you
Oh Vicki just me so far huh you so far it's probably because I haven't taken
the time to learn how to like do the announcement before the call starts and
so I'm always kind of like behind putting the announcement out there so
I'm gonna go and do that now um like I always say the same thing let's say
something more interesting officers are happening now talk to me and Vicki I was
gonna ask you that that funnel we have like a done-for-you funnel in our inner
could I use that to help me with my existing funnel I mean I don't see why
not like to optimize where I'm going or maybe just take me off like you're in a
crazy direction I go here like just whatever time that is just put it
helping me with that funnel like I we just finally got the ad I talked to my
social media gal this morning and we finally really just got the ads to work
we were struggling so while I saw some activity inside rainflow it must have
been coming maybe we're just good which is kind of cool if that all came from
time before I like completely like give it a major surgery or anything I get
more numbers so and I made just a couple small tweaks that she should she had
suggested but I got to thinking last night I thought well I have that done
for you and this is an important funnel for me yeah I mean I don't see why not
maybe maybe we'll wait and I want to wait a week and see and and maybe it's
something I do in January when we get back when I have more time to yeah put
my head into it and stuff too yeah I don't know I could talk to Megan about
it see if there's anything different we need to do but I don't envision there
would be okay okay well that's good to know if I got if I have that option to
kind of help me yeah just get me on get me straightened it on the right track
possibly mm-hmm you know you use some darn things like I I get sucked into
them things all the time but when I create my own my mind just goes like I
don't really pay attention to them it's like yeah I mean there's so many ways so
many ways we could do it was like too many there's too many options there's so
many ways yeah I don't know it's like you just get my brain just gets all like
it and not like it's not the first time you've seen a funnel it's like you know
next time that you get in one and you think it's a good one make some notes I
did I did a Sophie's Society one this morning and I looked pretty good he did
I got they did a kind of booklet type of thing on the nano banana mm-hmm like
nano banana pro like he did a booklet on it can create like a whole Amazon listing
for you like all the foot you just take a photograph of your a home picture of
your product yeah and load it to this nano banana Pro and supposedly it'll
generate your I didn't I mean I haven't read the whole booklet that I'm sure is
a little bit more to it but basically you let AI generate your your whole
Amazon listing without
me. My gosh, it's crazy what we're getting what we're getting
to with this AI stuff. It's like, I'm trying to be genuine a
little bit of AI be everything, but it's really hard.
Yeah. I mean, AI is tweaked by you. It is influenced by you.
Yeah, it is still you too. Yeah. What were some of the
notes that you made about the funnel? The Sophie society
funnel? What were what was good about it? I thought it looked
really clean. Like, let me see if I still have it up. Like
clean. It was it was clean. Is that kind of a very good
description? Let me see if I can see it. I kept it on my Yeah,
here it is. Is clean. Yeah, no, that's not it. Oh, it brought it
up. I already it took me out of it. Or no. Anyway, anyway, it
was clean. It was just blown. I feel busy and just felt like
very direct right enough information and not information
overload. I always try to I have to scale down my my, my vision
and my thinking sometimes I always I don't know. I think
more is better, but more is not always better.
Simplistic. Sometimes it's good.
Most of the time it is straight into the point. Most of the
time. That's what you need to do instead of trying to say so many
things. Just say it simple and just be simple and don't try to
put so much words and stuff into it. People get confused by all
that. Yeah, so like those my Etsy listings, you know, my
thumbnails, you know, I look at them like, I get kind of sick
of them now. But, you know, just trying to make them look clean
and simple and get to the point. And you know, what, what are
those words and pictures that get that do that? Yeah. Kind of
channel challenges. Yeah.
That's good. I just remembered that I were you on office hours
last week. I'm trying to remember.
I didn't get there last time.
Okay. Last week, we were all kind of like, vacation mode
brain a little bit. Yeah. Because it was before the break.
And so I was like, guys, I am struggling. So I finally I got
on chat, like in the last 20 minutes of the call. And I was
like, chat, we need help. Like, we need some questions. We're
supposed to be talking about. We're on vacation mode, I need
to find those. Because I feel like I don't know about how it
is for you. I feel like for me, it's I'm playing my head with
this. Like, it's hard. Like you have this kind of like this
rollercoaster when it comes to vacation, like your brain has to
kind of ramp up to relax mode. Okay, and then you have optimal
relax. And then it takes a few days to get back into optimal
work. It does. And I feel like for me, my brain is not used to
this shift still. And so I'm like, what is my what is my
brain today? What is my brain? It's Tuesday. Like, I feel like
I'm not in optimal work mode. Yeah, it's okay. I don't think
these calls have to be formal. I think it's okay for him to be
informal and just let everybody kind of catch up with each
other. And I know they've always they're always nice to you.
