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Hello!
Happy New Year
How are you doing?
I'm okay. How are you?
Doing all right. I'm just
Danielle's running a little bit behind so I'm just kind of like filling in for everybody. I don't know if you have seen the
Message last week that we rescheduled one of the sessions about the book to this week as opposed to last week
Yeah, I did not see that, but I was all over the place last week, so
You guys doing okay? You seem a little down today.
I mean, yeah, nothing is awesome
Everything is definitely that at level three on a scale of ten. I feel ya. I feel I'm sorry
I'm being kind of my little announcement
You
Okay
Let me
Oh
You made it hello ladies
Hi, how are you? Hey Christy good. How are you? I'm all right. How's everything?
Awesome awesome
All right. Um, thanks Gabby. You're welcome. I
Put in an announcement a little post push notification on the group
How many how many people did you have last time
There were like four of us
There were like four of us, okay, so yeah, we'll see if they
Who pops on
Do you have like post controls and stuff too, you know, yes I should
Yes, okay
Yeah, okay
Yeah, you're dressed you made it love it
I'm funny
I'm just gonna switch gears real fast. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much
Well
Well, I mean I have the time card out because this is still my calendar as like me hosting office hours, okay
so I mean
Okay
Yeah, I feel like usually a couple people are here in the beginning and then um, yeah
Pretty late
You think it's common to you
So you're back home. When did you come home?
Sunday night. Honestly, I'm kind of like recovering.
I'm sure.
Yesterday was a full day. Today. Yeah. So. Cool.
Well, Christy, I know you said you had I don't know if we're gonna have other people join
us. So we might. Yeah, have to. I don't know what you want to do, Daniel. Reschedule it
again for the at least book club talk. I don't know what you.
Well, Christy, you are actually the only one, I think, like reading the book consistently.
I was going to say, we should wait till five or 10 minutes after you put the thing in the
app, because I remember one time I was driving. And then after it was posted in the app, three
more people or two more people join, I think, area and one other person joined. So we should
give them a minute. Yeah. Yeah. I did want. Christy, I know you said, you know, everything's
not great. I don't know if you want to share while we're waiting. You don't have to. But
you have our undivided attention right now. I'm sure it's not undivided attention. So
I can just unload all of my terrible life problems on you. You know, I'm trying to stabilize
my passive income so I can quit my full time job. But now my boss has missed the last two
paychecks. And that puts a big kink in my ability to like fund all of my passive income.
And I was is not like I needed to paychecks to be missed, especially right after Christmas.
Yeah. And so now it's like the whole manufacturing team did show up to work because we have three
patient implants next week. But I know if we don't get more patient orders by the end
of this week, they just aren't going to show up on principle until we text them that there's,
you know, actual patients scheduled and they'll show up for the cancer patients. But they're
not going to, you know, show up and do prep work or cleaning or, you know, just accrue
hours when they're not getting paid for it. So that's rough. It's like a lot of conversations
that I don't want to have to have about a bunch of stuff. And it's like if you're missing
payroll, you're missing all the bills. And so it's like all of our vendors and creditors
and everything like that. It's like, you know, hitting us up. And it's it's just definitely
not fun to do. Yeah. And I think I have my plan, my e-commerce stuff's not going terribly,
but it's also not profitable. I just spent a bunch of money on ads. And so now instead
of making like digital products, which are almost free except for ads, I'm like talking
to my co-workers about financial stuff instead. What do you feel like you need today? Do you
need a place to vent for a minute? Do you need encouragement? Do you need coaching?
What do you think you need? I don't know. I just want to like listen to other people
be successful and be like, you know, this is like a snapshot. It's like a moment in
time. And tomorrow is another day. I do this app that Danielle told us to do with like
the track in the emotions. And yesterday I'm like, oh, yellow, yellow, yellow. And then
today I'm like red. It's like that roller coaster. Like, I don't really like to dwell
in the negative and just like sit in it for a second. I'm like, OK, now what can I actually
do? Yeah. More like action oriented. And it's just like right before this phone call,
my property manager had called me and she's like, do you want to execute on this? Like,
I don't know, 4K worth of work. And I'm like, no, I haven't gotten paid in a month. And
you know, the house isn't cash flowing because it's vacant. So it's like, I'm not ready to
like sink some more money into it until it starts cash flowing. But yeah, it's just kind
of an icky day. I know. I don't know. Maybe you guys can tell me how awesome your businesses
are going. Mm hmm. Yeah. Go ahead, Daniel. Well, I am because we have like a relationship
and I've met you a couple of times, like I'm going to share very vulnerably where I'm at
right now, just just so you know, like. I just I just believe that building a business
and taking risks, there are no guarantees. There just aren't in a in a job. You're actually
realizing are there guarantees in a job, too? I would I think my mindset is still like still
sometimes even today, I was like, I'm going to like apply for a job and there's nothing
wrong with the job. But what's.
