Artwork for podcast Creative Collaborations
Entrepreneurial Challenges & Building Authentic Connections with Marie Fratoni
Episode 9623rd July 2024 • Creative Collaborations • Chuck Anderson
00:00:00 00:33:43

Share Episode

Shownotes

In this episode, Chuck Anderson and his guest, a transformational business coach, delve into the struggles of entrepreneurship and the importance of authentic connections in a cluttered marketplace. They emphasize the role of partnerships, seeking help, and building a professional network to navigate the ups and downs of business. The discussion highlights the transformative power of conversations and the impact of partnerships and group interactions on business growth.

Guest Bio:

Marie Fratoni is a transformational business coach with a background in educational services, training, coaching, and sales. She specializes in helping clients create sustainable and profitable businesses, drawing from her own journey of transitioning to full-time entrepreneurship amidst revenue challenges and seeking support from a business coach.

Key Points:

1. (07:32) The significance of seeking the right community and asking for help in entrepreneurship.

2. (15:18) Emphasizing the impact of personal experiences on resonating with audiences in business.

3. (23:45) The importance of partnerships, networking, and creating opportunities for others in collaborations.

4. (31:56) Building trust and relationships in the digital age for business success.

5. (40:22) The value of immediate action and perseverance through setbacks in business.

Main Quote:

"The key to clear sailing in entrepreneurship is seeking the right community and asking for help when needed."

Links:

Connect with Marie Fratoni: www.mariefratoni.com

Was this episode helpful?

Please leave us a review and subscribe to the show to be notified of future episodes.

Until next time, keep moving forward!

Chuck Anderson,

Affiliate Management Expert + Investor + Mentor

http://AffiliateManagementExpert.com/

Transcripts

Speaker:

Hello, everybody. Chuck Anderson here, and welcome back. This is the Creative

Speaker:

Collaboration Show. This is the show for business owners and entrepreneurs

Speaker:

and coaches and consultants and experts who are on their,

Speaker:

entrepreneurial journey, wherever that may be. You might be at the beginning of your

Speaker:

journey. You might be a year or 2 into your journey. You might

Speaker:

be decades into your journey, and, this

Speaker:

show serves business owners. Now regardless

Speaker:

of what stage of business you are in, there

Speaker:

are challenges that come up along the

Speaker:

way that challenge our sustainability, challenge our profitability,

Speaker:

even challenge how we feel, ourselves as

Speaker:

business owners and as leaders and as people who are

Speaker:

out there trying to trying to to create something significant.

Speaker:

And so we're gonna talk a lot about that today. Today, my guest

Speaker:

is Marie Fratoni, who is a transformational

Speaker:

business coach and, and has so much,

Speaker:

really cool stuff, to share with you. And she works with and

Speaker:

serves clients, to help them, create that sustainability,

Speaker:

that profitability, and a thriving business. So, Marie, thank

Speaker:

you so much for being here. It's a pleasure to have you as my guest

Speaker:

tonight. Awesome. I appreciate the opportunity. Let's have some fun.

Speaker:

Let yeah. Let's have some fun. So I think, you know, a great place

Speaker:

to start is, is your story.

Speaker:

Everyone has an entrepreneurial story. I know what mine was.

Speaker:

This isn't about me. What what what what's your story? What what's your

Speaker:

entrepreneurial story that has led you to do the work that you're doing

Speaker:

now? Well, you know, that's a big question.

Speaker:

Mhmm. And I've been doing this a long time, but it hasn't

Speaker:

always looked like this. But I would say one of the

Speaker:

things that I've always been involved in is educational service, training,

Speaker:

coaching, presenting, making a difference in communities,

Speaker:

in colleges, in businesses, and now in the

Speaker:

entrepreneurial world. So it's kind of had this this arc.

Speaker:

And I've been doing business development and sales pretty much my

Speaker:

whole entire life. I've had to be accountable for my own revenue my whole entire

Speaker:

life. Even when I worked in other organizations, I was

Speaker:

in the sales end of it, so I was accountable for revenue generation.

Speaker:

And I've I've did a lot of sales training, with major

Speaker:

companies around the globe, and, now I

Speaker:

love teaching my clients how they can actually make

Speaker:

money with their enterprise, their entrepreneur journey.

