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Molly Brown is a Mindset Engineer life coach. Molly started her career in the army as an intelligence analyst and moved on to the corporate world as an engineer at a large aerospace company. Fast forward to her work today as a life coach: Molly believes that making any change in one's life follows an engineering design process that starts on a blank sheet of paper. She leads people in this process of radical transformation and self-discovery, in which they shift their experience of life to be how they most love to live it. Growing up in a religious household where money discussions were off-limits, Molly always felt a burning desire to break free and achieve financial independence. Her determination to earn what she calls "man money" led her to exceptional academic achievements and career milestones, despite the societal and familial limitations she faced. She talks about the shortcomings of chasing metrics like money and KPIs. She opens up about the disillusionment with these conventional markers and the deeper, intrinsic needs that often go unaddressed, such as security, freedom, and a sense of belonging. Through her intellectual and emotional journey, Molly underscores the importance of understanding the motivations behind our pursuit of success and how these realizations guided her towards a more authentic and fulfilling life.“It's not the money that's keeping you safe. The money is fantastic and when you feel safe, it's really easy to make money. When you feel safe, it's really easy to grow money. When you feel safe, it's really enjoyable to spend the money going out and doing things that you don't feel like you have to hold it in. Your experiences around everything: money, education, food, other people, travel, the world, it completely changes when you understand inherent safety, when you embody your own safety.” - Molly BrownKey takeaways: - Anything measurable, like money, is adjacent to and not actually what we want to have. Molly notes that we actually want security and safety and belonging and freedom, the ability to express ourselves fully. Yet we can't measure any of those things, so we use money, which we can measure, as the substitute metric.- Be open to your curiosity transforming you. Molly felt drawn to explore consciousness, which, through her own transformational work with a coach, eventually led her to become a life coach. She’s an introvert, and would prefer to be behind a screen, but her passion and curiosity for the work she is doing has led her to be a teacher and speaker. - When you’re called to make a change, take practical steps. Molly knew that she needed to leave the corporate world and eventually, transition from two incomes to one income. So she sold her house, and bought a multi-family house that generated rental income that covered her housing bills, so she no longer felt beholden to her job. She felt financially safe, because she had taken steps and done the work. About the guest: Hi, I’m Molly, the Mindset Engineer life coach. I started my career in the Army as an intelligence analyst and moved on to the corporate world as an engineer at a large aerospace company. I've always had a passion for patterns especially in music and movement, it's what attracted me to physics, chemistry and mechanical engineering in college. So in my career as an engineer I was drawn to data of all sorts, anything I could get my hands on. I was looking for patterns to understand what was going on that we couldn't see or measure directly. After years of working with data with all sorts of teams, technical and non technical, I finally saw that all we were doing with data is drawing the target around the arrow. You've probably heard of confirmation bias but that is just the tip of the iceberg. I dove into this with a fascinated curiosity. As the company was pushing a data driven decision making initiative, I was coming to realize that data driven decision making is a total myth. We can only ever find in data what we are already looking for, whether we are conscious of what we are looking for or not. And this is not a problem at all! But it is important that we understand what is going on in our thinking as we interact with data (data meaning any and all information about yourself and the world). This became the foundation of my life coaching. The data is helpful, it is a reflection of what we are already believing. If we are looking for the data to give us something different to belief however, we'll never find the evidence we need to change. If however we use the data to inform us of what we are truly believing, that we weren't already aware of, then it is useful. From there, making any change in your life follows an engineering design process that starts on a blank sheet of paper. I lead people in this process of radical transformation and self discovery in which they shift their experience of life to be how they most love to live it.Website: www.mindset-engineering.comLinkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/mindsetengineerZoom link for Quantum Manifestor group, which takes place on the 2nd and 4th Monday, 12 pm ET, 90 minutes Stay connected:Connect with Laura on LinkedIn@Rotters5 on TwitterConnect with Laura on FacebookSubscribe to my YouTube channelSubscribe to my newsletterGet your free copy of Unlock Your Money Blocks Workbook: Your step-by-step guide to unlocking your blocks to financial freedom.Disclaimer: Please remember that the information shared on this podcast does not constitute accounting, legal, tax, investment or financial advice. It’s for informational purposes only. You should seek appropriate professional advice for your specific information.