In this inspiring episode of The One Small Change Podcast, Yvonne McCoy sits down with Cece Schatz, an accomplished transitional and relationship coach, to explore how embracing imperfection and unexpected opportunities can ignite both personal and business transformation. Cece shares her journey of navigating a painful divorce, finding empowerment in community, and stepping into the world of podcasting and digital media. From overcoming fear and self-doubt to marketing strategies and the importance of authentic connections, Cece offers practical steps and uplifting encouragement for anyone ready to break out of their comfort zone, seize new opportunities, and find their path forward.
Guest Bio:
Cece Schatz, fondly known as the "Doyan of Relationship Building," is a divorce, dating, and life coach dedicated to helping others navigate transitional periods in life. As the founder of The New Streaming Network—home to Going Solo Media, Going Bold Media, and the WGSN-DB Going Solo Network internet radio station—Cece brings together an active community of individuals seeking growth, connection, and inspiration through live media and online groups. Her mission is to empower people to move forward after major life changes with confidence and authenticity.
Chapters:
00:00 "Small Changes, Big Transformations"
03:43 "Birth of Going Solo Network"
08:52 Embrace Imperfect Growth
12:42 Guidance on Quick Brand Development
14:08 "Finding Your Unique Marketing Approach"
20:02 Transitional Coach Offers Consultations
22:22 "Own the Mic" Book Announcement
23:52 "Balancing Personal and Professional Life"
27:52 "Rediscovering Innate Genius"
30:19 Embrace Change, Stay Curious
Quote from Guest:
“Don’t let fear hold you back. Be you. No matter what you do, be you and just go forward.”
Links:
Cece is offering a free 30-minute consultation—no strings attached. Whether you’re navigating a transition, growing a show, or wanting media insights from someone who’s been there, don’t miss this chance! Contact her at [email protected].
For more information, visit her website: https://www.goingsolomedia.com/.
Welcome to the one small change. I am thrilled to embark on this
Speaker:journey with you of exploration and transformation. And I'm your host,
Speaker:Yvonne McCoy, and I bring almost thirty years of entrepreneurial
Speaker:experience. And I have a passion for discovering growth through the power
Speaker:of seemingly law, seemingly small change. I can't talk
Speaker:today. And I can't tell you how excited I am that you're taking
Speaker:time out of your busy schedule to join me,
Speaker:for this this episode today. And this week, we are talking
Speaker:to the amazing Cece Schatz, and
Speaker:she's gonna share how a smaller unexpected decision
Speaker:or event sparked a remarkable transformation in
Speaker:both her personal and her business growth. Cece,
Speaker:I hope I do better stumbling over my words today, but I am so happy
Speaker:that you're here and that you've agreed to do this because you were doing some
Speaker:fascinating and interesting things. So tell my
Speaker:audience who you are and what you do and what was the small
Speaker:change that brought you to this place. Oh, thank you so much
Speaker:for having me on the show. It's just such a delight and an honor to
Speaker:be here. And again, my name is Cece Schatz. I've fondly called the
Speaker:Doyan of relationship building. And the reason being is I
Speaker:am a divorce dating and a life coach, a transitional type
Speaker:of coach. And I'm also the founder of the new streaming
Speaker:network, Com, which is the home of Going
Speaker:Solo Media and Going Bold Media and our wonderful
Speaker:radio station, WGSN DB Going Solo Network.
Speaker:So, yeah, I do a live I wear many hats, and, my
Speaker:life is nonstop, and I'm just loving it. Loving it.
Speaker:Well, the thing is, you know, in the quick conversation that we had
Speaker:before, you have got some amazing things that are going
Speaker:on. So so tell us a little bit about your story, and what was the
Speaker:the thing that changes your that changed your projection about what you
Speaker:were doing? Well, I think for me, the biggest thing was, of course, going through
Speaker:a really bad divorce. I went through a terrible divorce in back in
Speaker:o eight. And then as I was trying to create my
Speaker:journey, like, what the heck am I gonna do now and how am I gonna
Speaker:get through life? I, started I joined a divorce
Speaker:group, and it's a long story, so I'll make it try to make it short.
