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We are so excited for this weekend, we've been working on that today, getting ready

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Make sure we're going right, live in the right group, if you want to get started there.

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Yeah, it may make everybody has to like, say it's okay that we're recording, it's a new

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Okay, so.

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Okay, so Michelle, you have a speaking engagement coming up, it sounds like, is that, you want

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to share a little bit about where you, where you, what do you want to, what do you want

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to, how do you want to use this coaching time about that speaking?

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Well, it's about my testimony, where I was, for the ones that are new, don't know me,

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I was, I went through addiction and I've overcome that.

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The program I went through, the gentleman reached out to me and wants me to do a 30

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minute speech about where I was, where, how I got to the program and where I'm at now.

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And I want to, I want to make sure God is in that, you know, because that's, that's

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what got me through, you know, where, where I'm at now.

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There's been a lot of breakthroughs with me, with understanding why I made the choices.

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Childhood trauma was a big part of that.

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And I want to highlight that and the individuals I'm going to be speaking to are military men

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and women.

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They're all, they're bringing in about two, two, two to 300 people for me to speak in

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front of.

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Wow.

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So exciting.

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Yeah.

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And, and honestly, the gentleman who asked me to do this, it was a part of the program

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I was in.

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I had told him that the program was so profound and helped me so much.

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I would do anything to try to get the program in every county or every state.

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I would be the cheerleader and the spokesperson for this program.

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So when he called me the other day, I thought he was calling to tell me, Hey, we want you

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to do that.

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And then he said, I want you to do a speech.

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So I have to feel like it's like the, um, the, Hey, can she do this to be able to, to

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be able to be that person for our program?

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And I don't, I don't want to, you know, bomb it.

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Since we had the last, uh, um, uh, workshop, I've started college.

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I've, uh, in Christian leadership, uh, with Manning university, I have, uh, like I said,

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been breakthrough after breakthrough about me and learning.

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I'm in a relationship now, a great relationship, marriage is on the way.

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So a lot of things have changed, but I do know where I was and where I'm at now, but

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I got to get that process and I needed to, and I don't want to do what they call in AA.

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And I'm going to throw that out there, a drunk log.

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I don't want that.

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I want it to be a story about how I was, where I'm at and where I'm at, if that makes sense.

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Cause you know, when you're sitting in AA and you do your testimony, sometimes it's a,

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it's a log, you know, of your life.

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I want that, but I don't want it to be like when I was five, this is what happened.

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And I don't want to do that.

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Does that make sense?

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That makes sense.

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And I think sometimes when we get a little bit too specific, like you say with that log,

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people can, can no longer self-identify because, you know, if there's a certain thing that

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happened in your childhood or a certain extreme in your story of addiction, sometimes people

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then kind of tune themselves out because they can no longer see themselves in the story.

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So I see this happen a lot, even with testimony sometimes, because we're so thankful for what

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God has done.

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We remember how bad it was.

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We want people to know like how bad, how really bad it was.

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We get super detailed with that instead of really focusing on where you are now with

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the Lord did transformation.

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So I love that your heart is already there.

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And it sounds like you're on the right track with that.

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So it sounds like you're going to be talking to service people.

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Now this program specifically wasn't an addiction program or was it?

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Cause you mentioned too.

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I mean, part of your, what you've been set free from was PSTD.

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So PTSD, I'm sorry.

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So is it, are you speaking to people about that?

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Like what is the kind of main thing?

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I have lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, my entire life, and it is the home of Fort

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Bragg, North Carolina.

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And I'll be honest with you.

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I have never been to the base.

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I don't know anything about the military.

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Whenever Mr.

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Chestnut asked me to do the speech, I was like, to how many military men and women?

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about 300 and we'll be on the big stage at Manna.

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And I said, how am I going to relate to these individuals?

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And then I got to thinking about the PTSD.

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And honestly, when I was diagnosed with that,

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that did not resonate with me.

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Because the PTSD is one incident that

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happens in your life that triggers multitudes of things.

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I was watching The Chosen One evening on YouTube.

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And the next video that came on was a psychiatrist

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talking about c, little c, PTSD.

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And I said, what is that?

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There's a such thing as called complex PTSD.

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And it starts when you are actually

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in the womb of your mother.

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If your mother's got a stress hormone,

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it can pass off to the child.

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And my mom was underneath a lot of stress

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whenever she was pregnant with me.

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And then whenever I came out, my whole life

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was nothing but trauma with alcoholism

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and my father and all that.

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So it was just a complex trauma throughout my life

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until I probably got into the program of sobriety court.

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And yes, it is a program that has

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been put in Cumberland County that

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needs to be in all counties to help people when they're

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so lost in addiction.

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And of course, there's programs out there

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before people get in trouble.

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But of course, I'm the one that got in trouble.

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And so they put you into that to help you get your life

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back on track.

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And so now, because of the program, I'm back on track.

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I've gone through the therapy.

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I'm learning about why I made those choices.

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And now, like I said, I'm on the right track.

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That's awesome.

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That's awesome.

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Yes, it is a program.

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But it's also so the point of the talk

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is to obviously highlight the program

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and speak about how that was part

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of the catalyst of your story, of your breakthrough, right?

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So you want to make sure that you do highlight that.

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I'm guessing that they're allowing

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you to speak freely about your faith,

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at least mention it, right?

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It's in the church.

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So it's a man of church.

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So I think, and you could maybe follow up with Mr. Chestnut

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and just ask him, is the group of people I'm talking to,

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is there a common pain point or problem

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that they're dealing with?

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Because that might be helpful for you as far as whittling

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down all the details into what is the one thing that

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may be why they're wanting to highlight this program.

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Well, I did ask him that whenever he asked me to do it.

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He said that right now on the base,

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there's a lot of drugs down there.

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A lot of, he said, if you're reading it in the paper

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so I don't know.

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But he said, but there's a lot of,

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because the military are really vulnerable right now.

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And they're just drinking and drugging

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and being away from their family during the holidays.

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And that's a factor there.

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And he said, and it's coming right up on the holidays.

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And I think the chaplain really, chaplain, is that right?

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Yeah, chaplain, wants to just bring the troops in and just

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talk to them about, hey, and it's not just me speaking.

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It's Chestnut speaking, myself, and then

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a lawyer that's on the sobriety court panel as well.

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And he's gone through the program himself.

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So there's all different walks.

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But yeah, and I think the PTSD is going to be a big part.

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But I think a lot of them, that our military

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are struggling with addiction right now because.

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As a, I was just saying probably as a coping mechanism

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to the addiction is some type, is usually

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a symptom of the greater thing.

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So anyway, I think from an outline perspective,

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you're already on the right track because you're already

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wanting to make most of the talk about the breakthrough,

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not so much the pain point, right?

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But as we've talked about in many things

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before, even when we talked about,

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if you remember way back when, we talked about the promo

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for your podcast and how would I even begin to talk about this?

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We talked about starting with what

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is the pain point and then moving into the possibility

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pretty quickly.

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So we talked about maybe even asking a question,

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starting the question like, so I pulled up your podcast stuff

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that we talked about just because I know this

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is about redeeming choices.

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And you were saying that you were really

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wanting to help people break free from the shame

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or the regret of bad choices, right?

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And so I think starting your talk around kind of allowing

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people to, inviting them into the story

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by even asking a question like, have you ever

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felt shame for...

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I'm asking the question like, is it like almost like the,

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has anyone like, let me know if like anyone's

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been in this situation.

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Well, you don't.

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I don't know if you want to identify yourself.

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It's almost like a rhetorical question

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because what you're talking about

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is pretty sensitive information.

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So you're not going to ask people necessarily

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to like raise their hand, but you want them to kind of raise

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their hand in their, their internal hand.

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so that they can, because this is going to kind of wake them up to, okay, this is like for me,

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because you're immediately going to go into, you know, this was my story.

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For years, I lived with the shame and pain of trauma and I used alcohol, drugs, whatever,

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as my, what cope, as my way to cope with those things. That's good. And yeah, I mean, I'm,

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you know, I'm, this is going to have to be your story, your words, but I'm just using this as an

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example. And there's a verse Isaiah 61, three, where it talks about the beauties from beauties

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from ashes. And I was going to include that because that is, that is a profound verse for me.

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Yeah. How, you know, God has changed my life to where I was and where I'm at now.

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So I was going to introduce that into it as well as the verse. And then.

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They absolutely want to do that. That's the, that's the turning point, right? Of the

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talk, because you're wanting to move people quickly to the power of instead. So instead of

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this, it can be this instead of being stuck in addiction, the rest of your life, instead of going

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to an early grave, instead of having all your relationships blow up in your face, instead of

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losing your job, all those things instead. And because you can be very free with talking about

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your faith, like the Lord is offering you an invitation to more, and that more is abundant

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life. And I want to tell you about how I went from being at the lowest of lows to a place of

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abundance. And then you can kind of speak into that and you can utilize that verse.

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And also to, I feel like sobriety court was the catalyst that got me there.

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Yeah. Because I did not know how to get there myself. I did not know God, like I know him now.

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And because they put me in those, those behind those walls with, you know, other addicts and

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alcoholics. And I was able to learn from them, their stories that I'm not alone in AA and I'm

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not alone in this. And we all have our struggles. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Because the Lord uses,

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can use anything to, to grab our attention and disrupt the destructive path that we're on.

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So the program was that for you, he placed you within a community of people that could help you,

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you know, break free. And so you weren't, so you didn't have to do it alone.

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Right. So I think like, I think from an outline perspective, you know, you can start kind of

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like either ask a question or kind of speak to that pain point a little bit,

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introduce yourself pretty quickly. Like, Hey, my name is Michelle. And like, this was my story.

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This is what I struggled with. And then you can talk about your breakthrough,

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talk about that instead point, talk about the scripture, talk about finding the program.

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I think it's because you're highlighting the program. I think it's really helpful to even

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share like a specific or two of not just it's not just the program, but like some specifics about

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it. Like you already mentioned, like, Hey, I got to be in a community of people, maybe kind of

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highlight some of the resources that were available to you through the program. And, you know, so

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people can kind of get a picture of it's not just a program, but what does that actually mean? What

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does that tangibly mean for me? If I enter this, like, what will I have access to? What does it

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look like? If you can paint a picture of what it looks like, maybe you can make up your story or

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two trauma. Do you think I'm sorry, let me interrupt you. Yeah, no, it's not interrupt

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me. I don't, I just, I think again, you might get, you might not want to get caught in the weeds of

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all of that because it's a long story to unpack. Yeah, it really is. But I just feel like something

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needs to be said about the CPTSD and where it started with, with the birth. And I thought about

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talking about Lee, that suicide, but then I'm like, that'll just take me on a tangent. Yeah,

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I think, and maybe this is something you can get some feedback from, from Mr. Chestnut, even,

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even as well, because you said there's going to be other people kind of speaking. So you want to

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like, see what's kind of covered. But if it were, if it were me, and then we're just kind of

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flying blind, and all we knew was what we knew right now we're going in, I think you could speak

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to it, but to begin to unpack it, it might take a long time to do that. So you just have to, you

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have to ask yourself, like, do I want to give that much real estate of my 30 minutes to unpacking

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this very specific story? Right. I know they probably struggle with that too, with the PTSD,

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because that's a part of, and I, I just, I think that maybe I might need to mention it, that I had

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a friend that did that, and that she had just lost total hope. And yeah, I think you can mention,

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I think you can, I think you can mention, like those things, like I had, I lost a friend to

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suicide. I had childhood trauma. There was a lot of, there was a lot of reasons why I was the way

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that I was, which I think is helpful for people to hear, especially in the military. These people

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have seen very...

