 Welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Daschinger, and today's show features Marie Diamond, who's going to be talking about how to feng shui your life. Marie is a consultant to a who's who of celebrities in film, music, sea suites, global leadership, sports, and even in royal palaces. And Marie is going to help us understand how to use our home to attract a dream life. Dare to Dream has been around for almost 17 years. This podcast show won three talk positive radio awards, won the COV award for best radio podcast, Walt Magazine named Dare to Dream, one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year and it is high ranking under Apple podcasts and self improvement. This show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here and Access Consciousness. They do energy work out into the world. If you'd like to be a facilitator or take one of their classes, go to Dr. Dane here, H-E-E-R dot com. Now something very special coming up. 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Experience this phenomenal cruise with amazing top notch presentations plus excursions to Belize, Honduras, Mexico and much more. Book your cabin now, portal at c.com and remember type in Debbie Daschinger or Dare to Dream, get your cabin for this incredible cruise and all that's gonna be shared over this event. Well, my guest today is often remembered for being featured in the global sensation The Secret. Marie Diamond has built an incredible worldwide following. She's taught more than one million students over the past 30 years and she's a sought after speaker in more than 30 countries. Marie is a personal business and spiritual mentor and consultant to a who's who list of celebrities. Counted among her clients are Steven Spielberg, Jodi Foster, Dan Ackroyd, Big Sean, Paula Abdul, Jason Bateman and luminaries Jack Canfield, the late Bob Proctor, Dr. John Gray, Marie, Barry and Williamson and way more. Her latest book, which I'm holding up is Feng Shui Your Life, a beginner's guide to using your home to attract the life of your dream. And if you'd like to learn more, go to her name, MarieDiamond.com and with that, I welcome the amazing Marie Diamond to Dare to Dream. It is so great to have you. Thank you so much Debbie for having me here and I'm so excited for you and that cruise. I'm like, oh my God, I would love to join that one. Oh, thank you and you are welcome. You're welcome to join. You actually should be one of the presenters on that cruise. I wanted to start out by asking you about your name because what a great name, Marie Diamond. Are you really a diamond? Were you born that way? No, this is not my original name. It's the name that my spiritual master gave to me to use and it's also part of what I'm teaching. So we're talking about the multi-faceted aspects of a home, both we call it diamond Feng Shui, diamond dowsing in our diamond. So we have all these programs that are talking about how to become a multi-faceted diamond in your home and in yourself. So, but it's a given name. Yeah, it is a beautiful, perfect name. I was really reflecting like, there couldn't be anything better. Debbie Ruby, Debbie Emerald, I was going down the list, but it's like diamond is pretty much the apex, right? It is, yeah. Well, a great book, by the way, and I was showing you my notes before we started because when we read the book, we get to do our personal numbers and figure out directions. I really liked all of that. And then if we have a partner, figure theirs out, you weren't always here doing this. And at 15, you had a pretty extreme near-death experience, serious accident and a long recovery. And that's when you reached out to your spiritual mentor. Can you talk a little bit about that? It's a segue from what you just shared, your spiritual mentor, who was it? What did he tell you? Well, you know, I grew up in a Catholic family in Belgium. And so for me, I was very connected with spirit already as a child, I could see energy. I was aware of that. And I was just very, you know, spiritual, spiritual and religious in that sense. So when I then had a near-death experience at 15 after a major accident run over by a truck, I actually left my body and went to the other side. And there there were like beings of light welcoming me. And there was this voice very clearly, and I was very conscious about it, that the voice said, you need to go back because you're here to enlighten more than 500 million people. And I had no idea of course what that meant. And I returned to my body a couple of days later, you know, really fully conscious. And at that moment, I had like, what does that mean, enlightening? I mean, I'm a Catholic, right? You don't enlighten, you know, you pray to God and to Jesus and all the saints. But yeah, for me, it was like, I felt like I did something wrong. I was very aware already about visualization. I was visualizing already very early on. I had a visualization wall. I mean, I was very much into tune already with some of the information because that spiritual mantra came regularly to me. And he was what we would call an immortal. So somebody who would just appear in my dreams or would appear like I could see that being standing there. And he would always give me advice. And so after a couple of months being quite sick after the accident, because it was quite traumatic, I asked actually at one of these meetings, spiritual meetings I would call that, like what did I do wrong, right? So what is it that I did not pray enough to God? Was I not a good role model? Like when my thoughts negative, like I did not saw that accident coming. And he said to me, well, you have bad feng shui. And that's the first time I heard about that. And so he suggested I would change from the bedroom I was into another bedroom. And so the bedroom of my brothers, they have already left the house. They were already much older than me. And so the bedroom I was in was on the north side and there was no sunshine coming in. I was very depressed in that room. I was bullied at school. I was having no friends. I was a lot of, you know, even having an accident. And then I moved to the west side of the house. And the west side was the sunlight coming in. I was painting it in the orange. I start hanging different images because in the old bedroom were the images of my sister. Like there was like a bedroom passed on to me right from her because also she was much older. And so it's really interesting is that suddenly I started having this shift that happened