1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,440 Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everybody, 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,140 and welcome to today's episode 3 00:00:04,140 --> 00:00:06,160 of the Never Peak Project Podcast. 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,720 I'm your host, Coach Ranger, 5 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,840 and today's episode is one of my weekly updates 6 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,300 in self-employment. 7 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,360 It's my way of kind of documenting and exploring, 8 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,920 navigating the world of self-employment. 9 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,140 So thank you guys so much for joining me on this. 10 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:24,560 My goal with this is to kind of be like a documentation 11 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,800 and a reminder for myself of the journey 12 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,860 that I've gone through over the last few months 13 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:32,000 and the next, hopefully, rest of my life. 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,440 And I just kind of want to take a page 15 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,000 from Alex Hormozzi's book, where he kind of documents 16 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,280 the lessons that he's learned over time. 17 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,080 Just like he says, Warren, Buffett, and Musk, 18 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,960 they are in that billionaire category, 19 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,640 and he wishes that they had a resource to look back on. 20 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,220 And I kind of hope that the lessons that I learned here, 21 00:00:50,220 --> 00:00:54,340 the things that, the themes that really come up consistently 22 00:00:54,340 --> 00:00:57,280 can be useful for you in your own journey 23 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,960 of solopreneurship and running your own business. 24 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,560 So thank you for your time and attention. 25 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,080 I hope that the things that I share here 26 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:05,620 are valuable for you. 27 00:01:05,620 --> 00:01:07,680 And if there's anything else that you want me 28 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,760 to talk more about as you listen to these episodes, 29 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,700 I am more than happy to do a little bit more research 30 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:17,700 and create a legitimate resource for you on your journey. 31 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,140 First thing I want to acknowledge is I know 32 00:01:20,140 --> 00:01:21,740 that everybody comes to this podcast 33 00:01:21,740 --> 00:01:24,440 for the fantastic video quality 34 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,920 that the YouTube videos typically have, 35 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,760 but I am having an issue with my continuity camera 36 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,520 on my iPhone. 37 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,320 What I typically do is I set up the Riverside platform 38 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:37,400 to connect to my iPhone, 39 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,080 and then I use my iPhone as the camera. 40 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,800 Earlier today, I tried recording a special episode 41 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,320 for a series I'm doing in March of the podcast, 42 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:47,800 where I'm still debating whether or not 43 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,540 I want to release all the episodes at once, 44 00:01:49,540 --> 00:01:52,120 or just kind of sprinkle them throughout the month. 45 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,180 But the issue that I'm running into 46 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:56,600 is that the camera keeps freezing, 47 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,840 and it kicked me and my guest off of the podcast 48 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,560 earlier today, which just made everything 49 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,080 more difficult and annoying, 50 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,140 and we ended up having to reschedule 51 00:02:07,140 --> 00:02:09,220 while I figure out what's going on. 52 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:11,240 I hope that restarting my computer 53 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,720 and getting rid of all the apps that were open would help, 54 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,440 but I tried using my phone again, 55 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,280 and the same issue happened. 56 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,780 It froze and kicked me out of the studio, 57 00:02:20,780 --> 00:02:24,880 so I am now recording on just the base computer camera 58 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,280 that's stuck on my Mac. 59 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,400 It's not terrible, it's not great either, 60 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,400 but it's just something that I need to figure out. 61 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,520 So if anybody listening is a Riverside I.O. expert, 62 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:37,800 I would super appreciate it. 63 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,720 I am in a podcasting group with a gentleman named Caleb. 64 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,520 He did a little bit of a mastermind 65 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,320 that I was in the last few weeks, 66 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,360 so I might actually reach out to them 67 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:48,600 and see if they know of anything 68 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,840 or how to kind of troubleshoot that. 69 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,920 But the few things I wanna talk about today 70 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:59,920 are canceled workshops, leadership roles in extracurriculars, 71 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,720 something that I noticed in podcast analytics, 72 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,120 using AI to cut down on time, 73 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,920 and then an issue I'm running into 74 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:12,240 with one of my New Year's resolutions. 75 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:17,160 So the very first one is I had a few really big ideas 76 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,480 going into the year. 77 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,240 One of them was doing a workshop series 78 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,560 called Walking Toward Success 79 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,640 with one of my good friends Stephanie Alston, 80 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:28,240 who owns Santoshia Yoga Collective in Loomis, California. 