Paula Peralta will help you create a new life. She is a celebrity hairstylist and a business and empowerment coach. According to some standards, she has done everything wrong to achieve success, yet Paula exudes joy and is experiencing more success than ever before. Paula loves to share how taking a step back from living life on everyone else’s terms was the best move she ever made. Paula helps her clients visualize how they can create a new life even with a blank slate. She believes it’s possible to make a career change at almost any stage in life.
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Contact Info
- Company: Access Consciousness
- Website: PaulaPeralta.com
- Instagram: @hairbypaulaperalta
Most Influential Person
- Sarah Grandinetti, Access Consciousness facilitator , Best friend and Business Partner
Effect on Emotions
- “It has got me out of being an effect of my emotions and really getting to what's true for me.
- For me, the higher harmonic of perceiving and actually knowing what's true and learning to follow my awareness, instead of being the effect of my emotions has been the biggest key with playing with tools of Access Consciousness”
Thoughts on Breathing
- “Breathing is one of the greatest tools to connect with our bodies.”
- “It gives us the opportunity to take a pause to expand out energetically and talk to our bodies about what it's aware of.”
- “It also allows us to strip out all the projections of the day and get to what's true for us. That is what allows us to get to our natural state which is joy and so from that state you can literally create anything.”
Suggested Resources
Bullying Story
- “Bullying is based on the insecurities of the person who is the bully. Bullies never pick on the weak people, they pick on the strong people. Even though they may be perceived as the wimpy kid, or they may be scrawny or awkward, or different in whatever way. They only try to bring down people who they perceive as stronger than them. That's always based on insecurity.”
- “I was raised around adults so I was very articulate and curious. I was very conversational with my teachers so I would get picked on as a teachers' pet or that I talk too much.”
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Episode Transcript (Excerpt)
Note: The following transcript is a draft transcript, and as such, may contain computer-generated mistranslations.
Bruce Langford:
What does mindfulness mean to you?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
So for me it's really about getting to who you all are and really understanding that you actually are the most valuable product. Like what if you being you is actually the gift that's required to change the world. And when you take time to strip away all of the other narratives and all of the other projections and expectations and judgments and rejections that we often face in this world, there are a lot of the things that we are that we have projected us from an even a very young age. Once you start to strip all that away, that's where you are. That's like the beautiful pony that you are. And it's like from that space you can literally create anything. And from that space, you can ask the question with total ease, what else is possible here that I haven't even considered? And that's where you can actually start to create a life that you don't need a vacation from. And all of that is for me what really about being super present or what you call mindfulness mode. Like, that's what being present and being like the creative director of your own life looks like for me. Oh cool.
Bruce Langford:
So what is it about you that makes it so that you can help someone veer in a totally different direction in their life and career? What, what talents and abilities do you have that can help people do that?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
Well, one, I made a lot of mistakes in my own life. I'm like, it says in my bio I did everything wrong and for all intents and purposes, I definitely am. I think by this reality standards a bit. I'm a failure. I dropped out of college just cause it wasn't for me. I started a career and got laid off five years in. I completely started over with my business twice. My salon business and you know, now when we're in, you know, we're obviously in the times of coven 19 and I'm again looking at like stepping away from certain aspects of my business that no longer work for me. So it's like, it's been kind of failure after failure after change, after change. So that's the first thing. And then also I'm a certified facilitator for access consciousness which is really focused on empowering people to know that they know. So you know what's true for you and you know what's gonna work for you and you have an awareness. And so when you're actually following your knowing, that's when actually the greatest possibilities can show up in the university and have your back. So those are kind of two things, but it's just a lot of trial and error and just really using tools to get to a space where I trust myself, I trust my awareness and I really can like follow the energy of the universe.
Bruce Langford:
So what do you spend most of your time doing, Paula?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
Well, it depends on the day. So I spend a lot of my time facilitating either one-on-one with my clients or I will. I facilitate a lot of classes as well. A lot of my classes are focused on being you, and the joy of business. I do a lot of business and money classes, but the more energy excited, the more what's true for you. Like, if you weren't necessarily following, you know, the latest in Forbes or you know, whatever the public, the business publication is, and it's, that is great information and be informed. But it's also what do you know, like, what do you know about business and if you are truly creating your own reality, what would that look like? And so I spend a lot of time facilitating that. And then I also I obviously, like I said, I own a salon in Los Angeles, California, and I work behind the chair as a hairdresser.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
And I spend a lot of time not only doing my guests' hair, but facilitating them on, you know, a lot of the traditional issues that people have in life. You know, whether it's relationship or money or business or kids or, you know, family is always a big one or their bodies. So that actually is how I got started as an empowerment coach is I was working with so many hairdressers, or sorry, well hairdressers as well, but I was working with so many clients who were coming and just, you know, bogged down by, by, you know, all of the kind of projections of this reality. And I started to look at what, like, what could I actually choose here that would contribute not only to them having beautiful hair when they walked out, but having that pep in their step and feeling empowered to go out into the world and be them.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
So that's kinda how we got started.
