And then let's go live to Facebook.
We are so excited for this weekend, we've been working on that today, getting ready
for the workshop.
Excited for you.
Yes.
Okay, cool.
Make sure we're going right, live in the right group, if you want to get started there.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, it may make everybody has to like, say it's okay that we're recording, it's a new
Zoom thing.
Okay, so.
Okay, so Michelle, you have a speaking engagement coming up, it sounds like, is that, you want
to share a little bit about where you, where you, what do you want to, what do you want
to, how do you want to use this coaching time about that speaking?
Well, it's about my testimony, where I was, for the ones that are new, don't know me,
I was, I went through addiction and I've overcome that.
The program I went through, the gentleman reached out to me and wants me to do a 30
minute speech about where I was, where, how I got to the program and where I'm at now.
And I want to, I want to make sure God is in that, you know, because that's, that's
what got me through, you know, where, where I'm at now.
There's been a lot of breakthroughs with me, with understanding why I made the choices.
Childhood trauma was a big part of that.
And I want to highlight that and the individuals I'm going to be speaking to are military men
and women.
They're all, they're bringing in about two, two, two to 300 people for me to speak in
front of.
Wow.
So exciting.
Yeah.
And, and honestly, the gentleman who asked me to do this, it was a part of the program
I was in.
I had told him that the program was so profound and helped me so much.
I would do anything to try to get the program in every county or every state.
I would be the cheerleader and the spokesperson for this program.
So when he called me the other day, I thought he was calling to tell me, Hey, we want you
to do that.
And then he said, I want you to do a speech.
So I have to feel like it's like the, um, the, Hey, can she do this to be able to, to
be able to be that person for our program?
And I don't, I don't want to, you know, bomb it.
Since we had the last, uh, um, uh, workshop, I've started college.
I've, uh, in Christian leadership, uh, with Manning university, I have, uh, like I said,
been breakthrough after breakthrough about me and learning.
I'm in a relationship now, a great relationship, marriage is on the way.
So a lot of things have changed, but I do know where I was and where I'm at now, but
I got to get that process and I needed to, and I don't want to do what they call in AA.
And I'm going to throw that out there, a drunk log.
I don't want that.
I want it to be a story about how I was, where I'm at and where I'm at, if that makes sense.
Cause you know, when you're sitting in AA and you do your testimony, sometimes it's a,
it's a log, you know, of your life.
I want that, but I don't want it to be like when I was five, this is what happened.
And I don't want to do that.
Does that make sense?
That makes sense.
Yeah.
And I think sometimes when we get a little bit too specific, like you say with that log,
people can, can no longer self-identify because, you know, if there's a certain thing that
happened in your childhood or a certain extreme in your story of addiction, sometimes people
then kind of tune themselves out because they can no longer see themselves in the story.
So I see this happen a lot, even with testimony sometimes, because we're so thankful for what
God has done.
We remember how bad it was.
We want people to know like how bad, how really bad it was.
We get super detailed with that instead of really focusing on where you are now with
the Lord did transformation.
Yeah.
So I love that your heart is already there.
And it sounds like you're on the right track with that.
So it sounds like you're going to be talking to service people.
Now this program specifically wasn't an addiction program or was it?
Cause you mentioned too.
I mean, part of your, what you've been set free from was PSTD.
So PTSD, I'm sorry.
So is it, are you speaking to people about that?
Like what is the kind of main thing?
I have lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina, my entire life, and it is the home of Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
And I'll be honest with you.
I have never been to the base.
I don't know anything about the military.
Whenever Mr.
Chestnut asked me to do the speech, I was like, to how many military men and women?
And he was like,
about 300 and we'll be on the big stage at Manna.
And I said, how am I going to relate to these individuals?
And then I got to thinking about the PTSD.
And honestly, when I was diagnosed with that,
that did not resonate with me.
Because the PTSD is one incident that
happens in your life that triggers multitudes of things.
I was watching The Chosen One evening on YouTube.
And the next video that came on was a psychiatrist
talking about c, little c, PTSD.
And I said, what is that?
There's a such thing as called complex PTSD.
And it starts when you are actually
in the womb of your mother.
If your mother's got a stress hormone,
it can pass off to the child.
And my mom was underneath a lot of stress
whenever she was pregnant with me.
And then whenever I came out, my whole life
was nothing but trauma with alcoholism
and my father and all that.
So it was just a complex trauma throughout my life
until I probably got into the program of sobriety court.
And yes, it is a program that has
been put in Cumberland County that
needs to be in all counties to help people when they're
so lost in addiction.
And of course, there's programs out there
before people get in trouble.
But of course, I'm the one that got in trouble.
And so they put you into that to help you get your life
back on track.
And so now, because of the program, I'm back on track.
I've gone through the therapy.
I'm learning about why I made those choices.
And now, like I said, I'm on the right track.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Yes, it is a program.
But it's also so the point of the talk
is to obviously highlight the program
and speak about how that was part
of the catalyst of your story, of your breakthrough, right?
So you want to make sure that you do highlight that.
I'm guessing that they're allowing
you to speak freely about your faith,
at least mention it, right?
It's in the church.
So it's a man of church.
Yeah.
So I think, and you could maybe follow up with Mr. Chestnut
and just ask him, is the group of people I'm talking to,
is there a common pain point or problem
that they're dealing with?
Because that might be helpful for you as far as whittling
down all the details into what is the one thing that
may be why they're wanting to highlight this program.
Well, I did ask him that whenever he asked me to do it.
He said that right now on the base,
there's a lot of drugs down there.
A lot of, he said, if you're reading it in the paper
or whatever.
And I said, I don't read the paper, Chestnut,
so I don't know.
But he said, but there's a lot of,
because the military are really vulnerable right now.
And they're just drinking and drugging
and being away from their family during the holidays.
And that's a factor there.
And he said, and it's coming right up on the holidays.
And I think the chaplain really, chaplain, is that right?
Yeah, chaplain, wants to just bring the troops in and just
talk to them about, hey, and it's not just me speaking.
It's Chestnut speaking, myself, and then
a lawyer that's on the sobriety court panel as well.
And he's gone through the program himself.
So there's all different walks.
But yeah, and I think the PTSD is going to be a big part.
But I think a lot of them, that our military
are struggling with addiction right now because.
Yeah, yeah.
As a, I was just saying probably as a coping mechanism
to the addiction is some type, is usually
a symptom of the greater thing.
So anyway, I think from an outline perspective,
you're already on the right track because you're already
wanting to make most of the talk about the breakthrough,
not so much the pain point, right?
But as we've talked about in many things
before, even when we talked about,
if you remember way back when, we talked about the promo
for your podcast and how would I even begin to talk about this?
We talked about starting with what
is the pain point and then moving into the possibility
pretty quickly.
So we talked about maybe even asking a question,
starting the question like, so I pulled up your podcast stuff
that we talked about just because I know this
is about redeeming choices.
And you were saying that you were really
wanting to help people break free from the shame
or the regret of bad choices, right?
And so I think starting your talk around kind of allowing
people to, inviting them into the story
by even asking a question like, have you ever
felt shame for...
