Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Gina Tiritilli of Orange County, California

Gina Tiritilli shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Good morning Gina, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What do you think others are secretly struggling with—but never say?
I listen to a lot of people talk about what bothers them most in life but they hardly ever have a solution or a way to change how they feel. I believe many individuals secretly struggle with the dissonance between their self-perception and their aspirations. This internal conflict arises from societal pressures, personal expectations, and the constant pursuit of self-improvement. The gap between the “ideal self” and the “actual self” can lead to feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and a sense of being stuck. Furthermore, this struggle is often unspoken, as people may fear judgment, self-doubt, or the perceived impossibility of achieving their desired selves. The constant comparison to others and the pressure to conform exacerbate this issue, making it a widespread, yet rarely acknowledged, source of internal conflict. It seems that we humans forget how similar we are to each other, that we can easily open that door to communication and understanding by being more honest with ourselves and more transparent with others.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Gina T. Spiritual Life Mentor and founder of Compelled to Impact. I’ve been exploring this new direction of life coaching for about four years while at the same time creating the shape of my work by strengthening my own alignment. I’ve seen that it was necessary for me to take this long since many of the pieces that fit into place now took an act of love to acquire along the way. I’m fascinated with learning, especially when it comes to the human brain and nervous system as well as how it all relates to quantum physics and the energy of the spiritual world. It wasn’t always this clear to me. In fact, I spent decades playing the same hustle and bustle games as everyone else. I also spent too much time hiding from the very things that would become freedom for me if I had faced them sooner. On the other hand, I sincerely believe that the right things fall into place at the right time while doing one’s best.

That brings me to this point where I’ve been examining the very thing that each of us has within our inner being that is able to give us access to everything we need to live a good and full life. It’s become clear that the cooperation of our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems is necessary to open the door to experiencing the abundance of capacities we have to live life to the fullest. After the slow switch from twelve years of general life coaching into exploring the world of spiritual mentoring, I decided to search scriptures and timeless writings of ancient philosophers, finding there are keys to the puzzle pieces of life. In examining these words of wisdom, it seems some might have been misinterpreted or misunderstood to be more religious rather than universal truths with the ability to bring each person into their own alignment. Currently, I’m forming a membership community on Ghost.io to share this foundation in the Magnified Soul Master Plan.

Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Before I learned shame, fear, and grief, I was a small child who laughed and danced. Each day held whimsy and adventure. I enjoyed learning and using imagination to live in a different reality than life happening around me. My brother and I would spend the days outside making up games, sometimes playing the same scenes over as if they were brand new each time.
The harsh realities in our family eventually took over and I became quieter and inconspicuous.

What’s something you changed your mind about after failing hard?
Well, it seems obvious that a hard fail is never the desired result. Besides questioning what went wrong or what could I have done better or sooner, I choose to look at failure as a detour. Several times, I’ve seen something in the collapse that
I wouldn’t have seen any other way. Sometimes, it’s a new way of doing a task or maybe it’s the evidence that I’ve outgrown where I was. Sometimes failure isn’t defeat, it’s proof that it’s time to rise, time to evolve, time to step into something bigger than what I was settling for.

Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
I believe that intelligence without emotional or spiritual factors leads to false conclusions. It seems that a lot of smart people rely on intellect alone while neglecting spirit, intuition, love, and alignment within their spirit.
It’s easy to observe that intelligence without emotional or spiritual maturity may lead to false conclusions. Of course, there should always be a balance of both intellect and heart behind truth so that there would be less overcomplicating what is spiritually simple. When smart, logical thinkers try to solve spiritual or human issues with methods that can’t reach that depth, answers show up as brilliant but incomplete, missing the dimension of truth that comes from the heart.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. If you laid down your name, role, and possessions—what would remain?
Love. Love for myself, my life, my children, family and friends. Love for curiosity, creating, and the bottom line of love overflowing from my heart to have been able to do this work to facilitate abundance rising up in this world. If I have done all of this without love, then there is no real substance in it, it would all be for nothing.

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