118 – Monetize Thyself™ with Business Wisdom from Nicole Walters

Nicole-Walters-of NicoleWalters.TV

Nicole is an income strategist who works with everyday entrepreneurs by applying corporate strategies to help build their businesses.

She has worked as a client-facing business executive for Fortune 500 companies in both sales and marketing for over ten years.

Everyone from stay-at-home parents to small-business owners can access her affordable and entertaining webinars and private monetization coaching.

Using her trademarked Pitch & Pray™ method, Nicole helps her clients embrace the Monetize Thyself™ mindset and realize their brand’s fiscal goals.

“I specialize in income makeovers – meaning I help aspiring entrepreneurs gain the clarity and confidence they need to move forward with turning their passion into profits. If you want your side project or hobby to transform into a full-time earning opportunity, I can help you earn the income you deserve.”

Nicole’s Story

Nicole calls her start in life the true American story [6:01]

What she learned from livestreaming on Periscope [8:06]

Hear how Nicole quit her corporate job live on Periscope [8:32]

Growing to a 7-figure business in 18 months [10:11]

Depending on her faith as the foundation [14:48]

Candle Flickering Moments

What if what you’re planning doesn’t work out? [24:01]

Business is only one part of who you are [26:59]

Business Building Insights

How to know if it’s time to quit your 9-5 [12:15]

The first steps to monetize your own business [16:14]

Finding value in your corporate job that will help with your new biz later [16:00]

Start up costs and the answer if you have a limited income [17:57]

Find the experts who can get your job done faster and right the first time [18:50]

Different worlds – the entrepreneur vs corporate careers [28:45]

Get support from people several steps ahead of you [37:01]

Are you working toward something you really want? [38:05]

Family first and the Gary Vaynerchuk comparison [38:38 ]

Recommended Resources

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Nicole’s System Swap [20:47]

Outsourcing to prevent bottlenecks[ 31:32]

Fiverr – Freelance services for the lean entrepreneur

Upwork – Project based professional freelancers

Contact Links

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

LinkedIn

Periscope

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Transcript
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You're listening to gift biz unwrapped episode 118.

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We all know that nagging feeling inside of us when we're

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just like,

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man, like we're meant for something more.

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Hi, this is John Lee,

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Dumas of entrepreneur on fire,

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and you're listening to gift to biz unwrapped.

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And now it's time to light it up.

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Welcome to gift bears on wrapped your source for industry specific

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insights and advice to develop and grow your business.

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And now here's your host,

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Sue Mona height.

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Before we get into the show,

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I have a question for you.

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Do you know that you should be out networking,

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but you just can't get yourself to do it because it's

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scary. Are you afraid that you might walk into the room

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and not know anybody or that you're going to freeze?

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When you get up to do that infamous elevator speech,

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where you talk about yourself and your business,

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while I'm here to tell you that it doesn't need to

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be scary.

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If you know what to do to help you with this,

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I would like to offer you a coffee chat for the

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price of buying me a cup of coffee.

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We can sit down through an online video and I'll tell

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you everything that I know about networking and how I have

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personally built two multi-six figure businesses,

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primarily through networking.

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truly grow your business.

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That's B I T dot L Y forward slash network Ninja.

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And now let's move on to the show.

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Hi there it's Sue and welcome to the gift biz on

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wrapped podcast,

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whether you own a brick and mortar shop sell online or

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are just getting started,

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you'll discover new insight to gain traction and to grow your

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business. And today I have joining us,

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Nicole Walters of Nicole Walters TV.

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Nicole is an income strategist who works with everyday entrepreneurs by

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applying corporate strategies to help build their businesses.

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She's worked as a client facing business executive for fortune 500

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companies in both sales and marketing for over 10 years.

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Everyone from stay at home.

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Parents to small business owners can access for affordable and entertaining

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webinars and private monetization coaching.

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She calls her fan base,

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rich friends,

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and today We all get to be part of that TRIBE.

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So with that,

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Nicole, welcome to the show.

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Hi, I'm so excited to be here,

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listen to your energy.

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I love that sort of thing.

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I can't even tell you it's exciting because I actually visualize

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myself in front of all these people like,

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Hey, let's do this that's right.

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Well, and when I saw you live,

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well, I'm not even gonna go there because we're going to

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talk about the shore,

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but our colors,

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jive. And I'm like,

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okay, I already loved you just seeing you online.

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And then in person,

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you're the same everywhere you go.

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So I know our listeners here are in for a treat

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hearing you chatting today.

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Oh, socks thing I like to get started by having you

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describe yourself in a creative way over and above the intro

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that we just did.

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So if you were to create your own motivational candle,

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that totally gives us insight into you,

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what color would it be and what would be a quote

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or a saying that would be on the candle?

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So I got to say first and foremost,

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I have never had this question before.

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I didn't even know motivational candles existed.

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So this is the thing I need.

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Some, you know,

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whatever is foremost,

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all right.

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Then I love that.

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So if anyone out there is looking for business ideas,

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like that's solid,

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but my candle would be yellow.

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It would be yellow because that's my absolute favorite color.

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Cause I feel like it's the only color that matches how

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I feel inside.

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So it's like bright and it's fun and it stands out

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and it just makes you feel good.

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And you know,

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if I could be a color,

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it would be yellow.

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You were all yellow.

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I am all Yellow.

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And then of course,

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motivational quotes.

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So I am actually a woman of faith because I believe

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in God and I'm saved.

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My quote actually comes from the Bible.

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It's first,

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Peter four 10.

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And this is a driving inspiration behind my business.

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That quote is each of you should use whatever gift you

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have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace

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in its various forms.

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And my interpretation of it from the Bible is that I've

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been gifted,

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specific and unique skills from God.

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And that's my blessing their mind to have and to use.

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But they're only really beneficial if I'm using them to serve

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other people.

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And that is the best way for me to glorify the

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fact that I've been given this gift.

