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Authentic Sales: Empowering Connections and Confidence with Wendy Vaughan
Episode 9326th June 2024 • Creative Collaborations • Chuck Anderson
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In this episode, we dive deep into understanding the psychological triggers that empower potential clients to confidently take action. Wendy Vaughan, a successful business coach and sales expert, shares her journey from struggling to attract clients to becoming a top revenue generator and launching her own thriving business. We explore how Wendy's framework for personal connection, trust, belief, and authentic desire can lead to predictable sales results.

Guest Bio:

Wendy Vaughn is a business coach and sales expert who has successfully transitioned from a high-paying corporate job to running her own business. Her four-part formula for sales success has empowered countless solopreneurs to authentically connect with potential clients and achieve predictable sales results.

Key Points Discussed:

- Personal connection as a foundation for sales (00:45)

- Overcoming the struggle of selling authentically (09:23)

- The four psychological states crucial for potential clients (15:10)

- Wendy's transition from struggling to thriving in business (24:50)

- The power of embracing strengths and collaboration (32:15)

Main Quote by the Guest:

"Authenticity in sales is not just about selling; it's about empowering both parties to take the best next step."

Guest's Website:

Visit Wendy Vaughn's website at PredictableSalesResults.com to connect with her and learn more about her transformative approach to sales and business coaching.

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Until next time, keep moving forward!

Chuck Anderson,

Affiliate Management Expert + Investor + Mentor

http://AffiliateManagementExpert.com/

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Hello, everybody, and, welcome back to the Creative

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Collaboration Show. Chuck Anderson here, and I'm your host. And,

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today, we have a special episode for you, especially,

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anyone who is in is part of

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your journey with your business is looking for,

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you know, how to grow your business, and a big part of that

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is sales and marketing. And I always like to bring in guests

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who can help with that and have their own perspective and

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and and the ways that, they can,

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help. And today, I am joined by Wendy Vaughn,

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who is a dedicated and compassionate advocate for those who

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have the courage to venture out and start their own

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business. And that really describes all of us, and, she

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is a business coach as well as a sales and

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marketing coach who has supported over 200

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solopreneurs to gain skills, knowledge, clarity, and confidence

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around the fine art of building a passion driven business.

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And, Wendy, I I mentioned at the beginning of this, I love that

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phrase, passion driven business. I think that really

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describes who I love to work with and who we tend to attract.

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So so thank you for that, and, welcome to the show. Yeah.

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Thank you so much, Chuck. I'm super excited to be here and

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contribute to your audience and, just bring some value. I

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I love the work that you do as well, so thank you so much.

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Fantastic. Well, and I and I let you know, we're kinda getting to know

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each other more. And and and the more that we do, we realize that we

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serve a lot of the same types of businesses, but in very

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complementary ways. And and, you know, that's something that I

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always encourage our listeners to to to, you

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know, view others in their industry,

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you know, as someone who you could collaborate

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with, someone you could get to know, about. And at that

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surface level, we go, oh, you're a business consultant. I'm a business consultant, so,

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therefore, we're the same. Not a

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chance. Not a chance. Are we the same? But

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complementary, yeah, complimentary. Yes. And I

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love that attitude, and that's something where you and I clicked instantly.

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And and so it's really it's really cool to get to know, more about

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you. And, well, speaking about that, let's let's let's have you

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tell a little bit more of your story and your background to our audience so

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that they can get to know you as well. Absolutely. Yeah. I always

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love sharing my story because it's it's the typical kind of, you

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know, struggling and hanging on by the bootstraps, you know, and pulling

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yourself up. And there's the eureka and all this. But in my version

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so I started out with a dream of being a

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professional symphony player. Wow. Music was

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my deal from early on. 4th grade, I knew

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when I played that, I think it was Reveille or

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something at summer camp. This is this is my jam.

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So I started on that career path at an early age and got my

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master's degree in trumpet performance and went

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out to secure my wonderful position in a

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symphony orchestra and realized that I knew nothing about

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winning auditions. A really important

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part, right, of launching that career.

