It's Not What You Think with Celinne Da Costa

About It's Not What You Think with Celinne Da Costa

A thought-provoking podcast for the one who's built everything you were told to build — and are now asking the bigger questions about who you really are and the story you're here to live. These aren't polished interviews. Celinne Da Costa dives deep with leaders who have walked through the fire — including Fortune 150 executives, New York Times bestselling authors, and 8-figure entrepreneurs — past the success story and into what it really looks like to stop performing and start living from your soul's truth.

Publisher

Celinne Da Costa

Category

business · education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2023

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

87 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Happy Money: Why Earning More Never Fixed the Stress — with Ken Honda | Ep 84

   For the leader who has made the money, still feels the squeeze every time it moves, and suspects the number was never the variable. Ken Honda learned about money from his father from around the age of five, started investing at twenty, and semi-retired at twenty-nine to raise his daughter. By most measures that is where a money problem ends. He has spent the decades since studying happiness and money. And arguing that the amount was never the problem in the first place. The distinction he draws is between money that makes you smile when it arrives and when it leaves, and money that arrives with a squeeze. Most people, in his reading, live inside the second flow, and earning more takes them deeper into it, because the cost of everything rises alongside the income. He calls the condition a trance, and traces it to a money game everyone is enrolled in without consent, with nobody available to teach the rules. In this conversation, Celinne and Ken Honda define happy and unhappy money, and unpack ikigai — the Japanese term for a life worth living — as the route out. You'll hear the arigato practice Ken learned from his mentor, what it costs a family when a founder draws energy from his children's future, and Ken's own answer to what he may already have outgrown. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Feel what happens in your body the moment money leaves your account 03:31 Define happy money and unhappy money in Ken's own terms ~07:10 Hear what Ken's schoolteacher said when a boy asked him about money 17:46 Meet the family living well on fifty dollars a year in rent 20:20 Consider working less and spending less as the same arithmetic 28:06 Learn what ikigai literally means and where a life purpose is buried 43:20 Practice the arigato money habit Ken learned from his mentor 52:26 Confront the energy some entrepreneurs draw from their children's future 1:06:20 Discover the second career Ken is planning for 2027 KEY IDEAS: ✨ Money carries the state it moves through: Happy money makes you smile arriving and leaving. Unhappy money squeezes at both ends. Ken's position is that most people are living in the second flow, and that the flow determines the stress more than the balance does. ✨ A bigger income raises the cost of everything: When earnings double, so does the cost of living the life that earning it requires, which is how a month can still end in a pool of bills. Ken's answer is to check the inventory on a three-year horizon — the job, the school fees, the house, the company itself — and to treat downsizing as a legitimate direction. ✨ Your ikigai is buried in your past: Ikigai literally means a life worth living. Ken locates it in childhood and upbringing, and in the wound a person has already tended, because the thing that hurt you most is the thing millions of others are still carrying. ✨ Read the energy balance sheet: Ken asks whether a person's energy is expanding or shrinking, and points out that a founder running on adrenaline often can't feel the drain while the family absorbs it. He calls it the family energy quota. RESOURCES: Ken Honda is a global bestselling author who has sold over 9 million copies of books worldwide since 2001. With more than 120 books published, Ken's work has been translated to over 32 languages. Including the popular "Happy Money" and "True Wealth". Known as the "Happy Money Guy", "Money Healer", and "Zen Millionaire" in Japan, Ken semi-retired at the early age of 29 to raise his daughter. During that time, he received a vision of becoming an author to share his unique views about success and happiness. His teachings now bridge the themes of money and purpose, inviting people to heal their relationship with money. As well as to manifest meaningful abundance, and use their gifts in alignment with their life purpose. Ken is also a featured star in the "Pillars of Power" movie alongside Lisa Nichols, Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Marie Diamond