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experienced very intense situations.

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So they're not,

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they're not dealing with addiction for no reason, right?

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Like everyone has a reason of why they've gotten there.

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It's not, it's not pointless,

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but I think people,

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so I think it's helpful for people to hear like,

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hey, like there was parts of my story,

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there's reasons for my life,

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why I was the way that I was.

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It wasn't senseless.

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You know, it wasn't like I just woke up one day

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and decided to like become an addict.

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Like the trauma led me somewhere,

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but the Lord in his kindness led me to himself

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and out of the trauma.

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I'm living in histories now where when,

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when that stinky thinking comes up,

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that's nope, nope.

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You got to go away, devil.

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This is what I have to do.

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And God says this, that I'm precious in his sight.

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I am his and you can't have me.

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And that's how I do it.

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I rebuke it.

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But you know.

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Here's the beautiful thing about your testimony

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and the life that you're living now

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is that you're not living a traumatized life.

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You have had trauma in your life.

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That's a very serious thing.

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It's not something to be pushed aside

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or something to be ignored,

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but when it has brought to the surface

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and when there's healing that has taken place,

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like what's happened in your life and healing is possible.

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I think that's what people need to hear.

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This isn't about managing your trauma

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and living a traumatized life the rest of your life.

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The hope is that you can live a healed hold life

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and no longer be traumatized by the trauma of the past.

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That's what Jesus, that's the power of Jesus.

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And I think you can say like the program was a blessing

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that I felt like the Lord led me to

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and as a way to like help disrupt that traumatized lifestyle

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and bring me somewhere else.

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Right, right.

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And my crappy choices may have gotten me there,

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but I was supposed to be there.

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That's the thing, look, like a good father,

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there was some discipline involved, right?

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But anyway, I think, is there anywhere that you're feeling,

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like, do you feel like you've got kind of a good outline?

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Well, I've got like two pages worth of ideas.

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I just got to put them together.

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It's mine and someone told me,

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don't sit and write the whole thing out.

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Don't try to type it out.

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You know, just do an outline

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because you know it's your testimony.

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Right.

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But I want it to be to where, like I said,

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it's like you said, you know, ask the question.

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I'm gonna then get it flowing from there.

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And y'all know me, I ramble.

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So I'm not going to have a hard time talking for 30 minutes,

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but I just don't want to ramble off the subject.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I want to stay in line.

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So I'm just going to do an outline,

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but if I have any questions though, I'll reach out.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And I think even as you're processing,

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like even that beginning question

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can be kind of around like trauma.

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Have you ever experienced trauma in your life

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that led you to make choices

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that you wish you never had made?

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My name is Michelle and this was my story.

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And then you can kind of start.

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You guys gave me geo-bounce, whew.

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I can't wait.

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I'm saying you better come back to the recording

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and write these things down.

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I was like.

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I am.

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I am.

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I am.

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And so, yeah.

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So I think that you've got a great start.

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So yeah, come back as you're writing it

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and ask some questions and.

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Yeah, I was going to say just maybe,

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just if you could share like how you're,

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what your process is for prepping.

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Then that you will like put it together

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and then you'll actually do it out loud.

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And time yourself.

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And maybe even record yourself

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and then just watch it back and that kind of stuff.

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Yeah, there's definitely some things you can do that.

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Because this is your first time.

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Like again, it doesn't have to be this every time you speak.

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But I think this is one of the first times

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you're like telling this story

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and you're kind of doing it

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hopefully to become like a spokesperson for this.

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Like practice, practice, practice, practice.

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Don't despise the process of practice.

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And so what I do,

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especially if I'm working with an outline

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is I make the outline

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and then I like to film myself just on my phone.

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So I can A, time myself,

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make sure that it is within 30 minutes

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and I'm not speaking for an hour.

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Cause that's not going to be fun if I get cut off

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and I don't tell the whole story.

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And then I also.

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Again, I was gonna say,

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even if you just put the,

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like you're on your phone,

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the clock like timer

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and just kind of have the timer on there

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and just see it counting down from 30 minutes

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and just have it off to the side.

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You can do that.

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You can do that.

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You don't have to record yourself if you don't want to.

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I like to record myself.

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I know it's painful to watch yourself back,

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but it's helpful to kind of pay attention to things like

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facial expressions, tone, and speed of voice.

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Now, you know, my facial expression.

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I already know when I get on stage,

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I don't want to be a big red blotch of nerves.

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No, no, no, no, no, no.

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You got to reset your expectations starting now.

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You got to expect something different, right?

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So, because yeah, I know it's hard and it's okay.

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Look, I've, I've done lots of public speaking

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where like I got sick right before I got on stage,

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went and did the talk, got sick after.

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Like, you know what I mean?

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It's just,

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but I think that the Lord is going to just infuse you

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with peace and confidence for this,

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because you were born for something like this,

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which is helping set people free.

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You're going to set the captives free.

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So I'm very excited.

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for you. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. Well, I do appreciate it. Everybody else has

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stuff to ask. And I do appreciate your time. So thank you.

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Questions or even Yeah, just utilize the group and tag me. So I definitely see it. And I can

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keep asking answering questions. Okay, great. Thank you. Someone else will get something from

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it. Right? Yes. Yeah. Brendan, you're up next. I know that. Yes, I know that we was unable to

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join us. Sorry about the time confusion. We had we had a time change here. So

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yeah, we had a time change. I think on the first like a month ago.

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Yeah. confusing is that I know I realized when she was like, she said, Hey, I'm on right now.

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I was like, Oh my gosh, like, they don't have the same time changes.

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The funny thing is, like every state almost in Australia has a different time to almost

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like, confusing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I just I'm constantly googling time zones at this point.

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Yeah. Okay, so we had two questions from you guys. Was there one that you wanted to tackle first?

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I'm not not really. Yeah. I mean, I think yeah, like, put these together. And that's fine. It's

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great with the recording so she can listen to it later. But yeah, not just the first one is fine.

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You've got that. Yeah. So I've got a screenshot here. So thanks for sending that through. I think

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you did. Yeah, no problem. And is this the order my channel? Yeah, the tick tock YouTube. Is this

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this that question? Yeah. Yeah. Great. Let me just actually did bring this up. So I've got your

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Yeah. Cool. So so yeah, explain. I saw your question. And I looked at this video. So like,

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tell me what did you guys do? How did like, what how did it get here?

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That was from our phone. I'm pretty sure we uploaded it. Okay. I think.

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Yeah. And then I think we did the same one, or that one and on YouTube, and then and on TikTok as

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well. And I just went to sort of gangbusters on TikTok. Yeah, that one. Yeah, like 3000.

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Okay, that's amazing. Look at you guys. Yeah. Famous. Yeah. So late, late, she's gone off.

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Gone off. Yes. That's great. This is awesome. So so yeah, 32. And I think it was like, we wanted

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to post it on TikTok and YouTube. And it was there like a streamlined sort of process to do it or

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Yeah. Yeah. And you guys like literally filmed another screen. So that's and this had 1300

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views. So how did you how did you get this many views? Did you just post it? And that's all

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happened? Or did you put some ads on TikTok? Yeah, we did put some ads on the TikTok one. And

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I think you put Facebook ads to TikTok. Yeah. Okay. I was trying to figure out because there

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is a way to put TikTok ads to a TikTok video. Yeah. Yeah, we did. Okay. So I'm trying to

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catch up because we've had a bit on we've actually just bought a house. It's so exciting.

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Awesome. So I think she I'm pretty sure she did ads on from TikTok. And then she did a separate

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one for Facebook. Okay, the ones that ticked off because they went off. So then we tried Facebook

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as well. And yeah, I suppose Yeah. Can it be sort of streamlined where you don't have to sort of

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double up with like having? Yeah, so you can, you can, I would. So the one thing to do is just

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record the video on just your camera on your phone. Yeah. At that size with video, and then

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I would take the original video there. Upload that one video to YouTube shorts, and then I'd upload

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that to TikTok. What you don't want to do is necessarily edit the video in TikTok, and then

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take that edited video in TikTok. And then the out like basically put that into YouTube, if that

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makes sense, like take the original and put it, each one goes to one of those platforms. Okay.

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And so but that, I think, because it looks like you basically have two, it's the same content.

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Yeah, maybe like different, you actually filmed it differently, maybe. Let's see. No,

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there's just a few different ones. Like, yeah, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the same.

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Same one.

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Was the same video? Yeah, that one. Yes. Yeah.

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I saw there was something to do with like music down here, like music in this video.

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They probably just use like a YouTube. Let me just play it real quick so I can see.

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Oh it's going to my headphones.

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That's why.

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So how did you add that music? Did you add that in YouTube or did you add that in TikTok?

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Um I'm not sure.

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Okay um it probably didn't um.

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I think they they used it in YouTube because.

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Yeah well they just identified it. Let me see what it's over here.

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I'm just trying to. This doesn't have the music.

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So this one doesn't have music but this one does have music.

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Um okay um and so the your question was just like basically how to like what

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what was different about this video versus others or were you trying to just figure out like

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um uh an easy way to have a video posted on YouTube as well as TikTok without

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having to sort of start afresh if you like with one platform and the other.

471
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All he's asking it's two different questions. So you're just asking like is there a streamlined

472
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.240
way if I'm going to post to one platform can it automatically go on to another platform?

473
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:37.760
Yeah yeah yeah.

474
00:26:37.760 --> 00:26:39.280
So no and the reason.

475
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.400
There's an answer to your question.

476
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:42.960
The reason.

477
00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:47.360
Okay there is a way and if you go look it up like there are ways to just

478
00:26:47.360 --> 00:26:49.520
cross post stuff they call it cross posting.

479
00:26:49.520 --> 00:26:53.360
It's not recommended especially for new accounts because um.

480
00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:55.840
The platforms themselves don't like that.

481
00:26:55.840 --> 00:27:01.200
They're competitive with other platforms so for example if you upload on Instagram real

482
00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:05.040
which is the same as the YouTube short and you've got the TikTok logo in the corner

483
00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:06.480
you can 100% do it.

484
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:12.000
It'll go out it may get some views but generally like you Instagram is looking for that TikTok

485
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.280
logo and it basically pushes those videos further down the list.

486
00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:17.040
Because it doesn't want to advertise TikTok.

