...
the 411 on all the changes going on and what would benefit me in terms of calls and not calls and
my constant battle in my mind of what do I actually want to do with my business. So yeah,
that's why I'm here. That's a good question. We've had a couple of changes but generally
the structure for you guys has stayed the same minus there's no more Mindset Monday.
So Danielle is actually hosting her own Mindset Monday. So you're more than welcome and we
highly encourage you to join her calls if you haven't done that. If you need her link,
I can go find it. So that's the one biggest change. And then Megan is also no longer with
Rainmaker. Well, we're not really the Rainmaker family anymore, but the Rainmaker family.
So she has decided it's time for her to move on and is off doing another thing. So nothing bad
or anything happening there at all. Just like people's time to like move on. So the change
there is that I have taken over doing the pre-revenue calls on Tuesday morning.
And of course, I've like behind the scenes, like I've taken over some of her
responsibilities and things like that. But those are all of the changes I could think of for now.
Also behind the scenes, and we've been doing working on this for like a few months already,
but we are also trying, we're transitioning from like closing the Rainmaker family as the company
and into what it's going to be, which I don't ever remember, actually, if I got confirmation,
if we decided to call it AI for companies or it might be something else. But that's not like,
that won't ever change like, you know, the schedule of what we're doing. It's just like all
of the like legal business banking, all of that stuff has been changing. At some point, like our
emails will change. So that will probably be really fun. Nuance for everybody to get updated
emails and have to change, like probably Zoom links, but that hasn't happened yet.
So what's the big picture? Does Steven just want to make this more AI driven overall,
like teach AI? That's a good question. So the Rainmaker family, our big product there was the
FBA mastermind. And that's not something we're selling anymore. Like we sunset it because we
knew we were going into this accelerator. So we stopped selling it. I can't remember like
around late summer last year. And so it's been just this gradual transition into this direction.
It just takes a lot of time. And so the business accelerator, which is what you experienced is
now the program, but we've been kind of waiting to move the business stuff over.
To move the business stuff over. So yeah. Okay. So
maybe I just need to get on more of Steven's calls
because he's the one that's really teaching the AI stuff, right?
So yeah, I mean his Thursday morning calls are AI systems and scaling AI. And then you're
definitely able to, if you remember, get on all of the business accelerator cohort calls
every month, every week. So there has been updates to the course. I think maybe since
last we talked. So like week five, week six have been updated. So if you want, you can go back
through those. And I encourage you to go back through those lessons and see what's changed.
Okay. Okay. It's more instruction on how to utilize AI to take things off your plate and
how to like leverage it. Oh, okay. That would be helpful. That's good to know. I don't know
if you remember, but like in week five, if you remember doing the quadrant exercise with like,
so you still do that exercise, but now the difference is, is that we're looking at with
the lens of like, what can we give to AI to, like, instead of working about like offloading
to the VA or somebody else, it's like, now we're giving it to AI. So it's just a little bit of a
different angle. And then I also particularly like week six, finance week, because we, or not,
I say we, like I don't do this, but Stephen found a, basically a platform that allows you to share
business.
of like your banking, like your financials with AI,
without AI actually having access to your bank account.
So to help manage the business finances more
and to recognize areas that are leaking
or recognize things are doing well,
or so I've actually been doing that.
I've been testing that with my like personal finances
and my AI assistant,
because I use my AI assistant like personally,
since we have something else for the team to use.
Like we use perplexity for the team, for our AI assistant.
But I've been testing it and so far I really like it.
So like, and I like, this is just an overview,
but I've given it goals.
And like Steven walked through this in the videos,
like some of my goals is like, okay,
paying down certain debt
or getting my savings to a certain point.
Or for instance, one really simple thing was like
managing how much we go out to eat,
which generally we do a good job of.
But I was like, if I go over this amount
by the 15th of every month, you need to really flag me.
Cause then we need to like slow our roll a little bit.
So there's like little things like that.
But if you apply that to your business finances,
it's a much bigger scale or it could be.
So those are, I'm trying to remember
what we updated in week seven.
We might've updated week seven too,
but I just can't for the life of me remember right now.
So those would be some things to like circle that too.
Okay.
And one other question with that,
with Megan being gone and she was kind of,
she was the main tech help for Rainflow.
Does that mean you're learning more about Rainflow?
So I could ask you techie here questions.
I am learning, but very slowly.
I would actually say you could ask you Uclyde.
Like Uclyde knows just as much about Rainflow,
if not more than Megan did, honestly.
Yeah.
And he has the Monday morning calls.
Yeah.
Like, can I just jump on a call?
And like, if I had a question about Rainflow,
cause I guess I've also been nervous
because I don't know the format of the calls
of like what to expect when I jump on.
Because like I want help moving my email list
off of what I'm currently using
and moving it over to Rainflow.