I'm asking the question like, is it like almost like the,
has anyone like, let me know if like anyone's
been in this situation.
Well, you don't.
I don't know if you want to identify yourself.
It's almost like a rhetorical question
because what you're talking about
is pretty sensitive information.
So you're not going to ask people necessarily
to like raise their hand, but you want them to kind of raise
their hand in their, their internal hand.
so that they can, because this is going to kind of wake them up to, okay, this is like for me,
because you're immediately going to go into, you know, this was my story.
For years, I lived with the shame and pain of trauma and I used alcohol, drugs, whatever,
as my, what cope, as my way to cope with those things. That's good. And yeah, I mean, I'm,
you know, I'm, this is going to have to be your story, your words, but I'm just using this as an
example. And there's a verse Isaiah 61, three, where it talks about the beauties from beauties
from ashes. And I was going to include that because that is, that is a profound verse for me.
Yeah. How, you know, God has changed my life to where I was and where I'm at now.
So I was going to introduce that into it as well as the verse. And then.
They absolutely want to do that. That's the, that's the turning point, right? Of the
talk, because you're wanting to move people quickly to the power of instead. So instead of
this, it can be this instead of being stuck in addiction, the rest of your life, instead of going
to an early grave, instead of having all your relationships blow up in your face, instead of
losing your job, all those things instead. And because you can be very free with talking about
your faith, like the Lord is offering you an invitation to more, and that more is abundant
life. And I want to tell you about how I went from being at the lowest of lows to a place of
abundance. And then you can kind of speak into that and you can utilize that verse.
And also to, I feel like sobriety court was the catalyst that got me there.
Yeah. Because I did not know how to get there myself. I did not know God, like I know him now.
And because they put me in those, those behind those walls with, you know, other addicts and
alcoholics. And I was able to learn from them, their stories that I'm not alone in AA and I'm
not alone in this. And we all have our struggles. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Because the Lord uses,
can use anything to, to grab our attention and disrupt the destructive path that we're on.
So the program was that for you, he placed you within a community of people that could help you,
you know, break free. And so you weren't, so you didn't have to do it alone.
Right. So I think like, I think from an outline perspective, you know, you can start kind of
like either ask a question or kind of speak to that pain point a little bit,
introduce yourself pretty quickly. Like, Hey, my name is Michelle. And like, this was my story.
This is what I struggled with. And then you can talk about your breakthrough,
talk about that instead point, talk about the scripture, talk about finding the program.
I think it's because you're highlighting the program. I think it's really helpful to even
share like a specific or two of not just it's not just the program, but like some specifics about
it. Like you already mentioned, like, Hey, I got to be in a community of people, maybe kind of
highlight some of the resources that were available to you through the program. And, you know, so
people can kind of get a picture of it's not just a program, but what does that actually mean? What
does that tangibly mean for me? If I enter this, like, what will I have access to? What does it
look like? If you can paint a picture of what it looks like, maybe you can make up your story or
two trauma. Do you think I'm sorry, let me interrupt you. Yeah, no, it's not interrupt
me. I don't, I just, I think again, you might get, you might not want to get caught in the weeds of
all of that because it's a long story to unpack. Yeah, it really is. But I just feel like something
needs to be said about the CPTSD and where it started with, with the birth. And I thought about
talking about Lee, that suicide, but then I'm like, that'll just take me on a tangent. Yeah,
I think, and maybe this is something you can get some feedback from, from Mr. Chestnut, even,
even as well, because you said there's going to be other people kind of speaking. So you want to
like, see what's kind of covered. But if it were, if it were me, and then we're just kind of
flying blind, and all we knew was what we knew right now we're going in, I think you could speak
to it, but to begin to unpack it, it might take a long time to do that. So you just have to, you
have to ask yourself, like, do I want to give that much real estate of my 30 minutes to unpacking
this very specific story? Right. I know they probably struggle with that too, with the PTSD,
because that's a part of, and I, I just, I think that maybe I might need to mention it, that I had
a friend that did that, and that she had just lost total hope. And yeah, I think you can mention,
I think you can, I think you can mention, like those things, like I had, I lost a friend to
suicide. I had childhood trauma. There was a lot of, there was a lot of reasons why I was the way
that I was, which I think is helpful for people to hear, especially in the military. These people
have seen very...
experienced very intense situations.
So they're not,
they're not dealing with addiction for no reason, right?
Like everyone has a reason of why they've gotten there.
It's not, it's not pointless,
but I think people,
so I think it's helpful for people to hear like,
hey, like there was parts of my story,
there's reasons for my life,
why I was the way that I was.
It wasn't senseless.
You know, it wasn't like I just woke up one day
and decided to like become an addict.
Like the trauma led me somewhere,
but the Lord in his kindness led me to himself
and out of the trauma.
I'm living in histories now where when,
when that stinky thinking comes up,
that's nope, nope.
You got to go away, devil.
This is what I have to do.
And God says this, that I'm precious in his sight.
I am his and you can't have me.
And that's how I do it.
I rebuke it.
But you know.
Here's the beautiful thing about your testimony
and the life that you're living now
is that you're not living a traumatized life.
You have had trauma in your life.
That's a very serious thing.
It's not something to be pushed aside
or something to be ignored,
but when it has brought to the surface
and when there's healing that has taken place,
like what's happened in your life and healing is possible.
I think that's what people need to hear.
This isn't about managing your trauma
and living a traumatized life the rest of your life.
The hope is that you can live a healed hold life
and no longer be traumatized by the trauma of the past.
That's what Jesus, that's the power of Jesus.
And I think you can say like the program was a blessing
that I felt like the Lord led me to
and as a way to like help disrupt that traumatized lifestyle
and bring me somewhere else.
Right, right.
And my crappy choices may have gotten me there,
but I was supposed to be there.
That's the thing, look, like a good father,
there was some discipline involved, right?
But anyway, I think, is there anywhere that you're feeling,
like, do you feel like you've got kind of a good outline?
Well, I've got like two pages worth of ideas.
I just got to put them together.
It's mine and someone told me,
don't sit and write the whole thing out.
Don't try to type it out.
You know, just do an outline
because you know it's your testimony.
Right.
But I want it to be to where, like I said,
it's like you said, you know, ask the question.
I'm gonna then get it flowing from there.
And y'all know me, I ramble.
So I'm not going to have a hard time talking for 30 minutes,
but I just don't want to ramble off the subject.
You know what I'm saying?
I want to stay in line.
So I'm just going to do an outline,
but if I have any questions though, I'll reach out.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think even as you're processing,
like even that beginning question
can be kind of around like trauma.
Have you ever experienced trauma in your life
that led you to make choices
that you wish you never had made?
My name is Michelle and this was my story.
And then you can kind of start.
You guys gave me geo-bounce, whew.
I can't wait.
I'm saying you better come back to the recording
and write these things down.
I was like.
I am.
And so, yeah.
So I think that you've got a great start.
So yeah, come back as you're writing it
and ask some questions and.
Yeah, I was going to say just maybe,
just if you could share like how you're,
what your process is for prepping.