Speaker:

So, you know, I had to learn. I had a lot of good skills. I

Speaker:

had the right ingredients, if you will. I had to work on

Speaker:

myself a lot. I had to work on business or just my

Speaker:

own my own presentation. And I think those

Speaker:

some there were some days there that were not exactly pretty. They were

Speaker:

very challenging. And when I really went off on my own full time, when I

Speaker:

let go of the other stuff, the other revenue streams that I have for my

Speaker:

business, it was challenging. I had some sleepless nights there. And

Speaker:

I knew at that point that I really had to hunker down,

Speaker:

hire a business coach and say, help me figure this out because I don't

Speaker:

want to be in a situation where I'm in terror every month.

Speaker:

Am I gonna be able to pay the mortgage? Am I ever gonna pay the

Speaker:

car now? Am I gonna pay my health insurance? All of that. And so

Speaker:

what I find is that a lot of the people that I work

Speaker:

with have had really good jobs in corporate America. They've been very

Speaker:

successful, or they they they've been accomplished in some way. They

Speaker:

might not be at the c suite, but they've done really well, and

Speaker:

now they're doing their own thing for whatever reason.

Speaker:

And then when we're accountable for our own revenue, if they've never had to sell

Speaker:

before, if they've never had to interact with clients and get people through

Speaker:

the pipeline, so to speak, that's very challenging. And so

Speaker:

if I can take some of the examples from my life and some of the

Speaker:

training that I've done and help them create and be able to forecast their

Speaker:

income and even create their financial model, because a lot of people don't. They just

Speaker:

start playing. They just start serving people. But in the moment, it's

Speaker:

great. But in the future, it's like, oh my god. I didn't plan for

Speaker:

that. So, you know, I had to learn those things myself, and

Speaker:

I've spent a lot of time with different coaches, different training

Speaker:

schools, different certifications to really get what I say

Speaker:

good at what I do and really help my clients, build those businesses.

Speaker:

Mhmm. It's kind of a shorter answer to a big question. It is a

Speaker:

big question, and, you answered it wonderfully.

Speaker:

It's not an easy one because we can I mean, there's so much,

Speaker:

but I can relate to everything you said? I've had the sleepless nights.

Speaker:

I've wondered how I was gonna pay the bills and pay

Speaker:

the team and, you know, all of the

Speaker:

all of the things that, that rest on

Speaker:

our shoulders as as business owners. And,

Speaker:

it's it it can be kind of lonely sometimes because we don't go to

Speaker:

our fellow business owners and say, oh, man. I'm really having this struggle

Speaker:

today. We're always putting on our best face and

Speaker:

promoting ourselves and trying to get new clients and all of that, and there isn't

Speaker:

always that that opportunity. So, man, I can really relate to that.

Speaker:

And also reaching that point

Speaker:

of, oh, I need some help here. Maybe I need a business coach.

Speaker:

Maybe I need someone who can help guide me through this. And, you know,

Speaker:

that my your origin story and mine are very

Speaker:

similar in that way. I had a lot of those same struggles, and it was

Speaker:

a coach that lifted me out of it. Yeah. You know, it's you made me

Speaker:

think of something that, you know, at the time, I moved to

Speaker:

Atlanta from Massachusetts, and I bought a house and everything was

Speaker:

fine, and I was all excited to be here. At the time, I was I

Speaker:

was still running my business, but I worked full time for a financial

Speaker:

accounting firm as a headhunter. I was their top biller in the office here

Speaker:

in Atlanta, and it was so much fun. I mean, I loved the job. It

Speaker:

was just really great. I mean, it was all these great. What we built finance

Speaker:

teams for companies, you know, so it was really great. What I

Speaker:

noticed was I had no cash flow.

Speaker:

I had I had no control over when that client, the corporate

Speaker:

client, the big giant was gonna pay their bill. And so I

Speaker:

what I want everybody to know is sometimes the big clients don't pay their bills.

Speaker:

And but my bills kept coming in. On the 1st of the month, I had

Speaker:

those things. So there was a flag in the sand moment, and that's when

Speaker:

I did have to make that phone call to a good colleague of mine, a

Speaker:

good friend. I was petrified to do it, And

Speaker:

I called her and I said, with my hand shaking, we didn't have iPhones

Speaker:

or smartphones at the time. I just said, Lynn, I need a

Speaker:

favor. She goes, okay. And then I was like, I just

Speaker:

couldn't even get it out of my throat. And I said, I need you to

Speaker:

pay my mortgage, my car note, and my health

Speaker:

insurance. And then there was dead silence.