And I haven't done that yet because I just feel lost.
Yeah.
I don't know where there's a,
where in the course I can even find how to do that.
But that's something like I could go on a call on Wednesday
and Uclyde could kind of walk me through it.
You could.
And then to Michaela's comment.
So the Rainflow support, the 24 seven support chat,
they're also extremely helpful.
So those are, that is like the,
that's a third party like company that we pay
to be like the Rainflow support chat essentially.
And they do great.
Like you can communicate obviously in the chat or email
or sometimes they'll do a call, like you can do phone call.
Occasionally if there's an issue,
they'll get on like a Zoom with you.
If there's something that's like,
they need more visibility, but you can also do that.
Oh, so yeah.
Again, I guess I just don't know all the resources
that are around me and I'm using them.
Okay, so Rainflow tech.
And to answer your question about like the call.
So those calls specifically like with Uclyde,
pre-revenue and then the AI call, they're very open.
So it's very much, there is no like we're coming on
to like teach anything.
It's just people come there to ask questions.
So sometimes it'll be a very quiet room.
Sometimes it'll be more busy.
So you just get in there, you raise your virtual hand
and yeah.
Okay.
Are we still doing a book?
That was my other question.
Yeah, so we were actually discussing this last week
because we had finished the book
or Danielle had finished the book before she left.
And so we were discussing some new ideas
for just like format of this call.
So we still wanna do books.
I think what I would love and what we discussed
was that we wanna take some time maybe
for the remainder of the year, just the next quarter
to go through books that are a little bit more,
the word I use is like tactical or strategic.
So very, a lot more of like kind of subject matter focus.
So like Michaela suggested like social media content
and strategies specifically.
So like into a specific topic.
So I think that's the direction we're gonna go in.
And then we also talked about,
instead of doing a weekly discussion on books,
we might do like a once a month or something else.
I think depending on the book we do, we might.
see what frequency, what works best, and that might change.
So, yeah. Does that answer the question okay?
Yeah, well, I mean
yeah. Yes without direct answers because no one
knows yet. We haven't picked our next book. So we haven't picked the next
book. We're taking a break. I just need a few weeks
break because I'm also learning other things
having taken over Megan's role. You're getting a lot.
Yeah, so I just need a break. I'm also reading another book to help again
with Megan's role. So I'm thinking that in July
we will start another one. And then just for this few weeks of office
hours, it's going to actually be what it used to be. It's like pretty standard.
You know, coming in a little bit more of sharing with everybody and just getting
support, which we always get support, but sharing like highs and
lows and that kind of thing.
Sound good?
Okay. Cool.
Good, good, good, good. Alright, guys.
What was that?
Laura, you're kind of frozen.
Okay. Am I better now?
It is better. What were you saying? I had another question,
but I can wait if you want to get started on something else.
Okay. We'll do questions here in a second.
Yes, Megan also left. So Stephen posted that announcement
in the Inner Circle group a few, maybe a couple weeks ago or so. I don't remember when it was.
A couple weeks ago. So her and Danielle,
which is actually very coincidental, had the same last day.
So it was interesting that it worked out that way.
Okay. So let's just take a minute and
let's go around. I'd love for everyone to share.
I see a child.
I'm just glad it's not my child because they have been
they're on summer break and they have been coming in here all the time
with questions and I'm like, go away, come on a call.
Anyway, so let's go around the room. I would
love for you guys to share what you're celebrating.
Okay. We want to focus first on celebrating. It could be little
things, big things. In the last week, maybe a couple weeks, what's been going
on.
Something that you are and then we'll
say, let's do the something you're in the middle of. So something you're in the middle of
working on, figuring out. It's like a
midway project, something like that. And then later we'll
get to things that you have a support need for
or a request for. So let's start first with the two of celebrating and in the middle of.
So whoever wants to go first can unmute.
Michaela is chewing
now.
I can go first.
Something I'm celebrating
first. Well, I guess something I'm in the middle of first and then I'll say celebrating
because I think it makes more sense for what I'm celebrating.
I posted two workshops
free workshops this week, which end with an offer to join my
four week course I hosted. I had it on Sunday
night and then I did the encore kind of like the Stephen
the other Stephen did. So I did like an encore. They come and we just watch it live.
And so that's kind of what I'm in the middle of.
They have the people that watch the workshop have until Wednesday at midnight
to decide whether or not they want to do the course. And I've sold three courses
so far in this workshop. I gave away
for anybody that stayed till the end. They got a free. They didn't know it at the beginning. I just
told them they get a price. But at the end, they get a free 15
minute session with me where they can ask me anything for 15
minutes. And I think most everybody booked that.
So I'm very busy. But each one of those will kind of be
just like a mini sales call, you know, give them something, but then
offer them something too. So I think that
was that everything in the middle of celebrating. Was there something else?