Then that you will like put it together
and then you'll actually do it out loud.
And time yourself.
And maybe even record yourself
and then just watch it back and that kind of stuff.
Yeah, there's definitely some things you can do that.
Because this is your first time.
Like again, it doesn't have to be this every time you speak.
But I think this is one of the first times
you're like telling this story
and you're kind of doing it
hopefully to become like a spokesperson for this.
Like practice, practice, practice, practice.
Okay.
Don't despise the process of practice.
And so what I do,
especially if I'm working with an outline
is I make the outline
and then I like to film myself just on my phone.
So I can A, time myself,
make sure that it is within 30 minutes
and I'm not speaking for an hour.
Cause that's not going to be fun if I get cut off
and I don't tell the whole story.
And then I also.
Again, I was gonna say,
even if you just put the,
like you're on your phone,
the clock like timer
and just kind of have the timer on there
and just see it counting down from 30 minutes
and just have it off to the side.
You can do that.
You don't have to record yourself if you don't want to.
I like to record myself.
I know it's painful to watch yourself back,
but it's helpful to kind of pay attention to things like
facial expressions, tone, and speed of voice.
Now, you know, my facial expression.
I already know when I get on stage,
I don't want to be a big red blotch of nerves.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You got to reset your expectations starting now.
You got to expect something different, right?
So, because yeah, I know it's hard and it's okay.
Look, I've, I've done lots of public speaking
where like I got sick right before I got on stage,
went and did the talk, got sick after.
Like, you know what I mean?
It's just,
but I think that the Lord is going to just infuse you
with peace and confidence for this,
because you were born for something like this,
which is helping set people free.
You're going to set the captives free.
So I'm very excited.
for you. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. Well, I do appreciate it. Everybody else has
stuff to ask. And I do appreciate your time. So thank you.
Questions or even Yeah, just utilize the group and tag me. So I definitely see it. And I can
keep asking answering questions. Okay, great. Thank you. Someone else will get something from
it. Right? Yes. Yeah. Brendan, you're up next. I know that. Yes, I know that we was unable to
join us. Sorry about the time confusion. We had we had a time change here. So
yeah, we had a time change. I think on the first like a month ago.
Yeah. confusing is that I know I realized when she was like, she said, Hey, I'm on right now.
I was like, Oh my gosh, like, they don't have the same time changes.
The funny thing is, like every state almost in Australia has a different time to almost
like, confusing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I just I'm constantly googling time zones at this point.
Yeah. Okay, so we had two questions from you guys. Was there one that you wanted to tackle first?
I'm not not really. Yeah. I mean, I think yeah, like, put these together. And that's fine. It's
great with the recording so she can listen to it later. But yeah, not just the first one is fine.
You've got that. Yeah. So I've got a screenshot here. So thanks for sending that through. I think
you did. Yeah, no problem. And is this the order my channel? Yeah, the tick tock YouTube. Is this
this that question? Yeah. Yeah. Great. Let me just actually did bring this up. So I've got your
Yeah. Cool. So so yeah, explain. I saw your question. And I looked at this video. So like,
tell me what did you guys do? How did like, what how did it get here?
That was from our phone. I'm pretty sure we uploaded it. Okay. I think.
Yeah. And then I think we did the same one, or that one and on YouTube, and then and on TikTok as
well. And I just went to sort of gangbusters on TikTok. Yeah, that one. Yeah, like 3000.
Okay, that's amazing. Look at you guys. Yeah. Famous. Yeah. So late, late, she's gone off.
Gone off. Yes. That's great. This is awesome. So so yeah, 32. And I think it was like, we wanted
to post it on TikTok and YouTube. And it was there like a streamlined sort of process to do it or
Yeah. Yeah. And you guys like literally filmed another screen. So that's and this had 1300
views. So how did you how did you get this many views? Did you just post it? And that's all
happened? Or did you put some ads on TikTok? Yeah, we did put some ads on the TikTok one. And
I think you put Facebook ads to TikTok. Yeah. Okay. I was trying to figure out because there
is a way to put TikTok ads to a TikTok video. Yeah. Yeah, we did. Okay. So I'm trying to
catch up because we've had a bit on we've actually just bought a house. It's so exciting.
Awesome. So I think she I'm pretty sure she did ads on from TikTok. And then she did a separate
one for Facebook. Okay, the ones that ticked off because they went off. So then we tried Facebook
as well. And yeah, I suppose Yeah. Can it be sort of streamlined where you don't have to sort of
double up with like having? Yeah, so you can, you can, I would. So the one thing to do is just
record the video on just your camera on your phone. Yeah. At that size with video, and then
I would take the original video there. Upload that one video to YouTube shorts, and then I'd upload
that to TikTok. What you don't want to do is necessarily edit the video in TikTok, and then
take that edited video in TikTok. And then the out like basically put that into YouTube, if that
makes sense, like take the original and put it, each one goes to one of those platforms. Okay.
And so but that, I think, because it looks like you basically have two, it's the same content.
Yeah, maybe like different, you actually filmed it differently, maybe. Let's see. No,
there's just a few different ones. Like, yeah, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the same.
Same one.
Was the same video? Yeah, that one. Yes. Yeah.
I saw there was something to do with like music down here, like music in this video.
They probably just use like a YouTube. Let me just play it real quick so I can see.
Oh it's going to my headphones.
That's why.
So how did you add that music? Did you add that in YouTube or did you add that in TikTok?
Um I'm not sure.
Okay um it probably didn't um.
I think they they used it in YouTube because.
Yeah well they just identified it. Let me see what it's over here.
I'm just trying to. This doesn't have the music.
So this one doesn't have music but this one does have music.
Um okay um and so the your question was just like basically how to like what
what was different about this video versus others or were you trying to just figure out like
um uh an easy way to have a video posted on YouTube as well as TikTok without
having to sort of start afresh if you like with one platform and the other.
All he's asking it's two different questions. So you're just asking like is there a streamlined
way if I'm going to post to one platform can it automatically go on to another platform?
Yeah yeah yeah.
So no and the reason.
There's an answer to your question.
The reason.
Okay there is a way and if you go look it up like there are ways to just
cross post stuff they call it cross posting.
It's not recommended especially for new accounts because um.
The platforms themselves don't like that.
They're competitive with other platforms so for example if you upload on Instagram real
which is the same as the YouTube short and you've got the TikTok logo in the corner
you can 100% do it.
It'll go out it may get some views but generally like you Instagram is looking for that TikTok
logo and it basically pushes those videos further down the list.
Because it doesn't want to advertise TikTok.
