with minimum effort. So you can call me a practical one, or you can call me a lazy one. I want to help-

Richard Matthews 29:19
I do the same thing.

Georgiana Danet 29:21
I want to have the maximum results, if possible with a minimum of effort. And when you understand the mechanisms, then you can go directly to the source of it, instead of just going around and testing around until you find how it works best. So, understanding from my personal experience is crucial in accelerating your transformations. No matter if it’s self development, or it’s the transformation of your business or whatever it is, relationships. Applies to everything.

Richard Matthews 30:04
I like that idea to have, when you really understand something, it allows you to, you know, maybe you’re really practical or maybe you’re just lazy. I tell people all the time, like we get, we get compliments all the time on how well behaved our kids are, we have four of them. So our house is kind of crazy. But we have a really detailed and strict discipline, routine that we go through, which allows our kids to have a lot of freedom, because they know all their boundaries really clearly. And people are like, oh, that seems like it’d be really hard. And I’m like, it’s actually it makes our home our life really, really easy. And so like we do the hard work of understanding the system of discipline and setting it up in our house. And we get the benefit of like, a life of ease, so to speak, because our children are well-behaved in their pleasure to be around. Other people like to be hanging out with them, that kind of thing. And I see that happening in a lot of a lot of areas right, relax. You know, I’ve got my business systems and like when we really nail down your business systems, which can take months or years to really get them perfected, then you can step away from them, they can run themselves, right. So it might be that you’re practical, but it also might be that you’re just so lazy. I want to put in all the effort up front and really understand it and really get it done. So that’ll do itself.

Georgiana Danet 31:20
Wait, I’m both, I admit.

Richard Matthews 31:25
Cool. So my next question for you then is the flip side, right. So the flip side of your common enemy is your driving force. Right? It’s just like Spider Man fights to save New York or Batman fights to save Gotham or Google fights to index and categorize all the world’s information. What is it that you fight for? Your mission, so to speak,

Georgiana Danet 31:46
I fight for helping people understand. They have capacities beyond their imagination. They can Much more than they even can imagine they can do. So I fight for really opening up the minds of people so they understand they have abilities and capacities, much wider and greater than they even know about. So they can understand that they can even science. So the holistic system, the holistic yoga system and the science, they say the same thing, we use approximately 5% of our abilities. So we met in the most really unsalted overheads the most happy state you ever felt the most intense pleasure we ever felt? It’s 5% of what you can imagine 100% I cannot but I’m working or who really wants to have 100% of my abilities awakened. So, I want to go for it not only for myself, but also for the people that I’m coming into contact with. So I say that everything is possible. Not everything is permitted. So we have to make use of common sense and compassion. So no matter what we do we do it in such a way that we don’t hurt others or ourselves. But everything is possible. I strongly believe that everything is possible.

Richard Matthews 33:31
I love that right. One of the things that I’ve always really believed is that when you take people and you help raise them up to their greatest potential, that is what’s going to solve all of our world’s problems, right? Because, you know, everything from hunger, to disease, to energy crisis is all the things that we struggle with as a species can be solved as we start to lift people up and help them understand what they’re actually capable of. So I’m not excited that you’re out doing that work.

Georgiana Danet 34:03
Yes, because if everybody will be having a good state of health, and they will be happy and content and at peace and stress -free just imagine the whole population having that as a basic level. Of course the world in which we live will look totally different.

Richard Matthews 34:29
Yeah, everything would get better as a result, right because they would have, they would be able to turn their attention to solving the problems and improving the human condition.

Georgiana Danet 34:39
Definitely and in time that I believe that in time, there will be almost no problems left to solve, when everybody will just be in now the holistic yoga system says that our natural state is perfect health and unconditional happiness, anything else. But that is not our natural state. So imagine everybody just enjoying their natural state, perfect health, unconditional happiness.

Richard Matthews 35:10
Yeah, and my only thought on that is because we are falling we will probably find ways to give ourselves struggles just so we can struggle but who knows, we’ll see what happens when we reach that place.

Georgiana Danet 35:24
Well, we can have one, we can have one struggle to make the ego smaller and smaller, and we can struggle with that for the rest of our life.

Richard Matthews 35:33
I like that. I like that idea. So we have something to struggle with all the time because for some reason, we like to have struggles. And you know, we can struggle to make the lives of those around us better, and struggle to make the next generation have a better starting point than our generation did. Those are good struggles to have.

