So Sarah, tell me about your vision.
Well, Harry, I am currently working and helping Christian authors and speakers.
And my vision really is to help spread the gospel as far as I can through
helping these authors and speakers.
Specifically, what I do is I help them create a concrete purpose.
If they come to me and they're not quite sure where they're even supposed to begin,
they just know that they feel a calling and urge to write, to speak, that kind of thing.
Then we drill down what that means specifically for them.
Then the next step, a lot of them have written books, but they don't know how to
put that book into a presentation.
So with them, I help create a confident presentation where it's not just great in
content, but where it's also fantastic in delivery.
And then the third thing I do, which is a lot of what I do, and that is helping
create a clear path.
You know, a lot of authors will come out and say, I just hope to sell some books.
Sometimes they have a number.
A lot of times they don't.
And so helping them have a clear goal of how many books they want to sell, how many
speaking gigs they want to get per year, then per month, that kind of thing, and
then helping facilitate the process to get them on those stages and to sell their
books.
So my goal really is to help people ultimately to fulfill their potential as
speakers and authors, as communicators.
Thank you for sharing that.
Would you say, you said right now you're focused on Christian authors and that's
your main field of going and main audience, if I will say, or main focus group.
Correct?
That is the main focus group.
Those are the main people that I'm working with right now.
Okay.
And you want to expand it to everyone in the future?
I think that if there are authors out there that would have a message, then I'd
be happy to work with them.
I just know that this is, this was the low hanging fruit.
This is where I am.
This is the community that I'm in.
It was easy to start here and it's just kind of taken off in that, in that genre.
But yes, I'd love to help anybody who's got, even if they don't have a book yet,
if they have a message that they feel called to share, I want to come in and
help them put a voice to that.
Whether it's through a book or through a talk or both.
How long would you say that you have been helping people, Sarah?
I have been a coach for over 20 years.
I started really by helping people more in the corporate world.
I was coaching engineers at a local engineering firm and I feel like if I
can help engineers make their talks more interesting, I certainly can help people
who are creative enough to have a message or passionate enough to have a message
to do that.
And it was very fun being in the corporate world to help bankers.
I did help another author who is an amazing person.
And so different things throughout the years, but really, I've been doing this
on and off for quite a while.
So if I were to ask you, how did you get started on the journey of helping
Christian authors?
When did that start?
That started more recently within the last year or so.
And it started, like I said, sort of organically because that's who I was
connecting with on Facebook.
That's who was sort of in my community anyway.
I published my own book about a year ago and so was connecting with others who
were doing book launches, helping them on their launches.
They helped me on my launch.
And then it sort of blossomed from there into more of I can help you further than
this, further than just launching your book, more than just having a message
that's in writing, but let's get a message that's out on some stages as well.
You said you have a book that they helped you launch as well.
What's the book called?
My book is called Six Ways to Sunday, and it's not about helping people with
speaking.
It's actually about helping people with personal Bible study.
So I call it Six Ways to Sunday, Bible study techniques for anyone.
It's really just a little handbook for anybody interested in studying
scripture on their own without having to have it be very formal or having to have
any formal education, just simple techniques to get into the Bible.
I'm trying to find your book.
Oh, Six Ways to Sunday, Sarah Schaefer.
This is what it looks like.
I think I found it.
Yeah, it looks like that.
Yeah, I found it.
That is awesome.
There's a companion journal that goes with it.
I was really excited.
The gal who designed it.
And it went to number one bestseller right away, right after it came out.
So that was also very exciting and very fun.
Awesome.
That's good to know.
So, Sarah, what is your goals for being on the show?
Well, I think we all have a vision, but it's different for each person.
And certainly what I would love for somebody to get is that whatever unique thing that they have,
and it might even feel really niche down, like I'm pretty niched down when I say a specific
genre of author, but that it's okay, whether it's something that's really narrow or something
that's wider, your vision is your vision.
And the actual doing of it is the part that can get really sticky and really challenging
and really hard.
And so my goal would be both to encourage people to think really big
and also to keep going when things get really tough.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is going to get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.