All right, welcome, welcome, welcome to Office Hours.
This is one of the perks, of course, of being a Prosper Leader member.
Every Thursday morning, 9 a.m. Pacific time.
So congratulations on being here.
This is your time.
Honestly, I always have things to share, but the purpose of this time is for you.
Can we celebrate you?
Is there something that went really well this week?
Like I know, before we started, Karen was sharing her new business cards.
She's got some big things coming up, very, very exciting.
And so do you have something exciting to share?
Are you working on something and you're not sure the next step?
Do you have some questions?
Would you like feedback from the group?
And of course, what I want to share with you is really some timely conversation about where
we are in the marketplace right now, what people are going through, and how we can respond,
how we can show up differently and truly catapult your impact and catapult your income.
Catapult up.
I got a bunch of people trying to come in.
Let me let everybody in.
Oh, and that's Linda.
So it's always awesome.
She can always great to have team on.
Yay.
Didn't want to leave you in the waiting room and let me make you co-host.
Okay, good.
Now I won't leave people in the waiting room.
All right.
So if you have something you want to share, something that's working really awesome, something
you're not sure about, something you want feedback on, just raise your virtual hand
because I may not see you.
If you really flag it, I will, or Linda will notice.
But if you can raise your virtual hand, awesome.
We'll talk about it.
And in between, I've got some exciting things to share with you.
Let's start with prayer.
I see Karen is first.
So father, we just thank you for this time.
Thank you for the gift of business.
Thank you for the gift of serving in the market, the gift of marketplace ministry.
I know Jesus, that's where you spent most of your time.
And I know that's where most people spend most of their life.
And we get to show up.
We get to bring your love.
We get to bring your healing.
We get to bring your transformation.
So today, Lord, I just ask that you live through us, breathe through us, write through us,
coach through us, create through us and be glorified.
We ask in Jesus name.
Amen.
Okay, Karen.
Oh, did you take your hand back down?
Oh, yeah.
No, just during prayer.
Okay.
Yeah.
I thought it was rude.
Oh, no, it's fine.
I what's your my eyes were closed.
I didn't see it.
So anyway, um, what is your question comment?
I'm excited for like, excited and I'm actually what you had just said, like the times right
now for somebody who is helping people in recovery, try to stay sober, there's a lot
of anxiety and our meeting rooms right now people are very fearful of like the people
right now.
So that's I hate to say, but it's kind of like, it's something that I well, I'm aware
of, I don't I don't want to say it benefits me.
But you know, like, at least I have a service that can help these people, you know, that
are like, so, um, yeah, um, I think you're very accurate.
And it's, of course, you're seeing it in your space, because that's the space you're in.
But we're all I imagine all of you could relate.
There is a high level of anxiety right now, a high level of confusion, a high level of
almost paralysis, people not knowing which way the ball is going to bounce, and not knowing
how to prepare.
Is it good?
Are we going into the golden age?
Are we going into war?
Are we like falling apart?
Are we like, cleaning up our act and just doing amazing things and all of those opinions
are circulating at the same time.
And people don't, in general, respond well to change.
And so this is our, this is our season.
This is our season to move from being consumers to being how God made us creators, co-creators
to allow him to create through us, to take your gifts, to take your life experience and
use it in this season to bring hope, to bring healing, to bring transformation.
I shared with Karen, she got on, she was first on the call.
And, and of course I, you know, I'm coaching and know her outside of this call and what
I can see, and I know this is true for Karen and probably for many of you, everything that
has happened in your life is a gift.
It brought you where you are and it is culminating for you to offer it.
This is, so Karen has taken the, the, the, the pain, the challenges of her own addictions,
her own recovery, the lessons, the beauty, and here she is showing up.
And this is what I believe the season there's, you add to the confusion of the world state
to the fact that AI is bringing information overload, that the change is happening so
fast.
Like I am always a front runner.
I, I, I'm at the beginning of movements.
