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Welcome to the Heart Led Business Show, where compassion meets commerce and leaders lead with love. Join your host, Tom Jacobs, as he delves into the insightful conversations with visionary business leaders who defy the status quo, putting humanity first and profit second. From heartfelt strategies to inspiring stories, this podcast is your compass in the world of conscious capitalism. So buckle up and let's go. Let your heart guide your business journey.

Tom: 0:36

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard the joy ride of enlightenment, as we invite a genuine gem of a guest to our grand heart led business show. Lo and behold, Dr. Dolores Fazzino as our medical maestro and intuitive imparter, harnessing the symphony of the soul to heal the human huddle. Get ready for this daring dame's dancing dissertation on her heart held business. It's going to be a rendezvous of radiance, resilience, and of course, rib tickling revelations. Welcome to the show, Gloris.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 1:04

Thanks, Tom. I love your introduction. It's very colorful. I might have to adapt that to mine.

Tom: 1:10

Just run it through ChatGPT, ask for good alliteration.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 1:13

Yes, you know, ChatGPT is a real great tool. I do agree.

Tom: 1:17

I mean, you still to a little editing.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 1:18

Yeah, I know, but it's still a good, it's I'm enjoying it myself

Tom: 1:22

Awesome. Well, the first question I always like to ask our guests is what's your definition of a heart-led business?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 1:28

Well, gosh, Tom, you know, for me, I believe it is knowing yourself and aligning with who you are. Now, for me, it's like, I really hold being an integrity, a very good value. And it's about, you know, I it's great. It's hard to put it into words, I guess, for me. I'm having a struggle with it because it's so unique to me. And I really haven't even thought about it that much yet. I know that when I leave from my heart space and speak from my heart space and do things from my heart space, I am on the right path.

Tom: 2:04

And you can actually feel that inside, in terms of excitement and actually physical representation of that.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 2:10

It's like doing the right thing and being in alignment with yourself.

Tom: 2:15

Yeah, absolutely. That alignment is a kind of common theme that I hear on the show, because we have a lot empaths and health and wellness practitioners that really are quite good givers. And having that alignment just, it feels good, right? So tell us a little bit about your business and what inspired you to start a heart led business.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 2:32