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   3 Sept 2026

   Your Values Decide Your Financial Destiny — with Dr John Demartini | Ep 83

   For the leader who has already done the values exercise, felt clear for a week, and gone straight back to building the thing that drains them. A first-grade teacher told Dr John Demartini's parents their son would never read, never communicate effectively, and never amount to much. He dropped out of school, hitchhiked to California at fourteen, and was surfing Hawaii's North Shore by the time he nearly died at seventeen. He has since taught in over 100 countries and written more than 40 books. At eighteen he asked himself how to master a life, and mapped the answer across seven areas. When he later went looking for a way to measure what people actually value, he found the existing academic models too subjective. They described how a person ought to be. So he built his own set of thirteen criteria, and has since run millions of value determinations. In this conversation, Celinne and Dr John Demartini examine why most people cannot name their own values honestly. How delegation preceded his wealth rather than following it. And what happens when someone finally sees their real hierarchy and it doesn't match the business they already built. You'll hear the six-column exercise that took him from doing everything in his own clinic to doing only four things. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Hear why the work that drains you has nothing to do with volume 03:20 Define what mastering a life actually means across seven areas 09:42 Trace the vision that began with a teacher saying he'd never read 16:17 Learn why what people say they value and what their lives demonstrate rarely match 36:31 Catch the seven words that reveal a borrowed value 39:18 Walk through the six-column exercise that freed him from his own business 45:56 Discover how a values hierarchy decides financial destiny 1:03:48 Unpack emotion as a ratio of perceptions 1:15:59 Find out what makes a business congruent with the person running it KEY IDEAS: ✨ Your life is the honest answer: Dr Demartini stopped asking people to describe their values and started reading the evidence. What fills their space, their time, their money, their attention. Most people describe who they think they ought to be, which is why the exercise never holds. ✨ Delegation is what produced the wealth: He read The Time Trap at twenty-seven while doing everything in his own clinic with one assistant. Eighteen months after listing every daily action and reprioritising by productivity and meaning, he had five doctors, twelve staff, and far more net income doing four things. ✨ The imperatives give you away: "I've got to, I have to, I must, I should, I ought to" are the signature of a value injected by someone else. Language is the fastest available diagnostic for whether a priority is genuinely yours. ✨ A business runs on its people's values: Nobody is dedicated to a business. They are dedicated to what they value most, and using the business as a vehicle. Congruence between the role and the person's hierarchy is what makes engagement possible. RESOURCES: Dr. John Demartini is a world-renowned human behavior expert, educator, researcher, and internationally published author. For nearly five decades, he has studied human potential, values, leadership, relationships, psychology, philosophy, and human performance to understand what drives people to act, grow, and create meaningful change. He is the creator of the Demartini Method, a practical system of questions designed to help people dissolve emotional charges. As well as transform limiting perceptions, clarify their highest values, and make more empowered decisions. As the founder of the Demartini Institute, he has presented his work to audiences around the world and worked with entrepreneurs, executives, organizations, and individuals seeking greater clarity, resilience, purpose, and self-mastery. He has shared platforms with leaders including Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak, he has appeared

3. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Survival of the Most Conscious: The Biology of Change with Dr. Bruce H. Lipton | Ep 82

   If you already know you need to change and somehow still don't, this conversation reveals what's actually running the show — and how to rewrite it. For over a century we were handed one story: your DNA is your destiny, life is survival of the fittest, and more requires struggle. Cell biologist Bruce H. Lipton — bestselling author of The Biology of Belief — spent his career proving it wrong. Cloning genetically identical stem cells into three different environments, he watched them become muscle, bone, and fat based not on their genes but on the world he grew them in. We are, he says, "skin-covered petri dishes," and our thoughts write the chemistry our cells swim in. In this conversation, Bruce H. Lipton and Celinne explore why 95% of your life runs on a subconscious program set before age seven. The three ways to actually rewrite it, and why "survival of the fittest" is a story rather than a law. You'll hear how a lifelong atheist followed his own science into the sacred. And what becomes possible when you stop living the inherited story and start creating from the one that's truly yours. ON THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Hear the synchronicity that brought this conversation together 03:44 Define consciousness the way a biologist actually means it 04:19 Discover the stem-cell experiment that proves environment, not genes, shapes you 09:08 Learn how every thought becomes love chemistry or fear chemistry 14:05 Meet your two minds, and why we were programmed before age seven 20:00 Confront the 95%: how much of your life runs on autopilot 24:53 Explore the art and science of change, and why knowing isn't enough 35:07 Get the three ways to actually rewrite a subconscious program 51:53 Reframe identity itself: "you are not the TV, you're the broadcast" KEY IDEAS: ✨ Genes don't run you — your perception does: Environment, not DNA, decides what a cell becomes, and your thoughts write the chemistry your cells swim in. You're not a victim of your biology; you're its author. ✨ 95% of your life is a program: Only about 5% of your day is conscious creation. The rest runs on subconscious programming installed before age seven, and more than 60% of it is self-limiting. As Bruce puts it, "you are living a different life than you think you are living." ✨ You can't think your way out — you rewrite it: Insight alone doesn't change behavior, which is why knowing isn't enough. Bruce names three ways to reprogram: self-hypnosis in theta, repetition and habituation, and energy psychology for rapid change. ✨ Survival of the fittest is a story, not a law: "Struggle is made up". A Victorian-era idea repeated until it felt like biology. Real evolution runs on consciousness and cooperation, which is why the future belongs to the most conscious. RESOURCES: Bruce H. Lipton, PhD: is an internationally recognized bestselling author and cellular biologist who has spent decades challenging scientific orthodoxy with a revolutionary message: genes don't control our destiny—our beliefs and environment do. As a senior research scientist at Stanford University's School of Medicine, his groundbreaking cloning experiments revealed the biochemical pathways by which the mind controls behavior and genetic activity, presaging today's revolutionary field of epigenetics. Dr. Lipton's research has been published in prestigious scientific journals including Science, Nature, Journal of Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Biochemistry, and Experimental Cell Research. Translated into over 50 languages and with more than 500,000 copies sold, The Biology of Belief has become a global phenomenon. Bruce was named one of the world's most spiritually influential living people by the United Kingdom's Watkins Journal and received Japan's prestigious 2009 Goi Peace Award in honor of his scientific contribution to world harmony. Website | Facebook | Twitter X Beyond Darwin: How Epigenetics, Quantum Science, and Cooperation

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