Marie Diamond: Feng Shui, Fire Energy & Aligning Your Space for Success | Ep50

Marie Diamond is a globally recognized Feng Shui master, bestselling author, and transformational teacher featured in The Secret. With over 30 years of experience, she has guided millions in the areas of manifestation, meditation, Feng Shui, dowsing, and conscious leadership. As the star of her own TV show, Feng Shui Your Life, and the mentor to top executives, celebrities, and thought leaders, Marie’s impact spans across industries and continents.

With more than 2 million online students, Marie has helped individuals unlock success, harmony, and abundance by aligning their environment with their intentions. She teaches that small, intentional shifts—such as rearranging objects, adjusting colors, or balancing elements—can create profound energetic transformations. She also explores the macrocosmic impact of Feng Shui, including the current Period Nine fire cycle, urging people to embrace rapid change and enlightenment. Through her wisdom, Marie empowers individuals to transform their spaces and lives, unlocking their highest potential.

In addition to writing, Mohan enjoys tennis, hiking, and exploring subjects ranging from quantum physics to Vedanta. Through his work, he inspires others to embrace life’s challenges as opportunities for growth and transformation.

In this episode of the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast, Christian welcomes Marie Diamond—globally renowned Feng Shui master, transformational teacher, and one of the key voices featured in The Secret. With over 30 years of experience guiding millions across the globe, Marie shares how the spaces we live and work in are more than just physical—they are energetic mirrors of our intentions, beliefs, and future success.

If you're ready to reprogram your environment, claim your next level, and lead from a place of energetic alignment, this conversation is your invitation to start living—and working—in harmony with your highest self.

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Download the free Marie Diamond App: mariediamond.com/app

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Marie’s other links can be found here: https://shor.by/MarieDiamond

Core Themes

• The Fire Cycle (2024–2044)
• Releasing the Past
• Feng Shui
• The Power Position
• Embracing AI
• Prosperity Consciousness
• Intuition and Structure in Leadership
• Energetic Alignment

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Transcript

Christian
What is up, beautiful people? This is Christian from the Successful Spiritualpreneur Podcast. And today I'm very honored and excited to have Marie Diamond on the podcast. She's a globally recognized Feng Shui master, bestselling author and transformational teacher featured in The Secret. With over 30 years of experience, she has guided millions in the areas of manifestation, meditation, Feng Shui, dowsing and conscious leadership.

As the star of own TV show, Fang Shared Your Life, and the mentor to top executives, celebrities, and thought leaders, Marie's impact spans across industries and continents. With more than 2 million online students, Marie has helped individuals unlock success, harmony, and abundance by aligning their environment with their intentions. Welcome to the show, Marie.

Marie Diamond
Thank you so much, Christian, for having me. I'm so excited.

Christian
Such an honor to have you on and I saw you live once back in LA. was a couple of years ago with the Mindvalley community event. Yes, I was there and I was like, wow, she's like the mother Teresa of personal development.

Marie Diamond
I felt in 2019, yes.

Well, that's too big a name, an honor, but thank you for that.

Christian
I really love

the energy, the beauty, the authenticity you bring to the space, Marie. I think it's very, very rare to find someone like yourself to lead the space with such heart. And I think that is what people always resonate with. And yeah, that is, think what we also go collectively as humanity, you know, so.

Marie Diamond
Yes.

Christian
If you can speak on that a little bit, where we go collectively, why authenticity, why this feminine side of humanity, which ultimately feng shui is the balance of both masculine and feminine, why that is coming so apparent now in this time and age.

Marie Diamond
Yeah.

