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Faith-Driven Visibility: Growth Mindset, PR & AI in Business ft. Anna Tran · King Dems Podcast | Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights

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  NPR For a long time, I thought PR was just about helping people
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  get seen. But over time, God showed that
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  visibility isn't just about being seen, it's about being
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  sent. And that's why I always lead
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  with. And how are they serving others?
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  Using your platform to serve, not just to show.
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  God doesn't elevate for attention, He elevates for
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  assignment. That that revelation completely
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  shifted how I LED who I partner with, what I do, and the
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  visibility become less about popularity and more about
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  purpose. It's no longer about, you know,
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  chasing the spotlight. It's about carrying the light
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  for for a lot of people. Before we dive back into today's
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  somebody very, very special, whitened out of a soccer Japan
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  by. Way of Vancouver, Canada back.
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  Welcome. Honour the world's best PR
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  strategies. Tron.
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  the show. How are you doing today?
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  Excellent. Thank you so much for the hype.
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  It's it's a great start to 5:00 AM here.
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  So Champions today's conversation is a master class
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  in faith treatment, leadership, local reinvention and purposeful
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  feasibility. Our guest, Anna Tran is not just
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  a PR strategist, she's a story architect and scripture leader
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  for modern visionaries. As the founder of Level Up With
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  Honour, she has helped countless entrepreneurs and thought
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  leaders move from Who's that to must have earning features and
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  Forbes users Insider and USA TODAY.
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  But beyond the headlines, Anna's story is 1 of courage, calling
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  and conviction. She recently moved from Canada
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  to Japan with her family, a faith LED leap that symbolises
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  her belief that destiny unfolds when we align our mindset,
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  mission and movement. Anna Tran, welcome to the
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  Kingdom's broadcast. We have emerged mindset, skill
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  set and tool set to build the impact that outleaves us.
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  Wow. I'll leave you in the safe hands
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  of my. Co host.
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  Thank you. Thank you so much for being
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  here. It's so great to meet you.
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  I know that you've been talking to Adamola for a while now
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  trying to get this scheduled. So it's kind of funny that now
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  by the time we are are able to connect, you're actually in a
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  completely different corner of the world.
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  Your expertise is NPR. Do you want to tell us a little
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  bit about your background? I know that you mentioned that
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  you call yourself a sort of PR nerd.
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  When did you first realise that the type of visibility that the
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  brands you work with, the people you work with or even just
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  yourself and you are positioning your own brand instead of just
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  being seen. How did you know that it was
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  about much more than that? Yeah, absolutely.
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  Yeah, I know. When I first met with Adam Ola,
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  I was in Vancouver. So he totally vouched for me.
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  Totally different background. And yeah, that's how we
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  connected, just through doing outreach for for my clients,
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  just looking at different shows to be on.
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  And of course, in PR, for a long time I thought PR was just about
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  helping people get seen. But over time, God showed that
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  visibility isn't just about being seen, it's about being
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  sent. And that's why I always lead
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  with purposeful or intentional, intentional PR.
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  And it's more about stewardship at the end of the day, like who
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  are these people that I'm serving and how are they serving
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  others? Using your platform to serve,
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  not just to show. I always say God doesn't elevate
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  for attention, He elevates for assignments.
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  That, that revelation completely shifted how I LED who I partner
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  with, what I do, and the visibility become less about
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  popularity and more about purpose.
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  It's no longer about, you know, chasing the spotlight.
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  It's about carrying the light for, for a lot of people as
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  well. So that's why I, I feel like
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  calling for visibility. And naturally I I evolved from
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  being in years of sales to marketing and now here I am,
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  public relations. That's amazing to hear.
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  Do you want to give some of us and some of our listeners a
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  little background just on your faith in general and kind of
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  where it came from? You know, did it come from your
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  upbringing? A lot of different people,
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  they'll grow up in a certain type of religion, domination or
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  a church, and some people find it a little later in life.
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  What's your story? Oh, that's something that I did
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  not prepare for, actually, but it's really.
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  Some. If that's not OK to ask, I'm
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  totally. No, no, it's a really great
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  question because I grew up heavily A Buddhist.
