SET YOURSELF FREE With Alicia Cramer

Howard, hello. It's Howard brown. It's the

shining brightly show. Oh, my God, thank you. Thank you. Thank

you for tuning in my great audience, 257,000 people. I love

it. We're reaching so many people, and we're changing lives

every day. I have a very special guest with me today. I do almost

every week, don't I? Alicia Cramer, welcome. How are you?

I'm great. Thank you, Howard.

I'm so glad you're here because I'm going to learn

from you, because there's things we're going to talk about that

we just I don't, you know, I need to get more educated. I'm

learning about energy healing, and I'm learning this, and I'm

going to learn about hypnotherapy today, here for

healing and for business and all that, and I'm just so excited

about that, but first I have to just tell me, how do you shine

brightly every day?

Well, I don't usually talk about this because

it's very much an internal process, but as someone who is a

student of energy work, I make a conscious intention to raise my

vibration and just radiate love. So whether that is with my

family, it is when I'm on sessions with my clients, it is

when I'm talking to colleagues, amazing individuals like you, I

have a practice of going within, being mindful, even in the midst

of conversation, and making sure that I am in my heart more than

in my head.

Oh, my God, radiate love. Oh, I love it. I

love it. It's just, it's a beautiful and it's personal and

and it's a discipline. I absolutely love it. Let me tell

you a little bit more about Alicia. She is impressive.

Alicia Kramer is an internationally renowned

hypnotherapist and business mindset coach known as the go to

expert for entrepreneurs with a profound understanding of the

subconscious mind and over a decade of experience, she

specialized specializes in helping business owners overcome

mental barriers, achieve personal growth and reach their

highest potential through customized hypnotherapy sessions

and holistic coaching, Alicia empowers her clients to unlock

their inner potential and drive both personal and professional

success. So this is all about the show. Lisa Alicia lifts up

people and and she does it through coaching and through

hypnotherapy, and we're going to learn a little more about her

right now, because I'd love for you to share part of your

background. Who are you?

So we talked a little bit about this. Well,

we'll try to keep the keep it to the short version. I actually

grew up on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin. And so there

were the positives and the not so positives. As dairy farmers,

my parents were stressed a lot. Worked really hard, and they

self medicated in unhealthy ways. So I developed some self

esteem challenges along the way. And it was, it was a challenging

childhood that being said that became part of my journey and

part of my story. Fast Forward in 2005 I was assaulted, and

when I came to I had post traumatic stress disorder. It

was one of those catalyzing experiences where you have a

couple of different options, and one of the options was not so

good, and so I chose the better option, and that was to go on a

very, very deep healing journey myself, mentally, emotionally

and spiritually, and that allowed me to heal a lot of that

deep hurt from the past. And in so doing, not only did I

transform, but I was able to then take this work into the

world and help my clients through their challenges as

I you know, I hear that that, you know, basically

well.

people's pain is their purpose now, and I love it. And in my

book and in my coaching as well, we talk about that walk in

darkness. And you just, you shouldn't do it alone. You did

it looks like but there's hopefully people that there were

there to support you, and you can't stay there too long. You

got to take the lessons and learn from them and and

basically take the light of others and be able to then, you

know, kind of move forward and, and you do that, and then this

is, this is the impressive part of what you're doing. So a

couple things I'd like to actually get into, actually, is

hypnotherapy. Give me the basics, so that the audience can

understand kind of what it is. It's not voodoo. This is real

and okay, and it helps people get unstuck. So I'd love to

start there.

yeah, so many misconceptions about hypnosis.

And yeah, there are those who focus on using hypnosis for a.

Entertainment, what a lot of people don't realize because

sometimes they think it's fabricated, and other times, you

know, they they diminish the potential because of that. Well,

what a lot of people don't realize is only a small

percentage of people are suggestible to that type of

silly, outlandish behavior, but in a clinical sense, hypnosis is

used to create deep, lasting transformation at the

subconscious level of the mind, and we know from all the

research that's been done on it that it has so many health

implications, in addition to changing our beliefs and

overcoming negative behaviors. One of the things that I'll just

share real briefly, when I was on my healing journey and I went

to a lot of different holistic practitioners, all different

types of energy workers, which is why I'm so passionate about

different modalities. One of the services that really helped me

was hypnosis. I went to a hypnotherapist, and I briefly

mentioned, had kind of a rocky childhood. I had insomnia since

I was a very, very young girl. After that session, not only was

I more calm and empowered on, you know, kind of coming onto

the out on the other side of the post traumatic stress disorder

from the assault, but for the first time ever, Howard, I was

able to sleep through the night peacefully, and I've been able

to ever since, and that was obviously quite a few years ago.