Speaker:But it really empowered me and really made a change in
Speaker:my life. And so it helped me to to kind of propel and move
Speaker:forward, and I wanted to help other people do the same thing. So I took
Speaker:I ended up taking over the group. I, I still have the group now. We're
Speaker:on Facebook. So if anyone wants to join it, you're welcome to do that. And
Speaker:then we also, I have a singles group now, which is singles wanna
Speaker:date, a travel group, which is going solo travelers.
Speaker:We're all on meetup.com. And if you can find the links on
Speaker:going solo network, which is my, my personal,
Speaker:website. But, I mean, it it just, like, all
Speaker:evolved. It kept evolving, going on. And I think the biggest thing is
Speaker:my friends really encouraged me to just keep taking steps
Speaker:forward. The door would open, And I used to finally say, oh, well, a
Speaker:door open, but I got to climb through the window. I've got to make my
Speaker:life harder, you know? So, so it's like, you know,
Speaker:make things very difficult. But I was very fortunate because I went on
Speaker:a show, my girlfriend's show, Connie,
Speaker:and, she does does tremendous work now. And she's got
Speaker:a, it was on victims to survivors. She's got a website
Speaker:helping victims, really become survivors. And,
Speaker:so I went on her show and I came out. They offered me, you know,
Speaker:a radio spot. And I thought, wow, I don't know if I can do this,
Speaker:but I just thought, you know, somebody's offering me it. They see something more within
Speaker:myself than I can see myself. So I'm going to try it, you know? So
Speaker:the first show I did, I thought I was going to pass out. And that
Speaker:was back in about probably 02/2009 or something like that.
Speaker:And, so then I did I did that show, and then it just progressed. It
Speaker:kept growing and growing, and I ended up being on TV and doing all
Speaker:kinds of things. And we had tried a a follower, and and then a
Speaker:friend said, you know, my my group said the divorce group
Speaker:said, you know, we'd like to listen to something in the middle of the night,
Speaker:you know, three when we can't sleep, there's nothing out there.
Speaker:And so a friend said, well, we can fix that up. So he started we
Speaker:started the WGSN DB going solo network, which
Speaker:stands for the, the West Coast Of Florida,
Speaker:and it's, going solo network. That's how the WGSN DB
Speaker:digital broadcasting. So there there are a couple of things that you've touched
Speaker:on already that I think is really important for,
Speaker:our audience. And, you know, since I'm a, you know, a women's business
Speaker:strategist, one of the things that is always important to me is
Speaker:the concept of finding your place, not
Speaker:the place that's been defined for you by society
Speaker:or your family or any of those things. And sometimes
Speaker:it takes a huge shake up to make that
Speaker:happen. I mean, I remember when I lost my job after fifteen
Speaker:years, and I went to the beach and some a
Speaker:marketer came by and said, what do you do? And I started crying and
Speaker:said, I do nothing. Oh my
Speaker:gosh. And it was like, wait. You know? Get yourself I
Speaker:mean, the poor kid. I felt so bad for him. But, you know, you you
Speaker:sometimes you need those wake up calls to or reevaluate.
Speaker:What I would say to people is don't wait for that to happen.
Speaker:You can do that for yourself. And I think as entrepreneurs, we
Speaker:constantly have to do that because the world is constantly
Speaker:changing, and you wanna stay relevant. So that's the first
Speaker:thing is give yourself the gift
Speaker:of saying, where is it that I wanna go? Not where
Speaker:is my family, you know, want me to go? Not where, you know,
Speaker:whatever. But where it where is it that I wanna go, and how can I
Speaker:have a bigger impact and stay relevant? So that's, you know, part of
Speaker:what I got out of out of what you're doing. And the second thing
Speaker:is you didn't say, you
Speaker:know, no. I can't do this because I'm not ready.
Speaker:You jumped in. And I think that's where opportunities
Speaker:happen. You know? You know? There's one person that I
Speaker:follow that says if somebody gives you a mic, you should always take it.
