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Say Yes to the Mic and Make It Fun · The One Small Change Podcast

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Hi, everybody. Welcome to the One Small Change. I am so glad that
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you're here again this week to go on this journey of exploration and
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transformation. And I'm your host, Yvonne McCoy. I bring almost 30
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years of entrepreneurial experience and I have a
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crazy obsession with discovering growth through the power of
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seemingly small change. So I want to thank you and I'm hoping that
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you're going to use this in your business and it
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doesn't have to be a big change to get a big result. And this week
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we are going to be talking with one of my favorite people,
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Kimberly Crow, and she is going to share with you how a small,
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unexpected or insignificant decision sparked a
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remarkable transformation and growth in her life, whether personal
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or professional. Kimberly, thank you for
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being here. Iman, it is such a pleasure just to be
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on with a good friend of mine and really enjoy the opportunity
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to have just a conversation. Oh, well, you know, I tell
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everybody whenever I get a chance. Kimberly is one of the
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people who got me speaking and I think not only speak got
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me back to speaking because I had been speaking before, but you
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know, when everything kind of changed, I was like, oh, I don't know, I don't
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know, I don't know. And she, she pushed me out of the nest, literally.
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So, Kimberly, please tell everybody all the good
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things. Oh, well, you can't tell them all the things, but tell them the main
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thing that you do and why it makes you so good at what
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you do. Well, thank you for that. I actually,
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funny enough, I asked ChatGPT this the other day. Do you use ChatGPT?
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Absolutely. Right? So it knows everything about me at this point.
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And so I just put into it, I was like, hey, tell me, tell me,
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like, tell me who I am and tell me what I'm good at and tell
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me all these, like, I was like, tell me all this stuff. Tell if you
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were to describe me to somebody else who, like, what do I do? Because
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I have my fingers in a lot of pies and many entrepreneurs do. Right?
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We're always doing new things and coming up with new creative stuff.
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And ChatGPT came back and said, you create
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playgrounds of stages for people to step up and
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shine. I like that.
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That is what I do. It's what I love doing.
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I do not have some sort of year long program that you can join.
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I just, I love being able to create opportunities for people
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to step up to the mic, grab the mic and shine
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because all of the stories that get shared on the mic are
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so beautiful. And I think one of the things that
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it didn't say is at this point in
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time, we are all craving connection.
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So speaking. So when people can hear you, when they can hear you
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and see you, it is even more powerful. I
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mean, you're not alone anymore. There's somebody else out there in the
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void, that's for sure. With all the AI videos and things
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that are going out now, I mean, you could spot the face. They're getting better
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and better, and 10 years from now, it's going to be a whole new world.
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But I think really what we crave is that human
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connection, to really be able to meet a real person
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and connect with them and know that they are a person with feelings
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and struggles and challenges and they want
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to do good in the world and they're doing the best they can. And I
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think that's. That's really why I love being able to create an
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opportunity for people to share their stories, real life stories of real things that
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have happened to them. And I know that sometimes that's scary,
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right, that. That there are studies out there that say that people
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would rather. That are more afraid of getting on stage than being afraid
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of death. Right. So that means that you would rather be in the
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coffin than giving the eulogy. Right? That's a. That's a
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terrible statement for our world. But it's kind of. It is kind of true that
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fear is really, really big. And so my goal is
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to help everybody feel safe and warm and comfortable being able to step
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up and shine and share their message with the world, because you're the
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only one who can tell it. And if you hide that or don't take the
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chance to step up and get on a microphone, then the
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people who need your message won't be able to hear it. And between you
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and me, I am an international inspirational public speaker, and
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I'm proud of that. I've spoken on over 5,000 stages, and
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that's wonderful. But if you Google that, like, who are the international
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speakers? Who are the inspirational speakers? Who are the motivational speakers?
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You're going to get a whole bunch of Caucasian men and like, four other people.
