Latest / The One Small Change Podcast / Turning Life’s Transitions Into Business Growth

Transcript

Turning Life’s Transitions Into Business Growth · The One Small Change Podcast

0:00
Welcome to the one small change. I am thrilled to embark on this
0:04
journey with you of exploration and transformation. And I'm your host,
0:07
Yvonne McCoy, and I bring almost thirty years of entrepreneurial
0:11
experience. And I have a passion for discovering growth through the power
0:15
of seemingly law, seemingly small change. I can't talk
0:19
today. And I can't tell you how excited I am that you're taking
0:22
time out of your busy schedule to join me,
0:26
for this this episode today. And this week, we are talking
0:30
to the amazing Cece Schatz, and
0:34
she's gonna share how a smaller unexpected decision
0:37
or event sparked a remarkable transformation in
0:41
both her personal and her business growth. Cece,
0:45
I hope I do better stumbling over my words today, but I am so happy
0:49
that you're here and that you've agreed to do this because you were doing some
0:53
fascinating and interesting things. So tell my
0:57
audience who you are and what you do and what was the small
1:00
change that brought you to this place. Oh, thank you so much
1:04
for having me on the show. It's just such a delight and an honor to
1:07
be here. And again, my name is Cece Schatz. I've fondly called the
1:11
Doyan of relationship building. And the reason being is I
1:14
am a divorce dating and a life coach, a transitional type
1:18
of coach. And I'm also the founder of the new streaming
1:22
network, Com, which is the home of Going
1:26
Solo Media and Going Bold Media and our wonderful
1:29
radio station, WGSN DB Going Solo Network.
1:33
So, yeah, I do a live I wear many hats, and, my
1:37
life is nonstop, and I'm just loving it. Loving it.
1:42
Well, the thing is, you know, in the quick conversation that we had
1:46
before, you have got some amazing things that are going
1:49
on. So so tell us a little bit about your story, and what was the
1:53
the thing that changes your that changed your projection about what you
1:57
were doing? Well, I think for me, the biggest thing was, of course, going through
2:00
a really bad divorce. I went through a terrible divorce in back in
2:04
o eight. And then as I was trying to create my
2:08
journey, like, what the heck am I gonna do now and how am I gonna
2:11
get through life? I, started I joined a divorce
2:15
group, and it's a long story, so I'll make it try to make it short.
2:17
But it really empowered me and really made a change in
2:21
my life. And so it helped me to to kind of propel and move
2:25
forward, and I wanted to help other people do the same thing. So I took
2:28
I ended up taking over the group. I, I still have the group now. We're
2:32
on Facebook. So if anyone wants to join it, you're welcome to do that. And
2:36
then we also, I have a singles group now, which is singles wanna
2:39
date, a travel group, which is going solo travelers.
2:43
We're all on meetup.com. And if you can find the links on
2:47
going solo network, which is my, my personal,
2:51
website. But, I mean, it it just, like, all
2:54
evolved. It kept evolving, going on. And I think the biggest thing is
2:58
my friends really encouraged me to just keep taking steps
3:02
forward. The door would open, And I used to finally say, oh, well, a
3:05
door open, but I got to climb through the window. I've got to make my
3:08
life harder, you know? So, so it's like, you know,
3:12
make things very difficult. But I was very fortunate because I went on
3:15
a show, my girlfriend's show, Connie,
3:19
and, she does does tremendous work now. And she's got
3:23
a, it was on victims to survivors. She's got a website
3:26
helping victims, really become survivors. And,
3:30
so I went on her show and I came out. They offered me, you know,
3:34
a radio spot. And I thought, wow, I don't know if I can do this,
3:37
but I just thought, you know, somebody's offering me it. They see something more within
3:41
myself than I can see myself. So I'm going to try it, you know? So
3:45
the first show I did, I thought I was going to pass out. And that
3:48
was back in about probably 02/2009 or something like that.
3:52
And, so then I did I did that show, and then it just progressed. It
3:56
kept growing and growing, and I ended up being on TV and doing all
3:59
kinds of things. And we had tried a a follower, and and then a
4:03
friend said, you know, my my group said the divorce group
4:06
said, you know, we'd like to listen to something in the middle of the night,
4:09
you know, three when we can't sleep, there's nothing out there.
