is relatively new in the last couple of months.
And you had, you and Natalie.
Natalie's back from Africa, but it
doesn't look like her mic or her camera are working right now.
They're both not working or on.
If they are, Natalie, I'd love to see your face
and acknowledge you.
Welcome back.
But I'd love to hear, after prayer, just a little bit
how you guys are collaborating.
Having a prosperous sister, what's
happening, because it's just so fun for everybody else
to see that modeled as well.
So let me start with prayer.
Father, I thank you for this community.
I thank you for your incredible love
for every single prosperous sister.
Whether they're feeling down or feeling up,
whether they're prospering, whether they're struggling,
whatever situation, dealing with kids, dealing with parents,
God, I pray you strengthen them with might
in their inner woman.
And I pray that this call encourages them, grows them,
stretches them, and makes them feel loved,
makes them feel connected, makes them feel
have strategies to advance in their business,
in their ministry, in their business tree.
Holy Spirit, we ask for you to just flood this atmosphere.
We ask that you'll speak through each member
and to each member.
You ordered this group.
You said, gather the women.
You showed them linking arms.
This is by your design.
We offer it back up to you.
We give you glory and honor.
Have your way, Lord, what needs to be said,
what needs to be felt, whatever's needed.
Lord, let it come forth.
Let your power move here.
You are the God of all hope.
Let your hope move here.
You are the God of all creativity.
Let creativity flow.
Let encouragement flow.
We're called to encourage one another.
I was just reading in Hebrews, forsake not
the gathering together.
And so as times are tough, and struggles,
and things are happening, us gathering here
becomes more and more and more important.
So Holy Spirit, have your way.
I pray that you prosper every single prospered sister,
physically, relationally, emotionally, spiritually.
Bless them, Lord.
Prosper them.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
OK, I've got some things I want to share with you.
I want to give you enough time.
There's Natalie.
Welcome back, sister.
Hey, I want to feature, I want to hear just a super brief.
Everybody, we've been praying for you about your trip.
And I want to hear, and so maybe I'm
going to spotlight right now both of you,
Jennifer and Natalie, because I know you were
Prosper Sisters last time.
I want to hear about your trip and about how you're
using the Prosper, pairing off like this, your Prosper Sister,
because this encourages everybody else
as they break out.
So I know we don't have a lot of time,
but if each of you can share like just a minute,
you know, what's happening for you?
Well, I'll share about the trip really quickly.
And then I'll let Jennifer share about the connection,
and I'll just kind of jump in.
So the trip was amazing.
I went to Senegal and the Gambia.
And every time we go, we kind of do something different.
This year, our highlight was the Gambia.
We didn't know it was going to be our highlight,
but we actually stayed in a reforesting project, which
was very different.
And it was, I'll just tell you this, you had like seven,
I would say, maybe somewhat bougie Black women.
And I say it like that because we were like literally in huts.
We were in huts.
We had to compost toilets.
We showered outside.
Our beds looked like, yeah, whatever.
But anyway, but I would tell you the story behind the place
where we were was amazing because the woman there is
known, her name is Isatu Sisay, and she's
known as the recycling queen.
Matter of fact, she has gotten plastic bags literally banned
from her village.
But she has also taken those plastic bags
and made products out of them, as well as the reason why
they're having a reforesting project
is because the government and everything
was cutting down trees to create coal.
She devised a way to make coal out of peanut shells.
And so now what they're doing is they're now reforesting.
So she had this land that she got that left.
for her parents.
And so she's turned it into this whole recycling
kind of compost land.
And not only do they build trees, but they build trees
and then they take them also to the local schools
and teach the kids how to build the trees.
And then they replant them in the forest.
And her whole thing is around regrowing all the trees
that were cut down and more.
And so the regraining of the area.
So that's just one part of it.
But she, I mean, the woman has done some amazing,
amazing work around not only empowering,
but also leading her community and all in her community.
She has a project with women who have different abilities,
who generally, if they're not supported,
they beg for, they have to beg for the way to live.
And she was able to gather these women
after a lot of people had just, you know, mistreated them.
And these women taught them skills
and all this other different things.