What is, what am I looking for it to give me?
And you actually sharing your story right now
is actually really helping me because the reality is,
and Gabby and I both work in the Rainmaker community,
you know the ups and downs and things
that have also happened in the business.
Like what's really guaranteed
is what I've kind of been like looking at
and being like checking my own heart to be like,
am I, where's my real security at right now?
Like whether I, you know, take an action
or not take an action, like where's my mind,
you know, getting in tune with my thoughts.
And honestly, like I'm not,
I haven't been having the best thoughts today.
I woke up, I'm feeling pretty, I'm in the red too.
I'm mostly feeling just sad.
And I coached a lot of people yesterday
and took a week last week to do things
I wasn't necessarily planning on doing.
And so I think for me, like the encouragement
is even looking for, if I look for money
to give me something that like only God can,
you know, or like, where's my real peace coming from?
And I just think in moments like this, Christy,
it's good, it's like a little check.
It's like a little pop heart posture check.
Like, where's my heart?
Where's my minds?
And I do wanna just encourage you, Christy,
because when you were speaking,
what I was hearing was like, wow,
she's got a lot of strength.
She's got a lot of strength.
Like, and you have come very far in your leadership
and how you make decisions and the things
that you have said yes to in your life.
And the reality is,
is that passive income isn't fully guaranteed.
Even these multimillion dollar people that I follow
that I like am believing I am already,
like it could also still crumble like in a day,
like anything could happen.
And with that said,
you know, I closed a client a couple,
less than two weeks ago.
And-
High five, that's awesome.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah, and I met with her last week.
And so, you know, my business is, it's going.
It's, I'm putting in the reps.
I'm doing the things even though I don't feel like it.
And honestly, I think that's a lot of entrepreneurship.
It's a lot of life though.
But I say, I think entrepreneurship
and building something that you're gonna like give
to somebody else and put into the world,
it,
yeah, it's costly.
And I think there is a lot of emotions
that come up and down.
And I just want you to know you're not alone and no shame.
And it's okay to have those kinds of days.
And-
I keep circling back to that,
that guest speaker that we had at the retreat in Colorado.
Maybe his name was Josh or something like that
with the wallet company.
And he was like, you know,
I still personally guarantee every single loan
on my multimillion dollar business.
And we almost went out of business last year.
And it's like, you know, I was telling Jenna,
so like last summer, I basically,
I had to come up with $100,000 in 30 days.
And I did it.
And I was telling Jenna, it's like, you know,
I used to have $10 problems
back when I was like scrounging underneath my car seats
for vending machine money for food.
And now it's like, I have $100,000 problems.
So like, let's take a moment and celebrate that.
And like two years from now,
I'm gonna have million dollar problems.
And I need to like, you know,
mentally prepare for the fact
that like the problems don't go away.
The way that you resolve problems don't really change.
It's just like, yeah, putting in the reps
and like understanding that it's like part of the process.
Yeah, so it is what it is.
It's like on the one hand, last week I was in,
I think I told you guys,
my husband's probably gonna take this job
at St. Jude's in Memphis.
And that's like right where the FedEx hub is,
international hub.
So I'm gonna put my cyclotron over there.
And so there's meeting with all the cyclotron people
that are already there in Memphis.
And like, if I put this here, how could we collaborate?
Would it be complimentary to what you're doing?
Would it overlap, et cetera, et cetera.
And they're like all already excited about me doing it.
And my husband was just kind of like,
well, what did they say when you said that?
And I was like, they were just excited about it.
He's like, did they think you could do it?
And I'm like, well, I told them I could.
So yeah, they thought I could do it.
They didn't have any reason to think I couldn't do it.
And he's very risk adverse.
And so for him, it was like,
you know, he's tenured faculty at a research institution
and like tenure is supposed to be stable.
But in the state of Georgia, they took away tenure.
So he could in fact get fired,
but he's very good at his job, so he won't.
But the point is that we're moving in large part
because the federal government's
not really funding research anymore.
They're taking away government grants
and that's really how he gets paid.
And so there's, we're just trying to get ahead of the curve
and move before the money certainly dries up
and really impacts his ability to do anything fun and cool.
And he's like just stuck with stuff
that he doesn't want to do
because he has to, you know, get the income in.
So yeah, nothing is guaranteed.
Even the tenure track positions are not guaranteed.
The government positions are not guaranteed.
W-2 money is not guaranteed.