4:13
And so a friend said, well, we can fix that up. So he started we
4:17
started the WGSN DB going solo network, which
4:20
stands for the, the West Coast Of Florida,
4:24
and it's, going solo network. That's how the WGSN DB
4:28
digital broadcasting. So there there are a couple of things that you've touched
4:32
on already that I think is really important for,
4:36
our audience. And, you know, since I'm a, you know, a women's business
4:40
strategist, one of the things that is always important to me is
4:44
the concept of finding your place, not
4:48
the place that's been defined for you by society
4:52
or your family or any of those things. And sometimes
4:55
it takes a huge shake up to make that
4:59
happen. I mean, I remember when I lost my job after fifteen
5:03
years, and I went to the beach and some a
5:06
marketer came by and said, what do you do? And I started crying and
5:10
said, I do nothing. Oh my
5:14
gosh. And it was like, wait. You know? Get yourself I
5:18
mean, the poor kid. I felt so bad for him. But, you know, you you
5:22
sometimes you need those wake up calls to or reevaluate.
5:25
What I would say to people is don't wait for that to happen.
5:29
You can do that for yourself. And I think as entrepreneurs, we
5:33
constantly have to do that because the world is constantly
5:36
changing, and you wanna stay relevant. So that's the first
5:40
thing is give yourself the gift
5:44
of saying, where is it that I wanna go? Not where
5:48
is my family, you know, want me to go? Not where, you know,
5:51
whatever. But where it where is it that I wanna go, and how can I
5:55
have a bigger impact and stay relevant? So that's, you know, part of
5:59
what I got out of out of what you're doing. And the second thing
6:03
is you didn't say, you
6:06
know, no. I can't do this because I'm not ready.
6:10
You jumped in. And I think that's where opportunities
6:14
happen. You know? You know? There's one person that I
6:18
follow that says if somebody gives you a mic, you should always take it.
6:21
Right? And so talk about that a little bit more, like, how
6:25
people can get themselves ready or be more
6:29
open to, you know, jumping on unexpected
6:32
opportunities. Or Right. Because, you know, a
6:36
lot of a lot of things that happen to me is just opportunities came
6:40
across. Right? And I was just at the point in my life where I thought,
6:43
you know what? I'm not looking back. I'm going forward. I'm going to, you
6:47
know, you know, I think the biggest thing that holds us back is fear. And
6:50
so I thought, you know what? I'm going to get over this fear. That's like
6:53
ego. Right. So I'm just going to step forward and try it. And
6:57
I have to admit, my very first show, I thought I was going to pass
6:59
out. I mean, they had to take a break because they thought I was going
7:02
to pass out. But now I do it so easily. I have no
7:06
problem with it. But it's, you know, I think we just have to step out
7:10
of ourselves a little bit, step out of the box a little bit and try
7:13
something new if an opportunity is there for you. And don't
7:17
wait to be perfect. I mean, you can see my background. I'm not perfect. I,
7:21
you know, I have a little office here in the in the guest room. And
7:24
I'm, you know, my my audience loves it. They don't care. They don't
7:28
care because what they care about is the content that we we give
7:31
them. And so, you know, as I was progressing on, I
7:35
realized that no one was marketing my shows. No one was doing anything. I
7:39
was paying, you know, good money for the shows, and they weren't being
7:42
marketed. And I thought, I've got to get out there and and start marketing and
7:46
doing other things. So I start putting myself all over the place. Right?
7:50
And a lot of people said, oh, you're podcasting. You shouldn't do that. You should
7:53
dress, drive them to your website. Don't don't put yourself out there. And I thought,
7:57
well, I gotta go where they are. So I need to be where people are
8:01
listening so they can get to know me, and then they'll wanna come to my
8:04
website. They'll wanna come to our to our stuff. And so I
8:07
started marketing, then I started talking to friends that were doing the same type of,
8:11
you know, podcasting and TV shows and whatever, and they weren't
8:15
really being marketed. So I thought, well, you know, let's join
8:18
forces. And so that's how we came up with the new streaming. It
8:22
started as going solo media. And, then
8:26
I thought, well, we need to broaden it because we need more inspirational things. We
8:29
need business. So then we started the going bold and then now we're
8:33
bringing it all under under one roof, which is the new streaming
8:36
network. But it all started with really thinking outside of
8:40
the box and not being perfect. You know? You you have you
8:44
have to just step forward in life. You can't wait and and
8:48
make everything, you know, absolutely perfect. You just gotta go for it.