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  My, my family, that's all we, that's all we knew.
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  We went to the temple quite a bit.
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  However, over time, I, I just keep meeting with the right
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  people who didn't force any type of religion because I know what
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  being forced a religion feels like growing up as Buddhist,
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  right? That's all you know, but yeah,
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  meeting amazing people like going to church with friends
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  just for fun on Christmas and later on, who's my now husband
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  we've been friends for since high school.
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  And my business partner, they were friends as well.
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  And I, I know I'm going all over the place, but the short story
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  is when I quit my job, my very solid job in sales, I went all
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  in on door to door. And every time before we knock
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  in the rain, in the sun, my business partner and my, my now
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  husband, they would pray. And every time they pray, we
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  would get a flood of sales. Yeses, you know, and, and you
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  know, being at the door in the rain, in the cold, it's, it's
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  kind of hard, right? And I'm just like, OK, maybe
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  this God guy is real. So Fast forward 10 years later,
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  here I am. I'm moving to the other side of
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  the world because my faith and helping others share their story
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  and in a purposeful way because I feel led to just be in that
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  position to help others. And I'm just honestly living out
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  what I I never knew I could because of that.
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  It's really incredible how we see see like our own experience
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  a lot of times almost pretty common was that as entrepreneurs
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  or people who build a business and move forward, they call it a
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  spiritual journey for sure. And that it's a spiritual
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  transformation. You go through a certain type of
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  spiritual transformation when you are going through business
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  door to door sales is no joke. So a lot of people cannot do it
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  at all. So I think it's incredible to
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  hear how you even got through that type of industry and every
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  time that you were able to connect with your faith, you
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  understood or not even your faith.
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  You sounds like through the story, you really became a
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  witness to it around you and it kind of just connects with how
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  you grew up in a certain way, but you're able to discover it
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  in a way that you didn't feel was forced.
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  That's really incredible and that's really amazing.
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  Adam, Ola and I, we both have like extensive backgrounds and
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  you know, our own faith journeys.
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  And it's just really awesome that we get to share that with
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  the people who are listening, who are building their own
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  brands, going through their own journeys and where they can kind
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  of pull those types of Nuggets into their own stories.
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  So we really, really appreciate. I know we didn't prepare that
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  question, but thank you so much for just giving your story on
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  that when your brand blends faith in business so beautifully
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  together. That's also why I just really
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  wanted to ask that question and you touched a little bit on it.
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  But do you have any other notes or anything else you want to
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  include on how your spirituality shapes the way you lead, the way
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  you serve, and specifically the way you build your clients
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  legacies? Absolutely and no worries, even
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  if we didn't prepare for these type of questions, I, you know,
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  I light up because I get to talk about who, who our creator is
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  and and why we do what we do. And that's what I love, right?
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  And where faith meets business is because the compass for
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  everything I do, honestly, I literally pray before I pitch or
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  even getting into calls every morning with my clients.
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  It's not just a feature, it's about alignment for me at the
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  end of the day. So when I guide my clients, it's
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  not just helping them build brands.
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  I'm helping them build legacies rooted in integrity and
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  intention. Because when faith is not a
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  foundation, business just becomes it's, it becomes
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  unstable, right? Everyday people are, you know,
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  trying to get attention of others, but what is the purpose
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  behind that? And I, I, I want to stay
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  grounded and help my clients stay grounded in that sense as
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  well. So I completely agree with that
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  as well. Adam, Ola, if you want to chime
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  in at all, feel free because you have a faith-based your whole
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  brand on Kingdoms podcast here is really faith-based as well.
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  But. I see him smiling this whole
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  time. I don't.
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  Know, I know he looks like he wants to chime in, but before he
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  does, I just want to say. Based or.
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  What do you want to say? What what what?
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  What is the title of the article that your your PR guys wrote
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  about? Me, I think.
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  Face, face, face, face. Yeah, I think that I just saw
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  that the fade dreaming CEO. So face is actually.
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  You know, at the background of everything that would do and you
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  know, I know is somebody that I really, really appreciate a lot.