And everyone's like, Oh, I'm doing this. And then I'm doing
it. And then it's just like everybody build, build the
conversation. I mean, typically, you don't need to. You don't
really you have to do anything. I think you come just as you are
and just let the people make the conversation and whatever topics
everybody has on their mind.
I have a good one. So one of the questions we talked about last
week was, what is the big goal you want your business to
accomplish in the next 90 days? That one sparked a good
conversation last time. Looking through these. What about for
you in the next 90 days?
Make money that I can put towards my dad. That's what I
want to do.
Yeah.
Do you think that, I mean, how much for your situation specifically, what is the balance
between reducing expenses and making money?
Like, for you, like, if you self-evaluate where you are now, what do you feel like,
how much can you reduce expenses versus is it just all make money?
It's mostly make money.
I mean, I look at what I'm spending, I mean, I know I got Sophie's Society, I get it, I
get it, I got the Cadillac of PPC, I understand that.
I understand that.
So it's on the table.
So outside of that, I mean, of course, that's my biggest expense, and PPC, that's my highest
expense.
Yeah.
Everything else is, I try to, you know, make sure I only keep what I need for the rest
of, you know, is softwares, subscription, well, social media.
So, I mean, I guess it's a little of both, probably.
Of course, you can't not, can't not do both.
So, can't not think about both or look at both.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, it's not really fair.
So it's a combination.
That's good.
What is your primary revenue focus this quarter?
What do you mean?
So this question means that like launching, scaling, or optimizing, but I think even more
specifically, where are you trying to focus bringing in more revenue, which I think I
know the answer, but.
Well, I'm launching, I'm launching my Etsy store and my monthly memory making Faith and
Fun Family Club subscription.
So it's launching, I guess, launching more revenue streams.
Yeah.
And then optimizing those as you go.
Yeah.
I'm going to get there.
Yeah, absolutely.
I kind of enjoy the Etsy thing, really.
It's, you know, if I get that going, I, that might be my thing.
What do you enjoy about it?
I like making those digital products.
And I like, I like thinking about how I'm going to help moms and, and crafting it and,
and just optimizing it to just, but I have, even though I'm not getting much yet, I just
I have high hopes, I guess.
And I think it'd be pretty cool if it could work, or when it will work, let's say.
Yeah.
And if it could do that, if I could make, I don't need, I don't need millions.
I really don't.
I just want a little bit extra.
You know, I want to pay down the debt and have a little bit extra for spending money
and travel and stuff.
And if I could do that with this, I think that's all I do.
That's all I need.
It's just, it gives me a little something to think about and a little extra to do.
I don't want to work crazy out.
Like I'm working eight plus hours a day just trying to crank this stuff out and just be
able to enjoy life a little bit and just see something work.
If that would work, I would maybe, I don't know if I would do the physical product anymore.
It's just too stressful.
I've been there in my life.
I've been in a stressful job and just carrying all that burden.
And while I love my product, I just, I don't want to carry that burden.
No.
I don't want to, I don't want to spend all that money and get so deep and have so much
risk associated with it.
I guess this is more low risk and enjoy.
It just seems more pleasurable with the low risk behind it.
Makes me feel good.
Like it's just my time.
I'm not, I'm not investing thousands of dollars, you know, it's just my time.
It feels good to be able to do that and help people.
Yeah.
And.
and make something good. So yeah, that would be super cool
if I could just be, could just be a fun little sidekick. Yeah,
that'd be all I want. Yeah. Chalk everything else up to a
good learning background and good knowledge.
Yeah. Do you feel like you have clear parameters for, you know,
discontinuing a physical product? Like when? When do you
think that will be clear to you?
I guess I have to see how the sales go. I probably have
enough product, I would say. I don't know how much more I'm
going to sell in December, but get me through spring and maybe
I don't know, I've got 2000 sets. So I'm set pretty good. See
how my sales go, I guess. I want to be able to bring in the
extra to be able to knock down some, some debt to a comfortable
state. I don't, I don't mind debt, but it has to be able to
be chopped at and reduced while it, while it accumulates. I
have to chop it as fast as it's accumulating or something. I
can't, the debt can't overcome me and become me. That's not
acceptable. So if I can get, feel like I can manage it, I'm
okay to manage it. So we'll see.
