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Do you have lots of online course ideas but you don't know where to start? This episode is for you. Zanny gives us her simple steps to creating an online course. We also discuss the challenges busy moms face in balancing our ambitions with being present for our kids
This episode isn’t just about empowering you in online course creation—it’s a message to mom entrepreneurs about remembering your worth and the value you bring to your family and the world.
About Zanny
Zanny is a wife, mom of 2 amazing babies under 5, lover of Jesus and a Christian Life and Business Coach. After starting her online business in 2017 and having various offers that supports women, she now helps other moms to package their unique gifts and skills into their own online course for passive income and time freedom without feeling overwhelmed, using complicated ads or technology drama.
Using platforms such as Mailerlite and Thinkific you can create your course with ease in 6 weeks or less with her programs.
Born and raised on the beautiful Caribbean island St. Vincent and the Grenadines, she now lives in the UK. She loves traveling and going on adventures with my family, cooking healthy fun meals, eating and cake and serving the Lord.
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You are now tuned in to the mom CEO suite podcast.
Speaker:I'm your host, Felicia, wife, mom and
Speaker:entrepreneur. In this podcast, I'll be sharing my mompreneur
Speaker:journey along with strategies that will help you build your online
Speaker:business operations in a sustainable way. The goal is
Speaker:to help you build a business that fits into your lifestyle as a mom who
Speaker:values putting family first. We will also hear the
Speaker:experiences and expertise of other moms with service
Speaker:based businesses. You'll get a peek into our journeys, so you'll
Speaker:know that you aren't alone. Motherhood gets hard.
Speaker:Entrepreneurship gets hard. But together, we can
Speaker:do hard things. Welcome to The Suite.
Speaker:Hey friends, today our guest is Zanny Byron Davis.
Speaker:She is a wife, mom of two amazing babies under five,
Speaker:lover of Jesus and a Christian life in business woman.
Speaker:After starting her online business in
Speaker:2017 and having various offers that supports
Speaker:women, she now helps other moms to package their unique
Speaker:gifts and skills into their own online course for
Speaker:passive income and time freedom without feeling
Speaker:overwhelmed using complicated ads Or
Speaker:technology drama using platforms such as
Speaker:MailerLite and Thinkific, you can create your course with ease
Speaker:in six weeks or less with her programs. She
Speaker:was born and raised on the beautiful Caribbean Island, St. Vincent and the
Speaker:Grenadines. And she now lives in the UK.
Speaker:She loves to travel, going on adventures with her family, cooking
Speaker:healthy, fun meals, eating good food. Eating cake and serving the
Speaker:Lord. I absolutely love that. Zannie, how are you? Welcome to the
Speaker:suite. I am doing really well. Thank you so much. I'm listening to
Speaker:you read that. I'm going like, Oh, really? I love
Speaker:it. always like that Yes.
Speaker:But It always sounds so
Speaker:great. thank you
Speaker:so much. I'm happy to be here. I'm really happy to have this conversation with
Speaker:you. I think it's really needed and yeah, let's get into
Speaker:it. Yes, I'm so excited. So before we get into all the course
Speaker:creation stuff, let's talk a little bit more about you, your
Speaker:business specifically, um, how you help people create their
Speaker:courses and also just more about who you are as a person. Let us
Speaker:know. Absolutely. So as you heard there, I'm not going to recap
Speaker:the whole bio, but yes, I started in the online space since 2017.
Speaker:And you know, when I started at that time, to be fair, there weren't a
Speaker:lot of people doing coaching and courses, I remember.
