There's a question that's been bothering us for a while.
If the Law of Attraction works the way it's always described; think positive thoughts, visualize what you want, send the signal out to the universe and wait for it to come back...then why does it feel like most people who try it end up more frustrated than when they started?
That's not a dismissal of the idea. It's the beginning of a much better conversation. And it's exactly where our episode with Cathy Heller begins.
Cathy is the host of Everything Is Energy, one of the most downloaded podcasts on the planet with 45 million downloads and counting, a USA Today bestselling author, and one of the most grounded voices in a space that doesn't always reward groundedness. She spent three years in Jerusalem studying Kabbalah with rabbis, not on a peaceful spiritual retreat but during the Second Intifada, when the city was under genuine siege. She came back with something most teachers in this space don't have. The receipts.
Her central distinction is this: you are not a transmitter. You are a receiver.
The word Kabbalah itself comes from the Hebrew root l'kabel, which means 'to receive.' Rabbi Aaron explained it to her with a metaphor that has stayed with her for 25 years, and will probably stay with you for at least a week. A radio, sitting in a room, not switched on. Where is the music? It's already there. Hidden in plain sight. Your only job is to tune your receiver to a frequency that can pick it up.
That sounds simple. It is not.
Because most of us, as Cathy explains, are broadcasting at the frequency of lack, urgency, and self-doubt. We wake up every morning and immediately reach for our phones, step straight into reaction mode, and spend the rest of the day confirming whatever we already believed about ourselves and the world. The universe, as she puts it, is not a vending machine. It is a mirror.
What you believe, you are right about. Every time.
The conversation takes some unexpected turns from there. There's a story about God asking the animals where to hide the answers of the universe, and a blind mole who gives the only answer that works. There's a story about missing five flights in a snowstorm and ending up seated next to Michael Jordan for the entire trip. And there's a story about walking out of a suffocating networking event in Anaheim, finding a quiet hotel bar two blocks away, and meeting the head of Apple Podcasts twenty minutes later because they had apparently made the exact same decision at the exact same time for the exact same reason.
The question she keeps returning to is one worth sitting with: what if slowing down is actually the fastest path forward? What if the people who seem to effortlessly attract what they want aren't trying harder...they're just better tuned? And what if the five minutes before you pick up your phone in the morning are the most important five minutes of your entire day?
Cathy doesn't deal in empty reassurance. She spent years in music licensing after being dropped by not one but two major record labels. She built a six-figure business through what she calls radical empathy; showing up not with her own agenda but with a genuine curiosity about what other people actually needed. And she started her podcast at 37 with a newborn at home, recording in a closet, with no particular expectation that it would reach anyone. It has now reached tens of millions.
Her book, Abundant Ever After, is available now in paperback from Simon & Schuster. Her new website, cathyheller.com, just launched with affirmations, tools, and ways to work with her directly.
But start here. Press play.
Because the signal has been there the whole time. You're just about to learn how to tune it.
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