140 – 5 Feng Shui Tips for Your Office Space with Marianne Kaplan of Feng Shui for Success

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They should never sit with your back to the door.

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I am thrilled to introduce you to Mary Ann Kaplan of

Fang. for success.

Marianne has always enjoyed the art of transforming spaces to provide

a dynamic and rewarding environment.

She combines her psychology and counseling background for extra impact.

It enables her to fully understand the challenges and limitations of

a busy entrepreneur in analyzing this space.

Marianne helps clients remove and unlock roadblocks to their success.

What that really means is she sets them up with their

unique power office.

Marianne is currently working with Marie diamond from the book,

the secret that we all know and love,

and she is completing her diamond funkshway certification.

She will then be licensed internationally under Marie diamond.

And Oh my gosh,

that sounds like a big deal.

Welcome to the show Maryanne.

Well, hi,

thank you so much for having me on the show.

This is my first podcast,

and I'm really excited about it as we go.

I've noticed just in the two years that I've been doing

the show more and more people are understanding what it's about

and we're not having to explain anymore.

Right? You can add yourself to the group who knows all

about podcasts now,

and exactly.

It's wonderful.

So the way I like to start everything out is an,

a little bit of a different way.

And that is by having you share a little bit about

yourself through a motivational candle.

So if you were create a candle that spoke total Maryanne,

what color would it be?

And what would be the quote that would be on your

candle? I really thought about this because the defense way we

use all the colors of the rainbow,

but the one that stands out the most for me,

that would probably the pick me would be a gold one.

And what I would say is go for the gold.

Your potential is unlimited.

There you go reach for the top,

right? Yep.

And that's what I try to do for people in their

offices and their homes to improve their environment so they can

reach their potential and have unlimited success and happiness.

There you go.

Well, I am really interested in this because honestly,

I've heard about funkshway forever.

I really don't know much about it at all.

Any of you get biz listeners.

If you're in the same boat as I am,

we're going to take it from the top,

start from the beginning and understand everything about funkshway by the

time we're done with the podcast.

So what is it Maryanne?

What is funkshway and what's its purpose,

et cetera.

Okay. It's,

what's a 5,000

year old technique that is it's returned from China.

And it's all about how you feel in the space.

And what makes you feel a certain way is the energy

that's in that space.

I could equate myself to like an acupuncturist.

You go to see an acupuncturist when you've got some pain

discomfort and with the set of needles,

they put them in directly in a certain position and unblock

the energy flow and wow,

all of a sudden you're feeling great.

That's what I do.

When I come into a space,

whether it be at home or an office,

I find out what's blocking the flow of energy.

And people usually tell me what their challenges are,

what they want to work on and where in that space,

the blockages are.

It's what they're experiencing in their business and their personal life

and their health.

It's amazing.

So by identifying,

removing that,

enhancing the spaces for success,

that's what venture is all about.

I'm sure you've gone into a space.

Someone's home,

someone's office,

a restaurant where you feel like,

wow, this is wonderful.

I could just be here all day.

I feel just great.

That is the space that has great venture way.

Everything is balanced because we're always looking for balance.

You go into another place and you're,

there may be five minutes.

It could be even your own office.

And you're like,

I can't stand this.

I can't be here.

I have to leave.

I feel terrible.

I don't feel supported.

That's an office or a space that does not have good

bench way.

So we have been practicing French twice since we were infants.

You as an infant,

decided what position?

Where in your crib,

you wanted to sleep.

According to how it felt you played in certain areas in

your family room,

you sat a certain part of the table,

or you're attracted to sit a certain part of a table

in a room.

So you've been practicing this your whole life.

You've just,

didn't put a label on it.

That's all about how you feel in the space.

You always want your space to be supporting you,

not depleting.

So it is a space different for different people.

Like would my comfort level in my space be different than

for example,

if you walked into my space,

No. When I talk about the space and talk about comfort

level, I'm talking about the space.

You might get used to some things,

but yeah.

Okay. You may be totally comfortable,

but if you call me in to check out your office

or your home,

most likely you want something to improve.

And so what I go in and I check out what

is happening,

what is not happening in that space.

And people get just themselves to working really hard to really

pushing themselves.

Even though there seem to be roadblocks things,

constant coming to the forefront that they're trying to circumvent.

And a lot of it has to do with what is

in that space.

So there's some basic general things that when I do an

energy map,

I look for and the energies change every year,

also in a bench way That gets confusing.

So the energies change when I think of funkshway,

I think of like furniture placement or that's really what comes

to my mind.

