you
Good morning, my time. I guess it's afternoon in some other places.
How's everyone doing today?
I'm doing well. How are you?
Doing all right. Yeah, not too bad.
Sienna, Maura, how are you guys doing?
I'm doing okay.
I'm okay.
Love it. Got some okays.
All right. I don't know where Danielle is. Let's see.
I might just be running a little bit late.
Is everybody, everyone listened or read their book or no?
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. I did as well. I didn't forget.
Although I forgot last week, but then hilariously,
I think I listened to like the first two parts the first week when we were starting.
So it ended up fine.
Can you repeat what the question was?
I just wanted to know if everyone had listened or read the book.
The last part of, if not, no worries. Just kind of wondering.
Of who moved my cheese.
I've read it before. It's been a long time.
Yeah, that's okay.
I've been in sick in bed for three weeks.
There's been a lot more people sick in the last couple of months.
Very long.
Yeah.
For like 10 days, I was just not productive.
Really, really out.
And then it was like a domino.
It was my youngest brought it and then everybody has got it.
Yep.
Hi, Daniel.
Yeah.
Are you guys talking to someone sick?
Yeah.
I'm I feel that I'm getting, I'm like kind of getting out,
out of something myself. So, yeah.
Well, hi everyone. Pardon my tardiness. I.
Yeah.
Well, Hey, Mara. Hey, Sian. Hey, Christie. Hey, Gabby.
Good to see all of your beautiful shining faces.
Yay.
Well, Gabby could, should we just jump in with the book and then.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right. We're going to dive in.
Hey.
Hey, Margo.
Okay.
So let's talk about the book.
I'm seeing a lot of head nods.
Awesome.
Okay. I'm just going to do a quick.
Overview, you know,
and then let's just talk about this last part of the book.
I'd love to hear some of your thoughts and some of your takeaways.
Yeah.
So the fastest way to change is a laugh at your own folly.
I thought that was an interesting.
Line and then talked about, you know,
how there's always cheese out there.
It's just a matter of going past your fear.
And he talked a lot about enjoying the adventure.
He talked a lot about the fear of being scared.
And that's something that's difficult to do while, you know,
you're having fear-based thoughts, right. Or like scared of,
of change and.
Oh, he said this.
Line I thought was really powerful feel like the people who feel like
victims are the ones that get sicker than those that just let go and
let go.
And so he talked about how he was like,
I'm not going to let go of my life or my circumstances.
And then talked about how then I think they now went into the reunion
and they were talking about how they wish they had.
Moved with cheese sooner in their life and seeing how.
how, you know, you can actually enjoy change,
enjoy stepping into unknown.
Oh, and then he started talking at the very end.
I don't know if you guys kind of read
to the very end of the book,
cause I listened to it, but he,
it was like a, I don't know what it's called,
not a foreword, but an epilogue maybe
at the end of the book,
where when the author's speaking, okay.
So acknowledgement is a lot of times what it's called.
Okay, that, when he was talking,
it was cool to like hear his voice
and hear how he had this one little idea,
this story, how this one little story
of 20 years of his lived life
went out to literally make a mark in the world
and have millions and millions and millions of copies.
I thought that's really powerful story.
And then he said that, he said two things.
He said, number one, most people are afraid
that change will lead to something worse.
That's what keeps a lot of people stuck.
And then he said the number one page
that people ask him to autograph
was the question we kind of touched on.
Yes, last week, which maybe we can even touch on it again
this week, but it's the question,
what would I do if I wasn't afraid?
He said, that's like one of the most powerful
and like important parts of the book
that he's seen after all of his people reading his book.
And then he talked about skills,
how everybody needs to learn how to have skills with change
and how the three are anticipate change,
take new actions and laugh at yourself.
Those are like the three antidotes, right?
That he mentioned about having these skills for change.
And then the last thing that he said
was that consequence slash pain is a powerful teacher.
And it can be really difficult to imagine something better
when you keep thinking so fear-based.
And so he talked, you know,
then he went on to talk about the peaks and valleys
and how we have sequences in life with that.
And those who are able to manage their peaks
and manage change are the ones that have quicker success.
Okay, so that's kind of a broad like overview of the end.
So I'd love to kind of hear were any, you know,
what were some of your takeaways?
What was something that really stood out to you
that you're kind of taken from this book?
It can even be from the book as a whole too,
because not everyone's been on our calls,
but yeah, the floor is open.
I'll share.
Just because the timing is crazy.
So like the last three weeks I've been just like
so out of it, not like,
I've been reading, listening to personal development,
but this is the first book,
like I'm gonna say 2008 maybe.
This is the first book that I ever read
in personal development.