These women just collaborated together
and bought a land to build a compound for them to live on
and do and work and support each other.
So just a lot of amazing stuff that I could,
I could go on and on and on, but I'll stop right there.
Thank you, Natalie.
And you know, it's interesting
because before I started the call,
the word I was feeling was collaboration.
And that's why I started this call the way I did.
Yeah.
And you know, it's different here.
We may not be begging, you know, for food
or whatever we got, you know,
we're comfortably uncomfortable that, you know,
we got a roof over our head, right?
And all of that, but it's all in the collaboration.
And I believe that this is, we know,
this is the thing that's different with women than men.
You know, the male is, you know,
directive and organized and forward thinking,
all of that stuff,
but it's the women that are getting strength
by collaborating.
And I'm seeing more and more in this,
in the Prosper Sisterhood.
I'm just thrilled all the comments coming back to me
and things.
So Jennifer, you're relatively new
to the Prosper Leader membership
and you guys were Prosper Sisters last time you joined.
So I'd love to hear,
I know you've got some exciting things happening
and what are you guys like cooking up
as recent Prosper Sisters?
So I'd say to sum it up,
we have in common that we want to grow women in their faith
and, you know, just like growing the trees,
we want to grow women here in their faith.
And we met on April 1st
and that was the Prosper Leader call for April,
or yeah.
And then-
Before that, we left for Africa, you guys-
She was just about to leave.
So that pressured us to say,
hey, we got to make a call each day until then.
So we talked for two days.
Then she suggested we get on WhatsApp.
So we were able to put highlights in,
put prayer requests, pray for each other.
And when she got back on the 7th
is when I actually got the vision of what I was doing.
So I started working on it.
And by the time she got back a couple weeks later,
I then shared the vision with her and she said,
hey, I want to join in some way
because it's a one-day event
that I'm pulling together women, speakers, testimonials,
musicians, you know, a normal event
to potentially go on tour.
And we need more speakers than we need in one day
because we need backups
if you're going to not be available one month
or that kind of thing.
So in a nutshell,
it's gotten to the point where I've talked to
the 11 women that the Lord gave me
Natalie being one of them,
cause I prayed about it.
She prayed about it.
And we are meeting this Friday at 11 o'clock Pacific time.
And we are going to have our first vision casting meeting
for the event.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for just-
Can I add one little thing?
I will tell you,
and the exciting part about it is
meeting Jennifer lit a different part of fire in me
that had not been lit.
So we were, so that was exciting piece too.
So yeah.
Nice, nice.
This is the purpose.
This is just a preface why I do what I do
when we do breakout rooms.
And actually you guys should, you know,
give credit where credit is due.
Doing this Prosperous Sister idea
was Natalie's idea in the very beginning.
And, you know, Natalie has made the comments
and I take all your feedback
and this is what makes this group good.
It's all of us collectively, right?
And, you know, Natalie made a very important point.
She said, do the women know how to network
when they go into the rooms?
Do they know how to network?
And if you were gonna say just one thing, Natalie.
Because you guys did it.
Look at how you made it.
Even in Africa, get on WhatsApp.
I mean, if they can, across continents,
keep the Prosperous Sisterhood happening,
what's anyone else's excuse, right?
So Natalie, if you were going to give one tip, two tips,
how to get the most from having this Prosperous Sister
community, what would you say?
I would say, one, be intentional and understand
that we all have schedules.
But the connection is important.
And you make happen what you make happen.
And if you don't make it happen, and so it could be like,
oh, yeah, I'll pray for you or whatever.
But you never know what value added
your Prosperous Sister has.
And it may just be, I'm going to pray for you.
It may just be, you know, she may have that one idea.
Or it may just be a listening ear.
But I would say, be intentional about it.
If you don't hear from your Prosperous Sister,
reach out to her.
But so many times, we let the busyness of the world
keep us from connections that can be
valuable and prosperous to us.
Awesome.
OK.
I am going to thank you so much for sharing that, Natalie.
And I am going to put you guys in breakout rooms.
You may end up with three in your room,
depending how the computer does it.
