Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

What if the parts of reality you can’t see are influencing far more than you realize?

In this episode of Why Isn’t Everyone Doing This?, Emily Fletcher sits down with wellness entrepreneur Todd Shipman, who enters the world of quantum energy as a full-blown skeptic, determined to prove that much of what he is seeing is nonsense.

Then he starts experimenting for himself.

Todd shares the personal test that first challenges his skepticism and sends him deeper into the study of frequency, quantum energy, and quantum entanglement. What begins as an attempt to debunk the unseen becomes a much bigger exploration of how information, energy, and the physical body may interact.

Emily connects Todd’s work to a concept that sits at the heart of Ziva: the Unmanifest, the field beneath the physical reality we can touch and see. Together, they explore what quantum entanglement means, why the quantum field can be so difficult to put into language, and what it looks like to create a physical bridge between the seen and unseen.

They also get into EMFs, manifestation, water, intention, LeelaQ’s Infinity Bloc, and one of the most important questions in any conversation about the unseen: How do you stay open-minded without abandoning discernment?

Emily and Todd return again and again to the balance between scientific research and lived experience, especially when something feels real before we fully understand how to measure it.

If the word quantum makes one part of you curious and another part of you skeptical, this conversation gives both parts a seat at the table.

In this episode, they explore:

Why Todd originally thinks quantum-energy products are ridiculous

The personal experiment that forces him to question his assumptions

What Todd means when he talks about quantum energy and frequency

Quantum entanglement and the idea that information can remain connected across distance

How Emily connects the quantum field to Ziva’s concept of the Unmanifest

Why skepticism and discernment matter in the wellness industry

EMFs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and living in a technology-filled world

What Todd says LeelaQ is studying around its quantum-energy technology

The difference between research-backed claims and anecdotal experiences

Working with water, intention, prayer, and the Infinity Bloc

Why both Emily and Todd believe personal experience belongs in the conversation

The overlap Emily sees between meditation, stress, and returning the body to its natural state

Key Moments

00:00 — Why isn’t everyone working with quantum energy?
01:36 — Ziva, the Unmanifest, and making the invisible physical
05:04 — Nature, nurture, and the body’s “original blueprint”
12:35 — Todd’s starting point: “This is ridiculous”
13:21 — The personal experiment that opens Todd’s mind
23:12 — Quantum entanglement explained
42:38 — Emily asks the question she’s been avoiding: What about EMFs?
47:44 — If quantum energy is everywhere, why would anyone need a device?
51:54 — Water, intention, and the Infinity Bloc
57:25 — Why so many people still hear “quantum” and think “woo-woo”
59:54 — Todd’s very strange sage-and-raw-milk experiment
1:01:37 — Emily on science, personal experience, and discernment
1:06:53 — The connection Emily sees between quantum energy and meditation
1:08:10 — Todd’s final thoughts on using the technology alongside meditation

This episode is sponsored by LeelaQ

Emily is experimenting with LeelaQ’s Infinity Bloc as a physical way to engage with concepts that normally live in the unseen, placing things like water, jewelry, written intentions, and prayers inside. LeelaQ describes its technology as designed to create a harmonizing quantum-energy field.

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What if you've been lied to about what it actually takes to find your purpose?

In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Suzy Welch — NYU Stern professor, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming You, and one of the most trusted voices in the world on purpose and career strategy. Suzy walks Emily through the research-backed framework she teaches at NYU (the same one that makes grown adults cry in the front row), and the two go deep on faith, grief, and what really pulls people away from the life they were meant to live.

Suzy opens up about the “Four Horsemen of Values Destruction,” the forces she's identified that quietly hijack people's purpose: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security. She shares the eerily universal “widow's dream” she experienced after her husband died, and why she doesn't believe anyone can do life without prayer. She also tells the story of a woman whose family was torn apart after a tragic boating accident, and how Suzy's own decision-making method helped bring that family back from the edge, including pulling her father back from the brink of suicide. It's a rare mix of hard data, personal faith, and real transformation.

In this episode, Suzy explores:

The Four Horsemen of Values Destruction: expectations, expedience, events, and economic security

Why only about 11% of people actually want to “change the world” — and why that's perfectly fine

Her framework for finding purpose: values, aptitudes, and interests

The Values Bridge assessment, and why it's built to strip out social desirability bias

The “widow's dream”: the strange, common experience she and other widows rarely talk about

What daily prayer has meant to her since her husband's death

The story of a family nearly destroyed by tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide

Why her NYU class is nicknamed “the class where everyone cries”

Her real-time framework for deciding between two major life-changing opportunities

Why she believes we're in the middle of a purpose crisis, and how AI is accelerating it

Key Moments:

0:00 – Welcome + why this episode is called “Why Isn't Everyone Living Their Purpose?”