Because they don't want people going to TikTok.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Because they want original content and that's so basically as long as you can avoid having
the logo there um and then just use whatever platform like if you're going to add music
one I wouldn't have added the music to this because it's so loud you can't hear what she's
saying um so that's unfortunate um so I would just try the same whatever you did for this
one I'll try it one more time um and you could even post the same video again um just without
the music if you want and try that um I'd be interested to see like your ads like how
you got that because what's cool is you did get 13,000 views and you got 51 likes but
you did get eight dislikes which is fine that's not the end of the world but then your subscriber
count didn't really change yeah right yeah so um we have tried this as well like there's
a lot of ways to boost YouTube videos and we have certain videos that have easily have
a thousand fifteen hundred views but it actually doesn't really change the bottom line yeah
and YouTube won't even count the watch time for this towards your like uh four thousand
hour goal so you can monetize they actually don't even count anything that comes through
ads um so anyway uh yeah and you were saying so you did use Facebook ads for this
yeah yeah I mean did you want us to look at me to look at your ads or see if yeah yeah
so I think the other part of her question because it was a week or so ago um can we actually
schedule it so like a you know one o'clock in the afternoon they both get released or not is
that just a that's that's too big complex it's it's not that as I say it's not that advanced
as you would assume it would be but um most of the time like I think you can on YouTube
so YouTube you can definitely schedule it and you can go live at a certain time
um yeah I just don't think you can even upload a reel through uh Creative Studio at the moment
it's so new um okay I'll figure that out yeah we do have a schedule yeah we've seen the scheduling
uploaded out so you can do yeah you can do the feed and the IGTV but you can't schedule a reel
right yeah okay so uh that would be cool though um and I think the same thing for TikTok I don't
think you can schedule a TikTok okay um to go live they kind of just want it to be very um
like raw and immediate and just like it goes out and so when you're trying to like organize it and
make it really you know systematic and stuff it doesn't really fit it's super organic right now
yeah but we would definitely recommend using a video file versus
is a video of the video.
Yeah, I would use the original video file.
Because I think that would make a huge difference.
And if you're getting that much attention
on a video of a video, I think you'll
spike pretty quickly with just that video file.
It would be easier to hear, easier to see.
Yeah, not record.
What you guys are doing, I mean, honestly, just the fact
that you had one with four big clips, which I thought
this would have a lot of, I thought
that would have a lot of views, it's really cute.
Next to the 32, this is how TikTok works.
You just got to post a lot of videos
and get that volume in there.
But it looks like you're doing the right thing.
It was really helpful.
You feel really good about this.
You got 130 followers there.
And you just started this a few weeks ago, right?
Yeah.
It was really helpful to hear from, who was it?
Isaac.
Yeah, Isaac, yeah.
Did you guys add the YouTube link to your TikTok page?
Because going from TikTok, linking people to YouTube
is normally a very good workflow.
OK.
So if I go like that, that's not it.
No, it's Lindsay.
Lindsvanzale.
So I'm on the web browser, and I'm not sharing this,
so I was pointing to it.
It's not doing it in the web browser.
Let me just see if I can get into it real quick.
But I would, let's go in to get back to your.
There's a way to add the link to YouTube.
I think you have to go into the app and do it.
But there's a way to add the YouTube link.
So I'd have that be like the main link
to send people to your YouTube channel.
To like watch those full episodes.
Right, because the full episodes are there.
And they just go hand in hand instead
of sending them to this website.
Because if people are enjoying the content here,
this is sort of the appetizer, and you've
got like the main courses sitting on YouTube.
So it's just a nice way to get people
over to continue watching the same content over there.
And that was one of the steps, I think,
that he kind of walks you through,
like how to add that YouTube link.
These are little things.
I just thought of the little things
you can change in the beginning, which
will just help feed YouTube a little better,
and they all kind of play together.
Yeah.
OK.
Cool.
Yeah.
And the length, like one to two minutes is good on, yeah.
On TikTok.
So less than a minute for YouTube Shorts.
And then TikTok is, I mean, Reels, I think is 30 seconds
or 60 seconds.
Let me look it up.
The problem is they do keep it really short when you first
launch your account.
And then as you get more and more views,
it's kind of like, oh, I'm going to do this.
And then as you first launch your account,
and then as you grow to bigger followers,
then they give you more.
It's like you could technically upload like a.
So an Instagram Reel can be 15 to 30 seconds.
Yeah.
Right.
And then.
Up to 60 seconds, I think.
TikTok's 60 seconds in the beginning,
but then once you pass, I think it's 10,000 subscribers,
you can go to three minutes, I believe.
They unlock more features as you go.
OK.
And then 60 seconds for Shorts.
This is awesome.
I think TikTok is like the one of the easier platforms
to grow, less work.
I think one day.
There's a ton of people on TikTok.
We'll probably have to do like a masterclass for people
where they just like watch their videos on TikTok.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
Instead of YouTube or anything else.
Cool.
And then you also had a question about your.
Intro?
Yeah, your intros.
Yeah.
Could I share a screen?
I'll just play it.
Yeah, go for it.
Let's see.
Hopefully.
So this is the one that we're currently using.
Did you guys get this from Jen's Dell board?
Or did you make this?
No, we got that designed by Alignment Media.
Yes.
Alignment is Jen's.
That's he's the editor over there.
Yeah.
Awesome.
OK, cool.
So it's just like basically the logo.
OK.
show and then we start the YouTube video after that. So just a bit of, yeah. But this is one,
another one that they put together as well, which is a bit longer.
Okay. How long is that? Is it like 21? That's 21 seconds. Okay. Yeah. So I would, I mean,
the short one is good. Again, like we're always prefer to do something where it's like the hook,
where it's like, Hey, today we're going to be talking about this, this, this, so stick around
and then like run that short intro and then come back and then dive into the content. What I would
do is, um, I would, uh, for the long one, I think you could still, since he made them,
which is nice of him, he's supposed to only make one, but good for him, um, use it. I mean,
you could even run that as a Facebook, uh, Instagram ad. Um, that's true. I was just
thinking that cause it just talks about your channel. It's kind of like, it's like a promo
for you. It says like who it is for what it is and then who you guys are. So, yeah. Yeah. Um,
but I like the, I like the energy behind that long one. Cause I feel like it's more you guys,
but just think of like where it is in the sequence. So like that, those first few seconds
of your video into the first minute or two of your video are just the most critical time. So
you could even, so what you here's, here's a very easy solution. Do the short one in the beginning
and do the long one at the end, like your outro as an outro. Okay. And that way you kind of,
cause if people have stuck around today or just kind of like a fun thing at the end,
it's high energy kind of ends on a high network. It just sort of doesn't end where it's like,
cool. So we'll see you next time. And then it just, it's just dead. You can kind of,
we'll see you next time. And then it jumps into this high energy, like logo, I mean,
the intro. So that could be kind of fun. Outro. Outro. Yeah. So I would just make one, an intro,
one, an outro, and then potentially use the long one as an ad and see how that performs. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We tried to like, we sort of went back to them because
about putting those that we've already interviewed or got on our website as those two,
you know, put a testimony sort of thing, faces on there rather than just random.
Stock footage. Yeah. Always. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Okay. We're choosing that as well,
but yeah, he did all of our kingdom messenger stuff. So we liked what he did. Yeah. Yeah.
