💎 The Oprah Effect: Magnetize Wealth, Money, & Power

The right people can change everything. Learn how clarity, intention & trust can bring the perfect mentors, therapists & opportunities into your life.

Emalani is a multimedia publication service by Emma Emalani Bennett, an author, teacher, and transpersonal empowerment coach intended to guide you towards empowerment by integrating your whole self, which gives you unrestricted access to your personal power. You'll receive guidance on self-love, leadership, success, and wealth, drawing from various disciplines such as psychobiology, transpersonal psychology, and spirituality.

Hello Visionary,

A few years ago, I put $800 down for my partner and I to work with a life coach in San Diego, California, over the weekend and another $800 to work with a team of specialists in Sedona, Arizona, including a meditation teacher, a somatic bodyworker, and a Vedic astrologer. Was it worth it? Yes, because it accelerated both of our development and manifestation progress for the rest of the year and beyond. When I feel like it’s time to go Maverick + Goose mode in my life, I invest in personal development.

“Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living—if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.”
– Denzel Washington, Actor, Director, and Producer

To be honest with you, sometimes, it takes a pile of cash and sometimes it doesn’t. Manifestation of both money and non-money resources can happen. What you need can appear out of nowhere without taking a credit card out of your wallet. Someone can just hand it to you or it can land in your email inbox. And, when there’s an issue that seems at first resolvable only with a stack of cash, it can become a nonissue in the blink of an eye.

I once pulled an amazing book off of a shelf at a bookstore, really admired the author who wrote it, and it would make sense that maybe it would seem necessary to do a hell of a lot of complicated things to find the guy let alone get to learn from him. But did it? No. He appeared in my life and is still in my life today four years later. Be open to how things can happen even when you have no idea how. This has happened to me on more than one occasion. As you would expect, Marianne Williamson and Gay Hendricks are very nice people.

When I was a pre-medical neuroscience student, I manifested a neurosurgeon and cardiothoracic surgeon who offered to mentor me, and a meeting with a John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine neurosurgeon. I needed answers, guidance, and direction to confirm whether I was on the right track and these people synchronistically came into my life. There was no need to pay them to mentor me. At the time, I was a college kid with fairly empty pockets subsisting mostly on grants, scholarships, loans, and pocket money from odd jobs.

“I’ve learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I’ve learned.”
– Herbie Hancock, Pianist, Composer, and Actor

This is a Wealth & Wellbeing feature

What happened was plain and simple — I could not stand colostomy bags, a nurse practicing blood drawing on me and somehow getting blood spewing out of my arm like a fountain, or an orbital eye fracture with an eyeball hanging out of the socket. I like to study and research, but I do not like to practice. The sights, smells, bodily fluids, flesh being burned open, the sickening sound of bone saws… None of that is appealing to me. I’ve been told that I have excellent bedside manners and an uncanny ability to listen to people and feel into ascertaining what they’re experiencing, I had the potential to be an above par diagnostician, but I am outta here when it comes to all that sort of sensory overload. Still, I am very grateful to the people who served as lighthouses and guides for me during my undergraduate tenure. I’ve learned from some of the best in the world. THIS is a priceless gift. You cannot buy that kind of knowledge and experience.

When my life was devastated by crises and fair-weather friends scattered, I gained a rare and sobering clarity—seeing, for the first time, who still stood by me. Unexpectedly, new people entered my life in ways I hadn’t foreseen, supporting me and cheering me on when I felt my strength fading. And I became way more selective about who I associated with and learned from — even through books and media. I decided to learn only from the best of the best. Instead of passively consuming content, I became deliberate, curating an arsenal of the greatest mentors to have ever lived. Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Winston Churchill, Marcus Aurelius, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Sri Anandamayi Ma, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—they became my teachers. If I came across an author with brilliant ideas, I would immediately root out who they learned from and learn directly from them.

This is what I call the Oprah Effect. Without interviewing all the great people she has been fortunate to speak with on live television and otherwise, her career would not be so illustrious. Without their ideas, energy, presence, and mark on her life, she would not be the person she is today. She is an icon of empowerment today because she has spent so many hours and years of her life being intimately close to powerful people.

Who could you be and what could your life become if you drew on the influences of the most powerful people to have ever lived?