We'll get around to the other stuff later. Okay, perfect. That's exciting.
That's really exciting. Yeah, I'm excited.
Okay, who wants to go next?
I'll go if I can get myself off mute.
I'm on my phone and I struggle with the zoom calls.
So I guess celebrating that, um, this just happened like this
weekend, you know, I have my lead magnet and everything's
pretty much done.
I'm still setting it up, but I'm like, it's just like, okay,
what's my, what's my upsell.
And it just kind of like came to me and actually vibe code it,
you know, with the whole dashboard and everything.
Um, and it's amazing.
And I'm super excited about it.
Like it just goes right with my, with my, um, lead magnet and my
offer regarding my rich, rich after ruin.
I need to learn how to say that word.
Um, um, movement and, and then also I'm super excited.
We're actually, we're actually doing a summit.
This will be my fourth summit that I've organized.
And, um, and it just makes me feel like I'm back in the
space where I belong.
And, um, so we picked a date, um, 13 and 14th of August.
And so right now I have my assistant building my, um, funnel for my
speaker funnel and excited that, um, my AI hire did connect with my go
high level, so she's like trying to build, build out my stuff.
So that's super exciting.
So, yeah.
I think that literally just went through like yesterday or over the
weekend because we didn't, we were installing it for the new cohort.
And Steven was even like, don't try to like connect, go high level yet
because that's, but then someone did it and then like it worked and
we're like, Oh, we're like, great.
So we didn't even know that it had gotten approved yet.
So as you guys know, it didn't work in the challenge.
Yeah.
So it must've been just like over the weekend, but if you guys have your,
um, AI assistance, um, you can now, the go high level connection is now
available, so that's a, that's a big deal because that was like
holding a lot of people back.
But yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
So I'm sitting in Starbucks parking lot, so I'm not sure how my
internet is going to be, but I'm complete.
Yeah.
That's okay.
It's okay right now.
Thank you for sharing.
Who wants to go next?
I can go.
Um, sorry, I'm late.
I couldn't get in.
I couldn't get in the link that I had saved on my computer was like, no, I
couldn't get to it anyways.
I figured it out.
It was a bit of a rigmarole, but I got here.
So, um, I am, I feel like I'm celebrating a lot of things.
I am.
I feel like I'm celebrating a lot of things right now.
Cause there's a lot, a lot of things happening.
Uh, two weeks today is my last day with my corporate job.
So I am celebrating the countdown.
Um, I'm starting to hand things over to the person that I'm training.
And while I still feel very busy, uh, because I'm still working, I'm starting
to feel like a little bit of lightness.
So I'm, even though it's like, that's kind of like anticipating, I'm
celebrating that cause it's two weeks is going to go by really fast.
Um, and then I had another like yoga and oils retreat on Sunday.
Went really well.
We got really good feedback from it.
We have another one planned, um, for July and we already have people like asking
like, when's registration going to open?
And I actually did the registration for that through, um, the like
calendar function and Rainmaker.
So it was fun to test that out and see how that worked.
Um, I think it went really well and now I have more information and can hopefully
use it again in the future, but more refined.
And then I have another, um, like my homesteading like skills series.
I have another event this week that we decided to postpone.
There was supposed to be one today and one on Friday.
And we've decided to either postpone or maybe cancel the one today.
I only had one registration, but she's trying to see if she can come Friday.
And if not, then I'll create another time slot sometime in the next week
or so, um, to repeat it in the evening.
But I have three people registered for Friday and still some people who've
been like expressing interest.
So I'm excited to do like number two and have some new people.
I actually got an email.
So I've posted those events through Eventbrite because they're, there's
like multiple times and days and like different pricing options and discounts.
So there's like, it's kind of complicated.
So, and Eventbrite has a platform and I just got an email from Eventbrite
the other day that said your event went out to like.
everybody in the Toronto area which is like a major city couple hours from me.
So in total it was almost 400,000 people that got like emailed and my event was
included in that and I also was like wait I had someone who registered for
two people last week and she emailed me because they were coming from far away
and staying in an Airbnb. It was the same day that email went out so I think that
she saw it in the email and registered. So anyways I'm just feeling really
excited about that because I'm like that's way outside of anywhere that I
would advertise to and she's coming all this way. There's been a couple of hiccups
with like getting the people schedule like when you're dealing with people and
schedules and stuff like that it can be it can be overwhelming because they all
want you to accommodate for them. So I'm working through a couple of those sort
of things but aside from that that's where I'm at. Did I cover what was I
supposed to say like what am I working on still? Also those were like wins but I
kind of also am like just in it with the less getting I'm getting things like
planned and scheduled for the future and I'm like promoting them also feel like
yeah. That's awesome. That's exciting. Yeah. A lot changed since we talked last week. Yeah. A lot can change in a short amount of time you know. It's very true. It only takes a day for an email to go to 400,000 people. That's insane. That's so cool though. Yeah. All right Maura you're up.