And we did the same thing because we had some stock stuff in the beginning and then we went
and shot some real B roll stuff and then we had him swap it. Yeah. So anyway, cool. Yeah. They
both look good though. It makes you guys look legitimate. That's cool. Thank you. Yeah. That's
good. I think she had another question. If I do have time for another question or yeah. Jump in
the brand design. Oh yeah. I think she was just drilling down because she did ads on Tik TOK
30 second clips. Yeah. I'm just reading it now. You probably get the second part.
She did the interviews. Let's see. Yeah. So
on Tik TOK. So she was just kind of wanting to know like what happened. Yeah. We would like to
know that too. Yeah. I mean, honestly, and if you're running Tik TOK ads on Tik TOK, right.
Not in the Facebook ad manager. These are in the Tik TOK ad manager. Yeah. So I opened it and I
like looked at it at one point, but we have not actually run any Tik TOK ads. I think we should
do a masterclass and, and have someone talk about that. Cause there's this one it's very
everybody's doing Facebook, Instagram ads. So if you go do Pinterest ads and Tik TOK ads,
like no one's doing those right now. And so it's, it's just a lot cheaper to get a lot
more results. But especially if you just want to grow Tik TOK. So we should probably,
I think that would be fun if we had like Isaac come back for our, for us and do a masterclass
on Tik TOK ads. Cause I would love to know for posture. Cause we've never done it for posture.
We've never done Tik TOK. I've actually, I have been researching it the last few weeks.
Yeah. We've looked at it, but we've not.
done it. So, or maybe Lee could come and do a masterclass, great results.
That's great. I'm glad you guys like took the risk and just dove into it.
This is exactly, I know. I'm so,
you guys have just like jumped in on so many levels and it's so,
Lawrenson speaking to me about just the power of participation.
And I feel like you guys are like experiencing that because you're not,
you're not hesitating. You're just like, okay,
let's try it and just see what happens and then tweak it as we go.
Awesome. Yeah. I love it. Yeah. And that's, yeah, a lot of,
as well, but Isaac was very, you know, he was very engaging and,
and we got excited about what he was saying. Like, let's go.
And Isaac will give, I mean,
Lindsay obviously created the content and it's amazing content,
but he took the TikTok account from zero to 21,000.
Like he cut up my content and he's got other accounts.
His is a God behind bars ministry,
which I think has like a hundred thousand or 70,000 followers.
And anyway, he knows what he's talking about,
but I know he's done some ads and let me just say from a,
from an advertising standpoint,
$15 in to get the results you got, like keep doing that.
Like, I don't think you could have got those results through Facebook ads.
So it's, that's crazy good value for money. So try, just,
just try it one more time, try a different video.
You may even get better results and kind of just keep testing it. Um, yeah,
for 15 bucks to get, to get that was, I think very good.
But I think like your future TikToks and I just want to make sure you
understand, like take the original video file and upload it,
flip it up and upload it.
Cause I think that will help even with your organic reach.
Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Good job though, guys,
you guys are doing a great job.
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I went seeing a few things, but yeah.
And all while buying a house.
Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
That happened like in pretty much like 24 hours.
That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. It took a long time.
And then it took nine months to renovate and make it livable.
Well, we look for like, uh,
we've been looking for like four weeks cause we have to get it out on the 7th
of December from where we are. And then it's like, okay, God,
like then it's within 30 days.
And like you don't settle within 30 days and it's like 27 days and we found the
house and I said, oh, you actually need to, you know, we need to extend it.
And so we have to go back to the landlord and can we have another 10 days?
Yes. And then, yeah. So we're settling on the 17th.
So a week before Christmas, we're going to be moving into our place.
That's amazing testimony.
Yeah. It just, it just, yeah. And yeah, it's amazing.
It is amazing testimony because the,
the street that enters the court or the
cul-de-sac that the house is, it's called Lee Close.
And across the other side of the cul-de-sac is her maiden name,
which is Dixon, Dixon Park.
There you go. So it's just meant to be all around.
So I think that's like a wink from heaven towards you guys.
Oh my gosh. Yeah. We looked at it like, and we looked at it last year.
It was on the market for a higher price and it came back on the market this year
for a lower price.
Yeah. That's the Lord. That's really good.
That's the Lord.
And there was already an offer in place on Sunday and we only saw it Tuesday.
That's amazing. What a crazy day. You guys,
I need to close on this. Yeah. I need to close on this.
Or just go live in the, in the group and just share the testimony.
You should share that testimony. I think it really encouraged people.
Yeah, we will.
Awesome. I know I want to get to Janice real quick. Yeah, you're all good.
And tell Lee we missed her. Yeah.
Yeah. I will. She's, yeah, she's meeting her CEO.
So hopefully a potential partner for our business.
So today.
Good job guys.
Yeah. Thank you. Awesome. Okay. Janice, how are you doing?
I got your, I got your, um,
what you submitted up here that you're having some difficulty with tribe. Um,
you were replacing all the episodes with what you had YouTube links,
but now they're sideways. So let's fake, let's see what's going on.
Um, I replaced them with YouTube links. I mean,
I replaced YouTube links with, um,
my phone. You have to understand. I've been, yeah.
Isn't that fun. Okay.
So I've been trying to get everything over to tribe, um,
for obvious reasons.
So they're all sideways. I'm assuming this is because of me,
obviously, because I've been videoing vertically.
me. Okay, because I have to see I'm visual. So I have spent like
five hours on technology today. I finally got my quick player
quick time player to work today. But then in cat. Oh, it's just
been a mess. I've been with Apple for several hours. And
I'm they're calling me again at 630 in the morning. And quick
player has cutting out at 10 minutes. So I think I just get
my stuff on tribe. So yeah,
so I'm just going to try something here. So if we film
it this way, and then just make sure I tell you the right thing.
Okay, so I wondered if like, if you know how there's like the
orientation lock on your phone, or you have an iPhone, right? I
do. Okay.
Let me try and share this on my phone. Oh, I can see if this
works.
I think I took it from my iPhone. I don't even you know,
I don't even remember numbers how I did all this. This was a
few days ago.
Oh, I see.
Let me just get this over to zoom.
Oh, it's not wanting to do that. Okay, let's
stop that. So there is a lock, like, anyway, so I think when
you're filming it, one option is just make sure that the unlock
there's like a little and how this is not going to work. I
need to find a way to share this.
Let's see if I can use this other app real quick.
So I need to do this. Is there any? Is there any way I can
rectify what I've done already?
Yeah, so there's this kind of like, when you record it,
there's one thing you can do that's better. And then the
second thing we can, I'll show you here. Okay, so here now my
phone, okay, there's my phone. So if you swipe down from like
the top right of your phone, like where the little Wi Fi is
and the batteries, I just swiped down, get to all these
settings. Okay. And this I think I can draw on my screen here.
