The Awakening

Samantha Bauer(00:01.295)
Well, Christine, here we are. Hello. Welcome, everybody. We're thrilled you're with us. This is the Sisters in Law of Attraction podcast. I'm Sam. And I'm Christine. And we're thrilled you're with us. Actually, it's no accident that you're here. I firmly believe that. We firmly believe that you were meant to find us, to join us on this incredible journey together. Both Christine and I are.

Christine Goforth(00:01.87)
Hello

Christine Goforth(00:10.414)
And I'm Christine.

Samantha Bauer(00:27.311)
We geek out on this stuff. We get so high vibey about the law of attraction and the power of your own thoughts, the control that you have over your own life, merely with your tweaking your own thoughts. And what's kind of fun is this actually has been 36 years in the making. Christine and I are actually sisters-in-law. I met her when I was 15, and she was just five. Little teeny weeny.

Christine Goforth(00:53.676)
He's just a baby.

Samantha Bauer(00:54.829)
Just a baby. I was dating her brother at the time. Obviously older brother because that would be totally weird. So anyhow, we really and truly have been sisters for 36 years. And I really feel like the culmination of this moment is just an exciting one for us. And so we welcome you on this journey no matter where you are at in your life. Seeking to find the life that you're meant to live.

Samantha Bauer(00:54.829)
making some tweaks in your own life so that you can get all high vibey with the universe and make sure that you manifest the things, the good things that are meant for you. So welcome. I think probably the best place to start, Christine, is with your own awakening. We're gonna call it for dramatic sake. So with that, think let's start with your awakening.

Christine Goforth(01:28.44)
You know.

Christine Goforth(01:46.72)
Sure, sure. Okay, so I will, you know, make a long life short and just say that since teenage years, I, you know, have had some various once in a lifetime kind of traumas that not necessarily are the norm and happened during pretty formative years initially.

Samantha Bauer(02:05.763)
Yeah.

Christine Goforth(02:16.237)
And that kind of caused me to start living in a state of waiting for the other shoe to drop. you know, I can look back now after, you know, learning some things and seeing that I was manifesting the bad all along. Just living in that state of feeling like...

Samantha Bauer(02:25.486)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(02:38.147)
Just living in that state.

Christine Goforth(02:43.874)
when's the next bad thing gonna happen? Because this is all that I know is bad thing after bad thing and fast forward some more time and I am married and we have two kids and we suffered a couple miscarriages back to back which were truly unexpected, not that anybody ever expects it, but after two perfectly healthy.

Samantha Bauer(02:46.21)
Sure.

Christine Goforth(03:11.842)
Pregnancies, we really were shocked. So fast forward that and again, it's thinking, you know, of course that happened to me. Of course that's, you know, that was the next bad thing that was gonna happen in my universe. And fast forward again, a couple years ago, my husband and I had been working for the same company and overnight.

Samantha Bauer(03:16.505)
Sure.

Samantha Bauer(03:29.358)
Right.

Christine Goforth(03:39.852)
we lost our jobs. The company folded. It turned out to that the CEOs were committing wire fraud. They had stolen from us as well as 900 other employees. So that was shocking. My husband had known the CEOs for decades. And so there were just many layers of betrayal and

Samantha Bauer(03:53.571)
Yeah. Sure.

Christine Goforth(04:05.997)
again going into absolute survival mode and not knowing where to turn, just continuing to feel like life was happening to me and not feeling in control. And it brought us to that day at my mom's house, lovingly referred to as me, ma. Yes, yes. And

Samantha Bauer(04:16.311)
Right.

Samantha Bauer(04:26.319)
Yes, my mother-in-law, your mother. She summoned all of us girls to her house for cards. We call it screwy Louie.

Christine Goforth(04:37.993)
Yes. A game we all love to hate or hate to love. don't know which.

Samantha Bauer(04:44.535)
Whichever it is, but I remember driving up that day and and seeing you in the driveway absolutely balling with your other sister and and my my stomach drop gosh, what what happened, you know, and so needless to say there were a lot of tears that day We did not get to the cards, but I remember sitting right next to you as you shared your complete You know desperation anger

Samantha Bauer(04:44.535)
fear, you know, all the things, all the negative stuff. And I remember in my head thinking, my God, if she only knew, if she only knew that she had the power to tweak her own thoughts, that she can happen to life. Life is 10 % of what happens to you and 90 % of how you react to it. So I tell my kids all the time, easier said than done because, my gosh, what happened to you was absolutely horrible. And when you are raising a family and you are working as hard as you and your husband were,

Christine Goforth(05:32.129)
Yep.

Christine Goforth(05:44.183)
It is.

