Kim White: Episode 1165

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[00:00:36] HAB: Have you tried dozens of ways to make a decent amount of money, only to watch them all come to nothing, no matter how hard you worked? If so, the problem isn't your financial system. It's an energy blockage in your unconscious programming. Welcome to the Author Hour podcast. I'm your host Hussein Al-Baiaty, and I'm joined by author Daniel White, who's here to talk about his new book, The Financial Freedom System: An Uncommon Guide to Master Your Money, and Transform Your Life. Let's flip through it. Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the show. I'm here with my friend today, Daniel White, who just launched an amazing book, The Financial Freedom System. Daniel, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate your time.

[00:01:23] DW: Thanks, Hussein. It's great to be here.

[00:01:25] HAB: Yeah, this is incredible. Because your book is one of those books that I feel like most of us wish we'd had when we were young. But honestly, the older we get, it's not like our financial situations, necessarily just magically improve, they compound. So, it's always good to revisit them, clean things up. So, I know that's what you booked it for me. It kind of reminded me of a few things and I just appreciate it. It's really not about just the money. It's really about the intuition, the depth. There's so much more to it. Before we get into the book, which I'm obviously very excited about. I really want to give our audience a little bit of a background about you, maybe where you grew up, and what led you down this path of really helping people with this very important concept in their life?

[00:02:11] DW: I was born and raised in Perth, Australia, which is on the west coast, and happens to be the most isolated city in the world. So, we were very isolated. I mean, the nearest city was six hours away by flight up in Singapore. It was a very interesting time, a very pristine environment. It was wonderful. However, my family struggled a lot with finances, which is why this sort of has evolved in my life, this work. And I went through that experience of not having money, and then having money, and not having money, and learning about that. So, that's where I came from. I've traveled the world. I've worked in over 40 countries. My business, I've been doing for 30 years. And, of course, this book, I first started the process after the fifth anniversary of my business. When I looked at my finances, I was really excited because I made it to five years, right? That's a big, big milestone. But I was broke and I was in huge debt. So, I said, “No, this has to change. This has to change.”

[00:03:11] HAB: Yes, what a pivotal moment. I definitely had that moment happen to me, around 2017 or so. I ran a business, I ran a print shop and it was amazing. Things were good. But nothing fully felt like it clicked in the right place. I was, like you said in a book, you got these worries, I'm stressed. I'm staying up all night. I got employees, all these things. So, there is a burden that comes with financials. And it really prevented me from being creative. That's, for me, I just feel like when I'm not worried about all of those things, I am myself. I'm creative. I'm funny. I love being around myself. I love being around other people. But when I'm stressed, and I'm anxious, and I'm worried, it really takes me away from the moment. Dude, I cannot tell you how much I loved how you address that in your book. But I want to talk about what inspired you to write The Financial Freedom System? And how did you develop it, the steps outlined in the book? Because you hit this pivotal moment and as I did, but I'm really interested in showing people how you started going, “Okay, this has to change.” What did you do next?

[00:04:24] DW: Right in the beginning, as I said, I got to my fifth anniversary. I was really excited, but I was super financially stressed. And I started praying and saying, “God, you got to help me here.” It has stopped working for me. I've got to find a way to get some answers, to get out of this situation, because it's totally – you know what it's like when you're stressed with finances. It's soul-destroying. You’re just totally freaking out all night, you can't sleep, and you're worried and stressed. Anyway, so I did. I prayed and asked and immediately got an intuition, which was a vision of the airline drill. You know, when the air hostess comes out and they say, “Put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you help others.” That's what came. I'm like, “Huh, what does that mean?” And then I start to see, as I'm asking God more, I started to see me, paying money out to all these other people, and then my wallet being empty. And I go, “Whoa, put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you help others.” And it was like, “Pay yourself first before you help others.” Well, there is no way I could afford to really pay myself what I felt I was worth. So, I had to find a system that would build up to that. And then, because I have a strong relationship with God, it was like, “Okay, God, you show me the way.” And then I got it. I was like, “Oh, it's my intuition. I got to work with my – not just my brain, which is really brilliant, but also, my intuition, which is through the heart, through the soul.” How can I marry intuition and finances together? This was really interesting. So, I talk about in the book, how I said, “I'm going to – okay, I feel – $35 feels good. Probably a lunch, going out for lunch. But $35 feels really good.” So, I said, “That's it. Monday morning, I'm going to go down and start the week off fresh and I'm going to open a bank account, put the money in, and let's see what happens.” As you have seen in the book, I went to my wallet on Monday morning, I didn't have the money in my wallet. I was like, “Oh, man.” Okay, so I've got to – I scrounge around the house, going through the car, and I eventually, got this whole bag of coins and dollar notes and everything. That was totally embarrassing. I went down to the bank and open the account. I have to say something happened when I made that commitment and I gave the money. And then she gave me the checkbook back with the balance. So, it was the old style. This is back in 1999. So, before the internet was flying and I feel a peace come over me. I go, “Okay, I'm on the right track. I'm on the right track.” And then, I walk outside the bank. I don't know if you've read it in the book. There was a $20 bill sitting on the pavement right outside the bank. I'm like, “What?” That was amazing.