And as you're talking,
and I'm gonna listen to it either today or tomorrow,
it's really short.
And I think I just tossed this book away,
like going through old books like a month ago.
But it's speaking to me because it's like,
I lost my Facebook.
I started my Facebook in 2008,
same time as I read the book.
And my friend was saying,
well, maybe it's the universe's way of saying to start over
or something like that.
I appealed my Facebook, almost 5,000 friends.
All my images are on there
that I've collected through the years.
And it's a huge loss,
but it's just like wiped all these years away
of mistakes and triumphs,
just all this stuff.
And just what you were speaking is just like,
it's a fresh start and going back to the beginning
of where everything began.
So I don't know,
I'm just really feeling what you shared, Danielle.
And this happened like right after we had our meeting too,
like I journaled a lot.
And I found my journal this morning.
And I'm like, okay, I gotta go like reread what I wrote.
And I don't know.
So yeah, I just wanted to share that.
It feels like a fresh start.
That's awesome.
That's really cool.
You read this book so long ago too.
So yeah.
Anybody else wanna share some wins
or takeaways from the book
or the last part of the third chapter there?
Third part.
Oh, go ahead, Christie.
I was gonna say,
it was interesting to me that there were some parallels
with the 67 day yearbook
where they talked about visualizing success
and visualizing where you want it to be to be able to.
start to get there. And also just having those positive affirmations that he was writing
on the wall in the cheese block. I guess I was reading and I wasn't listening to it,
but he was writing messages to himself on the wall and for his counterpart to follow
him to find those messages and be able to find the new cheese if he chose to leave his
safety of cheese station C. And so, you know, in the 67 day year, she talks a lot about
visualizing your success and having the Post-it notes and accumulating Post-it notes over time
and having your affirmations that you say to yourself every day. But this was in the 90s was
when this was originally published. And it's so short, but it captures a lot of those concepts
that I think others are repeating and popularizing on social media nowadays. And maybe this was like
one of the first books that really brought it up. And I actually read it when I used to work at
this store in the mall called Successories and they have these motivational prints that
businesses would hang on the wall. And it was a pretty boring job, but they had this book there
and I read it whenever I worked there. That's cool.
That's great for boring jobs. We all have.
Carrie, do you want to go next? Sure. So I will say like the theme of
like savoring the journey has definitely been a theme. I feel like like I think something I
woke up this morning and it was like one of the first things I saw somebody had shared about
slowing down and savoring the journey. And I think even like at church right now, we're doing like
the book, we're doing the story of David and Goliath at church. Like that seems to be the
message. It's like a four or five week series. And it's like, you know, Goliath is like this huge
mountain. So just whatever your Goliath is, it's whatever your Goliath is. It's not obviously a
real life giant, but whatever it is, work, personal relationship, anything. But your God has to be
greater. And it's kind of like with a business, right? What hurdle is in front of you? That's
your Goliath that keeps you stuck or in fear. But David didn't look at it that way. David,
you know, his God was bigger than any Goliath. So it's just, yeah, it's all it's been in my face.
Like, I feel like every day the message from this book has been in my face and just
pushing things forward. That's awesome.
I think for me, the like, right when I started to listen to it again, it's like all flows together.
So like, I don't know, was this part of last week's conversation or this week, but
the quote that stood out to me from the book was how it's like reflecting. And he says,
he or she says, it is safer to search in the maze than remain in the cheeseless situation.
And that really struck me. And because in a way that I was kind of like giving myself kudos,
because there's a lot of things that I may, and we may resist because we don't really want to do
or want to be there. But to also celebrate, like when you do it anyways, and like you acknowledge,
like, all right, I don't want to be in a cheeseless situation. So that means I'm taking
this in this action. And they may not feel great. And I may not be super excited about
what I'm doing it. And I just like it was a moment of realizing
that I am able to identify like a cheeseless situation. And I am able to think of, you know,
my brain can strategize in terms of like, okay, what action is this calling for this that I'm
not in a cheeseless situation, and then having the courage to do so. So but as much as like,
um, it sucks. I it was just like a good reminder of like, I do know how to do this.
I have this skill. And I'm in a process of where I'm exercising this skill again.
And yes, I am in a tank top. I can be in a tank top year round, pretty much.
Carrie. Pretty much.
Anybody else have anything they want to share?
I just wanted to share also to Carrie's point about the journey, you know, the
beginning of the book with like scurry and sniff,
they seem to like find cheese station and very quickly,
you know, they iterated to a new solution quickly.
And the journey came for,
I guess it was Hall,
who it took him like a lot of time, it seemed to iterate.
