In this episode of The One Small Change Podcast, Yvonne McCoy sits down with Julie Kraschinsky to explore how small, thoughtful decisions lead to major changes in both business and life. Julie shares her journey from corporate America to direct sales entrepreneur, and now to empowering women as a business coach. Together, they examine the power of community, overcoming limiting beliefs—especially around money—and how focusing on one intentional action every day propels both personal and professional growth. This conversation is filled with practical strategies, vulnerable storytelling, and reminders that celebrating small wins and doing what brings you joy can build unstoppable momentum
Guest Bio:
Julie Kraschinsky is an accomplished business coach with over three decades of entrepreneurial experience, beginning her journey in direct sales before transitioning to coaching women entrepreneurs. With a deep passion for empowering women to structure businesses that support their lives instead of running them, Julie Kraschinsky specializes in leadership, personal growth, and building joyful communities. She guides women to rely on their inner wisdom and helps them take consistent, purposeful action for lasting success.
Chapters:
00:00 Introducing
03:20 Personalized approach to coaching
06:45 Finding your life direction
12:09 Importance of business communities
13:06 Maintaining lifelong friendships
18:07 Overcoming self-doubt and comparison
20:04 Realization about lost energy
23:07 Learning to Manage Money
28:02 Practicing positive self-reflection
29:36 Organizing tasks with to-do lists
33:36 Encouraging audience engagement
Quote from the Guest:
"Every day, ask yourself: Who am I becoming, and am I showing up as that woman who is acting as if I already have this?"
Link:
Julie Kraschinsky is offering a quick, insightful assessment (3 minutes or less!) to help you uncover where you might be holding yourself back. No waiting for results. Find the link in our show notes!
Welcome to the One Small Change. And as always, I am thrilled that
Speaker:you chose to spend time with me and embark on this journey of exploration and
Speaker:transformation. And if you don't already know, I'm your host, Yvonne
Speaker:McCoy, and I bring almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, and
Speaker:I have a passion for discovering growth through the power of seemingly
Speaker:small change. And my goal is to bring you somebody
Speaker:fantastic who is going to give you some information to
Speaker:help you to grow your business in a unexpected and
Speaker:delightful way. And this week, we have the amazing
Speaker:Julie Kraski. And no, it's not Kraski, it's.
Speaker:Say it again. Help me. Help me.
Speaker:Kraschinsky. Kraschinsky. I tried.
Speaker:Guys, if you've listened to more than one podcast, you know this is
Speaker:the hard part for me. Yeah, okay. And what she's
Speaker:gonna do, as, as always, is she's gonna share something that
Speaker:happened, a small, unexpected or insignificant decision that.
Speaker:That sparked a remarkable transformation and growth either in her personal
Speaker:or in her business life. But what we know is those are the things
Speaker:that make you the
Speaker:expert and not just an expert.
Speaker:Julie, thank you so much. Thank you for letting me slaughter
Speaker:your name. So tell everybody. It won't be the
Speaker:first time. Tell everybody who you are, what
Speaker:you do, and. And what happened to make you the expert.
Speaker:Oh, thanks. Thanks, Yvonne. I'm so glad we met. I'm so glad
Speaker:to be on your show. And yeah, so I have a long
Speaker:history of entrepreneurship, and it wasn't always that way because I started out
Speaker:in corporate America, did that for many, many years, and then I decided when I
Speaker:started family, I wanted to be a stay at home mom. And so I did
Speaker:that for two years. And then I was having mommy mush brain and I'm like,
Speaker:whoa, I gotta. I feel like I want to do something right. And so I
Speaker:started in direct sales back 33 years
Speaker:ago, 34 years ago, and
Speaker:didn't really know what I was doing. You know, never ran a business before,
Speaker:but going through the trainings and all that, I just fell in
Speaker:love with the leadership and empowering women and that became
Speaker:my passion, even though I retired from that business in
Speaker:2021 to fully immersed into
Speaker:coaching women entrepreneurs and how
Speaker:to have a successful business, but not have
Speaker:it run their life and let it fit into their life and not have their
Speaker:life fit into their business. And that's what I've been doing since then.
