Thank you, I'm going to make you host and then hop out.
Great.
Appreciate you.
All right.
Okay.
Bye.
Kristi.
Hello.
Hi.
I was hoping you'd be on again.
Yeah, I was going to say the gang is back together, but it's something else.
How are you this week?
Good.
Yeah.
Did you have a good day off?
Yesterday?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Yeah, what'd you do?
I, what did I do?
I went to my mom's hot tub.
Nice.
I read and I, actually I was pretty productive.
I don't know about you, but on the days that I, when my day doesn't go as normal, like
every Monday has been the same for me for literally years and I rarely change that day.
So, cause I actually do mindset Mondays in two other communities.
So yeah, and I, it was just different.
It was nice.
I was almost like more excited because I could get, kind of get, I kind of needed to get
out of my routine.
So yeah, it was nice.
And I cooked, I cleaned, I went to the gym.
I like kept all my rhythms that I feel like still help me.
Cause I know that that's really important.
So how about you?
Did you have the day off?
No, that's not a company holiday.
And it was, I had like extra stuff because my kids were home from school and I was still
supposed to be working.
Okay.
Yeah.
It was quite the opposite day for you.
Yeah.
You're kind of going in and out a little bit, actually.
Let me turn off my video for a little bit and see if my internet stabilizes.
Okay.
I'm sure it's my internet connection.
That's the problem.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's what I was thinking.
Cool.
We can just wait a couple minutes and see if anybody else pops in and then you and I can
kind of decide where we want to go from here.
But how have you been the last week?
What are some wins or how are you doing?
You know, last week I was telling you about the challenges with my full-time job and we
still haven't gotten paid.
And, you know, only two people showed up for work yesterday, not including me because I
don't go physically in person.
Right.
And so that was kind of rough.
And the CEO, like I messaged her and she kind of ghosted me.
And then finally she sent me this like just not sufficient answer.
And I told her it's like, that's not going to fly.
You've got to send something better out.
And then she just talked in person to the people that were there.
And then she called me.
But it was crazy because she loves to call me right at the end of the day.
And my four-year-old had a girl from across the street over and they were playing because
of course she was also off of school.
Yeah.
On the phone talking about how it's like, you know, unacceptable not to get paid.
These two four-year-old like superheroes decided to sneak out of the house.
And that was the language that they used and crossed the street by themselves to go back
to this kid's house.
And then they're like out front talking to this person who came to do some work on their
house.
And her mom comes into the house like, why are you guys here talking to this stranger?
You're like, you're not supposed to talk to strangers.
You're also not supposed to cross.
Like all this is wrong.
And they were like so proud of themselves for being so brave and confident.
And like, you know, just like not really, it was like taking a while to click that they
were like in big trouble.
And then it was like, you know, she came home.
I told my boss, okay, it's like I have to go.
And it was like an hour and a half of her like crying because she was in such big trouble.
Trouble and like the other girls mom and I are just kind of like what are we gonna do with these kids?
Cuz like you don't want them to not feel independent, but you also don't feel independent at all
They could have literally gone
Anywhere, you know, they you know have all this like confidence and
luckily, like they didn't but it was also like I had left them with my mother-in-law and
The older sister so like they had to like really sneak and that was the language that they use like they snuck around the other
People that were supposed to be like watching out. I was so frustrated. It was just a very frustrating day
but nonetheless
That was like, you know an intermediary drama
It's like still like kind of rough at work and because we don't have money to do anything
I've been focusing on my e-commerce stuff and my stuff and just trying to like pump that out last week
I actually I have applied for multiple LLC's like I have multiple LLC's and I had this big mental hurdle for like applying for
This ink and I actually like did it and I did all of like
you know the formation of the board and like the resolutions of the board and like all of that like
Accompanying paperwork so that I could file my first ink which felt like really cool
And I was like, it's not like the first one too. It was like after I did it
I'm just like why did I make this so hard?
And it's like all the other people who have residential assisted living facilities
They do it in ink and then they each house
They do like a DBA and they like number the properties and I was like, I don't know why like I made it so hard
Whenever it's just like the same form plus a few extra things to fill in the blank
Yeah, so anyway, I felt really proud of myself for getting that done. I mean another thing to like post on Etsy
I'm trying to like try get like these low-level digital printables
so that you know people will pay me to advertise to them instead of just like bleeding money on PPC and
Meta ads. I'm just kind of hoping to
Recoup some of that advertising cost by these like digital printable things on Etsy
You mentioned that you were yeah, you showed us the ones you showed us last week, right?
Yeah, I I think I have it open I can show you
The one that I did that at the end of last week. Hold on. Let me see if I can share my screen
This is it right here
So it's marketed to kids, but it's for parents, you know to buy for their kids
And so it's supposed to be not a food tracker
But a food reflection. So it says here at the bottom. Well, I can't see it because it says stop share
But it's like it's basically
Not a food tracker. It's a conversation starter
It's basically
Not a food tracker. It's a conversation starter and like the whole premise of my like
overarching brand like working parent help is to facilitate conversations
and like create
you know
habits that form these like conversations between you and your kid
On topics that you want them to be conversing with you about because sometimes it's just hard when you're in the grind
To like think oh, yeah, i'm supposed to be doing xyz with my kid and so here
This is just supposed to be for them to kind of fill out when they get home from school
Or to put it into their lunchbox and they can fill it out there and they can draw pictures or like use words
To kind of reflect on how what they're putting into their body
You know stimulates what comes out of their body. Yeah and make those associations
Associations
And like, you know start helping the parents, you know
Help the kid choose healthy options for their own lunch
chat gpt tells me it's like a saturated market to just like do a
Like food planning menu or something like that. And so I iterated a little bit on this. Um, hey
So yeah, it would love this. Did you make this with chat or?
I made it. How did you make it?
Uh, can you see my canvas screen?
No, I can't it's still the what I ate today. It's the pdf. Okay. Yeah, so I made it in
um
Canva with chat gpt guidance
so I
Um, I basically just like got some prompts from my internet research on etsy specific
like printables
To help, you know, like funnel people into you
your physical product, right?