Bruce Langford:
Oh, that's so interesting. Now for Mindful Tribe, for some of our listeners who don't know this, can you explain what is Access Consciousness?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
Sure. So it's a set of tools. It's really the, again, like I said so access consciousness is a set of tools that empowers you to know that, you know, so every, every projection or expectation that we often get thrown upon us, whether it's because of our gender or race or our economic status or like where we're at in the family or what our familial roles are. So all of those things they are, there often is a certain narrative that's projected. And so acts of consciousness actually how is a set of tools that help you get to, if that can be a part of you. But if you weren't defined by all of those things, like where are you?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
And, and if you were functioning as you and choosing for you and creating a reality that you know as possible, which is often a reality beyond this reality that other people aren't talking about, it's like what, what would actually be possible? Like what could show up? What could you create? What could you choose? Like, who would you be? And that, that's what I actually really love that cause it's empowering you to know that, you know. So what's your story? How did you first become connected to access consciousness? Yeah, so I, I've read a book dr Dane Hare here whose one of the co-creators of access consciousness. He wrote a book called being changing in the world and there are some really pragmatic tools in it. And I read the book, I totally fell in love with it and he was doing a like a taster kind of short evening kind of a meet and greet.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
And I went over to it, actually, I flew up to San Francisco from LA. So I worked a full day in the salon. I hopped on a plane, was like tires screeching and my Uber to get to the hotel in time to see his presentation. But it just, it was, there was such a kindness, gentleness and but this strength and this empowerment behind everything that he said that was like such a gift. And one of the things that I love the most about Access Consciousness is that it's not about trusting the set of tools, but Dane Heer and Gary Douglas, who's also the cofounder, co-creator of Access Consciousness he says, don't trust me. Trust you. Like, what do you know? What do you know?
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
So it's such a cool different conversation of like always getting to more of you. What do you know, what do you know, what tools can you use? What's your awareness? Like if you were truly being new here, like what would you choose? And for me, that's such a different invitation. I'm in a world that's often projecting it, like how to be, who to be, what to be, where to be, when to be. So, and it's changed. It's completely changed my reality. So you know, it's changed my financial, like it's changed my relationship with my body. It's changed how I do business. And my life just continues to get greener.
Bruce Langford:
Well, yeah, for sure. That's awesome. And yeah, I've been honored enough to have Dane here on my show. Dr here has been on my show and so is Gary Douglas. He's been on my show as well. And now I get to have Paula Peralta on my show. So this is very cool to have you felt lucky. I don't know how either one of us got so lucky, but it's great that we have been able to be connected. This is fantastic. Have you always been this happy, fun, loving, energetic person even when you were a child? Tell me about a day in your life when you were seven years old.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
Oh, I love that question, Dana. Yes, I've, I have always been happy. I often was very quiet as a child. I spent a lot of, so my mom tells me that I was very, like obedient and that like she didn't have to worry about me. So I was just always very observant. I was very aware of the world around me, the people around me. And I wasn't necessarily as serious and outgoing as I am now. But I was an only child until almost actually the age of seven. And so I spent a lot of time around adults and so I was very articulate from a young age. And so then once I actually started really engaging with the world, I think yes, I definitely came out of my shelf.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
But I will say that for most of my life I w like most of my teens, like high school years, my twenties I actually really experienced a lot of depression and that was like depression and anxiety. And so much of it, it was just like an awareness of the world around me. And again, people's projections and expectations and not being me. Like I allowed myself to really separate from who I be and not caused. It caused a lot of disruption in, in my joy and in my happiness because I was constantly trying to like bend, fold, staple, and mutilate myself in order to fit into this reality. His projections of what was okay, what was appropriate, like beauty and you know, like engagement with the world around me and things like that. And it just didn't work for me. And I was also highly aware of the people around me and the things that they were experiencing.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
This reality calls it empathic and Access calls it something called X-Men. So it's really just that that energetic awareness of the world around me. And so I really, really struggled for a lot of years with depression. And that has been, so again, the joy of using the tools of Access Consciousness is that I've actually gotten to more of me. One of my favorite tools with Access is who does it belong to. And if you step back and you look at, okay, if we're really highly aware and we're also energetically connected, if 99.99999, and probably more than that percent of my thoughts, feelings, and emotions don't actually belong to me. It's just that I'm really, really aware of, you know, people's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Paula Peralta (Create A New Life Coach):
It's like once you get to that space and you start to look at that and you can be like, okay, cool, who does this belong to? Like I'm, I'm perceiving anxiety, or I'm perceiving sadness, or I'm perceiving stress, or whatever that is. And it's not actually my, I'm just really, really aware. You can ask the question of who does this belong to? Or is this mine? And then you can actually start to ask him a different question. And once you aren't under the weight of, you know, those emotions, I'll say, then you're able to actually step into more of you and be you and function as you in the world, which is really such a gift. And that's actually the gift that the world requires, is for you to be you. Because our natural state is joy. It is fun. It is positivity.
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