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Heather Andrews will coach you into a book that shows you as an authority · Inspiring Stories

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Thank you for listening to De Pictures Media Radio. You rap me you readything
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to me? Oh well? Sah well, what's about sl I just see
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sow lash along? Is it dead event? Welcome back everyone. A few
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episodes ago, we did a group interview with a group of writers who wrote
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the book Self Love Elevated and that book where we had a few of the
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nineteen women who actually co authored the book and which that was going from the
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notes from from the back of the book again, was about the love and
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worth you feel for yourself sets the foundation for the types of relationships you have.
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What you believe is what will be achievable in life. It is embracing
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all the essences of that make youique unique. When you feel the internal connection
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of love for who you are in all of your queen like beauty inside and
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out, that is when life changes. Your self love and worth will help
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you hold on to yourself accountable in your own life, business, and career.
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So that was from the back of the book of Self Love Elevated.
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But we're going to talk today with the creator of this project, Heather Andrews.
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She masterminded, she compiled it, she put it together, and she
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is also the founder of the publishing company to help release this book to the
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world. So why don't we give Heather a warm welcome to the show as
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we find out how she got started in publishing. The can Heather welcome back
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to the show because the last time we hear there was like, I don't
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know how many of the nineteen women. I think there was like fourteen women
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who attended that interview that day. Yeah, there was only like a handful
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of a handful of you guys that could make it right. Yeah, So
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but why don't we start here, how did you actually get started the publishing
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to begin with? It's interesting journey. I did not say that when I
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was eight years old that I was going to have a publishing company, furthest
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thing from my mind because I graduated from a technical school with my medical Radia
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Rittiology Technologists certificate. Then fast forward twenty five years later, I'm in management
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and I get restructured out of a thirteen year career in healthcare management in the
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private sector here in Alberta, Canada. And I was welcomed to it because
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I wanted something different. And you know, for as sad as it was,
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for all of the things that it led to identity crisis and all of
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the things and to figure out who Heather Editors was. I wanted something different,
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so I embraced it and I did the work. I wanted to move
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in a different way forward, in a different way, And when I went
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to a networking event called Womenition, and that day I was greeted by the
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lovely owner of that amazing group by the name of Dorothy Briggs, and I
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met a lot of beautiful, soulful wi that day who had been through obstacles
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in career and obstacles in life, and they really just offered me. And
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one lady in particular, by the name Anne Randro had asked me if I
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wanted to write in a co authored book, as I had just launched my
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health coaching company and I'd always had a business and worked part time when my
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kids were little, So it really was a beautiful open to something totally new.
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And when that happened, I decided. I went home that day and
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to my teenage kids, I've been invited to write in this book. Will
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you think about that? Because visibility it's their mom, And they said,
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Mom, go do you? So I wrote in the book? I wrote
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and it was just a very cathartic experience. It was what I needed to
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release this restructuring that it occurred, and this trension that had happened into this
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world of health coaching, and it launched you know, nineteen soulf women in
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that book too, and it went to number one Amazon, like and this
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is like eight years ago. This is before it's as common as what it
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is now. So it was a big deal. And the lady out of
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the UK who had published the book had mentioned to me that she was looking
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for people to teach publishing too, and I decided to go for this publishing
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mentorship and I brought together nineteen people or no, it was twenty three people
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and in two thousand and early twenty seventeen, about obstacles equally an opportunity,
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and I coached me to write this compilation with these other people and launched it
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and it did really super well. And when people learned that I was able
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to do this, all of those tools were not available back then. This
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is two thousand and seventeen. It was career eight space. It was clunky,
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and there wasn't all of the tools and all of the formatting and all
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of the technology back then that there is today, so well learned that I
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published. They the people just came out of the woodwork and said, hey,
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look to write a book. Can you help me? Sure? So
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I had a team already in place because I had, you know, the
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lady the self publisher out of the UK had said hey, my team rate
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and her team was great, and that's who I started with. And then
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all of a sudden it started into solo authors. We launched another compilation.