Speaker:I'm a military partner, so my husband's military, um, with the
Speaker:British forces. And I was in, so we lived in Germany and
Speaker:we then moved to Cyprus. And so this was in 2017 when
Speaker:I was working a 9 to 5 in Cyprus that I came
Speaker:across the idea of coaching and courses in the online space and I had
Speaker:so much free time. My husband is like one of these type A's, just always
Speaker:working, always out and I always had free time. I didn't have kids at the
Speaker:time. And so I started blogging and at the time
Speaker:I, I just heard God say, you know, so one day I read treasures, my
Speaker:relationship with God and hearing from him. And one time I was like praying and
Speaker:asking God like I have so much free time I need to you know Like
Speaker:we could be in one of those states where you want to be more productive
Speaker:and do stuff So I used to do baking I used to do all of
Speaker:these things And God said to me You know, I have a degree, I
Speaker:have a degree in international tourism management. I also was a travel
Speaker:agent and, um, I travel quite a lot. And regardless,
Speaker:like, use what you already have. Like, you don't have to go out there and
Speaker:do anything different. You can use whatever you have. So I started blogging. I remember
Speaker:getting that paid, um, opportunity to be published in the
Speaker:Condé Nast. So, you know, I started out really good, you know,
Speaker:talking travel and just really helping women to be more confident with their
Speaker:travels and traveling on a budget and all of that. So when I
Speaker:transited into coaching, because when I saw this thing online about you actually
Speaker:helping other women, I was like, I want to do that. I really want to
Speaker:do that. I had such a desire to do that. And so my first business
Speaker:coach helped me to package data games. I became a travel life coach to
Speaker:begin with. So I was helping women, coaching them through travel, and I loved
Speaker:every minute of it. Right, but then I became a mom and that's a
Speaker:whole different transition, you know in 2000 2019 I
Speaker:gave birth to my daughter and it was a journey in faith because we know
Speaker:we were trying for a long time There's a bit of I don't want to
Speaker:say fertility issues But it was a long delay and I was really trusting god
Speaker:and my partner and I were really trusting god for this child and You know
Speaker:when it did come when we did get pregnant and stuff Then I had these
Speaker:huge fears around childbirth and I was so worried about giving
Speaker:birth I think a lot of first time moms go through that and i'm all
Speaker:about the natural I know I don't like I don't like surgeries and all of
Speaker:these things. And I remember praying and the way I came across this
Speaker:technique called hypnobirthing, it was truly God. It's like a friend mentioned it
Speaker:to me before I was pregnant and I moved to the UK and then the
Speaker:midwife mentioned it again without knowing I knew anything about
Speaker:hypnobirthing. God, this is a sign from you. So I did the hip
Speaker:deberthing program and I gave birth within my daughter within three
Speaker:hours naturally. And I was like, God, that was the most miraculous thing that ever
Speaker:happened to me. I was so amazed with it. And it was so fast forward.
Speaker:I then became a practitioner. I hit the button practitioner from there. And
Speaker:then obviously as I was doing that, I felt called to just really go
Speaker:back to that life coaching aspect. And then I've done
Speaker:businesses related to my unique gifts and talents. And so that's how I've
Speaker:come to become a business coach and where I help now with course
Speaker:creations. I love
Speaker:that story. And you know, I always like hearing people's journey because
Speaker:it's never linear, right? It's always a bunch of different
Speaker:experiences, whether it's up or down, but they all.
Speaker:work together to get you to where you are now. And I love that you
Speaker:said, you know, when you asked God what you should be doing, he said,
Speaker:use what you have. Right. And I think a lot of times we just try
Speaker:to get another certification or, join a course
Speaker:or try to go back to school, whatever it is we're trying to do, or
Speaker:give, give ourselves excuses or reasons for not
Speaker:starting. But we literally have all that we
Speaker:need to start, right? You might need something else as you go
Speaker:along, but you have all you need in your hands right now to start.
Speaker:so I love that you said that. Now you started talking about your
Speaker:daughter and you had your first child in 2019. And
Speaker:I know you have a second one now. So
Speaker:your motherhood journey, um, are you
Speaker:loving right now in this season of motherhood? Oh my goodness. You
Speaker:know, from even before I got pregnant, I always knew that I want
Speaker:to be a stay at home mom and I want to be present for my
Speaker:children. And that's one of the desire for me. for a long time. And as
Speaker:you mentioned, I, we are blessed with a little boy. He's going
Speaker:on three months. He is the sweetest little thing. And the thing is with
Speaker:this one as well, with this birth, it's, this is the thing. God just blows
Speaker:all mine sometime. Like I didn't have the lovely experience in the
Speaker:sense of hitting the birth in with him, which I really tried to do, but
Speaker:he was breached. And so we ended up having to do a C section. And
Speaker:I was so worried about that C section, but I just, went back again to
Speaker:faith, like just kept trusting God. And even though we did the C section, it
Speaker:was nothing as expected. It was so seamless. It was so easy. And
Speaker:I kind of just heard God say like, you know, sometimes we just need to
Speaker:have the different experiences, not always going to be the way that we want it
Speaker:to. But it's always going to be the way that he wants it to, you
Speaker:know? And so as a mother, I really just value being there for
Speaker:my kids. I said to people like, you know, sometimes you could, as moms, especially
Speaker:I have a five year old and she's such an energizer for me and everything,
Speaker:mommy, mommy, mommy this, mommy that, you know, sometimes I go like. If I hear
Speaker:mommy one more time, but I love it so much. I love it. The
Speaker:fact that she comes to me and she needs my help and she needs me.