I don't know if that's right or not.

That's fine Part of it if that's not at all involved,

but it's part of it is how things are arranged in

the space.

Furniture is important.

Okay. So when you walk into a space,

whether it's me,

whether it's you,

whether it's a friend of mine or someone else,

when people walk in,

do they automatically get the feel because of the way the

spaces or would one person feel comfortable in the space where

another person might not feel comfortable or is it really just

have to do with the space?

So it doesn't have to do with the person coming in.

It has to do with the space and how it's set

up. Yeah,

it has to do with the space and how it's set

up. It depends how long the people are in this space.

And a lot of people don't realize that they want to

leave or they're that really uncomfortable.

Some of them just don't want to hang out,

don't want to leave.

And they may not even equate that to being uncomfortable,

but it's the space and the energy in that space.

All right,

now we have a little bit of a grounding in terms

of what this is all about.

How did you get into this?

Oh gosh.

Well, my background originally is a science.

I'm a science person.

I was a pre-med major F a master's in counseling psych,

but I've always my right and left brain are always working.

And I've always been interested in alternative medicines and alternative energies

probably since I was really young.

And about 15,

18 years ago,

everywhere I would travel bookstore gift shops.

These fungi books would just literally pop off the shelf.

And I had two stacks of French way books.

And every day I'd be reading them.

And I just thought,

this is fabulous.

Fascinating. And then I said,

I have to decide what to do with this.

So I got my first certification in Chicago.

It was a good foundation,

but I wanted so much more.

So I have gotten out to other certifications in classical French

way, which uses the compass method.

And now I'm working Marie diamond.

So when I go into a space anyone's space,

whether it be their home,

if I'm working on their bedroom or office,

when different changes are made and things are personalized for them

and they experienced them and you get the phone call saying,

Oh my God,

I just got this job.

Or, Oh my God,

my kids are playing together in this area.

They wouldn't go into before.

There's great harmony in our home.

It's amazing.

So you see the changes,

you see the differences and basically improving the quality of everybody.

Yeah. That's very cool.

So you're seeing,

and you're hearing from your customers right after you go in

and you affect their environment,

that things are happening for the positive.

So when someone calls you up to come into their location,

let's call it an office.

Since we're mostly dealing with business people here,

are they coming in?

Because they're saying I need more sales and maybe my shop

isn't set up properly.

I mean,

do they already have an end game in mind or do

they come in open to what you think about their environment?

Walk us through a little bit of how you interact with

somebody. Okay.

I have,

I have people on both sides of the spectrum,

but most of the time when I present or I talk

or I go to a networking meeting and I just give

a little snippet of what I do,

the phone call,

get us,

Oh gosh,

I really need you to come in and look at my

space. And it's usually a number of things.

They want to track more business.

They want to get paid by clients.

They have find that clients aren't paying them.

They're having a hard time financially.

I also have a business where the employees aren't getting along.

And so how do you facilitate that?

How do you make the change in that environment?

So most of the time it's to improve either the work

relationships and to increase more of their success,

increase more of their bottom line,

attract more customers attract more prosperity.

So they'll ask me to say,

okay, things just aren't going right.

Five years ago,

it was great.

I moved into this new facility what's happening here.

And that's why I see a lot is that when people

do move,

they may have been,

even in families,

totally happy,

comfortable in that one home.

And they move and nothing is right.

Everything seems to be going wrong.

That's interesting.

Cause the only thing there that's different is the space.

Exactly. So that's what I go in.

I go in and I go with a fresh slate.

I've met set of eyes that I look at things I

will always ask them when I'm starting a consult,

what are the three challenges you're facing?

Or what are the top three things you want to improve

in your business?

If we're talking about the business.

And so I focused on the top three.

That's what I look at.

I do an energy map.

I take a lot of personal information and then I go

home and I do my homework and I come back with

the presentation and I'll tell them what they need to do.

One of the biggest blockages is a letter in an office.

And it depends where it is.

If it's an area that is in your career sector,

it's going to be slowing down your career and slow down

clients. That's going to slow down opportunities coming to you.

So it's really important analyze what is going on,

answering, move that and then to enhance the awesome things so

that you can start attracting the clients you want,

the business you want.

Okay. So this makes sense to me in terms of the

clutter example,

because if your place is cluttered,

your productivity is going to be slower,

right? Because you can't find what you need,

which then directly equates to sales.

That all makes sense to me and clutter.

I think also I know when my place is all messy,

even though I know where everything is,

of course,

but my place is all messy.