That's like, that's what I'm like asking Kat about.
It's like, what can I make to like this funnel?
Yeah, it's a lead magnet.
Yup.
Oh, I should use that in my chat prompt
and see if I get anything different.
But then it tells me like how to like soft sell,
you know, and like not make it about that other thing,
but make it about this thing,
but also if you want the other thing kind of thing.
Right, yeah.
I was thinking number one, lead magnet,
and then number two, you know, creating a series of these.
And, and I know you have a lot of creativity that I think,
and you've enjoyed like creating a few of these.
So my, how, have you sold any?
Did you launch the, officially launch them?
So I just finished this one yesterday.
Okay, all right.
And so now I'm at the point where Chachi being
is like literally, I'm like so basic sometimes.
I'm just like, tell me which images I need to create
to make my Etsy listing
and tell me the text of the Etsy listing.
And so now like Chachi PT has given me
like the Canva template description that I need to create
for each of my six or seven Etsy listing photos.
And like, I know how to make those in Canva
with the mock-up feature app in Canva.
And so I did that for my, one I already listed on Etsy,
but essentially I think I need five products
in the Facebook shop for it to like do advertisements
to my store, my Facebook shop store
and like scroll through my catalog.
And right now I don't have five yet.
So it's like, that's like before the end of the week,
I'm gonna get five things like lunchbox,
my affirmation cards, all the things in the shop
so that it'll at least like scroll through
and I can just like, you know,
put some money just towards like the shop itself,
trying to make it cohesive and coherent,
but also just like available as like a first like step.
So, and then hopefully next week
I'm gonna make like a TikTok shop, so.
Sweet.
Yeah.
I love it, Christy.
I, okay, it looks like it's you and me.
So would you like some coaching support?
Is there anything, you know, you got me one-on-one here.
Is there any mindset things or something I can,
where you're feeling stuck personally I can help you with
or in your business right now?
I know with your, I have a couple of thoughts
about your CEO and your job.
I don't know if that would be like helpful to go into
or if there is another area you want some support in.
Let me know, what are you thinking?
I'm happy to hear your thoughts on that.
The thing that I think I probably need the most coaching
on right now in my life is I'm great at starting things,
like a million things, but finishing the thing,
that's like the thing that I'm stuck on
in my 67 day year plan.
I can show you my, wait, hold on a second.
I'm like trying to-
I'm sure you have a thought around this in there.
Ooh.
My yellow Post-its.
So I haven't taken them down
because right before the call,
I was coming off of my focused work section this morning
and I killed three or four of those Post-its.
I just haven't taken them down.
And I'm trying to do all these yellow ones this week
because those are the ones that get me
to a guilt-free quitting my full-time job.
Okay, what's that?
And that's where I'm trying to get to.
Okay, great.
We're on the same page.
I'd love to dig into that for a little bit.
I'm writing notes, by the way, as you've been speaking.
Um, what does guilt-free quitting look like to you?
What does that mean?
So there's not a lot of overlap in personnel at the company.
I wear a lot of hats and I have a few projects
that are kind of like existing
that only I can finish.
That if somebody came in after me
and tried to like figure out my files
and like where I kept the information,
it would be next to impossible.
And so I feel like I have to tie a bow
on all of those things
so that the next person who comes in after me
doesn't have to-
worry about decoding my chaos and they can just pick up kind of where I like leave them
with this nice package and a bow on it.
So that's, that's the thing.
It's like everything that can be like dwelled down into an SLP or like given off to other
people, all of that is fine.
Like when I go on vacation, other people take on those tasks.
That's all good and well, even like some of like the clinical training stuff that I do
from a physics standpoint, it's like, I've been giving the same PowerPoint presentation
for like six or seven years, like, so I can, somebody else can say that same thing.
And even at our company, people can do that.
It's just these like major manuscripts that are publishing the clinical trial data that
I've analyzed, that's the stuff that has to go out before the next person.
And so the one that I was working on today is like the pancreatic cancer paper.
And I'm down to just the references, putting the references in, and then I'm going to send
that out probably the end of business today to the coauthors to start reviewing.
And then very frustratingly, the skin cancer one that I finished like back in November
or December, the CEO was like, wait, don't send it to peer review yet.
I'm like, okay, but this week, I'm going to tell her I'm sending this to peer review,
because what always happens is you get changes.
And it's like anything that she wants to alter, we can update after the peer review has accepted
it for publication.
But I just need it kind of out the door so that it's not on my plate anymore.
Yeah.
So what I'm hearing, like, so what I'm hearing you say is like a guilt-free leaving your
job is putting a bow on your existing projects that really only you can finish right now,
basically.
Okay.
So, so if you were to finish those, I'm using your language, put a bow on those existing
projects, then you feel like you could leave what would be the opposite of guilt-free or
you could leave freely, I guess, just freely.
Or yeah, I could, sir.
I could let leave freely without feeling like they're just going to keep pinging me asking
me for stuff.
Okay.
So let me ask you about, yeah, the ties attached.
Okay, great.
How long do you think you need or want it to be?
Because there's, there's a reality of, you know, the task at hand and you know how long
it takes you.
And then there's this also this path of you set a date and you work backwards, which is
the scaling way.
It's what Ben Hardy talks about.
Like you pick this and you work backwards.
Have you considered, have you thought about both of those ways?
Do you have any data on that for yourself right now in your season?
So the reality is I could have finished all of this in November.
Okay.
I opened the thing, I did a few sentences, I let myself get distracted.
There's like no hard deadline.
So I just like meh and like moved on to the next thing.
And so I told myself, it's like on Friday this week, she's going to miss the third paycheck.
Like it's inevitable.
And I'm going to have completed everything so that if I tell her, okay, I'm just not
going to start on Monday again, I don't feel guilty.
Like there's, there's things I could be working on, I feel like I don't actually have anything
to do.
Okay, great.
