57 | 3 Mistakes Stopping You From Making $1000/Month

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I've coached nearly 100 women about their screen time,

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and here's what I've learned.

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Women actually don't care about their

screen time, they care about those things

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that are impacted by their screen time.

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Their ability to be patient with their

kids, the growth of their business,

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having time to pursue their creative

dreams, their relationship with their

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husband, the inner peace that they feel,

their confidence in themselves, their

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Connection with God, their friendships

not missing out on their kids' childhoods.

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I'm Alex and I'm here to

help you find inner peace.

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Enjoy true fulfillment

and be fully present.

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Welcome to the Mindful with Media Podcast.

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When I first started my business,

I didn't even call it a business.

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I just wanted to start.

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Sharing things about being intentional

with screens and intentional phone use.

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And soon after I started my journey of.

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Sharing information and wanting to.

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Make a positive impact.

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Aye.

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I kind of came to a point where I.

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I basically, I made the decision

that I wanted to monetize.

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Mindful with media and.

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So I set a goal to.

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Make.

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I think a thousand dollars a

month was actually my first goal.

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And I had that goal for a long

time before I even made any money.

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Like.

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I was learning a lot and I loved.

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I took several different courses

and I loved listening to podcasts

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about business and things like that.

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But as far as actually

making it happen, Was.

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Really hard for me, like

a lot harder than it.

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Like everyone made.

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It seemed like it should be easier.

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Than it was.

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And.

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So I want to share.

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The things that I've learned in

this process of not making any

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money to consistently making money.

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And so I'll be sharing three mistakes that

are stopping you from actually making a

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thousand dollars a month consistently.

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First of all, I am running a program it's

called the serenity and it is for you.

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If you.

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Want to consistently make

a thousand dollars a month.

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I found that there are lots of.

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Trainings and courses and coaching

on how to make six figures

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or how to scale your business.

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But.

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It's, it was hard for me at least to find.

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I find people talking about how to

just actually start making money and.

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Especially if you've been in business

for a minute, like you've, you've

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had your, your business for a while,

but you're having a hard time getting

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traction and actually making that happen.

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This would be a really good fit for you.

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And also something else that's

really important to me is.

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Well, and something that I've felt for

this program, the serenity is that.

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If you.

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Have felt almost like called or inspired.

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Two.

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To run your business.

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Like you feel like this is a

way that you can serve people

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and help people at this time.

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Then.

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The serenity might be a good fit for you.

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And then the third thing that I'll

say is the serenity is for women who.

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Who are, how do I say this?

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They aren't.

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As intense about business as other

times, other people might be that.

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You have kids at home and you want

to spend time taking care of your

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kids and taking care of your home.

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And.

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Also having time for yourself that.

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That this program is for you.

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If you ideally want to spend about

10 hours a week on your business.

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Whether that's during nap time or

with, if you are as of childcare or a

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couple evenings a week or Saturdays.

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That this, this isn't

like your full-time gig.

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This is very much a part-time thing,

but you would like to make money from

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it and you want to actually serve people

and help people and make a difference.

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So the serenity is launching August 20th.

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, And you can all, I'll share a link in the

show notes with more details about that.

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So kind of as a prep for that,

I would just want to talk about.

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Mistakes that are stopping you from

making a thousand dollars a month.

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And these are things that I wish that

I knew at the beginning of my business.

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But I'm glad that I know now.

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The first thing is that you

are selling the wrong thing.

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And.

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This was a while ago, but I had.

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I had a cucumber out on the counter

and I think I went to go change my

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daughter's diapers or something.

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And I came back in and my sweet husband.

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And my son.

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They had, oh, I think I had even

already sliced the cucumber.

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And they had boiled a pot

of water and they had.

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Put the cucumber in the water to boil

because they thought it was zucchini.

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And I, I make a lot of, I serve

that quite a bit is boiled zucchini.

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And so.

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Just laughed.

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And I, I don't know, even know if we tried

to eat it, but if we did, it was not very

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good, but I think this happens a lot in.

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In this space of business where

we see someone else do something.

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And so we.

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We copy that.

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Not in a, like, In a.

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Wrong way.

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I think it's, it's fine to copy people

and get ideas from people and things, but.

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The problem with that is it doesn't.

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Play on your strengths.

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It doesn't play on.

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What your good at.

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And what your people want to pay for.

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And so it's, it's kind of like,

we're, we're trying to be.

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As you Keeney and trying to boil

ourselves when you're actually cucumber

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and you, you don't need to be boiled.