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  I remember the very first day we we met, we we shared Bible
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  verses and. It wasn't just like a business
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  relationship, it was also like. You know, a faith driven
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  conversation and. I remember, I remember on that.
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  Day, Yeah. I think I can't remember, but
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  then I felt like maybe I was feeling.
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  Down that evening it was like a very cold day, like in.
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  London, you don't feel OK? And we spoke and.
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  I feel like we elevated each other's.
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  Spirits, just, you know, sharing words of faith, sharing
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  scriptures, and in my head, I just knew you would collaborate
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  with this person. You will collaborate with the
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  person so like you talking about.
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  Faith, like it just gives me smiles, you know, on my face, on
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  my face rather, because you aligned with purpose, right?
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  And you also like, let your faith take the driver's seat.
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  And that is something that we very much aligned with.
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  So it's, it's interesting how three people who grew up in
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  three different parts of the world, you know, found faith in
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  different ways. And aligned on one call.
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  Tell me, tell me God does not exist.
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  Like only a fool say God does not exist, right?
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  I need to hear your stories. Don't worry, you need to pay us.
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  But there's something, there's something, there's something
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  that Anna posted on Instagram that has been leaving rent.
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  Free in my head, Ana said in that post.
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  Marketing generates awareness or PR generates interest.
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  My OK, OK. What would you want, awareness
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  or interest? I think I want interest, right?
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  So it's amazing that with the work that you do, but like, you
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  know, I'm. I'm, I was actually very curious
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  about your view from Canada to Japan.
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  You know, when I met you first met you, you were in the
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  concrete jungles of Vancouver. And now I think you are in on
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  the other side of the world, you know, in Osaka.
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  I, I hope that's another concrete jungle anyways, but
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  very big shout out to Japan. I have this Japanese set.
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  Last you said to me yesterday I deliberately had to wear it
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  because, you know, I was speaking to somebody in.
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  Japan, but unfortunately you're not in Kyoto.
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  What inspired that bold? Move from Canada, you know, to
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  Japan with your family. I feel like it's a very, very
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  quantum leap. It's a big leap.
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  I remember coming from Nigeria. To the UKA couple of years ago.
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  And in my head was you get in my head.
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  Is you're making a leap, you're making it feels like a gamble,
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  and the gamble has to pay off. You have to become a better
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  person by making this move, right?
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  So, but for you, I want to hear your own migration story.
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  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, for a big move like
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  this, it's completely, you know, may sound crazy as well, but
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  moving from Canada to Japan wasn't a strategic move.
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  It's more of an obedience move and making sure that we were
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  postured right with God before he placed these these strong
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  senses in our hearts. And I'm to be honest, I it was
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  more on my husbands heart as well.
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  I just follow him even though it doesn't make sense on paper.
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  That's when I learned faith isn't just about comfort, it's
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  about calling. And what does Japan have to
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  offer? So it's became a place where
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  it's it's obedience meets spiritual growth as well.
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  So we are just just finding ways to develop ourselves and just
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  removing ourselves from our comfort zone in Canada.
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  And yeah, now here we are. Basically the substance of
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  things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, Hebrew
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  elevens, Hebrew Chapter 11 verse one.
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  And of course it goes further down and says Ibrahim Hafi, and
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  it has counted unto him unto righteous past.
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  It is impossible to please God without faith.
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  So you had that divine confirmation, but then was there
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  like any specific moment during that relocation when you felt
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  like, aha, we have that divine confirmation or that sense of
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  this is what I am meant to be doing?
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  Like at what point did you feel that way?
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  You know, when we first landed in Japan, there was this quiet
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  moments. It was of course Japan is you
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  know it's busy over stimulating at times.
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  However, that quiet moment, there was No Fear, no doubt
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  sense of peace, if I may, and it was my confirmation.
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  And although we didn't even we're not able to read some of
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  the signs, understand the language, it's, it's not like
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  God's going to give us a big loud sign.
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  Sometimes his confirmation comes from stillness and that deep
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  knowing that you're exactly where you're meant to be.
