All right, so welcome to this week's office hours.
Of course, we meet as part of the benefit of being a Prosper Leader member.
We meet every Thursday, 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
And the purpose of this time is, first and foremost, that you have a place to bring your
questions, to get feedback from myself or from your other Prosper sisters, okay?
So be thinking about what questions you have, what hot seating you'd like to do to take
your business, your life to another level, super excited to do that.
And of course, God always puts something on my heart that I feel strongly to share with
you and that's no different today.
So we're going to open with prayer and then you can be raising your virtual hand and I'll
go in the order of how you raise your hands, we'll work our way to help you, whatever.
If you have a win, that should be included because I've always shared the tide that rises
raises all boats.
When you share your wins, everybody gets encouraged.
When you share your questions, you're probably not the only one with that question.
And of course, phrase your question in a way that it relates to everybody, that helps everybody
in the sisterhood.
So with that being said, let's start with prayer.
Father, I give thanks for these beautiful women, for the Prosper Leader membership that
you called me to, that you ordained, that you are blessing.
We invite your presence.
We invite you, Holy Spirit, to rule, to reign, to lead, to speak, to touch, to transform,
to empower.
I pray you strengthen every woman represented here or listening to the recording.
Strengthen them with might.
Strengthen them with might in their inner woman.
And Lord, may they know how deeply they are loved and how incredibly powerful they are
in you.
May they see their vision clear, the vision that you give them, and may they be empowered
to fully live it.
Like I always pray, Lord, live us.
Live me today.
Live me.
Speak through me, coach through me, love through me, heal through me.
Whatever your will, we surrender to you and we give thanks.
In Jesus name, amen.
All right, welcome, welcome, welcome.
I don't see the hands raised.
You guys just want to listen to me or you're going to get your hands raised or you can't
find her there.
Okay, here comes Karen.
I'm going to say, I know she wouldn't waste that opportunity.
Here we go.
Let me spotlight you real quick and come on up, Karen.
Sorry, I'm talking.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I have a, I'll start with that.
As everybody or some of you know, I have a women's community, online community for women
in recovery.
So I did a soft launch.
I opened up by having a Zoom meeting.
I'm going to have Saturday morning Zooms with women in recovery.
And it was phenomenal.
I mean, honestly, I had feedback like this one woman was like, oh my God, it feels lighter
than AA.
And I've known this other woman for a few years and she just really told us stuff.
And she's like, I feel so safe here.
People were like, the feedback was unbelievable.
Unfortunately, the one woman, you know, here's, okay, so here's my problem.
And I, I actually am, thank God I'm meeting with Brenda later.
And I did write her a very like, like a 10 page note.
I got it.
But, but basically it's the automations.
I don't, I don't have, there's major foundational flaws in my system.
So here's the killer.
Like, I don't know, like how, how you guys have dealt with automations.
If this was like a challenge for you, like the one woman, I was able to see that she
went into this one room and the women in the rooms and that was my office space.
And it's like, I think she would like to be a client.
I like, I feel like I don't, I have to get the technology right right now so that I can
open it and have like rehabs, like announce that I have this space.
So anyway, I just wondered what people do about automations, how you fixed it.
Was it a challenge?
What did you do?
Okay.
So I'm going to say a couple things on this.
Number one, I use a lot of technology.
