What if your best years are still ahead of you and your decades of experience are the very foundation for your next big move?

In this episode of The Scalable Expert Podcast, Tara sits down with Tabatha Jones, also known as The Corporate Escape Sherpa, to talk about the journey from loyal corporate leader to liberated entrepreneur.

Tabatha shares how she left a 30-year career at the age of 50, built a thriving coaching business, and now helps other high-achieving women do the same - before burnout or forced retirement hits. We talk about building your escape plan while still in corporate, carving out an hour a day, and designing a business around freedom, purpose, and clarity.

If you’re over 40 and wondering “what’s next?”, this episode is your permission slip to go for it.

⏱️ Chapters / Timestamps:

00:00 – Meet Tabatha Jones, The Corporate Escape Sherpa

01:06 – Leaving corporate at 50: Tabatha’s story

02:28 – Coaching career pivots: From promotions to freedom

04:33 – One client’s bold escape plan success story

06:19 – The identity shift and mindset work after corporate

08:00 – How Tabatha supports her clients (programs + offers)

10:00 – What scaling looks like for Tabatha’s business

11:31 – Certification, licensing, and future growth plans

13:01 – The “one hour a day” rule and escaping the “I’m too busy” trap

15:49 – The Candy Crush confession: Avoidance vs action

17:15 – Favorite resources: Gen X Remix podcast + 10X Is Easier Than 2X

18:39 – Final takeaway: It’s never too late

About Tabatha

Tabatha Jones, CEO of Empowered Leadership Coaching, is The Corporate Escape Sherpa guiding midlife women to career freedom. After leaving corporate at 50, she helped Gen-X women advance but saw a growing need to support those ready to exit. Now, she helps ambitious women build profitable, purpose-driven businesses—without risking financial security. Known for her relatable style and transformational results, Tabatha empowers women to take bold steps toward their next act.

About Me:

Hey, it’s your host, Tara Bryan. And I am on a mission to help more business owners learn to infinitely scale their businesses by leveraging the power of online without sacrificing the customer experience or results. 

I like to geek out on all things business strategy, marketing, interactive digital and user experience. This podcast is all about what is working, lessons learned and actionable tips to create and grow a thriving online business. 

Join us each week as we dive into different strategies, tactics and tips you can apply immediately to your business.

To learn more:

Find us at https://www.taralbryan.com

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Tara Bryan: 00:00:00

Welcome to the Scalable Expert, the podcast where we unlock

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the secrets to building a business

that grows with you, not around you.

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I'm your host, Tara Bryan, business

strategist, mentor, and creator

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of the Infinite Scale Method.

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If you're a coach, consultant,

or service provider who's

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maxed out with one-on-one work.

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Overwhelmed by the grind and

ready to scale your expertise into

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a business that works for you,

then you are in the right place.

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Each week I'll share actionable

tips, inspiring success stories,

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and proven strategies to help you

reclaim your time, grow your income,

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and create a business that delivers

results without sacrificing quality.

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Let's dive in and make your

business infinitely scalable.

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Hey everybody welcome

to this week's podcast.

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I am thrilled to introduce

you to Tabatha Jones.

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Tabatha, welcome to our podcast.

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I am so thrilled that you are on today

to get us started tell us a little

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bit about yourself, who you are, and

a little bit about your business.

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Tabatha Jones: Absolutely.

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Thank you so much, Tara.

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I am Tabatha Jones, the Corporate

Escape Sherpa and the owner of

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Empowered Leadership Coaching and I

help women leverage their decades of

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corporate leadership experience to

build thriving businesses that they

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love, AKA create their escape plan.

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So let's see a little background.

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I spent more than 30 years in corporate

20 plus years of that, I was climbing

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the ladder and, just loved my job.

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I led technical teams and I had

a lot of fun, did some amazing

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things, big projects and such.

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And like I said, I loved my job until

one day I realized I didn't, it was

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having an impact on my health, I wasn't

super happy after a reorganization

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that had happened and had been

building my business on the side.