Speaker:Right? And so talk about that a little bit more, like, how
Speaker:people can get themselves ready or be more
Speaker:open to, you know, jumping on unexpected
Speaker:opportunities. Or Right. Because, you know, a
Speaker:lot of a lot of things that happen to me is just opportunities came
Speaker:across. Right? And I was just at the point in my life where I thought,
Speaker:you know what? I'm not looking back. I'm going forward. I'm going to, you
Speaker:know, you know, I think the biggest thing that holds us back is fear. And
Speaker:so I thought, you know what? I'm going to get over this fear. That's like
Speaker:ego. Right. So I'm just going to step forward and try it. And
Speaker:I have to admit, my very first show, I thought I was going to pass
Speaker:out. I mean, they had to take a break because they thought I was going
Speaker:to pass out. But now I do it so easily. I have no
Speaker:problem with it. But it's, you know, I think we just have to step out
Speaker:of ourselves a little bit, step out of the box a little bit and try
Speaker:something new if an opportunity is there for you. And don't
Speaker:wait to be perfect. I mean, you can see my background. I'm not perfect. I,
Speaker:you know, I have a little office here in the in the guest room. And
Speaker:I'm, you know, my my audience loves it. They don't care. They don't
Speaker:care because what they care about is the content that we we give
Speaker:them. And so, you know, as I was progressing on, I
Speaker:realized that no one was marketing my shows. No one was doing anything. I
Speaker:was paying, you know, good money for the shows, and they weren't being
Speaker:marketed. And I thought, I've got to get out there and and start marketing and
Speaker:doing other things. So I start putting myself all over the place. Right?
Speaker:And a lot of people said, oh, you're podcasting. You shouldn't do that. You should
Speaker:dress, drive them to your website. Don't don't put yourself out there. And I thought,
Speaker:well, I gotta go where they are. So I need to be where people are
Speaker:listening so they can get to know me, and then they'll wanna come to my
Speaker:website. They'll wanna come to our to our stuff. And so I
Speaker:started marketing, then I started talking to friends that were doing the same type of,
Speaker:you know, podcasting and TV shows and whatever, and they weren't
Speaker:really being marketed. So I thought, well, you know, let's join
Speaker:forces. And so that's how we came up with the new streaming. It
Speaker:started as going solo media. And, then
Speaker:I thought, well, we need to broaden it because we need more inspirational things. We
Speaker:need business. So then we started the going bold and then now we're
Speaker:bringing it all under under one roof, which is the new streaming
Speaker:network. But it all started with really thinking outside of
Speaker:the box and not being perfect. You know? You you have you
Speaker:have to just step forward in life. You can't wait and and
Speaker:make everything, you know, absolutely perfect. You just gotta go for it.
Speaker:But the thing that the the thing that I find interesting about that and the
Speaker:things that I tell my clients all the time is try something
Speaker:while you're still growing. Right? Because if you wait
Speaker:till you're well known and you try something and
Speaker:you're not good at it, well, if you try it when when nobody knows you,
Speaker:you nobody's gonna see it and you can make all those mistakes and then later
Speaker:on you'll be really good at it. So that's, you know, kind of my, you
Speaker:know, thought about that. But the other thing I think that you said
Speaker:that was so important is
Speaker:the not being perfect is the thing that makes you stand
Speaker:out, I think. Do you know? First of all, we always we we
Speaker:hated the perfect kid. It's always the one
Speaker:that was I know. Yeah. Yeah. And and so we I think people
Speaker:relate to you better when they realize that, you know,
Speaker:that you have some things that you stumble on. And I always say I
Speaker:always say, you know it's live because
Speaker:the mistakes I'm not cutting out the mistakes, and they are what they are.
Speaker:And that that's who I am. Right? And you don't if if you don't put
Speaker:yourself on a pedestal, you don't have to worry about getting knocked off.
Speaker:Right? Right. And so I always laugh when people go, oh, you know, you you're
Speaker:really showing up. It's like, yeah. It's taken you know, I'm like the fifteen year
Speaker:overnight success kind of thing. So so, you
Speaker:know, you just keep trying to do the things. So let me just
Speaker:ask you real fast. You were also talking about marketing.