Speaker:I'm a little boy. Now is in the stage that when I walk into the
Speaker:room with his dad, he just lights up and he just wasn't to laugh when
Speaker:he sees me. And it's just these little moments. I just love being present for
Speaker:them. Because I realized that time goes by so fast and I'm going to be
Speaker:looking back and going like, Oh, I don't want to be in that state where
Speaker:they're young and I'm rushing it. You know what I mean? I said to her
Speaker:friend, I don't want to be rushing this stage. And I'm looking back and going,
Speaker:If I could be there when they were five and two and just be present,
Speaker:you know, so it's just that I just love it Yeah,
Speaker:I resonate with that a lot. And I think a lot of people listening as
Speaker:well, just having the privilege, um, to be able
Speaker:to be in a position to be present with your children. Sometimes
Speaker:people, their circumstances may not allow that, and it may be a desire for
Speaker:them, but to have the desire and also the privilege. Through
Speaker:entrepreneurship to be able to do that. It's definitely something
Speaker:that, you know, I resonate with and just don't take
Speaker:lightly at all because like you said, they grow up so fast and it is
Speaker:challenging because my two they're home with me. I have a 3 year old. Well,
Speaker:she'll be 3 next month. Um. She's three and I have an eight month old
Speaker:Oh, wow Love
Speaker:it so I get it, you know, she's very active
Speaker:now and the little ones, he's starting to crawl everywhere and go up the steps
Speaker:and it can be a lot, but like you said, you, you're always
Speaker:reminded like this time goes by fast and just being
Speaker:able to be there with them and not miss out on these moments. It
Speaker:is such a blessing. So I definitely, And not only that I want to add
Speaker:to that like being present doesn't just mean like actually physically being there It's being
Speaker:mentally present right and that's exactly why I started with the
Speaker:Courses with passive income, and we're going to that, of course, because the thing is,
Speaker:even as entrepreneurs as humans, right? We are with our kids, but we're
Speaker:thinking, Oh, I need to do this. I need to do that. And so I,
Speaker:when I'm like in that moment where I'm thinking I have a long list of
Speaker:to do list, I'm like, no, I want to be present right here in
Speaker:this moment. Acknowledging that they're here and being
Speaker:involved and not let my mind go wandering. So that is super important
Speaker:as well. yes, that's, I'm glad you made
Speaker:that, that distinction there, because like you say, you can
Speaker:be there physically, but not totally be there, or you can be there and trying
Speaker:to get work done and they're just kind of around and don't have your
Speaker:attention is one of the reasons why I literally just stopped
Speaker:trying to do work while they were around. Because. It was just causing
Speaker:too much frustration. And then they were also not getting the attention that they
Speaker:needed. So, I'm glad you pointed that out. But since you started
Speaker:mentioning the course creation, let's, let's get into that now.
Speaker:what have been some of the biggest mistakes that you've seen
Speaker:when people are actually trying to create their courses?
Speaker:Yeah. So firstly, even before we got to, we get to that, like when
Speaker:I created my first course, I remember that I had that desire from
Speaker:since 2017. I had that desire to create a course, but
Speaker:just starting out, I, you know, I think I get in my, got into my
Speaker:head. Like, I think a lot of us moms at the time I wasn't a
Speaker:mom, but a lot of us people, women, we go through this, right? I don't
Speaker:even know where to start. Start I feel so overwhelmed. You don't know how to
Speaker:even get started to do what to do, what to do. Right. And so
Speaker:this was just after the pandemic. I remember God putting it in my heart
Speaker:again. I think this was 2022, if I'm correct, um, create a
Speaker:course. And I was like, I don't know, like, what am I going to
Speaker:create a course on, you know, at the time my daughter would have been probably
Speaker:two or three, she was start just in nursery, I think for three hours,
Speaker:two days, she was doing Tuesdays Three hours. in the U. S.
Speaker:um, child care is expensive as here, but she was just doing half
Speaker:days, you know, so I only had like three hours in
Speaker:for two days, you know, and so I
Speaker:remember, and then God said to me, you know, you've learned to hear from me,
Speaker:connect with me, really just have that deeper relationship, because I really
Speaker:did go through a transition where I've had a spiritual growth during the pandemic, you
Speaker:know, and I just started to hear God so much clearly in my business,
Speaker:and literally with In that same three hours when my daughter was at
Speaker:school, I created my very first course. Like everything just
Speaker:downloaded to me while I was spending with God. And I just created the course
Speaker:with it. So you could say like within the week I was, it was created
Speaker:and it was selling. And I was like, God, this is amazing, you know?
Speaker:So just to go back to that question is like, where do you get started?
Speaker:I think again, going back to it is. What do you have? What do
Speaker:you know? What is it that people ask you about? What is it you can't
Speaker:you're confident about? What is it that knowledge that you have experienced for yourself or
Speaker:you've done a research for yourself? And now you can then teach somebody
Speaker:else with that. That is where I would say you get started.