What, what do you think has contributed to you? You said,
you don't mind debt. Like, why do you think you feel that way
about it?
I don't mind debt.
Yeah. Because a lot of people in our community feel very strongly
about it. Because a lot of people in our community feel
very strongly about it and negative about it.
Well, I've, I've had that mindset. I've even pushed my
husband. I mean, we are, we're far, we're farming backgrounds.
And I feel like sometimes you need to have it to advance that
it's, you know, some people do or totally risk avert to any of
it. But I'm not risk avert if I know I can. It's not going to
own me, if I can pay it off, if what I'm investing in is brings
back fruitfulness to tear it back down. So, I mean, I was, I
was hoping, still hoping, I guess that, you know, it can, it
doesn't overcome the fruitfulness of what it can be.
So yeah. Interesting.
Sometimes you just have to do it. I think you do, if you want
to advance yourself at all.
Yeah, interesting.
I've always been that way, I guess.
Do you feel like your parents modeled that?
My dad, my stepdad did.
Whoops.
False, please.
It's interesting how that change, like when you grow up with
something, how much easier it can, not always easier, but it,
you take on beliefs and stuff easier.
Oh, yeah, for sure. Oh, it's definitely, definitely builds
your mindset on what your position is on certain things.
You know, if you don't, if you don't grow up with it, then you,
then you're, well, yeah, you're, I guess we're probably all have
our position based on how we grew up in that, with that.
Yeah.
It's a lot harder to take on those beliefs when you're older.
And, and money is so often tied to how people feel about
themselves and their identity.
Yeah.
It's hard to separate the two.
Yeah.
Yeah. I guess I've always, I mean, the reason I, I always, I
always believed in what I was doing, that it was, it was going
to return what I was putting into it.
You know, I thought it would do that a long time ago, but it's
a little, it's, I'm in an uncomfortable place because I
got way more than I wanted it to be or thought it would ever be.
So I'm in an uncomfortable place, but, and I don't like to
be in that place.
yeah that's very uncomfortable because it's not where i'm comfortable
but if i can see it be fruitful i'm okay with it yeah this gotta if you've got to put back
it's got to be able to put back and take it down you can't if it doesn't do that then it's not
that's not that's not acceptable yeah
because what do you do we can't just keep digging a hole and not do something about it so i'm very
well aware i need to do something about it and yeah and i'm trying to do that by with additional
income streams and looking at making some changes maybe in january i'll have to see how december
goes here and yeah yeah absolutely just interesting good mindset
did you see the announcement from danielle on the book club update i didn't start the book club
so you have our so an inner circle membership in theory we go through a book every quarter
i think we're a little off that field right now so danielle is actually going to be coming on
for a few office hours between december and january i think there's four different dates
to talk about um to actually dive into the book for the book club this this quarter is
office hours or oh yeah i just didn't start that because i don't have time to
that's hasn't been my focus right now yeah i mean you don't have to to join obviously and
still enjoy it i think the it's going to be broken down into that so next the meeting dates that
she's coming on her next week and the week after so the 9th and the 16th and then the 6th and the
20th in january but it's just going to be broken down like you don't even have to have reddit or
if you want to start it whatever you want to do so i think next week it's discussing
parts part one which is chapters one through three it looks like so it'll be broken down
each each meeting will go over just a few chapters at a time it won't be the whole book in one go
but she posted that in the inner circle group um just book club update and then in the comment
section she put the like dates with the overview of what chapters they'll be discussing and
obviously i think the conversation will be great i think that's just is that
in this call or it's just another call at this time no it'll be this call okay
yeah i mean i'd like to do the book i just it's just one of those priorities i'm picking that i
i can't i need to focus on these other things reading a book just too time consuming
in that space for me now that's no i mean you can still come and contribute to the conversation
yeah i'm sure it's gonna be good were you on the mindset monday when shannon irvine came on
about a month ago or more now or so i didn't i was not on that one either i had too many calls but
um supposedly it was a very good call oh really good yeah oh that's cool so i think it was we had
a lot of people on the call too oh that's sweet like good communities bringing people on the
calls once in a while on mondays yeah and that's something that we used to do i think a little bit
more um than we have done maybe in the last six months or so we pretty regularly i would say had
guests or other students and i think we're kind of getting back to that again but we feel like we
had a hiatus with having guests and stuff on not even intentionally it just kind of happens
sometimes but um yeah we like to bring in outside people sometimes it's just good to hear other
perspectives and hear how it works for them and their business and mindset is needed in all like
life right and she's great i mean her knowledge and expertise are so good oh really yeah so she's
a big mindset um coach but she um her method is she calls neuroscience-based coaching so she's
also uh like a neuroscientist so she takes research of like how your brain works and
um how you can actually scientifically adjust your mindset oh wow that's pretty cool
Wow, interesting. Yeah. Are you still trying to sell products and stuff while you do this or?
