Why Growing Your Professional Network is Important to Your Success

Why Growing Your Professional Network is Important to Your Success

Why Growing Your Professional Network is Important to Your Success

Charissa Sims interviews Ram Castillo, an award-winning Design Director, Author, top-ranking Podcaster, International Speaker, CreativeLive Instructor and Approved Advisor based in Sydney. Specializing in digital spaces, customer experience design, branding and creative strategy. 

Dream Really Big: Dream Much Much Bigger

His parents originally came from the Philippines. And that’s his cultural background. His father grow up tough in the Philippines, lost his parents early at a very young age and the way out was really education. He was hardworking that he ended up finishing two degrees, Marine Transportation and Mechanical Engineering. But when they got to Australia, those two degrees were not recognized. And so their father did all the work, he worked at a factory just to support his three kids. Ram’s mother was one of five. And she had a mother who really raised them all through a little corner store to get by and a little sewing machine because her father was an alcoholic and wasn’t really around. They tried to ensure that they had opportunities for the future even if they only had a tablespoon of peanut butter and a piece of bread.

 

It is where the perspective quickly came to Ram, the self awareness of a different baseline. “You look at a world with decrease of getting anything, the patience, the decrease of resilience, because everything’s given to us. I’ve often said that the bar of convenience is so low, it’s so easy to be inconvenienced, that it can be quite dangerous nowadays.” Ram said.

 

When he was about four years old, he remember sitting in their apartment where they rented. His mother asked him what he want to be when he grow up? And Ram said, “I don’t know, Mom, I just want to make stuff and I was kind of distracted. I would collect empty tissue boxes, toilet paper rolls, I would make robots and cities.” And then she paused and said, “Well, remember whatever you want to do, make sure you dream really big. Dream much, much bigger.” “So she gave me at four years old, that gift, I didn’t know it at the time. But just go after whatever you want. There’s no set rule. There’s no permission that you need from anyone else. Whatever makes your heart sing kind of thing.”

Ram added, “there wasn’t this sort of, you need to pursue this path to be successful. I just never had those pressures. Yeah, granted that we weren’t wealthy, but I always felt that so financially wealthy, but I didn’t feel poor.” “And I guess it only came to high school where I realize that we didn’t have that much. You know, when my friends were getting brand new everything every year …But when I got home, I was so well fed. So well love, I felt safe.”

 

Ram said that he wasn’t the most intelligent in class. His grades were average or below. But he was great at art and that’s why he pursued design because I knew at a very young age that was for him. He would just constantly draw and make stuff and feeling and gaining a lot of confidence in art. And the thing that he loved most about art specifically and the same thing in design is you can impact someone without ever saying a single word.

 

Ram ended up wanting to go to a design school that his parents couldn’t afford and it was one of the top design schools in Australia. So what he did, he ended up applying to a no name college that wasn’t even known for having design as part of their curriculum. He took it because it was still the course that he could build his profession. He started in the mailroom career at Ogilvy in Sydney, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world.

 

Ram may be over qualified for the job but he had met 350 professionals in his first week. He got to know them by name. He has to, he need to deliver their mail. And that has been the springboard to launching his entire career. Ram shared that when you’re around people, you get exposed to tools, systems, and processes. You get to observe the department stuffs. So you get to know pieces of one of the biggest companies in the world and you get to understand. “That was never taught to me in the course” Ram explained. “Or never taught to me in a book“. “The second thing is people started talking to me, I started building rapport.” Ram said, he basically has 350 coaches and mentors.

 

Four years after, Ram was already moving into midway designer role going up to a senior and because he was so much more equipped to do that. And then I just the trajectory just increased faster. I started then having to do pre round interviews for the company that I was in at the time, and I was interviewing people that I graduated with for more junior roles because they just didn’t end up getting a job. Ram navigated through and worked for other large agencies. The key part to all this is a multidisciplinary designer. He was able to even design probably one of the most fulfilling briefs that he ever worked on.

He specializes in human centered design, which is basically an application of design thinking methods, specifically there.

What does that Zen success mean to Ram Castillo?

Ram’s definition of success is how well does he sleep at night. The reason is because, he had very little and he had a lot and he had everything in between. And if he is not sleeping well at night, then is that really wealthy? Is that really fulfilling? Is that really successful? I’ve had some nights where I’m like, could you have done better? Would you have been more honest? Could you have ever betrayed anyone? Have you ever been someone that maybe negotiated or compromise even their values? Did you disrespect anyone? Did you not?”

 

“You look at the lives of some very influential very publicly recognized people such as Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain. He died by suicide in the 18th of June 2018. Kate Spade, Three days before Anthony Bourdain, she committed suicide on the fifth of June 2018.” Ram said.

 

“Somebody, you would think that they have it all? Charissa emphasizes. “I mean both of them.” “And it’s just you just never know what’s going on the inside.”

 

Ram continued, “The most shocking for me was probably Robin Williams, you know, American actor, comedian, he died from suicide at the on the 11th of August 2014.”