You know, so it sounds like by this Friday, you literally have every task done the bow
on that you've just kind of described.
I mean, there will, whenever you send stuff out, the papers out, people will make revisions.
But those are like checkboxes for me that take me no time at all.
It's really like that initial like, okay, this is going to be other human facing, like
I don't want to look like an idiot, it has to be good.
But then after it comes back, it's like there's no emotional hurdle for me to get over.
It's like, okay, these are the tasks done, done, done, done, done.
And like, usually takes me like less than an hour to like, to send it back.
And that I do, I do feel like on Friday, they kind of be emotionally released from saying
whether or not I'll show up next week.
reality is without additional financing, there's literally
nothing the company can do. Like we cannot work without having an
influx of money, whether or not payroll is met. Like we still
have to buy inventory to make our parts, we still have to buy
fixtures to do engineering.
And so it's a business, you know, so it does, it does. And
you know that and you're a pro at that. You're amazing at that.
It's like, it's scary to not have a job funding it though.
Figure that out.
There. What's so scary? Because I feel can permission to speak
my mind from a place of love for you. Yeah. Okay. Um, this is
more just Danielle, like, because I've met you and I know
you know, and I think you have been letting fear just take a
little bit more of its place. Instead of like, releasing
yourself, I'd like to see you just release yourself to go into
your next season, regardless of what the CEO says or does or
whether paychecks coming in next week or not. And I know you care
about people and you care about your job and you're really good
at what you do. And you're an asset everywhere that you go.
The reality is, is you, you need to create that space for you to
go actually find a different form of income to offset your
business or go push deeper into your other business ideas.
Yeah. Yeah. And I think that like her not paying gives me
like telling my husband had the W two job. It was not safe. I
don't have a paycheck anymore. And luckily, while I'm looking
for another job, the job market is garbage for what I want to
do. And so I would rather just spend that time getting my own
business. And that's what I've been telling him for like our
transition to Memphis. And if we transition, it's like 99% sure
that we're going to do it. And so like, like yesterday, I was
talking to a friend and she gave me all of the commercial real
estate agents with active listings for like the buildings
that will be able to house my cyclotron. She's like, you can
contact all these agents, these buildings will work for your
cyclotron. Like, excellent. So like now I like the list of 10
agents that I can call. But I'm trying to like put my bow on
everything this week. So that next week, whenever we never
seem to have a boy does not hit this paycheck. And I tell my
husband, okay, it's like, I'm not getting paid either way.
Like, I'm going to call these people. I'm gonna see what's
going to happen. And so
yeah, so Christy, I want to see you kind of shift more into your
CEO energy and say, this is what I'm doing. This is my choice.
Yeah, and said, you know what I mean? And just declaring Friday,
it's done. Like, just act like it's done. Act like Friday's the
day you're done. Because I know you enough to know when you make
your decisions, you you you get after it. Like working's not
your problem, right? Like, you're a hard worker, you'll
show up, you'll create, like you said in the beginning, like
finishing things. And I promise you, you can't be any worse than
you are right now. You don't have a paycheck coming in from
the work. Yeah, exactly. You actually it can actually get
worse. It can only get go up from here. And but it's real.
Taking that leap feels like jumping into the air with a
parachute. And you don't know like when the parachute is gonna
like go off, not that you're gonna die. But it's just like,
it's jumping into the unknown. It's all the things she talks
about in this book about how your brain, you know, when the
resistance comes, it wants to go back to what it knows. I want to
encourage you I am where you're at where you're about to be next
week. I'm there. Okay, I'm here. I've got no backups. I've got. I
mean, I have some income coming in because I created a form of
and I have an Airbnb. I do a couple other things on the side.
Great. Not enough, though. Now I understand. I don't have kids
and all that. However, I've got 1000s of dollars of things do
every month. I've got responsibilities. I've got
things, you know, I've got and I have taken the step and it is
not any less scary. But here's what the difference is.
is I've given myself that opportunity to go all in on my business and to actually go like put
my energy towards getting clients and like that takes time it takes energy you know.
I feel like you're actually going to be more grateful than you even realize
when you just kind of take this job you currently have off of your mental plate.
Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. It's gonna because I am right. I mean
I'm agreeing with you 100% because it's not just like all the tasks that are like in my head.
It's all that like emotional energy of dealing with my co-workers emotions about like missing
like like somebody got called about their truck getting repossessed and he's like how am I gonna
even get to work if my truck gets repossessed he was like 45 minutes from the facility and it's
just like all of that like drama that is just like not helpful in the grand scheme of life
that it's like I'm not creating this problem but yet I'm here having to like you know work
with people to like work through all of that problem and drama and emotion and you know
everybody's feeling a certain kind of way because we've all worked at this company for years and
it's just like all of us are just kind of like but our baby is supposed to graduate and go to college
and like be successful it's not like supposed to just stop like yeah and that's real too and there's
like a grief there there's like and I know this feels like a harder a hard decision it's like
and I but at the same time this is where you get to like look at your own worth and your own needs
above other people and say you know what I love you I'm making this choice for me and my family
and that's it and I've just made another decision like that myself and I'm telling you
it is not for the faint of heart and at the same time you gotta out you gotta weigh
like where you're at versus imagine where you could be this time a week from now by making that
decision and then what happens is you take that emotional stress the mental strain all that you
take it off and then whoa you can like breathe again you can see again and things begin to open
your creativity doubles and you get to work on things now you know you also could look you said
you said the you know it's garbage the job market's garbage for what you want to do
and so oh Michaela's coming in I'm gonna learn I just want I wanted to finish this thought you
said you know it's the job market is hey Michaela it's just us right now hey guys I was uh on a
call with Gabby so I was running behind oh nice okay um I we're just finishing up a thought here
um but you know Christy it's garbage for what you want to do and then the question is what do you
want to do and how can you go create that how can you be the one creating it not sitting back
waiting for someone to bring it to you yeah I just feel like this is gonna be such an empowering
decision more than I think you realize and yeah I'm excited for it yeah I'm excited for I don't
know yeah emotionally and mentally just moving on yes and even if it's not the way that I wanted to
curate that experience and have it but I'm excited to to be moving on
Michaela we're just talking about how Christy's making a decision this week
I don't know if you want to say anything Christy but about her basically leaving um oh so I've been
working for a long time to quit my full-time job and become like an entrepreneur full-time and I
have so many LLCs I just actually incorporated my first ink and none of them I perceived as
being profitable enough to replace my full-time job so that I actually quit but now it's like my
my full-time job is not paying and the CEO is gonna miss the third paycheck this week
and that is like super emotional for everybody at the company especially the people who you know
didn't make their house payment last month and so I feel like you know just kind of like the
time is now that it's like a clean break and an obvious logical reason why it's like no longer
worth my time to I work all the time
for free apparently, but not because I want to.