No, I actually just, well, I guess we still have, we still have our Etsy store
and we still have a little bit on FBM available, but we're mostly just sold out right now.
And I'm content to keep it that way for right now. Um, I just, there's too many other things
to focus on. We have a lot that we're focusing on outside of that, just in our personal life.
So I need to put it down for a little bit and not have to worry or not think about,
I just need to reduce the amount of things that we're thinking about.
And I feel like we've kind of started to get to that a little bit, which has felt
good and needed. That's good. Yeah. Were you selling physical products on Etsy then or?
So I have my, my one product that's on Amazon. We had looked on Etsy a while, a long time ago,
just to see how it would do and perform. And I never took the time to look into Etsy deeply.
Like I watched a good amount of like YouTube videos, but I just was like, I, you know,
I didn't do that. I didn't do Pinterest or anything like that. Um, I was like, well,
whatever there itself, just, I'm not actively, I don't have to work on it. It's just extra.
So sometimes we get spikes where we get a couple sales on SEO in a week or one in a week or
something like that. Um, that's great. I just like, you know, a little $15 payout every single
doesn't hurt anybody. Um, and then FBM has kind of been similar the last few weeks because we ran
out of all of our FBA inventory and I kind of was not expecting any FBM because we turned off all of
our PPC too. Um, but we've had a few FBM orders trickle in as well. Do you do a PPC on your FBM?
Mm. I turned it off. That's what I was wondering. Yeah. Um,
but we have really good rank. I have really good rank.
Um, on a handful of really good keywords with our product with, you know, after doing PPC for
a long time, like organic rank had gone up a lot, really well. So I think that has helped. I mean,
we've obviously fallen, but it's still high enough to search results that there's a handful
of people that, and there's no coupon on there. It's like on our higher price. I was like,
so it's kind of nice. I was wondering about that. Um,
I was wondering about changing or having an FBM. It kind of depends. So, um,
you know, the bulk of your competitors are doing FBA. It makes sense to do FBA
just because of prime shipping, things like that. It's a better offer. The algorithm will favor the
FBA because it's a better offer. Um, right. So unless you have a few other competitors doing
FBM, it, it might not be a great trade-off, but you know, it depends on your goal. Like
what's nice about having Etsy orders or FBM is like, I'm not paying any storage fees. I'm not,
I don't care if they sell a lot, you know, they're just there. And I like get a handful,
a couple of orders here and there, and it's nice just to not worry about it. So it just
kind of depends on the goal overall. Hey Carrie. Hey, how are you doing? Good. How is everyone?
Good. Did everyone have a good Thanksgiving? We did. How about you? It was good. We're getting
snow today. So like winter has arrived. Yeah, we got it a couple of days ago. We
got it over the weekend. You're getting ours now. I could not be more opposite.
My door is open over here and I'm like loving that I feel a little bit cold. It's like 68 or
69 in the house right now. And I'm like a little cold. I'm just like, I'm living up out of my
sweater. I have sweatpants on again. I'm just like loving it. So, but definitely sunshine and not a
single cloud. Well, I'm jealous because yeah, I could do without like this bitter cold. It is
yeah. Feel free to come a little bit white. We didn't get a crazy amount, but yeah, we didn't
We just got a coating, but it was like freezing rain, like
sleet. So everything got like a crusty layer on it.
Yeah, that's the gross stuff.
So what's the Come on, I want to celebrate. How was your Black
Friday sales?
Vicki?
Yeah, I did really good. Actually, yesterday I sold 41
41 on Friday, I sold 49 yesterday.
Yeah, I couldn't believe it. Like I think it was in the 30s.
When I went to bed, I was I kind of wasn't even paying attention.
And I got up this morning, it was 49. It beat Friday.
