Debbie Ford: Your Holiness – An Interview with Arielle Ford

And it was actually Deepak that gave her her first big break because I took Debbie Ford to his house for lunch one day, and he asked her, he said, well, what kind of work do you do.

And she explained her witness prep work that she was doing and how she got people to transform and show up in a more responsible, cohesive way.  And he said to her, he said, you know what, I have 12 people working for me right now that could really use this.

Why don’t you take them for a weekend, and let’s see what happens?

Debbie Ford made up this course, and she presented to his staff for a weekend.

On Monday morning, he called her.

He said: I don’t know what you did to transform these people, but you need to give it a name and start teaching it here at the Chopra Center.

And that was the start of her career.

 

Victor Fuhrman: How did she empower you to create your own path as the bestselling author, especially in the field of soulmates?

Arielle Ford:  What happened was I had decided one morning when I was 43 years old that it was time for me to find my soulmate and get married.

And I looked at my past, and I saw how I created this hugely successful career and just decided to use every manifestation technique I knew to manifest a soulmate.  And it worked, and as you know, worked well.

And one day, I was on one of Debbie Ford ‘s cruises.  She had I think 200 of her coaches. She said, oh, I want my sister Arielle to come up on stage and share the story of how she manifested her soulmate.  This is like completely out of the blue.

So, I stand up and I tell the story as best as I can remember it.  I think I spoke for about 45 minutes.  And when it was over, about 150 people rushed the stage saying, I want to do that, where’s the book, I need the book, I need to do that.

Debbie Ford said, yeah, you need to share this information, people want this.  And I was: “Oh, my God, I don’t want to write a book.”  Maybe I’ll create an internet product.

So, I created this thing called the Soulmate Kit, which is no longer available, but at the time, it was a bunch of audios and a workbook and had step by step instructions for manifesting your soulmate.  And eventually, HarperOne saw it, and they said, hey, we’ll give you a lot of money if you turn this Soulmate Kit into a book.

So, that was the genesis of The Soulmate Secret, which turned out to be a big Best Seller in 40 countries and 21 languages and still, thanks God, continues to sell well today.  So, that was the start of my career.

 

Victor Fuhrman:  This is really the story of two sisters who were a team, wasn’t it?

Arielle Ford:  Yeah, we just had sort of unusual ways.  And what’s really funny is that I had a book called Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lover:  101 True Stories How  Soulmates Met and Married that came out on the same day as Debbie Ford ‘s book Spiritual Divorce.

And now today, what’s really happened, especially with the unearthing of her book Your Holiness and, you know, really being a prescriptive book to teach people how to connect to the Divine and to their inner godliness and holiness, we’re really talking about the same thing but from different angles.

 

Victor Fuhrman:  It’s often the case that we must learn how to let go of old relationships before we can forge new and beautiful, loving relationships.

Arielle Ford: I was texting with Marianne Williamson the other night, and I was telling her, now that Debbie Ford ‘s been out of her body for five years, that in so many ways, we’re closer than we’ve ever been.  And she said, yeah, she said, someone once talked to Yoko Ono about that, and Yoko said, when John was in his body, we were together 90 percent of the time, and now I have him 100 percent of the time.

Victor Fuhrman: Debbie Ford fought this long and valiant battle with a rare form of cancer.  In fact, when her doctor told her to get her affairs in order and prepare for hospice, she used some choice words to tell him what to do. Please share memories of Debbie Ford ‘s path toward transition.

 

Arielle Ford: Well, she basically told the doctor who said, you know, we’re putting you in hospice, she said, F off, nobody is going to tell me when I’m going to die, I never want to see you again, and she threw him off her team. And she went on to live two and a half more years.  And part of that was her pure stubbornness.  Part of it was that Wayne Dyer took her to see John of God several times.

Part of it was, she just wouldn’t give up.  So, she did every experimental treatment that was available to her.  She did all kinds of alternative and energetic work. You did a lot of Reiki on her.  She was open to all of that.

And it wasn’t until maybe seven weeks before she actually died, that she went into hospice, when her doctor who she loved so much, said to her, we’re at the end of the journey, okay?  This is the end.  There’s nothing more we can do.

It’s time to wrap your head around the end is near.  And I remember, we were sitting in her hospital room, and she was going, oh, this is just so heavy because she lived in this belief that there would be a miracle, that there’d be a miracle cure or a miracle healing and that she wasn’t going to really die.  And now, the person that she trusted most in the medical community who was also a very spiritual being said to her this is it.

But, she was funny as can be as she was on her deathbed.  Like, I remember I fell asleep in her bed one night, and she couldn’t move around very much, and I felt something poking me, and it was Debbie Ford poking me saying, you’re snoring, you’re snoring, stop snoring.  And I said, okay, okay, I’ll sit up.  And then she said, come here, I must tell you something.  I’m like, what.  She said to take more vacations.

Victor Fuhrman:  I remember seeing her with Oprah Winfrey on Super Soul Sunday before her transition, sharing her life story and her experience in transition.  How important was it for her to get this message out?

Arielle Ford:  Well, she didn’t want to.  So, she really kept it a secret how sick she was from as many people as she could.  But, of course, at that point, you could just look at her and know that she was very, very sick. She didn’t want people feeling sorry for her because she was a teacher.  She didn’t want that energy coming at her.

Really, at the end of her life, she even said to me one day: “You know, this past year, even though I’ve spent most of it in bed, I spend my life in pain almost every day; this has been the best year of my life. I really feel like I have completed my mission.”

 

Victor Fuhrman: Let’s share what message does Debbie Ford share with readers in Your Holiness?

Arielle Ford:  That prayer can heal you.  It can heal you physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, it can heal you of addictions and that it can be easy to do and that it’s not that hard.  And the way she’s written this book is all the chapters are short.  They’re just a couple of pages.  It’s filled with original prayers that she wrote, prayers by Emmett Fox and Marianne Williamson and Rumi, and it’s sort of like, you know, if you’re in a recovery program, this could be your add-on on how to stay inspired on a daily basis to heal whatever it is needs healing.

 

Victor Fuhrman:  Is Debbie Ford continuing to work and seek from the other side?

Arielle Ford:  Absolutely.  I just had a reading with James the other day, and she was trying to explain that she’s learning all these new things, and she’s not just in heaven, but she’s in other dimensions, and she has new understandings.  And we talked about what she’s learned about prayer and what she’s learned about love since she passed.

And one of the things we’re gonna be offering book buyers is a 30-minute video of this interview that I did with her via James where she talks about all of this.  So, that will be available at Debbie Ford ford.com for book buyers.

 

Victor Fuhrman:  And what’s next for Arielle Ford?

Arielle Ford:  You know, my focus right now is just making sure everybody who is out on the planet knows about this book.  I’m not much of a long-term planner, you know, I’m easy to find.  I’m at soulmatesecret.com, and I have lots of freebies on there for anybody who wants to know about finding love or keeping love.