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[SGC-37] Great Business Advice Gone Wrong with Guest Lisa Thurston
Episode 378th February 2024 • She's Got Content • Melissa Brown, MD
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Ever just want to 'borrow someone's brain' to help you make sense of great business advice that might be going wrong for you for some reason?

Human behavior consultant Lisa Thurston helps solopreneurs cut through the overwhelm, overthinking, and wheel spinning that's often so much a part of the early stages of business. Using a simple line of questioning with her assessment to learn more about her client's values, personalities, and deep desires, she helps them swim through the sea of great business advice that might be wrong for them as an individual.

Listen to Lisa discuss three examples where great business advice went wrong and what to do instead.

Don’t Miss Inside This Episode:

  • What is a human behavior consultant?
  • How human behavior consultants help customize and plan the best business model for you, based on your likes, values, and your own personality.
  • Three examples of generally great business advice and where it can go wrong for a specific individual.
  • Why you might be struggling with content creation based on the business model you've currently got set up.
  • Lisa's tool for validating your business ideas--where 'the rubber meets the road.'

Links and products mentioned in today's episode:

Nail Your Niche Workbook and Skill Audit

Marisa Corcoran, founder of Copy Confidence Society and The Copy Chat.

About Lisa Thurston

Human Behavior Consultant, Lisa Thurston is all about helping solopreneurs gain clarity, maximize their potential, and shine in their fields of expertise. 

From helping you maximize your strengths to creating your unique selling proposition to mapping out your customer journey, Lisa is obsessed with helping women solopreneurs create the life and business of their dreams.

Lisa's Website

NOTE: Lisa's website has changed since the recording date for this episode. She mentions in the audio that her website is LisaThurston.biz, but this is no longer current. The correct website is LisaThurston.cc, and the link below will take you to her current website.

LisaThurston.cc

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Lisa Thurston on Instagram

About Your Host

Melissa Brown, MD - Coach, Author, Speaker, Teacher, and Podcast Host.

After leaving medical practice in 2009, Melissa discovered the online world and never looked back! After coach certification, she began a healthy lifestyle coaching practice online and quickly fell in love with blogging, writing, and content marketing.

Melissa believes that coaches have the power to change the world. Unfortunately, too many coaches get discouraged by the amount of content they need to create for marketing their business and this can lead to overwhelm and giving up on their dreams. There's such a ripple effect when a dream dies, so Melissa is on a mission to help coaches and solopreneurs overcome the overwhelm when it comes to content creation so they keep those dreams alive.

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Hello there, content creators. You're listening to the She's Got

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Content podcast, where it's all about creating content for

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your coaching business. I'm your host, Doctor Melissa

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Brown, and I'm here every week to help you get your content

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out of your head, out of your heart, and out there into the world

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where that information and your services can impact the

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most people. Get ready to take notes today, and

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then Take action, content creators. Let's dive in with

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today's episode because you've got content to get out

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there. Welcome back, content creators, to another episode

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of She's Got Content podcast. Today, I have as a

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guest, Lisa Thurston. She is the queen

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of overthinkers anonymous, for solopreneurs.

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Let's have a big, big welcome to Lisa Thurston. Hey,

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Lisa. How you doing today? Hi, Melissa. Thank you so much for having

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me. Awesome. Well, I think we Probably have an

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epidemic of overthinkers amongst solopreneurs. At least I am gonna

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raise my hand and say, that's something that I have been guilty of . .

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. trying to work on that. And overthinking leads to

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overwhelm. And I know that that's one of the big focuses

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that you have in your business. Tell us a little bit about what

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it is that you do, Lisa. Absolutely. I am

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certified as a human behavior consultant. I got certified in 2010, and

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I've worked with people all over the spectrum, helping them with

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all kinds of areas. But in 2019, I decided I wanted

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to shift to help businesses. I have just seen

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so many people, whether it be choosing a career or figuring

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out what Kind of business to start. It's just so confusing, and they have so

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many false starts and so much overwhelm and frustration, especially,

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I would say, since covid So the past couple years so

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many people have been trying to start home based businesses on their own and

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there is so much just overwhelm, frustration.