Speaker:Yeah. And, um, just kind of going back to what you mentioned,
Speaker:You created your course in a week? Yes
Speaker:A week. Okay. Now, one of the
Speaker:things that I do know is that people, some people are gifted
Speaker:for certain things, right? And they have the, what's the word that I'm looking
Speaker:for? The grace.
Speaker:Okay, is. People are Yes, and
Speaker:so I think with you, like your grace to be able to
Speaker:do this quickly because somebody else might struggle with, like you
Speaker:mentioned, uh, where do I start? What do I talk about? And it may take
Speaker:months, right? Cause I've even had experiences where it's like, I have an idea, but
Speaker:it was taking me forever to, just even map the thing out. but if you're
Speaker:able to do it in a week, then that just goes to show like, okay,
Speaker:this is not something that you're trying to do, but you have the expertise and
Speaker:it's something that you're also graced for to be able to lead other people,
Speaker:with that grace to see, some similar results to what you've had. So
Speaker:I wanted to point that piece out because I know you help people create their
Speaker:courses in what, six weeks, is it six weeks or six weeks or
Speaker:less? we go less anyone obviously I did one I did my day one
Speaker:week so I don't ever say you can't do it You know, it's just a
Speaker:matter of as I said before just getting I'm just getting clay when
Speaker:you get clear and I teach this Um very much in
Speaker:my programs and I think I just a YouTube video on this actually where I
Speaker:was sharing with you You need to get clear on who you're serving,
Speaker:um, what you're serving them, as in what problem you're going to be
Speaker:solving for them, and the how, which is your process or the
Speaker:information that you're giving, you know. Once you're clear on those three things, like
Speaker:that is going to propel you to create your course, because I feel like when
Speaker:we're just starting, we are so hooked up on websites and what
Speaker:platform and all of these things. And to be fair, those things come like
Speaker:literally last because your content is what is most important. So
Speaker:once you get, and that's why I said, um, you know, I really connected with
Speaker:God because that's one of the things that I teach too is just because God
Speaker:is going to give you clarity. The Lord is going to download to you and
Speaker:let you see things that you probably weren't blinded to before, or
Speaker:you will feel overwhelmed around. And once you spend that time with God and put
Speaker:intentionally about your business or your course, God is so
Speaker:faithful. He will show you, you know? And so once you get clear on those
Speaker:things, like that's it, that's all you need. And then it's just a matter of,
Speaker:as you said, like probably using my expertise to then help you to set it
Speaker:up quicker. And you know, you don't have to be faffing around with
Speaker:whatever platform, trying to figure it out on your own. Yes. That's
Speaker:so good. Now I'm curious, since you work with women and especially moms,
Speaker:do you find that something that hinders them from kind of getting
Speaker:started is this whole idea of imposter syndrome
Speaker:or like, who am I to be doing this course or anything
Speaker:related to that? And how do you kind of address that when you're working
Speaker:with them? Absolutely. Like I always say the scripture
Speaker:and you know, as I'm speaking to you, I may be misquoting it, but you
Speaker:know, the scripture says that I am not giving you a spirit of fear, but
Speaker:of power and of love and of a sound mind. I always say that to
Speaker:everybody because the thing is, especially as women,
Speaker:Mothers, we have so much to give. The enemy is
Speaker:scared of us because we, you know, we doubt ourselves so
Speaker:much. Like so many of us have gone through so many experiences. How many of
Speaker:us have degrees? How many of us have like, you know, experience in the workplace
Speaker:for how many years people come to us, ask us to train us all of
Speaker:these things we have, but yet we don't want to say we are an expert
Speaker:because expert sounds too big, but we literally, we are experts in
Speaker:our fields. We know what we know, but yet we doubt ourselves so much.
Speaker:so much. So one of the things I really teach you is to get into
Speaker:who you are, know how God sees you and
Speaker:start to see yourself. And this is a transition for myself as well, because
Speaker:I constantly, I think as humans, we do that, especially women. We
Speaker:constantly doubt what we do. We constantly doubt who God has said that
Speaker:we are because we're not seeing it. seeing that right now, but we have to
Speaker:start to see ourselves through God's eyes. And I use scripture and I used
Speaker:affirmations and all of these things to remind us and drill it
Speaker:into the subconscious mind that this is who God says that you are. You know,
Speaker:this is so important. This is like a whole reframing of the mind. And this
Speaker:goes back to, I think it's Romans 12 and 12. Don't quote me, but it
Speaker:does say like, um, you need to renew your mind, right?
Speaker:Don't confirm to the world, but renew your mind. And that's very, very
Speaker:important when it comes to imposter syndrome. That's so good.
Speaker:So good. Um, okay. So, They've gotten past the
Speaker:imposter syndrome. They, they know who they're serving. Is
Speaker:there anything else that they need to have in place prior
Speaker:to starting to create their course? No, to
Speaker:be fair, if you're clear on those three things, because if,
Speaker:for example, you know who you're serving, so let's say, let's just break it down.