Speaker:

And then she goes, okay. And

Speaker:

so she knew who I was. You know, we had had some

Speaker:

relationship capital built over the years. And but that was my flag

Speaker:

in the sand moment, said, I just can't do that again. I mean, I just

Speaker:

I I felt terrible inside doing it. I just was like,

Speaker:

yick, big ick factor. And, that was when I decided

Speaker:

to really reach out to a business coach and said, put me together again. And,

Speaker:

you know, that was a flag in the sand moment. And I think I share

Speaker:

that story often because it resonates with audiences, and it's

Speaker:

amazing how many people will either call me or come up to me after I

Speaker:

speak. And they'll say, I'm making that same phone call tonight

Speaker:

to my mother, my father, my sister, my brother, my pastor. I

Speaker:

mean, there's a lot of people that get into that space. What if we didn't

Speaker:

have to do that? What if we what if we had clear sailing all the

Speaker:

way that we I mean, we're gonna have hiccups. I mean, life is life. Right?

Speaker:

But it doesn't have to be that drastic where I was, like, petrified. I bought

Speaker:

a house. I'm gonna go to a homeless shelter. I bought a house. I'm gonna

Speaker:

go to a homeless shelter. I mean, it was scary time.

Speaker:

You know, those are I've had to make calls like that.

Speaker:

And, wow, it brings back memories because

Speaker:

it's it's it's not an easy thing to do.

Speaker:

And it's a thing that once you do it, you swear I'm never doing that

Speaker:

again. I have done it multiple times, so swearing that I

Speaker:

was never gonna do it again didn't actually help. But I say this

Speaker:

because I think so many people that are listening in right now can relate to

Speaker:

this because that that describes sort of the ups and downs

Speaker:

of of being a business owner. I still wouldn't have it any other

Speaker:

way, you know, having been in corporate and

Speaker:

having been independent. I choose

Speaker:

independent and the struggles that come with it over any

Speaker:

day in the corporate world for sure.

Speaker:

And, other people may believe the opposite, but that

Speaker:

that's, you know anyone who tells you it's easy,

Speaker:

either hasn't done it or they're they're not telling you the entire

Speaker:

truth. There are easy moments and there are fun moments, and

Speaker:

I wouldn't trade it for the world. But, you know, those I I've definitely had

Speaker:

to make those phone calls. What in in terms of that,

Speaker:

because I know now that you you you you do the coaching and you're working

Speaker:

with business owners, and I just find it fascinating that, you know, people

Speaker:

who've gone through their own struggles, how they end up, you know, one of the

Speaker:

very first things they think of is, you know what, I'm going to help others

Speaker:

who are going through this, what I just went through, and this journey I

Speaker:

just went through. And I'm gonna go help others because I know there's others that

Speaker:

are going through that as well. And I just first of all, thank you for

Speaker:

doing that. And and and it's amazing. And, that's really what

Speaker:

motivated me to do what I do as well. What are you hearing?

Speaker:

So for of the people that are showing up in your world and and and

Speaker:

they're like, Marie, help me or, I'm having this struggle. Like, what are you hearing

Speaker:

from them? What are the some of the struggles and the challenges that they

Speaker:

are experiencing that they're coming you to you with?

Speaker:

Well, I mean, a lot of things. And I thank you for asking that question

Speaker:

question because I think it's really good to get the word out. You know, a

Speaker:

lot of times when I have something that I think is happening to me, I

Speaker:

think it's just happening to me. It's not just happening to me.

Speaker:

It's in the collective consciousness right now. I don't care if you're in a different

Speaker:

country or whatever. There's a lot of, like, people have constraint

Speaker:

have a lot of constraints on right now. Like, afraid, what's the economy gonna

Speaker:

do? Am I gonna be able to make it? Are people gonna be able to

Speaker:

hire me? I don't know what's happening in the world. Are we gonna have a

Speaker:

world? Are we gonna you know, there's just so many of that that's happening. Plus,

Speaker:

our marketplace today is so cluttered. I I use

Speaker:

this example a lot. You know, we all have one of these pretty much, and

Speaker:

the whole entire world is sitting in there in our hand.