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And that's not a slam on those guys who
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are doing it. It's actually just an invitation for the
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rest of us to take our place on the stage and
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step up to the mic. It's not that they're pushing us off, it's that we're
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not stepping up. Yeah. And so my passion is to, like,
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make it possible for loads of people, no matter who you are, what
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race, color, creed, Religion, lifestyle that you live, that
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your message is super powerful to share. Because my guess is it's
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not just the Wayne Dyers and the Tony Robbins and the Brendan
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Burchards of the world who have the important stuff to share. I bet
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people like you and me probably have some stuff to share as well. Absolutely.
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And you know what? The thing that is such a
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shame is your message doesn't have to be for
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everybody. True. But for the people who need it,
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they are looking for you. Yeah. And you are holding.
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Holding that in. I mean, that is one of the things that, that it's taken
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me a really long time to figure out. You don't need to be the person
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for everybody. You just need to be the person for that.
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Right. Person who needs what you have, who, who's going
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through what you've gone through. And you can solve their problem in a way that
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they can go, oh, my God, they get me. I totally agree with that.
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Yeah. As a matter of fact, I will often teach that even a
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second grader is a genius to a kindergartner.
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Right. If you go. If your first day in kindergarten, you don't know where to
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put your lunchbox or your jacket, you're not going to go to
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the principal to find that information out. You're not going to even go to the
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noon duty aid because they're kind of big and scary. But if you
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have a friend who's a second grader who takes you under their wing and
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is like, I know how to help you. I can help you find these little
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things that I know about that you don't know about.
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It's really the connection, that human connection of people
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wanting somebody who's just a little bit further ahead, who knows just a little
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bit more than they do. And it's not even that you have to keep ahead
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of them. It's just that naturally people are going to learn from people
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who have a little bit more information than they do, and they're going to
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connect with those people instead of the big scary people who have all the information
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sometimes. So you don't have to be all things to all people. And, and
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here's the thing I think that people forget is when you're
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not the expert and you're kind of behind, you know, you're not.
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Sometimes your insight and perspective is
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so valuable because you're looking at it with really clear eyes.
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And I think that's why I always, you know, you know, and I
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wasn't always this way, but encourage people that when they're starting out
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get into community because, you know, not only
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will you learn, I mean, I always thought I couldn't join a community until I
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had something to offer. Do you know what I
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discovered was what I
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surprised we all have something to offer. Well, but what I discovered
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was because I didn't know everything and I didn't know how to do it the
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traditional way, I had a lot of insights that other people
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didn't have. Do you know? And they're like, oh, that's interesting. I
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never thought about it that way. So you bring value
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to any room that you're in or any stage that you're on,
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do you know? Even if it's only to one person, Right?
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Yeah. Right. So get kind of getting back to,
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you know, because you and I could just go, right.
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So getting back to the theme of the podcast, was there one
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thing that really made a big change for you that was, like, unexpected? How did
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you start speaking? Well, if you ask my family,
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they will say that I came out of the womb sharing my opinion. And I
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haven't stopped since. I've never really been afraid of
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the stage. In fact, it is something that,
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as an extrovert, not all extroverts feel this way. But I will say the difference
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between an introvert and an extrovert on stage is that the introvert and
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extrovert are both equally powerful and can deliver
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amazing messages from stage. And just afterwards, the introvert
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needs to go to a nice quiet room where they can recharge their batteries.
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That's me. An extrovert wants to go to a cast party and talk about
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how great they were. Right? Because it fuels
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them to be us. I am one. Fuels us to
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be on stage and be able to share and be with a lot of people
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and be interacting with a million people all at once.
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And really an introvert is much more powerful, although they don't like that
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so much. Like, getting up and meeting everybody really quickly is not really
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your cup of tea. Usually if you're an introvert, you are much more
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capable and you enjoy much more doing a deep
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dive with maybe five or 10 people at a
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networking event. And for me, that would be like, I can't
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even think of doing, like, getting really deep. If I get really deep with one
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or two people, that's my fill for the day, right?