Speaker:And. And, you know, one of the things that, you know, I think drew us
Speaker:together is we have the same philosophy. And the
Speaker:first part of it is that women are just so amazing and they don't see
Speaker:their value. And I think the other thing is the
Speaker:whole concept of
Speaker:not letting your business run your life, that you, you know, that you need. You
Speaker:get into business so you can have the life that you want, and then
Speaker:you spend all your time in your business and you have no life. Yeah, Right.
Speaker:And so that is like kind of a, A, a basic thing that
Speaker:we both share. So when you're talking with
Speaker:women, what are some of the first things you know that you learned that you
Speaker:share with them? Well, for me, every
Speaker:person's journey is different. So when I get together with a
Speaker:woman, whether I'm doing a gifted coaching session or
Speaker:they're working with me, I come
Speaker:what I'm going to say, like, empty. Like, I'm coming to listen to them.
Speaker:I'm not coming to interject my experiences because I
Speaker:remember going through my divorce and I remember people telling me, like, oh, I
Speaker:didn't do that, or, oh, I walked away with nothing, or, I don't do this,
Speaker:I don't do that. And I'm so lucky that I
Speaker:didn't listen to everybody, that I was listening to my wise counsel.
Speaker:And because everybody, maybe 10 women
Speaker:have gone through a divorce, but every situation is different.
Speaker:Right. So I don't come with an agenda.
Speaker:When I meet with somebody, I honestly ask some
Speaker:questions that help them come up with their own
Speaker:brilliant insights. Because just like you said, you know,
Speaker:we have amazing. Women are amazing. Like I think you said to me
Speaker:when we first talked is, if women ran the world, it would be such
Speaker:a better place. Right.
Speaker:So. So let me ask you this. Yes.
Speaker:Because I have, I have something that I probably will add, but I want to
Speaker:get your perspective first. Okay. And I
Speaker:absolutely agree with you. You know, you and
Speaker:I have a lot more in common than I thought we did. You know, people.
Speaker:People always go, do you want me to send you this about myself? Do it.
Speaker:I'm like, no, I just want to experience you the way that you are and
Speaker:see. Because if you tell me what, what I should expect,
Speaker:then I'm not going to see the things about you that I think are special.
Speaker:I will already have updated. So
Speaker:when you talk to people about how they should take
Speaker:advice or as they're looking at what they
Speaker:want to do, what is like, the one thing that you always say,
Speaker:the one thing I always say is that
Speaker:any idea that I give you is never going to be as good as the
Speaker:idea that you come up with on your own.
Speaker:If you create Enough space and
Speaker:quiet to listen to your inner guidance
Speaker:system, your inner knowing, your gps I call my
Speaker:genius power system. It's always guiding me in the
Speaker:right direction. You know what to do.
Speaker:Many women know what to do. They're afraid to take that
Speaker:step because they want to know the whole entire plan.
Speaker:Now, I don't want to waste my time going this way or that way. How
Speaker:do I know how long to stay that route before I pivot?
Speaker:You know, all those things. So I just help guide them to really
Speaker:tap into their inner knowing and let that
Speaker:be your guide. Like, I have it right up on my board up
Speaker:there. Go with your gut. Well, and you know what?
Speaker:That, again, I think, is. It's so important that I don't think
Speaker:that's something. All right? So I. I
Speaker:tend to look at how patterns come about historically. And
Speaker:so, you know, in school, we're turned. We're taught to follow a certain thing,
Speaker:not to think out of the box. And so that's why everybody wants the answer.
Speaker:How do I get to the answer? And so my question is almost
Speaker:the same as your question. What is your. What is your dead reckoning?
Speaker:Where is it that you want to end up? You know what, when you celebrate
Speaker:your 100th birthday, how do you want people to
Speaker:describe you? Not, she was responsible and she
Speaker:worked 70 hours. What do you want them to say about you and about
Speaker:your energy and how you. How you brought life to the room?
Speaker:And when you do that, it changes everything. Right?
Speaker:And to me, confidence is having enough
Speaker:certainty that you can make a decision. Not that you have the answer or
Speaker:that it's perfect, but that you're okay with whatever the outcome, that
Speaker:you're willing to take responsibility for whatever the outcome is and.