8:52
But the thing that the the thing that I find interesting about that and the
8:55
things that I tell my clients all the time is try something
8:59
while you're still growing. Right? Because if you wait
9:03
till you're well known and you try something and
9:07
you're not good at it, well, if you try it when when nobody knows you,
9:10
you nobody's gonna see it and you can make all those mistakes and then later
9:13
on you'll be really good at it. So that's, you know, kind of my, you
9:17
know, thought about that. But the other thing I think that you said
9:21
that was so important is
9:26
the not being perfect is the thing that makes you stand
9:29
out, I think. Do you know? First of all, we always we we
9:33
hated the perfect kid. It's always the one
9:37
that was I know. Yeah. Yeah. And and so we I think people
9:41
relate to you better when they realize that, you know,
9:45
that you have some things that you stumble on. And I always say I
9:48
always say, you know it's live because
9:52
the mistakes I'm not cutting out the mistakes, and they are what they are.
9:56
And that that's who I am. Right? And you don't if if you don't put
9:59
yourself on a pedestal, you don't have to worry about getting knocked off.
10:03
Right? Right. And so I always laugh when people go, oh, you know, you you're
10:07
really showing up. It's like, yeah. It's taken you know, I'm like the fifteen year
10:10
overnight success kind of thing. So so, you
10:14
know, you just keep trying to do the things. So let me just
10:18
ask you real fast. You were also talking about marketing.
10:22
Mhmm. So, you know, I feel like you have to do the right thing that's
10:26
right for you. Right? So talk about some of the things that you
10:29
tried in marketing, how you said this, you know, was good, this
10:33
wasn't good. And and and the very fact that
10:37
you can't wait for somebody to market you. Marketing is
10:41
an active kind of thing, and, you know, it's your
10:44
responsibility. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I
10:48
think like what you said, number one thing is to be authentic. Be who you
10:52
are. And and then people will be drawn to you because
10:56
they'll they'll be interested in what you have to say, what you look like because
11:00
you look like them. Right? You're not somebody that's absolutely
11:03
whatever. And so, you know, you're just like an everyday person, and
11:07
so they're drawn to that. And I think the marketing goes it's just
11:11
not be afraid to do certain things. I mean,
11:14
there's there's elements within marketing that we need to do. Like, you know, we create
11:18
a logo and, you know, we figure out our colors and maybe do a website
11:22
or whatever. But the the reality is is do something
11:26
because so many people think that it it's just going
11:29
to come to you, and it's not gonna happen because you've
11:33
gotta gotta continuously doing something. And the reason for that is
11:37
that you're building up your own personal momentum.
11:41
Right? And it's not really about the audience out
11:44
there. It's about you yourself. It's the energy that you're
11:48
giving off. And so when they do come to listen to you and if you've
11:52
got that high frequency energy, they're gonna be
11:55
drawn to you just naturally. And so you've got to continue
11:59
continue to do stuff and just think out of the box and and be
12:03
yourself, and, people will be drawn to that.
12:07
And and and one of the things that I think is funny is,
12:11
you know, if you think back on your life and think about when you were
12:14
a kid, the thing that your parents told you not to
12:17
do is probably the thing you should be doing.
12:21
You know? Like, my family goes, you you know, you always fix
12:25
things. You know? You're you you know, you wanna find the answer. You wanna get
12:28
a solution. And that's true. I think of myself as, you
12:32
know, I'm a strategist. I'm looking for strategies you can implement
12:36
and get results. But when I was younger, people were like, stop, you know,
12:40
stop telling me how to do this. Don't, you know, and that is
12:44
my gift. My gift is how to get you from point A to point B
12:47
as fast as possible, you know, and see see what you've
12:51
got. So if you were if you were,
12:58
you you know, you were talking about pick your brand, pick your logo, and stuff
13:01
like that. The thing that I would say about that is
13:06
I think that's important, but don't let it stop you. I
13:10
mean, there are people who have had an immense amount of success without
13:13
websites and, you know, whatever. But that was
13:17
that was their thing. And so that's not
13:21
for everybody, but it shouldn't keep you from starting. And
13:24
sometimes the more you're out there, the more you get
13:29
clarification on where to show up, how to show up,
13:33
what you need to say, and it's it's evolving. So I always
13:36
laugh because, one of the first podcasts I did
13:40
was with somebody who was an image person.