This guy right here. Yeah, there you go. So that that one is
like an orientation lock. So I would make sure that that is
unchecked before you film. Because what may be doing is it
may be locking it in portrait. And then when you when you flip
it, it's not recording it in that format. So that's just
something to do at the beginning. I just I always
uncheck that. It is, I generally leave it locked so that if I,
you know, if I'm, especially like if I'm laying in bed, and
it's on at the side, like you don't want it to, you kind of
want to keep it in that orientation. But when you're
filming, always take that off. It's normally pretty good about
undoing that anyway, when you film. The other thing you can
do is let's go into a video. So I just filmed like this. This
is my I'm like clear that drawing. I think when you go to
edit. Okay, yeah. So you see edit here. So I hit the little
there's a little blue edit kind of down there. See that? And I
click on that. And then if you look here, there's like a
little, little like crop and orientation thing. So if I click
on that, I can actually now use at the top left, there's a way
to rotate it. So if I tap on that, it'll actually flip it
sideways. You see that? And each time I tap it, it keeps rotating
at 90 degrees. So what you can do is open your phone to a video
that that was recorded incorrectly, and basically hit
edit, and then rotate it. And then when you hit the done
button at the bottom, right, it will save it in the new
orientation, then you can just upload that that new file. So
basically, it'll you'll fix it on your phone, essentially. We
can try one if you want together. Um, we're here. Do
this. Let's see. These are in my photos. So that Oh, you're in
all photos. Yeah, I'm in my photos. Yeah. All right. So
yeah, you can do the whole thing in the photos app on your
iPhone. So you'll start like I'm just looking at all the there's
getting a bath tonight.
Eating solids now so
How can anybody be beautiful intentionally without hair and just, I mean, you know,
and makeup and just everything just all natural and gorgeous. She's just darling.
Okay, I will try to do that.
So if I take like this is a video I filmed in portrait.
If I go again, same thing like edit in the top right.
I hit the little like orientation and again this is being recorded on the
members site so you could come in and just watch this again.
I click on that and then I go to the top left and there's little rotations.
I can rotate it, you know, so yours are sideways.
You want to rotate it again to make it not, you know, to make it obviously the right way up.
And then when you're done, you just hit the done button.
That's this yellow button down here and it will actually save it.
And now when I play it back, it's actually playing back, you know, the way I saved it essentially.
So that should work.
And then what you can do is take that video and then upload it.
And just try and do it for one, like pick this mighty warrior one.
Because it's basically what happened is that when you play it back on your phone,
Apple is kind of smart.
It kind of realizes that it's sideways so it fixes it and it looks normal.
So try that with that one there.
I don't think there's anything, you know, if you try it again and you go
through those steps and it's still not working, just make a mention it in the membership
or somewhere just tag me because we can look at it and see if there is something to,
maybe there's something I'll try.
But I don't think that typically whatever video format comes in,
it will, you know, it will just save that format.
It's not like, it's not flipping it for you.
It's probably the file you're uploading.
Okay. Hi, Monica.
Hey, I did not upload it from my phone because
Laundrum worked with me for several days on this and that is not possible.
And there's some kind of glitch somewhere and she's trying to figure out what it is.
So what I had to do is transfer it all to my computer
and then do an upload from my computer.
Yeah, I, sorry, I didn't mean.
I can do the same thing.
Yeah, I was meaning you're taking the file from your phone to your computer and then
computer drive.
Yeah, there's drive on the phone.
It's not really designed to be like used.
Okay.
That well.
So it's not so much a glitch.
It's just, it was never meant to be that way.
I will work on that.
Thank you so much.
Yeah. And just, again, try to get it working with one.
And then just, if you get it working or if you can't get it working for that one,
you know, obviously let's check it and let's look at it again before you go and do all of that.
You know, I should have done that, you know?
Yeah.
Do the whole thing.
And then it's like, oh my word.
All right.
I'm learning.
I'm slow, but I'm learning.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Hey, Monica.
How's it going?
How are you doing?
I think she's getting her audio.
I think she's there.
You're unmuted now.
It keeps unmuting and muting itself.
Oh, sorry.
I just like connection bad.
I just turned Mary Alice's video off.
I'll just say if you turn your video off, so I can just, I think that normally takes up the bandwidth.
I'll just say if you turn your video off.
Okay.
Let me try that.
There we go.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, a little bit.
Do you have like Facebook open?
Is it my turn?
Yeah, there's like an echo.
I don't know if Facebook is open.
No, I don't.
I know.
I can come on from my phone if you want.
Yeah, let's try that and see if it sounds like a bad connection or something.
Okay, let me do that.
Okay, well, she'll be back.
Maybe it was just our side.
I don't know.
Were you here showing pictures of Hannah?
No.
Hannah said, how could someone look so perfect without, you know, any hair?
Without any hair.
Sweet girl.
Can't wait for Monica.
And I see Rebecca, you jumped on too.
Did you have any questions?
Or Mary Alice.
I didn't know if you had any questions.
anything submitted, but you can jump on if you do.
I would like to ask two quick questions. Okay, this can send me a link to where you fill out
that form prior to a meeting like this. Yeah, find it. And I am making a folder of your links
because I get lost. So we made you a folder. Let me show you this. So, because everything,
we try to make it as easy as possible. I know, but... I know, I know, I know, I know. It can
always be easier. So this is a good place to start. It's normally just knowing what things are called.
So most of everything is linked on this page. So like the Facebook group is up here.
The link that we're on right now at the top right here is like the Zoom link.
But I mean the form that you fill out prior to having a Zoom.
Yeah. So on the left sidebar here, there's like an, it's called open coaching.
Okay. So if you click on that, there's a video explaining like how it works. And if you scroll
down... Oh, I didn't scroll. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. I got it. And then there's a little form.
Yep. Cool. Okay. Okay. Hopefully everything that we have in an entire program, I think it's on
this website somewhere. So if you can't find it, just let us know. Cause we'll make it, make sure
that's labeled correctly or make it a little easier to get to. Cause we do want this to be
as easy as possible. And I found that, but like I say, I just didn't scroll down. Yeah. Okay. I had
another question. I feel like we should make a little links. We'll make a, I'm going to make a
page of links on here. Just like use this to schedule a link, a call, like use this to find
the Facebook group. Use this to, I think that, I mean, why not? So you had another question,
Mary Alice. That's what I'm trying to make for myself. Use this. Okay. I forgot what you
called it. A coaching call. Okay. Today I bit the bullet and I was trying to do this and then
I got stuck and I tried to do that and I got stuck. Sounds like my day.
Yeah, but you're smart enough to get out of it. I just got stuck. And so in fact, I could list the
things that if we could just do, do, do, do, then I could be ready to go. The person that I wanted
to meet with got sick and there's no schedule of that in the future. So I just want to bite the
bullet and get these. I can list my questions. So it could be very straightforward and I don't
have to take up a whole bunch of time. Yeah. That's a, do you want to in the, you mean in the
form? Yeah. Using the form. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to do that, cause we can make sure we've
got everything ready. We'll be back here on Tuesday and you're welcome of course, to join
us for the whole weekend. We're going to take a look. Great. And you, yeah, you'll be we're doing
some very like basic stuff, like kind of all the very, all the stuff that you're kind of wanting
to. So there may be some things we cover and then maybe Tuesday, if there, if you still have
questions, go ahead and submit them. We'll get you first in line on the, on Tuesday's call. And then
we can take, you know, just work through your list top to bottom. Okay. I'm you made a nice little
logo for me. And so I want that now on Facebook. I put it, tried to put it on anchor and of course
it isn't the right shape and those kinds of things. Gotcha. Yeah. Those are normally we can fix that
in a few minutes. Yeah. I think we can fix that for you. That's, that's exactly what you can use
this, these like two slots, these, these coping coaching sessions for. Okay. I'd love to help you.
