Oh, I think I just took control of the recording.
By accident, I found it, looking to go over and see the chat.
Okay.
My otter, if you guys are wondering what I'm talking about, my otter takes over recording,
but it does it in chunks, and I want the whole recording, and so now I see that I can handle
that now.
So that's good news.
Okay.
We have a question for now, ready to receive today.
Okay.
Any ERP systems like Deltek that anyone currently uses?
What is ERP?
I'm missing something.
It's probably fairly obvious.
I'm sorry.
This is Sharon.
Hey, Sharon.
I meant like employee, or not employee, customer relationship databases, like you use the-
Oh, CRM.
CRM.
Yeah, like you use-
Are you talking about CRM?
Customer relation management.
Is that what you're talking about?
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like your coaching platform, if there's anything else that-
Yeah.
... someone uses in a more sales type of format.
Active campaign.
Yeah.
That's what I use in addition to-
Okay.
... I use active campaign.
Okay.
Very good.
Yeah.
It's pretty sophisticated.
There's Go High Level is getting pretty popular out there, HubSpot, Infusionsoft, those are
the biggest probably.
I've used Infusionsoft in a previous company.
Other people also use Kajabi in a lot of ways to mix a lot of that stuff, but I've found
the active campaign is what I've used for the last five years.
That's what most big companies use, and I like it.
It's got lots of potential, lots of integrations that you would probably like, so I would say
with your knowledge, probably active campaign.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
I'm looking at Dell Tech tomorrow from a LinkedIn type of appeal, so I just wanted to see what
other was out there as well.
Okay.
Fabulous.
Thank you.
Fabulous.
Welcome, Lois.
I see you just joined.
Okay.
I think I've let everybody in.
Okay.
We've already started recording, but let's go ahead and begin.
I'm going to open with prayer, and I've got some thoughts I want to share with you, both
on a mindset level that I believe will be very powerful and on a skillset level.
I want to give you some real tools for LinkedIn and for advancing on social media.
I want to talk particularly about that today as maybe one tool.
I like sharing tools during office hours, so I'll talk about a tool as well.
Okay.
Let's just start with prayer, and I'm going to get into the mindset, and then we'll get
into the skillset, and then we'll get into the action, which is the success equation,
right?
Mindset plus skillset plus right action equals results.
Who's got that memorized?
Anybody's been thinking about the success formula, and it's like, how's my mindset today?
How is that shaping my future and my day?
How is my skillset?
What am I growing in today?
What am I applying to go to new levels with my skillset, and what right action am I taking
today?
First, my favorite question every day is, what is the single most important action I
can take today, right now, to advance in the direction of my goals, dreams, and desires?
My favorite question for decades, what is the single most important action I can take
today to advance in the direction of my goals, dreams, and desires?
Can you guys mute yourself so we don't have some background static, unless you want to
ask a question?
So what is the single most important action I can take today to advance boldly in the
direction of my goals, dreams, and desires?
Imagine if every day you just took one significant action, even if that was only five days a
week, that'd be five power-
actions, that'd be at least 20 a month. Can you imagine over 200 a year? Can you
imagine how your life will be different? One right action. Oprah always asks that
question, what's my next right action? And she built empires. Just one right
action at a time. All right, let's start with prayer. Let me share a few things.
Father God, I just give thanks for this day. I give thanks for every single woman,
every prosper leader. And I am asking Lord that you will elevate them. Elevate
their mindset. Elevate their sense of identity and who they are in you. Elevate
their possibility thinking. Elevate their vision. Elevate them Lord. I'm asking in
their mindset, elevate them in their skill set Lord. That they continuously,
continuously learn and grow in their skill set. Elevate their habits from
taking right action on a daily basis. I pray that you prosper them physically,
financially, relationally, and spiritually. I pray that this is a day that they go
to new levels in their decision-making, in their belief, and their faith, in their
action. And I'm asking in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Okay, I want to talk in the
mindset level about, about faith in your business. Faith is like a muscle. Faith is
like a muscle. We're all given a measure of faith and it's what we do with that
faith that we exercise it. So just like our muscles, if we don't use them, they
atrophy. And the more that we use them, which is a form of resistance, which is a
form of stress. It's a form of, of doing something that you couldn't do before.