But I thought, Oh, man, how many of those are going to be
returns? I just, I know I'm being negative, but
yeah, think positive. Don't put that out there.
I know I did good. Friday and Monday were really good. And
then I had some Saturday and Sunday. So I sold.
Well, I'd say 175 ish or something, maybe. I don't know
the exact number I was gonna have to go on Amazon to
actually put the exact dates in but yeah.
Nice.
Yeah, I did. It was a reduced price and everything, of
course. So it's, but I mean, my ranking went up. I mean, I did
a whole, I mean, I did very well the last few days. So we'll see
now to see how the rest of December goes.
It'll be fun when some of those reviews come in too.
A few reviews.
Yeah, definitely. Absolutely awesome. And just starting an
ad now to sell what's in my garage. So we've been doing
some on social media and that hasn't really produced any. So
now we're running an ad starting today. So seeing if I can now
that the Etsy or Amazon isn't such a big sale, I'm hoping
that they'll maybe they'll check and realize they get a deal, you
know, switch over. Yeah. So that's why I got that going to
awesome. Did you end up looking at them? Because I know you were
like talking yesterday we were talking about this with your
Black Friday sales. Did you end up looking at ad costs and
seeing how that was? It'd be interesting to compare between
the two days Friday and yesterday.
I didn't look at the individual cost.
Interesting to see like the buyer intent.
Yeah, I don't know the individual days. I just have
the week the week of 23rd through 29th. You know,
you can click on I think you can click on just the filter it
works just the day potentially.
I'm gonna
give you like a custom date range.
I even have my snow cup. This is my winter cup.
That's your snow.
I'm like living up drinking hot coffee. Eight months out of the
year I drink like only iced coffee.
Carrie, how about you guys? How was Thanksgiving?
It was good. It was good. So we leave Friday for vacation for
10 days. So we're really trying to get our homework done for
Stephen. And then he gave us like a website guy. Because he
recommended that we do do Shopify and not he not keep
everything in rainflow because we're going to have so many
products. Yeah. And because I do have current products.
Even if it's connected to rainfall, though.
Yeah, connected to rainflow, but he wants us to definitely use
Shopify because we were we did we were set that we were going
all just doing it on rainflow. And then when we met with
Stephen, he said no, he recommends Shopify because I'm
not sure why. But that was his recommendation. Yeah, I still
struggle to wrap my head around the whole difference and you
know, this and that. But I guess you know, he just thinks like
set it up once.
and be done. Yeah. I don't think there's any harm in that for sure. They do together anyway.
Yeah. Shopify. That way you'll get all of your customers still in Rainflow. Right. If you
connect them. Right. So I mean I guess it'll still be easy right because I'm just managing
it through Rainflow. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. Well you'll probably manage your checkout and
cart and stuff all in Shopify but your other stuff you know would be. Right. Your other website
stuff would be in Rainflow. So you're not 100% in Shopify. You're just using it for your shop
basically. Right. For this. Yes. Because I said we just need us. I thought we just needed a store.
That's where I kind of feel like we just need a store because we have three products and then
the current products that I have that are shippable.
And you know he said with expanding and stuff to just go the Shopify route. So that's exciting.
Yeah. Somebody help you build it. Yeah. We're working on that. He gave us a name of somebody
that Josh from King's Loot used. So he said he would help us and he would cut us a break
since we only have like four products right now. Awesome. Yeah. So exciting. Yeah.
Good. How like how's manufacturing stuff going. Everything's good. Everything's a go.
So the two treats are being manufactured as we speak and they said they think we should have
them by if not the end of the year by the beginning of the year. And then that's why
we really need to get our homework finished and done so that we can start running our promotion.
And then cake mix is I actually just baked the final sample a half hour ago.
The recipe is perfect. I was just having some baking time issues and so I perfected that today
so I can go ahead and give them the green light on that. So that'll start. So is that the one that
originally didn't work and you've you've fixed it all up. Yes. Oh that's awesome. Yeah. The one that
I thought was going to be quick and easy and has been a headache. Yeah. But I finally got it
perfected. Oh I love that. Yeah. Oh good for you. Yeah. So everything's a go. So we got everything
is in the works. Yay. Congratulations. So yeah. So now it's definitely getting like the website
set up and your tech. Yeah. All the tech stuff. Yeah. Well good deal. Yeah. And I guess the launch
the launch thing. So yeah.
