EP 21 - How to Switch to the Frequency of a Millionaire

[Music] I'm about to tell you something that completely changed how I understand success and wealth and why some people seem to attract opportunities while others stay stuck no matter how hard they try. As soon as they start to get ahead or think they're starting to get ahead, something just rubber bands and pulls them back to where they always are. It feels like they can never catch a break. And it has nothing to do with strategy, nothing to do with working harder, nothing to do with being smarter or luckier or more connected. It's about frequency. Now I know I heard people talk about frequency and vibration for years. I even talked about frequency and vibration for years. I sounded woo-woo or abstract like something people said when they couldn't explain real results until I heard it explained in a way that finally made it click. And once I understood it, like I really understood it. I went from making $29,000 a year to building a business that's generated over $8 million at this point. Same me, same brain, same skills, different frequency. Today I'm going to teach you exactly what frequency is, why it matters, and how to switch to the frequency where millionaire level ideas, opportunities, and results actually live. Hey beautiful soul, welcome back to Mess to Millions. I'm your host, Erica Caricco. And if you're new here, this podcast is where we turn your mess into your message and your message into millions. So today we're going deep. This is a sole series episode and it's one of the most important concepts that I can share with you. Because here's what I've learned. You can have all the strategy in the world. And I teach strategy. I've taught over 1200, actually over 1500 entrepreneurs at this point to build six figure and multiple six figure businesses. I can teach the strategy all day long. I can give you the perfect funnel. I can give you the best marketing. I can help you create the clearest offer. But if you're operating on the wrong frequency, none of it works the way that it should. It's like having a sports car, but putting the wrong fuel in it. The engine is there, the potential is there, but it's not going to run. Today I'm going to explain frequency in a way that actually makes sense, not woo-woo, not abstract, but practical, applicable, and truly life-changing. So let's go. Okay, let me take you back to where I was when I was making $29,000 a year. I was crying into my pillow every Sunday night because I dreaded Monday morning so much. And my thoughts, the thoughts that ran through my head constantly, sounded a little like this. I can't afford that. Money is so hard to come by. People like me, they just don't get opportunities like that. Okay, you need to be more realistic. Oh, who am I to want more? Okay, maybe next year, or I'm not ready yet. Those were so many of my thoughts on repeat every single day. Like, success only happens to those that are lucky. Oh, they're so lucky they've got all this money in their bank account. They don't have to worry about anything. But here's what I didn't understand. Those thoughts weren't random. They weren't just being realistic. They were the only thoughts that were available to me on the frequency that I was operating on. So let me explain what I mean. Think about the radio. If you're listening to 98.5 FM, you're on that frequency. And you're only going to hear the songs that are playing on that station. You could sit there all day waiting to hear your favorite song. But if it's playing on 104.7, you're never going to hear it because you're on 98.5. And it doesn't matter how badly you want it, it doesn't matter how hard you try. It's not available on your current frequency until you change the channel. Until you change the channel, you're only exposed to what's playing on that station. It's the same with your thoughts. You're vibrating on a certain frequency right now. And you have access to the thoughts, the ideas, and the visions that exist on that frequency. If you want new ideas, if you want expansion, if you want bigger and better results, you have to move to a different frequency. You have to change the channel. Because the million dollar ideas, they don't exist on the 29,000 dollar frequency. And I know this because I've been on both. When I was making 29,000 dollars a year, I literally could not conceive of the business I have now. I couldn't even conceive of it, not because I wasn't smart enough, not because I didn't want it badly enough, but because my brain was tuned to a frequency where those thoughts simply didn't exist. So you cannot hear thoughts, get ideas, or create visions on a different frequency from the one you're vibrating on. You have to switch the station first. So how do you actually change the frequency? Well, this is where I learned from teachers like Bob Proctor, Wayne Dyer, Neville Goddard, the OGs of this work, as I like to call them. And what they taught me changed everything. Bob Proctor talks about three higher faculties that separate humans from all other living creatures. The imagination, our will, and our perception. And these three things, those are your frequency dial. Let me break them down. And let me tell you one imagination. Your imagination, it's the ability to create images in your mind that don't yet exist in your physical reality. And as kids, we're really great at doing this. Our imagination is our world. But as we grow older, it becomes something less valuable, and quote unquote, because it's time to be practical and get a real job and get your head out of the clouds. But Einstein said, imagination is more important than knowledge. He was right, because knowledge is limited to what