Hello beautiful souls! Hal Elrod has been on the brink of death many times, but he chose to take his challenges and find purpose, meaning and service in them all. Hal says that getting what you want out of life isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming more. Join us for this awe-inspiring episode, laced with miracle stories, where you’ll learn how to connect more deeply with your angels, by spending time with them every morning. DM me @angelpodcast and let me know what you thought about this episode.

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Chapters:
(00:00) Introduction
(02:00) Julie’s Opening Message
(05:30) Hal Elrod’s Car Accident Story
(20:00) Overcoming Cancer
(35:00) The Miracle Morning
(55:00) Spiritual Practices and Fulfillment
(1:10:00) Q&A with Hal Elrod
(1:25:00) Closing Thoughts

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TRANSCRIPT

Julie Jancius: Beautiful souls. Here’s a preview from this episode’s interview.

Hal Elrod: So to me, it’s this balance between waking up every day and being totally in love with yourself. Not in an arrogant way, but right. But I love myself the way I would want to love other people or have them love me. I love my life, even though it’s got all sorts of challenges and flaws. Right. I live in a state of love and joy and peace.

Julie Jancius: As we begin the podcast today, feel your Angels surround you and sing to you. You are a, m miracle. Your life is a miracle. The good that you choose to do today is a miracle received by other souls. And just because you’re you, God Universe Source sends you big and small miracles this day and every day right now. Invite your Angels to guide you. Ask God Universe Source for what your heart wants. See it as if you’re in the future and what you want is already yours now. And so it is. I love you and I’m so grateful you’re here that I have some freebies for you. I worked with the Angels to create 31 meditations that are going to make you a magnet for miracles. Get them free@theangelmedium.com. want to be my angel? Leave this podcast five stars or a five star positive review and I’ll enter you into a drawing to win a free reading with me. Use the form@theangelmedium.com contact to send me your contact info so I know who to call when you win. Use that same contact form to submit your angel stories, what you’re struggling with, or a question which I’ll answer on this podcast or instagram. Angelpodcast that’s theangelmedium.com backslash contact. Thank you for being my angel. And remember, Angels and miracles are your birthright and they’re activated when you believe. So ask, believe, and receive your miracles. Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to the Angels and Awakening podcast. I’m your host and author, Julie Jancius, and friends, you have heard me talk about this before, the miracle morning we have on Hal Elrod today. Hal, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the show.

Hal Elrod: Anytime, Julie. I mentioned earlier I had to reschedule a couple of times, but we are finally here in God’s perfect timing.

Julie Jancius: Amazing, amazing, amazing. So every Thursday we talk about angel stories and this is going to air on a Monday. but every Thursday we talk about angel stories and you have this incredible story of you were in a very severe car wreck that pulled the car apart into two pieces. And I feel like, your journey begins here and I want to start here, if that’s okay. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Your heart stopped breathing. I think you coded a couple of times after you were resuscitated, but I’m also wondering if in your story that you’re going to share if you saw any Angels or if you felt presence as you were experiencing that.

Hal Elrod: Yeah. Thank you for creating, the space to share this. when I was 20 years old, I was driving home from giving a speech at a company sales conference. I was a cutco sales rep at the time and, I was driving a brand new Ford Mustang. I had like, bought my first new car a few weeks prior. I was on top of the world, if you will. And, that night, a drunk driver got on the freeway heading against traffic the wrong way and he was in a full size Chevy truck, much larger than my little Ford Mustang. And he crossed over the median and hit my car head on at 70 mph. and it sent my car spinning into oncoming traffic. And, a few seconds later, the car behind me crashed into my driver’s side door at 70 instantaneously. I broke eleven bones. and I slipped into a coma. just minutes later, my friend Jeremy found me at the scene of the accident. And when he took my. When he was talking to me, I wasn’t responsive. My head was slouched over, I was covered in blood on my face from breaking my eye socket. My ear was almost completely severed. Again, I broke eleven bones. And. And so he took my pulse. I had a pulse. He thought I was dead at first and I was alive, but I was unresponsive and the paramedics took an hour to cut me out of the car. And when they did, I had lost so much blood that I. That’s when I died. My heart stopped beating for roughly six minutes while they loaded me onto the medevac helicopter and attempted to perform, CPR

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Hal Elrod: and hooked me up to, an iv and got blood back in me. And during those six minutes, I don’t remember anything. And I think what it was is when you’re in a head on collision, it’s a very common brain injury where your brain and your skull are traveling 70. When you hit head on, your skull stops traveling 70 mph, but your brain hits the front of your skull at that speed. And so my frontal lobe, which houses all of your short term memory as well as your judgment, that was completely crushed from that impact. And so, I don’t remember about two weeks out of my life, my last memory is. But there is more to this answer. But, getting onto the freeway before, about ten minutes before I was in the car accident is my last memory. And then my first memory is a week after I came out of the coma. It’s kind of fuzzy as I start to remember different things happening. And although I don’t recall, any kind, I didn’t see a light or I don’t know if I saw a light or there was any experience like that. I have, through vision questing and plant medicine experiences and deep meditations, I have gotten a very strong sense that that was a very purposeful experience that I was supposed to go through it. It was part of my journey. I was supposed to learn and learn from it and help other people, which is kind of what gave birth to my life’s work as a speaker and an author and so on and so forth. The other thing I’ll share is when I was eight years old, my baby sister Amory died in front of me. I woke up to my mother screaming across the hall, and I ran across the hall and my mom was performing CPR on my, ah, 18 month old sister and compressing her chest and breathing into her mouth. And she died that morning. And so my family, we believe that my sister is an angel and that she is watching over us. and so there is that angelic component. Her name was Amory, which is a very angelic name. And, yeah, so, yeah, so that I don’t have a recollection of what happened during those six minutes, but I have a, ah, deeper knowing, which to me is in some ways more powerful. If I was like, yeah, I saw a light, it was cool. It’s like, no, my, life’s purpose was born from that adversity.

Julie Jancius: Absolutely. Absolutely. So you go from this experience, you start doing the work that you’re doing, and then you come into a very rare form of cancer. Tell us a little bit about this, because your journey is unlike any I’ve ever heard before, and I think it’s such a powerful story to tell.