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So it wasn't too much longer that I realized, you know what? This is not

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gonna be an easy fix because I I actually didn't know

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there was such a thing as, like, belief

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shifting or empowerment coaches

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or peak performance coaches, those kinds

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of things. So I I had no idea. Nobody

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around me had any, you know offered any

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support. So it became just kind of, alright. Exit

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strategy, plan b. And, I love

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music, so I started, started my own business, a

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music booking agency providing music for weddings. And And

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it was in Scottsdale, Arizona, which means there's weddings year round. Right? 9

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months out of the year. Basically, every month except for June

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July. And so with 0

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business skills, 0 sales skills, basically

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a socially awkward classical music

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nerd, I started my business.

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And thought, well, how hard could it be? I mean, I'm an

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expert, right, in music. I'm the expert. I know

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all these people in town that are really great musicians. So

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how hard could it be? Well, as most all

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entrepreneurs soon find out, it's kinda hard. It's

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difficult to get clients. It's not that easy. Like, hey. You want this?

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Sure. Great. Sign up. Pay me. And they all lined up at the

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door. Nope. Wasn't wasn't quite that scenario. Show,

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for several months, I did nothing.

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I wondered what I should be doing. And then I realized, oh, I need to

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be getting my name out there. So one of the first things I did was

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I bought a program from Jay Abraham,

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marketing genius. Mhmm. And still, I

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believe, is very much involved in

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supporting people with marketing and and business development to this

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day. But he completely revolutionized my whole

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outlook on how to talk about the work that I do

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in a way that brings in potential clients. So, okay, okay, problem solved.

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I was now attracting potential clients in to have this conversation with

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me, and

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it wasn't that wasn't like the golden goose.

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There wasn't any traction from that point forward. People would say, oh, yeah.

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Thanks, Wendy. This sounds great. I'll get back to you. Of course, they never

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did. Yeah. So at the you know, I started

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reaching out and looking at at books on how to sell. And I was

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like, oh my god. I could never do any of

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that. I could never say that. That was not me. I there's no

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way I could be that, like, you know, tell them this and

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tell them that. And so I thought, gosh. I just don't

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think this is gonna work for me. But in the back of my mind,

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see, I'm very intuitive and analytical. Drives my

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husband nuts. But I was

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kind of figuring out, like, what people needed in order to

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say yes to the offer. And I realized

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it just really came down to 4 critical components in

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order to support a potential client

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to feel that confidence and clarity about saying, yeah. This sounds

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great. And from

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that, when that when I started integrating

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those 4 critical components, I call them psychological

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triggers, but not to get, you know, too heady on this because, trust

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me, I'm not a psychologist, It was

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like night and day. People just started saying yes. Yes.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. Sounds great. Sounds great. Sounds great. Business started

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skyrocketing. So I went from that that point of, like, oh

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my god. This is way harder than I thought.

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I think I'm gonna have to fold, you know, because

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this isn't working and this is not me. What I'm learning does not

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work for me. 2, just playing to my

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strengths so I could still be me, you know,

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that socially awkward kind of I've evolved a little bit. Right? But

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back then, you know, I'm

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not some bright, shiny, like, charismatic person.

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And to be able to just flip the switch and have this

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thriving business that is bringing so much

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impact and making such a difference and

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creating such a profound shift in my lifestyle,

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I was just, like, in

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heaven. And it was that moment and recounting

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that. Of course, life has its way. Right? You know, a whole lot we don't

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have long enough time for me to tell my whole story. Right? So

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fast forward to then a

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phase of my life where I was sitting in a

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corporate role in sales,

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building somebody else's dream, somebody else's castle.

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And I kept having people come to me within my team and saying, Wendy,

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how do you how do you get so many clients? How do

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you do this? You're not even like like us. You know?