13:44
And she's like, oh my god. You should always wear red. And I'm
13:48
like, you know, red is not really my first choice in color. I mean, I
13:51
like red, but it's you know, I'm more of a burgundy person,
13:55
because it leans towards the blue. And every time I wear red,
13:59
everybody was like, oh my god. You really pop in red. And I'm like,
14:03
oh, so maybe and now when I do my workshop,
14:07
I have a slide. Because my thing is you don't need to be fixed. You
14:09
need to be found. It's a slide with a bunch of white balls with one
14:13
red one. And I wear a red top and I go see, see,
14:18
See? So you find something that works for you that's fun. So alright. So
14:21
you were such a vast you have got so much
14:25
information. If you were going to talk about I'd like to
14:29
kinda stay in the marketing a little bit if that's okay. If you were
14:32
gonna talk about three things that people could do,
14:36
three small things that people could do that would get
14:40
them results that, you know, they don't have to, like, invent a
14:43
program or a huge amount of content and that kind of stuff, what would you
14:47
say to them? What would you tell them to do? Well,
14:50
again, I I think the biggest thing is, like, don't be perfect. Don't
14:54
invest in a lot of expensive equipment. You
14:58
know, like, when you're doing a podcast or show like that,
15:01
you know, you need decent equipment. Don't don't get me wrong, but you don't need
15:05
to have the top of the line. I mean, the equipment I have is simple.
15:08
It's, I didn't spend a great deal of money on it, and I've had it
15:11
for a long time. And I've always think if it's not broken, don't fix it.
15:15
And so it's coming across. It's doing the job and it's
15:19
getting done. I again, I think the marketing thing
15:23
is you want to not hold yourself back because we hold
15:26
ourselves back. So you want to be able to move forward and
15:30
and really start grabbing a hold of what technology has to
15:34
offer. I mean, we've gone from I mean, I've been in this business for years.
15:37
I've started with the radio, and I went all Internet based. So a lot of
15:41
people said, oh, you need to go on regular television. You need to do all
15:44
this stuff. But it was so expensive that I knew that I could not afford
15:48
doing that. And if I did, it was going to just cripple me all the
15:51
time. So I just stuck with the Internet route because I personally
15:55
felt Internet's gonna be our future. This is technology. It's gonna be our
15:58
future. And so we went from the radio to the podcast, and now we're going
16:02
from the TV, and we're it's broadening. Even the TV
16:06
is broadening further because there's more things that we're doing, like, within the
16:10
TV range. And so you want to be able to
16:13
grab a hold of some of those things and maybe possibly look
16:17
at what you're doing because you wanna keep your your dollars
16:21
down. So, you know, like our network, the new streaming network,
16:25
we do so much and we're on like almost 60 some
16:28
platforms now. We're doing what we call streaming, which
16:31
is, kind of like what you see now, but they pick up our
16:35
stream. So what we do is we do a live show, they pick up our
16:38
stream and it streams on out. The only disadvantage that has to
16:42
me is that I can't give you the stats on it, but I figure, like,
16:45
what the heck, man? If I can get myself on, you
16:48
know, three or four different TV stations and they're picking up my
16:52
stream and going live with me, I'm not going to worry about the stats.
16:56
I mean, I'm just going to get out there. Right? And so I've been
17:00
that's funny. I'll go to a meeting, I'll go to someone, they go, oh, yeah,
17:03
we've seen you. We heard all about you. It's like, thank
17:07
you very much. I really. That's right.
17:11
I want to be a thorn. So yeah. I think the thing
17:14
that that we, as entrepreneurs,
17:18
have a struggle with, okay, at least I
17:22
did, is that it is taking people longer
17:26
to engage. You know, it used to be, like, seven times or something.
