Tara Bryan:
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome to season three of The
Scalable Expert® Podcast, the show
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for established expert business owners
who are maxed out on time and ready to
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find the scalable impact of their work.
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I'm your host, Tara Bryan, founder
of The Scalable Expert® and creator
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of the INFINITE SCALE™ Method.
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If you've built a business around
your expertise but feel stuck
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in the time for money trap, this
podcast is your path forward.
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Each week I'll share stories and
strategies and shifts to help you
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step into a new scalable business
model by declaring your authority,
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packaging your expert framework, and
streamlining your offers and systems
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to ultimately become a scalable expert.
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Because it's not about working
harder, it's about building smarter.
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All you need is one signature
expert framework, and you can
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deliver an infinite amount of ways
to be able to scale your business.
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All right.
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Let's get started.
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Welcome to the Scalable Expert Podcast.
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I'm thrilled that you're here.
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I wanna talk about two different
groups of people today.
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The first group tried to build a scalable
program and burned out delivering it.
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They did the work, the content, the
platform, the launch, the cohort, the
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whole bit, and the delivery was more
exhausting than one-on-one ever was.
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It made no sense.
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The second group has watched someone
with a fraction of their experience
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launch a program at a price point
that they have not reached and
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completely fill it, deliver it,
without the delivery consuming them.
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And the thought that usually
happens, in both cases, that you
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may have had is, what's missing?
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What do they have that I don't?
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Today, I'm gonna tell you exactly what it
is, and it's not probably what you think.
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So let me start with an illustrated story.
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Sarah built a program that burned her out.
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The content was great, the customers
were getting results, the methodology
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was working, and yet she was
exhausted in a way that did not make
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sense for what she was delivering.
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She felt a little ashamed and
a little confused, and she
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should be able to do this.
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Other people were doing this.
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She had built a business.
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She thought, "What is wrong with me?
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Am I not cut out for this model?"
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So she went out to learn
from other experts.
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Their explanation: just create better
systems, better automation, better
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AI, better tech, build a better team.
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But what happened when she tried those
was the exhaustion just shifted forms.
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The private question no one usually
says out loud that I'm going to is,
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"What do they have that I don't?"
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Here's what I want you to hear
before I give you the answer.
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If this has been your experience,
the program that burned
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you out was not a failure.
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The burnout was not a character flaw.
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The comparison you felt watching
someone else succeed is not
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evidence that you're behind.
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All three of those experiences
are symptoms of the same thing.
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A sequence that the entire industry
teaches in the wrong order.
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And once you see the right order,
the burnout makes complete sense.
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It's built into the design, not into your
skill level as an expert business owner.
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When content comes before the
journey design, the content covers
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topics, but the journey is undefined.
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And an undefined journey has
to be filled in by something.
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That something is typically the expert.
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Every session, the delivery burns out
because you're not just delivering
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content, you're being the connector
between the content sessions and
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the design that was not built in.
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You are filling the gap between what
the module covers and the customer,
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what the customer needs to experience to
actually get the transformation in real
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time, every week for every customer.
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This is the real work that is exhausting.
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Not the delivery, the improvised journey
management that the design left up to you.
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And the other person who delivered
it without burning out, they
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did not have more expertise,
they had a different sequence.
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They delivered the journey
before they built the content.
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So the content served as a design
experience rather than becoming
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the experience by default.
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The sequence is the whole strategy.
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Build content first,
and you scale an expert.
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Design the journey first, and you
build a scalable expert business.
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So as you look at the dream of delivering
a program that creates transformation
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for many customers at once at a price
point that reflects your expertise
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without burning out in the delivery,
just believe that it is achievable.
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It is what the scalable delivery
system within the INFINITE SCALE
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Method, which is steps four through
six, is designed to produce.
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That sequence that produced
the burnout was wrong, not
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the vision or the execution.
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The goal is to become an expert who
gets to be present for the moments in
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the delivery that genuinely require
judgment, expertise, and relationship.
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Not being present for every
operational moment because the
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design left those moments undefined.
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You do not burn out because
you're not built for this.
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You burned out because the
design required you to build the
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plane while you were flying it.
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That is a design problem, and design
problems have design solutions.
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That's why step four of the
INFINITE SCALE™ Method is
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called the signature pathway.
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Design the complete customer journey
before creating a single piece of content.
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A signature pathway is not a curriculum,
it's not a module list, it's a
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designed experience of transformation.
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What does the customer have
at the end of each stage?
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What problem does each stage resolve?
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What happens when the customer
gets stuck at each point?
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When the journey is designed first,
the content serves the journey.
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Every piece of content has a
specific job in a specific moment
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of the customer's experience.
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The expert is not improvising
the journey in real time.
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The journey already exists.
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This is why the expert presence
by choice becomes possible.
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Once the journey is designed,
the content serves it.
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The expert shows up for the moments
that require expertise, not the
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moments that the design left blank.
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Once you have created your
signature pathway, it's time to
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test it with a proof of concept.
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The question this answers is
whether or not the pathway can
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get results for real humans.
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That is why step five
is the beta blueprint.
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Before building any delivery
infrastructure, we run the signature
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pathway live with a small group of
right-fit customers at a beta rate.
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What the beta reveals that planning
cannot is where customers actually stall,
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which moments produce the shift, and
what needs to be added or removed before
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the infrastructure is built around it.
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The beta blueprint produces two things.
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One, real customer results that
prove the journey works, and a
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refined signature pathway the
scalable delivery system is built on.
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Not theory, but proof.
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And then you're ready for step six,
which is actually designing the
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scalable delivery platform so you
can consistently deliver scalable
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engagement, the delivery architecture
between the done for you and on demand.
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Customers move through a designed
journey, the expert is present for
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the moments that require judgment
and expertise, and the business
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creates transformation in the rest.
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That is the exact presence
by choice in practice.
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Not the expert disappearing, the
expert remaining exactly where the
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expertise creates the most value
and the business does the rest.
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All right, so there you have it.
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Steps four through six in
the INFINITE SCALE method.
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How can you start to apply
this in your business?
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