It's been my life pattern.
And for me, being at the front end takes everything to even just stay on time as to all the changes,
right?
Like AI is a, like chat GPT alone is a whole new game right now, what you can do with it.
So for that, I say, congratulations, Karen, and you're in the right place at the right
time.
And I believe that you showing up, that's it right now.
That's it.
You have the courage to say yes, to move forward.
I love how you implement everything I'm sharing with you.
So what, what is your question?
What would you love to share?
Well, actually you got me thinking I'm going to a speaker event.
I got invited by this woman.
It's a group of women that have a speaking organization and they're having a meeting.
So I'm going to meet people.
And that's why I wanted to update my card.
If everybody could, nobody could say it, but anyway, here's the front and the back, because
I have two different things.
I have the online women's community that you can use this little QR code and go right into
the rooms.
And then the other one has all my information for transformational coaching and speaking.
So it pays like double duty, but I was just thinking about what you said.
And I am gearing up.
I feel like God in the past year has been like, like really urging me to move forward.
Like last year, I couldn't understand why, but now I understand it's all coming to fruition.
Like you said.
Yeah.
I'm getting my website really tight.
I'm getting my cards really tight.
I sent out a newsletter today.
I'm getting like, I've met with the mayor of Marstown the other day.
I'm going into New York.
I just got an invitation this morning at my old rehab in Pennsylvania to come and speak.
But I'm thinking tomorrow, what I'm going to do is whip together on chat GPT is I'm going to
really get a speech together about these uncertain times and about sobriety.
And how we have to like really work on our mental health.
I think that would be a really great topic to talk about.
So yeah, just happy to be here.
Congratulations.
Let's give Karen a snap and congratulations.
I've been really impressed with how quick you are to implement everything I suggest.
And then she sends me back a list of everything that she's done.
And that's just a dream.
And I'll tell you that success loves speed.
Success loves implementation.
So I want to congratulate you.
And most of all, most, which is true for all of us right now, the thing that you can do different than AI,
the thing that you can do different than information.
Like if you're still in the old model that you think what you do is bring information, you're way behind.
The world doesn't need more information.
Obviously.
they're being buried in information. Information is at a push of a button. You must think different.
And that's what I want to talk about today in between your questions, how you show up
differently than just bringing information. How do you bring transformation?
And the first thing which you're doing, Karen, is by showing up. And I mean the real you,
the raw, the vulnerable, the transparent, the messy, but it's you. And this is the world is so
hungry. And then showing up with consistency, right now, when the world is full of inconsistency,
what are they looking for? Someone, something that will be consistent. Do you have things
that go out at the same time every day or every week? Are you releasing a YouTube video same
day of the week? Are you releasing a newsletter, which is your first step?
A very vulnerable, transparent, helpful, engaging newsletter, same time every week. Can your audience
count on you? Because they can't count on anything right now. Everything's changing. Do you see how
important that your consistency is? Not just important for your success. Consistency has
always been the key to momentum. But your consistency right now is what your audience
is crying for. Do you show up the same way every day? Are you showing up with the same message or
are you this day and this, this, and now you're over here and you used to be this kind of coach
and now you're, okay. Many of you are adjusting and you've tried some things. This is the time to
land and show up consistently. The world's looking for that right now. Can you see how
important that is and how that distinguishes you? And then I want to ask, we have, we started this
conversation and the prosper leader membership calls. How are you showing up with faith,
with expectation, with good news? The gospel is the gospel of good news. Are you showing up with
good news when it's doomsday out there? Are you showing up with hope? Are you showing up with
positively? Are you modeling? Because really the climate out there is very similar to when we first
went into the lockdowns and COVID. Can you kind of tell the similarity? It's that same kind of
paralysis. Do I go? Do I stop? Which way? What's happening? Can I trust? I'm scared. What's going
to happen? Can you feel that's happening a lot right now? And so for you to show up consistently
and allow your faith to shine through is so important right now. I'm going to give you
some tips and tools how to do that, but let me see. Did anybody raise their hand?