That's crazy. Can't wait for you. Yeah. I said I had a dream that we launched and we sold out
and then I had to wait six weeks for everything to get made again. And then we were back in square
one. Stephen said that's okay. That's a good dream to have. Yeah. Sounds like it.
Yeah. I'm glad you told him. I was about to be like you should tell Stephen.
That's so funny. Well Vicki and I have just been here chatting away.
Lots of I mean I feel like we've talked about a little bit of everything honestly.
Where do you find the office hours? I couldn't find the link. I got the notification
but then when I went in to like find office hours I couldn't find them.
Yeah. I was just going to say if you go into the calendar part of the event.
Okay. Access that their business accelerator members office hours. It's a mouthful. And I
just subscribe to it and it's in my Google calendar. So I don't have to go into the
app. I just get it from my Google calendar. Yeah. Well I did. I did download the calendar
and then I guess when everything kind of changed maybe I didn't like redo it.
But when I went to redo some of the inner circle business accelerator calendars you can you don't
need them. They're all in just we get them all I think in the business accelerator now. So you can
do your calendars. Yeah. That's what I need to do. So I was like I can't find the link and I saw
a call for one o'clock but it said like welcome call. It said business accelerator welcome call
and I'm like that's not it. So no. Yeah. No member office hours. Yeah. You might just need
a recent like what make you saying resubscribe to the ad event.
calendar, and they'll put it all on your phone, you know,
whatever you use. Yeah.
And just remove the other ones so you don't get confused.
Right? Yeah. And then I was telling Vicki too. So if you
remember the book club, I don't know if you guys were doing the
book club or if you read the book already or what your
intentions were there. But Danielle will be hosting a few
office hours to in January, December and two in January to
actually host the book club. So she posted in the inner circle
group yesterday, book club update and then in the comments
she put like the schedule. So it's going to be next week, the
ninth and then the 16th. And then January 6, the 20th. And
then each week is each time it's like going over about three
chapters or so I think the last meeting is four chapters. But
she she'll be facilitating those dates and it'll be the
focus we like talking about the book and just the concepts in
there. Now, I don't think you need to read the book to come
and participate by any means. I mean, it's a lot of mindset, you
know, Shannon Irvine's book, so it's just all mindset related
things. I think definitely come even if you're not reading it
and just, you know, come with an open, as always come with open
minds and hearts. But I think you guys all do that. Well,
anyways, so but that's it. There's a post on that if you
want to go and check that out too as well.
I will be on a cruise ship. So I will not have internet
connection. But
Oh, that's great. Yeah, next week, you guys will be gone.
And that's gonna be fun. Where are you going?
Um, it's like San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Martin, the
Bahamas. Yeah. It's exciting. Yeah, it's kind of exciting to
leave this to go somewhere warm. I'm like, yes, we couldn't have
left at a better time.
Yeah, absolutely.
Good for you. It's fun. Is it all just your, your three of
you? Or?
Actually, I'm, I'm stressed. It's adults only my best friend
turned 50. So it's for her 50th birthday. So it's all adults,
and no kids. And I've never been away from my son for this long.
Oh, gosh. So I'm just like, I'm in a panic. Like, Oh, I don't
want to leave him. And
I know.
So where is he? Who's keeping him? Where's he gone?
Um, he is staying with grandma. Yeah, so grandma's taking care
of him. Yeah, which he's okay. He's you know, I mean, he's in
heaven, like, but I'm like,
Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah, I had that same thing when we went to the
retreat, because that was the longest I've been away from my
youngest at the time. I'm not away from my kids very much. I
am. It's like maybe they go spend one night at my parents
house. And that that's rare, too. That's not even very
common. So yeah, I was like, the couple of days even before we
left for the retreat, I was like, I already feel sad.
I was like, I'm excited. Like, and I know, like, I need a
break. You know, we all need a break from being parents. But I
was sad at the same time. I was like, this is stupid. I just
want to be excited.
Well, I understand. You'll have a good time, though, once you
get gone. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Are you guys going to do any like, what's the word I'm
looking for? Like excursions or anything like that?
Um, I don't think we have anything planned. But I'm sure
once we get on there and see everything that's offered, we'll
figure stuff out. Yeah. So yeah.
I was gonna ask, are you guys excursion type people? Like, do
you? Are you adventurous? Do you feel like in doing crazy
things?
