fun, special moment. Right now, we've got the lovely Stephanie Lind with us all the way from
Denver, Colorado. So, Stephanie, thank you for being with us. Oh my goodness, my pleasure.
Yeah, so I'm stoked to be able to chat with you and hear some more of your story.
And we're doing a series this week on the three secrets of automated impact and income. And just
talking about how in this space of automation, there's, you know, people are now able to
influence tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people,
and also generate really amazing incomes. But it's having a huge influence. So what I'd love
to hear is your story. So first of all, why don't you tell us about family life and who you are?
My name is Stephanie Lind. I have five small children and I have a special needs child.
And I've lived in big cities. So New York City, which is very challenging, you have to
carry your laundry, you have to carry your groceries. So just living in the cities that
I've lived have been really intense. And then during that time, I built companies, and I built
them online because I had five children in seven years. So I had so many small children
that working a traditional job was simply not an option for me. And I think that that limitation
pushed me to think and explore things differently. So I started, really the story of my professional
life is the story of a series of relationships that I made online. One of the most exciting to
me, obviously being the Alexanders, because what Benji is doing with his automation and business
is not like anyone I've ever seen in this space. But you do several things that are, the reason
people get into this is because of what it is that you're doing, which is so exciting, which is the
ability to live a lifestyle of creativity with the Holy Spirit, where you're able to just create
out of the overflow of your life and your experiences, and to monetize that and to be
reaching thousands, tens of thousands of people is such an opportunity for storing up
treasures in heaven. So I got into it and I built other little companies. But when I met you, Benji,
I invested, the chunk that I invested in you was bigger than anything I'd ever thrown, a larger
sum amount than I'd ever thrown at anything else. And I did that because I was actually able, with
this generous invitation, to reap and sow out of your business. I actually could make more out of
your businesses than I could make out of my businesses. Oh, that's amazing. So we'll explore more about
what that means for people later on. But it's really exciting to just hear your story of
transformation as well, right? Where it opened up for me. But initially, like your story,
before automation, before all of this, you were like broke, sick of it, overwhelmed, five kids.
I'm just trying to like, this is what you would share with me about your story, like what did it
look like before you discovered automation, before you stepped into this space, what was life like,
what was your low point? Well, just doing everyday life was an extreme struggle. So I mean, living in
New York, if you have to carry a kid on the front and a kid on the back in Bjorn, and then you have
a gallon of milk, and then how much can you carry on the other side? And with laundry, down three
flights of stairs, over two avenues, seven streets, carrying multiple kids, carrying 70 pounds of
laundry, pregnant. And then in the snow, you have to like get all your kids in their snow gear.
And then they walk slow, you know, and you have to put in the laundry, and then you have to walk
back and take off all of their snow gear, put on all of their snow gear, walk, you know, avenues and
streets, change the laundry, walk back. So in that level of just difficulty, I would say it was like
living like a missionary lifestyle, or like living in a, like a developing country. I think that
there was just nowhere to fit a traditional career. But I feel like a lot of other people
can't, they're like kind of fitting a nine to five into their life. They feel really spread thin.
But maybe they're like, is this whole automated income? Is the, you know, opportunities that
Benji's talking about? Could that really be for me? And what, where that's taken me in terms of
how my days are laid out,
but even the opportunities that are open to me,
I would really encourage people.
One, partnering with Benji has taken me
from kind of having to figure it out by myself.
And, you know, I created my own products,
I created my own list,
but being able just to come into what you were doing
that was so many times faster
and to sow and reap out of all the culture
that you're creating was massively accelerating.
And then for those who want it,
for those who want to be on social media to influence,
not just to have the income,
which you have so brilliantly created systems
and frameworks for people,
but if you also desire influence,
it is so wonderful to live a lifestyle
where I wake up and I study several hours a day.
I invite friends in.
I now have, at one point I had,
I think four children living in a one bedroom apartment.
Wow.
And now I have a, we just put in our seventh bedroom
and we have a guest floor.
So people come and stay with me
and we have these incredible conversations
that I then create content out of.
I just got a text today.
Benji challenged me.
He's like, Steph, you're going to success yourself to death.