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  That's what is my foundation. It's that faith.
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  I know that you guys, you guys studied for about two years, you
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  know, suddenly the language, suddenly the culture.
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  But I was always going to giggle, right?
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  You talked about not been able to read the signs because it
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  reminds me of when I went to Lithuania.
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  I was in Lithuania for a whole. Week and then when I'm going
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  out, Google Mouse is my best friend.
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  And then I look at the signposts and I like, all of a sudden I'm
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  an illiterate, I cannot read the signs.
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  Yeah. You know what The funny thing
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  is? Even though we can read
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  characters if we put it together, we don't know the word
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  like, OK, yeah. Like.
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  You know The funny thing? There was this time I I took an
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  Uber to Salt Rare in Lithuania and I don't know.
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  It's like it was like I literally got lost.
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  Some words are like similar or like synonyms.
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  So I think I went to the wrong place.
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  I'm like, oh. I want to go to this other place
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  and then I had to speak to the Google translator.
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  Then the Google translator speaks to the driver, Then the
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  driver speaks into the Google translator.
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  Google translator speaks to me. The soft, that's how you got to
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  do it. That's how you got to do.
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  It never been frustrated in life.
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  Oh. Man.
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  You should try the Google translator thing.
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  It's crazy and you know, a lot of them don't.
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  Speak when I say broken English, so the English.
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  Is like copy and paste with their local language.
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  And it's, it's just a mix and match.
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  It's it's crazy. And you know when you go.
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  To buy something and then they're telling you things in
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  English and the language. But like, how are you guys
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  coping? Thank you for bringing up the
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  science thing. Yeah, well, through it all,
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  like, you know, it is the testing of faith and
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  strengthening, right? So although everything may seem
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  overwhelming at first, it was surprisingly smooth because the
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  more you look and you know, it's, it's funny how God leads
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  you. I, I, I didn't feel overwhelmed
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  at all when we first landed. It was just like, OK, here it
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  is. This is where we got to go.
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  This is the bus. Like at least there was some,
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  there's English as well on top of all the, the Japanese
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  characters, right? So it was pretty
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  straightforward. I was surprised actually how
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  easy it was to find our way around.
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  English or top of the Welsh characters.
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  I think now you're reminding me of Wales.
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  When I went to Wales, I I went. With my South African friend.
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  And then she was like, oh, I want an authentic Welsh
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  experience. I was like, are you really sure
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  you know what you're saying? She said oh I want an authentic
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  Welsh experience and. Then we went.
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  To the Wales Millennium Centre, you know.
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  All of. The signposts in Wales, right?
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  You see English and Welsh, English and Welsh and then when
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  we got to the Wales Millennium Centre, there's this very big, I
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  think it's like a, it's like a stadium, it's like an event
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  centre and everything was just written in.
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  Welsh And then we couldn't read anything.
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  We couldn't read Jack. And then my friend was like, oh
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  I can't read this thing. And then I came from behind.
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  I said now that is the authentic Welsh experience.
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  So you tell me, what has been your authentic Japanese
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  experience? Oh man, Are you ready for this?
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  I am ready to rumble. I am ready.
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  Noella is not ready. I'm ready.
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  Noella needs some Nutella. Noella needs some Nutella to get
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  ready. Well, I, I, I don't know if this
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  is authentic, but we had chicken sashimi a couple of times.
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  She was not ready. All right.
• 22:52
  I was not ready. I said it.
• 22:55
  I. Said it.
• 22:56
  Anna tried. Anna tried.
• 22:57
  You're my witness. Get this woman to give me $1000.
• 23:02
  Oh my gosh, chicken sashimi. It's crazy.
• 23:06
  Like raw chicken? See anybody that knows?
• 23:09
  Me never in my life. Anybody that anybody that knows
• 23:13
  me knows, I don't like sushi. I don't like sushi.
• 23:18
  You can. I love sushi.
• 23:19
  I don't like sushi. You can arrest me all you want.
• 23:23
  I do not like sushi. How was it?
• 23:27
  It was. It was.
• 23:28
  It's better than you think. Honestly, it's better than you
• 23:30
  think. Really.