already exists, where your imagination is unlimited. When I was making $29,000 a year, I couldn't imagine even making $100,000 a year. It felt impossible, completely unrealistic, like a fantasy. But imagination, it's not about what feels realistic. It's about creating a vision that pulls you forward. So I had to start imagining myself as someone who made six figures. And this is what I have my students do. The first week inside of Soul Business Accelerator is what as a six figure business owner, how are you going to show up every day? What are you going to wear? What are you going to work on? How are you spending your time? How are you taking care of yourself? How are you dealing with hard challenges? Right? So how is someone who has a successful, a successful business going to show up? How is someone who has freedom and choices and abundance going to show up? And so it's not someday, it's now, in my mind now. Because here's the thing, your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between a vividly imagined experience and a real one. When you imagine something with enough detail and you bring emotion into it, your brain is going to start wiring itself to that reality. And this isn't woo-woo, this is actually neuroscience. So use your imagination to create the vision of what you want your life to be and get emotionally attached to that. I always have, right here next to me on my desk right now, is my three to five year life vision. What do I want my life to be like in three years? Where do I want to be living? How much money do I want to be earning? What do I want my business to be being known for? What kind of impact do I want to be having? Who do I want to be serving and where? What do I want to be spending my investments on? How do I want to be traveling with my kids? What is the relationship I want to have with my kids, with my partner? So getting really clear on what your dream life is and allow yourself to use your imagination to create something big, right? It doesn't have to be something realistic. It has to be something that you really, really desire and that you really want. So allow yourself to dream and use your imagination to create that picture. Number two is the will. So the will is your ability to hold a single idea in your mind to the exclusion of all else. The will is what gives you the ability to focus on that vision you're creating for your life in three to five years. And that is what you think about. That is what you visualize. You don't let the doubt and the fear come in. You hold that vision and you're taking action every day towards it. Now the will, it's not willpower in the, you know, force yourself to do things sense. It's just focused intention. When you decide, like truly decide what you want. And you hold that vision with absolute commitment. You activate a different frequency. Most people don't use their will and they have vague wants, right? Like they'll say, and I hear this all the time with my clients. I want to make more money or I just want a successful business or I want to be happy. But they don't decide. They don't commit. They don't hold the vision against all the noise and the doubt and the fear. So will is when you say, this is happening. I don't know how yet. I have no idea how actually. But this is happening and you refuse to entertain any other possibility. That is when the frequency shifts. I always knew that I was going to have a million dollar business. And I did not know how I was not operating on that frequency. But for four years, I held that vision and I knew it was going to happen. Right. I knew it was going to happen. It wasn't happening. It was taking longer than I thought. All sorts of things were going on in my life, divorce, single parenting. It was just chaos. But I knew eventually I was going to hit the million dollar mark. And I did and I haven't gone backwards. Well, I did go backwards. But I still was always over the million dollar line. And here's what most people miss. You can't move to a different frequency by just thinking your way there. You also have to take inspired action. So what I love is if you're thinking it and you're feeling it, then do it. Use your imagination to create the vision. Use your will to hold it and focus on it every single day. And then take action towards that vision. Because action is what is going to anchor the frequency into your physical reality. Right. So without action, it's just daydreaming. So make the investment in the course. Right. If you want to build your business, talk to my team and see if my program, Soul Business Accelerator is right for you. Or if you already haven't established business and you want to scale it, reach out to me or to my team and see if private coaching with me is right for you. Take action. Do something different. Number three, perception. Perception is another one of our intellectual faculties faculties. Perception is how you see the world. And here's the thing most people don't realize. Perception is a choice. And sometimes I forget perception as a choice. Sometimes I have to be harshly reminded that how I'm perceiving things is the problem. You can look at the same situation and see lack. Or you can see opportunity. You can look at a setback and see failure. Or you can see redirection. You can look at your current circumstances and see limitations. Or you can see a starting point. So I'm probably not supposed to share this, but I was just having a conversation literally just now with my ex-husband. He's been unemployed and looking for a job, I think for six or seven months now. And he also started his own business about the same time that he was laid off last year. And he's applied for over 300 jobs. He's