Episode 29
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In today’s episode, we are joined by Jana Short, renowned global influencer and award-winning mindset coach in the health and wellness industry. Jana is a best-selling author and host of the Oh My Health…There Is HOPE! Podcast, and that is what we are talking about today. Finding hope in ALL THINGS. Jana is the editor of Best Holistic Life Magazine, which is an incredible resource for anyone looking to up level their lives. In our conversation, Jana shares her incredible journey with us, and we dive into how changing the stories we tell ourselves can truly change our lives. Jana makes mindset actionable for us all. If you want to know the first step to creating wellness, finding true love, or creating the life you desire…don’t miss this episode!
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Julie Michelson: Welcome back to the inspired living with auto-immunity podcast. I'm your host, Julie Michelson. And today we are joined by Jana short renowned global influencer and award-winning mindset coach in the health and wellness industry. Jana is also a best-selling author and the host of the oh my health. There is hope podcast, and that is just what we're going to be talking about today.
[00:00:58] Finding hope in [00:01:00] all things, Jenna shares her incredible journey with us and we dive into how changing the stories we tell ourselves can truly change our lives. If you want to know the first steps to creating wellness, finding true love or creating the life you desire, don't miss this episode.
[00:01:19] Jana welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here.
[00:01:23] Jana Short: Thank you, Julie. I'm excited to be here.
[00:01:26] Julie Michelson: So I know your incredible story. And as we were chatting earlier, I know that when you were three-year-old, you didn't wake up one morning and say, I want to be the most amazing mindset coach ever. So I would love to have you share your journey with listeners and how did you get to be doing what you were doing?
[00:01:45] Jana Short: Wow. Let me tell you that was completely not something I planned for or scheduled into my life or prepared for, but I was an interior. But I went to school for and I did really well with it. I was very successful here in Los Angeles with a very big interior [00:02:00] design company. And then one day I got sick and I didn't actually get sick.
[00:02:05] Like I, it, wasn't an illness that knocked me down. How to something called the hiatal hernia. And by the way, everybody gets, these are super common, especially as you get older. And I would never have had surgery on it, except for this hiatal hernia had twisted. I, when it twists it lacks blood flow, which means it'll like die and open up and it would cause me to get septic.
[00:02:27] So I went ahead and did the surgery and on my recovery journey. Surgery. I kept thinking, every time I eat, I kept telling my husband every time I eat food, I feel like it's poisoning me. I'm in pain, I'm miserable. Like it's horrible. And then I started looking pregnant and people would come up and say, congratulations on your baby.
[00:02:47] And you're like, well, first of all, thank you because I'm 51 for thinking I could have a baby, but I'm not pregnant. And I couldn't figure out why my stomach literally looked like I was seven or eight months pregnant. [00:03:00] And. Not going, like I tell people, pay attention, go to the doctors. And I was, I was going to the doctors what's happening.
[00:03:07] Well, you need to eat less. You need this, you need that. And I was trying all the things and nothing was changing and tight ended up in the emergency room one night in so much pain. Cause this was super painful and they went ahead and did a cat scan of my stomach. And they were like, I remember being super drugged and them asking me questions like.
[00:03:28] What's your diet like, and like, what do you mean? What's my diet? Like, do you eat your hair? And I'm like, apparently it's a thing.
[00:03:37] Julie Michelson: It is, it is, there's a thing.
[00:03:41] Jana Short: Well, I have this massive Beezer, which is just a collection of something that's not exiting your stomach and cats get them all the time. My husband was a vet near. I was like, she has a hair ball, but it was food that couldn't exit my stomach. And what I found out after.
[00:03:57] Going to the hospital, getting IVs and being [00:04:00] fed through a tube. I found out that when they did this, I, in all hernia surgery, they had damaged my Vegas nerve. Your vagus nerve is so important to your body, which by the way, I knew nothing about, I know so much about it now. But if you think your brain and your spinal column, right.
[00:04:14] Control everything well, your Vegas nerve, I think I'd rather go with a spinal cord injury than a Vegas nerve injury. It controls temperature of your body. It controls the way you digest it. Literally paralyzed my stomach and my digestive track. But the body's kind of perfect, right? It, it adapts. Right?
[00:04:31] So my stomach will expand. What's expanding with this food, the good and exit. And I should have taken a cue from the fact that my hair was falling out and all these things are happening. So the whole. Way to fix this. What's a have stomach gastrectomy, which meant completely removed my stomach. And I went in for this surgery thinking, okay, well, this'll fix it all.
[00:04:51] I know I'm going to have some troubles eating food and getting nutrients in, but I'll figure that out. And it D. Just the whole thing. I was trying to [00:05:00] avoid what the high end army yet it D has. I became septic. It, my body was being fed something called TPN, which is a synthetic that they feed you to give you nutrients that you need.
[00:05:10] They do for people in comas or after surgeries. It's something they give you to keep nourishing your body. And my body's. It might Oregon started shutting down. Like, I don't know what that is, but we are not okay with it. And so I was going into liver failure, kidney failure, and it was just going downhill, occluding being septic and all these drugs being pumped into my body.
[00:05:31] So after being in the hospital for two months, literally, they asked me, do you want to go home? We can make you comfortable there, or we can make you comfortable here. And all my brain kept firing off. You, I wasn't sick when I came in here, like, yeah, I had issues, but I wasn't dying. What's happening. I just want to go home.
[00:05:52] So I came home and knew I had a few weeks before everything started shutting down. My daughter brings me, this is the most [00:06:00] miraculous part, and this is all about mindset. By the way, this whole story is leading into the mindset. I came home and my grandson who was born days before I went into surgery, I was able to be there at his birth, go in for the surgery.
[00:06:13] And two months later, my daughter brings him to see me and I, all I could think about when I was holding him. How will you have a memory of me? How will he remember the simplest things? Like what is sounded like when we laughed together? Right? Or I still remember hugging my grandmother and her smell like that perfume she wore.
[00:06:33] And how will we have the simplest memories of. So I decided to create a memory with my grandson, how do I do that? I'm dying. I don't have any energy you can't really get out of well, how am I going to create a memory? And I actually found a way and I got online and I typed in the words, desperate for health answers, holistic options.
[00:06:52] Cause I knew modern medicine had failed me. My husband's a veterinarian. He knew nothing that could help me. To my daughters were in med school. [00:07:00] They're like we only get a semester of nutrition and all the nutrition we learn about is how it interacts with drugs, not how it supports the body. And so I started looking at it is like, where on earth can you sit on your death bed?
[00:07:16] Wherever you're you're currently at, in your health journey type in those amazing words that are you're searching for answers for and extend your reach, literally across the globe and get those beautiful answers. Like where is that possible? But also with that comes a lot of craziness, right? People who are rolled out of bed and said, Hey, people are making money doing this.
[00:07:39] I'm a natural path today. And they start selling products or whatever it is they're doing. And you know what? You're going to run into that no matter where you're going to run into bad doctors, bad people on the internet, you just got to put on your thinking cap and understand that, Hey, if it looks too good to be true, probably isn't true.
[00:07:56] And there's no. Fixed for anything. It usually is a [00:08:00] process, a journey that you're going to take. And because I had medical people behind me would say that is a joke that is not going to work because I was in that desperate mode. And I actually found help here at yam, literally on April 5th will be 10 years since my surgery.
[00:08:14] So I'm a decade out of that. No change of my diagnosis. My stomach did not grow back. I still struggle getting nutrients in my body. But I am thriving in this diagnosis and I'm telling you, it was from that mindset. I never told my body I was going to survive this. We're going to get through this. We're going to survive.
[00:08:32] I told my body I'm here today. I'm going to make a memory with someone I love and how do I make that happen? What is my plan for making a memory right now in the moment? And that's how I literally have strung together. A decade of creating this as I started creating it. I understand. Wow. What the heck I've had this beautiful Braden with me since birth and why haven't I tapped into it?
[00:08:55] How is this even possible? What is happening and what is going on? And I [00:09:00] wanted to know what, what mindset was all about, what the story that I am telling my brain. It is following. Whether I subconsciously are telling it I'm ugly. I'm stupid. I'm fat. I can't do this. I can't manage. That's what it's hearing is like, you're right.
[00:09:15] You can't, we're going to make sure that doesn't happen. We're going to protect you or I,
[00:09:19] Julie Michelson: I'm dying.
[00:09:21] Jana Short: or I can't do this job anymore. These people are driving me insane. Like it, it protects you, but what if we start changing that story, that beautiful story between our ears. Just by swapping out some root words that we're using.