Well, I think I've always been a heart led type of person, even from, you know, just stepping out of, making my entrances into this world out of my mom's womb and I have always been an empath, intuitive and highly sensitive person. So as far as feeling and connecting with energy, that was, I would say my lifeline. Cause that was how I was able to maneuver through the river of life. If you want to call it that or the streams or whatever because this was like the only innate thing that came with me. I didn't come with any other Toolkit, if you want to call it that, or instruction manual on how to be here on earth, because it's like some of us are, it's daunting when we first are here, we're like, what the hell is this shit? And it's like, how do I fit in? Because nobody told me about this. And it's just like, it's really an eye, it's an eye opener. So for me, I've been pretty much that way my whole entire life. And of course we all go through our challenges when we're youngsters and we're born into families that are going to teach us and mold us into where we need to go as an adult. And sometimes, We have to stifle who we truly are until as a survival mechanism in order to get through our childhood until we're in young adulthood and we start unraveling all of that and really kind of having a renaissance and coming back to home. So for me, I'm going to say that my whole life has been a journey to this point right now. And it is by aligning with what is near and dear to your heart, but also listening to that intuitive wisdom that we each have and learning to trust that more and more every day has been instrumental in that. So, you know, I'm going to just segue into, you know, the story of how I got into this, because I think it's kind of interesting because when, sometimes when you're on a pathway, Something happens in the 11th hour and it allows you to pivot into something completely different. And for me, one of those moments was I was a teenager. I was probably in 11th grade and on a pathway to become a concert clarinetist because in our house we weren't allowed to feel. So I channeled all my feeling into music and I really excelled at it. And what was also happening in tandem at the same time, my dad had been sick on and off for about 10 years at that time with a chronic condition that he actually acquired in the hospital when he had back surgery 10 years prior. And so right around 1975 ish, everything kind of came to a head in our family. My dad was in the hospital once again with the chronic condition. And my mom was at her wits end. And so she was looking at alternative things. And of course you're looking back in 1975, we didn't have computer technology. We had Snail Mail. We didn't have Google MD. Sometimes we just had the National Enquirer. That's where a lot of people would get their information. I kid you not. Okay. I mean, there's like magazines, magazine racks at the grocery checkout and that's where those things hung out. And so my mom just happened to look at that and there was a article being featured. It was a write up. of a man who was a minister from Carroll, Michigan, who had the gift of laying on of hands. And he was being featured, a write up was being featured about him because he was instrumental in assisting his brother in healing from leukemia. And Reverend Holmes had been doing this work in 1975 for the last 25 years. So he was doing it since like the 1950s with pretty good success. And so my mom was all over this, like butter on bread, my dad, not so much. And it just so happened that mom and dad were in the hospital. Cause my dad was having his, you know, his, I'm going to say his last episode of this. Because and you know what medic western medicine was offering was a you know, of course they put them underneath the cat scanner because that was the new piece of instrumentation that came out in around that time and they were able to determine that where his condition was coming from was originally was from that original surgery back 10 years prior. So their solution also was to do a spinal fusion. which in 1975 was in its neophyte stages of development. So it came with a high high risks of either dying, being paralyzed, or maybe you'd get better and maybe not. So my mom was looking, she was pulling for straws, and because she felt Western medicine had failed her. So that day, my mom presented that to my father saying, you know, I'm thinking about, getting this healer to come in and my father was dug in and said only if the surgeon agrees to that because he was the biggest skeptic ever. So my mom happens to march out to the nurse's station where the surgeon was sitting and made an announcement to the surgeon saying I'm thinking about having a spiritual healer come in. Now you have to understand this is considered quackery in the day and age, okay and the surgeon didn't miss a beat, looked up and sure that's my dad, my mom went back to my dad. Oh, this, it gets even better. My mom went back to my dad and, you know, shared that information. My dad, you know, pretty much gave his seal of approval with it because the surgeon said, yes, not 10 minutes go by Tom. My mom goes back out to that same nurse's station, same doctor sitting there and announces to the surgeon that my husband agreed to have the spiritual healer come in to assist him. The surgeon dropped what he was doing, looked up at her and said, I never agreed that. Of course, my mom didn't share that piece of information with my dad and Reverend Holmes was in our humble home a month later. Because I, this is where God comes in and intervenes sometimes okay? Where things were lined up because they needed to go in a different direction than what they had been. So a month later, Reverend Holmes came to our home. My two grandmothers were there, my parents, and my brother and two sisters, there were four of us. And Reverend Holmes was there and I just loved his energy. He had this real radiance, but he was a very humble man. And he happened to notice that my dad had one leg that was shorter than the other. Don't ask me how he knew this because we knew this. But my dad was barefoot. He had, he was wearing lifts in his shoes, but his shoes were nowhere in sight and he was barefoot. I don't know how this man knew this, but he said to my father, put both of your feet up. And sure enough, there was a one inch gap between the shorter and the longer. And he said, put your legs down. And he started praying over my father. He touched his belly, the solar plexus on the top of his head, his crown chakra, and not three minutes went by. And he instructed my father to put both his feet up and they were both the same length. My dad started bawling like a baby, like I never witnessed before. I knew in that moment that my life, I was not supposed to be going into music. I was supposed to be going into healthcare to bridge the physical with the spiritual and the visible with the invisible. Father received another half hour of work from Reverend Holmes, and then he was instructed to rest for the next day or so. My dad slept over 24 hours because what we know when we do massive energy work is that you are realigning. And I call it very similar to having a computer, getting an upgraded program and you have to reboot the computer. So it re aligns with the newer, higher vibration. That's pretty much what energy work is as well. Your body needs to recalibrate to a higher frequency. My dad slept for over 24 hours. A month later, he went back to get a repeat CAT scan. It showed no evidence where the infection was. He never had to have the surgery. He never had to revisit that problem in his lifetime. And he passed away about 12 years ago at the of 80. So that was my pivotal point and so, and that was my if you want to call it initiation into the work that I do currently. And so being an empath, intuitive and highly sensitive person, you know, we operate on energy and feel. and frequency because everything is energy and you could just roadmap it all out. So for me with my work, it's been I would say an interesting journey because remember back in the 70s, this was considered quackery. And so, it's been interesting to witness the evolution of this going through the last 45, 50 years plus. Yes, I'm old. And being able to thread this through Western medicine has been interesting as well. Because I, you know, everywhere you go, here you are. So the intuitiveness was always with me wherever I went. And things would, it would be eye openers for a lot of people. And I think they would realize that there's other things going on than what, We could put in a box and describe it with a nice little bow as evidence based because a lot of stuff that we know is true. We don't have the capability of measuring that right now. Okay. We, and it's the truth. Yeah.