Georgiana Danet 35:49
Definitely, I would go for that. My Amazon … I will go for that.

Richard Matthews 35:57
The Amazon what’s her name, the …

Georgiana Danet 36:02
Xena, warrior.

Richard Matthews 36:03
I love Xena, she was one of my favorite characters growing up. So I want to talk a little bit about some practical things. I call this the Heroes Toolbelt right. So just like every superhero has a tool belt with awesome gadgets like batterangs and web slingers or laser eyes, I want to talk about top one or two tools that you couldn’t live without in your business could be anything from your notepad, your calendar, your marketing tools, something you use for product delivery, anything you think is essential to getting the job done that you do in your business top one or two tools that you use every day.

Georgiana Danet 36:36
So my top one tool that I use every day, even if it’s maybe a little bit unusual, is my meditation practice. That’s my … Because

Richard Matthews 36:52
– for us?

– meditation?

Georgiana Danet 36:55
Yes. So I always start and end my day with meditation. So before I do anything, so as soon as I wake up, I am still in the bed. And I sit in a meditation pose for 15 to 20 minutes, I do meditation in which I connect to myself. So I am really grounded in myself. And I am thankful for the new day. For the chance to develop even more, for the chance to be of help. And then after that I start whatever I have to do, and I do my best to keep in that state while I do other things, so I don’t lose this awareness and this gratitude. And then at the end of the day, I do another meditation in which I simply am grateful and thankful for everything that I’ve experienced during the day. Both the good aspects and the difficult aspects because both of them are helping me to grow as a person. So this is my number one tool. No matter what I do. And this you can call it mindfulness if you want, but meditation practice.

Richard Matthews 38:12
I’ve heard a lot about meditation and how potent it can be for, for people to grow. It’s not something I’ve ever done, but it’s something that I think I want to, at some point add to my daily routine. I’ve been doing a little bit of meditation with my health coach I’ve been working with. And I just, it’s been really interesting cuz it helps you sort of set your day up more. So something I would like to learn a little bit more about in my own life. So yes, it’s really interesting that that’s your number one thing you think that is helping push your business forward is meditation.

Georgiana Danet 38:41
Yes, because it keeps my mind focused, clear. I can. For example, I can focus on a task for 12-14 hours with no interruption. And this is of great help. Because running two businesses at the same time, I don’t have 48 hours per day, I still have 24 hours per day. So I have to be efficient. And for me, being efficient means having a very sharp mental focus. So I’m focused on it. I’m concentrated if I’m efficient at what I do. I don’t mind doesn’t run amok. I have it there, focused. So without meditation, I don’t believe I would be having the same capacity. Honestly speaking.

Richard Matthews 39:28
Yeah, I love that. I love the idea that you can expand your capacity by just it’s like you’re tapping into those extra percentages right where you can instead of working at 5%, your work at 10 you can get twice as much stuff down to someone who hasn’t taken the effort to focus their mind and really open up the resources you have available to you.

Georgiana Danet 39:47
Yes, and this just is a small joke that is a Zen saying, “Everybody needs to meditate 20 minutes per day and if you feel you don’t have the time, then you need to meditate for an hour.”

Richard Matthews 40:02
Like that you have to meditate for an hour.

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And now we’re back to The Hero Show.

I move on a little bit and talk about your own personal heroes. Right so every hero has their mentors. Frodo had Gandalf. Luke had Obi Wan Kenobi. Robert Kiyosaki had his rich dad and Spider Man had his Uncle Ben, Who were some of your heroes, were they real life mentors, were they speakers or authors, peers who were maybe a couple years ahead of you, and how important were they what you have accomplished over the years with your organizations?

Georgiana Danet 42:03
So my number one hero is my yoga Master, but he’s a very, very modest person, but really an extraordinary person and he doesn’t want to be called a spiritual master. He says, the spiritual guides but in my eyes in my heart he is a spiritual master is the one that I learned everything that I do from and he he opens a wide horizon for me with this Gemini and yoga system that I’ve learned. And another hero, I don’t know, maybe you’ve heard Yoga Mamba. She also wrote a book, which is called The Autobiography of a Yogi. And then in that book, Yogananda speaks about his spiritual journey, so to say, and he was meeting some Yogi’s Having paranormal powers. I’ve always been fascinated by superheroes and paranormal powers since I was a kid. So reading that book motivated me a lot to practice until I will also achieve the same. So I believe that if somebody else could do it, and with the right methods, I can also do that. So these watch, these are two of my heroes.