But when, you know, you're doing things
that are fun and entertaining for you,
it's kind of like they're paying you to have fun.
So that's why the people are showing up
to make the stuff for the cancer patients
because it's obviously feels good to make sure
that you can like help somebody survive longer.
And I was actually just making,
like when we were joining this call,
like sending this marketing flyer,
this lady that we treated for pancreatic cancer
seven years ago, she's like sent us a photo
on her seven-year anniversary going on a cruise.
And so we're like, she gave us permission
to like market it and everything.
So I'm gonna release that probably next week.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
So cool.
I just, I think, first of all,
when you said last summer you had to come up
with a hundred thousand dollars in 30 days,
I was like, that was like such a bad-ass moment.
Seriously.
I was like, dang, Chrissy.
Yeah.
And then you followed it up with-
I felt all of that.
Yeah.
There was a lot more expletives because, you know,
there's a lot of F-bombs, I was like, oh my God.
Yeah, I'm sure.
And then you followed it up with,
I used to have $10 problems
and now I have $100,000 problems.
Like that was just, I mean, just, I mean,
it's good to take a moment and reflect like
those moments of wins, hard-fought wins, you know,
like, and also just a reminder of, you know,
kind of what we're alluding to is like,
there is an emotional roller coaster piece
and it's okay to reflect on, you know what?
Before Christmas, whenever I was feeling really good,
things were going more my way, that'll come again.
And just to kind of put everything in its place of,
yep, it's a red day.
It's a red day.
Sometimes it might be a red week and that's okay.
But we don't make decisions
based on those mountain type highs or the lows.
You know, we don't make decisions off of the emotion.
We make decisions off of the values,
the mission, the purpose, all those pieces.
So just an encouragement, like, you know,
be in the red for today, be in the red.
Tomorrow's a new day.
Yeah.
I mean, I just like, you know, whenever,
I think somebody even like put this in the chat
on the Monday Mindset.
It's like for every one negative, you need 20 positives.
And it's like so hard to like, you know,
like just like keep yourself out of the spiral.
And this is why it's like nice to hear other people
like, yeah, this is normal and I'm on a good day.
And it's nice to like be in a good mood with them
instead of in a crappy mood.
Because like, I did actually,
you remember how I had like those stacks of boxes
at my house because Amazon rejected my inventory.
So I shipped 40 units back to Amazon today
because my inventory is like critically low
and it doesn't get dropped from the boat
until the first week of February.
And so I just shipped 40 units,
which is gonna make my husband so happy
because like that pile dwindled a lot.
I think I shipped like 15 products
like from my Shopify store in December.
And I just started an Etsy store
for my digital products today.
So it's like, I am like moving.
Like I'm like, okay, it's like, I gotta do something.
So this is what I'm gonna do in between fielding phone calls
and text messages from my coworkers.
Yes.
What's your digital products that you created?
Is it in a line?
Yeah.
The only one that I'm gonna upload today
are these like little Valentine printable cards
for parents to put in their lunchbox.
And so I always do this and then I'm still on blur
and you can't see anything.
Disregard my terrible printer
that makes these lines through it.
Oh, that's so cute.
You know, you just like cut them.
So there was some like eco themed ones
and then some food themed ones
because of which the stainless steel was supposed to be.
Yeah.
Better for the environment.
And so I'm gonna just kind of price it as a dollar
because at the bottom it's like, you know
you can buy my lunchbox on this thing.
And it's really just so like
they pay me to advertise to them.
Exactly.
You just paying Meta and Amazon to advertise to them.
Yes, absolutely.
Oh girl, celebrating your digital product
going live on Etsy, that is huge.
Okay, you know what?
I think you're in a season, like a moment of like
you're putting in reps
and you haven't seen like certain fruit yet.
And so here's the reality.
This is just the truth of success.
If you keep going, which you are,
you have no plans to stop or give up anytime soon.
You're going to get there.
It's just a matter of time.
And you're hitting a moment where it's like, man
I didn't get my two paychecks.
That's heavy.
Let's acknowledge that.
Like that's a real emotion that comes up.
And there's real thoughts around income
that you were supposed to have
that you didn't have that you're counting on.
Hello.
Yeah, that would upset.
I think that's warrant for the red.
I don't know what emotion you chose
if you'd like to share it.
Nervous.
Okay, great.
Very normal.
And what I love about what you've just done
is you took care of yourself
and you listened to your emotions
and you're quite literally doing everything
in your power that you can at this point.
So great job.
Thank you.
Honestly, you did a great job.
You're so resourceful, Christy.
We're gonna have these goals in two years
and you're gonna be like,
yeah, like $50,000 a month, easy.