Thank you. Awesome. Well, I know we're at eight o'clock, but yeah, I know Monica jumped on. Yeah.
Sorry. I think we can hear you now. Fine. And we can see you.
Okay. There you go. I jumped on a little late and I if you guys want to do this next week,
that's fine too. If you're ready to wrap it up, let's do it. Okay. I just had okay. Maybe it's
just a little bit more on the mindset side. I need a little bit of help. I am finding that I am
I've bitten too much and I'm starting to feel
like I may be on the path to burnout if I continue with it.
So I've got, I've got Faithwood Business,
I've got Mon Ministries, I've got Sanctuary Girl,
and then I started homeschooling this year.
Oh my God.
The two sets of twins.
And you only have like one child, that's easy.
And so it seems like.
Right, right.
On a way, you have eight children.
Yeah.
So, so I'm, I'm feeling conflicted
and I'm feeling a little bit like in a,
and not analysis paralysis,
it's just, I'm out of 24 hours, right?
And so for me, it's, we're opening a new store
for Sanctuary Girl in Atlanta on December 8th.
Oh, yay.
Where is it gonna be?
This one, is it called Marietta?
Marietta?
No, not Marietta, it's, gosh.
Milton?
And I wrote it down, sorry.
You can send it to us, that's fine.
That's not the point of what you're saying, sorry.
Bruce is just asking random questions.
Go for it.
So there's all of that, you know, getting that ready
and then, so I just haven't, I'm feeling conflicted
about when I'm doing coaching calls,
it comes very naturally for me to want to pray for them
because it literally, I can tell that it's something
that they need prayer, like healing prayer with
or different things.
And so I'm feeling conflicted in that,
well, but they've paid this for this session
and then I'm doing prayer at the same time
and I'm trying to, I don't know if I'm just being
too narrow about it and too strict about it.
So I'm in a place where I'm not,
I've almost like stopped my income coming in
because I'm just, I'm not sure,
I don't even know what I'm saying.
You have coaching calls,
are people paying for the coaching calls?
Yes.
That's got money.
Have you stopped charging if you pray?
I'm just trying to understand.
No, I have.
So the things that I had going on with faith-led business,
I stopped charging for my membership
and then my small group, I stopped those.
I just have one person there
and I have one person that I'm coaching with.
And then I have one ministries that I'm just doing
the prayer every night and things like that.
And so now I'm like, well, I do need income though.
And Sanctuary Girl, it's been kind of a labor of love.
I haven't gotten paid there since we started
and neither have the CEOs.
It's all been just like, you know how it is
with a brick and mortar.
Start up then.
Yeah, you pour in.
So I'm at that place where, Lord,
I'm trusting you to provide in all of that,
but where to focus and where to,
I just have too much on my plate,
but I don't wanna give up all the things,
but I do want to serve him and I do wanna do the things.
And maybe it's just a matter of just
being still and not doing anything.
I don't know, but I just felt I needed to come on here
tonight and maybe that's it.
Why did you stop charging for your membership?
I felt a prompting that that was the right thing to do.
I felt when I was in prayer once that I just heard
they need to know this, they need to get out there,
just give it to them.
Were they not willing to pay?
No, they were paying.
I was the one who cut it off.
And so it's really strange
because I've done it now multiple times
where I'm like, are you sure you wanna do this?
If not, let's just stop.
So I don't think it's like a self-sabotage.
It almost feels like God is removing something
so I can go in another direction and just kind of go all in.
So just looking at like Sanctuary Girl,
Mon Ministries, the faith-led business, the homeschooling.
So homeschooling, you're not getting paid for, right?
The Sanctuary Girl, you're not getting paid for.
And really the only revenue,
potential revenue is faith-led business, right?
Correct.
And you're saying like your focus is really like you,
because that's the thing is like,
if you have extra time or you have extra money,
you can be generous with your time or your money.
If you are focused, like, if you're like, I got to have like revenue coming in and we help with
like, especially early stage entrepreneurs, cause you can, you can have like shiny object syndrome
and like just focus on all the things, but. Which you're not, but you're in some startup
companies. Yeah. And so sometimes you have to like put some of the ministry things,
like either slow them down to where you're, it's just less than an hour a week. But I mean,
and the Mon ministries is like your, like your prayer each every night. Right. Cause I can just,
I'm assuming that's quite a, that's quite a lot of time each, each week. Yes. Right. It's kind of
like the analogy that I thought was very helpful is obviously like when it's like, you've seen the,
heard the analogy of like the putting the rocks in the jar and like, you put the big rocks in first
and the little ones in the sand at the end. It's like, if you can put those big rocks of the faith
led business to make sure, cause you're like, you gotta make sure you're going to have to like
make money and like homeschool kids. Like those are probably the only two things that really
matter. Everything else is like secondary. And you got to hear this. I know some people might
be hearing this and being like, like money's nuts. Like ministry is not secondary to money.
You're doing ministry. It's homeschooling your kids. They're your first ministry. So like that's,
that's priority, right? I mean, ministry takes on many forms. Ministry takes on many forms. So
we're not saying like, oh yeah, like money is the most important thing, but your family,
which needs rent, which needs income, right? Like you got to feed your kids. You got to like provide.
So like, that's, that's, that's why we say those things are priority. Cause sometimes we get a
little bit, and I know that you're not, I know that you know, as you've done life with us most
of the year, so you're probably not hearing what I'm not saying, but like, yeah. Right. Like the
Lord is our provider in all things. And he's the means for the provision. So we don't have to
confuse even the job or the income as the means, which I have done before where it's like, okay,
he is my provider, but he's given me this job. So I really have to steward this well and not screw
it up. That's not what we're saying. We got to think partnership, right? So the first fruit
ministry is your family. Like the Lord hasn't, and it has given you these kids and your husband
and your family. And so like, that's important. So we're even having this conversation now as
parents, like there's some things that I'm having to restructure. Yeah. Posture went down to a week
and I thought, you know, And even then we're like, should it be once a month?
But it's, it's, it's a constant cause we've just figured. And I think I would just say,
always recognize the season you're in. Right. And what's the seasonal reality, what I can do in this
season. And that's why it's easier to say, Hey, this is, I'm not saying no to Lindsay West. We're
not as a couple or a family agreeing that you're not going to be doing daily podcasts or three
times a week for the ministry. We're just saying, Hey, for this season, for the next few months,
maybe it's a couple of years. Like we're not going to, if we definitely will revisit it,
we'll come back and we'll pick up right where we left off on certain projects and stuff.