Well, you know, when we look at from a Feng Shui perspective, it was an energy system that is not just only focusing on your home, but also about how the flow of energy is in society. We actually just started a new cycle of energy. We call it the period of fire. And it started on February 4th, 2024 for the next 20 years. And fire, the element fire is really about

following your purpose, following your passion, the fire within you. And so I do believe when people connecting with the fire within them, what they are passionate about, they're always showing up authentically. They are not holding back. They are completely in that fire of their heart, the fire of their being, and they're showing that and bringing this forward even into business. So I do believe it's only starting right now. Now fire also means that

Sometimes you have to go through a transformation. It's like think about the phoenix, you know, he has to rise out of the ashes. So before we really get into that experience, each one of the people that taught leaders or transformational speakers or top business people, they all had to go first through ashes to revert themselves, to refine their passion and their purpose in life. So that happened with me, I'm sure it happened with you, Christian, and many people that are

listening and watching is that your fire is is great to really get you to the next level but it also means that you need to let go and release some of your old patterns your old programs to do that

Christian
Yeah, yeah, a lot of times old things need to fall away or be burnt away in this case with fire, or that new things can arise from that. And what would you say, like you've worked across industries, across different generations, like you've mentored top, you know, thought leaders and change makers. What is like a common energetic pattern you would say that you notice?

Marie Diamond
Yeah.

Christian
in their space or in their life that hinders their success. Like, or if this, maybe you can classify, you know, when you're a little bit, when you're there in your life, you're usually blocked by this or, you know, like there's something that you, any patterns.

Marie Diamond
Yeah.

Yeah, I would say and I've worked as you said with many people that have reached the level of success but also a lot of people that are starting on that journey, right? And you know when we look at feng shui because feng shui means wind and water. It's all about flow of energy in your space and I tell people like your home, your office should be reflecting not only who you are but who you want to be in the future. Yeah, so

That's why, you know, in my latest book, Your Home is a Vision Board, I talk about that, how to set up your space and also your office to get to that next level. And one of the things is that I see sometimes people are holding on to where they have been, yeah? And they have like, perhaps they are starting a new career, they're starting a new process, and they're literally,

When you look at their space, it's still connected to their old career. It can be still books, papers, images, everything from the old. And I always have to say to people, is this reflecting who you are right now? Perhaps now you start as a coach, you start a new business. Is this still reflecting what you really are? And then the question is, who do you want to be? So where do you want to be? You want to be amongst the greats, the greatest in your field?

then make sure there are images or books or magazines that are in your space that tell you, that's the level I want to be, right? So that's the whole point. You need to understand that everything around you is a reflection of you. And so you can direct that reflection, yeah? And so that's one of the things I, most of the time, have to tell people that are starting ⁓ is like,

I look I come in your office and I have no idea who you are I have no idea what you want to bring to the world and It's like it looks nice, but it's not personally enough, Sometimes with people that go to the next level ⁓ or they already are taught leaders Then sometimes I have to say well is this still what you want to be in the future? Like I remember Jack Canfield. He is one of the major top leaders also in the secret sold more than 150 million books with

the Chicken soup for the soul series, right? And so he brought out and I was a story 20 years ago He brought out a new book called the success principles that became very successful over the last 20 years and so It was interesting because everywhere around him I saw the chicken soup for the soul series and said this is who you are right now But this is not who you want to be you want to be like being seen as a number one success mentor because you gathered all these principles your

You practice them. So we changed his office towards his new thing, right? The old thing was still on there, but it's like the new thing. So he said, yeah, I want to be more a public speaker, not just the author. I want to be more ⁓ considered to be on television, know, film, whatever, that direction, more mainstream in a way, right? Because he was one of the authors, but now he want to be like really him as the main mentor.

So we changed things around, like he had a few awards that connect with that, so we would put that more focus for him. So when he walks into his ⁓ office, it was more about what he could bring to the world, his own successes, to show that he is the author of the success principles. It was interesting because a lot of his awards were actually hidden away, right?

So I always say to people like if you have awards if you have certifications for what you want to bring next Hand this around you show that around you right even if they're fake to start with I mean literally I put a fake Oscar statue out, you know with my name on it re diamond in 2001 and I put on my vision board I'm going to be in a movie seen by millions of people that will transform the world. I mean that was not there yet, right, but I put it out there

In you know visible for me and then the first thing that happened I started attracting Oscar-winning clients and the second thing I attracted was being in a movie called The Secret so I already created a reflection of my future Even if it was not there

Christian
Yeah, beautiful. I think that's something so easy and practical that anyone can implement and it's so vital because everything around us is so energetic. Even if you look at this room, green, I love tea, love Pixel. That's my agency. There's even a picture of Japan back there. I'm going to Japan next month. I had that picture for two years, but I'm so in love with tea that I'm actually going there to do a little documentary, sit with farmers.