It feels like a weight on me.

And then if I take a little bit of time,

straighten everything up,

I just feel lighter and better and ready to roll because

that's very tangible paper and all of that.

How does energy work?

Okay. So energy comes into your office,

your home,

what we call it through the front door.

So wherever your door is into your office,

arrange your house.

That is how energy is coming in from the outside.

That energy needs to circulate needs to support you as what

we call she in the French way world.

And if that energy can't float to you,

if things are blocking it,

you're not going to be getting the best use of that

energy. One of the things,

and I'll talk about this later is just where you're sitting

in your office.

You should never sit with your back to the door is

what you're doing.

Is the energies coming in.

It's hitting your back.

It's not coming to you so you're not receiving it.

And you can't see the energy,

but it is flowing all around you.

And you always want to make sure that you have good

energy flow.

That energy is coming in all the time.

Most people in homes don't even use their front door and

the front door is so key to bringing in that good

energy because in most people I'm working with have their offices

in their homes.

So one of the things I tell them is make sure

you open that door at least once a day to get

that energy flowing in,

because that is how energy enters your home.

You always want to keep it fresh and new surrounding you.

You don't want it to become stagnant and dull.

And what clutter does is it just locks.

It, it stops the flow of it and where the flow

is stopped is what you're going to be.

The, it will be the symptoms in your business,

in your health and your relationships.

That's so interesting.

I want to get into this now because I think we're

already here.

So let's just stay here.

Give biz listeners.

One of the things that I asked Maryanne,

as we were talking about how we would share the information

with you.

One of the things I said is let's have some tangible

things that our listeners can take back and kind of do

a checklist of their space.

What does it have?

What does it not have?

And I think we've already started getting into that,

right? Is this one of the ones that are on the

checklist? So let's go through that.

Like what are some steps that people could look at with

their own spaces,

whether they're in a house or they're offsite in an office

somewhere or even shops,

what are some of the types of things like the front

door example that we should be looking at?

Okay, I'll give you like three,

five of them.

I go for five,

let's do five.

Okay. If your office is in your home or you're in

a building and sometimes you can control the entrance.

Sometimes you can not depending where your building is and if

you're leasing it,

but let's take an example is in a home,

you want the energy to becoming,

and you want to invite the energy in.

So you have to have things totally open and cleared around

your front door.

The front door is huge for letting the energy in which

means you don't want a tree right in front.

You don't want your plants from the summer to be dead

and just all dying in front of your door.

You want your door to be inviting.

You want to say,

Hey, I'm ready to have this awesome energy coming in.

They want to invite it in.

Once it gets in and it's going to be traveling.

And one inch in your office,

the key in your office is you're the King or the

queen of your kingdom.

And you want that office to represent that you're in charge.

So the first thing I tell people is you need to

rearrange the office to have your desk so that you can

be sitting facing the door,

coming into your office.

You never want to have your back to the door.

Sometimes it's unavoidable,

but there's things we can do to alleviate that.

The always want to see what who's coming in.

You want to see that energy because as that energy comes

in, that energy is bringing opportunities to you.

It's surrounding you.

And when your back is to the door,

it's hitting your back,

not to the front.

And so you want to constantly bring that in.

Okay. So what if I'm someone who designs jewelry and I

have a production studio right in my house because I make

everything in the house.

And I go to craft shows on the weekends or something.

Is it still important that in my craft room or wherever

I do my paperwork besides,

or even creating the product,

is it important there to be facing the door that enters

into your space?

Yes, absolutely.

But what if nobody's coming in,

It doesn't matter.

You always want the energy to come in.

Pretend you want to be the queen of your office,

the queen of your business.

We all do.

So think about,

if you go see royalty one,

you walk up to royalty,

right? Royalty is always looking at you.

They don't have their back to you.

So they're receiving you.

And it just how the energy is coming on.

You want to be receiving that amazing energy and not blocking

it. The other thing is when you have your back to

the door,

it makes you very vulnerable.

And even though,

even on the subconscious level,

you're always going to be on edge,

even though there's no one coming in about what's going on

in back of you,

instinct, you're never going to be totally comfortable.

A client realized that about two weeks ago because she insisted

everything was great,

but was having difficulties.

And then all of a sudden it made sense to her.

Oh my God,

you're right.

I'm really tense on a subconscious level.

When my back is to the door,

I'm much more comfortable,

relaxed, receiving when I'm facing door.

And then I'm in my power position.

And that's what you always want to be.