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I'm done. Right. Like, I'm out. And. And so I think
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it's just that sort of difference in. In where you show up
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and what your strengths are, but they're both equally powerful in
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different ways. So it's not that we need to be more like the
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other one. And I, I will ask an audience oftentimes I'll say, do you identify
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as an introvert or an extrovert? Put it in the chat and I'll have
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so many answers like, well, I'm an ambivert or I'm an extrovert
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that acts like an introvert or I'm an introvert that acts like an extrovert or
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whatever. And I'm like, you don't have to be anything other than what's natural and
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comfortable for you. You just need to leverage the
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strength that you already have. That's much more powerful
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than trying to pretend to be something that you're not. Well,
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you know, the other thing is. So you're the extrovert, I'm the
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introvert. I'm like, when I'm finished, I don't want to talk to you. I
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mean, I've had it and you know, I realize that that's the reason
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I don't do all day events most of the time. Yeah, I need like a
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half a day or if I have to be with you all day, you have
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to go get lunch on your own. Don't ask me to come have lunch with
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you because I don't want to see you. Right. And, but I
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think the more you understand who you are,
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the better you can deliver your message and who's listening.
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I mean, it's very interesting to me because I talk to people about their
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unique power and typically your unique power is the
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intersection of what you do really well
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with the people who wouldn't even consider
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that need those things. So what I find really interesting is
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I am not really detailed oriented, but I'm finding that right now
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my clients are incredibly detail oriented and
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they need my big picture point of view. They need to, they need to
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get out of the weeds and kind of come up for air.
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And I'm like, isn't that interesting? Because I absolutely am not
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at all. Do you know? So, and I actually just
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worked with a friend. I spent a month in Spain,
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which is like my life does not suck. Right? Like, I lived in
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Spain for a month. I do it pretty much every summer now. I've been doing
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it for four years and it's just a delight. But while I was there, my
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friend Jennifer and I were actually working on disc profile.
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She's, she can do the analysis and she's certified. And so
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we went through the disc profiles and I'm a very high, I, I is
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influence. And so I'M like, energetic and I can talk
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everybody into doing stuff and we can be like. Like, that's who I am. Right.
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And then I have, like, it's. It's 96%
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I. And then my D is at like 68%,
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which is driver personality. So you combine those two and. And you've got
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somebody super enthusiastic with also the push energy.
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And I think you and I were discussing how you. You were like,
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I'm. I'm. I'm looking at maybe doing some stages in the future. And I was
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like, do it. Do it now. It'll be fun. And like, what?
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And so, like, that's my personality and, and I have an
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ability to do that where other people would hate doing that. Right.
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Conversely, I have, on the disc profile, it's D, I, S and C,
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and the S and the C. I have almost none of like,
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Like, C is for compliance, which is. Which is like the,
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you know, the, the like follow all the rules to the letter and, and
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find the places where people are making mistakes and things like that. And I'm like,
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I'm out. No, thank you. Right? Because I'm like, if it's not. If
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it's. If it's. If it's not fun, it's not worth doing is my motto. And
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then the second one is done is better than perfect. Right? Like, let's just get
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it out there and see what happens. And so compliance for me
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is just like a joke. And it's not because
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compliance keeps us out of jail. Right. It's a good thing. But
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I need to have people around me that have that so that I can
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stay out of jail. Right. And I can make sure that my team is making
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sure that we're compliant with all kinds of things. But, yes, what you're saying is,
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if you have a strength here, other people need that strength. And you might,
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sir, you might not be serving your same people that are just like you,
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serving people that need that supplementation of what you have, and they
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don't. And I have to tell you that
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Kimberly's team is amazing. I
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have worked on different things with Kimberly's team, and they are always
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amazing. If you go to an. An event that Kimberly's team is.
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Is running, they are taking care of the details, they are juggling
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stuff, they are making sure stuff runs. All right, I'm going to try to
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reign you in just a little bit and see if I can get the question
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answered, which I may not. Can you think of one small
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change that makes you better at this than anybody else?
