Breathing Life Into Your Dreams

Rediscover Your Dreams: From Winter Garden Farmer's Markets to Corporate Corner Offices

Don't let your dreams die inside you.  Living Lucky® with Jason & Jana Banana is here to reignite your soul and propel you towards a fulfilling life! In this episode, they share inspiring stories from their cross-country journey, asking people from all walks of life a simple yet profound question: "What are your dreams?"

From the bustling Winter Garden Farmer's Market to corporate boardrooms, Jason and Jana have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of dreaming. Learn how asking this one question can spark a chain reaction of positive change,leading to renewed purpose and fulfillment.

Key Takeaways:

• Break free from the dreamless daze: Discover why so many adults have forgotten the art of dreaming and how to reignite your inner spark.
• The power of asking: Learn how a simple question can unlock hidden desires and ignite personal growth.
• Overcoming fear and self-doubt: Conquering the anxieties that hold your dreams captive is key. Jason and Jana share practical strategies to help you break free.
• From farmer's markets to corporate boardrooms: Hear inspiring stories of individuals from all walks of life who have rediscovered their dreams and taken action.
• Inspire the next generation: Learn how to foster a culture of dreaming in your family, workplace, and community.

This episode is more than just a podcast; it's a call to action. Join Jason & Jana Banana as they inspire you to embrace your dreams, overcome obstacles, and create a life filled with purpose and passion.

Are you ready to embark on a dream-filled journey? Press play.

Keywords: Dreams, Goals, Inspiration, Motivation, Life Transformation, Overcoming Fear, Positivity, Relationships, Parenting, Living Lucky, Corporate Culture, Jason Shelfer, Jana Shelfer, Living Lucky TV, Ethereal Network

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*Previously Recorded

Chapters

• 0:00 Dreaming Big
• 11:09 Nurturing Dreams and Overcoming Fear

Transcript

Jana Shelfer: 0:00

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana, I' Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are too. If you're not growing, you are dying. I used to hate that phrase. I used to think that is so If you're not growing, you are dying.

Jason Shelfer: 0:29

I used to hate that phrase.

Jana Shelfer: 0:30

I used to think that is so desperate and it just feels like it's full of despair.

Jason Shelfer: 0:35

It does, that's because there's truth to it there is truth to it and it's really a hard truth and a lot of these truisms we don't take time to peel back and look at.

Jana Shelfer: 0:47

Jason and I spent our Saturday up at the farmer's market collecting dream, which, by the way. Before we go any further, I want to thank Erica from the Hive Boutique. Oh, what a great place, Because she actually gave us permission to park our camper out in front of her business while the busy farmer's market in Winter Garden was going on. So Hive Boutique is on the top of my list.

Jason Shelfer: 1:12

They have great shoes by the way, I love it. And bags. Everything in there was just bright, colorful, bloom, blossom, grow.

Jana Shelfer: 1:19

Now, if you follow us, you know that this is something that we love to do. We take our camper, we have this little mini camper and we you know that this is something that we love to do. We take our camper, we have this little mini camper and we ask people what's your dream? And then we put it on a sticker with their name and we put it on the camper, on the side of the camper. We have like over 3,000 dreams on our camper and we say to them we're going to put it in motion for you. Now, all we did, all we do is ask the question.

Jason Shelfer: 1:45

Yeah, the question is the catalyst that puts it in motion.

Jana Shelfer: 1:49

Now, what's so crazy is people email us and they message us. They get back to us, sometimes months later, sometimes a year later, and say and sometimes they haven't even gotten back to us yet. So the latency period can be it varies. However, people get back to us and they say you know what? Because you asked the question, my dream is coming true. Because you asked the question, I'm going back to school. Because you asked the question, I inquired about buying a house. Because you asked the question.

Jason Shelfer: 2:26

I've started connecting with a relative that I was estranged from or learning about the stock market and building a wealth fund.

Jana Shelfer: 2:34

There's so many different dreams and because you ask the right questions, people start going in that direction.

Jason Shelfer: 2:41

Yeah, the quality of life is directly related to the quality of questions that you ask and those questions will inherently. If you're asking what is your dream, your soul will hear that and start knocking and inevitably you will find yourself a couple of weeks later, or even in the present moment, getting closer or turning towards what your dreams and desires are. So, after having us ask that question, you will be closer to what you're wanting in life.

Jana Shelfer: 3:15

Now here's what we've noticed and we just want to throw this out there and we're going to have a conversation about it is we have noticed that parents that walk by and we say what's your dream? If they have kids with them, they will often stop because they want to encourage their kids to dream. Yeah. However, the kids will put a sticker on the camper, the parents Not so much. No, the parents don't do that.

Jason Shelfer: 3:47

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer: 3:48

And it's interesting to me because if we directly ask the parents, we say what about you? Do you have a dream? Sometimes they'll say you know what? I'm living my dream? Yeah or not? Right now, yeah, no, no, this is about you know. Let me just help little Johnny get his dream of wanting to be a T-Rex right. And so it's interesting that we sometimes become complacent in our lives because we stop dreaming. We stop dreaming bigger.