Richard Matthews 43:30
So just because I’m insanely curious, when you say like extraordinary powers, what kind of extraordinary powers are we talking?

Georgiana Danet 43:38
For example, it was telepathy for one of the powers for their materialization and materializations. Reading the thoughts of others, for example, in one of the stories so if you like this with the superheroes Autobiography of a Yogi is a delight to read. In one of the stories he was speaking about a yoga master who was eating very loosely every day. So he was … and his disciples were very worried about him because he was eating so little. And he was so skinny, they really wished for him to put a little bit of weight on, and he could read their thoughts and just as an act of divine compassion, he put on 25 kilos in one minutes under their eyes, just like that. This type of stories and is a thick book full of this,

Richard Matthews 44:46
It sounds like you might have to pick that up and read it if only for the entertainment value of seeing some, you know, real world superheroes. So my next question for you has to do with your guiding principles. One of the things that makes heroes heroic is that they live by code. For instance, Batman never kills his enemies, he always puts them in the Arkham Asylum. So as we wrap up this interview, I talked about top one or two principles that you put into practice every day in your life, maybe something you wish you’d known when you first started out on your own Hero’s Journey all those years ago.

Georgiana Danet 45:20
Right now, in the place where I am, and I’m not speaking of the physical place, I always say that the number one value is compassion.

And these abilities of self sacrifice in the service of others, and they go hand in hand, if you don’t have compassion, you will not be very good at sacrificing yourself for the good of others. So right right now, this is what motivates me the most.

Richard Matthews 45:58
Yeah, I really like that right. And when one of the things that I talk about all the time on this show and in my life with my kids and my family is the idea that everything you do should be in service of others, right? Whether that’s, you know, running a podcast like this and taking the time to really listen to the other person and hear their stories, or it’s your services that you offer in your business, or it’s building relationships with your kids, your wife, right? It’s all in service to the person and realizing that like, hey, if that whole self sacrifice, that when you put the other person first, your needs get met on the backside, they get it comes back to you, because that’s just sort of it’s the law of the universe, so to speak. That’s how the world works. And learning how to operate that way is a difficult thing, but it’s something I think, is it really worthwhile to think through everything you’re doing and how are you doing this in service of other people?

Georgiana Danet 46:51
So for example, the holistic system the holistic yoga system is having several types of yoga so if you say that you practice yoga and saying nothing, you need to put a prefix to it and say I practice hatha yoga or I practice hot Kundalini Yoga, or you can say, like this integral yoga or holistic yoga, which means the whole system and in one of the forms, it says like this, my greatest happiness is to make the other one happy. If we are raised like this, since we are kids, instead of I need to find somebody to make me happy. Many things will be quite different.

Richard Matthews 47:32
I completely agree. I was just having that conversation with my son earlier today about living his life. So you’re making the other person happy, instead of looking to make yourself happy and how much easier it is to achieve your own happiness when you live that way. So hopefully that has an impact on his life as he grows up. I tell him that all the time, but –

Georgiana Danet 47:54
I’m sure it will. I’m sure it will because it’s such a shift of perspective. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone but at least in my family, that was the narrative that when I grow up, I will have to find the men that will make me happy. And then thankfully, I started with yoga when I was a teenager, and I learned that my greatest happiness will be to make somebody else happy. And it’s helped me a lot. So I’m sure that this will also help your kids.

Richard Matthews 48:26
Yeah, it’s one I tell people all the time. It’s a secret to my happy relationship with my wife is that pretty much everything I do that I do for I try to figure out how I can make her happy today and how I can put a smile on her face. Whether that’s, you know, buying her a Snickers bar, when I come back from the grocery store or something like that. I’ve always tried to figure out what’s another way I can make my wife smile today. And you know, it’s one of those things that you can’t. I can’t control what she does for me, right? I can’t control her. I can’t control the people around me. The only thing I kept control over is things that I do. So if I live In that way and all of my relationships, it’s amazing the kind of reciprocity you get back from people, right?

Georgiana Danet 49:06
Yes.