Now, the reason that I share this is because there's so much

that hypnosis can help with. It's not magic. It's scientific.

It doesn't I don't have super mind control powers or anything.

It's a very natural phenomenon, but it also needs, it needs to

be taken more seriously, because it really can help in so many

different areas of our life.

Yeah, I think, I think you mentioned it, but the

entertainment value of making someone cook like a chicken or

something like that really is a big disservice to it. And I tell

you, listen, people get knocked down. Life is not easy

sometimes, and many of the times people are struggling and in

life and in business and in health and in finance and

especially in relationships and any way that we can actually

lift them up, which I call bringing their light, you know,

relighting, rekindling their light. I think that hypnosis

could help, and I know for a fact that it helps a bunch of

people in the cancer world, okay, it helps caregivers

dealing with the stress, and it helps the cancer folks like me,

okay, that are in treatment, that your whole world gets

turned upside down. And so I'm new to this, and I'm open to it,

and I will tell you that I had misconceptions about it until

after meeting you. So now I'm kind of, you know, setting the

record straight. Tell me about a little bit about, like,

visualization and goal achievement for these

entrepreneurs that you help and and even setting boundaries, and

a little bit about self sabotage. And because this, the

whole package comes at you, and people have to be, you know,

it's really complex of what people are going through at

different times. It's

true, we're very complex. We're programmed from

childhood with other people's beliefs and other people's

fears, and then we have our own experiences, and that creates

all sorts of inner conflict. And what a lot of people don't

realize is we have the ability to reprogram our mind. Lot of

people don't realize how powerful the imagination

actually is. Now if you look at it in a very objective way, you

can see not nothing was invented without it being an idea in the

mind. First, everything is an idea in the mind. First. Now

most people are defaulting to fear, worry, and what are you

doing? Then, with the power of your mind, you're projecting

negative imagery negative visualization, so you're

reinforcing these negative patterns by consistently

defaulting to those types of thoughts and feelings. Now, when

we become more intentional, we can use the power of our mind to

visualize a healthier body. Look at the studies that they've done

on people who visualize playing the piano or playing basketball

and just shooting shooting hoops, right? I know you love

basketball and. And so we know that the mind is incredible,

because they've done these studies, all well documented,

where control groups are either physically doing the you know,

they're practicing whatever it is, the piano or or shooting the

hoops or whatever. Then they have some people who are

visualizing it, then you have some people who do both, and

then you have some people who don't do anything. And what is

so fascinating is when you're visualizing something, you're

literally creating that neurological wiring. And so then

when you go out and you actually do the thing, whatever it is,

making beautiful music, or, you know, shooting shooting hoops,

and actually, like you know, you you know, so you're visualizing

and you're hearing it, you're feeling it, and when you

actually then go to do it, you've embodied not only a new

level of belief in yourself, but your muscles and your

subconscious, reflexes and everything start to now align

with that behavior. That's the power of our mind, and we have

to, then, of course, be mindful of what are you programming each

and every day? Right? How much are you defaulting to that

worrying versus being intentional about your thoughts?

Thanks

for mentioning basketball, because I tell

everyone, find your happy place. Schedule it in, go there,

hiking, biking, artwork, cooking, travel, minds the

basketball court. And quite frankly, I've been playing

basketball since I'm six, I have developed muscle memory on how I

shoot because I can't feel the ball. I have, you know, chemo

induced peripheral neuropathy. I can't even feel it in my hands,

but I've done it so many times, in the head and in the emotion

of it, I know what to do. And actually, if I miss, I know why

I missed. Went right, went left, didn't go high enough. So I know

that's a very small, simplistic example, but I totally get it.