 

According to Ram, success is only relative to the perspective or the operating system that we are viewing as successful. But he often asks people, “Do you know how much future you have left?” ‘And then they’re like, “No”.’ Ram emphasizes that we don’t have to do anything, everything is voluntary. Whatever version success means to you, we don’t have to do any of it. It’s all voluntary. Life is short not to be live. Even in life, there can’t be light without darkness. There can’t be courage without fear. There can’t be calm without chaos. And so when we talk about Zen success now, it’s what matters to you? And how well are you going to sleep at night?

 

Ram shares that among his interviewed there’s so many who standouts, One is his mentor named, Debbie Millman. She’s very well known in the world of design. She owns the world’s longest running design podcast. “And this will always sit with me,” Ram shared. “She said, RAM, the longer it takes, the longer it’ll last. The more you’ll be prepared for the success when it comes.”

Don’t feel like you have to go it alone. Seek for help. And that’s actually one of the fastest ways to get to where you want. Speak to people who have done what you ultimately want to do. Cut the guesswork.

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Moving from Force to Flow – 2022 Is a Perfect Year for Your Zen Success

Moving from Force to Flow – 2022 Is a Perfect Year for Your Zen Success

Moving From Force to Flow - 2022 is a Perfect Year for Your

2022 IS A PERFECT YEAR FOR YOUR ZEN SUCCESS

A lot has changed in our world. It was a year of gaining knowledge, planning, preparing, gathering and prioritizing. Realizing what’s important to you. 2022, on the other hand, is a year of action. It is a year of building community, and collaborating, and maybe getting a mentor or really learning from someone who’s doing what you would like to do. And following in their footsteps, or asking them if you could learn from them, and talk to them occasionally, or sign up for one of their programs.

 

2022 is a perfect year for your success. For an effortless success, a type of success that you’ve always wanted but you didn’t know you wanted it. And now you’re going to get clarity on that. Get intentional about what your vision is for success. This is your year to manifest. And if it doesn’t manifest, at least get clear and begin to act towards what it is you’d like to manifest.

WHAT CAN HELP YOU FROM MOVING FORCE TO FLOW?

Affirmation

When you want to manifest in your relationships, Affirmations can help. May it be a tap in the back or looking at yourself in the mirror and affirming yourself. And, with relationships, affirmation is when you dive deep into loving yourself. When you finally embrace that love for yourself, that love vibrates out beyond your soul, beyond your space, beyond our wildest dreams and whoever needs to feel that love can pick up that sensation and come into your life somehow. So that is a really important step if you are looking to manifest a love relationship.

 

Feng Shui

Feng Shui can also help in moving from force to flow. Applying Feng Shui in cleaning or decorating your house would allow that excess success to come in. That is a beautiful thing. You can look up that episode. Feng Shui way can help about 20% of the time and the other percent is your intention.

 

First, in order for you to allow more abundance in your life or health, you may need to heal something that’s a dis ease in your body, to allow more abundance to come in and they can tie in together. So it’s just wonderful to set that intention for all of those areas in your life. And then hold that space for that to manifest in the divine perfect timing.

 

So then, because the interview went so well, Mark forwarded Charissa’s name to 20 or 30 of his closest friends and they became Charissa’s circle too. Now, there’s an incredible synchronicity of people, journey, and manifestation and that is what Charissa wanted to share. That can be your life too, she said. If that’s what you desire, if that’s what you visualize, if that’s what you want to create. So, this is really your journey, your own Zen success journey.

 

Charissa is not a practicing Buddhist, but she really does love the philosophy of it. She would say she’s a spiritual person, and she believe in God and the universe. And she believes in whatever it is that you believe is true for you and can help support you on this journey. So, this podcast is not religious, it’s meant to be inspiring. So, it’s meant to be neutral.

Astrology

Another thing that’s coming up that can really help in addition to Feng Shui way, is Astrology. Charissa says that there’s certain times of the year when Mercury’s in retrograde, where it’s not really a good time to start new projects, or to sign contracts. A lot of times during when Mercury is in retrograde, this is a time to finish up things to clean up your life to clear out what no longer serves you. And Marie Condon has a great book on this. Mercury’s in retrograde, is like you want to really look inward and take that time to finish things. It’s for completion, but to not sign new contracts, not start a new business that is for after retrograde.

And Charissa’s birth date is an eight, which means learning about abundance. And she think that maybe that is why she wanted to do this podcast on Zen success, because she love helping people, have more joy, have a great relationship, live their dreams, and also make more money in their lives so that they’ll be comfortable and not stressed about life and how they’re going to get food on the table. She just really loves igniting people’s success. And that’s that is her life path as an eight.

 

Meditation

Meditation gets you to drop into the zero point field, the unified consciousness of all that is, and you can get divine inspiration. That’s where a lot of my ideas come in. And sometimes maybe your ideas come in during the shower or when you’re on a walk in nature. Think about where inspiration happens for you and give yourself that self-care. Prioritize yourself because then you can be in alignment and take divine right action when the time is right. Timing of things is also important because maybe at the same time that you’re thinking about them, they’re thinking about you. That is a part of the collective consciousness, that’s part of our own psychic abilities that are being activated in us. Meditation is a powerful tool, to get you to just drop in to that unified field, where you can manifest anything you’d like, and visualizing what you want to achieve.