17:29
Now it's, like, 12. Mhmm. It also is
17:35
we were not taught to toot our own horn. So the idea that
17:39
you would put something out or post something out and say, come to my
17:42
workshop, come to my workshop, come to my do you know? It's like, oh my
17:45
god. These people are gonna be so but I think that if whatever you're
17:49
doing, you probably could still do more. And that's a really
17:53
uncomfortable place. So that's why it's so good to be on, I think, a lot
17:57
of different platforms because you don't know who you're gonna
18:00
see. But I think, again, you need to do it in your own way.
18:04
So for instance, I do my newsletter, and I take the same thing and put
18:08
it in LinkedIn and Facebook and Instagram. It's not the Facebook
18:11
format. It's not the Instagram format, but that's me. If I
18:15
couldn't do it that way, I probably wouldn't do it at all. I wouldn't spend
18:18
the time doing it. Do you know? And so I think
18:21
that you what what you're a great
18:25
example of is that you have something to share, and you're making it
18:28
widely available. And you need to do that.
18:32
And within that wide reach, you're still being very specific
18:37
Mhmm. About the audit. You know? So you've got the travel you know, the the
18:41
singles kind of theme, the thread that goes
18:45
through it. Right? So you're like travel as you're single,
18:48
what you're doing after divorce, meet you know, meetups, and those
18:52
kind of thing. So it has the same similar theme, and yet there
18:56
are lots of different ways to enter your world. Mhmm.
19:00
Mhmm. Absolutely. Yeah. I I think that's that's the key
19:03
is to really get yourself out there and and do a lot of different things
19:07
and also get your get yourself on. Like, for
19:11
instance, if you have a podcast or you have something like that, it's important to
19:13
have guests like you're having me on. Right. Because you're not only
19:17
going then I'm going to be capturing your audience and you're going to be
19:21
capturing my audience listening and saying, oh,
19:24
yeah, let's see what she did. You know, who is this lady? You know, let's
19:28
let's see a little bit more about that. So it's important to have guests on
19:32
your shows and for you to be a guest. Right. And
19:35
so a lot of, individuals don't necessarily do that when they're when you're
19:39
coming to marketing, they don't, get on other
19:42
people's shows, and they really should get on them and then have
19:46
them come on their show and talk about a particular
19:49
topic. So
19:53
we talked about some simple steps people can take. Mhmm.
19:57
Right? So tell us about your freebie and what the best way is to
20:00
use that. Well, if anybody wants to contact me,
20:05
I usually give a thirty minute consultation. We can talk about really
20:08
anything that you're that you're struggling with because I am a
20:12
transitional coach. And then, also, you know, I do the divorce
20:15
dating. And then, and I'm really,
20:19
immersed, I think, into the media now. And so, so if
20:23
you've got a podcast or you have a, you know, a platform or something like
20:27
that that you maybe feel like you're a little bit stuck or you wanna do
20:29
something different, I'd love to be able to talk to someone. We have
20:33
various different shows. You know, on our platform, we have at least, I
20:37
think, anywhere from 15 to 18 shows per week we're doing
20:40
now, and, and we'd like to grow that. So, yeah, so
20:44
we'd love to be able to have you on board if you wanna talk about
20:47
it. But, yeah, I don't charge for consultation. So if you wanna,
20:51
contact me, you can just go to
20:52
goingsolonetwork@gmail.com. That's my,
20:57
email, and just reach out to me and say you wanna chat, and I'm I'm
21:00
happy to, to book a time with you and to do that. And I
21:04
think in the show notes, we're gonna have my calendar so people can
21:08
actually, book it through the calendar if they want. But, yeah, I would love to
21:11
be able to talk to people and and help you in any way any way
21:14
you need it. And and I just wanna remind people
21:19
that the gift of somebody else's time
21:23
is priceless, and it can be so helpful,
21:27
bringing a totally different perspective to you. And it's not
21:31
something that you necessarily have to be ready for. I
21:34
mean, I I can't tell you how many people go, I'm I'm not ready. You
21:38
know? Well, the point is that you're never gonna get ready unless you get some
21:41
insight to get move you from where you are. And so, you
21:45
know, Cece has got the most amazing experiences. She
21:49
knows stuff. She knows people. She's in
21:53
it for the transition, whatever transition you're struggling with.
21:56
So I can't imagine that you could actually finish up in
21:59
thirty minutes with all the possibilities, and you would
22:03
be really short changing yourself not to take
22:06
advantage of this. So it is a fantastic gift, and
22:10
I would encourage everybody to take advantage of it.