81 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,160 If you remember from my walk across America, 82 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,400 she was my yoga instructor. 83 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,760 I would message her every once in a while, 84 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,040 hey, my thigh hurts, what do I do? 85 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,960 My joint hurts, what's a good stretch for this? 86 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,200 How do I reset and reconnect? 87 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,400 I'm feeling very sluggish. 88 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,000 And she would help me with a lot of the body issues 89 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:46,960 that I was having. 90 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,180 And her and I went through 91 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:53,700 the Transformative Coaching Essentials cohort 92 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:55,580 together in 2023. 93 00:03:55,580 --> 00:03:56,580 So we're pretty close. 94 00:03:56,580 --> 00:03:58,700 We've worked together pretty consistently. 95 00:04:00,060 --> 00:04:03,460 We were planning on doing a workshop series together 96 00:04:03,460 --> 00:04:06,060 for the first few months of 2025 97 00:04:06,060 --> 00:04:07,880 called Walking Toward Success, 98 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,700 where I was going to be talking about lessons 99 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:11,620 for my walk across the country. 100 00:04:11,620 --> 00:04:13,340 The first month was gonna be, you know, 101 00:04:13,340 --> 00:04:15,460 mindset around your why, 102 00:04:15,460 --> 00:04:17,300 how to set a mission statement, a vision, 103 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:19,860 how to set clear, actionable goals. 104 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:22,540 The second month was going to be a lot of parts work 105 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:26,440 and really diving into the sabotaging voice 106 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:30,740 and how to come up with or get past the mindset shifts 107 00:04:30,740 --> 00:04:33,200 and stories that you're creating for yourself 108 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,700 that are preventing you from getting where you wanna go. 109 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:37,300 And then the other few months were about, you know, 110 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:39,460 accountability, how to set that up for yourself, 111 00:04:39,460 --> 00:04:41,620 how to take extreme accountability 112 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:42,700 for the goals in your life, 113 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:47,700 and how to break down goals from these big, large, crazy 114 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:49,860 adventures that you have to go on 115 00:04:49,860 --> 00:04:51,700 in order to become the person you need to be 116 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,020 to achieve them and how to break it down 117 00:04:54,020 --> 00:04:56,060 into the manageable steps. 118 00:04:56,060 --> 00:05:00,900 That was a lot of talking about what the content was, 119 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:02,700 but the idea was that it was this whole series 120 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:04,260 about mindset towards creating the life 121 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:06,020 that you wanna live, 122 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:09,500 but it was supposed to start tomorrow 123 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,260 and I should actually be in Sacramento right now 124 00:05:12,260 --> 00:05:14,860 at my friend's place crashing there for the night, 125 00:05:14,860 --> 00:05:17,620 but we ended up canceling the entire series. 126 00:05:17,620 --> 00:05:21,420 Now we canceled the entire series because nobody signed up. 127 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:23,080 Nobody was interested. 128 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,400 And there's a few different reasons that her and I discussed 129 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,900 as to why this was happening. 130 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:28,900 And I think they're all super valid. 131 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:32,060 One of the main ones was that she is enrolling 132 00:05:32,060 --> 00:05:36,580 for some higher level workshops and courses herself. 133 00:05:36,580 --> 00:05:38,340 She is the owner of the yoga studio. 134 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:40,160 She's been doing this for years 135 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,140 and she's actually doing a yoga teacher training herself. 136 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:47,020 She's also doing some other smaller certifications 137 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:48,680 and I think continuing education units 138 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:50,420 for yoga instructors. 139 00:05:50,420 --> 00:05:53,180 So I think that a lot of her audience 140 00:05:53,180 --> 00:05:55,380 that when we were sharing this information 141 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:58,860 and doing these weekly live streams on Instagram, 142 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:00,260 they weren't really hitting anybody 143 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:03,060 because these people that are in her audience 144 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:06,420 have pretty much already gone through that mindset work. 145 00:06:06,420 --> 00:06:07,580 They know how to set goals. 146 00:06:07,580 --> 00:06:11,460 They know how to kind of get past these roadblocks. 147 00:06:11,460 --> 00:06:14,140 Do they know what coaching is in general? 148 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:15,700 I mean, that was one of the main reasons 149 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:19,220 that her and her studio wanted to do something like this 150 00:06:19,220 --> 00:06:20,860 was to introduce people to coaching. 151 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:23,820 It's like, I don't know that they actually know 152 00:06:23,820 --> 00:06:26,300 what coaching is or have experience in that regard, 153 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:28,620 but I think it was just kind of falling on deaf ears 154 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:30,080 in her community. 155 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,020 And the thing that I noticed with my community 156 00:06:32,020 --> 00:06:35,260 is that I have a lot of people all across the country 157 00:06:35,260 --> 00:06:38,300 that are on my mailing list and in my Facebook page 158 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:41,140 and in my sphere of influence still. 159 00:06:41,140 --> 00:06:45,860 So saying that we were doing a workshop series in California 160 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:48,200 on these specific days at these specific times 161 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:49,940 didn't really help them. 162 00:06:49,940 --> 00:06:54,260 We did introduce a Zoom version of the workshops eventually, 163 00:06:54,260 --> 00:06:55,820 but I think it was a little bit too late 164 00:06:55,820 --> 00:06:58,620 and not many people were seeing the emails. 