Tom: 11:22

It could be, some energy can be measured within the body though, can it not?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 11:27

True. Very true. Like color, colorian photography and stuff like that. You could look at that and there's been stuff and it's actually advancing more and more, but it's still lags behind. Where we really are, because I think what happens is that we know these things. And a lot of us have come in from other times and places in this lifetime to bring our tools and gifts to assist humanity and earth in its Ascension process and raising the vibration and frequency here. So there's things that a lot of people know that we just don't have that capability to measure yet. And quantum physics has been very assistive with that. That's like that whole new branch that opened the gateway for all of that to happen. So it's been awesome witnessing this. I'm still working in the clinical setting part time. And as as an assistant surgeon, I assistant surgical procedures and I've been doing that, I would say for the last 30 plus years of my career. And just being able to be there and just witnessing miracles and transformations and transmutations and healings and stuff like that, which is pretty incredible.

Tom: 12:35

So what type of people do you work with then in terms of the medical intuitive work that you do in entertainment?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 12:41

You know, it's all, it varies. There's, you know, I've worked with the whole gamut, people who are really chronically ill to people who are going through their spiritual awakening, as I call that, and that is where life had been working really well up until a certain point, then it's almost as if what had been working before is no longer working for them. Because it's like they've, the focus has been turned from being outward focused into inward focus where it's time to have a relationship with yourself and to learn how to love, appreciate and value and respect yourself. Whereas before a lot of that we gave our power away to something outside ourselves. So it's really about. And it's basically, I teach the same thing, whether or not a person has a chronic illness, or they just want to make a life change, because it's basically the same.

Tom: 13:28

And so it, do you combine both Western medicine? Cause you are, you know, you're a trained nurse practitioner as well. And so combine the two modalities based on what the person ultimate goal is?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 13:43

Absolutely. And I want to also add this, is that I also teach people how to grow, learn, and trust their intuitive abilities, because this is our innate wisdom we are born with. And then we have been pro, we've been deprogrammed by being born to ignore that, not trust it, and to give our power away to something external instead of trusting that internal wisdom. Each one of us has the capability to heal ourselves. We're wired that way. We're wired that way. Yet, we don't trust that. We don't know how to access that. We forgot how to access that. We've been sometimes dummied down to not access that. And it's about having a renaissance and coming back to self and rediscovering who you are, having a relationship with yourself because the longest relationship you'll ever have in your life is the one you have yourself. It's like, so how's that going? Are you feeding and nurturing it? Are you beating it to a pulp? I mean, some of the things we say to ourselves in the quiet of our mind are very unkind, know, but you know, here we are, we have this beautiful vessel. It's 75 percent water and you know, how we label water sometimes with the change, the frequency. What are you labeling your container with?

Tom: 14:59

Yeah good questions to ask, you know, for sure. Yeah. To people to really be thinking about that as well and taking control of their own health as well.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 15:07

Absolutely. And you know, that's what it's really all about right now because many, and you know, I could say this because I'm Western medicine trained and I've witnessed this even personally. It's like people will listen to what a doctor has to say, even though their body's screaming at them, don't do it. But they think that just because that this person has more education and wisdom, they know. No, they know for the gamut of the population, you as an individual, your body knows what it can handle and what it cannot. And if something is not in alignment and you're hearing something and you're not leaning into it, please don't do it because you'll live to regret it.