If someone comes late, I may pop you out.
But I think that's the way it's going to work out.
So let me send you over to the breakout rooms right now.
And I'm going to try to give you enough time to really connect.
And then I've got some important things
I want to share with you.
OK.
So happy connecting.
Let me do the breakout rooms right now.
OK.
Happy connecting.
Okay, here we go.
All right, so welcome back from connecting and those of you that are maybe catching
the recording.
This is the monthly kickoff meeting for the Prosper Leader membership.
We do two group coaching mastermind type calls a month in addition to the weekly office hours
and the bonus masterclasses.
And so we break into breakout rooms to get a Prosper Sister.
So that just happened.
So the purpose of this is of course to get you oriented for the month.
And so I'm going to ask you to be thinking about some things and I'm going to talk about
what's happening right now in the market.
And if you have questions, if you want something covered, let me open up the chat so I can
be seeing that as well.
So anything as I'm talking, if you want it covered in the chat, I want to build a little
bit on some things that have been coming out of the office hours, a topic that's been coming
up a little bit.
Let me take a drink here.
You guys catch me first thing in the morning, get the raspiest voice of all.
All right.
So what I want to talk about, what's going on in the market and what's really important
as we show up in service as ambassadors for Christ in growing our impact and in growing
your income, growing your influence, growing your business.
And so what I want to talk about is of course the world's changing so dramatically and my
philosophy, I've been through a lot of these, you know, whether it's the 2004, the 2008,
the 2020, been through a lot of these ups and downs in business, you know, and it's
a normal part of business.
And the key is being flexible, allowing the Lord to use you and adjusting to what is going
on.
Right?
So what are some of the big things going on?
We're in an economic contraction, obviously that's not news to any of you.
So the average person, the average business, especially small businesses has experienced
a strong contraction, more than 50% loss in income.
So there's less disposable income.
So you just got to stop and say, okay, where you think about your niche and think about
them as an avatar, as a person, what are they going through right now?
And how can I be part of the solution?
How can I be making the world a better place?
How can I be making my client's life a better place?
And so they're in an economic contraction.
There's a high probability there's been over one and a half million jobs lost and probably
more with changing of different, you know, government entities and things like that.
So there's chances that they went from two incomes to one income, unless you're already
working with, you know, single women or whatever.
So what are they going through and how can you be part of the solution?
So every month when we start, we kick off a meeting, a Prosper Leader, we ask some very
basic questions.
I didn't send you guys the worksheet, but you have it and I can send it.
So you get back focused on your why and your vision.
Why are you in business?
What's your vision?
What is God put on your heart to do?
You start there, have a kick to write the vision, make it plain that those who see it
may run with it.
So you get back to your vision, get back to your mission, which is your how, and we're
doing that in the.
Prosper daily plan, or you're writing down your mission
every single day.
What are your goals for this month?
What are your goals?
And what is your offer?
How are you showing up this month?
How are you showing up?
What problem are you solving?
So I want to talk about that.
I want to talk about four or five steps in terms of that.
So part of what's not new at all that I've talked to you
ad nauseum is to be very, very clear on who you serve.
Who is your who?
Who is your niche?
So you bring that person to mind.
And what is the now problem that they have that you solve?
And I want you to take that to be so crystal clear,
because I believe even though it's contracted,
you can be making sales every day.
You could be making an impact every single day.
It's how we go about it in this circumstance.
So we've got the contraction of the economy.
Your niche is going through that.
You've got the coming in of AI, which I hope
you're using to your advantage.
You've got access to the infinite wisdom of the world
as far as what's fed this large language learning model.
How are you using it?
Are you asking it the right questions to help you?
But you've also got to understand with AI,
now what's happening?
Glut of information, right?
Because posting, writing blogs, creating book,
like all this stuff, it's coming like information.
So on one sense, economy is contracting.
On the other sense, information overload.
So there was an older day that you could do your business
by providing information.
That day is not now.
If what you're doing in your posting, in your talking,
in your teaching is offering information,
you're losing ground.
You're way off base.
They don't need information.
They got access to all the information
they could ever want on every AI source.