Jennifer, you have your hand up. Good. All right. Let's come. You let me.
Lower hand. I have some good news that I thought I would share.
Because hold on. There you are. Great. What's the good news? Tell me all about it.
Well, we were on a call last week and just for the sake of everyone else, I just started back
to work after a long hiatus of caregiving. So I started back last Monday. So it's been what?
Barely nine days. God has given me my lane. I was praying for, okay, there's all these things I
could do, but what should I really do? Who's that market? And listening to a lot of the questions
that Brenda asked through one of the recent programs she did. And so I'm very clear on the
lane, very clear on the customer and who else it involves. And the job right now is to sit kind of
at the edge of the wilderness and plan and prepare and pray each day and listen. And I'm doing the
90-day planner, which I'm loving. I hated it the first day. I love it now.
Because it's such a shift. Tell me, why did you hate it? Why do you love it?
So many details to track and follow through the day. And instead of doing one thing for my quiet
time, it's doing six things. But it really is good to stretch and learn and grow and try. And yes,
Barbara, I see you. And so I'm loving that I landed my first paying gig.
Yay! It's not till June, but it's in something I used to do.
It's not within this vision, but the vision is going to take a little time.
You know, it's like the markets. It's going to change, but we have to be patient.
Yeah, but one weekend of deciding and showing up and getting clarity, and you've got a gig.
Right, and that paid gig helps me do the things I need to do, even though I won't get paid till I get there.
But it's exciting.
Yay! Thank you so much for sharing. Let's give Jennifer a snap. Woohoo!
I'm telling you, Prosper Leader members are going places right now.
Things are happening. You guys are moving. My heart is so full. I'm so thrilled.
So one week, she gets clear. She starts using the Prosper Daily Flatter, and we've got the first gig. Yay!
All right. Okay, Barbara, I see your hand is up. Let's bring you up here. All right, let's talk.
All right. I have a quick faith story that I think will inspire people.
And Brenda, I love what Jennifer just said, sitting on the edge of the forest and listening and planning and just expectantly hoping.
I have a discovery call today with someone. She sent me a message on LinkedIn and said,
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to cancel. This would have been my daughter's 21st birthday.
Her daughter passed away in a tragic car accident with her mom.
And I just responded and I said, we share something deep here.
Sorry, my dad passed away a year ago today.
So I just I said that, you know, we share this really deep connection now.
And she said she wants to keep the call. So she was going to cancel.
But this is how you show up with your faith and authenticity.
And it touches people and they need it. There's a gift in the giving.
I love that. And there's so much in what you just said.
Because here again, like like Karen, you know, you're you're taking your pain that could drive you to isolate,
could drive you to any number of things, depression, bitterness, resentment.
I mean, you know, it drives people to all kinds of things. And you're taking that.
And like Romans chapter 12, you're offering yourself, you're offering that part of yourself as a living sacrifice.
It's no accident that you would both share that day and that you would have courage.
This is what I'm talking about. Showing up authentically, messy, vulnerably.
And but but showing up. And that's so, so, so beautiful.
Thank you for being you. And just thank you for showing up.
Let's give her a snap. Let's give her a snap.
I also want to say that there's something very important that you did that I've been doing a lot lately.
Don't take the first cancellation. Don't take like dig in and be there.
And keep them in the fold. Because the tendency is to shut down and run.
I'm not going to keep that appointment. I'm not going to get coaching. I'm not.
You know, this is scary, whatever the tendency for many is to shut down and run.
And I have seen time and time again when we don't give up and we keep on going.
And I'm going to give you I'm going to give you a couple examples.
I'm going to give you an older example. I'm going to give you an example that just happened like yesterday.
OK, an older example. I had a young woman that was in health and nutrition that I was following online and engaging.
DMs talking, making invitations. Let's do a call. Let's coach. Had had a couple calls.