I don't know what I'm celebrating. I guess I'm so I'm not sure what I'm
celebrating because I've been feeling very lost. I guess I'm celebrating just
that I'm plugging away with my eBay business but I still I'm trying to figure
out what I want to do with my blog business but I really think that with
this new like the new AI assistant that could be a complete game-changer and
that could be the answer to what I've been looking for. So I'm okay so I am
celebrating that I actually got on this call today and that I found out
information about how to get my own AI assistant with a video tutorial and that
could answer the main question that's been in my brain for a really long time.
So and in terms of what am I in the middle of doing that's what I'm gonna be
in the middle of doing. I love it. That's so good. That reminded me while you're
talking there is a Google Doc to go along with the... hold on. Let me know if
you guys can open up this Google Doc. So this is the Google Doc to help that's
gonna be like you use side-by-side with that replay to install your AI assistant.
Yes. Mine opened. It worked. Okay. All right well those are very exciting lots of big
movements and honestly like any type of celebration is a big deal. Like Maura you
said at first I don't know what I'm celebrating but getting to me when I get
information that like I probably couldn't put words to but I knew
subconsciously that I needed and then it's like there's information that
always feels so good to me. Like you know it's like I couldn't even name exactly
what I needed but now there's something there to fill that gap. So that's awesome.
Alrighty guys so let's move into like support needs. So this is this part of
the call is where we can spend the majority of our time like helping each
other. So what do you have questions about? What do you want feedback on? What
do you need support on? Do you you know do you have a question like hey does
anybody know how to do this thing? There's a lot of maybe problem-solving
or troubleshooting and just seeing what you guys need help with. So anybody can
also go first.
I'm going to need help on I want to find a few people to test out my
dashboard. Like I have like a whole system that I built with the AI.
Which it's it's kind of going to be like a
You know reverse it will reverse engineer your goals get a place to like it has journal stacks
I
Have like it's gamified. I have like a
What's the worst thing like good addresses fear like what's the worst thing that can happen if you do this or that you don't do
this all the way down to dying and
And so I I need to find a few people not necessarily this group
And I was thinking on should just post something on my Facebook or something like that to get a few people
to test it for me like beta test it and
I'm just wondering
what's the best way to reach out to people just like DM people personally or put put it on my Facebook or and also is
There should be
Give them a incentive
I
Would post on your Facebook and do DM
Yeah, I mean, I just and you can have you can tell like hey
I just need some people to test this out and work out the kinks for me or give me some feedback
see how is it working the way I designed it to work or want it to and then you can also post it in the
In the inner circle group in the cohort. So that's a pretty slave
Hey, does anybody want to like go through this and give me some feedback that's definitely what the group is there for as well. So
Okay
Does anybody want to add anything to that I
Would add what kind of email list do you have?
Okay, so tell me what your program is
Because I don't know what it's about
So my program is called rich
rich afternoon and
My target audience is really basically and and it's like funny because most of the people all the ladies that were at the retreat
or
fit in this it's mostly like business coaches who have
been in toxic or abusive relationships and
And you know just helping them
With their system
I'm a federal builder to build systems. Yeah consultant
And so helping them get clear about their messaging their branding, but also and the revenue
so the system is kind of
You know at the demo part the free part just talks about like how much money are you making now?
How much do you want to make how much is your offer and it kind of calculates that?
And it helps them with the game plan. Did I have like a toolkit?
$47 it has about 10 modules of like same questions to get them clear on and what they want or you know
what they need to do in their business and
and
Then I have like a call
With them was the next thing and then so this is more like a game
I want to have coaching with it and it will kind of like reverse engineer
their goals, they have a chance an opportunity to like
I have like what's called like a raid stack and
They put like what's what's irritating them or what's making them mad and the AI will talk back to them
The GPT will will talk back to them and help them to move through that anger
with a new plan and it will identify the stories and
And
So it's just like I have this dashboard that I made and I just and I played the game through another program before that was
really similar
For several years and it's it's really transformational. And so I just want to make sure it works
Okay, so my question is you how many people like you must have an email list though, don't you I have a
Pretty small email list. Um, okay. So I've been writing Facebook ads and I got my Facebook back and I probably have about
440 to 50 leads off of that that I need to import into my go high level and
Those will be the first people I contact, you know email day. Yeah
And then I have my speaker
You know, I have about 40 people from another list and then I have my real estate list
But my real estate list is probably not I'm not going to use that for this
Okay
all right, so I mean
Cuz that you mentioned DMS and you mentioned a Facebook poach post but not an email going out saying I need
Beta testers, so I would just add that to your to-do list
OK.
I mean, because those are your core people that are
interested in the product anyway.