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So that kind of gets me up out of my seat

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every single day,

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because as a woman of faith,

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I want to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to

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do and that serving people I love.

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Yeah. And that's obviously what you're all about.

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I think there's something else to look at in that quote

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too. And that is so many people when they start off,

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they see someone who is successful and they want to be

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just like them and that's not necessarily their gift.

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Oh no,

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not at all.

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You're totally right.

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Really. You have to identify your own gift and what comes

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natural to you and what really resonates in jives with you

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and present that to the world.

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Absolutely. I think one of the phrases that I like to

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use in my community all the time is be a disruptor,

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not a duplicator.

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There's nothing wrong with taking,

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what's been tried and true and applying it to allow you

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to sort of skip past mistakes.

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That's why it's important to learn from the experts,

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but always put your own spin on it.

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Because if not,

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you're depriving the world of the one thing that you're here

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to do,

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which is to create,

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change and inspire,

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and you already have the tools to do that.

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So yeah.

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Do your own thing.

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Beautiful. Perfect.

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All right.

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So now let's talk about your thing,

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but let's go back a little bit,

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talk with us because you have such an interesting story about

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what happened with you from the transition from corporate on,

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but go back a little bit as,

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as you think you need to start and share with everybody

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your journey.

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Sure, absolutely.

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So I always like to start from the very beginning,

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which is that I am the American story if you will.

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So I am the daughter of two African immigrants that fought

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and worked very hard to get here,

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do the paperwork and line everything up so that they could

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take advantage of the American dream and really contribute to this

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country. And so they raised me to believe and to work

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towards, you know,

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earning everything that I have and what that meant was riding

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around with my dad and his taxi cab every single day

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and not always having ends meet,

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but knowing that the value of education was there.

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You know,

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I really had the choice of either growing up to clean

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a building or growing up to put my name on the

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side of one,

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but that was all going to be determined by the work

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ethic I put out.

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So from day one,

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I worked very,

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very hard to make sure that wherever I had an opportunity,

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I capitalized on it.

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And that led me to the corporate world where I became

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very successful very quickly.

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And by 28 I had a six-figure job and I was

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senior executive within a fortune 500 company.

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And I'm working business a business.

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I mean,

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I truly thought I added all it.

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And I mean,

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if you'd spoken to my dad,

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my dad,

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of course,

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as a taxi driver and African-American,

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he's like my daughter,

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you are doing so well,

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you have business cards,

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you have office,

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he sounds adorable mobile,

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you know,

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but it's also like you,

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no doubt are trying to explain this thing to you.

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And it's called entrepreneurship and I feel a little unfulfilled and

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I know I have more to offer and he's kind of

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like what you have office.

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And it was really tough because I knew that.

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And I think we all know that nagging feeling inside of

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us when we're just like,

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man, like we're meant for something more.

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And I can't quite put my finger on it,

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but what I do know is I have to chase after

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that thing and I need to start building because if I

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don't start building,

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it's not going away.

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And that's what happened.

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I started building while I was working my nine to five

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job, I started building the foundations,

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taking from what I knew from corporate and making sure that

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my business was financially stable,

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making sure that the structures were right and making sure that

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it was monetized from day one.

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So I wasn't rushing on the backend to take a bunch

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of followers and convince them to pay me in doing that.

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I got a live streaming and I think that's might be

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where you met Sue in live streaming initially I think on

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Periscope. Yes.

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Yeah. I'm Periscope.

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I was on there every single day getting on live,

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you know,

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and I still am just sharing my story and saying guys,

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I'm in corporate and it's killing me.

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And you know,

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I have these skills and did you guys know you could

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monetize this way?

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And I was teaching and people were just like,

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Oh my gosh,

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you're so good at this.

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Do you have more info?

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And so I'm creating products and getting them out to people

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and applying what I know.

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And it got to the point where I was like,

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you know,

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I think it's time for me to quit.

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And I figured I'd taken everyone on the journey that far,

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so why not keep them with me?

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And I actually quit my job live on Periscope in front

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of 10,000

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people. I kept it classy.

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Cause you know,

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And that was not the plan as I understand the story,

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that was not what you were going to do.

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Well. Yeah.

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And it was not the plan at all.

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I was planning on quitting and I told everyone I was

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going to do that.

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But ultimately the way that I did it was getting on

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the phone.

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I was like,

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guys, I'll come back,

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live afterwards to tell you how it went.

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But everyone like,

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no, keep us on the line.

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And so I was like,

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well, all right,

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that was brave.

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I will be completely honest.

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It was super scary because I knew that my boss would

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miss me and all that.

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But I was like,

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what if he's like good riddance,

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you know,

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in front of everybody,

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you know,

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like, I didn't know how he would take it or what

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if he got upset and especially because where my business was,

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I mean,

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I had like interviews and things like that lined up the

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following day.

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I mean,

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I just really wasn't in a position where I was even

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going to be able to do a two week notice.

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And people typically do two week notices,

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not just to give their boss time to transition.

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And I did help my boss transition over the coming weeks.

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But it wasn't like your standard.

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Like I'm not going to still be able to take client

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meetings. Like I'm actually like done.

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It was really difficult to know that that was gonna be

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the case.

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And he was just like,

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my boss was awesome.

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And he lives in Illinois.

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I don't know if his wife listens to this podcast or

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not, or no,

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but who knows?

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I might know him.

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You never know him.

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I'll talk about that later.

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I can only tell you right now if anyone could see

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me, I'm like blushing.

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I like so like,

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Oh my gosh,

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it just occurred to me.

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Oh my gosh.

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But in any case he was awesome about it.

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He was just like,

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yeah. You know,

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if you're making money and you are happy and doing what

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you love,

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then why are you still here?

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Like I burst into tears because it was like a light

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switch went on,

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you know,

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where it was just like,

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it's so simple,

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but it's so right.

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And I quit my job there.

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And then within 18 months I'd built a seven figure business,

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serving people and helping them put those business.