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You're not like the sales team. Right? Because these were corporate

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salespeople. Boom. And I would just always in the meetings,

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I'd be you guys

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do you. I'll do me. And I was the top revenue

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generator within that corporation for 5 years straight.

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And and I I I just kept supporting others and everything with the same four

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part formula, and applied it at a different way. And I'm gonna share

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you what those 4 four key components are.

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And things just started waking up in my mind. It's like, you know

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what? I would love to actually get back

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into my own business, running my own business.

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And that and and I'm realizing how much difference I can

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make in that realm of of, you know, teaching people

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how to get clients, teaching people how to be authentic and

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show up and be effective. And at the same

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time, we had we have 3 boys, my husband and I,

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and the youngest was 16 years old, and he

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was starting well, I was traveling quite a bit with my corporate role. And he

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was starting my son was starting to get into

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things that didn't align with my values.

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And I'll just put it that way. It's not right or wrong. It's just that

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my values were not supporting his decisions because I was gone so

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much of the time. And,

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so I decided to resign. I said bye

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bye to a multiple 6 figure salary, all the

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perks in the world. I was being sent to Cayman Islands, to

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4 star resorts, you know, as little spiffs.

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And I said, I'm out of here.

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And everybody's like, what are you doing?

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I'm starting my own business. Oh my god. Doing what?

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A coach A sales coach. Oh my god.

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That will never work. And it's

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like way back in the beginning when everyone was saying, you're gonna

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start a music agency? Oh my god. That'll never work.

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You Show, same kind of thing. Here I am, you know, now

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20 years, 22 years later with all this success with

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sales. Oh my god. That'll never work. So so

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I feel all the pain that

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solopreneurs have that entrepreneurs have when

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they they go through that ramp up phase.

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And I love to bring to them that

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that sense when the when the the the switch gets

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flipped and everything just, like,

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lines up. Mhmm. And they've got the knowledge, the skills,

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and the confidence, and they're running in their track, and

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they're making that impact and that income. So

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that, for me, is why I do what I

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do. I love so many aspects of that

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story and, you know, we could go in so many directions with

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it. Yeah. You know, both you know? A lot of a lot

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of choices there. Exactly. But, you know, kind of like where

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where where we kind of ended up here, you know, and just talking a little

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bit about the solopreneurs and their journey is so

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many of them are hearing that, oh, that'll never work, and why are

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you doing that, and why don't you go get a job? And, you know, those

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are all the things that I heard when I started my journey as well.

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You know, it became self evident. You know, my friends and family

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get it now, but, you know, it took 30 years for that

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to occur. Right. But, you know, they're

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hearing, that a lot. And I would say a

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lot of what I hear from people is

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is especially on that that whole idea of

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selling authentically. You Show? You you and not

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all sales trainings are are created equally. You Show? If you go

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to, you know, some of the old school sales training, it's, you

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know, always be closing and and and and all of that kind

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of stuff. And, I can really relate to to your

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style. I had to kind of find my own style as well. What

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are some of the things you're hearing from some of the solopreneurs that you're working

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with in terms of what are they what are they saying about

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sales? What do they believe about sales? What are they,

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you know, either rejecting or feeling or believing or, you

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know, like, where are they now? Like, before the before you work with them, and

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then we'll kinda to, you know, your your advice for them, which is you have

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the 4 parts there. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. No. For for

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most heart centered solopreneurs, you

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know, that that are really they're they're passion driven. Right?

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They're not financially driven. They're not

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entering into this with, alright. How much can I

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charge? What's the net worth? What's the profit? You know, they're not that

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type. There's nothing wrong with that type. Right?