And guess what?
I have done that too in the Rainmaker community
and I'm still here.
And honestly, when you were speaking, Christy,
I literally felt like I was literally heard in my mind,
this is happening for a reason.
It's almost like the door's being closed for you.
I was gonna say,
it sounds like God's been trying to tell you something
and then now he's like, all right, you weren't listening.
Now you're listening.
Yeah, and I don't wanna blame my husband,
but a lot of it is him being like, no, it's not enough.
No, you haven't reached the threshold of enough
to quit your full-time job.
And it's because we have a super comfortable life.
I mean, we have really like so much income
that I'm able to invest it into this e-commerce side,
hustle, and I have so much time freedom
that I have time to invest the time in that.
And so he's just kind of like, why quit
when you already can do all of it just staying?
And he doesn't understand this like mental fractionation
of like why if you're putting some energy
towards that thing,
it's taking away from all those other things.
Exactly.
He, it's maybe I, he and I just like differ
in the way our brains work.
So it's hard for him to really understand.
I think that's definitely part of it.
And I think, you know, even the,
even I wanna see you in your power though to say,
hey, I know that I'm not gonna get paid
and I chose to leave this and I'm choosing
to push into my entrepreneur path.
And, you know, instead of, oh yeah, you know,
she's not gonna pay me and that's why.
It's like, and, and, you know what?
And I'm deciding I'm not gonna go back
cause you could go back another week.
You could go back another five.
You could wait this out.
And I've been there.
I've been in a community where I've waited it out
in this one and it did go back up, you know,
and they're in a great spot right now.
And at the same time, you know,
it still wasn't fully enough.
And so the question is, it's not even about,
is this enough?
It's looking at, it's your ROI and your time, Christy.
And like, I know you know this,
so I'm just reminding your brain.
You're gonna get to put more energy
and time towards higher ROI
than even potentially what this job could give you.
I don't know what your numbers are.
But the thing is, is you both are women who want to see,
you've been in a community where seven figures
is a normal thing that we talk about, you know?
We've been in rooms with entrepreneurs now
and people who are creating these kinds of numbers
that is really above average, right?
The average household median income
I just read yesterday is $75,000.
That's crazy.
That's like nothing to me at this point.
I mean, it's good, don't get me wrong,
but it's like, you know,
a business gives you way more potential than that.
So Christy, what I'm hearing you say is,
this Friday, you're shutting the door.
Yeah, I am.
All right.
I'm mentally, I mean, if it happens on Wednesday or Thursday
I'm just mentally moving on there too.
It's like, as soon as I send out these things,
these two papers, then I'm done.
And then here's what I'd like you to do.
I'd like you to celebrate in some way for you, right,
Michaela, because this is a monumental moment
for your brain and for your life.
And there's a lot of fear when you make
these kinds of decisions, that's so real.
So have your brain prime ready, get ready to celebrate
and take a day, take two, take the weekend.
I'm taking a lot more time than I really needed
to like bask in this new season where I decided,
because here's the thing,
I've been an entrepreneur since 2021,
was my first business I started.
And I've always had like a little side thing
from another company.
This is the first time in my life where I do coach
in other communities, but I don't do it for the money.
I do it for the conviction of,
I feel like that's where I'm supposed to be, truly.
And there's risk involved with that,
but I'm telling you like I'm holding to my own boundary
and I'm holding to it.
I'm believing for something bigger
and people get stuck in that space.
And so I feel like you're about to enter it
and there's nothing wrong with that.
with going to get another job, but I would say, what would it look like to dedicate more time
towards building what you've already started, seeing some of it to more completion over the
next 30 days. And if you want to apply for some jobs, you want to find some part-time things,
you could also do that too. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense. Kind of like my,
my current plan is I will get a W2 job, but it will be like the CEO of the business that I now
own. I'm looking at acquiring companies in that Memphis area that are adjacent to what I want to
do with a cyclotron. And I would acquire the company and take over as the CEO and then use
those revenues to help get loans to build out the cyclotron facility. And so, like I said,
I have, maybe it was before you came on Michaela, but yesterday this person that I'm related with,
with commercial real estate sent me a list of the commercial real estate brokers that have listings
available for the kind of property that I need. And so my plan is to call them and see if they
can connect me with business owners who are looking to exit. And then I have a couple of
other strategies to look for businesses that are close to exiting. When I started in real estate,
like in 2013, I was doing like seller financing. And so I have some skill in convincing people to
give me a seller financing to like release them from their assets and like, let me take over them.
And so that's currently the plan is to try to get a seller financed business that I can utilize
those revenues to build out my cyclotron. And it doesn't even feel crazy to me. It feels kind of,
like I could already do this, but this other thing is holding me back from doing it because I'm so
comfortable and like, you know, cushy with my job. And so it just feels like inevitable.
And, and that's it. I have been doing the 67 day year thing, and I feel like that does help
it feel inevitable. Exactly. But yeah. So here's a, here's a thought and Michaela,
I want to go on to you and ask, we're kind of just doing some intimate coaching here. If there's a
place where you're feeling stuck or you want some encouragement or, or something. But Christy,
you are getting an upgrade. You're literally telling a CEO, you've been not getting paid.