Speaker:

At any given moment, it's like ping ping ping ping ping ping,

Speaker:

ping, trying to get our attention. There's like nothing that's missing.

Speaker:

And I think what happens is it's very it can be exhausting

Speaker:

to try to stay connected and strike try to be

Speaker:

aware of a lot of things. There's so many news outlets. There's, like,

Speaker:

9,000,000 coaches in the world. And then there's a lot of,

Speaker:

I think, some newbies that are coming up the shoot

Speaker:

that are adorable. And they have these little

Speaker:

digital things that say, you wanna make $30,000 in 5 minutes?

Speaker:

Here's my script. Download it. Well, I've done that to see

Speaker:

what they offer. They don't have the gravitas.

Speaker:

They don't have the experience. They have probably well

Speaker:

intentioned, you know, I mean, we're all out here to do our business and make

Speaker:

money and have fun. But I just think that there's some things that are missing

Speaker:

and because it looks like a pretty shiny object or whatever, I

Speaker:

think sometimes people fall for that, and they end up booking in with the

Speaker:

wrong people that could actually take them a lot longer to

Speaker:

get profitable and sustainable. So I think we all have to

Speaker:

vet people. It's very noisy out there. The marketplace is very noisy,

Speaker:

and everybody looks the same as we try to be cookie cutter. And I

Speaker:

think we need to be ourselves and play to our strengths

Speaker:

and look at how can our strengths really make a difference, for us

Speaker:

and for our, for our people. Even the way we dress. I mean, I have

Speaker:

some clients that are pretty edgy. I mean, they wear some pretty far out things.

Speaker:

But if they dressed up like, you know, the corporate boardroom, I mean, people would

Speaker:

go, really? I mean, it's just not who they are. So, I mean,

Speaker:

play to the edginess, you know, or play to the straightness or whatever it

Speaker:

is. You know? It's just we have to be who we are.

Speaker:

Absolutely. And I spent time early in my career

Speaker:

trying to be my mentor, and

Speaker:

he was amazing on stage. And when I got on stage,

Speaker:

I channeled him and tried to be him. And it

Speaker:

got me to a point, but it never really connected

Speaker:

until I dropped all of that and just started being myself.

Speaker:

So, thank you for saying that because it's, I think it's really

Speaker:

important that we do play to our strengths and that we that we

Speaker:

are who we are in this. And,

Speaker:

so what would you say to people who are kind of in their journey right

Speaker:

now? They're having some of the struggles that we, have been

Speaker:

talking about. What do you think would be their

Speaker:

first step or some of their next steps in terms of turning things

Speaker:

around? Well, you know, you can always

Speaker:

reach out and have a conversation. I mean, I don't know. I'm a big community

Speaker:

gal. You know? I would not be who I am without community.

Speaker:

So I probably just watch cooking shows on TV and sit

Speaker:

around on the sofa and eat chocolate. You know?

Speaker:

But I think, you know, inside of our communities, I think you've gotta align with

Speaker:

the right community or communities. There's lots of different ones,

Speaker:

and I think what people try to do sometimes is tough it out. You know,

Speaker:

they play the lone ranger. They, you know, kinda suffer in

Speaker:

silence. Assumptive people are just really curious, but they don't know where

Speaker:

to go. So, I mean, I think so many people offer complimentary

Speaker:

consultations of, of whatever sort. It's great to have those

Speaker:

because even, even if you're interviewing for a job, you

Speaker:

know, it's really fun to go sport fishing and go interview for places. And if

Speaker:

you get the interview, it's like you learn so much on the interview that you

Speaker:

can bring to the next one. You bring to the next one, and you bring

Speaker:

to the next one. So we all have, you know I mean, I think one

Speaker:

of my strengths is the acquired knowledge that I have. You know? Because I've

Speaker:

been around for a long time, and I've worked in several different industries,

Speaker:

and, you know, from nonprofit to college to private sector

Speaker:

to entrepreneur world. And so nothing surprises me at this

Speaker:

point. But I think most people try to figure it out by themselves. You know?

Speaker:

They can get a coach. They can have a complimentary sessions. They can go to

Speaker:

there's so many online conferences. I think its key is

Speaker:

what do we want to know? What would make a difference in our business?

