What is the purpose of mind magic? In this episode, Super Power Kids host Neva Lee Recla and Suzy Prudden talk about how it’s important for kids to know they have magic inside of them. Suzy is known as “The Mind Magician” and is a prize winning international speaker who has been featured on Oprah. Tune in to discover the true power of mind magic in kids.

 Hi, Suzy.

Hi, Neva, and thank you for inviting me on your show.

Thank you so much for coming on.

It’s a true honor. It really is.

Thank you.

I have watched you, I guess, for the last eight years, and when I first met you at CEO Space, you were very tiny, and you had business cards and you were giving everybody your business card, and there were 300 people in the room and you were just around saying hello to everybody as if you were not, I think, two years old. It was wonderful. Yeah.

We have known each other for quite a while. Mind MagicMind Magic

We’ve known each other, and then you and your mom and dad and I would always go out for dinner, I think, Saturday or Sunday night when we were at CEO Space to this phenomenal steak restaurant in Las Vegas, and it was a tradition with us.

Yeah, I remember that, and it was so fun. It was a lot of fun. I already know that you have a lot of super powers and we’ve kind of already talked about it, but could you tell our guests what a few of your secret powers are?

Incredible self-confidence and belief in myself, and it’s interesting how that is a superpower. Because I believe in myself, I can hear other people’s beliefs or disbelief in themselves. If they have a disbelief, I can help them learn to reframe that so that they can believe in themselves because in my mind, by believing in myself, I can do anything.

Yeah. I agree. That’s a really good superpower to have because it’s so important to believe in yourself, especially in life and especially in business because it’s very inspirational to other people, if they have self-doubt. I would say that it’s really cool seeing people out there who can believe in themselves fully and that shows other people that it’s possible, so it’s not as scary.

Yeah. I get an idea and then I do it. I don’t wait because if I wait, it won’t get done, and people have said to me, “How can you just do what you do?” How can I not do what I do?

Yeah.

I watch you and you have total self-confidence. You know yourself and when you have an idea, you do it. Mind Magic

Yeah.

Yeah. It’s like for me, it’s a normal, natural thing, an idea and do it, but most people, they have to be certain in fate and be certain and wait, and it doesn’t get done. That is my achievement; my biggest superpower.

Yeah. I would say that it’s a really good superpower to have and most people have it. It’s just they have to be able to show it because some people… deep down inside, everyone loves themselves and everybody’s confident in themselves, but it can be really scary for some people.

Yes.

I think that when there’s people out there who can just fully believe in themselves and like you said, take action when you get an idea, those are the people that are really inspirational because then everyone starts doing it and it becomes normalized that everyone loves themselves and everyone believes in themselves and they start taking action, which I think is really cool.

For people like you and me, we make it safe for other people to do what they want to do.

Yeah. I think it, like you said it makes it kind of safe for others, and I think that that’s very, very true because I remember that when I was just getting started in business and or most of my podcast, it was really scary for myself. I did what my mom did, so I would listen in on her podcast and when I had an interview I would go and I would say the exact same thing she would say. I did that for like a year until I finally started getting self confidence in it. I think it also shows that we’re human and not everybody’s going to have full self-confidence immediately and there will be challenges along the way, but it’s like you have your mind set on it.

Right. I’ll tell you when my first career was teaching exercise because my mother was the nation’s foremost fitness authority. When I first… you’ll get a kick out of it. When I first started my exercise school, I played her exercise record. She was talking on the record with the music and I was demonstrating her exercises. Just like you, I started by doing what my mother did and then as I got more confident in my own abilities, I moved into my own programs.

Yeah. Sometimes it takes having people like that in your lives to show you how to be yourself. I probably wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for my parents showing me how to do business because I didn’t know and I wasn’t going to know unless they taught me and I wasn’t going to know unless I asked the right questions, which I think is also really important is they taught me curiosity about things, so I find that being curious helps make it so you can discover who you truly are.

I agree, and it was interesting as I watched you growing up because you were never told. When I say you were never told no, you were probably told no about a certain amount of things, but when it came to learning or came to questions, your parents respected you completely; that whatever question you asked, you had the right to have the answer.Mind Magic

Yeah.

That’s a gift because a lot of parents, they say you’ll figure it out when you grow up, but no. Just figure it out. You do eventually, but how wonderful that you were given the gift of having that space opened up for you.

Yeah. I think that you’re really right that some parents don’t really give their kids the chance to have the curiosity that all kids have and I think that you’re right on the sense of they’ve kind of shown me that, like you said, I have the right to have the answer, but they’ve also taught me to be respectful in my questions. That kind of shows me how I can start questioning myself and I find it kind of shows me how I can question my behavior. Maybe I wasn’t the nicest over here because they’ve given me the chance to kind of have that curiosity. It really gives me more freedom to experience who I really am and gives me more freedom to grow, which I think is really important.

I do too, and you never stop growing.

That’s very true. I would actually love to keep talking about this more because I think that having the freedom to grow is a huge part of my magic, but we do have to take a quick break, so where do you tell our listeners where they can go to find out more about you?

They can go to www.ittybittypublishing.com

 Awesome.

Awesome. Definitely go check Suzy out because she is so, so amazing. We’ve been talking with Suzy Prudden about mind magic for kids. We’ll be right back after the break.

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