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That's more transactional selling. Right? I have a thing. It's

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here's the wholesale. Here's the retail. Here's what the market renders. Here's how we

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can position that blah blah blah blah blah. Well,

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the people that then are really more in tune

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with selling their knowledge, their wisdom, their transformation,

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For them, their tendencies are that selling

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is pushing or I'm forcing myself

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on. I'm trying to, you know, get somebody to to

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take action or I'm trying to and I oh my gosh. When they talk about

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their fees, it just makes them for the most most part of people, you

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know, I have I have no idea. You know? I I I just want everybody

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to be able to afford to work with me. And so there's all that sort

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of resistance around baggage that

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has either been a past experience that they've had

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personally, right, of somebody maybe in a car

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showroom or or, you know, even over the phone. I

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can remember one instance where I was talking to somebody about extended

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car insurance or no. That warranty. Right? Extended

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warranty. Mhmm. Oh my goodness.

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This guy is just like I felt like I'd been through the

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ringer after I hung up from this guy. And, of course, I just shoulda hung

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up on him, but there's still that element out there where they just they

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beat you up psychologically. And so a lot of people have been through

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that, and that's their greatest fear is that, oh my god. I don't wanna be

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that. And so just coming

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into the whole, how do I get clients in a way

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that I still like myself and I'm still who I

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am and affect it? Because here's the thing, you know, if you give, give,

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give, give, give, people will receive, receive, receive, receive.

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You know? If you offer something at 4.97, they're not gonna say, oh, but

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please, can't I pay you 14,097? You know?

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They're not gonna say that. And so it it has to be

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an inner game, you know, and and that's that's where

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really reaching out and having the capacity

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to know that, hey. I need an outside

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expert to help with my inner work so that I can, first

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off, own my value and then learn how to

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effectively talk with potential clients in a way that empowers

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me and supports them. Mhmm. I think that's the really

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great news for our audience and and possibly music to

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their ears. Not no pun intended, but, since your musical

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background. But, you know, that you

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don't have to be that person. You don't have to be that

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that you know, we've all experienced that salesperson

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that is like, oh. Yeah. I don't I

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I I have gone through that kind of training.

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Sadly did go down that path for a while.

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Was good at it and hated every single moment of it.

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Yeah. Like, it just made me feel

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sick. And I'm like, I can't imagine myself

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doing this for the rest of my career. There has to be

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a better way. And when you really discover that, you

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really don't have to. In fact, letting go you know, I

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think, you know, from my experience, letting go of those

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tactics, which tend to be a bit more on the manipulative

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side and not so much on the authentic side.

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Yeah. That my sales actually increased when I let go of

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that, and I started doing it this other way. And you didn't have to,

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in fact, selling without even feeling like you're

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selling. And and so at at least that's how it felt for me.

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So, yeah. Definitely. That's a it's a huge

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shift when you do kind of make that connection. But like I said,

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the caveat is is that most heart centered

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coaches think it's just about giving, giving,

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giving, and then they hope Mhmm. That the person is

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gonna say, well, can I hire you? Or or what do you offer? Or

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you Show? And the other Anderson gonna take that initiative. And there

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usually is where things break down is that

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the the reason the person needs the coach is

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probably because they are lacking the

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self belief or the self worth or, you know,

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the confidence to invest in themselves. So there's usually that.

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And I always link it to take off the sales

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hat and put on your coach's hat.

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If this person was already a coach already your client,

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how would you be empowering them

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to do something that's outside of their comfort zone? How would you

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be empowering them? And so, when we

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shift the mindset around that, that becomes the catalyst to

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then rethinking the whole, quote, unquote,

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marketing and sales Mhmm. Approach.

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So let's talk a little bit about, what what are some of the steps

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or, like, you've got your your, I think, your your 4

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parts to, that you mentioned. And,

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you know, so now that someone you know, for those who are

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listening in going, okay. I get it. Yes. I'm one of those people. What do

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I do? What do I do next? How do I approach this differently?

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Yeah. Absolutely. I'm I'm super excited to share this. So this, again, was

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what I discovered way back in the beginning,

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you know, when things were becoming this kind of quicksand

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feeling. But I'm I'm very intuitive and

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an empath, and so I'm able to

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connect with people's kind of emotions and where they are

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in terms of their emotional journey. And so what I

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discovered is that it's more of a it's a

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framework. Right? I'm not into scripts per se or, you

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know, tell them this and tell them that. It's a

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framework that it it supports potential clients to

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really understand the value as well as that this is the best next

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step for them. And so it it it boils down to 4 different,

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ingredients. 1 is to intentionally

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in your marketing and or sales, I would I I call it every

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client or potential client touch point, build that

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personal connection.