[00:09:34] For instance, when people keep telling me they're going to lose weight, I'm like stop saying you're going to lose something because our mind says we can find that we've got to look for it. If you've lost your car keys, you're frantic, right. Or if you lost your kid in a store, you're like running around, start saying to your brain, we're releasing.
[00:09:48] We're letting it go. Those couple little things literally changed the outcome. And so I had to learn all about technology in the interior design world. I was all [00:10:00] in the field, the Taj, the creation. I didn't have to do a whole lot online. And I had a team who did the designs online for me. So I had to learn all of that.
[00:10:09] And I kept saying, I can't do this. I can't learn this app. Now. I changed that and I say, oh, wow. Learned that yet. So what my brain, all of a sudden heard all the neurons start firing up. We're going to learn something. She says she hasn't learned it yet. That means something's coming. Let's get ready. And so these little teeny mindset trips are tips, tips that you give your brain, they start making a change and a roadmap.
[00:10:34] So literally everything. For relationships, weight loss business, building, creating anything you already possess. I'm telling you between these beautiful ears. Like we didn't have electricity in Edison, never had it before he created it. And so you don't have to have all the things to make a beautiful plan to create where you're going to.
[00:10:55] So that's kind of where I started on mindset. It literally was not something I researched [00:11:00] as a kid. I, when I went to school, I would have said mindset that we will, we stopped, like not for me. And it wasn't a tell the universe, open a big sliding glass door and pushed me through that. I started recognizing what the power of mindset.
[00:11:16] Julie Michelson: Wow. And for those of you that are listening on audio, you have to know it. Take the time to, if you're not familiar with Jana, look her up. She is the vision of health and vitality. 10 years posted this whole trauma. So if you, if you're one of those people who hears the word mindset and goes you know, not at Lisbon, not another talk on mindset, this is amazing gold.
[00:11:43] And. You know, when she says you can create anything including health. That is absolutely true. So thank you for sharing that, that story with listeners. It always amazes me so many of my listeners have. You know, [00:12:00] faced chronic health challenges. Often, sometimes it is acute or sudden, or the onset feels sudden, but often it's because, you know, things are slowly declining and we maybe are ignoring them or tolerating them for a while until they get to a head.
[00:12:16] And what I love so much about your story. Is, you know, well, aside from the fact that it's everything that I want to stand on a mountain and preach is real, because that was for me. I spent 11 years in decline telling myself I was sick. I was dying. I was all those negative things. And it wasn't until I said, well, maybe.
[00:12:44] I wasn't even as absolute. Now I know like if I had just planted all of that sooner. Oh my gosh. But you know, like you said, we have to kind of get. We sometimes need those intense journeys to, to bring us through to the other side in such a [00:13:00] way that that would be, you know, I would be gentler. I wouldn't want to shake people away and say, Hey listen.
[00:13:06] And so I want to, I mentioned in your bio but I, I love that you included in your story, you went online, right? You were looking for answers. I'm guessing. Although you found them. It wasn't super easy. 10 years ago. This wasn't where I was going to go with the talk, but I do want to touch on this kind of, out of our personal need. Right. This is why I do it. What I do, this is what you're doing, what you're doing. So tell us a little bit about what, what amazing, beautiful gift you have online for people that are searching for holistic wellness, searching for answers.
[00:13:47] Jana Short: So Julia, that's a really good question because there are amazing people out there like yourself, right? And the people that I found that offered me help and support there were educated. Field to help me. There are people out there like that that are [00:14:00] incredible, but it's super hard to find them. Because we, we get, we see the sparkly, the shiny, right?
[00:14:05] Oh, that's so pretty. I think I can do that instead of like really listening to our intuitive side and looking. So what I started over, so I wrote a book called, oh, my health. There is help. And it became a bestseller one week after the release on like, why. But I realized it was because I was sharing stories.
[00:14:22] Those, we call those heartbeats right. When I share. Fall a personal heartbeat of mine. It's something I struggled with, but here I am on the other side to tell you, you can do this. Those are heartbeats. We send out in our journey and they connect with the right people and start pulling them back into our space.
[00:14:39] And so I, I created a podcast right after that, that we have like over 300,000 subscribers to the podcast already. It's by the way I say already, it's almost three years old, so it's not.
[00:14:51] Julie Michelson: incredible, no, it's amazing.
[00:14:54] Jana Short: it's just me thinking people want to hear these stories. So then I started asking experts that [00:15:00] were promoting themselves online.
[00:15:02] What do you do? Why what's your story? The minute I heard their story, I understood. I connected the. I understood their passion behind it. They were educated. They were passionate about it. They showed up for their clients. How many of you have bought something online? And you got a bunch of PDFs, a couple of videos, and then there, you were left to struggle with figuring out how to get through the process.
[00:15:24] And that's hard. Some people can learn that way, but not me because I'm that perfectionist. Right. Am I doing this right? Wait a minute. She said that. And my brain is trying to put everything in. I need somebody there to walk me through. That's what I paid for. And so I started looking for people like that and we started giving them some space on the podcast and then it got so big that people kept asking for this is so funny, a newsletter.
[00:15:49] And I'm like, I don't have time for a newsletter. I got my coaching, my podcasts, like when do I have time to do a newsletter? Wait. I talked to these people every single day and I asked them their [00:16:00] story and I trust them. I've vetted them. They're amazing. What if I asked them to give me a small article for my newsletter?
[00:16:07] And they started coming in like crazy tons of them. And so. I created this magazine called best holistic life. And I started publishing it. Now we have over 500,000 subscribers and that's only two years old and you can go and get best holistic life. It will always be free. The digital copy is always free.
[00:16:26] It's beautiful. You've even turned the pages that you hear wash, like the pages are turning.
[00:16:31] Julie Michelson: It is beautiful. It's as close to holding something as you can get online.
[00:16:36] Jana Short: We do have it in hard copy as well. Like you can go to Amazon, get it on Kindle. It's going to be available in bookstores so you can get it in a lot of other places. But for me, my heartbeat is a digital. Here's why, if I'm reading about this in the UK, I'm in Alaska and I'm in a remote area and I just happen to have this beautiful digital magazine.
[00:16:56] And I read about someone like. Wow, that person [00:17:00] can really change my life. I can click a button and I'm in her world. And for me, that was everything. When I made that connection, like we have a few seconds because our brains are so busy moving forward, right. That we forget about Julie. But if I'm reading her and I need to connect, I can click a button.
[00:17:17] I'm in our world, sign up for a newsletter. I can go to a, something like a free quiz that she has or something to learn more about her. And I get to start. Bonding process with her before I offer her money for her services, I get to know her. And so we created the magazine for that. So my whole business came from me being sick, knowing how scary that was.
[00:17:37] Not everybody has a support system in the medical field that I have, and they are duped a lot. And it's not your fault if you're duped right. But they're like, why did I fall for that? You are in a very vulnerable state. You're scared. You're feeling desperate. You're trusting somebody. There's never anything wrong with trusting someone shame on them when they, they de-value that trust, but you should always be in [00:18:00] that trusting state knowing that.
[00:18:02] Okay, well that sounds a little too good to be chiefs of. Maybe not for me. Like, I understand there's work in getting healthy. I understand there's work and changing my mindset. I love that beautiful journey that I'm going on. And when I tell you. 10-year journey. Wasn't all me getting healthy. I, in the meantime, had to have a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy found out I had a blood clotting disorder, which I have to take injections for twice a day to keep from getting pulmonary embolisms.
[00:18:28] But do the whole thing. I can't tell you how joyful my heart was. And my mind says like, oh, thank goodness you found that right now I can deal with it. I didn't even know it was sitting there that. Clotting system. I didn't know that that was a problem, but that it almost killed me having said that now I got tools to deal with it.
[00:18:46] I understand it. I'm so grateful for it. So on my journey this whole time, it wasn't like super easy, but it was worth every step of it.
[00:18:56] Julie Michelson: Well, and I love that you shared even more about your [00:19:00] ongoing journey, because it is a journey. We are here on this planet to continue to experience and grow and journey. And, and again, that mindset. I you are the only person who has had across me talking about, you know, well, I don't have a stomach and I have a clotting disorder and I, it, with this sunshine beaming out of your person, you know?
[00:19:24] And so you, it is, it doesn't mean, oh, we create this. Okay. Maybe it takes a process to create this mindset. And then life is, you know, Rainbows and roses for the rest of my days. No, we have to create that every day and get up every day and make that choice. And you are such a shining example. And the magazine is, it's such an amazing place to you've, like you said, you've, you've vetted, you've curated.