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You're fine to be in just raw.

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You know, you will serve

you a different way.

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And so.

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That's something that.

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Kind of in my journey of figuring out

how it was actually going to make money.

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Is I originally thought that I would

make money from affiliate marketing.

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And so.

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You know, I started my business

in the, the screen time space.

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And so.

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With.

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Different types of kids, safe phones.

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And I.

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it was an affiliate for a course

about like kids screen time and.

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I'm trying to think what else.

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I was going affiliate for, oh, I think.

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You know, for like the love, every

play kits or things like that.

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Like, I was an affiliate

for a lot of things that.

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Resonated with what I was already

teaching about screen time.

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But I hated it.

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Like it.

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It did not feel natural to me too.

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Share about those things.

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And I just felt.

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Yeah, I just.

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It was not a good fit for me.

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And it wasn't what my

people wanted either.

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And I actually.

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I made a little bit of money from that.

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And I still do make a little bit

of money from some affiliates.

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But.

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I instead, I found the

overlap between three things.

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If you can picture like a Venn

diagram in your mind, one.

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What I love doing like.

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I do not love sharing about products

and some people do, and it's, it's

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so fun and fulfilling for them.

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I'll share a thing here and there.

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Especially if somebody like asks about

something, like, in fact, I'm recording

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this podcast on descript right now.

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And I was recommending descript so

much to people that I was like, Hey,

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I should become an affiliate for this

because I'm already recommending it.

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So in some ways it's.

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It's natural, but I don't

necessarily love it.

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And.

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So yeah.

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Overlap between what I love.

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What you're good at and

what people want to pay for.

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And so.

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I found that I am really good at.

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Coaching.

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Individual coaching.

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Comes very naturally for me

and is really fun for me too.

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And I really feel really fulfilled.

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And then I've also found

that I'm really good at.

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Small group.

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Teaching.

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I have a lot of.

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Professional experience with

small group coaching and teaching.

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And.

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I also love that.

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It's really fun for me.

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And I found that there are certain

things that people want to pay for and

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certain things that people don't want

to pay for as far as what I offer.

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And so.

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I've, you know, you've

probably watched my journey of.

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Kind of flipped around

on what I focused on and.

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I found what people want to

pay for the most from me is my.

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My strategy.

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Like I, business strategy also

comes very naturally to me.

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Four.

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Processes and ideas and, and.

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And, and ways to do things and

experimenting with things in ways that.

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That actually helps you make money.

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And so.

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That's kind of where I'm zoning in on, and

this is something that's always evolving

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and changing, but if you can figure out.

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What you love.

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What you're good at and

what people want to pay for.

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That will help you to

actually sell the right thing.

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And another, no on this,

this first point of.

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That mistake that you're

selling the wrong thing.

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99% of the time your offers

are too big, whether that's

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a group coaching program or.

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Like a big package or, or even a book or.

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Just something that's kind of

a big commitment for people.

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It seems small and relatively it is small.

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You know, it might not.

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It's probably.

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Very forwardable or things

like that, but like,

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People don't trust you enough to pay.

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You any money at all?

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Or also commit to a live call.

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I've also noticed a lot of people sell.

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Live call on something.

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Like a free discovery call or a

free coaching call of some sort or.

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A free live webinar.

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And these are even free things that are

people that people are having a hard time.

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Committing to and setting up for.

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And so that's also something

to pay attention to.

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And.

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Kind of with this on

your offers are too big.

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They probably aren't specific enough.

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And so, and even I think.

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Just ask a friend like how you could

help be more specific, because I know,

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even though I teach this stuff, I know

it's really easy for me to be broad in.

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In my offers.

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And so.

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You can always be more specific.

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So like instead of offering.

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. A program like a summer program.

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Four.

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Your.

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Mental health or maybe like

a summer program for your

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fitness or something like that.

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Like instead of selling

like a huge program.

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Just sell like a really specific.

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Specific solution to a specific problem.

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And so like, instead of selling.

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Turning with the examples.

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Guide to picky eating.

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You can sell.

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A seven day challenge.

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Where you're in a group together

and they use send them a daily.

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Thing to do to help with.

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Picky eating.

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So just some more examples of.

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Offers that you could make more specific.

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So like instead of selling a.

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Fitness program for moms or

something like that you could

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sell or do like a specific offer.

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A love handle workout for postpartum moms.

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And this has can also help you

if you're having a hard time.