3:00 – Suzy's definition of purpose: the intersection of values, aptitudes, and interests

4:59 – What prayer means to her, and life since her husband's death

7:38 – Her NYU class nickname: “the class where everyone cries”

10:29 – The student who kept “getting” Zumba teacher as her purpose and couldn't accept it

11:47 – Horseman #1: Expectations

12:05 – Horseman #2: Expedience

14:31 – Horseman #3: Events (and the story of going back to the Today Show after her husband's death)

16:11 – Horseman #4: Economic security

23:59 – The Values Bridge assessment, and why it strips out social desirability bias

24:17 – Why only about 11% of people actually have “changing the world” as a top value

29:10 – The widow's dream: the moment a friend asked, “Are you having the dream?”

36:57 – Deciding between two major opportunities in real time, using her own framework

50:13 – The stranger who stopped her on the subway mid job-decision

55:16 – The family torn apart by a fishing boat tragedy, and how her method helped save a father from suicide

59:48 – Where to find Suzy, and her closing thoughts

✨ Where to find Suzy Welch:

Book: Becoming You

Podcast: Becoming You with Suzy Welch (wherever you listen to podcasts)

Take the Values Bridge assessment: thevaluesbridge.com

Website: suzywelch.com

Instagram: @suzywelch

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Your intuition isn't quiet. It's just been out-shouted by your mind for years.

In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Anna Gannon, an intuitive psychic and energy mastery teacher who has spent years training hundreds of people to hear their own inner guidance. Anna breaks down the ten distinct ways intuition actually speaks, from chills and gut feelings to taste, smell, and a knowing with zero evidence to back it up, and explains why the heart always talks first.

Anna also shares her own story: starting Ziva Meditation while deep in postpartum depression, then a solo pilgrimage to India where a kundalini awakening left her getting electrically shocked every five seconds for three months. She traces how her meditation foundation gave her the nervous system capacity to hold that awakening, and how Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy work helped her channel that raw current into her creativity and her marriage. The episode closes with a story of using her intuition to help heal her mother from a jungle hammock in Costa Rica.

In this episode, Anna explores:

The ten distinct ways intuition communicates, from sensing and feeling to clear hearing, seeing, taste, smell, and guidance

Why her almost seven-year-old son told her, “my heart always talks first, it's just my mind is so much louder”

A kundalini awakening in an Indian temple that left her electrified every five seconds for three months

Why she believes her meditation practice made that awakening survivable instead of destabilizing

How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her turn that life force into creativity and connection

Her mentor's line: “this work doesn't make your life easier, it just gives you more choices”

Healing her mother's body from across the world using nothing but intuition

Why she never says “just trust your gut blindly,” and what she teaches instead

Key Moments:

00:33 – The Kogi prophecy: the end falling into the beginning

05:02 – What an intuitive actually is

06:24 – Her son's line: “my heart always talks first”

09:26 – The ten ways intuition speaks

17:15 – Smelling radiation: a reading that revealed a client's cancer

21:52 – Why cells have two jobs: take care of themselves, take care of the whole

28:37 – Postpartum depression and the login that changed everything

32:42 – A solo pilgrimage to India, decided in one scroll

38:03 – The kundalini awakening in the temple

44:29 – Home, and electrified every five seconds for three months

48:44 – How Ziva Magic's emotional alchemy helped her channel the current

51:11 – How to start developing your own intuitive relationship today

1:01:29 – Healing her mother from a hammock in Costa Rica

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Inside, you'll merge with your future self, become the version of you who is already an energetic match for your dream, transmute fear into fuel, and learn to use your pleasure to pray.

The better you feel, the more magnetic you become.

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What if the thing you've spent decades avoiding is the exact thing that's been trying to help you?

In this bonus student spotlight episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Signy, a grocery store manager who now mentors underprivileged and neurodivergent people at work. Signy grew up in a deeply restrictive, religious household where women were raised to have babies, not opinions. Her father died by suicide when she was eight, and she spent decades pushing grief and anger down rather than feeling them, until those feelings started arriving anyway, in waves she couldn't predict or control.