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We lont what self love got to do with it? The Real Empowered of
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the real Empowered Journey of the mom Boss, And we did what's got to
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do with it? What's ballads got to do with it? What's obstacles?
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Lebo opportunities one, two and three. We did some project management compilations as
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well, and then we had a bunch of solo people as well. And
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then I started and then I started to get asked to speak, and all
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the way along on a part it plugged into Womenition, which was a working
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platform, but they had leadership conferences. They had a magazine that we could
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be featured in here in Alberta for women entrepreneurs, and I started to speak
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on their stages and fast forward to today, we've published over three hundred authors.
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I'm a fourteen time author, number one author on Amazon myself, and
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and over I think fifty books to mention some of the ones that I've coached
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people on, not the ones that are necessarily under our brand, and then
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we just and then we have like I think eighty percent of those are like
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eighty percent of the books that we've published are like number one bestsellers as well.
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And fast forward two years ago, the license had come up for Womenition
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for me to run it in my citne, and I just so believed in
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the platform of how it can create success for women in business through connection culture,
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all of that and that lean then I launched that as well. So
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I have two companies now and there's been some very cool collaborative partnerships come out
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of these connections. And I also have just recently launched Taking everything that I
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know about publishing and our team of editors, graphic designers, formatters, proof
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readers and all of that team and the marketing strategists as well, I have
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now decided to write my own book, but I didn't want to do it
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alone, so I decided to launch Empire Author's academy and now just taking applications
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for that. It's going to be that concept to publishing with everything in between,
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so the person lands up with their tangible book at the end of it.
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And that's really the journey. It's been all about just serving the people,
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helping them get their their dreams and their stories out there. And I
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know that everybody's walking a little differently because when you publish and you write your
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story and you share it, it becomes a spiritual journey as well as a
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transformational cathartic process. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that from a number of
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authors that we've interviewed. How just getting it out there onto the page.
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And of course the many younger people are like, oh no, we don't
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use the we type it in, we keyboard it in. Well I still
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still when I write an article or something like that, I scribble it down
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on a piece of paper and then transferred onto the keyboard. Right. But
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it's it's it's that process. It opens up the creativity inside of it,
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right. Yeah. Yeah, And believe that people want readers want row and
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real and anybody that I ever ask, why do you want to write this?
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Well, I have this you know this universal experience, but it's my
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own unique experience. And how I threw this universal. You know, there's
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thing universal like divorce, like job loss, like there's just so many things
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that are universal. But the thing, the biggest piece is is that everybody's
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unique experience is just that. And so I might have really one story or
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one story that where I was looking after my mom, but I might not
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have been able to relate to somebody else's because it was different than my own.
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And yeah, and that's really like any any divorce that I ever knew
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was messy. Mine wasn't. Mine was clean. Mine was just amicable.
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Mine was mine was very amicable. I said, I didn't want to be
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there anymore, And of course he was hurt, but he didn't he didn't
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block me in any way from being from moving on. In fact, he's
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getting married next weekend. So you know, I and I sent him best
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witches. I said, I wish you all the very best. I wish
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that I hope should knew more than I better than I did, right,
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you know, in a different way or something like, I lead from a
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place of love because I just and that and only so many people can relate
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to that. Yeah, Well, and I was inspired by my friend's husband
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who was the one who coached me to go this route because it was happy
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him and his wife did it so and so it was his unique experience and
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perspective how I had success in that realm. Yeah, yeah, I can
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tell you right now that, yeah, my my divorce, which is where
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messy one had a contempt at court charge in it. All kinds of sounds
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like I should be interviewing you. It's stuff with that one, right,
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It's like we all have we all have our own story and and one thing
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that we we both because we both work with stories, is how how do
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you present that story so that it inspires the next person. I think it
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has to come from a space of empowerment and victory and gratitude and forgiveness.