Samantha Bauer(05:44.245)
It is complete devastation and particularly because you had a level of trust, you know, with these people and it's sort of like, my gosh, if this can, what else, what, know, like you said, was like, what, what, you know, I'm just going to sit around then and wait for the next bad thing to happen. And I just remember telling you, you know, you gotta, you gotta let it go. Bless and release. You gotta let it go because these thoughts do not serve you.

Christine Goforth(05:48.673)
Yeah.

Christine Goforth(05:48.673)
Thanks.

Christine Goforth(05:59.564)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(06:11.663)
And, um, I didn't know how I was going to land because, know, it was kind of, kind of some tough love. And it was, it was more, I was, I was really struggling in my own head because I didn't want it to come off as, gee, golly gosh, kid, just, you know, get up and, you know, wipe yourself off and you're going to be okay. Because obviously it was much more, it much more deep given, you know, your lifetime of traumatic experiences. Um, but I really feel, I really and truly feel like this, this, you needed to hear this in this moment because, um,

Christine Goforth(06:23.645)
We're to be okay.

Christine Goforth(06:29.485)
given, you know, their life.

Samantha Bauer(06:40.44)
I knew you had it in you.

Christine Goforth(06:42.417)
Well and and to your point I think that there was something in this moment the culmination of me being tired of wanting your mindset but not knowing how to get it and in that moment of you looking at me and saying you this is not serving you.

Christine Goforth(06:42.417)
you need to release it. And realizing, you know, after the joke of a settlement that didn't come close to monetarily what we are owed, just really saying, you know what, nobody's coming to save us. Not a single person is coming to right this part of the wrong. So stop waiting around for it.

Samantha Bauer(07:20.631)
It comes close to one.

Samantha Bauer(07:20.631)
Yeah.

Samantha Bauer(07:34.393)
this part of the wrong. Correct. So stop waiting around for it. Yeah.

Christine Goforth(07:39.692)
There are plenty of opportunities out there that you're ignoring because you're too worried and too upset and too angry and too. Why did this have to happen to us to realize that if I just changed my mindset a little bit to say, you know what? This did happen. It's not my fault. This is, I just listened to this on Eddie Pinero this morning. He says,

Samantha Bauer(07:43.087)
that you're ignoring because you're too worried and too upset and too angry and too...

Samantha Bauer(08:00.121)
Yeah.

Christine Goforth(08:10.141)
Even when bad things happen, even when you know it's not your fault at all, you still have to own that it happened to you and then own how you are going to proceed. Sure, it's not my fault, but I have to own it and I have to choose how I'm going to move through life from here on out.

Samantha Bauer(08:19.769)
Right.

Samantha Bauer(08:19.769)
Exactly.

Samantha Bauer(08:30.295)
Right. I think soon after, I mean, I was afraid that you were going to be super mad at me. And I remember, I remember going home and just texting you and saying, you know, here's some resources, right? I mean, I had just read, you know, VEX Kings, you know, good life, good vibes, good vibes, good life.

Christine Goforth(08:35.477)
No way. Super grateful.

Samantha Bauer(08:49.783)
And of course, my favorite, you are a badass by Jen Shinichiro. She is my ultimate hero and actually saved my life over 10 years ago to get out of the lane of meh and just to do things and just to be a badass. And so anyhow, I remember sending those to you and of course, Gabby Berenstein, who we, you and I had talked about.

Samantha Bauer(08:49.783)
along several years ago. So you were already open to this conversation and now it was just really time for you to dig in.

Christine Goforth(09:14.347)
Yep.

Christine Goforth(09:20.363)
Yeah, absolutely. I, again, I think that day was just a culmination of me being sick and tired of my own brain at that point, you know? And just like, hey, you know, if I can wake up and choose to worry, not that we necessarily choose to worry, but if I can wake up and find things to be worried about, I can wake up and find things to be happy about and grateful about and

Christine Goforth(09:20.363)
find those opportunities to dig in and grow. And I think that's what this is all about. If you'd asked me six months ago or eight months ago if I thought I would be starting a podcast talking about how my mindset shifted my entire life, I don't think I would. I would have laughed at you.

Samantha Bauer(09:59.407)
Sure.

Samantha Bauer(10:08.131)
Right. Right. It goes in the lane of you got to do big things to do big things. Right. And you you really should just do things that didn't just scare scare the crap out of you. Right. Because that's where that's where you're you you grow. And I think my favorite part, I mean, you and I, like we were just just vibing like high vibey every time we talk like, my gosh, and what about this and that? And you know, you're telling your girls about, you know, this and and

Christine Goforth(10:15.99)
Yep.