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Deciding what your niche is.

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Instead of.

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Choosing a niche, like just

niche your offers, you know, you

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could do one offer that's yeah.

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Just for postpartum moms.

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And then you could do

another offer that's for.

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Prenatal moms, or you

could do another offer.

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That's.

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Like you can get really specific on

what types of moms you're talking to, or

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like what type of fitness program you're

doing instead of just really general.

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That has been a game changer for

me is really specific offers.

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And another thing that I'll say with this

is I have never had a product business.

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I do not have a product business.

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So.

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If I'm being completely honest, I.

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I'm not an expert in how this applies

to product businesses, but I have had

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clients who have product based businesses.

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And the same thing applies

like instead of just.

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You sell cakes or cookies or

something like that, you could

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like offer a really specific.

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Offer.

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I am making.

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These type of.

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Cookies, you know, or like for a birthday

celebration for a child's birthday

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celebration, like just get really specific

on what your options are instead of I

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can do anything and I can do everything.

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People people need your help

in deciding what they want.

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And that's why you have to give

them really specific options.

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So let's see.

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Oh, that's actually.

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And also kind of with that.

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If you do have a service based business,

if you're not a product-based business.

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And you're, you're helping people.

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So if you're.

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Yeah, a coach or a service

provider in some way.

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You want to make sure that your

solutions are more straightforward?

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And so a lot of times, We want

to just give people information.

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And that's, that's what I'm

doing this podcast really is

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I'm just giving you information.

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But what would be even more effective?

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If I gave you like a process or a

framework or a certain number of steps

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or a daily thing to do to help you

make a thousand dollars a month, right?

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Like, This is just a bunch of information.

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It's hard for you to go take

action and do something with it.

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What's more effective is to give you.

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A very simple.

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Straightforward solution.

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So it's not enough for you to just.

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Figure out how to do it yourself.

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Like

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when I used to really only do

phone use coaching and screen time.

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Coaching.

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I had figured it out for myself, how to.

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Not waste time on my phone anymore.

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How to.

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Be super intentional with my phone use.

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It's one thing to do it for yourself.

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It's another thing to.

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Help other people do it and to

really figure out, okay, what are the

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steps to actually make this happen?

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Like how can I.

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How can I.

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Turn this into a framework so that

other people can copy what I did and

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also have the same results that I had.

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And I will say , if

you're having a hard time.

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Turning your.

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Ideas into like an actual

step-by-step framework.

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I have a math brain and that

is just how my brain works.

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In fact, I had a friend that used

to make fun of me because I would

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always like, hold up my fingers

and point to my other hand about

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whenever I was talking about anything.

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And I would point like first,

this second, this third, that.

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Anyways, if you're needing help.

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Turning your ideas into like a framework

that you can teach or you can sell.

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DME, I'm happy to chat

with you and help you.

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Figure out what your framework is.

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Okay.

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So let's recap.

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The first mistake that is stopping you

from making a thousand dollars a month.

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You're selling the wrong thing.

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So.

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Either you're selling something that

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people don't really want.

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Or you're selling something that.

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You don't love or you're

not really good at.

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Or your.

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People don't want to pay for.

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And so it's just, you need to

find something else to sell that.

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That overlaps all those points,

something you're good at something

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you love and something that

your people want to pay for.

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Your offer is might be too big.

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Your offers might not be specific enough.

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Or your solutions within those offers,

aren't straightforward and simple enough

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so that people can actually implement.

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The things that you're

teaching and see results.

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Okay, let's move on to the second mistake

that you might be making that stopping you

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from making a thousand dollars a month.

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Number two, you are overthinking

and over complicating things.

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And.

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This is something that if I could look

back at the beginning of my business, I

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spent months trying to set up a website.

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Or like, yeah.

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Trying to figure out affiliate programs.

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I spent forever trying to decide what the

perfect offer would be seriously, probably

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like six months before I offered anything,

because I didn't know what to offer.

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I didn't know.

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What would work and so.

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Figure out what offer is best faster.

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If you put out more.

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Many offers.

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And so.

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Many offers are.

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Free or really low price point.

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They're a very specific solution.

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So instead of just like,

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Master your phone use.

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That's something that I've sold

before, instead of something more

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general like that, it's like, okay.

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In fact, I just did one.

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I called the post then present challenge.

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And it was a mini offer where I

had people join a Voxer group.

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And the challenge was that

you would post every day.

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So you'd still be active on Instagram.

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But you wouldn't spend more than

30 minutes a day on the app.