in my life. Like the bully stopped bullying me like within a week. Like I had been bullying me for three years, right? And I was like, wow, that's interesting. I started having friends. I started having my first boyfriend. So I was like, and on top of it, the relationship between me and my father was very abusive, man, actually. He was probably my biggest bully in my life. He really shifted and we started having conversations. And there was like this big change in my life. And so I was like, wow, you know, changing the location, right? And then changing the colors and the surrounding just really was the start of my Feng Shui journey. Oh, I love that story. And I resonate. I don't know that I had as significant a change, but I will say I grew up in a particular bedroom that was close to my mother's bedroom. And I was scared all the time. When I went to sleep, I was terrified. Of the closet I was terrified. And it was a very small room. And when my brother moved out and went to college, boy, I couldn't have moved fast enough all the way down the hall into a much bigger space, two windows. Yeah, it had a whole different life force to it. And I felt, I think I must have felt very safe because a lot of that terror stopped. Yeah. So powerful stuff. I love that the mentor expressed to you what, that the Feng Shui was off and that you then got to experience that. And did your mentor, even an atheric form, ever express exactly if it was a male, who it was or it almost sounds ethnically like it may have been an Asian male? Do you know? No, it was actually not. It is somebody who was considered an experience by other people sometimes. It's what we call an ascended master called Saint Germain. And so I was connecting with him. He would appear. I had other meetings later on that supported me with some Feng Shui and energy work that were more Asian masters. But yeah, that was a European looking man. And it was very interesting, you know, as I did not know other people could connect with that person. But then later on, when I was much older, I encountered other people that had similar experience with that same master. So it is somebody that lived really in a physical form in the European world till around the 1600s and then was known to appear regularly with leaders in the world that he would just appear to share information. And so for me, that was my guiding force. And as a child, you know, it's just like, oh, you know, he gave good feedback. So I just using it. But he also at some point came to me and told me that I need to become a lawyer. Yeah, and so that's actually, I became a lawyer based on his advice. And because I wanted to really impact millions of people, you know, 500 million people, how do you do that, right? Now, this is before internet. Now I would open a TikTok account or start a podcast, right? But at that time it was like, I was thinking if I could be a diplomat and become part of a government, I would create different laws. I could perhaps support that. So I became an international lawyer actually because I thought like, if I don't work for governments, what I did, I work for the government in Belgium, European government. And I started really exploring how to make a difference. But after like five years doing that, I was like, you know, starting already mentoring a lot of people because I had a whole journey of meditation behind me. He was also teaching me meditations. So it was like a whole journey already. At 31 I started actually sharing this information publicly and became a spiritual teacher. Amazing. How interesting, who would have thought, are there still pieces of law that you use or include in what you do today? Well, it's really interesting. You know, I run a business, right? So I'm also a business mentor. And so for a lot of my clients sometimes, they come to me and I would say what I learned from being a lawyer, I have a very analytical mind. So even if I'm totally focused on energy and I'm an energy master, I'm also very analytical. So when I teach this information, even in the book Feng Shui Alive, I'm very practical. Like, this is what the problem is, this is what you do. So it's like that analytical lawyer's brain has helped me over the years to be practical and make it very clear to people what are the steps they have to take. But I still use that for my clients. Sometimes they come to me and like, this is what I would suggest. Of course, talk to your lawyer. I'm not a lawyer anymore. But I would say I really get the strategy very well, yeah? And I see very quickly what the mistakes or what the problems are. Because I think lawyers, that's part of what their brain is really good at. They can see very quickly where the problems are. And so from that, I use that. And of course, like I said, I'm not a lawyer any longer, but I still have that mindset. Yeah, your strategy really is amazing. And I wanna thank you for something because one of the things, in your book that you talk about is the importance of the setup of your office and your desk. And I probably have, I kind of have a terrible setup. My back is to the door and, but I am facing a window. I love this window because I look out on plants. It's obviously beautiful light. It's very peaceful for me. And you know, I've heard that before and I've attempted to rearrange my office space never successfully, no other layout worked. And I'll tell you why it was so genius in your book, Marie, because you were kind enough to say, and by the way, if it doesn't work, if you can't move things around, here's the fix, OMG. So I did exactly what you suggested. I got myself a mirror. It's right here. It's up on next to the window. And I can see it from here, but it also can reflect the door. So simple. I don't know. It's actually a Feng Shui mirror. And I read which one to get to let abundance flow in. And then I got so excited doing that fix from your book that I thought, oh yeah, I'm gonna get the things for outside the house too to push away negative energy and also to bring in the flow. These are so inexpensive. These things are like $9, $14, you know, to get these Feng Shui mirrors. So I was so grateful you include things like that. Yeah, well, the first step is, of course, like I said, is if you can see the door of the space that you are in. And I mean by the door, the door coming from the hallway, the door that you would take to come into the space, right? So like, for example, I have three doors here, right? I have a door to a closet, a door to a bathroom and door