Marie Diamond
Yeah. Yeah.

Music.

Christian
It's interesting how I didn't think this was gonna, the whole tea thing is gonna be, I'm gonna do a documentary, I'm gonna dive so deep into the topic. like you said, it's like, I love it so much. I actually put a little map up there hand drawn by an artist. And here we go, two years later, I'm going to Japan doing a documentary about tea. It's incredible.

Marie Diamond
It is, and this is actually how it works, right? So we can have our goals, we can have our mindset, we can do affirmations, we can do prayers, meditation, and that's all really important to do that. But a lot of times people don't know that their home, their office, their space around them can actually up-level them or can block them.

So what you did by putting it there is each time you go in to sit on your desk, going into that space, your subconscious mind is reading what you've been placing around you. So what happens is that your subconscious mind is like, ⁓ okay, I got it, I got it, I'll work on this. So the universe around you is also reflecting back inside the universe within you. And so, so many times I put things out, I was like, this is, I don't know why, but I put it there.

I just sang something there. I remember ⁓ many years ago I thought like you know what I would really love if my book would be published in a Russian language right so that kind of would be cool and ⁓ So I got myself ⁓ literally to or like ⁓ The East European languages, right? ⁓ Slavic countries as they speak Slavic languages

So I bought two little translation books like Easy Read Russian and Easy Read Slavic Languages. And I put that in a specific place in my, what we call the success direction. And so I put it there. And the first thing that happened within literally seven days, I got a call from the government in Kazakhstan to come and speak for 3,000 women in Kazakhstan. I mean, they paid me a top fee, first class ticket.

coming over and I was working with some of the people in the government to support their government. I thought like, wow, where did that come from? Well, this is a Russian speaking country, right? And then they made sure my book was translated in Russian and now I have many students in Russian language through platforms I'm working with. The second thing that happened was I was invited to speak in Prague with Czechia. And so, and for three years, was, as I was not in America at the time, I was in Europe.

I was like traveling all over the Slavic countries to speak for thousands of people, but it's just like, I always say, give your home also or your office a permission that you want to continue with this. So it becomes like a three-dimensional vision board. So you put it there, it will be interesting to find out if that's your good directions, but even if it's not, it's just like you're showing it around you. So if people want to really know where to place it, I would suggest download my free Marie Diamond app.

You will put in your birthday and your birth gender and based on that you will actually be Seeing and holding your compass. So let me show you I'll kind of show you as for people that are watching the video So you will actually you have to put in your birthday. So can I do yours Christian?

Christian
Yeah, you're fun.

Absolutely. birthday is June 16th, 1991.

Marie Diamond
So what is your birthday? Your full birthday?

Yes?

1991.

Christian
and do it.

Marie Diamond
Okay, and you

are male. So it calculates, yeah? So let's see what your energy number is. Your number nine, the healer. So your success direction is East, yeah? So for you to connect in with the East, the East of the world is, for example, Japan, right? So the Asian cultures, the Eastern cultures are very important for you. So you will see, you will then get this and then.

When you download it, you will be able to, you will literally get an overview. Now for me it says five because I'm a five, you're a number nine. And so by what most important thing is you will get a compass. And so this is a compass, it moves as a compass, but what you will do, you will hold this compass in the center of your space. So the center of your office, the center of your living room, family room, ⁓ bedroom.

the places where you spend more than three to five hours a day. And there you will see what's in your success direction. So my success direction is behind me. So I don't see it all the time, but I come in and it's a subconscious message. I'm programming. It's like you're programming your home to support you. And so in my success direction, of course, are my awards, are my books. There are ⁓ little images and symbols that for me symbolize a success. So.

