You Matter! Embracing The Impact, You Are Meant to Have on the World with Ian Haycroft

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Hi and welcome to the You World Order Showcase podcast. I'm your host, Jill Hart and today we have with us Ian Haycroft. His purpose is to support the awakening of as many people as possible. So that together we can build and sustain peaceful and just communities. He is focused on the impact of awakening.

Around the world we all live in and our planet and our communities are faced with existential issues that cry out for awakened for, and awakened to.

Approach to solutions and he believes that the most effective solutions will come from the wisdom within each of us. Welcome to the show, Ian. I am so excited to chat.

With you today?

Thanks, Jill, and I'm really happy to be here. Thank you. Thanks for inviting me.

Yeah, you are so welcome. I I've been looking forward to this conversation. It's been a long time coming, cause I've had. I had personal issues. And then then we almost didn't get to do it again because of my Internet. It's like I know this is going to be important, that things we're going to talk about today.

And I am right.

Along with you in terms of awakening the.

The humans on this planet to their potential and shining a light on what they're doing because.

I really think it's.

Important that each of us step into the thing that we're gifted with.

We.

Have to be great at everything. Just that one thing that we're meant to share and and to help others with.

And I think that's the way that we're gonna really push the world into this new, better, kinder, gentler place for us all to live.

Yeah, I sure hope so. It's kind of a mouthful. When you read it out like that, right? But I just think the older I get, the more I think.

That's the that's the key, right? It's the the capacity for us to figure out how to really get on with each other isn't in the kind of cool systems we build or the platforms we are on or any of those. I mean those are all good, right? But it's.

About the internal discovery of who we really are and.

I think that's what it's about and I think it's much easier than what most people think. That's my sense, yeah.

I I agree with that. And how much do you think that your travels you you live in Australia, we should catch everybody up. So why don't you just go ahead and give the the short story of of your story so that people can kind of get get in on the conversation that we've already started.

Yeah. So the short version of a long story is, yeah, I'm Australian, born in Australia, born and raised in Australia.

Change the world and.

I got back to Australia 22 years later instead of the three months I went from India, across Europe travelling and then to the States and hitchhiked across the States and met my now wife and stayed in America for 20 years, had a had a family of six kids.

In America, Love America, and then worked in China for three years.

And had one of those. Well, as many people have those moments in their life when it's like, OK, Now what? What am I gonna do when I grow up?

We returned to Australia via year in New Zealand and.

So six kids, 47 and I realized I cannot do the corporate thing anymore. I just cannot.

And so I got into a natural healing modality called kinesiology.

At a clinic.

And then help start a a crowdfunding financial services business.

And.

And started doing the when COVID hit. I started doing the kinesiology work online and discovered I also loved to mentor people.

And so I've been doing that online from now I'm in rural Australia. The wonders of the Internet, right. I'm literally up a dirt Rd. where nobody goes.

And I'm talking to you and I talk to people all over the world.

Online and mentor and coach and and and trying to also build a community of, you know what some of us are working on, which we call the wisdom path. So that's the short version of a long story.

I love it. It's so amazing that we can meet in a space that doesn't even exist.

Yeah.

And for.

Thousands and thousands of miles away because I'm in the US and and we're together.

Yeah.

But we're not. We're kind of like those those particles that.

Are there are there?

Yeah, a lot of people ask me it's like, how do you do kinesiology, you know, kinesiology is about muscle testing and those kinds of things. And people go well. How can you do that on the Internet, right.

So again, a long story that I but the short version is, cause we're just energy, right? We can connect and.

And I I was skeptical myself about wow. Well, we'll be able to talk about important things over this, you know, on online. But actually, it's pretty amazing. And it's only going to get more amazing, right as we.

You know holograms aren't too far away, and we'll be able to actually meet each other, you know? So the I think it opens up the potential for amazing new communities.

Which are already existing, right? They're already. It's not like it's gonna happen. It's already. I mean, you have a community, you have a community. People have communities that that aren't the people that live around them.

So amazing, right, Emma?

Than it is local to the.

Us.

More than half the people that belong to that community are from other places in the world and we're talking all over the world everywhere. And the other thing that I love about the community is I know, personally, I've talked to almost everyone in the community. I personally and invite them into the community.