Speaker:You know who. It's your target audience and target students, right?
Speaker:So because you know who that person is, you're going to know, of course, their
Speaker:problems, the stuff that they're going through. So therefore you're going to be able to
Speaker:speak into that because you know, right? So like you, you're reading, you're reading
Speaker:from a book when it comes to them, right? When you think about the, what
Speaker:is like, what the problem that they have that, you know, you can solve with
Speaker:your skills and your, you know, your experiences or whatever that may be.
Speaker:So then again, you are also familiar with the problem and you're also familiar with
Speaker:the solutions. So that's gonna be really perfect for you to speak into
Speaker:that and really connect with those people going through that problem. And then going back
Speaker:to the how, which is your process. So, for example, you may have had
Speaker:some particular steps that you took that you were able to create that solution for
Speaker:yourself, whatever that may be. So then you are then showing that same
Speaker:people that you know what you're talking about, like you have done those steps. And
Speaker:if they do that exact step, they're going to get that results as well. So
Speaker:once you tackle that, you get that clarity and you brainstorm around and get clear
Speaker:on that. And then you deal with the feedback. Fair and imposter syndrome. Nothing can
Speaker:stop you. You are on the path. You know, it's just a matter of just
Speaker:choosing a platform. And I always say, choose one that is easy for
Speaker:you and one that's not gonna hinder you. Because I think sometimes we wanna go
Speaker:into this elaborate stuff, like we could be so simple. And this is
Speaker:why I teach Thinking fake and male life, because as you, I shared
Speaker:with you, and that's how I did mine in a week. Like I didn't overthink
Speaker:it. And literally that these platforms are so easy. And one of
Speaker:the things that I have introduced as well in my business is I'm done for
Speaker:you service because I understand that as moms, we don't necessarily have the
Speaker:time to sit down and do all of that. Right. Even though I do teach
Speaker:you. So instead of you like trying to. figure it out on your own,
Speaker:I will take you through the steps. But if, for example, you don't have the
Speaker:time, I literally can do it for you because I've done it so many times.
Speaker:I literally have no issues with doing it in probably a week or less,
Speaker:right? So that's just the most important things to get your course going. And then,
Speaker:of course, it's the selling aspect, which is about showing up and the imposter
Speaker:syndrome. Again, tackling that is going to make things so much easier
Speaker:for you because you're going to show up confident with self belief about
Speaker:what you're talking about, and then that kind of takes care of itself.
Speaker:That's so good. And I love how simple you are making the
Speaker:process, right? Not just over complicating
Speaker:it and giving all of these things. It's just very simple
Speaker:I want to focus in on the process that you said they need to have
Speaker:a process. Like, how are you getting your, potential clients from
Speaker:point A to point B. So, in terms of if somebody
Speaker:doesn't have a process, right? Or maybe they just don't know what it
Speaker:is, or they haven't quite. Mapped it out themselves.
Speaker:do you have any suggestions or tips for how somebody can kind of
Speaker:create their framework or their process for their
Speaker:course? Well particularly because obviously everybody's situation
Speaker:is different and to be fair course does not necessarily have to
Speaker:Um, I say solve a problem because it does need to solve a problem But
Speaker:it doesn't have to be like an end result when I say this I mean
Speaker:like for example, it could be a course on just giving people
Speaker:Information that is targeted to what they want right instead of like
Speaker:a transformation Like maybe lose weight or lose five
Speaker:pounds, right? Which would be different so process for example to lose five
Speaker:pounds Maybe you have a meal plan, you have exercise regime, right? You
Speaker:have all of those things while compared to if you have a course that's going
Speaker:to teach somebody to set up, I don't know, for example, to make a decision.
Speaker:Let's say, for example, you have gone through this process
Speaker:of wanting to decide if to vaccinate your kids, right? I actually came across this
Speaker:with, um, uh, an account I was looking at. And so she
Speaker:was a bit Confused as to if she should vaccinate her child, right? And she
Speaker:was like going online, looking at all these things. There's so much information out there,
Speaker:so much overwhelmed. And then she came across a course that literally was
Speaker:just giving her the pros and the cons of vaccination, the pros and
Speaker:the cons of not vaccinating. And that was it, right? then from the information that
Speaker:you get, you make your informed decision, right? So for example, if
Speaker:you're having a course like that, that's just giving people. Targeted
Speaker:information your process is going to be different if and then if you have a
Speaker:transformational step, you know So it all depends on what
Speaker:exactly is your outcome What is it that you're going to help your clients
Speaker:or students to get? And then I will help you to break down your process
Speaker:because a lot of the times we may be doing something But we don't know
Speaker:that it's actually a process that we're doing to get to that step
Speaker:Um, for example, as I said before, you may have all of this
Speaker:information and now we need to bring it into a more bite sizable,
Speaker:um, like easily understood package for your people
Speaker:as well. So it's just a matter of looking at that That's really
Speaker:interesting. I never thought about because in the online space, I always hear
Speaker:people talk about the transformation. What's the transformation? What's the transformation?
