On this episode of B.E.P Talks, I sat down with the incredible Tracy Repchuk—9-time bestselling author and international speaker—who shared her journey as a trailblazing woman in tech and business. We talked about pushing through gender barriers, the power of perseverance, and how she's harnessing AI and GPT technology to make business and life easier for entrepreneurs everywhere. Tracy’s insights on staying ahead of the curve and creating more balance are game changers. Ready to take a quantum leap in your business? Tune in and get inspired by Tracy’s powerful story and strategies for success!

Tracy generously shared a free resource for setting (and actually achieving!) your goals: freegoalplan.com. If you’re ready for personalized support in goal-setting or want to use AI as a true business accelerator, don’t miss out! For more ways to connect with Tracy, please visit: https://TracyRepchuk.com

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Well, hey there and welcome to this edition of Bepp

Talks, where amazing people from all

industries, all professions, all ages, all stages

of their career come and share their beliefs,

experiences, and passions in such an

authentic and generous way so as to inspire

you, motivate you, educate you, sometimes even to

entertain you. And we've never had an exception and we are not

going to have an exception today. That I can assure you. I'm going to give

a very brief introduction here because there is so much to say

about Tracy Repchuk. Tracy is a woman that I've had

the privilege of knowing for a number of years and actually working on a

couple of different projects with. She just never ceases to

amaze, always ahead of the time,

ahead of the curve. I want to get in a little bit into her head

here and find out how she has that superpower. So join me as

we welcome today's guest on Bev Talks, Tracy Repchuk.

All right. Thank you for having me, Beth. So excited. I am so

excited. And as I mentioned to the audience, we have had

two opportunities to work together, and I've had the honor, the privilege, and

the pleasure of getting to know you to the point that I am going to

feel free to call you my friend. Absolutely. We have

supported each other. Thank you. Means so much to me.

What I said and what has amazed me about you

from the day that I first didn't even actually meet you, but

crossed paths in a different project,

you have what I'm referring to as a superpower. How are you

always so ahead of the curve? You have, you have,

I'm not gonna say predicted things, but you have the

power to envision things. You were a woman who was published in

Forbes a number of times. You're a 9-time bestselling international author.

You've spoken in 45 countries way before it was kind of—

I don't even want to say a standard yet, but kind of traditional for women

to do that. How? How?

I don't know if I know the how, but I do have that

ability to see something and say, wait a minute here,

this is big. And it really started, you know,

back in 1985, graduated from college

at the age of 19. I started my own software company

because I saw, of course, at that time that

technology was at the forefront. And

then, you know, hey, did technology and

software development for major, you know,

companies, lottery corporations, banks,

governments, all sorts of, all sorts of things were going on.

And then, of course, in 1992

in sneaks this talk of the information

superhighway, right? And then I was like, whoa, this is

next. I shifted my entire company to the internet in

1992. People didn't even know what it was yet, but

I was already developing websites, which I saw were

the new Yellow Pages. And so

it kind of flows like that. Then, of course, the social media

and then you know, all of the fax technology,

handheld technology, and then ultimately when we hit

ChatGPT. Unbelievable that you had—

I'm calling it a superpower because I believe that it is, that you can envision

the next thing. I just want to address one thing because most of

our audience is women. What kind— did you

have any kind of pushback playing the way you

were playing? At that time, as a

woman, at every pushback did you have from the boys? No

question. I will never forget, you know,

when I went into my first— I'll call it board meeting, right? I'm

attempting to sell major software systems

to companies way back in 1985. I'm

19. I look like I'm 12, and then

I'm a woman. Against 9 other men, uh, you

know, Ward Mallett, Dunwoody, Microsoft,

every major corporation was there. They would bring in like

3 men to stand there and pitch the board of

directors, which of course was, um, you know, 10 men

50 and up. I was an absolute

fish out of water, had no idea what I was doing.

I was just passionate about what I could do for them. And

that's, I think, part of, again, I'll call

it that superpower, is I can invoke something that these

men certainly could not. They had the facts, the figures, the thing, the

resumes, the backing, the billions. And I had, oh my

God, guys, you should see what this technology can do for you, right?