I have a conversation with them.

It's it's a real community where we really do interact with each other and you know, support each other and network and collaborate and you know, so many fun things are coming out of the community.

It's just like, wow.

Yeah. No, I think it's. I think it's an amazing.

Doorway to possibilities, right? I mean, one of the things I'm working on is.

Working on a platform where people like communities like yours can get together and actually start investing money into things that they think are important, right. And then again, there's another whole podcast, though I won't bore you with it, but whereby people can share equity in.

Things that they really feel are important, right? So the.

Mm-hmm.

The possibilities of that which were really on non-existent really 10 years ago, we had to go through.

The.

You know the financial services world and the big institutions. That's all changing rapidly, right. So we'll be able to invest in things without having to be multi millionaires.

That we really believe are important. So for me that's.

Exciting possibilities, yeah.

I'm getting this image of you know I I mentioned the particles but I'm getting this image of you know how there's atoms individual of elements but when the elements are joined together new and amazing creations happen. Well, I look at collaboration kind of that way we're we're just like we're each individual.

Elements and we we have like gifts. We're all gifted in some way and we have some reason for being here.

And I think that's one of your callings is is to connect people and to help them really realize why they're here. What's your purpose and how can you best fit in cause kind of what mine is. It's just like we're like the little sticks in the.

The molecule models. Yeah. Yeah. Join people together.

But.

Yeah. And I really discovered that when I got into the healing work, right and in the corporate, mostly international relief work in, in my, in my working life, right. But then as I got into the healing work, I I you know, I started dealing with lots of people who feel like they're broken, right, and have lots of issues, right.

Hmm.

And I just began to discover that the most important part of us is not broken. Yeah, I mean, we all have stuff, right? But actually, what we can connect with each other and recognize that.

There's something in us that is fundamental that's not broken, right, you know, it's why we can love our kids, even though sometimes they are less than perfect, you know?

Ohh no, not mine.

So.

No, mine were perfect. Always.

Find always great.

But you know, as parents, we see that in our.

Children.

Despite all the broken bits which every person has, there's something fundamental that is so important to love that that's lovable, right, and people don't experience that with themselves enough. Right. So there's a kind of.

Epidemic of worthlessness that you know so many people don't feel worthy of this or that and.

So I I I do think it's important for us to help each other discover that there is something fundamentally not broken.

And I would even say divine about every human. So if we can connect on that, then sure, we've got broken bits yet. But we can connect on that, which is most important. We can build communities that reflect that. That's.

I just believe it's true and I think it's coming, it's happening and and again, it's not like it hasn't existed, you know, but I think the the world is changing so rapidly.

That what used to feel like communities, local communities.

Are really struggling, right? So but the Internet appears to be breaking it in lots of ways, but I think there's also the other side of that is the potential to build online communities that are real. They are. They actually are really real.

And that that can actually then help heal and rebuild the people around us. So I just think that that's not a crazy dream. I think it's happening.

Yeah.

Ohh, I believe it's happening. Also it's just like you look around it again. It's why I do what I do. I talk to coaches who are making a real difference. You just have to impact one or two people's lives and that ripple effect goes out forever because those people are going to touch somebody else.

Life and no two people are doing the same thing. They may sort of, they may be other kinesiologists, but they're going to be different than you because they're not you and we don't have to compete with each other. We can just be ourselves.

And I think that whole we're not good enough thing, it's just a, it's a mechanism to keep you small to keep you trapped and to keep you under control because I think there is an element in the world that wants to control everything.

I think.

To their advantage, and it doesn't benefit the whole world, it just benefits a few. Whereas I think the bottom is rising up saying, hey, hey, I don't have to be really great at everything. I can just be really good at.

This one thing.

And and it's enough and I'm enough.

Just to be that in that spot.

Yeah, Amen to that. Right. I mean, I I mean, I mentor, you know, business leaders, right. And a lot of people think. Ohh, well, they're, you know, they've got their cause they're, you know, they're they've got it together. Well, so many of them struggle and also, you know, wonder how they can handle it. And and people say but you know, business people don't want to talk about this.

Internal spiritual stuff about discovering the.