[00:19:53] It's a, it's a place to go to find trusted. Help. And so I am, I'm [00:20:00] excited to be a contributor and I, I love reading it. I love connecting as you know, with people in my field. And, and so I'm always reading it and learning, you know, oh, what's this, what's somebody doing in this field. And there's, there's just an amazing network of professionals there.
[00:20:19] So I'm really glad that you decided you didn't have time for a newsletter.
[00:20:25] Jana Short: I am.
[00:20:27] Julie Michelson: And worked out so well. So I want to, you use the word mindset. I used the word mindset. I feel like it's used a lot almost as an umbrella term. So can you define for listeners when you say mindset? I know I heard you touched on it already, but just clearly. W what do you mean? Is it the, is it really just the power of positive thinking?
[00:20:53] Jana Short: So, no you can't. I mean, the power positive thinking definitely is a huge building block for what you have to do, but you always have [00:21:00] to take action, right? You always have to move towards where it's pulling you. But for me, mindset is all about creating that beautiful roadmap, right? Between our ears, whatever that looks like.
[00:21:10] If you're trying to build a successful business, if you're trying to find the love of your life, I'm telling you all that means is that you have to work on yourself to attract that right person. Because if I go out as not. I'm dressed in heels. I never wear a Hills. I'm I'm at I'm at a sports game. Cause you know, there's a lot of guys there by hate sports.
[00:21:30] Like think about what you're putting out into the world. That's what you're attracting back. And so it's all between those beautiful ears. And if you create a roadmap, your brain has no choice, but to follow it, it doesn't do it. It's not like it starts doing its own thing. For instance, when I was first learning how to use a computer really well, I kept saying, there's something wrong with this.
[00:21:48] It's doing this. And it's doing that. They would just keep saying it's user error user. I'm like, no, it's not. He goes like it doesn't put in its own information. Whatever you give it is what is [00:22:00] processing. And our brains are exactly like that. So there's no user error. We did something wrong. have to go back and correct it.
[00:22:07] My hardest thing that I'm working on in 2022. Not being judgemental. Right. And I would like to say, I'm perfection, I've worked 10 years on myself and I'm never judgmental. And I am, let me tell you, since I started working on it, I I'm going to use this one example. Right. I had saw a girl at a store, walked in and she was very overweight.
[00:22:28] I maybe over 300 pounds and she had. Biker shorts on and a crop top. And I looked at her and my first thing was, Ooh, what the hell was she thinking? Somebody should stopped her. And I heard that go in my brain trigger off. And I immediately said to myself in my head, like, this is not a conversation I'm having in the world. Stop. Wow. Look at that. Girl's body confidence. Like she is rocking that outfit and I see her, she was smiling when I really opened up and look, this girl was [00:23:00] smiling. She was, there was full of joy. And until I told my brother. Well, no, look at her Rocky NAB body. I wish I could wear something like that and walk into a store in my sixties and rocket, but that I recognized immediately something different about her.
[00:23:16] So I still struggle with it on a daily basis. The first instinct that pops up. Because we are judgemental. Like, did she wear that last week or she, what is this happening? What'd she do to her heroin? I can't imagine like, our brains are thinking that, but we can immediately stop that and we can change that directive.
[00:23:33] And I know that there's never going to be anyone in the world that's ever nonjudgmental. Having said that it's a fun journey to go on, to start correcting that. So for me, it's building that. Stopped that, that train of thought. So after I have that thought pop in and I redirected a few times, it's going to not pop up as much.
[00:23:52] And then pretty soon it's not going to pop up at all. And so I know like when gates come out, we were like, oh, I don't know. Can I get on the [00:24:00] bandwagon? I want to say yay for you, but I'm afraid people are gonna judge me. And now people are like, I don't care what you think. I love everybody. And I'm going to, so it's going to, like, our brain works the same way.
[00:24:10] It's like, Ooh, I don't know. I'm just tricking myself pretty soon. It comes up less and less, less till it never pops up. When I see someone dressed that way, right. I just immediately start seeing that body competence that joy in their face and it just changes that thought process. So w I'm building a roadmap removing a lot of things that I am very judgemental on and swapping those out for things like.
[00:24:32] More beautiful. So I can see what's really going on. So that's, for me, what mindset is, is creating a roadmap to wherever I want to go and doing the action behind it. So my action was recognizing it, stopping it, saying to my brother. No you're missing the beautiful body confidence this girl has. I don't know anybody, a lot of people that would walk out with perfect bods dress like that, but she does and look at the smile on her face.
[00:24:58] So I'm having my [00:25:00] brain do the work. Right. And recognizing that. So pretty soon, it'll just, that's, what's going to trigger when I see things like that.
[00:25:07] Julie Michelson: love that. Amazing. I always say whether we're talking about diet or water intake or mindset that recognizing that awareness of where you are and we all that voice is going all the time, whether it's turned outward or inward. Part of what I work with with my clients on healing is, you know, identifying that voice, I call it often, especially with, well, it'd be weird if it was with the men, but with the women I work with, I call it the mean girl voice, you know, when we're talking about ourselves.
[00:25:42] And that's, so that's something that, that as I've been doing this work with my clients, I've been doing with myself, that was a huge focus for me last year. Was focusing on changing my pattern of judgment about myself. And it's, [00:26:00] I love the story you shared because that has, I have had that same exact experience in flipped where when I see that person in the store, you know, with lots of rolls and skin and, and you're right.
[00:26:17] Big smile, beautiful heart showing. I think, wow, look at that confidence. You know, I need to, I need to up level, like here's where I can, not that I need to leave the house and something I'm uncomfortable in, but like, she could be comfortable in that. Like I can at least be comfortable in what I'm wearing today.
[00:26:37] Right? Like that's a, it's an ongoing process. And but that awareness, you can't change something. If you don't know where you're starting, you just can't.
[00:26:48] Jana Short: I think that being aware, I call it sibling myself. So a lot of you may not know who Sibel is, right? Cause it's an older movie from, with Sally field. If I remember correctly, but. I literally [00:27:00] let's use this for example, real quickly. For all of you had kids when they become teenagers, I know every single mom has had this moment where your kid's late and the later they are, the more, the anxiety you're fearful, you're calling people like where are they?
[00:27:11] And you just feel. Fear. And then they walk in the door and that fear immediately changes into anger. Like you are yelling at them, screaming, don't be late. You need to call why didn't you call? And so those things trigger later in life with us. Right. And so I civil myself, the minute anger pops up in me, I literally say, give me a minute.
[00:27:30] Cause I have to like, where's that coming from? Like, why did that make me so angry? It's w I'm responsible for the way I respond. Right. They're not responsible. I'm not responsible for what they do, but the way I react, I need to know where that's coming from. So I take a moment to civil myself, and I did a lot when I started doing this with my kids, like, why did I get so angry?
[00:27:49] Where did that come from? I love them. Why am I so mad? And then I usually realize it came from fear. Like I could kill you for scaring me, like.
[00:27:57] Julie Michelson: Yeah.
[00:27:59] Jana Short: [00:28:00] But then what I realized it was fear and I portrayed like, you scared me to death, please. You have to call me. I'm telling you they react much better. I always, mom, I think I might be five minutes
[00:28:10] Julie Michelson: Yes.
[00:28:11] Jana Short: want you to be scared because they don't want to scare you. But when you act in anger, it's like, I don't care. She's gonna get mad for an hour and I'll be fine.
[00:28:18] Julie Michelson: Yes. It's so, so true. It's amazing. I, I love the again and I love that you use, you know, people again, they hear mindset and they think like not tangible, it's not helpful. It's not constructive. So I love this idea of roadmap. I think, no, you are creating, you're designing your. And this is how you going to talk about changing our story changes our life, right?
[00:28:44] This is, this is what we get to do. It's amazing. You again, I'm going to ask it's, it's all been woven in there. You know, why, like, why is this your life's purpose? Why is creating that [00:29:00] mindset? Like, it feels like everything. And why, why is that? The thing.
[00:29:07] Jana Short: For me, it's the thing because I have seven beautiful grandchildren and I see them struggling with the same things. Every. Kids struggles with right. They go from the ages of 16 to, I think, five, so seven of them in that group. And they're all going through different things, right? Some of them like struggle a little bit with being bullied, some of them like whatever they're struggling with.
[00:29:28] I want them to understand where that person's coming from when they're doing that and their reaction matters. And I want them to understand. That, that person's opinion, shouldn't devalue them. And we let, we let scales to value our, how we appear in life. Like I used to get on stage every single day and that set my tone.