Hal Elrod: Yeah. Thank you. yeah. 37 years old. So 17 years after the car accident, life is great. miracle morning. I had published that book. It’s taken off, it’s translated other languages. I’m traveling the world sharing this message like, life’s almost too good to be true. And be careful if you put energy into too good to be true. Because I think I might have been. I don’t know. But, I woke up in the middle of the night one night, struggling to breathe. I was like just gasping for air. And my, my wife sleeping next to me, woke up and propped up a bunch of pillows behind me and I had to sleep sitting up. And the next day I went to the ER and they, they misdiagnosed me with pneumonia because there was a, it looked like a big mass on my lung and it was actually plural effusion, I believe is what it’s called. Wherever my lung was, there was fluid outside of the lung that was building up and it was collapsing the lung. And for the next, I think, week and a half or so, I had to go to the ER every other day and have anywhere from one to two liters of fluid drained from my lung. And then I’m going to see other doctors and get second opinions and nobody can figure out what’s wrong. And finally I ended up being diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive form of cancer. It’s called acute lymphoblastic leukemia. And out of the millions of people with cancer, I think theres 6000 people that have that cancer. Basically it attacks your organs and shuts your organs down. So I went to MD Anderson cancer Hospital, three, hours away in Houston. And after they did a little more digging, they went, oh, wow. Not only is your lung collapsing, your heart is on the verge of failing. And we might have perform open heart surgery and your kidneys are failing. And I was diagnosed with this acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which has a 20% to 30% survival rate. So of all the people that get that cancer, particularly 70% to 80% of them die from it. And they die very quickly, in a matter of weeks. Most people are misdiagnosed, like I was, don’t get a second opinion. And then their organs shut down and they die. And if I wouldn’t have got the second opinion, which thank you to my wife, because she was like, go get a second opinion, you’re not getting better. I would, I’d be dead. And so, so, yeah, so that was. And we can go anywhere you want with that. How I approach the cancer, how I beat the cancer, you know, whatever you want to go with that, I’m happy to.

Julie Jancius: Well, I think that there is just so much out there within the spiritual community

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Julie Jancius: of, you know, if you get a, sickness or a disease or an illness, or if you have something bad happen to you, that you manifested this, you brought this upon yourself. And I don’t see, see it that way. I see that the Soul, has various different ways that it can go in this lifetime. But to your point and what you said before, we can choose to take everything that we’ve gone through and use it to help and to serve and to become more of ourselves. Take us there and what you believe.

Hal Elrod: Yeah. And I’ll start. I’ll go back just sharing my sister after she passed away. My mother was 29 years old. You know, my dad was 30. They were devastated. You know, as an eight year old, I wasn’t devastated because I was more confused. Like, what does this mean? I don’t. I don’t understand it, right? But my parents were devastated. And rather than, you know, wallow in self pity and let it ruin their lives, they both turned their pain into purpose. Within less, than a year, my mother was leading a support group for other parents who had lost children. So she took her experience and, you know, she had been reading books on grief and thought, wow, I’ve been really working on actively healing from this. I can help other people, I think do the same. So she starts a support group. My dad starts a fundraiser to raise money for the hospital that attempted to save my sisters life. And I didnt know it at the time, but, those seeds were planted that when you go through adversity, almost its your responsibility to overcome it so that you can help other people overcome their adversity. And when I came out of the coma, that was one of the first questions I asked is, how can I use this experience? How can I approach this experience to help other people? In fact, I even told my dad, I said, dad, I’ve always wanted to be a motivational speaker ever since I started selling cutco. And, I didn’t have much to talk about. I’ve had kind of a normal life. You and mom were good parents. And, maybe this is why this is happening to me. And I want to take a second to. I want to make a distinction here. We’ve all heard the cliche adage, everything happens for a reason, right? And usually when someone says that to us, we’re going through a difficult time, we roll our eyes, we’re like, shut up. Like, I don’t want to hear that right now. I’m hurting. Right?

Julie Jancius: Yeah, but.

Hal Elrod: But this is my spin on that, is that everything happens for a reason, but it’s our responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the challenges that we face, you know? And when my car accident happened, I asked myself, why did this happen? But not from a disempowered victim mindset of, like, why did this happen? It’s not fair. I don’t deserve it. It’s like, hm, why did this happen? What am I supposed to do with this? And if you can approach your adversity, and we all can, from that, that perspective of turning pain into purpose, of, of how can you learn, grow and evolve, and become a better version of yourself through the challenges you’re facing? And then how can you take what you learn and help other people get through, you know, minimize their suffering, get through what they’re going through. That enables you to find meaning, purpose, and actually smile. Be grateful. Like I was grateful when I was going through the cancer journey. In fact, there’s a scene in the, in the movie. For those that don’t know, the miracle morning is not only a book that I wrote, but we created a documentary. We spent six years filming it. Halfway through filming and I got cancer. And I called our director and I said, hey, the movie’s on hold, Man. I’m. I have only a 20% to 30% chance of surviving. I gotta focus on healing. That’s my only goal right now. And he’s a friend of mine, Nick. We’ve become close. And he said, hal, you know, he asked me a lot of questions. He was there for me. And then he said, look, I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way, but this is the movie now. Like, I need to come film you beating cancer. He said, I know you’re going to keep doing your miracle morning and you’re going to apply the miracle morning practices to beating cancer. He goes, I already know. I know you. He said, we need to film this to help other people. And I was like, oh, let me talk to my wife. I wasn’t, this is not something I was thinking, but we did that. And, remind me what your question was, because I was tying it in. There was a point here which is.

Julie Jancius: Not that, like, you know, you don’t manifest all these bad things, right? Like, your soul has different ways it can go in this lifetime. And to your point, before you can take, take whatever adversity you go through and use it to create a message or to help serve other people in some way.

Hal Elrod: Yeah, yeah. And so that, that, to me, like, ah, the bigger the adversity, the bigger the opportunity for growth and contribution, period. If you write down anything today, that might be one thing to write down, the bigger the adversity, the greater the opportunity for growth and contribution. And those are two of, those are two human values, right, that are higher on the scale of like fulfillment. When you live your life from a place of how can I learn, grow, and become better? And then how can I contribute and help other people? That’s the sweet spot for fulfillment.