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So coaching clients after hours on the

weekends, really starting to build the

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business and decided one day, if not

now, when, and I gave notice and took the

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leap into this business at the age of 50.

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Like I said, just really helping

other women do the same now.

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Tara Bryan: Yeah, that's amazing.

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Okay.

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So there's so many things.

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I'm so excited to talk to you about this.

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First of all, I want

to be called a Sherpa.

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Like that's super cool.

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Like, I love that you,

I love that you do that.

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So first of all, one of the things

around the scalable expert podcast is

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my audience loves hearing stories about

people who have an expertise have been

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able to take that expertise, have the

confidence and turn it into a business.

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And then stories about like how you've

been able to grow and scale it from,

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creating something from scratch.

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And so I love your story because

I think it's something that's

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similar to a lot of people, right?

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You're in your J-O-B and then you

decide to put your shingle up,

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whether it's a side hustle or becomes

a full time gig at first, right?

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Usually always becomes a full time gig,

especially the people that I'm talking to.

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And so tell us a little bit about,

What was that shift like for you?

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Because you're really helping your, like,

your ideal customer is really you, right?

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Like, when you left corporate is to

be able to go and do the same thing.

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Like, how did you wrestle through that?

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Tabatha Jones: When I first left

corporate, I was coaching on

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career advancement strategies.

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It was something I was really

passionate about women.

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We don't promote ourselves enough

and it causes us to fall behind.

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And I actually had a bit of a shift just

very recently, actually a few months back.

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And I thought, man, what am I

spending most of my time doing?

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What's really giving me

and feeding this fire?

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What am I so happy to do every day?

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And I realized I had been talking

more and working more and more with

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women who wanted to do what I did.

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And one of the things that I'm seeing

is these women were waiting until

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they were given either an option for

an early retirement package or not so

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much of an option, a severance package

because their job was going away and

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there was a lot of panic around it.

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And as you know, as your listeners

know, building a business takes time.

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And some of us learn the hard way.

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It also takes a lot of money sometimes.

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And when I realized that I was helping

women make the right decisions and

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where they're spending their money,

start getting themselves more visible

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and advocating for themselves, really

using a lot of those career advancement

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strategies, they were finding

themselves feeling very successful.

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One of my favorite stories is

a woman who wanted to leave.

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She was offered an early

retirement package three years ago.

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And she was so upset with

herself, she couldn't take it.

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She said financially

I have too many bills.

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I've got all this stuff going.

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And she said, you know, she told

me, she said, the next time this

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happens, I'm going to be ready.

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And we did started building her business.

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She would come to me for advice.

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She would build.

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The package was offered again

at the end of: 2024

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able to say, heck yes, I'm out.

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And, interestingly enough, I'm helping her

still with, the building and the growing.

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But it just, it feels so good to be

able to take women on the same journey

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and that's where the Sherpa came from.

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It's a supportive journey.

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I'm here to help guide

you and I'm catching you.

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And.

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If you stumble, I'm right here

to help pick you back up and

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get you right back on that path.

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So it's been great.

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It's been so fun.

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Tara Bryan: I love that.

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I love the heck yes.

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Like that just gives me chills, right?

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Make me happy.

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Because I think that there are two

different things that are, that

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you're bringing to the table, right?

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One is obviously the skills to be able

to help somebody transition from, a

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corporate career to, to something else.

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But I think there's also like, As

a, as a woman over 50, that sense

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of when you turn 50, you're like,

wait, what have I been doing?

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A lot of times, like in my case, right?

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The kids are getting older.

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Now there's like, okay,

now it's my turn, right?

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Like now let's go.

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And you're 50 and thinking, okay, where I

am right now isn't where I want to stay.

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So whether it's corporate, whether

it's, whatever it is that you're doing.

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Talk a little bit about do you incorporate

that into your coaching that you're doing?

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Because I don't think I'm unique.

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Where it's you're getting to

that point in your life where

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you're like, all right, let's go.

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What are we going to do?

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How do we take this 50 years of experience

and take it into the next chapter?

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Tabatha Jones: That is a

big part of the journey.