And if you could give them a discount on,
let's say, you test this dashboard for me,
you're going to get it 50% off for the next year
or something like that, that would
be a good incentive for people that
would want to use it anyway to go ahead and give you
the feedback that you need.
OK.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
I like that.
I agree.
I agree, actually.
I think that's a good one.
And you can set.
And what's great about doing that
is that you'll be able to track the stats of who's
opening your emails, who's opening,
like clicking on your link and all that.
That'll be really helpful.
Yep, that's right.
I got to learn how to do all that in my back end
and my automation.
So I mean, you can use your AI system.
But if you want, you can also go back
to week two of the Business Accelerator Report.
So you mentioned you need to import your leads.
So you can map it out so that your leads automatically
go into Rainflow.
So we cover that in week two.
There's one of those videos.
Yeah.
OK.
And sending out an email is not hard.
I know it might seem overwhelming.
Like, oh my gosh, how do I do that?
I know how to do that.
It's just about tagging.
It's really the tagging and the automation that goes from,
takes them off of one line to the next
and coordinate it with the order form and just all the triggers.
I understand.
That's the annoying part.
So I have probably, I don't know,
20 automations going right now.
And something that helps me when I'm building them
is to write it out, the steps.
Because I mean, it's your funnel.
Essentially, it's a funnel.
First, they're going to do this.
And then that pulls them into this.
And that pulls them into this automation.
And that's how.
So it helps me because when you're doing it in Rainflow,
you have to go to your sites.
And then you have to go to your automations.
And then you need to add the tags
and make sure the forms are.
So it's like a lot of different, it's all simple.
But it's just all these different places to go.
So I always like to write out how
the process is going to work.
And then I can kind of check off like, OK, I got that part.
I got this part.
It helps me to see the steps all in one place.
So I just always write it down.
Yep.
Thank you.
I'm going to, I need to drive.
So I'm going to disappear.
But I'm going to be listening.
Exciting stuff.
Thank you.
Let us know how it goes next week.
I will.
Thank you.
Who else?
Who wants to go next?
Support, feedback, questions.
I had a question.
And then I forgot what it was.
So I'm waiting for it to come back to me.
Maybe it'll hit you soon.
I had something.
I remember thinking like, oh, I need
to ask that in the inner circle.
And I, hmm.
I hate it.
This happens to me on the daily, guys.
Like I know it's there.
Yeah.
Margo, this happens on our calls like all the time.
I'm like, I was going to say something.
And then it's just gone.
Never to come back, obviously.
I know everybody needs something.
I also can't really think of anything.
Or if I did have something, it's disappeared.
I am really, really tired.
I like kind of hit a wall Sunday after the retreat ended.
And I was like, I don't know if I'm
going to make it through this week.
And now a couple of things are shifting.
This week, I was like, I don't know
how a couple of things are shifting this week.
One of the big things being I'm supposed
to be in the office most of the week this week.
And I was like, I'm not going to go to the office.
I mean, I'll go a couple of days.
But I'm not going every day because I'm done in two weeks.
Like, what are they going to do?
So prioritizing me staying home and having more time for rest
and going to bed earlier has been really helpful
even in just a couple of days.
That's not really asking for anything.
But I feel like my brain's not quite firing
as quickly as it should.
Yeah.
When you're tired like that, what do you feel like?
takes the biggest hit. Does that make sense? Like, what is affected most?
My health. Like, I get sick really easily if I have not been getting enough sleep, which
people for most of my life, people have been like, that's not true. Like people tell me,
they gaslight me and tell me that it's not true. I'm like, I have many years of proof
that if I don't get enough sleep, I end up sick. But that's because when I'm not sleeping,
I'm moving like constantly or thinking or doing, creating, whatever. Like I don't stop.
The only time my body has to rest is when I'm like true rest is when I'm sleeping. So
that's and I felt like I was going to get sick Sunday night and I was like, I have to
just stop all the things and get some rest and get some sleep.
I can relate to that so much. Cause like when I get into, like, I feel like when I get into
these seasons where like whatever I'm working on, like really like fires me up, like inspires
me, I will like dig in. And like, I, I, I genuinely don't think I told my husband the
other night, I was like, I genuinely think I could sit here at this computer and work
on this until morning if I didn't make myself turn it off. Like I just, I don't know. But
last night when I was getting ready to do the encore, it's like, it all hit me and I was like,
it was getting ready to start. And I was like, I don't know if I have the energy to do like,
so thank God that I was planning on just playing the recording. So all I had to do was like,
do the intro and then do the recording. But for sure, like, I'm absolutely the same way.
Yeah. So like, not really like an ask, but maybe just like pausing because we're all
very busy people. So like pausing to remind myself and everyone that like rest is really
important. And it is valuable. It is a valuable way to spend your time, especially when you're
in those moments, like Michaela was just mentioning, like when we're really excited
about something, we don't want to put it down because we're worried we're gonna like,
forget or lose traction or whatever. But that's when the rest is actually more crucial. I felt
that way before the event on Sunday, too. Like I was trying to get stuff ready in the morning.