[00:29:47] Oh my gosh. I gained two pounds. I couldn't get out of my brain the whole day. Right. I don't want numbers on a scale, what somebody else tells you to devalue you or your husband. You got all dressed up to go to dinner. He never once mentioned that you were [00:30:00] wearing a new dress. That should not matter the only voice in our heads or in our lives.
[00:30:05] That should matter is our own, our own opinion of ourselves. So for me, creating that powerful mindset is not just changing for me. Are even my grandkids. I'm hoping that it creates a generational change where we can tap into that beautiful brain of ours and create those stories. Things are gonna happen.
[00:30:23] Terrible. Things are gonna happen. We're gonna have trauma. We're going to have lots of things. That's part of the beautiful journey. I would never give up being sick and almost dying ever, because I know that that was a heartbeat that was given to me. It was a gift to me and gave me two options where I could lay in bed.
[00:30:39] Or I can start creating that beautiful memory with my grandchildren. And so you got options a whole road. There's like your whole journey. There's different routes to take, but if you have the correct mindset, you're going to always be drawn or pulled intuitively into the place that's right for you. So I always listened to my gut when I'm moving from.
[00:30:58] I always [00:31:00] create a roadmap of where I want to go. Like I see it. I visualize, I tell my brain, this is where we're going. And they're like packing their bags. Right. My brain is like, yeah, we are, we were going to need this. Yes we are. Let's get this done. Right. We're going to need that. Yes we are. I think I need to learn this.
[00:31:15] Oh, we're ready for learning lights. Let's go. So the minute I start planning that road. Not only I tell people in, in interior design, that was my passion. I thought, and I loved doing, I love creating and textures and designing. It was fun, but it wasn't my passion. And when I ran into roadblocks, it was like stressful in this business.
[00:31:37] I have things going around all the time. Like I'm a one man show here and things go wrong all the time. I had my one magazine release two weeks early and I'm like, what happened? But it was already out there like. That's okay. The universe is telling me this needs to go out now.
[00:31:51] Julie Michelson: Somebody needed to see something in there in that moment. Right. Somebody was at there with them.
[00:31:57] Jana Short: yes.
[00:31:58] When you have the right roadmap now, [00:32:00] The hard things or even easy. You're like, oh yeah, I got that. I, my brain's prepared for that. That's no big deal. It just doesn't seem hard for me anymore. It, everything seems easy because I'm leaning into the right path. I'm following the map that my brain is prepared for me, that I told it to prepare for me.
[00:32:19] So I think that mindset, if I can. Right now with mindset. I know that when I leave this beautiful world that it changes out, it creates this ripple effect that goes out and changes generationally. And I may never see the effects of what's going on that I'm putting into the world. But I know I have no doubt that it's going to create a generational change, where people are creating more beautiful mind maps for themselves.
[00:32:43] Learning more like being less judgmental, catching themselves saying that, like, why did I say that? I don't even know that person and creating a beautiful, different roadmap for themselves. Like wouldn't that world be great in a couple of decades? Like if that really happened.
[00:32:57] Julie Michelson: And it is happening and it is [00:33:00] so true that it's, you know, you didn't just save yourself. You have impacted hundreds of thousands. If not millions of. Because of that ripple effect, anybody who has listened to your podcast or read your book or read the magazine, you know, even if it's just one article and yeah, we don't get to know, you know, it's that butterfly effect.
[00:33:21] Right. We don't get to know how many links down the road, you know, that, that, that has traveled. I just was saying that yesterday to a client, she was bragging on. She was, you know, offering somebody some advice. You know, possible health improving avenues to take, because she has completely turned her health around.
[00:33:45] And I was like, that's why, you know, I guess I'd love helping you, but this is why I do what I do is. That ripple effect. You know, this is how we can create that bigger impact. I love it. So what is one [00:34:00] step that listeners can take today to start to improve their lives like that? Just at the most simplest level they want to get started right now, one thing that.
[00:34:09] Jana Short: Start cleaning up your potty talk and I'm talking about the potty talk in your brain about yourself. I can't do this. I'm not good enough. I don't deserve this. All those things that are playing in your head. The first thing you can do is just be aware of it. Like where did that thought come from?
[00:34:21] Sometimes they've been coming for so long. You don't even hear them anymore. Right.
[00:34:25] Julie Michelson: And sometimes we're not even yours.
[00:34:27] Jana Short: They're never yours, by the way, everything in our brains come from somewhere. Right. We started out as infants learning. So it's thinking heard it's like, so they're not yours. So you can be like, pack that up.
[00:34:38] Ooh. I just heard that. I heard you. That's not true. And it sounds so silly, but it does work. You can definitely change the imprint on your brain to move in a different direction by just rec. I see. I hear you. Right. But that's not true. That was my mom's voice. That was my aunt's voice. That was my coworker's voice.
[00:34:58] And it's not mine. [00:35:00] Pack it up and let it go. It I'm telling you, it sounds so simple, but it really does work. Think about it as removing a bug from your internet, right? Like my computer's not working. I'm running the drive. I'm pulling out this bug and now it's gone. Now my computer's running beautifully, our brains kind of a big computer.
[00:35:14] And we start recognizing those thoughts because we. Trying to get through life. We're trying to survive. We're trying to do the best we can. And those things have been going on for so long. We don't even know that it's part of our, part of our being, but if you start listening, you're going to start hearing those and just start working on one or two.
[00:35:33] Moving those recognizing them that wasn't new. Oh my gosh. I think my mom told me that my mom once told me when I wanted to go to college girls who go to college and get smart, do not get married. Men are built, threatened by married women. You cannot be smarter than your husband. You cannot make more than him because he will leave you.
[00:35:53] And he won't feel like a man. I believe that.
[00:35:56] Julie Michelson: gotten rid of all of those stories.
[00:35:59] Jana Short: But that she [00:36:00] told me that. Right. And like, I, I dumped up, I remember going into the boardroom dumbing up, like, and then I would turn to the guy next to me and say, you know what I think? And I would tell him, and I'm like, oh, as soon as you repeat it, that's a great idea. You should do that. And I would make it be their idea.
[00:36:14] So that nobody would look at me like, why is she talking? Right. So it stayed with me. My mom, wasn't trying to hurt me. That was her ideal perfection. Right? Getting a husband that takes care of you and being that the little woman at the house, by the way, for those of you who do that, yay for you. That is okay.
[00:36:31] If that is where you want. But I wanted to go to college. And so I had to hear that voice and think that was my mom. That wasn't me. I could compete with men. I can be in the same platform as them and hold my own and not be disrespected or push them off. And I had him remove that. So there's things in your head that you're going to hear pop up and I just want you to recognize.
[00:36:54] So that's not my voice. That's someone else's voice. And I don't need that here anymore. I'm okay. I'm an adult. Now I can [00:37:00] take care of myself. I got control of this and let it go.
[00:37:04] Julie Michelson: I love that. No, you can call it sibling yourself. I love the, yeah. It's yes. First we need to recognize the voice, but I tell people that all the time I'm like talk back, whether it's acknowledging a lot of those stories come from, you know, it's something that protected us once, you know, these old patterns that we have.
[00:37:25] Thank you. I don't need that new. Let it go. But that recognizing, so yeah, start, start listening for what's what you're saying to yourself or what is being said to yourself is an amazing place to start. And I love what you said. You know, it doesn't matter if it's improving health or finding true love or getting your dream job or creating your dream business, whatever it is, it, it works.
[00:37:52] This is, this is the number one necessary place to start. So that is on believable. [00:38:00] We were getting, we'll share the links in the show notes, but for those that are kind of like me that listen on the go and may not take the time to stop and click links in the show notes. What's the best place for listeners to find you.
[00:38:17] Jana Short: Well, I have a website: janashort.com. And of course the magazine website it's just best holistic life.com. You can just click free subscription and we'll send you a magazine on a monthly basis when they come out and you get to read all the new articles and meet all the new people that we want to introduce to you.
[00:38:32] Julie Michelson: Which is an amazing gift for everybody. It really is. I can't encourage listeners enough to go sign up for that magazine.
[00:38:40] Jana. Thank you so much. You have shared some amazing gold with us today.
[00:38:45] Jana Short: Thank you. I had so much fun, Julie. I'm so grateful that you invited me today.
[00:38:48] Julie Michelson: I always love chatting. So we'll have to have you back
[00:38:52] Jana Short: Thanks. I'd love that.
[00:38:54] Julie Michelson: For everyone listening. Remember you can get the show notes and transcripts by visiting inspired [00:39:00] living.show. I hope you had a great time and enjoyed this episode as much as I did. I'll see you next week.
[00:00:58] Finding hope in [00:01:00] all things, Jenna shares her incredible journey with us and we dive into how changing the stories we tell ourselves can truly change our lives. If you want to know the first steps to creating wellness, finding true love or creating the life you desire, don't miss this episode.