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Foundationals in place with a specific focus on income generation,

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not just on making a pretty brand or a creative brand

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or a brand that just serves,

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but also brand that earns you revenue that allows you to

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keep working on your purpose.

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And I get to do that every single day.

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And I couldn't be happier.

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That is such a great story.

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I'm so glad we started there because it is such a

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journey and so different and listening to what your dad was

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saying, I'm sure because he wanted the best for you was

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like, no,

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you need the office.

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You need the cars.

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Yeah. I can't do it.

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And so you're And against someone that you highly respect,

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and I could see other people who are feeling like they

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want to make that kind of a change to having people

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in their life very close,

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who are,

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you know,

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saying, no,

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what are you thinking?

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Are you crazy?

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Do that?

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Do you remember that live broadcast?

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People were on there real time.

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I had 10,000

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people who are on that broadcast,

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but I think about a thousand or 1500 were actually able

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to get it in time to comment.

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And I mean,

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real time I am on the phone with my boss and

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I've got people out there who are like,

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what are you doing?

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This is dumb.

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Like, why are you broadcasting this?

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Why are you quitting your job?

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This is insane.

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And I had like friends and family texting me,

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like, so like,

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while that's happening,

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I'm getting notification.

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Like maybe you don't want to do this or are you

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serious right now?

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You don't like,

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and I've also got people on the other side who are

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like, where did it go?

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You got this girl,

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you know,

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God's favor.

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Like, you know,

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and I'm over here.

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Like, well,

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I'm already in it.

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Got to push there.

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No, this is perfect because this is something we would never

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have gotten into yet.

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So you had people on both sides.

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What were you pulling from yourself?

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And this is for our listeners who are thinking that they

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want to start their business or might want to be quitting,

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their job,

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that type of thing.

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We'll go into that a little more detail later,

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but what was it that made,

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you know,

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this is what I'm going to do.

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I'm going to go forward with this.

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I'm going to do it.

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Sure. I'd be well.

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What started was the pull of knowing the people that had

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served and that I'd already served.

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So harking back to my quote that I had earlier,

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if you've already started putting your products in front of people,

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and if you've already started providing solutions and the feedback you're

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getting is,

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you know,

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things like,

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I mean,

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these are literally sentences.

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You can look for to let you know that this is

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something that you may need to start making moves towards.

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Is your product changed my life or your product was exactly

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what I needed,

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or I love this so much and approach so much joy

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into my world.

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Or I can't imagine not having this product.

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When I started hearing feedback like that from people saying I

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have started earning revenue where I didn't earn it before I

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was able to pay my child's school fees.

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I paid my electricity bill and had something left over.

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I was able to pay,

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to send my entire family to Disneyland for vacation.

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I mean,

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when I heard that and realize that each one of those

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stories and the fact that I made choices to,

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you know,

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make the time to apply my skills to this person,

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allowed someone of their dreams to come to fruition and brought

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them a solution.

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All I realized was,

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Hey, this whole planet,

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we've got six,

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7 billion people out here.

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How many people are waiting on me to make the call,

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to bring them the thing they need to reach their own

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greatness. And that gets me up every single day,

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because there are people that need to be served.

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And I just can't be so selfish as to knock it

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out there and provide that solution Well said.

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And really you were looking outside of yourself,

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not inside,

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not what it was going to do for you.

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It was what are you going to provide to the world?

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How much benefit and how much reward and satisfaction can you

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give other people based on skills that you have and knowledge

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that you have A hundred percent just also,

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because once you start working in your purpose,

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the making the money part,

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it feels hard in the beginning,

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but it's not always going to be hard.

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And once you're in the place where you're making enough money,

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you better be motivated by something bigger than yourself because otherwise

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you're not going to get up every day.

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Yeah. So give biz listeners for you.

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This might look like if you're doing a craft show and

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you're selling product and your product is very different,

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maybe have a product that's different.

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Hasn't been on the market before,

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but people are attracted to it.

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They're using it.

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They're coming back to other shows because you have something that

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they want.

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So it might look like that.

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It might look like if you're making scarves or you're doing

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cupcakes, friends are starting to ask you,

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will you do this?

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I have a friend birthday coming up.

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Will you make a scar for me?

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Or I have an event coming,

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would you do those great cupcakes?

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Things like that.

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People who are being attracted and are coming to you for

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your product,

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even if you haven't quite started your business.

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These as Nicole is talking about could be signs.

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Now it's not enough to sustain you yet to stop your

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job if that's the sole income,

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but it's something to pique your interest and say,

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Hey, maybe I really have something here.

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Would you say intuition as well?

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Certainly faith for you played a role.

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Oh yeah.

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I mean,

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for me,

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faith was,

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you know,

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90 of it because let's be completely honest.

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You can build the systems,

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you can build the process,

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you can do all that.

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But I can't tell you how many people I've worked with.

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Who've done all that,

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but they just don't have the belief in themselves.

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And if you find that you've done all the work and

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you've got all those things going,

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that's the part where you just it's about time to leak.

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You know?

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And I think that one of the biggest misconceptions in business

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building is that the last step is finishing your funnel or

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completing products or getting clients.

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And it's not.

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The last step is launching.

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If that's how you actually make yourself better,

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that's how you actually make sure your product is what people

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really need.

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So if you don't put yourself out there,

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you'll never actually find out if you're meant to do it.

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Exactly. And another year will go by and another year will

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go by and you'll keep talking about wanting to do it.

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And this is a big issue with a lot of people

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that, you know,

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they're going to do it.

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They're going to write that book.

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They're going to open their shop.

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They're going to start selling their product and they just don't

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get started.

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That's right.

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The gun is looking at you.

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The gun is well.

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Gotcha. Absolutely.

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So I encourage any of you out there who are on

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the fence right now.

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Just start thinking of a mindset of yes,

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I am going to get started.

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So let's go back just for a second,

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because again,

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I think this will help everybody.

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Let's put you back in corporate just for a minute.