165 00:06:58,620 --> 00:07:00,800 I noticed that those ones, whenever I do an ad 166 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,440 in my newsletter and it gets nowhere nearly the interaction 167 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,100 that I would like for it to, 168 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,200 as opposed to just the weekly trail markers 169 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,820 or walk across America stories that I do. 170 00:07:12,820 --> 00:07:15,020 So I think that my community is very much still primed 171 00:07:15,020 --> 00:07:16,540 for walk content. 172 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:19,060 So I would really love to find a way to still connect 173 00:07:19,060 --> 00:07:21,860 that very clearly with the coaching practice, 174 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:23,300 which I think it's so clear. 175 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:26,060 I know that a lot of people that see myself consistently 176 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:27,980 associate those two together, 177 00:07:27,980 --> 00:07:29,700 but I definitely think that there's still some areas 178 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:30,540 for improvement. 179 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:34,560 So like I was saying, that first thing is that 180 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,600 it was falling on deaf ears. 181 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,960 Her community is more higher level than this 182 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,200 and my community is a little bit more spread out 183 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,640 and not super primed to that idea in general. 184 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,360 The other thing was I think really just the messaging 185 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,380 of the workshop series itself. 186 00:07:53,380 --> 00:07:56,280 It wasn't specific who the avatar was. 187 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,080 Who are we actually doing this for? 188 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,240 What I realized when one of our last calls 189 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,580 when we were kind of like, 190 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,840 I don't know, I called it just like our debriefing, 191 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,920 like complaining to each other calls. 192 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,960 It was just like, you know, it's just not, 193 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,000 I feel like we're not talking to anybody. 194 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,120 I feel like we're not getting the point across 195 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,080 to the people that we need to get it across to. 196 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,800 Like there's not a specific avatar or person. 197 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:24,720 And that really got me thinking like, 198 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,500 if we should be talking specifically to, 199 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:31,220 not just people that are interested in your yoga studio, 200 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:35,620 but people that are this profession or this thing. 201 00:08:35,620 --> 00:08:37,060 And it kind of got us thinking that 202 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:40,500 we should make this specifically for solopreneurs 203 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:42,780 in the health and wellness space, 204 00:08:42,780 --> 00:08:45,820 even more specifically solopreneurs in the yoga 205 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:50,060 and wealth, health and fitness space. 206 00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:51,340 So I think that's what we're going to do. 207 00:08:51,340 --> 00:08:53,120 We're going to take all of this. 208 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,140 And I guess what I want to acknowledge first is 209 00:08:56,140 --> 00:08:59,920 neither one of us took this failure, 210 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:01,260 which I'm going to call, 211 00:09:01,260 --> 00:09:03,180 I'm going to put it in that category of failure. 212 00:09:03,180 --> 00:09:04,020 No one signed up. 213 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:05,080 We didn't make anything from it. 214 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,860 We spent so much time and money on this. 215 00:09:07,860 --> 00:09:10,860 Honestly, more time than we did money on anything, 216 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:13,020 but we spent a lot of our time and effort on this 217 00:09:13,020 --> 00:09:15,060 when we could have been doing other stuff 218 00:09:15,060 --> 00:09:16,480 and it didn't really pan out. 219 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,580 So I am going to put it in that failure camp category, 220 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:22,180 but I'm not going to put myself in that category. 221 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:24,820 And I'm not going to let her put herself in that category 222 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,340 just because this project failed 223 00:09:26,340 --> 00:09:30,580 doesn't mean that we ourselves are failures. 224 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:32,500 I want to make that very clear. 225 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,900 What I do want to acknowledge is that in failure, 226 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:37,140 there is opportunity. 227 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:39,620 So what we're going to do is take all the content 228 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:40,460 we've already made. 229 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:42,600 I mean, we've already been doing it 230 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,980 and really just repurposing and repackaging it 231 00:09:44,980 --> 00:09:49,980 for the spring for yoga and health and wellness solopreneurs 232 00:09:49,980 --> 00:09:54,980 and kind of maybe changing the structure of the workshops 233 00:09:55,980 --> 00:09:57,140 to be a little bit shorter. 234 00:09:57,140 --> 00:09:59,340 Right now we were doing three hour long workshops 235 00:09:59,340 --> 00:10:03,660 for four months, once a month for four months. 236 00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:06,380 So that was still 12 hours that people would need 237 00:10:06,380 --> 00:10:09,700 to commit to to do the entire four workshops. 238 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:11,460 So I think that might've been a portion of it. 239 00:10:11,460 --> 00:10:14,140 Like we didn't really get specific feedback. 240 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:15,860 So if you are listening right now actually 241 00:10:15,860 --> 00:10:17,860 and you would be willing to give me the gift 242 00:10:17,860 --> 00:10:19,220 of feedback on that, 243 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:20,900 if you heard about these workshops series 244 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:22,220 and you didn't sign up, 245 00:10:22,220 --> 00:10:24,820 I would personally love to know why. 246 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:29,100 Whether it is the distance, the geography, the content, 247 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:30,340 it was confusing. 