[00:01:19] Jana welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here.
[00:01:23] Jana Short: Thank you, Julie. I'm excited to be here.
[00:01:26] Julie Michelson: So I know your incredible story. And as we were chatting earlier, I know that when you were three-year-old, you didn't wake up one morning and say, I want to be the most amazing mindset coach ever. So I would love to have you share your journey with listeners and how did you get to be doing what you were doing?
[00:01:45] Jana Short: Wow. Let me tell you that was completely not something I planned for or scheduled into my life or prepared for, but I was an interior. But I went to school for and I did really well with it. I was very successful here in Los Angeles with a very big interior [00:02:00] design company. And then one day I got sick and I didn't actually get sick.
[00:02:05] Like I, it, wasn't an illness that knocked me down. How to something called the hiatal hernia. And by the way, everybody gets, these are super common, especially as you get older. And I would never have had surgery on it, except for this hiatal hernia had twisted. I, when it twists it lacks blood flow, which means it'll like die and open up and it would cause me to get septic.
[00:02:27] So I went ahead and did the surgery and on my recovery journey. Surgery. I kept thinking, every time I eat, I kept telling my husband every time I eat food, I feel like it's poisoning me. I'm in pain, I'm miserable. Like it's horrible. And then I started looking pregnant and people would come up and say, congratulations on your baby.
[00:02:47] And you're like, well, first of all, thank you because I'm 51 for thinking I could have a baby, but I'm not pregnant. And I couldn't figure out why my stomach literally looked like I was seven or eight months pregnant. [00:03:00] And. Not going, like I tell people, pay attention, go to the doctors. And I was, I was going to the doctors what's happening.
[00:03:07] Well, you need to eat less. You need this, you need that. And I was trying all the things and nothing was changing and tight ended up in the emergency room one night in so much pain. Cause this was super painful and they went ahead and did a cat scan of my stomach. And they were like, I remember being super drugged and them asking me questions like.
[00:03:28] What's your diet like, and like, what do you mean? What's my diet? Like, do you eat your hair? And I'm like, apparently it's a thing.
[00:03:37] Julie Michelson: It is, it is, there's a thing.
[00:03:41] Jana Short: Well, I have this massive Beezer, which is just a collection of something that's not exiting your stomach and cats get them all the time. My husband was a vet near. I was like, she has a hair ball, but it was food that couldn't exit my stomach. And what I found out after.
[00:03:57] Going to the hospital, getting IVs and being [00:04:00] fed through a tube. I found out that when they did this, I, in all hernia surgery, they had damaged my Vegas nerve. Your vagus nerve is so important to your body, which by the way, I knew nothing about, I know so much about it now. But if you think your brain and your spinal column, right.
[00:04:14] Control everything well, your Vegas nerve, I think I'd rather go with a spinal cord injury than a Vegas nerve injury. It controls temperature of your body. It controls the way you digest it. Literally paralyzed my stomach and my digestive track. But the body's kind of perfect, right? It, it adapts. Right?
[00:04:31] So my stomach will expand. What's expanding with this food, the good and exit. And I should have taken a cue from the fact that my hair was falling out and all these things are happening. So the whole. Way to fix this. What's a have stomach gastrectomy, which meant completely removed my stomach. And I went in for this surgery thinking, okay, well, this'll fix it all.
[00:04:51] I know I'm going to have some troubles eating food and getting nutrients in, but I'll figure that out. And it D. Just the whole thing. I was trying to [00:05:00] avoid what the high end army yet it D has. I became septic. It, my body was being fed something called TPN, which is a synthetic that they feed you to give you nutrients that you need.
[00:05:10] They do for people in comas or after surgeries. It's something they give you to keep nourishing your body. And my body's. It might Oregon started shutting down. Like, I don't know what that is, but we are not okay with it. And so I was going into liver failure, kidney failure, and it was just going downhill, occluding being septic and all these drugs being pumped into my body.
[00:05:31] So after being in the hospital for two months, literally, they asked me, do you want to go home? We can make you comfortable there, or we can make you comfortable here. And all my brain kept firing off. You, I wasn't sick when I came in here, like, yeah, I had issues, but I wasn't dying. What's happening. I just want to go home.
[00:05:52] So I came home and knew I had a few weeks before everything started shutting down. My daughter brings me, this is the most [00:06:00] miraculous part, and this is all about mindset. By the way, this whole story is leading into the mindset. I came home and my grandson who was born days before I went into surgery, I was able to be there at his birth, go in for the surgery.
[00:06:13] And two months later, my daughter brings him to see me and I, all I could think about when I was holding him. How will you have a memory of me? How will he remember the simplest things? Like what is sounded like when we laughed together? Right? Or I still remember hugging my grandmother and her smell like that perfume she wore.
[00:06:33] And how will we have the simplest memories of. So I decided to create a memory with my grandson, how do I do that? I'm dying. I don't have any energy you can't really get out of well, how am I going to create a memory? And I actually found a way and I got online and I typed in the words, desperate for health answers, holistic options.
[00:06:52] Cause I knew modern medicine had failed me. My husband's a veterinarian. He knew nothing that could help me. To my daughters were in med school. [00:07:00] They're like we only get a semester of nutrition and all the nutrition we learn about is how it interacts with drugs, not how it supports the body. And so I started looking at it is like, where on earth can you sit on your death bed?
[00:07:16] Wherever you're you're currently at, in your health journey type in those amazing words that are you're searching for answers for and extend your reach, literally across the globe and get those beautiful answers. Like where is that possible? But also with that comes a lot of craziness, right? People who are rolled out of bed and said, Hey, people are making money doing this.
[00:07:39] I'm a natural path today. And they start selling products or whatever it is they're doing. And you know what? You're going to run into that no matter where you're going to run into bad doctors, bad people on the internet, you just got to put on your thinking cap and understand that, Hey, if it looks too good to be true, probably isn't true.
[00:07:56] And there's no. Fixed for anything. It usually is a [00:08:00] process, a journey that you're going to take. And because I had medical people behind me would say that is a joke that is not going to work because I was in that desperate mode. And I actually found help here at yam, literally on April 5th will be 10 years since my surgery.
[00:08:14] So I'm a decade out of that. No change of my diagnosis. My stomach did not grow back. I still struggle getting nutrients in my body. But I am thriving in this diagnosis and I'm telling you, it was from that mindset. I never told my body I was going to survive this. We're going to get through this. We're going to survive.
[00:08:32] I told my body I'm here today. I'm going to make a memory with someone I love and how do I make that happen? What is my plan for making a memory right now in the moment? And that's how I literally have strung together. A decade of creating this as I started creating it. I understand. Wow. What the heck I've had this beautiful Braden with me since birth and why haven't I tapped into it?
[00:08:55] How is this even possible? What is happening and what is going on? And I [00:09:00] wanted to know what, what mindset was all about, what the story that I am telling my brain. It is following. Whether I subconsciously are telling it I'm ugly. I'm stupid. I'm fat. I can't do this. I can't manage. That's what it's hearing is like, you're right.
[00:09:15] You can't, we're going to make sure that doesn't happen. We're going to protect you or I,
[00:09:19] Julie Michelson: I'm dying.
[00:09:21] Jana Short: or I can't do this job anymore. These people are driving me insane. Like it, it protects you, but what if we start changing that story, that beautiful story between our ears. Just by swapping out some root words that we're using.
[00:09:34] For instance, when people keep telling me they're going to lose weight, I'm like stop saying you're going to lose something because our mind says we can find that we've got to look for it. If you've lost your car keys, you're frantic, right. Or if you lost your kid in a store, you're like running around, start saying to your brain, we're releasing.
[00:09:48] We're letting it go. Those couple little things literally changed the outcome. And so I had to learn all about technology in the interior design world. I was all [00:10:00] in the field, the Taj, the creation. I didn't have to do a whole lot online. And I had a team who did the designs online for me. So I had to learn all of that.
[00:10:09] And I kept saying, I can't do this. I can't learn this app. Now. I changed that and I say, oh, wow. Learned that yet. So what my brain, all of a sudden heard all the neurons start firing up. We're going to learn something. She says she hasn't learned it yet. That means something's coming. Let's get ready. And so these little teeny mindset trips are tips, tips that you give your brain, they start making a change and a roadmap.
[00:10:34] So literally everything. For relationships, weight loss business, building, creating anything you already possess. I'm telling you between these beautiful ears. Like we didn't have electricity in Edison, never had it before he created it. And so you don't have to have all the things to make a beautiful plan to create where you're going to.