to the hallway, right? So I need to see, first of all, to get in what we call a power position. Now, sometimes that is not always possible, right? That's in your case, it's like, it's not so possible. So, you know, I'd say that to people, well, you know, perhaps it's fixed into the wall or it's just like your desk is too big, you know, literally you can't change it around, right? So then we need to do a little fix. And so one of the fixes is to put like a little mirror, you know, left or right from you to, so that in like a glance of your eyes, you can see what's going on behind you, yeah? So why is it important to sit in a power position? And I know you cannot do it in your desk, but perhaps you can do it in your dining room, perhaps you can do it in your sofa, perhaps you can do it in any meeting you have outdoors. So always sit first and go earlier into any meeting that you see the people coming in. When you see people coming in, you're actually literally seeing the energy coming in and you are going to have a different conversation with people, yeah? And so that's the first step. We've seen that when people have their desk against the wall or even against the window, it's like they're very quickly are hitting a wall, right? I always say money doesn't come in from the walls. It doesn't come in from the windows. It comes in through people that comes into your space, even if you do online, right? That's like the tradition, right? That's like the major rule. But that can be, if you can't do it at home, you perhaps any meeting you have, you can still do it as much as you can do it. Like even in the bedroom, when you wake up, you want to see the door, right? Because then you see romance coming in. Having it 24 hours a day all the time, it's not always possible because we still have a designed home a certain way, yeah? So you always try to fix it. So one of the things you can fix it is that mirror, but also like a high back chair. Like I have a very high back chair. Even my head is protected, yeah? Okay. So in your case, I would look for a different chair, to be honest, so where it's even higher. So that literally your neck is protected and you have arm rests, right? I have both, yes. So if you have that, then you have a protection shield, yeah? So that's one of the things I would suggest you do. And it's like we try always to upgrade. Yeah, we always like try to move things around as much as we can, because every small thing we do is already a change of flow, yeah? Now, perfect Feng Shui does not exist. I've never had a house and I've lived in 24 houses in my life. You know, I never had a home that was perfect Feng Shui, but each time you add something to it, it starts shifting the energy. Oh my gosh, yeah. I know even in the bedroom, the photos or the paintings I have are of couples, different forms of couples that are very beautiful, two of everything, the two nightstands, the two lamps. There's so many easy things like that. And I wanna ask you, so when you say in your book, just the repositioning of a desk or the removal or addition of a picture, the placement or covering of a mirror, the display of a candle in the right place and our fortunes, our health, our life, our family dynamics can radically change in a short time. How is that determined? Is that on an individual basis or are there global fixes and what the heck, once you get a partner involved, no less a family who might all have different numbers? Yeah, so let's first focus back on what Feng Shui really is, right? So Feng Shui is an energy system of China that's been around for thousands of years. And I always say the first masters of Feng Shui were probably shamans that could really tune into the energy fields and listened, like when they did something or they reposition something or they listened to nature probably and saw like, hey, if I'm here, if I'm sitting here, I feel different or when we design something this way, it feels nicer. So I think there were just people that were just very clear about energy. Now, Feng Shui is in that sense an energy system that we can compare like with acupuncture or Tai Chi or Qi Gong, it's all following the flow of energy, the vitality force that we have, that each one of us have. So maybe the force we with you, as we say in Star Wars, right? But it's that, may the Qi be with you, right? May you be in that flow of energy. And so Feng Shui is not about the body directly, but it's about the body around your body, right? So acupuncture, like we put needles, we put acupressure or we do certain movements with Tai Chi and Qi Gong, we start creating breath and movement. Yeah, that's the Qi that we're using. In Feng Shui, we are looking at the home around your body. That's where you sleep, where you live, where you work. And that home also has a breath and that's air, right? And air is connected with the wind directions and also connect with movement. And movement is where you sit, where you're going to sleep. So each time you go to these places, you create movement. So in a way, it's a bigger field of acupuncture. And so over the thousands of years, the Feng Shui masters have seen their certain colors, certain positioning based on your birthday, certain elements like water, fire, earth, metal and wood, when we place that in certain directions, just creates a different frequency, a different vibration. And so we all intuitively have some of that experience when we go to certain place and we're like, oh my God, I love it here, right? You would keep hanging out there. It can perhaps not be the most aesthetic pleasing, but there's a vibe there, right? And then there are other areas, like when you talked about your bedroom as a child, you're fearful there. I mean, everybody would come in like this, nothing to be afraid of, but you felt there was a bad vibe there, yeah? So why is that? Perhaps if I would go into the bedroom now, I would say, oh, it's because you're sleeping the wrong direction, the images, the colors were really not good for you. So I don't know what it is, but we feel it, yeah? So some people say, well, it's Feng Shui intuitively. I said, actually it's not. It's an energy system based on formulas. Really mathematical based formulas that they have built up over the years, but some people are quite intuitive towards it, yeah? And kind of feel the natural flow of things because they're more sensitive, yeah? So that based on that, there is one of the formulas that we're working on is based on your birthday. So people can