Speaker:

Where do we think we can find that? Who do we know that does that?

Speaker:

And to really start and build that professional network as we have, and

Speaker:

here we are. You know? There's talent everywhere.

Speaker:

I love that message because what I really hear in this

Speaker:

is that the solution to whatever you're going through could be

Speaker:

that connecting with somebody else, whether it be a coach or a

Speaker:

consultant, having that conversations, having a conversation with someone else.

Speaker:

And, by the way, if you're listening to this and

Speaker:

you wanna have a conversation with Marie, check the show notes beneath this video.

Speaker:

And, in our podcast, we have her all of her contact

Speaker:

information there because that would be a great step, especially if you are,

Speaker:

resonating with what she is saying here today. But I think even

Speaker:

bigger picture here, Marie, is what so many people call themselves

Speaker:

solopreneurs or self made this

Speaker:

or, you know and it and it really communicates

Speaker:

this singleness that this this, you know, I did it

Speaker:

myself. And there may have been a point

Speaker:

I can't remember, but there probably was a point earlier in my career

Speaker:

when I was thinking that same way. And I've come to realize that

Speaker:

I haven't achieved anything alone. There's

Speaker:

always been, other players involved, either

Speaker:

partners or, team or

Speaker:

there's clients. Right? So we can't count them.

Speaker:

We didn't do it ourselves or, certainly, I haven't.

Speaker:

And so, you know, I'm big on relationships. I'm big on

Speaker:

partnerships. I'm big on collaborations, even with

Speaker:

team, having relationships. So,

Speaker:

what what I heard you say that, it's like, okay. Your your answer

Speaker:

may lie in a conversation with

Speaker:

someone else. Well, I think conversations are

Speaker:

transformational. We can never have transformation when we're

Speaker:

just in our head. There's no transformation here. It's just information.

Speaker:

But when you are in a conversation and somebody else says something, it's

Speaker:

like, oh, I never thought of that, or, oh, that's a great idea.

Speaker:

Let me try that. I mean, when you put those minds together, it's really

Speaker:

great. In a mastermind, in a group program, in a a

Speaker:

group event that it could be an hour event for in a group.

Speaker:

A lot can happen like popcorn. You know, it just pops here and pops there.

Speaker:

But if I'm over here by myself, sitting on my laptop, sending

Speaker:

emails, there's no transformation there. None.

Speaker:

Mhmm. So even if I'm working with AI, there's no transformation

Speaker:

there until I make that work for me in my voice and my

Speaker:

whatever. So it becomes alive, and it's like then people are

Speaker:

relating to me. I I think we play too

Speaker:

small a game sometimes. We don't think big enough. And it's like what

Speaker:

you do when you're connecting all these great people together and, you

Speaker:

know, manage affiliates and relationships and joint ventures. And, I

Speaker:

mean, all of that makes a difference for everybody because what's that old

Speaker:

saying that says no man is an island while no woman is either. So, you

Speaker:

know, it's it's like, here we are making a difference.

Speaker:

Absolutely. We're absolutely not islands. And this

Speaker:

whole, you know, solopreneur thing, I wish I could just erase that

Speaker:

whole, that word because it's it gives

Speaker:

newer entrepreneurs, newer business owners the wrong idea.

Speaker:

And and so if I if I think if I was to

Speaker:

dial the clock back, almost 30 years when when

Speaker:

I started my first business, I was

Speaker:

doing things a lot myself, and I would have

Speaker:

I knowing what I know now, I would definitely have

Speaker:

connected with other like minded people who are maybe,

Speaker:

offset my weaknesses. So I'm strong in a place,

Speaker:

where they're, and and and we kind of, like, complement

Speaker:

each other. One of my biggest mistakes was when I first started

Speaker:

doing partnerships was partnering with people who are exactly like me,

Speaker:

and then wondering why we were still struggling because we were both strong in the

Speaker:

same places. We were both weak in the same places. But having

Speaker:

partners that bring something to the table

Speaker:

that that we don't already have. And so that is

Speaker:

that's played a huge role in my business. How does it play a role in

Speaker:

your business, partnering and and and obviously, we've been

Speaker:

we went to the relationship part very, very quickly. So,

Speaker:

you know, has it played a role? And and what would you say

Speaker:

to people who are listening in who are still out there doing everything

Speaker:

themselves? Well, you

Speaker:

know, I I'm a groupie. You know, I'm

Speaker:

I'm not somebody who likes to be by myself and spend a lot of time.