[00:10:55] So that's kind of where I started on mindset. It literally was not something I researched [00:11:00] as a kid. I, when I went to school, I would have said mindset that we will, we stopped, like not for me. And it wasn't a tell the universe, open a big sliding glass door and pushed me through that. I started recognizing what the power of mindset.
[00:11:16] Julie Michelson: Wow. And for those of you that are listening on audio, you have to know it. Take the time to, if you're not familiar with Jana, look her up. She is the vision of health and vitality. 10 years posted this whole trauma. So if you, if you're one of those people who hears the word mindset and goes you know, not at Lisbon, not another talk on mindset, this is amazing gold.
[00:11:43] And. You know, when she says you can create anything including health. That is absolutely true. So thank you for sharing that, that story with listeners. It always amazes me so many of my listeners have. You know, [00:12:00] faced chronic health challenges. Often, sometimes it is acute or sudden, or the onset feels sudden, but often it's because, you know, things are slowly declining and we maybe are ignoring them or tolerating them for a while until they get to a head.
[00:12:16] And what I love so much about your story. Is, you know, well, aside from the fact that it's everything that I want to stand on a mountain and preach is real, because that was for me. I spent 11 years in decline telling myself I was sick. I was dying. I was all those negative things. And it wasn't until I said, well, maybe.
[00:12:44] I wasn't even as absolute. Now I know like if I had just planted all of that sooner. Oh my gosh. But you know, like you said, we have to kind of get. We sometimes need those intense journeys to, to bring us through to the other side in such a [00:13:00] way that that would be, you know, I would be gentler. I wouldn't want to shake people away and say, Hey listen.
[00:13:06] And so I want to, I mentioned in your bio but I, I love that you included in your story, you went online, right? You were looking for answers. I'm guessing. Although you found them. It wasn't super easy. 10 years ago. This wasn't where I was going to go with the talk, but I do want to touch on this kind of, out of our personal need. Right. This is why I do it. What I do, this is what you're doing, what you're doing. So tell us a little bit about what, what amazing, beautiful gift you have online for people that are searching for holistic wellness, searching for answers.
[00:13:47] Jana Short: So Julia, that's a really good question because there are amazing people out there like yourself, right? And the people that I found that offered me help and support there were educated. Field to help me. There are people out there like that that are [00:14:00] incredible, but it's super hard to find them. Because we, we get, we see the sparkly, the shiny, right?
[00:14:05] Oh, that's so pretty. I think I can do that instead of like really listening to our intuitive side and looking. So what I started over, so I wrote a book called, oh, my health. There is help. And it became a bestseller one week after the release on like, why. But I realized it was because I was sharing stories.
[00:14:22] Those, we call those heartbeats right. When I share. Fall a personal heartbeat of mine. It's something I struggled with, but here I am on the other side to tell you, you can do this. Those are heartbeats. We send out in our journey and they connect with the right people and start pulling them back into our space.
[00:14:39] And so I, I created a podcast right after that, that we have like over 300,000 subscribers to the podcast already. It's by the way I say already, it's almost three years old, so it's not.
[00:14:51] Julie Michelson: incredible, no, it's amazing.
[00:14:54] Jana Short: it's just me thinking people want to hear these stories. So then I started asking experts that [00:15:00] were promoting themselves online.
[00:15:02] What do you do? Why what's your story? The minute I heard their story, I understood. I connected the. I understood their passion behind it. They were educated. They were passionate about it. They showed up for their clients. How many of you have bought something online? And you got a bunch of PDFs, a couple of videos, and then there, you were left to struggle with figuring out how to get through the process.
[00:15:24] And that's hard. Some people can learn that way, but not me because I'm that perfectionist. Right. Am I doing this right? Wait a minute. She said that. And my brain is trying to put everything in. I need somebody there to walk me through. That's what I paid for. And so I started looking for people like that and we started giving them some space on the podcast and then it got so big that people kept asking for this is so funny, a newsletter.
[00:15:49] And I'm like, I don't have time for a newsletter. I got my coaching, my podcasts, like when do I have time to do a newsletter? Wait. I talked to these people every single day and I asked them their [00:16:00] story and I trust them. I've vetted them. They're amazing. What if I asked them to give me a small article for my newsletter?
[00:16:07] And they started coming in like crazy tons of them. And so. I created this magazine called best holistic life. And I started publishing it. Now we have over 500,000 subscribers and that's only two years old and you can go and get best holistic life. It will always be free. The digital copy is always free.
[00:16:26] It's beautiful. You've even turned the pages that you hear wash, like the pages are turning.
[00:16:31] Julie Michelson: It is beautiful. It's as close to holding something as you can get online.
[00:16:36] Jana Short: We do have it in hard copy as well. Like you can go to Amazon, get it on Kindle. It's going to be available in bookstores so you can get it in a lot of other places. But for me, my heartbeat is a digital. Here's why, if I'm reading about this in the UK, I'm in Alaska and I'm in a remote area and I just happen to have this beautiful digital magazine.
[00:16:56] And I read about someone like. Wow, that person [00:17:00] can really change my life. I can click a button and I'm in her world. And for me, that was everything. When I made that connection, like we have a few seconds because our brains are so busy moving forward, right. That we forget about Julie. But if I'm reading her and I need to connect, I can click a button.
[00:17:17] I'm in our world, sign up for a newsletter. I can go to a, something like a free quiz that she has or something to learn more about her. And I get to start. Bonding process with her before I offer her money for her services, I get to know her. And so we created the magazine for that. So my whole business came from me being sick, knowing how scary that was.
[00:17:37] Not everybody has a support system in the medical field that I have, and they are duped a lot. And it's not your fault if you're duped right. But they're like, why did I fall for that? You are in a very vulnerable state. You're scared. You're feeling desperate. You're trusting somebody. There's never anything wrong with trusting someone shame on them when they, they de-value that trust, but you should always be in [00:18:00] that trusting state knowing that.
[00:18:02] Okay, well that sounds a little too good to be chiefs of. Maybe not for me. Like, I understand there's work in getting healthy. I understand there's work and changing my mindset. I love that beautiful journey that I'm going on. And when I tell you. 10-year journey. Wasn't all me getting healthy. I, in the meantime, had to have a double mastectomy and a hysterectomy found out I had a blood clotting disorder, which I have to take injections for twice a day to keep from getting pulmonary embolisms.
[00:18:28] But do the whole thing. I can't tell you how joyful my heart was. And my mind says like, oh, thank goodness you found that right now I can deal with it. I didn't even know it was sitting there that. Clotting system. I didn't know that that was a problem, but that it almost killed me having said that now I got tools to deal with it.
[00:18:46] I understand it. I'm so grateful for it. So on my journey this whole time, it wasn't like super easy, but it was worth every step of it.
[00:18:56] Julie Michelson: Well, and I love that you shared even more about your [00:19:00] ongoing journey, because it is a journey. We are here on this planet to continue to experience and grow and journey. And, and again, that mindset. I you are the only person who has had across me talking about, you know, well, I don't have a stomach and I have a clotting disorder and I, it, with this sunshine beaming out of your person, you know?
[00:19:24] And so you, it is, it doesn't mean, oh, we create this. Okay. Maybe it takes a process to create this mindset. And then life is, you know, Rainbows and roses for the rest of my days. No, we have to create that every day and get up every day and make that choice. And you are such a shining example. And the magazine is, it's such an amazing place to you've, like you said, you've, you've vetted, you've curated.
[00:19:53] It's a, it's a place to go to find trusted. Help. And so I am, I'm [00:20:00] excited to be a contributor and I, I love reading it. I love connecting as you know, with people in my field. And, and so I'm always reading it and learning, you know, oh, what's this, what's somebody doing in this field. And there's, there's just an amazing network of professionals there.
[00:20:19] So I'm really glad that you decided you didn't have time for a newsletter.
[00:20:25] Jana Short: I am.
[00:20:27] Julie Michelson: And worked out so well. So I want to, you use the word mindset. I used the word mindset. I feel like it's used a lot almost as an umbrella term. So can you define for listeners when you say mindset? I know I heard you touched on it already, but just clearly. W what do you mean? Is it the, is it really just the power of positive thinking?
[00:20:53] Jana Short: So, no you can't. I mean, the power positive thinking definitely is a huge building block for what you have to do, but you always have [00:21:00] to take action, right? You always have to move towards where it's pulling you. But for me, mindset is all about creating that beautiful roadmap, right? Between our ears, whatever that looks like.