And he even kind of went backwards to go forwards again,
and then kind of like took another step back
and then went further forward into the maze.
And had to kind of continuously reassure himself
that this is really what he wants to do.
And he is still like on the right path.
And I feel like that is pretty symbolic
because there are times when we're all like sniffing scurry,
it's like super easy for us to go on to the next thing.
And then there are other times when that journey
does feel like a maze that you're backtracking
and things aren't going in a very linear path
from C to N quickly.
It feels like you're fighting for every step
and having to like constantly put those messages
in front of yourself to keep going.
And I had like, you know,
some just personal experience in the last week
of it was like fighting for what I wanted.
And I feel like the book was pretty timely
for us to read it.
That's awesome.
I want to piggyback both on what Gabby and Christy said
about Gabby, you were saying how,
like it's a choice to stay in a cheeseless situation.
And none of us really, like if you say it for me,
if I say it out loud,
I don't want to be in a cheeseless situation,
but if I'm too scared to get out of the cheeseless
situation, and then like, I thought it was,
I thought it was brilliant from the author
to have two mice and two little people.
And that like, it would just very clear
that even though people are smarter than mice,
well, maybe they aren't in all cases.
And how many times are we overanalyzing to the extreme
instead of just, I don't know,
let's just go for a walk and sniff it out,
like stupid mice, because they're not that dumb
and they knew how to get their cheese
before the scared little person.
And then the lost little person
who's overthinking everything.
And the mice were probably like,
duh, what like took you so long to get here?
And so I'm trying to my brain to think about,
okay, it's okay to be a dumb mouse.
Maybe I'm making this way more difficult on myself
than it really needs to be.
And I'm just, I'm my own,
like I've said this to myself
on more than one occasion in the past six months,
like what is my biggest stumbling block?
And it's me and it's my mindset.
And it's just a mindset.
It's not even reality.
It's just thoughts that are getting in my way.
And the mice aren't thinking,
they're just using their instincts.
So why are we making this so difficult?
What's funny is that we have, we have instincts.
Like we do, we all have them.
There's probably a situation that comes up
and we have the thought
and then immediately additional thoughts
or beliefs follow it.
And then that like deters us from instincts.
That made me think of one of the things I liked
and he says in the book is when you change
what you believe, you change what you do.
And then I kind of was thinking like almost
in reverse engineering that I was like,
okay, if you're doing things,
like we're all doing things, right?
And they're not working.
And they're not having the effect that we want,
then why not start,
how did I think of this?
I forgot, it was like,
it was kind of like a reverse process.
It was like, a lot of times we think about changing
what you believe and change what you do.
Well, how about starting to think about what am I doing
that's not working or not having the effect that I want?
And then kind of working backwards of like,
okay, well then I could do this
and then that can change my belief also.
And instead, and it's another,
way of like looking at what's happening around you and identifying whether it's
working or not and then choosing to go into action about it. But anyways, I also
for some reason, this was kind of funny guys, I don't know if I wasn't paying
attention to this the first time I was listening to it, but I was like, Smith and
Scurry, I'm like, what do they do? I was like, him and Haw have their
personalities. I was like, what's different about Smith and Scurry? And then he said
it was like, oh, Smith like sniffs out the situation and Scurry like moves into
action. I was just laughing at myself that it took me the whole book. But
anyway, anything else from anybody?
Well, I'd love to add on as somebody who's obsessed with mindset and the way
that our brains function. You know, I think a lot of this does come down to
just our fear, our fear of the unknown. Like it's we cannot see the future. The
only way to see it is to do it. There is literally no other way. And so anxiety
and worry, a lot of it stems from your brain creating a scenario in the future
of what said thing is actually going to look like. And then it keeps us stuck
instead of actually just going like you mentioned, Gabby, and like the book talks
about in the maze, like just actually going out and doing it, and then finding
out. And what really stuck out to me was, it's a thought. So our thoughts are
connected to our emotions, which are connected to our beliefs, right? And
that's what Shannon Irvine talks about. That's like the 67 year book that
Christy mentioned, we all read that and went through that at one point in
Mindset Monday. And our thoughts, Mar, you had a good question, too, of like,
it's me like, why? And it's like, well, because our brains are made to keep us
safe. And so when when you have taken a step into courage, you have taken a step
into creating something that is different, and it didn't work. Boom,
there's evidence. I don't this doesn't work. So now we have now we have a
decision, our brains got to be like, Okay, am I going to try again? Am I going
to look for the cheese again? Or am I going to kind of stay stuck? Because now
that I was rejected, and it didn't work once, is that going to happen again? And
here's the reality, the answer actually is yes. Something's not going to work
again, something's going to be scary again, something's going to give us
evidence for our, you know, unbelief. But that's where the courage comes in to
say, Hey, I'm, I'm still gonna try. Right? That's where like, you all are in a
positions in all of your lives in any different in different ways with this,
you know, okay, the business hasn't worked for the 10th time, what do I do
now? Or social media hasn't worked for this amount of time? What do I do now?