And so that will be interesting for you to find out in your space, right? Where did you hang your tea image, right? But there's also relationship, health and wisdom. There's some free videos and you can subscribe for next level. So, but the whole point is, is that your home has a programming aspect to it, yeah? And I always say to people, you know, your home is there constantly, consistently. So if you put the wrong things around you,

It will affect you constantly, consistently, perhaps with the wrong images. But what if you place the writings around you, and so in my book, Your Home is a Vision Board, I guide you through the whole house to understand that, like, ⁓ is this who I am? Is this who I want to be? Is this reflecting my business? Like, let's say you have clutter everywhere, right? And you're in your office space.

And you're like, I'm procrastinating, I'm just, I'm not concentrated, I don't get the right clients. What is going on? Well, it's possible that clutter is bringing your energy down, right? And it's hard for your mind to be focused and to be concentrated and have clarity. So, you know, even if you don't know anything about Feng Shui, you can already reorganize your space, yeah? And let go of the things that do not longer support you or are needed or organize it.

so that you feel like, hey, my home, my office is my virtual headquarters for the universe. Yeah, because a of people work from home, Christian, and I'm not saying, yes, if I come in, it doesn't look like the headquarters of your company. Yeah. So it's perhaps you don't go to an office, but you're working from your dining room table, but next to your dining, in your dining room table, next to your files or cups from that morning's breakfast and plates.

I mean, to be honest, if you would go to a real office, that would not be there. Yeah. So we need to really upgrade. And these are techniques that are existing for thousands of years. So I said, I mean, it has proven itself there, you know, many millions of people that practice this work. And so they all have seen it's just setting things up differently and then continuing becoming aware of your surrounding if that is supporting you.

Christian
Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, I think, again, it's so powerful what we place around us. And just like you said, it's always a subconscious imprint in our mind. ⁓ people underestimate how powerful the subconscious is. It's like, 20%. No, it's like 90, 80, you know? So ⁓ you mentioned that we're entering a fire cycle that is marked by rapid transformation. So

Marie Diamond
It is.

Yeah, yeah,

Christian
Is there any specific colors or directions or elements that are supporting us during that time? Because I can see, for example, that maybe having water around, even though it's a fire cycle, might be good to cool people off and stay in center. Do you have any tips in that regard?

Marie Diamond
Well,

in Feng Shui we work with five elements. So we have fire, water, earth, metal, and wood. So as fire, we don't want to put too much fire symbols around us because that could be too much. But I would not suggest to do everywhere the color red because the red is also for our subconscious mind an alert signal sometimes. So the best color to work with in the next 20 years is actually violet.

So violet is a calmer, more transformational color of fire. So that could be something to place, for example, on your desk and you can put it like as an amethyst. Yeah, so an amethyst symbol or an amethyst gemstone tree or as a crystal, you can put it there. So it doesn't have to be that there's fire there, it can be just a color that surrounds you. Now, in order to stimulate gently the fire, the passion within us,

In our field we need to add wood So this will be an important here also to focus on nature So bring some nature into your space So it could be a plans that you're even if you cannot do real plans and you only can do fake plans at least your visual is that you have Some plans there, but make sure they have plans that are not spiky. Yeah that have not a spiky leaf

but round or oval or blossoming energy. So like an orchid, for example, is a really positive symbol to put around you. And so as you place that there, the best place for it, because the element of fire is connected with the compass direction, is the south. So it actually, it would be good to put something in violet and a plant. Doesn't have to be a big plant, a smaller plant is more than sufficient.

to put it in the south area of your office. you will bring in the fire, you will stimulate a fire. So ⁓ now we always want to make sure the five elements are in place. So we want something in gold or gold looking or metal looking. So for example, adding something gold looking on your desk, it can be a pot of gold where you put all coins in it, shows cashflow is always there. You can also put something

A crystal you already perhaps have with an amethyst you can also put Something from water and every year the water changes the water flow changes every year So this year in 2025 to get a lot of good water element and water always brings new beginnings new opportunities Brings out always new clients new cash flow new income streams The best place for you to put it this year is to empty

2025 is actually in the southeast of Your office or your living room you don't place it in your bedroom because water is not a good element for the ⁓ Sleep and the romantic level so if you want to know for the next years in the book your home is a vision board I put the it out where in the next 10 years you need to place it Yeah, so the water always needs to move. Yeah, that is part of always getting the right flow

Christian
Interesting. Yeah, that's beautiful. I didn't know that the water is supposed to move in the house. That's really nice. what would you say is, know, with how can how can entrepreneurs like yourself, like how can they co-create with the global energies, like especially during this, you know, period of fire? Like how can they use that to like maybe hone in on a certain direction or like?

maybe do first an internal audit and then go more in that direction? like, is something, how can we use energies to like double down on a certain direction?