um and I've eliminated a lot of technology and more and more every day and um I'm gonna say
that what I see the enemy using in my opinion to keep women from fully showing up and fully
living their call is this idea that they don't have enough technology. It's another version of
lack. It used to be I don't have enough coaching certificates that's what used to keep women out
of the game and today it's I don't know how to use all this technology. I'm going to encourage
you because of the season you're in because of the season that business is in right now
I'm going to encourage you to incredibly simplify and we'll get specific on your call okay but I'm
going to speak generally where it helps everyone okay um first of all this is a season when people
are bombarded and overwhelmed with information the technology with having to check too many gadgets
and having to work too much so even if you put technology in place it puts a barrier between
them in many cases because it's something that they have to figure out too okay so I'm going to
say that in this age of AI and believe me you all know I use AI to save 15 to 20 hours a week
yes we're going to use it to save time but in this age of AI so I've always said you know high tech
high touch right now I'm going to raise the touch and lower the tech because of the culture
where we are I'm going to encourage it's high touch and low tech okay what does that mean
you need almost nothing to serve your clients you need zoom if you're doing it online
you need a link to be able to schedule a calendar link to be able to schedule calls
and you need to be able to get on zoom calls and have calls and on those calls you can do all kinds
of things you can welcome you can do a breakthrough strategy call to which I've taught you how to
identify where they're at what their challenges are how you can serve make an offer what you
recommend you can use a call for that okay you can use a call to coach do you understand with
just those tools you could build an entire empire now if we're going to add another technology which
you did you have an email system okay I would now add the email to do many of the touches
right so we've talked about the fortune is in the follow-up okay I know your women in the rooms
is on a platform that many people coaches are are jumping on and starting to use and I have to tell
you I'm not on that platform I'm not familiar I'm not a tech expert in that so if you guys come to
me for a lot of tech advice I'm not I'm not your girl I can teach you to use AI to save time I can
share tech I've used to save time but I don't know all the tech out there and I'm not a tech guru
by by a long shot but I would say your most important thing right now is to be nurturing
these people and what I do with this woman very simple I'd have a call and I would ask questions
and I would listen and I would identify a need and I would make a recommendation and I would make a
sale and you don't need any tech for that except zoom and you know and the ability to connect okay
um now I have shared with most of you and this would be another technology in a sense but it's
the technology I used I don't know now three four or five years ago that I consolidated everything
into one place practically I do have a separate CRM I use active campaign for my email it's the
most robust it's what most of the big companies use and it's a true CRM um but you can start your
email wherever you want to start you know you've got constant contact or mail chimp anything for
getting emails I'm not going to get bogged down with that there's a lot okay um so I do have that
separate um but what I've used for 90% of what I do is coach accountable and um and and I can
show you that personally any of you I won't take time here but it was such a godsend when I found
it because I do every single thing on there so it has my calendar and all my calls are scheduled
there it is my client management
I have groups on there.
You guys have experience being in groups.
You're being in this group.
I can email all of you at a push of a button
or send you a worksheet.
All my worksheets and forms are in there that I can send.
I can create links for anything.
It collects my money on whatever way I tell it,
at once or every month.
You guys are experiencing that.
You know how that looks.
So everything, and it's almost dirt cheap.
It ends up costing me $5, $6 a paying client.
Everyone else I make inactive.
I don't lose them.
They're in there.
So for every functionality, it costs almost nothing.
So that's the main technology.
But I'm not giving you another technology at this moment.
I'm sharing that as a general, how
I solve having 15 things in 15 places
and trying to zap them together and trying to,
how do I make this connect with this and this?
It's all in one place.
That's how I did it.
You know what?
Yeah, I had noticed that you use coach accountability.
I would love to streamline.
I'm so early in the game, and that woman
did mess up my mighty networks.
I might just kind of bail and switch over
since I could do group meetings and stuff.
But we'll talk later.
But thank you.
We'll talk later.
And we could do a whole call on that.
But I have found, for coaches and healers in particular,
my goodness, I mean, everything is a push of a button
in one place.
And it's cheap.
Yeah, I need it to be seamless and in the background.
Like, OK, cool.
All right, thank you.
Thank you.
So hopefully that answers your question for you
where you are right now.
Your most important thing, be on Zoom calls with everybody,
either as discovery calls to find out where they're at,
as welcome calls to welcome them in.
You can onboard the same way you asked me about onboarding.
Everything can be done simply with your calendar link
and Zoom right now for you, and an email.
So don't be too complicated.
And then we'll get into the depths of yours
during coaching, the full implementation.
Yeah, actually, that woman that I know,
she comes from a very wealthy area.
And she really got a lot from the meeting.
Not to be nothing, but I know Haddonfield, New Jersey.
And she's so enthusiastic.
And I was like, she's like my ideal person.
Enroll her.
Let's just start a coaching.
Absolutely, yeah.
Bring her in.
Have a call and bring her in.
That's all.
That's all you need, OK?
And we'll figure out the rest on your call.
Awesome.
Thank you for bringing the question
and also just bringing to attention something.
I want you to look in your business as to what
is keeping you from making the full impact and the full income
that you want to make, OK?
What is keeping you, all right?
Barbara, I'm so glad.
I'm going to come right after that.
I see Charlie, you're next up, and then Jennifer after.