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They overthink everything, and I gotta raise my hand on

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that as well because It's just a real thing. There's just so many

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opportunities and thank goodness there's just so many talented

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and brilliant people out there, but how do you focus and choose What

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kind of business to start, which then just leads to frustration

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and procrastination or just confusion when they

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try to put their message out there because it's okay. I'm gonna do this. Well,

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now I'm doing this too. And, oh, yeah, I have this other thing that I

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do and it just confuses everyone and just

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Stops the potential or hinders the potential of the entrepreneur

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and the people that they're trying to reach. And so I love maximizing

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potential in Helping people find out what they're great at, how to bring their

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ideas together into something that's just they're excited about, that

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helps a lot of people. It's just something that I love and I love helping

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people with. Awesome. So needed.

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Absolutely. There are so many people that have false starts or

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Restarts or rebranding, and there's a place

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for that. But if we can get started right from the get

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go with something that is best

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meant for us, almost like customized. And like you said, like,

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I'm doing this. I'm doing that. It's almost like the smorgasbord

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of ideas that some people feel like they've gotta put everything in

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there In order to be successful, but I guess you're here

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to tell us that that's not necessarily true.

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Absolutely. Yes. There's just so many situations out there

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and, again, so much potential and we all have our unique gifts. And

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I just had a client Say, I just needed somebody else's brain. So when you

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can get that outside perspective looking at your situation,

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it's not that you can't figure it out. It's just You're too close to the

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situation. Tell us again, you're a human behavioral

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Human behavior consultant. So Consultant. Right. Tell us about

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what is, For those who don't know, what is a human behavioral

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consultant? So our very first

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session when you work with me is an assessment. And so what

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we do is not so much

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a list of hard questions. My clients actually love it because I say, hey. It's

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not difficult. You come in. I ask you multiple choice questions and I don't

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know is a completely perfect answer. I need you to be honest with me.

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I don't want you to fabricate something just to Try to get through

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the test or actually, that's what we do a lot as business owners. We try

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to get an answer out there without being clear on what it is. And

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so I ask you really simple questions like,

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hey. At the end of a long day, would you rather shut your door and

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read a book, or do you need to go out with friends and just kind

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of Get some of that energy out there. What does your perfect evening look like?

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And simple questions like that. And we just talk through it and it

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brings us closer and closer to What I call a profile,

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and then we go through that profile. The q and a we have is

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about behaviors and your preferences, how you make decisions,

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How you're energized, things like that. And then this all comes together

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to something that we then verify and say, okay. Does this sound like you? Yes

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or no? We adjust Until we find your perfect fit, and then we say,

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alright. Well, let's look at these behaviors. You said this is

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true, and then these are the things you're considering for your business.

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Let's talk about how this fits together. So

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you say that you love being with people. If you have 3 decisions for your

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business, Which one does that fit with

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or what takes away from it or how does this really energize

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you most? We just bring all these pieces together and talk through

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your business. And it doesn't mean necessarily you have to just choose 1. I have

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a client I'm working with right now where she has Three things that seem

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unrelated, but when we talked about it, the thread that came

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through all of them was freedom. These are 3 aspects of

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her life that she felt She needed to

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maximize in order to have the kind of freedom she wanted.

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And so she wants to help other people And she just didn't see

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that thread before and she didn't see who she was trying to help before. But

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once we brought all that together, We had a whole lot of Ah Ha moments,

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and we went from her feeling stuck

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and confused and unclear And actually creating

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businesses that were hindering her freedom to

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creating something that just allows her to explore and dip

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her toes Short term into different things, meet the needs of

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the people that she wants, and just she's just so excited and passionate about it.