And I kept saying to Andrew, like, I'm so tired. I just want to go to bed. And I don't usually
like even when I'm tired, I don't usually like complain about it. But I just I felt so depleted.
I probably wasn't eating properly for a few days also. So it's like not properly nourished,
not properly rested. Starting to feel like I'm getting back on track. But I'm hoping to go to
bed early again tonight. Yeah, remember to adjust priorities. Sometimes like my husband and I were
talking in bed last night about not necessarily this exact stuff, but it tied in because I was
saying like, there's a there's a very easy temptation to like, add more things to your
plate, like, okay, track this thing, do this thing better. Okay, this is important, do this. And
I am so against that, like, I am like, passionately, like, intensely against it,
and I get angry when it feels like there is another thing to try to keep track of. So I
honestly refused to do it. I was encouraging him to think because we were talking through a
situation I was trying to communicate. I'm not trying to like add on another thing for you to do
or keep track of. I was like, if anything, I want to simplify like take other things off that don't
actually matter, or should not, or maybe just like now is not the time for them to matter. So
that we can do track this thing or do this thing that is more important in this time. So I think
that's always my encouragement to everybody on calls is to keep things simple, like simplify,
you know, it's easy to start adding this, adding this, but sometimes we have to pause it. Okay,
wait, I actually need to take something off before I add another thing. Because then I'm just going
to be scrambling like a chicken with its head cut off. Which no one enjoys, I don't think.
And if they say they do, they're lying. And they're lying to themselves.
Or they're addicted to the busy.
Yes.
I was like that for a long, long time. And sometimes I still fall back into that because
it feels the most familiar. Like if I am so busy that I don't have time to notice that I'm tired,
or hungry, or angry, or whatever, then that feels safe, because I don't have to deal with
the thoughts and the emotions. But I recognize now that that's not healthy. And so I try to
catch that. But there are still people who feel more comfortable in that rushed and hectic space.
Yeah.
So what you're asking is that we're all going to encourage you to rest.
Yeah.
Simplify as much as you can this week and coming week. Simplify, simplify. Less is more.
Yes.
Mikayla, did your thought come back to you?
No, but a random thing that I was, and I don't know, do you know the little leather notebooks we
got? I don't know if that, if everybody got those, but when, when the business accelerator was called
the inner circle. I might have seen them because Megan might have had like a stack of them in her
house or something. These things? Oh, I have a remaker. I forgot, yes. I want another one.
We don't have it anymore. Mine's still empty. I can send you mine.
Yeah, send me yours. Mine's almost full and I'm like, I need to buy another one,
but it's really going to mess with my OCD if it doesn't match.
All right, send me your address. I'll just send you this one.
Oh, thank you, but also if you can ask them where they ordered it from, maybe I can order
some that say Simply Caroline. That'd be cool, too. Oh, that would be cool. It'd be nice. At some
point, we will do stuff like this again. We have to get stuff like rebranded, but yeah. Well,
if Megan has a huge stack of them in her house. Well, she doesn't anymore, definitely, because
she moved. So, she still does. You'd probably throw them out, but at one point, I did remember seeing
these and that's probably how I got one. Isn't her father-in-law there? He might have them.
Is he in her house? No, there's other people living there. Oh, okay.
Yeah, all righty. Maura, what do you got?
A nothing burger. That's not true.
I don't, I, seriously, like I've already, I feel like what I needed from this call I already got,
and so, I don't know. You said earlier that you feel lost or have been feeling lost.
Yeah, but that's been going on for a while, but that's just because my health is getting in the
way and, like, you guys can't fix it. You guys can't give me an idea of how to change that. So,
so, I think it goes back to my, I'm definitely trying really hard to work on
mindset management because, like Margo was just saying, before I got, before I got sick, like,
Mikaela, I have long COVID and POTS and have for five years. So, it's kind of like put a huge
damper on growing my business, but at the same point, my business is keeping me, you know, like
alive and giving me a purpose, but what was I saying? Oh, working on my mindset of,
of, okay, yeah, okay, sorry, brain fog. Margo going back to being busy, busy, busy, busy,
busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, almost to the point of avoiding thinking about feelings
and feeling like being productive is the most important part of being a human.
And I think that's one of the big life lessons that I'm currently learning is like
being productive and having everything crossed off your to-do list means, oh, you're a good
person. And I'm learning, oh, that's not how this works. Or that is definitely not a way to live
the rest of my life. And, um, so anyway, like, yeah, Margo taking, having the realization of,
okay, I need rest. I need nutrition. I need to know when I need to say no, and I need to give
myself permission to know when I need to say no and not base it on other people's opinions.