It's nothing.
Yeah.
I already told the team,
Hassan's team in Pakistan is like,
we're gonna have a $200,000 revenue month in July.
So what do we need to do right now to make that happen?
This is our number that we're gonna hit
and he's really smart.
And so I think I told you already
that I'm launching like these new colors.
So they gave me all this like social media stuff.
I'm probably have to like do today,
but there's like this color
and then there's like this not quite blue,
not quite purple color,
which makes me have a sad face.
Cause I'm like, why can't you just be one color?
But it's like, depending on how the light hits it.
I like to call it periwinkle.
That's what I was gonna say.
Periwinkle.
Yeah.
Now, and then after I said periwinkle,
I'm like, ooh, I wonder if they could come up
with flower names for all the colors
and be like a natural kind of thing,
to go off the nature crate brand.
We'll see if I can be so creative.
I might just ask Hassan if he can do it.
Yeah.
But long story short, he's gonna bundle them
like with the three different color pack,
with the two of one color pack.
And so it looks like the website,
instead of just having one green product right now,
we'll have like six or eight things to choose from.
So it looks like a more robust store.
And then I know I told Gabby,
but at the end of this month,
I'm getting my prototype for this other product
that you can put like a screw on thermos for like soup
inside a closed like stainless steel container.
It's freaking huge, but I'm hoping I can like,
just kind of work my way to my, you know, best product.
Gabby like challenged me,
like you should invent something yourself.
And so like I did all this like work with the latches
and like, you know,
trying to make a hinge that's not breakable.
And also like ideally like a one-stop shop,
like what do people want?
And so I'm iterating.
It's not gonna happen in 2026,
but if I get my $200,000 a month in July and August,
which was like a big time,
then 2027, I'll definitely have money to like,
make my own molds and, you know,
do some more prototyping and maybe even like a patent
or something like that.
Yeah, girl.
And then you've got your other business you're starting.
So...
Yeah, I have ADHD, so don't worry.
I can partition my brain.
I can do it all.
Yeah.
No, I'm saying it's only a matter of time
before you aren't relying on your income
from your job anymore.
Yeah, it's like, I actually have one rental property
that's a residential assisted living.
facility and if it was fully occupied I would exceed my full-time job income in
the profit there but I'm just having just some like problems with actually
like getting people in the house and with all of like the inspections timing
of the inspections that need to happen but that's okay it's like a timeline I
got it all mapped out it's gonna happen it's just not not the thing I have to
worry about today I mean I was just gonna say I love the reverse engineering
thinking of July is gonna be a $200,000 month what do we need to do now to get
there exactly the way to think about it mm-hmm
exactly the way yeah yeah yeah because that like informs what you're gonna do
today mm-hmm and Benjamin Hardy talks a lot
about that too did you have you read his new books the scaling one Christie by
any chance or know about it or anything okay I never even heard of him before oh
like the reverse engineering is like I actually have an engineering degree so
that is how we like we're trying to do stuff is oh well oh well his name is
Benjamin Hardy and he he wrote your future self now and then his newest book
that just came out is about scaling a business and how you know if you want to
have a million dollars in two years or three years then or whatever it is for
you to the hundred thousand and six months you reverse engineer and he kind
of talked about how to do that actually it was a book that I was gonna start
listening to or reading as well so I should be our new book club that could
be our new brain that's definitely it okay I feel like he's good he just gave
it out for free to like a bunch of people I think it's his it might be one
of his lead gen I don't know I have to oh here it is scaling calm oh no this is
booking your call
nevermind oh here it's called the science of scaling
download the audio book for free them I'm gonna send it in the chat here
awesome it's scaling calm and then you scroll down and he's just gave that book
he's given the audio book out for free he's amazing person the way he's done
business so so yeah you are on your way there Christy you're already like have
the concept of what I feel like is trending right now and scaling so online
okay maybe that'll be the next book have you by the way have you finished this
book are you still working on it no I finished it on the way to the wild
yeah yeah Christie's like she's already been on this mindset doing her 67 day
brain prime stuff so I mean that's how I feel like I walked into those meetings
last week they were in person and I'm not in person that much anymore honestly
and you know like I'm gonna start a cyclotron like that's how the meeting
started it wasn't like oh I'm thinking about maybe if I'm possibility is like
no this is gonna happen like are you on board with me and they're like just like
yeah this is a great idea you should totally do this I'm like yes this is a
good idea I like it so I'm so excited yeah
I love it I'm this what about you Gabby are you working on your business at all
no girl I'm trying to survive over here we yeah it's been a hard we've had a