Barbara didn't know I was going to do this.
And with her permission, I'm going to bring her up.
Because we were talking about winds,
and the tide that rises raises all boats.
I want to share something you shared with me.
I want to recognize you and appreciate you.
And I want everybody to be inspired and maybe get
a tip or two from you.
Is that OK?
Can I hot seat you for a second?
Always.
Yes, yes.
You didn't know I was going to do this,
so thank you for your grace on that.
Let me bring you up here, OK?
All right.
Let me tell you where this is coming from.
I want to share this with you, not to pat myself on the back,
but there's a part in this that I want to recognize.
Barbara, and I want you guys to get inspired from this.
And by the way, you look beautiful today.
So start at you.
OK, I'm going to share.
So the back story is that Barbara
had sent me asking me a question.
And she just gave me really nice, sweet things
that she said about my coaching.
And I thanked her for that.
And she says, oh, that's nothing.
Let me write you a real one.
And so she wrote me a really beautiful, generous, lavish
testimonial.
But in it, she shares something that I think
is important for all of you.
So this is why I want to share it.
Let me share this.
I won't share all of it, but just the part of it
that I think is really relevant.
And am I sharing the screen?
You guys seeing the screen?
Yes.
OK, so I just this.
This was just so generous.
She said, Brenda, when someone makes a decision
to become a coach, a lot of things
have to happen to make the business successful.
Yep, that's what we're talking about.
I wish I'd met you when I first made the decision
to leave corporate America to start a coaching practice.
Instead, this is a lesson for everyone,
I tried to figure things out on my own.
Oh my goodness, who doesn't do that?
That's amazing.
I wasn't sure what my niche was, how to market my coaching,
or even how to come up with an offer for my services
in a way that wasn't just by the hour.
I also had no idea how to be authentically me
in my marketing efforts,
specifically how to include my faith in the process.
I'm bringing this part up
because this is what God is putting on my heart today
to share with you as we have time,
is the gap between your faith and your business
and where does it still exist?
So I love that that's here.
She says, I found you,
I think God put you in my path truly on LinkedIn
and you were launching a jumpstart into 2025.
It was a faith-based approach to leaving behind
what does not serve as we move into a new year.
I remember turning the camera off a few times
because it was so powerful, it brought me to tears.
You were bringing me to tears, sister.
You helped me get unstuck from the place I was at.
Okay, this is what I wanna share.
I only had two paying clients and no prospects in sight.
After only a few months, I have eight paying clients.
You guys, that's a snap.
And I'm creating a coaching practice with God at the center.
You have such a unique way of plugging people
into the power of the Holy Spirit,
which is the most powerful way to live life.
Okay, she then goes into what we accomplished
in the Breakthrough Intensive that she did and so on.
But I wanna come back to you.
First of all, kudos from two and no prospects to eight.
You guys, like let's celebrate each other.
That's incredible.
So I would just love to share with your sisters,
what was it that you were doing consistently
to go from two to eight?
What was it that worked most effectively for you
and how you brought your faith in?
I think this is relevant for everybody.
Yeah, I mean, and I do really give you the credit.
I give God the credit, but he put you on my path
because you showed me how to do it.
I didn't know how to plug into the power of the Holy Spirit
when I started, I knew I wanted my faith to be
at the center of my business, but I didn't know how to do it.
And then watching you just like boldly praying for us
in every aspect of our life.
Like it's not a fake, you know,
it's like we're really genuinely asking God
to come into our businesses, come into our life,
come into this conversation.
And then that's, I mean,
if there's one thing I've done consistently, it's that.
I know that there's mindset, skillset, next best step.
Mindset is all God and affirmations, declarations.
I mean, I've been using your,
this has been my foundation since the beginning of the year.
Like-
A prosperity planner, you're doing that every day.
And is that, that's keeping you organized
and making sure you keep the steps.
And are you even doing at the bottom
where you're tracking the numbers, the number of calls,
the number of leads, all of that?
I came from banking and I love KPIs.
And so I started an Excel sheet.
But I'm tracking it because you've taught me
that when you track, gets results.
And if you're not tracking it, so I started.
The other huge thing is every other coach
I've ever worked with is like, this is the formula.
In your sales conversation, you have to say it this way
and then say it that way.
And you're like, it's a flow, it's a conversation.