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Hal Elrod: M. Yeah, yeah, that’s it. And that can come through the most difficult experiences in life. We’re all pleasure seekers. That’s our mistake, right? We’re seeking pleasure. We’re seeking short lived emotional highs as opposed to conditioning states of consciousness. And that’s a total tangent. I don’t want to go too far into it unless you want to, or we come back to it, but just what you brought up is that emotional states are fleeting. They are short lived. You can be happy 1 minute, and then you get bad news. They’re usually dependent on outside forces that are often out of our control. States of consciousness are unwavering states of being. So if you choose, an example of a state of consciousness is peace. When you live your life in a state of acceptance, where you accept reality exactly as it is, that’s how you allow yourself to be at peace with the things that you can’t change. When you live in a state of unconditional acceptance you are allowing yourself to live in a state of consciousness that is unwavering, unmovable peace. And then, no matter what happens to you, you accept life exactly as it is. I accepted my car accident, didn’t resist it or wish it were different because that would have been futile. Wishing it were different would have simply created emotional pain for me to the degree that I wished it were different. But by choosing to accept my reality exactly as it is, I’m in a car accident, I broke eleven bones. If I never walk again and I’m in a wheelchair the rest of my life, and that’s my reality, I get to choose to be the happiest, most grateful I’ve ever been. While I experience the most difficult times of my life, I supply that same state of consciousness to my cancer. I can’t change that. I have cancer. This sucks. I’m not happy about it, but I’m going to maintain unwavering faith and put forth extraordinary effort that I to beat the cancer while I’m totally at peace. And I’m grateful for all the lessons that I’m going to learn. So that’s all a big convoluted way of saying that it’s not what happens to you in life, it is how you interpret it and how you respond to it.

Julie Jancius: I love it. It’s amazing. And I think that you are just the, you know, poster boy, for lack of a better word, of taking that challenge and turning it into something. so I love the miracle morning which I found afterwards. I don’t know, you’re a spirit. I think you’re a christian person. I’m a spiritual person. but I feel like God, Universe Source is always working with us and bringing in different things. And I don’t know if you’ve ever had this where you know that they’re trying to teach you some lesson and then they bring you a book and you’re like, oh my gosh, I just channeled that through. So when you go through the miracle morning, there’s six different silence affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, writing. And this all happens really fast in the morning, which I love because I feel like you can start your day and just know that you’ve got something done. But not only that, to me, the miracle morning, I see it through the spiritual lens of the silence is really getting into the state of oneness, which I think is so important for us to see our connectedness to one another

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Julie Jancius: and to just feel the energy of God, Universe Source and our Soul self. The affirmations I call mirror work. But just talking to yourself and building yourself up with what it is that you need to change fear into hope for yourself visualizations, which is really what the work of the Angels do. The Angels can bring hope to human beings because they show you a vision of what it is that they want you to see in the future and that what we’re working towards to get to that point. Groundedness, I get out of exercise. Just moving my body makes me feel grounded and here and embodied love, the reading part and writing. I do a lot of, automatic writing to connect. And automatic writing is just. You could kind of think about it, like trying, to think about how to explain it to a christian perspective. praying and then writing back an answer from God to your own prayers.

Hal Elrod: Yes, I, do it all the time. Yeah, yeah. And I will say, just for clarification, I would say I ride the line between Christian and spiritual meaning. I attend a Christian church, and I embody the values of christianity. but I also study Buddhism, and you name it. I mean, any religion, to me, religion is all just humans way of trying to understand and explain and wrap their head around the God consciousness, the Universe, the unexplainable. Right? And so to me, every religion, again, it’s just different interpretations and different approaches that humans have come up with to try to figure this out. and so I believe that learning something from each and every religion, I’ll give you an example. I have, my two people on my team, Josh and Brianna, are jewish, and I’ve asked them. I’m just curious. I’m like, tell me about your religion. Tell me about your traditions. Right? And in some ways, I’ve been almost like, like I’ve had religious envy. Like, Man, I wish I would have grown up jewish. Like, what a cool, you know, religion. And, like, one of my favorite questions is, is it useful? You know? Right? Is. Is there? Is it useful? Right. And if it is, then that makes sense. So anyway, so just wanted to say that there’s no black light with me.

Julie Jancius: Totally agree with you. Totally agree. And actually wanted to be jewish growing up as a kid for a while. but, you know, some people are very sensitive to that. So I try and always approach it with, like, humble, humbly.

Hal Elrod: Yep. No, I’m sensitive to it too, because, yeah, people, sometimes it’s blasphemy. Wait, you can’t, you can’t say that you’re, you know, you embody christian values, but you also are learning about Buddhism and what that doesn’t, you know, so I’m like, Just makes sense to me.

Julie Jancius: Yeah.

Hal Elrod: I always thought it was weird that, that, And I. Again, this may offend some people, but I always thought it was weird that, that, like, the default kind of a default religious belief is typically there’s something like 3000 religions and it’s like, no, no, no. Ours is the right one.

Julie Jancius: Right.

Hal Elrod: And the other 2999, are wrong. Like, right. Like, they’re, they’re off a little bit. Like, what? Oh, okay. How come you all that. We all think that, you know.

Julie Jancius: Yeah, no, I love how spirituality brings it together. You know, we’re all, It’s all the same thing and there’s just different parts. And to your point, you find different pieces that are beneficial in all of them.

Hal Elrod: Totally.

Julie Jancius: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did the miracle morning come to you? How did you channel this through?

Hal Elrod: I definitely channeled it. And I love that. I always, I always say that. I always say, I don’t take credit for this. This was a big time. I channeled this, this was like, God gave this to me to bring it to millions of people around the world. And, you know, I didn’t know. I felt overwhelmed by that responsibility. And it just eventually, you know, it’s come to pass. But, so 2008, the US economy crashes, and at that point, I had left Cutco. I had started my own business as, a coach. I was coaching entrepreneurs and salespeople, and I was, like, flying high. Like, I bought my first home. I had built my business up to where I was earning a substantial income, from zero to $80,000 a year back in 2008. And it was on its way up. I’m like, I’m going, I’m going, I’m going to keep going. And I lost, as the economy crashed, over half of my coaching clients were affected by the economy. And they just said how we can’t. I can’t afford coaching. I have to drop out. And so losing over half of my clients, meaning over half my income, was devastating for me. I couldn’t pay my mortgage. I had to my. I stopped the mortgage. My house was foreclosed on by the bank. I went from being a debt free person where I paid off my credit card every month to accumulating $52,000 in credit card debt in six months. just to pay the bills, just to put groceries on the food in the car or I gas in the car, food on the table. You get it?

Julie Jancius: food in the car, too, to get to the house?

Hal Elrod: Yeah. And I got really depressed. Like, I felt so scared and hopeless. Like, okay, I’m losing my house. I don’t know where I’m going to live. I don’t have money. I’m in debt. My credit score that I worked so hard to get into, the almost 800, it was down to 500.