Speaker:Correct. And. And. And what I also want
Speaker:to add is this happens to us regardless where we are in business.
Speaker:I did my workshop once, and somebody said to me, can I talk to
Speaker:you? Do you have a minute? And I was like, sure. And she was like,
Speaker:you know, I just thought I wanted to give you some. Some thoughts. And I
Speaker:was like, okay, great. And she said, you spent too long on that slide. And
Speaker:I go, I know. And I can't seem to, you know, and then
Speaker:she said, and you should do this, and you should do this, and you should
Speaker:do this. And I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker:Let me. Let me ask you. I mean, the things that
Speaker:she said were, like, really good. And I said, what do you do? She
Speaker:said, I'm in entertainment. And I go, that's the problem.
Speaker:I'm not an entertainment. I don't want
Speaker:my workshop to totally just entertain you. I'm not there to be a stand
Speaker:up. I mean, I probably could have been a stand up comedian,
Speaker:but so you have to, you have to know
Speaker:where somebody else is coming from. Yeah. To see
Speaker:if their advice even makes sense for you. And so in order
Speaker:to do that, you have to know where you're going, you know,
Speaker:And I just did a post that I. That one of my things that I
Speaker:say all the time is it doesn't matter how fast you're going. It only
Speaker:matters, you know, it doesn't matter how if you're going, if you're going in the
Speaker:wrong direction. Right, right. Yeah. But the flip side of that
Speaker:is, which I haven't said very much, is if you
Speaker:do small things on a regular basis, it will get you
Speaker:big results. The consistency. And I had to admit
Speaker:in my post today that I have played Solitaire for
Speaker:761 days straight.
Speaker:Do not judge me. I have the same
Speaker:streaks going with some games that I play. It's. We like to
Speaker:gamify things. Well, it's like to win.
Speaker:And I think once you do it and you do it on a regular basis,
Speaker:it's like, well, I don't want to like, I don't want to like lose my
Speaker:streak. Yeah. Right. But imagine what would happen
Speaker:if you called one person every day,
Speaker:not 10 on your list, but just one. Taking a note over here,
Speaker:you know, it's so funny, like you were saying how in tune we are. I
Speaker:just had most of this same conversation last night with my group
Speaker:that I have that I run. Same thing we talked about one
Speaker:step that you can do repeatedly over
Speaker:and over and over again. You know, we stop
Speaker:too soon. Like you stop right before the next.
Speaker:Yes. Because you're giving up. And
Speaker:I think a lot of times as women, we get bored with the
Speaker:task at hand. We get bored with repeating
Speaker:ourselves because we think, oh, the same people are
Speaker:listening to us over and over again. They're going to get sick of me. I
Speaker:have to come up with something new. But you're not talking to the same
Speaker:people all the time. Well, first of all, that's true of all
Speaker:entrepreneurs because we're innovative by nature
Speaker:and so we're curious and so we're like all over the place. And
Speaker:so one of my note, this says, I wrote this
Speaker:down because I. Every woman I talked to last week said I'm all
Speaker:over the place. So here's, here's what
Speaker:I've learned and, and I'd love to have your take on this.
Speaker:Yeah. When I first started doing my workshop, and they're like, do
Speaker:you know, do workshop a month? And I'm like, the same workshop?
Speaker:Yeah. Gotta be kidding me. How boring is that? Right?
Speaker:But what I have learned is, one, even
Speaker:if I were to say the exact same thing, the people that come
Speaker:are different. Even the people that come multiple times are
Speaker:at a different place in their business, and they hear different things.
Speaker:Yeah. And so the energy in the room is different.
Speaker:Two, when you focus on one thing,
Speaker:you get to go deep and not spread yourself thin.
Speaker:So I love it. Yep. Exactly
Speaker:what we were talking about last night. And I asked my clients
Speaker:to actually commit for the next six months that
Speaker:we're together on one focus,
Speaker:just one laser focus, and that is it. And
Speaker:I'm like, there's going to be other things that you're going to accomplish along the
Speaker:way because you're so clear at your direction that you're
Speaker:going. And that's why we come together. I have. It's called the Joyful
Speaker:Momentum Collective. So we do it together. So you're not alone. You
Speaker:don't feel like, oh, my gosh, I'm taking the step. It's scary.