487
00:27:17.040 --> 00:27:18.560
Because they don't want people going to TikTok.

488
00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:19.520
Yeah yeah yeah.

489
00:27:19.520 --> 00:27:23.440
Because they want original content and that's so basically as long as you can avoid having

490
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:28.560
the logo there um and then just use whatever platform like if you're going to add music

491
00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:33.440
one I wouldn't have added the music to this because it's so loud you can't hear what she's

492
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:39.680
saying um so that's unfortunate um so I would just try the same whatever you did for this

493
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:46.560
one I'll try it one more time um and you could even post the same video again um just without

494
00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:51.920
the music if you want and try that um I'd be interested to see like your ads like how

495
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:56.800
you got that because what's cool is you did get 13,000 views and you got 51 likes but

496
00:27:56.800 --> 00:28:02.160
you did get eight dislikes which is fine that's not the end of the world but then your subscriber

497
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:08.480
count didn't really change yeah right yeah so um we have tried this as well like there's

498
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:12.560
a lot of ways to boost YouTube videos and we have certain videos that have easily have

499
00:28:12.560 --> 00:28:18.560
a thousand fifteen hundred views but it actually doesn't really change the bottom line yeah

500
00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:24.800
and YouTube won't even count the watch time for this towards your like uh four thousand

501
00:28:24.800 --> 00:28:29.040
hour goal so you can monetize they actually don't even count anything that comes through

502
00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:36.560
ads um so anyway uh yeah and you were saying so you did use Facebook ads for this

503
00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:42.720
yeah yeah I mean did you want us to look at me to look at your ads or see if yeah yeah

504
00:28:43.360 --> 00:28:48.960
so I think the other part of her question because it was a week or so ago um can we actually

505
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:53.600
schedule it so like a you know one o'clock in the afternoon they both get released or not is

506
00:28:53.600 --> 00:29:00.960
that just a that's that's too big complex it's it's not that as I say it's not that advanced

507
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:07.120
as you would assume it would be but um most of the time like I think you can on YouTube

508
00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:11.040
so YouTube you can definitely schedule it and you can go live at a certain time

509
00:29:11.760 --> 00:29:17.120
um yeah I just don't think you can even upload a reel through uh Creative Studio at the moment

510
00:29:17.120 --> 00:29:24.880
it's so new um okay I'll figure that out yeah we do have a schedule yeah we've seen the scheduling

511
00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:30.240
uploaded out so you can do yeah you can do the feed and the IGTV but you can't schedule a reel

512
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:37.360
right yeah okay so uh that would be cool though um and I think the same thing for TikTok I don't

513
00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:43.520
think you can schedule a TikTok okay um to go live they kind of just want it to be very um

514
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:50.160
like raw and immediate and just like it goes out and so when you're trying to like organize it and

515
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:56.160
make it really you know systematic and stuff it doesn't really fit it's super organic right now

516
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.840
yeah but we would definitely recommend using a video file versus

517
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.160
is a video of the video.

518
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.600
Yeah, I would use the original video file.

519
00:30:04.600 --> 00:30:06.360
Because I think that would make a huge difference.

520
00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:08.520
And if you're getting that much attention

521
00:30:08.520 --> 00:30:11.040
on a video of a video, I think you'll

522
00:30:11.040 --> 00:30:16.000
spike pretty quickly with just that video file.

523
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.240
It would be easier to hear, easier to see.

524
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:20.600
Yeah, not record.

525
00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:24.080
What you guys are doing, I mean, honestly, just the fact

526
00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:26.640
that you had one with four big clips, which I thought

527
00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.560
this would have a lot of, I thought

528
00:30:29.560 --> 00:30:32.760
that would have a lot of views, it's really cute.

529
00:30:32.760 --> 00:30:36.160
Next to the 32, this is how TikTok works.

530
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.360
You just got to post a lot of videos

531
00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:40.920
and get that volume in there.

532
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.640
But it looks like you're doing the right thing.

533
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.600
It was really helpful.

534
00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:47.720
You feel really good about this.

535
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:51.160
You got 130 followers there.

536
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:54.760
And you just started this a few weeks ago, right?

537
00:30:54.760 --> 00:30:57.080
Yeah.

538
00:30:57.120 --> 00:30:59.880
It was really helpful to hear from, who was it?

539
00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:01.520
Isaac.

540
00:31:01.520 --> 00:31:03.560
Yeah, Isaac, yeah.

541
00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:08.520
Did you guys add the YouTube link to your TikTok page?

542
00:31:08.520 --> 00:31:12.040
Because going from TikTok, linking people to YouTube

543
00:31:12.040 --> 00:31:17.000
is normally a very good workflow.

544
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:17.520
OK.

545
00:31:17.520 --> 00:31:22.240
So if I go like that, that's not it.

546
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:23.440
No, it's Lindsay.

547
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.760
Lindsvanzale.

548
00:31:24.760 --> 00:31:25.640
Lindsvanzale.

549
00:31:26.040 --> 00:31:26.560
Lindsvanzale.

550
00:31:32.280 --> 00:31:35.760
So I'm on the web browser, and I'm not sharing this,

551
00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:39.280
so I was pointing to it.

552
00:31:39.280 --> 00:31:41.280
It's not doing it in the web browser.

553
00:31:41.280 --> 00:31:43.480
Let me just see if I can get into it real quick.

554
00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:49.880
But I would, let's go in to get back to your.

555
00:31:50.760 --> 00:31:54.200
There's a way to add the link to YouTube.

556
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:56.600
I think you have to go into the app and do it.

557
00:31:56.600 --> 00:31:58.280
But there's a way to add the YouTube link.

558
00:31:58.280 --> 00:31:59.960
So I'd have that be like the main link

559
00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:01.600
to send people to your YouTube channel.

560
00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:03.360
To like watch those full episodes.

561
00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:05.120
Right, because the full episodes are there.

562
00:32:05.120 --> 00:32:07.160
And they just go hand in hand instead

563
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:10.680
of sending them to this website.

564
00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:14.200
Because if people are enjoying the content here,

565
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.920
this is sort of the appetizer, and you've

566
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:18.280
got like the main courses sitting on YouTube.

567
00:32:18.280 --> 00:32:20.040
So it's just a nice way to get people

568
00:32:20.040 --> 00:32:24.520
over to continue watching the same content over there.

569
00:32:24.520 --> 00:32:26.920
And that was one of the steps, I think,

570
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.280
that he kind of walks you through,

571
00:32:28.280 --> 00:32:30.640
like how to add that YouTube link.

572
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:31.640
These are little things.

573
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:33.000
I just thought of the little things

574
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:34.600
you can change in the beginning, which

575
00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:37.720
will just help feed YouTube a little better,

576
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.320
and they all kind of play together.

577
00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:41.320
Yeah.

578
00:32:41.320 --> 00:32:42.800
OK.

579
00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:43.320
Cool.

580
00:32:44.120 --> 00:32:44.640
Yeah.

581
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:51.840
And the length, like one to two minutes is good on, yeah.

582
00:32:51.840 --> 00:32:52.840
On TikTok.

583
00:32:52.840 --> 00:32:57.000
So less than a minute for YouTube Shorts.

584
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:01.880
And then TikTok is, I mean, Reels, I think is 30 seconds

585
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:02.680
or 60 seconds.

586
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:04.920
Let me look it up.

587
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.400
The problem is they do keep it really short when you first

588
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:08.280
launch your account.

589
00:33:08.280 --> 00:33:09.960
And then as you get more and more views,

590
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:11.720
it's kind of like, oh, I'm going to do this.

591
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:13.480
And then as you first launch your account,

592
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:17.360
and then as you grow to bigger followers,

593
00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:18.360
then they give you more.

594
00:33:18.360 --> 00:33:21.000
It's like you could technically upload like a.

595
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.600
So an Instagram Reel can be 15 to 30 seconds.

596
00:33:24.600 --> 00:33:25.120
Yeah.

597
00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:25.640
Right.

598
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:26.640
And then.

599
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:28.400
Up to 60 seconds, I think.

600
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.400
TikTok's 60 seconds in the beginning,

601
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.400
but then once you pass, I think it's 10,000 subscribers,

602
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:35.760
you can go to three minutes, I believe.

603
00:33:35.760 --> 00:33:39.080
They unlock more features as you go.

604
00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:40.600
OK.

605
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:43.000
And then 60 seconds for Shorts.

606
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.640
This is awesome.

607
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:48.680
I think TikTok is like the one of the easier platforms

608
00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:50.120
to grow, less work.

609
00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:50.680
I think one day.

610
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:52.040
There's a ton of people on TikTok.

611
00:33:52.040 --> 00:33:54.840
We'll probably have to do like a masterclass for people

612
00:33:54.840 --> 00:33:57.080
where they just like watch their videos on TikTok.

613
00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:57.400
Yeah, that'd be fun.

614
00:33:57.400 --> 00:33:58.760
Instead of YouTube or anything else.

615
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:01.660
Cool.

616
00:34:02.600 --> 00:34:04.600
And then you also had a question about your.

617
00:34:05.800 --> 00:34:06.760
Intro?

618
00:34:06.760 --> 00:34:08.120
Yeah, your intros.

619
00:34:08.120 --> 00:34:08.620
Yeah.

620
00:34:09.580 --> 00:34:10.540
Could I share a screen?

621
00:34:10.540 --> 00:34:11.100
I'll just play it.

622
00:34:11.100 --> 00:34:11.600
Yeah, go for it.

623
00:34:13.179 --> 00:34:13.820
Let's see.

624
00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:14.300
Hopefully.

625
00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:29.340
So this is the one that we're currently using.

626
00:34:32.620 --> 00:34:36.460
Did you guys get this from Jen's Dell board?

627
00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:39.179
Or did you make this?

628
00:34:40.620 --> 00:34:46.380
No, we got that designed by Alignment Media.

629
00:34:47.100 --> 00:34:47.600
Yes.

630
00:34:48.460 --> 00:34:50.060
Alignment is Jen's.

631
00:34:50.060 --> 00:34:51.980
That's he's the editor over there.

632
00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:52.540
Yeah.

633
00:34:52.540 --> 00:34:53.040
Awesome.

634
00:34:53.900 --> 00:34:54.380
OK, cool.

635
00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:56.699
So it's just like basically the logo.

636
00:34:57.340 --> 00:34:57.840
OK.

637
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:08.160
show and then we start the YouTube video after that. So just a bit of, yeah. But this is one,

638
00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:13.840
another one that they put together as well, which is a bit longer.