You know, or, um, you know, this thought, I'm afraid that change will lead to
something worse that, believe it or not, this is a thought that that is keeping
me even stuck now in my life. Like, honestly, I've been thinking like, oh,
it's gonna just get worse. How could it get better when I've just had an amazing
life? Amazing this amazing that how on how, how, how good to get better? It's
like, well, actually, it can, if I so decide that it will, right. And so taking
it's a courageous thought. Because it requires it requires a level of faith
and a level of being rejected again, and going into a valley again. And he said
at the end of this book, which I thought I'm like, Oh, I want to read his book,
like, peaks and valleys, I think is what it was called. But he was just saying,
when you're in a peak, you need to learn how to manage it, which is number one,
remember how you got there to stay humble and curious, and three, keep the
resources at the peak for when you go back into the valley. So I love this. I
love this way of thinking, expecting the valley, it and not getting arrogant in
the peak, which honest, which I am so guilty of. I mean, that that actually
really hit my heart. He was saying, like, you know, don't get arrogant and stay
grateful for more when you get into the valley. And and, and I think it can be
really easy. I say this on Mindset Monday, it can be really easy to get stuck in
that valley or like in Stockville and staying there because it becomes
comfortable. Now it's known. Now I actually know what to expect when I'm
not quite taking the full step or the risk. I'm just kind of scooting by,
right? Things are okay, but they could be better. They could be worse, right? But I
know a lot of you said yes to building businesses because you want better. You
want to see something you've never seen before. And it really just requires a
level of courage and a level of belief that you you
maybe have not had yet.
And that's where, and the belief comes
from seeing and doing the things, right?
So, and I will say, the last thing I wanna say is,
you know, I think a lot of disappointment can come in too
when you try something over and over again
and it just doesn't work.
It can be very disappointing.
I feel that emotion a lot actually recently in my life.
And yeah, so on a personal level,
I'm thinking about fostering kids
and I've actually tried to foster kids three times now
and it's not worked.
So part of me is like,
is it actually gonna work the fourth time?
Is this it really?
Like, I don't know, you know?
But the only way I'm going to know is if I try.
I won't know unless I do the thing, right?
Unless I, you know, I've been on 69 first dates.
Well, I have a lot of evidence for dating not working out,
but what about the 70th?
And what if it takes me 20 more?
Am I still willing to put myself out there
and to try to go after this beautiful role
and gift of being a wife and having a family
that I so desperately wanted, you know?
But to say all that, you know,
it does take a lot of courage to try again
and to get out of the,
when you're out of the peak and in the valley,
I think it's really revealing
of who we are and what we believe.
And I love how this book basically says,
you can make a change at any time.
You can make a change at any moment, any day.
Just do one thing different today.
That's literally how simple actually change can be.
And not only that, but what would it look like to say,
oh, change is exciting.
Change is fun.
I'm gonna embrace this.
It's actually gonna lead me to something better.
And I think those are the kind of thoughts that,
in Mindset Monday, we're talking about abundance thinking.
Those are abundant thoughts right there.
They're not scarcity.
They're abundant, right?
Like there's an abundance of G's out there for all of us.
It's just a matter of staying the course
and getting our hands on it when it finally happens.
Yeah.
I wanna kind of piggyback off that to Margo's comment.
She's saying that's exactly how she's feeling
about the leave coming up
because last time it wasn't a good experience.
And we have to actively remember how our brain is wired.
We have to actively remember like it wants to keep me safe
and that's not a bad thing.
But if we can be proactive in remembering that,
and so we can expect when we're gonna have like this anxiety
about things that, okay, I know that this is,
I'm gonna probably feel a type of way.
I'm gonna have some type of thoughts
and they're gonna want me to stay in place
in an effort to keep me safe.
You can start to preemptively prepare for that actually
the more and more skilled you get at this.
And I think that's another benefit
of anticipating the values like what Danielle is saying.
And again, it's a different,
we're not waiting for the shoe to drop.
It's a different mindset.
It's just understanding that we have cycles
and it's actually really important
for us to go through the cycles in order to grow.
If you wanna stay the same forever,
then sure, don't go through a cycle.
If you wanna be, which one?
Him?
Doesn't wanna buy him cheese?
Angry and bitter.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Anyways, any lingering thoughts
before we kind of transition into office hours?
I'd like to say one more thing.