Speaker:Mhmm. So, you know, I feel like you have to do the right thing that's
Speaker:right for you. Right? So talk about some of the things that you
Speaker:tried in marketing, how you said this, you know, was good, this
Speaker:wasn't good. And and and the very fact that
Speaker:you can't wait for somebody to market you. Marketing is
Speaker:an active kind of thing, and, you know, it's your
Speaker:responsibility. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I
Speaker:think like what you said, number one thing is to be authentic. Be who you
Speaker:are. And and then people will be drawn to you because
Speaker:they'll they'll be interested in what you have to say, what you look like because
Speaker:you look like them. Right? You're not somebody that's absolutely
Speaker:whatever. And so, you know, you're just like an everyday person, and
Speaker:so they're drawn to that. And I think the marketing goes it's just
Speaker:not be afraid to do certain things. I mean,
Speaker:there's there's elements within marketing that we need to do. Like, you know, we create
Speaker:a logo and, you know, we figure out our colors and maybe do a website
Speaker:or whatever. But the the reality is is do something
Speaker:because so many people think that it it's just going
Speaker:to come to you, and it's not gonna happen because you've
Speaker:gotta gotta continuously doing something. And the reason for that is
Speaker:that you're building up your own personal momentum.
Speaker:Right? And it's not really about the audience out
Speaker:there. It's about you yourself. It's the energy that you're
Speaker:giving off. And so when they do come to listen to you and if you've
Speaker:got that high frequency energy, they're gonna be
Speaker:drawn to you just naturally. And so you've got to continue
Speaker:continue to do stuff and just think out of the box and and be
Speaker:yourself, and, people will be drawn to that.
Speaker:And and and one of the things that I think is funny is,
Speaker:you know, if you think back on your life and think about when you were
Speaker:a kid, the thing that your parents told you not to
Speaker:do is probably the thing you should be doing.
Speaker:You know? Like, my family goes, you you know, you always fix
Speaker:things. You know? You're you you know, you wanna find the answer. You wanna get
Speaker:a solution. And that's true. I think of myself as, you
Speaker:know, I'm a strategist. I'm looking for strategies you can implement
Speaker:and get results. But when I was younger, people were like, stop, you know,
Speaker:stop telling me how to do this. Don't, you know, and that is
Speaker:my gift. My gift is how to get you from point A to point B
Speaker:as fast as possible, you know, and see see what you've
Speaker:got. So if you were if you were,
Speaker:you you know, you were talking about pick your brand, pick your logo, and stuff
Speaker:like that. The thing that I would say about that is
Speaker:I think that's important, but don't let it stop you. I
Speaker:mean, there are people who have had an immense amount of success without
Speaker:websites and, you know, whatever. But that was
Speaker:that was their thing. And so that's not
Speaker:for everybody, but it shouldn't keep you from starting. And
Speaker:sometimes the more you're out there, the more you get
Speaker:clarification on where to show up, how to show up,
Speaker:what you need to say, and it's it's evolving. So I always
Speaker:laugh because, one of the first podcasts I did
Speaker:was with somebody who was an image person.
Speaker:And she's like, oh my god. You should always wear red. And I'm
Speaker:like, you know, red is not really my first choice in color. I mean, I
Speaker:like red, but it's you know, I'm more of a burgundy person,
Speaker:because it leans towards the blue. And every time I wear red,
Speaker:everybody was like, oh my god. You really pop in red. And I'm like,
Speaker:oh, so maybe and now when I do my workshop,
Speaker:I have a slide. Because my thing is you don't need to be fixed. You
Speaker:need to be found. It's a slide with a bunch of white balls with one
Speaker:red one. And I wear a red top and I go see, see,
Speaker:See? So you find something that works for you that's fun. So alright. So
Speaker:you were such a vast you have got so much
Speaker:information. If you were going to talk about I'd like to
Speaker:kinda stay in the marketing a little bit if that's okay. If you were
Speaker:gonna talk about three things that people could do,
Speaker:three small things that people could do that would get
Speaker:them results that, you know, they don't have to, like, invent a
Speaker:program or a huge amount of content and that kind of stuff, what would you
Speaker:say to them? What would you tell them to do? Well,
Speaker:again, I I think the biggest thing is, like, don't be perfect. Don't
Speaker:invest in a lot of expensive equipment. You
Speaker:know, like, when you're doing a podcast or show like that,
Speaker:you know, you need decent equipment. Don't don't get me wrong, but you don't need
Speaker:to have the top of the line. I mean, the equipment I have is simple.