Wisdom within and I say absolutely not. They're more and more. I think that there's a recognition that if we can't find the inner inner reserves of resilience and I think that's another way of saying wisdom, then we we can't, we don't cope well, right. And lots of people in their working life.

Yeah.

Often don't feel like they're coping well and and particularly those who are kind of designated leaders, right, they're.

And I think often we look outward for, OK, if I can.

Just.

You know, get this self-help program and that self help program, I'll be OK. And I think sometimes that that's a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, right. It's like.

I've, you know, I know how that works and I've taken so many self-help health programs in my life and and I think one of the discoveries that was important for.

Mm-hmm.

He was. Ohh I can.

There's something much more simple and fundamental. Rather than being cool at this or good at that, or being having my time management skills improve, all of which are good, right? But there's a internal wisdom that is.

Available to everybody, that and I think when we discover that, then we have the capacity to work with people in ways that we never thought were possible.

Yeah, and not chasing after things. It it's the the going in instead of wanting more out there.

It's it's, it's.

It kind of runs on the same lines as like the victim mentality. I don't have XYZ, so obviously I haven't arrived yet. You're never going to arrive. No one ever arrives. It's it's a journey.

It's a circular journey in a lot of ways. It's a spiral. You're just gonna keep going round and round, and it's just going.

To get bigger.

And you're going to have new experiences, but.

We're.

For a reason, and it's not to have the biggest house and yachts and.

Or whatever your.

Idea of I've arrived is sometimes just.

Yes.

Pulling in and realizing you're enough have enough. You are enough.

There will always be enough you're breathing.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And and I I think often people feel like I think this kind of spiritual woo stuff, right. But actually I think it's.

That's it.

More and more, it's just everyday stuff where you know, I mean, I'm I'm not.

You know, sitting on a cushion, you know, looking at the world, I'm involved with the world, with my kids, with staff, with my local community. Although I mean, and often people feel like, oh, that that's the real stuff and the internal stuff is that spiritual stuff. And I think no, they're absolutely connect. You don't have to give up one for the other.

Just take a bit more time to look inside and discover what's there to them there. There's an infinite resource of.

Peace and happiness there that can.

Be involved in everyday life. It's not. They're not.

It enhances everyday life, you think?

Absolutely, absolutely right. And I think and my sense is that more and more people are having that experience often because they kind of hit a wall and go well, all the stuff doesn't make me happy or.

You know, I've tried so many relationships that have fallen over what's going on. You know, that's my, you know, my experience and I think it's everyone's experience. We hit walls in our life and realize. Ohh.

I thought that would be that was gonna. That was gonna be it, right?

London.

And none of that stuff, is it right? They're all important.

But discovering the kind of inner stillness that.

Empowers.

Can empower everything that we do in everyday life, including work, business, family, all those things. Yeah. So that's where I think that's where I think there's a lot of hope because we're all humans.

Yeah.

We're all unique and we're all to we're just all on this journey and.

It can be so fun if we could just relax and enjoy the process that happened to, like, push people into boxes that they don't fit in.

Yeah.

Now there's a particular teacher I've been listening to a lot recently called Rupert Spira, and he talks about it. You know what's sometimes called the non dual view of the world and essentially the, the, the.

The idea is that actually we all arise from 1 consciousness, whatever name you want to give that consciousness. And so we're not separate from each other.

And again, people go, oh, you know, that's kind of Buddhism, you know, that kind of, but actually.

It's.

Just true. We're not separate from one another and when we?

I.

Think we are and then we start fighting and wars. And you know, that's the tragedy. And we're actually not. We're not. We cannot be disconnected so.

I think more and more if we can experience the fact that we're not disconnected, we are connected.

Then we'll start to act that way.

You know, and and clearly human history would show that it's not an easy path, but.

The path we're on just leads to more destruction, right? So better to find ways to actually experience that we are not disconnected.

Wherever we live.

I.

Feel like we're kind of at a fork in the road right now where or or maybe a better way is like there's two parallel things happening you've got on the one side this, you know, fear induced. They've got more than I've got. So we better fight with them thing going on.

In politics, I think is mainly in that category and then you've got this other path that I'm finding more and more people are wanting to travel on, which is, you know, just.

Just do you?

Be nice.

My daughter used to say love God and don't be.

A.