But, and it's a, it's still, it's still the same trust and surrender conversation. So some people
enter this conversation as, well, I'm just going to let the Lord provide. And so I'm going to do
everything for free and, you know, sign up for all of the extracurriculars and volunteer at church
and everything, because I'm just going to trust that the Lord is going to take care of me, which
is fine. But this is a, this is the same, this is a trust conversation too, but it's different
saying, Lord, I trust that you're my provider. I trust that you're my means for provision. I also
trust that you want to partner with me on some things. And one of those priorities is the family
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
no to throwing all of myself into posture right now. And I'm going to have to like surrender that
feeling of, but I'm letting these people down or will it kind of fade away if I only do it once a
week or will all of my hard work, you know, be for not, or will people, you know, will I just kind
of lose momentum, all of those things. I had to surrender that to the Lord because I have this
family that I'm, this, this is who he's given me. These are my people. Before these are my people,
these are my people. And what has been really fascinating for me is we had that conversation.
And in the midst of all of that, Kingdom Messengers was starting to emerge, as you know,
when I was eight months pregnant and what happened was things became actually laser focused. And so
when I, it wasn't, there was no emptying of my hands and that I lost fulfillment or contentment,
but I had to kind of start, I had to start the letting go of certain things
for that to kind of, for me to even be open to like say Kingdom Messengers, because we were
already having the conversation in the background of, we have to just pump the brakes on what you're
doing for posture. Cause we had all kinds of ideas. We wanted to do a merch store. We want,
you know, there was all the, I was ready to fly and I still want to do those someday,
but I couldn't do it in this season.
Because I had surrendered some of that, we were open to some other things being,
and it wasn't like, again, I think I don't, what I don't like as we talk about
this, like balance, especially with women, it's always like this work life,
ministry life balance situation.
I really don't like that conversation because it suggests that at some point,
my family is going to get less than a hundred percent.
Right.
And so I, I feel like there's a way to show up a hundred percent with the things
that God has given me, but in order to do that, I have to determine what these.
Where the boundaries are within these, within the scope of these things.
So, so, and some, some things you can consider is like Mon ministries.
It doesn't mean that you have to stop, but you might have to stop doing it every
night and what's going to happen is because you still value it.
Like I still value posture.
I didn't, I never devalued posture in my own head and heart.
And I believe that still comes through for people.
So even though I'm like, I've got this vision of what it could be, and
there's sometimes that tension of, I just have to hold the tension of like,
it could be so much more right now.
You know, there's all these things.
And I even have conversations with, you know, entrepreneur friends of mine.
Like, have you considered this?
Have you considered that?
I'm like, yes, yes.
But I, but I hold the value of what the Lord has given me for the season with
posture and I think that comes across.
So even though I'm only showing up once a week, like I'm not even able to like
respond to every comment right now and not even like, I don't have the time for it.
I don't have the emotional energy specifically for YouTube because
YouTube can be hit or miss quite honestly, with the comments that I get,
especially on my shorts and like, I, Hannah needs that emotional energy.
And I, I just can't give it to me being able to show up and make sure everything
gets, even though it's best practices, like to respond, and even though that
means that some people who have really good questions or have really good
comments that I would love to like respond to and have like some dialogue
and ministry exchange, it just can't happen right now.
Yeah.
Um, it's good.
Uh, and I, the only thing I would add is like, and this is, this is like
something I have to remember all the time, but like what you focus on, like
grows and so the problem with like, and we're, we're in, even in our business
learning to like cut back on stuff still, because we're, everything's still,
we're trying to reorganize stuff constantly to make sure that it's, we're
not focusing on too many things.
Cause if you have less things to focus on, you can do two things really
well and family, like Lindsay saying, obviously can't change that.
And then business is like, is the revenue, the profit center
for making everything better.
And I was telling us, talking to this about a friend and I was like,
sales fixes all the problems, right?
Like money doesn't solve all the problems world, but they solve nearly
all the problems in the world, right?
Because that is like extra childcare.
It's someone to clean your house for you.
I mean, just drag it out to like, what would real success and cashflow
and stuff look like, like, oh, I could hire people to help me with things.
I can have someone go respond to the comments for, you know, it just
does make everything a little better.
And so that's something to be like, I would say like, Again, and again, your
business can very much be your ministry.
You can take that to the Lord and say, Hey, this is what I have in my hands.
Like, how can you fill it?
Like, what, how can you use this business?
Like, give me something really innovative for this.
And then also same thing on homeschooling.
Innovative ideas and solutions and systems and plans for that.
Um, and just for a season, right.
And then once you have a little bit more margin, then you can, it's
also that input output, uh, regulation that you want to make sure that you're
not like have so much output that now, like you're, you're trying to get
on and help people in ministry, but really you're like tapped out.
Like you're like, I don't want to do it.
I don't want to get on video.
I don't want to help anyone right now.
Like, you know, so you have to kind of, that's just as a leader as, as
like high capacity people, like you have to continue to monitor that.
Um, and so anyway, I don't, I don't know.
Hopefully some of this is helpful.
It's, um, it's really hitting home.
It's exactly what I need here.
Uh, as usual, you guys are masters at this very good.
So thank you.
Um, yes, that, that makes it very clear.
I know exactly what, uh, you're both saying on both ends and, um, yeah, thank
you very, I knew, I knew that I just want you to know Monica, like you're
doing a really good job, like you're doing excellent one child and she's
only seven months and I'm just like, we're like, how do we fit all the things
in and I can't even imagine like times eight, so you're doing a really, you're
doing an excellent job and I know that you're going to partner with the Lord
and restructuring, some of this stuff, set yourself free a little bit, give
yourself some margin and things will flow again.
Yeah, I believe that word flow.
As right now, it's definitely it's damned up and yeah.
And so, and I don't like feeling that way because I'm so used to
being in that place of flow.
And yesterday I need to do my video for this week and I'm like, All I want to
do is just go get in bed and sleep.
Yep.
No, that feeling.
Absolutely.
And I, you know, I feel like the, as well, like, I feel like if the, the word I
think for now is like figuring out like multi multi being a multiplier of time
and the kingdom is all about multiplication.
And so I think that just, I'd be looking for things on the homeschool family
side, I'd be looking at things in the business side, like how can I put one
hour in and sell that hour over and over and over again in some form of a product
or something, um, verse like, okay, I made a sale.
I had this one hour and I translate one hour to one person and then it's over.
Like that stuff we're trying to get all as much of that stuff out of the way.
I mean, off of our list as possible, you know, and there's just, there are those
types of things where, especially for, and the good thing is because you've been
doing this for so long and you've done this so many times over and over, like
this will come together quickly.
Right.
It's like a couple days, a couple of weeks, you'll have like a brand new plan.
And I'll, you know, this is not like the next 10 months, right.
That's the thing is that with experience, you just, you can turn a pivot faster.
Um, so cool.
Oh, thank you so much.
Yeah.
If you ever need some, like sounding board, if you have an idea for like, yeah,
jump back on any of those like multipliers or things, or like, you're
thinking about doing this for that.
Like, let us know.
I will have one ready on Tuesday.
Love it.
Awesome.
Good to see you guys.
I appreciate you guys have a great week.
Hopefully we'll see you guys, some of you guys over the weekend.
Otherwise Tuesday.
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Bye.
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