248 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:32,060 I would personally love to know that. 249 00:10:32,060 --> 00:10:34,760 If I can make an ask for this episode, 250 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,560 I think I'm going to keep it to that. 251 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,780 So just let me know. 252 00:10:38,780 --> 00:10:40,740 I'm just kind of rambling about this now. 253 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:42,900 But the point is we're taking all that information 254 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:44,140 and we're repackaging it more 255 00:10:44,140 --> 00:10:48,360 so that we can hit our target audience more specifically. 256 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:49,820 And I know that's something that Alex Hermosing 257 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:51,580 and all these other marketers kind of talk about 258 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:53,700 is know your audience, know who you're talking to. 259 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:55,380 We thought we did, 260 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:58,540 but until we were kind of slapped in the face with that, 261 00:10:58,540 --> 00:11:00,000 it didn't really stick. 262 00:11:01,020 --> 00:11:03,780 So that's where we're at with that. 263 00:11:03,780 --> 00:11:06,460 This kind of reminds me of at the very beginning 264 00:11:06,460 --> 00:11:08,540 of me starting my business, 265 00:11:08,540 --> 00:11:10,620 I was talking to this lady who worked 266 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:12,460 for this youth nonprofit. 267 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:14,660 It was like a keep the youth off of drugs 268 00:11:14,660 --> 00:11:17,940 and give them something to do organization. 269 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:19,180 And she had actually asked me 270 00:11:19,180 --> 00:11:21,800 to do a personal finance workshop series there 271 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,500 for a few months. 272 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:26,240 And I was like, yes, I would love to do that. 273 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,180 That'd be fantastic. 274 00:11:27,180 --> 00:11:28,540 That's a great opportunity. 275 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,700 And the, I don't know, two or three weeks 276 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:32,980 before I was supposed to start, 277 00:11:32,980 --> 00:11:35,440 she messaged me and said that the nonprofit 278 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,700 was acquired by another business or another entity, 279 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:40,740 that she was no longer working there 280 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:42,220 and the entire thing was canceled. 281 00:11:42,220 --> 00:11:45,260 So it's like, these things kind of just keep happening 282 00:11:45,260 --> 00:11:47,340 that I have these workshops series set up 283 00:11:47,340 --> 00:11:49,460 and then something either out of my control 284 00:11:49,460 --> 00:11:50,420 or in my control, I guess, 285 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:54,340 in this most recent case happens that canceled it. 286 00:11:54,340 --> 00:11:56,260 So, I don't know, I was thinking of that 287 00:11:56,260 --> 00:11:58,900 as I was making the notes for this episode. 288 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:00,940 And I just wanted to like mention that, 289 00:12:00,940 --> 00:12:03,740 but I can probably talk about that more in other times. 290 00:12:03,740 --> 00:12:05,740 The other thing that happened this week, 291 00:12:05,740 --> 00:12:08,780 or I guess a few weeks ago that kicked in this week 292 00:12:08,780 --> 00:12:11,720 is that I was elected the chair 293 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,260 of my business referral network club 294 00:12:14,260 --> 00:12:17,320 through the Chamber of Commerce in San Mateo. 295 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,540 So it's not the B&I group that I'm a part of, 296 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:22,200 it's like a smaller group in the Chamber of Commerce 297 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,020 that meets weekly and we talk about our business 298 00:12:25,020 --> 00:12:25,860 and get to know each other. 299 00:12:25,860 --> 00:12:27,820 It's just like a smaller networking group, 300 00:12:27,820 --> 00:12:32,660 but I was elected chair of that in the December of last year. 301 00:12:32,660 --> 00:12:36,760 So I think it was two weeks before Christmas or so, 302 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,260 but we had our first meeting this last week, 303 00:12:38,260 --> 00:12:40,780 it was on Zoom and it was great. 304 00:12:40,780 --> 00:12:42,580 I mean, I really enjoyed it. 305 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:43,980 I had a good time. 306 00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:45,860 I really wanted to focus on in this first meeting 307 00:12:45,860 --> 00:12:48,780 our purpose and reason for being there. 308 00:12:48,780 --> 00:12:50,540 I wanted to be very clear starting off, 309 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:52,460 like why are we meeting every week? 310 00:12:52,460 --> 00:12:55,120 Why are we spending this hour? 311 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,740 Why are we encouraging each other 312 00:12:56,740 --> 00:13:00,100 to meet up with one another throughout the month? 313 00:13:01,260 --> 00:13:03,280 Why, right? 314 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,200 And I think that when I brought that up, 315 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,580 people were kind of saying like, 316 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:10,540 well, you know, it's like supporting one another 317 00:13:10,540 --> 00:13:11,740 and community and this and that, 318 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:14,820 which is all part of it, like it's true, right? 319 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:18,540 And one of the guys in the group eventually said, 320 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:20,580 you know, like, I love you guys, I love being here, 321 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:22,540 but I'm here because this is marketing. 322 00:13:22,540 --> 00:13:23,900 Like this is part of my business. 323 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:25,980 Like I'm here to make money. 324 00:13:25,980 --> 00:13:28,580 And I was really glad that he had said that 325 00:13:28,580 --> 00:13:31,280 and was pretty like brought a lot of candor to the meeting 326 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:32,580 because I mean, that's true, right? 327 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:33,620 Like that's why we are there. 328 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:35,700 That's why we are spending this time. 329 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:37,620 And it really made me remember that 330 00:13:37,620 --> 00:13:42,620 to have a reason as to why you're doing anything, 331 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:45,300 whether it's for your business or outside of it, 332 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,300 because everything has a cost, 333 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,900 whether it is the time value, the value of your money, 334 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:53,340 the value of gas, like all these different things 335 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:58,340 add up towards some kind of cost for your business. 336 00:13:58,860 --> 00:14:01,860 So I think being very clear on the reason and purpose 337 00:14:01,860 --> 00:14:04,220 for everything that you do is important. 338 00:14:04,220 --> 00:14:07,340 But I was able to come up with a mission statement 339 00:14:07,340 --> 00:14:11,140 based off of the conversation that we had, some goals, 340 00:14:11,140 --> 00:14:12,620 and I'm going to share that with everybody 341 00:14:12,620 --> 00:14:13,780 at the next meeting. 