And oftentimes that was the piece that would

get me noticed and allow me to really

penetrate into the market. But at the time, not only were

those men against me, but often

board members were. We can't have this young kid. We don't know where she's

going. And honestly, that trend has continued

through my entire career, especially when I became a speaker on

the World Internet Summit with me and 15 other men. Wow.

Wow. So what was, um,

obviously your talent and your brainpower always has and

always will speak for itself. What was

the turning point and what gave you the, um,

the perseverance? Because that was like you said, you were out of

water. You weren't even feeling like you were swimming upstream. You weren't even in the

water. So what was it that gave you that,

the passion clearly, but the perseverance? Not to walk

away? Yeah, yeah, honestly,

again, it's a funny thing because there— I had

no plan B, right? That I started a company, I'm

19 years old, this is it, I'm an entrepreneur. Didn't even

know what that word meant till my college professor was the one that told me

I should be an entrepreneur. Um, and at that

point, it was, it was, you know, live, survive,

survive, survive. And I have survived every techno crash and

recession, depression, when other major

companies around me went down. And so

perseverance is one thing, spotting trends is another.

And I think it is always a belief and a faith

in that what I'm doing can always

help that person. And of course, I switched from

corporations to focus on women, particularly women

coaches, speakers, authors, to help them establish

themselves, because I truly believe we're at a forefront shift

where, of course, women are the power of the planet and we're the

ones I think that are going to really start to create

that shift in motion towards always playing for

the betterment of everyone. Yes. Yes. And I could not agree

with you more on that point that women have to

realize the position that I guess we've always been in, the hand that rocks

the cradle. Sort of a thing. But now I'm switching gears a little

bit. Do you have a moment in time where you

remember that being a woman was not

the factor anymore, that you were accepted as an equal, that you

became a go-to resource?

I would say that moment came more so in the

internet marketing arena when I was the only woman

with 15 men. You know, that's how I've spoken in 45

countries. On the World Internet Circuit

Summit, the highest level you could accomplish as a speaker in

that time. I did that for 5 years.

It was quite a moment because

that's where, yes, there was a lot of

men that were not for me. They saw me as competition,

which was absolutely ridiculous, but okay.

But really, it was the audience that kept me going. Because

there was women in that audience that were constantly

getting misguided, um, from flash, you

know, when I would be going out there and saying, look guys, here's the path.

It's why I wrote that book, 31 Days to Millionaire Marketing Miracles, way

back in 2006. It became the Bible of internet marketing

because it was the A to Z steps. Um, so I took away— I

put my programming logic because I graduated as a computer

programmer into the industry. And

at that point, people started to see me as a peer simply because

I was closing from the stage at the level that the men were. And

then all of a sudden I was like, whoa, okay, this girl can,

can walk the talk, right? So, you know, it's always good to

stand out. So as the only woman, you stood out.

People may have said for the wrong reason, the right reason, whatever, but you stood

out. You took you had the

attitude. And that's, well, you had to have

moxie to do that, a lot of courage. And you kind of made

yourself a little vulnerable, I would say, out there. Not a sign of

weakness, but a sign of strength and courage when you are able to

put that out there. So here we are all these years later, all of your

accomplishments later, do you find Is there

still that resistance, the gender resistance? Are you still

finding that to be out there? I, I'm

not seeing it now. And that could be me, right? Yes. Yes.

I'm like completely— I have put myself in a way,

in a category of one. Doesn't matter what's happening out

there. Doesn't matter what people think of me. Maybe that came with age and wisdom.

41 years in business of experience. And so I am now in that

position where I'm like, hey,

If you want my help, I'm here to give it. If

you don't, that's okay. You know, pick

who is right for you. And, you know, and

maybe that is really what, what has come

to light now. And then I want to pick up where you mentioned that vulnerability

point. Yeah. So massively, you

are massively vulnerable when you're stepping up and being

kind of a leader in an industry. It was always my mission to ensure

Women got on that stage. Women became prominent in

an industry that I was in, in the computer programming, in the software

arena. All of these bigger visions were

what was my driver in that it's not about me.