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In the old school sales book, that's

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called Show Know, like, and trust. But Mhmm.

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It's really deeper than that. It's not to know a per it's it's a personal

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connection, especially in this day of digital, social

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media, AI, you know, where I can get as a script

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generated from AI just like that. I can create a sales page just like that.

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I can, you know, create a course just like that. But all of that is

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lacking that personal connection. So, anyway, that's

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that's one psychological state that needs to

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be activated. And, of course, there are lots of

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different techniques for doing that. The second

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psychological state is trust. Now interestingly,

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it's trust both sides. It's trust in in the

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expert, in the coach or business owner or

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solopreneur, and it's also

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trust in the potential client to make the decision.

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That's a little bit of expert for for experts, extra for

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experts, I should say, in in that move because it's not

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mostly like, How do I activate trust within them? That's why

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I said right at the beginning of this, you put on your coaching hat. It's

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it's not complicated at all. Most of these things come down to some pretty easy

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things to create these these to

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activate these states. So there's personal connection, trust,

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both in in you, the the expert and in within the

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potential client. The third is belief.

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And and this is you know, activating belief

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is, I would say, one of

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the bigger components if we were to put them all on a

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scale here. It's

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belief that, first off, the solopreneur

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can deliver what they're saying they can, You know,

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obviously, that they can deliver that outcome

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or that they have, you know, the abilities, the skills,

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all that. So there are certain things that obviously your credibility and

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and certification and track record and years in business,

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all those kinds of things things add up to that.

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But it's also belief through your

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potential client's mind that they can achieve the

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outcome. So, again, this is

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a little bit more nuanced. Right? So it goes beyond

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just touting all the, you know, the certifications

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and years of experience, but it's how do you transfer that

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belief? Again, put on your coach's hat, and you'll figure that out.

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But there are some very easy ways to do that. And the 4th, of course,

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is desire, which most people think, well sales, right? They got to

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want it. If you're gonna sell something, they have to want it. Yes.

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That's true. But the thing that is really

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important to know is that

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and and this is where people kind of flounder back and

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forth between force and and

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more allowing or inviting in

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this desire mode. Because when you start

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projecting on somebody that they're gonna love something or that this is

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amazing or that you are going to, well, then

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that's force. That's that's like forcing my opinion on

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you. Instead, desire is authentically

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built when you position what

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it is you're offering in a way that

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includes words and the experience that

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are already going on in your potential client's mind. And I'm sure

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you've heard this many times before, but but for a lot of people, it's

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tricky to understand really how to do that, especially in

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marketing or blogs or, you know, sales pages, that kind of

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thing. But it it's really a matter of alignment.

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Choosing words that are already within your

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potential client's thoughts naturally,

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conversationally, around the outcomes

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of what it is you're selling or offering. And, again, a lot of the

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experts, this is another place that's a blind spot for them, is that they

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are so excited about their process, their methodology, you

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know, the the nuts and bolts and everything,

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that that's where they land because that's where they see the biggest

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value. But, actually, it's the outcome

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of whatever your process or methodology or

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approach is that is what your potential clients

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want. So so those are the 4 elements. And

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when you activate all 4 of those because you can't activate desire

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without belief. Belief doesn't get activated without trust, and

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trust does not get activated without a personal connection.

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Show they all dovetail, but none stand

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alone. So that's the magic.

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It is magic. And it was so cool to hear you,

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describe those and just tells me just how on the same page you and

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I are because, especially that part about vocabulary.