Speaker:Right? And it just never crossed my mind that you can just provide
Speaker:information a course. Like, that's.
Speaker:A huge mindset shift, it takes a lot of weight off well, I'll speak for
Speaker:myself. I know I'm always trying to create things that
Speaker:are full of value and
Speaker:like, we're just always trying to pack a bunch of stuff into our,
Speaker:our programs or our courses and things. But even just hearing you
Speaker:say it can be just information. enough. It doesn't have to
Speaker:be like this whole huge transformation, which
Speaker:if you're doing that, that's not bad. That's good. But, that's really
Speaker:interesting. Okay. because when you think about it, right, you're going to be
Speaker:saving some because of course, let's say, for example, of course, our program is going
Speaker:to help somebody save money. Save them time, save them energy, save them
Speaker:money. Right? So let's think about, for example, if somebody, a mom
Speaker:specifically wants to find out particular information, you have done tons of
Speaker:research around, like you have spent days doing this research and you have come
Speaker:up with this and you're like, okay, now I can make an informed decision. There's
Speaker:somebody out there who's doing the exact same thing going like, Oh, I just wish
Speaker:I had a website that they just go on and just get all of this
Speaker:information. You know what I mean? And yes, you could, I know people would be
Speaker:like, well, you could go to YouTube, but you could go to website, but. Sometimes
Speaker:people don't have time to be searching for that. They literally see your course that
Speaker:says, I'm going to give you all the information that you need right here.
Speaker:And then they're not thinking about the money or whatever is
Speaker:saving them. Click. I want that. I've got everything done. That's so good.
Speaker:Definitely. Um, giving a different perspective, at least a
Speaker:different perspective for me. So hopefully for you all listening as well.
Speaker:Um, now we've kind of already gone through action steps people can take, but
Speaker:do you have any other final action steps or tips
Speaker:for someone who is. It's ready to create their
Speaker:online course. I know this might be a bit like,
Speaker:I know, because I feel like when we hear online course creation, we always want
Speaker:to hear about the tools and the strategies of the actual course creation. And don't
Speaker:get me wrong. It is important, but going back again as a course
Speaker:creation coach, I know that it all starts with us,
Speaker:right? It starts with our mindsets, our beliefs and everything
Speaker:else. One of the things I start off with, and that's powerful in my
Speaker:own course, as module one is that we go through, which is
Speaker:something I call the power framework. And it's a framework that the Lord gave
Speaker:me and that I teach my students as well. And it is, this is where
Speaker:the life aspect comes in with that whole renewing your
Speaker:mind and just seeing yourself the way God sees you. Right. And in the power
Speaker:framework, it's essentially allowing you to see yourself. step into your power,
Speaker:step into your authority with Christ, that you could shift certain
Speaker:strongholds and mindsets that were holding you back. And I
Speaker:do not stress this enough. Like you could have all the tools for a
Speaker:cause. And if you're not right, right there, It
Speaker:is slowly going to burn out. You may start on the high, but it's
Speaker:not going to be consistent. I can tell you that for a fact. So one
Speaker:of my powerful framework is the power framework. I teach that. And I
Speaker:also like to practice this a lot within myself and it breaks down
Speaker:everything from prayer to. To forgiveness, to
Speaker:not wavering in your faith and your belief in what God has called
Speaker:you to do, you know, your emotions and knowing that your emotions are just your
Speaker:feelings and not let them control the ship, as we would say,
Speaker:you know, your actions. And then of course, um, as moms, it's.
Speaker:Stepping into that self care of surrender and relaxation and
Speaker:releasing so that you can receive the things that God has for you So
Speaker:it's very it's simple, but it's very deep as well And it's
Speaker:a foundational part of that self belief and that impossible that we
Speaker:spoke about earlier as well. I love that you focus on those
Speaker:things that it's not just like, Oh, here, create a course, use these
Speaker:tools, do this strategy. Because a lot of the results
Speaker:that we see in our business is due to who we are, how
Speaker:we operate, how we react to certain things, you know, how
Speaker:we're connected All those things. So I love, love,
Speaker:love that you are focusing on that foundational piece. Um, and
Speaker:having the tools be like, it's like, I love, I love tools, you know, I'm
Speaker:into systems and tech and all that stuff. I love a good tool, but
Speaker:that's literally even with the things that I teach, the tool is the last piece
Speaker:of the puzzle, literally. So if you guys are ready to get
Speaker:your course started, Definitely connect with Zannie so she
Speaker:can guide you and help you. Yeah, so just to be clear, I
Speaker:didn't just like give you the mindset, you know, just leave you on your own.