You guys understand that?
Secondly, things are happening so fast,
it's a place for when you connect to slow down.
And when everything is automated,
yes, we automate to save ourselves
15 to 20 hours a week.
You know I'm big on that.
But now is the time for human touch.
How are you humanly showing up?
This is so important right now.
So what's important is that you are showing up consistently
because all the people using AI, all the people using the tools,
they're showing up consistently.
The day of only sending one newsletter a week
or only communicating a couple times a month in business,
you're not going to survive.
You have to be showing up.
This is the opportunity.
It's the challenge and it's the opportunity
because you get to show up for Christ.
You get to be the light.
You get to be the encouragement.
You get to be the hope.
So this is a privilege.
And so knowing your niche and what they're going through
and humanly touching your niche, which
means what is the problem they have now that you solve?
How can you give them a quick win?
What's the quick win?
What's the thing that you know that you know how to do
that you can get in and just do?
It's almost natural.
And I'll tell you when you kind of hit it spot on.
It's so natural that you think, oh, everybody knows that.
Everybody can do this because it's easy and natural for you.
It's not for them.
That is your gift God has given you.
That is the problem you solve.
That's the quick wins you can be giving.
And it's really an important time.
So if you're going to number this or write it down,
number one, clear niche.
What's the problem they have?
Answer the question.
I can help you blank right now.
So those of you know, I can help you be absolutely clear
on your niche right now.
I can help you create an offer that is irresistible right now.
I can help you get.
a sale right now.
And what is it for you?
I can help you lose that first x amount.
I can help you get back on track.
I can help you get organized right now.
I can help you.
What is it?
It's your gift that is what they're
struggling with that you can give them a quick win right
now.
That's super important.
You need to know what that is.
That's number one.
Know your niche, the problem you solve, and the quick win.
Number two is knowing how to have regular conversations
right now.
This is part of the human.
When bots are doing all the DMs and when everything's
automated, this is not the time.
This is the time for you to be having real conversations.
So the most effective right now is the DMs in LinkedIn,
in Facebook, or the texting is you having real conversations
every single day.
So are you having real conversations?
Real conversations should be around something
that matters to them.
It's not chit chat.
It's coming in with, how are you doing with this?
And making sure that every single conversation
ends with a question so that you're
keeping the conversation going back and forth.
And we can talk about that.
I'm going to go more into that in office hours
on how to do successful DMs.
You could be having sales on DMs every single day.
Amazing conversations.
Human, human, heart-centered, problem-solving.
You're in business to solve problems,
problem-solving conversations.
So you're clear who you're talking to.
Don't change niches.
It's the same niche, but having conversation.
And then what do you have to build trust right away?
They don't trust.
They don't know if you can really help them.
They've been given a lot of false promises.
So what resources?
You need to have this list right near you.
You need to have this organized.
What things have you already created
that help solve the problem?
What resources do you have?
Lots of resources.
I made a list even for myself of just to have,
what do you have on hand to build this trust?
So if you're already like Charla,
you've got all these podcast episodes.
If you've got certain ones that relate to a problem
that they have.
If you're dealing with fear, you're
dealing if you've got a great story, you've got great clips.
Have access, know right away what that is
and how you can deliver that.
For others, those of you on YouTube,
it could be a YouTube video.
Those of you that write regular blogs,
it could be a perfect blog post.
And those of you that have e-books,
it could be a checklist or an e-book.
Those of you have done training, grabbing one of the trainings.
Like I do the five-day trainings all the time,
grabbing one from any of the things.
So when you're talking, you say, hey,
I think I've got something.
As they tell you what their problem is,
I've got the perfect thing.
Give first.
So be ready.
What do you have?
It could be a newsletter episode.
It could be anything.
What do you have to give to build that trust right away?
So number one, the clear niche.
Number two, the conversation.
Number three, resources to build trust,
that you're just giving, giving first,
and then having a conversation, coming back and having
a conversation around that.
Number four is a trust building, a quick win offer.
So you may have your offer that is anywhere from $500 to $20,000,
whatever your offer is.
That's normal.
Right now, the market is being very slow
in making those decisions.