hard hard 2025 and 2026 now is hopefully gonna be recovering a bit so we were
actually just talking about that me and my husband last night I'm just like what
what is life but what is the intention for the year a bit you know like I was
asking him like casually like we don't do New Year's resolutions things like
that we just live intentionally I think most the time but you know just asking
like kind of what's on his mind and so
following up on that. A big win for him, and this is not anything he had any
control over, he's been waiting on a, his, his boss like left, left his job back in
March last year, okay. He worked for the city, City Timeline, so basically they
just posted that job yesterday. So he's been waiting for that this whole time,
you know, they, part of the delay was they reclassified the job to actually be
another step up, so there's been a lot of conversations for us around all that, a
lot of disagreement and just like how we think about it, but just like for us
there's been a lot of like trying to just like trust the timing of things,
like things are not happening when we want them to happen, nothing's happening
the way we thought it would happen, like this is like not even, and I'm not even
meaning business, I'm just meaning a lot of things, and you know I got this job
and then Rainmakers had our struggles, so like things that we've tried, you know,
we're like, hey this is what we feel like we need to do, they just don't pan out the way
that we think, and we're just trying to stay the course, trying to stay the
course all year long, stay the course of like what is it that where you feel like
God's asking us to do and just having faith in that hardship, and so I just
feel like this year is like, okay, is, are we coming out of that season, what does
that look like, let's regroup kind of deal, so it's been a lot of survival for
a while, I don't know if that answers the question, but. Yeah, it does, and wow, it's
just like nailing the theme of the day, it's kind of like how you keep going,
moving, when it's not, so what you thought it was gonna be. Yeah. Yeah, it's like
there's no incentive to keep going, it's like a lot of decentive to like just sit
still. Yep. And so, the decent of the word. It should be, if not. It is right now. Yeah, let's put
that in the webster. Yeah. Make a Wikipedia entry and suddenly it exists. I mean, the
problem is, like the reason why I, I say, I talk so much about like, I can't make
decisions based on my emotions, because my emotions 100% of the time are gonna
end up bringing me back to a place that's stagnant, or fear, or doubt, or just
feeling not sure, like, and I can't make decisions about that, like we just can't,
we won't get anywhere. So, it's a lot of, I think this last year, there's a lot of
growth, and just like we're refining, and okay, looking at the situation, what do I
know? Okay, taking that into consideration, what do I feel like is
being asked of me, and what, like, what is that like knowing, okay, this is what I
know I'm being asked of, kind of like maybe there's some signs around me of
like, whatever's going on, I was like, okay, yeah, go this way, but I don't know for
sure, I don't know for sure, but I'm just, you know, I've got to keep making
decisions based on that sense of knowing, not my emotional place, because my
emotional place is very volatile. Yeah. Very volatile, with big swings. So, yeah, I
just, I talk about that a lot, because, you know, especially when you're going
through seasons of hardship, you know, your emotions are going to be pretty low a
lot of the time, and we make decisions out of that place, you're just going to
stay, stay low, honestly, which I'm not, I don't choose to do that, so, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, it's very real. Yeah, it really is. And honestly, you don't never show up
low. I think maybe one time when you were sick, like legitimately sick, and you
still showed up, you were like low energy, but not like, you know, depressive. No, I
mean, there's, I mean, that's where we compartmentalize a little bit, and it's
great, sometimes it's great to have things that are distracting, you know,
it's like, hey, you know, I feel low, I'm gonna go do this thing that's distracting, and
honestly, sometimes the job, like our job can be distracting, and not a bad, I
don't even mean it in a bad way, I just mean, like, I get to take a focus off
myself. Yeah. And not focus, like, on the things that are not changing, and just
focus on somebody else, and focus on how I'm serving them, you know. I think, and
in a way, like, in my business, like, I have that in the back of my
head, like, the massive amounts of information that I have available to me,
because I'm now a Rainmaker employee, like, fuel my dreams like crazy.
in the back of my head. I know now is not the time for me to work on that though. I'm in the season
of like learning so much to be able to be a good employee and a good of service to our clients and
our students. And I value that. Like I value being a master at my job and that fuels me. Otherwise
places that I don't even know where it's going to take me, but I know it will. Yep. That's like
some real strength right there to like learn all of it and not try to like implement it. You know,
I was like, especially with the AI stuff, I pretty much like anything, you know, it's like,
oh, I'm going to just like fiddle around with this. Hour goes by, you know, you're just like
with chat GPT, like wrote half of a book already kind of thing.