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And having said that, one of the questions, one of the first questions
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that I always ask is what is your vision? What is it that you
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wish for your reader to take away from your story? And their answer always
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usually as well, I'm grateful for my experience. I just want, you
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know, someone to know that they're not alone. I want to know that
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the that there's you know, a light at the end of the time.
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And I want to be just share those those that how I moved through it.
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So come from that space of empowerment and with no fear. And a
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lot of times people come to me where they are ready to share, but
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there's still those little crinkles of shame or those little crink of hurt, or
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those little pieces that you know they might have a tear as they're typing up
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their story or writing their story. But maybe those are the pieces that need
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to be shared the most, because those are the pieces that the person needs
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to release to create that news piece for the things that are coming for them
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and for them to write what the reader needs to read. And I always
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ask also four questions when we're doing the upfront coaching as they're getting going,
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and we do almost like a you know, what is it that? What
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transformation do you as the author want to have? What transformation do you is
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the reader want to What do you want for your reader? What do you
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want for your business if you have a business, what traumation do you want
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for your for the world to read your book? Right? And when you
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come at that perspective from when you come at that perspective of it and you
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actually go back and reread your answers. It's amazing how that shifts the energy
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to the author's job really is is to entertain the reader, solve a problem
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for the reader, help them escape through a fiction book or just education.
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And so we just have to figure out what that role is for that author
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and their reader. And that's kind of how we do it in nonfiction.
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A lot of it is really a round a story, and sometimes we have
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to go back and say, you know, we take decades of their life
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and we do the highlight reel or those defining moments of the good, the
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great, the icky, and really put it in a space of Okay,
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what have you overcome and what have you conquered to be where you are today?
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Because some of us we moved through the motions, but we never actually
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turn back and go, oh wow, okay, like what I look at
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the whirlwind that just happened and that was literally my three years, Like the
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last three years have been just oh my lord, Like if anything was the
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top ten stressors all put into the last three years, it was the last
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three years for me. But what I face now is nothing compared to that.
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And that's how I've dialogued it because there's still a lot of work to
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do because we were still you know, there was some stuff that happened in
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COVID, and you know, that's why we've launched a new academy, and
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that's why we've kind of taken a little bit of a turn because when we
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lost our event was money lost, so we have to you know, and
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there was clients that didn't get to share, and there was all these things,
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so you have to pivot with time, right, yeah, yeah,
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And that's really around like you know, authors might have you know, lost
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you know, number one best seller or they you know, or the or
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prepamed to write or or it, you know, or they had other things.
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So that's why we sort of had to do things a little differently even
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in my company. And that's where we go. But this next three years
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is going to be so fun because I've got it all. I've got not
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all, but I've got a plan and of course writes us. But it's
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but when I look at it, I'm excited because I've learned a lot of
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lessons in the last three years and even the first you know, five years
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in business before that, so it'd be a totally different road. That's gonna
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uncover or you know that's going to occur for us because of just all the
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lessons and the teachings and the evolution of Get You Visible and we own Womanish
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and there's just and then starting at this Empire's Author's Academy is taking everything that
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I know and rolling it into this beautiful community of authors that are just gonna
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gonna rock. Yeah, it sounds exciting. You you create brands like I
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create podcasts though, and a lot of times, you know, build build
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around, build a brand around there. And that's the beautiful part of it
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because you need these things. You need to know how to podcast, you
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need to know how to speak, you need to know how to write a
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book. You know you have that book or that visibility component. And you
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need to know how to tell your story. It doesn't matter what business you
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are in. You have to be able to tell your story. And see
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bottom line, that's that's it, right, We have to be able to
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tell that story because someone needs to hear that story, right yeah, yeah,
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Well, and I always and I talk about Michael in the space of
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relatability and relatability it is like when you can share a story like you're going
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to take your top ten story or those you know you want to be a
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master storyteller, and those are the businesses that are going to survive this next
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few, this next you know, this, this next decade. I don't
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know. There's a quote out there in the business world, and I don't
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know who said it, but if you become a master storyteller, you will
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survive because it is the next greatest asset that you can have. And I
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believe that because when you share a story about child self, some scenario in
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your world, you're opening up your heart and you're opening up that dialogue space
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and people have been connecting over stories for years. It's it's incredible. And
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that's how knowledge has been handed down through the generations. That's how knowledge has
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been shared is all through story and teaching because it holds your attention versus not
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and creating that relatability and that vulnerability, and when people feel that from you,
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they will relate to you more and they will trust you more as well.