Christine Goforth(10:25.228)
I mean, you and

Samantha Bauer(10:37.933)
And they're just like, my gosh, this is amazing. And just your whole energy changed. And I think my favorite part was you shared, you just became cognizant of your thoughts. You recognized your thought. And you didn't sit in judgment of it. You're like, nope, I'm going to pay attention to that. And what if I just tweaked it a little bit? What if instead I didn't think that, I thought that?

Christine Goforth(10:53.889)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(11:07.125)
And I think, I think I love the story quite frankly of something breaking in your house. don't know. Was it the air conditioning, something expensive broke, right?

Christine Goforth(11:14.826)
Definitely. It was definitely either the air conditioning or the leak. didn't pick because we've had both, a lot of them.

Samantha Bauer(11:19.567)
Right, the leak coming from the second floor dripping down into the kitchen. Super fun. But I remember you saying, instead of in the past, know, like, death, doom, and destruction. my God, how much is this going to cost? You know, we've got the technician coming out. instead of going to the immediate worst, it's like, number one, I'm grateful that I have somebody coming out to look at this, right? I mean, I'm just going to live in the lane of gratitude right now.

Christine Goforth(11:24.844)
Yeah.

Christine Goforth(11:44.48)
Yep. Yep.

Samantha Bauer(11:48.019)
And he did, he came out and it was a quick fix and it wasn't super expensive. know, and it's not, you know, I think that's just a very small example of our everyday lives of, of instead of going immediately to the negative and anticipating the worst. you know, I'm a classic codependent. I grew up in a, just a, in an extremely passionate family, with, with some, you know, alcohol abuse in, in, in, in it. and I learned if I was just perfect.

Christine Goforth(11:51.326)
I think that's just a very small example.

Samantha Bauer(12:18.187)
If I was perfect enough and if I worried and anticipated everybody else's reaction, emotion, that everyone was just gonna be okay if I was just perfect. So I grew up thinking if I just thought about the worst case outcome scenario, then I'd be prepared, right?

Christine Goforth(12:33.046)
thinking that I just.

Christine Goforth(12:40.362)
Well, yeah, because then you can control it and you can prepare your emotions. But jokes on us.

Samantha Bauer(12:44.877)
Right, right, yeah, yeah. Jokes on us because guess what? Control is absolutely a form of fear, right? And so classic codependent. And before everyone said, God, Sam had a horrible, know, because my darling mother is gonna be watching or listening. She might be watching too, but she's definitely gonna be listening at some point. And she's an absolute doll. She taught me the power of the human mind. She really...

Christine Goforth(12:51.692)
Yeah, absolutely.

Christine Goforth(13:07.965)
Mm-hmm

Samantha Bauer(13:10.159)
We are practicing Catholics and so, you know, I have a relationship with God and that's always been a tool in my tool kit, if you will, on dealing with things in life. But more than that, she's very spiritual. And as you and I have talked before, Christine, it's spirituality and religion are two totally different things. And I think in doing this work, the whole spirituality piece comes in, is you understand that you're connected to something larger.

Christine Goforth(13:30.558)
Absolutely.

Christine Goforth(13:39.326)
Mm-hmm

Samantha Bauer(13:40.185)
There's whatever that is, source energy, universe, God, whatever you want to call it, you are connected to something larger and it's not about you, right? It really isn't. And all you have to do is show up with joy and gratitude. How simple, but yet how hard.

Christine Goforth(13:45.398)
You are.

Christine Goforth(13:49.012)
Right. Right.

Christine Goforth(13:57.491)
Exactly. Exactly. It's, it's releasing all of it, doing less to do more. And it sounds, it sounds counterintuitive. It sounds easy, but it is difficult because unlearning, however many years of, of thinking of the neuro pathways that you've created of the narratives you've told yourself, you have to undo all of those.

Samantha Bauer(14:05.027)
Yes!

Samantha Bauer(14:24.879)
Right. Exactly.

Christine Goforth(14:27.238)
And that takes work. And going back to what you had said earlier about my first step, aside from getting the books and digging in and reading, was quite literally being aware of every thought that I had and saying anything that I said out loud.

Samantha Bauer(14:50.701)
Yeah.

Christine Goforth(14:55.914)
checking myself, literally saying, no, no, no, no, wait, that's not how I meant it. This is how I mean it. This is the inverse of what I just said. I need to make it positive. And to the point where my kids are laughing and joking and I'm like, you can laugh and joke, but this is absolutely gonna be how I change my mindset.

Samantha Bauer(15:01.581)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(15:09.709)
Love it, love it.

Samantha Bauer(15:14.639)
You think this is a laugh and joke, but this is absolutely going be how I change my mind.