342 00:14:13,780 --> 00:14:16,220 So I thought that was really great. 343 00:14:16,220 --> 00:14:19,740 I asked him for initial agreements that I wanted to set 344 00:14:19,740 --> 00:14:20,940 at the very beginning. 345 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:22,100 And one of the very first ones 346 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:24,900 was that we start immediately on time. 347 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:26,420 No, let's wait a minute or two. 348 00:14:26,420 --> 00:14:27,260 No, let's whatever. 349 00:14:27,260 --> 00:14:30,700 It's like, no, we start at 7.30, we start at 7.30. 350 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:34,020 And that was one of them, laser speak. 351 00:14:34,020 --> 00:14:37,420 So when it is your turn to talk, get to the point, 352 00:14:37,420 --> 00:14:38,460 get to the bottom line. 353 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:41,340 Let's not waste time adding a lot of dribble to it. 354 00:14:41,340 --> 00:14:43,620 I mean, for me, that's where one-to-ones come in, 355 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:44,820 is that you can get more personal. 356 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:46,540 You can learn a lot more about each other. 357 00:14:46,540 --> 00:14:49,060 But during the meeting, we only have a set amount of time. 358 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:53,580 Let's get in, get out, and not screw around, right? 359 00:14:53,580 --> 00:14:58,580 So those were very basic agreements. 360 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:04,020 But I think that there are like the, how do you say? 361 00:15:04,020 --> 00:15:07,060 The baseline, base level agreements 362 00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:08,980 that need to be said out loud 363 00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:11,900 so that everybody is on the same page. 364 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:13,780 I'm really big on having that clear communication 365 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:15,980 and being very certain about what is going on, 366 00:15:15,980 --> 00:15:18,980 what are the expectations for the group and for ourselves, 367 00:15:18,980 --> 00:15:20,780 and how we all kind of play into that. 368 00:15:20,780 --> 00:15:21,740 So that's what I would encourage 369 00:15:21,740 --> 00:15:22,780 if you're listening to this right now 370 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:25,820 and you are a part of an extracurricular group 371 00:15:25,820 --> 00:15:27,500 and you are in a leadership role, 372 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:30,060 is to set clear agreements with one another, 373 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:31,820 because that's just going to really set the tone 374 00:15:31,820 --> 00:15:33,420 for the meeting so that you're all very clear 375 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:35,500 and concise on why you are there. 376 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:37,540 And if the conversation starts drifting 377 00:15:37,540 --> 00:15:41,060 out of those boundaries, you can kind of feel empowered 378 00:15:41,060 --> 00:15:42,900 to say, hey, like, I think we're kind of falling 379 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:44,420 off the road here, can we get back on 380 00:15:44,420 --> 00:15:47,660 before we fall down the cliff of tangents 381 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:49,380 and side conversations? 382 00:15:49,380 --> 00:15:52,460 That's really what I would suggest there. 383 00:15:53,820 --> 00:15:56,380 Something cute that I noticed, I noticed this a while ago, 384 00:15:56,380 --> 00:16:01,380 but the third most downloaded, so on rss.com 385 00:16:01,620 --> 00:16:04,700 where my podcast is hosted, they show the analytics 386 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,460 for where your listeners come from. 387 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:10,700 And you know, like the ones that pop up make sense, right? 388 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:14,620 It's like Sacramento, San Francisco area, 389 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:16,820 San Mateo, Redwood City, like where my friends, 390 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:18,300 family are, Modesto. 391 00:16:19,980 --> 00:16:23,500 But the third most downloaded location 392 00:16:23,500 --> 00:16:27,860 is actually a place called Helsinki, Finland. 393 00:16:27,860 --> 00:16:29,820 So I thought that was cool. 394 00:16:30,820 --> 00:16:33,660 Thank you, whoever is in Helsinki, Finland, 395 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,500 for listening. 396 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:39,060 I know that I haven't walked across Finland yet. 397 00:16:40,340 --> 00:16:42,100 No, I don't really plan on walking across Finland. 398 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:43,180 I do wanna visit Finland. 399 00:16:43,180 --> 00:16:44,460 I feel like that would be one of those places 400 00:16:44,460 --> 00:16:46,660 that would be really beautiful. 401 00:16:46,660 --> 00:16:49,180 But if you're listening and you hear this, 402 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:51,060 send me a message. 403 00:16:51,060 --> 00:16:54,020 I'd love to say thank you personally. 404 00:16:54,020 --> 00:16:55,860 I just think that's cool that it shows you 405 00:16:55,860 --> 00:16:57,660 those kinds of analytics and you can really see 406 00:16:57,660 --> 00:17:00,380 what's going on all over your podcast. 407 00:17:00,380 --> 00:17:02,300 And when it comes to the podcast content, 408 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:03,820 I think what I'm gonna be doing 409 00:17:03,820 --> 00:17:08,180 is I've been slowly putting filters on the content 410 00:17:08,180 --> 00:17:10,180 about what I really wanna focus on. 411 00:17:11,580 --> 00:17:13,580 When I was doing my Walk Across America, 412 00:17:13,580 --> 00:17:14,980 one of my big regrets, honestly, 413 00:17:14,980 --> 00:17:17,460 I wanna make a regret video about the walk. 414 00:17:17,460 --> 00:17:18,780 Because now that I'm out of it 415 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:20,380 and I can see the things that I did wrong, 416 00:17:20,380 --> 00:17:22,260 the things that I would do different, 417 00:17:22,260 --> 00:17:24,180 I feel like there's quite a few of them. 418 00:17:24,180 --> 00:17:26,180 And one of them is that I didn't just call it 419 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:28,700 Rangers Walk Across America podcast. 420 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:30,900 I feel like that's a little bit of a missed opportunity 421 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:33,420 to get more downloads and more exposure 422 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:34,860 because I think it's a little bit confusing 423 00:17:34,860 --> 00:17:36,300 that I was using my business name, 424 00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:39,580 but I wanted it to be marketing for the business, 425 00:17:39,580 --> 00:17:41,220 I wanted it to be all these things. 426 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:43,140 I didn't really pan out, 427 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:44,740 and I kinda just wish I doubled down on that. 428 00:17:44,740 --> 00:17:49,740 Anyway, what I wish I had done, 429 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:53,900 not what I wish, I already told you what I wish I had done. 430 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:56,820 What I'm doing now is putting filters over the content. 