I think I'm looking in the room
and I think we're all in a similar generation.
And I'm thinking about my parents
and the generation above them.
On a lot of them, I feel like resemble Hall, right?
Who's stuck, who's like really angry,
who really doesn't want change to come,
who's really like avoiding it at all costs.
And I think this book came out at an interesting time
because he is that generation, he's that age
where he was talking about how change happened in the 90s
was very different than 2008.
Well, we're in 2026.
Let's talk about how much change
has just happened from 2008 to now.
I mean, radical, radical shifts.
And now we've got AI coming in.
I think in a matter of two to three years,
we're gonna be like, wow, look at all this change.
And now it's even, change is happening,
like he said, quicker.
And I think he's right.
And so the quicker we can decide we are people
who want to change and embrace change.
I'm gonna tell you right now,
that is courageous right there.
That's courageous.
That's a mark of courage.
That's a mark of a powerful person, because I will tell you right now, my
parents and my grandparents, they are, they would rather never change and their
life reflects it, and they're not really people who people like to be around.
And I think it's very powerful to be the person other people want to be around.
Right.
And you, you embracing change helps other people even want to be around you more.
Right.
And be like, wow, she's embracing that change.
She's doing that.
Well, maybe I could do it too.
And it's inevitable.
And I think, yeah, I just think it's awesome.
You all are deciding, like you're all agents of change and you're deciding to
do that and there are bumps along the road, but there's, but it's either that
or what, stay the same.
And like, we have all decided, no, we're not going to be staying in Stockville.
Let's be agents of change.
Let's embrace it.
And that's all I wanted to say.
And I thought this was a really great book.
So thanks Carrie for the recommendation.
I think this is a book we can all reference and we can share with other
people too, if they're struggling with change, you know, it's a real light,
easy read.
Yeah, absolutely.
That kind of transitions us into our next book and in our schedule.
So just the, I think the only announcement I have is about our next book.
So we are going to, our next book is going to be the She Means Business by
Carrie Green.
This is like, who moved my cheese?
And She Means Business is kind of like tied in the boat.
So we just decided, I decided that we'll just move into She Means Business.
We are going to have normal office hours next week.
So that's the 28th.
And then on May 5th is when we will do the first like book club session for She
Means Business.
So it gives you a couple of weeks to acquire said book and get reading.
I haven't looked at it yet, so I don't,
we haven't put out a schedule yet for like what chapters and stuff we'll be
doing each week.
But that'll be posted in the inner circle group in the app.
So just be looking for that announcement probably sometime this week or so.
We'll post it.
Perfect. But that is going to be the next one. Any questions on that?
Nope.
Okay. I've got a fun question for today.
So you guys should just know, I mean, this should not be surprising,
but like I use chat GPT sometimes to like, give me some questions,
some discussion topics. And it's always, I know it's chalk.
It's always like, I just love, I'm like,
I want it to like inspire creative thinking, problem solving,
abundance mindset, all this stuff. So like, just know that.
This question is not meant to debilitate.
You is meant to inspire you and get your brain moving.
So if you had to make a thousand
dollars in the next 30 days with what you have going on right
now, what would you do?
That's today's discussion topic.
And I like this because we all have the knowledge and ability to do this.
And we all have the knowledge at our fingertips. Also,
we all got a ton of knowledge just within our Rainmaker community.
So I just kind of want to hear, and if you need to up it to like 5,000,
10,000, I don't know, maybe a thousand is too easy.
I love this. I watch these YouTube questions all the time.
And now I'm challenged. I'm just wanting to share that.
I would love for everybody. I want everyone to answer at least a tent to
like, doesn't have to be a perfect answer, but at least a test to kind of,
to kind of like,
doesn't have to be a perfect answer, but at least a test to come up.
I think doing the, um, releasing the vibe,
I have like.com vibe websites.com and just go in with what Steven talked about.
At one point, you know,
just creating the AI websites with the new go high level thing.
I've been playing with that and trying to figure out how to work that even
though I've been doing like the lovable websites and stuff like that for a
while. But, um, I've already got my first client with that.
Now it's just a matter of like, really, um,
the next step is getting used to the builder.
And, um, I've been thinking about doing ads for that,
like the four 97, um, website or funnel, um,
and launching that.
So how many would you need to sell to make a thousand dollars to, okay.
Or that would.
be like four four dollars away from
Yeah, yeah, so basically two or three
and
then to get to
How like what are your numbers? How many leads do you need to bring in? What's your conversion rate?