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Right, because the story is important. It's like, as you said,
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the idea of telling stories goes back thousands of years to when we were
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still in the caves, right roglyphics. Yeah, yeah, even if you
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look at some ancient dances, right, it's telling the story of how they
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track down the big game and brought it home for all of us, defeast,
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right Exactly. What are some of your favorite stories that you've captured.
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There's been so many. I think Brittany Hamilton, who was a part of
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our interview and what self love got to do with it. Orange wasn't her
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color? And that one when I talked to her when she faced her twelve
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to twenty four years before the Judge. And I'm not going to unravel any
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of this because you have to buy what self love elevated to read her story.
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But all of them, you know, like there's just been many stories.
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Hers was one that really really rooveted my heart because you couldn't make that
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up even if you had a tried what happened to her. But she's such
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and the die and just the dynamic of how everything unraveled for her and three
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little girls now and it's such a great story. But when I watch her
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journey, she has really stepped into sharing this piece of her story about facing
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the judge from twelve to twenty four in her early twenties, based on a
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situation that happened, and you know, she's like, you know, how
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do you tell your kids? How do you do how do you tell your
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kids the things that have happened when you were in your twenties? And it's
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just a really awesome, awesome story. Doctor Aaron Oxall is another one.
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She came to me in my first book and she was I think her chapter
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was I'm Too Pretty to Be in Jail and hers was about her her fear
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around people finding out her addiction. And now she's an internationally renowned speaker and
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business has grown so much, and she's just a she's a voice, and
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her mission is to free the cap That's what she's you know, like,
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that's her mission is. And she's got a beautiful message. And so I
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really encourage you to go. Wrote her book, Mind your Own Business.
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It is one of them. It is one of the best reads. And
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she's a doctor of psychology and she just looks at psychology so so differently,
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and so I'm really proud of her for what she's done. And one of
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the other stories that got me was it was Marcia O'Malley that wrote in What
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Self Love Got to Do with It one because her little baby died of SIDS,
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but she got charged with murder and yeah, and you know that was
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her baby. She went in and her her head shot was on the six
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o'clock news and when she got the book, she was she didn't go to
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JA. She was let off. But because her baby paths, they figured
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that she but baby died of natural causes and you know, going back like
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four years ago, and she kept this secret until she released it in What
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Self Love Got To Do with It? Volume Won And when I think of
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her, you know, she literally took the book and I asked her to
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do a Facebook live when she opened the book because I knew it was going
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to have this release for her, and she said, it's time that people
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read this. And she was a spokesperson for you know, children with disabilities
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on her parents after this, and she went on to have another child.
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And it's a great read. And there's just so many stories, you know,
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but I think some of them have just been the book. How the
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book has traveled as well. You know, there's just story after because the
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book creates its own energy, It creates its own path in some ways because
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of the path of the human and different different public different authors write for different
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reasons. Sean Tyler Foley's book. He wanted to speak on stage with Tony
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Robbins. He's a friend of mine here for My City, and he wrote
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The Power to Speak Naked, and you know, he's I've got this book
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all done, but I need to get it out. And I said,
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good, let's just get it out then. So we pulled together the book
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cover and he did the book, number one best selling Strategy and then he
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and a few years later he landed up getting picked up in Morgan Jay.