431 00:17:56,820 --> 00:17:59,220 So now I've put over the business filter 432 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:02,020 and the Ranger focus filter. 433 00:18:02,020 --> 00:18:04,300 During my walk, all of them were guest episodes 434 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:05,900 except one or two. 435 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:08,860 Now, I mean, I've only had three guest episodes 436 00:18:08,860 --> 00:18:12,340 and I have three that are lined up to be dropped 437 00:18:12,340 --> 00:18:14,340 in the next month and a half or so. 438 00:18:14,340 --> 00:18:17,180 But what I'm gonna be doing now is focusing a lot more 439 00:18:17,180 --> 00:18:21,620 on solopreneurs and small nonprofit leaders 440 00:18:21,620 --> 00:18:23,220 and really helping people in that, 441 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:26,180 like making content for that specific event 442 00:18:26,180 --> 00:18:29,220 for that category of people. 443 00:18:29,220 --> 00:18:32,620 I mean, that's the category of people that I'm in. 444 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:34,100 I mean, I'm part of a non-prompt, 445 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:35,860 like the Lions Club that I just joined, 446 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:38,500 like they do fundraising, they do outreach. 447 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:41,500 My personal business, I do everything myself. 448 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,940 I don't have an editor for my podcast anymore. 449 00:18:43,940 --> 00:18:45,420 So all of it is me generated. 450 00:18:45,420 --> 00:18:49,340 And I feel like since that I'm very much in that same realm, 451 00:18:49,340 --> 00:18:51,980 it would be a lot more beneficial for me to make content 452 00:18:51,980 --> 00:18:54,100 for my own learning, my own individual sake, 453 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:57,380 but also for those that are listeners. 454 00:18:57,380 --> 00:18:59,420 I do still think that if you are not in that category, 455 00:18:59,420 --> 00:19:00,340 there are definitely still things 456 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:01,260 that you can get out of it. 457 00:19:01,260 --> 00:19:03,420 I think there's plenty of great lessons 458 00:19:03,420 --> 00:19:08,420 for folks to grab onto and share. 459 00:19:08,620 --> 00:19:10,900 But I think that that is the lens 460 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:14,340 that I'm gonna slightly kind of put over the content 461 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,340 just to get better reach and we have an easier time 462 00:19:18,340 --> 00:19:21,060 explaining what the podcast is about. 463 00:19:21,060 --> 00:19:23,060 I mean, the podcast is still always gonna be 464 00:19:23,060 --> 00:19:24,540 about continuous improvement 465 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:27,060 and getting a little bit better every single day, 466 00:19:27,060 --> 00:19:29,140 really just focusing on that never peak mentality 467 00:19:29,140 --> 00:19:31,380 that the best is yet to come. 468 00:19:31,380 --> 00:19:33,420 So that is still the main focus, 469 00:19:33,420 --> 00:19:37,340 but I think making the mindset episodes more focused 470 00:19:37,340 --> 00:19:39,580 around that would be helpful, 471 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:41,980 especially as I chop up the content 472 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:45,380 and put it on socials or create carousels. 473 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:46,940 So if you're listening and you're not following me 474 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:50,020 on Instagram, I try to cut up the content 475 00:19:50,020 --> 00:19:52,300 and put it into different formats there, 476 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:54,420 like carousels or still images. 477 00:19:54,420 --> 00:19:57,420 So let me know on that. 478 00:19:57,420 --> 00:19:59,260 That kind of bleeds into one of the next topics 479 00:19:59,260 --> 00:20:01,700 is using AI to cut down on time. 480 00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:05,700 If you're a business owner and you're not using AI 481 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:08,620 to save yourself a little bit of sanity and grace, 482 00:20:08,620 --> 00:20:11,700 you are missing out on a huge opportunity. 483 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:12,620 One of the biggest things, 484 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:15,020 the easiest way that I can say that I use AI 485 00:20:15,020 --> 00:20:19,820 to cut down on time is just the $20 a month chat GPT. 486 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:23,860 With these episodes, all I do is I take the transcript, 487 00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:26,740 copy and paste it, put it into chat GPT, 488 00:20:26,740 --> 00:20:30,940 have it give me a rundown, like the show notes. 489 00:20:30,940 --> 00:20:32,060 I don't have to write the show notes. 490 00:20:32,060 --> 00:20:35,860 I just gotta do checks for consistency and details. 491 00:20:35,860 --> 00:20:39,580 I ask it for captions for social media 492 00:20:39,580 --> 00:20:43,140 when I'm promoting it, ask it for the copy 493 00:20:43,140 --> 00:20:47,020 when I'm sending out an email about the podcast. 494 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:49,580 Then I say, hey, what are the top five lessons 495 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:51,340 from this episode? 496 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:53,540 It gives them to me line by line. 497 00:20:53,540 --> 00:20:55,580 Hey, can you put that in a format that would be good 498 00:20:55,580 --> 00:20:57,660 for a carousel for Instagram? 499 00:20:57,660 --> 00:20:58,500 And it gives me that. 500 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:01,340 And then I can go to Insta, or for Canva, 501 00:21:01,340 --> 00:21:05,500 type in Instagram carousel and then just plug and play. 502 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:06,980 And I tried doing that on my own. 503 00:21:06,980 --> 00:21:08,660 It took me a ton of time. 504 00:21:08,660 --> 00:21:09,500 And it was one of those things 505 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:11,540 that I never felt like it was good enough. 506 00:21:11,540 --> 00:21:14,460 But when I have something that I can just edit 507 00:21:14,460 --> 00:21:16,300 and put in my voice a little bit better, 508 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:18,060 it saves a ton of time. 509 00:21:18,060 --> 00:21:20,780 So right now, I mean, I'm recording this episode. 510 00:21:20,780 --> 00:21:22,860 I started recording right around 6.30 PM. 511 00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:24,540 Right now it's seven. 512 00:21:24,540 --> 00:21:27,060 My goal is to have this up by 8.00 PM. 513 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:29,540 So from recording to publish, 514 00:21:29,540 --> 00:21:31,580 it's not gonna take that long. 515 00:21:31,580 --> 00:21:35,420 So if you're not using AI to cut down on some time, 516 00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:37,860 but you'd like to, please let me know. 517 00:21:37,860 --> 00:21:39,900 One of my good friends, Holly Resendez, 518 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:44,900 she runs the Align 260 School Community that I'm a part of. 519 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:46,540 Since I closed down my community, 520 00:21:46,540 --> 00:21:48,100 I'm gonna be talking about hers a little bit more 521 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:49,820 because I really love what she's creating there 522 00:21:49,820 --> 00:21:52,580 with Ama and everybody else in the group. 