Okay. There are moments of overwhelm because I learned by doing. So when I can't execute or
implement something, it does, my brain is just like, we need to do it. So we know it and we
learn it and we're good at it. You know, so there's, there is like reigning that in a little
bit, but again, there's, there's a lot of refining. I think for me, there's been a lot of refining
and down to the minute things about my personality to the bigger picture of my family. There's just,
there's a lot there, which has been hard and good.
It's been such a special conversation. No, very unexpected. I know it's really sweet.
Danielle, I did want to ask how your coaching call went last week with your client.
Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I built out my entire program and I, I, I saw a lot of growth in myself
as a coach and I basically walked her through what to expect for the next 12 weeks and it's
all mapped out and everything. And that just feels really good. So yeah, I, I'm still doubting
if this is the niche I like want to go all in on right now. I'm, I don't know if I'm getting in my
own way with that. I haven't given it a full fair chance. I've got on a call. I've got on quite a
few calls. But I like working with CEOs and entrepreneurs. I relate with the mindset and I
have a lot to offer that, like what Christy, literally what you're going through. Like I,
I have a lot to offer there. I get it. I've walked through that and I've also walked through having
debilitating pain though for 13 years and what it did to my mindset and what it did to my body.
And now that I'm like recovered and in a really great spot, I think I'm still have a little bit
of limiting beliefs around going into the health field. So, so that's on me, but it's also like
my client's awesome. She's awesome. And she's, she's like, I'm already seeing results. We met
once. I mean, that's period. That's, that's what I do. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if you could share,
but what were some of her results? So more hope around her diagnosis and she said, and less
anxiety around her and her and her diagnosis. Yeah. Yeah. And then what's interesting is her
abuse is coming up because endometriosis is connected to abuse and it started coming up
and she's like, this keeps coming up. Like, is it okay that we take a look at that during this?
I said, absolutely. I'm trained in that too. Yeah. Throw it in.
Not, you know, she knows I'm not a therapist. Cause I didn't want to become a therapist on
purpose. I love the coaching relationship a lot more. It's more personal, you know,
take my number. I don't have a thousand clients right now. Right. So I'm able to do stuff like
that. And so, yeah, yeah. I love that house. Here's the difference though. Same, what you said,
Christy, I showed up, I see, I show up and you know, you know, mindset Monday, like I'm going
to show up and there's going to be a breakthrough. I am a hundred percent convinced anytime, like
anytime. That's why I'm here today. I lose nothing by showing up. Somebody is going to
say something and it's going to be, I'm going to be better than when I started. Exactly. Yeah.
And the thing about what you're saying is you're not quite sure if you are at the right
target market yet.
I find for myself, part of my issue is I don't recognize what value I have because to me,
it's so natural and normal.
I was like, you were just like, oh, yeah, we could talk about blah, blah, blah.
I'm trained in that too.
And it's like, for a second, maybe you kind of forgot you could market that.
And now it's like, okay, do I want to include that intentionally?
Or do I want that to be something that's kind of on the side, not intentional, but available?
And so I think maybe you're going to have a learning journey about where do you want
to sit and reside and that kind of thing.
Maybe today is not the day for you to feel like you got it all figured out.
Maybe that's for next time.
Exactly.
And I'm learning how to be okay with that instead of judging myself or creating a story
around it or creating a negative thought.
I was just on the phone with my sister earlier because, okay, here, I could market to women
or people who have alcoholic mothers.
My mom is an alcoholic.
We are having a big intervention with her on Saturday at my home with my sister because
my sister really needs some support.
And I've already had a lot of these conversations with my mom over the years.
I've accepted certain things.
My sister has been recently triggered because she's about to have the first baby in our
family.
And it's very exciting.
It is.
Yeah.
And, you know, dealing with the mom who we don't know who's going to be drunk or not.
My sister doesn't trust her with her baby.
But we've got to sit down and pray and write out an outline and work together.
And we want healing.
We want to invite my mom into healing instead of being like...
The boundary is going to be you can't...
She has to take a breathalyzer test going forward any time that my sister's around.
And so that's the ultimate boundary.
But instead of sitting down, you don't just sit and talk with an addict and say, you're
an addict.
I feel unsafe.
You have to take a breathalyzer.
Like, my God, no, that's terrible.
So we were talking about how to address her and she was getting my advice.
And that's actually something people have come to advice for me about.
And at the same time, I don't really want to...
I don't know.
I don't know if I want to turn that into a business or not, but I sat down and I got
to use my skills on how to build a boundary, how to be communicative, how to share from
the heart.
And the biggest question is, and it's what you said, Christy, it's what you said, Gabby.
What do you want?
What do I want?
Who do I want to work with?
Because I get to decide that.
Now, there's going to be ups and downs to every niche.
However, like, who do I want to work with?
And I think I'm still trying to figure that out.