got tons of experience over 20 years of experience in the recruitment industry. And he is not finding a job. And he was talking to me this morning because one of the jobs that he was really hoping for turned him down. And he is in a very negative state. He's like, I don't understand what I'm missing. I don't know why this keeps happening. I don't know why I can't catch a break. I don't know what other these other people have that I don't. And the whole thing that I mean all the whole time that he was talking all I was hearing was, yeah, but look at the opportunity you have. You have all the time in the world right now to blow up your business to go all in on your business. If you can get your business to where it's already, you know, it's covering what you would have been earning in a job and then some, which is your plan, you don't even have to get a job. And you've been talking about being in your own business for 10 years. So I see the opportunity and I'm like, I think this is course correction. I think this is God's way of saying you're not meant to have a job. You're supposed to go all in on your business. So it's it's perception, right? And he just can't see it that way because of where he's at in the fight on the frequency that he's operating on. But I'm operating on a different frequency. Neither is better or worse than the other. It's just a different frequency, right? My perception has has allowed me to see things differently because I'm on a different frequency. And I think also when I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 36, I could have absolutely seen it as the end. And I for a couple of months there, honestly, I did. But after about six months, I shifted my perception and I started to see it as a wake up call as God or the universe, whatever you want to call it, divine, higher self. I just use the terminology God. But it was like God was shaking me and saying, you're not living your purpose wake up. I actually heard the words remission. And I remember saying to myself, I'm not in remission. Like what do you mean? And it said remission. Remember your mission. Remember why you're here. I had forgotten. I had forgotten the soul that I am had forgotten why I came to this earth. And so that shift in perception, I was in the same situation. It just had a different meaning. It changed everything. Imagination, will and perception. These are your tools to use every day for switching frequencies. And if you're listening to this thinking, I get it. I need to shift frequencies. But I also need someone to help me build the actual business. That's exactly why I created my program, Soul Business Accelerator. It's your six figure roadmap, but it's not just strategy. We work on the frequency piece two. We work on the identity, the beliefs, the becoming. Because again, you can have all the strategy in the world. But if you're still vibrating on the wrong frequency, it won't land the way that it should. And if that resonates, go ahead and book a call with my team. We'll put a link to Soul Business Accelerator in the show notes. Or you can just DM me on Instagram at Erica Lynn Carico. And we'd love to support you. Okay, let's get practical. Here's how you actually switch to the frequency of a millionaire. Or whatever level you're reaching for. Maybe it's just multiple six figures to start. Or maybe it's just six figures to start. Heck, that's where I was starting. I was like, just give me the six figures. You know, that's where we all start. And then from six figures you can decide, do I want to expand more? Or am I just really good where I'm at? There's no right or wrong. But step one is getting crystal clear on what you want. Because you can't tune into a station if you don't know what station you're looking for. Right, imagine if you walk into a coffee shop and you say to the barista, "Good morning. I don't want a black coffee." She's going to look at you and say, "Okay, good, cool. But what do you want?" And if you say, "I don't know, just not black coffee." The barista is going to stand there so confused because not black coffee doesn't tell her anything. You could mean a latte or a cappuccino or a tea or a hot chocolate, literally anything. So you have to say exactly what you do want, right? I want an oat milk latte with an extra shot, light foam at 140 degrees. Oh, now I can make you a drink. It's the same with manifestation. It's the same with frequency. It's the same with your life. So many people walk around saying, "Oh, I don't want to be broke. Why is this happening to me? I don't want to struggle. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm so tired of this." And I am not perfect. I find myself in this space too sometimes. Then shift your thinking to what do you want? Get specific. What does the version of you who already has achieved what you want think about? So as a six-figure business owner or as a millionaire, what are you going to be thinking about? How does she feel when she wakes up? What decisions does she make? How does she carry herself? How much money is in her account? What does her calendar look like? Who is she surrounded by? This isn't about visualizing the car or the house or the money in some vague way. It's about creating a clear specific vision using your imagination. When you create this three to five-year vision, get very detailed. I remember when I was growing my business trying to get it to the multiple six-figure mark. I even was writing down that I only wanted to buy and eat organic food. Because at the time, my money was so short that I wasn't even able to buy the food that I wanted to buy or invest in the supplements that I wanted to invest in. Those were on my list for a really