****.

It's like, yeah, it can really just be that simple. Just be kind and and do you and.

You know, it's OK if everybody doesn't agree with you. It's it's OK for you to be different.

Not everybody is going to love you.

If you will, and that's all that matters, you're going to have an impact on those few who are going to have an impact on somebody else.

Yeah. I mean, I think all through history, probably people have felt that that they had a fork in the road. We I think history's full of what people are like. We're at a fork in the road. So but do I think so? Yes, right. I think we are. But it's because of the power that we now yield over the environment.

On each other.

Hmm.

It's existential in the sense that we could not exist if we do this. If we get this wrong, we're human, right? So.

And I don't think I'm alone in that feeling at all. And so, so then the, the stakes. And so sometimes the stakes feel so high that it's just.

Scary, right? But I think again, the other side of that is if we recognize the stakes are high, then we will really.

Be moved to find a way that works. That's different. I mean, there's so many examples when when disasters happen that's amazingly amazing. How the best in humans so often comes out, right. You know, ones hit, earthquakes hit and people really get out there and help each other. Right. Because I think it's.

Profoundly natural so.

As we feel that, wow, we're.

We could get rid of ourselves here if we're not careful, then I think it calls the best in us.

And I don't think that's just foolish.

Optimism, I think. I think the potential for that to happen is growing. And like you say, there's more and more people like you know there is, there are so many wonderful communities.

In real time, that is places on the Earth, but also virtual communities of real people. There are so many wonderful communities doing wonderful things or wanting to do wonderful things. So I think one of the things that and it's certainly something that I'm trying to work on myself in my own small way.

Is to link those wise communities together so that they can recognise ohk. OK, so we are not alone.

We are not alone in this and my hope is I think there's some big changes in the financial systems coming where crowdfunding will open up a door for many, many people to actually not just talk about doing better things, which is very important, but actually then investing in things to go.

I think that's an important thing to do in the world and I want to be part of that and not having to be a multimillionaire to do it.

So I think things are on the way or not they're they're already here. It's just I I think.

None of that.

With the right heart, we can bring those together.

But it's just like.

It's so encouraging to hear that.

And for people to realize that just individuals matter.

You matter.

And and the decisions you make matter. It's not like somebody next door is going to be responsible for all of these things that are changing. It's it's you.

What you think? How you feel, what you're bringing to the table and the decisions that you make?

And you know.

A drop of water will.

Wear away a mountain, given enough time.

Yeah. And you know, and we have we, we live in the country, right. And we've got a beehive that we actually, my wife does the does the work not me, but she, you know, and often use people often use beehives as an amazing example. Right are amazing. The way they work together. But you know each bee is required.

But.

And and again, I mean, humans are not bees, right? But wow, we could learn a lot from them the way that they work together and.

Support each other.

Know how they can best support each other? All those things. So I think that we've.

Miscued on the the power of individualism, I think it we are each unique, but we gotta figure out how to work together.

Yeah.

Yeah. And and how to what what our what our purpose is and got really good at the thing that we're supposed to be really good at.

So we can contribute. You were talking about working over on sub stack these days. You want to talk a little bit about that because I think that's a fascinating platform and.

Yeah, no, me too. I you know.

This is video, right? So I'm I'm a little bit older these days and I retired from my day job.

Which is was in a crowdfunding venture capital business in Australia and and that that when I ended that work there.

I felt OK so well, I'm not going to just take care of the horses. Although that's good too. I want to do something, but I really. I just. I have.

I don't feel good about Facebook, Instagram though, because I feel like they've warped the idea of community. That's my experience and I so I didn't want to go on that course. You know, even though I have those, I just thought and I and I don't want to and I'm not really good at it anyway. And I just was.

Sitting on contemplate what will I do? And someone said to me, oh, have you looked at sub stack? And I went ohh another place.

But I jumped on and and I realized wow, not a it was so easy to set up, right? So easy to use even, you know, as you know, my my kids look at how I text on the phone. Right. And they get Dad, you look like a chook.

In.

A yard right and my kids go. Oh, you know, I asked them, how do I do this right, letting my kids.

Know how to do all that?

Different, but I was on sub stack and I realized there's a community of people there growing community of people writing about and and these days podcasting about and now videoing about things that are important to them. And it's a subscriber supported model. So there's no ads.