What exhilarates your heart?
You need to go after your dreams.
And so I really wanted to go to Japan with the Baker family.
Heidi and Roland people are probably familiar
with their names, but we're really close with their son.
So he just was like, yeah, let's do Japan.
So part of what automated income systems allows you to do
is to not think, have a mindset of,
well, I could never afford that.
I could never afford to go on a trip with friends.
And I just really enjoy Roland's company.
So like, meet us halfway here.
And when you have this entrepreneurial lifestyle
that I was pursuing,
but Benji massively accelerated for me,
the question changes from,
or the thought process changes from,
I can't afford that to what do I need to invest
in order to open up that opportunity for myself this month?
And that's a completely different mindset,
which is really exciting.
So the before and after for me was really
a poverty mindset.
We can't afford that time poverty, energy poverty.
And now I'm more free to be moved
by the impulses of the Holy Spirit,
to focus on relationship and to invest in myself
with education and with conversations.
I have someone, a spiritual advisor coming
and staying with me.
I just was at the pool with them.
I'm doing this interview.
I don't look great.
I'm going back to the pool.
That's my day, you know?
And so she's staying in the first floor of my house
with her own bathroom and her own bedroom.
And if you had said to me,
you're gonna have a house to show kingdom hospitality,
I would not have believed you.
We were so environment poor.
New Yorkers, we live in a lot of poverty.
Just upgrades in every arena of my life.
Finally was able to lose the 30 pounds
that I could never figure out how to shed.
Most of that is stress and toxins.
So just all around, it's...
And two, I will say this.
I'm sorry, because I feel like these are monologues, but-
Good, it's great.
I love it.
I hire people in my businesses.
And if you are in a nine to five,
just as someone who employs other people,
normally with jobs, you pay someone the minimum you can
to get the job done.
And so a lot of people,
we're not in an economy where anyone
is gonna take care of you.
We are not in an economy where an employer
tries to retain you for 25 years.
We are in worldwide a freelance economy.
And so diversifying your streams of income,
diversifying your investments,
or whatever that looks like, is just...
I think to not be thinking that way
is such a high opportunity cost
because there's no one who will be thinking
of your advancement and opportunity
if you're not thinking of that for yourself.
And most people also drastically underestimate
how much they, like if a financial advisor
looked at most people's financial situation,
they would say, you have so much risk here.
Just you, most people I think have financial,
even just, like I have a special needs daughter.
Okay, like, do you have anything put away for her at all
for who would take care of her
if something happened to the both of you?
Any type of, I wasn't even thinking on that level.
Like, are we even minimally prepared
to take care of our own?
Not even being generous to family members
who also don't really even have enough finances
to take care of themselves in a difficult.
position. So even just all right I these even just within your own family the amount of money that
you have to have to say if we have a um like if not all things in life for all people I'm connected
to go absolutely ideally. Yeah. Most people do not have the financial ability to even take care
of themselves much less very key family members that they deeply care for. So I would challenge
you to in your financial thinking to increase and make more realistic the goals that you are
should be considering as a financially mature person who cares for others. And if you um
start getting realistic about those numbers it will be evident very quickly that most people's
that like these types of opportunities on the side are necessary to get people to what I would
consider a minimally viable like responsible financial plan in their life. And I'm recently
adulting and considering these things as a 35 year old. So I'm thankful to be able to be um
like adverse situation planning. Yeah. For the first time. I'm just saying where I like that's
just where I am. Yeah. As a person. Cool. Just starting to think about those things. When you
went back in the day when you were in New York um was it your husband who was
earning the cash and you were kind of stay-at-home mom. Yeah. Not really not contributing anything to
the finances of the family. Just looking after. I mean it sounds pretty hectic just looking after
the kids. Just the laundry sounds intense. Laundry was intense. I yeah when I would see women
complain about laundry I'm like you have a machine in your home. I I worked the jobs that
brought in income when we were dating and young married. And my husband worked um resume jobs. So
he worked jobs that looked impressive and paid $11 an hour. And I worked I was a nanny. So I
always worked when I was pregnant. When I had my daughter in college um after we were married we
got pregnant 20 days after we got married. I worked jobs that I could take my daughter to.