You want to in a power or control position in your

space. So a power position facing the door versus a more

subordinate, even though you may be the sole person in your

company, but you still are kind of taking a subordinate position.

If your back is to the door and you're facing a

wall or something,

maybe. Exactly.

Yeah. Interesting.

I work with people in cubicles too,

and they go,

Oh my God,

I can't do anything.

But there's things of how we arrange the cubicle with a

mirror or just how we angle the computer,

their laptop.

There's a whole bunch of subtle things.

You can make arrangements in there to make them have the

power, the control they need in their office,

in their space.

If you don't want to be vulnerable,

you want to be in charge of that.

And that's how the energy is coming in.

Well, I'm getting into this now.

Okay. The first one was the front door.

The second was making sure in your office space or your

production space that you are facing the entrance,

wherever that entrance is,

okay, carry on.

And the best direction I have to tell you,

the most powerful position in your office is if you can

be in a diagonal because it's like just how the energy

crosses over.

That's the best.

The second one is,

make sure you have a very sturdy,

substantial chair is influential way.

You always want to have support the Chinese built their villages

against mountains,

or they had a lot of trees.

They always were looking for support for their structure.

And that's really important.

I go into some offices where people are sitting on a

little tiny chair or like a little booed war chair,

a folding chair.

No, you want to sit in a solid high-back chair that

has arms again,

centering yourself like you're in charge.

You're the King or queen of that office.

Turn it around,

looking at my chair as her time.

And I'm not talking about,

and you shouldn't have the mesh ones.

Oh, nice and solid.

Oh, okay.

Obviously you haven't been to my place yet.

It's you always are looking to support and you want to

have support.

And that's why you always want to have,

if you can't,

you're back to a wall,

not to the Gore because you want to have that support.

So if you've got your back to the wall,

that awesome chair,

your desk is facing,

right? You are really setting yourself up,

just doing those few things for great success.

Okay. So we've got the front door,

the office having a sturdy chair.

Where do we go from here?

Then? The other important thing I talk about is de-cluttering,

that is huge.

And the fourth thing that has to go with the de-cluttering,

but at the end of the day,

if everything is facing,

right, you should always have in front of you.

I call it like a little runway,

maybe a one or two foot clear space,

totally. In front of you.

You can have stacks of files,

books on your right side,

left side,

but you want to have a clear space.

So when you come in the morning,

you're not overwhelmed by all the things that have to get

and looking for things.

You have a clear space,

take a few minutes to clear my and set your intention

for that day.

If you have stuff,

papers, files all thrown on your desk,

your first thought goes into,

Oh my gosh,

what do I have to do?

Where am I going to find my stuff?

It is amazing.

Having that clear space allows you to readjust yourself for the

day, how you want your day to go and setting your

intention for the day.

It is fabulous.

So are you saying A clear space,

like air in front of you or clear space?

So your desk is just blank.

Your desk is blank,

ready for you to put whatever the first task of the

day is going to be,

or to create your plan better yet to create your plan.

What are the big three things you need to do today?

Or however you work For your day,

it can be like a footer,

one or two feet in diameter and just going all the

way across your desk.

And you can have nice organized files on the side,

but you want to have that clear area right in front

of you.

So you,

when you sit down and get your cup of coffee or

tea, take a few minutes and say,

okay, this is my attention for the day.

This is what I want to accomplish for the day.

It's going to come so much easier for you.

Okay. So let me ask you this.

We're interviewing on a Monday.

So Friday when I left for the weekend,

I was determined not to come into the office for the

weekend, but I knew a project that I absolutely wanted to

tackle this morning before you and I got on the phone.

So I took that file folder and put it front and

center on my desk.

So I knew that I wouldn't forget that that was what

I wanted to do.

Is that a good thing or a bad?

That is fine.

That's good.

As long as you didn't have 20 of them and all

messed up,

that was your focus.

It was your front and center.

Okay. The one thing you wanted to work on during that

day, so that is fine.

It's just that you don't want to have 10 file folders

thrown on your desk,

papers, notes,

post-its pens all over.

That can be on the side,

but even on the side,

it should be every night you should just spend two or

three minutes organizing the site and having a third space in

the front.

It's amazing how it'll help start your day.

Oh, that's right.

So interesting.

Okay. You have one more for us.

Well, the other thing,

and that's when I consult with people,

which when you're talking about sitting at your desk in French

way, when I personalize the energy in someone's office,

we all have four amazing directions to be facing,

sitting in being in an or directions that are not favorable

for us.

And you always should be facing at least one of your

most favorable directions or the best productivity to get the best

accomplished. That's another thing I do on a personal level.