Tom: 15:42

A hundred percent. So kind of shifting gears to the business side of it, because I can imagine. You know, the seventies, eighties, nineties, trying to combine the energy work along with the Western medicine work that you're doing, that there's probably a little bit of a challenge creating a business around that.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 16:00

Well, you know, I had to keep it in separate so to say, for a very long time. So I would do the nursing part, and then I would have a completely different practice where I was doing the energy stuff. And it wasn't until probably the last 20 years that I kind of married the two together because I felt that it was time, even though it was a still premature my mom used to say, you can't tell people what you as just like, you know what? I don't care anymore. I'm not being my true authentic self. So I decided to, you know, sometimes when you are your true authentic self, you're not going to be friends with everybody. Okay. Because not everybody, you're not going to be for everybody. And you know what? That's okay. They're not your peeps.

Tom: 16:40

Exactly.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 16:41

So don't try to convince them that they are because they're not your right? So when you come from that standpoint and you know energetically that, okay, where, you know, it's like allowing the energy and the flow to be part of that instead of trying to go against that and pushing a boulder up a hill.

Tom: 16:59

Now did the business side of it ever feel like pushing a boulder up the hill, like

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 17:04

Oh, yes it did.

Tom: 17:05

just the whole business side?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 17:06

It did because it was like, you know, you take, you don't have a lot of business savvy, so you take classes and the model at that time was very like push push up the hill, you know, turn every rock over. And it's just like, it was bloody exhaustive. And yeah, okay. Yes, you have temporary success, but it's not lasting.

Tom: 17:26

And do you find

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 17:26

Okay. And now.

Tom: 17:27

combining that with the heart led piece of it, that now it's in alignment and can last a lot longer?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 17:33

Oh my gosh, yes. So the thing is, it's like learning how to use your intuition as well, okay, your inner guidance. So it's about marrying, I'm going to say, doing and being together, okay, where it's more like you're going to start in the being part versus the doing part. And what I mean by that is like when you're being, you're fully present in the moment, you're in your body, okay, you are heart centered, okay, you're, everything is, and when you're in that point in the moment, this is where you get those little nudges from the universe, your intuition, because you're quiet enough and in the moment, that's where you need to experience that. This is where you also get to feel. You have to be in your physical body to feel. Okay, so, and feeling is an innate part of that intuition and the inner wisdom that we have. So, you would maybe get a divine, I call them divine downloads. You get those intuitive hits like, Oh, I should probably call Mary today. I don't know why I need to call Mary, but I'm going to call her. So, you go into divine doing. You call Mary. Mary, you know, starts chatting with you and says, I've been wanting to talk to you for a while because I need to introduce you to somebody that I think would be a good fit for you. So she makes the introduction and it has a piece of your business that you need. Okay. And then you go back into divine doing. So you, it's like the infinity sign on its side with the two poles of doing or being and doing, okay. We need both, but I think for so long, we've been programmed that we've been lopsided with the doing part. And I think it's caused a lot of people, a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety, a lot of sickness and illness and unwellness and And, you know, a lot of drama and adds a lot to collective consciousness, which is so noisy right now. The next last thing you want to be doing is inundating somebody's email with three emails a week about what you're doing and trying to promote yourself. It's too much noise. Way too much noise. And it's counterproductive, because you know what those people will do? Delete delete, delete, and they won't go. Unsubscribe. People don't understand that. They say, oh, people need to be touched 30 or 60 times. Bullshit. If I'm touched once and I'm not interested, bye bye, you're out of here. Don't people understand that? No, they don't. So you need to go back to just being and allowing and receiving because everything we need and want is there for us. The big picture is that it's vibrating at a higher frequency up here. You may be here. How do you access this? You work on yourself and raise your frequency. You work So it matches that.