I am. Sean's 5050. So I'm a little more adventurous than
him. But we've actually been on this exact same cruise. Now it's
been like 10 years or so. So we've the and the last time we
did like, every excursion there was. So now it's kind of like,
we're kind of like, well, we've already been there done that
scene. It's so we're kind of like, oh, let's just chill and
whatever happens happens. But normally, yeah, we would plan a
bunch of things and be like, yeah, let's do this. Let's do
that.
Yeah, that's cool. That's exciting.
I'm like a hiking through the rainforest kind of person or zip
line and Sean's like, not so much. He's like, just find me a
pool chair.
I like a little bit of both. I want a little bit of excitement
and adventure. And I also want to relax. So yeah, I want the
best of both worlds.
I like to see things I don't need
to go on any zip lines. I don't need to turn my stomach or anything. I just want to enjoy it.
Oh, that's so funny. It's good to know what you like and what you don't like.
There's something for everybody on a cruise. That's what it is.
Yeah, that is true.
Yeah, it's all there at your fingertips.
Well, by the time we get back from the holidays, we'll be gearing up for
the retreat in January. Has that been announced?
So we have the dates. The dates are finalized. So the last week, January 29th through February 1st.
I think next week we'll have an email going out about venue because I think we're still technically
finalizing that contract. So we're just waiting for that to be completely finalized
before we actually announce it, just in case anything were to pop up.
But Megan was saying that they're anticipating next week sending out an email about the venue.
And then, yeah, so if you guys want to book, you know, flights and things like that,
you definitely can because the dates are completely locked in, though they're not changing either way,
even if something were to pop up with venue. And then, yeah, we'll have something.
Where is it at?
I actually don't know. I've been totally out of the talk. So I'm just like,
okay, just let me know when I need to know.
Is it in San Diego? Okay.
I think part of why I don't know, too, is like,
Stephen was talking to a handful of people that they just have connections. You know how they are.
They're just well-connected people. So it wasn't something that, like, a lot of times,
Megan is the one doing the planning and stuff like that. So I'll hear more when she's doing
more stuff. But, you know, Stephen's off. He just goes and does things, you know what I mean?
And I'm like, I just hear about it when I hear about it. So, yeah, we'll find out together.
Yeah.
So what day do you leave, Carrie? Next week? Next Thursday?
No, this week. We leave Friday in, like, three days. Yeah.
Yeah.
Good, good. Good timing for you, maybe, huh?
Good timing.
Yeah.
You're kind of waiting for your product and somebody else is working on your website.
What do you guys have left on your homework for Stephen overall?
Just making the video.
Okay.
The video for our, because he wanted us to make, or no, he made the,
I guess the ad that we're going to run, but he wants to be part of it to be a video.
Yeah.
Like with my face and stuff in it. So that's all we have to do is just shoot the video. And then,
I guess, I guess get it edited. So that's it. So our plan is to do it before we leave.
We're like, nope, let's get it done. Get it to him. And then, you know.
Yeah. Then you can fully relax too when you're away.
Yeah.
And then it might be done when you get back.
Right. Yeah.
You said you guys found someone already for editing?
Stephen gave us like three people off of Fiverr, I think, is who he recommended. So yeah.
That's good. How, okay. I asked, who was I asked this the other day too? Was it,
it was you, Mickey, yesterday. Well, cause you were talking about the group coaching calls and
how you don't like necessarily to be in front of the group asking questions and stuff like that.
So if you remember, we were talking about that. Carrie, do you feel like you and Sean are like
utilizing Stephen like fully right now during this time, this six month period that you have
him so far? I feel like we, I feel like we are. I mean, I don't hesitate to ask a question and
Sean is a little hesitant. Like I said to him, I said, you got to change your mindset. Like,
he's like, it's Sunday. And then he goes, it's nine o'clock. And I'm like, it's nine o'clock
our time. I was like, they're three hours behind. I said, Steve has personally told us
anytime 24 seven and he'll get back to us when he gets back to us. I said, he even said there's
times he works at midnight. That's 3am our time. I said, so he said, we will never bother him.
And just, if you have something, send it. And Sean sets up like all these rules for himself.
Oh, I can't bother you because it's a Sunday.
Oh, I can't, because of this time or that, like,
and I was like, we were given permission.
I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Me and Vicki were laughing yesterday
because we were like, I was like,
you paid us to bother us.
So we're kind of like Sean, like not wanting to be a bother.
I think that's what I had to remind him.
I'm like, we paid for this and we got permission.
Like, it's okay.
Yeah, I know.
I know Gabby reminded me of that too.
It was so funny, it was just a funny moment, but yeah.