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Okay. Just for a minute,

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I'll go back just for a minute,

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but not too long.

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One more,

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a couple of minutes,

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First steps that you started doing,

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just something tangible.

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Well, I'll be completely honest.

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And I think that this is something that a lot of

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people might benefit from.

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I didn't start off doing business consulting.

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I think that,

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you know,

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some of us are very resistant to the fact that our

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business may need to change,

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but business is a dynamic living,

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breathing, moving,

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changing organism.

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So whatever it is that you're doing now,

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if you're feeling the call like this business,

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isn't quite right.

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Or I may be making jams.

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What I really want to do is like hand painted hand

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lettered signs.

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It may be time for you to change your business.

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So I actually started out as a beauty blogger,

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doing what I do now for corporate and on the side,

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I was like,

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but I really love being on the internet.

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And I love how I have so much more exposure to

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everyday people.

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So I was living out a portion of my purpose by

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providing a solution,

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but the solution I was providing,

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wasn't where I could help people the most,

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but it allowed me to sort of sample and see that

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world. And so that's where I started.

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And I had a lot of traction and I had a

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monetized brand that was making me money on the side while

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working my nine to five.

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And I actually translated a lot of the funds from that

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startup brand,

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into the foundation to build my next brand and business,

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which is what I have now.

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And it's my consulting firm,

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you know,

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monetize myself.

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And I absolutely love it.

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And it's where I'm supposed to be.

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But I also am not so shortsighted to think that my

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business isn't going to grow and change in as little as

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three to five years.

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And it's in that refinement that we help the most people.

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Beautiful. Perfect.

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So you already had side income and money that you were

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putting through,

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et cetera.

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And your business change just like mine has.

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I've told this story before.

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So a lot of people who are listening already know that

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whole story,

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this is another elephant in the room,

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if you will,

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because people might know,

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yes. I feel it.

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There are people who are interested,

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but they don't have money to start.

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You are the income strategist.

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What advice do you have for somebody there?

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Absolutely. So I think that one of the biggest misconceptions when

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it comes to the startup cost of business is that phrase

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that goes around,

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you have to spend money to make money.

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And it's true.

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You do.

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But what you actually have to do is be mindful of

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your overhead and your expense.

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So yes,

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you have to invest a hundred percent.

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I mean,

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that's part of it,

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but you plan for that investment.

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You put things aside,

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you start off where you are.

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So for me,

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that meant that I had to put in extra time and

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hours to build my own first website,

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because I couldn't afford to pay someone $6,000

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for that website.

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But what I did to let that happen was I removed

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the fear if you will,

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and perfectionism around it,

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being the perfect website,

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because I am not a web developer,

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but I needed it to be functional,

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not fancy.

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And I think that's one of the hardest things whenever you're

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creative and you're really invested in what you're doing,

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it's just like,

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man, like I can't have my branding colors,

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not be what they're supposed to be,

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but understand that it's more important to get that purpose out

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there and you know,

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and investing in where your money should really be spent is

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with experts.

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I mean,

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a hundred percent experts because what you can't afford is to

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make mistakes.

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So you want to spend the money to learn from people

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who are going to help you make the right steps.

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But when it comes to execution and creating,

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you can do that yourself.

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That is the elbow grease that you have to apply.

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And if you are a crafter and you're creative and you're

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a maker,

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you have an endless supply of that.

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You are rare and able to build on your own.

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What you need to do is just get the,

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outline, the structure,

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the sewing pattern to make it happen.

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Perfect. So just to summarize what Nicole is talking about here,

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make an investment into experts who have been there,

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or know the steps that you should be taking.

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And boy was I guilty of this because I was going

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to be one of those.

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I'm going to do it all myself type people until I

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learned real.

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Why in the world would you do that?

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When there are people out there and when we're talking about

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experts, it doesn't always mean a lot of money either.

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We're not necessarily talking thousands.

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There's lots of good information available online.

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When you find somebody that you feel comfortable with you trust,

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like they really know what they're talking about because they've done

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it just like Nicole is talking about,

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you know,

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she's done what she now teaches,

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right? And she's done it now for a lot of people.

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So you want to be really cautious of that,

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that you're following and listening to someone who really does know.

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And only you can say,

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if that's the right person,

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there are a lot of people out there,

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99.9% of people mean,

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well, it's not that they're trying to pull the wool over

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your eyes or something,

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but you want to make sure that you feel confident that

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this is someone that you want to trust.

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So that's the first thing.

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And the second thing is I really like what you talk

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about, just get it out there,

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whether it's a website or you're going to your first trade

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show or craft fair,

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maybe your display isn't as beautiful as you would love it

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to be,

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but get it out there.

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This is customer and market research that you're after too.

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Absolutely. You can always upgrade later.

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Absolutely. A hundred percent.

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No, I think that that's great feedback.

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One of tools that I love to put into people's hands

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is on my website,

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the system swap.com.

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It's simply just a swapping out of systems.

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So if you're using like a fancy pants,

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email server that would to collect emails that was recommended to

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you, I just have a list of cheaper alternatives.

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And it was the type of thing that I wish I

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had in the very beginning because I was spending thousands every

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month on the systems that I thought I needed.

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When in reality,

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those thousands,

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every month could have been spent on an expert to show

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me how to use these systems.

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And if you go to the system,

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swamp.com, you can actually get a list where you're able to

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switch out your systems.

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And I mean,

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people are saving thousands every month by just switching to either

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a free platform,

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like a free website creator or a free landing page creator,

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or if email is creator something simple versus paying a ton

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of money for things.

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But yeah,

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all those little pennies count and you really want to get

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the help from the right people.

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I'm going to connect that link up in the show notes

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for sure.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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And the whole thing is no,

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the strategy,

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you don't have to buy the systems yet.

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You can buy something that's more free as you're getting started.

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All right.

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Now you've helped.

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So-so so many people in the short time that you've been

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in business,

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what 18 months or so.