They have to have a lot of trust,
because they've spent a lot of money.
And I know each one of you know what I'm talking about.
You've been through it.
I know I'm looking at Karen.
She's right in front of me.
The amount of trust I had to build with Karen,
because of how many times she got promised something,
and it absolutely didn't even come close to delivering.
And that's more the norm than not.
You all understand.
We got wounded people that have been promised a lot of stuff
that didn't deliver.
This is your chance.
to above and beyond create trust in the conversation,
that your conversation is very real,
and here's things you can do to make it real.
In the DM, do a quick voice DM,
and say, I want you to know I'm not a bot,
I'm a real person, I know you probably hate the bots,
I do too, so I wanted to just pop in with a quick voice
to say, I truly am praying for you,
I'm thinking about you, I'm a real person.
Something takes you one minute to create that,
but you're being human when everybody else is being machine.
When everybody zigs, you zag.
You guys all understand that, does that make sense?
Okay, so whereas you're not changing the market,
so what I don't want you to think is that you lower,
when I say a trust building offer,
it's something that they can work with you for,
preferably under 100, under 200,
depending how big your high ticket is,
but under 100, right?
So for a lot of people right now,
trust building offer is to be here
in this Prosper Leader membership, right?
For a special price, under $100,
that they get every week office hours,
they get twice a month community,
they've got free masterclasses,
like this over delivering a value,
but I didn't change my niche,
I didn't go for people that,
oh, they can't afford my high ticket,
so I'm gonna give them a cheap product, a cheap offer,
this is not that, it's not the funnel,
it's not the $7 offer, it's not the self liquidating,
we're not talking that game,
it's your same, it's your same list that you've been growing
it's your same niche,
that will ultimately likely do your high ticket,
but for right now,
you're adding value at an irresistible level,
does that make sense?
So don't, you're not lowering your niche,
and so what is your trust building offer that you have?
Okay, and it can be a membership,
it can be like a series of templates,
it could be a masterclass,
what is your trust building offer
that they get to experience you and build trust,
and they get to experience a quick win,
how can you help them?
So you may take a tiny part
that's really important out of your high ticket,
okay, and turn it into a smaller micro offer,
okay, that lets them experience you
and lets them get a quick win, does that make sense?
Okay, so you're gonna be doing this in all places,
I mean, you could be, you know, in posts, in stories,
in DMs, in texts, in email, in live stream,
so what questions does that bring up for you?
I wanna make sure this is a season
that as you're planning this month,
you can be having sales every single day, I promise,
so how are you nurturing and adding,
how are you growing your list,
how are you adding value to your list
and what are you offering right now
that they can experience you
and they can experience a quick win?
If you're struggling to figure out what is my offer,
let's have a call, if we can't get it done here,
let's have a call, bring it to office hours,
practice on it, show us what your offer is,
I'll tell you if it's irresistible or not,
but this is a time,
you know how I feel about making consistent offers,
you cannot, those of you
that really wanna bring transformation,
those of you that really wanna create change,
you cannot change people's lives with information,
I've talked to you about that before,
information is not transformation,
you cannot change their lives until you work with them
and you cannot be working with them
until you make an offer that they can't,
it's irresistible, they can't help but say yes
and in that offer, you give a quick win,
does that make sense, you guys?
Okay, questions, comments, ahas,
we've got, I wanna dedicate a few minutes to that,
make sure that you guys know what I'm talking about
and that your position this month,
what's your conversion, what's your offer this month?
What's your offer?
Masterclasses are working well,
memberships are working well, communities,
what is your trust building offer?
Okay, any questions?
You could raise your virtual hand if I don't see you
or just speak up, I don't see you.
I have one, it's Jennifer.
Go ahead.
So if the offer is.
say, 15 minutes of your time, you know, a phone call.
What's the best avenues?
I mean, LinkedIn, Instagram, your newsletter list.
I mean, all of those,
is there a better one than not at this point?
Good question, good question.
And I want to clarify something.
The difference between an invitation and an offer.
An invitation to have a call with you is not an offer.
Okay, it's an invitation.