You're in the moment and you're like, I pray first.
When I get a discover or someone wants to connect,
the first thing I do is pray for them.
And before our connection call, I pray for them.
And I say, God, just whatever this person needs,
they might get it today in this one conversation
or they might get it in a long-term coaching.
Either way, help me just add value to this person's life.
And that's something that you do that just blows my mind.
You add so much value that, and you're not desperately
holding on to every, it's like, here's what I have
and here's the next step.
And I'm going from glory to glory
and come with me if you want.
It's just, I've really enjoyed following you.
I love it.
some really key points. God first, and integrating your
faith. Remember, we're building profitable faith integrated
businesses. And so partnering with God, this is this is so
huge. This is the core message. Number one, number two, how can
I add value? How can I add value? And she's doing that. And
then number three, obviously, she's measuring and using the
prosper daily planner. Number four, obviously, you're getting
out there and making offers or you wouldn't have eight new
clients. So how are you making offers? Yeah. And how often?
Every single day because a sale doesn't happen to my ears. A
sale does not happen outside of a conversation. So if you're not
reaching out to someone,
could you repeat that? One more time for the people in the back
a sale does not happen. outside of a conversation, you have to
pick up the phone, show up to the networking event. And by
doing that consistently and saying, the other thing is I'm
giving coaching away for free sometimes in a group like I love
coaching in a group to be like, let's just talk about like,
what's your dream? And what does that look like? And in three
right, like, show people the power of coaching. And then
through adding value. Yeah, for free in a big group. Like, ooh,
I kind of maybe want to part of that. Like what else do you do?
Yeah, yeah. So you're, you're mixing it, you're doing all the
things visibility, you're showing up, you're adding value.
And yes, adding value can be free, you're finding ways to add
value, and you're consistently making offers. And so you know,
I've shared with many of you that many of you want to have
new desire to have new clients, you cannot have clients, if you
are not having sales conversations. And you cannot
have sales conversations, if you don't know what you offer, have
clarity, right, and be consistently generating leads,
right. So we're going to talk more about that. But thank you
for letting me put you on the spot. Thank you for all that you
shared. You touched me very deeply. And I'm so excited where
you're at. Just keep going. Love it. Okay. All right. Was that
good? You guys give a snap to her? Was that encouraging? I
just want you all to be so encouraged. And it's like God
is so on time. Because when I when I wrote down what God was
putting on my heart to share with you today, the number one
question is, where is there a gap? Where is your faith, your
relationship with God, your partnering with God, still
separated from your business? Where are you still trying to do
business, the old way, the grind way, the, you know, whatever
that you learned or hearing or seeing out there? Where is
there still separation? Where do you still need to merge your
faith life, your partnership with God, your prayer life?
Where do you still need to merge your faith and your business,
your faith and your life? And, you know, the key, the bottom
behind this, we're on this planet to make a difference. And
we're here to make, you know, obviously, we need income for a
business, but God is our source, but it comes through
people. And we're here to make an impact, to make an impact, to
change lives, to bring transformation and to make
income. We must every single day be visible, and making offers.
And those offers can often be small, trust building offers.
They can be simple. So an example, I just got done doing
the masterclass with you guys this past weekend, right? And
the resurrect your spirit and your business. And I got a lot
of feedback. The last thing we did was that meditation. And I
got so much feedback, how that meditation that people it still
changed them, they're still talking about it, they're still
thinking about it. So like Barbara just said, how can I add
value? How about if I give that meditation away? How about if I
do that? Right? So what did I do? I made it available for
people. And I made an offer, hey, get the whole replay and
the study guide for everything. So that was an offer by email,
you guys got it on my social media, you guys got it. Right.
That's an example. When I said be visible all the
time in masterclasses, in launches, in lives,
be visible in networking, online, offline,
be visible, and constantly, constantly be making offers.
And those can be trust-building offers
that once they're in your ecosystem, you can,
like Barbara said, we can take them glory to glory.
OK, let's see, what was it?
Charlotte was next, so let me grab you here.
Come on in.
Let me pin you so we can see you.
All right, what's your question or your win
that you want to share?
Well, I'm just really glad that you just brought up
that meditation, because that was the first thing I
was going to mention.
I've said for many years, we just
need to be Jesus with skin on.
And that put the picture together, right?
And I love that.