long time. I started asking myself what would a millionaire do right now, not someday, right now in this moment. Would she agonize over a $200 organic grocery bill or would she agonize over a $200 investment in her business? No. Would she negotiate from desperation? Absolutely not. Would she say, "Oh, I can't afford that?" Never. Step two. Act from that frequency before you have evidence. This is where most people get stuck, myself included, at the time. They wait for the evidence before they change. I have so many people who I talk to and my team talks to and they're like, "Oh, I just need to manifest a client before I can invest in your program." "Oh, I feel abundant when I have money or I'll feel confident when I have the clients." Or, "I'll act like a CEO when I have a team." No. You have to make the investment first. You have to become it first. The clients, the money, the cash flow, the evidence follows the frequency, not the other way around. I bought a Louis Vuitton wallet when I could not afford a Louis Vuitton wallet. And those of you that know me, I am not a designer person. I live in Colorado. I am in leggings or sweatpants and a fleece most of the day. Right now, I have on sweatpants and a sweatshirt and my cozy slippers. But I bought the wallet because I wanted to feel abundant energy every time I opened it. I was tired of feeling lack when I was pulling out my credit card. I was tired of being afraid of every dollar I was spending. I wanted to shift that. And so it wasn't about the wallet. It was about becoming the woman who has that wallet, feeling like her, thinking like her, making decisions like her. Now, I love pulling out my wallet. I get excited because I love my wallet. And to me, it's abundant and it's beautiful and it's luxurious. And it's the key to the lifestyle. It holds the thing that has created the life that I have. And I also, in the very beginning, I put $22,000 on a 0% interest credit card to invest in my coaching business, to start my coaching business. Right? I took a certification course. I invested in a business coaching program and I invested in my website. And I was only making $29,000 a year. We were living paycheck to paycheck. My husband thought I was crazy, but I was betting on the frequency I was becoming, not the frequency I was on. Step three, protect your frequency. This is hard for me too. These are all the lessons I have worked. And I still have to work on this one. My partner said to me the other day, you're such an empath you absorb all the energy around you. And it's so hard for me to, I have to really work on this. Your frequency is affected by everything around you. The people you spend time with. And this is why I spend a lot of time alone because I'm very selective with who, who I put myself in a room with. Right? Because I am so sensitive to energy. The content you consume, I do not doom scroll, shit on social media. Right? I do not watch the news. The environments that you're in. Again, I'm so selective with where I spend my time. I do not, I don't drink anymore. I don't spend any time in bars. I don't spend time around people who are drunk. I spend time around people who are living their purpose and creating amazing, beautiful things in the world. Right? So all of this affects your frequency. And you cannot hang out on the $29,000 a year frequency every day and expect to have a $1 million dollar thoughts. So this is why I'm very intentional about who I spend my time with. Right? Like I just said, I surround myself with people who are where I want to be, not where I've been. What I consume, I read and listen to and watch content that only elevates my thinking. I'm very selective with that. My environment, I invest in spaces that feel expansive, not constructive. Myself talk. This is the biggest thing for me. I have to catch scarcity thoughts and redirect them every single time. Step 4. Use gratitude to raise your frequency instantly. And gratitude for me sometimes I'm like, oh, it becomes this thing I feel like I have to do to check a box. But it really is the fastest way to shift your frequency. It's scientifically proven to actually change your brain chemistry. But more than that, gratitude is the frequency of abundance. You cannot feel grateful and feel lack at the same time. They exist on different frequencies or on different stations if that's an easier way for you to say it. So now I pay my bills with gratitude and I have a lot of bills. I would say I probably have anywhere from $80,000 a month to $100,000 a month going out in my business. Right? So seriously, when I pay my team, when I put $80,000 on my credit card and I don't have that money coming in yet that month, or when I pay my mortgage or when I invest into coaching or invest into my business, I feel grateful that I get to do this. That money is flowing through me. And that's a completely different frequency than paying bills with dread or with resentment or even fear. Step number five. Don't go back to the old station. Here's what happens when you start to shift. You feel the new frequency, things start moving. But then something is going to happen and this always happens. You can count on it. There will be a setback. There will be a fear or a doubt. And you're going to flip back to that old station. It's like a rubber band is just going to pull you right back down. And this is normal, but you have to catch it. Late last year, my or not late last year, late the year, late last year, the year before. So 2023. My business was dipping because the market was changing and the marketing space that had really worked for five years was very different. And so all of our marketing that had worked, we just had to shift it up a little bit. Right. We hadn't had to pay attention to it. It kind of worked on autopilot. But then it was like, oh, we actually have to make some changes here. So my business was dipping. I had plenty of money and savings, literally plenty. I had a panicking. I was panicking for a couple of months there. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was irritable. I was crying quite a lot. I had flipped back to the old station. And I was on the scarcity frequency, even though my circumstances were totally fine, literally. Now I have made some really big investments since then I bought an investment property. I have invested, actually put some, yeah, I've invested quite a lot. And so I have actually half the savings that I had back then. But I feel more abundant with less money in the bank account because abundance, it's not about the number in your bank account. It's about the frequency that you're on. So back then it was a lot more money, but I was a scarcity frequency. And now I still have the, I've built the cash flow back up so my business is back to where it was. But I made these big investments in the last year. So I have less money in the bank, but I still feel that overflow of frequency. So abundance is an inside job. And the other thing too is on this frequency, I know that no matter what happens, I'm fine. I can fix anything that comes my way. I will always have cash flow. I will always earn back whatever I spend or invest. It's just the frequency that I'm on is that's just standard. It's just truth. It's my truth now. And that's the frequency that I'm vibrating on. So here's the sole truth that I want to leave you with. The life you want, whether it's the business or the freedom or the wealth or the impact, it already exists. It's just playing on a different station. So your job isn't to create it. Your job is to tune in. The ideas that you need are already there. And the opportunities that you're waiting for, they're already broadcasting. The version of you who has everything you want already exists. You just have to switch frequencies to meet her. I went from $29,000 a year to $8 million, not because I suddenly became smarter or worked harder. I switched frequencies. I started thinking different thoughts, imagining different possibilities, making very different decisions. Same me, different frequency, different results. If you've been stuck, if you've been trying everything, but nothing's moving, maybe it's not about what you're doing. Maybe it's about the frequency you're doing it from. So change the channel, because your million dollar life is waiting on a different station. Okay, here's your homework this week. First, identify what's station you're currently on. What thoughts do you have on repeat? What do you tell yourself about money, about what's possible, about who you are? And this is, think about, like this is where you can figure that out. Just think about making a big investment, right? A big investment into your business or joining my program or working with me one-on-one. And you're going to make an investment if that scares you and your immediate thought is, oh my gosh, no, I can't do that. I would never be. I don't have the money for that. You're operating on a very low frequency. And if you're like, oh, yeah, I've got this snow worries. Even if you don't have the money, but you're like, I'll put it on a zero percent interest credit card, because I know I'm going to earn the money back. As soon as I get going with my business, you're operating on a higher frequency. And the only way to change your frequency is to take different thoughts and take different actions that match the higher frequency. So you have to just do it scared. Second, get clear on the station you want to be on. So again, what would she be thinking? She would not be scared about making the investment. She would not be scared about taking out a zero percent interest credit card and putting it on there, because she knows on that higher frequency she's going to earn that money back. Right? How would she feel? How would she decide? Third, do one thing this week from that new frequency? One decision that she would make, one action she would take, one thought pattern that you consciously shift. And if you want to reach out to me on Instagram at Erica and Carico, and tell me what frequency are you switching to, I would love to celebrate with you. Now, if this episode shifted something in you, please share it. Share it on your social medias or just send it to someone who you know that stuck on the wrong station who needs to hear this. Because this is a game changer. This can change your person's life. And if you're ready to build your solo line business while you're doing this inner work, you can book a call with my team. And if you want to put the show, I'll put the link in the show notes for my program, Soul Business Accelerator. You can go check it out and there's a link on there to book a call with my team. Or you can grab my book, Awaken Your Purpose, which is found at EricaCaracode.com/books. And that's the real starting point. If you don't have a business or you don't know what business you want to start, grab my book. And subscribe to this podcast because you don't want to miss what's coming next. This thing is blowing up. We are the women here. We've been told that we need to choose between purpose and profit or between healing and impact between motherhood and leadership. But we refuse. We're reclaiming our authority and our joy and our wealth on our own terms. Because our purpose doesn't just change lives. It creates aligned wealth and lasting impact. Let's turn your mess into millions. This is how leaders rise. I'll see you next week. [Music]