You know start thinking about those things
Actually, I've done this before with WordPress
Years ago because I wanted to make like three four thousand dollars to go to a conference
And I did it in two weeks, so it's something I've done before
And the numbers were like I reach out to
Ten people and get one I think it was I think those were my conversions
Okay, I love it good thought
And you have the option to go and do it if you choose I'm gonna do it
for me, so
just to kind of do an example of like
Someone who would be starting more at scratch mode because a lot of you are very actively working all of you're working in your business
So the question Margo was if you had to make a thousand dollars in the next 30 days with what you have
Currently going on in your business. What would you do and so what I currently have going on my business is not much
Not anything. It's just some ideas because as I've shared with you all it's not something I'm moving forward, but
it's probably the thing that I
Because I have all this knowledge at my fingertips
I could move forward with the least amount of time like away from family and stuff
So something I've played around with for my brand is a course
So a course that would be available to families and individuals that are in my avatar, but also sold to churches
So for me, it's like in a month. I could technically create said course market said course
Sell said course if I needed $1,000
or more so that's my
my next steps would be to actually outline the course and fill it like make the course and then
move on to
probably organic reach outs would be the first thing to go to a faster response rate and
then having to figure out the paid ads and
working people through the funnel
I
Kind of did this exercise and a couple weeks ago before I got sick and started
and it's basically kind of
Like you can't make physical product in 30 days or less
It's super difficult to do that
And so it goes down to like a digital project product or a knowledge-based product
and I decided that it would be
Consulting in the industry that I have years of experience in in order to
Find potential future customers for my cyclotron. And so trying to solicit
Companies that I would want to help get to the next phase
So that they could help me get to my next phase and we could potentially work together in the long term
And so I started posting on LinkedIn and
Commenting on other people's stuff and like making all of these
Connections in my space that maybe I should have already had but I wasn't really active on LinkedIn and
And then I got like a DM from somebody asking if I would be able to consult on his project
Which was unpaid. I was frustrating and then I got
Contacted by basically a recruiter who places
C-suite executives on a consulting or a contract basis
And I just had my first interview yesterday with a company that would actually pay me to do it
But their timeline is beyond 30 days
And so I feel really invigorated this week on posting on LinkedIn and doing cold reach-outs for
Things that are well aligned with where I eventually want to be and
And working towards making connections and network in this space
going forward
That's awesome
I love that and that's where I want to say you said eventually be you want to eventually be in this place
Well eventually doesn't have to be so far out in the future guys
A lot of the times I know for myself. It's like well, maybe like at some point
Or some some way in the future or eventually and I can't
Goodbye
Thank you
move towards those things now,
Anyway, I'll see you next time
which would move the timeline up
of being in that space sooner.
So just something to think about there.
Yeah, we were talking last week about,
I was like, what would you do if you weren't afraid?
And the reality is like,
we are physically moving to another state.
I have to like do all these things
before I can be relocated.
And so I'm like just giving myself permission to say,
you know, the future starts in August
whenever I'm unpacked in my new house.
And that's when I can do all these other things.
But between now and August, I need a few thousand dollars.
So I guess I'll be consulting.
Great.
It serves double duty
because it gives you the money for now
and connections for later.
So I'll have an idea.
I think for me, it would probably be
hosting some kind of class or workshop,
which is kind of my,
that's my go-to when I have been in this situation
in the past.
Although I just did a vendor show this weekend.
That was like Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
And I did that.
I made over a thousand.
So that's also a possibility,
but I happen to have all of the product like on hand.
So I didn't have to like order a lot of extra stuff
or whatever.
I just took what I had and sold a lot of stuff,
made a lot of new contacts.
But I think more guaranteed for me would be
create like a class or a workshop or a retreat.
The retreats always do really well.
They're usually at a higher price point.
Schedule that out, fill it.
And then that would probably be the thing.
Yeah.
That's like short and sweet, but.
That's okay.
Doesn't have to be complicated.
Carrie, Garima, Maura, any ideas?
Well, yeah, I can go.
Well, basically I met somebody.
She has like a bridal store
and she gave me an idea to bring my product.
She has like, she has a lot of foot traffic.
It's a corner store with like glass windows.
She suggested me to bring my product
and with a QR code on it,
she can place it on the window
where it's like the most foot traffic.
And she can maybe showcase it
as for the wedding registry stuff.
I never looked at that angle before.
So I'm gonna try it out
to physically actually put it out there
in a store in Cincinnati.
So, which is kind of, so far it's all Amazon.
So I'm gonna try it out, giving an attribution link
and see if I can bring traffic like this.
And if it clicks, or I mean,
if this is an experience to learn,
maybe I can talk to her.
She can give me more leads or learn from this experience
and try it out.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
Love it.
That's a cool opportunity.
Yeah, thanks.