And I've done that way too much my whole life of people being like, oh no, you can just go,
go, go. And you can do all these things. And then I'm like, but I can't. And, um,
so I hate it. I don't want to cry. I hate being the crier, but this is just my life.
And so I'm still just struggling along, figuring out
what I should do next to feel fulfilled. And that's a big question.
And I don't think that's something you guys can answer for me.
No, we can't answer it for you, but we can certainly support you as you figure it out.
And like conversation sometimes can help us figure things out. And if it makes you feel any
better. I was crying earlier, so... Yes, but I'm like, on these
stupid calls that I'm here for business support and I hear I am
like, crying again. And I'm not on here because this is supposed
to be my therapy session. I'm on here because I want to get some
dang good ideas to make money. That's it.
Yeah, but in business, I mean, what people don't understand,
and this is why people struggle when they're new to being an
entrepreneur, is that nothing will challenge everything you
think and believe, like being an entrepreneur. I mean, there's, I
think parenting is also up there. But yeah, you know, but
like, seriously, like, this is why people quit, is because you
are forced to face very deep rooted beliefs, values,
identity, all of that along the way, like, the longer you go,
the more you have to dig through that stuff. So I can
probably say that all of us have been in your place at some point
of like, where it just feels like we are crying all the time,
because what we're experiencing is also painful emotionally.
Breaking off things can be painful emotionally, figuring
out what you want and not knowing can be painful. And I
like to think that every time you cry, you are releasing a
little bit more. I just there's something that I think happens.
I've heard this one, I don't remember what it's called. But
crying, there's a few different things that cause some type of
like chemical release in your brain. Yeah, I've heard that
too. And I know orgasm is one. Crying and, and then not just in
like the feel good hormones, but like it does something like
subconsciously. And so I think that's why I like, I believe
that it helps you release part of what is whatever it is that
being held on to whatever pain or whatever wound or whatever
thought or belief, it helps us kind of like let go a little bit
more, even if it's small. So keep on crying, and eventually
you'll get there.
Okay, great.
Does anybody have a response or any questions or encouragement?
Um, I have a couple thoughts that popped up. The first thing
that stood out to me was that you said fulfillment and not
success. Because that's so like, something that I've come to
learn to rely on as I build my business is that I'm not
fulfillment over success, because when I first came into
it, all of my goals were success driven, you know, they were the
monetary values, the you know, revenue stream, all that stuff.
And I mean, that all is necessary, we have to pay our
bills, right. But like that will not that will not give you the
energy to keep showing up. And so what I've kind of shifted
into now my mentality is a fulfillment goal rather than a
sick, you know, the success success. And I think that like
that mindset shift is huge, because it's so much more
attainable than success, or I don't know if I say it's so much
more attainable, but it's so much more rewarding than
success. When you put when you put your celebrations and things
when you put your celebrations and things other than just like
the traditional sense of it, you know, that was one thing. The
second thing is that that is literally the benefit of this
community is that you can come to these people because let me
tell you, I've had the same I have the same best friends since
elementary school. Okay, we're a small town, we don't have a lot
of options. So but they've been my they've been my best friends
since, like fourth grade, I cannot talk to them about these
things when I have a bad day in my business, when nobody shows
up for a workshop when, you know, the numbers aren't looking
what I need them to look like on my, you know, Amazon products,
like they cannot listen, they listen, I can tell them, but
they don't understand it, it goes right over their head. You
have to dig into this community and find people to talk to you.