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So now it's actually in the in the stores and it's just and through Sean
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Tyler. I met Michael Harris, Michael Harris's number one pod, number one
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podcast on Podmatch. He was a few year ago, a year and some
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ago, and now he has collaborated with me to help me with pires Author's
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Academy. He's an honor business owner podcast and all of it. So,
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you know, it's just the evolution of the connections and the communities that are
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built this power of publishing and story and connection. Just wanting to do better
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in the world and help lives change and being that influencer and that impact.
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And when I talk about story as well, for myself. I just did
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me talk this past week about the three secrets to creating an abundant story,
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and it was around relatability and relevance and resources and you being the resource at
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the end when you walk the process of sharing your story. But it was
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more than that, because a lot of times we think of bad events keeping
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us stuck or but one incident was I used as an example. It was
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a round perspective, the perspective of your story, and it's you know,
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I got on a plane to say maybe to leave a bit marriage when I
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was twenty three, and then you know, in the next six months,
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I'm traveling in the globe to Egypt and Jordan and Nepal and Dubai. And
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I wouldn't have ever got that if I hadn't taken action and made a different
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decision to get out of something that wasn't serving me, and I wouldn't probably
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if I'd stayed in that marriage, I probably would not have been I wouldn't
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be here today. I can say with absolute guarantee. And so the story
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that you tell yourself or you share, you can say the like say it
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from a place of the scar like raw right, like I made a different
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decision and I got out or you know, I walked this and this is
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what happened, not from that victim or wounded standpoint, because there's a strength
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in when you shift your story with a different perspective, that you walk a
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little taller and you and that's that transformational, cathartic process. And when people
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realize are an author, whether it be a chapter or a solo book,
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there's people are proud that you did that. And even though the felt publishing
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has taken off and there's you know, tons of there's over eight one hundred
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thousand books self publishing books being done every year, you're still an author and
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you still took the time to write this book. And that's the thing.
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When people come to us, I kind of like just take them in the
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pull of my hand and I write them in because this is their story that
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they're trusting with us, and we edit it and we put a beautiful cover
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to it, and it's quality because I want them to hold that power of
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being proud of what their story is. Right. Yeah, it's almost like
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a place to humility that I want to serve you as best I possibly can,
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because yeah, yeah, a lot of times two people say I've written
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a book, I had it edited, but they completely change my voice and
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I'm like, no, no, no, Like it happens, but it
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shouldn't. Yeah, and it does actually happen. Yes, it happens,
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probably more often than what we think. And but there's there is you have
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to honor the author. And that's why with us, the author is working
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one to one directly with our editors and most of the time they will have
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had they will have talked to our authors. And one of our strengths is
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that we had a client published two books with larger companies and they were like,
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but I had to talk to someone overseas at three am. Why can't
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I just have you who's like physically booth round and I can see and I
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can see you, I can I can shake your hand, I can go
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to your conferences. So there's that that global lessons, and then there's the
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that that personal touch is still hugely important. And despite the fact that we
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are running a group program in the Author Academy, people are still going to
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have MM They're going to have one to want attention. Yeah, And you
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know, in the beginning, I was basically asked if I've been Walmart or
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hold Renfrew And I said, we are going to be whole Renfrew, because
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people are important to me and I want them to feel valued and they're not
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just another number with us. Yeah, because we are, but we're because
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we're creating this book that's going to change their life. Yeah. For for
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those of you who are listening in the United States that don't know who run
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Through is, think of Neem and markets please yes, yeah, Well,
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references are important and I get you know, I I understand a lot of
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that because we're in the film industry also, right, And when somebody comes
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comes with those pages or or that, or they just want want to tell
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that story and you s sit them down in front of the camera and you
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and you push the record button, it's like it's no longer about you,
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it's about them, you know. And it's good to hear that that that
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that a published author like you has a process to go on with this.