Tom: 20:11

Yeah. I've always found when I'm busy doing that it's very little actually gets done and it's in those times of quiet meditation or going for a walk or just being outside of the office and what have you that the inspiration comes or the opportunities are presented to us. And you know, I always think that the opportunities are always around us. It's just how in tune are we to actually notice those opportunities and accept those and go for it.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 20:42

Very true. That's it's a truth. It's a whole different way and modality of creating a business and just accessing it because I've had both experiences in my thirties. I was in the doing mode and pushed something up the hill and ended up sacrificing my health because of that. So I decided I needed to do something different and it's actually been way better than you could imagine because you're in the flow of things, it's less work. It's less people say, Oh, I don't have enough time. I have boundless amounts of time now to do whatever. And, you know, and to choose how I want to show up and, you know, work on myself and integrate that in, because I feel that's all, when you're a solopreneur, you're it, you're the brand. So how are you leading by example?

Tom: 21:26

Yeah. Now, were you in business for yourself in the 30, in your thirties as well?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 21:31

Yeah.

Tom: 21:31

So the income potential that you had then versus the income potential that you have now, and the different thought process, obviously from your thirties to now what does that look like in terms of just like,

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 21:42

You know, it was interesting because, you know, 30 years ago was another time and place. So things were a lot different than what they are now. I think the focus was a lot different as well because it was push push, and, you know, create make, and, you know, financial reward. Now as, you know, I've gotten wiser over the years and I'm much older the priorities are a little different. It's about, you know, for me, it's about making a difference in people's lives and teaching them tools that are going to allow them to thrive in uncharted times and a lot of uncertainty.

Tom: 22:16

And definitely now there's definitely a lot of uncertainty.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 22:20

Oh my god. There it is. You know, and so if you could become certain within yourself, it doesn't matter what's happening around you. So that's the key piece right there.

Tom: 22:29

So this has been just a fascinating conversation and just very interesting to me. And the dichotomy between kind of the Western medicine and the energy work that you're doing. I think that's really interesting just how you've made a business out of it and done well doing that. So thanks for sharing.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 22:43

Yeah, thank you.

Tom: 22:44

How can people learn more about what you're doing and get in touch with you?

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 22:48

Sure. Thanks, Tom. I could be reached through my website. My website is drdoloresfazzino.com and you could just reach out to me at dolores@drdoloresfazzino.com. Now, if people come to my website, I have a free guided meditation to, allows people to stay in the present moment. It's a short five minute thing, but it's, I think it's really essential because many of us are not in the present moment and have no clue of what that feels like to be in the present moment. So this will give you a taste of what that's like. Additionally too, I also have a program called I'm Awake Now What? It's for people who have woken up because we have three waves of people who are awake, people who are awakening, or waking up and people who are still asleep. And there's a lot of people who are waking up right now because of circumstances in their lives that have kind of triggered them into that. Okay. Maybe life had been working well for them externally. And then all of a sudden the rug got pulled out from them. They either lost a job lost a relationship. Things are changing and evolving yet. They have this, they know that, but they just don't, know what to do. They feel alone. They're lost. So it's a membership community that offers support resources. We have a monthly Zoom call and it's recorded and it's a community as well. So it's for like minded people who are going through some major challenges.

Tom: 24:07

Nice. Well, thanks for sharing that. And definitely for sharing your story today as well. And for being on the show, I really appreciate it.

Dr. Dolores Fazzino: 24:14

Thank you. Appreciate it too.

Tom: 24:15

No worries. Thank you listeners for watching the show or listening to the show, depending on what platform you're on. I really appreciate it. And I know Dolores appreciates you as well. We're going to link up all those resources that Dolores has shared with you in the show notes. So make sure you're checking that out. And you know, take advantage of that meditation, that guided meditation for sure, that everybody needs to be present, so, and slow down and get stuff done. And if you could do me a short little favor, and that would be just hit that little subscribe button and do a little rating and review of the show that really helps kind of spread the word and helps people find the show and learn more about heart led businesses like Dolores's. And until next time, lead with your heart.

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