The Infinite Scale Method is the full 9-step, 3-system map for scaling an expert business without scaling your calendar. In this episode, Tara breaks down the difference between growth and business evolution, the three stages every expert business moves through, and the complete map for August.

Tara Bryan is the creator of the Infinite Scale Method™ and host of The Scalable Expert podcast. She helps expert business owners, coaches, and consultants turn their expertise into a scalable business built on a signature framework and systems that deliver results without requiring more of their time.

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Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to season three of The

Scalable Expert podcast, the show for

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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 deliver an infinite

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amount of ways to be able to scale your

business, your impact, and your income.

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All right, let's get started.

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Hey there.

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Welcome to the Scalable Expert Podcast.

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I am really glad that

you're here for this one.

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I wanna start with something that

I've been hearing a lot of lately,

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and I think if you're here, it's

probably gonna sound familiar.

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There's a place a lot of

expert business owners end up.

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You've built something real.

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Your customers are getting results.

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You're good at what you do, but

you've hit a ceiling that has

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nothing to do with how good you are

or how hard you have been working.

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And you've probably already

tried to push through it.

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Maybe you've added a new offer,

moved into a group program, brought

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on some support, raised your prices,

and something is still not moving.

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That is hard to sit with

because from the outside, the

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business looks completely fine.

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You're busy, referrals are coming in,

and there's nothing obviously wrong.

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So you keep trying things.

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You keep looking for what you're missing.

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And here is what I wanna offer you today.

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You're probably not missing anything.

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The issue is not what you've done, it

is the order in which you've done it in.

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That is the whole premise of what

we're covering this month, nine steps,

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three systems, and a sequence, and

the sequence is actually the strategy.

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I'm gonna walk you through

all nine steps in August.

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We are starting today with a full map

that I call the INFINITE SCALE Method.

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First I want to draw a distinction

that changes everything.

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Most expert business owners

who hit that ceiling think that

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they have a growth problem.

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They need more.

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More customers, more offers,

more reach, more revenue.

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So they go looking for growth strategies.

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More to add.

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Here's the distinction I want you to

hold onto for the rest of this month.

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Growth increases what already exists.

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Business evolution changes what the

business is capable of becoming.

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Most of the advice out there for

expert business owners is growth

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advice being given to people

who actually need evolution.

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That distinction is what

this entire month is about.

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Now, let me help you identify

exactly where you are right

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now, because it changes how you

hear everything that follows.

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There are three stages that

expert business owners go through.

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Stage one is called the Time Seller.

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This is where most of us start.

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You sell your time, someone

pays, you show up and deliver.

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And it works really well until your

calendar is full, because the ceiling

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is built right into the model.

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The only way to take on more customers

is to find more time, and at some

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point, there's no more time to find.

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Stage two is the Offer Stacker.

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This is what happens when you try

to break through that ceiling.

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You add a group program, you do

a live event, you build a course.

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You start stacking offers, hoping

that one will move the needle.

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And what tends to happen is more

complexity, not more capacity.

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I want to be honest about this stage,

because I see a lot of accomplished

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expert business owners stuck here,

thinking they're doing something wrong.

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They're not.

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They're just missing the sequence.

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And then stage three, the Scalable Expert.

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This is when the business

creates transformation beyond

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your constant personal delivery.

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And I want to be clear about

what that actually means.

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It does not mean you

disappear from your business.

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It doesn't mean that you build

something that operates without you.

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The goal is not absence.

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The goal is choice.

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You are still the expert.

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You are still in it, but you are present

where your expertise actually matters

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and where you want to be, not where

the daily delivery requires you to be.

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Expert presence by choice.

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So take a moment right now.

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Which stage are you in?

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Are you a time seller, an offer

stacker, or somewhere in between?

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Because wherever you are is exactly where

the INFINITE  SCALE™ Method picks up.

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The INFINITE SCALE™ Method is nine

steps across three integrated systems.

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The key word there is integrated.

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Each system builds directly

on the one before it.

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You can't skip ahead.

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The sequence is actually the strategy.

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Once you see the sequence, the ceiling

starts to make a whole lot more sense.

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System one is called the

Expert Authority System.

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This is steps one through three.

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Everything in this system is about one

thing, making your expertise tangible.

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Right now, your methodology

lives inside your head.

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It's in your instincts, your

patterns, and the way you read a

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customer and adapt in real time.