Speaker:It's, I didn't spend a great deal of money on it, and I've had it
Speaker:for a long time. And I've always think if it's not broken, don't fix it.
Speaker:And so it's coming across. It's doing the job and it's
Speaker:getting done. I again, I think the marketing thing
Speaker:is you want to not hold yourself back because we hold
Speaker:ourselves back. So you want to be able to move forward and
Speaker:and really start grabbing a hold of what technology has to
Speaker:offer. I mean, we've gone from I mean, I've been in this business for years.
Speaker:I've started with the radio, and I went all Internet based. So a lot of
Speaker:people said, oh, you need to go on regular television. You need to do all
Speaker:this stuff. But it was so expensive that I knew that I could not afford
Speaker:doing that. And if I did, it was going to just cripple me all the
Speaker:time. So I just stuck with the Internet route because I personally
Speaker:felt Internet's gonna be our future. This is technology. It's gonna be our
Speaker:future. And so we went from the radio to the podcast, and now we're going
Speaker:from the TV, and we're it's broadening. Even the TV
Speaker:is broadening further because there's more things that we're doing, like, within the
Speaker:TV range. And so you want to be able to
Speaker:grab a hold of some of those things and maybe possibly look
Speaker:at what you're doing because you wanna keep your your dollars
Speaker:down. So, you know, like our network, the new streaming network,
Speaker:we do so much and we're on like almost 60 some
Speaker:platforms now. We're doing what we call streaming, which
Speaker:is, kind of like what you see now, but they pick up our
Speaker:stream. So what we do is we do a live show, they pick up our
Speaker:stream and it streams on out. The only disadvantage that has to
Speaker:me is that I can't give you the stats on it, but I figure, like,
Speaker:what the heck, man? If I can get myself on, you
Speaker:know, three or four different TV stations and they're picking up my
Speaker:stream and going live with me, I'm not going to worry about the stats.
Speaker:I mean, I'm just going to get out there. Right? And so I've been
Speaker:that's funny. I'll go to a meeting, I'll go to someone, they go, oh, yeah,
Speaker:we've seen you. We heard all about you. It's like, thank
Speaker:you very much. I really. That's right.
Speaker:I want to be a thorn. So yeah. I think the thing
Speaker:that that we, as entrepreneurs,
Speaker:have a struggle with, okay, at least I
Speaker:did, is that it is taking people longer
Speaker:to engage. You know, it used to be, like, seven times or something.
Speaker:Now it's, like, 12. Mhmm. It also is
Speaker:we were not taught to toot our own horn. So the idea that
Speaker:you would put something out or post something out and say, come to my
Speaker:workshop, come to my workshop, come to my do you know? It's like, oh my
Speaker:god. These people are gonna be so but I think that if whatever you're
Speaker:doing, you probably could still do more. And that's a really
Speaker:uncomfortable place. So that's why it's so good to be on, I think, a lot
Speaker:of different platforms because you don't know who you're gonna
Speaker:see. But I think, again, you need to do it in your own way.
Speaker:So for instance, I do my newsletter, and I take the same thing and put
Speaker:it in LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram. It's not the Facebook
Speaker:format. It's not the Instagram format, but that's me. If I
Speaker:couldn't do it that way, I probably wouldn't do it at all. I wouldn't spend
Speaker:the time doing it. Do you know? And so I think
Speaker:that you what what you're a great
Speaker:example of is that you have something to share, and you're making it
Speaker:widely available. And you need to do that.