actually, in the book Feng Shui Alive, it's all explained, but also we asked people to download my free app. So it's a very diamond app that's on all the app stores for free. And so what people then put in there, they put in their birthday when they're born and their gender when they're born because it's based on the male or female DNA. So it's a whole formula. It's not numerology that you have to add numbers up. It's a whole formula that is calculated in the app itself. And then based on that, people do get a compass, yeah? And so the compass, what we call the diamond compass is based on your number. And it's based on your birthday. So I'm number five. I don't know what your number is Debbie. I'm nine. You're nine. Okay, great. So you will see that for each one there will be four wind directions. So four directions with the wind, the breadth of the house is the strongest. For me, that is Southwest. For you, it's East, yeah? So people hold on the compass and they hold it like in the center of a space where they're working, sleeping, or living. And then they're looking what's in that success direction. So in my success direction, you can't really see it because it's behind me in this room. There are my books. Yeah, I think you see the books, but there are also awards there. There are symbols of success there, right? For example, a golden crown. I have a beautiful diamond, like of course not a real big diamond, but a fake diamond, right? So like I have certain symbols there that when I look at it, it makes my heart sing, yeah? So it feels like it's aligned with me, yeah? There's also a place where you can put your vision board, for example. Now normally my vision board is there, but I take it off because I don't want everybody to see my vision board. But you also will see there is a relationship direction and that's indicated in pink. And so for me, that's West. For you, that's North actually, yeah? Right? So what people then do, they hold a compass in the room that they are sleeping, working or living in and see what is there at this moment, yeah? Because what has been there for a while has been affecting you subconsciously. It's never conscious level. It's on a subconscious level that's been affecting you. So if you have clutter there, right? Then it's been affecting you because you are a vibrational being. And so your vibration is picking up based on your original energy profile. So we are like, I would say energized that way, yeah? So for you, your energy will be energized by activating East for success, relationship for North. If you put there something that is like an image of a lonely woman, then don't be surprised then that you will say to the universe, it's like this is the message. It's like, I call it like a three-dimensional vision board, yeah? So everything around is giving a message from you to the universe, yeah? So when you put them there something and it's not what you're really up to or not something you want, you're blocking that vibration between you and the universe, yeah? So when then people put something different, they say, I want romance and I put the image of romance there, then suddenly they're giving themselves subconsciously the message, I am open to romance because it's their wind energy, it's their vibration. They breathe that in and out because it's in that direction. So based on that, you first focus on your personal number and of course the book function for your life and the app is all aligned together. And so, and then you look at your partner and then you look for your family, for example, for your children in their bedroom, right? For your partner, perhaps in their workspace or together in the living room or together in the bedroom. So you always can align things together. And this is how personal feng shui is based. Wow. So you have no idea, we've never met before, you don't even know that I have a background in shamanism that you would even say that and I don't remember. Oh wow. Yes. And so this, I'm just mind blown listening to you. Our bedroom is in the North. The East is our going out to our backyard and I am so into that backyard. I go out every single morning, I do my shaman practice, I garden, I love to garden, I love flowers and plants and beautiful trees. I bought great patio furniture like just intuitively, I love beautiful things anyway. We have a pyramid over our patio couch and a crystals hanging there and to boot, this is sort of in the South, but I mean, this is, yeah, no, it's East. So East of the main house is a back house. The renter moved out, we're turning it into a healing temple. Perfect. So I can do music and shamanism there. Well, that's perfect because East is your success direction. Now the East is the healer. Like I just said, you're the energy number and my system is you're the healer. So the East stands for everything with nature like the flowers and the plants and everything to do with healing. And the East is actually also connected with healing practices from the past, yeah? So the native traditions, yeah? So you are totally on goal and purpose Debbie with what you do because that's actually what I do believe that the shamans from China were like understanding the energy of the mountains. They were tuning into the energy of the water and the rivers and seeing how that influenced people in their energy field and their chi, right? And so there are five elements that we need in Feng Shui to be in balance, right? We need the air that it stands for metal actually. We need the water, we need the earth energy. We need the wood that means nature and we need fire, yeah? So when we have these five elements in harmony and somebody can need sometimes more fire than another person, yeah? Depending on their energy number there will be different flows. Like for example, I'm very much earth and metal, yeah? So you will see I will wear a lot of like, I have like a metal collar on today, right? So I will do a little bit of fire but you rarely see me with a lot of reds but I can do still red nails, right? So, but for example, you will not see so much me with wood because wood is not of my strongest elements. Doesn't mean I don't love nature but I won't bring it too much into my house. Yes, plants, yes, but not like wearing greens. That's something that doesn't work. But for example, my daughter, green is super good for her and I didn't tell her as a child but she would always pick green clothes, yeah? Well, I would always go for the gold and the whites, yeah? Because that's metal