Taking on something heavier. The more we exercise, the more the body adds fibers
to the muscles and we get stronger. And those muscles are burning calories, which
then also means that we're burning more fat. And this is not meant to be a
physiology lesson, but a metaphor for your faith. So how have you been on
stretching your faith? Where are you making a demand on God? At what level are
you asking? At what level are you believing for what you ask? Believing, as
Mark says, that you have received it. At what level are you expecting? And at what
level are you acting on that faith and that belief? That's my question for
myself and for you today. And it was brought on by two things. And one was a
memory that came to me in the shower. And I wrote about it in LinkedIn today, as
you can read about when I was a founder of International Nutritional Network
Marketing Company, there was a time that we gave away brand new cars. And so at
our convention, someone would win a brand new car. And the memory came, this
is going back like 20 years, you know, 25 years. And the memory flooded into me of
three different winners flashed on my mind, three different situations, and
three different ways that they responded. And today in LinkedIn, I tied
that to faith, and the measure of faith. And so I'll leave a little curiosity, go
read about the three ways they responded, see which one you are, see how it applies
to your faith. It's in my LinkedIn post today. So we're looking at what level
we're asking, what level we're believing, what level we're expecting, and what
level we're acting on that. And I'd love for you to, to reflect, have you, because
of fear, because of disappointment, because of patterns of thinking, patterns
of being patterns of how you've been showing up? Have you shrunk? What you're
asking God for? Have you started asking smaller? Or are you
Continuously asking bigger.
Are you continuously lifting a bigger weight, right?
You might start that all you could curl is,
you know, five pounds, 10 pounds, right?
And that's it.
Have you shrunk where you go, well, I can't,
I can't do that.
I'm just gonna do two pounds.
It's really easy.
I can whip this out while I'm doing other things.
Or have you stretched?
Today, I'm gonna go for 12 pounds,
even if I can only do three reps.
Today, I'm gonna go for 12,
I'm gonna go for 15.
I wonder what I could do with 20.
And I'm not saying hurt yourself, you build up,
you build up your faith, right?
But the question is,
are you growing and are you building in your faith,
or are you shrinking?
It's the question I have for you to reflect
and journal about.
Scripture says, according to your faith,
be it done unto you.
And there's so many examples in the Bible, right?
And I think of the centurion that tells Jesus,
you don't even have to come to my house,
just say the word and I know my daughter will be healed.
I think about the woman that was touching
the hem of his garment that she had to literally crawl.
She'd been through, and you talk about being stuck.
She'd been with issue of bleeding
and she exhausted all of her resources,
all of her money going to the best doctors
and nothing had worked.
What do you do when medicine is no longer working?
What do you do when your business strategies
are no longer working?
What do you do when your bank account's empty?
What do you do when your circumstances
don't seem to be changing?
She was still bleeding,
which put her in a humiliating situation
that she really couldn't be in public.
And yet she still had changed her self-talk
and her faith enough that she kept on saying,
if only, if only, if I just touch the hem of his garment,
she visualized her future.
If only, if only I can just,
it would give her the strength to keep going.
And if only I can just touch the hem of his garment,
I shall be healed.
And scripture says something so fascinating.
She made her way through the crowd.
She accomplished the goal
that which she had been visualizing
and mentally rehearsing
and that which she had been imagining in her imagination,
seeing herself doing,
that which she had believed would absolutely work,
that it was the solution.
And she pushed through the crowd.
She pushed through the negativity.
She pushed through the fear.
She pushed through the physical structure.
She pushed through the physical limitations.
She pushed through the embarrassment.
She pushed through the fear.
She pushed through the shame and she made a demand on God.
She made a demand on Jesus.
How do we know?
Jesus wasn't looking at her.
She, he was walking the other direction.
He wasn't coming to her.
He wasn't making the offer first.
He didn't reach out first.
She made a demand on God.
She made a demand and how do we know?
Jesus said, who touched me?
