In this episode, Tara shares stories of how trusting your intuition in your business can help you to make better decisions. Because sometimes that is what you have available to you.
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Hey, everybody, it's Tara, Brian, and you are listening to
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the course building secrets podcast. Whether you're a coach
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or a CEO, the success of your team and clients is based on
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your ability to deliver a consistent experience and guide
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them on the fastest path to results. This podcast will give
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you practical real life tips that you can use today to build
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your online experiences that get results and create raving fans.
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Why? So you can monetize your expertise and serve more people
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without adding more time or team to your business? If you're
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looking to uncover your million dollar framework, package it and
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use it to scale you're in the right place. Let's dive in. Hey,
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everybody, welcome to today's episode, I am so thrilled that
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you're here. In today's episode, I want to talk about trusting
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your intuition. So often, if you are in a situation and something
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doesn't feel right, it's because something isn't right. I was
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working with a client the other day and she was struggling
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because she was working with a different agency. And she just
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had this feeling that her cores her program, her launch, other
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things weren't actually going to happen the way that she wanted
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them to happen. She just had this feeling that they either
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didn't know what they were doing, they didn't have it all
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together, or they didn't actually do the work that she
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had paid them to do. And that was what her gut was screaming
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at her about. And she said, Well, I'm going to trust the
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process, I'm gonna trust that these people know what they're
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talking about. Because otherwise they wouldn't be out selling
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their products. And so she trusted the process instead of
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her gut. And you know, lo and behold, three months later,
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right, as she's ready to launch, she realizes that there's
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nothing there. They haven't created anything that they've
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promised. They haven't done the activities that were required to
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make sure the launch happened. And she just said, you know, in
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hindsight, I just had this feeling. And so my friends, I
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want to tell you, if you have that feeling, if there's just
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something that doesn't feel right, then make sure that you
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listen to your gut, you act on it, and that you use it as part
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of your decision making process as you're running your business.
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Because here's the reality is that most of the time, if you're
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getting that feeling, it's actually legit, right? It's not
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just worrying, or having anxiety or whatever else, right? It's
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really, there just is something that doesn't feel right. So
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here's the thing, let me give you some tactical advice around
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this. Because I think there's the feeling and trusting the
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feeling and knowing that you need to dig in and maybe get
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some additional details. And then there's the how do you make
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the right decisions. So you don't get in a position where
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you're not sure whether or not things are working, or things
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are not working or what's happening. And the very first
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advice, piece of advice I can give you is make sure that
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there's a plan. Anyone who says, hey, it's a you know, this many
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step process. And, you know, let's do a kickoff call. And
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then we're going to go off, and we're going to do our thing, and
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then we'll come back when we're done. Those people do not have a
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solid process for how they do their work. So if somebody comes
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to you, you're working with them. And there's not a project
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plan. There's not an overall strategy, where they're asking
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you lots of questions upfront to find out your goals, your needs,
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and the different things that you're trying to accomplish, and
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then creating a plan around those, then that is a really
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good indication that you're going to run into some problems.
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Because what you don't want to do is hire an agency who's just
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sort of either winging it, or they haven't figured out process
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yet. And so they don't have enough experience to be able to
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tell you step by step exactly what's going to happen. And I
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don't know about you, but I want to work with experts who have
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their systems, their process, and the various ways that they
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work with people dialed in. And so if you are paying a service
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provider, you're paying an agency or even just a
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consultant, you need to ask the right questions, and make sure
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that you're asking them from a big picture standpoint.
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So if you're asking questions, and they're either not answering
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you or they're giving you sort of a vague answer that you don't
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understand, then again more sort of fodder for the fact that
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maybe they're not exactly sure what they're doing. And they
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don't have a repeatable process that they help their customers
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with. So hopefully, you can take this episode and just think
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like, we're in your life in your business relationships and
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whatever else is there sort of that gut check that needs to
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happen? Where you need to make sure that somebody that you're
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working with actually is doing what they say they're doing? And
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when somebody says, Just trust me, are they trusting or use?
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Are they saying, trust me with a actionable plan laid out? Are
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they saying trust me, and then they're gonna go off and do
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something and you don't know exactly what it is? That their
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process is? Those are, you know, indications that maybe your gut
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is right, that something is not right. And make sure that you
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trust that, then are you asking the right questions, right, so
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trust your gut. Then second is, are you asking the right
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questions? Do you know what questions to ask if you don't
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know what questions to ask, you need to find an expert who can
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help you with the big picture. So you can ask the right
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questions. When we do our VIP course, launch days, we
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literally map out the full process from the sales and
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marketing automation to the course and fulfillment,
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automation and beyond. So you are able to ask the right
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questions, you're able to see what the full process is and ask
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the questions of people. So somebody says, Yeah, sure, I can
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do that. It'll be this many hours and and in this much
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money. Are you both on the same page? Are you speaking apples to
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apples? Or are you assuming that they're going to do everything
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top to bottom, and they're assuming they're just going to
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do one little piece, right, make sure that you have that big
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picture and that you know, what your playbook is, what your game
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plan is before you go and find somebody to implement. And
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again, all of those things will help you as you're navigating
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through this whole process of putting your business online, or
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whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish. So first,
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trust your gut. Second, make sure that you have a big overall
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plan, where you know how the big picture looks. So you can find
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the right people to execute on the big picture. But don't just
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hire executors without having that that overall playbook, that
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overall game plan for how you can move forward. One, one does
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not come before the other right. So you have to have the
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strategy, the big picture, and then you can put the right
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pieces into play. So you can build your online program, your
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online business or whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.
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Alright, there you go. That is my course building tip for you
