Ep 498: Why Your Fear Is Unnatural

Start Your Transformation Now⁠  Fear is not who you are, it is what you have been taught. In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim dismantles one of the most deeply held illusions people carry: that fear is natural and unavoidable. Through vivid examples, from the moment of birth to decades of economic conditioning absorbed at the dinner table, Jim makes it undeniable that the fears running most people's lives were never theirs to begin with. They were handed down through media, culture, and a world obsessed with scarcity. And the reason these fears feel so real is because they have been running unquestioned for so long.  Jim draws a clear distinction between managing fear and transcending it. The real issue is forgetting. Forgetting who and what you truly are. When someone loses that connection to source, they automatically slip into victimhood, competition, and the grinding weight of what Jim calls a "beast of burden." That is not the human condition. That is the conditioned human.  You are not broken. You have simply forgotten. And it is time to remember.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (02:15) The illusion behind every fear — The fears people carry about money, health, and collapse are not reality but imaginary threats — hallucinations born from inherited conditioning that most people have never stopped to question.  (07:18) You were born trusting — then taught to fear — Jim uses the image of an infant in the birth canal to illustrate that fear is a learned behavior, not a built-in one, and that the natural human state is deep trust and knowing.  (13:34) The media machine feeding your anxiety — Daily consumption of news and social media conditions the brain into perpetual anxiety — and why Jim personally stepped away from most of it entirely.  (20:06) Source is greater than any obstacle — The soul — not the body or personality — is the ultimate power in any situation, and recognizing yourself as a reflection of source changes the entire framework through which you experience fear.  (27:31) It is not about managing fear — it is about knowing yourself out of it — Fear is not a problem to be fixed. It is a symptom of forgetting, and the only true solution is reconnecting to who you really are.  (31:26) The seven-day detox challenge — A full seven-day fast from news, social media, and all negativity inputs, designed to clear the space so that the voice of source can finally be heard again.    Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  The fears you carry were never yours. They were absorbed in childhood, amplified by media, and repeated so many times they came to feel like truth. But a fever is not your natural state. When it breaks, the body returns to health automatically, because health was always there. The same is true of you. You are not a small, struggling human fighting for scraps. You are the intelligence of the universe. The same source that beats your heart and heals every wound without a single conscious thought. The moment you stop consuming the world's narratives and reconnect to source, the fear does not need to be managed. It simply has nowhere left to live.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

⁠Start Your Transformation Now In this episode, you’re not going to get some “rah rah” motivational advice to perform at your highest. Instead, you’ll learn that living your highest potential is not external, it’s internal. It’s all about quieting the mind and mastering your silence. When you stop your internal dialogue you become so much more powerful and when you quiet the internal noise you create silence of mind, and that’s where the answers come. In this episode I discuss:Why mastering your silence is the answer to finding your highest potentialExternal silence vs internal silence (and why we need both)How to quiet your mind by using a variety of different techniques (Download PDF for a list of resources) When you learn to stop talking to yourself, ANYTHING becomes possible for you. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Let’s Connect:⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now Picking up directly from Part 1, Jim Fortin goes deeper into the conditioning that has quietly shaped everything people believe about themselves. Through striking examples — from North Korea's culture of total indoctrination to a Ku Klux Klan grandmother holding her grandchild — Jim makes it undeniable: the beliefs, fears, and limitations most people carry were absorbed before they ever had the capacity to question them. Whether it is money, relationships, health, or identity, what feels like personal truth is almost always inherited — a map someone else drew that has been steering the course of an entire life.  Jim challenges listeners to see themselves as a marionette whose strings were attached at birth — and to start asking who has been pulling them. Rather than a small, struggling being grinding through life alone, every person is universal intelligence expressing itself in human form. The real work is not hustle or strategy — it is consciousness. And the first crack in the prison wall begins the moment someone realizes they are not the hand, not the body, but the awareness running through it.  If you have ever wondered why effort alone never seems to be enough, this episode offers the answer most people have never been given. Listen closely.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (02:24) You inherited a map you never drew — How beliefs about money, religion, race, and relationships are absorbed automatically in childhood, leaving most people navigating their entire lives through someone else's version of reality.  (05:47) The fish that doesn't know it's in water — Why the most dangerous conditioning is the kind that feels completely natural, and how the inability to see the brainwashing is itself proof that it worked.  (09:09) Your healing power was taken from you — How society's conditioning around illness and medicine has disconnected people from the body's innate ability to heal — and why Jim tuned out his own doctors after his 2020 heart failure and stroke.  (15:51) Rich people dream of staying rich, poor people dream of staying poor — How the financial reality a person is born into becomes the subconscious blueprint they keep recreating — and what it takes to break the cycle.  (22:15) The universe is doing the heavy lifting — you've been brainwashed to forget it — Why the belief that you must struggle alone is itself the conditioning, and how reconnecting with universal intelligence is what actually returns your power.  (25:11) You are not the body — you are the awareness of it — The identity shift that changes everything: recognizing that the "I" inside you is not the physical container, but the consciousness running through it.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Everything you have been told about who you are, what you can heal, what you can earn, and how hard life has to be — that was someone else's story. You were handed a map you didn't draw and have been following it your whole life. The fears are learned. The limits are inherited. The struggle is conditioning, not law. You are not a small being fighting to survive — you are the intelligence of the universe expressed in human form, the same intelligence that beats your heart and heals a cut without a single conscious thought. The moment you stop identifying with the body and recognize yourself as the awareness within it, your power begins to return.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now I was thinking a few weeks ago, “What do I want to talk about this week on the podcast?” and I had a flood of ideas and topics pop into my mind and none of them were calling to me at that time and I thought, “So many people ask about spirituality, why don’t I dig further into and talk about my experiences with a shaman?” So, in this episode, I pull the curtain back a bit and share one of my most memorable experiences with a shaman/sorcerer. I could share many of these but that would be overwhelming so it’s better to just start with one and we’ll see how it goes. What I’m sharing in this podcast is a non-ordinary event and at the very least an event that may be a good story if nothing else. More than anything, my intention with this episode is to get you to start thinking about the world of the non-ordinary and the world that exists that you cannot physically observe with your sight or sound. My intention is to get you to really start thinking about the power you wield as a “cosmic being.” Think about the world of physics, energy, and what’s real and not real. Science shows that we can only observe about 3% of what exists on the electromagnetic spectrum which means we miss most of like and what’s available to us. Perhaps this episode can get you to start thinking about the world and your world of the non-ordinary and what’s really all around you. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Let’s Connect:⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin delivers an unflinching look at a truth most people never stop to examine, that the life they are living was not one they consciously chose. Drawing on decades of work in subconscious transformation, Jim makes the case that every belief a person holds about who they are, what they deserve, and what is possible was handed to them before they could ever question it. From family and religion to government, media, and the school system, Jim breaks down how every major institution has a vested interest in keeping people small, compliant, and dependent.  Using the striking example of North Korea, where citizens are so conditioned they don't recognize they are living in a prison. Jim draws a direct parallel to the invisible walls most people in the Western world inhabit without ever seeing. The most dangerous prison, he argues, is the one with no walls at all. And the deepest form of this conditioning isn't political or religious — it is ontological. It is the lie that you are a small, limited physical being, when the truth of who you are is something far more vast than you have ever been allowed to believe.  If you have ever felt stuck without knowing exactly why, this conversation is where understanding begins. Listen closely.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (01:53) You were born into a story you didn't write — How the beliefs and limitations most people carry were already running before they took their first breath, inherited from family, culture, and institutions they never chose.  (05:52) The most dangerous prison has no walls — Why the conditioning that keeps people trapped is invisible from the inside, and how defending the very system that brainwashed you is one of its most telling signs.  (09:46) The illusions keeping you trapped were engineered — How governments, religions, corporations, and media share a common interest in keeping people obedient, dependent, and cut off from their own sovereign power.  (17:56) The most damaging brainwashing is ontological — Why the deepest lie is about the very nature of your being, and how you were conditioned to believe you are far smaller than you actually are.  (26:06) The core lie that keeps you playing small — Why every major system runs on one central belief that you are small, and why escaping it requires awareness, not techniques.