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Yeah, I think so. I did what
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maybe when I, when I was like I said when I was
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born, I was sharing my opinion. I loved being on stages. I was the lead
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in the school play multiple times. I loved being out there. You
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know, you could just, you could give me applause and compliments. I didn't need an
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allowance, I just wanted applause and compliments. Right. That felt
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fed me up, but then it sort of got trained out of me.
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So in elementary school, as you would go through, you know, junior high and then
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high school, it's sort of like, no, you got to follow these rules and these
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are the things. Like I was the one that they would, the, the teacher would
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stand right next to your desk and put their hand on your desk and be
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like, that's just to say you need to be quiet and you need to not
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be socializing. Which. Yeah, I don't know if any of your people
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listening were in that, that same vein. Maybe it's just me, but I definitely
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had that. I was a talker. And so it gets trained out of you over
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time. And then as I went through college, I did what they told me
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to do, which is, you know, go to work, get a good job with health
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insurance. Right. And so I did. And I worked at a corporate job for
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about 17 years and 15 of them were good.
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I was climbing the corporate ladder and I really enjoyed it. And the last
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two, not so much. It was a job that just didn't fit me
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anymore. I was climbing a ladder I didn't even want to be on. And
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I was vehemently trying to throw myself off that ladder. And
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my, my company really enjoyed me and they kept trying to hire me back. So
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it took me about two years to officially resign and,
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and my now ex husband was not a big fan of me
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resigning because I had climbed the corporate ladder and I was in pretty much golden
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handcuffs where I was making a lot of money, but I just didn't love it
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anymore. I was really unhappy. And so when I quit,
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that was actually not the turning point. It wasn't until I
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decided that I would start a new business. And the business
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grew to a million dollars. And it was amazing. That was the goal.
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Build a million dollar business. But I built the same business that
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I'd already been doing and I was over it. And so I was really
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miserable. And even though I had this, this huge business that was
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super successful, I just wasn't into it.
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And I went into like sort of a mild depression. And I remember
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like not going into work one day. It was my own company. And I was
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like, I'm not going in. I'm just going to go for a walk. And I
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ended up, we have a mountain nearby called Iron Mountain. And I was like, I'm
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going to hike to the top of the mountain. Maybe the answer will be up
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there. And it wasn't.
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And I came back down and I walked into the house and my 15 year
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old son said to me, oh, mom, I'm glad you're home. I have a problem.
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And I thought, great, somebody
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else's problem to focus on. Have you ever felt that
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way? Like you're like, I cannot figure out my own problem,
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but if I have somebody else's problem to figure out, like I'm on it, right?
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So that's where I was. And I was like, what's the problem? And he said,
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well, I'm 15 and a half this summer and
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that's the problem. I'm the wrong age. I thought,
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how so at 15 and a half? And he said, well, I'm
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too young to get a summer job because in the US you have to be
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16 to get a real, you know, part time job in the summer. And I'm
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too old to go back to summer camp because I'm 15 and a half and
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I know everything. And that's boring and stupid now, right? Of course
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it is, because you're 15 and a half. Plus, he was frankly taller than
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all the camp counselors, so yes, and no more summer camp for him.
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So I said, well, why don't we just create a business around what you love
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doing? Because he was a little entrepreneur himself. And I was like, let's just, let's
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just build a business around something fun for the summer. And he was really
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excited about it. And so we put in all the things he was good at
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into Google. We didn't have chatgpt at the time. And out came this
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idea of being an audiobook narrator. And he was super
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excited about that because he read books to kids at the library and he was
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on stage like mom and loved being doing improv and,
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and, and he's like, I would love that. So we built a business
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around being an audiobook narrator and you audition for
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books and we got so much business. Hey, I was doing it too because it
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was super fun. Like we were having so much fun and we got so much
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business, we couldn't handle it all. We couldn't deliver on time. And we
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realized like, oh my gosh, the fun aspect had us like moving forward,
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but now we're kind of stuck so we, instead of trying to muscle
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through and do the stuff that wasn't fun, we decided to
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teach at the local adult school a class on how to
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be an audiobook narrator so we could offload some of our work.