Speaker:Oh, I took the step. Now what? Do it again. So.
Speaker:So you said something really important, that, that
Speaker:if people were not paying attention, and
Speaker:that is, if you're building a business, you do not have to do it alone.
Speaker:And if you're smart, you won't do it alone. And what
Speaker:I mean by that is I
Speaker:started getting into communities very late in building
Speaker:my business, which was a huge mistake.
Speaker:And when you are in community and there are all
Speaker:different kinds of community, it could be a networking community, it could be a
Speaker:masterminding. It could be they're just all kinds of community. One of the
Speaker:first things that it does is it helps you to get clarity a lot faster.
Speaker:Yeah. You know, because you're not in your own head. You're. You're speaking
Speaker:what you. You know, what you're thinking out and getting reaction.
Speaker:So tell me, tell me some of the benefits you. That you think of community
Speaker:and the type of community that you have. Oh, yeah,
Speaker:100%. I'm looking back and
Speaker:I've looked at. I always said I'm a gatherer of
Speaker:people because I have different groups of, like, my
Speaker:girlfriends from grade school and middle school. So 11 of us,
Speaker:you know, 11 of us, and we're going on a. Our big
Speaker:birthday trip in the fall together, all being together for the
Speaker:first time. In a long time. And although we have a group tech, so we're
Speaker:always, you know, seeing what's going on in everybody's life and cheering each other on
Speaker:and being there for them. Then I joined Mary Kay, and
Speaker:that's a huge community where I still have friends.
Speaker:Even though I stepped away from my directorship position, I still have
Speaker:clients and things like that. I don't work with them anymore. They just order. But
Speaker:still, that huge community was so important to me.
Speaker:And now being in my E Woman network community, that's another
Speaker:community of women and a few good men. And now I'm creating
Speaker:my own community around my coaching. So
Speaker:it's not networking, but they, you know, they're getting to know each other and stuff
Speaker:like that. It's not focusing on networking. So
Speaker:community. And I talked about this last night, how important
Speaker:it was for each one of them to create their own community. And.
Speaker:And you. You have different kinds of communities. Yeah. Like, one
Speaker:of the things that I think is so amazing about you is you have your
Speaker:personal community, right? Yes. And I'm talking about a community
Speaker:other than your family. Right. Okay. Yeah. Your
Speaker:family is family. You don't get to pick them. You
Speaker:know, you get to love them, but you don't get to pick them. I mean,
Speaker:my mother used to call me up and go, you know, Tessa, I go, mom,
Speaker:I'm working, but you're home. And I'm like,
Speaker:but I'm still. I work from home. I work from home, mom. You know,
Speaker:and, like, you know, and it was fun, you know, your family,
Speaker:your family remembers everything that you've done wrong since
Speaker:you were a child. When I was in my 60s,
Speaker:my father was still telling the story about how he took me camping and I
Speaker:was cooking the corn, and he kept saying, is it done
Speaker:yet? Is it done yet? And I said, no. And he finally said, yvonne, it's
Speaker:got to be done. And I'm like, it's not yellow yet. And it was white
Speaker:corn. I didn't know white corn, but, I mean, I'm like a full. Yeah,
Speaker:right. They remember everything. Yeah. So
Speaker:your community has got, you know, and as you go around the different groups, you're
Speaker:going to find. I like this group. This group has much more of the philosophy
Speaker:that I have. Right. This group is a good group to do this with,
Speaker:but the thing that it will do for you, it will
Speaker:increase your learning curve. You will go find more ideas
Speaker:and stuff than you could ever do by yourself. And it's exactly
Speaker:from being in a community event that I found
Speaker:My. My tagline or whatever, you know, you don't
Speaker:need to be fixed. You just need to be found. Because they. Somebody was.
Speaker:A whole bunch of people was trying to help a woman do something.
Speaker:And I got really frustrated and I went, do you have clients?
Speaker:She goes, yes. I said, do they love you? She said,
Speaker:yes. I said, do they get great results? She said, yes. I
Speaker:said, then you don't have a delivery issue.
Speaker:You know, once you have them, you're gold, Right? So you
Speaker:don't need. Everybody's trying to fix you. You don't need to be fixed. You just
Speaker:need to be found. And everybody in the room went.