Make sure you guys understand.
An invitation to, you know, attend something,
a class or something free that you're doing,
it's an invitation, it's not an offer.
An offer is you're providing some type of good or service
that they're paying you for
that is going to offer them a result,
which is preferably a quick win
that builds trust that you can scale.
That from there, they're like, wow, I mean,
that $99, I've gotten thousands of dollars worth of value.
I mean, I look in here
in the Prosper Leader membership, right, $99.
And, you know, I'm thinking about, you know,
Barbara went, you know, two clients to a client.
I mean, I could go on and on what we've been talking about
with all the testimonies, right?
So it's something that they can see results right away.
And that builds trust that, yeah,
I do want your main high ticket offer.
Okay, does that make sense?
So now where should you be doing this?
Have one main platform, your primary,
and then have a secondary.
And remember that on these platforms, any of them,
you do not own them, you're renting space there.
So another reason for having lead magnets
and free things that you can say,
hey, what's your best email?
Let me send you this recording.
Let me send you this podcast.
Let me send you this article.
Let me send you this checklist.
And you get their email.
You got to get the relationship off of social media.
Social media is for connecting you,
but you don't own it and it changes.
The algorithms change.
You get shadow banned.
You may not even know you get blocked.
I'm still trying to get my LinkedIn back, right?
So I had such a booming LinkedIn.
So, and I watch people just get decimated in Facebook
when they change the algorithms.
So now how do you pick which one?
Okay, right now, LinkedIn,
when it comes to high quality professionals
with money to spend in business,
if you're going to be focusing,
LinkedIn is just gold right now, okay?
Facebook, so LinkedIn is more direct.
You're talking business person to business person
and it's not chit chat.
It's yes, you're building relationship on any platform,
but it's not, it's a different kind of relationship.
You understand it's a business relationship.
You're solving business problems.
Facebook is a gold mine I built for 10 years.
I built all my clients on Facebook.
It's a gold mine, but you're sorting through
a lot of noise and a lot of chit chat,
but you would do the same thing.
You need to be direct.
Don't chit chat too much.
So there's a difference between engaging conversation
that you're asking engaging questions
and you're going back and forth
and you're ending every single DM with a question.
This is the rule.
So the conversation doesn't get dropped.
So it's conversation, but it's not chit chat.
Nobody wants to do chit chat.
Everybody's busy.
So Facebook would be another choice.
Instagram, I mean, people are on Instagram to be entertained.
So if you tend to be an entertainment model, it's great.
So the answer to your question is back to your niche.
Where does your main niche hang out
and will most relate to what you offer?
My preference is first LinkedIn and second Facebook.
That's my preference, but it depends what you're doing.
Thank you.
And YouTube is also incredibly a great opportunity.
I mean, YouTube, Google, it's the largest search engine.
So YouTube is also a great strategy
and making sure your YouTube is optimized certainly.
So X is up and coming.
and a way of showing up and doing lives
and things like that.
You certainly can do things there too.
So again, where's your niche hanging out?
That's the real question.
Great, thank you.
Thanks for asking that.
So do you know what resources you have?
Have you categorized those?
You know how to access them?
Make a quick, let me serve you first.
Let me give, you know my feeling.
Give, give, give, then ask, right?
The other thing is make sure that your attitude
when you're showing up is you're not taking, you're giving.
So a lot of people,
if they're not really showing up every day on LinkedIn,
they're not having new DM conversations,
they still haven't worked through
their inner little gremlins that, you know,
I don't wanna be salesy, I'm taking something.
You're not coming in from that perspective.
You're coming in knowing you've got something to offer
and what can I give?
How can I serve you?
It's always, you know, Jesus modeled it,
serve first, how can I serve you?
You find ways to serve, the relationship is built
and then they come back, okay?
And then the relationship is built,
get them off of social media, onto your email list.
Your email list is your like number one asset,
growing it, nurturing it.
Okay, any other questions?
Well, we're at the top of the hour here,
so anything burning, otherwise I'm gonna sign off
and we'll see you Thursday.
Let's keep this conversation going on Thursday, okay?
Lots of love to all of you.