And in addition to working my jobs and caring for my children and going to college I started
building my online businesses. Awesome. And I and I and I didn't have any support and so I would do
things like I would take my kids and put them into the YMCA for two hours of child care and I would
work. Or I would stay up I would get up at four or I would stay up till two. And if I had found
someone like you who said here's a system. Here's a product. And even you know I know you always are
coming up with a new offer. I like turn around and you have a new product and a new offer and a new
funnel. Never seen anyone produce like you. It's inspiring. But um you basically have to have in
order to have a uh this automated income you have to have a product and you have to have traffic.
Yeah. So coming up with a plan for both of those things is is the is the gig. That's the
amazing. So it frees you from trading your time for money. Which I feel like in this economy
everyone should be really serious about how can I free myself from just trading my time
for money. Because you will never you will never build wealth. And I don't even think that you can
um like that system is basically rigged. You're giving 30 percent to the government and America.
Like you're just never going to I think even be able to create enough to take care of basic um
like basic things. And that's not counting well what are the dreams that the Lord has called me to
do in my life? Yeah. How am I called to give? Okay I've always had a heart for orphans. How am I
going to meaningfully contribute to that? Yeah totally. So um let me I've got two more questions
for you. Uh so the first one is what would your world look like now if you didn't have automated
income systems? Bankruptcy. Poverty. Um how many how many like do you think it's is it a normal
concept for people? Like what I guess what I'm what I'm thinking is if you look at the statistics
millions and millions of people have stepped into this place of automated income systems.
You know making money in the internet, creating systems, creating a product, creating an offer,
setting it up online. So millions of people have created those but if you look at it percentage
wise it's not a high percentage of people. You know so a lot of people might not even know someone who
their whole world operates through automated
income systems. Do you know, so I guess you're in that space, but do you know many of your friends
that have got automated income systems and that's how their world works? I know you're kind of more
in that space. My friends that I meet online, most of the deepest relationships of my life,
I have met online and we have built together and suffered loss together and you have successes and
failures and we meet up at conferences or different things. Now I'm getting to the point
where I'm starting to be like, let's go to France and I'll pay your ticket, which was amazing. I
never could have imagined that I would have that type of capacity. To answer your question,
in New York, my friends are in New York for the thing they're in New York for. So they are
starting a fashion line. They are pursuing photography, right? They have some type of
creative pursuit that they are in New York to do. They're a beat poet, whatever. Then they
work a full-time job that barely pays the bills. And in LA, people are in LA for the thing that
they're in LA for, video production, actress, but then they don't really work a full-time job
because they think, oh, well I'm here to be an actress. So then they're a dog walker
or they house it. So I'm like, you guys need to have a full-time job and do this.
But I've kind of invited a lot of people to your opportunities. Like I picked up the phone when
you were the last funnel. I got on the phone with all sorts of my LA people and it is a mindset. And
I think it's helpful to meet other people and to see them doing it and to be like,
that person isn't smarter than I am. That person isn't harder working than I am. That person just
has switched out of the, I will work for you for $15 an hour mindset to, or I will have a career.
I will have a nine to five mindset to, I am going to meet people and partner with people
that maybe I didn't meet them in my physical space. Maybe a lot of my relationships are
online-based relationships. I have friends all over the world. And then doing what they do,
the fastest way to jump levels of success is to make friends. It's a spirit-based,
relational-based connection where you're hearing their story and you're resonating because they're
similar to you. People could look at me and they think she looks the same way that I do,
but she's doing this. And then when that person says, you invited me and you said, well, come,
come do this with me. And then you up-leveled me. I met someone at a conference. I stayed in
touch with him on Facebook. He just got a gig to shoot at one of the biggest stages on fashion week.
And it's going to have 40 designers and it's going to have the photos that he takes are going to be
in all the biggest fashion magazines. And he says, I have never been hired for one photography
gig. And this guy says to me yesterday, he calls me, he says, come to New York. I know you used to
live there. Let's see your friends. They're paying, I'll pay you to be there. Be in the pit with me.
I'll tell you what to put your camera settings on and come shoot New York fashion week with me.