[00:07:21] HAB: Yes. It's just that refreshment, right? It was, for me, I grew up Muslim. So, I was surrounded by a very, very religious father and mother, and they just wanted what was best for me, especially – but they weren't great at financials, either. It's not like they could have taught me everything. We grew up in a different environment where money is just different here in America. You know what I mean? It's perceived differently. So, there wasn't too much that they could teach me except to save as much as you can. You know what I’m saying? The most basic level of understanding of things. So, it took me a lot to really understand where I am, and my relationship with money, and I feel like it's an ongoing process. But it starts with that moment. For me, that moment was like, if I don't do something this week if I don't take action, next week, I'm not going to have a business. That's how fast that shift was, right? And it's just, you wake up the next morning, you say,” Okay, I know what I have to do. How do I do this?” For you, it was like, go to the bank account, maybe start something new, throw some coins in there, and just see what happens. Just going to start fresh. And that approach for me was definitely reaching out to God as well. I'm like, “God, it's all in your hands at this point. I don't have any control.” My whole thing with my dad was, “You got to surrender son. You got to surrender.” I just didn't know what that meant. It was that week, I surrendered. Because I was just like, “I don't have it in me. I'm not even going to get up and battle this. I completely surrender.” So, that moment, and as you said, the intuition, I woke up feeling refreshed, I didn't have the anxiety. I didn't have – my body was just like warmed up, ready to go. A few phone calls, and then I reached out to a very special person on LinkedIn. I had been following this person for maybe, oh, months, and he's like a coach in the printing business. And he was like, “Hussein, just read this book before you and I meet.” I was getting ready to pay this guy a couple of 100 bucks for an hour just to figure out what to do and he gave me this book, it's called the Profit First, and it completely changed everything for me. So, that whole idea of just listening to your intuition, opening up, and just surrendering, changes everything. How can readers use the system to break through these energy blockages in their unconscious programming, and achieve some financial freedom? I love that so much that you call it a blockage because I totally feel like that's exactly what it is. Can you go there for a little bit?

[00:09:59] DW: Most people who are in that situation, they've actually dug a nice deep hole for themselves. So, all they see is like them sitting at the bottom of a hole, and all they see around them is the walls of the hole, and up above, they could see some sky. Well, maybe there's freedom up there, how can I get up? But then they say, “Okay, I want to get up.” So, they start digging even more of a hole, because they're trying to find ways to, with their mind, try and get out of the hole, but actually creating more of a problem. So, if they go to their heart, below the neck, and start to check their intuition and see how much is the correct amount for them to transform their life, and then stop. It's like, every time they put that amount, I talk about in the book, whether it's in the bank, or in a box, it's like a step. And so, they go up a step, and then they go up another step, and the next week, and the next week, they go up another step, and they slowly are getting themselves out of the hole. I'll give you a great example of this situation. I had a multimillionaire, who called me and he says, “Kim, I've got so much money. I don't need money, but I want to get rid of my stress.” So, I put him through the program. Because what happened was he inherited that wealth. He didn't build it himself. He didn't have the foundation in himself to deal with that volume. So, the stress was what caused the problems. When we started working, it was amazing. It was 14 – this is in Europe. It was 14 euros a week. This guy could just go and buy planes with his pocket change. But his amount was 14 euros. It's nothing. It’s a cup of coffee for him. But he did it and he followed the system. He trusted me. He followed the system, and he said, within a month, he was saying, “Kim, my stress levels have gone down so much. It was amazing.” Because it wasn't about the money. It was about the foundation. So, this whole system here is that freedom is coming from building a foundation within yourself. It's not actually about the money. As you build out, and I made so many mistakes when I was developing the systems and I sort of talked a little bit about the book, but what the book is, is the solutions to all my mistakes as you go up. There was a point where I got to the top of the hole, my eyes are peeking over the top of the hole, and I could see the horizon. I go, “Wow, I made it.” Well, that's what I thought. But I wasn't, because the rest of my body was still in the hole. So, I had to go further and I talked about the 12-month test where you're really testing, am I out or not? When you get out, it's like, “Wow.” It's like you will never build a hole again in your life and you feel so relaxed, you feel so clear. Your intuition, because you're training your intuition through the system every week and every month, you actually develop it for other areas of your life. You'll notice that stress goes away in other areas of your life. It's not just about the money. It's incredible.