Richard Matthews 49:07
It changes the game and something that you have control over, which I think is the coolest part, right? Because if you want to change the way that everyone interacts with you, you can change yourself, right? You can be the one who’s like, how can I make the other person happy? How can I serve them? And when you have that attitude with everyone that you work with, whether it’s your kids or your wife, or your friends or the people in your business, your employees, you’re like, how can I make them happy? It comes back, right because people just can’t help it. They can’t help but have that reciprocity.

Georgiana Danet 49:37
Definitely, definitely. And it’s even a well-known saying of Proverbs that if you want to revolutionize the world, or somebody else by starting by transforming by revolutionising yourself first in them, it will have it will be like ripples on water.

Richard Matthews 50:00
I love it. That’s it. I think that’s a good place to sort of end our interview on that discussion. And I want to, with that, wrap our interview and talk, one little thing, I finished all of our interviews with something I call the hero challenge. And it’s pretty simple. And basically, it’s a selfish thing I do to get us access to stories we might not otherwise find on our own. So the question is simple. Do you have someone in your life or in your network that you think has a cool entrepreneurial story? Who are they? First names are fine and why do you think they should come share their story? here with us on the hero show?

Georgiana Danet 50:33
The spontaneous thought that appeared in my mind is my husband who is a musician. And also he’s doing something which I enjoy very much. Sound healing with .. Sound healing, yes.

Richard Matthews 50:52
That’s a thing I’ve never heard of. That’s really interesting.

Georgiana Danet 50:55
Yes, he is. He is. I say this month because he’s my husband. I can be objective and have the distance. He’s very good at this. So he combines the musician experience with the yoga practice and experience. So he’s using singing bowls that are made out of quartz crystals in a certain sequence, and they’re tuned to 432 …, which is also the frequency of the human body in such a way that he uses it as healing for the body admits three leads a mighty experience when the sounds are like from another planet. It’s really something extraordinary.

Richard Matthews 51:41
That’d be really cool. I would love to have him on the show. I’ve been learning a lot recently about harmonic resonances and frequencies and stuff like that. So I know there’s something to it, but I don’t know much about it. So I would, I’d be happy to have him on the show and talk a little bit about how he does that for other people. So thank you for that. We’ll reach out after the show and see how we Get him on. But to wrap up, right in comic books, there’s always the crowd at the end, who tears on the hero for, you know, for saving today. So here on this show the way that we sort of replicate that is I just want to find out from you, where can our audience find you? Right? So if they want to find your programs or get involved in your yoga studios, if they happen to be local in Sweden, those kind of things and then more importantly, who are the right types of people to reach out and say, Hey, you know what, I would like to hear a little bit more from Georgiana, I’d like to go through your programs.

Georgiana Danet 52:30
The easiest is the web page, holisticlifehub.com because that there are also links to social medias and so on, and all the problems so the web page, and the right people are people who are open minded, who want to get more from life than just going to job earning money, eating, sleeping, going to job and so on. Who wants to discover who they really aren’t so open-minded people who want to discover who they really are, are the right kind of people.

Richard Matthews 53:03
So just because I’m curious about online programs, do you actually teach yoga in a digital format? Or do you like what are the things that you actually teach in the online programs that some of the international audience that would be listening to this with would be able to benefit from?

Georgiana Danet 53:17
So there are two types. I have an online course which lasts for six weeks. And it is a combination of neuroscience, psychology, yoga, breathing, mental training, EMS mode, and then the second format so to say it’s a membership site where you can go and that are training videos where you practice yoga poses, but also meditation and other forms of yoga. So you don’t have time to go through all types of yoga, but it’s the integral yoga that I teach, which comprises much more than just physical poses, as I mentioned in the beginning,

Richard Matthews 54:01
Awesome. Well, Georgiana, thank you so much for coming on the show today. It’s been a pleasure speaking with you and getting to learn a little bit more about the integral yoga and the more deep aspects of it, then those of us in America might always not always hear about, right, because we hear a lot about poses and things like p90x and the extreme yoga and that kind of stuff, which is all physical. So it’s interesting to hear more about the depth of the systems and that kind of stuff. So again, thank you for coming on and sharing. Before we in the interview. Do you have any sort of final words of wisdom for our audience before I hit that stop record button?

Georgiana Danet 54:32
Yes, love yourself more, because you are worth it.

Richard Matthews 54:38
It’s a perfect way to end the show, Georgiana and again, thank you for coming on.

Georgiana Danet 54:41
Thank you so much for having me.