Speaker:And within that wide reach, you're still being very specific
Speaker:Mhmm. About the audit. You know? So you've got the travel you know, the the
Speaker:singles kind of theme, the thread that goes
Speaker:through it. Right? So you're like travel as you're single,
Speaker:what you're doing after divorce, meet you know, meetups, and those
Speaker:kind of thing. So it has the same similar theme, and yet there
Speaker:are lots of different ways to enter your world. Mhmm.
Speaker:Mhmm. Absolutely. Yeah. I I think that's that's the key
Speaker:is to really get yourself out there and and do a lot of different things
Speaker:and also get your get yourself on. Like, for
Speaker:instance, if you have a podcast or you have something like that, it's important to
Speaker:have guests like you're having me on. Right. Because you're not only
Speaker:going then I'm going to be capturing your audience and you're going to be
Speaker:capturing my audience listening and saying, oh,
Speaker:yeah, let's see what she did. You know, who is this lady? You know, let's
Speaker:let's see a little bit more about that. So it's important to have guests on
Speaker:your shows and for you to be a guest. Right. And
Speaker:so a lot of, individuals don't necessarily do that when they're when you're
Speaker:coming to marketing, they don't, get on other
Speaker:people's shows, and they really should get on them and then have
Speaker:them come on their show and talk about a particular
Speaker:topic. So
Speaker:we talked about some simple steps people can take. Mhmm.
Speaker:Right? So tell us about your freebie and what the best way is to
Speaker:use that. Well, if anybody wants to contact me,
Speaker:I usually give a thirty minute consultation. We can talk about really
Speaker:anything that you're that you're struggling with because I am a
Speaker:transitional coach. And then, also, you know, I do the divorce
Speaker:dating. And then, and I'm really,
Speaker:immersed, I think, into the media now. And so, so if
Speaker:you've got a podcast or you have a, you know, a platform or something like
Speaker:that that you maybe feel like you're a little bit stuck or you wanna do
Speaker:something different, I'd love to be able to talk to someone. We have
Speaker:various different shows. You know, on our platform, we have at least, I
Speaker:think, anywhere from 15 to 18 shows per week we're doing
Speaker:now, and, and we'd like to grow that. So, yeah, so
Speaker:we'd love to be able to have you on board if you wanna talk about
Speaker:it. But, yeah, I don't charge for consultation. So if you wanna,
Speaker:contact me, you can just go to
Speaker:[email protected]. That's my,
Speaker:email, and just reach out to me and say you wanna chat, and I'm I'm
Speaker:happy to, to book a time with you and to do that. And I
Speaker:think in the show notes, we're gonna have my calendar so people can
Speaker:actually, book it through the calendar if they want. But, yeah, I would love to
Speaker:be able to talk to people and and help you in any way any way
Speaker:you need it. And and I just wanna remind people
Speaker:that the gift of somebody else's time
Speaker:is priceless, and it can be so helpful,
Speaker:bringing a totally different perspective to you. And it's not
Speaker:something that you necessarily have to be ready for. I
Speaker:mean, I I can't tell you how many people go, I'm I'm not ready. You
Speaker:know? Well, the point is that you're never gonna get ready unless you get some
Speaker:insight to get move you from where you are. And so, you
Speaker:know, Cece has got the most amazing experiences. She
Speaker:knows stuff. She knows people. She's in
Speaker:it for the transition, whatever transition you're struggling with.
Speaker:So I can't imagine that you could actually finish up in
Speaker:thirty minutes with all the possibilities, and you would
Speaker:be really short changing yourself not to take
Speaker:advantage of this. So it is a fantastic gift, and
Speaker:I would encourage everybody to take advantage of it.
Speaker:So let me ask you this. When was the
Speaker:last time you did something new for the first time?
Speaker:Well, we were talking about that prior to the show, and I wanted to share
Speaker:with the audience that I have written a book. And it's called Own the
Speaker:Mic, Stop Step Into the Spotlight, Launch Your
Speaker:Show of Your Dreams. So that's my first book that I have
Speaker:solely written. I'm gonna create a whole series, the news
Speaker:streaming network create creator series, and you can get it on
Speaker:Amazon. So the Kindle book, is already out there and the paperback
Speaker:book is out there. So if you wanna, purchase the book, I would be
Speaker:honored to have you, you know, purchase book and then maybe give
Speaker:me a review, you know, if you'd like, I I would love that.