And of course the other people thought,
the disciples, everyone, they said, are you nuts?
Everybody's touching you.
We're in this crowded street.
You're being touched on every, we're being pressed in.
What do you mean who touched you?
No, no, no, no, no.
This was a different touch.
He said, I felt the virtue go out of me.
She pulled it out of him.
He didn't turn around and offer it.
Do you understand that?
Is your faith on such a place
that you're making a demand on God
that you're pressing in at that level?
Or are you settling in while the doctor said
nothing can be done?
This week I met, I had a really powerful meeting.
A very dear friend of, I don't know, 30 years
who's a powerful healer, powerful chiropractor.
He had a stroke months back, an aneurysm.
And interesting, like 15 years before that,
his brother had had the same one.
And this aneurysm was 75% fatal.
And I made a point to wanna meet with his wife and with him.
And so a few months ago,
I can't believe it's already been a few months,
but when I met with them and we sat in a bakery,
he had a patch on one eye
and the vision had been affected by the stroke
and they wanted to give him special glasses.
And that eye may probably never be able to see.
He had a cane and he wasn't walking well.
He had a level of faith and expectation.
I got to see him now three, four, five months later.
And he didn't have a cane.
he did not accept the special glasses, prism glasses they wanted to give, and he was seeing
through the eye, and he was standing strong, and he was doing what really is deemed impossible.
He wasn't supposed to be able to walk, and he's getting ready to start treating patients again
next month. I'm excited about that. But when I was asking him, what's your vision? What's
really important to you right now? Because I really believe his knowledge needs to get out
there. He talked about his brother, and his brother's like a hero to him, and his brother
had the same exact stroke, but his brother settled, and has not changed, and has not done anything.
And so he's been stuck in the story, and he says, I want to go give hope to my brother that if I can
do this, he can do this. And it struck me in the same way as the story of the three cars that we
gave away that you'll read in my LinkedIn posts struck me. That we have a different way to respond
to the circumstances in our life. We're all facing circumstances. We live in this world. We're all
facing circumstances. We're all going through the same economic cycles, political cycles.
We're all experiencing challenges in family, or health, or finances, or whatever. I mean life is
like that. Life is full of challenges, but are you shrinking to the challenge, or are you
expanding your faith, expanding your expectation, expanding your level of action, so that
you're growing muscle, faith muscle, so that you're getting bigger and bigger. Your identity
is growing. Your belief about yourself, your belief about what's possible,
is stretching to match what God believes for you. What God, who God says you are, what God
says you can do. Are those promises in the Bible for someone else, or are they for you?
You have not, because you ask not. Whatsoever you ask, believing you have received, you shall
have it. According to your faith, be it done unto you. Like, are those for someone else,
are they for you, and are you making a demand on those? And I'm talking to myself. I've been
asking myself these questions, because ladies, I have the ability, like anyone else, to
to shrink. To say, man, maybe it'd just be easier. Just like, keep a little simple business. Like,
why do I keep expanding? Like, it's easy to go that what you think is the easy route.
And then my coach today shared something that just rocked my world, is something that she said.
She said, we're all in the world, and she was talking about being in the world and not of the
world, and we're all going to have problems and face challenges, and that's how it is. And this
is what I love. She said, this just rocked my world. She says, there's no amount of small
that you can play to avoid those things. Like, you're going to have those things if you play
small or you play big. Says a woman who has, you know, six or portfolio of like six or eight
companies, right? Multi-eight figures, right? There's no amount of small, she says, that you
can play to avoid those things. You're going to have these challenges if you play small or you
play big. That just got me really thinking, because I don't know if you're like me, that
sometimes it's just like, man, what am I doing? Maybe I just play simple. Maybe I'll just play
small. Maybe I'll just keep life. I don't, that I won't have to deal with. No, you're going to face
criticism if you play small or you play big. You're going to place the hit financial snags,
small or big. You're going to hit, you know, stretches to your health, small or big. Like,
isn't that, I hope that opens to you. It really hit me today and really got me thinking. At least
it was the right word for me. Okay. So all of that to talk about mindset as to how are you asking,
how are you believing, how are you expecting and making a demand on your faith and what level of
action is that creating in you? How are you showing up? How are you showing up?