Signy shares how Ziva Meditation gave her a nervous system baseline, and how Ziva Magic's Alchemize practice became her real turning point, teaching her to give her anger and grief the microphone instead of letting them steal it. She talks about the tsunami analogy that reframed everything, the moment her boss asked why she wasn't losing her mind under pressure that was breaking everyone else on her team, and the appointment where her own doctor told her she was healthier in her mid-forties than she'd been in years.

In this episode, Signy explores:

– Growing up in a household where women weren't meant to speak, vote, or have needs
– Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of grief she learned to push down
– The tsunami analogy: why feelings that never get a pressure release eventually take over
– Why Visualize was hardest for her at first: "tell me what I'm supposed to want, and I'll just want that"
– Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind while everyone else on her team was struggling
– Regina Thomashauer's line: "your mind can't handle any more, but your body is infinite"
– Why Alchemize became her biggest game-changer, faster than years of therapy alone
– Her doctor confirming she's healthier in her mid-40s than she was five years earlier
– How drinking simply fell away, without willpower or a dark night of the soul
– Turning her own healing into daily mentorship for people at work

Key Moments:

00:56 – Life before Ziva Magic: meditation as a baseline, anger and grief as "unwelcome guests"
04:47 – Growing up in a restrictive household where women weren't meant to speak
06:00 – Her father's death when she was eight, and decades of pushed-down grief
09:10 – The tsunami analogy: why repressed feelings eventually take the microphone
13:58 – "Tell me what I'm supposed to want": the hardest part of Visualize
17:00 – Her boss asking why she wasn't losing her mind like everyone else
18:31 – Regina Thomashauer: "your body is infinite"
23:48 – Her doctor's report: healthier in her mid-40s than she'd ever been
26:00 – How drinking fell away with ease
28:18 – What she'd tell someone too scared to try Magic Maker
33:18 – Turning her own healing into mentorship for others at work

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On his intake form, he wrote one word: skeptical. By the last night of his retreat, he said something completely different.
In this bonus student spotlight episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Danny, an optometrist, father, and husband who came to Ziva Magic a self-proclaimed skeptic and left, in his own words, a believer in magic. Danny is exactly the kind of person this work is built for: logical, raised to equate happiness with achievement, and never once spiritual before this. He joined on what he calls a rather last-minute decision, simply because the message on Emily's podcast resonated.
Danny shares the words that confused him at first—download, container, frequency—and how it felt to finally understand them. He describes the moment magic stopped being abstract and started showing up in a cup of tea, on a paddleboard, and playing trucks with his son. And he offers one of the clearest metaphors this show has heard for why logic alone isn't enough: a brand new laptop that never gets plugged into Wi-Fi.
In this episode, Danny explores:
The one word on his intake form, and the very different words he said on his last night
Why he introduces himself as father, husband, optometrist, in that order
Life before Ziva Magic: pure logic, no spirituality, and a constant need to do more
Why the dream itself was never the point, and what it actually indicates
His wife and coworkers noticing he's “happier at work now”
The jargon that confused him at first, and how he'd define magic now
Planting his first garden at 46, and finding actual magic in a carrot
The Wi-Fi analogy: why a great brain disconnected from spirit doesn't get far
Reclaiming the word pleasure, from tea to paddleboarding to playing trucks with his son
Waking up the body's own internal pharmacy, without any substances
Key Moments:
00:49 – His intake form: “I'm skeptical” to “I believe in magic” 02:54 – Life before Ziva Magic: pure logic, no spirituality 04:17 – Giving himself permission to ask what he actually wants 06:44 – The biggest shift: trusting things will fall into place 09:24 – The old pattern: always doing more to make his parents happy 10:00 – His wife's report: “you're happier at work now” 11:23 – The words that confused him: download, container, frequency 12:18 – Defining magic in his own words 15:24 – Planting his first garden, and finding magic in a carrot 18:58 – The Wi-Fi analogy: a great laptop that was never plugged in 21:27 – Reclaiming pleasure in tea, paddleboarding, and playing trucks with his son 22:47 – Waking up the internal pharmacy, and the lizard brain
✨ The Ziva Experience is open for enrollment. This is the final window.
Meditation to dissolve stress at the root. Embodied manifesting to turn your emotions into fuel. A mantra ceremony and a community built to hold you through all of it. Doors close Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59p ET.
Enroll now
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