Marie Diamond
Yeah.

Well, I first of all would suggest that ⁓ entrepreneurs would keep up with their passion and their goals. So because sometimes you set up goals for this year or for the next three to five years. But remember, as we are in a fire element ⁓ cycle, things change fast. So just see, we have that fast speed energy that just came in just really the year before the fire cycle started with AI.

Christian
Hmm.

Marie Diamond
Right? So artificial intelligence is speed because FIAS stands for speed. So you need to speed up ⁓ your structures. You need to speed up the way you do business. But speed also means make it more effortless. So that what do you need to do? And perhaps you have set some goals and you say like in three years I'm going to get this goal. Perhaps with AI and all the new tools and the new possibilities out there,

you could actually reach that in a year. So I've seen that even in my own field, things I want to accomplish that I put in three years, they were done in a year. So there's a speed of vibration. So I want entrepreneurs to look at their goals, look at their vision, and don't be afraid to implement all the new tools. Because ⁓ the famous saying is,

You you will not be replaced by AI, but you will be replaced by somebody that knows AI, right? So like, you know, I even myself, I'm, you know, 62 the last year and a half, I've been really studying AI implementing it every I could into my business, where we have seen, you know, both marketing, both structure wise, publishing wise, that we can go to a next level with that. So don't be afraid of it. I always say,

When a woman that is above 60 is not afraid of it, I think nobody should be afraid of it. But that's the whole fire. You need to stay passionate and stay in tune with the rapid transformation that is happening right now. And that is sometimes challenging. So for people, definitely for a lot of entrepreneurs. So I would say for you, at least look at what you need to clear, what you need to let go of, and definitely activate your success direction.

Yeah, so for example, I have to just be in connection with that. I have the latest book on AI in my success of action to tell my subconscious I'm okay with it. Yeah, so just you don't need to get an IAI certification. Perhaps you attract people that know how to do all this, right? But you need to be open to it. Yeah.

because entrepreneurs worldwide need to understand you need to stay an eternal student of life and you need to stay an eternal student of success. So if you don't have a coach or a mentor, read the books of the great ones on biography, their biographies, read the books on success and wealth management. I mean, that's still something I do every ⁓ week, every month. I'm tapping into what is

There at this moment and if you don't like to read amazing podcasts like yours Christian that just help people that are perhaps entrepreneurs that want to really bring that ⁓ positive impact of their spirituality or that are doing spiritual entrepreneurs ship like I I have I'm a spiritual entrepreneur right so how to create a global empire with that while still practicing all your spirituality

Still be an amazing entrepreneur at the same time So you need to learn so you need to be open and listen to the ones that have walked before you or the ones that have Got new insights and new information So entrepreneurs that are not studying right and you can say I don't have time I mean you're in the car you can listen to a podcast, right? So ⁓ You can there's always time you need to make time by the way

to this. That should be part of your entrepreneur's journey. It needs to be part of your agenda. I put in my agenda time to study. So every week I take two hours of my time to study certain things. And am I busy? I'm super busy. I have a big team, right? But if I am not knowing what is living, I don't need to know it perfectly because for the people that will implement it,

I will hire people for that, but I need to know their language. I need to be able to at least understand what is living, is working, what is moving forward in my business. So that is part of what I have learned is to keep being a student of business, stay a student of your spirituality for sure, keep practicing your meditations, all your modalities. Both have to be in place.

Christian
Yeah, beautiful. And I think, you know, when you start as a spiritual entrepreneur, which a lot of people I think are desiring if they haven't gotten to that yet, because it is kind of a combination of the divine masculine, divine feminine. Right. So it's like you really living your Dharma because, you know, this is your your you're living in that your highest truth. Right.

