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Mary Farias
Economy Creators
What if you built a successful business—but it created a life you didn’t actually want?

In Part 1 of the September Economy Creators Workshop, Mary Reiss Farias moves from August’s theme of Clarity into September’s focus: Alignment.

Clarity helps us identify what we want, where we’re going, and what we want to build next.

But then comes another question:

Does what we’re building actually align with the life we want to live?

Mary shares her own experience of building a successful gymnastics business that eventually placed gymnastics—not Mary—at the center of her economy. Her work, family life, writing, schedule and resources revolved around it. The business worked, but the life it created left her feeling confined and burned out.

That experience helped shape one of the foundational ideas behind Economy Creators:

The center of your economy should be YOU.

A YOU-Shaped Economy isn't simply the collection of things that make you money. It includes your:

• Talents
• Knowledge
• Experiences
• Ideas
• Relationships
• Assets
• Work
• Personal life
• Interests
• Sources of energy and renewal
• Vision for the life you want to create

The goal isn't simply to build more.

It's to intentionally build an ecosystem in which you can live, work, create, contribute, grow—and thrive.

In this episode, Mary explores the progression from clarity to alignment and introduces the idea of creating a personal compass for your economy.

That compass includes four important questions:

What is my mission?
What am I here to do, create, contribute or share?

What is my philosophy?
What underlying ideas and beliefs guide the way I live and work?

What are my standards?
What do I expect from myself, my work and the people and opportunities I allow into my economy?

What is my message?
What do I want the people around me to understand?

When those pieces become clear, they can help you evaluate the opportunities, relationships, projects and decisions that show up in your life.

Instead of asking only, “Could I do this?”

You can begin asking:

“Does this belong in the economy I am intentionally building?”

This episode sets the foundation for the September Economy Creators Builds on mission, philosophy, standards and message—and for creating a life and business that revolve around the person at the center:

You.

Continue Your Economy Creator Journey on Substack: https://economycreators.substack.com/

Join the Economy Creators Workshop

Discover where you are in your journey to Lead Yourself → Lead Your Economy → Lead Others, and identify your next steps toward building a YOU-shaped economy.

https://www.magnetminddevelopment.com/economy

Download The Economy Creators Framework

Learn how to build an economy around your unique interests, talents, experiences, and purpose.

https://www.economycreators.live/ec-framework-ebook

Take the Economy Creators Diagnostic Quiz

Identify the opportunities, strengths, and gaps in your personal economy.

https://www.economycreators.live/quiz

About Economy Creators™

Economy Creators™ is a podcast and radio show featuring entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, leaders, and visionaries who are building lives and businesses around who they are—not just what they do.

Because when you stop protecting someone else's economy and start creating your own, you don't just change your income—you change your identity.

Mary Farias
Economy Creators
Your purpose is bigger than the thing you’re currently doing.

In Part 2 of the September Economy Creators Workshop, Mary Reiss Farias explores one of the foundational pieces of building a YOU-Shaped Economy: understanding the difference between your purpose and your mission.

Mary describes purpose as the deeper reason underneath what we do—the thread that continues to appear throughout the different chapters of our lives.

Mission is how we choose to express that purpose now.

That distinction became especially important for Mary when she stepped away from a life and business built around gymnastics.

For years, she believed gymnastics was deeply connected to her purpose. And it was. Through coaching, she could lead by example, help young people believe in themselves, and encourage them to become more than they thought they could be.

But eventually she realized something important:

She lived her purpose through gymnastics. She didn't need gymnastics to live her purpose.

Today, that same underlying purpose can be expressed through writing, publishing, personal development, podcasting, Economy Creators—and potentially many other things.

That's the freedom that comes from separating your purpose from its current expression.

Your purpose may remain relatively constant while your mission evolves as you accumulate new:

• Experiences
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Talents
• Interests
• Relationships
• Opportunities

As your life expands, the way you express your purpose can expand with it.

In this episode, Mary shares questions you can use to begin uncovering the thread running through your own life:

What am I naturally good at?

What experiences have shaped me?

What do I care deeply about?

Who do I naturally want to help?

What keeps showing up in every chapter of my life?

And perhaps one of the most revealing:

What would I still care about if there were no business attached to it?

The goal isn't necessarily to manufacture a brand-new purpose statement.

It may be to look backward and recognize the purpose you've already been living.

Once you can see that thread, you can begin asking a different question:

How do I want to express my purpose now?

That becomes part of your mission—and another piece of intentionally building a life and economy around who you are becoming.

Continue Your Economy Creator Journey on Substack: https://economycreators.substack.com/

Join the Economy Creators Workshop

Discover where you are in your journey to Lead Yourself → Lead Your Economy → Lead Others, and identify your next steps toward building a YOU-shaped economy.

https://www.magnetminddevelopment.com/economy

Download The Economy Creators Framework

Learn how to build an economy around your unique interests, talents, experiences, and purpose.

https://www.economycreators.live/ec-framework-ebook

Take the Economy Creators Diagnostic Quiz

Identify the opportunities, strengths, and gaps in your personal economy.

https://www.economycreators.live/quiz

About Economy Creators™

Economy Creators™ is a podcast and radio show featuring entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, leaders, and visionaries who are building lives and businesses around who they are—not just what they do.

Because when you stop protecting someone else's economy and start creating your own, you don't just change your income—you change your identity.

What do you believe about the way you want to live your life?