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Right. I'm hitting on two years.

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It took me about 18 months to hit seven figures.

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But now moments at the two year Mark,

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which is crazy.

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Well, that's still in the scheme of things a really short

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time, right?

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Short time.

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But you know what?

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I was a blogger for five years.

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I worked in corporate for 10.

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So I think that that's something that I always want to

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put in a perspective.

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Once I was closely aligned with my purpose,

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the funds came in quickly,

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but it took me almost 10 years to get aligned with

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my purpose,

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Because you knew it was there and you didn't take action

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or you didn't recognize it yet.

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Well, I was taking action.

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It just took a while for me to get properly aligned.

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Meaning like I was always finding,

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I was always beating around the Bush,

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but when I finally leaped and said,

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I'm going all in and I will not quit until I

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hit this thing because I cannot continue to live a life

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of just sort of sampling this world,

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crafting it's like,

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it can't just be Saturdays at the farmer's market anymore.

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You know,

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like the only way this is going to happen is if

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I put in the more time,

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that's how I'm going to make more revenue.

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That's how I'm going to get more exposure.

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I mean,

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it just,

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I was at that pusher shop place.

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And once I finally said,

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I'm going to do it because I've given 10 years to

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corporate, can I give myself six months?

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Can I give myself a year?

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I deserve that.

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Right. Just to see it,

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if it fails,

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I can always go back.

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You know?

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So let me go ahead and try.

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And once I did,

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I mean,

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it just took off.

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So I always try to tell people,

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yeah, it's about doing,

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And I'll make a comment here too,

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that I think is important is yes,

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you can always go back.

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There's not much in life here that you do decisions that

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you can't in one way or another reversed.

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And if you need to,

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that's just a learning that you've had knowledge that you had

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doesn't mean that you're a bad person.

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Like you decided that you were going to stop and you

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quit your job.

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You went in full-time,

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let's say,

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and it wasn't working.

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It, you weren't making money first off.

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You're not a bad person.

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Second of all,

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it might just be your product.

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Isn't connect with the audience.

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It has nothing to do with you as a person.

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Maybe it's just not that product.

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Maybe it has to be something else.

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You were just listening to Nicole talking about how has switched

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from being more of a blogger into her consulting that she's

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doing now.

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Right? So the point is you got to take action or

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you're never going to know,

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Nailed it.

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So it's more discovery than anything else.

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It really is.

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And you're better for it.

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Like, Oh my gosh,

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think of how much you learn along the way.

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Right? So it's like,

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I just think about it.

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And it's like,

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man, people could say,

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Oh, your blogger business failed.

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But it didn't.

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I mean,

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I ended it because it didn't make sense anymore.

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You know?

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And all of those five years of knowledge are the reason

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why I could be a seven figure business owner in 18

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months. And it's because I,

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if I hadn't done those five years,

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it never would've happened.

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Absolutely. And also one more point before we move on here,

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anyone who is working a nine to five job now,

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what skills or knowledge do you need to have that you

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think as you're moving forward,

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that you could be getting exposure to right where you are

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right now?

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Oh my gosh,

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everyone who is listening,

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you always should listen to this podcast because no one ever

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asks you that question.

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And it's such a good question.

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Like Sue is so on this.

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So yeah,

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if you're still in your nine to five,

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the things that I paid close attention to close to quit

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day was interpersonal relationships.

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Meaning how did my company acquire new business?

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Like what were they doing,

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right. And what were they doing wrong in their consumer interaction?

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And this is something you can pay attention to all the

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way from,

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if you are just a customer service cashier,

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all the way up to senior management,

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if you are looking at,

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are they customer and client driven,

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do they follow up with their clients?

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Are they consistently engaged?

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Are they put the client needs before themselves?

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Are they refining their product based on feedback?

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These are all things that I paid close attention to because

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I was working for a fortune 500 company.

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And I see myself now as a fortune 500 company,

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I just haven't put in the number of years that my

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company did.

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So because of that,

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I was like,

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what can I extract?

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I use my company almost like an another expert or another

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mentor I was learning and taking notes and saying,

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this is what I would do.

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Right. And this is what I would do differently in order

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to get myself there faster,

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better and further.

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So there are things to learn right now.

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Absolutely. And maybe there's an initiative that they're doing that you

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want to raise your hand for and be part of because

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you'll learn something and it's not,

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even though,

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you know,

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you're going to be doing something later or you're trying to

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capture some more information and some more experience,

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it doesn't mean that you are not still serving your company

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because you're there,

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you have the skills you're doing it for them,

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but it's also helping you on the other side.

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So don't,

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don't think,

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you know,

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I hate to think of people who are not excited to

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jump out of bed.

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Like you're talking about Nicole and you know,

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or because they have to go into their corporate job or

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whatever, they're doing nine to five,

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but you can reap benefits of that.

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And look,

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you're not going to get your day back.

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So you might as well make it the best that it

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possibly can be as you're moving forward.

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Something to think about for everybody there,

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Nicole, with your current client base,

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that you have all your rich friends,

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right. Is there some challenge that you're seeing over and over

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that we haven't talked about yet?

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Some hurdle that people just are having trouble jumping over to

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get started on their own?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So I,

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that one of the biggest hurdles again,

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is the failure to launch and the launch fear of really

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putting yourself out there.

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There's just so much to overcome in believing whether or not

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we can do it.

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And I think that part of that really has to come

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from aligning ourselves with one,

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you know,

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we're serving people,

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so it's not about us.

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And then to also remembering that your business is just one

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part of you and it,

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isn't the thing that defines you.

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It isn't all that you are.

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And if you are finding that you are measuring yourself by

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your success in your business.

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And it is important to take some time to reflect on

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why you're doing it.

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And what's most important.

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And oftentimes I tell people,

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you know,

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yes, entrepreneurship is not for everybody,

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but there's nothing wrong with taking time out to determine if

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it aligns.

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And if you find that you're in a situation where you're

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like, Oh my gosh,

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this is not working.