639
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:43.040
Okay. How long is that? Is it like 21? That's 21 seconds. Okay. Yeah. So I would, I mean,

640
00:35:43.040 --> 00:35:49.840
the short one is good. Again, like we're always prefer to do something where it's like the hook,

641
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.480
where it's like, Hey, today we're going to be talking about this, this, this, so stick around

642
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:59.920
and then like run that short intro and then come back and then dive into the content. What I would

643
00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:06.400
do is, um, I would, uh, for the long one, I think you could still, since he made them,

644
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:11.200
which is nice of him, he's supposed to only make one, but good for him, um, use it. I mean,

645
00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:16.720
you could even run that as a Facebook, uh, Instagram ad. Um, that's true. I was just

646
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:21.280
thinking that cause it just talks about your channel. It's kind of like, it's like a promo

647
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:28.560
for you. It says like who it is for what it is and then who you guys are. So, yeah. Yeah. Um,

648
00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:33.280
but I like the, I like the energy behind that long one. Cause I feel like it's more you guys,

649
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:38.400
but just think of like where it is in the sequence. So like that, those first few seconds

650
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:44.000
of your video into the first minute or two of your video are just the most critical time. So

651
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:49.760
you could even, so what you here's, here's a very easy solution. Do the short one in the beginning

652
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:55.040
and do the long one at the end, like your outro as an outro. Okay. And that way you kind of,

653
00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:57.920
cause if people have stuck around today or just kind of like a fun thing at the end,

654
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.680
it's high energy kind of ends on a high network. It just sort of doesn't end where it's like,

655
00:37:01.680 --> 00:37:04.640
cool. So we'll see you next time. And then it just, it's just dead. You can kind of,

656
00:37:04.640 --> 00:37:08.160
we'll see you next time. And then it jumps into this high energy, like logo, I mean,

657
00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:12.720
the intro. So that could be kind of fun. Outro. Outro. Yeah. So I would just make one, an intro,

658
00:37:12.720 --> 00:37:17.040
one, an outro, and then potentially use the long one as an ad and see how that performs. Yeah.

659
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:24.080
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We tried to like, we sort of went back to them because

660
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:30.640
about putting those that we've already interviewed or got on our website as those two,

661
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:37.440
you know, put a testimony sort of thing, faces on there rather than just random.

662
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:45.920
Stock footage. Yeah. Always. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Okay. We're choosing that as well,

663
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:51.520
but yeah, he did all of our kingdom messenger stuff. So we liked what he did. Yeah. Yeah.

664
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:56.400
And we did the same thing because we had some stock stuff in the beginning and then we went

665
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:02.800
and shot some real B roll stuff and then we had him swap it. Yeah. So anyway, cool. Yeah. They

666
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:12.560
both look good though. It makes you guys look legitimate. That's cool. Thank you. Yeah. That's

667
00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:18.960
good. I think she had another question. If I do have time for another question or yeah. Jump in

668
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:30.080
the brand design. Oh yeah. I think she was just drilling down because she did ads on Tik TOK

669
00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:39.600
30 second clips. Yeah. I'm just reading it now. You probably get the second part.

670
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:44.240
She did the interviews. Let's see. Yeah. So

671
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:55.360
on Tik TOK. So she was just kind of wanting to know like what happened. Yeah. We would like to

672
00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.960
know that too. Yeah. I mean, honestly, and if you're running Tik TOK ads on Tik TOK, right.

673
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:08.160
Not in the Facebook ad manager. These are in the Tik TOK ad manager. Yeah. So I opened it and I

674
00:39:08.160 --> 00:39:13.360
like looked at it at one point, but we have not actually run any Tik TOK ads. I think we should

675
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:20.400
do a masterclass and, and have someone talk about that. Cause there's this one it's very

676
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.920
everybody's doing Facebook, Instagram ads. So if you go do Pinterest ads and Tik TOK ads,

677
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:34.240
like no one's doing those right now. And so it's, it's just a lot cheaper to get a lot

678
00:39:34.240 --> 00:39:41.120
more results. But especially if you just want to grow Tik TOK. So we should probably,

679
00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:47.840
I think that would be fun if we had like Isaac come back for our, for us and do a masterclass

680
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:53.200
on Tik TOK ads. Cause I would love to know for posture. Cause we've never done it for posture.

681
00:39:53.200 --> 00:39:57.200
We've never done Tik TOK. I've actually, I have been researching it the last few weeks.

682
00:39:57.200 --> 00:39:59.840
Yeah. We've looked at it, but we've not.

683
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.840
done it. So, or maybe Lee could come and do a masterclass, great results.

684
00:40:05.520 --> 00:40:09.000
That's great. I'm glad you guys like took the risk and just dove into it.

685
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:10.840
This is exactly, I know. I'm so,

686
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.320
you guys have just like jumped in on so many levels and it's so,

687
00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:18.960
Lawrenson speaking to me about just the power of participation.

688
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.000
And I feel like you guys are like experiencing that because you're not,

689
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:24.320
you're not hesitating. You're just like, okay,

690
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:26.800
let's try it and just see what happens and then tweak it as we go.

691
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.840
Awesome. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. And that's, yeah, a lot of,

692
00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:36.760
as well, but Isaac was very, you know, he was very engaging and,

693
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.800
and we got excited about what he was saying. Like, let's go.

694
00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:43.160
And Isaac will give, I mean,

695
00:40:43.240 --> 00:40:46.520
Lindsay obviously created the content and it's amazing content,

696
00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:51.160
but he took the TikTok account from zero to 21,000.

697
00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:54.560
Like he cut up my content and he's got other accounts.

698
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:57.360
His is a God behind bars ministry,

699
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:01.120
which I think has like a hundred thousand or 70,000 followers.

700
00:41:01.120 --> 00:41:02.680
And anyway, he knows what he's talking about,

701
00:41:02.680 --> 00:41:05.800
but I know he's done some ads and let me just say from a,

702
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:07.520
from an advertising standpoint,

703
00:41:07.560 --> 00:41:12.040
$15 in to get the results you got, like keep doing that.

704
00:41:12.080 --> 00:41:15.200
Like, I don't think you could have got those results through Facebook ads.

705
00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:19.640
So it's, that's crazy good value for money. So try, just,

706
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.960
just try it one more time, try a different video.

707
00:41:22.120 --> 00:41:26.000
You may even get better results and kind of just keep testing it. Um, yeah,

708
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.240
for 15 bucks to get, to get that was, I think very good.

709
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:33.040
But I think like your future TikToks and I just want to make sure you

710
00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:36.960
understand, like take the original video file and upload it,

711
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:39.840
flip it up and upload it.

712
00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:44.360
Cause I think that will help even with your organic reach.

713
00:41:45.720 --> 00:41:49.880
Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Good job though, guys,

714
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:51.320
you guys are doing a great job.

715
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.920
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I went seeing a few things, but yeah.

716
00:41:59.520 --> 00:42:01.040
And all while buying a house.

717
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:03.960
Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

718
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:07.280
That happened like in pretty much like 24 hours.

719
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:12.880
That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. It took a long time.

720
00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:16.120
And then it took nine months to renovate and make it livable.

721
00:42:16.720 --> 00:42:19.560
Well, we look for like, uh,

722
00:42:19.600 --> 00:42:24.520
we've been looking for like four weeks cause we have to get it out on the 7th

723
00:42:24.520 --> 00:42:28.480
of December from where we are. And then it's like, okay, God,

724
00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:30.080
like then it's within 30 days.

725
00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:35.000
And like you don't settle within 30 days and it's like 27 days and we found the

726
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.800
house and I said, oh, you actually need to, you know, we need to extend it.

727
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.920
And so we have to go back to the landlord and can we have another 10 days?

728
00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:46.440
Yes. And then, yeah. So we're settling on the 17th.

729
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.840
So a week before Christmas, we're going to be moving into our place.

730
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:51.280
That's amazing testimony.

731
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:56.320
Yeah. It just, it just, yeah. And yeah, it's amazing.

732
00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:58.480
It is amazing testimony because the,

733
00:42:58.520 --> 00:43:03.040
the street that enters the court or the

734
00:43:03.080 --> 00:43:06.320
cul-de-sac that the house is, it's called Lee Close.

735
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:12.320
And across the other side of the cul-de-sac is her maiden name,

736
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.080
which is Dixon, Dixon Park.

737
00:43:15.520 --> 00:43:17.520
There you go. So it's just meant to be all around.

738
00:43:17.640 --> 00:43:20.200
So I think that's like a wink from heaven towards you guys.

739
00:43:20.200 --> 00:43:23.640
Oh my gosh. Yeah. We looked at it like, and we looked at it last year.

740
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:27.880
It was on the market for a higher price and it came back on the market this year

741
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:28.760
for a lower price.

742
00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:31.000
Yeah. That's the Lord. That's really good.

743
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:31.800
That's the Lord.

744
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.920
And there was already an offer in place on Sunday and we only saw it Tuesday.

745
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:38.160
That's amazing. What a crazy day. You guys,

746
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:41.840
I need to close on this. Yeah. I need to close on this.

747
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:44.200
Or just go live in the, in the group and just share the testimony.

748
00:43:44.200 --> 00:43:47.200
You should share that testimony. I think it really encouraged people.

749
00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:48.640
Yeah, we will.

750
00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:53.240
Awesome. I know I want to get to Janice real quick. Yeah, you're all good.

751
00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:56.840
And tell Lee we missed her. Yeah.

752
00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.720
Yeah. I will. She's, yeah, she's meeting her CEO.

753
00:43:59.720 --> 00:44:03.840
So hopefully a potential partner for our business.

754
00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:04.680
So today.

755
00:44:05.080 --> 00:44:05.920
Good job guys.

756
00:44:06.200 --> 00:44:11.280
Yeah. Thank you. Awesome. Okay. Janice, how are you doing?

757
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:13.960
I got your, I got your, um,

758
00:44:14.720 --> 00:44:18.840
what you submitted up here that you're having some difficulty with tribe. Um,

759
00:44:19.040 --> 00:44:22.600
you were replacing all the episodes with what you had YouTube links,

760
00:44:23.160 --> 00:44:26.160
but now they're sideways. So let's fake, let's see what's going on.

761
00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:30.440
Um, I replaced them with YouTube links. I mean,

762
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:34.080
I replaced YouTube links with, um,

763
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:38.760
my phone. You have to understand. I've been, yeah.

764
00:44:39.080 --> 00:44:42.560
Isn't that fun. Okay.

765
00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:46.440
So I've been trying to get everything over to tribe, um,

766
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:48.680
for obvious reasons.

767
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.320
So they're all sideways. I'm assuming this is because of me,

768
00:44:55.680 --> 00:45:00.080
obviously, because I've been videoing vertically.

769
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.820
me. Okay, because I have to see I'm visual. So I have spent like

770
00:45:06.540 --> 00:45:14.420
five hours on technology today. I finally got my quick player

771
00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:21.180
quick time player to work today. But then in cat. Oh, it's just

772
00:45:21.180 --> 00:45:23.380
been a mess. I've been with Apple for several hours. And

773
00:45:23.380 --> 00:45:26.280
I'm they're calling me again at 630 in the morning. And quick

774
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:33.220
player has cutting out at 10 minutes. So I think I just get

775
00:45:33.220 --> 00:45:35.320
my stuff on tribe. So yeah,

776
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.160
so I'm just going to try something here. So if we film

777
00:45:41.160 --> 00:45:45.000
it this way, and then just make sure I tell you the right thing.

