28: Your Energy Is Sabotaging Your Money Goals with Manifestation Coach Jillian Minter
Why your sarcastic attitude is literally blocking your abundance
Listen, I wasn't a very woo person until I accidentally manifested the best relationship of my life by deleting every mediocre man's number from my phone.
And before you roll your eyes and click away — I get it. I used to think manifestation was just positive thinking with a vision board attached. But then I wrote money manifestation coach Jillian Minter's website copy, learned about energy shifts, and had my entire worldview flipped upside down.
In this episode, Jillian spills everything about why your money goals aren't happening, what those micro-negative behaviors are doing to your subconscious, and how to manifest the shit out of your life.
Rapid-Fire Squirrel Brain Questions
Here's what we learned about Jillian in her round of squirrel brain questions:
If she could gather "nuts" like a squirrel: Wine.
If her brain had a pop-up ad: Personal development everything. Books, coaching services, anything that makes her better and more efficient. (The coaches love a coach.)
If her life came with a warning label: "Will think your business could be better and also try to turn everything into a business."
What she'd win an Olympic gold medal for: Being bossy or eating (especially desserts).
Something she thought she'd have figured out by now: Everything. Because the older you get, the more you realize no one has it figured out, and we're all just guessing as we go.
Her walkout song: "Boss Bitch" by Doja Cat
What Is Manifestation (And Does It Actually Work?)
Jillian's definition of manifestation is simple:
"Creating your own reality. We're always creating our results in our life — it's just doing it on purpose and consciously."
A lot of people will post something like "manifesting my dream job ✨" and then add "lol does this even work?"
And that sarcasm right there is exactly why it's not working.
If you're saying "I want this" but you don't believe it's possible, if your energy is negative or you're joking about it, then that sarcastic, doubtful energy is what's creating your results.
People think they can journal for 10 minutes and then spend the rest of the day completely forgetting everything they just put energy into.
Jillian suggests you focus more on the 23 hours and 50 minutes in which you’re not deliberately manifesting.
Start Small When You Don't Believe It Yet
The thing about genuine belief is that you can't fake it.
Jillian's friend used to wake up every morning saying "I'm going to win the lottery," but she didn't actually believe it would happen. So guess what? It didn't.
If you're someone who doesn't have that deep belief in your goals yet, Jillian says start small.
Instead of trying to manifest winning the lottery, focus on building evidence. If you made $50K last year, can you imagine making $55K?
Start there. Focus on that number until it feels doable. Then once $60K feels small, bump it to $65K. Then $70K.
The key is building that evidence and belief gradually, rather than trying to quantum leap to something your subconscious mind thinks is impossible.
Why You Can't Just Manifest and Then Sit on Your Ass
A few months ago, I sold a workshop in 10 days (because I accidentally scheduled it way too soon and panicked). My goal was 10 people minimum, but I really wanted 20. I ended up with 102 people and made $7,000 from a $77 offer.
Did I manifest that, or did I just work my ass off to get it?
Jillian's answer? Both. They go hand in hand.
"You can't just say 'I want 20 people in this workshop' and then sit on your ass and not do anything," she told me. "You have to do the work and put action into the things you're trying to create."
The biggest misconception about manifestation comes from The Secret and all that law of attraction stuff that made people think they could just visualize and wait.
But there's a law of attraction AND a law of action.
The reason I sold that workshop wasn't just because I believed I could but because I showed up and sold. I created Instagram stories, I sent emails, I signed up one person and then another and then another. Those small actions created momentum that led to the result I wanted.
(By the way, apparently, I can manifest Side Character getting off work early, and it freaks him out. But I only manifest it when I genuinely believe it's possible. On busy nights when I know the bar is packed, I don't even try because I don't believe it will work.)
It's all about building that belief AND taking the action. It's not black and white where it's one thing or the other.
Scarcity Mindset, Negative People, and Other Blocks
If you've been manifesting for a while and it's still not working, you probably have some blocks you haven't identified yet.
Jillian's approach is to get really quiet and curious about your feelings. We only ever want something because of how it's going to make us feel. So what feelings are you after, and what feelings come up when you don't have it? Those feelings are usually clues to what's going on in your subconscious.
Regarding scarcity mindset specifically, Jillian recommends gratitude practice (focusing on what you have instead of what you don't) and EFT tapping to rewire your brain.
After writing Jillian's website, I started paying attention to people's self-talk, and it's wild how embedded the negative narrative is.
One of my students was talking about posting something and said, "It feels like it's giving Desperate Loser." I was like, "YOU'RE giving Desperate Loser. You just said that about yourself." The post wasn't inherently giving desperate loser energy — she decided it was.
That's the story we tell ourselves. We assume negative responses from other people, but nobody else ever told us that. We don't have evidence to back it up. It's just the way we're thinking about ourselves.
For instance, I catch myself saying "I'm dumb" or "I'm stupid" when I forget something, even though I think I'm a very smart person.