Speaker:And I was like. I was like, that's it. I mean, you know, you can't
Speaker:get that kind of reaction by yourself. So. So the
Speaker:other thing is, I think that you talked about
Speaker:is being
Speaker:in community helps you to see.
Speaker:All right, so when you're in community, there's always going
Speaker:to be somebody who's ahead of you, and there's always going to be somebody who
Speaker:isn't as far as you are. And so that is always, I think, a
Speaker:surprising thing that you mean, that you say to yourself, oh, my God,
Speaker:I know this, and they don't know this. Even people. Sometimes you say things
Speaker:to people who are well established and they go, you
Speaker:know, you think to yourself, why don't they know this? Right,
Speaker:yeah. So community is a wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker:It's a reflection and it's a way to see yourself
Speaker:as you are growing and see that everybody is growing.
Speaker:So for sure, yeah. So
Speaker:let's talk about this. We talked about women,
Speaker:and our experiences, I think,
Speaker:are one of the reasons that, you know, we have seen women struggle
Speaker:and seen women, you know, whatever. What is
Speaker:the one thing, you know, I take a look at patterns, and
Speaker:so what is like one pattern or one
Speaker:limiting belief? That is a biggie.
Speaker:Oh, boy. I think the biggest
Speaker:repeated pattern that I
Speaker:see in women and used to be in myself,
Speaker:too, and even in different instances, it still shows up, is
Speaker:like, who do I think I am
Speaker:basically? You know, it's not like, why me?
Speaker:And then when they. It's comparison, really, comparing yourself to other people. And
Speaker:I really kind of help people. And I always tell my
Speaker:clients, too, when I'm speaking, I'm speaking to myself,
Speaker:either my past self or my present self that still needs to hear it over
Speaker:and over again to have it land. And
Speaker:what I've really learned, and you had asked
Speaker:one when we talked earlier, too, is like. Was like a small thing
Speaker:that you've Done to make a change. You know, instead of a really big thing,
Speaker:it's more of showing up every day instead of like, what do I need to
Speaker:do today? And shifted to
Speaker:who do I need to become today? Right. And
Speaker:shift your identity of how you see yourself, because that's how other people
Speaker:see you. And then there's other times where people see something in you and you're
Speaker:like, oh, really? Like, I don't see that in me because
Speaker:it's your natural innate ability that was given to you,
Speaker:so you don't see it. Well, it's interesting because
Speaker:in the workshop I do this thing called the three word exercise, which I was
Speaker:talking about. How do, how do I want people to describe me when I'm 100?
Speaker:And that's how. That's how I lost almost 200 pounds.
Speaker:Is that because
Speaker:at one time I weighed 440 pounds? No way.
Speaker:And, and you know, one day it said, I don't want to be like this.
Speaker:Yeah. What's missing from my life? And the first thing that came up
Speaker:was energy. I have absolutely no energy. I mean, everything,
Speaker:everything was like, you know, you go downstairs once a day
Speaker:and you come upstairs once a day. Do you know I mean it? You know?
Speaker:And I was like, I want to be energetic. And then I asked a friend
Speaker:of mine that knew me in college, and I said, if you had to describe
Speaker:me, because I was thinking that's when I felt like I was the most energetic.
Speaker:And I said to her, when I. When you knew me, then what would have
Speaker:been the one word you used to describe me? And she said,
Speaker:adventuresome. And I went, I mean, it was like somebody hit me in the head
Speaker:with a brick. I was like, oh, my God, there is
Speaker:not that person anymore. There's no spontaneity. There's
Speaker:no adventure in my life. Right? And
Speaker:then I said the same thing to my husband who knew me then. And he
Speaker:said, you were the most intriguing woman I'd ever met. And I was
Speaker:like, oh, my God. Right? And. And for
Speaker:business, I've substituted curiosity for
Speaker:intriguing. Right? But I got up every morning and
Speaker:said, what can I do today that is energetic,
Speaker:adventuresome, and intriguing or curious? I love
Speaker:that. Whenever I got ready to eat something, I would say, is this what
Speaker:an energetic, adventuresome or curious person would eat?