Just be, God needs people with skin on, right?
He needs people.
He can't do his work without us.
So I love that in that meditation.
Unbelievable.
Awesome.
Awesome, awesome.
Thank you.
And this is a completely kind of a weird, perhaps,
question in this group.
But in the beginning, something triggered
me to go ahead and ask it.
Yes, my son has a huge issue in that he's
been delivering mail in rural Colorado all over the winter
using his own gas.
They're subcontractors, or contractors
for the US Post Office.
They can't keep people.
But he hadn't been paid in over 10 months.
I mean, four or five months.
And so since October, I believe, he hasn't been paid.
And so there's 80 of them, and they're losing their houses.
They're losing their, you know, they work and paid to work
and then haven't been paid by the United States Postal
Service.
He asked if I would make a video,
because I had this little cowboy hat thing
that I did something else for.
And he goes, put your cowboy hat on, make this little video,
and talk to the US Postal Service
and say we're coming to get you.
Or we're coming after you.
And it turned out really cute, but it was 58 seconds.
And my question is, he wants to go,
he wants to put that out on TikTok.
It's on my Vimeo, right?
So it's a little thing on my Vimeo.
What are the unintended consequences
of something like that?
Some repercussions that, you know,
is that a valid question?
Just, you know.
I can't comment, because I haven't seen the video.
So obviously, it can't be something
that you're sharing trademarked information,
or it's derogatory, or, you know.
So I really can't comment,
because I don't know enough about, you know,
the video or anything like that.
I think that's kind of out of the scope.
So any videos, like, what if it, what, long shot.
I'm not saying anything that it would,
but what if it got momentum and took off,
and it's got my background here.
It's got, you know, I took my name off.
So does what you put on the video
relate to your background?
Does it, here's the question that's for everybody
on everything you do, okay?
You've got some very important markers.
Number one, your God-given vision.
Where are you going?
What's the big picture?
What's your vision?
Number two, your values.
What do you stand for?
So the first place I would go is, okay,
if anybody sees this,
is it in line with what God's called me to do,
my divine purpose, my divine vision?
Am I in alignment, first and foremost?
Because if we're way out here, over there,
then there are consequences in a lot of ways.
And the minimum consequence is confusion
or lack of credibility, right?
So that's number one.
What is the vision?
And I love, Karen said, when in doubt, leave it out.
That's a good thing to say.
You know, second is, is this in line with your values?
Does this really represent who you stand for,
what you believe in, what you speak, you know?
And look at those things.
And then if there is this doubt, you know,
is this a check in your spirit from the Holy Spirit,
or is it just you asking wisdom?
Like more wisdom because-
And let me just say one more,
and then you can go on,
is I love the verse that says,
let peace be your umpire.
So one of the first things I always look at is,
do I have peace around this?
As I pray, I surrender to God,
Lord, give me a check in my spirit if this is not of you,
do I have peace?
And physiologically,
when something is aligned with truth,
with God, with good,
will feel light. When something is out of alignment, out of integrity, against truth,
not full with God or whatever, there will be a certain heaviness. So I would look at,
do I feel peace? Do I feel light? Do I feel God's green light? And then make a decision.
Well, I feel pretty much all of that. I just know that in the social media world,
things can get, you know. What are you afraid? What is your fear? What are you afraid will
happen? If this goes viral, then what? What's the fear? Will I, you know, will I have,
if it goes, say it goes viral, and I'm not saying it would, but
what happens to those people when all of a sudden you've got people looking, I don't have a TikTok
account. He wants to put it on his TikTok account. You know, what, I guess that was kind of just the
underlying. I feel good about the whole thing. There's some integrity issues that I think need
to be addressed in some of these, you know. Okay. So again, I think this is a little out
of the scope of this call, but what's the purpose of it? Is it accomplishing the purpose?
What's the fear behind it? And so look, look at that. You know, I'm afraid if this goes viral.
Okay. And is the question, if I go viral, okay, is your concern of you not being visible? Because
that would be a different concern that we would address within you. Or is your concern that there
was no call to action or people can't get followed up with when you say, where would all these people
go? Well, was it asking them to go somewhere or were you just bringing information? And so look
at all those kinds of questions and then we could, we could talk a little bit more privately on that.