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Hal Elrod: I was just, falling apart. And I went on a run one day. I wasnt a runner, but a friend of mine said, hal, if youre not exercising every day, youre not putting yourself in a peak physical and mental and emotional state to solve your problems. He said, you need to exercise every day. Go for a run. I said, I hate running. He said, what do you hate worst, running or your circumstances? I said, okay, ill go for a run tomorrow. And he said, listen to a self help or a business audiobook so that you can learn something while youre in a heightened state and you got more blood to the brain and then go home and implement it. I said, okay, anything I should start with? And he said, start with this Jim Rohn audio that changed my life when I was younger. So I listened to this Jim Rohn audio, and one quote blows my mind and becomes the catalyst for the miracle morning. Jim Rohn said, and if anybody’s taken notes, write this one down. Your level of success or your levels, plural. Like every area of life, your levels of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. And, I had to Google, what is personal development? Because it’s kind of a vague term. Here’s the way I would define it. Now, if you’re listening. So your level of success, that’s how you’d measure fulfillment in any area of life, right? In your health, in your marriage, with your happiness, in your finances, et cetera. So, on a scale of one to ten, I think it’s fair to say we all want level ten. I’ve never met anyone that goes, I don’t want to be too happy. I don’t want to be too financially abundant. I’ll just settle for let right. No. Human nature is to. We aspire to fulfill our potential, right? Self actualization is a very real aspiration for humans. Most of us sadly settle, and we can talk about why that is. But here’s the point. Your level of success, level ten, is what we want, seldom exceed your level of personal development. I define that as the rituals, routines, and habits that you have in place every day that are enabling you to develop yourself into a better version of who you were yesterday, day after day after day. If you continue with daily personal development, and you continue to get better and better and better. Or on that scale of one to ten, I was at like a two or, a three in 2008. Like my level of personal development, I had bad habits. I was eating terribly. I was sleeping till the last minute. I was staying up late because I was depressed. I was a mess. And I thought, theoretically, if I had figure out what the world’s most successful people do for personal development, and I assemble, like the ultimate personal development routine, theoretically, I should be able to go from a two or three to a four, and then a five. And gradually, day by day, week by week, I could eventually become the level ten version of me that’s capable of creating that level ten success. And so I went home from that run, and I just googled. I spent like an hour figuring out, what are the world’s most successful people do for personal growth and development? I was looking for one or two practices. I had a list of six, and I was kind of overwhelmed. And then I thought, what if I did all of them? What if I woke up tomorrow, like 30 minutes earlier, and I did not one, but the six most timeless, proven personal development practices in the history of humanity that the world’s most successful people have sworn by for centuries? I thought that would theoretically accelerate me quickly from a two or three to a four, five, like, go fast. And in my mind, Julie, I was estimating one year. I thought, if I do this every day, one year from now, I will be a completely different person that is capable of creating what I want for my life. And I started the next morning. I was consistent every single day. Two months later, Julie. And this is important because at the height of the 2008 Great Recession, so for those two months, the economy didn’t get better. It got worse and worse and worse. The news was all fear. The economy was crashing, the housing market was crashing, the stock market was crashing, but I was getting better every single day I was getting, and I stopped watching the news. I’m like, no, I’m going to focus on what I can control. I can’t control the economy. I can’t control what’s going on in, Washington, DC. I can only control waking up every day and dedicating time to becoming the best version of myself. And within two months, I more than doubled my income at the height of the 2008 Great Recession. And I remember the moment. I remember I was in my office, I signed on a second coaching client for that day, and that officially put me at more than double the income that I was at two months prior and I wanted to go celebrate with my wife. I went and went and found Ursula. She was folding laundry in the bedroom. I said, sweetheart, I signed on two more coaching clients today. And she had no context. So she goes, high five. Good job. Great. I’m excited for you. I said, no, no, no, you don’t understand. This is monumental. Because the second coaching client officially puts us over more than double where our income was before

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Hal Elrod: things started to crash two months ago. I’m sorry. Before I started the morning routine. So six months ago was the income, but two months ago, I started the morning routine. I said, it’s all because the morning routine, I’m getting clarity. I have motivation, I have energy. I’m learning how to grow my business all in the morning. I said, it feels like a miracle. And without skipping a beat, she goes, it’s your miracle morning. I go, I like that. And then I’ll just, I’ll wrap up the story with. I started telling it to my coaching clients. I go, if this worked for me, it would probably work for them. And most of them resisted and said, I’m not a morning person, Hal. Like, you know, I go, no, no, neither was I. Here’s how you beat the snooze button. Here’s how you do the saver. Here’s how it works. Heres how you get over your limiting belief that youre not a morning person. And two weeks later, 13 out of 14 of my coaching clients came to their next coaching call and said, hal, oh my gosh, the miracle morning works. Im having the best week in my sales career. Im doing all six of the savers every morning. Like, its amazing. And thats when the light bulb went off and I went, if it changed my life. And I wasnt a morning person. And the miracle morning changed 13 out of 14 coaching clients. That’s more than 90%. And m most of them said they weren’t morning people. I thought, I have a responsibility to share this with the world. I started writing the book, then eventually the movie came out and now there’s an app and now it’s in schools. And like, you know, the whole journey unfolded over a decade. It’s been twelve years since the book published. But, so, yeah, so I’m happy to go anywhere that you want with all of that.

Julie Jancius: Well, okay, so this is what I see in my clients. I’ve got a membership and I teach how important it is to have a morning spiritual practice. A lot of times when I’m working with clients one on one in a session or my members, and they’re talking to me about something spirit will say they fell off. They’re not doing their morning spiritual practice anymore. And, you know, you see it and they feel it. And I think that there’s a misconception along a lot of people that, you only have to do it for a little while. Like you, you know, I’m just going to do it to get on track. No, it is your track. It is the track itself. It’s not getting on the track. It is the track.

Hal Elrod: Yeah. Two things. I’ll say that. So I’m so glad that you said that. I was asked. It’s been probably a few years. They said, hal, you created the miracle morning because you were at rock bottom, you know, financially, physically, you were in a bad place and you created it to turn your life around. Well, your life’s great now. You, you know. Right. What. Why do you keep doing it? What’s it about now? And I was like, that’s a really interesting question. Like, I’ve never even reflected, why am I still doing it? And my first answer was, human potential is limitless. When you become the level ten version of yourself. From the day you set out to do it, that’s now like level six, right. Because now you have expanded your abilities and your potential has grown in your capacity, right. You never fulfill your potential on your deathbed. There will be more. You could learn, you could evolve, you could accomplish. Right? So that was the first answer. I’m like, my mission in life, or one of my purposes in life is to become the best version of myself. And, ah, that’s a never ending pursuit, right? I’m always trying to be better for myself, for my family, for the people that I love, the people that I lead, you name it. And the miracle morning is the most effective practice I’ve ever found. To wake up, every day and not only start the day in a peak state so you can win the day, but to just keep learning and getting better. The other thing I would think about, I would use the comparison of, like, professional athletes. I always think about Michael Jordan as the pinnacle of success. When I was a kid growing up, Michael Jordan was the best athlete in the world, right? Best basketball player. And really, of any athlete, when he was the best, he didn’t stop practicing. Right. He didn’t stop going to practice, right. In fact, like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, they were usually the first to practice ahead of the guys that weren’t even as good as them, and they were the last to leave and they. Right. And that’s why they were the best. So to be your best, which is what’s enable you to create the best life you can. It’s about having those daily rituals, the daily routines, and so, yeah, for me, it’s my miracle morning. Is that daily practice?