Speaker:I do give you the tools. And as I said before, because I am very
Speaker:much familiar with these programs, MailOnline and Thinkific, I teach you how to do
Speaker:that. So you're not on your own. And these platforms are really, really simple. When
Speaker:I say simple, I can do it. You can do it simple. It's
Speaker:really simple, you know, but yes, I do have a course called Course Creation for
Speaker:Busy Moms. That's a self study course. And it basically takes you
Speaker:four modules and it breaks down everything for you so that you
Speaker:literally can create your course in six weeks or less, right? So like you can
Speaker:binge watch the videos and follow step by step and you literally can
Speaker:do it But I also offer a six weeks one to one program where
Speaker:I work on that mindset piece where we're doing the implementation And
Speaker:I also walk you through As well for the course creation. So
Speaker:we do it together and you also get access to the course to whether you
Speaker:work with me one-to-one. So you get life them access for that. And as I
Speaker:was mentioning before, I've introduced a done for you surveys because I realized that a
Speaker:lot of people may not have the time to actually put up their
Speaker:course. So the, in this instance, we do walk through the
Speaker:process and stuff that you wanna do so that I'll let you create your video,
Speaker:whatever you're doing, your audio and whatnot. But then I would upload it
Speaker:and create the course on the platform for you. Because I obviously am
Speaker:not going to be able to create the course the way you will, because it's
Speaker:your course, you know? But these are the three ways that you can work
Speaker:with me and I can really support you. Um, yeah, that's it.
Speaker:But it's really exciting because when you think about it, right, you've done the work
Speaker:up front, you've created something. And as a busy mom, honestly, we know how it
Speaker:is. We just talk about that, right? Like the way I teach is that you
Speaker:could spend one to two hours a day and that is creating the content now
Speaker:to just
Speaker:Market, you know, market. We just like being visible with your course
Speaker:and putting it out there, but it does take a while to find kind of
Speaker:like get that message in clear and learn how to kind of use your voice
Speaker:and how to share your story and I would not make it sound like it
Speaker:may happen overnight. You know, there are strategies around that. And especially if
Speaker:it's new to you, it could take a while, but that's some of the things
Speaker:that we work on. It's just sharing your story. And I do recommend to
Speaker:my mom's is and I said before, you receive something or, you know, create a
Speaker:course around something that you have gone through yourself so that you can share your
Speaker:experience, your story and people are going to connect to that, you know,
Speaker:so that is how it's done. Yeah, I love
Speaker:that. And I'm glad we were able to have this conversation. I definitely
Speaker:wanted to talk about the course creation because you mentioned it. Like
Speaker:we are busy moms and we don't always have to
Speaker:recreate the world, just creating something that we Spend
Speaker:time up front a couple of hours creating and then it's there and we can
Speaker:get paid repeatedly for it. It is giving us that
Speaker:time freedom that we desire, right? And
Speaker:positioning us to be able to be present with our
Speaker:kids, what we really, really want, right? So I'm so glad we were able to
Speaker:have this conversation. So I want to circle back in the beginning. We talked
Speaker:about. Uh, what you're enjoying in this season of
Speaker:motherhood. What's something that you're finding challenging
Speaker:right now with motherhood and how are you tackling that?
Speaker:The challenge, again, I think as entrepreneurs, we always want
Speaker:to do more. Let's be serious, right? You want to see more results. You
Speaker:want to do more of this. And so this be a present thing I talk
Speaker:about is because it's, it's an ongoing thing. I think we all have to just
Speaker:go through every single day. You know, there's the times where, you know, I want
Speaker:to do something, I want to send off an email, I want to record a
Speaker:YouTube video. And that's the day when the baby wouldn't sleep. And you know, there's
Speaker:all these times that come and many times, this is the practicing of what I
Speaker:teach. It's just going back to It's going to be okay.
Speaker:Letting go of the overwhelm. Just trusting the God, trusting God that it is going
Speaker:to work out. Everything is going to work out. And so one thing I said
Speaker:to my clients, and I think sometimes, um, people look at me
Speaker:like, what? I have learned how to just slow down time.