When I consult,

Oh, you're able to define then what your favorable directions are.

Yes. For every person.

Got it.

All right.

I'm going to summarize these and I guess I got an

extra bonus out of you that you weren't expecting,

but okay.

So we've got the front door with the entrance,

make sure it's clear and inviting.

We've got in your office or production space.

You should be facing the point of entrance.

And diagonal is really good.

You don't want to be facing a wall because that puts

you in kind of a subordinate situation in terms of the

environment and the energy.

You want a sturdy chair,

no mesh point,

taken a decluttered environment and a clean space right in front

of you as you leave your space at night.

And then when you come back in,

in the morning,

which I think,

especially I'm thinking of people who are producing things just to

bakers, of course have to clean everything,

a bride for sanitary purposes.

But even if you have your tools and your supplies out,

just putting things away,

possibly you've completed a project or something that makes a lot

of sense.

And then in terms of sitting at your desk favorable direction,

that's kind of your like little teaser for us,

I guess I'll say it right.

You've shared with us that there are favorable directions,

but I'm guessing you really have to be working one-on-one because

everyone has different favorable directions.

Right? And also when I do the energy map,

I call it of your,

of your office.

There was a certain paint colors,

depending upon where your office is located in the house or

in a building,

or even the profession that you are doing,

just colors that you want to have their scholars.

You definitely do not want to have just how it all

is still pertains to business cards.

It pertains to where you hang certain things in your office.

There's a lot of layers here.

And that's what Essentially is.

It's a lot of layers,

but if you get someone who knows how to layer things

and get it right,

the success that people experience is phenomenal,

but a year,

right. It's getting the layers and it's second.

It can be very subtle things.

Speaking of the influence of color in your home or your

business, I had a client was very interesting.

His French way element was fire and his office was painted

all Lou and an offense way.

Blue represents the water element and his career for the last

10 years has been literally up and down,

up and down,

up and down,

right. And then down.

And when I went into do all the personalization and I

figured out that his personal primary almost fire and that the

room was painted blue.

What was happening?

Energetically is the blue,

which represents water,

was putting out his fire,

the flame,

his energy.

And so that's why he kept struggling so much.

So we changed that he's been doing great.

Oh, that's so interesting.

And it makes total sense,

but you just wouldn't identify it,

I guess.

Yeah. Until someone sits down and talks to you and now

his wife that she was the water element for her at

the office would have been perfect.

But for him it was terrible.

Then he had metal desk,

last desk.

We changed things up,

made sure we had some more wood elements in there to

support his fire element and change the color and wow,

amazing. And also to make sure he priced the front door.

There you go.

So everybody has,

is drawn or has within them a different element And the

French way.

Yes. And that's my personalize.

It, you have a predominant element and that needs to be

also supported.

Oh my gosh.

That's so cool.

Like I said,

just a changing of the color of the office,

big, big impact on this guy.

So it's really subtle things that can happen.

And if people don't know that you can be painting things,

the wrong color in the wrong area and have results that

are not positive,

or you can just intuitively pick a color and maybe things

are wonderful.

So like I said,

it's, it is a very much layering of Who knew,

Oh my gosh.

I know.

All right.

So when we were talking last week,

do, we're just starting to talk about having you come on

to the show.

You were telling me that you also work with people remotely.

I'm kind of thinking you have to be in their space,

but how do you do that?

Well, that's what I originally thought when I was getting into

the French,

my business,

what I do is I ask them for a floor plan.

That's key.

I asked them for some personal information,

which is not a lot.

And the most important thing is if they don't have a

compass, I have them downloaded the compass app on their phone.

And I had them stand in their front door,

whether it be to their office,

to their apartment,

condo, home,

whatever, and take a compass reading,

looking out that front door.

And so then I put all these pieces together and I

personalize the report and I go over it with the people.

So I do not have to personally be there.

People also send pictures,

send pictures of their space before and after I will have

pictures of the front door what's going on.

So I will ask for specific things.

So it's like,

I'm there,

I've got three clients I'm working with on the West coast

right now.

I've not seen their space,

but I've seen the pictures.

I've seen the floor plans and what they have done to

change things and there's place in their space.

They also send me the pictures of that.

Huh. Really interesting.

Yeah. Then we get an action plan and I'm always open

for people calling me.

Yeah. Just because I consult with you once.

It's a mean that I'm not going to be available to

answer the simple question You've given us some great ideas.

