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How To MANIFEST ANYTHING With The Secret Laws of The Universe | David Ghiyam

In this transformative episode, I sit down with spiritual teacher and successful entrepreneur David Ghiyam, co-founder of MaryRuth Organics. David shares profound insights about universal spiritual laws and how understanding them can unlock abundance in every area of life. David made his first milli

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Lewis Howes HostDavid Guillem Guest

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Episode Summary

Executive Summary: This episode explores manifestation through Kabbalah with David Guillem, who argues that abundance is blocked less by effort than by belief systems, guilt, shame, and misaligned energy. He frames life as a process of expanding one’s “vessel” through certainty, service, and authenticity, and shares business, relationship, and family stories to show how spiritual shifts can unlock wealth, love, and peace.

Main Topics: Manifestation as vessel-building: David argues that desires already exist and that the real work is transforming oneself into a larger spiritual vessel capable of holding prosperity, love, and purpose. Limiting and competing belief systems: He identifies subconscious beliefs around deservingness and internal conflict—wanting growth while fearing its consequences—as the main blocks to manifestation. Pain, failure, and transformation: Pain is described as a spiritual circuit breaker that forces cleansing, expands consciousness, and prepares a person for the next level. Certainty, prayer, and energy alignment: He emphasizes certainty beyond logic, daily prayer, and repetitive affirmations as tools that shift vibration and attract outcomes. Relationships, soulmate readiness, and approval: He links relationship success to inner readiness, release of resentment, and moving away from people-pleasing and approval-seeking. Business, leadership, and company culture: The conversation applies spiritual principles to entrepreneurship, including founder energy, product vibration, toxic employees, and setting ambitious goals. Service, authenticity, and giving: David and Lewis agree that true greatness comes from serving others, speaking authentically, and building credibility through aligned action.

Key Arguments: Desires are evidence of what is meant for you; manifestation is about becoming capable of receiving, not forcing outcomes. Limited beliefs often center on deservingness, while competing beliefs create subconscious sabotage when part of a person fears the very outcome they want. Guilt and shame are more damaging than the original mistake because they sustain negative energy over time. Certainty beyond logic is a core spiritual discipline; choosing belief during darkness is what expands the vessel. Prayer and mantra work because repetition reshapes body, mind, and soul into alignment with a higher vibration. Serving others and giving value are the safest ways to reduce fear, grow influence, and attract more wisdom and energy. A company’s performance reflects the consciousness of its founders and team; one toxic person can block energy flow. People are often not ready for the blessings they seek; soul work is needed to match the vibration of the desired outcome.

Data Points: Coaching experience: 20,000 hours - David says he has coached under Kabbalah and spiritual laws for roughly this amount of time. Nonprofit teaching period: First 9 years - He taught and coached people for free in the early part of his career. Age of first million: 15 - He says he made his first million dollars in the stock market as a teenager. UCLA graduation age: 18 - He says he went to UCLA at 18 and graduated in 1999. Early business growth in Whole Foods: 75 SKUs in one year - He says the company jumped from expectations of 2 products to 75 in Whole Foods that year. Current Whole Foods footprint mentioned: About 300 products - He says the company later grew to around 300 products in Whole Foods, then notes another figure of 120-130 in a different reference. Revenue after viral breakthrough: $10 million - He says a viral video after a fraud setback helped trigger a major revenue jump. Wire fraud loss: $1.1 million - He recounts a company loss from wire fraud and his emotional response to it. Miscarriages: 4 - He and Mary Ruth had four miscarriages before having four children. Children: 4 - He notes that after the miscarriages, they eventually had four children. Sales growth target example: 100 products into Whole Foods - He describes setting a bold vision with his sales head rather than a conservative target. Audience/business timing: First 5 years - He says the company had no employees for the first five years and reinvested everything back into quality and product.

Pivotal Quotes: "Whatever your desires are, it means you are meant to receive them at some point." — David Guillem: He explains his core belief that desire signals destiny, not fantasy. "The creator wants me to have wealth and beautiful children and a healthy lifestyle, and all of its possible." — David Guillem: He describes rewriting his limiting belief that wealth equals dysfunction. "A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul." — Robin Sharma (referenced by Lewis Howes): Lewis shares a phrase that helped him reframe a painful public breakup and deepen acceptance.

Implications: For listeners, the episode reframes success as inner alignment rather than mere hustle. For founders and creators, it suggests culture, belief, and emotional regulation can materially shape outcomes. For relationships, it argues readiness and self-work precede lasting love.

From the Episode

Whatever your desires are, it means you are meant to receive them at some point. Don't question that. What do you think people are getting wrong about manifestation today? I think there's a prevailing belief system that we need to suffer to be successful. And that's incorrect. The co-founder of Mary Ruth Organics, David Kiem, an entrepreneur known as the leading speakers for teaching Kabbalah. David Kiem. We are destined to have abundance in every Part of our lives, not just one. If you earned your soulmate, that one person would appear right at your door. When your consciousness and belief systems and energy is in the right place, then you will be guided. Your legs will start moving in the right direction. Your profile on a dating app algorithmically will change. People will feel your energy. So, what are the three things that lower our vibration then from manifesting more? Right, the top of the list. It has to do with

David Guillem · at 0:00

Happen, you would think that your children will feel that vibration and want to be like you, be with you. But what I was realizing was the exact opposite. Now, this limited belief system was causing me to subconsciously push wealth away. Once I realized that, I started to walk the streets of New York and just say the mantra, which would reverse that belief system, which is: the creator wants me to have everything. The creator wants me to have wealth and beautiful children and a healthy lifestyle, and all of its possible. There is no limitation because the Creator is infinite. We're meant to become like the Creator. That's our spiritual birthright. So I'm the one that's limiting this energy from coming in. You were blocking it. I was blocking it. So it was an awareness, it sounds like: okay, I'm aware that I'm creating this block. I'm saying these things. My vessel is limited. I'm only 100 watts as opposed to 1,000 watts or a million watts of energy right now based on my belief system. So let me shift the belief system within me.

David Guillem · at 12:50

He said, You know, a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. I was like, That's exactly what I need to hear right now. And something unlocked in me in that moment. And I think it's because I'd experienced it painful moments in the past, from you know, getting injured, you know, losing my dream, getting injured and playing football, to my dad going through his accident, to just different moments, previous breakups, like different things that happened, a business partnership that didn't work out, you know, someone stealing a million dollars from me, all these different things. That something's finally clicked, like all these bad moments or bad moments that happened in my life, it unlocked something else new for me to where I was in that moment. And when he said that, like, I don't know, a shot of light just went through me that started thinking, oh, I need to have future hindsight. Not hindsight, but I need to see myself in the future and know in the future, hindsight now, this is all happening for me.

Robin Sharma · at 1:15:54
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