But the only way I'm going to figure that out is by putting in the reps and getting
in front of the people and seeing who I want to work with, because I can actually work
with a wide array of people at this point.
And I'm so excited for San Diego.
Okay.
Like, now talk about getting excited, getting me in my yellow, in my green, in my excited
feelings, San Diego trip.
That pumps me up.
I love hosting.
I love speaking.
I love mingling with entrepreneurs, like, and that's not passive in and of itself.
That's past, you know, but like, I'm expectant for this weekend, really big.
I'm really expectant of what God's going to do, what people, what breakthroughs are going
to come.
And so there's that.
It's going to be like a totally different vibe, right?
Because I feel like the last meeting at the castle, it was like a bunch of longtime Rainmakers.
And I don't know how many people have registered for San Diego, but it feels like it's going
to be a lot of people who are just like, you know, four months into the Rainmakers.
Or not at all.
It'll be a mix.
I mean, we'll have people who are from outside the Rainmaker family who have just started
a business accelerator.
But we also have people who are not connected at all, who are able to go.
So it will be very different.
And even just the content, you know, the direction of what we're doing will be very different
than what we did the castle retreats will be very different, but in such a great way.
Like it's just, it's good to tackle all the different sides of business and our relationships
with our business, if that makes sense.
of like, yeah, it totally makes sense. Because you know, it's
like AI is kind of like takes the emotion and relationship out
of it. And like, it does so many things. And so now it's just
like, you're at a conference, like, how do you bring humanity
into AI? You know, because you're like, in person talking
about something that's very hands off, right? Yeah, yeah,
it's gonna be really interesting.
It is. It's gonna be really interesting. It's gonna be. See,
this is this right here is what I need to get in tune with. Do
you all see the change in me? Yeah. Notice how I talked about
my client and I was like, and then I'm talking about this. And
I'm like, yeah, I need to get on board. Like, what am I? I don't
know. It's just and I'm such a failure to that's why I have
that. Literally, and I'm like, I can't trust my emotions. But
like, I like to feel excited. And there's nothing wrong with
that. You know, but also, in the excitement, there's still get
your hands dirty work, pull your sleeves up work. You know, I'm
not really I'm learning how to automate my stuff to that's real
stretchy for me. You know, I was talking to somebody in another
community yesterday. And you know, how there's like older
people and they're like, they have this limiting belief, like
I'm not good at tech. I wasn't like, I wasn't born in the 90s
or whatever, right. And it's like, dude, I was born in the
90s. I am 35. And now so you're telling me you have an
expectation that I'm supposed to be amazing at this because of my
age. Is that that's not fair. Just like me looking at you
saying, Oh, the expectation is you're not going to be good at
this. Not fair, who decides that, you know, we each get to
decide what we want to get good at. And so I'm just really
having some heart to heart conversations with myself
through this mentorship of like, what do I want for my life? You
know, if I say I want passive income, and I say I want to make
$10,000 to be a keynote. Well, that doesn't just happen. There's
reps that are put in to build that, you know, value, perceived
value added into the world so people can know and find me, or
what you know, or whatever, find the product, find the thing.
Have you tried to find local venues that you could be in
person and excited to like interact, but also serve as kind
of like a marketing platform for your services?
Yeah, um, actually, I just spoke at my church, again, which I
view as like a stage in a way. And then I was asked to speak at
another event, local event. So yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm peddling my
way. I'm, I'm doing it.
You are, you get the same level of excitement. I guess the
dopamine hit, they say. I was going to San Diego.
Yes, I know that I'm built to be a speaker. And Stephen has said,
like, that's great. And I think you're really good at that. And
I get really excited and very natural to like prepare to speak
but and being just a speaker is still like a job. The business
part comes in with having an offer. And it's like, an offer I
can offer right now is coaching. And that I'm good at and can see
breakthrough. I think eventually I'm going to get into digital
products and all those, you know, in real products, like
kind of what you're stepping in, what you're in, Christy. And I
think I'm just, yeah, I'm trying to be really open. And I am
putting myself out there. And I just applied for another speaking
thing today. So yeah, still very, still very scared. I'm
not like in my flow yet. I will be. I will be. I'd love to have
like 10 $10,000 clients is like, something I was thinking about
my offer right now is 2500. So it was good to just get some
reps in and like get a yes on that pretty quickly. But I know
I know that I can like make a lot more and like I'm worth
more. But here's what's really cool. At the retreat. They like
they're changing our names like in the business. Yeah. This says
mindset advisor to millionaires. Nice. I just look at this and
I'm like, that's me. Yeah.
That's Danielle.
Like, how do I market her?
What does she do?