All of us can now take right from what you've just

even said and analyze the different rooms in our environment,

what their uses are,

et cetera.

I mean,

obviously we can't go deep into everything on this call,

but a couple of things that we can really look at,

which is fabulous.

Talk a little bit about the secret and why connecting up

with Marie diamond is so cool.

Well, first talk about the secret,

just in case,

for some reason,

somebody doesn't know what that's about.

Okay. That came out 10 years ago.

I was first introduced to it.

My son was what eight watching Oprah and Rhonda burn came

on. And a couple other people that John asked and different

people that are in the secret were on the show.

And it's all about the law of attraction and positive affirmations.

And how do you track what you want into your,

I loved that.

It was great.

I bought the whole thing and on there was Marie diamond

and she was the French way person.

I was like,

Oh, that's interesting.

She talked about a client.

She was working with an LA and stuff.

And what happened?

And, Oh,

this is really interesting.

And in the process,

I was taking some classes with a couple other instructors who

were taught with Lillian to in classical French way.

And she's in Malaysia.

Then all of a sudden I decided kind of like reached

the top of where I could go with these instructors.

So I thought I really want to learn more.

I want to really expand my business.

I really want to dive deeper into this because I love

this topic spontaneously.

Really. It was really kind of crazy through another organization with

Marie diamond,

bought her set of tapes.

Then I got invited to a retreat.

She was having first time,

she had it in 11 years in Minneapolis.

And then I enrolled in her program and had been working

with her broken men,

a couple of,

for teachers.

And so it's phenomenal.

And Rhonda Byrne was actually Marie diamonds,

clients and Marie diamond was one who kind of helped motivate

her to get things going,

kind of introduced to some people and was working with her.

So it's pretty fascinating how it's kind of come full circle

in an offense way.

You are really talking and focusing on the law of attraction

because how you set up your space,

your environment it's to attract the good energy it's to attract

opportunities, the things that you want in your life.

Yeah. I believe in the law of attraction,

100%. I keep seeing it over and over again.

Oh yeah.

It's really powerful.

I did a French way.

Vision board workshop with Marie Minneapolis was phenomenal.

And I ran several vision board workshops this year and the

things that people manifested and sell quickly.

Just amazing.

Let's talk a little bit about resources or now I'm expecting

big things from you,

Marianne after all of this cause you help everybody else here.

But what do you do in your own environment,

working with your own business to stay productive or to create

balance between your business and your personal life?

It's a good question because sometimes it's hard because sometimes I

find myself working.

Even you have challenges,

Challenges, part of it is to constantly stay around.

And I think the biggest struggle we all face is the

clutter one.

I like to spread out when I'm working on someone's floor

plan and getting their report done,

and then sometimes I'll get called away to do something else.

So it takes a conscious effort.

I made to come back and organize my office the way

I'm telling people to organize theirs.

So it's always a conscious effort,

but it's becoming second nature.

But how do I keep current on constantly going on the

websites, taking classes like taking a ton of classes this year

with Marie and her organization hooking into motivational coaches and speakers.

And also there was a handful of French way consultants who

do some webinars who have some great websites who not been

on a podcast yet with any of them,

but definitely webinars.

And so I'm always looking to see what people are doing

and I've connected with a number of people out there.

So it's been a nice resource.

I've got people on the East coast,

West coast,

down in Texas and out in NASA to Florida.

So it's nice to keep that network and see what people

are doing and new.

And I'm perhaps a lifelong learner.

I will always keep learning because I love it.

And the more I can bring to my practice to my

clients, I just feel it's a gift to be able to

do that and put more things in my toolbox for everybody.

Absolutely. And I would imagine because the history of funkshway is

so deep that they're continually new things that are being enhanced,

new ideas,

new things that are working today.

Let's face it.

Now we have all this technical stuff that is draining us

or motivating off depends on how you look at that.

So I'm sure that has impacted our environments for sure.

Well, and one of the classes that I'm taking that goes

along with that consulting with Marie,

like I said,

she's taken me to another level is dousing.

And that is where I go in and I identify energy

vortex is in your space that come from the earth and

it's nothing that's created.

It's coming from the earth.

And depending upon how strong it is,

I've learned how to neutralize that because that will affect your

productivity, affect your environment.

The other big source for you talked about technology is all

the EMS coming from cell phone towers,

from your computers from poorly wired buildings.

And there's things that you can do to neutralize that,

to make the environment better for you.

So it's not an interference for you.

Define EMS.

It's going to be the electric magnetic fields.

Okay. That's all out in the environment,

particularly cell phone,

cell towers,

everything that you're surrounded with.