colors, yeah? So when we go shopping, we shop completely different but it's because our energy is different. What is your daughter? She's a nine like you. Ah, and she's a nine. What is her predominant element? Well, it's actually wood and water, yeah? So blues, greens are really her dominant colors, yeah? Yeah. Yeah, so I think you love aqua blue, right? Yeah, oh, teal, turquoise. I live in these colors, forest green, olive green, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You will see your wisdom is actually and your health needs some purples and lilacs. So that will be definitely, so you will have a totally different color palette than I have, yeah? It's just so crazy. I just ordered a purple winter coat. Like, I am not surprised. That's actually really good for your health, you know, purple, yeah, right? So it's just a different vibe, right? So for me, Southwest is my success direction. Southwest, one of the colors for Southwest is pink. So I have a lot of pinks, yeah? So my daughter would never in a thousand years get a pink coat, right? I would buy anything in pink and gold and whites, you know? So it's just because it's like, when I see people in tune with their soul, they're in tune with their chi, they're in tune with their color palette. So it's really your energetic color palette that you have. Yeah, it makes so much sense. And everything you say, Marie, makes sense because I know, I imagine everybody watching and listening to this notes, you can walk in an office space or a home and perhaps there's a fountain outside, but for me, especially inside or in a garden. I mean, in certain places, not every place, some places they feel cold to me, but there are certain places where they are and it's just heaven or there's a fireplace and it's just so. I am very sensitive to elements. I don't do what you do, but just as a sensitive being, I can feel locations and it makes a tremendous difference. So regarding, let's start with our business before our personal future. So our business, are there some simple things that people can do that would radically change their business using Feng Shui? And I guess these would be more global. Yeah, and I would say, first of all, if you can sit in a power position, that's always going to give you more good reputation and people will honor you more as an expert. The second thing is to look at your success direction in your office and then place there things that really are to do with your business. It could be your flyers, it could be your books, it could be your products, like put something there, right? And even around you, just make sure that what you see is something connected with your business. Like I remember this woman and she had like old nude images of nude women hanging around in her office. Now I was asking her, are you an escort service? And she was like, no, I'm not. I'm into creating production for movies. She said, well, have you done productions? She said, yes. So what are the movies? So hang images from these movies that you have been working on in future movies. Like focus on the things that are around you. Don't bring too much family pictures into your office. One picture great on your desk, but not like everything around you. It's not your business. Focus on that, yeah? Then what I definitely would suggest, activate your relationship direction. Like my relationship direction is global. I think yours is also Debbie worldwide. You know, people can listen to your podcast, to your everything that you're doing on the media. Put a globe out in your relationship direction, yeah? And as you're putting the globe there, you know, you're like saying symbolically, I'm connected with everybody that's ever connected with me. Yeah, it's a very, just simple thing. Don't do a small globe, something you can see the countries on. Yeah, do an updated country globe. I'm not like something that was a globe 10 years ago. People, worlds are changing. So do that, right? And then also organize, you know, to declutter your office. You know, even on your desk, don't have too much clutter around you when you're talking. Add some gold-looking items. Like I have like something gold or something in it. Put that on there. And definitely for cash flow, that fountain that you're talking about, yeah? So about the fountain changes every year. And actually this year, Debbie, you have the fountain should be in the east of your office. Cause that's the most cash flow that comes in, is to the east. Now you are actually based on the energy number. We have time feng shui and you're actually starting a new nine-year cycle in your professional life. I don't know if you have experienced that, but it's like total new energy that is coming in for nine years. So you just closed off a nine-year cycle and you started new because we're taking in cycles of nine in feng shui cause they're nine numbers. Yeah. And so it's a very auspicious year for you. Last year was more about restructuring and healing still and letting go of certain things from the past, yeah? So we can actually look at just the feng shui, but we also can look at what we call the time cycles of your energy number, yeah? So that's a little bit more advanced feng shui, but that's kind of what we do. And it's very interesting to look at your office and your positioning. If you can on top of it, if you look at your compass, if you can also face, so if you look at your compass and your directions, if you can face, look at one of your good directions that will actually stimulate your alpha brain waves. Even if you do healing, for example, any healing modality you do, face one of your good directions, your alpha frequency will go even into theta frequencies and you will heal better. And you will see on the compass, there are empty directions. The empty directions are always creating beta frequencies and the healing is not happening so fast or the abundance is not attracted so much. So right now I'm facing wisdom, yeah? So why is wisdom? Because I'm teaching right now. I'm educating people, yeah? But I would never sit and my students are used to that if they are doing meditations or they're doing healing modalities, they always take their compass and they turn themself into one of their good directions. But for example, you do rituals around money. You will go to your success direction, do rituals for healing, go to your health direction. So you can actually tap in there like windows of energy that you have into the universe, tap into it and your whole chakras, all