Maura, did you have anything?
Hmm.
Yeah, well, mine comes down to energy
because there's a lot of things I can do.
I'm just not doing them.
But on top of my blog and stuff that I wanna do with AI,
I also have an eBay business, so, or an eBay store.
So that's like the easiest way I can make $1,000,
but it's just, you know, like with eBay,
I don't know if anyone else has ever done it,
but it's what you put into is what you get out of it.
And if you're not active on the platform
and creating new listings on a regular basis,
then your sales just tank.
And I have a lot of inventory that's not listed
that is just sitting in my office.
And every time I walk in my office,
I'm like, my office is ugly
and I need to get this stuff moving.
So if someone can give me a shot of energy,
I'm motivated to do that.
I'm also very much letting fear hold me back
from my AI stuff.
And so I've also...
but that's like not really to be discussed here like Gabby we meet later
this week you and I can talk about that but the other thing I've wanted to try
is just doing Amazon reviews and has anyone on here done that because like to
me I'm at home all day I shop on Amazon close to daily I have so many products I
can review it doesn't take a lot of time or effort I'm already an influencer
and have a storefront like I already have it all set up ready to go so if I
needed to make a quick thousand dollars then I actually just have to do what I
already have in front of me I'm just not doing it so that's something I've heard
you say pretty much every time we talk Maura what do you think it's gonna take
to change that that of me not doing it yes you're like you like a fear hold you
back you're aware of that and the energy is you you know is actually going to be
unpredictable that's predictable predictably unpredictable what is gonna
change that um I don't know I mean I want to physically get better I don't
with POTS and in chronic fatigue and my doctors keep telling me that like
recovery is possible when I've done everything under the Sun but it probably
just comes down to mindset and for a while I have felt like I'm just I don't
have the motivation and I don't and so I guess okay sorry this is I'm verbally
processing I think what will get me to change if I had accountability or if I
had like this group I've been haven't had a group before and if we all said
hey and may let's see who can make $1,000 then I might be motivated to
actually do it because right now there's nothing telling me that I have to do
that other than my body keeps telling me not to do that if that makes sense yeah
it does Danielle I thought you and you it makes complete sense first of all who
else has been where Mars talking about okay okay so we've got two options here
number one I'm telling you right now in 30 days go make $1,000 boom right now
done I said it but I don't think it's really that right I think sometimes we
think it's accountability because we could sit here and say that which I mean
team if y'all want to let's go let's make a little let's do it you know we
can start right now end of May check back in see who's made a thousand bucks
who's done it first you know but I think you're on to something more with the
mindset I think that's also a part of it right because you have so many
neuropathways going on in your brain that are keeping you safe and stuck real
nice and comfy and stuck on the couch and I've been there I have been there I
will be there again I'm not I'm not judging you I don't I don't I'm just
letting you know you're right and I'm she allowed to have a mindset session
with me Gabby is that like cuz I know I had I've had one with somebody on this
call before so yeah okay all right Mara because what I do is I work with mine
people's minds and I know exactly like kind of what you're talking about so
would you want to do an hour session where I kind of help you create some new
neuropathways around time and energy yes okay there's a million cool because we
just talked about this yesterday on mindset Monday which I know you're not
on that only some of you are on this call and we talked about like having an
abundance mindset around time and money and you know all those different areas
of our lives and how if we it's a you're a perfect example of having a scarcity
thought keeps you stuck and I haven't I mean I've said I've said it so many
times I've tried all these health things and nothing seemed to work you know it
took me about 13 years to finally get some breakthrough but it didn't have to
take that long actually it did it I was just a little stubborn and stuck so so
I'll get with you we'll have a we'll have a call we'll have a session it'll
help you that sounds amazing cool love to help you out there
Aerie, did you have anything?
So I already do over $1,000.
And so I was like, OK, how could I up the ante?
Maybe like $1,000 sales instead of $1,000.
But we need to run ads.
That's actually what we're going through right now.
We need to start running ads and bring brand awareness and stuff.
I was talking to an influencer.
So we've been going back and forth.
And I just don't know if I'm quite there yet
to afford what she wants to charge.
So I was asking chat and the CEO in the 8Fig AI toolkit
for a new startup, how do you do it?
And they're more affiliate as opposed to a flat rate fee.
So I'm not sure if the influencer will work out.
But at the end of the day, we need
to start running ads and driving traffic to our website.
OK.
Thanks for sharing.
Danielle, do you want to have an idea?
I'm just closed right now.
Let's just say you needed $1,000.
Y'all, we're laughing because are you referring
to what we talked about on the call yesterday?
I mean, not necessarily.
OK.
