Your Energy Is Your Most Valuable Currency with Patricia Chica - Director, Producer & Author, Ep #129

I love stories of Latin creatives who are telling the stories of our community and getting heard and seen. My friend Patricia is an amazing example of this. I met her at SXSW where one of her most recent films was shown, and I knew I needed her to come on the show.

Everything Patricia Chica directs wins multiple awards, gets selected at numerous film festivals and generates rave reviews. This daring, vivid and non-conforming Canadian-Latina director, writer, producer, editor and acting coach has created over 50 hours of content and garnered over 60 awards in her 20-year career.

Besides her personal independent film work, Chica has also directed and/or worked as a producer on world-class primetime broadcast content for networks such as National Geographic, Showcase, Bravo!, MTV, Oxygen, ARTV, CBC, CBS, UniMás, and El Rey Network just to name a few. 

Patricia Chica was born in war-torn El Salvador, grew up in Montreal, did her internship in Paris and has had professional residencies in New York, Orlando, Toronto and London. She is presently in production of her feature film Montréal Girls.  Since 2014, Chica divides her time between Montreal and Los Angeles. She is represented by MoJo Management in Hollywood.

Patricia Chica is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Women In Film, FCTNM, Canadian Cinema Editors Association and Film Fatales.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...

  • How Patricia’s film came to South by Southwest through Telefilm Canada (2:37)

  • The importance of working three levels higher, deeper, and further (9:21)

  • Why the higher realm is the key to functioning in the physical realm (14:35)

  • How her family managed their emigration to Montreal (20:16)

  • Why the supportive immigrant experience to Canada was so impactful on her life (26:20)

  • The importance of telling your story of who you are today (31:27)

How chi energy works

Patricia is known for using chi energy during her film production. It’s an energy philosophy that is focused on your higher consciousness, allowing you to quickly manifest the best results. She has seen the results again and again on her sets by getting great takes without a lot of repetition. Patricia was clairvoyant as a child but as she grew older, she realized that not everyone saw what she did on an energetic level. She saw that it was an advantage to her work as a film director and she tuned into her cast and crew on a daily basis to understand what was going on with them and how to align them to the bigger vision of the project. If you are not aware of what’s out there that’s invisible or beyond you, you’ll never get to the core of what you really want.

Why working in the spiritual realm is so effective

We can work in two realms: the physical and the spiritual. Patricia recommends doing 80% of your work on a project in the spiritual realm and then bringing it into the physical realm to complete it. The intention, clarity, and precision that you can bring to a creative project once you have worked on it spiritually allows you to quickly make it a reality in the physical world. If you think three levels higher, deeper, and further than your current reality, you will succeed at the task you are working on. Beginning your intentions in the spiritual world will allow you to do this before you bring your idea into the physical world.

The power of working 3 steps ahead

Patricia teaches that working 3 steps head of where you are currently is what will create the foundation for quickly reaching the goal you are seeking. The speed at which you can accomplish your goals increases when you think on a different level than your reality. When she is writing a screenplay, she thinks at a higher spiritual level and she can create a draft much quicker than if she was only thinking in her current physical reality. Instead of wasting time testing and running trials in the physical world, try letting your heart lead your ideas in the spiritual world and then bring the results into your physical work.


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