Speaker:What is the purpose? Why am I eating this? What is the purpose of this?
Speaker:Right. And so the same thing is true. When you're uncertain about
Speaker:the kind of decisions that you're going to make. One of the things that you
Speaker:can say is, is this the kind of action that an
Speaker:energetic, adventuresome, curious person would take?
Speaker:And your actions become much bigger. Yeah.
Speaker:Right. And so that is like a huge thing. And, and,
Speaker:and on top of that, I think one of the things that we don't
Speaker:do, there are two things. I'm sorry,
Speaker:this is supposed to be your interview, and I'm, you know, But. But I
Speaker:think we. We tend to want to wait until we're, you know, until we
Speaker:practice to be perfect. We don't acknowledge
Speaker:our celebrations as we go along. And, you know, for a long
Speaker:time, I've said, you know, the thing that I'm proudest of is even though I
Speaker:lost almost £200, it's 150, that I kept off.
Speaker:And what I realized the other day is I have now, I'm. Now that
Speaker:I'm now at 170, that I've kept off and never
Speaker:acknowledged those other. Other pounds in between. So you
Speaker:gotta celebrate as you go along. Even the small things. Were you on
Speaker:my call last night? I think it's. Were you a fly
Speaker:in the room? Because I think it's the
Speaker:astrology or whatever. Because there is definitely a movement
Speaker:about, I want my life to be good. I want to have more life in
Speaker:my life. Yeah. All right. So one of the limiting
Speaker:beliefs that I see all the time, too, limiting beliefs I see from people all
Speaker:the time, is one has to
Speaker:do with money. Oh, yeah. So. So what do you
Speaker:see in. In that arena? Oh, yeah, a lot of that.
Speaker:And I've learned, really,
Speaker:over the years, it took a lot. I had that too. Like, I had
Speaker:that, oh, I can't do this, because I was looking
Speaker:at my bank account to inform my decisions. And when I
Speaker:shifted that when I learned. But it took a long time
Speaker:to, like, I learned from my mentors and coach. Like, you tell money where to
Speaker:go. If you're letting your money direct your life,
Speaker:you're never going to be happy because you're never going to have too much and
Speaker:you're never going to have enough, and you're never going to have too low. So
Speaker:it's designing your
Speaker:life and telling your money where to go. Instead of saying, I can't
Speaker:afford this, I would either say, like you said,
Speaker:curiosity, how can I afford this?
Speaker:Or if you really,
Speaker:truly are not ready to take the step to spend the
Speaker:money there, I would also feel more
Speaker:empowered to equip somebody to say, I'm
Speaker:choosing not to put my money in that area right now. That's
Speaker:more empowering. That's not my priority.
Speaker:But here's, here's the other thing. You know, what I tell people
Speaker:is, you know, we say, I don't
Speaker:have time, I don't have money. Those are our basic go to's when we don't.
Speaker:But there really is a, a deeper reason under that
Speaker:I don't, you know. Yeah. So what I say, I say to people all the
Speaker:time, if this were free, would you do it? Yeah. Oh, yeah, of
Speaker:course. Of course I would. All right, so. So the time and the money is
Speaker:not really. It's not the thing. Right, right. But what I
Speaker:find so often is
Speaker:when people, when they have that belief that they won't, they
Speaker:don't invest in themselves, then it becomes harder to ask somebody
Speaker:to invest in them. Right. I, I listened to a coach
Speaker:once say, what's the most that you ever paid for a program?
Speaker:That's probably where you're stuck. Because
Speaker:if you ask somebody to pay more than that, then you start
Speaker:thinking, well, you know, that would be a struggle for me. So that's, you know,
Speaker:you start getting into that downward spiral. And I was like, this is so
Speaker:smart. Right? Yeah. So it's like one of the things
Speaker:that helps you is as you invest in yourself, not only do you
Speaker:get the benefit of the investment, but it also puts you in a place
Speaker:where you can charge what you're worth because
Speaker:you know what the benefit is. Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, wait for a minute. Yeah. But no, it's easy to say
Speaker:that too, for somebody. And like, I've had people say, no,
Speaker:you don't understand. I don't have the money. It's
Speaker:not in my bank account. And I'm like, is
Speaker:that what you want me to agree it with?