And you can do lots of things for free, but also people are then making a living on it. And I thought, well, I could. I could try that. So I'm only just new new on it.

But I I feel it's a wonderful platform to actually have real conversations with people I've have. I'm having conversation with people I don't have to show them how cool my meal is and you know how my life just perfect. Check me out on the beach and you know.

It's like it's.

Just a chance to talk to people.

All over the world about what's important to them and and of course, then we discover there's lots of themes of common interest.

So I've really enjoyed it, I think and it's growing and clearly is still developing and but it's a a place where I finally felt like, ohh, OK, I can just be me on the on that say what I think's important. Anybody else think that's important? And have you got any anything to add and lots of people have?

Respectful. You know, it's it's not this toxic place where people just throw nastiness at each other. Actually, it's a respectful well. It has all the potential to be a great place to communicate, so I've enjoyed it. Yeah, a lot.

And they're they're really, really smart people that.

They they explore some.

I was introduced.

To it.

By Cliff High and most people probably don't even know who he is, but he's a he developed some linguistic software about 20 years ago where he was. I don't know if you heard about that basket experiment they were doing about the consciousness picking up on clues about what was coming.

It was really a fascinating experiment, but Cliff was doing that with link around linguistics and around what was being talked about on the Internet. And he calls the Internet for for potential things coming.

And he talks about it and he does it on. He talks about it while he's driving his car. He got me into to cryptocurrencies Bitcoin as specifically early on because he's always like, you know, this is going to take off this.

Is going to take off.

And he he was right.

He he even caught the coronavirus. He he said it was. It was coming up as the Sun disease and this was like a good ten years before.

The coronavirus hit so.

Yeah. And he he was over on sub stack and and then I went over there to, you know, see what he was doing. And then I saw all of the other people that are over there, a lot of the reporters that kind of got squeezed out of the journalistic part of the world, they're they're writing over there.

And they have some interesting things to say, and it's not like they have to be right. They're just talking about stuff that matters.

And they're sharing their opinions. They're sharing their research and a lot of these people do a whole lot of research before they put information out up there, which is, you know, it's so refreshing. Sometimes I just want the research I can make up my own mind about stuff. If you give me the research.

Yeah. No, I I think so too. I mean that there's a writer who I've really admired for a long time. Her name's Rachel botsman. She she writes about trust. Right. And she teaches at, I think, Oxford or Cambridge.

And I thought, oh, she's she's someone. And I think really amazing. Right. And what she thinks is great, I think. And she's on sub stack. So I'll go. OK, so I I subscribe for free, right.

And and she writes stuff and I write a comment back and then I get she goes, wow, that's really cool. What do you think about that, you know? And so I'm having this.

Conversation.

Conversation with someone who I really admire.

The way she thinks.

Who is openly going? Ohh, that's a cool thought. Maybe I'll write about that and so that quality of interaction again I think is it's hard to find in other on other platforms at the moment. And so I I think I'm I'm really hopeful about that. And so all kinds and you know a range of topics, right.

So find find the thing that is most important to you and talk to those people and you discover this.

A community of people who care about this stuff. It's like, wow, OK. And from there we can actually, I think again interact and build on that to actually then feed that energy and goodwill back into the communities we actually live in, right.

And so I think that interaction, which I think is missing, I think the Internet is somehow not the only thing right, but has contributed to the break.

King of what feels like our local community, I think, will can be a potential vehicle for reinvigorating and the communities we actually live in, right? So.

That's my.

Gives us things to talk about, you know when.

Host.

Television, had, it seemed to me.

Replaced thinking. You know, people would watch TV and they would be told what to think and then you know, depending on where you're getting that programming from you're that's that's your position. Whereas some of these platforms and sub stack in particular where you're having really intelligent.

And.

Interesting conversations about, you know, the what ifs. Nobody has to be right. You can just explore the ideas. And I think it's the exploring of the ideas that bigger and more interesting ideas and I, you know, ways of doing things or inventions.

Even that come out of that kind of interaction.

And with with thinkers you know, and then then you take it to your local community, it you talk about it at the dinner table. You talk about it with your friends when you're doing stuff. It's like, hey, did did you hear about this? Let me, let me tell you what I heard. And it's you're talking about ideas.