Speaker:Sometimes when I tell you, slow down time is like, My friend said to me,
Speaker:how is that? You're able to watch your shows, read your book, do this
Speaker:in your business. And I can't even do this. And I'm like, it's all about
Speaker:your mindset and the way that you think about things and the way that
Speaker:you really process what's happening around you and react to it. You know, so
Speaker:I'll get so much done when it comes to productivity. I'm super productive, but it
Speaker:takes. You really being aware of your thoughts
Speaker:being aware of what you're saying I literally suck myself something when i'm saying something
Speaker:like no, no, no, I backtracked that no lord. I don't mean that This is
Speaker:what I mean instead Right because you have to be careful with some of the
Speaker:things that we say because we are speaking a lot of things into our Existence,
Speaker:you know, and we are recreating things with what we say and what we believe
Speaker:or what we think So in the spirit of manhood i'm telling you many times
Speaker:i'm feeling over i'm like, nope, daddy You're not overwhelmed. You just need to step
Speaker:back, you know, you talking yourself through it and just trusting that where
Speaker:I am right now is exactly where I need to be. And I will get
Speaker:to where I need to go. That's it. That is so good and a
Speaker:perfect way to wrap up. Oh my goodness. This has been such a
Speaker:great, great conversation. We definitely could keep this going. I just
Speaker:wanted to, highlight something you just said. You were talking
Speaker:about how you have to stop yourself and be very aware. Like this
Speaker:journey requires lots of
Speaker:intentionality and being self aware to
Speaker:be our best selves. And so I'm so glad that you mentioned that because
Speaker:without that, we will feel that overwhelmed. You will feel
Speaker:stressed if you're just not super intentional about how you
Speaker:are. Thinking about things and responding to things.
Speaker:And so so glad that you mentioned that. So I want to say
Speaker:something with that too, which is so good. I suppose I said this to a
Speaker:client of mine. I said, one of the things that we need to do as
Speaker:moms is to set our priorities. And here's another thing that doesn't, that
Speaker:actually eliminates my overwhelm is my priorities in my life,
Speaker:right? My priority is first God, then my family, and then my business.
Speaker:And so when you feel overwhelmed and you prioritize these things first,
Speaker:Second third, the overwhelm goes away because you know,
Speaker:God first, you spend some time with God, you make sure you have that time
Speaker:with God. Then, you know, when you're feeling overwhelmed with your business and your
Speaker:children need you. Your children first priority, you know what I mean?
Speaker:And then your business. And then when you have those in place, you don't, and
Speaker:you set boundaries around that. It's so much easier to let go of the other
Speaker:one because you know what, where your attention is going to
Speaker:be, you know, what's, what's most important. You know? Yeah,
Speaker:absolutely, absolutely says have this, so it's an audio
Speaker:course. The Harmony audio course and a part of it talks
Speaker:specifically about that, right? The brand we talk about how to
Speaker:create and experience work life harmony and
Speaker:prioritization is a big piece of that, like setting your
Speaker:priorities. And it's literally that
Speaker:God, I put myself in there, but God,
Speaker:self, family, then business. We are so
Speaker:aligned. So I love it. We're going to do like a part two or something
Speaker:else because this is just too good. absolutely agree with you a hundred percent.
Speaker:I think once we get those things clear, we will eliminate so much
Speaker:overwhelming guilt and worry and anxiety because you know
Speaker:what comes first. You don't have to worry about it. You know, it's done. Yeah.
Speaker:Love it. It's done. This has been so good. So we'll be
Speaker:sure again, to put all of your information in our show description so people can
Speaker:connect with you. And if you have any final words that you want to leave
Speaker:with the moms, feel free to share that with us now.
Speaker:Yes, absolutely. what I think I really want to leave with us moms
Speaker:is that what we think is not important and what we
Speaker:think a slight is so much important. So
Speaker:valued by others and I want us to really remember that
Speaker:Because we take ourselves so much for granted and love that you said, you know
Speaker:God and you because so many times we put ourselves
Speaker:down we doubt ourselves We worry and even when it comes to
Speaker:self care and just taking care of ourselves, you know We always
Speaker:put everybody else above us. So just to just to Just be aware
Speaker:that what you have or what you know God has already given it to you
Speaker:because he wants you to use it because he knows that you're capable of
Speaker:having it because he Trusts you with it, right all of these things And then
Speaker:if we believe that we will really show up differently I really think so like
Speaker:one of my affirmations I keep telling myself in my business specifically Is
Speaker:that who I am right now is exactly who I am what I'm
Speaker:here to do. That is perfect for what I'm here to do. Because sometimes we
Speaker:think, oh, if only I was further along, or if only I had done this,
Speaker:if only I've done that. No, who you are right now is, it's perfect for
Speaker:what God has called you to do. You know, that kind of thing. I love
Speaker:Thank you so much for joining us here in the suite for sharing your
Speaker:wisdom, your amazing energy, and your
Speaker:expertise. And so look out for part two, you
Speaker:guys, because something is coming. it. I
Speaker:really love it. This was a really good conversation.
Speaker:listening. And we'll see you guys in the next episode. Thank you for
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