So taking this goal that you have and putting it into your meditation, that’s what Charissa do with her clients. So after she removes the blocks, she then fills that space in with their dream. She put them right there in the dream, because how to move from force to flow with your goals is you want to align with it, you want to vibrate at the same energy. And so meditation is a great tool for bringing in abundance. Charissa know sometimes when she work with her clients on abundance, She like to first start off with healing the blocks, sometimes you’ll see patterns from their parents on never having enough. And Charissa actually had that pattern, too, with her dad, but not with her mom. So she had kind of conflicting money stories with her parents, which just all wonderful, everybody has their own unique story and pattern.

 

So there are so many things to take into consideration. Charissa is encouraging you every day to take that time, meditate, breathe, be with yourself and allow the magnificence of who you are to flow through your being. Let your heart expand with what’s possible. And may you move from force to flow and have your own Zen success.

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Finding Your Flow: It is Your Time

Finding Your Flow: It is Your Time

Zen Success - Finding Your Flow: It Is Your Time to Experience Success & Unlock

The Mission of Zen Success

The mission of this podcast of Zen success is to inspire millions of people to live their best lives in the areas of financial wealth, parenting, creativity, health, and relationships. She will be interviewing different people in those areas that have found their own Zen success. And by Zen success means being at peace. Being in the flow, being connected with your heart, your mind and your body, so that all will be in alignment, and moving forward in this world in a purposeful way.

Charissa Sims’ Zen Success

Charissa Sims have been doing a podcast for two years now called, “You Inspired”. And it’s been amazing. She feels so blessed to have met the incredible people. She has been going to seminars for 25 years. And it was her intention when she started the podcast, that she would resonate so deeply that she would attract these people that she looked up to.

 

Charissa sang in the choir of the Gates of Praise Church, Inc and that was one of her dreams, to sing on stage. And, she had a dream to sing with Black Eyed Peas. And that came to fruition. She sang with Will I Am and though she didn’t have a dream for this, but she sang with Stevie Wonder. She had an incredible experience singing in the choir. They also went on tour and went to Australia and sang for presidents. It was just an incredible time for Charissa being part of that church and was part of the global ministry who have projects in Africa and all over the world. She has that in her heart that she always wanted to give back.

 

Charissa met Mark Victor Hansen, who is the co-creator of the Chicken Soup of the Soul book series. She bet he came into the church for their projects. Mark is good friends with Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith. And so, he gave out books called, The One Minute Millionaire. Charissa thought he was so amazing. And would love to be friends with him someday. Charissa connected with Mark through another person. And they had the interview, it went so well that Mark and Charissa stayed connected for personal reasons. Charissa now feels honored that Mark is in her circle of people that she can call her friend. And it’s just such an amazing feeling to have someone so successful, so warm, so focus on giving back because she feels like that in her heart as well.

 

So then, because the interview went so well, Mark forwarded Charissa’s name to 20 or 30 of his closest friends and they became Charissa’s circle too. Now, there’s an incredible synchronicity of people, journey, and manifestation and that is what Charissa wanted to share. That can be your life too, she said. If that’s what you desire, if that’s what you visualize, if that’s what you want to create. So, this is really your journey, your own Zen success journey.

 

Charissa is not a practicing Buddhist, but she really does love the philosophy of it. She would say she’s a spiritual person, and she believe in God and the universe. And she believes in whatever it is that you believe is true for you and can help support you on this journey. So, this podcast is not religious, it’s meant to be inspiring. So, it’s meant to be neutral.

Be still, Clear the Mind.

You can do that through nature, being mindful. Being present. Eckhart Tolle, on his book “ The Power of Now” says really feeling all of that, you can focus on the now by focusing on one body part at a time, eventually, you’ll be able to feel your entire body in the present moment. But you can start off with something small like your hand or your finger and notice where you are and notice your surroundings. Clearing the mind, you can do that also, through exercise or through meditation.

 

Visualize It 

So then, after you get clarity, then visualize it and be there with it. Don’t see it outside of you. You really be in it. Don’t see yourself in the picture. Your eyes are looking out because you’re experiencing it. You’re smelling it. Who are you with? How’s the air? What’s the temperature? Like? What do you see who’s with you? Think about all those details and create them in your mind.

 

And as much as you can be consistent about that process. Now you can also visualize you can go back in a circle and get clear the mind again and you can visualize it during your meditation too. That would be helpful. And then it’s time to take divinely inspired action to be in the flow of life to let synchronicity happen. Be Ready. We are powerful creators, and we all have the power to create our own Zen success. Remember that.

 

 

Stop fighting the universe and allow it to show up for you. And then receive, receive, receive, and you’ll be ready. And you’ll sit there and say yes, then you’ll feel it that you are in your Zen success.

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