Speaker:And so I think that's, you know, probably one of the things I've kind of
Speaker:put myself out there because I haven't, you know, really done something
Speaker:like that before. Then the other thing is I think we have
Speaker:to have a balance between, you know, personal life and business.
Speaker:Right? And so I do a lot of things in my community, like the
Speaker:dating stuff and the and the divorce stuff, and I have a
Speaker:great great group of friends. And so this week, oh, we went to the beach
Speaker:for the first time. So we, we dipped our toes in the water,
Speaker:which was a little chilly for Florida, but we enjoyed it. It was still
Speaker:okay. But we had a great time sitting out there, and then we went to
Speaker:lunch and and just had a wonderful, wonderful time. So I
Speaker:think you do have to create a balance for yourself. And,
Speaker:yeah, and that's not always easy to do when you have your own business, you
Speaker:know, to be able to stop and and smell the roses, so to speak. But,
Speaker:yeah, we have to do that. Well, I always say I always say,
Speaker:you know, you can't divide your personal and your professional because you're one
Speaker:person, right, unless you wanna be, like, psycho. But it's kinda
Speaker:like a water bed. Do you know? It's like it's
Speaker:about you're keeping the container, but the water
Speaker:is going in different places. This is just shows you how old I am. How
Speaker:long has it been someone who's had water beds? But anyway but the
Speaker:thing is is, you know, there are times when you're gonna put more time into
Speaker:your business, more time you know, and you need to you need to plan for
Speaker:your your vacation and and personal time for sure. I
Speaker:mean, I would say to anybody, when I talk to them about blocking out their
Speaker:calendar, I go put your personal time in there first. Because
Speaker:otherwise, your business time is just gonna, you know, expand. And I
Speaker:did the same thing. I, you know, I I was telling you that I I
Speaker:have a a a chocolate lab. And, you know,
Speaker:we've always had labs, and when the idea was we're water people, let's get them
Speaker:to work, and we never do. So I we I actually said to my husband
Speaker:on Saturday, we're going to the beach on Sunday, you know, because the
Speaker:cutoff for dogs was at the end of the month. So, yes, do
Speaker:something and you, you know, you come back. When you do when you
Speaker:spend time in your personal life, I think you come back to your business
Speaker:life more energized and more focused and more
Speaker:grounded. Because isn't that why you're one of the reasons you're doing your business? It's
Speaker:it's to help people and have an impact. But it's also to have a great
Speaker:life and to feel, you know, that you're doing something.
Speaker:Yeah. And I like the idea of trying to do something new. You know,
Speaker:like, if you take, like, every week, try to do something new, something different you
Speaker:haven't done before. Right? And, I have a good friend, Joanne
Speaker:Wylan, which I know that you know, and lovely. And
Speaker:she she what she does is when she goes somewhere, like
Speaker:goes to a meeting, she'll she'll do her GPS thing or whatever,
Speaker:and she goes one way, but she never comes back the same
Speaker:way. She always comes back a different way. And I thought I
Speaker:thought, man, that is so smart because, you know, she's really
Speaker:she's doing a different experience. She's having a different experience each time she
Speaker:does something. So it's like, do something a little bit different. Shake it up.
Speaker:Get out of the box. You know? It doesn't have to be huge. Mhmm.
Speaker:It's a mindset. And and I laugh at that because I read a
Speaker:book years ago, and one of the things was the rule of rigidity. It's like,
Speaker:if we did it this way, we always do it this way. And I
Speaker:realized how stuck I was like that.
Speaker:That if I drove, I always drove in the same lane. I always
Speaker:moved over the and so I started doing the same thing. It was
Speaker:like, I would try to make sure that I didn't turn at the
Speaker:same place that I turned someplace just to see what there was.
Speaker:Do you know? So I you know, I could say I'm an explorer, even
Speaker:though I might only be, like, a block off where I normally was. You know?