And some things that hit me, are you primarily living and showing up as a consumer
or as a creator, a co-creator with God, a producer, a leader? Are you showing up as a consumer? So if
you get on Facebook, are you consuming or you get on, you know, any of the social media platforms,
LinkedIn, whatever, are you consuming and allowing that to move you or are you creating?
and being part of the change.
Another way I'd like to say comes from Romans
where it says, be not conformed, but be transformed.
Be not conformed.
I've shared with you that word conformed is like a jello mold.
So is the world, is social media, is the circumstances,
is the conditions of life, of being a human,
are you conforming?
Are you being shaped by it?
Is it shaping you, determining your shape?
Or it says, be not conformed, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind.
Are you daily renewing your mind in what you're visualizing,
in what you're saying, in what you're declaring,
in what you're affirming, in what you're acting on,
in what you're reading, in who you're hanging around with,
in what you're consuming?
So are you being conformed or are you being transformed?
Are you being a consumer?
Are you just passive and you're being influenced by the news
or by Netflix or by social media?
Are you letting that drive your emotions?
Are you letting it drive what you do or don't do?
Or are you being a co-creator?
This is all in the mindset part of all of this.
OK, moving from that into being a co-creator,
we've talked at length about you showing up.
And so that you get into these things
and you're not being a consumer, you're
not allowing that to shift you.
You're not comparing.
You're not getting in fear.
You're not allowing it to shape you.
But you are choosing to be the change agent.
You are choosing to fully show up
with the gifts God has given you, to fully share
the story God has given you, to fully share the skills
that God has given you through inspirational posts,
hope posts that really bring encouragement,
through how-to posts that really show your skill set
and showcase that gives people things that they can follow
and they can do, and through solid calls to action
that you're inviting them to have a connect call with you.
You're inviting them to have a conversation with you.
And so how are you doing that?
Have you formed the new habit that we
go from the golden hour of our morning routine
into the miracle hour of showing up on social media?
And adding, increasing your pipeline,
increasing your circle of influence.
So you may start with five connections,
and you go to 10, and you go to 20, and you go to 100,
and you go to 1,000.
Are you adding connections?
And then are you having meaningful conversations
on DMs?
Are you willing to show up?
Now, here's what's really, really hit me,
and then I want to share a tool with you
before we run out of time.
Here's what's really hit me.
I have been doing a lot of connect calls.
Those are 15-minute calls that are just designed
to get to know each other.
And I have a strategy.
When I do connect calls, I do a lot of listening.
I do way more listening than talking.
I believe that the person asking the questions
is in control of the conversation.
So I ask a lot of questions, and I listen,
and I genuinely care.
And I am looking for ways that I can give.
I can activate flow by giving value.
And so I'm looking for meaningful ways
to refer, to collaborate.
And I am having a blast in how that is coming back
without me expecting.
It's amazing how it comes back.
So what happens?
If, when you first show up, you'll probably get pushback.
I do.
I'm not really looking for a coach right now.
I already have a business coach right now.
I'm not interested.
No, thank you.
And I always come back and say, I'm so curious.
I haven't offered you anything.
What is it that you're not interested in, right?
And that usually kind of gets them off.
It's like when you walk in a store,
and the clerk walks to you, and can I help you?
No, I'm just looking, right?
So we've got this brain kind of protection.
response that we live in. No, I'm just looking. So don't be surprised when that happens on social
media. What I want you to visualize when you show up on social media, that this is like a networking
event, like when you meet someone in networking. And I want you to bring, or you meet someone at
a picnic, or you meet someone at a wedding, I don't care. Like bring the same game when you show
up, of understanding they're a real person, they have real struggles just like you, and you're
going to create rapport. You're going to ask questions and learn to discover what they need,
to discover how you can serve, how you can activate the flow. So I've been having so much fun with
these calls, and let me just tell you just a few of the things that have happened as a result.
