Getting Off The Merry Go Round! | Ep 210
Ever feel stuck in the same patterns, relationships, or career cycles? 🚶♂️🔄 In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Jan Janzen, author of Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round, to uncover how to break free from repeating cycles and step into a life of clarity, confidence, and action! 💥
🔥 What We Cover:
✅ Recognizing the patterns that keep you stuck 🧩
✅ Following your intuition to make powerful life changes 🔮
✅ How limiting beliefs hold you back & how to release them 🎒🚫
✅ Why decisive action (not just wishing) creates real transformation 🚀
✅ Mindset shifts around money, happiness & fulfillment 💰💖
💡 Jan’s Story Will Inspire You!
👉 Left Jehovah’s Witnesses after 38 years, lost everything & rebuilt her life 🏠➡️🌎
👉 Overcame homelessness, started multiple businesses 💼💪
👉 Shares how one bold choice can change EVERYTHING! 🔥
📢 Key Takeaways:
🔹 Your beliefs shape your reality—swap the heavy baggage for EMPOWERING self-talk! 🧠💡
🔹 Happiness comes from within—more “stuff” won’t fill the void 🛍️🚫
🔹 Take action NOW—don’t wait for a wake-up call! ⏳
🎁 Get Jan’s Updated Book! Download it here: janjanzen.com/girlsmatter 📖✨
💖 Donations go to Girls Matter—empowering education for girls in Uganda & Kenya! 🌍📚
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Key Takeaways
- Jan's book helps people recognize patterns keeping them stuck and shows how to move forward
- Key themes: following intuition, making decisive choices, changing limiting beliefs, living life fully
- Jan emphasizes the power of deciding what you want and taking action, rather than just wishing
- Happiness comes from within; acquiring more things doesn't necessarily lead to fulfillment
Topics
Jan's Background and Book Update
- Former Jehovah's Witness for 38 years, left and lost everything
- Rebuilt life multiple times, including after becoming homeless
- Updating 2008 book "Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round" for today's world
- Book helps readers see repeating patterns and break free from cycles
Concept of "Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round"
- Metaphor for feeling stuck in life situations (job, relationship, location)
- Emphasizes recognizing you have choices and can change your reality
- Encourages following intuition and taking bold action to create change
- Shared examples: Jan moving to Montreal at 17, starting pole dancing business
Changing Beliefs and Mindset
- Likens limiting beliefs to heavy backpacks weighing people down
- Beliefs often unconsciously adopted from family, culture, past lives
- Emphasizes choosing empowering beliefs and self-talk
- Discusses importance of changing money mindsets to "go big to give big"
Living Life Fully
- References quote about "skidding into home base" at end of life
- Encourages making decisions and taking action rather than just wishing
- Stresses importance of quiet reflection time to hear intuition
- Advises choosing one thing you want and decisively pursuing it
Advice for Getting Unstuck
- Choose one thing you really want and decide unequivocally to have it
- Take the first step toward your goal immediately
- Consider working with a coach for accountability and guidance
- Don't wait for a "wake-up call" - start living the life you want now
Next Steps
- Listeners can download Jan's updated e-book at janjanzen.com/girlsmatter
- Optional donations for the e-book will go to Girls Matter charity
- Audience encouraged to read and share the book to spread its empowering message
- Listeners interested in Girls Matter can revisit podcast episode 200 for more info
About the Guest:
Jan Janzen is a lifelong entrepreneur with 43 years of experience in business, reinvention, and breaking free from cycles that keep people stuck. Her journey—from decades of door-to-door sales training as a Jehovah’s Witness to building multiple businesses—has given her a unique perspective on resilience, decision-making, and the power of taking bold action.
Her newly updated book, Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round, is a wake-up call for anyone who feels like they’re spinning in circles—repeating the same struggles, facing the same fears, and waiting for life to change. With humor, straight talk, and real-life stories, Jan helps people recognize the patterns keeping them stuck and shows them how to finally move forward.
She believes transformation doesn’t have to be complicated—it starts with recognizing where you are, deciding where you want to go, and having the guts to step off the ride that’s no longer serving you.
Jan is also a board member of Girls Matter, instrumental in helping raise funds to keep the girls in school in Kenya and Uganda, stopping teenage marriages and breaking the poverty cycle, 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time.
https://www.facebook.com/janjanzen6figures
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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