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And that was, in corporate, when I was

coming up to 50 years old, I'd been

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building my business for four years or so.

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And I said, if not now,

when, and it comes down to.

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A lot of us, as we're approaching

50 to your point, we start looking

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at things a little differently.

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The kids are grown up and maybe out

of the house and you have more time to

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finally focus on yourself and figuring

out who you are and what do you really

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like to do and why are you not doing that?

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And we have that really similar story.

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I hear that a lot with women in

this 50 plus bracket and it's scary.

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I don't want to downplay it.

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It's not for everyone.

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It is so rewarding in so many ways,

there's a lot of unknowns, especially

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when you're coming from 30 years in

corporate, where things are very set a

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certain way you have all these people

supporting you, you're supporting them.

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It's different, but I say, you've

got to pick your plan, pick

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what's going to work for you.

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And for me, I just couldn't face that

feeling of regret when I'm older.

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And I kept thinking, God, what

about when I hit 70, am I going

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to say, why didn't you do this?

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What made you stay if you weren't happy or

even if you were, but you knew there was

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something more calling you to the outside.

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And I don't want to live with regrets.

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Life's too short.

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We see people around us all the time

that their lives are just taken too soon.

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And I'm like, I don't want to get to

that end and say, why didn't you do this?

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Tara Bryan: Yeah, for sure.

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If you're in my audience and

you're thinking that same

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thing, you're not alone.

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Just remember you're not alone, right?

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Like it's very common in whatever

section of your life you're in, right?

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Like you don't want to not do something.

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that you're going to

look back on with regret.

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So, so very, very good advice.

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Okay so let's shift here and talk a

little bit about your business model.

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So how are you serving

your women as their Sherpa?

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Tabatha Jones: So a couple of different

ways, I do have an upcoming two day

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workshop, which I can share with you.

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So you have the information where

we're going to talk about gaining some

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clarity and taking action from there.

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I do offer a group program that's

fully supportive, as I sure put

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you through this transition and

getting again, very clear because

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you want to know, what is your why.

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What is it you really want to do and

helping you through that discomfort

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because it's going to be uncomfortable.

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There is a lot of mindset

coaching because we don't always

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feel like we deserve something.

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I don't deserve it.

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We have identity things.

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I've always identified with

being a high achieving corporate

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woman who brings on this great

six, multiple six figure salary.

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What if I can't replace that?

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What if, right?

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All the worries.

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A lot of mindset coaching and

then strategy, really, where do

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you want to invest your time,

your money, and your energy?

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I laugh a lot because we know social

media is a part of the game when

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you're running an online business.

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There are other options, and we want to

make sure that you're aware of those.

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Making sure that you're investing

money in the right places

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and investing it in yourself.

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So it is a fully guided 12 week

program, and then there are options

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to continue in different ways.

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And then I have the one on one coaching.

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So there are women that

just say, you know what?

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I want to do this by myself.

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I want you telling me every

day what I need to do.

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And we offer that as well.

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So there's multiple ways that

I can support women who are

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ready to make this transition.

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Tara Bryan: Yeah.

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I love that.

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And what I love about your

business model is you really have.

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Created scalable offers.

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You've created ways that people can work

with you one on one as your top tier,

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but then you have additional ways where

people can get involved, either a workshop

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or group coaching or whatever, so very

smart, very good, that's the way to go.

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So when you think about, what scaling

looks like for you, as a scalable

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expert, what does that look like for you?

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How do you start to think about

scaling beyond your time and

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attention for your customer?

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Tabatha Jones: That's a really great

question that I probably should

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have put even more thought into.

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I'm a goal setter.

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So every January, I don't do the

wishy washy resolution kind of things.

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I sat down and I set my goals, life,

career, health, finances, et cetera.

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For me, scaling means having a larger

impact, impacting more lives, preferably

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spending less time doing that, you know,

so looking for ways that I can offer more,

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maybe courses or getting into larger talks

and conversations, there's just so much.