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That make sense? That makes Total sense. It's like

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you connect the dots. You had this person who had the

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3 different things that she wanted to do, and Some

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business advisers might say, oh, you gotta pick 1. You can't do all

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3 of them, but you really got to connect The dots for

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her to create something that I'm sure is gonna take the world

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by storm. Awesome. And it's still very niche. It still meets

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1 audience, Fulfilling one problem, but it doesn't tie

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her into any particular thing other than,

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alright, It actually is. This is what you wish you had

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had to help you solve this problem. You're creating it to

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help others. And so She still has the framework that a

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typical business coach would say she needs to have. It's just done in

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a completely unique way that fits her. Right. It's all

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customized, it sounds like. Absolutely. Yep. Okay. That is

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a beautiful thing. Well, when we're talking about Customized.

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I know today we're talking about business advice,

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great business advice gone wrong. And when you think

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about hiring a coach or

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talking to somebody about business and you get advice,

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They're generally giving generic advice.

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True? General and you have 2 This isn't

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cutting anyone down, but if you're going to meet a wide

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audience and create a book, create a course, anything like

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that, it has to be Somewhat general to meet the

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general need. Mhmm. But there becomes a point where

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you just get oversaturated information. Your mind just

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Goes crazy with ideas and then it just it gunks up. It

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just gets stuck or you get on this wheel that you just keep going

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around and around. Okay. I like this, but This and then

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but that but that. And then you just can't land on

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anything. And so that's when you need me. That's when you need, As my one

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client says, somebody else's brain to just help you think clearly through

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it in a very objective way, not, Oh,

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what about this idea? Did you try that idea? There's a lot of advice out

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there, but sometimes you just need someone to say, alright.

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This is who you are and this is how you're uniquely gifted.

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This is the potential I see. This is where you're passionate. I see your

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eyes light up when you talk about that, And you kinda get blaise

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when you talk about that. And you need that extra input and someone

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to help you not just come up with ideas, but then take the proper next

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steps to creating, validating,

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and maybe seeing potential that you don't see or has been around the

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business world long enough that they know possibilities are out there or maybe

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what's emerging, things like that. Right. It sounds like you help people

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really think outside the box looking at

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This human behavior and their

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personality, their values, all of those things kind of distilled into

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1. Right. So there is the general content that works for a lot

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of people, but I am there to help the people that it doesn't

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work for. Okay. Let's dive into that. Let's talk about some

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of this great business advice gone wrong and sort of

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how that may have come about and how

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you might be able to identify it for someone. So you got some

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examples there? I do. So the 1st piece of business

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advice that is good, but sometimes it can go wrong and actually

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went wrong for me. So the first one was

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find a pain point that you have found a solution to. And

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that's awesome. And actually, my current business, I do do

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that. But time that went wrong for me,

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I hate cooking. And I found a product

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that really helped me simplify cooking, and it was something that I

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could resell. And I was so excited about it.

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I'm like, alright. I just gotten that advice and you've checked those boxes, click, click,

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click, good commission, good this, good that. I'm like, alright. I can totally do

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that. Put the business plan together. And then I

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realized I had to create content for it All the

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time, forever. On a topic

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that you don't like, cooking. So that meant

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I had to get in the kitchen, which I hate being in the kitchen, and

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get out ingredients, which I hate getting out ingredients and

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cutting and sorting and filming and looking

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happy about doing this task that I absolutely hated.

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So this Solution that I was solving, less time in the

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kitchen, was creating more time in the kitchen.

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Oh, wow. Yeah. So,

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yeah, when you're doing that, when you're creating content, people will see how

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you feel about it. You can't really fake your enthusiasm.