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So yeah, and it might not necessarily be some days as Finesta is what
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it should be, but you can't. You can't put someone in a box
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like we have our system and we have our STREP procedures that we follow and
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and different people come to us for different with different needs. But for the
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most part, you know, it's right, edit, book, cover,
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strategy, show up, visibility. Those are kind of the six. But
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there's also those There's also those ones that need ghostwriting. There's also those ones
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that might be further along in the process. Or they've got their manuscript done
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and but now they need the marketing piece, so how do we get them
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there? And or they've been through a self published but they want to relaunch
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their book, but they need to change a couple of things because a few
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things have changed. So you know, there's there's all of these things,
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and people ask me, I'm like, what is your niche? And I'm
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like, I help people. I help honors write and publish their best sognbook.
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But we do however, am I a legacy maker? Darren Straight?
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I am, because we've got a ninety year old lady right now who was
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a celebrity. She loved working with kids, and she had a kids show.
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She hosted the Kids Show many years ago, and she has a beautiful
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children's book that she's doing with us right now, and she is just as
34:29
cute as a button. And she said, I just want little kids to
34:34
know that they have the superpower within them and it's their breath. And so
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she's got this. She did a whole little video with me and she just
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said it so beautifully. And her book is being her book is being illustrated
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as we speak with the with the copy being edited, and that one probably
34:54
released, I think in November. And it's like my big my big brother
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has a superpower or something like that, and it's just about breathing and it's
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just the cutest little thing. He comes home and he's got this new little
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sister. He's like, what do I do with this this little sister?
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And he realized that when he breathed in deep, you know, he had
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this beautiful experience and he was like, I feel so much better, and
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you know, and this book is going to be a legacy piece for her
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family. And she's just just watching her when she saw the illustration, and
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so it's really never too late to live out a dream. And so it's
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just such a beautiful it almost brings When I saw her reaction, it brought
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huge tears to my eyes because I was like, this is to be modeled,
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this is to be captured, this is to be this is her essence.
35:54
Yeah, and it's going to live on and that, and so you
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know, there's just so many aspects to what we do. And when I
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see somebody get up and speak for the first time because we've coached them to
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their story and they get up on stage and share it and they just share
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it with such eloquency, and or they podcast their story and they're so proud.
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You just it's like watching your kids on the stage. Because my son
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plays in a band and I remember and I've watched them fourteen years of old.
36:28
Or you know, when I hear my daughter talk about, you know,
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her first day of teaching because she just graduated with free and for teaching
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and she's already taught at you know, she's got a full time job going
36:39
into September. And you know, you hear what the people say and you
36:44
go, awesome, Yeah we help them, Yeah we guided them. And
36:52
it's not about me, It's about them. And maybe that's the healthcare the
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healthcare worker in MET because it's never been about me. It's always been about
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sick patient who I needed to serve. And that's really what we're about here.
37:08
Get you Visible and the reminition and the academy, and that's what we
37:14
do serve. Yeah, So how to put this because because they did it
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all about about service ultimately, right, what if? What are some of
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the things that that you in the end get out of it, you know,
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for me to keep pushing you? For me, I want my vision
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for my life is to speak and really shift people's perspective from a space of
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you know that's store holding them back and showing what's the little when you persevere
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and you have the staying power. I could have quit this business like ten
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times, but I see people's I see the shift in people, and I
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see how they go and shine their light, and I want to speak.
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That's my goal. I just want to speak and help people come into this
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space and I want to have an aim that's working within their zone, a
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genius so they can be a better mom, a better like, they can
38:36
just have the life they want. And then in turn, you know,
38:38
the people that are hiring us to help them write their books or share their
38:44
stories or come into that space of vulnerability and just really create that unification of
38:50
like minded individuals for better community and be role models for our kids, because
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it's our children that are our future. I really want them to understand you
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know there's wisdom within our these you know, us me old people because I'm
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fifty three and you know, and I just like the world has changed,
39:14
and I get that. But at the end of the day, it's it's
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a revenue stream for this person. It's showing them what they can create.