523 00:21:53,580 --> 00:21:57,300 She has some great resources about AI 524 00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:00,060 and how to use ChatGBT to your benefit, 525 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:03,660 how to create better prompts that will give you the, 526 00:22:03,660 --> 00:22:05,380 kind of like create the content 527 00:22:05,380 --> 00:22:06,740 that you want to actually create. 528 00:22:06,740 --> 00:22:09,080 So I'll link her group in there as well. 529 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,020 And if you join, just let her know that I sent you 530 00:22:11,020 --> 00:22:13,240 so that she thinks that I'm cool. 531 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,660 I would appreciate that. 532 00:22:14,660 --> 00:22:16,140 But there's some great content there. 533 00:22:16,140 --> 00:22:18,980 And I will still put my GPT that I made, 534 00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:21,440 Rangefinder, in the description as well. 535 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,240 So there's gonna be a couple different resources 536 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,200 in the description. 537 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,620 But if you have the time and you wanna check out 538 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:31,920 a school community, go to hers and I'll see you there. 539 00:22:33,940 --> 00:22:36,700 One of the things that we talked about actually 540 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:39,420 in her mastermind that she does every week 541 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:42,060 is one of the goals that I have for the year 542 00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:45,980 is to give away 100 free coaching calls. 543 00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:49,940 And I think they hate it. 544 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:52,800 And by I think they hate that is, 545 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:56,880 there were four or five of us on that call. 546 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,900 And I think every single person said 547 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:00,700 that I should stop saying that. 548 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,020 And I was a little bit taken aback by that. 549 00:23:06,020 --> 00:23:07,860 Like, what do you, why? 550 00:23:07,860 --> 00:23:08,700 What's wrong with that? 551 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:11,140 Like it's 100 like calls. 552 00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:13,140 Like my time doesn't affect your time. 553 00:23:13,140 --> 00:23:15,580 Why are you like, they weren't angry about it. 554 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:18,140 I feel like I'm being a little bit dramatic on that. 555 00:23:19,020 --> 00:23:21,380 It just like took me back because I'm like, 556 00:23:21,380 --> 00:23:23,920 why shouldn't I try to get people interested in coaching 557 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,700 and like get those better leads? 558 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:29,500 Because my intention behind it is that they are more so 559 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:33,920 introductory calls to get people in the door 560 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,680 and then pitch the 12 weeks of coaching that I have 561 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,800 and what I offer like empowerment coaching wise. 562 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,140 But what they were saying is that when people see free, 563 00:23:44,140 --> 00:23:46,540 they think there's no value here. 564 00:23:46,540 --> 00:23:48,020 And I was a little bit confused. 565 00:23:48,020 --> 00:23:50,440 I'm like, I don't know how else to say it. 566 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,300 Like it's that free introductory call. 567 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,060 And I think when I said that out loud, 568 00:23:55,060 --> 00:23:55,980 I was like, wait a second, 569 00:23:55,980 --> 00:24:00,660 I should focus on it being introductory call, right? 570 00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:03,700 And maybe that's one of those goals 571 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,660 that I don't necessarily say out loud to people, 572 00:24:06,660 --> 00:24:08,520 but I have internally. 573 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,520 So I went to chat GPT, Mr. Good old chat. 574 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,620 And I asked it, I just was like, 575 00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:17,900 hey, this is what I'm trying to do. 576 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:19,980 Some people are saying it diminishes value. 577 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:21,940 This is what I'm trying to do. 578 00:24:21,940 --> 00:24:23,700 I feel like it could bring people in. 579 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:25,980 I have people in my pipeline that are actively interested 580 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:28,780 in coaching because of these free calls. 581 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:34,240 But the posts that I'm making don't, 582 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,160 like I'm working on my messaging every week 583 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,120 at these networking events that I'm doing on my posts, 584 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:41,320 in the podcast. 585 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,200 But I feel like people still don't really get it 586 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,360 until they try it out. 587 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:52,360 So what chat GPT suggested was that it makes sense 588 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,760 because of community exposure, lead generation, 589 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,600 and then practice that I get, 590 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,140 and then testimonials from people that, 591 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,880 it's kind of like if they don't sign up, 592 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,480 then I can still ask for a testimonial. 593 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,640 But what it was, was that there's a perceived value 594 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,560 that free coaching could make people undervalue my expertise, 595 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,240 especially if it's not positioned correctly, 596 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,000 and that there is a time drain 597 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,040 that I could spend a significant time coaching people 598 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,520 who never actually convert, which is true. 599 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,340 There is that risk. 600 00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:26,440 The way that I saw it was that if they don't convert, 601 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:27,660 then I still got practice. 602 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:31,680 I still got a better idea of who I am as a coach. 603 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,000 I'm still getting my name out there. 604 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,680 I'm still getting people, 605 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,280 I can't physically put my product in people's hands, 606 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,320 like a smoothie from Burger King, 607 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,520 but I can still get in people's minds and show them like, 608 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:46,220 hey, this is what coaching is like. 609 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,720 This is what you get, right? 