778
00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:54.120
Okay, so I wondered if like, if you know how there's like the

779
00:45:54.120 --> 00:45:58.960
orientation lock on your phone, or you have an iPhone, right? I

780
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:00.120
do. Okay.

781
00:46:02.040 --> 00:46:06.320
Let me try and share this on my phone. Oh, I can see if this

782
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:06.920
works.

783
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:13.200
I think I took it from my iPhone. I don't even you know,

784
00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:17.720
I don't even remember numbers how I did all this. This was a

785
00:46:17.720 --> 00:46:18.720
few days ago.

786
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:20.080
Oh, I see.

787
00:46:22.600 --> 00:46:25.040
Let me just get this over to zoom.

788
00:46:26.680 --> 00:46:29.840
Oh, it's not wanting to do that. Okay, let's

789
00:46:32.560 --> 00:46:36.640
stop that. So there is a lock, like, anyway, so I think when

790
00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:40.440
you're filming it, one option is just make sure that the unlock

791
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:42.520
there's like a little and how this is not going to work. I

792
00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:43.800
need to find a way to share this.

793
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.800
Let's see if I can use this other app real quick.

794
00:46:49.720 --> 00:46:54.200
So I need to do this. Is there any? Is there any way I can

795
00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:55.960
rectify what I've done already?

796
00:46:56.280 --> 00:46:58.480
Yeah, so there's this kind of like, when you record it,

797
00:46:58.520 --> 00:47:02.040
there's one thing you can do that's better. And then the

798
00:47:02.040 --> 00:47:06.360
second thing we can, I'll show you here. Okay, so here now my

799
00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:11.360
phone, okay, there's my phone. So if you swipe down from like

800
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:15.800
the top right of your phone, like where the little Wi Fi is

801
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:18.960
and the batteries, I just swiped down, get to all these

802
00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:24.600
settings. Okay. And this I think I can draw on my screen here.

803
00:47:24.680 --> 00:47:30.320
This guy right here. Yeah, there you go. So that that one is

804
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:33.440
like an orientation lock. So I would make sure that that is

805
00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:38.680
unchecked before you film. Because what may be doing is it

806
00:47:38.680 --> 00:47:41.720
may be locking it in portrait. And then when you when you flip

807
00:47:41.720 --> 00:47:45.440
it, it's not recording it in that format. So that's just

808
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.120
something to do at the beginning. I just I always

809
00:47:48.120 --> 00:47:53.320
uncheck that. It is, I generally leave it locked so that if I,

810
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.160
you know, if I'm, especially like if I'm laying in bed, and

811
00:47:56.160 --> 00:47:59.000
it's on at the side, like you don't want it to, you kind of

812
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.440
want to keep it in that orientation. But when you're

813
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:05.640
filming, always take that off. It's normally pretty good about

814
00:48:06.080 --> 00:48:10.280
undoing that anyway, when you film. The other thing you can

815
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:15.600
do is let's go into a video. So I just filmed like this. This

816
00:48:15.600 --> 00:48:21.840
is my I'm like clear that drawing. I think when you go to

817
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:26.840
edit. Okay, yeah. So you see edit here. So I hit the little

818
00:48:28.240 --> 00:48:34.720
there's a little blue edit kind of down there. See that? And I

819
00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:38.680
click on that. And then if you look here, there's like a

820
00:48:38.680 --> 00:48:45.720
little, little like crop and orientation thing. So if I click

821
00:48:45.720 --> 00:48:49.960
on that, I can actually now use at the top left, there's a way

822
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:54.520
to rotate it. So if I tap on that, it'll actually flip it

823
00:48:55.160 --> 00:49:00.240
sideways. You see that? And each time I tap it, it keeps rotating

824
00:49:00.240 --> 00:49:05.320
at 90 degrees. So what you can do is open your phone to a video

825
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:09.440
that that was recorded incorrectly, and basically hit

826
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:12.600
edit, and then rotate it. And then when you hit the done

827
00:49:12.600 --> 00:49:15.160
button at the bottom, right, it will save it in the new

828
00:49:15.160 --> 00:49:19.000
orientation, then you can just upload that that new file. So

829
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:24.240
basically, it'll you'll fix it on your phone, essentially. We

830
00:49:24.240 --> 00:49:34.040
can try one if you want together. Um, we're here. Do

831
00:49:34.040 --> 00:49:37.120
this. Let's see. These are in my photos. So that Oh, you're in

832
00:49:37.120 --> 00:49:43.720
all photos. Yeah, I'm in my photos. Yeah. All right. So

833
00:49:43.720 --> 00:49:46.440
yeah, you can do the whole thing in the photos app on your

834
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:52.120
iPhone. So you'll start like I'm just looking at all the there's

835
00:49:52.720 --> 00:49:53.800
getting a bath tonight.

836
00:49:58.320 --> 00:49:59.840
Eating solids now so

837
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.240
How can anybody be beautiful intentionally without hair and just, I mean, you know,

838
00:50:06.240 --> 00:50:12.160
and makeup and just everything just all natural and gorgeous. She's just darling.

839
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:16.400
Okay, I will try to do that.

840
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:19.040
So if I take like this is a video I filmed in portrait.

841
00:50:20.720 --> 00:50:24.560
If I go again, same thing like edit in the top right.

842
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:29.040
I hit the little like orientation and again this is being recorded on the

843
00:50:29.040 --> 00:50:32.400
members site so you could come in and just watch this again.

844
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:36.960
I click on that and then I go to the top left and there's little rotations.

845
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:40.560
I can rotate it, you know, so yours are sideways.

846
00:50:40.560 --> 00:50:45.600
You want to rotate it again to make it not, you know, to make it obviously the right way up.

847
00:50:45.600 --> 00:50:50.320
And then when you're done, you just hit the done button.

848
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:54.400
That's this yellow button down here and it will actually save it.

849
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:59.920
And now when I play it back, it's actually playing back, you know, the way I saved it essentially.

850
00:51:01.120 --> 00:51:03.360
So that should work.

851
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:05.840
And then what you can do is take that video and then upload it.

852
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:09.600
And just try and do it for one, like pick this mighty warrior one.

853
00:51:11.600 --> 00:51:15.280
Because it's basically what happened is that when you play it back on your phone,

854
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.520
Apple is kind of smart.

855
00:51:17.520 --> 00:51:21.360
It kind of realizes that it's sideways so it fixes it and it looks normal.

856
00:51:22.160 --> 00:51:25.520
So try that with that one there.

857
00:51:25.520 --> 00:51:30.160
I don't think there's anything, you know, if you try it again and you go

858
00:51:30.160 --> 00:51:33.840
through those steps and it's still not working, just make a mention it in the membership

859
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:41.360
or somewhere just tag me because we can look at it and see if there is something to,

860
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:43.920
maybe there's something I'll try.

861
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:47.120
But I don't think that typically whatever video format comes in,

862
00:51:47.120 --> 00:51:51.760
it will, you know, it will just save that format.

863
00:51:51.760 --> 00:51:54.560
It's not like, it's not flipping it for you.

864
00:51:55.200 --> 00:51:57.040
It's probably the file you're uploading.

865
00:51:58.080 --> 00:51:59.600
Okay. Hi, Monica.

866
00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:03.920
Hey, I did not upload it from my phone because

867
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:08.480
Laundrum worked with me for several days on this and that is not possible.

868
00:52:09.200 --> 00:52:12.400
And there's some kind of glitch somewhere and she's trying to figure out what it is.

869
00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:19.200
So what I had to do is transfer it all to my computer

870
00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:21.520
and then do an upload from my computer.

871
00:52:21.520 --> 00:52:22.880
Yeah, I, sorry, I didn't mean.

872
00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:25.040
I can do the same thing.

873
00:52:25.680 --> 00:52:29.280
Yeah, I was meaning you're taking the file from your phone to your computer and then

874
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:30.320
computer drive.

875
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.320
Yeah, there's drive on the phone.

876
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:34.960
It's not really designed to be like used.

877
00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:35.680
Okay.

878
00:52:35.680 --> 00:52:36.160
That well.

879
00:52:36.160 --> 00:52:38.960
So it's not so much a glitch.

880
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:41.520
It's just, it was never meant to be that way.

881
00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:42.960
I will work on that.

882
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:44.000
Thank you so much.

883
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.560
Yeah. And just, again, try to get it working with one.

884
00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:52.080
And then just, if you get it working or if you can't get it working for that one,

885
00:52:52.080 --> 00:52:56.160
you know, obviously let's check it and let's look at it again before you go and do all of that.

886
00:52:56.160 --> 00:52:58.160
You know, I should have done that, you know?

887
00:52:58.160 --> 00:52:58.720
Yeah.

888
00:52:58.720 --> 00:52:59.600
Do the whole thing.

889
00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:01.360
And then it's like, oh my word.

890
00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:02.400
All right.

891
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:03.920
I'm learning.

892
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:05.440
I'm slow, but I'm learning.

893
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:07.040
Thank you.

894
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:08.240
Awesome.

895
00:53:08.640 --> 00:53:09.280
Hey, Monica.

896
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:10.000
How's it going?

897
00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:12.160
How are you doing?

898
00:53:13.600 --> 00:53:14.960
I think she's getting her audio.

899
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:18.800
I think she's there.

900
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:19.520
You're unmuted now.

901
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:26.480
It keeps unmuting and muting itself.

902
00:53:26.480 --> 00:53:27.040
Oh, sorry.

903
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:29.600
I just like connection bad.

904
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.040
I just turned Mary Alice's video off.

905
00:53:35.040 --> 00:53:37.040
I just turned Mary Alice's video off.

906
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:43.440
I'll just say if you turn your video off, so I can just, I think that normally takes up the bandwidth.

907
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:44.960
I'll just say if you turn your video off.

908
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:48.640
Okay.

909
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.160
Let me try that.

910
00:53:52.720 --> 00:53:53.280
There we go.

911
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:53.840
Can you hear me?

912
00:53:54.640 --> 00:53:55.360
Yeah, a little bit.

913
00:53:58.560 --> 00:53:59.360
Yeah, a little bit.

914
00:54:00.640 --> 00:54:02.080
Do you have like Facebook open?

915
00:54:03.520 --> 00:54:04.240
Is it my turn?

916
00:54:05.040 --> 00:54:06.640
Yeah, there's like an echo.

917
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:08.640
I don't know if Facebook is open.

918
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:10.000
No, I don't.

919
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:18.720
I know.

920
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.200
I can come on from my phone if you want.

921
00:54:23.200 --> 00:54:27.040
Yeah, let's try that and see if it sounds like a bad connection or something.

922
00:54:31.520 --> 00:54:32.640
Okay, let me do that.

923
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:38.560
Okay, well, she'll be back.

924
00:54:38.560 --> 00:54:39.440
Maybe it was just our side.