You're not just here to be, you know, like an execution or a machine or a man, you know, and you're also not here just to be like a ⁓ sounding board or a receptive family. No, it's like bring those together in your life and as a person and you will find that life is so.

diverse and full of facets and you can be this and be that the next hour, know, the next day. So I think that for me is one of the biggest things of being a spiritual entrepreneur. like I have to very I don't have to put on a mask, you know, I can just be who I am and my full expression, bringing my gift to the world and people will feel that.

Marie Diamond
Yes, correct.

Christian
that will be drawn to that energy, resonate, then potentially engage in a service or whatever else it is. Because again, same thing.

Marie Diamond
I totally

agree. Yeah, I totally agree because we're standing as the fire comes forward. It says actually you need to live in purpose, right? ⁓ But it also means that you need to become that balanced leader. that both you need to have that male aspect of leadership and entrepreneurs are always considered leaders in their field. And you need to have that female aspect to it. ⁓

The male aspect is the logistics, the structure that you need to create, the formats and so on. But the female aspect is to live with your intuition, to live from your heart. When I do this work, I'm totally living with my heart in this. I'm totally passionate about what I bring. And I do remember many years ago when I started and I was 31 at that time.

And I was like, okay, it's time for me to bring forward my work and teach people meditation and later on feng shui that everybody in my ⁓ industry at that time, it wasn't even called industry, right? So it was just like people that would do similar things like me, they said, you have to have a nonprofit organization. And I meditated about it and I was like, why would I have a nonprofit organization, right? ⁓ If I want to attract business people and business leaders,

They won't really like that because, mean, literally, you cannot put an invoice in, you know. They can't use it as an expense from a nonprofit at that time. That perhaps now has changed, but not at that time. You know, and I'm from background a lawyer. So I studied law and sort of criminology. I worked for more than five years for the international ⁓ law organizations. So from that perspective, I'm very structured, very analytic, right?

And so for me, it didn't make sense to do a nonprofit organization. so what I created was a business. I set up a business and everybody in my field was like, Marie, you cannot do that. Spirituality is not connected with business. And I was like, well, actually they gave me another solution. said, well, you know what? You can just go on sick leave because in Europe, you know, social security is well organized.

and just do your spiritual work, but be on sick leave. And I'm like, what language, what message do I send? I'm spiritual and I'm sick? It's like, ⁓ didn't work. So I was one of the first people in my field, in my country, that set up a business. And they were very upset with that. They were like, Marie, cannot be spiritual and teach meditation and run a business. And I proved them wrong.

because many of them now have a business, right? Because it was like, this is the way forward, yeah? So I was in my country, the first spiritualpreneur ⁓ in my field because nobody was doing that. And it was because it thought it was more structured, it was more open. So when there's an audit, it's very clear, you have a business, right? Why nonprofits could, you know, were not so open and so clear. ⁓

For me, that was like always a way forward. But because of it, I attracted a lot of entrepreneurs. I attract a lot of ⁓ leaders in their field that wanted to work with me because I was an entrepreneur. Yeah. And I was speaking for a lot of entrepreneurs, organizations. And when I was working and consulting ⁓ quite quickly, you know, top leaders and CEOs of 500 Fortune companies.

It was because I had a company and not because I had a nonprofit. So that really shifted a lot. And even today, when I work with people, the fact that I am an entrepreneur and that I have created a global empire, that I millions of students, it sets up the bar differently for top people to work with me. And I've seen this for the last 30 years. I've always attracted top

Speakers top leaders in their field because they they understand that I can understand their life better Because I'm not just spiritual and a spiritual teacher and a function a master. I'm also an entrepreneur

Christian
Hmm, exactly. I think it's very, you like, like the prime example of a spiritualpreneur because, you know, even though all the environment like wasn't set up for it and like everybody told you to do something different and back then like the system and just like the minds, it was completely different, right? But you said, no, I have this gift of intuition.

and all my spiritual gifts that I want to bring in a masculine container to the world in balance, right? Because again, nonprofit, what's the setup behind that? You do it to not have a profit. It's like kind of like, it's the subconscious language around it too. It's like, no, I'm building a profitable business from my gifts and there's nothing wrong about it.