It's actually about the bigger picture. But being vulnerable in

that was constant. There were tears. There were

crashes. There were absolute moments. And then I've got to say,

how did I survive a lot of that? That came from my

husband and business partner for for 30 years who

was that support system, who was that person I could call. And I

would, you know, be absolutely devastated. And

he would say, no, don't worry, small blip, something

that, you know, and so it is important to have that

infrastructure if you can. Well, and I want to say on behalf of so many

women, thank you for bearing the labor pains

that birthed so much opportunity for so many

more. Truly, thank you.

So let's go back to your superpower.

What's coming? What are you seeing over the next

horizon, if you want to share it? Really,

I mean, obviously we're currently bombarded now

with AI technology, you know, the ChatGPT

concepts. As

fast as we were social media, as fast as we were

internet marketing in their days, right? This is now

at that thousandfold. So really what I see now

is a calibration and a better understanding on

how can businesses, how can we as a society

properly leverage AI technology, of course, for the good

and the betterment of our businesses, our company, customer service,

All of these things, I really feel we are now going to be

taking that time to digest and

settle on how can we make our

life easier. It was said back in the '70s when the computers were

coming out, our life is going to be so simple now. Computers are going to

help us, you know, get a great lifestyle. Instead, they've done

the reverse. And I think AI technology now is that

moment in time where we can have a 20-hour work week, we can

have a work-life balance, we can have at all. Wow.

A 20-hour work week. And it's funny, I just spoke to someone

over the weekend about that work-life balance theory.

Does it exist? Is it real? I think it definitely

impacts women so much more than men and trying to

balance everything. And when you're balancing, it's never like this. It's

still always kind of like this and prioritizing, which

women, I think, are so innately good at of

stepping away and reorganizing,

reprioritizing. So

ChatGPT, you know, I'm not a tech person.

I am so not a tech person. I mean, I still think when I turn

my computer on every morning, oh my gosh, did I just blow the fuses at

the Pentagon? You know, I think like I have that kind of power when I'm

touching buttons. So I don't. So how wonderful to know that there

are people like you who understand it.

The fear— I'll use that word, maybe a little bit of an

overstatement, but is— are you sensing a

fear that people have with

ChatGPT as one and all of its parallel

universe that it can be used for good,

of course, like everything can, but that it's taking away a human

touch in life and business?

I think it's less fear and more confusion where we are

right now. And I think that's

why we really need to catch up on the

educational element. And I'll say, like, the one thing I've done in

my company and the one thing I've done for my clients in particular

is I have created these things called GPTs. And they

have revolutionized all my programs

because what used to take, let's say, goals, setting goals, right? I

used to take a week out the week before January 1st

and we would set our goals in place. We would get our maps, we'd get

our marketing. I created a GPT that can do that in

15 minutes. And not only does it create your

goals, but it's flexible, which means it sets your year pattern,

it sets your month pattern, it sets your week pattern, it sets your

daily pattern. All the things you need to do to accomplish this big goal

that you have. But more importantly, if you're moving along

and you hit February and then all of a sudden you're not where you should,

it can now calibrate and readjust. I mean,

that's one GPT. I have GPTs that lead gen. I have

GPTs that create your, your premium offer.

GPTs that find your exact target market and create that

niche and create that brand and And I, I've

just been writing and coding these GPTs now like crazy

just to make someone else's business easier. So

it took one of my programs, Quantum Leap Legacy, which used to take about

2 to 3 months to get your offer organized, to

get all these things in place— 7 days. We've got it from

idea to 7 days launching because of

GPTs. Took all the work and all the grind away. And

that's the beautiful part that I absolutely love for

particularly, um, uh, businesses, is that

that's what we want to be leveraging it for. I don't care really— yeah,

great, it does emails, it does little marketing things, and, you know, tweak

stuff for you. No, this is about taking those

pieces that grind your time and keep you

stuck, overcoming those obstacles, moving it

to the side so you can focus on what you need to focus on, which

of course what you're master at getting on the

phone, having conversations, and enlightening somebody about

what it is that you can do for them, period. Wow. You

know what? You encapsulated— it's not fear,

and I said maybe that was an overstatement. It's confusion.