925
00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:39.840
I don't know.

926
00:54:41.200 --> 00:54:42.960
Were you here showing pictures of Hannah?

927
00:54:43.600 --> 00:54:44.000
No.

928
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:49.040
Hannah said, how could someone look so perfect without, you know, any hair?

929
00:54:49.040 --> 00:54:50.400
Without any hair.

930
00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:50.960
Sweet girl.

931
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:54.720
Can't wait for Monica.

932
00:54:54.720 --> 00:54:56.240
And I see Rebecca, you jumped on too.

933
00:54:56.240 --> 00:54:57.280
Did you have any questions?

934
00:54:57.280 --> 00:54:58.480
Or Mary Alice.

935
00:54:58.480 --> 00:54:59.600
I didn't know if you had any questions.

936
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000
anything submitted, but you can jump on if you do.

937
00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:14.000
I would like to ask two quick questions. Okay, this can send me a link to where you fill out

938
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:22.080
that form prior to a meeting like this. Yeah, find it. And I am making a folder of your links

939
00:55:22.080 --> 00:55:32.000
because I get lost. So we made you a folder. Let me show you this. So, because everything,

940
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:38.560
we try to make it as easy as possible. I know, but... I know, I know, I know, I know. It can

941
00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:45.680
always be easier. So this is a good place to start. It's normally just knowing what things are called.

942
00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:52.000
So most of everything is linked on this page. So like the Facebook group is up here.

943
00:55:52.560 --> 00:55:56.480
The link that we're on right now at the top right here is like the Zoom link.

944
00:55:57.680 --> 00:56:03.760
But I mean the form that you fill out prior to having a Zoom.

945
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:07.520
Yeah. So on the left sidebar here, there's like an, it's called open coaching.

946
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:14.400
Okay. So if you click on that, there's a video explaining like how it works. And if you scroll

947
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:22.880
down... Oh, I didn't scroll. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. I got it. And then there's a little form.

948
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:29.760
Yep. Cool. Okay. Okay. Hopefully everything that we have in an entire program, I think it's on

949
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:35.040
this website somewhere. So if you can't find it, just let us know. Cause we'll make it, make sure

950
00:56:35.040 --> 00:56:38.800
that's labeled correctly or make it a little easier to get to. Cause we do want this to be

951
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:46.720
as easy as possible. And I found that, but like I say, I just didn't scroll down. Yeah. Okay. I had

952
00:56:46.720 --> 00:56:51.280
another question. I feel like we should make a little links. We'll make a, I'm going to make a

953
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:58.480
page of links on here. Just like use this to schedule a link, a call, like use this to find

954
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:03.200
the Facebook group. Use this to, I think that, I mean, why not? So you had another question,

955
00:57:03.200 --> 00:57:10.000
Mary Alice. That's what I'm trying to make for myself. Use this. Okay. I forgot what you

956
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:20.000
called it. A coaching call. Okay. Today I bit the bullet and I was trying to do this and then

957
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:24.880
I got stuck and I tried to do that and I got stuck. Sounds like my day.

958
00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:35.200
Yeah, but you're smart enough to get out of it. I just got stuck. And so in fact, I could list the

959
00:57:35.200 --> 00:57:44.080
things that if we could just do, do, do, do, then I could be ready to go. The person that I wanted

960
00:57:44.080 --> 00:57:50.800
to meet with got sick and there's no schedule of that in the future. So I just want to bite the

961
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:57.280
bullet and get these. I can list my questions. So it could be very straightforward and I don't

962
00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:02.400
have to take up a whole bunch of time. Yeah. That's a, do you want to in the, you mean in the

963
00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:09.360
form? Yeah. Using the form. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to do that, cause we can make sure we've

964
00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:13.840
got everything ready. We'll be back here on Tuesday and you're welcome of course, to join

965
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:20.400
us for the whole weekend. We're going to take a look. Great. And you, yeah, you'll be we're doing

966
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:25.040
some very like basic stuff, like kind of all the very, all the stuff that you're kind of wanting

967
00:58:25.040 --> 00:58:28.880
to. So there may be some things we cover and then maybe Tuesday, if there, if you still have

968
00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:34.480
questions, go ahead and submit them. We'll get you first in line on the, on Tuesday's call. And then

969
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:41.840
we can take, you know, just work through your list top to bottom. Okay. I'm you made a nice little

970
00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:51.200
logo for me. And so I want that now on Facebook. I put it, tried to put it on anchor and of course

971
00:58:51.200 --> 00:58:57.760
it isn't the right shape and those kinds of things. Gotcha. Yeah. Those are normally we can fix that

972
00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:03.840
in a few minutes. Yeah. I think we can fix that for you. That's, that's exactly what you can use

973
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:10.560
this, these like two slots, these, these coping coaching sessions for. Okay. I'd love to help you.

974
00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:19.760
Thank you. Awesome. Well, I know we're at eight o'clock, but yeah, I know Monica jumped on. Yeah.

975
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:23.040
Sorry. I think we can hear you now. Fine. And we can see you.

976
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:34.080
Okay. There you go. I jumped on a little late and I if you guys want to do this next week,

977
00:59:34.080 --> 00:59:41.600
that's fine too. If you're ready to wrap it up, let's do it. Okay. I just had okay. Maybe it's

978
00:59:41.600 --> 00:59:52.240
just a little bit more on the mindset side. I need a little bit of help. I am finding that I am

979
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:59.120
I've bitten too much and I'm starting to feel

980
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000
like I may be on the path to burnout if I continue with it.

981
01:00:06.640 --> 01:00:10.540
So I've got, I've got Faithwood Business,

982
01:00:10.540 --> 01:00:14.380
I've got Mon Ministries, I've got Sanctuary Girl,

983
01:00:14.380 --> 01:00:16.800
and then I started homeschooling this year.

984
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:17.640
Oh my God.

985
01:00:17.640 --> 01:00:18.480
The two sets of twins.

986
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:20.280
And you only have like one child, that's easy.

987
01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:21.120
And so it seems like.

988
01:00:21.120 --> 01:00:22.380
Right, right.

989
01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:24.080
On a way, you have eight children.

990
01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:27.740
Yeah.

991
01:00:27.740 --> 01:00:32.180
So, so I'm, I'm feeling conflicted

992
01:00:32.180 --> 01:00:35.460
and I'm feeling a little bit like in a,

993
01:00:35.460 --> 01:00:37.860
and not analysis paralysis,

994
01:00:37.860 --> 01:00:41.140
it's just, I'm out of 24 hours, right?

995
01:00:43.060 --> 01:00:47.620
And so for me, it's, we're opening a new store

996
01:00:47.620 --> 01:00:51.020
for Sanctuary Girl in Atlanta on December 8th.

997
01:00:51.020 --> 01:00:52.060
Oh, yay.

998
01:00:52.060 --> 01:00:53.420
Where is it gonna be?

999
01:00:54.420 --> 01:00:57.420
This one, is it called Marietta?

1000
01:00:59.060 --> 01:01:00.020
Marietta?

1001
01:01:00.020 --> 01:01:05.020
No, not Marietta, it's, gosh.

1002
01:01:05.180 --> 01:01:06.020
Milton?

1003
01:01:09.860 --> 01:01:11.180
And I wrote it down, sorry.

1004
01:01:11.180 --> 01:01:14.060
You can send it to us, that's fine.

1005
01:01:14.060 --> 01:01:16.260
That's not the point of what you're saying, sorry.

1006
01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:18.340
Bruce is just asking random questions.

1007
01:01:18.340 --> 01:01:19.180
Go for it.

1008
01:01:20.220 --> 01:01:22.940
So there's all of that, you know, getting that ready

1009
01:01:23.460 --> 01:01:28.140
and then, so I just haven't, I'm feeling conflicted

1010
01:01:28.140 --> 01:01:32.820
about when I'm doing coaching calls,

1011
01:01:32.820 --> 01:01:36.180
it comes very naturally for me to want to pray for them

1012
01:01:36.180 --> 01:01:38.920
because it literally, I can tell that it's something

1013
01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:41.220
that they need prayer, like healing prayer with

1014
01:01:41.220 --> 01:01:42.180
or different things.

1015
01:01:42.180 --> 01:01:44.160
And so I'm feeling conflicted in that,

1016
01:01:44.160 --> 01:01:47.340
well, but they've paid this for this session

1017
01:01:47.340 --> 01:01:50.340
and then I'm doing prayer at the same time

1018
01:01:50.340 --> 01:01:51.980
and I'm trying to, I don't know if I'm just being

1019
01:01:51.980 --> 01:01:56.740
too narrow about it and too strict about it.

1020
01:01:56.740 --> 01:01:59.700
So I'm in a place where I'm not,

1021
01:01:59.700 --> 01:02:03.380
I've almost like stopped my income coming in

1022
01:02:03.380 --> 01:02:06.940
because I'm just, I'm not sure,

1023
01:02:08.460 --> 01:02:10.540
I don't even know what I'm saying.

1024
01:02:10.540 --> 01:02:11.780
You have coaching calls,

1025
01:02:11.780 --> 01:02:13.940
are people paying for the coaching calls?

1026
01:02:13.940 --> 01:02:15.220
Yes.

1027
01:02:15.220 --> 01:02:16.060
That's got money.

1028
01:02:16.060 --> 01:02:18.140
Have you stopped charging if you pray?

1029
01:02:18.140 --> 01:02:20.460
I'm just trying to understand.

1030
01:02:20.500 --> 01:02:25.220
No, I have.

1031
01:02:25.220 --> 01:02:30.220
So the things that I had going on with faith-led business,

1032
01:02:31.820 --> 01:02:35.580
I stopped charging for my membership

1033
01:02:35.580 --> 01:02:40.100
and then my small group, I stopped those.

1034
01:02:40.100 --> 01:02:41.620
I just have one person there

1035
01:02:41.620 --> 01:02:43.780
and I have one person that I'm coaching with.

1036
01:02:43.780 --> 01:02:46.420
And then I have one ministries that I'm just doing

1037
01:02:46.420 --> 01:02:49.260
the prayer every night and things like that.

1038
01:02:50.260 --> 01:02:53.900
And so now I'm like, well, I do need income though.

1039
01:02:53.900 --> 01:02:58.900
And Sanctuary Girl, it's been kind of a labor of love.

1040
01:02:59.220 --> 01:03:01.620
I haven't gotten paid there since we started

1041
01:03:01.620 --> 01:03:03.100
and neither have the CEOs.

1042
01:03:03.100 --> 01:03:06.180
It's all been just like, you know how it is

1043
01:03:06.180 --> 01:03:07.420
with a brick and mortar.

1044
01:03:07.420 --> 01:03:08.700
Start up then.

1045
01:03:08.700 --> 01:03:11.020
Yeah, you pour in.