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And.

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So it was a very specific type of

offer, but actually it kind of getting

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back to this point of you learn things

by putting out more many offers.

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I learned from this challenge.

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Nobody in the group was actually

successful and only spending

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30 minutes a day on Instagram.

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For the seven days.

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Everyone started out

strong and then they all.

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They, they struggled at the end.

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And so I learned from this offer

that I did not give the people in

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this group enough tools and enough.

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Support and help for

them to be successful.

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And so that's something that if I

were to do an offer like this again,

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I would either give more support

or I might let people pay for.

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A, you know, maybe you can

join the challenge for free.

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You could pay a small price to.

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Get access to the specific

tools that might help, you

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know, maybe I could give them.

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A daily prompt.

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So they knew exactly what

to post or maybe I could.

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Write out their posts for

them, or maybe I could.

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Give them just more guidance

and help so that they, they

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were able to be successful.

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Okay.

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So yeah, also with this overthinking

and over-complicating things.

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Seriously, like.

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You should be putting out an

offer at least once a month.

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And it just needs to be

one of these many offers.

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It doesn't need to be a big deal.

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But at least once a month.

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Put out many offer and

kind of going back to that.

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That first step, if you find

something that you love.

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And you're naturally good at,

and your people want to pay for.

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It's it's especially easy to put these

out because you don't have to put so much

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effort every time you're creating offer.

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It's just.

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It's just yeah.

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Doing what comes naturally to you.

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And, and also with that, like the

more offers you put out, the more

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you'll tweak things and you'll,

you'll really find that sweet spot of.

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You'll find what you love

and what you don't love.

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Like I learned about myself,

like I said, I don't like.

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Affiliate, I don't like

affiliate marketing.

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I don't like.

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Like creating guides is not

like I like the framework.

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But I don't like actually putting the

guide together, which I'm realizing.

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Okay.

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So maybe that's something I could hire out

if that is something I want to sell, but.

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Like.

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One-on-one calls like either small group

teaching calls or one-on-one live call

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that comes really naturally for me.

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And that's really easy for me.

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So yeah, you'll just, you'll find

what works for you, but the more

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offers you put out the faster you'll

figure out what your sweet spot is.

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And then.

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Just.

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Don't take so much time trying

to set up everything or come up

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with the perfect offer because.

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: 00:21:28

It in the long run, it's

just wasting your time

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: 00:21:32

Like really, you do not need

a website to sell anything.

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: 00:21:35

You don't need an email list.

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Just use Instagram is good.

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I.

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I wish that I wouldn't have spent so

much time trying to set up my business as

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if I was already a six-figure business.

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: 00:21:49

At the beginning because I'm having to

go back and change things anyways now.

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: 00:21:53

And I, I would have made

really different decisions on.

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Which.

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: 00:21:57

Email platforms I use and which website

hosting I use and things like that.

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: 00:22:01

And so I wish I wouldn't have

done it at the beginning anyways,

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especially when it was kind of like.

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Scrappy and not super nice anyways.

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: 00:22:11

And so.

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I would say.

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Don't waste your time, trying

to figure those things out.

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Initially, you can do that all later.

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: 00:22:19

. And also with this overthinking

and over-complicating.

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: 00:22:21

You're probably spending

way too much time.

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Creating Instagram posts.

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: 00:22:27

To either promote your offer or

just Instagram posts in general.

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: 00:22:32

I kind of go through waves

with Instagram, where.

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It's I start to swing into

that, that realm of wanting to

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: 00:22:39

copy other people and to be.

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: 00:22:42

Perfect.

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: 00:22:42

And to have like, like a slam dunk

on every post and, and everyone

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: 00:22:48

teaches something different.

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: 00:22:49

For me, it's been the most effective

if I just commit to post every day

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: 00:22:54

and I give myself 10 minutes and

I just have to post what I create.

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: 00:22:58

That's what's worked for me and I actually

get a lot faster and I get the word out.

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: 00:23:04

So that's probably wasting

a lot of your time and your.

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: 00:23:08

Your mental and emotional

energy is spending too much time

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: 00:23:12

on creating Instagram posts.

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: 00:23:15

Kind of also with this overthinking

and over complicating, you.

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: 00:23:20

Probably.

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: 00:23:21

Spend a lot of your time learning either

listening to podcasts or taking courses.

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: 00:23:26

And you probably know a ton,

but you're not taking action.

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: 00:23:31

And.