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  You did not choose the story you were handed. The beliefs running your life — about money, your body, what you deserve, and what is possible — were given to you by systems that needed you to stay small. That is not your truth. It never was. The work is not to fight the brainwashing or shame yourself for having been in it — every single one of us has been. The work is simply to become aware of it. Because the moment you can see the prison, you are already standing outside of it.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now⁠  How To Have Peace of Mind In The Chaos All Around…that’s huge right? I mean,it would be amazing. And, I want you to know, it’s possible. I’ve decided to change the content format of the podcast. I want to bring a more “spiritual” approach to the podcast and I start that this week. (Bear with me as I fumble a bit trying to find my content and delivery style for this new approach.) In this episode, I talk about how to have peace of mind in the midst of what’s happening in the world and I approach it from a “spiritual” aspect. In this episode I talk about:[11:47] How all the fear in the world is all “3D ego”[15:47] Reinforcement of the Be Do Have theme in the podcast and look at your BEing[21:15] How you’re responding to the world[22:50] What you’re learning about yourself in the world in the midst of this all[26:17] Taking advantage of the change in the world[27:32] Shamanism and letting a part of your ego “die”[29:15] Leaving your old life and routines for a new life[31:16] Letting your old “reality” die And, overall, I talk about who you have to be and what you have to do to cultivate POM (Peace of Mind) through this huge life transition we’re all going through. Listen, apply, and enjoy!  As I’m shifting content and thinking about what I want to share, again, bear with me and overall this whole episode is about you leaving the old you behind you as the result of this global situation. Transformational Takeaway Without fear you have POM. Let’s Connect:⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE? If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude, Jim

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin reveals a perspective on fear that most people have never considered — one that doesn't require techniques, hacks, or willpower. Drawing on decades of work with his shaman mentor Don Javier, Jim makes the case that everything most people do to fight fear — affirmations, breathing exercises, reframing, even sheer determination — is the very thing keeping fear alive. The real problem, he argues, isn't fear itself. It's the illusion that fear is real.  Jim breaks down why fear has no place in the present moment, why it is always a story about a future that hasn't happened and likely never will, and why resisting fear is like throwing gasoline on a fire. From the neuroscience of the amygdala to ancient Buddhist wisdom, Jim draws a clear and practical distinction between being consumed by fear and simply observing it — and explains why that single shift changes everything.  This episode doesn't offer a better way to fight fear. It offers something far more powerful: a way to see through it entirely. Listen closely.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (03:51) Fear lives in the future, not the present — Why fear almost never exists in the actual present moment and how most people are unknowingly living now from something that hasn't happened yet.  (08:16) Most of what you fear will never come to pass — The sobering truth that the vast majority of things people catastrophize about never materialize, and why suffering through fear is always optional.  (10:12) Fear is a story, not a fact — How recognizing fear as a self-generated narrative — rather than an objective reality — is the moment it begins to lose its grip on you.  (13:07) Why techniques and hacks make fear worse — The neuroscientific reason that fighting fear through tools and strategies actually amplifies it, and what Jim calls the resistance trap.  (17:21) Observation dissolves what resistance amplifies — The Buddhist practice of naming and witnessing fear as an outside observer, rather than being consumed by it, and why this creates genuine freedom.  (29:26) Surrender is not weakness — it's the only way out — Why accepting what is in the present moment, rather than trying to control an outcome that can never be guaranteed, is the true path to eliminating fear for good.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  Fear is not your enemy — it is a story your mind has been telling you so convincingly that you forgot it was a story at all. Every fear you carry is a thought about the future, lived as if it were a fact right now. And the harder you fight it, the more real it becomes. The way out is not force — it is observation, surrender, and the quiet recognition that right now, in this breath, you are okay. The next time fear comes knocking, name it. Recognize it as a story. You are not the fear. You are the awareness watching it arise — and that is exactly where your freedom lives.  Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

⁠Start Your Transformation Now Money, money, money…it’s what 80% of my listeners struggle with and it’s the thing that’s easiest to attract, really. So, at least 80% of you can relate to my opening line and the rest are either doing “OK” or well and would like to do better. So, if money is so easy to attract then how come you’ve had such a hard time with it? Easy, I give you that answer in this episode, and no, it’s not some “pie-in-the-sky” answer. It’s practical and it will make perfect sense to you. Trust me, I know how easy it is to get lost in podcasts and episodes and books and content and this direct message will be easy for you,that’s why I titled the episode, “please get it.” Until you “get it,” you'll keep having problems. So…..listen and listen several times if you need to and this episode is the “ah-ha” as to why you may have listened to other of my episodes and you’re still struggling. Listen, apply, and enjoy! Transformational Takeaway Listen to the episode to discover it. Let’s Connect:⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude,Jim