Speaker:But it's a it's it's a mindset, and I think that is the
Speaker:thing in terms of getting out there is that you just have to,
Speaker:you know, kinda have that, I'm an explorer. What can I find? What's
Speaker:great? What can I share with other people about the the journey that I'm
Speaker:on? Yeah.
Speaker:This is I I I feel like we could just keep going and going, but
Speaker:we can't. I'm sure we could. It's like it's like when you when you talked
Speaker:about I mean, I can have funny stories too, but when you talked about, like,
Speaker:when you were young, and I remember I I've shared this story on on other
Speaker:places, but, my mother always said, you know, you just got such a
Speaker:gift for GAP, right? Why do you you know, you're because I got in trouble
Speaker:in school, right? And she goes, Why? Why do you talk? Why you talk all
Speaker:the time? You have to stop talking all the time. What are you going to
Speaker:do for the rest of your life if all you do is talk? And here
Speaker:I am, a talk show host. Yeah. So, mom,
Speaker:what can I tell you? Look at me now, mom.
Speaker:Yeah. See, I'm sure you're up above in heaven. She is laughing about it.
Speaker:But yeah. But it is true. So you were right. You know, when
Speaker:when you're young, sometimes you do kinda know your path. Yeah. So
Speaker:you have to You know, you can I you know, I see the I see
Speaker:the pattern? You know, once I've, like, kind of identified what
Speaker:I'm good at, I see the pattern, you know, of where I did
Speaker:that in my in my whole life and and so many times was discouraged
Speaker:not to do it. And I think that's the thing that is
Speaker:very sad because, you know,
Speaker:my favorite saying is Bookmaster Fuller, who says we were all born
Speaker:geniuses and then it's educated out of us. And that's true. You
Speaker:you you know, you're taught to, you know, to act a certain way and to
Speaker:speak a certain way and to do you know, that kind of thing. Anyway,
Speaker:we're running out of time. I gotta I gotta stick it in in the commercial.
Speaker:And so I would hope that those of you that are listening here will,
Speaker:subscribe and share this and engage with the podcast on social
Speaker:media. And one of the reasons I did this is I wanted
Speaker:to do something vibrant for my community.
Speaker:I wanted to give back so that you could have some additional
Speaker:information and meet new people so that you can grow your impact and
Speaker:grow your business. So I hope that you will continue to join me on the
Speaker:one small change. And on this journey that we're going on, I
Speaker:hope that if you haven't seen it yet, I have, my first episode
Speaker:explains why I'm doing this. And I've also started doing because I like
Speaker:to talk. I also started doing the quarterly clarity
Speaker:check-in, which is just me talking about things that you should look at
Speaker:as we go into the new quarter, whatever that quarter happens to be.
Speaker:So so, Cece, give me some words of wisdom. What's your last
Speaker:parting word for us? Well, I think the biggest thing
Speaker:is, like, don't let fear hold you back. You know, be
Speaker:you. No matter what you do, be you and and just go
Speaker:forward. Just, you know, if you've got an idea that you
Speaker:wanna do something, do it because that is that that
Speaker:is like the universe telling you that you've got to get out there and do
Speaker:that. So don't hesitate. Don't make it perfect. Don't think you have to
Speaker:have all the proper equipment. Just do whatever it is
Speaker:that's telling you to do it. If you need to change jobs, if you need
Speaker:to whatever you need to do, you know, and, you know,
Speaker:and get a circle of friends or get a circle of peers
Speaker:that you can lean on and go to. Because I'm I'm here
Speaker:today simply because of those people that said kept pushing you and say,
Speaker:yeah. Yeah. You can do this. You can do this. You could just go try
Speaker:it. Go try it. So yeah. So don't let fear hold you
Speaker:back. Absolutely. Absolutely. So that's
Speaker:it for this episode. And as always remember, the
Speaker:change is simple, but it's not always easy. And it requires that you
Speaker:step out of your comfort zone and you have to have a willingness to be
Speaker:able to pick yourself up if it doesn't work. And that is part
Speaker:of the journey when you learn things. So I hope you will
Speaker:stay tuned and come in next time. Until then, stay
Speaker:curious, everybody.