And I also want to mention that, you know, a lot of people are

dealing with past childhood traumas, and actually, what I

found is that that makes some of the best executives that I've

ever met, because they know how to actually get a mental

toughness and ability to pivot and ability to make decisions

and take risks to move forward. And so I love the fact that you

help unlock that. It's impressive to do that. And so I

read something in some of your work, in your books, about the

subconscious holding you back, and that's the blocker that you

remove, right?

It is so we all have had varying degrees of

trauma, even as a child, where a parent may say, What are you so

upset about? You're overreacting in the moment of that intense

emotion that that child is experienced that can register

just like a trauma. And so here we are adults, and we have all

these great intentions, the executive who wants to be a

great leader, the husband who wants to be a loving, attentive

partner, the parent who wants to be able to shut off the work day

and play with their children, and you just can't, and you

don't understand why, and that is because we have these deep

rooted programs at the subconscious level of the mind.

So when we can access that part of ourself and we can heal that

part of ourself, now the behavior changes where once we

couldn't relax, which is super common for executives and high

achievers and entrepreneurs, because many of us have been

wired to be driven for survival. What a lot of people don't

recognize is you don't have to give up the positive qualities.

We just want to take the edge off the negative side of it so

that it's not destructive, and then we channel that energy in a

much more productive way. So you still are in love with your

business, but you have the ability to take a day off, take

a weekend off, enjoy time with your family when you have that

vacation to Disney, because now you're not being subconsciously

triggered with feelings of, I need to be doing this, And I

need to escape that, and I'm not working and oh my goodness, I

don't feel comfortable in my own skin. We're able to resolve that

at the subconscious level. You set yourself free, and we all

have a lot of conditioning. So it'd be lovely if I could say.

We find that one thing you fix that you live happily ever

after. It really is. It's inner work. It's, you know, it's a

journey of inner growth.

I appreciate that set yourself free. That's again,

that's so important to get unstuck. Tell me about your

academy and your programs, because I'm sure people and the

audience and listeners and viewers are going to be very

curious. Tell me about that

the academy is something that I developed a

couple of years ago. It's a pretty substantial on demand

resource with guided hypnosis audios and releasing processes,

because we do need to take the negative, emotional charge off

of old, painful memories and negative habits In order to

effectively reprogram and release that trigger. There's a

lot of mindset training, and then I've got other experts,

amazing, talented business professionals who contribute

sales training and marketing training and how to do profit,

first in every other different area of business. And then, of

course, I'm there as well to work with individuals in a group

setting to identify what are those challenges that you're

bumping up against? And even though it is predominantly

geared towards business owners, it's not just about business.

It's about everything. It's about healing your

relationships. It's about your own spiritual growth. It is

healing your body. There's meditations that help to get

into a more healing state. So it's really a holistic process

for overcoming challenges, achieving goals. You know, we've

all got them, lot of stuff around money, mindset and the

more common challenges that business owners have, but really

a level of support that I don't think I've ever seen in any

other program that I've personally been a part of,

because there really is a sincere intention to help our

clients. Yeah,

I checked it out. I think one 800 call Alicia

today would be a good thing. We're going to give your

information out, but share with me a little bit highlight a

couple of your books.

Well, I have my very, very first book was called

hypnosis for success. It's been, I've done a reboot now it is

hypnosis for success, the definitive guide to unlocking

your mind for business mastery, and it's really just a short

read that provides practical techniques, little little,

little exercises you can do that's essentially a form of

Self Hypnosis. So aligning with your goals overcoming stress,

it's a don't read it once, type of book, and then I have

energetic alignment, which is my newer book, and that's where I

get a little bit more into the metaphysical side of things,

because we're talking about how you do need to identify those

limiting beliefs so that you can shift the energy and you can

align with your goals. And it's very much about not just

achieving success, but doing it in a way that is really aligned

with your true core values, not not one of the books where it's

like, make a million dollars and, you know, it's all about

glorifying the material. It's about all of you, and what real

success is feeling good about yourself and about your life and

creating a life that you don't regret.

Powerful. All right, so our show is such a

tease because there's so much more we got to get into. And

people are going to reach out to you to get take a deeper dive

and get to know you, and get to know your programs and your

coaching. Put on your sunglasses. We're going to do

something called the shining brightly spotlight right now.