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And we started teaching the class and we loved it. And I
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remember at that class thinking, this is really fun.
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This is really. It should be fun. Life should be fun.
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It should light you up, it should give you joy. Because we're all brought here
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with different loves, things that we love to do. So what is it
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that, that lights me up? Being able to teach, Getting on stage, sharing with
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somebody else, being able to hand my son the mic and have him teach, and
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watching him bloom was so powerful and so exciting. I was like, we're
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gonna do this. Well, I don't know if you know, but
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it turns out you don't make a lot of money when you teach at an
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adult school. It's like, I do know that.
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$16 an hour for the three hour class that we taught. And then we
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split it and it was like, okay, well, that wasn't, you know, highly
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lucrative. So we started teaching classes online and then
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charging, you know, $50 and then $100
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and then $197 per seat. And then we were
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like, then we were cooking with gas. So it was super fun. And we did
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that for a while until the joy ran off of that one. And I
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realized, you know, that's the key, like, if you're doing what
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you love. I was, I was loving it for the first 17. For the first
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15 of those 17 years, I really enjoyed climbing the corporate ladder.
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Until I didn't. Yeah. And when I kept doing it, it was like,
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something's wrong, something's broken. And it did kick in, like a mild
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depression for me. And thank goodness it wasn't a very serious one. It
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wasn't, you know, medically treated or anything like that, but it was like this
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icky feeling of getting up and not wanting to do anything, not wanting
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to go in. I remember being at my, my corporate job at 10 o'
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clock at night, just crying because my kids were already in bed and I was
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gonna go home and not even see them until the morning. Like, I was just
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so unhappy. And I think that if you
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hit that spot, you really need to step back and
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think, what is it that I love doing? And it could be stuff
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in your current job, or it could be stuff in your personal life, or
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it could be stuff with your church or your religious organization,
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but you have to embrace the things that you Love doing.
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To light that fire again. So I just want to say this because I
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think this is so important. And, you know, as you're.
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Whether it's your entrepreneurial journey or any point in your life, I think
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you have to say, what is it? You know, this is the cliche, what would
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I do for nothing? You know that I love it so much.
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Right. And you're absolutely right about what you said.
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Certain things are educated out of us, and part of the reason for that is
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because, you know, our educational system
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was meant to. To educate drones. I
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mean, so you, you know, you follow the steps, you follow the instructions. You
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have a manager, and you follow not. Not to lead or be creative
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or innovative. And I was teaching. I was
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teaching workforce development in a nonprofit, and I was having
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a blast. I was having the best time of my life. And I
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went to a graduation for one of the companies, and the guy
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that was like, the president was like, dude, this is fabulous.
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When are you starting your own business? Right? And my new boss
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was there, and when I got in on Monday morning, it was like, we want
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to know who you talk to, where you're going, where you're putting your hours, all
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the contacts you have, blah, blah, blah. And I, like, I'm out of
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here. I mean, if you're going to sit on top of me like that. If
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they just left me alone, I didn't even have a desire to go out and
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have my own business. You know, I would have been just the happiest person
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piddling around, doing what I. Doing what I do.
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And so, you know, that's part of, I think,
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discovering your unique power. Yeah. What is it that
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you do naturally that you like to do? Do, you know,
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and. And it's interesting to me because I took an assessment. We were talking
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about assessments. I took an assessment. And one of mine is that
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I like to customize and individualize things for people, which
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I do, because that's cool. Yeah. Because
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we're not, you know, we are not the same.
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I mean, we see, you know, you know, we can all do the
23:03
same thing. You know, we can all follow, theoretically, the same
23:07
instructions that come out with different results. And so you.