Julie Jancius: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I had a poster of MJ on my wall in the eighties and nineties. and we’re from the Chicagoland area and have family here. So, do you remember what it.

Hal Elrod: Said was just a picture, or what did it say?

Julie Jancius: Picture of him with, like, the white and red shorts, and I think they’re white and red shoes on, and he’s, like, in his, like, stance that he’s about to dunk. Like, his. His legs out wide and his arm stretched out. But I remember hearing, too, that when he went to go film, what was that movie that he did with those little gym?

Hal Elrod: yes.

Julie Jancius: That he would even practice. Like, he’d be filming all day, and then he would take, like, 3 hours with a trainer. Just like, I remember that that was it, too. He had a basketball hoop set up, like, an entire

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Julie Jancius: full length court set up where they were filming so that he could go practice. That’s awesome. So you talked about something earlier, and I hope we can go back to it, but you said we could talk about this later. Why do. Why do people settle? Why do they settle?

Hal Elrod: Yeah. So it’s not your fault. Like, it’s not our fault that we settle. That.

Julie Jancius: That’s.

Hal Elrod: That’s my belief. well, it’s our fault if we continue to settle once we’re aware of this. All right? So. But here’s. Here’s why. And I’m not. This is not my area of expertise in terms of, like, going back throughout the history of human beings. Not my m expertise, but I’m going to explain it in the common sense that I understand it. Right. Think about, like, our cave men and women ancestors. So as human being, as our brain was right, evolving, there was no leaderboard, there was no monetary system where we needed more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more. Essentially, I imagine that we did enough to get the necessities that we needed to live. Food, right? So once the hunter killed the buffalo, he didn’t keep hunting to kill more buffalo than his competitor, right? He just, he just, they just sat and enjoyed the buffalo for three months, and he didn’t have to work anymore. Right? Once you. Once you’re. You got a harvest, right? You. You ate the harvest. So we live in a very different world now. That is based on accumulation and competition where you can never create enough, have enough, and it is a fine balance. I’m actually going to counter something I said earlier, which is this idea that we all want level ten, that you can never reach your potential. That self actualization, that it’s important that I give a disclaimer to that, which is, it’s not that you’re going after achieving more potential because you’re not enough. You have to come from a place of, I am perfect exactly as I am, and I want to see what I’m capable of. Right? Not, I have to learn, grow and evolve and become better. Not. And so, and there are some days, by the way, where I’m like, I don’t feel like fulfilling my potential today. I’m going to rest on my laurels for a bit. But the point is, as long as you’re doing it consciously, because going back to your question, why do we settle for mediocrity? it’s in our nature, human nature is to do the minimum required to survive. And there’s nothing wrong with that in my opinion. Like, I would never make a judgment and go if you do the minimum required to survive. In fact, in some ways, minimalism, that’s a documentary that I’m gonna have my daughter watch here. And we’re watching documentaries now. She’s 14 and I’ve ever watched minimalism. Right? So to me it’s this balance between waking up every day and being totally in love with yourself. Not in an arrogant way, but. Right, but I love myself the way I would want to love other people or have them love me. I love my life. Even though it’s got all sorts of challenges and flaw.

Julie Jancius: Right?

Hal Elrod: I live in a state of love and joy and peace and I’m playing this game like that’s the way to view achievement accumulate. I’m playing this game of how good could I be? Not because I have to, because why not play that game, right? And again, I think that is innate in humans is this drive and desiree to. And maybe that wasn’t around. We were cavemen and women. Maybe it evolved as we evolved and society became different. Maybe that innate drive and desire to self actualize, maybe it wasn’t there at day one and it evolved over the last, you know, x amount of centuries, I don’t know. But I believe in today’s society. I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t go, yeah, I’d like to be better. I’d like to be more emotionally intelligent and have more discipline have more financial security, like, sure, of course. Right. So if you’re willing to play that game, play it from a piece of, or from a place of love and abundance and wholeness. Right. And excitement, to just see what’s possible and play that game.

Julie Jancius: There is research on that. I know you’re a research guy, so you would love this. There’s a book, and I’ll send it to you afterwards. But what it’s about are, the chemicals within the brain, and they can tell how people are going to act, and they can even predict what they’ll do in certain situations based on which chemical they have more of. And they said, because most of our ancestors, like my italian ancestors, came over on a boat from Italy, my, other ancestors actually tracked back to the Mayflower coming over. And those are your people who had more adhd within them. That type of chemical, that it’s kind of tied into the book explains it much better. So they said that in the United States,

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Julie Jancius: we have more people who are doers and shakers and changers because of that chemical from our ancestors and how many people immigrated over versus Europe and different places, which is really fascinating.

Hal Elrod: Yeah, that is fascinating.

Julie Jancius: Yeah.

Julie Jancius: so one of the things that you touched on was a question that I channeled through before we hopped on that. I really like to go here. There is so much within owning a business today, and I know that not everybody listening owns a business, but a lot of people do, where they want to create something, and it looks so much different today than it did five years ago or ten years ago, where it’s constant creation. And you see these people who have these very big teams, and they’re just doing so much. And I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve just decided I don’t want all of it. You know, like, I want to do the best I can. I want to reach my potential, but I also want to have time to spend with my family, and I just want to breathe, and I just want to be. And I have finally come to the place where. And I don’t even know that it’s working for everybody within the creator space. I think it’s working for some, but I think a lot of people are burning themselves out right now. Where do you see all of this?