All right, and we're going to share and shine. I'm going to

give you three things that to do, and then we're going to hand

back the show and we'll close it out with me. So the first thing

I want is to tell people how they can get in touch with you.

Well, that one first. Okay,

that's super easy. I'll send you one place.

You'll find everything. Alicia kramer.com, spell it, a, l, i,

c, I, A, C, R, A, M, E, r.com,

those are for the people that are just listening.

Second question is one, take home tip, immediate tip that

someone could probably implement right now. So you know, real,

real subject matter. Expert like you, who's really authentic and

lifts up people with someone someone can take away from the

show and go, go, try and help themselves.

It sounds cliche, but being more mindful about

what you're feeling, but a lot of people don't realize is we're

identifying we're we're bumping up against those triggers all

the time, those limiting beliefs all the time. We have a tendency

to we default to this. Okay, no fault, no fault, no guilt. But

we default to this the moment we feel that uncomfortable feeling.

We want to push it away. We want to talk ourself out of it. We

want to avoid it, we distract ourselves from it, or then you

have the over indulgence in it. None of those releases it in a

proper, healthy way, which means we're storing it. We're we're

keeping that pattern active within us at the subconscious

level of the mind, if you can acknowledge not feeling so great

right now, and you can say to yourself, I'm going to own this.

It is what it is I feel, the way that I feel, and I'm going to

allow myself to actually experience and process out this

emotion. What happens is we're able to take some of that

negative emotional charge off of the old pattern, off of the old

negative behavior, and each and every time we do that, instead

of repressing and pushing down and compartmentalizing and

building up all of that negativity, little by little,

we're setting ourselves free. That is a very simple exercise.

It seems overly simplistic, and it is so powerful that if you

could incorporate that into your life, it would make an

incredible difference.

What a great tip. Thank you. And the last one is

to share a little inspiration, a quote, a very short, impactful

story or something that we can share and shine brightly to the

world together.

One of the things that I just feel inspired to to

share, maybe because of what you're going through right now.

Howard, but I know that a lot of my friends and colleagues,

they're going through some some rough stuff. There are seasons

in life, and sometimes we get blindsided, and sometimes it

feels like we get kicked straight in the teeth, and it's

okay to process those emotions, and it's also okay to be

vulnerable and to lean in for love and support, we're still

strong. It doesn't mean we're not strong. It does not to the

contrary, I would be willing to say we're stronger one we're

willing to be vulnerable, knowing that this is just

temporary. This too shall pass, and in this moment, me being

vulnerable and allowing someone to give me love and support is

not just a gift for me, it's a gift for them.

That's wow, I have to tell you, it's I always say

that. It's not actually, you know what you get in life, it's

what you give in your time of need, and in my time of need,

1000s of raving fans are reaching out with prayers and

help and support and love. So I hear you, and it's so powerful.

Thank you for sharing that. Wow. This is incredible. What a great

show. You can reach me at shiny, brightly, calm, and obviously

you can learn more about the best selling book and some of my

collaborative books. Also hire me to speak virtually right now,

to come on to any of your podcasts or shows, and then also

you can learn about this show the feed. And I have 107

episodes and more coming, all great 30 minute resilient shows.

And of course, my advocacy in the cancer world, in the

entrepreneurship world at Babson College, and certainly the

interfaith world, which needs a lot of healing right now as

well. So I want to give thanks out to a few people that make me

look good. Front edge publishing, my book publisher.

Read the spirit magazine, which I blog monthly, amplify you,

which is my finishing house for this amazing podcast, and then

also diamond moments magazine, which I appear in every month in

multiple places. And then also speak inspire prosper, a great

speaking program from my friend Sharon love, who just became a

sponsor as well. So just remember, if you choose to shine

brightly just a little bit each day, for yourself, I'm going to

say that for yourself, you have the ability to then go lift up

others in your neighborhoods, in your communities, and we become

a force multiplier for good and positive change and make the

world a better place. Alicia, this was tremendous. You are

tremendous. And thank you for coming on the shining brightly

show.

Thank you. Howard,