I'm just like, I want people to utilize us, you know,
fully, completely, all the time, you know?
And in platforms like the app or on Voxer or whatever,
like you can post literally as many times
as you want any day, any time, you know?
So definitely do that.
Yeah, that's just funny.
I'm glad you guys are using them now, that's great.
Yeah, it sounds like it's been a great experience, huh?
Like you guys are doing amazing.
Yeah, I hope so.
I mean, I hope so.
I hope I don't look back and be like,
oh man, we really wasted that time, but yeah.
I don't think so.
I mean, imagine all, like all the knowledge
that you're also just leeching off of Stephen right now too
is a lot.
A lot of years of hand-building up that knowledge
that you get to just take.
Yeah, what a perfect timing for you all too.
Like it just really seems like it just fits, like.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and then I guess he created,
like we've been doing that AI certification call.
Have you been on that, Vicki, on Fridays?
I want to do it.
I haven't been doing it.
I've been prioritizing other things.
So we've been sitting in on it,
and Stephen built like an essentially almost like an app
for us that you can scan like dog food,
and it'll tell you if the ingredients are good or not good,
because that was something we had talked about.
Like that was something I had wanted to do,
and here he's just been working on it.
And on the Friday call there,
he got it almost all completed,
and Sean is like, oh, his mind was blown.
He's like, oh my gosh, we were just talking about it,
and he just did it in two hours.
Oh, that's awesome.
I know, I hope I'm not regretting like I didn't.
I've just been prioritizing.
Like my priority has been launching my Etsy store
and my monthly memory-making club
with my funnel and stuff,
and getting my bocce balls, a funnel and stuff for that.
So I've just been focusing on these other income streams
and making decisions to kind of set things aside
and go back later type of thing.
But that sounds exciting, I want to do it for sure.
How's the Addie and Lou membership thing going?
Slow, everything's slow.
Yeah.
Well, we had problems with the ads on Metta
for a couple of weeks, I guess, working through that.
And so those are finally going today.
So we'll see how the funnel,
I'm detecting possible adjustments to the funnel,
but now I'm going to wait a week or so on that one.
I've got my Etsy store launched with about six products.
So I'm fine-tuning like the thumbnail
and just the listing and tags and things like that.
So both are learning processes,
but to fine-tune them enough and kind of get them
so they're the sweet spot,
you hit the sweet spot with people, you know, so.
Don't get discouraged too,
because this is like holiday time now.
And I think everybody is like in Christmas,
you know what I mean?
Like Christmas mode.
So they're focused on, you know what I mean?
So come, don't get upset if this isn't the month.
It's definitely, you know, you launch,
and of course you want it all to come in just like magic,
but it's a polishing mode now.
I mean, I have more listing,
I have more digital products to put on Etsy,
but I wanted to get something out there
to just trickle things out there,
learn and keep polishing so I know.
what is working and eventually kind of get a get that sweet spot so I can
replicate it for more listings and stuff. So it's coming. It's taking a lot of
time, a lot of hours, but yeah. I'm glad you got the ads going today. I
think that'll be helpful. Yeah, I'm excited to see. And then I'll give you
some like concrete data that you can also work with and like, okay, I can
optimize here, optimize there. That's what I like about ads is like there's
numbers that I can evaluate and like, okay, this is telling me can tweak over
here. This is something I can tweak over there. That's what I like about ads. I was
wondering, that reminds me that, you know, Steven, I know it's top of the hour here
now, but that spreadsheet, you know, that he he uses one like on a daily basis and
records. Does he have that as a template somewhere? I can ask. Because I was
trying to rebuild it and I'm like, I don't know what that formula should be.
And so I didn't know if he had a template for that we could start with to
just put our numbers in there and just kind of see how things are running. Yeah,
and you're talking about for tracking the ads, like tracking impressions, all
that kind of stuff. Yeah, and calculating all those percentages and kind of
knowing, okay, you know, what numbers we should be watching and plugging in and
all that kind of stuff. And just, well, the calculations are already there. I
don't have to reinvent the wheel. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I can ask about it. I'm
actually about to go to a team call. So I can ask about it. And then, oh, that'd be
super cool. And if we if we have it, I'll post it or if it's maybe I've missed it
somewhere in it snuggled in one of the courses somewhere that I've missed. Okay,
I'll let you know either way. I appreciate it. All right. Have fun
Carrie on vacation. See you guys. Bye. Bye.