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And so when you're choosing a business, it's great

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if you have a pain point that you solved. You can really

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relate to your client. But think about that long term

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creating content. You have to be in that headspace

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and be excited and passionate. You have to make it contagious or

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people aren't gonna want it. Right. And so if you're feeling forced

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or frustrated or whatever when you're trying to imagine, alright, For

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me, in the kitchen cutting things up, I just didn't even think about that

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aspect of it. So you can't build a business

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around something that is continuing to cause you pain

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if creating content about it is causing you pain. So, yeah,

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Yeah. If the solution turns into something that you love and you wanna tell the

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world about it and show them and demonstrate it, etcetera, all the

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time, that's great. But if it's going to create a situation

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that's causing you dread, then, yeah, you should probably

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move past that one onto another idea. Right. Keep moving. Keep

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asking yourself, what else could I possibly pick as a business

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idea? That's such a great point because if you are immersing

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yourself Into the content creation of

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something that you found a solution

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for this pain point that You initially had you found a solution

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for it, but then you have to go back to the pain point repeatedly

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just to get that content and live in it To get that content

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created for selling your solution,

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Yeah. I don't think that would last too long with most people, But you're right.

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That is great. It's great business advice for

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some people. It that it's not for everyone.

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One size does not fit all. Right. One size does not

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fit all. Okay. Alright. So are there

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other great Advices that you have

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discovered were not so right for some people? This is an

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iffy one because there's good and bad to it. Again, you have to think through

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it. So the second one is just pick something you're good at and do it.

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Sure. It needs to be something that you're good at, but just pick

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something you're good at and do it. There's some issues there.

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1 client, she's very administrative. And

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so she's like, alright. I think I'm gonna be a VA, a

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virtual assistant. People can just I can go in their business

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and they say, alright, this is what I need done and I just do it.

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And that is great for a lot of people. When we

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started doing her assessment, we realized that she's a natural

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leader. So I was talking to her, and I said, listen.

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You are the kind of person who is great at going into a

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business, Identifying what's wrong and figuring out how to fix

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it. How are you going to do when you go into a business and

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say, hey. I'll do whatever you need to do, And you've identified these

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5 things wrong and you know the solutions, but they just want you to do

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what they tell you to do. How is that gonna sit with you? You could

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see her face. She was just kind of

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that would not go well because that part of her that

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knows How to fix things is gonna be squashed, and she's just

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gonna be frustrated every day working for that person knowing I can

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fix this, this, this, this, and this, But instead, I'm just doing these

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mundane tasks that aren't using my gifts. That's

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so good because identifying that for a person before they get

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into that frustrated mode of, I just don't I don't

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wanna do this because I know that this is wrong, But

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because you're taking orders from the business owner, you

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gotta bite your tongue and just do it. And then because this is someone

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who wants to work from home, That's gonna spill out somewhere. That's

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gonna spill out to your husband. That's gonna spill out onto your kids, and that

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tension is going to bleed. You're not the kind of person that can close the

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door on that and walk away. Right. Yeah. And this is what

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you're looking for in a home business. It's something that you can

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Thrive in so that then you can close the door and be there with your

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family. So with a situation like

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that, Where you identify that the person is more of a natural

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born leader and has these skills in, let's

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say, Dubsado. Would a better

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idea be for her to go into something that's more consulting

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or going into somebody's Dubsado The way it's

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set up and identifying where they have their problems. So

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she's more of a consultant than a VA. We've identified

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she needs to be Seen as an expert, so she has the authority to

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go in and say she's not invited in to just do their task. She's

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invited in to identify problems, be the expert, and then come up

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with solutions. And so that is what we came up with her is to

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become a Dubsado expert. And we're actually still in the process,

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can Still, she needs to niche down and everything. So she didn't have

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that skill set to begin with, but we just looked at different

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options for her. And then she did a little research to narrow it

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down, and so that is what she's chosen is Dubsado. She's gonna be niched down

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even more. But, yes, She's a natural leader, but she needs that

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authority so the people recognize her as that and a place to

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target it. So that's what she's doing is she is Partnering with a

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Dubsado expert, learning the area of expertise, learning

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the system so that she can come in and say, I'm gonna focus on

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workloads or I'm gonna focus on what do coaches need or what

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do service you know, that part is still being worked out. But

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absolutely, she's going in Right. Figuring it out so that she can have that

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authority and work in her gift in a way that she

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can then close the door on it And then be with her family without

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constantly thinking or being frustrated about what's going on.