your chakras, your whole energy field connects with that and you will actually manifest fast and heal stronger. So when it comes to placement of water features, plants, mirrors, flowers, crystals, candles, or images, like you talked about, for shifting the energy in the room and our personal energy, is there anything global about any of those that you can share for everybody? So there are general rules that everybody can use, of course, right? So for example, plants, plants are the best in the East, Southeast and the South area of a space that can be of your home. Like for example, you have the garden in the East, so that's really beautiful, right? You're sitting in the garden in the East. Now that would be in the South, that would be great too. Like I have the garden East, Southeast, South, yeah? Because that's the best place for a garden because that's where the green is the strongest, yeah? Everything with nature is the strongest. Doesn't mean you cannot have it in the North or in the Southwest or in the North. It's just, it's not that strong, okay? So crystals, for example, are best in the Southwest, West or Northwest because that's all earth elements and the Northeast, yeah? So all crystals and metal elements can be placed in West and Northwest. So there are certain areas and that's all in the book, of course, right? But what I want to talk a little bit about what you place there is just, like think about plants. And I'm looking at you right now. You have really your plant setting around you, behind you is really not positive feng shui, yeah? So you have a fern behind you and it's all very spiky leaves. There are actually considered old knives that are behind you, yeah? And they're very close to you, even if it's just on a camera, right? So what it does is like, you're getting attacked by all these knives and that will actually diminish your good reputation, yeah? People won't think so highly of you as they should actually think about you. So the first thing I would like for you to do is take that away. The second, you have another image there and it looks like dried up flowers, yeah? So they're dead flowers. There's no life force in it, yeah? So I would suggest to change that, yeah? So if you put flowers around, you put like a blossoming orchid or a plant with round leaves or something that is, you know, green and round and flowering, right? So that is giving subconsciously a different message to people, yeah? Not just only to your own energy field, because I've seen people with a plant like this getting sick all the time, yeah? Because it's all the time knives hitting their energy field, their aura field. May I ask you a question about this? So let's say somebody lives in an apartment or a home, it's just dark. There's not a lot of light coming in. They don't do very successfully with plants or flowers indoors. Do you say no fake plants or what would they do in that case? Yeah, I say fake plants, because the thing is our mind is not seeing a difference between the real or the fake plants. We could smell a difference, but the image is like when an athlete is, for example, running the marathon and in his mind he's running the marathon, they can see and measure that the muscles will react to the imagery, yeah? So I have fake plants to be honest in my bedroom because in my, sorry, in my office, I don't have a lot of green fingers. So outside the gardener takes care of it. Inside, of course, I get some fresh flowers if I can, but there are some places I just, I forget to water them. So, but it doesn't matter. My conscious mind is aware that it's not there, but my subconscious mind just thinks, oh, this beautiful blossoming plant there, right? So you can do that. But if it's a darker space, definitely add more light to it, yeah? So more lights, more candles, like light is the first representation of life force. Yeah, so don't have dark areas in the house, especially when it comes darker at night, just put some lights or candles on, just, you know, just create some more vibration. And a candle can be placed anywhere, by the way, because it shows chi, yeah? So it's not just considered fire. A fire element is like literally a fire place, yeah? Or like a big, big candle, but like small candles, they're just showing there's energy. Okay, and this is all fascinating. Do you have any stories, success stories, people you worked with who were in one condition and then you feng shui'd whatever situation or area and what the change was, what they experienced instead? Well, I want to share a story of a man that reached out to us and he was living in a tent. I mean, really like on the bottom of his life, right? And so he was asking me like, you know, can I have, you know, some suggestion? I don't have any money, I cannot place plants, I cannot place crystals, I'm just living in a tent camp here in LA. And I said, can you get some paper and just perhaps some scotch tape? And I just want you to write down on this paper like white quartz crystal, fountain, success, money in the directions. And so I told him what are the directions he found somebody that for him, like he didn't even have a phone right to do this. So he would like ask somebody where is the stout, where's the north, west, like with a compass. He started putting posted notes, yeah, on his tent. Within a few months, somebody offered him a car, an old car, so he could now sleep in a car and start looking for a job, yeah. So then he found a job just doing the same thing with the car, looking at his direction every night wherever he was parking with posted notes, yeah. And then he found a job, he got the apartment. Now he lives, and we are now four years later in apartment three bedrooms, has an amazing girlfriend, beautiful job. And so I was able to meet him in person and now he goes every week back to the tent camp and teaches people how to activate their directions. So I say to people, don't tell me you cannot do it, yeah. Everybody can do it, even if you put a posted note up, yeah, because that's what I did when I was coming to America for the first time in 2001. I didn't have a lot of money. I literally had a few suitcases and a couple of thousands of dollars that when I immigrated here. And so I literally made a vision board, put on my vision board, posted notes. And one of the post notes that said, I'm going to be in a movie seen by millions of people that will transform the world, yeah. Well, that's amazing. I put that on a posted note, right, in my success direction in my