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I guess I just paused as I laughed

because there's just so many opportunities

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for scaling and often we forget about

them, Growing the business, I will

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have coaches who work for me at some

point that will be taking on a lot

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of the hands on coaching aspects.

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They'll likely be women that I've

trained who are ready to take the leap

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and have walked the journey and can

understand it because it takes a different

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level of empathy and compassion to

understand where this woman's journey

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has come from and where it's going to.

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. So when I think of that, there's so much I

could probably talk to you all day about.

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Lots of ideas and plans

on whiteboards, right?

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Tara Bryan: Right, right.

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Well, and I mean, one of the one of

the best ways, just like what you

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just mentioned, is to create your

own certification program where you

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can certify coaches to be out there,

actually helping people on your

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behalf, because then that becomes that

scalable model where you can make an

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impact when you're not even there.

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Absolutely.

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So that's cool.

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Yeah.

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Tabatha Jones: Absolutely.

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My financial advisor always asks, she

says, how much longer do you plan to work?

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And I said, until I don't want

to . She said, is there a number?

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I'm like, no.

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It's until I don't want to

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. Tara Bryan: Yeah.

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And I think for me, one of the

things that when we're helping

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our customers, it's about choice.

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It's if you have a scalable offer, if

you have those things in place where,

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you know, things are, are operating

without your time, then you still

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have the choice to do one on one,

you still have the choice to show

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up as much as you want to, but your

business is still growing and doing

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things when you're not involved in it.

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And that to me is the trick, right?

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Like it's yes, until I don't want to,

because I have other things that I want

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to be doing, but the business is still

serving you as you're moving forward.

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And that's the scalable part from my

perspective is you take your expertise,

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what you're really good at, and then

you start to grow it beyond yourself.

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So it's such an exciting.

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place to be and to take that

for me, it comes up where I

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specialize in, scalable systems.

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And I'm like, how do you turn your

Sherpa concept into a scalable version

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of you being the Sherpa, right?

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Like how do you automate that?

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How do you make that into kind

of your, animated character or

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whatever, as you're helping people.

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So that's where my mind goes.

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All right, tell us, what's one,

big, tip or trick, or actionable

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item that you would give to my

audience around, what you do?

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Tabatha Jones: You know, I would say

that I'm just going to use the one

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thing I hear all the time, which is I

just don't have time to start building

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a business before I leave corporate.

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I'm too busy.

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I work full time.

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I've got kids, dogs,

parents, whatever it is.

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I'm too busy.

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The reality is one hour a day.

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You can find one hour a day that

gives you six full weeks a year.

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I just did the math on this

for a post the other day.

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Six full weeks in a year

that you could get ahead.

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So think about that over a three to five

year period of time where you're building

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it doesn't have to be huge.

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It could be sitting down and

getting clear on your unique value.

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It can be identifying who you want to

work with or reaching out and talking

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to someone like us, either one of

us who have been through this type

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of journey and picking our brains.

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It can be.

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Anything you want, but just do

something and use your calendar to

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block that time and hold it sacred,

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Tara Bryan: just like working

out, just like all the things.

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Tabatha Jones: That's why we

get up at five in the morning.

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Tara Bryan: Exactly.

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Tabatha Jones: But we find ourselves doing

so many things without even realizing it.

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Full confession.

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I had a candy crush.

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Obsession.

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Tara Bryan: How much

time I spending on that?

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Tabatha Jones: And I wasn't

making progress on something

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that was really important to me.

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And I was like, what are you doing?

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You know what you're doing?

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You're spending time, not one

hour a day, you could be spending

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on something productive instead

of popping little candies.

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And you know, so we're all doing things,

scrolling, looking at funny animal

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videos or calling it our downtime.

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But why not just start making it your

uptime and start building toward that

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thing that you're really passionate about?

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Tara Bryan: Yeah, and I think

two things about that, which

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I think are very interesting.

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One is when you're in corporate your

time is dictated within a window, right?

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Eight hours, 40 hours a week.

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Like that's how that's how

time works when you're working.

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When you go into business for

yourself, you don't have to

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be under that same construct.