What really shifted everything for me is that I got sick of my shit and did a major energy cleanse. I stopped talking to negative people, deleted every mediocre man's number from my phone, stopped going on social media on weekends, and removed anything I could that had negative energy.
Within a month or two, I entered the best relationship of my life, felt the most peaceful I've ever felt, and stopped second-guessing myself about everything.
The connection isn't coincidental.
When you make space by removing the BS, you signal to the universe that you want something better.
Manifestation 101
Here's a helpful checklist of small habits you can start incorporating:
Clean up who you're around. If you can't completely remove negative people from your life, consciously prepare yourself before being around them and choose your thoughts and feelings on purpose.
Have a morning ritual. Whether it's journaling, visualizing, or whatever feels good.
Do energy checks throughout the day. Every few hours, tune in and ask: "This is what I'm trying to manifest. Can I spend 10 seconds feeling how that's going to feel?"
Stop negative thought patterns in real time. Like when I backspaced some texts complaining to my friends about my dad instead of perpetuating the negative energy.
Now, about dealing with negative people you can't cut off — because coaches love to say "set boundaries" but what if it's your best friend or sibling?
Here's exactly how I handle it: When Side Character told me he loved me (major relationship milestone!!!), I was excited to share with a close friend. But I knew her response would be negative — she has a pessimistic view of relationships and doesn't like anything about her own life.
So instead of my usual "tell me everything" conversation, I briefly mentioned it, she said "oh that's great," and I immediately switched the topic back to her. I spent hours with her that day, but I consciously put up a shield and didn't take on any of her energy.
Important disclaimer: Manifestation is not toxic positivity. Jillian says:
"We're still humans having a human experience," she says. "You're allowed to feel shitty, sad, or pissed off. When you block those feelings, you're doing yourself a disservice."
I'm the same way. I'll give myself five minutes to be sad about something, then move on. Can't cry over spilled milk — just clean it up and keep going.
Jillian's Money Manifestation Routine
Here's Jillian’s daily routine:
Gratitude journaling but with a twist. She challenges herself not to repeat things. So yeah, she's grateful for her dog every day, but she won't use that as one of her gratitude points because it forces her brain to find more things to appreciate.
Future scripting for specific money goals. If she's manifesting a certain amount through her business, she'll journal about getting clients as if it already happened: "I got this amazing new 1:1 client. She signed up for this program..." She writes it like her ideal scenario already occurred.
Detailed visualization of the whole experience. What will happen when she gets the client? She'll get a Stripe notification, see a DM inquiry, visualize opening her phone and seeing her screen, then the money hitting her bank account — that exact amount.
Feeling cultivation. What emotion will she have? Excitement? Pride? Success? Then she taps into that feeling right now during her morning practice.
Energy check-ins throughout the day. After meetings, before calls — she takes 10-20 seconds to sit in the feeling and cultivate that energy in her body.
Jillian also manifested her relationship by making a literal list of everything she wanted in a partner, folding it up, putting it in her wallet, and forgetting about it. The exact day she wrote that list, her now-husband asked her out on a second date (they'd gone out a month before, but he wasn't ready for anything serious).
But before making the list, she made space. She cleared out the nightstand on the other side of her bed, started parking on one side of the garage, and acted as if there was room for someone in her life.
For business, when she wanted to sell her previous business, she had to detach from it energetically. Instead of obsessively checking numbers and being tied to the outcome, she started working less, stopped checking metrics religiously, and acted as if she'd already sold it while still taking care of it.
The result was that she ended up selling it for her original asking price after initially dropping it.
Sara's Accidental Coaching Session
I decided to use myself as an example and ask Jillian what I should do to align with my million-dollar goal.
Her first question: "What does million-dollar Sara do?"
My answer: "Girl, she's vibing."
But as I talked through it, I realized maybe I'm already doing a lot of what million-dollar Sara would do. She doesn't obsessively check Stripe notifications (okay, I do that during launches). She doesn't worry about money (I already don't). She has more flexibility (I already have pretty flexible schedule).
Then Jillian hit me with it: "So act as if you had the million. Go spend money. Know what's coming back to you."
And here's the thing — I already have proof this works. I bought a $1,000 lawnmower and sold a $1,000 copy audit the next day. I signed Wesley up for a $1,050 camp and someone bought Site Series for $1,000 the following day.
But when I said I'd pay off my house with a million dollars, Jillian asked what that would feel like. "More flexibility," I said.
"So how can you have more flexibility just a little bit every single day?"
That's when she called out my biggest block: "Maybe there's a subconscious part of you that thinks you can't want a million dollars because you already have a successful business. You already have flexibility. You have everything you need. So why have more?"
Damn. Called out.
The truth is that both things can be true. You can have enough AND want more.
Choose what feels just a little uncomfortable — not so much that your nervous system freaks out, but enough to push you out of your comfort zone.
Point of the Story
You're always manifesting — the question is whether you're doing it on purpose. When you clean up your energy, believe you deserve what you want, and take action from that aligned place, everything shifts.
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This episode was edited by Adrienne Cruz.