Start Your Transformation Now  In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim Fortin explores the ancient wisdom of the Hopi people and its startling relevance to the world unfolding right now. Drawing from a personal conversation with his shaman mentor Don Javier—sparked by the appearance of Atlas, a rare interstellar object—Jim unpacks centuries-old Hopi prophecies that describe exactly the kind of world we are living in today: materialistic, imperialistic, and spiritually unmoored. Far from a doomsday warning, these prophecies are, as Jim frames them, a map—patterns that ancient peoples observed, documented, and passed down to guide future generations.  Jim traces humanity's journey through four worlds, each destroyed by the collective disregard for spiritual teachings, and zeroes in on the Hopi's most critical teaching for this moment: the choice between the path of two hearts and the path of one heart. The two hearts path—the upper path—is the zigzag of chasing money, ego, and external identity. The one heart path—the lower path—is the path of divine essence, peace, love, and stewardship of the earth. Every ancient prophecy Jim references, from Nostradamus to Edgar Cayce to Baba Vanga, converges on this same crossroads humanity faces right now, in 2026.  This is not a moment for passivity. It is, as Jim calls it, go time—not in a frantic way, but in a deeply intentional, spiritually grounded way. Listen closely.  What You’ll Discover in This Episode:  (02:53) The Hopi: peaceful stewards of consciousness — How the Hopi built an entire culture around a single purpose: maintaining balance with the earth and with consciousness itself.  (05:47) Two worlds diverging right now — Humanity is splitting into two distinct paths—one driven by money, ego, and greed, and the other by heart, soul, and spiritual stewardship—and both are visible in the world today.  (09:09) The fourth world and the patterns we keep repeating — How the Hopi described our current world as ruthless and materialistic, and why ancient prophecies from Cayce, Nostradamus, and Baba Vanga all point to this same moment in history.  (14:58) The Hopi's two paths for the end of the fourth world — A closer look at the upper path (two hearts) and the lower path (one heart), and why outsourcing your identity to material things keeps you in disharmony with the energies shifting on the planet.  (17:53) Purification, not annihilation—and why now is go time — The Hopi were not predicting destruction; they were prophesying purification, and why spiritual evolution is the most urgent work any of us can do right now.  (20:50) The fifth world is an inner state available to you today — The next world the Hopi envisioned isn't a geographic destination—it's a consciousness that becomes accessible the moment you choose the path of one heart.  Listen, apply, and enjoy!  Transformational Takeaway  The Hopi knew. Across centuries, they mapped the patterns of human civilization and left a clear message for this exact moment: the world does not change until the individual does. You are standing at the crossroads of two paths—one leading outward toward noise, hustle, and identity built from status and distraction; the other leading inward toward soul, peace, and consciousness that helps heal the planet. You don't have to renounce the material world. You simply have to stop letting it define you. The fifth world isn't coming someday. It is available right now, in the next choice you make. Which path are you on?  Mentioned resources: The Universal Human Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you make a purchase. Let’s Connect:  Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn  LIKED THE EPISODE?  If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts so we can reach more people.  Listening on Spotify? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you!  With gratitude, Jim

⁠Start Your Transformation Now How often have you asked yourself this question: “What is my life’s purpose?” If you’re like almost all people, you’ve asked yourself this question over and over and you still haven’t found your answer. In this episode I dig deeper and take a look at your life’s purpose from a much higher perspective. For most people, they have never thought in this way. They’ve never expanded the level from which they see and experience their lives. In this episode I talk about:[5:38] “Where you’re living from”[9:59] Looking at your life in a bigger context[10:45] Why your purpose is internal and not external[13:28] Why your external purpose is not your real purpose[24:54] And, how working from your highest potential will help you connect with your real purpose Listen, apply, and enjoy! Also, I talk about meditation and why this is so important.The easiest way to work from higher purpose is to quiet your mind and connect at the deepest levels of who you are. Transformational Takeaway Your TRUE purpose is alignment Let’s Connect:⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Facebook⁠ | ⁠YouTube⁠ | ⁠LinkedIn⁠ LIKED THE EPISODE?If you're the kind of person who likes to help others, then share this with your friends and family. If you have found value, they will too. Please leave a review on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ so we can reach more people. Listening on ⁠Spotify⁠? Please leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you! With gratitude,Jim