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: 00:23:32

It's probably because you know, so much,

you know, what you have the potential of

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: 00:23:37

doing and what you could put out there.

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: 00:23:39

And it's really uncomfortable.

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: 00:23:41

Two.

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: 00:23:42

You know, either put out an offer

or post an Instagram post or

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: 00:23:46

create a podcast episode that is.

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: 00:23:50

Is messy and imperfect,

but I've really found that.

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: 00:23:53

For me.

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: 00:23:54

If I like.

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: 00:23:57

The only way that I have become a

successful business owner is because

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: 00:24:01

I was, and I'm still willing to take

messy and imperfect action to just.

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: 00:24:08

Post imperfect post and to release

imperfect podcast episodes.

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: 00:24:12

And to promote imperfect offers.

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: 00:24:15

That's.

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: 00:24:17

That's where you're going to

see success is when you're

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: 00:24:19

willing to be seen in perfectly.

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: 00:24:22

The third mistake that you might

be making that stopping you from

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: 00:24:25

making a thousand dollars a month.

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: 00:24:27

Is you are not putting out enough offers.

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: 00:24:31

And I kind of mentioned this earlier, but.

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: 00:24:33

I'm like so obsessed with many offers.

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: 00:24:36

I really feel like.

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: 00:24:37

If you're in this phase

of business, if you are.

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: 00:24:40

Like.

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: 00:24:42

Making six figures already,

are you you're ready to scale?

491

: 00:24:46

This is, this is not the way to do it.

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: 00:24:48

This is How do I say this?

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: 00:24:49

This is probably wasting your time.

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: 00:24:51

It's, it's more work than

it's worth at that point.

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: 00:24:53

But if you're in the phase of

business where you are not making

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: 00:24:57

consistently, at least a thousand

dollars a month, You have a gift.

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: 00:25:02

And that gift is that you have

the capacity to connect with

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: 00:25:07

people on a one-on-one level

and you have the capacity to.

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: 00:25:12

Try more things and put out

more many offers instead of.

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: 00:25:17

Being.

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: 00:25:18

So spread thin that you, you don't

have time for things like that.

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: 00:25:21

Likely you have time for, for

things like this, because this is

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: 00:25:24

what's going to help you make money.

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: 00:25:25

So.

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: 00:25:25

Every month.

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: 00:25:27

Choose a specific solution to a specific

problem and turn it into an offer.

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: 00:25:33

So this could be things like, like

I mentioned earlier, a seven day

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: 00:25:39

challenge on Voxer, or this could be.

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: 00:25:43

A.

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: 00:25:44

A step-by-step guide or this

could be a video training.

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: 00:25:51

Or this could be.

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: 00:25:52

A an audio training or this

could be a workbook of some sort.

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: 00:25:59

Just a really specific

solution to a specific problem.

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: 00:26:03

And, and create a new mini

offer at least once a month.

515

: 00:26:08

And through this, this is how people

will learn to trust you because.

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: 00:26:13

Instead of.

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: 00:26:15

And I'll just say this, like people.

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: 00:26:18

Even if you're posting consistently

on Instagram and maybe you've already

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: 00:26:22

shared all of these things that you

would create a mini offer out of.

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: 00:26:26

Maybe you've already shared them on

Instagram, but you have to remember that.

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: 00:26:31

Even like, well, I'll say this more

and more people are not on Instagram.

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: 00:26:36

To learn or take action people

aren't Instagram because they're

523

: 00:26:41

avoiding an uncomfortable emotion.

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: 00:26:43

And so they're not on there scrolling

and seeing your post and thinking,

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: 00:26:47

oh yeah, . I should set up this.

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: 00:26:51

Screen-time widget.

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: 00:26:53

On my phone.

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: 00:26:54

So I know like they might do that,

but, but more often than not, they're

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: 00:26:57

actually not taking action from the

things they're seeing on Instagram.

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: 00:27:01

They're more likely to take action.

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: 00:27:03

If they sign up for an

offer, even if it's free.

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: 00:27:06

Then they're committed to do

it and there, and you, and you

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: 00:27:09

break down the steps for them.

534

: 00:27:10

Instead of them seeing a million

posts on things they should do.

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: 00:27:13

They're signed up for this offer and they

say, okay, you do this one thing today.

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: 00:27:17

Kay.

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: 00:27:17

I can do that.

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: 00:27:18

It just makes it more easy for them.

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: 00:27:19

And then when they, they do those things.

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: 00:27:23

And they.