1046
01:03:11.020 --> 01:03:13.180
So I'm at that place where, Lord,

1047
01:03:13.180 --> 01:03:15.420
I'm trusting you to provide in all of that,

1048
01:03:15.420 --> 01:03:19.020
but where to focus and where to,

1049
01:03:19.780 --> 01:03:20.820
I just have too much on my plate,

1050
01:03:20.820 --> 01:03:22.820
but I don't wanna give up all the things,

1051
01:03:22.820 --> 01:03:25.580
but I do want to serve him and I do wanna do the things.

1052
01:03:25.580 --> 01:03:27.460
And maybe it's just a matter of just

1053
01:03:29.860 --> 01:03:31.180
being still and not doing anything.

1054
01:03:31.180 --> 01:03:34.260
I don't know, but I just felt I needed to come on here

1055
01:03:34.260 --> 01:03:36.940
tonight and maybe that's it.

1056
01:03:36.940 --> 01:03:39.300
Why did you stop charging for your membership?

1057
01:03:43.620 --> 01:03:47.420
I felt a prompting that that was the right thing to do.

1058
01:03:48.380 --> 01:03:53.380
I felt when I was in prayer once that I just heard

1059
01:03:53.700 --> 01:03:57.260
they need to know this, they need to get out there,

1060
01:03:57.260 --> 01:03:58.380
just give it to them.

1061
01:03:59.420 --> 01:04:00.900
Were they not willing to pay?

1062
01:04:01.820 --> 01:04:03.420
No, they were paying.

1063
01:04:03.420 --> 01:04:05.300
I was the one who cut it off.

1064
01:04:05.300 --> 01:04:06.700
And so it's really strange

1065
01:04:06.700 --> 01:04:08.860
because I've done it now multiple times

1066
01:04:08.860 --> 01:04:11.260
where I'm like, are you sure you wanna do this?

1067
01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:12.900
If not, let's just stop.

1068
01:04:13.860 --> 01:04:17.900
So I don't think it's like a self-sabotage.

1069
01:04:17.900 --> 01:04:21.060
It almost feels like God is removing something

1070
01:04:21.060 --> 01:04:25.180
so I can go in another direction and just kind of go all in.

1071
01:04:28.660 --> 01:04:31.700
So just looking at like Sanctuary Girl,

1072
01:04:31.700 --> 01:04:35.500
Mon Ministries, the faith-led business, the homeschooling.

1073
01:04:35.500 --> 01:04:38.300
So homeschooling, you're not getting paid for, right?

1074
01:04:38.300 --> 01:04:41.220
The Sanctuary Girl, you're not getting paid for.

1075
01:04:41.660 --> 01:04:43.420
And really the only revenue,

1076
01:04:43.420 --> 01:04:45.980
potential revenue is faith-led business, right?

1077
01:04:47.940 --> 01:04:48.900
Correct.

1078
01:04:48.900 --> 01:04:51.540
And you're saying like your focus is really like you,

1079
01:04:51.540 --> 01:04:52.620
because that's the thing is like,

1080
01:04:52.620 --> 01:04:56.660
if you have extra time or you have extra money,

1081
01:04:56.660 --> 01:04:59.340
you can be generous with your time or your money.

1082
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.760
If you are focused, like, if you're like, I got to have like revenue coming in and we help with

1083
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:10.000
like, especially early stage entrepreneurs, cause you can, you can have like shiny object syndrome

1084
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:14.080
and like just focus on all the things, but. Which you're not, but you're in some startup

1085
01:05:15.200 --> 01:05:19.440
companies. Yeah. And so sometimes you have to like put some of the ministry things,

1086
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:25.360
like either slow them down to where you're, it's just less than an hour a week. But I mean,

1087
01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:29.760
and the Mon ministries is like your, like your prayer each every night. Right. Cause I can just,

1088
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:37.440
I'm assuming that's quite a, that's quite a lot of time each, each week. Yes. Right. It's kind of

1089
01:05:37.440 --> 01:05:42.720
like the analogy that I thought was very helpful is obviously like when it's like, you've seen the,

1090
01:05:42.720 --> 01:05:47.040
heard the analogy of like the putting the rocks in the jar and like, you put the big rocks in first

1091
01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:51.360
and the little ones in the sand at the end. It's like, if you can put those big rocks of the faith

1092
01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:54.800
led business to make sure, cause you're like, you gotta make sure you're going to have to like

1093
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:59.040
make money and like homeschool kids. Like those are probably the only two things that really

1094
01:05:59.040 --> 01:06:05.040
matter. Everything else is like secondary. And you got to hear this. I know some people might

1095
01:06:05.040 --> 01:06:10.240
be hearing this and being like, like money's nuts. Like ministry is not secondary to money.

1096
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:17.280
You're doing ministry. It's homeschooling your kids. They're your first ministry. So like that's,

1097
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:22.960
that's priority, right? I mean, ministry takes on many forms. Ministry takes on many forms. So

1098
01:06:22.960 --> 01:06:27.440
we're not saying like, oh yeah, like money is the most important thing, but your family,

1099
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:33.360
which needs rent, which needs income, right? Like you got to feed your kids. You got to like provide.

1100
01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:37.920
So like, that's, that's, that's why we say those things are priority. Cause sometimes we get a

1101
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:42.160
little bit, and I know that you're not, I know that you know, as you've done life with us most

1102
01:06:42.160 --> 01:06:46.560
of the year, so you're probably not hearing what I'm not saying, but like, yeah. Right. Like the

1103
01:06:46.560 --> 01:06:51.040
Lord is our provider in all things. And he's the means for the provision. So we don't have to

1104
01:06:51.040 --> 01:06:55.920
confuse even the job or the income as the means, which I have done before where it's like, okay,

1105
01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:59.600
he is my provider, but he's given me this job. So I really have to steward this well and not screw

1106
01:06:59.600 --> 01:07:06.240
it up. That's not what we're saying. We got to think partnership, right? So the first fruit

1107
01:07:06.240 --> 01:07:11.120
ministry is your family. Like the Lord hasn't, and it has given you these kids and your husband

1108
01:07:11.120 --> 01:07:15.760
and your family. And so like, that's important. So we're even having this conversation now as

1109
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:21.360
parents, like there's some things that I'm having to restructure. Yeah. Posture went down to a week

1110
01:07:22.320 --> 01:07:26.720
and I thought, you know, And even then we're like, should it be once a month?

1111
01:07:29.040 --> 01:07:34.000
But it's, it's, it's a constant cause we've just figured. And I think I would just say,

1112
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:39.360
always recognize the season you're in. Right. And what's the seasonal reality, what I can do in this

1113
01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:46.240
season. And that's why it's easier to say, Hey, this is, I'm not saying no to Lindsay West. We're

1114
01:07:46.240 --> 01:07:51.440
not as a couple or a family agreeing that you're not going to be doing daily podcasts or three

1115
01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:56.000
times a week for the ministry. We're just saying, Hey, for this season, for the next few months,

1116
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:59.360
maybe it's a couple of years. Like we're not going to, if we definitely will revisit it,

1117
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:03.040
we'll come back and we'll pick up right where we left off on certain projects and stuff.

1118
01:08:03.600 --> 01:08:09.440
But, and it's a, it's still, it's still the same trust and surrender conversation. So some people

1119
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:13.840
enter this conversation as, well, I'm just going to let the Lord provide. And so I'm going to do

1120
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:20.240
everything for free and, you know, sign up for all of the extracurriculars and volunteer at church

1121
01:08:20.240 --> 01:08:22.880
and everything, because I'm just going to trust that the Lord is going to take care of me, which

1122
01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:27.600
is fine. But this is a, this is the same, this is a trust conversation too, but it's different

1123
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:32.479
saying, Lord, I trust that you're my provider. I trust that you're my means for provision. I also

1124
01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:38.160
trust that you want to partner with me on some things. And one of those priorities is the family

1125
01:08:38.160 --> 01:08:44.080
that you've given me. So I'm going to say no to X, Y, and Z. So for me, it was, I'm going to say

1126
01:08:44.080 --> 01:08:49.840
no to throwing all of myself into posture right now. And I'm going to have to like surrender that

1127
01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:55.600
feeling of, but I'm letting these people down or will it kind of fade away if I only do it once a

1128
01:08:55.600 --> 01:09:01.200
week or will all of my hard work, you know, be for not, or will people, you know, will I just kind

1129
01:09:01.200 --> 01:09:05.920
of lose momentum, all of those things. I had to surrender that to the Lord because I have this

1130
01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:11.200
family that I'm, this, this is who he's given me. These are my people. Before these are my people,

1131
01:09:11.200 --> 01:09:16.960
these are my people. And what has been really fascinating for me is we had that conversation.

1132
01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:20.640
And in the midst of all of that, Kingdom Messengers was starting to emerge, as you know,

1133
01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:26.080
when I was eight months pregnant and what happened was things became actually laser focused. And so

1134
01:09:26.080 --> 01:09:32.640
when I, it wasn't, there was no emptying of my hands and that I lost fulfillment or contentment,

1135
01:09:34.080 --> 01:09:37.760
but I had to kind of start, I had to start the letting go of certain things

1136
01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:44.080
for that to kind of, for me to even be open to like say Kingdom Messengers, because we were

1137
01:09:44.080 --> 01:09:48.560
already having the conversation in the background of, we have to just pump the brakes on what you're

1138
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:52.960
doing for posture. Cause we had all kinds of ideas. We wanted to do a merch store. We want,

1139
01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:57.120
you know, there was all the, I was ready to fly and I still want to do those someday,

1140
01:09:57.120 --> 01:09:58.480
but I couldn't do it in this season.

1141
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:04.760
Because I had surrendered some of that, we were open to some other things being,

1142
01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:08.320
and it wasn't like, again, I think I don't, what I don't like as we talk about

1143
01:10:08.320 --> 01:10:12.280
this, like balance, especially with women, it's always like this work life,

1144
01:10:12.320 --> 01:10:14.240
ministry life balance situation.

1145
01:10:14.580 --> 01:10:18.560
I really don't like that conversation because it suggests that at some point,

1146
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:22.440
my family is going to get less than a hundred percent.

1147
01:10:23.200 --> 01:10:23.520
Right.

1148
01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:24.480
Right.

1149
01:10:24.580 --> 01:10:29.660
And so I, I feel like there's a way to show up a hundred percent with the things

1150
01:10:29.660 --> 01:10:33.740
that God has given me, but in order to do that, I have to determine what these.

1151
01:10:34.140 --> 01:10:37.300
Where the boundaries are within these, within the scope of these things.

1152
01:10:38.820 --> 01:10:42.980
So, so, and some, some things you can consider is like Mon ministries.

1153
01:10:42.980 --> 01:10:45.980
It doesn't mean that you have to stop, but you might have to stop doing it every

1154
01:10:45.980 --> 01:10:49.580
night and what's going to happen is because you still value it.

1155
01:10:49.580 --> 01:10:50.780
Like I still value posture.

1156
01:10:50.780 --> 01:10:53.660
I didn't, I never devalued posture in my own head and heart.

1157
01:10:53.660 --> 01:10:55.980
And I believe that still comes through for people.