[00:13:06] HAB: It's like a maintenance program for your body and mind and your soul. It's a way to kind of take care of it. I think, this idea of some consciousness and how it's connected to financials. It's so deep and it's so deep-rooted. That means, for me, I kind of inherited the lack of understanding of money, and I inherited the stress that came around with it. So, I'll give you a perfect example, man. At the end of every month – I ran this business for 12 years, so I knew what I was doing. It was good. It was healthy. But at the end of every month, I was unhealthy. I was stressed out. Because in my early years in the business, the end of the month, the bills, everything's due, that stress. But even when I was doing well or doing much better, at least, where I didn't have to worry. I was still worried. So, I felt that the stress, that worry, that the memories around that were so ingrained that they would just come up and even years later now, that I don't even own the business, at the end of every month, I have to kind of check myself, and be like, “No, everything's fine.” I have to breathe through it, go for a couple of walks, and realize that the end of the month is coming, and I need to just kind of subside these feelings that don't need to be there. That's so powerful. Because you're right, because it is addressing those feelings and emotions around the money, whether it's there or not. It's really the sort of memories, it's in your DNA. I love that. It's really deep. What are some common misconceptions people have about achieving financial freedom? How do you think your book addresses that?

[00:14:42] DW: Well, I think it's about when you're at peace, you become attractive to prosperity. But when you're stressed, you can become attractive to more debt. So, by learning to listen to your intuition, and building that solid foundation inside you. It's not really a mental process, it's actually below the neck, it's in your body. And you're building this solid foundation with your heart and with your soul, you will notice that you stop attracting those who want to take your money. Or you stop attracting opportunities, or you're very clear on opportunities that are not in alignment with who you are. Whereas it sounds great, your mind will just go, “Yeah, let's do it. This is a great opportunity to increase my finances.” But actually, your heart and your soul say, “No, this is not for you.” There's an abundance of people who would love to share in your money, and take it away from you. So, it's like, “Okay, what's real?” As you go through the system, and you build that solid foundation, you get to a point later down the road where you only attract prosperity to you and you don't even see it. When you have a situation where something from the past comes up, you check your intuition, it just goes. It dissolves. It's like just an old memory coming up, and then it dissolves because you've built the foundation. You've built the solidness that is going to carry you through the rest of your life.

[00:16:14] HAB: What are some, I would call, practical tips, I believe, or advice you would give to someone just starting in their journey towards financial freedom? I know that there are many, obviously, the steps that are outlined in your book, and I want you to pull from that. But can you maybe share even a story that someone that you know, and worked with that started implementing just one or two things that they can start doing like today?

[00:16:40] DW: Definitely follow the system. Because it's all going to come as you do it. And to be patient with yourself. Because this system is separate from your regular bank accounts, and your regular finances, and just have this as a separate project, that you're doing this as a project for life. It's not about just getting some money together for the next holiday or any of that. So, you have it as a separate – The first step is to have it separate from everyday spending and earning. So that way, you start to build your solid foundation, without it being interfered with by the stresses of life. And the process only takes five minutes a week, once you're in the flow. So, it's, “Okay, I'm dedicating five minutes a week, to the rest of my life, to freedom.” And then, you'll notice as you build up that foundation, you start to attract more opportunities that are in line with your truth. So, it takes away the stress of should I, shouldn’t I? What can I do here? Does that make sense? It's like building up that so that you know immediately, “That's not to me.” There is nothing wrong with it. But it's not in line with my journey. So, you're building up that solid clarity for your future. Having it separate to start is really important.