Okay. Okay. Well, I just, yeah, he, it's probably going to, it's probably going to get out there
because I showed it to him and he thought it was amazing. So anyway, I just, that was just,
okay. In the big social media world, do we have something? And one other thing is not,
you've recommended two books to me that are very impactful. One is the, the one thing. And
the second is 10, 10 X, right? So are several books, but those two is easier than two X. Yes.
And the day I read the day I read the one thing last week, someone came over and we were talking
and he he's like, you know, why don't you, you know, all these people, why don't you go interview
big people? You can fly out and I'll take and do the photography. We'll do the drone, you know? And
so all of a sudden there's this, you know, this idea, I know the editor of George magazine. I
mean, he's, he's huge. George Jean Ho. And I've got, you know, I've got pictures with all these
people. And, and, and he's like, why don't you, why don't you just go start interviewing, get,
find 10 of them, get out there. And that will massively increase your following.
So that is, it was a really interesting, I was like, that's a 10 X kind of thing. I don't know.
I love it. It sounds like great visibility. And again, it sounds like almost the same question
in two different ways. Did all of you kind of catch that? And the question is, you know,
is it time for me to get visible? And if I get visible, what am I afraid of? And if I get visible,
how will I channel it into like, let's have it go somewhere, I guess I would say. So with your son,
that's up to him. He's that's his thing. But in terms of you, same as with your, you know,
you're very successful, you know, show that you've done all these years, let's have a solid
call to action. So that we're making an impact and we're making an income, right? So I would,
I would have a, a customer journey, then that you do this interview, people see it,
this is the customer journey. And then what happens? What do you offer? What do you ask
them to do? And then when they do it, how do you follow up? And when you follow up,
what do you offer? So like, see the thing all the way through, because you're really good at the
front end. You're really good at publicity. You can make a video, you can make a podcast,
you've done it, you can, you know, you know, people, you could go do an interview. This is
awesome. It's a great skill you've developed. Just see it to completion. Where, where are you
going with it? Right? And then really good question, because I don't know. That's what
we want to do before we start. I really love start with the end in the
mind. You were actually sent a tag. I actually sent a message
to the editor of the magazine and bag but you know, I that was
a step. You're bold. That's your one of your signatures. You're
bold, right? You've had a gun to your head. You're bold. But
please start with the end in mind and reverse engineer. So I
get this interview and it's a beautiful publication and I put
it out. Where are we going? Then reverse engineer so the steps
are in place. Okay, thank you. Great, great question. Lois, I'm
excited to see you raising your hand. Go girl. Come on up. She's
always an introvert a lot of times. So it's I love it when
she shows up.
Yeah, just just some celebration. Not necessarily
questioning. But first of all, just I just want to share how
critical it is and how wonderful it is to follow Holy Spirit's
nudges in in business and and that is exponentially growing
with me and I love Barbara, you're sharing and and just a
fun thing. First Brenda, I so enjoyed the resurrection
workshop you did and it resonates with a lot of stuff
from my my history but I was I lead a group on Wednesday night
with my husband on offline group and and I said to him, you
know, I've done meditations, I'd led the group and meditation
for we did an amazing one on Saturday, I really would love to
get my hands on that again. And I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna
message, you know you because I just wanted a refresher because
it's a lot of things. And I was like, Lord, I just need to do
that. But I didn't have time. And then I looked in my inbox.
And there was your link. Oh, that's amazing. So I was able to
just like, listen to it really quickly. And then just take
pieces from that as Holy Spirit led me and it just blessed the
group yesterday night. Like, it was just such a powerful
experience for them. So that was really fun, really fun. But then
the other thing is I have been expanding myself in social, in
the social media world and networking and connecting with
people and I've connected with two, two people who have been
really amazing. And I, again, I just felt like the Lord said to
me, you know, one moment, you need to connect with this person
after we had an initial meeting, and offer them a session. Because
it's part of part of expanding, and showing and connecting what
you can do to collaborate, because this concept of
collaborating with people, the Lord is really putting that on
my heart. Yeah. So yeah, it's just been so powerful. Because
when you get into that space of collaborating, it's like one can
take out 100, but two can take out 1000. And so there's this
bond that is happening with a few people that I'm about, what
can we do for the future. And so I'm really excited about what
God's doing. Not, not necessarily by my conniving or
my, yeah, because God really has intention for us and we're with
him. It just blows up way bigger than we could, could
imagine or dream. So I just want to say again, in this moment,
thank you, Brenda, for your consistency, for encouraging us
to be visible, be connecting, be out there. Because I mean,
that's where the magic happens, not sitting by ourselves doing
nothing.