• 23:32
  Yeah, it's like. Crazy to me that is.
• 23:35
  So I need to look that up because I do love sushi.
• 23:38
  I love raw fish, I love ahi tuna, you know, basically
• 23:42
  everything. But for some reason, chicken
• 23:46
  sashimi freaks me out. Freaks.
• 23:49
  I've got freaks. Oh yeah.
• 23:52
  And I think all of those fishes and stuff like I've tried
• 23:55
  Japanese food like I've. I worked at KPMG in the UK, so
• 24:00
  it's an international, you know what I say, community, right?
• 24:05
  So it's like the headquarters of KPMG, right?
• 24:08
  So we used to have this international canteen and on
• 24:14
  some days this Japanese food day, I think.
• 24:16
  Have you tried the ma, the malbons?
• 24:18
  Is it the malbons? There's something they call
• 24:22
  malbons, and then there are like some round stuff that are white.
• 24:24
  Then the tofu as well. You tried.
• 24:28
  You tried a tofu. Like, no disrespect to Japanese
• 24:31
  people. I love Japanese people.
• 24:32
  But Japanese food, I'm sorry. I don't like much of the food.
• 24:35
  So I have tried a wide array of Japanese food.
• 24:39
  But personally, I don't like it. But I don't like to be
• 24:42
  disrespectful to people and people's cultures.
• 24:45
  There are some of them that, yeah, are tasty, but most of
• 24:48
  them, right. So I guess if I was the one that
• 24:51
  got told to go to Japan, I think I would be crying at the
• 24:54
  beginning. Of the instructions.
• 24:58
  I'll eat anything. I'm here for the food.
• 25:00
  Yeah, here for the food wing. Wow.
• 25:03
  So what's? Your best food right now from
• 25:05
  Japan. The best food.
• 25:08
  Yeah, that you strike. I would say anything chicken or
• 25:13
  beef. That's my go to.
• 25:16
  I love sushi as well, but I'm not a big fan of tuna to be
• 25:20
  honest. I like the chicken sashimi
• 25:21
  better than this tuna sashimi. Really.
• 25:24
  Yeah. That that's the thing where
• 25:25
  people stuff pallet. Maybe I should try it then
• 25:28
  maybe? Maybe you should.
• 25:30
  Try it. I don't like sushi, I don't like
• 25:33
  tuna, I don't like Melbourne's. I guess I'll be very, very
• 25:38
  staffed when I and I like. Spicy food, so a lot of
• 25:42
  Japanese. Food are not spicy.
• 25:45
  No, you can get you can get delicious ramen udon, you can
• 25:49
  get yakitori. That's that's what I like.
• 25:51
  That's the one at the ramen. Yeah, I like the ramen.
• 25:54
  At least. You get the Wagyu, you know all
• 25:58
  the short ribs, the beef short ribs.
• 26:01
  Yeah, the short ribs are nice, especially when you spice it up.
• 26:05
  Really. Yeah.
• 26:06
  Now you're talking about food that I like.
• 26:07
  Why would? Why did you start?
• 26:08
  With what I don't like. You ask?
• 26:14
  OK, I'll hand you over to Doela. So Anna, when we're talking
• 26:21
  about these things like spirituality and faith and
• 26:24
  trusting God, trusting the ultimate creator of the
• 26:28
  universe, you know, very casual subjects that we're talking
• 26:32
  about. I know that you just moved to a
• 26:34
  new country and you talk about the peace of God that came over
• 26:38
  you and understanding that that was a really good sense of
• 26:44
  divine confirmation. Have you had any moments yet?
• 26:47
  I know you're still very new to your new surroundings, but have
• 26:51
  any moments maybe either before or during or so far in Japan
• 26:55
  where you've been tested or you feel like you've had to go
• 27:00
  through a point of strengthening maybe to get to the point where
• 27:03
  you're comfortable with moving, maybe something you've
• 27:05
  experienced after? Tell me a little bit about that.