You're basically telling a CEO, thank you. I'm moving on. And you're stepping into
being a CEO. You're actually upgrading it. Yes. It's has a cost, but so does where you're out
right now. And you're actually taking the step to create it for you. And here's what I wanted to
say over you. And this is for everyone in the room and it, and I, and I it's the very end of
this book and it says, God didn't create you by default. He created you with intention.
He equipped you with a brain and provided the blueprint and hold on your thoughts shaped by
his influence, have the power to create your own reality. And I just love that place of power
of your, your shifting, create your own reality. And it is absolutely going to be one that's
fought for, right? It's not going to be handed. You're going to continue to fight for that and
take those steps, bro. You already have your plan. You already have a plan. You just need to go do it.
Yeah. So I want you to celebrate, I guess, pop in the app, maybe tag me in it. Tag us when you
decide so that we can celebrate with you in that. Does that sound good to everyone?
Okay. Yeah. I can celebrate with you guys in the app. We can put some emojis and be like,
yay. You made the choice. Yeah. Okay. Did you see me? I posted in the app yesterday, my
chachi PT pictures. I was making some stuff for my vision board. Did you see, I put it in the app?
I did not. Did you tag me? I have not checked it. I have not checked it yesterday. Cause I
was off yesterday. I didn't, I didn't look at it. But I will. So that's awesome. Yay. All right,
Christy. Big moves happening in Christy's life. All right. Big things. See when you move something
out of the way, something comes to fill it up and it's beautiful and it's scary and it's courageous
and it's full of opportunity. So yeah. All right. Amazing. Christy. So excited for you.
Thank you. Yay. Mikayla girl, how are you feeling? Any place you could use some support
or you're feeling stuck?
I'm feeling good.
Like I said, I just met with Gabby.
Hey, Gabby, long time no see.
And I was telling her, I don't know.
I'm working, so I'm doing the one-on-one with Steven too.
And I'm working through the homework that he gave me
and also the homework that Megan's given me.
And I feel like it's really nailed down the clarity
of what I'm actually building.
Right, and I did my brain prime and I did my vision board.
I also got ChadGBT to give me six-pack.
Hey, girl.
Hi, nice.
I inspired you with that?
Oh, that's exciting.
I had to take it off.
I deleted it.
Wait, really?
What?
I replaced it with a picture
because every time I looked at it, I busted out laughing.
And I was like, this is not what I want for my vision board.
So I changed it to like a,
it created a image of me running
because I want to start running again.
I had my knee injury.
I haven't been able to run.
And my physical therapist just gave me clearance
to start running again.
So now I just have to make myself actually run
because I'm scared.
I'm scared I'm going to hurt my knee again, obviously.
But I don't know, I think my biggest breakthrough
that I've had is more of a freedom from money.
Like, you know, I feel like when I first started,
like all of my like big goals were money.
Like it was how much money am I going to make?
And I literally just told my husband this morning,
because, you know, he started his own business
a year and a half ago.
And he has a friend that also has a business.
And he was like, he made the comment.
He was like, I think he's making a ton of money.
Well, that person is, it's an HVAC business.
And I've spoken to his wife.
So I know the hours that he puts in.
I know that when they go on vacation,
he's not actually on vacation.
I know when he wants a day off,
he doesn't get to have a day off
because somebody needs their air conditioner
or heat fixed, you know?
And I was like, I don't need a ton of money.
And I think, you know, I did the like, you know,
everybody's doing like the 2016 challenge,
like look back on 2016.
And I did that like just for fun.
I didn't expect anything deep.
And I realized that in 2016, I got engaged.
I moved into my first home,
which was my starter home that I'm still in.
And I graduated with my master's degree.
Like I was applying for jobs to be a CPA.
And I had like all of these plans,
like this is what I'm planning.
And we're gonna make so much money
and we're gonna, you know, build this massive house.
And we're gonna have this huge piece of land
and all these things.
And I've had so much of an awakening recently
that the things that were important to me then
are not important to me now.
You know, like for example,
like I'm so glad I didn't build a house
when I thought I was because my style has changed.
I'd be so upset if I built my forever home
and I designed my kitchen
the way I thought I wanted it to look
because now I don't want it to look like that.
Like now I want it to look like Meemaw's house.
And you know, I had like all these big goals,
like let's save money, let's save money.
I want lots of money saved.
And I don't know, like now I just have like this mentality
of like, I need enough that we can live comfortably.
I need enough that my kids never go without.
But that's not a ton of money.
Like it really doesn't require a ton of money
for us to live a very happy life.
And I think that that has like just been
such an eye-opening experience
because it kind of takes a lot of the pressure
off of everything that I'm doing
because I don't need a lot of money.
Like when we bought our house,
we were both recent, like we had just graduated college
when we bought our house.
And my first job, I made $12 an hour.
I drove 50 minutes one way to get there.
And Colby was making like $13 an hour.
Like we were, that's what we bought this house.
Like that's how much money we had.
And we didn't have any money.
Like we were broke, but we never did without.
I put $100 in the offering plate every single Sunday.
And I would sit, I was an accounting major.
So I'd sit down every month and I would do our budget.
And there was not enough money.
Like there was not enough money coming in to pay the bills.
Like I would cry and I'm like, we don't have enough money.
Like we can't pay the bills, but we never went without.
Like their money was always there.
like, when I went to buy groceries, the money was always there. And we had nothing like so
I know we can live with very little. Yeah. So whatever, you know, extra we have is just extra.
It's just Yeah. I don't know. That's amazing. Yeah, it sounds like a lot of freedom from
money being a master or, you know, I would say poverty thinking lends itself to I have to like
and well, I was raised. I don't know. I've heard I've heard that aspect from like a lot of a lot
of the coaches have like taught that like that mindset and everything for me like I was raised
my dad was a dentist like small town dentist. He's the only dentist in the town like we
had extravagant Christmases we went on vacations like money was not an
money was not an obstacle for us growing up like I never felt like money was hard to acquire,
I guess. But I felt like it wasn't I felt like it was a necessity for me to give my family the life
that I had. Right. So kind of the opposite of like how a lot of like I've heard you guys talk
for me like we had that but I wanted to give that to my kids too. Yeah. And now I'm like,
you know, the extravagant Christmases like they bury us in toys that we don't need.