Marie Diamond
I know, right? It's in the language, right?

Yeah. And it was very interesting because, you know, then they had a lot of volunteers working for them. And for me, it was like, I want to pay these people, you know, they I don't want them to be volunteering for me. I want them to really get some income and help them. And it's one of the things I'm so happy for that. I have a team. People get paid. You know, it's all transparent on that level. And ⁓ and they can.

you know, they're all happy because in a way they're, they're consult, I don't have employees, I just have people, you know, being paid as consultants, but they're on my team. And so, I mean, there are spiritual entrepreneurs in a way themselves also, right? So you pass that on. But I know a lot of people, and I had the same issue in the beginning, as an entrepreneur, what do you ask? What is, like really reflecting your value, like money-wise, right?

I remember when I started, like literally, I would ask people, give whatever you feel is right. Because that was like the nonprofit energy, right? And I had no example of that, right? And then one day somebody gave me a ⁓ package of coffee beans, right, as a payment. And I'm allergic to coffee. So I was like...

I am not even getting paid. My husband gets the coffee. And I was so upset with that that I said from now on, I'm asking this amount of money. If they don't want to pay it, that's fine. Then I'm not doing this. And so I said to them from this moment on, this is what you pay. And people are like, yeah, of course you have great creates so much value for me. So, but it was very interesting. I had to really go through like,

What is my value? And it's a lot of people that are spiritual entrepreneurs have a hard time with that because they're still thinking I do this spiritual work and I'm like ⁓ more related with ⁓ like ⁓ priests from ancient times, right? That people would go to a priest in ancient times to get guidance and so on. And I say to people and remind them, you have to understand in Europe, right? Is that a priest of

especially in the French speaking countries, every priest from whatever religion, they get paid a monthly payment from the government. It's not their church that pays them, it's the government that pays them. If you're a rabbi or if you're a priest from a Catholic church or whatever it is, every religion has their own priest, they actually get monthly a payment.

for what they do. And I'm like, so what's the problem? They're getting paid and you couldn't get paid? Yeah, you don't have a value. And depending on the rank of your church, if you're a bishop, you get better paid. And if you're archbishop, you get better paid, but it's all paid by the government. Yeah, they set it up this way. And so like, what would be the problem? They get a value and you don't, and you do your work in a beautiful way. Not that I can compare you with a priest, but

You know, the whole point is you have studied for it. You have certified for it. You have put money towards all this studies with your teachers and mentors and coaches. You know, you have to understand that there's a value of your mastery in your field and that needs to be revalued. But you have to understand you need to be OK with that value. And it's like any other product.

Christian
Yeah.

Marie Diamond
If you buy, don't know water right now like the value of water has gone up since I grew up, right? So like think about sometimes you pay five six dollars for a bottle of water because the value of water has gone up Yeah, so when I started, I don't know it was like point ten dollars cent or something in my life, right? so but the whole point is the more you are moving forward and practicing and is showing up and having results with your clients

you can actually change your value, but accept that you're valuable and that as an entrepreneur, you need to show that in your price. Don't overrate yourself, but don't underrate yourself.

Christian
Very true. learning that lesson of worth and what you can charge and that you feel worthy charging that is a big one. And sometimes a lot of times it just happens either by negative examples like that was totally not what I expected or in another way of like, I'm experimenting, I'm just going to put it out there. then it works and you're like, oh, okay, great. I'm worth that. It's fantastic.

So yeah, we're coming towards the end of the episode and I want to ask you, you know, two, three more questions. And I want to shift gears a little bit towards more like, you know, legacy and impact of your global empire. So with, with over 2 million students and decades of wisdom in the space, like what's the legacy you most want to leave behind for the next generation of spiritual leaders?

Marie Diamond
That's really, I saw that question. was like, ⁓ interesting question. So I think ⁓ what I would leave as legacy. Well, first of all, I'm here to really bring forward feng shui in a mainstream level. So ⁓ feng shui is an Asian system. I'm a guest in that culture. I am from Belgium, but I'm so passionate about it. want the Western world to know about.