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And I'm stressed out,

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take that time and reflect and make it work because you

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will come back refresh and burnout is a real thing.

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So when you're first getting into it,

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if you find that you're like hitting the wall over and

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over and over again,

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the answer isn't pushed through necessarily.

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Sometimes the answer is let go and let go,

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slow down,

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stop and come back to it.

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I wish someone had told me that because I lost whole

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months to trying to push through problems.

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When what I needed to do was take a week off

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and come back refreshed.

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Very good point.

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When I first started,

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I felt like there's going to be a point in my

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career development where emotionally and psychologically,

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I'm going to know that I've made it,

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I've gotten there,

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but I know I still suffer from imposter syndrome.

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I still get anxious.

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Sometimes when I click my Facebook live button to go live

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like, are people going to be there?

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Are they going to appreciate or find value in things that

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I say?

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I think it's always a process.

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And as an entrepreneur,

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you were saying,

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Nicole, that you may be an entrepreneur.

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You may not,

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but you might as well try it.

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But even if you are an entrepreneur,

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some of that unknown and uncomfortableness and question,

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and if you can be better in all of that,

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never goes away.

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You have to start being comfortable with the fact that that's

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just always going to exist.

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Do you agree?

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Oh my gosh,

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Sue, I'm still learning that.

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It's the craziest thing.

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Because in the beginning you look at life almost in the

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way that it's been measured before,

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because entrepreneurship is not like anything you've ever done before in

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the work world.

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It's always a project and the project has a deadline,

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or it's always a common goal that kind of has an

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end. Or it's always a shift that's over at five.

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If you're in school,

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it's always,

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you know,

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four years.

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And then you get your degree.

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I mean,

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there's always this finish line that we're all racing to.

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And that we're always able to measure in our brain and

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say, if I can only get here,

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I'll be done.

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Or I'll if I can label myself as success,

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entrepreneurship is literally never like that.

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Especially if you are a driven overachiever,

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perfectionist, which most of us are.

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We're also a little bit crazy because this again is like,

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I mean,

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you are permanently challenging yourself.

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Like, why would you put yourself through that?

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You know,

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you're so right.

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You have to be a little bit longer than the brain,

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you know?

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So in entrepreneurship it's different because the way it works,

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you get in there and yes,

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you might have like a launch deadline or a production deadline,

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or, you know,

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a wholesaling agreement.

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But once you do that,

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if you are truly challenged and driven,

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what'll happen is you're excited.

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You'll celebrate.

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Hopefully you'll celebrate.

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You have to start reminding yourself to do that.

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But then you'll move that finish line.

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You'll redefine what excellence means to you.

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You'll strive to be more and recognizing something that's going to

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constantly happen will allow you to be a lot easier on

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yourself when you get there.

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And you might say to yourself,

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well, that was kind of easy,

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which it wasn't easy.

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It was hard,

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but like,

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I'm here.

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I got here.

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That was faster than I thought.

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Yes, I got to do other things.

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So, and that's what happened.

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I thought hitting seven figures would be a lot harder because

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I did five years of beauty blogging and I didn't hit

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seven figures in that business,

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but I was also doing it part time,

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obviously. So once all the other things came up and I

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hit that,

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I was like,

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okay, well,

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now that I've done that now what,

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you know what I mean?

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Like what's next and you constantly worry,

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okay, well now,

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you know,

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will I have the people show up?

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And what's that going to look like?

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And you rise to the occasion and believe it or not,

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all the things that got you to that point that hit

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that finish line are the very same tools that will get

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you to that next frontier.

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And you just have to have faith that that's possible.

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Great. And I think it's probably a trait of a successful

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entrepreneur is you get there and it's more the striving and

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the journey to get to the next,

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you know,

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make a new goal and get to the next finish line

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then just to be at one finish line and be done.

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I don't think that's in our natures at all At all,

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which is good.

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You know,

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that's how greatness happens.

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I mean,

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if Steve jobs released the first phone and was like,

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well, I did it,

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we'd all still be talking on this like huge brick of

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an iPhone.

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You know what I mean?

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That barely did anything and didn't have cool apps.

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So, yeah,

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Exactly. Right.

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Okay. So Nicole,

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you've grown.

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I know that you're the back of the shop for you.

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You have a lot of people now helping because you need

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to, what types of tools or any suggestions for someone who,

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again, is in this development stage that you found were really

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helpful for you,

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that you even use today or that you were using earlier?

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Sure. Well,

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especially for creative types,

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if you find that you absolutely hate to do it,

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like make a list,

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you know,

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if you hate to do it,

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if you dread it,

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if doing this thing is keeping you from getting other things

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done because of how much you don't like to do it,

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it probably needs to be outsourced and it's not worth creating

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a bottleneck in your business at you because there,

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especially because you have such important other things that you need

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to offer your business,

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like your innovation and your creativity and your consumer engagement and

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your love and passion.

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So for me,

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you know,

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what that looks like is I hate tech.

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Like I work in the web world,

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I get my clients from the world wide world.

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So it's important that my tech works,

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but I don't like it.

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It takes me hours to figure something out and I just

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get so frustrated.

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And it was just very clear to me early on that

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that was one of the first things I needed to delegate.

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And that actually drove me to be better at what I

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did, because I was like,

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I got to pay somebody to do this stuff or else

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I'll never get anything done.

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There's that.

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And I also,

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my volume of emails.

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So I get a lot of fan and consumer and client

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engagement. I get anywhere from 150 to 350 emails a day.

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And so I hired an admin pretty quickly to just sort

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my inbox so that I'm seeing what counts and that,

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you know,

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login and things of that sort or handled separately,

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you know,

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and just having those two roles covered,

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completely changed my life.

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And I know that it's easier to speak about that luxury

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of having help with the revenue to have it,

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but help can also be on a project basis.

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So I love talking about resources like Fiverr and upwork.com,

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where you're able to hire someone on a project basis for

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as little as $5 or $40 to just solve a problem.