office. Oh my gosh. And one of the first things that started happening was that I had nothing, I had really no furniture, I had nothing. And suddenly people coming to me, there were already students and they started giving me furniture, right. They gave me a desk, they gave me a computer, they gave me sofa, they gave me television from things that they didn't need anymore. Suddenly I had a full house, even the linens, the towels, everything was given to me, right. And then I thought like, you know, to be in a movie, I need to get a fake Oscar. I need a simple, right. So I got myself a fake Oscar and I still have that one actually here. Oh my God, this is so silly. And I put on it a re-diamond 2005 because I was 2001 at that time. So I need a few years to get into a movie. I didn't know it was going to be an actress or a producer, I had no idea, right. So the first thing that happened is within a few weeks, I got a new client that came to me, one of my first big clients, and she was Marcy Sheimov, she was made run into secret with me. She became my student. She started opening doors to me. So suddenly I got clients like John Gray, Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield. They all felt so stuck and she was like Marie has the answer for us, yeah. And then I got my first Oscar-winning client and within a month I put the Oscar out in my successor action, yeah. And as I put it there, now I have more than 20 Oscar-winning clients over the years. But it's just like, I have to tell my own story getting into the secret in 2005, it was on my vision board, yeah. And I had my Oscar out and when people say, so how did you got in the secret and say, well, it was on my vision board. It was in my success direction, yeah. Because in these four years, I became quite known that I became part of an organization and a big mastermind group where the film was also filmed with other teachers. And this is how I got into the secret. So I would not have been in the secret without that little yellow post-it notes that I put in my success direction. So how difficult is it? Wow, that is a goose bump story. It is so inspiring. I am absolutely going to do something. I have a different dream, but I am absolutely going to do that. And I hope everybody who's watching is also inspired to get the book, to get the compass, the app, figure out where's your success area, clean it up, don't have plants like mine. I won't ever again. I promise, thank you for that. And yeah, it's not just about being pretty, pretty stuff backgrounds. It's really what's functional and what's happening energetically. And so whatever your dream is, folks, yeah. At least a post-it, if not a vision board, but certainly something symbolic. Wow, my gosh. So let me ask you this, I think I'm really like tongue-tied over the beauty of what you just shared. And thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you for going so big. Like we all need to see that, right? Everybody, no matter where you started, you've had a depression at some point in your life if you didn't start here. And so for each of us to consider a leap of that magnitude and to have a dream that magnificent and then to be living that dream and then some, I just, I love that is a dare to dream. And you did, you did. It is dare to dream. And that's why I loved when I saw your podcast. It was like, I dare to dream. And you know, the secret has now reached more than 500 million people. So I would say check, that's done. Look at this, look at this. Wow. So Feng Shui, how does this practice of Feng Shui Maria adapt to different cultural contexts or geographic locations? How does that work? Well, you know, it all works based on the compass, right? So there are some advanced techniques, especially in the Southern hemisphere that we probably would do differently, right? But the North Pole is still the North Pole and the South Pole, the South Pole. So we still can work with a compass erection. And of course, we need to adapt to the culture, right? Or your religious background. So for example, if the wisdom direction that we're activating based on your energy number could be different. You know, it's like if you are Catholic that you will activate something different for your wisdom, like putting an image of Jesus. But if you're a shaman, perhaps you will put your shamanistic tools in that wisdom direction. Or if you are, you know, Muslim, that you perhaps would put a core on there. So you have to understand, Feng Shui is not a belief system. It's just an energy system that you can adapt to wherever you are and wherever that you love. And there are images that people in, I would say Spain would hang, there are different images that they would put in somewhere in Dubai, for example, right? So you need to adapt that and connect with you personally, yeah? Because that is the beauty of it, you know? It's like I said, your home is a three-dimensional vision board. Make sure it is representing who you are. And it's also aligned with the future that you desire. And that is depending on who you are, where you live and what you dream of. Do you think that Feng Shui is evolving with this ever-increasing digital and interconnected world? Well, it is, in the sense that, you know, you can Feng Shui your app store or you can Feng Shui your computer or so there are things you can evolve. And every Feng Shui master is actually always adding a new way of looking at things. Like me as a Feng Shui master for 30 years, I started really focusing on colors, yeah? Because sometimes, especially in the Asian world, they go with certain colors that are more Asian traditional good luck colors. Well, over the years, I received a lot of information and downloads on 24 quantum colors that actually, when we work with these colors, it helps us to raise a vibration to connect with our soul and to connect with the quantum field. So this is actually the 24 colors of the multifaceted diamond that we're talking about. And actually everybody can tune into that. If you are looking at your app, you will see that around the circle of the diamond compass, there are actually 24 colors indicated, yeah? So people that are in tune with their soul, they will resonate with these colors. Like you are like the blues and the greens and the purples are actually quantum colors that work for you, yeah? And so I'm not going with the palette of the design, the interior designer. I'm focusing completely on soul colors, yeah? And so we're placing these colors, even if it's just a