She kept postponing it a month, another month. This is happening. That's happening.
Remember, I've shared with you the fortune is in the follow up.
And so, I mean, months are dragging on. I don't remember. I'd have to go back, but at least six months.
And then I get a hold of her again and she says, oh, we decided to go with a different.
We're going to go with this coaching program certification or something.
So I want you to put yourself in that place. You've been following up for six months.
And then the person you're following up with says.
Oh, actually, we decided to work with someone else.
I want to know, honest engine, what would you do right there?
What would you feel?
What would you do?
Pop it in the chat.
Honest engine, what would you do?
Get discouraged, get depressed, have self-talk,
say it never works.
What would you do?
I'm so curious.
Pop it in the chat.
What would you do in that situation?
Because you're going to have that situation.
What would you do?
You've been following up for months.
You've been doing your part.
And then she said, sorry.
Talk to me.
What would you do?
Can I speak out loud to this?
Because this is so crazy that you're talking about this.
Yesterday, I had a discovery call.
And it's a mom who wants me to do financial coaching
for her son, who's like 22.
And she said, you commented on Facebook
that you wanted to help my son a few months ago.
And so did another guy.
I ended up going with him.
But he's not working for my son.
He's too rigid.
So I'd love to hire you.
And so they might hire someone else.
But there's enough opportunity out there for everybody.
There's an abundance of coaches.
So if they hire someone else, great.
Go out and find someone that works for you.
And maybe you'll eventually come back to me.
Awesome.
Here's some things to think about.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
First thing is stand in your power.
Remember who you are.
Remember what you bring.
And I use the power of questions.
And I said, that's so awesome.
Tell me, I know you needed this and this.
Does this new person provide that?
She kind of went, no.
I know you also are looking for this.
Does this organization you're joining provide that?
No.
She says, I want you to meet.
I want you.
I happen to live in her area.
She says, I want you to come to my house.
And I said, OK.
She says, in fact, I want you to meet my mom.
My mom's going to be there too.
She's also a health coach.
Said, OK.
Then you go in with faith and expectation.
You pray for the strategy, and you go in
with faith and expectation.
So I went and I met them.
And I already knew.
I had already seen.
You start with the end in mind.
I'd already seen it.
I'd already visualized it.
I knew where it was going.
If you don't know where you're going,
don't expect them to know where you're going.
So by faith, I already knew where it was going.
And I also believe strongly in irresistible offers.
So at the time, I was only offering,
this was a number of years ago, I was only
offering one year coaching.
I didn't have smaller packages.
And it was $15,000 for the year.
And so I thought to myself, I'm going
to give the second person $5,000 off, $10,000,
so $25,000 for the two of them.
They can break it up however they want.
I went.
I walked away with checks for $25,000.
I could have just said, oh, great.
I bless you.
Let's stay in touch.
But I did not.
So this is so important that you don't let up.
I had someone yesterday that I've always wondered.
She hasn't, that I'm aware of, showed up at things.
But she's been a Prosper Leader member.
And I've tried to stay in touch.
And she came in, not at the discounted level.
It's $197 a month.
And she's paid that for a long time.
And she said, I want to cancel my membership.
And I said, I get it.
I said, you'll be really missed.
I said, I'd love to learn more.
What did you love about the membership?
What would you have liked to see?
What was missing?
This is always an opportunity to get better
and to learn about them.
And she says, well, actually, I got it from my business
partner.
But now her daughter is really going through stuff.
And so she's not able to use it.
And she said, I'll probably come back another time.
And I said, that's awesome.
I said, you may not be aware that you get weekly office
hours.
You get twice a month group coaching.
You get access to the courses.
I said, tell me what you're interested in.
I'd love to have you come back.
And I said, tell me what you're interested in.
I'll make sure I guide you in the right direction.
And I said, what if I offered you the discounted membership
to come back?
And I said, if you do that before the 30th,
I'll give it to you at that.