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Yeah. That's beautiful. To be able to identify that

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and actually channel your gifts into

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something that's not gonna frustrate you. And when you say she's

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niching down, so for instance, it would be like she could

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become a Dubsado expert for home stagers

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and then identify people who already had Dubsado set up

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and say, I think you need to or maybe want to

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change this. Or even a new home stager, she could set it

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up right from the get go and say, this is the way you

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need to do it. Teach people to do it and then be on to the

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next person. She's not the one who continues to do it on a day to

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day basis. Or even one thing she's considering

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is once she goes in and learns it, she can create an agency

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so she can hire and manage so she can get that

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Recurring income, so she doesn't always have to chase clients, but yet

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she's actually a teacher right now and that's what she's trying to get out of.

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So it's very natural for her to Become a teacher. Equip

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people. Put it out there so they can do it, and she can just get

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a percentage of the recurring income. Mhmm. Identifying her

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as having those leadership qualities would really lend her to a lot of

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things like an agency Yes. Having that as her business.

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So Yeah. Well, are there other examples

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of great business advice gone wrong that you I have one last one

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for you. So Okay. Again, this is good advice,

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but it doesn't always work well. So just target the past

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version of yourself. I have a client who

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again, she has an area that she's passionate about, but it's because of a lot

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of things that she's been through. And so people are telling her, listen.

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Your target audience is the past version of yourself, just 1 or 2 steps behind

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where you currently are, Which is awesome for a lot of businesses.

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It makes you very relatable, very passionate. People will follow that,

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but for her, she's coming out of a traumatic event. And

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she's like, I can't handle that. I do not even wanna talk to

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the person who is the past version of myself. It's very triggering for her at

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this point. Mhmm. And so as we work through

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that, we did the assessment and we

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realized that her superpower, so to speak, is to inspire

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and motivate people. And so we went

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through the whole thing and we realized, okay, she doesn't wanna talk to the past

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version of herself Because they can be very

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depressing and they just wanna vent a lot. They want someone to hear them because

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they're in a situation where people don't typically Understand or

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relate. And so when they find someone who can get it, they just wanna blah,

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get it all out there. Mhmm. Mhmm. And so She's like, I can't handle

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that. I'm like, alright. Well, let's tweak your message so that it's

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targeting this particular audience and say, who are ready To move

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forward and take the steps to become the best version of their selves, to

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maximize their potential, and things like that. And that is a

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qualifier And she can just speak to

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that desire to move forward rather than

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to the person in the middle of the pain. That

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is such a great example of what my mentor,

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Marisa Corcoran, calls calling in the

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Tiggers. Okay. Okay. Yeah. If you

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are focusing on pain points or

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where someone is And they're wallowing

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in I mean, I'm not saying that as a derogatory, but somebody

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who's not ready to take action to move themself

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Forward like a Tigger. You know how they're always bouncing around? They're taking action. They're

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doing. But if they're an Eeyore, an Eeyore

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is very much into

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their negative stuff. You know what I

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mean? If you're calling in that former Part of yourself

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or that former version of yourself who may have been

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an Eeyore, and and you're not calling in the Tiggers, but

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you wanna work with the Tiggers. Then, yeah.

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That would not be the best advice for a person who wants

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to Really work with somebody who's past the point

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of being in the problem, and they want to be

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in the solution. So Right. And to be fair,

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the person who is ready to move forward is a past version of herself or

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a past and current version. It's just really taking a sliver.

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It's not what she went to mentally or emotionally.

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So it was just redirecting that. But again, she

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recognized right away, that is not what I wanna create content for. That is

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not who I wanna talk to. That's not who I can engage with right

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now. She just needed to know how to redirect it

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and to oh, it's okay to call out that little sliver that was for

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her felt like 10 minutes Go. Or maybe something that she's constantly trying to

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chase. She has the ability now to create that environment

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for herself and for others to move

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forward and have that community that she didn't have before.