Christine Goforth(15:21.854)
And you know, within two weeks I had one of my daughters and my husband come to me and say, just you changing your mindset has helped me change mine. And it was the same day that I was reading Good Vibes, Good Life by Vex King. he said somebody, whoever in the book's story was about how he too was, you know, embarking on this journey, but then, you know,

Samantha Bauer(15:30.445)
Yep. Yep.

Samantha Bauer(15:46.511)
He too was, you know, embarking on.

Christine Goforth(15:50.992)
One day he's believing it and the next day he's like, man, ran out of gas and I need a new car and all these things are going wrong. then in the book, it's talking about how the universe is going to test you. And when you embark on this journey, there are going to be tests. And it was that same day that I read that, that our air conditioning unit went out and it truly was like, okay, what would Vex King say? And it was, okay, no.

Samantha Bauer(15:51.403)
Right.

Samantha Bauer(16:03.939)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(16:08.419)
Cause it's eat. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Christine Goforth(16:19.805)
We don't know what's wrong with it. We don't know how much it's going to cost. I'm not going to worship this problem by worrying until the guy can get out.

Samantha Bauer(16:27.383)
Yes, we're worship the problem. I love that. Yeah. And I think, I think at the end of the day, I think that's what we want to, because we got, we, you know, when we talk about this stuff, we get so high vibey and it's so, it's so much fun. And when you said how your adjustment and thinking impacted your own child and your husband, that's what we want to create here on this podcast. Sisters in law of attraction is about building a community of people that

Christine Goforth(16:55.307)
Mm-hmm.

Samantha Bauer(16:56.929)
if you just bring your own joy and gratitude, the impact that we all can have if we just get into that lane. I do want to go back to that fateful night. It was the birth of the podcast. It was a beautiful summer evening, which is very unheard of in central California because it's hotter than hell here during the summer. But it was in July and we went out to a local winery and had an outdoor concert. was Dave Matthews cover band.

Christine Goforth(17:02.111)
Yep.

Christine Goforth(17:09.747)
Yes.

Samantha Bauer(17:26.243)
And just, I felt it, you felt it. We were with our husbands and we sent the hunter and gatherers out for the wine and beer, whatever they were at that point. Whether they had a hunt it or gather it, whatever, we didn't care. they either. We totally did. We totally did. And so it might have been on second bottle wine, whatever, don't judge us. And we're just.

Christine Goforth(17:36.009)
Yep. We benefited. That's what really mattered.

Christine Goforth(17:52.701)
Get up.

Samantha Bauer(17:54.159)
enjoying the music and the vibes are up and everyone around us is just happy and it's just a great night. And I remember you turning to me and saying, oh my God, Sam, we need to do a podcast. And I immediately said, sisters-in-law. And you said? so then in parentheses, yeah. Yeah. So anyhow, it's super fun how things just organically and naturally happened. And, and, but I do believe it was all, all part of our journey that, that led us here. So.

Christine Goforth(18:05.215)
we should do a podcast. Yep. attraction. In parentheses of attraction.

Samantha Bauer(18:24.291)
To our listeners, welcome. And we're so thrilled you're with us. And we want you to journey with us again as we continue to explore and learn together. The more that we can adjust our own thinking and live in the lane of joy and gratitude, the more impact that we can make to those around us. I always said the biggest gift that you can give others is your own happiness. You can't fix people. You can't make them happy. But you can fix.

Samantha Bauer(18:24.291)
and make yourself happy, right? And it's all just very, very, you know, minor adjustments. So we are setting out on this journey together to, again, create a community of people. And we know, we know that you're here for a reason and we know that if you stick with us, we've got a lot more to share because again, we get so fired up about this and so high vibe-y. So, so.

Christine Goforth(18:54.441)
Yep.

Christine Goforth(19:02.229)
So we are setting out on the.

Christine Goforth(19:20.523)
Absolutely. And I love that we are in two different kind of places in our journey. You've been at this for nearly a decade and I've been at it, you know, still on the journey early in the journey. But I love that even a decade in you're still learning and growing and, you know, creating new tools and all of that.

Samantha Bauer(19:44.009)
Exactly. and here's the deal. It's easy to feel good when you feel good. How you respond to bad things in your life, bad situations, unhappy things, how you respond actually matters. And so I look forward to digging into it. We have so much to talk about. so, but we're going to, think we're just, I think we're just going to leave it here.

Christine Goforth(19:49.184)
Yep.

Samantha Bauer(20:10.351)
And again, welcome to Sisters-in-Law of Attraction. I'm Sam. And I'm Christine. And we look forward to welcoming you back next time. Bye-bye.

Christine Goforth(20:14.451)
and I'm Christine.