And that'll save you $100 a month.
And she said, I'm interested in that.
I'll get back to you.
So my point is, use every opportunity.
opportunity to serve, to find out where they are, what's working, what's not working,
how can you up-level, how can you make an irresistible offer, okay? So let me just see
what else. Misunderstood the situation. I thought this was a coach I'd be hiring. That changed.
Oh, okay, yeah. I would feel a bit let down. Things happened, though, wasn't meant to be.
So be careful about writing things off and saying it wasn't meant to be. This is a kind
of a misnomer in the coaching space and I think in the Christian space. So let's just think about
life and the resistance in life. You know, I'm writing my book right now and often you guys hear
me use the analogy of going from Egypt and from slavery to the promised land. It was an 11-day
journey. It took 40 years. Does that mean that they were not supposed to go to the promised land?
It just wasn't meant to be. I mean, anything that hard. Obviously, God didn't want them to
go to the promised land, right? Something that hard? Or was there refining of character? Was
there discipline? Was there lessons? Was there breaking free of ego? Was it renewing the mind
that we're going, oh, I guess if it's that hard, it's just not meant to be. I see too many people
giving up with that crazy idea that it's too hard. You know, Paul was called to bring the gospel
and build churches all over the world. But he faced shipwreck and he faced, you know,
being beaten and jailed. He faced being bitten by a snake. Was he not supposed to bring? I mean,
did God really not want him? I mean, it's that hard. I guess God didn't really want him.
Do you see how that can really know? You walk in faith. You seek God daily and you ask God,
is this for now? Is this what you're calling me to? Which brings me to another really important
point. So we talked about consistency. The world right now needs you to be consistent,
consistent in your faith, consistent in showing up, consistent in love. The second thing it needs
is for you to be strongly convicted, to have conviction. Faith is both a mixture of conviction,
because the word faith and believe is similar to the word of putting your whole weight on something.
So what, like leaning against a wall, if I have faith in that wall or faith in this chair that
is going to hold me, I'm comfortable to put my whole weight. If I have faith that God is working
in and through me, that I have the mind of Christ, that I'm the temple of the spirit,
that I have power and authority. If I have that level of conviction that my life has a meaning
and so does yours, that there is still healing, that there is still transformation, that God has
a good path for you. That's faith. How much of that? So are you being influenced by the noise
and the static and the voice, or are you showing up with consistency, with faith and expectation,
with hope, with conviction? And that's why you don't waver. You keep coming back even after they
say no, even after they say they can't afford it, even after, because you love them enough to take
them all the way. You find a way to help them get, you know, their, the call on their life, their goals,
their dreams, their desires, because you've done, I've taught you in the sales mountain, you've built
rapport, you've asked a lot of questions, you've come to understand the gaps, where they need support,
how you can help them. You don't let up. You're consistent. So what I want to talk about in that
consistency, in that conviction, in that faith and expectation, how are you doing, and I'd love
you to share honestly, how are you doing of consistently showing up, number one, and number two,
of vulnerably, transparently, honestly showing up. And in particular, when we're dealing with
information and AI, we're going to use AI as a tool to help us be better, to get things done faster,
to, I don't care if it's edit, proofread, help you with a word, whatever you need it for, it's
You got a whole staff at the push of a button. That's cool. But it's you that's showing up.
It's Christ in you that's showing up. Are you using the power of story? Because this is something
that AI, chat GPT, all the different AIs kind of suck at. I have used it to help me get feedback
on my book and look at what areas I could clean up grammatically or anything. And you know what
it'll do? Because it doesn't have art. It doesn't have the spirit of God. It will strip out story
and stick to information. In fact, it will often strip out the sensory details. It doesn't get
that yet unless you train it. You've got to pull that back in and you have to train it. Do not
leave out storytelling. Do not leave out heart engaging. Do not leave out. And we'll do some
more updates because AI is so new right now with all that it offers. So we'll do another training
on that. What I want to know is, are you using story powerfully? Are you doing your miracle hour?