Hal Elrod: Yeah, I. This was, for me, one of the biggest lessons I got from cancer was quality over quantity in terms of the impact that we make. We all, not we all, but a lot of us are like, oh, I need to change millions of lives. And that was I. That was my mindset that led me to do that. But what I realized is I was choosing quantity. I was valuing quantity above quality, meaning I was on this mission to change millions of lives. And so it was okay to work on the weekend instead of hanging out with my family. Okay, sweetheart, I tell my wife, you go to that recital or whatever, but I’ve got to do this thing. And if you would have asked me at the time when I, you know, 37 years old, what’s your number one priority in your life? I would have said family, and I would have actually minted and believed it and not. It was a blind spot for me. And then I realized I will never again. And I’m, you know, and I shouldn’t say never again because, well, that was my intention, but I’m sure I’ve made the mistake again. Occasionally you get caught up in a project or whatever. I, But I’m much better than I used to be. Much better. Radically different. But the impact that I can make for those three people that I live with is infinitely more important and more valuable to me than making a, whatever impact with millions of people around the world. And so, to your point, I’ve also gone with, like, oh, I need to have a team to reach million. And it was just, I’m like, this isn’t the lifestyle I want. I’m not good at managing people. That’s not my ability. And I hired someone to do it. But just in general, I’m like, I don’t want to have to think about all these CEO, like, the CEO type things that I have to worry about. And so I scaled my team back to a few people. And the other thing that came, the first thing that came to me, so I’ll at least share it, is I think that moving forward trades like being a plumber, being an electrician. I think that those are more valuable than ever because I know that a lot of people are afraid of how artificial intelligence could replace. I mean, you can write a book in 10 seconds right now. You can say, hey, hey, Chad, GPT, write a book on morning routines, but make it different enough from Hal Elrod. I shouldn’t say this because I’m putting it out there. Different from how Elrod’s book, right. that it’s not plagiarism and chat. GPT will pump you out a book in like 60 seconds. An entire book, right. And not to mention or art, right, if you’re a graphic designer and I’m not being a doomsday or here but I’m just, this is, we got to face reality, right? If you’re a graphic designer, you can tell chat, GPT, build me an entire website or draw me a picture of blank with whatever you tell it to do. It will do. So my wife and I have actually been talking to my son. He wants to be an author. He’s published a book called Random Things, I think it’s called, he published a book when he was like nine, and now he wants to publish a sequel where I’m editing it for him right now. so I’m all for that. But we’ve also talked to him about having a trade as a backdrop because AI is not going to plunge our toilets. AI is going to not, you know, right, or fix our plumbing or fix our electricity. And maybe I’m short sighted, maybe AI will, I don’t know, robots will come to, I don’t know. But, but anyway, I don’t know if that I answered your question in a few different contexts there.

Julie Jancius: No, I love it. So did you get rid of the person who oversees all the other people?

Hal Elrod: No, but she basically went back to her old role. So she has been my, my, she started as my intern. Her name is Tiffany. Tiffany started as my intern, like almost ten years ago, eight or nine years ago. And then when I decided to build a team, I said, hey, you need to learn how to be a coo. You know, read these books, take these courses. So she became the chief operations officer for our business and now we still have a few people on the team. So she still does have the

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Hal Elrod: role of overseeing them. But, it’s the minimum amount of people that I need to function and they’re almost all people that aren’t requiring me to be in meeting m, they’re like, they’re working behind the scenes and, so I don’t have to even think about it. For me, it’s so stressful to be like, oh, this person’s waiting on answers and I’m a very indecisive person. I’m like, oh, they’re waiting on answers and decisions. I don’t know. But wait, they are. And then they need this for me and they need videos for me and I’m like, I can’t, like, literally, my mental health was like, it’s not good, it’s not good.

Julie Jancius: So I totally get that. And then I start to feel like, well, shouldn’t they just be able to go do that? You know? But a lot of times they can’t because it comes from you as the origin who’s creating all of this content and it’s in your head. no, I totally get that when it comes to the miracle morning. I saw a post online recently where a woman was doing this with her son and it didn’t even occur to me, but I, When do you recommend that parents introduce the miracle morning to their kids?

Hal Elrod: Yeah, so I started with my kids when they were probably four ish, and we just started listening to guided meditations in the car. so it was very, you know, kind of loose. And then when they got older, we did like miracle morning, 30 day challenges where they were, you know, when they were like 6789 years old. and there’s a great YouTube channel, cosmic kids yoga, and it’s this gal that dresses up and she uses graphics and, like, has cartoons, and, I mean, it’s really cool. So we would do cosmic kids yoga together. Now, my kids are teens and preteens, and they will have nothing to do with the miracle morning. I am hoping that that changes at some point. In fact, my son would probably do it. In fact, I think he actually will. But my daughter is the 14 year old dad. Don’t stop shoving the miracle morning down my throat. And it’s a fine balance because I’m like, you know, and I think it’s because I’m the creator. It’s like when your spouse tells you something and you’re like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then somebody else tells you the same thing, you’re like, oh, yeah, that’s a good idea. I should do that, right? And, then you tell your spouse and they’re like, she’s like, I told you that a million times. So the fact that I’m the creator, I’m the author, they hear me talking about it all the time. I’m just trying to be at peace with it because I don’t want it to be something where she resents it because I pushed it too hard. Right?

Julie Jancius: Yeah.

Hal Elrod: So, however, there is a book in the Miracle morning series called the Miracle Morning for parents and families, co authored by me and Mike and Lindsay McCarthy. They have gotten their kids to do the miracle morning for years, consistently, more effectively than I have, and they’ve got it really dialed in. So I asked them, they’re friends of mine, I asked them to co author, the miracle morning for parents and families. And then that walks you through it and it gives you, I mean, it gives you actionable ways for the kids to hold themselves accountable and charts to monitor the savers, but it’s been really effective. Like, their kids aren’t allowed screens or anything until they’ve done their savers, checked them off, shown their parents, but their parents don’t have to chase after them. They do it on their own, because that’s the only way they can get the other things that they want, which is, like, to watch tv or play a video game or whatever.

Julie Jancius: All right, so this has to have come up for you before, but I’m 42, going through perimenopause, and it is so m much harder to wake up in the morning now than it was for me when I was younger. Have you seen anything? And, you know, men’s hormones shift to. Men start to lose testosterone, which gives them less energy. Is there anything that you’ve seen with this, of how do you just get yourself to wake up if you’re so groggy in the morning?