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And one of the things that, I think a lot of

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coach just to echo something that you said here, I see a lot of coaches,

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selling with the name of their program or

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the name of their process. And I just went through this with one

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that I'm helping to write a webinar right now, and and and

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and we had this debate over what words to put on the page. And, of

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course, we did a lot of research in term terms of who the

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ideal audience is and all of that, and they really

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felt passionate about using the name of

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their process and all of the bullet points. And and and you have to ask

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yourself, are these words that

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my audience will understand? Are these words

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that they use every day? Yeah. To even

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value. And even value. Yes. Exactly. And we do

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ourselves such a disservice sometimes by trying to describe what we

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do Yeah. Versus describing

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what our ideal client wants

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and values and position ourselves as

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someone who can help them to do more of that and

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and and and whatever. And it's not about buying my program.

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It's about me helping you get what you want. Exactly.

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Exactly. Well said. Well said. Yeah. I love it.

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Well, we we you know, I think we have to unpack that even more

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and and definitely do some more work together, around that.

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But but, of course, you know, in the in the context of a

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podcast episode and keeping this, bite size for for people to

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consume, I think that is just so valuable. I love what you just

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shared. For people listening in and they wanna

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connect with you and learn more, where where would be the best place to do

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that? Well,

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the best place to connect is through my website. Mhmm. I am on

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social media, but my time is most

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invested with my clients. And so that's the easiest place

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to find me is, w w w, of course,

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predictable sales results.com is the

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website. Mhmm. And, you can

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find the form there to reach out to me, and, I'd love

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to carry the conversation forward. Yeah. And, well, to make it very

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easy for you to connect with Wendy, we've put the link

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to that just beneath this beneath this video. And if you're listening to

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this on podcast, just check into the player, whether it be Apple Podcasts or

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Spotify or whatever you're on, and the links are all in there as well. And

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just go ahead and click that. That'll take you directly to Wendy's website. You can

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connect with her, there. So, Wendy, this has

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been, like, amazing, and I just, I

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just love hearing you talk because I'm just, like, I'm like, yes. Someone

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else who gets it. And and I'm just wondering, like, you know,

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how, you know, how, you know, just to

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impact even more coaches and more solopreneurs

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to really realize this, and sales is such a big part of it.

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And, so I love that this is what you do, because

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I'm also I'm on the other side of it. I'm, like, finding those people to

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talk to. Yeah. And you're like, well, here's what you say

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when you talk to them, and it's and and and those 2

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really go well together. So so I I I look forward to

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exploring that. Before we bring this episode to

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a close, I just have to ask you because I've been asking all my guests

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about this, and, it, it's turned into a bit of a social

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experiment for me because I just never know what the answer's gonna be. But so

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much of, building a business and and growing a business is growing

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ourselves as well. And, for myself, I've

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I'm I'm a you know, probably the last 30

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years, I invest every single month on buying

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books and and and courses and stuff and always trying to learn more

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myself. And I've got my favorite books, but I always ask our

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guests if you have a favorite book or a must

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read book. And then and I know it's an unfair question because there's

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many, many, many, many My goodness. Yes. But if you were to recommend

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but just to bring it down and keep it simple for our guests and give

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them a single recommendation that they can take action on, what would

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be a must read book that you would recommend that they read next?

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Yeah. No. That's I love that question, Chuck, because it it

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has been an a journey. Right? I started out as

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the social I'm not kidding you. The socially awkward,

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introverted classical music nerd, you know, with 0 business

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knowledge, 0 sales skills, and,

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you know, not to toot my horn or anything, but I've built multiple

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6 figure businesses. I meant I'm on track for a 7 figure

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year, and I've sat in the corporate role

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being their top generator. So it's been an evolution.

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It hasn't just happened because, oh, well, I'm gonna eat my Wheaties.