Thank you for sharing that. That's so important. And I love,
I love a lot of things about what you just shared. Number
one, not only were you blessed in the Resurrection and that
meditation, but you immediately thought about how can I share
this? Or how can I use this to serve? And so we learn the most
by teaching, we learn the most by doing. And so the fact that
you took it and right away are thinking about other people,
that's, that's so beautiful. And number two, I know, you know,
it's been a stretch, you know, first of all, your
personality of wanting to be more behind the scenes. But and
the circumstances that you've had, you know, with with
sickness in your family, and so on. But still, you've made the
choice to keep showing up. And I know it was hard for you in the
beginning to just keep posting on LinkedIn, I want to celebrate
that I saw you, you just kept on doing you kept on reaching out.
And now you're building those relationships. And now you're
looking at collaboration. And so it's all in this connection,
it's in the connection and the collaboration, but to have
connection and collaboration, because we are the body of
Christ, some of us are hands, some are eyes, some of us are
feet, some of us are mouths, we are the body of Christ, we're
meant to work together.
You did that like I want to celebrate all of those things you showed up you connected you followed up and now you're building these relationships and so I just want to celebrate you congratulations on that and thank you for coming in and sharing it with everybody and just
thank you for being part of the prosper leader membership you're a blessing and I want you to always know that.
Okay, let's see I see another hand here. Let me remove the pen, let me come over to Barbara.
Let me add you back. She's back, Barbara. Yes.
Hello. Alright, so I would love to talk about LinkedIn, and I private messaged you beforehand just to make sure it's an okay topic.
With all the algorithms, no matter which social media we choose there, we're at risk of them shutting us down, and our CRM you've taught me is the most important thing, capturing the emails right so yeah thank God for that, and it's been working and it's growing
Thank you. How do we avoid any pitfalls what can you share when it comes to following the rules in LinkedIn, because that's a big lead source for me. Yeah.
Um, so there's, there's a there's a few things.
First of all, you bring up a really valid point that that course I've been teaching and I want to re emphasize with it.
Social media, first of all, you don't, you don't own it, you're renting space.
So it doesn't matter which one.
And there's always a risk.
And sometimes the risk like you said is the algorithm changes.
So I remember seeing that with with Facebook, I don't know now it's been 567 years ago I watched, you know, the coaching industry just get decimated when the algorithms change.
Second of all, you risk getting shadow banned, in which case, you may not even know, but shadow ban, meaning that you could have 5000 people on your page, but they could be showing your piece to five people, so you don't control how many people see it.
And so it's understanding that it's a business. And when you understand you're renting space.
And if you're valuable to that business, they're going to keep you.
And so what makes you valuable to that business. A lot of people engage, because that keeps people on the platform they watch your stuff for links of time that keeps you on the platform that kind of thing.
Keeps people, what do they want, it's like the old fashioned television, what do they want. They want eyes glued staying on the platform, and not going somewhere else so if you're in LinkedIn, you're not trying to send them to Facebook or to YouTube, right.
So there's some obvious things like don't put links in the post put them in the comments. Second is know the policies which is very hard, because they change all the time.
And most important I guess that I've told all of you is build the relationship make the connection on social media, quickly get them on your email list in your CRM, because that's the only thing that you own that is your business your CRM your list and nurturing
and growing that list and serving that list is your business if you went to sell your business, they're going to value your business by the number on your email list that's that's huge. Right. So, your whole goal all the time is to be growing and nurturing and serving it.
So, build your social media as a way to add value, and then get them off social media, and on to your CRM.
And then the last thing I want to share with you is something that I've learned over the last decade, and that is I used a virtual assistant to be making connections for me and getting the leads and putting on my on my calendar and LinkedIn crack down on that and so my VA, especially their crack down because of all the changes, my VA, she's amazing godly Christian woman that was helping you know making all the conversations is in the Philippines.
And so
So having people log in to your page from other places
is a red flag.
So that's, if you're asking what happened for me,
so it is what it is.
And for one reason or another, you risk losing that.