Hal Elrod: Yeah, so I’m 44 years old. So I’ve, you know, and I’ve gone through 700 hours of chemotherapy, so my body is not what it used to be. But, so I can. I can relate and sympathize. I mean, here’s what I would say, what I shared in the. The miracle. So the miracle morning has an updated and expanded edition. For those that don’t know, I just published it in December, just a few months ago, and it has 70 pages of brand new content. So if you’re watching this, this is the. Or I guess it’s behind me as well. But this is the new edition, and it has 40 pages of new chapters, the miracle evening and the miracle life, as well as a bunch of new content for the savers. And I rewrote almost every page of the book. So there’s that. In the book, I added a new chapter called the Miracle Evening. And the subtitle of that chapter is your strategy for blissful bedtime and better sleep. And I’ve said this for a long time, but I didn’t have this robust of an evening routine when I said it. Is that the miracle morning starts the night before, and it starts primarily with your intention. And here’s a way to think about it. Whatever your last thought is that you dwell on before bed is almost always whatever it becomes the first thought you have in the morning. Right. If you’re going in your head, you’re, oh, my gosh, I’ve got this big presentation

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Hal Elrod: tomorrow. I’m so stressed. I’m so worried about it. Right. And then as soon as you wake up, you’re like, oh, God, today is Tuesday. I’ve got that presentation, right? Or on a positive spin, like, I don’t know if you celebrated. Did you celebrate Christmas as a kid growing up?

Julie Jancius: Yeah.

Hal Elrod: Okay, so. So did I. So think about it. As a kid, the last thing you’re thinking is, oh, my God, tomorrow’s Christmas, Santa’s coming. I want to get presents. I’m so excited. And then what’s your first thought in the morning? It’s Christmas. You jump out of bed, you run out of bed. Now, I want you to think about this. If you go to bed, the first example I gave you, thinking about something that you’re stressed about that happened that day, that you’re worried about tomorrow, the general state of the world, right? If you go to bed and your emotional state is suboptimal, stressful, whatever, or even just unintentional, you could be neutral. Well, then the first thought and the emotional state that you’re going to wake up to is either negative or unintentional, and that’s not going to pull you out of bed the way that going to bed with the thought and the emotions of Christmas morning are going to pull you out of bed. Let me ask you a question, Julie. Was it hard for you to wake up on Christmas morning as a kid?

Julie Jancius: Never.

Hal Elrod: Was it dependent on how many hours of sleep you got the night before or the quality of rem sleep that you got?

Julie Jancius: No, no, no.

Hal Elrod: It was 100% dependent on what you focused on as you were falling asleep and you generated a positive intention for the morning. And when I had that aha. Moment when I was writing the original miracle morning book, I was like, wait, I should be able to recreate that experience of waking up Christmas morning if I’m intentional about it. So, in the new edition of the book, I added the m. So there’s that miracle evening chapter. It walks you through seven steps to prepare yourself for blissful sleep and then sets you up to with an affirmation. There is a bedtime affirmation that you read before bed that optimizes your mindset so that you’re preparing yourself, that your last thought and the last emotional state you dwell in is the one that pulls you out of bed with excitement and energy first thing in the morning. But again, it’s your responsibility. If you don’t read the affirmations and you don’t, you’re not intentional before bed, then you’re just leaving it up to chance how you feel in the morning. And the odds are you’re going to feel the way you normally feel when you don’t have intention about how you fall asleep.

Julie Jancius: Oh, I love this. I think that’s one of the best things I’ve ever heard. I am going to try that and report back to everybody on it. I want to ask you this. You’ve seen so many people’s lives change through this process of the miracle morning. Can you tell us some, bigger stories to just give that motivation of? Here’s what you can expect if you use the miracle morning.

Hal Elrod: Yeah. You know, there’s 30,000 reviews on Amazon that would like that are profound. You’re like, oh, my God, how could I pick one story? So here’s where I’ll get these stories from. So the miracle Morning movie, I think I mentioned that we made a documentary that took six years to film that movie. The first hour of it focused on, it wove like, successful, famous people, like best selling authors like Mel Robbins and Brendan Burchard and Robert Kiyosaki. And we went and interviewed them m like, hey, what’s your morning routine? Why is it important? Right. So there was that, but then we wove in stories of people who had read the book and it transformed their lives. Just, you know what you’d call, I don’t think anybody’s ordinary, but you know what I mean, like, ordinary people that weren’t famous authors or whatever. And so some of my favorite stories from the movie. One is Mike Eaton. Mike Eaton was obese his entire life. In fact, there’s a scene in the movie where he’s doing, he’s jumping off a 40 foot cliff and doing a belly flop, which could have killed him because all his friends are razzing him. And he was so overweight and so insecure and so unhappy that he would do anything for attention. And he had tried to lose weight in every way that he could. Hed tried diets, this and that. His friend recommended the miracle morning not, not for weight loss, but just in general. And Mike applied all six of the savers to, he goes, this is it. This is the answer. This is how Im going to finally lose the weight. And in a matter of months, I cant remember if it was four months or six months. He lost 80 pounds. 80 pounds. And I love that example. Its an inspiring story when you see how Mike talk about it. But I love the example because the miracle morning is not a weight loss book. It’s a how do you become the person that you need to be to achieve anything that you want for your lifebook? Mike used it to lose 80 pounds. Another example is Keith Minnick. He was the former director of broadcasting. I think I might have the title wrong, but for Turner home broadcasting or like, senior production manager,

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Hal Elrod: I forgot his title. But he was. He was like a, head honcho, at Turner home broadcasting. And his wife gave birth to their son, and 3 hours later, their son died, and it sent him into a deep, deep, deep depression. And he also started, he hated his work. He hated his life. He was deeply depressed. I put his story in the new edition of the Miracle Morning. It’s one of the opening stories because it’s so profound. He said that he had read books on grief. Nothing worked. A friend recommended the miracle morning. And he said, the very first miracle morning that he did, he had this awakening called channeling spiritual awakening. But he realized, wait, I dont have to be depressed anymore. From this day forward, I can choose the mental and emotional state that would best serve me, and Im going to be, ah, at peace, and Im going to be grateful and Im going to be happy. in the book, I share a story where he says the very first miracle morning totally changed his life. And now it’s been ten, almost ten years, and he’s done it virtually every single day. So just like me, he keeps evolving and he keeps growing, and now he left his company that, his job that he was not happy with, and he started his own business, and he’s thriving financially, and his marriage is thriving. And he attributes it all, or a lot of it, to the miracle morning. So, again, I encourage anybody, like, start. If you want to order the miracle morning book on Amazon, of course, it’ll change your life, but then immediately, you can go to miraclemorning.com, you can watch the movie for free, you can download the app for free. Like, you know, you can get started before the book even arrives.

Julie Jancius: That’s amazing. That’s so amazing. So, one last question for you. I’m sure spirit is always working on, bringing new things and lessons into your life. What is Hal Elrod really learning, learning this year and right now? Jeff?