Speaker:

I I like my alone time, especially after I'm running an event.

Speaker:

But, you know, I I wanna share with people. You know?

Speaker:

I lead retreats so that I can go and I can

Speaker:

eat a meal with people every day for a week. I mean, it's just, like,

Speaker:

really special. You know? So I think, you

Speaker:

know, partnerships, I speak a lot at different events, and

Speaker:

when I'm invited to speak, that's a partnership. We create the event together.

Speaker:

I bring my people. I bring I do whatever I need to do to make

Speaker:

that happen, and that's how I connect with people. And then I work the

Speaker:

conference. I mean, I'm connecting and trying to make a difference. I just came from

Speaker:

California where I was out in Long Beach at a conference, and it's a very

Speaker:

different type of conference. It wasn't my subject matter, but it was just I mean,

Speaker:

I was I was gripped by the information, and it was great to connect with

Speaker:

people. And, they allowed me to make an offer to a program, and several

Speaker:

people, you know, accepted that offer. And what that's opened up for me

Speaker:

is a whole new group of people, a whole new pile of people. It

Speaker:

also opened it up for them as well. And so I

Speaker:

think that there's a lot of things that can happen inside of a group, and

Speaker:

a group could be 2 or 3 people. It doesn't have to be a big

Speaker:

group. You know? Partnerships. I mean, I've been booking

Speaker:

speakers and featuring them in the women's network that I

Speaker:

run for 40 years. And it's like,

Speaker:

that makes a difference for people. They have access to my audience. Their

Speaker:

audience would come together. So I don't know. I mean, I include different

Speaker:

people in my masterminds and give them an opportunity to shine if they're

Speaker:

really good at what they do, and I think they have a service that is

Speaker:

gonna serve my audience, and it's something that I don't do. I wanna have

Speaker:

that holistic, that well rounded approach. And so I've been doing

Speaker:

that for a long time. I don't wanna do it all by myself. It's to

Speaker:

me, that's not fun. Some people really like to be by themselves.

Speaker:

They are a solopreneur. I do have

Speaker:

my moments where I appreciate my alone time, but I know

Speaker:

that the real productivity comes from when I'm

Speaker:

working with others, whether it be my team or my partners.

Speaker:

And like you said, being in the affiliate world, it's all about partnerships.

Speaker:

It's all about, what more can we do

Speaker:

with other people's groups and lists and, sometimes

Speaker:

integrating into other people's programs like we do all of these things. So and

Speaker:

that takes, that doesn't usually come

Speaker:

just from meaning someone. It takes there's an investment into relationship

Speaker:

building and and and building trust and and value and all and

Speaker:

all of that, which is a big, big part of it. And not being

Speaker:

afraid to have those conversations, You know, this being in a

Speaker:

digital world. And, I had a very, very short time

Speaker:

pre online. You know, I started my business before the Internet,

Speaker:

just barely. And so the you did have to do

Speaker:

business face to face. Now you see a lot of people trying

Speaker:

to let, you know, try to get the Internet to do the

Speaker:

business for them. And, you know, ultimately, humans do

Speaker:

business with humans. And and and, you know, that that's

Speaker:

really, you know, that's really what, that's really what it is.

Speaker:

So before we run out of time, I wanna make

Speaker:

sure that we hear a little bit about, you know, the your your coaching and

Speaker:

the programs that you offer, and, I think you have

Speaker:

a a freebie that you have on your website

Speaker:

that, that is very beneficial as well. Why don't you tell everybody about

Speaker:

that? Yeah. Well, you know, it's like, part of what I do is

Speaker:

work as a transformational business coach. I don't just give strategy or

Speaker:

how to do things or whatever. That's part of it. I really listen,

Speaker:

and I can really get what people are up to. And sometimes I

Speaker:

might take them a different direction, which opens up a whole new world that

Speaker:

might even be better than where they are. You know? And so

Speaker:

we do the stuff that we have to do, and then there's who

Speaker:

we're being in the matter of our business. Who are we being in the matter

Speaker:

of how we show up on a Zoom meeting? Who are we being in when

Speaker:

we walk into a conference room? Or, you know, the we work on

Speaker:

ourselves so that we shine brightly because in

Speaker:

a dark world right now, it seems that way. We wanna be like

Speaker:

the the diamond that's sparkling. So on my website, if

Speaker:

somebody would like to go there, it's just get clients everywhere.com,

Speaker:

you will see there's a document that says download my free gift,

Speaker:

and it's the 17 most ridiculously simple ways to

Speaker:

magnify your leadership. And it's a combination of it's a

Speaker:

working document where you can there's things that you can do. There's things that how