small item of that, and I could be a candle in that color, right? And by placing this little acupuncture pressure points with colors just changes a vibration and people start subconsciously getting that message. And there are 24 qualities that we're focusing on. So that's something that I brought in over the years, what we call quantum feng shui, so with color. So you will see over the generations and thousands of years, all great feng shui masters have always brought a new concept, a new idea in to, that helps because it's evolving into the awareness of that time. That is so incredible. You know, recently we had our house painted and our bedroom, I like very almond colors is the best way I can say it. I'm really resonant with almond. And even though gray is not my color at all, there is something about particular grays that can be very relaxing. And so I think our bedroom, basically it's white with some gray accents and like tawny tan accents, like wood accents. But I took this just a risk and there was this sort of green moss color. So that's that in North. So our bedroom is North and it is on the North wall. And I thought, gosh, I don't know how this is gonna go in here. And I actually asked the painter because I was so nervous, you know, I was playing with some colors. And he said, I think it'll look great. And my God, it is so gorgeous. You walk in the room and that's the wall you see is this beautiful, just rich green color and it actually makes the room. So this stuff you're talking about especially when you resonate with that color, it just can make or break how you look, where you are, your location, everything. I even think cars, you know, what color you're gonna get in your car interior, exterior, I'm into all of that. Yeah, and so true. You know, people that are in tune with energy, they will feel more that, you know, colors are living beings. Yeah, they're living qualities. And so, you know, sometimes they come into people's homes and their houses are so monotone. And I go, my God, we have to get a pop of color in here, right? Even if it's just literally pillows, yeah, that you place in a sofa or you put some candles or, you know, you can just play with that. It doesn't have to be suddenly painting everything around you, to be honest, right? It's just that you need to see that. What is, what works for you, right? And, but there's definitely in a bedroom colors I would never wear, never put in that's reds, yeah? I don't say pop of reds is okay, but like red curtains or red carpet or red walls, it's too much fire. And so I would say, would you sleep when there's a fire around you? You wouldn't, subconsciously it's a no. The same with blues. If you would have like blue walls or blue carpets or blue covers, again, would you sleep when you're drowning in water? Okay, so you have to think about it. So water and fire, there can be pops of it, but nothing major, right? And so many times people say like, I can't sleep, it's too much red, yeah? Or I always feel like so restless and I feel like I'm depressed because it's too much water. Yeah, so water images, fire images, don't put that in your bedroom, yeah? Genius, I have two questions for you before we end. The first is I have a quote from you, Marie, which is move forward without fear. And even if you have fear, move forward anyway, even if your knees are knocking, I know you have a new TV show. Do you mind to tell us about it? And were you nervous? Well, yeah, so one of the things this last year when I turned 60, I was like, I got this amazing voice in the morning, like go mainstream. And so I was like, you know, I'm known in the self-help and spiritual world, but mainstream, I'm not, perhaps yet, I need to bring Feng Shui forward. So I created a TV show, Feng Shui or Life. Of course I attracted the amazing business partner and the first airing will actually be done on to be on the Fox platform, so in the coming months. So if going Fox is not mainstream, right? I don't know what it is. So I'm super excited. It will be of course on their app. So, and so was I nervous? No, I'm never nervous. It's like I'm so in a flow. I love being in front of a camera. It's something I learned from being in the secret. That was actually my first on-camera interview ever. Was the secret. So I was so unknown. That was my first interview. But I would say yes, it's, I'm not nervous because I'm on my own purpose. This is what I'm doing and we're doing already a second season in the coming months. So yeah, it's like everybody's super excited about it. And I do believe that so many support can be given to families and to businesses if they have good Feng Shui. Congratulations. I am so, so, so happy for you. And Marie, this is Dare to Dream. What are you next, Dare to Dream? What are your future dreams and goals? Wow, that's a good question to ask. Well, I would say I really, my dream for the next 10 years is to, as I reached the secret 500 million debt, now with Feng Shui, I would reach 500 million people and to have a lot of TV shows coming up and we do some other TV shows. So I really want to be a transformational TV mogul in the next 10 years. Yes, I see that for you. Thank you so, so much for coming on the show and folks, the book is called Feng Shui Your Life. Her name is Marie Diamond. You can get this on Amazon. Also, find out more about her on her website, MarieDiamond.com and her shows coming out on Fox if you would like to follow and learn more, had to have an exceptional business and personal life. And I end today's show with this quote from Marie Diamond. A misconception about Feng Shui is that you need to spend a lot of money. However, painting walls, buying new furniture, filling your home with expensive crystals, none of this is necessary. I believe that Feng Shui is most effective when you make the most of what you already have. Whether it's learning how to best sort away clutter, giving your rooms a thorough dusting and closets a complete sort through or buying some colorful candles from your local store, Feng Shui can be practiced at any budget. All you need is a little creativity. Be sure to subscribe to this number one transformation conversation Dare to Dream with Debbie Dashinger. Next week's on the show, I will be featuring several amazing guests. Octurus Ra will be here. Dr. Greta Chamberlain and Robert Quicksilver all to channel, shed light and offer direction in this ever changing world. Remember, it can just be a candle or a post-it that can change your life. Dare to Dream.