Well, guess what? My resume is going to read in Vogue, in Elle, in all the biggest magazines
because the, the, the models that I will be shooting, that was my photograph will be in
all those magazines. Now that's insane, but that's an example that just happened yesterday. I could
tell you 30 stories like that, where I met someone online like Benji and they opened up their
business and their opportunity to meet. And I jumped levels. No employer will give you that
opportunity. That is an entrepreneurial mindset of automated income. And I can go to New York
because I only go about once one place a month because my, I have my whole inner world with the
Lord and the Holy spirit. And I have all sorts of initiatives there. And then I have my children.
So I work very little. I take one trip a month and I don't produce like Benji, but I have these
opportunities because of relationship where people who are operating at this level, they just bring
you right to that level. And it's spirit based and it's prophecy based. And the reason I'm there
is because we have a connection that's relational. It's not resume based. So it's a whole different
way of thinking. I need to climb the ladder. I need to build a resume. Like I do build my resume,
but with things like that, I go in as the head, 100% of the time I go in as the head, never the
tail. Come on. That's so cool. So for someone who's got the sun rising and I'm just on automated
systems, like that's why I was able to move to the beach because everything we do is online.
You can't see that very well, but, um,
anywhere it was online so we had this problem of like oh where are we gonna live because we don't
have to live anywhere so right well we're like let's um well obviously it was a big prayer
journey but it's like we can live anywhere so we will live where you're sending us going you
sent us to the beach which is awesome so um just as we wrap up here i'd love just to hear from you
just you know like for anyone who's interested in that concept about hey like should i explore
in this space of online you like automated kingdom impact and income should i explore
this space and obviously you've already jumped on board with us um in the events too but just
in the concept not specifically about us but the concept of anyone who's thinking about jumping
into you know that space of automated impact and income what would you say to them in their very
first steps what are the first steps now what would you say to them you're someone who's considering
that as first steps or we're just an encouragement for someone who's thinking
that they might kind of jump out jump out of the boat and try and walk on water
well i have already made most of these points but in summation you're in really good hands with
benji with all of my contacts and all you know every month it's basically like who am i going
to promote who am i going to partner with um you stand alone as kingdom based and the opportunity
that you create for other people is really generous so i would say if you're going to do it
um i i was honored to reap and sow out of benji's um world that he's created so i would encourage
you to do that i did that and i would encourage you to consider the risks of not doing this the
risks of not building an automated system in this economy um i don't believe that working a nine to
five or other types of opportunities are created to build wealth and not even just build wealth
but just build wealth to the extent that you are financially prepared to take care of yourself
and those you love in case not everything in life goes awesome and you should consider that
um so the opportunity costs of not doing it are high because it's a lot of people don't have the
level of um yeah i think it's risky to to be beholden to a traditional career that is not
the state of the world already and it will only increasingly move in that direction
in terms of opportunity if you're just considering online automated systems it's the difference
systems it's the difference between carrying buckets of water and being on a river that
carries you and i know that i'm quoting some you know spirit-filled evangelist um
out of context but what he described with his ministry as the difference of carrying buckets
of water and being on a river that carries him really is the feeling of it opens up so
many new considerations when i walk into for example a store i'm not even thinking can i
afford this or not i'm thinking about a whole nother set of considerations um i'm in my in my
planning of my year i'm not it just when when money isn't something that you're constantly
thinking about and you're and you're nine to five isn't something that you have to fit into your
life you're able to explore so many more things and i would really focus on that and maybe even
do um these beautiful i know that you have the dream workbooks and the focus stuff what do you
really want like what do you really want and when i met with um the the intake person dana dana yeah
dana yeah she took me through an exercise which if you haven't scheduled with them this was a
life-changing exercise for me because if you had said stephanie's are imperative that you lose 35
pounds this summer i would say no like i know but are you going to be 90 and die and you never try
to look your best like you just gained 10 pounds every year and my family really struggles with
obesity so we've had family members who have been in bed for the end part of their life like
are you you know that's fine so do you have to go to japan with the bakers
this summer no are you just you're gonna die never never traveled the world
all of a sudden there's this visceral reaction so i would encourage you to get clear on your
dreams and then to look very realistically with your current financial potential and to realize
with automated income systems they get you to ask the question well what can i do to create this
opportunity for myself because you have a system and a framework that is proven that works it's
not connected to your time so the capacity to grow it is exponential and if you can sell
i've just added zeros to what it is that i'm doing
this year, I'm in a totally new place where now I'm doing events and I'm doing opportunities that
are adding more zeros. I just keep adding zeros because the potential for growth in this space,
you do not have that in the old mindset of I work for other people, I work a resume, skills-based
career that's a nine to five. If you are willing to step out of the boat and say,
I don't know totally what this involves, but just doing it with another person
and doing it in a proven system will save you years of time. I built one company,
struggled and struggled and struggled. YMCA, two hour work periods at a time, dying from
inflammation, so tired, breastfeeding and typing and trying to build a product. For someone just
to say, sell my product. Oh my gosh, do that. Do that. Do start with something that's a little bit
automated and easy so that you can get a feel of things and say, okay, I can see why Benji's
products sell. I can see why this traffic source is good. Don't do it by yourself. I wasted a decade
of my life struggling, walking somewhat, more or less trying to build my own thing first.