Hal Elrod: Ooh, that is a great question. What am I learning this year? Well, without going into too much detail, in 2020, obviously, that was a year that people. Nobody forgets. Yeah. In December of 2019, I slept for about 2 hours one night, and I don’t know why. I couldn’t sleep. And I was, like, anxious and, weird. It was. I didn’t like. It’s like something in my brain snapped. And I had done over 700 hours of chemotherapy up until that point. And I think my brain had deteriorated to where it just. It just, like, blew a fuse. And imagine if you sleep 2 hours one night, you’re a mess the next day. That went on two to 4 hours a night, on average, for six months, and I started hallucinating. My mental health went from a, you know, probably an eight to, like, a one where I contemplated suicide every single day. And in the miracle evening chapter, I share that story, and I share what I did to overcome it, which is what the miracle evening routine is. but you fast forward to today, and I have a traumatic brain injury from my car accident combined with the chemotherapy. And so every day is a struggle for me. And so what I’m learning right now, after being like, why, God? Why is this happening to me? It’s been three years already. Why is my brain not back to normal? I’ve tried everything. I don’t know what to do. And in full transparency, I occasionally go there when I’m really struggling with my cognitive function. But here’s the point. It’s a lesson that we all know. It’s a lesson that I’ve lived, and I’ve had a hard time these last few years living it. And I think that it’s because most people struggle to live it. And I feel like I have to go through what other people are going through so that I can empathize with them, so that I can help them. Like, that’s just my belief, right? I go through difficult things so I can overcome and help others. So long. Answer to your question. What’s going through now is how, can I love my brain exactly as it is? I want it to get better. Yes, but how can I be at peace with my brain like, I know better? I teach people, be at peace with what you can’t change. Be at peace with your life as it is while you’re working to make it better. And so for me, it’s, how can I love the brain I have while I keep being proactive about trying to make it better? How can I be happy and enjoy my life, even though I’m struggling every single day with my mental and, emotional abilities and my cognitive function and all my memory and my processing and all of that? It’s really difficult. And I can either let that define my reality, and I can be miserable, which I’ve been guilty of being at times for the last few years. What’s coming up for me now, though, is, no. No more. It’s time to enjoy the. This one life that we’ve been blessed to live. Even though we’re facing challenges and you all, we all have unique challenges. We have our cross to bear. Yours might be financial, someone else’s might be in their marriage. For me, it’s my mental and emotional, my cognitive ability, whatever it is, let’s wake up every day. Let’s remind ourselves during our miracle morning that, hey, yes, I got challenges, but I only get one life. I have people that are depending on me,

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Hal Elrod: to show up at my best. So I’m going to show up at my best today. I’m going to love the life I have while I create the life of my dreams. And I’m not going to make any excuses as to why I can’t or won’t do that.

Julie Jancius: Amazing. But, I want you to tell everybody where they can find you and where they can find the miracle morning.

Hal Elrod: Absolutely. Thank you for that. yeah, miraclemorning.com is the hub for everything. So again, you can go straight to Amazon or barnesandnoble.com dot, you know, buy the book or whatever. But if you go to miraclemorning.com, from there, you can click and you can watch the movie. You can click, it’ll take you to buy the book. and then I do want to. I will take a second or a few seconds to mention. The Miracle Morning app is the most requested resource that we’ve had for like a decade. And last year, we finally, after years of development, we finally released, like, the one stop app because everybody was like, I use a meditation app, then I use a visualization app, then I use an affirmations app, then I have a journaling app, then I have a reading app. Right? Kindle. And so for us, we’re like, oh, my God, it’s so much to wrap our heads around to make the all in one app that does everything. And so we created that. And the reason I’m saying all this is, the easiest way to do miracle Morning is download the free version of the app. You want to upgrade, that’s up to you. but go to activities. And there’s a savers 100 or sorry experiences. There’s a savers one on one track, literally just tomorrow morning. Or now you can do it. Now hit play. And then I think it’s eleven or 13 minutes long. It will guide you through all six of the savers without you having to figure any of them out. You don’t have to think, okay, I have to meditate. Now wait. Now do affirmations. Okay, m. Now wait, how do I do that? I’m doing. Am I doing it wrong? No, you click play and, 13 minutes later, you’ve done your first miracle morning. And you could repeat that every day. Or you can start evolving it and making it your own practices.

Julie Jancius: Amazing. Amazing. Oh, my goodness. Well, Hal, thank you so much for being on this show. I so appreciate you and the beautiful work that you put out into this world.

Hal Elrod: Julie, thank you so much for having me.

Julie Jancius: I’d love to work with you if it resonates. Book a reading to get messages from your Angels right away or join my membership or my angel Reiki mediumship school. What’s the difference? The angel Reiki mediumship school certifies you in mediumship angel messages and energy healing all at once. Some join simply to develop all of their unique spiritual gifts to the max, and others want to start their own spiritual business. Both are perfect. You can take the Angel Reiki Mediumship School online with Zoom meetings or in person in Oakbrook, Illinois in November or April. Bonus when you register for the in person Angel Reiki Mediumship School today. You also get the eight week online program free with Zoom meetings included. So you can literally start today. How is that different from my membership? My membership gives you everything you need to care for and nourish your Soul. The fact is, our world neglects the Soul. Most people only attend to their own Soul when they have a big life crisis. But your Soul is not a problem to be solved. Your Soul is starving to be seen, heard, nourished, and cared for. Your Soul is speaking to you, and it wants you to hear it. That’s what my membership does. It nourishes your soul. It shows you there is an entire universe living within you.

Hal Elrod: How?

Julie Jancius: You can access your own Angels messages and live a life of wonder, magic, enchantment, and miracles. At, your request, we’ve changed the membership so that you can join anytime, any month. You can purchase readings, the school, my membership, all over@theangelmedium.com. as we close today, ask your Angels to be with you and allow these messages to speak to your heart. Your Angels say you are connected to the Universe and the Universe is connected to you. All you ever need is within you right now, at this very moment. Stay true to yourself. Don’t betray yourself by going against the intuitive feelings you get. Trust your own inner wisdom. Why? The world needs you.

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Julie Jancius: The world needs you to dream big and for you to discover what’s possible for yourself. Step into the energy of all that you are. Smile, laugh, and allow your heart to be healed. Ask your Angels to bring you big, big miracles. Prosperity and to open big doors. Believe in miracles. You have a big purpose. And friends, inspiration is everywhere. Everywhere you look, there are people in need of help. Love and support. Find a way to be of service. Start right now by asking yourself, what good shall I do this day? Love is who you are, is your nature. Remember, God only ever has three answers to your prayers. Yes, not yet. Or I have something so much better in mind, you can’t possibly believe it. Nothing is impossible. And nothing can stop your determined soul from succeeding. Now go about your day and expect the most wonderful things to happen.

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