About Dr. Carver:

Dr. Melissa Carver is nationally known for her in-depth steps to manifestation. She leads training workshops offered around the globe to help individuals in how to think, not what to think.

Dr. Carver focuses on the creation of happiness, fulfillment, and love first, following up with how these traits affect our abundance in life. She truly covers all aspects of what we could desire in life.

Melissa will guide you in stepping outside of your personal perspective, gaining happiness and re-training your approach to challenges. Taking each moment from a mundane, unimportant speck of time to the awareness that each minute is the creation of the large goals that seem unreachable.

She has a passion for working with people who are ready to put in the work long after the workshop has been completed. Everyone from corporations to stay at home parents have accredited Dr. Carver for a happier, more productive space that generates more of what they want and less of what they don’t want.

She has been a guest on multiple television networks and the Bali based premier of the ‘Unstuck Summit’. She has enjoyed teaching side by side with various veterans in her field including the meditation master, best selling author, and creator of the 21 Day Meditation Process, Davidji.

Her fields of study have ranged from psychology, awarded best in class, onto nursing in early college years to find her true passion which led to a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Philosophy sparked her to specialize in metaphysics and connecting the importance of mental and physical health as a Certified Instructor of Ayurveda granted through the Chopra Center in Carlsbad California. Learning proven techniques from live classroom interaction with world-renowned teachers such as Mike Dooley, Deepak Chopra, and Davidji.  Melissa continues her education each day, knowing that all topics have their connection to how we process life, form our perspectives and record in our subconscious and unconscious thought processes that ultimately manifest our reality.

She is an author for the Chopra Center as well as Urban Wellness magazine.

Where to Dr. Carver:

Website

Instagram

Facebook

Links We Talked About:

Books:

Secrets of Meditation

The Writings of Florence Scovel Shinn

Fun Quotes from Podcast:

These messages and teachers were here and we’re still going through the same type of conversations and fights and wars and struggles? We’ve got to get it together.

Don’t start anything in panic mode.

It’s what a lot of girls in the club are doing whether they realize it or not because all of us are in that club because we’ve gone through so many struggles that we didn’t really know where else to go to actually survive.

Transcript of Podcast:

The Sandi Savage Show

Dr. Melissa Carver

Sandi: Well, hey everybody. This is Sandi Savage. Welcome to the Sandi Savage Show. Today on the podcast I have got my friend Dr. Melissa Carver and I’m going to let her fill you in on all she is involved with. Hey, Melissa.

Dr. Melissa Carver: Hey, how are you?

Sandi: Good. Thank you for coming in. Tell us about yourself. Why don’t you fill everybody in on who you are, what you do, and where you’re located and all that good stuff?

Dr. Melissa Carver: I do a lot of things. I’m a mom first and foremost always, and a wife. I live in Berea, Kentucky. I travel all around teaching workshops and keynote speaking on all things mindset, self-empowerment, manifestation just all-around getting out of that conditioned thinking that doesn’t serve us anymore.

Sandi: Exactly, oh my gosh. Everybody needs that. I think if people got their mindset straight, that is something that holds everybody back is really just mindset.

Dr. Melissa Carver: Everything is mindset and we don’t realize how conditioned we are because we don’t know anything else. We only see from our eyes and our perspective so it’s always good someone else in there for some other perspectives.

Sandi: I love it when you’re talking to somebody and you get somebody else’s perspective on something. You go, “Oh yeah, that really wasn’t as big of a deal as I thought it was.”

Dr. Melissa Carver: And “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Sandi: Or “Thank you for that different perspective so that I could get everything straight.” We need people, I believe, in our lives to talk things through. I’m personally a verbal processor so I always- my husband, he gets that earful all the time because I am constantly trying to verbally process everything out. How did you get into the field that you’re in right now?

Dr. Melissa Carver: Actually, I was working in a strip club for fifteen years. During that beginning process, I didn’t think I wanted to do anything else. I had no idea what else was out there. I had gone to college previously, and I thought I was going to be a pediatrician, but I remember driving to school one day and thinking, “What am I doing? This is not what I want to do.” I think I chose that because it sounded good. I remember having an intuitive thought, many intuitive thoughts as a child, thinking that ‘Dr.’ was going to be before my name and I didn’t realize that didn’t mean MD. I got caught up in that process of yeah, this is who I’m going to be, and it hit me in the face like, “No, you’re not.” I took a U-turn and ended up working in a club for a long time. For the middle-end of that process, I realized what I was actually doing and that was helping people and guiding people and manifesting more of what they want and less of what they don’t want. More people were coming in over and over repetitively to get my perspective and guidance. I was like, “Wow, this is really crazy that this is a strip club but people are coming in here-“ “powerful” in a business sense and some powerful internally and spiritually and those types of things as well- people that you would never think would be coming there for a thing that, for those conversations. People have a different perspective of what that all is. I was teaching the girls too and I tried to help them as much as possible. Most people at the club did want to learn how to manifest more money, how do we create more money. That’s so stressful. That’s what most people’s stress revolves around but there is such a broader picture to all of that. That’s how I got started. I was like, “This is what I’m doing anyway so I’m going back to school.”

Sandi: You’re saying that, and I was having good flashbacks of having the same thing happen. People coming in- if you’ve been in a club or worked in a club or anything- I was in the industry for thirteen years. I would have people come in and sit down and just want to talk for two hours, just needed somebody to talk to. People need that so much in their life and being able to help anybody wherever they are in that journey was something that I did all the time too. It’s just like, “Yeah, sit down and talk, tell me what you got. Explain to me what’s going on in your life.”

Dr. Melissa Carver: It’s what a lot of girls in the club are doing whether they realize it or not because all of us are in that club because we’ve gone through so many struggles that we didn’t really know where else to go to actually survive. Not just survive but thrive. We chose to go in there because we wanted to thrive. We still wanted to be able to take care of our family and travel and eat the type of food we wanted to eat without having to worry about where that next meal is going to come from. Sometimes when you’re young you want that type of cash that’s where you go but you learn so much during those struggles.

Sandi: The struggles are what teach us. I look at business now and different things, the things that fail, you’ve got to have that because it’s the things that teach you. I look at things now as either a success or learning and not like a success and a failure. It’s just success and learning. What type of learning did you do after that? What did you do to get into your field right now?

Dr. Melissa Carver: I geared back toward philosophy. That’s what I went back to school for and I also studied through the Chopra University in Carlsbad. Deepak Chopra. I’m sure a lot of your listeners are familiar with Deepak Chopra. The Chopra Center is amazing. Davidji is amazing. He is one of my main teachers to this day, and friend. The support system that whole community is, whether it’s the people that end up going to the Chopra Center as a student whether they want to teach or not, and the people that work there, all of them are very supportive.

Sandi: It is so helpful to have people around you that are supportive in whatever field that you’re in. When you got into this, what obstacles did you face getting into your field and how did you get through it? Was it getting out to Carlsbad? Was is your own mindset and having to shift in some things? What were some of those obstacles?

Dr. Melissa Carver: That’s a really tough question. I don’t know, off-hand. I really think everything kind of flowed really well as far as transitioning from the club out of there. A lot of my friends and f