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And then you can facilitate it from there.

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And that's where I started before I was able to hire

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two with lamb.

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People will go back and say exactly what you said.

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I wish I would have hired out sooner.

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Oh yeah,

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definitely. That's usually money for her.

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I think.

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Well, I mean,

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I don't want to project,

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but I know for me it was money peer.

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It was kind of like,

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Oh my gosh,

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like I'm supposed to,

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you know,

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pay this money to hire someone.

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Like, what if I can't afford it?

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And the pressure of like,

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now I'm paying your salary.

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I'm responsible for you.

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That money fears kind of scary.

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And, and I still have that like with as much money

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as I make now,

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my business,

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I just hired my first full-time employee,

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our second full-time employee,

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two of them this past two months where they are 40

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hours a week W2,

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full tax,

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like all that fancy pants stuff.

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And I paid them a proper good American salary.

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You know,

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it's like,

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I look at that and I'm like,

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I am responsible for their lives.

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They are counting on me every single day from nine to

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five to pay their rent.

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And it's definitely scary.

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But what I learned very quickly in the beginning when I

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hired that first person to do a project for me for

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$45, was that the return on investment that you make from

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putting out that money in either experts in mentorship or getting

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help to do your business is tenfold.

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So it hurts to like open your fist and let go

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of that $50.

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But then your hands are wide open to collect the multiplied

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effort of revenue that comes back because you invested in getting

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help Hundred percent agree.

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And your point about doing projects,

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you, instead of having to hire,

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if you're not there,

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the opportunity to just get a few projects done is gold.

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Yeah. Like you're waiting to start a podcast,

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pay intern in college to do the whole setup for you

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so that all you have to do is just start recording.

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Come on.

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No, we were talking about this with podcasts a little bit

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earlier. I just meaning like six weeks ago now hired a

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VA to help edit my shows.

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No, what Nicole,

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I have saved five or six hours per episode.

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So I look,

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if you could see me,

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right, I'd be like,

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Hey girl,

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Hey, not that to yourself.

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I cannot believe that over a hundred episodes were edited by

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you. That is crazy,

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man. It was nuts.

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And you know,

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it was just,

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I wasn't putting in the system.

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It's just,

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I didn't do it.

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I didn't,

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you know,

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we all,

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you know,

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we can all talk things and sometimes you have to turn

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the mirror back on yourself and say,

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are you listening?

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No, I think guilty,

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super guilty.

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I totally get it.

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But Hey Sue,

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what's it like to have your life back?

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How did that feel Seriously?

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And you know what I'm doing with it?

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Amazing. I'm actually talking more with customer.

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Like how about that?

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You know,

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You know,

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and getting a pedicure and some coffee And guess what?

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Sometimes I stay home on Sundays.

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Yes. You deserve it.

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Like I don't come into the office.

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That is awesome.

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So, but yeah.

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Excellent point and love,

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love, love that you talked projects.

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Okay. So you have so much information.

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No. So much.

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Where else do you go to continue learning?

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God, it's so funny.

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It's crazy because I am really blessed in the space.

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I'm in to get to work with a lot of experts.

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I've been blessed to have a lot of keynote speaking engagements

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In your yellow dress,

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Just cause it makes me feel good.

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So it's like I put on yellow in the morning and

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I'm like,

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how could I not look in the mirror and not feel

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good? So when I saw you at Kim,

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Garson that yellow dress.

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I'm like,

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okay, I already loved her,

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but now I love her even more.

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But no,

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it's true.

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And so I'm really good friends with like Kim GARS and

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Shaleen Johnson is actually like a personal like family friend.

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Like my kids call her Angela and we just love,

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love, love her.

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And I'm friends with like Pat Flynn and Amy Porterfield and

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Dave Ramsey.

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And so I have this amazing network of people in this

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industry where,

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you know,

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God bless them,

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they'll answer my questions.

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You know?

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So it's like,

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what's great is I have really good friends.

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But again,

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like where I am in my businesses,

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I've learned that a lot of the logistics,

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the technical things like how to set up a funnel or

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how to set up a webinar,

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an email list,

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like all those things are really readily accessible online.

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If you want that training,

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it's getting the support of people who are several steps ahead

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of you,

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you know,

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in whatever respective field to be able to say,

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Hey, this is what the vision looks like.

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This is what the future looks like.

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And this is what's possible.

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And you know,

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Hey, this entrepreneurship,

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emotional thing,

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you know,

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like Pat,

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Flynn's been doing this for a decade now,

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you know,

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and talking to him,

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he's like,

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you know,

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I've been at this for a while.

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Like some days of the grind.

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And sometimes just seeing the fact that he's like starting over

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in other areas and trying new things.

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That's where I go for my inspiration is I just go

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to the experts and I stay tapped in to their journey

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so that I can continue to succeed on my own.

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Beautiful. I think there's something else there with this too,

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is you want to make sure that what the life looks

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like, that you think you're going for is something you really

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want. Oh yes.

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Oh my gosh.

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Sue her reach.

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Okay. Because I said that,

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you know,

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you were just saying earlier in this chat about how it's

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so important to make sure that the person you're following has

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done the things right.

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Well, it's also important to make sure that they're living the

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life you want.

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One of the things that I run into all the time

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with my coaching clients is,

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you know,

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I'll get students who have built businesses kind of following the

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formula, if you will.

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And they're like,

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yeah, I make six figures easily,

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but I hate my life.

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You know,

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my coach never told me that I would take five consulting

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calls a day.

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And I feel like I spent all my time on the

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phone and I hate everything right now,

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you know?

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And it's just like,

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wow, like,

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you know,

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you, weren't taught about diversified income streams.

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You weren't taught about building the passive streams that allow you

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to live in their purpose.

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So let's kind of get you lined up.

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But for me,

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all of my mentors that I follow everybody,

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all my good friends that are in my network,

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you know,

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all the people I mentioned here,

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they put family first.

