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So Sarah, tell me about your vision.

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Well, Harry, I am currently working and helping Christian authors and speakers.

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And my vision really is to help spread the gospel as far as I can through

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helping these authors and speakers.

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Specifically, what I do is I help them create a concrete purpose.

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If they come to me and they're not quite sure where they're even supposed to begin,

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they just know that they feel a calling and urge to write, to speak, that kind of thing.

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Then we drill down what that means specifically for them.

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Then the next step, a lot of them have written books, but they don't know how to

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put that book into a presentation.

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So with them, I help create a confident presentation where it's not just great in

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content, but where it's also fantastic in delivery.

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And then the third thing I do, which is a lot of what I do, and that is helping

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create a clear path.

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You know, a lot of authors will come out and say, I just hope to sell some books.

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Sometimes they have a number.

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A lot of times they don't.

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And so helping them have a clear goal of how many books they want to sell, how many

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speaking gigs they want to get per year, then per month, that kind of thing, and

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then helping facilitate the process to get them on those stages and to sell their

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books.

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So my goal really is to help people ultimately to fulfill their potential as

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speakers and authors, as communicators.

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Thank you for sharing that.

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Would you say, you said right now you're focused on Christian authors and that's

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your main field of going and main audience, if I will say, or main focus group.

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Correct?

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That is the main focus group.

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Those are the main people that I'm working with right now.

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Okay.

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And you want to expand it to everyone in the future?

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I think that if there are authors out there that would have a message, then I'd

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be happy to work with them.

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I just know that this is, this was the low hanging fruit.

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This is where I am.

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This is the community that I'm in.

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It was easy to start here and it's just kind of taken off in that, in that genre.

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But yes, I'd love to help anybody who's got, even if they don't have a book yet,

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if they have a message that they feel called to share, I want to come in and

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help them put a voice to that.

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Whether it's through a book or through a talk or both.

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How long would you say that you have been helping people, Sarah?

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I have been a coach for over 20 years.

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I started really by helping people more in the corporate world.

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I was coaching engineers at a local engineering firm and I feel like if I

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can help engineers make their talks more interesting, I certainly can help people

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who are creative enough to have a message or passionate enough to have a message

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to do that.

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And it was very fun being in the corporate world to help bankers.

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I did help another author who is an amazing person.

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And so different things throughout the years, but really, I've been doing this

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on and off for quite a while.

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So if I were to ask you, how did you get started on the journey of helping

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Christian authors?

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When did that start?

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That started more recently within the last year or so.

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And it started, like I said, sort of organically because that's who I was

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connecting with on Facebook.

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That's who was sort of in my community anyway.

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I published my own book about a year ago and so was connecting with others who

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were doing book launches, helping them on their launches.

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They helped me on my launch.

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And then it sort of blossomed from there into more of I can help you further than

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this, further than just launching your book, more than just having a message

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that's in writing, but let's get a message that's out on some stages as well.

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You said you have a book that they helped you launch as well.

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What's the book called?

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My book is called Six Ways to Sunday, and it's not about helping people with

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speaking.

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It's actually about helping people with personal Bible study.

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So I call it Six Ways to Sunday, Bible study techniques for anyone.

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It's really just a little handbook for anybody interested in studying

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scripture on their own without having to have it be very formal or having to have

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any formal education, just simple techniques to get into the Bible.

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I'm trying to find your book.

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Oh, Six Ways to Sunday, Sarah Schaefer.

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This is what it looks like.

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I think I found it.

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Yeah, it looks like that.

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Yeah, I found it.

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That is awesome.

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There's a companion journal that goes with it.

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I was really excited.

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The gal who designed it.

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And it went to number one bestseller right away, right after it came out.

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So that was also very exciting and very fun.

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Awesome.

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That's good to know.

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So, Sarah, what is your goals for being on the show?

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Well, I think we all have a vision, but it's different for each person.

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And certainly what I would love for somebody to get is that whatever unique thing that they have,

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and it might even feel really niche down, like I'm pretty niched down when I say a specific

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genre of author, but that it's okay, whether it's something that's really narrow or something

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that's wider, your vision is your vision.

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And the actual doing of it is the part that can get really sticky and really challenging

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and really hard.

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And so my goal would be both to encourage people to think really big

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and also to keep going when things get really tough.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.