One is an online healer, faith-based healer, and I get an email from her later. She says,
you know, like God won't leave me alone unless I get on a call with you and do a clearing
with you. And so I get this amazing like healing thing that she does for me. It was pretty incredible,
okay, very eye-opening, very powerful. I get another one that's been a coach for 20 years,
and she says, I really like your materials, especially on sales and marketing. I would
really like to have you put your materials in my portal that she has in my community.
So a whole audience just opened up out of me asking what she needed and how I could serve.
I wasn't asking to do that. I didn't come in and say, can I be on your platform? Can I be on your
podcast? I asked, what do you need? What's most important to you right now? How can I be praying
for you? How can I serve? How can I share with you? Do you need referrals? Are you looking for
collaboration? You know, where are you struggling in your business? How can I serve you, right?
And that opened up. Yesterday had a woman, the 15-minute call, and I always say, hey,
I know we promised 15 minutes. I can go a little bit longer here if it's good for you, but I make
sure I honor the 15 minutes or I reschedule because we just kept on talking for an hour.
And she says, I want to know about your Breakthrough Business Intensive. I think that
would be phenomenal for clarity. And she says, I'd like to do my assessment. She's been 25 years
in coaching and developed a powerful assessment to help people determine their subconscious
blocks. And she says, I'd like you to take it and experience it. And maybe it's something we
can collaborate as something you could offer to your clients. So it's just about coming in and
communicating and building relationships. And many of it does end up being business that they,
I share my services and we go from there. So what I want to share with you today is the format
of your posts and a tool that I use, two tools that I use as far as AI to have my posts stand
out compared to other posts of things that are really working with the algorithms.
So the first thing that I use is ChatGPT. All of you are familiar with that. And the only
key with ChatGPT is to tell it what you want to do. So write and with ChatGPT, write short
sentences with periods because you'll get more of what it is you really want. So write a LinkedIn
post, period. The tone is inspirational, creating curiosity, engaging. What kind of tone do you
want it to be? The main point is, what's the main point that you want to make? And the audience is,
so for me, it's, you know, Christian, faith-based, coaches, healers, entrepreneurs.
Okay. And then I have just written out my thoughts, extremely rough, not having to worry about grammar
or anything else. So I'm going to show you the steps that I take to keep it really fast.
And at the same time, really get great results. Okay. So I'm going to share my screen here.
Okay. So let me go first. I'm going to share. Okay. This is what I
I did.
I just put some thoughts.
I just freely wrote about my mind was on faith expectation.
And I wrote a story.
And I just kind of wrote out.
And it was like, I would never print this.
It was not ready to go.
And then I went into ChatGPT.
And so here's exactly how I just almost,
I call it throwing up on ChatGPT.
Write a LinkedIn nurture post about faith and expectation
as it relates to increase in our business.
Use from my experience.
Include scriptures about asking and believing
we have received.
Include practical applications.
And so I took what I just showed you from my document,
and I just threw it in there.
ChatGPT cleans it up for me.
Now, I'll show you what I don't like about ChatGPT
and what I changed.
I'm going to show you the next step of what I did.
But it came with a really nice grammar,
really nice responses, really laid out pretty well.
Now, if you go to post this on LinkedIn,
and I'm going to show you two things.
I'm going to show you the tool that I used,
which you guys can look this up.
And it's called Authored Up.
In order to be able to add formatting to my LinkedIn post,
you probably will notice formatting.
And so I'm going to show you what happens.
It's a Google extension, a Chrome extension,
and Authored Up.
And so watch what happens.
When I go to make a post, this Chrome extension kicks in,
and there's an overlay that pops up.
And that overlay gives me tools you
don't have on LinkedIn to make things bold and italics,
to put emojis all over the place, to break it up.
So formatting is everything.
You want to stand out from the crowd.
And then you can save it as draft.
It's got all kinds of other things with analytics
to show you all kinds of things about your post afterwards.
And so that will work there.
I'm going to leave for a second and show you the end result,
just for time's sake.
So I'm going to go back in, and I'm not
going to click on the post, so I'm not
activating the Authored Up.