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Oh, my goodness. In fact, before we moved to

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Hawaii, we had to put things in in either, you know,

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storage or get rid of them. So I had a library of

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all these books, and everyone was like, oh my god. This takes me

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back to Og Mandino and and, you know, Bob Procter

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and and all these different phases of my

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evolution. But when you ask that, what is one book? I

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think the book that really had such an a

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pivotal moment for me was

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ask and it is given, and that's written by

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Abraham Hicks. Now I don't know if you

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know Esther Hicks. She's a channel. So this gets

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a little woo, Chuck. I love it. Bring it bring on the

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woo. So Esther Hicks is a

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channel, and Abraham is the collective

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that she channels. And so this book, Ask and It is Given,

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was just oh my god. It just completely

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rocked my world of how I thought things had to be toiled

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and no pain, no gain. And, you know, you're

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in it to win it and blood, sweat, and tears

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to ease, flow, joy.

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Which one do I want? I think I'll go over there.

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That sounds much nicer than the no pain, no gain.

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Right. So that was the the onramp into that

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world of ease, flow, and joy.

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I love that. You know, I've I've I've heard of that book so many times,

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and I've read so many. That is not one that I have read,

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and and so I can't even comment on it. But but I

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also take this as a sign that it is the

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next one for me to read, and and that has been a

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very interesting subpart of this this this

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podcast journey is asking the question

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and then trusting the answer. And so so

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that gets to go on my next read list. So so Right. So thank you.

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Be sure to let me know how that ends for you. Yeah. Well, I'm looking

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for the, the ease and the flow, and I'm just going to

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allow. Yes. And and I'm going to allow it

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because it's so easy to go. I want ease and I want Show.

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Like, and I'm gonna manipulate everything around me in my world so that

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it's easy. Damn it. That's not flow.

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Right. And so it it is so easy. And

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and, you know, when when we hear about manifestation, it's

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like to try to force a manifestation. It's like, that's

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not how it works. The universe doesn't do it on your timeline. Do

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my vision board. Do my vision board. You know? Wait. Affirmations. Affirmate

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Yeah. I've had this on my vision board for 3 years. Damn it. Where

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is it? Yeah. I just love all of that.

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So, Wendy, thank you so much for that recommendation. I'm gonna put the

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links to that book, beneath the video and in the podcast show notes as well

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for everyone else to check out. Show, this this has just

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been a fantastic conversation, and and I I look for a forward

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to us having, more conversations because I feel like

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there's so so much more we can unpack. You know, that

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Right. Back here with regard to actually

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how to create that ease and flow in your business. And, Chuck, you are the

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king of that, and we didn't get a really, like,

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talk the synchronicities of how important it is to

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Creative those alliances and systems to support the

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expansion, because it's not just a solopreneur.

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We when we collaborate and work at a bigger level

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is when we truly find that ease and flow. So Well, that's

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it's so true. I mean, I think, you know, winning in life and winning in

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business is definitely a a, you know, a team team sport.

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It's it's nobody really is self made. Nobody and and I know

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for myself, I've I never really do anything myself

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Anderson and especially not today. I mean, in in in my

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twenties, I was just like, oh, yeah. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna build this

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thing. And and today, I I try to listen.

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I try to, say, well, here's where my strengths are.

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Who could I meet, or who could I collaborate

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with who is strong in some other area.

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Mhmm. And it is so much easier when you do that. Oh my gosh.

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Right? It's so much easier. Yeah. Yes. No

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longer trying to become, you know, in you know, become stronger where I'm

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weak. How about just embrace the gifts that you have? And everyone

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else has their gifts, and how do we align those gifts to

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to actually accomplish more together? Right? Yep.

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Absolutely. Amen to that. That is Yeah. And and I think that's where,

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you know, you and I really connected, and I think we you know, we'll

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definitely have more conversations Alright. About that. So

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so thank you so much, Wendy. Thank you to

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our audience as well. And, I want this to mean

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something for you. So I want you to take something that you heard Wendy and

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I talk about today, and, and and I want you to

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take action today. Take a step towards whatever it is

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that you want, and always, always, always keep moving

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forward. And so, so, again,

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thank you, Wendy. Thank you to our audience. This has been the

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Collaboration show with Chuck Anderson, and I will see you on the

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next one. Thank you, everyone.

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