22:14
So let me ask you this. When was the
22:18
last time you did something new for the first time?
22:22
Well, we were talking about that prior to the show, and I wanted to share
22:25
with the audience that I have written a book. And it's called Own the
22:29
Mic, Stop Step Into the Spotlight, Launch Your
22:32
Show of Your Dreams. So that's my first book that I have
22:36
solely written. I'm gonna create a whole series, the news
22:40
streaming network create creator series, and you can get it on
22:43
Amazon. So the Kindle book, is already out there and the paperback
22:47
book is out there. So if you wanna, purchase the book, I would be
22:51
honored to have you, you know, purchase book and then maybe give
22:54
me a review, you know, if you'd like, I I would love that.
22:58
And so I think that's, you know, probably one of the things I've kind of
23:02
put myself out there because I haven't, you know, really done something
23:06
like that before. Then the other thing is I think we have
23:10
to have a balance between, you know, personal life and business.
23:13
Right? And so I do a lot of things in my community, like the
23:17
dating stuff and the and the divorce stuff, and I have a
23:20
great great group of friends. And so this week, oh, we went to the beach
23:24
for the first time. So we, we dipped our toes in the water,
23:28
which was a little chilly for Florida, but we enjoyed it. It was still
23:32
okay. But we had a great time sitting out there, and then we went to
23:35
lunch and and just had a wonderful, wonderful time. So I
23:39
think you do have to create a balance for yourself. And,
23:43
yeah, and that's not always easy to do when you have your own business, you
23:46
know, to be able to stop and and smell the roses, so to speak. But,
23:50
yeah, we have to do that. Well, I always say I always say,
23:55
you know, you can't divide your personal and your professional because you're one
23:59
person, right, unless you wanna be, like, psycho. But it's kinda
24:02
like a water bed. Do you know? It's like it's
24:06
about you're keeping the container, but the water
24:10
is going in different places. This is just shows you how old I am. How
24:13
long has it been someone who's had water beds? But anyway but the
24:16
thing is is, you know, there are times when you're gonna put more time into
24:20
your business, more time you know, and you need to you need to plan for
24:23
your your vacation and and personal time for sure. I
24:26
mean, I would say to anybody, when I talk to them about blocking out their
24:30
calendar, I go put your personal time in there first. Because
24:34
otherwise, your business time is just gonna, you know, expand. And I
24:38
did the same thing. I, you know, I I was telling you that I I
24:41
have a a a chocolate lab. And, you know,
24:45
we've always had labs, and when the idea was we're water people, let's get them
24:49
to work, and we never do. So I we I actually said to my husband
24:52
on Saturday, we're going to the beach on Sunday, you know, because the
24:56
cutoff for dogs was at the end of the month. So, yes, do
25:00
something and you, you know, you come back. When you do when you
25:03
spend time in your personal life, I think you come back to your business
25:07
life more energized and more focused and more
25:11
grounded. Because isn't that why you're one of the reasons you're doing your business? It's
25:14
it's to help people and have an impact. But it's also to have a great
25:17
life and to feel, you know, that you're doing something.
25:21
Yeah. And I like the idea of trying to do something new. You know,
25:25
like, if you take, like, every week, try to do something new, something different you
25:28
haven't done before. Right? And, I have a good friend, Joanne
25:32
Wylan, which I know that you know, and lovely. And
25:35
she she what she does is when she goes somewhere, like
25:39
goes to a meeting, she'll she'll do her GPS thing or whatever,
25:43
and she goes one way, but she never comes back the same
25:46
way. She always comes back a different way. And I thought I
25:50
thought, man, that is so smart because, you know, she's really
25:54
she's doing a different experience. She's having a different experience each time she
25:58
does something. So it's like, do something a little bit different. Shake it up.
26:02
Get out of the box. You know? It doesn't have to be huge. Mhmm.
26:05
It's a mindset. And and I laugh at that because I read a
26:09
book years ago, and one of the things was the rule of rigidity. It's like,
26:13
if we did it this way, we always do it this way. And I
26:16
realized how stuck I was like that.