What an amazing effect they can do with bringing feng shui in their home and their offices So that would be a great legacy for me if I could leave that behind that That this ancient system can be practiced worldwide and I see this happening through my own students, but that will become mainstream That's my focus for the next 20 years. And that's why I have a TV show I have You know, I speak at many platforms to make it more mainstream. So that would be an amazing legacy

if later on they would say, that person brought mainstream feng shui. So that would be really beautiful. I think another aspect is that, you know, as I'm part of The Secret, you know, there are, and The Secret started a whole movement, started a whole legacy of ⁓ manifestation. ⁓ I know I will be probably later on.

named as one of the people that started that movement. ⁓ And I think that's a beautiful legacy because it has changed so many people's lives. We have been, the secret alone has been seen by more than 500 million people. Some people think a billion people have been in contact with that information or other people that share that information worldwide in whatever form or modality. So I think that is definitely a part of my legacy and I

I would love to see that happening, yeah.

Christian
Yeah, yeah, and just, know,

by the fact that, you know, you're speaking that it's already coming, you know what mean? like you're so much already for the West in Feng Shui and ⁓ in a way, like what came in my in my head or in my mind while you were talking, like, can I get one of same thing for tea? Like, I wish America would have way more tea in their lives, because tea is incredible.

Marie Diamond
It is, right?

yes. I am

a big tea drinker as I don't drink coffee at all, right? ⁓ yeah, so tea is next to water my major drink. So, yeah.

Christian
Yeah,

just a quick excursion on tea. Tea for me, it feels like it has this balance of divine masculine and feminine again versus coffee is just this yang, just like, let's go to war, know? Whereas tea is a little bit more like, let's stop going to war.

Marie Diamond
did.

Yeah. It is. Well, it's a

whole ritual, right? It's such a calming vibration, right? So because when you drink coffee, it's like to get going, right? It's like to stay on top of your game, right? Well, tea is like, can I have a cup of tea? Just saying that, right? If you say, give me a coffee, like, just like give me a cup of tea. Like immediately you're calming down just by saying it.

Christian
totally different energy, 100 % agree. Okay, beautiful. And then last question. If someone listening today could change one thing, could only change one thing in their environment to create a ripple effect in their business or life for this year, what would be your recommendation for them?

Marie Diamond
Well, what I would suggest is one of the major principles we talk about is the power position, is to make sure you're always sitting yourself up so you can see the door, ⁓ the incoming door of the space you're sitting in. So as entrepreneurs, like I'm sitting here, now you're not here physically, but on the other side of my desk is a chair for you. I see you're able to come in, I see the door.

So every place you're going to meet people set yourself up for a power position Never sit with your back to the door never sit with your back to the the space that you're in because you're literally closing off the Vibration you're closing off the flow. You don't see what the universe is bringing you So especially if you don't also sit with your desk against the wall or against the window You're like, well, I would love to see what's outside in the window, but that's not your clients, right? So

If you're sitting against a wall, you're literally hitting a wall. There's nobody that can sit on the other side of your desk. So you actually are closing off your impact. So when you sit yourself up that you have a high back chair, armrest, you're like the queen, the king in your space, you see the people coming in, there's a space on the other side of your desk, you're actually setting you up for success and leadership.

Christian
Beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing that and Yeah, I think everyone listening download Marisa app I think is super helpful her book just came out recently So, you know make sure you get that and where else would you would you like people to direct working people find you?

Marie Diamond
Yeah, I would

definitely like them to go to my Instagram My youtube and my tik-tok mary diamond official is the name where they see every week They will get three four new videos and new ⁓ Aspects and millions of people are watching them. So that will be very helpful to just get going, you know It's just like little small steps, but we know one small step can be a great step for humanity

Christian
Very true. Thank you so much for being on the show, Marie. It's been a pleasure.

Marie Diamond
Thanks so much, Christian.

It was lovely being with you here and thank you for what you do for the world.

Christian
Thank you.