Are you showing up every day? Are you posting valuable content? And is it rich with story?
That's what I want to know. How are you doing with that? Do you need support on that? Or how are you
doing? So let me just see what some of you guys are writing here so that I really help you.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I love that. Karen God didn't pull me out of the gutter to leave me
sitting on the curb. Okay. I'm blogging every Sunday morning. Good. Doing follow-up on social.
Good. I buried my soul a couple of weeks ago. Good. My rock bottom. That guy. Biggest response.
It will. It will. It will. It will. I'm telling you. That's when you become a real person and
you're not AI. That's where their heart opens up. That's where they connect. That's exactly what I'm
trying to say. Congratulations. I do a weekly newsletter. Make sure a great portion of that
is story. Yours, your clients. If you can make your clients, your heroes, tell their stories.
Amazing. Okay. Who has questions about how you're showing up for impact? How are you using story?
How are you connecting with your audience? Give me a little pulse. Where are you feeling stuck?
Where is it working? Let's celebrate your successes. This is a time right now when the world
is feeling so paralyzed and so confused. This is a time to show up with your story.
With your story. You know, the Bible says we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word
of our testimony. Yeah. That's how we overcome. Okay. You guys have some great stories. I'm going
back in. My book goes to the publisher at the end of this month and I'm going back in and adding even
more stories. And some of them are humorous, but they just let people connect with you as a real
person. Super important. I've got things to share and teach to help you grow your business, but
the process of us connecting human to human. Okay. Give me some feedback on that. How are you doing
at showing up with faith and expectation? How's your consistency level? And how are you doing
at showing up with story? I would love to hear visibility. It's right now. It's about visibility.
And how are you doing at making offers? How are you doing? Are you inviting them to your
newsletter? Are you inviting them to your free, your lead magnet? Are you inviting them to your
longer content? Are you inviting them to your launch? Are you inviting them to book a call?
How are you doing? Okay. Linda's helped me show up consistently with her amazing VA services. Yay,
Linda. Yes, yes, yes. That makes a big difference. Each of us in our gifts. This is God
bringing us all together in our gifts. Hey, talk to me. How are you doing at showing up
vulnerability consistently with faith? Where do you feel stuck and struggling? Where do you feel
like you got it? Okay, Charlotte, go ahead. Well, you know, I've not very, I've not been
consistent and been in action until recently. I'm going to shift my words, but I made. I love that.
Yes. I haven't been consistent yet. I haven't accomplished it yet. Just put that one word at
the end.
And I didn't make even seen that little sheriff in town video I silly one I had made, and I read, did it yesterday, and it took me literally hours I could not get it edited just I mean it's only five minutes or six minutes but anyway, I finally got it up.
And, and I think one of the few things that I.
I don't I at the end of like this is what I want you to do clear clear call to action. Good. I kind of said that and video and I'm like, but I call it a silly and serious video because it's about a serious subject but it's being silly and my cowboy hat.
Nice, nice I saw it and of course I gave you feedback and I can't wait to see the new one. And congratulations taking action and constant never ending improvement willing to make it better as you go but you keep moving forward you keep showing it you don't have to show up perfectly.
But you do, you do show up so congratulations on that. I love that. Let's, let's give Charla.
Now, it was real cute she had a pink cowboy hat on I had it on yeah I had the pink cowboy had the new sheriff in town about the Omega oils and stuff and I was like, you know, but, but the new one has the background correct and a little bit.
Good you made the changes I suggested that's awesome. Some of you need to be aware of that. Um, she did something that you know it's very easy to do when you're filming and making your video you've got to make sure that you use the mirror image so that when it's all done it doesn't
have all your books and everything backwards behind you because that can be really, really zoom zoom must changed a lot of settings because it had been set.
I'd never had a problem with it and all of a sudden, you know, or you may want to settings got changed.