What does she, how does she serve people?
Like, so that's very different from the endo community.
The endometriosis women are like trying to get on
like welfare, like.
Oh, really?
Yeah, because they can't work
because they're really sick.
Like it's a real problem.
And they're like fighting to get like days off
on their period at work so they don't lose their jobs.
A lot of them have lost their jobs
because of their sickness.
And I actually partly left teaching
because of my debilitating pain.
Because I was, you know,
taking a day off of work every month.
And I needed more, I needed more time off.
But I don't have a victim mindset, so praise God.
I've been delivered from that,
but a lot of these women do.
And that's where my services would come in.
Yeah.
But.
Yeah, I can see it might be hard to get the 10 clients
for 10,000 in that market if they're not employed
like full-time or whatever.
Yeah, literally.
Like, and then I'm like, is this a limiting belief
or is it just the reality of just the little bit
I've seen in the niche?
Because there's also celebrities who have it.
There's also millionaires who have it.
There's also CEOs who have endo.
There's also-
Where would those people be at?
Right.
Millionaire CEOs with endo.
Where would they be at?
I think I'm about to become her.
Yeah, then you'll have all your friends.
Right.
I know that there's women's health conferences
for like med tech.
There's like a fem tech, they call it.
There's a lot of female founders and women investors
in the fem tech space.
So maybe you can just like go into a deep dive chat GPT
like session and see if they can pull some info there.
There's this one lady who was like creator of the year
on ABC news or something like that,
who she's like based in Southern Florida
and she started an Instagram account
just like legitimately suffering from perimenopause.
And like, it was just like, I just don't care anymore.
And her platform is we don't care much.
And now she has all this merch and everything.
But like last week, Halle Berry, Haley Berry?
You know, she's like-
Halle Berry.
She just posted on that lady's Instagram
a promo for that lady's book.
And then she was gonna like be on the book,
some of the stops of the book tour for that lady.
And she's just like a normal middle class like person
who has perimenopause.
And it was like, just saying everything
that we're all thinking.
Like, why do my forearms itch so much?
You know, it's because I have perimenopause,
like that's it.
So.
Wow.
That's crazy.
It's a connector piece.
Like what you're doing now will connect you
to the next step.
And even like, I encourage our business
students with similar things of like,
you're learning the skills.
You're learning really important skills right now.
And it can be applied to anything you want in the future.
You know?
So it's like you're running,
you're doing the reps now to just learn the freaking thing.
Right.
Now, and then you'll be able to go replicate it
down the road with any niche that you want to be in.
So I think it's a connector.
At least that's what I see.
Like, that's what I feel just, you know, in my heart
is like, it will connect you to the next,
next breadcrumb, next thing, next thing to follow
while also learning the skills and practicing.
Yeah.
Yeah. So good.
And also while serving people, loving and serving community.
Yeah. Which really is valuable to me.
I'm not the type, like,
I'm just not the type who would do like a faceless thing.
Like, you know,
not that there's anything wrong with that
because there is not.
It's just, I don't know.
Then there's like network marketing I've like looked at
and people killing it, making so much money,
like teaching people how to make money.
Cause that's also something I'd love to do.
And I just feel like, well,
I need to get my systems down and make my own money
and then I'm gonna go teach people.
Yep. Absolutely.
Ladies, my millionaire friends.
Wow. What a blessing.
That's fun. This was really good.
Yeah. I'm gonna drop this Femtech events link.
So you can just ask chat GPT,
how you can.
connect with them so you can pop on their platform.
Cool.
Awesome, thank you so much.
I'll be posting this replay later today.
And then, I don't know, Daniel,
what do you wanna do for book club?
Do you wanna reschedule the book club discussion
or I know next week you're supposed to do one
on the 20th.
Yeah, I mean, I just, I feel like
let's just keep it and then,
it technically was gonna be the last part of this book club,
but if Chrissy's the only one who shows up, like,
I'll just cope, we'll just vibe.
Let's just keep it.
Let's keep it and then maybe we can talk about
if we wanna do a different book, like going forward
or what we want business hours to look like
because I don't know what these usually look like, so.
Yeah, maybe you have to post it in the group
or send out a poll on the email.
However, people mostly respond.
I can tell you, I never go on the app, so.
Okay.
I think if you just like asked people
what would make you wanna show up?
Yeah, okay.
That's good.
And I can do some asking around on my call, so.
Yeah, I'm curious, Gabby, where like,
you know, about what this space could look like
for the Business Accelerator students as a whole too.
Yeah, for sure.
Okay, cool.
All right, guys.
All right, thanks, Chrissy.
Bye, it's good to see you guys.
Yeah, you too.