Speaker:No. You know, so let's change your story. We're always telling ourselves
Speaker:stories, so let's make up a good one.
Speaker:And, and I think that, you know, I. If you can't put food on your
Speaker:table, then I don't want you to take my program. Exactly. Right. Because you have
Speaker:to be at a, at a certain level. But if you tell me, you
Speaker:know, I have all these memberships and I have all these things that I'm
Speaker:paying for that I'm not getting benefit from, well, then we've got some place
Speaker:to work if you want some help. So I think, I think that,
Speaker:you know, I had somebody who, who I, I was talking to,
Speaker:and I finally said to her, do you want a hobby or do you
Speaker:want a business? I'm just passionate about this. I said, I get
Speaker:that. Yeah, but do you Want to be passionate as just
Speaker:an advocate and whatever, or do you want to
Speaker:have a business and make money, you know, because you have to support
Speaker:yourself. Right. And then I said. Then she
Speaker:kind of gave me her idea. And I said to her, I said, but here's
Speaker:the thing. This is what I feel very strongly about,
Speaker:is I think we're in the age of implementation. People
Speaker:don't need a but so much information, but they do
Speaker:need to figure out how to customize it and personalize it so that they
Speaker:can use it. Yeah. And so any program to me,
Speaker:has to have some kind of component like that in it. And so
Speaker:she goes, no, I'm just going to have the workshop and send them off.
Speaker:And I said, that's like selling somebody a pair of shoes and only giving them
Speaker:one shoe. Yeah. You know,
Speaker:so I think, you know, again, I'll go back to community. Sometimes if you don't
Speaker:say your ideas out loud, nobody knows what you're talking about. You know, you don't
Speaker:see where the, you know, the pitfalls are that you can avoid. Okay,
Speaker:so this is before we run out of time, because you and I philosophically
Speaker:could talk about all kinds of things.
Speaker:I usually like to ask, what are three things that you say to people that
Speaker:you want them to do that's going to help them?
Speaker:You know, I jotted a couple things down here, too.
Speaker:You know, the one thing was every day, ask yourself, who
Speaker:am I becoming like is the goal that I've set?
Speaker:You know, am I showing up as that woman who is
Speaker:acting as if I already have this? Right.
Speaker:The other thing is what I also said too, is do
Speaker:something. I didn't say that in this way, but do something
Speaker:that creates joy and
Speaker:brings your energy up and makes you feel. You do the thing
Speaker:that you've been avoiding doing because it makes it easier. And
Speaker:then you're not going to hack people. You're attracting people
Speaker:because you have that energy, because people could feel the energy. Right?
Speaker:And then so when you're ready and you do something to take, you know,
Speaker:joyful action, then I would say, take joyful, intentional action.
Speaker:What is the one thing that if I did
Speaker:that today and I put it on rinse and
Speaker:repeat every day, I know that it
Speaker:is going to start a movement, and then we
Speaker:can create some momentum. And that's why I called my the
Speaker:Joyful Momentum Collective, because I
Speaker:want people to come in, start taking action,
Speaker:get clarity, take action and keep taking action so you can get some
Speaker:momentum. We keep stopping and then starting all over again.
Speaker:So we lose momentum. That's why we think like we're starting from scratch all
Speaker:over again all the time. So, so, so again with,
Speaker:with the things that I say, it's like you're not starting over, you're continuing
Speaker:on. And, and, and the other thing, just as
Speaker:a tip that goes into what you just said, I, I used,
Speaker:I have this thing that's called the, the divided to do list.
Speaker:And you know how we make these lists. So on the left hand side is
Speaker:all the things that I have to do and I divide the page in
Speaker:half and on the right hand side are the things that I want to do.
Speaker:Right. And if you pick something that you want to do and do that
Speaker:first, your day will be so
Speaker:energetic. You're so excited. The energy. And not only
Speaker:that, whatever you have to do will fill the
Speaker:time that you have. And you will never have time left over to do what
Speaker:you want to do. I mean, it just, it just does because you, you, you
Speaker:play with it a little bit more. You go, can I do a little this?
Speaker:Can I do you know where if your time is tighter, you go, it's good
Speaker:enough, you know, for whatever that thing is that you have to do.