Speaker:

you can be, things that you can add to your life that have you show

Speaker:

up differently or brighter or quieter or whatever.

Speaker:

And people have used it. They print it out and they might take 1 or

Speaker:

2 of those and they'll play with those concepts for a week. But they could

Speaker:

use it and say, well, here's 3 or or they could use it in a

Speaker:

workshop that they're doing. So it's just a gift to help you look at. There's

Speaker:

so many things that you can do in a simple way that will alter your

Speaker:

molecules. And when your molecules are altered, the world sees you a

Speaker:

little differently, or maybe they even see you. So

Speaker:

Well, to make it easy for everyone who's listening in, we

Speaker:

have the links to Marie's website right beneath this video if you're watching it

Speaker:

on video. If you're listening on a podcast, just check the

Speaker:

player that you're in and, all of Marie's links are there.

Speaker:

Her website and her freebie, the

Speaker:

17 ridiculously simple ways to enhance your magnetic

Speaker:

leadership. You you have that memorized so well. I had to read it.

Speaker:

I'd love the title of that. I love a title.

Speaker:

Well, you know, I wanted to add one other thing for the women that might

Speaker:

be listening. I do a lot of things with women and women's communities, and I

Speaker:

have a complimentary Facebook community, that seems to get a

Speaker:

lot of play. People share on it, and I kind of post to do some

Speaker:

things on it. Anybody's welcome to, click on it, but it's

Speaker:

called connect and prosper community. My whole stand

Speaker:

is about connecting and prospering because without that connection,

Speaker:

nothing's gonna happen really. You know? But you're welcome to go there.

Speaker:

Connect and prosper community and, say hello.

Speaker:

That would be great. We'll we'll make sure that we include the link to that

Speaker:

here as well. And, look. The this has

Speaker:

all been really amazing, and I love your

Speaker:

story and your energy and just everything that you bring to the

Speaker:

table. And, and I'm really glad that we're getting to

Speaker:

know each other as well and that we can support each other's businesses as

Speaker:

we as we go forward. Because after all, as we've talked about for

Speaker:

the last 26 minutes, that is really, what we both

Speaker:

believe it takes to, you know, succeed. And it's all about the

Speaker:

relationships that we can surround ourselves. And you said community

Speaker:

is such a beautiful word because, you know, what communities are you part

Speaker:

of? And, and I think that's so important. Before I

Speaker:

let you go, I wanted to ask you a question that I ask of all

Speaker:

my guests. It started off as a social experiment. I didn't know what I I

Speaker:

thought I was gonna get the same answer all the time, and I don't. So

Speaker:

I'm very curious. But I ask all my guests, if you were to, out

Speaker:

of all of the books that you've ever read that have helped

Speaker:

you on your journey, and I know a lot of books have helped me on

Speaker:

my journey, if you had, to recommend just

Speaker:

one book as a must read recommendation to our

Speaker:

listeners, which one would you recommend? Well,

Speaker:

I'm reaching back into my archives. Mhmm. And

Speaker:

so you I don't know if you might know about this book, but, it's one

Speaker:

that has been around for a long time, and it's called The

Speaker:

Game of Life. It's by Florence Scoville

Speaker:

Shinn. And, I've been a fan for a long

Speaker:

time, and it just really talks about life. And I think it's a

Speaker:

book that is about life. It's not necessarily business, but

Speaker:

it's about the people business and our own business with

Speaker:

ourselves and what our beliefs are and and how we treat people.

Speaker:

It's just got some really wonderful rooted tenants that I think have

Speaker:

lasted many, many, many years and have served

Speaker:

me greatly. And so I speak about it. Can I give you a bonus book

Speaker:

too? Yes, please. Alright. Here's my other bonus book.