[00:18:06] HAB: I love that. And just want to reiterate how important patience is in this whole process. One is like having grace. I think, for me, it was having grace with myself. I knew I wasn't going to get out of this hole, even in the next six months to a year, or that foreseeable future. But there's a sense of like belief. I think that's where your intuition comes in, and our urge to want to be free has to be sort of connected, I feel like for me. I speak for myself. Has to be connected to a belief that “I can” and that “I will” in the future. I think sometimes just trusting that and trusting that process. And then, yeah, trusting a system as you say, “I'm going to just trust this system and allow this to work for me.” It's wonderful when you can open up and surrender to that.

[00:18:58] DW: Yes, because I mean, I stated right at the beginning of the book. If someone is really addicted to the stress, and the struggle, then this book is not for them. It's really designed for people who are in those scenarios and really want to go for a peaceful life. I don't mean peaceful, sitting on a tropical island beach or anything. I mean peaceful like you've got your perfect career, you're loving what you do. Your contribution is just flowing. Life is great. Your relationships are great, because you've built this foundation, and you're not attracting the takers in your life. You are not attracting the taking opportunities. You're attracting the giving opportunities or the giving people. You're setting up a new consciousness within yourself.

[00:19:40] HAB: That's so powerful. I love that flip of, who you attract, like you said earlier, can either take away from you or give you, and it is what you want. They ultimately want opportunities. That's the thing, I think for me, I stopped thinking about how much money was coming my way, but really thinking about how many opportunities are out there that can come my way, right? It's like, come your way how. It's like, well –

[00:20:05] DW: And knowing what is a good opportunity for you and not a good – it could be a great opportunity for someone else, but it's not the right opportunity for you, for your life. So, you'll start to notice that you get a separation from everyone else so that you can really give your gifts to the world. You have the power and the solid foundation in yourself to give your talents, and your gifts to the world, instead of just following everyone else. And it's just so much freedom.

[00:20:33] HAB: There's so much freedom. I can't even tell you. Once I made the shift and got out of that hole a little bit, I ended up selling my business. And truly, like the speaking engagements, the writing my book, all of these other things that I've just kind of had on the back burner forever, came to fruition even faster than my business came to fruition because I was just surrendering and not allowing that resistance to flow in a very beautiful manner.

[00:21:00] DW: I got so many calls when COVID hit from people who've been following my system for years. They were so grateful, because while they were watching all their friends and colleagues running around with their heads chopped off, and stressed about what was happening in the stores, and they were like, totally relaxed. They were like, “Wow. This is a real testament to what this is doing. Because while the world is going crazy, I feel at peace.” And that's so important for people. Even I had a personal experience when I moved to Europe, my whole business model had to change because it's a very different system over there. So, starting out again in Europe was like, oh, going back to square one. But I had no stress. Everything just flowed. I was like, “Wow, there's no way that would have happened before I did my foundation. Before I build up the system.” So yes, really good.

[00:21:52] HAB: I'm glad you shared that. Because you're right, when you eventually become a warrior, however, you put it, right? In this case, the financial warrior, you are calm and in the midst of the battle of the chaos. You are calm, you're collected, because you are trained.

[00:22:08] DW: And then you become a leader for others. You become a leader to show people that there is freedom out there. You stand out.

[00:22:15] HAB: One hundred percent. It's like, you know how we gravitate towards people who make us laugh, who make us feel good? They have a sensibility about them. We're also attracted to people who are confident in situations like this, where financials and all these kinds of things aren't something that really bothers them and don't stress them out. As you said, whether you're a billionaire, millionaire, or a person with a regular old job, all that good stuff, not that there's anything wrong with that. But wherever you are in the process, people do stress about money. It's not the stress about money, it's actually stressing about something deeper, and it's like addressing that will help alleviate feeling like you're stressed about money. So, that's so powerful. Your book is so spot on. I wish I had it 10 years ago, but I'm glad I have it now, which is beautiful. What was your favorite part of pulling this book together, Daniel? What did you learn from that journey?