[00:21:10] If you're trying to build a successful business, if you're trying to find the love of your life, I'm telling you all that means is that you have to work on yourself to attract that right person. Because if I go out as not. I'm dressed in heels. I never wear a Hills. I'm I'm at I'm at a sports game. Cause you know, there's a lot of guys there by hate sports.
[00:21:30] Like think about what you're putting out into the world. That's what you're attracting back. And so it's all between those beautiful ears. And if you create a roadmap, your brain has no choice, but to follow it, it doesn't do it. It's not like it starts doing its own thing. For instance, when I was first learning how to use a computer really well, I kept saying, there's something wrong with this.
[00:21:48] It's doing this. And it's doing that. They would just keep saying it's user error user. I'm like, no, it's not. He goes like it doesn't put in its own information. Whatever you give it is what is [00:22:00] processing. And our brains are exactly like that. So there's no user error. We did something wrong. have to go back and correct it.
[00:22:07] My hardest thing that I'm working on in 2022. Not being judgemental. Right. And I would like to say, I'm perfection, I've worked 10 years on myself and I'm never judgmental. And I am, let me tell you, since I started working on it, I I'm going to use this one example. Right. I had saw a girl at a store, walked in and she was very overweight.
[00:22:28] I maybe over 300 pounds and she had. Biker shorts on and a crop top. And I looked at her and my first thing was, Ooh, what the hell was she thinking? Somebody should stopped her. And I heard that go in my brain trigger off. And I immediately said to myself in my head, like, this is not a conversation I'm having in the world. Stop. Wow. Look at that. Girl's body confidence. Like she is rocking that outfit and I see her, she was smiling when I really opened up and look, this girl was [00:23:00] smiling. She was, there was full of joy. And until I told my brother. Well, no, look at her Rocky NAB body. I wish I could wear something like that and walk into a store in my sixties and rocket, but that I recognized immediately something different about her.
[00:23:16] So I still struggle with it on a daily basis. The first instinct that pops up. Because we are judgemental. Like, did she wear that last week or she, what is this happening? What'd she do to her heroin? I can't imagine like, our brains are thinking that, but we can immediately stop that and we can change that directive.
[00:23:33] And I know that there's never going to be anyone in the world that's ever nonjudgmental. Having said that it's a fun journey to go on, to start correcting that. So for me, it's building that. Stopped that, that train of thought. So after I have that thought pop in and I redirected a few times, it's going to not pop up as much.
[00:23:52] And then pretty soon it's not going to pop up at all. And so I know like when gates come out, we were like, oh, I don't know. Can I get on the [00:24:00] bandwagon? I want to say yay for you, but I'm afraid people are gonna judge me. And now people are like, I don't care what you think. I love everybody. And I'm going to, so it's going to, like, our brain works the same way.
[00:24:10] It's like, Ooh, I don't know. I'm just tricking myself pretty soon. It comes up less and less, less till it never pops up. When I see someone dressed that way, right. I just immediately start seeing that body competence that joy in their face and it just changes that thought process. So w I'm building a roadmap removing a lot of things that I am very judgemental on and swapping those out for things like.
[00:24:32] More beautiful. So I can see what's really going on. So that's, for me, what mindset is, is creating a roadmap to wherever I want to go and doing the action behind it. So my action was recognizing it, stopping it, saying to my brother. No you're missing the beautiful body confidence this girl has. I don't know anybody, a lot of people that would walk out with perfect bods dress like that, but she does and look at the smile on her face.
[00:24:58] So I'm having my [00:25:00] brain do the work. Right. And recognizing that. So pretty soon, it'll just, that's, what's going to trigger when I see things like that.
[00:25:07] Julie Michelson: love that. Amazing. I always say whether we're talking about diet or water intake or mindset that recognizing that awareness of where you are and we all that voice is going all the time, whether it's turned outward or inward. Part of what I work with with my clients on healing is, you know, identifying that voice, I call it often, especially with, well, it'd be weird if it was with the men, but with the women I work with, I call it the mean girl voice, you know, when we're talking about ourselves.
[00:25:42] And that's, so that's something that, that as I've been doing this work with my clients, I've been doing with myself, that was a huge focus for me last year. Was focusing on changing my pattern of judgment about myself. And it's, [00:26:00] I love the story you shared because that has, I have had that same exact experience in flipped where when I see that person in the store, you know, with lots of rolls and skin and, and you're right.
[00:26:17] Big smile, beautiful heart showing. I think, wow, look at that confidence. You know, I need to, I need to up level, like here's where I can, not that I need to leave the house and something I'm uncomfortable in, but like, she could be comfortable in that. Like I can at least be comfortable in what I'm wearing today.
[00:26:37] Right? Like that's a, it's an ongoing process. And but that awareness, you can't change something. If you don't know where you're starting, you just can't.
[00:26:48] Jana Short: I think that being aware, I call it sibling myself. So a lot of you may not know who Sibel is, right? Cause it's an older movie from, with Sally field. If I remember correctly, but. I literally [00:27:00] let's use this for example, real quickly. For all of you had kids when they become teenagers, I know every single mom has had this moment where your kid's late and the later they are, the more, the anxiety you're fearful, you're calling people like where are they?
[00:27:11] And you just feel. Fear. And then they walk in the door and that fear immediately changes into anger. Like you are yelling at them, screaming, don't be late. You need to call why didn't you call? And so those things trigger later in life with us. Right. And so I civil myself, the minute anger pops up in me, I literally say, give me a minute.
[00:27:30] Cause I have to like, where's that coming from? Like, why did that make me so angry? It's w I'm responsible for the way I respond. Right. They're not responsible. I'm not responsible for what they do, but the way I react, I need to know where that's coming from. So I take a moment to civil myself, and I did a lot when I started doing this with my kids, like, why did I get so angry?
[00:27:49] Where did that come from? I love them. Why am I so mad? And then I usually realize it came from fear. Like I could kill you for scaring me, like.
[00:27:57] Julie Michelson: Yeah.
[00:27:59] Jana Short: [00:28:00] But then what I realized it was fear and I portrayed like, you scared me to death, please. You have to call me. I'm telling you they react much better. I always, mom, I think I might be five minutes
[00:28:10] Julie Michelson: Yes.
[00:28:11] Jana Short: want you to be scared because they don't want to scare you. But when you act in anger, it's like, I don't care. She's gonna get mad for an hour and I'll be fine.
[00:28:18] Julie Michelson: Yes. It's so, so true. It's amazing. I, I love the again and I love that you use, you know, people again, they hear mindset and they think like not tangible, it's not helpful. It's not constructive. So I love this idea of roadmap. I think, no, you are creating, you're designing your. And this is how you going to talk about changing our story changes our life, right?
[00:28:44] This is, this is what we get to do. It's amazing. You again, I'm going to ask it's, it's all been woven in there. You know, why, like, why is this your life's purpose? Why is creating that [00:29:00] mindset? Like, it feels like everything. And why, why is that? The thing.
[00:29:07] Jana Short: For me, it's the thing because I have seven beautiful grandchildren and I see them struggling with the same things. Every. Kids struggles with right. They go from the ages of 16 to, I think, five, so seven of them in that group. And they're all going through different things, right? Some of them like struggle a little bit with being bullied, some of them like whatever they're struggling with.
[00:29:28] I want them to understand where that person's coming from when they're doing that and their reaction matters. And I want them to understand. That, that person's opinion, shouldn't devalue them. And we let, we let scales to value our, how we appear in life. Like I used to get on stage every single day and that set my tone.
[00:29:47] Oh my gosh. I gained two pounds. I couldn't get out of my brain the whole day. Right. I don't want numbers on a scale, what somebody else tells you to devalue you or your husband. You got all dressed up to go to dinner. He never once mentioned that you were [00:30:00] wearing a new dress. That should not matter the only voice in our heads or in our lives.
[00:30:05] That should matter is our own, our own opinion of ourselves. So for me, creating that powerful mindset is not just changing for me. Are even my grandkids. I'm hoping that it creates a generational change where we can tap into that beautiful brain of ours and create those stories. Things are gonna happen.
[00:30:23] Terrible. Things are gonna happen. We're gonna have trauma. We're going to have lots of things. That's part of the beautiful journey. I would never give up being sick and almost dying ever, because I know that that was a heartbeat that was given to me. It was a gift to me and gave me two options where I could lay in bed.
[00:30:39] Or I can start creating that beautiful memory with my grandchildren. And so you got options a whole road. There's like your whole journey. There's different routes to take, but if you have the correct mindset, you're going to always be drawn or pulled intuitively into the place that's right for you. So I always listened to my gut when I'm moving from.