• 27:10
  Yeah. So of course we're looking for a
• 27:13
  place to settle down in, right. And the biggest uncertainty is
• 27:18
  where are we going to live while we are looking for a house, you
• 27:21
  know, a home. So that was that was the
• 27:24
  uncertainty. And also adjusting to the time,
• 27:28
  like waking up at 1:00 AM or waking up at 3:00 AM to continue
• 27:32
  to serve the people in the on the West, right.
• 27:35
  And, and just be sure that, you know, we stay diligent and not
• 27:40
  fall into bad habits, you know, oversleeping, you know, going
• 27:44
  out late, these things you can't do if you want to stay on top of
• 27:48
  what you're here to do, right? And just, you know, whenever
• 27:51
  life feels uncertain, I just go back to prayer and journaling.
• 27:55
  And you know, this is one verse. Proverbs 16 three, commit to the
• 28:00
  Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans right.
• 28:03
  That verse keeps me grounded. And because I know as long as my
• 28:07
  work is surrounded or surrendered, my steps are are
• 28:11
  secured in a sense. So when you're talking about how
• 28:18
  I think finding a place to live when you're moving to a new
• 28:21
  place is obviously a huge, can be a huge hurdle for a lot of
• 28:24
  people. Maybe just for our audience.
• 28:26
  Do you want to walk through a little bit how you were able to
• 28:32
  secure that place? Is it something that maybe your
• 28:34
  husband found somebody or did you have to reach out and
• 28:38
  network with anybody or you know, just for anyone who is
• 28:42
  trying to go abroad in their business or follow those types
• 28:46
  of steps making larger moves? How did you kind of secure that
• 28:52
  or how did it come through for you I guess is my question.
• 28:56
  Yeah. You know what, We don't have a
• 28:59
  secure place yet. That's a thing, right?
• 29:01
  So we're staying at different places and getting to know
• 29:05
  people. However, we do have connections.
• 29:08
  We have been making connections over the past few years just to
• 29:11
  just to see what's available. Of course, we understand that
• 29:15
  when we get here, those places may not be available any longer.
• 29:18
  And my husband and I are always saying, hey, Oh no, somebody
• 29:21
  bought that place that we really wanted.
• 29:23
  Seemed great. However, we always go back, you
• 29:27
  know, God probably has a better place for us anyway.
• 29:30
  So we're just moving along. We do have a friend who's a
• 29:35
  realtor here, thank God to help out with the next steps when the
• 29:40
  right place to show up. So we're looking, we're
• 29:42
  projecting in the next few months here to close on a place.
• 29:45
  And there's a great, there's, there's a lot of great platforms
• 29:49
  online nowadays that, that help connect Realtors and map out the
• 29:54
  availability of homes that are on the market in Japan.
• 29:58
  So one place that my, my husband's been using is Akia Hub
• 30:01
  and they, they integrate AI as well to help you with searches
• 30:05
  and, and pricing and narrowing down the locations and even
• 30:08
  connecting you with Realtors. So I recommend checking that
• 30:13
  out. Awesome, So I just.
• 30:16
  Want to come to Japan? Yes, when we're ready to go
• 30:20
  straight to Japan. I do just want to touch on one
• 30:23
  thing that you mentioned is that when you well, actually two
• 30:27
  things because they do go hand in hand about your faith that in
• 30:30
  Scripture and through your faith you practise, you understand and
• 30:35
  practise that you are saying what you want, essentially
• 30:40
  saying this is, you know, the desires of my heart and then
• 30:44
  allowing the steps to be planned for you outside of you.
• 30:47
  So you are not connecting yourself with the how things are
• 30:50
  going to happen. You're just kind of assuming
• 30:53
  knowing that it's going to work out.
• 30:55
  And then the other thing that you're kind of touching on is
• 30:58
  that if you plan or think that something could be where you're
• 31:06
  going to stay or this could be the method that's going to work
• 31:09
  for you when it releases or no longer becomes available for
• 31:14
  you, you have a moment where you're understanding, I'm either
• 31:19
  going to get something similar to what I'm asking for, or I'm
• 31:24
  actually going to get something better.