Fortunately for me, I got a lot of people on my email list.
But unfortunately for me, I didn't get a lot of people.
I was having a very successful newsletter subscription.
It went almost immediately to 600 people.
And so you pick up and you rebuild.
However, my business is God's business.
And I'm partnered with God.
And I don't feel that anything is random
or happens by accident.
And I feel, Romans 828, that everything works together
for my good.
And so I really felt, as I prayed at this moment
in this season, I was spending a lot of time on LinkedIn.
Because I just was starting to, it was so successful.
And my calendar was so full of potential clients
that it was taking a lot of time.
And I was actually getting ready.
I was going to have to hire a sales team or something
to help me because it was too many leads for me to handle.
And I felt like at that moment, because God
has been telling me and obedience
is in me writing my book.
This book is super important.
And I felt like God just cleared the table
so that all I could focus on was my book.
And so I trust that even that was in divine order.
And then I will go back and build LinkedIn.
And I will be careful and not, unfortunately,
be able to use a VA who is a beautiful Christian woman
and outstanding.
But the fact is, LinkedIn frowns on that.
So it is what it is.
Hopefully, does that answer your question?
It does, yeah.
It makes me think about how TikTok went away
for a couple of days.
And that was the original platform
I was trying to be on.
And it's still in the air.
We don't know what's going to happen.
That's one, it can make you big.
But I have personal concerns.
I never got on that one.
I have personal concerns about that one.
But I would say, I mean, my son's done absolutely fabulous
on TikTok.
So obviously, a lot of people have made a lot of money
and a lot of success.
Part of it is I would be on more than one platform.
I would focus on one, main one.
And I do believe it's still LinkedIn, primarily.
But I would have a secondary one.
And another thing that I would do
is not have yourself be the only admin on there with full rights.
So if I would have had someone else,
they could have come in and saved that.
That was something I didn't do.
So I also would have a backup admin
that you're not the only admin on your account.
All right, we are at the top of the hour right now.
Has this been helpful?
What I would like is just a really quick popcorn.
What was your biggest takeaway from today?
And how will you apply it?
What will you do as a result?
I would love, let's finish strong here.
And just popcorn on in, share what you really
gleaned from this call and how you will apply it,
because it's all in the application.
And is there a gap right now between your relationship
with God and your faith and your business?
Are there places in your business
that you're leaving God out, that you haven't surrendered,
that you're doing in your own strength?
But Barbara says, I will pray every day
to invite God into my business, all aspects.
Beautiful, okay.
Who else?
You can either unmute or you can pop in the chat.
I'm watching the chat.
I mean, it's so easy.
Oh, here.
It's so easy for me to invite the Holy Spirit
in the beginning of a Zoom meeting.
And the takeaway is the visibility, adding value,
and then the final is make an offer.
My thing is, ooh, let's make an offer.
So got to work on that, yeah.
I love that, I love that.
Yeah, you also put a question there.
I just see Karen.
For the most part, it's ideal to not put a link
as part of the post, just say link in comments,
the kind of standard practice,
and then put the link in the comments.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, it'll often read.
juice again, because it's sending someone away from the
platform, it will get less visibility. Okay. And I don't
know if the algorithms have changed lately on that. But
that's been the case. All right. I didn't hear from a few more of
you quick popcorn.
For me, it's continuing to reach out and connect with people and
just be in the awareness that Holy Spirit in me is wanting to
connect with people and I am carrying him to the connection.
Oh, I love that Holy Spirit in me is wanting me to connect with
people. That's so beautiful. I love that. I love that. I just
got a visual as you were talking. It's like the Holy
Spirit's taking you which is how the Holy Spirit does taking you
right to that person. I love that. That's beautiful. Okay,
Charla, take away. You're muted.
I thought I hit it. And, you know, just considering the path,
why? Why would I do what I do?
End in mind. That's really big for you. Let's make sure we take
it all the way to the end. We don't have just starts, but we
take it all the way start with the end in mind. I think that
was Stephen Covey that originally in the seven habits
start with the end in mind. Very powerful. And reverse engineer.
And really, that's what you do with everything. You know, if
you're building a business, if you're doing a launch, if you're
doing anything, hey, what's the end goal here? What are we
doing? And then we reverse engineer it. So fabulous. All
right, ladies, be blessed. We'll see you next time. Take care.