Jason Shelfer: 4:20

And when you bring it back to, if you're not growing, you're dying. That's the if you don't have something that you're moving towards like cause. I was there, like when, when I was, when I was so content and there's, it's okay to be content, but you also have to know that you can sustain it. Like there's a, you have to continue growing because things don't sit still.

Jana Shelfer: 4:46

Life doesn't sit still Because the world around us is constantly changing and evolving. So when we hit, those plateaus where we think you know what, I'm good, I'm just going to enjoy the fruits of my labor. That's great. Enjoy the fruits of your labor and, at the same time, continue to dream.

Jason Shelfer: 5:07

And imagine yes, and that's the beauty. Oh my gosh, I just got goosebumps all over, because it is about the inspiration of what's next, not the dread of what's next. It's that inspiration of what's next, it's what it keeps us alive, it's what lifts your foot to make the next step, it's what gets you to the refrigerator if you're hungry. Hungry for life.

Jana Shelfer: 5:31

It is, it's motivation. It also gets those chemicals in your brain. That Do you remember when you were younger and you would get so excited for Christmas, or you?

Jason Shelfer: 5:41

would get so excited for a vacation or you would get so excited for a kiss.

Jana Shelfer: 5:50

Hello, you got kissed when you were younger. It's those butterflies in the tummy and, for some reason, as we hit our midlife, we stop our midlife, we stop going there.

Jason Shelfer: 6:04

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer: 6:05

And there's a I think there's a fear.

Jason Shelfer: 6:13

I think the question what's your dream scares the shit out of people. I can see it in their faces and a lot of people don't want to knock on that door of disappointment saying that I haven't achieved my dreams or that it's not possible, or that I let my dreams go, that it's not possible, that I tried and I gave up.

Jana Shelfer: 6:29

You are so right. The biggest fear I think people have in life is letting ourselves down. Yeah, it's letting ourselves down or letting God down. Like God put me on this planet to do this, and you know what I didn't fulfill my mission.

Jason Shelfer: 6:44

Or I haven't been able to live up to so-and-so's expectations. There's so much to unpack.

Jana Shelfer: 6:48

It's not even so-and-so's expectations, it's our own, our soul's expectations, it is our own expectations.

Jason Shelfer: 6:55

It's all the expectations, all the story that we've been telling ourselves under the blanket.

Jana Shelfer: 6:59

All the expectations all the story that we've been telling ourselves under the blanket, and it is so evident when you go out with a camper that has over 3,000 dreams on it and you start asking people what's your dream, and you even tell them. You know what? People who put their dream on our camper, people who put their dream in writing, people who say their dream aloud to other people have more of an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Jason Shelfer: 7:25

It's incredible the results that we've seen through this experiment.

Jana Shelfer: 7:31

It is miraculous.

Jason Shelfer: 7:32

It is, and I'm not saying that we are magical people.

Jana Shelfer: 7:37

I'm not saying that our camper has some sort of magic around it.

Jason Shelfer: 7:42

It's the method I did get it for three beans Jack and the Beanstalk reference. I sold the cow for the three beans.

Jana Shelfer: 7:51

You know what I may need to remind myself of that.

Jason Shelfer: 7:54

Jana just looked at me like I had a penis hanging off my forehead. Jason just derailed us.

Jana Shelfer: 7:59

You just derailed us. I have no idea. Well, you said it's not a magic camper.

Jason Shelfer: 8:02

Okay, and if I sold it for Magic Beans, then Magic Beans produced a camper. Now we've got a magic camper. Okay. Well, it's not a magic camper, the magic camper.

Jana Shelfer: 8:11

It is a magic camper. I'm saying it is magic because people who put dreams on there often have them come into reality. Do you want to know something? I started with the very general dream of believe. That was my dream. I was one of the first dreams that went on that camper and it was to believe. It's still there, right by the door. And then, as I started seeing other people dream, I started putting things like I want my own TV show, I want to be a successful speaker all around the world. I want to walk again Like things that I would never say out loud because there was something inside me that thought you know what? That is totally delusional.

Jason Shelfer: 8:51

I want to be on Dancing with the Stars when that first sticker believe went up there, went up there Like we were we were heavy into understanding that our beliefs create a reality. At that point, Was belief was believe a safe sticker in your mind, or was it a deep sticker?

Jana Shelfer: 9:11

It was a it was a deep sticker, because I didn't believe that the things that I actually wanted in life either I didn't believe I deserved them, or I didn't believe they were possible, or I didn't believe that God would help me out in achieving these.

Jason Shelfer: 9:29

So you put this. It was very deep, it meant something to you.

Jana Shelfer: 9:33

Oh yeah, so you had that it was directly related to my relationship with myself, to God, to the people around me and to my circumstances.

Jason Shelfer: 9:43

Those four things. So if we were creating this vacation roadmap and you put the pin in the map on believe you took this journey within yourself and externally, of finding the evidence of how can I believe more, of finding the evidence of how can I believe more. You actually started seeing your belief grow and your systems grow, which led into these new dreams and aspirations. Which is incredible, because the TV show, the podcast, the dance, all the things that have happened, like the opportunities that have opened up.