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Such an important thing because then the more people that she can pull

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in, Magnetize into her world and help

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at the point where they're ready to move forward. That will actually

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Show those. I'll call them the Eeyores, but the people who are really in the

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problem and not looking at the solution, they can

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see. Wow. There really is a way out of this

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because of all the people that she's helping at that point.

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I love that. Knowing that, okay, when I'm ready, there is a place, for

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me. Yes. Okay. So, yes,

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this just really hits home about great business advice

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is not for everyone. You've got 3 great examples

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here of where it was great business advice, but it was the

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wrong person or maybe the wrong time or the

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wrong sliver of the person, and that

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really is an important point because A lot of times we

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think, alright. Well, they're telling me I've gotta do it this way. Just think

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about an earlier version of myself. But then if that's a

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traumatic Past version, you don't wanna be

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sitting in that all the time and rehashing with

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your clients And going back through that yourself if

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it's still a trigger for you. Right. So

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I love that. I never really thought about a human

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behavioral consultant being, like,

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the person to go to for this Overthinking, this

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overwhelm, this spinning of the wheels when one is niche

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niche how does one say that? Niching down. I

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say it different every time. But niching down, you really just pointed

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out how important that is that solopreneurs really understand

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themselves, in order to be able to

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be successful and not frustrated,

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overwhelmed and just overthinking.

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It takes so much time and energy

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and, honestly, emotional expense, if

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you can just work through that as early as possible.

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I think we all go through certain phases of business just like,

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a a baby becoming a toddler. That's a business growth as well. And so there's

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it's an important part of the process. But, yeah, when you know

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something you know in your gut. I got something here, but I can't

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clarify it. That's when you need someone like me who can just come

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in and very logically, just help you

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through the process, maybe see things from a different perspective,

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bring pieces together that you didn't know could be brought together.

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Connect the dots. Yes. Yeah. And I know

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you've got a gift for our listeners today, can you tell us about that? Because

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I think that's gonna help with what you just said about this helping to

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find your place and niche down. Tell us about it.

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Yeah. So I would love to give for free to your audience

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a workbook I've created called Nail Your Niche. And so it is

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something that you can work through on your own help you identify your

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skills and talents. It actually has a skill audit in there

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with this neat little thing that helps you narrow it down

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so you can focus on just a few of them. And

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then from there, it can help you validate your ideas and create a marketing

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plan. It is a great start for your listeners with they're like,

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alright. I have a few ideas or even no

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ideas, and I definitely wanna start a business. It can certainly

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help move them a lot faster through that process.

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That sounds wonderful. And for those who are listening and they're

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of the overthinking anonymous fan

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club. And maybe they've got a business, but something's just not right. Like you

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said before, something's not right, but they can't put their

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finger on it. Would this be something that might help them to go through that

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skill assessment and some of these questions to try and

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figure out what that might be? Honestly, anytime you can put something

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down on paper, it really helps you think a little bit more clearly through

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it. Again, the audit Plus the validating is so huge. It's

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something that's so easy and very tempting to

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skip over. It's fun to ideate. It's fun to come up with all the

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ideas. But validating that offer, that's

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where the rubber meets the road Yes. Where it's like, alright. I

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think it's a great idea. Sure. It sounds fun. There are a lot of possibilities,

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but is it what people are really looking for? Are they really ready to invest

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in it? Those are the types of things that Not

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as fun, but so important. And this helps you walk through some

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of that. I'll make sure that the link For that

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is in the show notes. Lisa, what is the name of your website?

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Where are you on the web? Just lisathurston.cc.

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Okay. And it's t h u r s t o

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n. Right? Okay. And where do you hang

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out on social media? Where can people connect or Find you on social.

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On Instagram, you can find me @coachingwithlisaT

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Well, this has been such a great talk. I've learned so much, and I

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think that our audience is gonna really, really get value out of

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this. And everybody get over there and get your free copy of

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the Nail Your Niche workbook. Yes.

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Alright. Thank you so much, Lisa, for being here today. And

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Thank you, Melissa. Alright. And thank you, audience. Thank you all

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the listeners for tuning in for another episode of She's Got

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