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It's showing what power of connection can do and collaboration. And when you bring
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and you create this platform of people who are just there for the common good,
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the world shifts. Seen it, witnessed it, and I've witnessed people
39:44
coming together in collaborative spaces and you know, holding events which have changed women's
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lives or men's lives for that matter. I see the humanity coming back to
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people because that rawness and that ability to share is there. I mean,
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maybe some of this is a little bit idealistic, but I know from a
40:08
healthcare perspective, the world's hurting with more overdoses, more mental health, our
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children post COVID, and how do we make shift this. We have to
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bring the masses together, We have to share the stories, we share the
40:25
tools to get people through this. And so whether it be books, podcast,
40:30
audio, books, video content, social media and people follow you like
40:36
whatever that is It's kind of like the whope factor, you know. And
40:43
what lights me up is when somebody says when people come when people come up
40:51
to me and they say like, thank you for sharing that. Like the
40:54
other night on that summit, the ladies like, we live in a pretty
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positive, you know, home, but it's me that's preaching it. And
41:00
my two daughters sat here and watched you. And it was great that it
41:05
came from a different perspective because a she said it made it like having someone
41:13
like you say it, and I'm like her, I'm a mom, got
41:17
kids, you know. But God graced me with this business and he just
41:23
put in front of me these things that I'm just going out and making a
41:28
difference. But to have her tell me that her daughters listened to that and
41:32
they walked away with okay, mom, right, thank you. That it
41:38
means that you're making a difference. And if those were two little if those
41:43
two girls can go and share something with their friends, but what they heard
41:46
or what they read or what their mom said in a different light, and
41:51
then my work is my work is done in that in that space, and
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that's really what I'm here to do, to help shift people into the story
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of what they should of what they Yeah, that's pretty amazing me, totally
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honest with you, pretty damn amazing. So we are starting to run out
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of time though. It's fine. So you partly answered my last question to
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you. Okay, what would the the perfect or the most beautiful world look
42:37
like to you? And you already partly described that, So keep going,
42:45
like, I what does that world look like? I My desire for everyone
42:55
is just to know that when they love themselves and they can step into that
43:00
space and not rely on the the likes on Facebook to fuel fuel their self
43:08
worth, right, but really like take those tools and really look within and
43:17
and know that you matter. Your story matters. You know, you were
43:23
put on this earth to to have relevance because your your relevance is your you
43:30
were put here right and it was like, you know, you have a
43:34
unique experience, you have a unique world, all of that brilliant you and
43:39
people's upbringings weren't the very best I've seen it. But at the same point,
43:46
there's people out there that have overcome and if you just if you just
43:51
follow or latch on or you know, and you find hope within a space
43:54
or a community, they will take you in and they will just love on
44:00
you so that you can heal and just really know that there is healing and
44:10
you do move through processes and life is better after a mishap of some description.
44:16
And really it's just I want our kids to be healthy. That's really
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what I want. I don't. I want homelessness to go away, and
44:25
I want mental health reduced, and I want just people to have the tools
44:31
and the resources in whatever capacity that is so that they can kneel and that
44:39
they can know that there is better out there for them and that somebody,
44:44
you know, and their whole right, they themselves are a whole human and
44:51
you know, and that goes back into our addictions and our Yeah, it
44:55
goes back into addictions. And because nobody ever asked the they nobody ever wanted
45:00
to be raised like when they were born and say I want to be an
45:04
addict. It's that journey along the way right and break the generational trauma and
45:08
be more aware and be more self aware and come at things from a space
45:13
of love. And everybody will ripple because of that, yeah, and that
45:21
that inclusion, that and it really just acceptance of people in their space because
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we've all got a heart, we've all got a soul, we're all brilliant.
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It's just some of the things that have happened to us that kind of
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cover that sometimes. Yeah, basic ways to get a hold of you www
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dot Empire, Authors, Academy dot com or www dot get you visible dot
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com. Awesome, you know, Heather, It's been a pleasure again and
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I look forward to doing more work with you. So I look to you
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you as well, Michaelena. I'm just so glad that Helena Smallock introduced us
46:04
because I just see such good things with you. Yeah, all right,
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all right, thank you everybody for listening today. Yeah, thank you everybody
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