OK, so well, I'm honing in on my babysitting skills.
So I just made $1,000 last week babysitting.
So that's a skill I've got in my back pocket.
I started as a college lady, college girly.
OK.
So I'm telling you, people have asked
me to watch their kids the entire month of April.
I don't understand how.
I don't know why.
I've said yes because it's made sense.
And I've made over $1,000.
OK, so that's nice.
Also, I just rented a room.
I just switched my entire house up.
The family I was living with moved out.
That moved in with me.
They just moved out last week.
This past week.
And somebody is moving in today.
And I decided to charge $1,000 for one room.
And so I got creative and kind of am
re-leveraging my home right now.
So there's $1,000.
That's funny.
OK, I also have a client who's ending with me.
And I think what I'm going to do is offer some more time
to work with me.
And then that would easily be over $1,000.
So.
And OK, this cannot leave this call.
I know most of you.
Mara and Sian, not so much.
But I'm looking forward to getting to know you,
especially at the retreat, Sian.
Oh, I'm nervous.
OK, so I think I'm going to start
my own Mindset Monday brand.
And Rainmakers actually will no longer have it
at all in the near future.
So I'm going to start a low ticket membership
and literally just continue Mindset Monday.
But it's going to be more my thing and not Rainmakers.
So.
And let's see where it goes.
All of you on this call are going to be the first
to be invited to it, just so you know.
And it's going to be a low ticket.
And it's going to be fun.
It's going to be really similar to what I've just been doing,
but even a little more Danielle.
So.
So yeah, I'm going to take that plunge, probably.
I don't know when.
OK, it's not out of the bag yet.
But stay tuned.
We literally were talking besides yesterday.
It was yesterday.
And I'm going to roll with it.
I'm just not sure what day.
Yeah.
So yeah, definitely keep it to yourselves.
Don't go sharing this around to anybody
who's not on the call today.
If they want to know about it, they
could have been on the call today.
So yeah.
But the reason why I ask this question, y'all, is because,
and I know this hasn't been the most exciting conversation,
but I'm in calls with most of you.
So commonly, I hear complaints of cash flow or things
not working.
And you know what, guys?
You've just got to decide at some point.
My brain is going to shift, and I'm
going to do something different.
So that's what today's exercise is.
And I like that with what you have right now,
because I don't think sometimes you realize
how much knowledge is dumped into your Rainmaker training
portal.
Ways to make money.
Business Accelerator course,
literally apply it to any industry.
Go start something new tomorrow
and you have knowledge that you can apply to it, okay?
So this is like a, I love Tough Love.
You guys know that.
That's like my MO.
This is my Tough Love.
You guys are all capable of doing the thing,
of generating $1,000 in new revenue in the next 30 days.
$10,000, whatever that number is
that needs to challenge you.
So I just want you guys to feel that push.
I'm like, you can do it.
I love that we can come to this call and share honestly,
like things that are hard, disappointing, not working well.
But I also don't want it to just be that.
That's not what this community is for.
This community is for you to also
like get propelled into moving forward.
So that's just like be thinking this week,
if I really had to make $1,000 in revenue,
or in profit, whatever you want to say,
whatever you actually need in the next 30 days,
what would I do?
And this kind of circles back to when we were talking,
going through the science of scaling,
because having that like quick deadline
with a certain amount attached to it is like,
oh, this is gonna shift some priorities probably.
I might not go watch TV tonight, or whatever.
Or watch my YouTube videos.
For me, I restarted my like Gilmore Girls.
That's like when I'm, I've watched that show
like more than a dozen times, y'all.
Like my comfort show, which, okay, just the other day,
sorry, tangent, squirrel moment.
I did not, I've watched that show more than a dozen times.
And just the first time,
because we listened to Who Moved My Cheese,
they dropped Who Moved My Cheese in a line in the movie
that I never caught before,
because I didn't know about it.
And I caught it, I was like, see,
and I caught it, I was like, see,
it's new every time I watch it.
Criminal Minds, yeah, that's a good one.
What's-His-Face is quite attractive,
so I also like Criminal Minds.
I forget his name.
Nice chocolate man, so.
Anyways, all right, y'all.
Does anybody have lingering thoughts?
This is your Tesla push to, you can do all things.
Through Christ who strengthens you.
You can also do all things,
because you have lots of knowledge at your fingertips.
Sex and the City, that's my sister.
My sister loves Sex and the City.
I've never really watched it.
I've seen snippets, but never really watched it.
All right, y'all, so I will see you guys on calls,
or I will see you next week on office hours.
And then don't forget, in two weeks, we start She Means Business.
All right, all right, have a good week, everybody.
Thank you, bye-bye.