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So I love your point about an hour a

day, you can actually build a lucrative

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business one hour a day, you don't need

to sit in a chair for eight hours, 40

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hours a week, in order to be successful

and so I love that because I think

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that's definitely a mindset shift

that happens when you leave corporate

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and go somewhere else and build

your own thing is that time shifts.

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And then the other thing is and I'm

sure you teach this too, but you know

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that by doing Candy Crush, you're

just avoiding something like, it's

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just an avoidance tactic to the thing

that you're supposed to be doing.

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And so if you just were to do the

thing that you were doing, you

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probably could do it in an hour,

get it done, and then you would have

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some time for Candy Crush, right?

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I'm sure you handle, yeah, I'm

sure you handle all of that.

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Tabatha Jones: Yeah, absolutely,

and it comes down to, it's

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hard, I'm not going to lie.

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Finding an hour a day when you're

working full time, just let's face it.

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Most people in corporate

don't work eight hour days.

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There are longer days.

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There's a commute, there's

traveling, there's whatever it is.

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It's hard, but you got to pick your hard.

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Is it going to be the hard where

you take an hour and do something

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that's going to move you forward?

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Or is it the hard where you

just stay stuck and unhappy?

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If you are in that space,

you got to pick your hard.

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And I'll tell you, the hard that

is building your future is the

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one that I will choose every time.

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Tara Bryan: Yep, of course.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Okay, so tell us about a tool or a

book or resource that you could not

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live without as a business owner.

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Tabatha Jones: Oh my gosh,

there's so many things.

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Resources, I would say

podcasts, podcasts like yours.

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I have a podcast called the Gen X Remix.

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There are so many things that

you can get just quick tips while

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you're getting ready in the morning.

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You don't even have to count that toward

your hour a day because you can multitask.

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So that would be a resource.

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I would say as far as a book,

the 10X Is Easier Than 2X book.

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I listened to it on audible also

because I could multitask while

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I'm getting ready in the morning.

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It just, makes you think about, and

when you come into scaling, right,

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it makes you think about

what's holding me back?

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Why am I trying to scale to 2 times when

I could scale to 10 times just by doing

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a couple of things that make total sense

when you hear someone else say them.

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So I would say those are a couple of

things that I would highly recommend.

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Tara Bryan: Yeah.

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Awesome.

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All right.

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We will put those in the show note.

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It's interesting.

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I did Benjamin Hardy's, 10X.

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He has a coaching program in this last

quarter, that was just fascinating

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because every single week he'd be like,

just remember, 10X is easier than 2X

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and you're like, oh yeah, you're right.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna write it down again.

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It is something that's hard.

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I mean, it's hard to remember, that it's

easier to actually do something that seems

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unattainable than it is to just do, one

or two-sy things as you're going forward.

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So get the book.

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It's amazing.

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It'll change the way that

you think about things.

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So I, I agree with that for sure.

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Um, all right.

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So how are you said the GenX Remix,

which I love because I'm a Gen Xer.

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So people can check you out on

that podcast, but how else can

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we get ahold of you if we want

to learn more about what you do?

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Tabatha Jones: Honestly,

the two easiest ways.

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One is connect with me on LinkedIn.

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I share a lot of actionable insights.

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You can grab my free resource

from LinkedIn, which is 10 Steps

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to Map Your Bold Escape Plan.

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And you can also hop onto my

website, it's empowered-leader.Com,

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and we share all kinds of great

updates out there as well.

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Tara Bryan: Awesome.

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Very cool.

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All right, Tabatha, give us the final

word that we can take with us as we

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go forth from this podcast episode.

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Tabatha Jones: Oh my gosh.

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It's never too late.

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It is never too late to pivot.

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It's never too late to

go after your dream.

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It's never too late to

change your direction.

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So that's what I share.

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It's a Gen X motto, I think at this

point, because we worry about that.

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So it's never too late.

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Tara Bryan: Amazing.

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All right, Tabatha.

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Thank you so much for

being on the podcast.

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We appreciate you for my

audience, have a great week and

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we will talk to you next week.