It could it could have been set or you may not have noticed it's not things that that normally we don't, we don't think about.
Okay, so are you using story.
And are you using rich sensory details like you don't just tell this and this and this happened, but you describe what you were feeling what you were thinking you include some dialogue.
You include like what it was like, I don't care if it's the weather or the description of the place or the description of the person. Are you using some good, good writing that way to get your message out in a way that people want to read it all.
How are you doing on that.
I'm learning Brenda. I am growing in that.
My tendency is just to not feel skilled in that yet so I, I have to be very conscious I'm in that conscious incompetence, moving into developing the habit of bringing story it's easier for me to do stories about clients.
Yeah, then it is to do stories about me. Yeah.
There's a lot of hats that I wear sometimes and I think, I don't know if I want these people over here to hear this story or this, because there's like I've been in different circles.
And so that's exactly well but it's the process of working, working. And so, yeah, I've got growth in consistency because I feel like I'm consistent in certain areas but not consistent with showing up on putting out on social media.
This is the story, it feels like every time I say okay now I'm going to be consistent then I get a bomb somewhere and it throws me off and then I'm like, what's the point and so then I have to start over and, yes, I'm.
Yeah, I appreciate that I appreciate I appreciate your honesty and you're not alone in that.
If, if something takes you off course you just get right back on next time. So the things that will make this easier for you. Number one, if you can choose the same time each day to do it like it's on your calendar in the same way.
I bet if you had a dentist appointment a bomb wouldn't go off, you'd probably make it to the dentist appointment. This is your appointment with your ideal client. This is your appointment with God to show up through you and touch lives and bring transformation.
So treating your appointments, which includes your appointment to your business. This ability is the single most important thing that you can possibly do.
So, you know, I want to congratulate you. I've seen you come a long way.
long way. You're showing up more and more and more. You're having success. And I know this
doesn't come easy for you. I know you're introverted often. And yet, you're so pregnant
with richness. You're so pregnant with transformational understanding, with love,
with faith, with experiences. And so I would say, treat your appointment to do this. It's
on the calendar. And you treat it with the same way that you would a doctor or a lawyer or whatever
you go to appointment. Because we think, oh, this is not important. I got to go do that.
But would you do it if you had, let's say you have, and look at it this way, look at it like
you have an appointment that you gave a deposit, $1,000 to have this appointment. Let's say it's
a top skilled, I don't care, makeup, something, doctor, lawyer, copywriter, whatever, artist,
photographer, you paid $1,000 for this appointment on your calendar. How easily would something take
you off course? And yet the truth of doing this has so many thousands of dollars, and even more
so, so much impact for the kingdom of God. Right now, the world needs consistency. And so I want
to encourage you that this week, if you're thinking about anything, it's about this
consistency. It's about visibility and bringing the stories. So the things that will help you,
Lois, is same time, creating a new habit, making it non-negotiable as if you'd spend $1,000 for
this appointment, putting yourself and doing this and your business first. The other thing that will
help you all that I encourage you is that you have a story bank. Because you're going all about
during the day, and then you just get reminded of stories. And the more that you do this,
the more you're going to get reminded of stories. Like I got reminded of a childhood story that I
thought, oh, that's so perfect for my book. And, you know, so constantly add stories so that when you
get ready to write anything, you look at the story bank and you go, oh, which story would be really
good for this? Because any story could be used a thousand different ways. Could be a story about
your dog, about your kid, about you, about a client. It can be used to have a different lesson.