I'm going to just go into Me, so that you can see today's post.
So let me show it to you, today's post.
And by the way, I think I've shared a lot of the stuff
with you.
Make sure your pictures that you're using this real estate
really well.
Make sure in two minutes, in 30 seconds,
they can know exactly what you do, who you work with,
and what makes you a little bit unique, what you're looking for.
Make sure all of that can be seen very quickly.
Make sure you have the creator mode turned on,
so that you can be showcasing that which
you want to showcase, your free gift, your newsletter,
booking a call.
And then, so we come in to today's posts.
So here it is.
Now this is showing it in, I posted it in a group as well
as in my own, so that's why you see it in this format.
The one that I clicked on is, a lot of times
LinkedIn will recommend, hey, this
would go good in one of your groups.
And so you go ahead and post it there as well.
So that's why you see it this way.
So I specifically took out what ChatGPT did with this title
right here.
And the reason that I did is it's too typical,
and it's just a clue off that you use ChatGPT.
And the other thing is that when you are using this,
it will show you what it looks like on a device,
on a computer, and on a iPad.
And so when you look at how it's going to look on it,
so let's just say I open a draft.
Let's just take one that I've already done.
I'm going to open over here in a draft.
So I can see on the phone what they're going to see.
I didn't think the title would be enough catching them, so I got rid of the title
and came up with something that if this is all they see, because they'll see a little bit
more on an iPad, they'll see a lot more on a computer, but most people are going to be
checking on their phone. I want to see how my post looks on the phone, so I got to make sure
these words that they see pull them in or they won't open. Okay, so I took out that whole title
when I did it and I went straight into a question, what role does faith play? Then I began to break
it up. What works on LinkedIn is very short paragraphs, even this is too long, but it just
I couldn't make that particular one shorter, but the more you can do just like a sentence like this,
so notice I could use different emojis before all of this now that you wouldn't normally see
out there, and I do this a lot. I do a lot of, you know, x what we don't want and check mark what we
do want, but notice that this is very readable. It's one sentence paragraph, two sentence paragraphs,
it's got hashtags. Okay, so the combination of getting good writing and then there
was things that I did not like about the way something was phrased in chat GPT,
and so I put it more into things that I would use and just personalize it. Okay,
that's what I would say about that, and then that way the combination of using the chat GPT
to do all your editing and good writing and all of this I can do between a client,
so it allows me to post, and I have a set time, so you are treating this seriously in that
you have a set time each day. This is non-negotiable, which means I've built a new habit, right,
which means that if I know my first call, which today happened to be at eight in the morning with
my coach, otherwise it's typically nine or ten, but if I know okay today I've got to have everything
done by eight in the morning, I back up my morning a couple hours knowing what time I need to wake up
to have my golden hour, to have my miracle hour, and take a shower and look semi-decent for you
guys, right. I know how to build my schedule so that this is non-negotiable. My time with God,
my golden hour is non-negotiable, and my miracle hour of writing, okay, and of course I didn't go
into all the aspects of the miracle hour, but I said you're adding people, you're having DM
conversations, you're giving that which you desire to receive, which includes your going in and liking
and engaging and giving comments. I'll share another tool in the next office hours
of how you can get more people engaging, and there's a tool that as a community,
but for right now I'm going to encourage those of you on this call, make note of who's on this call,
make note, okay, and see if you are already connected with Connie, with Emily, right, with Lois,
with with Sharon, with Aunt Jeanette, okay, and I can't see all of you, but make sure
that that's a great place to start is with your own sisters. Go in and like and engage and comment,
support them that way, and they will support you that way. What would happen if that's part of ours,
okay, because I've said you're going to really reach out to two groups of people. One is your
colleagues and one is your ideal client. You're going to break it about 50-50, 50 percent that
colleagues that can be referral partners, that can be prayer partners, that can be, you know,
whatever, collaboration partners and your ideal client, and so when you're going in and you're
engaging and you're liking and all of that, then we want to make sure that we're doing.
Okay, all right, I'm going to stop the recording and open it for conversation that you can
ask questions about anything that I shared with you.