The Jim Fortin Podcast

Start Your Transformation Now

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim dismantles a belief most people never question: that having free will makes them a free thinker. He reveals how identity, goals, fears, and limitations are installed early in life — long before a person is old enough to consent to them — and shows how this "brainwashing" quietly directs choices people believe are entirely their own.

Using the metaphor of a smartphone loaded with pre-installed apps, Jim illustrates how culture, parents, and early environment download default programs into the mind by around age seven. He distinguishes this work from traditional subconscious reprogramming, explaining that real freedom comes not from managing the brainwashing but from transcending the identity it was built on.

Listeners are invited to question where their choices really come from — and to consider what it would mean to exit the illusion entirely rather than simply rearrange it.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:00) Free will isn't free thinking — Jim introduces the episode's central paradox: having the ability to choose doesn't mean your choices are actually your own.

(02:54) Your limitations were given to you — Jim explains how identifying with a limitation ("I am broke," "I am stuck") keeps a person trapped in something that was never truly theirs.

(05:45) Brainwashing is salesmanship, not just coercion — Jim redefines brainwashing using the smartphone metaphor, showing how default "apps" from childhood shape identity without consent.

(09:12) The sleepwalker's pride — Jim reveals how what feels like free choice, like an attraction to a certain home, is often just early programming playing out unnoticed.

(12:04) Transcendence, not transformation — Jim describes moving his work beyond fixing the ego to helping people recognize themselves as consciousness rather than the human identity.

(18:00) You're a hostage to the body, not your circumstances — Jim reframes the real prison as the belief that a person is the container they walk around in, not their external life situation.



Listen, apply, and enjoy!



Transformational Takeaway

Every limitation carried in life, financial, physical, relational, was installed, not chosen. True freedom doesn't come from managing or rearranging those programs; it comes from recognizing them as brainwashing and stepping beyond the identity that holds them in place. The self was never the container. It was always the consciousness within it.

Everything else remains unchanged.

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Start Your Transformation Now⁠

You’ve heard me talk about the power of dreamtime and using your subconscious mind to problem solve and in this episode I go further and talk about how to make dreamtime work even better for you.

Relative to “who you need to be,” I’m often asked….“Jim, if I’ve never been a millionaire before, what ways would I need to be in my mind to make it happen?”

Even when I give people ideas, they many times struggle finding the right way of being to help them create the life they want.

So….in this episode I talk about:[1:57] Of course, about dreamtime[7:39] A recapitulation of the fact that your identity drives you[15:19] Who you have to be to have the exact experience of life that you want[15:40] Your primary and secondary identity[26:04] Why I trust dreamtime guidance more than my analytical mindAnd, the specific question you can ask your unconscious mind for deeper understanding.

As well, I talk about “setting your intention” to maximize your mind’s direction during dreamtime. Not only do I talk about asking your subconscious mind for assistance, I go deeper and share how to ensure your answers come to you.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway
Set your intentions for dreamtime answers.

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Start Your Transformation Now

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim challenges one of the most basic assumptions people carry: that they are their bodies. He asks listeners to ponder a simple but destabilizing question — who told you that you are a body? — and reveals how every limitation a person experiences, from health fears to financial lack, traces back to this single point of identification.

Jim unpacks how conditioning from parents, culture, science, and society trains people from childhood to identify as the body rather than as the awareness inhabiting it. Using examples like family-inherited illness and Angelina Jolie's preventative mastectomy, he shows how this identification keeps people trapped in the body's limitations — and offers a series of deliberate questions designed to shift that identity toward consciousness, life, and source instead.

Listeners are invited to sit with each question Jim poses and let a lifetime of body-based conditioning begin to loosen its grip.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:00) Who told you that you are a body? — Jim opens with the central question of the episode, introducing the idea that the body is only a container, not the true self.

(02:57) Change starts with awareness, not effort — Jim explains that focusing on "fixing" yourself keeps you trapped in the identity you're trying to leave, and that real change begins with a shift in awareness.

(05:52) Your body is only an assumption — Jim breaks down how what you believe about your body, including inherited illness or limitation, is conditioning rather than truth.

(08:48) The body is a container, not you — Jim introduces the core distinction between the body as vehicle and the life force, soul, and awareness that inhabits it.

(12:12) Life doesn't need the body — Jim explains that consciousness is the cause and the body is the effect, and that identifying as life instead of body dissolves the limitations tied to illness, fear, and lack.

(17:53) You are not confined to the body — Jim explores how consciousness isn't limited to physical space, touching on dream time, astral travel, and remote viewing as evidence.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!



Transformational Takeaway

Every fear, illness, and limitation a person carries exists because they've identified as the body rather than as the life animating it. The body is simply the vehicle; the truth is consciousness, awareness, life itself. Letting that identification shift — even slightly — is where real freedom begins.

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Start Your Transformation Now⁠

Are you one of those people who believe that money and spirituality are incompatible? Do you believe it’s OK to make money and be rich?

As you know, I’m a “spiritualist” and I’ve also learned that one of the most powerful things we can do for the world is to become rich, then use that as a tool and we can better the world.

In this episode, I have a guest, James Wedmore, and he’s a good friend. Not only that, but his business also attracted $9.4 million dollars last year.In this episode, we talk about Spirituality, Business, and Prosperity, and specifically, we talk about guiding principles that have helped him to become financially successful.

James is very spiritual and he lets his spiritualism guide him in business. I do the same, and working from this place has been financially good for both of us.

This is a candid, fun “interview” and my intention is that you see how we approach business and the rewards of prosperity and service that it brings us. You deserve to be abundant and prosperous!

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Mentioned resources:
Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

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.

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Start Your Transformation Now

In this episode of The Jim Fortin Podcast, Jim explores why conflict isn't something that exists "out there" in the world, but is instead created the moment a person takes a side. He argues that all division — political, religious, personal — is a product of the human ego identifying with a single, limited interpretation of reality, and that true peace only returns when a person stops defending a position and remembers themselves as consciousness rather than the body or the belief.

Jim illustrates this with a personal story about getting scammed by a fake towing company, his upbringing around fundamentalist preachers in Texas, and a Coca-Cola versus Pepsi metaphor he uses to describe "mastering neutrality." He also examines how this same dynamic shows up in parenting, where trying to control or judge a adult child's choices is really just another form of taking sides.

This episode offers listeners a practical way to recognize when they've fallen into righteousness or division — and how to return to peace instead.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

(00:00) Where conflict actually comes from — Jim explains that disharmony isn't a lack of peace in the world; it exists because people don't know themselves as source rather than ego.

(07:38) Why institutions divide — Jim points to preachers, politicians, money, and religion as forces that split humanity by disguising ego and dogma as morality.

(11:02) The Coke and Pepsi metaphor — Jim introduces "mastering neutrality," showing that both sides of any argument are simply two versions of the same illusion.

(13:53) Whatever you fight weakens you — Using a Mother Teresa quote and Wayne Dyer's tree metaphor, Jim reveals how opposing anything grants it power and traps a person in conflict.

(20:00) Why the "correct side" winning never brings peace — Jim challenges the belief that healing the world means making one side win, and reframes what true unity requires.

(27:45) Peace as a realization, not a result — Jim closes with the truth that divine mind has never been divided or taken a side, and neither should the listener.

Listen, apply, and enjoy!

Transformational Takeaway

Every time a person declares one side right and the other wrong, they step out of consciousness and into the ego's illusion of division. Peace was never meant to come from winning an argument or fixing the world outside — it comes from remembering that the listener, at their core, is the same undivided source as everyone they're tempted to oppose. Letting go of the need to be right isn't weakness; it's the doorway back to harmony.

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