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And for me,

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that's a huge priority.

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I adopted three girls from foster care and my three girls

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are, you know,

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17, 15 and five.

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And they're the light of my world.

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And I'm a new mom,

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but you better believe that.

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I am like,

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so all in that,

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they're the number one place I want to be.

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And they were a part of why I quit my job

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because I was just like,

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are you kidding me?

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Like, I can't be in a meeting.

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I've got a five-year-old this is crazy.

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You know?

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So with that,

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you got to make sure the advice that I get,

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I know is always considering family because the people that I

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listened to and the people I talked to,

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my friends,

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they a priority for them.

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So I can trust that.

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They're not going to tell me,

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Oh yeah,

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girl, if you're not making income,

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or if you feel like you want to boost your revenue,

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all you have to do is put in an 80 hour

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week and don't put dinner on the table and miss the

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graduation party.

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They'll never say that,

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you know,

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that's not how they live.

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So I think that,

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yeah, you nailed it.

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Like make sure that the people that you're listening to a

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hundred percent have a life that you want to live too.

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Because I look at some people like,

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and I'll just I'll throw out names.

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Cause I keep it all the way real.

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But like Gary Vaynerchuk,

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love, love,

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love him.

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Guy is brilliant,

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right? Smart.

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And you know,

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a straight shooter and knows his stuff.

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My goodness,

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his hustle is not the way I want my hustle to

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look like.

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I just,

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I want to hustle and I want to have that success

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and that impact in that drive.

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But I can tell you right out the gate that I

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am not inspired to have a life where it's like,

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I'm on the go,

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go, go all the time.

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So it's like,

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I'll listen to his advice and extract what I need,

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but there are other elements of it that just don't align

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with me.

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And so I always have to fact check that against my

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own internal radar,

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by faith radar and then my family and,

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you know,

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mentor support radar.

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And I think everybody should be doing that in their business.

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Totally agree with you.

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And those of you who don't know what we're talking about

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Gary, Monday through Friday,

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I don't know,

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5:00 AM to 2:00 AM works.

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Like he might sleep three hours.

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Now he does take weekends for his family,

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but like I would be in bed sleeping The whole weekend

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and those hours,

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you and me both.

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And also can I just say,

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like, I don't just love my family.

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I like my family.

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They're my favorite people.

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So it's like I,

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a weekend would not be enough.

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I miss them during the day.

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I could not imagine not seeing my family at the end

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of every day and at the top of every morning and

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sometimes at lunch.

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So totally Brings up another point.

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I just want to slip in here as we're winding down

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is that your life will also change the stages of your

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kids also change.

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So if you have younger kids,

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maybe you don't want to be starting a business full-time if

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it fits in on the side,

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because you're valuing the time with the kids or you keep

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it downsized a little bit.

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There's plenty of time later when they're out of the house

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when they're away at college.

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So businesses specially when you're in business for yourself can flux

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based on the life stage that you're in too.

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Oh my gosh.

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So yes,

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that's gold.

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Everybody write that down.

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Circle it exclamation marks who is telling you today accurate like

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a hundred percent.

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Well, thank you.

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So Nicole,

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at this point,

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I'd like invite you to dare To dream.

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I'd like to present you with a virtual gift.

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It's a magical box containing unlimited possibilities for your future.

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So this is your dream or your goal of almost unreachable

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Heights that you would wish to obtain.

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Please accept this gift and open it in our presence.

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What is inside your virtual box?

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Inside of my virtual box is the platform to reach an

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unlimited amount of people.

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And I mean,

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not just people who have access to the internet,

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not just people who have access TV,

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but I mean the little child in,

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you know,

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South Africa who is running around on the street with no

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vision of what his future could look like and no understanding

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that going through the sands between his success is time and

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resources and a little bit of prayer and faith.

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And in that box is that platform to wide my territory,

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because I truly believe that as a change catalyst that I

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can show up and show out when given the opportunity and

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that I have a gift to bless and inspire the world

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to believe and in the tools and resources to create change

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for themselves.

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So that's what it is in the box.

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Whatever that magic tool is that gets you in front of

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the right people to share this inspiring message that's what's in

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there. And it would be the greatest gift of all time.

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And I'm going to keep working until I can open that

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box. There you go.

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I got to say with technology the way it is and

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what we're able to do in places we're able to access

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now and your passion and beauty and excitement and everything,

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yellow personality,

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people are attracted to you already.

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So you have that,

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you have the channel technology's only going to get better,

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right? And we're seeing technology even in third world countries.

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I mean,

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everyone is getting connected.

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Yeah. And I do believe that it's something that I definitely

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hold close to me that there's no mistake that I was

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born during this time.

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And I am grateful for the ability to take advantage of

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all the resources that have been presented.

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So all in good time that gives me love it.

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Where could people find out more about you,

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Nicole? Yes.

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Well, everything all about me and my life and my stuff

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is at Nicole Walters dot T V.

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So you can find out everything at Nicole Walters at TB.

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And if you want to know more about how to swap

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here or there and every little bit counts.

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Thank you so much for that show notes.

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You guys will be there with all the links as always

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Nicole. I so appreciate your showing up today with all of

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this great information,

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your vibe,

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your spirit.

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If anybody who has been listening has been thinking about jumping

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into this crazy little world of entrepreneurialship.

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I think that we've got them going now.

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It's because of a lot of what you're talking about.

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It doesn't have to be scary.

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You can start planning and guess what?

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Just like Nicole was talking about where she was doing it

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within her while she was still working,

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you guys can all get started right now today to put

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yourself on that path.

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So think about that.

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Okay, Nicole,

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again, love that you were here.

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So appreciate your time.

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All of your energy,

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all of your wisdom.

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I'm hoping you'll pick up like a million fans,

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either on Periscope live or something because this vibe will continue.

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This is how you show up every day.

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And Nicole made that motivational candle of yours continue to burn

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bright. Thank you.

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