That, I think, is what a brilliant statement.

We don't know what we don't know until we find out we don't know. But

there's ways of finding out how to get past that You

create ChatGPTs? It's not ChatGPT, it's a

GPT, which is, um, taking the

engine of a ChatGPT, taking all of the

technology that I have around certain pieces that I've

had over 40 years, such as goals, such as creating

irresistible offers, you know, all of these elements, such as

finding your target market and creating like a mini

program where all you have to do is go into it and say,

okay, so here's what I want to do, here's what I want to

offer, how— boom, here's your target market, here's

where they reside, here's the offer you should be creating, here's the

price you should be setting. All that's done now.

OMG, it, it is, it

really is. I, I'm excited because it takes my programming background

and, and absolutely gives me the engine that I have been

dreaming of to expedite the results of my clients, which is

why everything I do now is called Quantum Leap. Because it takes you from here

to there without all the steps in between. Oh,

beautiful. And I just want to have more time to do other things than,

than just working. So I mentioned that women and I

think it's just built into our DNA of

switching gears and that can be a dangerous thing because

if you're trying that work-life balance and so many women working in the home

and dealing with the family and all the other issues of a household,

um, how important it really is to set those goals.

And if you deviate from them, that you have a way to help people

identify, okay, you know, off target, like our

Google Maps, you know, make a U-turn, come back and get back on the right

track. You can do that. I told you she had

superpowers. I just learned of another one. Oh my gosh,

that is, that is amazing. And I don't wanna sound surprised because

If it were coming from anybody but you, I might be, but coming from you,

Tracy Repchuk, I am so not surprised because you are always

ahead of the curve. You always have that vision,

sometimes a little scary for a non-tech person like myself.

But I wanna say to the audience, knowing Tracy for a number of years

now, the

trust that I have in this woman that

What she says is not woo-woo out there. It's real.

It's in Tracy's world right now, and she can deliver it to your

world. So all you have to do, like me,

is be smart enough to connect and say how, where, when.

We know the why. The why is very clear. And

connect and take— I'm almost

saying, should you lean back? Do you have like a super Do you have like

an S on that beautiful red top that you're wearing? This is a

superwoman with superpowers. We all need to take a,

um, I don't wanna say take advantage, but bring Tracy into your

life to make it easier and to accomplish more. Tracy, I know I

can talk to you, um, on so many things, not just

business, but family and our likes, because I've been blessed, as I

said, to know you for a while. I can't thank you enough. And I

can't urge the audience enough. All Tracy's

contact information is below.

Gift yourself the opportunity

to work with this visionary who is

ahead of the curve. You don't have to

learn everything she knows, 'cause that would be impossible. I don't have enough

time left to do that. Just let her become part of your life.

Let her become part of your goals, your plan,

and let Tracy help you move along so that you reach your goals.

It's really as simple as that, is it not, my friend? It is.

It's as simple as freegoalplan.com. And,

and, and really, you know, get started. Take that first step.

I want to repeat that: free goal, G-O-A-L

plan.com. Free goal

plan.com. We'll have it below. And,

um, I think you're gonna see a lot of activity going to free

goal plan.com. Tracy, as always, I thank you

so much for being the person that you are, for being so open

and willing to share your knowledge, your talents, well, your beliefs, your

experiences, your passions. That's what Bev talks Beb Talks is all about.

So I thank you. I thank you so very much. And to all of

our listeners, please go there, get to know Tracy, bring her into

your life, personal and professional. You will be glad

that you did, and I can vouch for that. And as we always

say at Beb Talks, may the best always be yet to come. And please

come to Beb Talks, share your story, share

your goals, Be a great light to

others and feel really good for having done that.

So until we talk again, as I said, may the best always be

yet to come. Tracy Repchuk, you are awesome, and

I thank you so much. Thank you, Beth. Have a blessed

day, all. Bye for now.