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: 00:27:24

They take action.

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: 00:27:26

Then they'll have a little mini

transformation, you know, it might be a

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: 00:27:29

really small thing, but they will learn

to trust you because they'll see that

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: 00:27:34

what you teach helps them get results.

545

: 00:27:36

And so then they'll have a

closer relationship with you,

546

: 00:27:39

you know, that might bring more.

547

: 00:27:40

One-on-one interactions with

you because of that and they'll

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: 00:27:44

experience for themselves that

you're, that what you're promising.

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: 00:27:48

Is actually working for them.

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: 00:27:51

And so, and I'll kind of say on this

one, last thing you want these to be

551

: 00:27:54

easy wins, kind of like I mentioned

earlier, my post then present challenge.

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: 00:27:58

That was not an easy win.

553

: 00:27:59

That that was hard for people.

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: 00:28:01

And I didn't know that until I.

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: 00:28:04

I.

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: 00:28:04

did that challenge.

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: 00:28:04

And so.

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: 00:28:06

You basically, like you

want to give people yeah.

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: 00:28:09

A straightforward framework or the

support that they need so that they

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: 00:28:13

can feel successful and feel like.

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: 00:28:17

They did it.

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: 00:28:17

And then.

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: 00:28:19

The more and more offers,

you know, mini-me offers that

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: 00:28:22

you put out or that people.

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: 00:28:25

Like sign up for, with you.

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: 00:28:27

That will.

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: 00:28:29

They will.

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: 00:28:30

learn to trust you and

trust that what you are.

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: 00:28:34

Teaching and promoting

works and they will.

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: 00:28:38

Be willing and want to

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: 00:28:40

pay.

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: 00:28:41

You after that?

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: 00:28:43

Like I mentioned earlier, this

was just a lot of information.

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: 00:28:47

And if you really want to.

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: 00:28:50

Implement these things.

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: 00:28:52

I am going to be.

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: 00:28:54

Teaching a free workshop.

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: 00:28:56

It's on Monday, August 5th at 4:00 PM.

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: 00:29:00

Mountain daylight time.

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: 00:29:02

That's Utah time, not Arizona time.

581

: 00:29:05

It's 3:00 PM Arizona time.

582

: 00:29:06

I always get those mixed up.

583

: 00:29:08

But.

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: 00:29:09

This workshop is all about how to design

your personalized strategy so that you

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: 00:29:16

can make a thousand dollars a month.

586

: 00:29:18

And.

587

: 00:29:19

That's ended.

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: 00:29:20

Individualized to you and works for you.

589

: 00:29:23

And.

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: 00:29:25

I've joined a lot of programs

and courses in my time.

591

: 00:29:29

I run these workshops.

592

: 00:29:31

Differently than anything

that I've experienced before.

593

: 00:29:35

And these are very interactive there.

594

: 00:29:38

Breakout rooms, where we have

discussions and work on things together.

595

: 00:29:43

And there are times to journal on your

own and we have big group discussions and.

596

: 00:29:49

Chatbox stuff.

597

: 00:29:50

They're very highly.

598

: 00:29:51

Interactive.

599

: 00:29:52

And that's why I think they're so powerful

is because it's not just listening to

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: 00:29:56

me or getting coached or something.

601

: 00:29:58

It's, you're taking action and

you get to interact with other

602

: 00:30:02

people too, not just you and me.

603

: 00:30:06

Which I think is really powerful.

604

: 00:30:07

And because of the nature

of these workshops.

605

: 00:30:13

This will not be recorded.

606

: 00:30:15

You have to come live.

607

: 00:30:17

Kids are welcome.

608

: 00:30:18

So I will make sure to put

a link in the show notes.

609

: 00:30:22

To sign up for that workshop.

610

: 00:30:25

And that will just kind of give you

a taste of what the serenity is like.

611

: 00:30:30

So kind of just to clarify.

612

: 00:30:32

August 5th is the workshop.

613

: 00:30:34

August 20th is when doors open to join the

serenity and the serenity is 2 83 a month.

614

: 00:30:40

You get one my workshop a month, one audio

training that you can listen to on the go.

615

: 00:30:45

And then you get one one-on-one

coaching call with me to

616

: 00:30:48

really make sure that we're.

617

: 00:30:50

Making these things work for your

business and then unlimited Voxer support.

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: 00:30:55

And these spots are limited to 10 people.

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: 00:30:57

So if you are interested, make sure

to join the waitlist for the serenity.