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So you have to, you know, the thing that makes you. You makes you put
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your little, you know, your little oomph to it or whatever, you know,
23:18
that makes it, you know, absolutely yours. I
23:22
can't believe this, but we've run out of time. I. I just want to throw
23:25
in one other thing. My husband took your. Your.
23:29
Your course. He loves Kimberly, the The audio.
23:33
He took the audiobook course. Yeah, he did. And he went
23:37
down the. He went down the technical hole. I. I need this, you know,
23:40
that kind of thing. But he has found his passion now, so
23:44
he's. He's good. He's doing something that he loves doing, so that's good.
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But he does have a great voice. I would love him to do a podcast.
23:51
I, you know, but I can't convince him, so maybe I should have you talk
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to him. You know.
23:58
Okay, I got to give you the commercial. No, I. Before that,
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before I forget, what would be three things that you pieces
24:06
of advice that you would give an entrepreneur to move their
24:10
business forward with speaking. Speak and speak for those would
24:13
be the three pieces. It would be like, you know, if.
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Here's the first thing. Make yourself a new rule.
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If someone hands you a mic, you say yes. And you wouldn't
24:24
believe how often that happens once you shift that
24:28
mindset. I met so many people that are like, where
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do I find? How can I get on a podcast?
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And when you get into my world at Speakers playhouse,
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we drop 17 to 100 stages a week
24:43
every single week that are opportunities to get on podcasts,
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radio shows, TV shows, web summits, webinars, all kinds of different
24:50
opportunities in person stages. Some of them are pay to play,
24:54
some of them are free, some of them are paid stages. But being able to
24:58
get on a stage, super easy to find them at Speakers Playhouse. But
25:02
once you change your mentality from I want to get on one
25:05
stage to if somebody
25:09
hands me a mic, I will say yes. You would not believe how
25:13
many people are actually trying to hand you a microphone and you've
25:17
just been like, I'm not ready. I'm not doing it yet. I didn't really even
25:20
understand. I couldn't possibly. Those kinds of
25:23
phrases are what you're saying that actually push that opportunity away.
25:27
And speaking is a great way to build your know, like and
25:31
trust with an audience. There's a. I'll get, I'll get. I'll do
25:35
this quick. There is a 7411 principle which was
25:38
discovered by Google when they did some research on what it takes to make a
25:42
buying decision. So if you're a coach and you're trying to sell something and you
25:45
approach somebody and they don't buy, the reason may not be you or your
25:49
offer. It's 74 11. So it takes an average of
25:53
seven hours for someone of research for someone to make
25:57
a buying decision. I mean, think the last time you bought a car, you didn't
26:00
Just go to the lot and just buy one. Right. You did a lot of
26:02
research. First, it takes an average of four different locations to
26:06
find that. Like, I don't want to just buy it from this lot. I want
26:09
to, I want to check the references. I want to say what my friends say.
26:13
I want to look on the website. I might add an app to my phone.
26:16
And then it takes 11 different touches, meaning you see
26:20
the car or you want the car, you find out about the car 11 different
26:24
times, statistically speaking, before you'll make that buying decision
26:27
commitment. So speaking is this great
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way to be able to get content out there where people can get
26:35
you speaking on something like this for 30 minutes of that seven hours,
26:39
that's one different touch. But then if they grab your gift afterwards, that's two different
26:43
touches. If they find you in this podcast and other
26:47
podcasts, that's another different location. So speaking on podcasts
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is just having a conversation with another wonderful human like Yvonne and
26:54
then moving forward into other speaking opportunities. So
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my, my methodology would be to speak, speak and speak.
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And I have to add something to that. Even though we're
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talking about stages, I have to tell you, you
27:10
are missing opportunities. If you're at a workshop or
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you're just on a call and you do not speak up.
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If you do not, if you do not show up on Zoom. I say this
27:21
all the time at my workshop. If you want to grow your business
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and you're afraid to show up, be on Zoom.