Jana Shelfer: 10:17

Now I will say the success level of these things is not where Not the top of the mountain. So I would say my belief has turned into. If I'm just to be completely and totally vulnerable and honest, right now I'm at about 70, 70%, because I see the steps of all of these things happening and again it goes back to my expectations.

Jason Shelfer: 10:49

I need to let go of my expectations which is our last podcast.

Jana Shelfer: 10:53

In my mind, I'm seeing incredible success in all of these areas and venues and avenues and things that we are throwing out there, yeah.

Jason Shelfer: 11:07

So I would say that's the lag time you were talking about earlier. Yes, yes, and that's the thing is we need to dream, we need to have these dreams and be careful of who we're allowing to squash those dreams and who we're allowing to influence us.

Jana Shelfer: 11:22

Yeah. I think, though, the point of this podcast is the fear.

Jason Shelfer: 11:28

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer: 11:28

The fear around it, and I found it so intriguing that parents would often encourage their kids to dream. So many times I think parents put their kids-.

Jason Shelfer: 11:40

Do as I say, not as I do.

Jana Shelfer: 11:42

Yes. However, when we would turn to the parents and say what about you? Do you have a dream? What they don't realize is they're setting an example to their kids right there in that You're not allowed to have dreams anymore. Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing, and we all do it.

Jason Shelfer: 12:01

Well, that's the thing. It's hard to see the label when you're in the box. It's hard, and parents are doing the best they can right.

Jana Shelfer: 12:08

I know, I know.

Jason Shelfer: 12:09

But we learn these things from our parents. It's very interesting how we say, and it goes back to yeah, do as I say, not as I do and we see the things that like, we see the things our own parents do, and then we start seeing how we land in those same patterns and once you, once you reach like 30, you have maybe tried to go toward a dream and you've had some sort of rejection, you've had some sort of disappointment, you've been discouraged in some way, and that keeps us small.

Jason Shelfer: 12:45

Or we had diverted early in life because someone laughed at us, because someone made us feel less than and feel like you can never do that because of who you are and what you're capable of. And so we said I'm going to take my climbing gear, my ladder, and move it from this mountain to a different mountain because you've made me feel like I'm not capable of the mountain I wanted to climb. I'm going to just climb this little tiny mountain over here and then I get to the top of that mountain and I'm like this isn't the mountain, this wasn't my mountain.

Jana Shelfer: 13:15

There was a little girl yesterday that said her dream was to be a unicorn, and I was very conscious with how I reacted to that. I went into this. Yes, yes, in fact, I believe that I'm a unicorn.

Jason Shelfer: 13:32

I believe it's there.

Jana Shelfer: 13:34

And I sometimes feel the horn coming out of my forehead the magical yes that you can soar and fly. And it's exactly what you just said. We need to be very aware not to laugh or poo-poo.

Jason Shelfer: 13:51

Yeah, allow these dreams to come out because that dream will morph, that dream will grow into things. We have this awareness of the things that light us up and make us feel inspired and growth oriented.

Jana Shelfer: 14:05

And we also need to gently push and encourage the parents, the people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, to keep dreaming.

Jason Shelfer: 14:17

It's never too late.

Jana Shelfer: 14:19

And when people say I'm good, I'm living my dream, I'm living my best life. That's great. That's great. We want you to live your best life and and.

Jason Shelfer: 14:30

Yeah, yes, and.

Jana Shelfer: 14:31

Keep dreaming, because Jason and I found that we both had the dream of growing up, going to college, meeting a spouse, getting married, living happily ever after, and when you just live in that happily ever after, you actually your soul starts dying yeah.

Jason Shelfer: 14:50

Well, and people don't tell you what happily ever after looks like or how to create it.

Jana Shelfer: 14:55

Because you don't go to that next step. Oh, there's so much here, but just ask yourself what's your dream, what's my dream dream, and realize what are the feelings that are coming up around it. Because what we noticed yesterday was there's a lot of fear, doubt and even not even wanting to acknowledge. Just yeah, we got the hand avoidance, we got the hand.

Jason Shelfer: 15:22

I don't have time for I don't have time for you. If you don't have time for dreams now I'm busy, being busy you won't have time for you. If you don't have time for dreams now I'm busy, being busy you won't have time for them in retirement, because dreams don't happen in retirement.

Jana Shelfer: 15:32

You know what? Okay, that's one last thing. If you don't exactly, if you're busy being busy and you don't even have time to talk about your dreams, what are you doing to your soul? How are you treating your soul? No wonder people feel uninspired.

Jason Shelfer: 15:48

Yeah, what you'll end up is Unmotivated, You'll be retired and your soul will just be so tired it says I'm not doing it anymore.

Jana Shelfer: 15:56

Thanks for joining us today.

Jason Shelfer: 15:57

Love you guys, keep Living Lucky®. We'll see you next week. Bye-bye.

Jana Shelfer: 16:01

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