S3 EP17: ADAM ROA ON LOVE, MANIFESTATION, AND THE COURAGE TO BE SEEN

Jackie Minsky (0:00)

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Welcome to Business Alchemy, where we believe in serving with spirit. Today is a manifestation of mine, and I'm so happy you guys are here to witness it. I am here with the one and only Adam Roa, who is an internationally recognized artist, poet, and transformational coach. You may recognize Adam from his viral poem, You Are Who You've Been Looking For, that has reached over 250 million people. Wow. Adam, thank you so much for being here today.

Adam Roa (1:22)

Thank you, Jackie. I'm really happy to be here.

Jackie Minsky (1:25)

So Adam, I know most shows ask some typical questions, but before we dive into the juicy stuff, I'm going to ask you a very intentional question. Are you ready for it?

Adam Roa (1:39)

I am so ready.

Jackie Minsky (1:41)

How are you feeling in this season of your life?

Adam Roa (1:47)

Ooh, I feel like I'm dying in this season of my life. Fully honest, I think that there is a very large part of my personality, my path, my journey that's coming to a close, and I don't know exactly what that is, and I'm just aware that it's happening, and I think that there's a lot of reasons for it. But if I had to just honestly describe my current situation, I feel like I'm dying and being reborn into something new.

Jackie Minsky (2:23)

With that, I know there's people listening, and maybe they're going through similar. Most of us are. We're always going through different identities, different version of ourselves. But let's say someone takes that and they sees that as a negative thing. They feel overwhelmed. They feel stressed when really all that overwhelm and stress is expansion. Could you say like, what are some things you do in your death of the past version of Adam to the new version of Adam? What are some things and tactics you do to keep yourself motivated and looking to the future?

Adam Roa (2:58)

One of the most important practices that I have during intense sort of rebirth process is journaling. It's a real big part of my day-to-day when I'm in these, because journaling allows me to see what I can't see when I'm just spiraling in my mind. It forces me to take it out of my mind and put it on the page, and often when it gets on the page, I see it a bit objectively, and that opens up some new possibilities for me, and wrapped into that is my creative process.

Even this morning, I wrote two poems, because to me, the creative process is a way for me to break out of the consistent loops and habitual ways of thinking that so many of us actually fall into. For every human on the planet, pretty much 95% of your thoughts on a given day you've actually had before, so a new way of thinking is necessary if I want to shift things in my life. And so my journaling practice and my creativity process are both huge, huge parts of my life, especially in times like this.

Jackie Minsky (4:16)

So when you journal, you read it back to yourself and then you assess as a third party, like take me through journaling, because people hear journaling all the time, but then people start journaling and they have no idea like, how is that spiritual work? So explain it to someone who's just starting out, like what do you do when you journal? What do you feel? What do you do after? Like walk us through how Adam journals.

Adam Roa (4:40)

Well, I have a few different types of journaling, right? And I think probably the most obvious one is what most people associate when they think, oh, I'll just journal, is just writing down what happened, writing down what happened, making bullet notes, saying what I want to happen and just kind of just stating the facts, right? That's what I think of how most people think about journaling. But one of the ways that you can take it exponentially deeper is just write a question and then let yourself free, write brain dump in response to that question. And if I write, so this morning in my journaling practice, I asked the question, who am I not? Because I was talking to someone and they asked, I was telling them about I'm re-birthing and who am I becoming? And they said, well, who are you not? And I said, that's interesting. I don't normally ask that question. And I wrote that down. Who am I not? And that, and then just free wrote about it. And that led to a second question, which was what no longer serves me? And so I write that question down. What no longer serves me? And then I just free write what comes out. And I think getting into a dialogue with our inner selves through journaling is an incredibly potent way to uncover things that we might not uncover otherwise.