[00:23:12] DW: It took me so many years to find a system to be so simple that anyone can follow it. When I first started teaching this back in the early 2000s, it was too complicated for people and I said, “There's no way I can teach this to a mass market.” I have to find a way to – that's a really huge win for me to find a way to make it simple to follow, and everyone can follow it, and they're not – it doesn't have to be specific to each person. Each person will find their way because they're following their intuition. They're making it a basic system where they can access their truth, and then build their life as a result of that. So, that was like really exciting for me, to find a way to really make a simple thing.

[00:23:57] HAB: Yes. It's very powerful.

[00:23:58] DW: It’s the same thing, the different stories that come along the way of people having different feedback. The guy with – I don't know if you remember the guy, the “call me”, because his kitchen waste box, he was only taking the trash out once a week. Whereas before it was, before he started, it was always twice a week. Because they were eating – the stress was causing them to eat so much. The whole family lost weight because the stress went down by following the system.

[00:24:24] HAB: Wow. That's so powerful. And, he probably made more money, because he's not spending it on food.

[00:24:29] DW: Exactly. Exactly. And also, the guy who called me because he got his system to a certain point. He thought, “I’m really happy with that. I'll stop here.” And then it was like, “Kim, I'm feeling the stress come back. What's going on?” I'm like, “Wow, let me check.” And I checked, and everything was fine. So, he found out his wife was pregnant. His whole foundation had shifted, and his intuition knew it, that there was something coming that they weren't aware of, and he just started building up again, and bam, it was like within a month or two, he was like, totally relaxed again. So, you just had to take that little bit of extra work because the family was expanding.

[00:25:06] HAB: Yes. The level of awareness, I think, that's the most powerful thing I took away from your book was just like my level of awareness has always been heightened, just because of massive amounts of stress before. But now I know how to manage that heightened levels, right? And when they come up, I have the tools to sort of understand and be aware, reach out to certain people, check on my bank account, whatever it is. I have these tools that I do to kind of calm that part of me so that I can stay focused, stay creative, and show up for my relationships and my friends. I love that. It's so powerful, man. I love how it's so much deeper and richer than what we actually associate our problem with. I feel like, in the West, and in the East as well, I know, my mom did it all the time, to point to our problems. But being that they were money. And sadly, money, that’s just wasn't necessarily the problem. It was our treatment of money, our management, our lack thereof. That’s not to disrespect my parents or anything like that, or anyone else out there. But it's like our bodies, it's like everything else in our world, once we know it and overcome the fear of not knowing it, then we can fully understand where those things are really coming from and your book really lands the plane there and it's so powerful. So, what's one thing you hope one of your readers, when they pick it up, they feel relieved, they put it down. What is the one feeling you hope they feel?

[00:26:36] DW: To go immediately start and not sabotage the opportunity to transform their lives, and actually starting, as soon as they read it, let's go into action and I want to transform now. Not next year or the next 10 years. I want to transform now. That is just that one step forward for each person who does that, is a total game changer in their life. Because they're taking the power back into their own hands. They're not relying on others. So, that's what I would wish for each person.

[00:27:08] HAB: Well, it's been an absolute pleasure having you on the show today, my friend. I've learned so much. It's really – it's been just an engaging conversation, because everything about our financial world has to start with us and I love that just taking action towards a positive future for yourself is so crucial. Your book really shares that experience very deeply. The book is called The Financial Freedom System: An Uncommon Guide to Master Your Money, and Transform Your Life. So, besides checking out the book, where can people find you, Daniel?

[00:27:37] DW: They can go to my parent website, which is kimwhitecoaching.com. Or if they need to reach out to me personally, daniel@kimwhitecoaching.com.

[00:27:49] HAB: Beautiful. Well, thanks again for being on the show, my friend.

[00:27:51] DW: Thank you. It was fun.

[00:27:52] HAB: Congratulations on your book.

[00:27:55] DW: Thank you.

[00:27:58] HAB: Thank you all so much for joining us for this episode of Author Hour. You can find, The Financial Freedom System: An Uncommon Guide to Master Your Money, and Transform Your Life. For more Author Hour episodes, subscribe to this podcast on your favorite subscription service. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time. Same place, different author.