In Part 3 of the September Economy Creators Workshop, Mary Reiss Farias completes the conversation around alignment by exploring the beliefs and philosophy underneath everything we build.

Two people can have almost identical purposes or missions—and create completely different lives.

Why?

Because of what they believe.

Your philosophy influences how you make decisions, approach money, define success, treat people, respond to problems, recognize opportunities, serve others, lead, create, and think about your own potential.

And some of the beliefs guiding those decisions may not be beliefs you consciously chose.

In this episode, Mary invites you to examine both what you currently believe and what you want to believe.

What do you want to believe about:

• Life?
• Work?
• Money?
• Success?
• Relationships?
• Service?
• Creation?
• Opportunity?
• Leadership?
• Your own potential?

Sometimes the beliefs we've accumulated don't even agree with one another.

We may believe success requires working as hard as possible while simultaneously wanting freedom, balance and time to enjoy our lives.

We may want to serve others but believe receiving something in return makes that service less meaningful.

We may have a mission we deeply care about while holding beliefs that make living that mission unnecessarily difficult.

That's where alignment matters.

Mary encourages you to ask:

Does this belief support the purpose, mission and life I want to create?

If it doesn't, what belief would?

As you begin identifying those beliefs, you can intentionally define the philosophy underneath your YOU-Shaped Economy.

And that philosophy has a job.

Mary closes the workshop with another foundational Economy Creators principle:

Every asset inside your economy needs a job.

Your book needs a job.
Your podcast needs a job.
Your workshop needs a job.
Your relationships and connections have a purpose.
Your mission needs a job.
Your philosophy needs a job.

Instead of creating more simply to create more—or constantly wondering where the next dollar will come from—you can build meaningful assets that support your mission, reflect your philosophy, serve other people, and work together inside the economy you're creating.

That is what alignment makes possible.

Get clear. Define your purpose. Build your mission. Choose your philosophy. Establish your standards. Share your message.

Then let what you build go to work.

Continue Your Economy Creator Journey on Substack: https://economycreators.substack.com/

Join the Economy Creators Workshop

Discover where you are in your journey to Lead Yourself → Lead Your Economy → Lead Others, and identify your next steps toward building a YOU-shaped economy.

https://www.magnetminddevelopment.com/economy

Download The Economy Creators Framework

Learn how to build an economy around your unique interests, talents, experiences, and purpose.

https://www.economycreators.live/ec-framework-ebook

Take the Economy Creators Diagnostic Quiz

Identify the opportunities, strengths, and gaps in your personal economy.

https://www.economycreators.live/quiz

About Economy Creators™

Economy Creators™ is a podcast and radio show featuring entrepreneurs, authors, coaches, leaders, and visionaries who are building lives and businesses around who they are—not just what they do.

Because when you stop protecting someone else's economy and start creating your own, you don't just change your income—you change your identity.

Suzanne Feit, Boardy
Chat and Suzanne AI for Everyday Life
Join Suzanne Feit, host of *Chat and Suzanne: AI for Everyday Life*, for the first in a series of fascinating interviews with Boardy, the AI super connector who brings people together through thoughtful, meaningful introductions.

Discover how Boardy learns what people are building, understands the challenges they face, and connects them with someone who may be able to help. Suzanne also shares how Boardy has supported her work, expanded her network, and introduced her to exciting new opportunities.

This warm and lively conversation shows how AI can go beyond answering questions. It can help us build relationships, discover possibilities, and turn new ideas into action.

Mei Liu,, Dr. Jengyu Lai - Healing Steps to Wellness
Welcome to Healing Steps to Wellness with your hosts Dr. Jengyu Lai and Mei Liu1. In this episode, Dr. Lai reflects on his featured presentation at the Navajo Nutrition Summit, hosted by the Navajo Nation Public Health and Diabetes Prevention Program.

As a podiatrist board-certified in lifestyle medicine with Mayo Clinic fellowship training in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and wound care, Dr. Lai explains that a diabetic foot ulcer is far more than a localized wound—it is a critical indicator of systemic metabolic dysfunction. Native American populations face severe health disparities, including twice the risk of developing diabetic foot ulcers compared to the general population, a 50% two-year re-amputation rate, and high five-year mortality rates following an ulcer.

To reverse these outcomes and preserve limbs, Dr. Lai outlines his three-part Food as Medicine framework for wound healing and metabolic restoration:

1. Diabetes & Metabolic Management: Reversing insulin resistance through whole-food, plant-based nutrition, addressing saturated fat and calorie-dense processed foods rather than treating diabetes solely as a carbohydrate issue.

2. Systemic Anti-Inflammatory & Gut Support: Reducing systemic inflammation with antioxidant polyphenols from dark berries, while using dietary fiber and resistant starches to feed the gut microbiome. This produces short-chain fatty acids that stabilize blood sugar, improve insulin sensitivity, and repair the gut lining.

3. Targeted Wound Healing & Tissue Repair: Combining dietary protein with Vitamin C, Zinc, and Copper—the three required cofactors for mature collagen synthesis—alongside dark leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables that supply natural nitrates to dilate blood vessels and boost peripheral circulation.

The episode also highlights practical community health tools—including CDC REACH produce prescription programs, mobile cooking demonstrations, and community gardens—while honoring traditional Indigenous foods (such as corn, beans, squash, wild greens, berries, and seeds) and emphasizing cultural sensitivity around body part preservation and limb salvage.

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