And right now today you're surround with I'm sure a lot

doing the podcast.

That's all electrical stuff for me.

And I did an apartment in Chicago and a very old

building. It was amazing because I forgot in Chicago in the

older neighborhoods,

you still have the really thick,

heavy electrical wires coming into your building.

And this building was a three flat and they had like

six huge wires coming in on both sides of the building.

And that area in that room was so challenged energetically,

but it fixed a lot of things.

So it just things like that.

You don't even realize how it's affecting the space.

And this is a couple who had moved,

love their other space.

The minute they moved,

tons of problems started happening professionally personally,

but I went and measured everything and I measured the energy

level of a space before and after it's phenomenal,

what you can do to change that.

So you always want to be in a high energy level,

not a low energy.

Okay. So just to the extent that you can share,

just kind of,

obviously you can't change electrical wires that are coming into a

building. So what,

in that type of a situation,

can you do In my training with the dowsing,

there's ways to what I call neutralize that energy.

And it's by using rest rods,

a very thin brass rods that are energized or that energy

to neutralize it.

And they're at different colored ones.

And so I will go and locate that place.

Roger can't really even see them.

And within three seconds it changes the flow of energy.

It's phenomenal,

three seconds,

three seconds,

one, two,

three, but you've got to know what you're doing and how

you're measuring it.

Oh my gosh.

That's so crazy.

Yeah. Were you facing it?

But it's amazing because it affects you all the time and

you're being surrounded by it.

Like one of the things you should never have your cell

phone or be sleeping with anything near your head or your

cell phone should be at least five,

six feet away from you.

And so many people are connected.

They have to have their cell phone near and they want

to hear,

someone's have an emergency or what's coming in.

And she gives us a lot of different energy that impacts

you. And when you're sleeping,

you want to restore yourself.

I want to be drained.

All right.

So as we start winding down here,

we have somebody who's listening who is just now going into

a new retail space,

or perhaps they've decided that they're starting a business and it's

going to be out of the house and they have the

blank room.

We've already talked about positioning of furniture and all of that.

Any other ideas you were talking about colors and all of

that, but any direction for someone who is just starting with

a new space,

just to give them a little bit of a feel at

how to get started with this,

That's very difficult.

Other than the few things I did share with you,

because it's dependent upon where that space is located in the

bigger space.

I think that I am stressing it to everyone is that

your office should be your first marketing place for your business.

Everyone spends a ton of money on marketing their business,

but their offices are rec because it's how you feel about

doing your business,

your job,

and manifesting your goals.

And if your office is not aligned with you and your

energies and your goals,

you will lose about 33% of your focus in income.

It's really interesting.

So that's why it's so important to have a properly arranged

office. And if it can be personalized to you,

that is amazing because everything is focused on you and your

business. Firstly not just generally and that's comes a big difference.

Yeah. And this then brings an idea to me that we

haven't really talked about.

I just want to make the statement and get your opinion

on it.

If someone is feeling like they've been in business,

things are just not going quite right,

regardless of your location.

I don't think people ever think about looking at their environment.

And I'm just kind of recognizing that that's something to look

at as well.

I mean,

obviously you have to get in customers and all of that,

right? But never looking at the environment as potentially a base

driver to help you advance in other areas.

It really is.

I've also someone who said,

okay, I want you to do my office has very,

very amazing goals is in an MLM business and really amazing

goals for this year next year and is traveling a lot.

And that says,

okay, when I move and I want you to do my

office, everything is a mess.

I keep saying,

it's really important.

I don't care if it's a mess,

if you're moving or not moving up,

but to get your office set up so that it's set

up for your success,

you will be carrying that energy and that feeling with you

wherever you go,

even though you're traveling.

So your office is really the base of your marketing for

your business.

It's a place where people should start first and people don't

really do that.

Just like people will go to webinars.

Workshops. Companies will bring in presenters to focus on something and

everyone will be excited,

charged up for a day or two.

And then everything just loses steam.

And it goes back to the normal light inset because you're

going back to the same space.

And if your space isn't nurturing,

you is not providing that environment for you to strive to

go ahead,

to attract things.

You will go back to the same space.

You'll go back into the same.

So to speak ruts that you were in and it becomes

status quo.

Again, again,

looking at the space is huge and accompany.

It's important that the president vice-president are seated or their offices

in a certain way.

The marketing people,

the sales people,

the office assistants are seated in certain areas to get the

most productivity.

And so many of them are just even sitting in the

wrong spot,

in their own office space.