I've taken the since the new year, I've taken seven loads of stuff to the dump. Like everything
must go. Yeah, I just like, let's go. Everything's got to go. It's you know, we don't need all this
stuff. It's just piled up. So I don't know. That's where I am. Yeah, no, that's amazing.
Welcome, Jenna and Carrie. We're just kind of started this call with some wins and or if there's
a space where you're feeling stuck and would like some support. Michaela just went Christie went
the floor is yours if there's any place you would like some support right now.
And Gabby just hopped on so Gabby can support
Whoa, Michaela that looks awesome. Dang.
I had to take it off my vision board. I couldn't every time I looked at it. I was just like no.
Okay, I was already look like that. No, not yet. I had my picture I was in a sweater like
this is a picture that I use for my business and I was in a sweater and I was standing like that.
But I tried to add it to my vision board and chat GPT decided to, you know, go bigger go home.
I'm gonna look for my photo that I need chat GPT.
All right, so Carrie you're in public if there's anything you want to drop in the chat like a win.
Because member wins help create dopamine and remind us and, you know, to keep going.
I'll go. Hey guys, so I'm not like, like I'm like in a mint, like totally in a mental state for this,
but I can share some things that are going on.
I just want to say whatever's mental state you're in. That's perfect. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like home with
a sick kid today. It's like working from home. It's crazy. But anyway, I'm actually sitting here
getting stuff done. So that's a win right with kids at home. So yeah, I, you know, some of you
guys know I just started a business or like an online coaching business. So for me, you know,
I'm also still trying to get my Amazon stuff going, but I've kind of pivoted a little bit
to for this coaching service business I'm going to be doing. I do have my first
call that I had was a sale, which was like incredible. Yeah, so thank you. It was an old
athlete of mine from like six years ago. So, you know, right away I had the trust built up with her
and she didn't even blink. She committed with me for 90 days. So I'm trying to change her life
every day. And I've got two more organic calls booked for this week and one next week. So
we'll, you know, just learning as we go and just kind of, I've got calls, which is great. And then
just fixed my ad with Steven yesterday because that was broken. And then I made an automation
today for my ad so people would get emails from me. So those are some big moves forward in my
business. Where I could use some help, let's see. Amazon, I guess. I've been sitting on my project
here for a little while. And I mean, I spoke to Gabby last week
already. Hey, Gab. So I was looking at doing the SIP
program where you ship in your personal packaging, but I think
I'm going to go just into my shipping plan and and maybe do
that on the next order. So that's when I need to go into my
Amazon seller and do the shipping plan and get these
suckers out of my house and into Amazon so they can sell. So
that's just kind of my slow spot right now. But we'll get there.
Is it slow because you need help figuring it out? Or you're just
there's a lot of priorities and you need more time in the day.
Yeah, I think a little bit more the second one. I mean, you
know, I'm working on all these loose pieces and I'm back to
work full time again. So just trying to fit it in and then
also make sure I'm doing it right. So going back to the
training and like looking through those again, you know,
which feels so little overwhelming, because I'm like,
I don't want to be spending my time watching these course
videos, which seems silly, because that's how I started,
right? Like I started there doing that. So but I need to so
I can get it done.
Why do you feel silly about that? Like, what's your thought
behind that feeling?
Because that's kind of where I started in this journey. So and
I was so committed to all of those, the courses and stuff in
the in when I started here, because Amazon was the goal, you
know, so I feel like, how can I not prioritize that, when that's
where I started? You know, why do I see that as like, obstacle
in my day, rather than something that's moving me forward?
Yeah, why do you? What do you think?
I think maybe because this is a part I don't want to be doing. I
don't want to be doing this, this, like, I want to get my
stuff on Amazon, for sure. But I don't want to be going back and
having to spend time watching the courses and stuff when I
could be maybe working on my ad or something else that I'm more
excited in right now. Like, you know, watching stuff about
Amazon seller account is not exciting. But it's necessary.
So, Danielle, you are such an authority on this right now.
You're not excited about, right? Maybe. Yeah, because right. So
we don't do it, it doesn't move forward. So well, I, this is
where the brain prime comes in. This is where I'd love for you
to this, this is how I look at it. You know, it's those outputs
as an entrepreneur, when there are there is no dopamine, like
Michaela, you said, it's not the fun part, you don't feel
like doing it. So if you could do a quick reminder, or maybe
five minutes of kind of reminding yourself the, you know,
your vision and the point of getting your products going. I
feel like, and we talked about this, like kind of looking at
the end part of the end goal, and working your way back again.
And it's okay, if you have to do that every day, by the way, I
need every I need you to like have some grace with yourself.
And what I'm hearing you say is, you know, that's where I
started, why do I see this as an obstacle, Amazon was the goal.
And I think Amazon still is the goal. And so switching up some
switching up some of those thoughts of okay, this is
paralleling with what I am doing and reminding yourself of
like your why it's was Simon's success, what's your why it's
what we talk about a lot. And let me just acknowledge your
feelings. Anybody else have things on their agenda today and
tomorrow and Thursday and Friday, I don't feel like doing
anybody else me. So like, I know I can get stuck very easily
here. So it's really cool that you hopped on here and shared
that, Jen, I appreciate you sharing that. And I think you
have a lot of support. And you're doing all the things to
get yourself going in that space, too.
Thanks. Yeah, I mean, I was on the call with that old
Rainmaker. I don't know if any of you guys were on I think it
was last Tuesday in place of Megan's call. She was talking
about like, when you have your first product, you should be
already thinking about your second, third products, you
know, like, for like your business to grow. And I was
like, Oh, gosh, you know, and then that was just a little
place like, oh, okay, I gotta really start to go back to this
side of the business. And if that's still what I want to do,
which it is, you know, I think it's just still I'm still I'm
not even into the step with some of you.
guys are selling and running a PPC, right? I think for me, that's still a little scary.