Speaker:Okay. So you also have a gift for us. I do.
Speaker:We've created an assessment and it's a
Speaker:really short, like under three minute, like a
Speaker:survey type thing. But it gives you immediate results to find out
Speaker:where you might be holding yourself back. Like where are you
Speaker:stuck, where are you starting and stopping
Speaker:just to identify that. And it does give you your answers right away.
Speaker:You don't have to wait to get an email or anything like that. So
Speaker:it's just Julie K. Can't wait to do that. Yeah.
Speaker:Okay. Coaching.com assessment. So
Speaker:that's fine. It's just easy. It'll. It'll be in the notes so you guys
Speaker:can find it really easy. And the
Speaker:other thing, of course, is the, the, the fun question of
Speaker:when was the last time you did something new for the first time?
Speaker:I saw that I was trying to think of what was new for the first
Speaker:time. It doesn't have to be totally new. It can be something you
Speaker:went back to, something that you haven't done for a long time.
Speaker:I was trying to think of that. I really, I don't know. I. This was
Speaker:my birthday month and we're still in it. So
Speaker:I always celebrate. Thank you.
Speaker:Notoriously, I have a spa day with my
Speaker:daughter and her girlfriend since sixth grade and one of my
Speaker:girlfriends. And this time, what a great role model. Right. We did that
Speaker:ever since they turned 21. We started doing that together
Speaker:and. But I expanded. My birthday went
Speaker:like three whole weeks with trips, little
Speaker:trips and little getaways. Came home for a day, did the
Speaker:spa day, went away again. So I felt like this was
Speaker:my best birthday ever. Even though it's one of those that people go like, oh,
Speaker:my gosh, you're that old. You know, I'm like,
Speaker:I get. I have energy, I have, you know,
Speaker:fun is one of my pillars. So I'm just
Speaker:milking it right till the end of the month. I decided this year it was
Speaker:going to be. Not going to be over at the end of the month. It's
Speaker:going to take the rest of, you know, and just keep celebrating
Speaker:it. I think that's fantastic. And the fact that you're going.
Speaker:You haven't done it for a while, but in. In the fall, you're going on
Speaker:your girlfriend trip. Yeah. It's been a number of years.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it'll be different because it's been a couple of years. So
Speaker:it'll be like. Yeah, almost like the first time again, except better.
Speaker:And that's one of the things that I almost said, oh, I can't do it
Speaker:because we're actually going on a trip out
Speaker:east. Like, I'll be getting back and being home for like
Speaker:four days after being gone for 10 days and then
Speaker:going again. But I'm like, you know what? Life is too short to say
Speaker:no. I work for myself. It's all going to be
Speaker:okay. You have to say yes. Absolutely.
Speaker:Absolutely. Okay. I hate to stop this, but we gotta.
Speaker:So we do. We do. So for those who are listening, I hope your
Speaker:first step will be subscribe, and I hope you will share and engage on social
Speaker:media with this. Because one of the reasons that I do it is that I
Speaker:want to help you supercharge your business and create a community
Speaker:where that's happening on a regular basis. And
Speaker:through this, I want you to be able to grow
Speaker:and have an impact. And so I hope you'll continue to, you know,
Speaker:join me for the one small change as we go through this journey together.
Speaker:And if you haven't seen it already, the first episodes, and there are a couple
Speaker:of other episodes in there that I call the Clarity. The Clarity
Speaker:calls that you can look at as well. So,
Speaker:Julie, what are your last words of wisdom? What. What is
Speaker:things that you always say to your clients,
Speaker:do something fun first, then
Speaker:take action. I love that. Do something fun first,
Speaker:then take action. Okay, guys, we have to wrap this up. And
Speaker:the thing that I want you to remember is the change can be simple, but
Speaker:it's not always easy. It requires courage, resilience, and a
Speaker:willingness to step out of your comfort zone. So, you know, my
Speaker:mantra is I must be making, you know, a big change
Speaker:because I've never felt this miserable before.
Speaker:So acknowledging it is a good thing. And so I
Speaker:hope that you will continue on the journey of bold vision and innovative
Speaker:possibilities. Until next time, I hope you will stay
Speaker:very, very curious. Julie, thank you.