It's a lot of different things to take into account,

but it can be simple.

Eventually doesn't have to cost a fortune and expense money does

not mean your office is going to look Asian at all.

It's all about arranging the space.

You'll go,

Oh my God,

I don't want my office to look.

You know,

I trust me it doesn't because we bring in the elements.

We bring in the balance through color,

through elements,

with things that you have in your space.

And ideally you want to have every space balanced,

but balanced also for an attracting for wherever that space is

located. And to you personally,

This is so good Maryanne really,

really interesting.

Well, like I said,

it's a lot of layers and I start slow with my

clients, trust me,

I start slow.

And then I will add on some things.

And when I give a whole report,

I'll say,

okay, this is what I want you to focus on in

the next week or two.

And when this is done,

then you should go do this.

Because if you do a lot of shifting of energy in

a space,

like if I came into your space and I said,

okay, I want you to do 10 things.

You do those 10 things.

You'll be surprised.

The energy shifts will have a great impact.

It may take several weeks for you to readjust.

Things might get worse before they get better,

because you're changing that full of energy.

So everything has to readjust.

So I encourage people go slow,

but if you're starting out in a blank space,

or if you've got a room that has nothing in it,

how awesome is it to be able to set it up

to your best erections,

to welcome in that energy and to feel like you're the

King or queen of your own office and business.

Beautiful. Love that.

Perfect. Now I would like to invite you to dare to

dream Maryanne.

I'd like to present you with a virtual gift.

It's a magical box containing unlimited possibilities for your future.

This is your dream or your goal of almost unreachable Heights

that you would wish to obtain.

Please accept this gift.

And actually right now I'm changing it from a box to

a room.

You get to open the door to the room and tell

us what's inside.

Well inside is this awesome office in a building at my

home. It's right now,

my office is in my home.

And my big vision is to be an international French way,

consultant and motivational speaker.

So as to help people create a space to manifest their

goals, whether they be for wealth,

success, health,

personal growth,

or relationships,

so that they can have the best life moving forward.

Is that Going to include travel international travel?

Yes, that's what I want to do.

And that will allow me once I get my certification with

Marie, I'll be on her international website.

So I will also be able to teach and travel and

consult. That's my dream as to help people because so many

people are stuck and don't look at the space as an

integral part of your success in your business.

So if any of our listeners want to know a little

bit more about you,

where would you direct them to Go?

You can go to my website,

which is bench way or success.net.

Perfect. And give his listeners as you know,

there'll be a show notes,

page attached,

and I will have all the information for Marianne,

her website,

social media site,

all of that.

Marianne, thank you so much.

Oh my gosh.

This is so interesting.

I'm so excited for you to come out now and look

at my space.

I think I'm a little bit nervous.

I'll be nervous.

But one of the things I tell people when I physically

go out,

or if I'm working with them even long distance,

I want them not to clean.

I don't want anything put away.

I do not want them to clean or organize because I

want to come in and see what you're dealing with and

facing every day.

So I can figure out where the blockages are,

what we need to improve on and to open up that

space. If you clean everything and stuff in the closet,

I don't know what your daily life is like.

You're kind of defeating the purpose,

I guess.

Yeah. I want to know,

but somebody people want to clean and organize to go.

No, no,

no. You can do that after we talk,

but I want to see what your daily life is like,

where the challenges are coming from.

And if I can't see that,

then I can't help you with the challenges and to move

to the next level.

Yeah. I think that you mentioned to me,

you might have a little holiday gift for our listeners.

Yes I do.

So anyone who is listening in and would like to have

their office space evaluated,

I am giving a $25 off initial consultation to the end

of December,

actually the January 1st.

We'll do that.

Okay. So the end of the year,

yeah, a year.

And what does that involve?

If someone were to do that,

what would that involve?

Are they calling you or like,

is it just for local people?

Is it for anybody?

No, it can't be anyone.

Cause number,

I can do this long distance.

I can do it all over the United States,

the world,

because I will ask for certain information and I can work

from that.

Well, that's exciting gift biz listeners is a little bit of

an additional,

extra gift for you.

Well, that's for their office and coming on the new year

and the energies that are shifting and you just want people

to have a great start for the new Once again,

Maryanne, thank you so much for all of the generous information

that you've given us.

We now can go back and move our chairs around,

move our desks around,

put some nice plants in the front of our homes,

all of that.

So much success for you.

I can't wait to hear you just flying off to all

these really cool places to share your learning and may your

candle always burn bright.

Thank you.

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