And I don't know why. I think, yeah, the unknown, right? But I've got this far. I've got this far.
Everything's been unknown. Yeah. I just got to follow the next step in front of me and
Jenna, have you read the 12 months to a million?
Uh, no. I did it. I do it all the time on audio because I don't like, yeah, nonfiction books,
but yeah, um, I would definitely recommend it. Um, 12 months to a million. And that's kind of
been my strategy with like physical product wise. Um, and that kind of, he's more so like master
one before you add a second, like don't try to have a ton of products because you spread
yourself so thin, like get one product to a certain level before you start that second
product. And that's kind of been my mentality going into it. And it's worked out well for me.
So I would definitely check out the book. I would recommend it for sure.
Thank you. Definitely audio though, right?
Yeah. Yeah. On at least 1.3.
I have to get through the nonfiction as quickly as possible to make time for my fiction.
Thank you, Michaela. That's great. All right. Well, I'm acknowledging we've got about two
minutes. So Gabby, so I kind of hopped in on the, this office hour hour to kind of do this
book alongside of mindset Monday. And past that we haven't talked about the vision for this call.
So I'm happy to do another book. I was thinking that scaling we talked about, there's this book,
um, this free audio book you can get. It's about scaling. Um, I know we just talked about 12 months
to a million. It sounds like you guys are, have you guys all read that Chrissy? Have you read 12
months? No. Have you carry Michaela you have, and then Jenna, you're about, I mean, that's an option
too. Um, do you guys want to do a book and kind of try that again over the next two months?
Yeah, I would love to do a book. Here's the thing I think we need is, you know, you guys,
I love you all, but I just want to gently remind you that you can subscribe to the calendars
so that you can sync your phone and set up notifications on your phone.
So I would love to see, you know, I want participation to be there. So it's definitely
these calls are not required. Absolutely not. And I'm not saying if you're not here one week,
shame on you, but, um, sir, I would love to at least start out strong, start the intention of,
Hey, for an invest in a book, I would love to see you guys be there. I mean,
I never read nonfiction anymore, so I'm going to read some nonfiction,
but I want you guys to be there. Um, that'd be just my side. If we're going to do a book and
kind of put in that effort, he's, you know, normally Danielle's not leading these calls.
So she's going to start, come on here and helping with the calls too. Then I want to make sure
her time is valued as well. Um, so that's just my thing, but I would love to do a book. I think
that would be a great use of our time here. I also think it sparks energy, um, energy. Well,
yeah, but conversation where you guys are also supporting one another, which to me,
I think is the meat potatoes of our office hours for our members is that peer support
and peer, um, driven like help and growth. Um, I think that this has been like an important
piece of our inner circle community. And I think I want to protect that, um,
through, you know, but we can do a lot of different things while also protecting them.
Okay. Is this also, does anybody else have a thought they wanted to add on Michaela?
I was just looking at, uh, my list of, uh, nonfiction books that y'all tell me to read
that I should read at some point. Um, my little post-it notes. Uh, so I have,
these are some of the ones that Rainmakers have told me to read that I have not yet, but,
um, The Body Keeps Score. Um, Race Over Grind. Shay, I think that says Shay Bonds. Is that right?
Um, I know Steven references Expert Secrets a lot. Um, I think I already read Atomic Habits.
Also Living Fearless by Jamie Winship.
And The Deep End by Taylor Welsh. These are all Rainmaker recommended at some point in
my journey that have made it on post-it notes that may or may not have been read.
Yeah. Okay. Yes. Those are good.
What I could do is create a poll and kind of pull the group.
Is this call for all of Business Accelerator or is this only Inner Circle?
Only members. So Inner Circle membership, which is now called Business Accelerator membership.
So only those who are in the annual, the year-long membership.
Cool. That's what I thought.
Well, does that work for you ladies?
Because there's a couple of, it's like there's money mindset, there's like funnel,
there's like grace over grind and body keeps the score,
which is more like the body part of running a business.
Scaling is more goals and how do I multiply what I already have.
I don't know Deepend by Taylor Welch, but I'll tell you what, Taylor Welch is incredible.
I mean, he's an intense dude in the kingdom who is making billions, I think,
or a billion, millions, definitely.
He's a dude though, you know, I don't know, do we, bye Gabby.
Do you want me to do a poll? All of those are totally different topics though.
Is there a topic that you guys are like really is on your heart for the next,
like, let's see what February and March you would really like to look a little bit more at?
I mean, I have so many books, I have so many books I could recommend, but okay.
Scaling and yeah, anybody else thought we're just,
we're having just like a little discussion here real quick.
I read actually a lot of nonfiction, probably like one nonfiction book a month.
So I would probably be up for any of them, but I do think last month,
I mean, last week you told me to read that scaling a business scaling.
So that was going to be the next one.
But I wrote all the ones that Michaela just said down 12 months to a million.
Okay.
Sounds like it's also a scaling book as well.
It does. It looks like we've got 12 months to a million and the scaling, by the way,
the science of scaling is a free audio book.
You can get online through Ben Hardy's and it just came.
Like it just came out. It just came out.
It's his lead gen, you know, and he's given it out for free.
And he is,
if it's somebody I would want to learn how to scale from, he is an incredible person.
Now are all of you in a place that scaling makes sense though,
for your inner work right now? Yeah.
Okay.
Jenna, does that sound good to you? I know you said you can only make the third.
The first 30 minutes of the office hour, but that's still fine.
That's something. Okay.
So I haven't read this book. I just love Ben.
I love the author and I love what he creates.
And I think he has a family first entrepreneur mindset.
Not, I think I know he is very big on putting his family and other.
Actually, he says it's God, family, and then business.
I think that's, I think we all align on that.
And so he obviously has something that's incredibly worked for him and is
working for literally thousands of other businesses right now.