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That expertise is real, and

it's completely invisible

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to anyone who is not you.

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The expert authority system extracts

it, names it, gives it a shape that

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exists outside of you, something a

customer can see before they invest.

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Something the business can

lead with consistently.

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Something that can be eventually be

delivered beyond your personal presence.

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The power of one decision, one

customer, one core problem,

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one signature methodology, and

that the business leads with.

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Making your expertise tangible,

turning what's in your head into

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something physical and structured.

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And then how do you develop a magnetic

expert position in the market?

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System two, the Scalable Delivery System.

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This is steps four through six.

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This is where the business

model actually starts to change.

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Once your methodology is tangible, and

you have designed a customer journey,

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the work of system two is to build

delivery infrastructure that lets your

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pathway create results without requiring

your constant personal involvement.

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Not because you're gone, because the

design carries the work that you used

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to fill in manually in real time.

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So in these three steps, you

have this signature pathway.

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This is designing the complete

customer journey before a single

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piece of delivery has been created.

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The beta blueprint, providing

the journey to real customers to

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test before you build anything.

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Then scalable engagement.

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This is how you engage people in a way

that lets the system carry the weight.

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System number three is the

Infinite Impact System.

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This is step seven through nine.

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This is what becomes possible when

systems one and two are working.

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This is when your methodology

starts to extend beyond what

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you can personally deliver.

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Books, certification programs, licensed

methodology, other practitioners

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trained to deliver your signature

pathway, partnerships built

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around your intellectual property.

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You are impacting at a reach

that your calendar can't produce.

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And here's what I want you to hold on to.

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That is not a different kind of business.

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It is just the next stage of the

business you are already building.

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Every business that has reached

this stage has gone through system

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one and system two first, in order.

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That's the map.

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Nine steps, three systems, one sequence.

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That's the infinite scale system.

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For the rest of August, we're gonna go

deep into each system and each step.

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But I want you to have the

full picture before we start,

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because context is everything.

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So let me make this real

for you with an example.

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When I first started working with

one of my customers, she was doing a

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hundred percent one-on-one coaching,

and she was really good at it.

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Her customers got results.

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She had a full calendar and a wait list,

and she was completely at capacity.

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So she did what everyone

around her was recommending.

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She moved into a group model.

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She built a group program, added it

alongside of her one-on-one work,

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and here's what actually happened.

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The group program did not actually

release her from her calendar

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because the customers in the

group still wanted her personally.

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They had invested because

of her specifically.

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So she ended up with group sessions

added on top of the one-on-one

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sessions she was already running So

she had to add more to her calendar,

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and so she reached the same ceiling.

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So she kept going.

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She added live events.

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She added additional delivery

formats, more offers.

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By the time we started working

together, she had a completely full

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calendar, significant complexity in

her business, and margins that were

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not where they needed to be because

she had so many different things to

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fill and fulfill at the same time.

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This is classic offer stacking, and it was

exhausting her in a way that had nothing

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to do with how hard she was working.

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What we did was to go back to system one.

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We simplified down to one signature

methodology, one clear pathway, one

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customer, one problem, and one result,

something she could deliver consistently

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and something another capable person

could eventually deliver on her behalf.

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We created scalable delivery

infrastructure, designed the

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customer journey, ran a small beta

to get it started, and then built

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the scalable program that created

the same transformation she was

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creating when she was working with

her one-on-one clients without

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requiring her to be in every session.

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Once that was proven, we moved into

building a certification program where

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other practitioners trained in her

methodology could deliver her signature

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pathway to their own customers.

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She went from one person delivering

transformation one customer at a

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time to her methodology creating

impact she never could have

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reached with her personal calendar.

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And that's the arc.

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That is a sequence in practice.

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And it started not with adding

more, but with going back to system

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one and doing the steps in order.

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So before I let you go, I

wanna leave you with this.

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If everything in your business still runs

through you, if you are the reason it

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works and the reason it doesn't work and

can't grow, that's not a hustle problem.

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It's a structural one, and it has a name.

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The fastest way to see yours is

to take the free expert audit.

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Ten questions, about three minutes total.

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It will show you where you are, what

stage you're in, and how you can start

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shifting your business and working

through the three different systems.

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Because what's gonna happen is once

you know that, then the rest of this

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month where we're talking about each

of the systems and each of the steps

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will help you actually pinpoint in your

own business what you need to change.

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All right, we'll see you next week.