26:20
That if I drove, I always drove in the same lane. I always
26:24
moved over the and so I started doing the same thing. It was
26:28
like, I would try to make sure that I didn't turn at the
26:31
same place that I turned someplace just to see what there was.
26:35
Do you know? So I you know, I could say I'm an explorer, even
26:39
though I might only be, like, a block off where I normally was. You know?
26:43
But it's a it's it's a mindset, and I think that is the
26:46
thing in terms of getting out there is that you just have to,
26:50
you know, kinda have that, I'm an explorer. What can I find? What's
26:54
great? What can I share with other people about the the journey that I'm
26:57
on? Yeah.
27:01
This is I I I feel like we could just keep going and going, but
27:05
we can't. I'm sure we could. It's like it's like when you when you talked
27:08
about I mean, I can have funny stories too, but when you talked about, like,
27:11
when you were young, and I remember I I've shared this story on on other
27:15
places, but, my mother always said, you know, you just got such a
27:19
gift for GAP, right? Why do you you know, you're because I got in trouble
27:23
in school, right? And she goes, Why? Why do you talk? Why you talk all
27:26
the time? You have to stop talking all the time. What are you going to
27:28
do for the rest of your life if all you do is talk? And here
27:31
I am, a talk show host. Yeah. So, mom,
27:36
what can I tell you? Look at me now, mom.
27:40
Yeah. See, I'm sure you're up above in heaven. She is laughing about it.
27:44
But yeah. But it is true. So you were right. You know, when
27:48
when you're young, sometimes you do kinda know your path. Yeah. So
27:51
you have to You know, you can I you know, I see the I see
27:55
the pattern? You know, once I've, like, kind of identified what
27:59
I'm good at, I see the pattern, you know, of where I did
28:02
that in my in my whole life and and so many times was discouraged
28:06
not to do it. And I think that's the thing that is
28:10
very sad because, you know,
28:14
my favorite saying is Bookmaster Fuller, who says we were all born
28:17
geniuses and then it's educated out of us. And that's true. You
28:21
you you know, you're taught to, you know, to act a certain way and to
28:25
speak a certain way and to do you know, that kind of thing. Anyway,
28:28
we're running out of time. I gotta I gotta stick it in in the commercial.
28:33
And so I would hope that those of you that are listening here will,
28:37
subscribe and share this and engage with the podcast on social
28:40
media. And one of the reasons I did this is I wanted
28:44
to do something vibrant for my community.
28:48
I wanted to give back so that you could have some additional
28:52
information and meet new people so that you can grow your impact and
28:56
grow your business. So I hope that you will continue to join me on the
28:59
one small change. And on this journey that we're going on, I
29:03
hope that if you haven't seen it yet, I have, my first episode
29:07
explains why I'm doing this. And I've also started doing because I like
29:10
to talk. I also started doing the quarterly clarity
29:14
check-in, which is just me talking about things that you should look at
29:18
as we go into the new quarter, whatever that quarter happens to be.
29:21
So so, Cece, give me some words of wisdom. What's your last
29:25
parting word for us? Well, I think the biggest thing
29:29
is, like, don't let fear hold you back. You know, be
29:32
you. No matter what you do, be you and and just go
29:36
forward. Just, you know, if you've got an idea that you
29:39
wanna do something, do it because that is that that
29:43
is like the universe telling you that you've got to get out there and do
29:47
that. So don't hesitate. Don't make it perfect. Don't think you have to
29:50
have all the proper equipment. Just do whatever it is
29:54
that's telling you to do it. If you need to change jobs, if you need
29:57
to whatever you need to do, you know, and, you know,
30:01
and get a circle of friends or get a circle of peers
30:04
that you can lean on and go to. Because I'm I'm here
30:08
today simply because of those people that said kept pushing you and say,
30:12
yeah. Yeah. You can do this. You can do this. You could just go try
30:15
it. Go try it. So yeah. So don't let fear hold you
30:18
back. Absolutely. Absolutely. So that's
30:22
it for this episode. And as always remember, the
30:25
change is simple, but it's not always easy. And it requires that you
30:29
step out of your comfort zone and you have to have a willingness to be
30:33
able to pick yourself up if it doesn't work. And that is part
30:36
of the journey when you learn things. So I hope you will
30:40
stay tuned and come in next time. Until then, stay
30:44
curious, everybody.