Like he is scaling his own business this year.
To the point where he actually said he was about to go on a podcast every
week.
And scrapped that and said, no, I'm not even going to go on a podcast.
I'm not going to go on a podcast.
And he said, no, I'm not going to go on a podcast.
I'm not going to go on a podcast.
I'm not going to go on a podcast every week.
And scrapped that and said, no,
I'm not even going to go on a podcast every week.
We're going to scale it a completely different way.
And I think he's an amazing person to have our minds just like.
Are you all ever like this? Like, man,
I don't even know how to think about how to scale sometimes.
Like how do, how do I even think about scaling? Like my own time?
Okay.
Should we just,
I don't know if I'm going to go on a podcast every week.
No.
All right.
And then I'm going to get with.
I'm going to get with Gabby because you guys basically run this call
every.
Every week. Right.
I just kind of popped in as something we ran. Okay.
So would you like,
would you like to have a reading goal for the week and we come on the
call, we talk about it weekly.
Or would you like to do something like biweekly?
We have the book one week and then we have business the next week.
We have book.
week, business the next week. I'm not quite sure what these office hours look like,
or what you'd like them to look like before I came on. Does that make sense? What do you guys think?
I kind of like that we have some free open discussion time. And so I wouldn't want to
lose that completely. I think that as Gabby said before she got off reading the book kind of gives
you a topic for the discussion, but not like an exclusive, you can't bring up other things that
you need help and support on. And so I would, I would kind of think, you know, it would be great
if we could do every other week, and we would have time to actually read whatever we needed
to read before we talked about it again. Or maybe just say, we would do the book discussion for this
part of the call. And this part of the call, we do like open discussion. And so we be consistent
weekly. But we also have like, you know, just some protected time where people can have
conversations. Okay, thanks for sharing. I would agree. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. Okay.
Whatever y'all want to do is fine. When I start a nonfiction book, like I'm going to clean the
house and I'm gonna finish it like that day so I can move on to the next day. I want all the
knowledge. Yeah, but it's not enjoyable to me at all. So I'm like, I'm whenever I sit down and knock
it out, like, like I listened to the 67 day year in a day and a half, I think like I gotta move on.
Yeah. Yeah, took a bunch of notes. And then I went back over my notes. I am so I'm so impressed
because I am the complete opposite of you. I can't remember when's the last time I read a
fiction book. I've been through like six this month. I'm on a roll. But most of it is audio
because like I can put on my audio book and I have a 30 minute commute to work and stuff. So I listen
to it then out. I enjoy cleaning my house with a good audio book like I got you like I will clean
the baseboards until the end of chapter three. Like, oh my gosh, that's so funny. That's one
way to look at it. I love it. Okay, well, let me I'm pulling up the audio book right now. Oh,
it's got a forward by Tony Robbins. Yeah, it looks like it's like love. We love he love that.
Wow. Yeah, it's this 10 extra business in three years or less. Yo, come on this. I'm feeling this.
All right, look, it's only got six chapters. And they're 30 minutes to 50 minutes. Let's do
one chapter. Let's do this. I got it. One chapter a week. Half of the call we will be intentional,
by the way. So there's accountability, there's intentionality around the book.
And what are your takeaways? How do you want to implement it'll be
kind of discussion based, but about the book. And then we can do the second half about catching up
with your personal business and kind of doing what we did on this call. How does that sound?
That sounds good. Yeah. So each week, we'll do one chapter and we do our top takeaways or how
we're implementing it. Yeah. Takeaways and implementation simple. And then we can it'd
be nice if everyone comes with something to give. And then yeah, we can retain it. And then we can,
you know, you know what our brains like to do, grab it from somebody else, talk about it,
then it sticks. I love that. This is so simple. Are you serious? See? Well, there's because we're
all in alignment. That's nice. You know, it makes it easy when everybody's does. And you know what
it says stories of rapid scale. Okay, let me share my screen. So y'all can have a visual real quick.
I just pulled it up. I literally just put my info in. And then it just came up. So we've got stories
of rapid scale is 42 minutes. And then technically, we start to chapter one. So I think we actually
call this. So there's six, I say we call this its own week. What do you guys think? Because I think
it's important to hear stories of rapid scale. And we start with that. How about we start with that
next week? And let's just roll in. Let's just do it. So the 27th of January, stories of rapid scale,
then February 3, chapter 123456. And that'll take us through let's see 12345. That'll take us through
the first week of March. How's that sound? All right, boom, we made a plan. I will type this
up and I will make an announcement in the inner circle app and then if there's anybody else who
are usually on these calls if you want to tag them in too so that they know about this I don't
I know it's mainly you women have been you ladies have been here and then
all right I'm checking okay sweet great we have a plan that's our plan we're gonna stick with it
I'll see if Gabby wants to be on these calls and then if not then that'll be what we'll do all
right oh Jenna
sweet girly
all right so remember remember that to to end this you get to create your own thoughts which
is directly connected to your results and we get to create the life that God's called us to
because somebody's not going to just come give it to us and be like here's everything you've
ever wanted I mean you know it requires consistency and discipline and it starts here first it starts
what we believe so great job everyone with your brain primes I'm going to be checking in with
that on Mindset Monday so you know I'll be do a little check-in around brain primes on Mindset
Monday and then yeah we'll start this book next week and then how exciting I'm going to see some
of you in person in a week and like two days we get to hug each other so Michaela's going
Christy's going Carrie are you are you and Sean are going right or you're not going I can't remember
you're not going and Jenna you are not right Sean's coming Carrie's not oh really okay
okay awesome then I will get to hug Sean then and see him great all right I've seen him on the AI
calls has he really been implementing a lot into your business from those AI calls that's pretty
cool that's cool that is amazing do you have the Zapier now or is it Zapier now were you like
connecting things yet okay that's where I'm at this week I'm trying to connect some stuff awesome
great work ladies I appreciate you all way to show up this is a small yet mighty room here
this has been fun so I look forward to seeing you all next week all right bye