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Be on camera in front of people like, you know, that are, are
27:32
like minded people. How are you going to talk to somebody about buying
27:36
your product? I mean, I, I understand if you're driving or something
27:39
like that, you know, because I said this at one of my workshops. I'm like,
27:43
get on, you know, get on the camera. And somebody's like, I,
27:47
I didn't appreciate you bullying me.
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And I was like, this is probably not my right client. Not your person.
27:55
Yeah. Yeah. But the thing is, it doesn't, you know, you.
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Yes. A stage where you're going to, you know, lots of people are going to
28:02
see you, but you, your life is a stage. People
28:06
see you all the time, whether you know it
28:09
or not. Yeah. When I walk into, when I
28:13
would walk into an event, I just recently went to an event in Orlando
28:17
and I knew the person on stage, but I really didn't know anybody in the
28:20
audience and I didn't really have anybody to sit with and I was coming in
28:23
late and so I stood in the back of the room and A person came
28:26
up to me, and he goes, oh, you're Kimberly Crow.
28:30
And I was like, yes, I am. And they're like. He goes, I've seen you
28:33
everywhere. And so then we're in the back kind of talking quietly, and somebody
28:37
else comes in from the back of the room, and he reaches over and he
28:40
goes, do you know Kimberly Crow? And they're like, you're Kimberly Crow? And
28:44
they're like, oh, my gosh, we've seen you everywhere. And so it's just a matter
28:48
of showing up regularly so you're known by before you're
28:51
needed. Yeah, you have to be known before you're needed. That is great. I
28:55
love that. Known before you're needed. And the thing that, you know, I find
28:59
amazing is. And then we got. We got in.
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The thing that I find amazing is I'll go into a networking group, which maybe
29:06
is a new networking group, and somebody will go, oh, you guys
29:10
need to meet Eva, you know, but if.
29:14
You know. But you have to let people know that you're there and
29:18
that you, you know, what you stand for. Yada, yada, yada.
29:21
Okay, gu. I gotta throw in the commercial.
29:25
So as a first step, be sure you subscribe, share, and engage
29:29
on social media about the podcast, because one of the reasons that I do
29:33
this is to give you really useful information so
29:37
that you can supercharge your. Your. Your business and
29:40
hopefully connect you with people that maybe you haven't met before. And this is
29:44
my way of giving back and helping you to, you know,
29:47
expand your world and your community and, you know, the input
29:51
that you have. So I hope you will continue to jo on
29:55
the one small change and realize that just the smallest shift can make
29:58
the biggest change in your business. So, Kimberly, what are your last words
30:02
of wisdom? If somebody hands you a mic, you say
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yes, and if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.
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I love this woman. She.
30:15
I don't normally add extra stuff, but the first time I
30:19
went to Speakers Playhouse because I'm an introvert, I couldn't
30:23
handle it. I. I couldn't stay and I recorded
30:26
it, and I still couldn't do it. And now I
30:30
can. I understand the process. I can do it. So
30:34
I'm gonna tell you. She. Aside from the gift that she has,
30:38
we are definitely going to put in the link Speakers
30:41
Playhouse. And you need to get on her mailing list,
30:44
because this woman knows everybody and everything
30:48
that's going on in the world. Okay. Having said all that and
30:52
catching my breath, I want you to remember that change can
30:56
be simple, but it's not always easy. And it requires courage,
30:59
resilience, and a willingness to step out of your comfort zone. And this is
31:03
what I'm going to say. If you're comfortable, then you are
31:06
probably stagnating and falling behind because the rest of the world is
31:10
changing whether you want to or not. So I hope you
31:14
will continue to join me on the one small change. And until the next time,
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stay very, very curious. Kimberly, thank you so much.
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I had a blast. I don't know if everybody else will have as much fun,
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but I always have fun with you. Ditto. I love it.
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Thanks so much for having me. I have really
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enjoyed every minute. Thanks. Bye, everybody.