Instead of.

People you know it's it's it just elevates the whole frequency of the environment.

Oh, absolutely. And and that's why and again, I mean, I'm I'm biased, right, because I've been in a crowdfunding platform, right? But crowdfunding used to be, you know, support my I'm going to. I'm going to make a CD. Will you send me 10 bucks and I'll give you a free.

It's really growing and changing, right? I mean our business.

Raised $300 million so far, right? So it's not tiny and but it's and then many of these platforms growing, right? So then you know I I can imagine like on sub stacker community of surfers people who love surfing right and talk about it all that which is fantastic and for them they often go our beaches are so full of plastic.

Hmm.

These days, what what can we do? And someone may come up with a business.

That actually is a new way for cleaning beaches. I'm just using as an example so those people and and I can invest in it. For 200 bucks, I can be an equity holder in a business across the world that's cleaning beaches, right? Rather than having to go to big institutions to get $1,000,000.

So lots of people can join together to actually begin to then do something about cleaning up the beaches and doing it in a way that's financially.

Viable, right? Rather than it's too hard. So I I think those that's already happening and will happen on larger and larger scale. I think in ways that I think we've yet to get our heads around.

Yeah, there's a lot of us. It doesn't take, you know, we each don't have to contribute a lot of money to make a big difference when there's a bunch of us all moving in that one direct.

And and you know, maybe your friend isn't into surfing, but you tell them about it. And they're like, hey, yeah, I. But I like beaches. So, you know, they're gonna want to be part of it and.

Yeah.

And then who knows what they're going to do with the trash? Because.

You know spider goats.

There's there's. There's these goats that live around together that you can spin silk out of the milk.

They're somebody thought of this and they're using it in for real applications, but you know.

Who knows what?

Yes, the beaches need cleaned up, but.

What? What about?

All of the stuff that they're collecting, what is?

That going to be and you know.

What's the potential for that?

It's just like.

Blows my mind. It's so exciting.

No.

On any given day in the world, there are thousands of new businesses started with great ideas like this. There's already amazing technology for using trash usefully, right?

Hmm.

And every day new possibilities. Right? But often the the barrier is funding.

Hmm.

How do we get it off the ground? And again, the traditional financial services financial system is not well designed currently to really support that lot, most new businesses fail, right? But if we can develop platforms that actually really safely legally.

Bring the potential for crowdfunding for people to invest in things they believe in.

The change will be massive. There's trillions of dollars out there not being used properly, right? So and again.

But wisely, right. So that's where for me. The link is there's a wisdom within people want to do things that really help the world. It's not just about making a buck.

We can do both.

Sustainably do good things in the world and support each other with that then.

That's that's a potential we haven't had historically.

So for me.

Yeah.

Scary on one on the one side and the potential on the other is, I think, profoundly important.

Yeah. So how do people find you over on sub stack?

I think they they just put in my name. Ian haycroft. I think if they search it.

It's I've got a site called Living Your Wisdom.

Live your wisdom. So I think just put my name in. I think it'll come up. It's pretty simple search engine.

OK. We will do that and you do help people when it comes to coaching you, you help professionals.

Yeah. So I you know, I used to do healing work, which I still do, right. So I work with individuals with things they want to resolve in their lives and I, but over time, I also discovered that mentoring was something I really enjoyed doing. So rather than just kind of healing, but mentoring, working with people, and often in business.

So I've got a a wisdom within course 10 week process that I work with people on to help them. What I what I call discover the wisdom within and how to actually integrate that in in their everyday life and particularly in their work. So yeah, I still work with individuals and working on.

Building retreats and working with larger groups as well, yeah.

That is fantastic.

So.

This has been an amazing conversation. I have enjoyed it so much. You know, what's the one thing that you hope the audience takes away from the conversation? I know we've covered so much.

I think on an individual level.

You're not broken.

Yeah, we have stuff, but there's an essential part of us that is not broken, which is fundamentally.

Wise.

And I would say divine, and if we can connect on that.

There's amazing things we can do together.

We'll leave it with that. Thank you for joining me.

Thank you. And it's been great. Thanks very much for the opportunity. Yeah.