I wish I had helped someone else build their dynasty because I would have learned, it would
have been faster. Really, if you want to be an online social influencer, living a lifestyle where
you constantly take in and put out this creative flow, if there's anything inside of you that says,
like your gut says, I think this could open up a lot for me, I would encourage you not to be afraid,
but to try and to do it and to consider what is a little bit of an investment versus the value
of 10 years of your life or the opportunity cost of like, well, I never did X, Y, or Z.
When you asked what my life was like before and what it was after, before it was, we are so poor
that we cannot sustain all the needs of my life. I basically sustained my marriage, my health
fell apart, my finances fell apart, my environment was a mess. I didn't have friends for 10 years
because I only had so many resources. Now I'm getting to the place where I'm like, I have
enough resources that my health is okay. The arenas of my life are like a tree planted by
streams of water that bear its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither. And whatever
I do, I prosper. That's the capacity that this framework has given me. And you,
being a foremost person who's really accelerated me. So I appreciate you so much.
Thank you so much, Stephanie. Wonderful to be with you and we'll look forward to journeying more.
I'll catch you again really soon. And could you just say a quick prayer for the family to
wrap it up for them? Me say a prayer? Yeah, it'd be wonderful. Oh, okay.
Father, I thank you so much that you have invited us to be sons in your house that move
with the power of the Holy Spirit. For every person here whose spirit testifies that they
are a son of God, you have said that if you are a son, then you are an heir of all that Christ has
and all that he is. I pray that our generation would not say in response to the idolatry and
the unrighteousness of our world, that there is none like you, that you alone are high and
exalted, but I pray that we would be a generation that is just like you. I pray that in our influence
and in our ministry and in the rivers of life that come out of our innermost being,
that we truly would also be anointed and do the greater things that you have for us. I pray that
people would have an awareness that, wow, I'm experiencing Christ all over the place because
I keep running into people that are just like him, and I pray that people would know you through
your bride. Thank you for meeting every desire of our heart to become like you and to do your works,
and I pray that we would be a generation that serves deeply as we look to you to meet every
need of our life, that we would be a generation that says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want. You say that you give every good thing so that people would find their way towards you
and find you because you have set eternity in their heart. So, Lord, I pray.
that in place of fear with automated income
and automated systems,
that there would be a fear of the Lord
and that people would step into boldness
to create the fruitfulness.
It says the work of the Lord is enduring,
supernatural fruitfulness, a lifestyle of abiding,
where they're investing the bulk of their day in abiding
and then producing fruit that remains.
And I pray that this would be a harvest generation
that would truly, you said the harvest is ripe,
but the workers are few.
Lord, I pray that I would get credit
for sending people into the fields in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Beautiful.
Thank you very much.
And thank you everyone for joining us.
Lots of love.
And we'll be live again tomorrow morning,
7 a.m. New Zealand time for part two.
Bless you.
Bye-bye.
Bless you. Bye.