1158
01:10:56.300 --> 01:10:59.300
So even though I'm like, I've got this vision of what it could be, and

1159
01:10:59.300 --> 01:11:02.380
there's sometimes that tension of, I just have to hold the tension of like,

1160
01:11:02.540 --> 01:11:04.140
it could be so much more right now.

1161
01:11:04.140 --> 01:11:05.300
You know, there's all these things.

1162
01:11:05.300 --> 01:11:07.900
And I even have conversations with, you know, entrepreneur friends of mine.

1163
01:11:07.900 --> 01:11:08.940
Like, have you considered this?

1164
01:11:08.940 --> 01:11:09.460
Have you considered that?

1165
01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:10.420
I'm like, yes, yes.

1166
01:11:11.420 --> 01:11:15.820
But I, but I hold the value of what the Lord has given me for the season with

1167
01:11:15.820 --> 01:11:17.100
posture and I think that comes across.

1168
01:11:17.100 --> 01:11:20.940
So even though I'm only showing up once a week, like I'm not even able to like

1169
01:11:21.220 --> 01:11:25.460
respond to every comment right now and not even like, I don't have the time for it.

1170
01:11:25.500 --> 01:11:28.780
I don't have the emotional energy specifically for YouTube because

1171
01:11:28.780 --> 01:11:32.260
YouTube can be hit or miss quite honestly, with the comments that I get,

1172
01:11:32.260 --> 01:11:37.140
especially on my shorts and like, I, Hannah needs that emotional energy.

1173
01:11:38.060 --> 01:11:42.220
And I, I just can't give it to me being able to show up and make sure everything

1174
01:11:42.220 --> 01:11:46.220
gets, even though it's best practices, like to respond, and even though that

1175
01:11:46.220 --> 01:11:49.980
means that some people who have really good questions or have really good

1176
01:11:49.980 --> 01:11:54.060
comments that I would love to like respond to and have like some dialogue

1177
01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:57.100
and ministry exchange, it just can't happen right now.

1178
01:11:57.140 --> 01:11:57.420
Yeah.

1179
01:11:58.420 --> 01:11:58.660
Yeah.

1180
01:11:59.260 --> 01:12:01.700
Um, it's good.

1181
01:12:03.220 --> 01:12:07.140
Uh, and I, the only thing I would add is like, and this is, this is like

1182
01:12:07.140 --> 01:12:10.460
something I have to remember all the time, but like what you focus on, like

1183
01:12:10.460 --> 01:12:15.940
grows and so the problem with like, and we're, we're in, even in our business

1184
01:12:15.940 --> 01:12:19.380
learning to like cut back on stuff still, because we're, everything's still,

1185
01:12:19.380 --> 01:12:22.580
we're trying to reorganize stuff constantly to make sure that it's, we're

1186
01:12:22.580 --> 01:12:23.580
not focusing on too many things.

1187
01:12:23.580 --> 01:12:27.340
Cause if you have less things to focus on, you can do two things really

1188
01:12:27.340 --> 01:12:32.140
well and family, like Lindsay saying, obviously can't change that.

1189
01:12:32.740 --> 01:12:36.900
And then business is like, is the revenue, the profit center

1190
01:12:37.220 --> 01:12:38.140
for making everything better.

1191
01:12:38.140 --> 01:12:40.860
And I was telling us, talking to this about a friend and I was like,

1192
01:12:41.420 --> 01:12:44.100
sales fixes all the problems, right?

1193
01:12:44.380 --> 01:12:47.260
Like money doesn't solve all the problems world, but they solve nearly

1194
01:12:47.260 --> 01:12:49.100
all the problems in the world, right?

1195
01:12:49.420 --> 01:12:51.940
Because that is like extra childcare.

1196
01:12:51.940 --> 01:12:53.260
It's someone to clean your house for you.

1197
01:12:53.260 --> 01:12:57.300
I mean, just drag it out to like, what would real success and cashflow

1198
01:12:57.300 --> 01:13:00.460
and stuff look like, like, oh, I could hire people to help me with things.

1199
01:13:00.460 --> 01:13:04.460
I can have someone go respond to the comments for, you know, it just

1200
01:13:04.460 --> 01:13:05.980
does make everything a little better.

1201
01:13:06.620 --> 01:13:10.860
And so that's something to be like, I would say like, Again, and again, your

1202
01:13:10.860 --> 01:13:12.820
business can very much be your ministry.

1203
01:13:12.820 --> 01:13:15.740
You can take that to the Lord and say, Hey, this is what I have in my hands.

1204
01:13:15.740 --> 01:13:16.900
Like, how can you fill it?

1205
01:13:17.260 --> 01:13:19.020
Like, what, how can you use this business?

1206
01:13:19.020 --> 01:13:21.860
Like, give me something really innovative for this.

1207
01:13:21.940 --> 01:13:23.660
And then also same thing on homeschooling.

1208
01:13:24.100 --> 01:13:27.740
Innovative ideas and solutions and systems and plans for that.

1209
01:13:28.180 --> 01:13:30.740
Um, and just for a season, right.

1210
01:13:31.180 --> 01:13:34.180
And then once you have a little bit more margin, then you can, it's

1211
01:13:34.180 --> 01:13:38.700
also that input output, uh, regulation that you want to make sure that you're

1212
01:13:38.700 --> 01:13:42.340
not like have so much output that now, like you're, you're trying to get

1213
01:13:42.340 --> 01:13:45.260
on and help people in ministry, but really you're like tapped out.

1214
01:13:45.260 --> 01:13:46.900
Like you're like, I don't want to do it.

1215
01:13:46.940 --> 01:13:48.300
I don't want to get on video.

1216
01:13:48.300 --> 01:13:49.660
I don't want to help anyone right now.

1217
01:13:49.980 --> 01:13:53.420
Like, you know, so you have to kind of, that's just as a leader as, as

1218
01:13:53.420 --> 01:13:56.940
like high capacity people, like you have to continue to monitor that.

1219
01:13:57.420 --> 01:14:00.700
Um, and so anyway, I don't, I don't know.

1220
01:14:00.700 --> 01:14:02.140
Hopefully some of this is helpful.

1221
01:14:03.180 --> 01:14:05.740
It's, um, it's really hitting home.

1222
01:14:05.780 --> 01:14:07.580
It's exactly what I need here.

1223
01:14:07.780 --> 01:14:12.100
Uh, as usual, you guys are masters at this very good.

1224
01:14:12.700 --> 01:14:13.380
So thank you.

1225
01:14:13.420 --> 01:14:17.700
Um, yes, that, that makes it very clear.

1226
01:14:17.700 --> 01:14:25.180
I know exactly what, uh, you're both saying on both ends and, um, yeah, thank

1227
01:14:25.180 --> 01:14:29.580
you very, I knew, I knew that I just want you to know Monica, like you're

1228
01:14:29.580 --> 01:14:34.780
doing a really good job, like you're doing excellent one child and she's

1229
01:14:34.780 --> 01:14:37.860
only seven months and I'm just like, we're like, how do we fit all the things

1230
01:14:37.860 --> 01:14:43.060
in and I can't even imagine like times eight, so you're doing a really, you're

1231
01:14:43.060 --> 01:14:48.300
doing an excellent job and I know that you're going to partner with the Lord

1232
01:14:48.300 --> 01:14:52.620
and restructuring, some of this stuff, set yourself free a little bit, give

1233
01:14:52.620 --> 01:14:55.340
yourself some margin and things will flow again.

1234
01:14:57.380 --> 01:14:59.700
Yeah, I believe that word flow.

1235
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:06.360
As right now, it's definitely it's damned up and yeah.

1236
01:15:06.420 --> 01:15:10.120
And so, and I don't like feeling that way because I'm so used to

1237
01:15:10.120 --> 01:15:12.360
being in that place of flow.

1238
01:15:12.360 --> 01:15:17.440
And yesterday I need to do my video for this week and I'm like, All I want to

1239
01:15:17.440 --> 01:15:19.040
do is just go get in bed and sleep.

1240
01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:20.160
Yep.

1241
01:15:20.440 --> 01:15:21.280
No, that feeling.

1242
01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:22.600
Absolutely.

1243
01:15:23.040 --> 01:15:28.280
And I, you know, I feel like the, as well, like, I feel like if the, the word I

1244
01:15:28.280 --> 01:15:32.720
think for now is like figuring out like multi multi being a multiplier of time

1245
01:15:33.280 --> 01:15:35.960
and the kingdom is all about multiplication.

1246
01:15:36.360 --> 01:15:41.720
And so I think that just, I'd be looking for things on the homeschool family

1247
01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.060
side, I'd be looking at things in the business side, like how can I put one

1248
01:15:45.060 --> 01:15:50.080
hour in and sell that hour over and over and over again in some form of a product

1249
01:15:50.080 --> 01:15:54.240
or something, um, verse like, okay, I made a sale.

1250
01:15:54.240 --> 01:15:57.760
I had this one hour and I translate one hour to one person and then it's over.

1251
01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:01.400
Like that stuff we're trying to get all as much of that stuff out of the way.

1252
01:16:02.040 --> 01:16:07.280
I mean, off of our list as possible, you know, and there's just, there are those

1253
01:16:07.280 --> 01:16:10.880
types of things where, especially for, and the good thing is because you've been

1254
01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:13.960
doing this for so long and you've done this so many times over and over, like

1255
01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:15.400
this will come together quickly.

1256
01:16:15.400 --> 01:16:15.680
Right.

1257
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:19.120
It's like a couple days, a couple of weeks, you'll have like a brand new plan.

1258
01:16:19.120 --> 01:16:22.960
And I'll, you know, this is not like the next 10 months, right.

1259
01:16:23.200 --> 01:16:27.400
That's the thing is that with experience, you just, you can turn a pivot faster.

1260
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:29.560
Um, so cool.

1261
01:16:30.360 --> 01:16:31.440
Oh, thank you so much.

1262
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:32.200
Yeah.

1263
01:16:32.200 --> 01:16:36.200
If you ever need some, like sounding board, if you have an idea for like, yeah,

1264
01:16:36.200 --> 01:16:39.320
jump back on any of those like multipliers or things, or like, you're

1265
01:16:39.320 --> 01:16:40.400
thinking about doing this for that.

1266
01:16:40.400 --> 01:16:41.080
Like, let us know.

1267
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:43.520
I will have one ready on Tuesday.

1268
01:16:45.200 --> 01:16:45.680
Love it.

1269
01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:46.240
Awesome.

1270
01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:47.440
Good to see you guys.

1271
01:16:48.040 --> 01:16:50.760
I appreciate you guys have a great week.

1272
01:16:50.760 --> 01:16:52.840
Hopefully we'll see you guys, some of you guys over the weekend.

1273
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:55.200
Otherwise Tuesday.

1274
01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:56.160
Awesome.

1275
01:16:56.480 --> 01:16:56.720
Bye.

1276
01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:56.960
Sounds.