Speaker:

Anything by Catherine Ponder, I love. So, you

Speaker:

know, she again has been around for a long time.

Speaker:

She has a book that's called the dynamic laws of prosperity,

Speaker:

And I think it's very great to have as a wonderful handbook,

Speaker:

especially in those times when we feel like, oh, I lost that

Speaker:

client or my group didn't fill or that client wanted to cancel or

Speaker:

or when we were getting that fear mode or whatever. There's some wonderful

Speaker:

things, some great affirmations, some spiritual treatments

Speaker:

that can really help, and I think it really opens up the space to allow

Speaker:

for more. So 2 of my favorite books. You know, not

Speaker:

only have I not read that one, I'm not sure I've heard of it. So

Speaker:

I'm gonna add that to my list and we'll put the links to that, right

Speaker:

beneath this video and in the podcast. I'll check that out.

Speaker:

That's that's a great recommendation. This is where I get to learn about new books

Speaker:

as well. The Game of Life by Florence Scovel Shinn,

Speaker:

has changed my life. That

Speaker:

it's such an eye opener. The first, the first time I read it,

Speaker:

then I got the audiobook. You can actually get the audiobook for free

Speaker:

on YouTube, and I have the audio

Speaker:

recording on my phone, and, I listen to

Speaker:

it multiple times a month. Wow. Yeah. I never

Speaker:

knew you could do that. Thank you. Yeah. So that's the thing with some of

Speaker:

the, older, self help books back from

Speaker:

the Nightingale, Conant, and even earlier than that.

Speaker:

There is a, group called the Master Key Society. I think they're a

Speaker:

nonprofit, and what they've done is all of these, books that are now in the

Speaker:

public domain. They read them, and

Speaker:

they're available on the audiobook. So you can get that book. You

Speaker:

can get, like, The Science of Getting Rich and, all of these

Speaker:

other just amazing Classics. Yes. The

Speaker:

classics. But they're what I love about

Speaker:

them is they're not derivative work. They're, like, there

Speaker:

was there was some of them are really original where

Speaker:

there was an moment that caused them to to write that

Speaker:

book, and it was they're written at a time before,

Speaker:

you know, today, everyone can be an author. Right?

Speaker:

Correct. There was a time where that wasn't true.

Speaker:

And and and writing a book of any

Speaker:

kind was a huge endeavor. And,

Speaker:

and so I do really appreciate those classics because

Speaker:

there's so much to be learned from them. The Game of

Speaker:

Life has been, just a wonderful book. So we'll put all the links

Speaker:

there. And, yeah, go check out the Master Key Society on

Speaker:

YouTube that, you'll get a lot of the classics there for free on,

Speaker:

as audiobooks. So there you go. What a bonus

Speaker:

for me here. It's good. Awesome.

Speaker:

Thank you. Yeah. That that's great. So thank you

Speaker:

for the recommendations of the books. Thank you for all your wonderful information

Speaker:

and your stories. Your energy, your passion for this is just amazing.

Speaker:

And as we bring this, episodes to a close,

Speaker:

if you have any final words of wisdom or piece of advice for our audience,

Speaker:

what would that be?

Speaker:

Do it now. Do it now. Keep on keeping on.

Speaker:

You know, anything any of our setbacks is temporary,

Speaker:

and just keep forging, align, keep

Speaker:

moving. I love that. Those are beautiful words to end this

Speaker:

episode by. And you and I are just so on the same page about this.

Speaker:

I I I I love that. So go

Speaker:

ahead over to our audience. If you've got something out of this today,

Speaker:

make sure that there is one thing that you took away from this

Speaker:

episode, and go take action on that today. Maybe it's an

Speaker:

idea. Maybe it's a phone call. Maybe it's a converse, a conversation or

Speaker:

a connection you need to make that can make a difference in your business.

Speaker:

Maybe it's to schedule a a a call with Marie.

Speaker:

You can do that as well. We've got all of her links there,

Speaker:

beneath this video. And in the meantime,

Speaker:

in your journey, in your pursuit of business,

Speaker:

through all the ups and downs, remember that the only way to fail

Speaker:

is to quit, and, the path is forward. So

Speaker:

keep moving forward, everybody, and we will see you on the next one. Thank

Speaker:

you.

Links

Chapters

Video

More from YouTube