Okay, but having that story bank will also speed you up greatly. All right, Lois, I want to give
you a snap though. Just showing up. You're here. You just spoke up. I know that's not your favorite
thing to do. I honor you. I love what you're doing. You got so much to give. Keep going. I would say
Galatians 6.9. Do not grow weary in doing good, for it's such a time we will reap a harvest if we do not
give up. Okay, that's your verse. Galatians 6.9. Don't grow weary. Just keep going, keep going,
keep going. It's all of our verse. Linda, did you raise your hand? No, well, no, but I was just like,
as you were talking to Lois, are we talking live videos or can she do like on a day where
she's really on a roll? Can she do several at a time and then absolutely spot them waiting in the
wings? Absolutely. And there needs to be a mixture. And so there's a mixture of, remember, people
have different sensory learning preferences. Some people, they love the written word. Some people
need to watch a video, which is more people than reading these days. Some people need to interact
and like touch it and feel it. So you want to mix your medium. Don't paint your house all white.
Yeah, I was also taught a long time ago, if your day blows up and you
don't have time, just use some of the other people's stuff in your story.
You get the cool little videos or whatever, share them.
And that way you're still showing up because there's something on your page that
they have to look forward to or whatever. Love that. Love that. Thank you, Linda. Thank you.
Okay. Did I see someone else raised their hand there? Okay. I would say
right now is a time to keep your business really simple.
This is really keep your business and your life really, really simple. I read a quote,
I pulled it out here and it was really good. And it's exactly about this.
Don't get so busy running your business that you fail to build the business and this steals
your life.
Let that sink in.
Don't get so busy running the business that you fail to build the business and this steals
your life.
So, I want you to, again, I've had you many times on a regular basis do a time study.
Just carry a piece of paper around, write down what you do every half an hour.
At the end of that day, look at it and see where are the gaps.
What are you doing that truly is maybe urgent but not?
Moving you forward and so I used to do this in network marketing and I want you to kind
of apply a network marketing principle to your coaching business.
In network marketing, I used to say you really only have like three things.
You're telling people about a product.
You're telling people about an opportunity and you're training a team to be able to do
the same thing.
That's called keeping it simple.
So, you just go, okay, in all this activity that I'm doing, am I talking about the product?
Am I talking about the opportunity?
Am I raising up leaders?
The same thing is for your coaching business.
It's pretty basic.
Are you bringing in new clients?
Are you serving those clients?
And are you following up to help them get the transformation that you're called to bring
to advance the kingdom of God?
If you can keep it that simple and then look at all the stuff, go back to what I've taught
you.
10x is easier than 2x.
Go back to what I've taught you.
What is the 20% in your business that's making 80% of the difference?
I can tell you right now, the 20% is showing up and following up, showing up with consistency
and following up.
There's a lot of things you can drop through the cracks.
Those two things you can't right now.
So hopefully that helps you.
This is an exciting season.
I really feel right now that God is bringing all of you to this place of all of your experience,
all of your pain, all your sorrow, all your gifting, all your frustrations, like all of
that that has made you, you, he's calling you to offer that right now, Romans 12.
Offer that as a living sacrifice.
Offer that to God for the kingdom.
And this is the season for that.
It matters so much.
The hope that you bring, the encouragement that you bring, the example that you bring,
the faith that you bring, the tools that you bring, the gifts that you bring, the just
like Barbara, just the straight connection that you bring.
That's no accident.
God is like divinely connecting you and we have to be awake and aware of those connections,
right?
Okay.
I pray that's encouraged you all.
I love you.
Keep going.
I'm loving the successes.
Congratulations.
I see you all moving forward, doing so much.
I know Bev is muted and everything, but I know she's getting ready to do live events.
I'm super excited for her.
She's booked a couple of them a month in facilities.
So excited to see that.
Sharla is doing a couple of ventures and she's-
I have, yeah, if you're in DFW, Barbara, I'm having an event at my house on the 26th.
And so I'm re-entering the social world a little bit.
Love it.
So congratulations.
This is the time to show up live, okay?
Show up the real you, okay?
So congratulations.
Barbara, I pray for your appointment today.
I just pray that just the spirit just floods and that miracles come from this connection.
Karen, super excited for your speaking engagement.
Super excited for the launch of Women in the Rooms and to each and every one of you, I
love you.
We'll see you next time.