610 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,040 But they were saying that it's the framing. 611 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,600 So it gave me some ideas on what it was. 612 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,600 And one of the suggestions that I like, 613 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,200 which makes way more sense, 614 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:06,200 is that rebrand the free session as a discovery call 615 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,000 or a breakthrough strategy session. 616 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,080 So it's like during this 30 to 45 minute strategy session, 617 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,960 we'll identify one key roadblock 618 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,160 and create an actionable next step for your growth. 619 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,360 And I was like, oh, that makes way more sense. 620 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:28,360 And I'm gonna mention that in Holly's group here pretty soon, 621 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,520 that I probably rebranded this something like that, 622 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,440 because I do feel like right now where I'm at 623 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,600 with my business, like I don't have very many clients, 624 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,840 like being honest, 625 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,080 but I have quite a few people in my audience 626 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:42,360 that are interested in like people 627 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:44,480 that are kind of like on the fence. 628 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,440 So I wanted to be that as a way of like, 629 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,960 hey, like there's a way that you can still try it 630 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,880 and see if it works for you. 631 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,800 Like it's like Jack and Karen, 632 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,600 my friends at San Diego Pepper Company, 633 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,060 like they give free samples, like try it before you buy. 634 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,120 Right, we know it's good. 635 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:01,360 We know that the product works. 636 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:03,600 Like my services help people. 637 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,360 I mean, I have, after today, 638 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,360 I'm gonna have 20 Google reviews, five stars. 639 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:10,760 So it's like I've worked with plenty of people 640 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,540 enough that they know that what I offering is good. 641 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,600 There's now, now it's just like getting to the point 642 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,340 that I've done that, it's that more better new. 643 00:27:20,340 --> 00:27:22,600 Like right now I'm doing more calls, more learning, 644 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,140 more working with people. 645 00:27:24,140 --> 00:27:27,240 And now it's really for refining and making it better, 646 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,440 making that system better so that it can convert more 647 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,340 into paying customers. 648 00:27:32,340 --> 00:27:37,340 So that is really all I have for today. 649 00:27:39,740 --> 00:27:42,900 Thank you for listening. 650 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:46,820 And if you wanna take me up on that discovery call, 651 00:27:46,820 --> 00:27:48,160 let me know. 652 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,800 But again, I would really just love feedback 653 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,780 on the workshop series. 654 00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:54,380 If you knew about it, if you heard about it, 655 00:27:54,380 --> 00:27:57,500 but didn't sign up, please let me know why. 656 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:59,180 I would super appreciate that. 657 00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:02,220 If you just put in like the subject line, 658 00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:05,660 SemitwoRanger at withinrangecoaching.com, 659 00:28:05,660 --> 00:28:09,500 just put why I didn't sign up for your course. 660 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:10,900 It might kind of sting. 661 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:13,580 Please don't be mean about it, I guess. 662 00:28:13,580 --> 00:28:16,920 But also like be honest, like why you didn't. 663 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:19,460 I'm just curious. 664 00:28:19,460 --> 00:28:21,180 Maybe this is shooting myself in the foot 665 00:28:21,180 --> 00:28:23,740 by making you focus on the reason why you did it. 666 00:28:23,740 --> 00:28:28,740 But if you did, I would be more than happy to see 667 00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:32,180 if there's any other way that I can help you out quickly 668 00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:33,660 with your goals or anything. 669 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:36,380 So it won't just be me reading it 670 00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:37,580 and not doing anything about it. 671 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:38,580 I would love to see if there's a way 672 00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:43,180 that I can also still help you with what you want to create. 673 00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:46,140 But anyway, I've said enough, I think, 674 00:28:46,140 --> 00:28:49,020 for this beautiful Friday, January 10th. 675 00:28:49,940 --> 00:28:52,940 Thank you everybody for listening to today's episode. 676 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:54,420 I really appreciate it. 677 00:28:54,420 --> 00:28:56,100 If you could just take a quick moment 678 00:28:56,100 --> 00:28:57,800 to give me a rating and review 679 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,120 in whatever podcasting platform you're listening to this on, 680 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,080 I would super appreciate it. 681 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,280 Takes a few swipes of the thumb, 682 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,660 but means the world to me 683 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,220 and could help out another entrepreneur 684 00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:09,260 that needs it as well. 685 00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:11,380 As always everybody, thank you so much for listening. 686 00:29:11,380 --> 00:29:14,020 And remember that the best is yet to come 687 00:29:14,020 --> 00:29:16,540 as long as you're willing to make the decision 688 00:29:16,540 --> 00:29:20,200 to never settle, never quit, and never peak. 689 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:39,200 I'll see you guys in the next one.