[00:30:58] I always [00:31:00] create a roadmap of where I want to go. Like I see it. I visualize, I tell my brain, this is where we're going. And they're like packing their bags. Right. My brain is like, yeah, we are, we were going to need this. Yes we are. Let's get this done. Right. We're going to need that. Yes we are. I think I need to learn this.
[00:31:15] Oh, we're ready for learning lights. Let's go. So the minute I start planning that road. Not only I tell people in, in interior design, that was my passion. I thought, and I loved doing, I love creating and textures and designing. It was fun, but it wasn't my passion. And when I ran into roadblocks, it was like stressful in this business.
[00:31:37] I have things going around all the time. Like I'm a one man show here and things go wrong all the time. I had my one magazine release two weeks early and I'm like, what happened? But it was already out there like. That's okay. The universe is telling me this needs to go out now.
[00:31:51] Julie Michelson: Somebody needed to see something in there in that moment. Right. Somebody was at there with them.
[00:31:57] Jana Short: yes.
[00:31:58] When you have the right roadmap now, [00:32:00] The hard things or even easy. You're like, oh yeah, I got that. I, my brain's prepared for that. That's no big deal. It just doesn't seem hard for me anymore. It, everything seems easy because I'm leaning into the right path. I'm following the map that my brain is prepared for me, that I told it to prepare for me.
[00:32:19] So I think that mindset, if I can. Right now with mindset. I know that when I leave this beautiful world that it changes out, it creates this ripple effect that goes out and changes generationally. And I may never see the effects of what's going on that I'm putting into the world. But I know I have no doubt that it's going to create a generational change, where people are creating more beautiful mind maps for themselves.
[00:32:43] Learning more like being less judgmental, catching themselves saying that, like, why did I say that? I don't even know that person and creating a beautiful, different roadmap for themselves. Like wouldn't that world be great in a couple of decades? Like if that really happened.
[00:32:57] Julie Michelson: And it is happening and it is [00:33:00] so true that it's, you know, you didn't just save yourself. You have impacted hundreds of thousands. If not millions of. Because of that ripple effect, anybody who has listened to your podcast or read your book or read the magazine, you know, even if it's just one article and yeah, we don't get to know, you know, it's that butterfly effect.
[00:33:21] Right. We don't get to know how many links down the road, you know, that, that, that has traveled. I just was saying that yesterday to a client, she was bragging on. She was, you know, offering somebody some advice. You know, possible health improving avenues to take, because she has completely turned her health around.
[00:33:45] And I was like, that's why, you know, I guess I'd love helping you, but this is why I do what I do is. That ripple effect. You know, this is how we can create that bigger impact. I love it. So what is one [00:34:00] step that listeners can take today to start to improve their lives like that? Just at the most simplest level they want to get started right now, one thing that.
[00:34:09] Jana Short: Start cleaning up your potty talk and I'm talking about the potty talk in your brain about yourself. I can't do this. I'm not good enough. I don't deserve this. All those things that are playing in your head. The first thing you can do is just be aware of it. Like where did that thought come from?
[00:34:21] Sometimes they've been coming for so long. You don't even hear them anymore. Right.
[00:34:25] Julie Michelson: And sometimes we're not even yours.
[00:34:27] Jana Short: They're never yours, by the way, everything in our brains come from somewhere. Right. We started out as infants learning. So it's thinking heard it's like, so they're not yours. So you can be like, pack that up.
[00:34:38] Ooh. I just heard that. I heard you. That's not true. And it sounds so silly, but it does work. You can definitely change the imprint on your brain to move in a different direction by just rec. I see. I hear you. Right. But that's not true. That was my mom's voice. That was my aunt's voice. That was my coworker's voice.
[00:34:58] And it's not mine. [00:35:00] Pack it up and let it go. It I'm telling you, it sounds so simple, but it really does work. Think about it as removing a bug from your internet, right? Like my computer's not working. I'm running the drive. I'm pulling out this bug and now it's gone. Now my computer's running beautifully, our brains kind of a big computer.
[00:35:14] And we start recognizing those thoughts because we. Trying to get through life. We're trying to survive. We're trying to do the best we can. And those things have been going on for so long. We don't even know that it's part of our, part of our being, but if you start listening, you're going to start hearing those and just start working on one or two.
[00:35:33] Moving those recognizing them that wasn't new. Oh my gosh. I think my mom told me that my mom once told me when I wanted to go to college girls who go to college and get smart, do not get married. Men are built, threatened by married women. You cannot be smarter than your husband. You cannot make more than him because he will leave you.
[00:35:53] And he won't feel like a man. I believe that.
[00:35:56] Julie Michelson: gotten rid of all of those stories.
[00:35:59] Jana Short: But that she [00:36:00] told me that. Right. And like, I, I dumped up, I remember going into the boardroom dumbing up, like, and then I would turn to the guy next to me and say, you know what I think? And I would tell him, and I'm like, oh, as soon as you repeat it, that's a great idea. You should do that. And I would make it be their idea.
[00:36:14] So that nobody would look at me like, why is she talking? Right. So it stayed with me. My mom, wasn't trying to hurt me. That was her ideal perfection. Right? Getting a husband that takes care of you and being that the little woman at the house, by the way, for those of you who do that, yay for you. That is okay.
[00:36:31] If that is where you want. But I wanted to go to college. And so I had to hear that voice and think that was my mom. That wasn't me. I could compete with men. I can be in the same platform as them and hold my own and not be disrespected or push them off. And I had him remove that. So there's things in your head that you're going to hear pop up and I just want you to recognize.
[00:36:54] So that's not my voice. That's someone else's voice. And I don't need that here anymore. I'm okay. I'm an adult. Now I can [00:37:00] take care of myself. I got control of this and let it go.
[00:37:04] Julie Michelson: I love that. No, you can call it sibling yourself. I love the, yeah. It's yes. First we need to recognize the voice, but I tell people that all the time I'm like talk back, whether it's acknowledging a lot of those stories come from, you know, it's something that protected us once, you know, these old patterns that we have.
[00:37:25] Thank you. I don't need that new. Let it go. But that recognizing, so yeah, start, start listening for what's what you're saying to yourself or what is being said to yourself is an amazing place to start. And I love what you said. You know, it doesn't matter if it's improving health or finding true love or getting your dream job or creating your dream business, whatever it is, it, it works.
[00:37:52] This is, this is the number one necessary place to start. So that is on believable. [00:38:00] We were getting, we'll share the links in the show notes, but for those that are kind of like me that listen on the go and may not take the time to stop and click links in the show notes. What's the best place for listeners to find you.
[00:38:17] Jana Short: Well, I have a website: janashort.com. And of course the magazine website it's just best holistic life.com. You can just click free subscription and we'll send you a magazine on a monthly basis when they come out and you get to read all the new articles and meet all the new people that we want to introduce to you.
[00:38:32] Julie Michelson: Which is an amazing gift for everybody. It really is. I can't encourage listeners enough to go sign up for that magazine.
[00:38:40] Jana. Thank you so much. You have shared some amazing gold with us today.
[00:38:45] Jana Short: Thank you. I had so much fun, Julie. I'm so grateful that you invited me today.
[00:38:48] Julie Michelson: I always love chatting. So we'll have to have you back
[00:38:52] Jana Short: Thanks. I'd love that.
[00:38:54] Julie Michelson: For everyone listening. Remember you can get the show notes and transcripts by visiting inspired [00:39:00] living.show. I hope you had a great time and enjoyed this episode as much as I did. I'll see you next week.
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Jana Short
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Jana Short is a renowned global influencer & award-winning mindset coach in the health and wellness industry. She is an NLP, RTT Practitioner, best-selling author, public speaker, host of Oh, My Health… There is HOPE! Podcast, and Best Holistic Life magazine editor.
Jana has recently been recognized and featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Entrepreneur Magazine as Los Angeles’s #1 mindset coach of 2022 the second year in a row. Monica Garg’s “Influential Women of the World-Global Influencers” 2020, Las Vegas Entrepreneurs Magazine “Top 25 Entrepreneurs for 2020” issue, and the cover of December’s Best Holistic Life magazine.
Jana is getting the message of hope out into the world in a huge way, changing the world one inspiring story at a time.
Jana has recently been recognized and featured on the cover of the Los Angeles Entrepreneur Magazine as Los Angeles’s #1 mindset coach of 2022 the second year in a row. Monica Garg’s “Influential Women of the World-Global Influencers” 2020, Las Vegas Entrepreneurs Magazine “Top 25 Entrepreneurs for 2020” issue, and the cover of December’s Best Holistic Life magazine.
Jana is getting the message of hope out into the world in a huge way, changing the world one inspiring story at a time.
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