And that is the only way you get through it. I mean, there's
people that I've met at the retreats, that when I have a bad
day, I send them a voice recording, and I'm like, pile
it on out, you know, because they understand it, like they
get it. And then, you know, the last thing was, you know, let
yourself feel the feelings and then just get up and keep
moving. You know, our being an entrepreneur is not for
everybody. If it was everybody would do it. It's it's hard
work. And I think the problem is that if you're if you have the
pull to be an entrepreneur, there's nothing else that will
satisfy you like you will constantly end up coming back
to this thing. So
it is what it is. I was a teacher for nine years and like the thought of being stuck in that world
I couldn't go back there but I'm also not fulfilled with what I'm currently doing business-wise
and I think that's why I don't have the energy to tackle it because I don't care enough about it
and that's why I feel lost. Yeah so you you have to shift. I mean you don't know my journey but
I started out with the Rainmakers a long time lots of years ago and I did like the traditional
you know physical products on Amazon and I sold them and I mean they do okay like they do well
I mean I'm not like I still have 5,000 throw pillow covers in my basement from FBA. Yeah so
I mean those types of things are you know it is what it is mine are still you know doing their
thing and I went to my mentor before Gabby with all these random ideas like what if I blog what
if I write a book what if I do affiliate marketing and all this stuff and you know she like stopped
and I'm a religious person maybe not everybody is I am okay so for me she told me she was like
okay those are all great ideas but like what does God want you to do and I didn't have that answer
and so what she told me to do and what I would suggest for you because that's how literally how
I came up with my business plan that I'm doing now is I had a CEO meeting with God like I genuinely
sat down at my kitchen table I closed my eyes and I imagined he was sitting there with me
and I asked three questions that she told me to ask and it was you know
God what are your plans for my life right now and it was you know Jesus what do you see for
me right now and then it was Holy Spirit what are the next steps that I need to take
and I have that I still do that every week like I have that meeting with God every week because
that's what makes that's what reminds me that I'm still on the right track like that's what
tells me and whether I mean if somebody's not religious like you can have the same conversation
like it just you have to dig deep and and find those answers you know but that's just something
that I would suggest that you do that's what I did and it literally changed I mean my whole
business plan changed completely it's nothing like it was so and and I've gotten fulfillment
because I know that it's what God called me to do yes yeah I agree but again that's why I feel lost
and I've been praying I'm like I don't know I don't know yeah I mean I think it's also keep
asking you keep asking and some of the time sometimes there's a bit of trial and error like
some I wouldn't say I'm a huge trial and error person but like every once in a while I'm like
you know what I'm not sure how this is going to play out and I won't know until I go through it
like at least give it a go or just to see how it feels uh excuse me so that could be a piece of it
like it could be you know remembering in that CEO meeting with God when you're praying is um
is he just asking you to have a little bit of like a trial and error phase too
so knowing like are the next steps like hey try this thing because there's maybe something to be
learned from it and it doesn't have to be forever I think also releasing the like because just
because you start something doesn't mean it has to be forever or you know it doesn't have to be
the end-all be-all you know it can just be let me just see what happens do I like it do I hate it
does it serve some other purpose you know right that's my thought there and sometimes like
I know for me when I've had periods of time where I just feel lost for a long time on something
I asked like okay I still feel lost on this and I don't know the point but please give me a clear
action to do right now just something some sort of clear action that I can cling to like I'm being
like I'm being obedient and doing this thing even though I don't know if it will keep going if I
like it if it sucks like I can at least cling to the okay just gotta do this one thing and
at some point I will be released from needing to do that thing and then there will be the next thing
hey Maura can you hear me yeah so when you were sharing I was thinking it came to mind a
different strategy as far as getting rid of your pillows selling your pillows and Russell Brunson
you can build a
funnel around that like I
Think if you have like a Shopify store, I'm not sure exactly how it looks on Amazon, but the Shopify
Yeah, you saw the one product
So you you sell the one thing?
using your funnel and rain flow and
I'd have to look at the whole thing
I think I have a class on it because I used to be the two comic club and
this is like you focus on selling that one item and
And it might just be a different way to strategize and I'm not sure if Steven has taught that before
Anyways, it's something to think about I
Have no idea how to do that. Yeah, we can talk more about it because I can definitely share that I'm driving right now
I just have to kind of look at the
Because I've built funnels for clients with that strategy
It's it's just like you have a funnel you can make the puddle in a rainmaker and
It's just selling that one item that one pillow and
And you can set it up where there's like if you have different
Variations of it. You can set it up like that and you can actually kind of run it like a
free shipping at all
I'm not sure how about your pillows are but free push to people
That's what I'm doing now with eBay like they sell on eBay it's just very slow
I'm like, dude, you've ruined my basement for two years now. It might be longer
Oh, I was just saying but build a funnel and drive traffic maybe through a face back Facebook out or something through that
I need a video tutorial like it sounds like a great idea, but I have no idea how to even
I'll do that for you. I also want to I also want to pause here for things we have to hop off but
Laura, I also want to challenge you here because you let that I don't know how to do that be the reason why you also feel
lost
And
You don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to do that
And
You don't have to also you can figure things out you can learn you can't
Oh, i'm not saying I can't learn but I don't even know where to go
Where would be your first thought and where to go to try to look?
I don't know. I guess chat gbt where else youtube
Uh, yeah, maybe youtube okay, where else
I don't know rainfall course, maybe
I didn't even know that was in there
So so those are three places. I want you to go and look and just do some exploring. Okay?
And allow it to equip you with knowledge. So that way there's not the piece of like now i've got to figure out how to do it
You know, there's like a okay. I have at least some more information of how to do this thing
So then I all it already adds a boost to like the energy part where it's like, okay
I at least have that part where I can
Know where to look or go find this thing
And then that helps it be like one less thing essentially to do
Um one less thing to figure out
Okay
Okay. All right, we'll do that
All righty guys we gotta hop off here because I gotta go but this is a really good conversation I appreciate everybody's vulnerability
And just thank you so much. Yeah, I appreciate everyone being willing to share and just love each other. So
That's good talk. Yeah, thank you. Do it again next week. See you later. Bye