• 31:26
  So I think that's like such an important mindset to connect
• 31:30
  with faith. You know, just giving those
• 31:32
  connections for our listeners to really understand that if
• 31:35
  they're building a faith-based business or if they're trying to
• 31:41
  root their faith through their business practises.
• 31:44
  That your goals or your visions or your purpose that when you
• 31:50
  connect it with God, you're always going to get that desire
• 31:53
  of your heart or better because we don't understand or
• 31:57
  understand the how of something's going to come
• 31:59
  through. So when it does come through,
• 32:01
  when your house does come, I 100% believe that it's going to
• 32:05
  be what you envision or better kind of building on that.
• 32:11
  Obviously, there are times of uncertainty that you face.
• 32:16
  And from so far, and what I've heard is that you use a lot of
• 32:20
  scripture and different types of inner dialogue and you mentioned
• 32:27
  proverbs. Do you use different types of in
• 32:31
  our dialogue or is it just always kind of one or two go to
• 32:37
  scriptures? I know you mentioned one, but is
• 32:39
  there anything else that you wanted wanted to touch on?
• 32:42
  Well, there's so many because man, the Bible is living word of
• 32:48
  God. And if I show you my my Bible
• 32:51
  study Bible look, check out all these words.
• 32:55
  Fully loaded. I just can't choose one.
• 32:58
  I'm not even joking. And it's crazy because whenever
• 33:02
  I pray I'm like OK God lead me and guide me today I just open
• 33:06
  it up. Could be any random page but it
• 33:08
  speaks directly to me. And it's not just that I will
• 33:12
  open my phone, whatever message it is, word of the day
• 33:15
  vocabulary app, it will confirm it.
• 33:18
  I'm like, what is you know, it's just I don't know how to explain
• 33:21
  it. And I prayed to many gods
• 33:23
  growing up throughout my entire life.
• 33:25
  No God has answered and answered different ways.
• 33:30
  He uses different people. He uses music, he uses memes.
• 33:35
  I don't know what to tell you. It's.
• 33:38
  Yeah, it's incredible. Incredible for sure.
• 33:41
  I would say that. I think I have AI have a
• 33:43
  scripture. I have a scripture for Anna.
• 33:45
  Sorry to interrupt, right? You say you have many
• 33:48
  scriptures, but then it's actually just aligns Joshua
• 33:51
  chapter one, verse 8. This book of the Lord shall not
• 33:54
  depart from thy mouth, or thou shalt meditate during day and
• 33:58
  night, right? That you know.
• 34:02
  According to all that is written therein.
• 34:03
  For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and thou shalt have
• 34:09
  good success. So the, the whole, the whole of
• 34:14
  the Scripture basically is rooting for, you know,
• 34:16
  correctional proof and various purposes.
• 34:19
  So I appreciate the fact that you, you appreciate the whole of
• 34:25
  the word of God that it's, it's, it's a beautiful thing.
• 34:29
  You are, yeah. Truly, truly a woman of faith.
• 34:33
  I I love that. We are, we are privileged.
• 34:36
  We are privileged. To, to, you know, to speak with
• 34:38
  you, to do business with you, to have you as a friend of the
• 34:42
  house. Yeah, we we very much appreciate
• 34:44
  you. Absolutely.
• 34:46
  You know, it reminds me of the first verse I ever remembered.
• 34:52
  It's Romans 828. You know, all things work
• 34:54
  together for good to those I love God, to those who are
• 34:56
  called according to his purpose. And, and every time I'm just
• 35:00
  like, OK, even something, if something bad happens to me, if
• 35:03
  somebody, you know, you know, there's a shortcoming, you know,
• 35:06
  somebody backstabs you like, but in the end, it's leading you on
• 35:11
  on the right path anyway. Nothing bad can really happen if
• 35:15
  you look at it that way, yeah. And I think that's like really
• 35:21
  interesting when we're talking about the nature of God and when
• 35:25
  we're talking about things like good versus evil and things like
• 35:30
  that. And just like the So just to
• 35:33
  give you a little background, I actually graduated from a
• 35:35
  Christian high school. Yeah.
• 35:41
  And so there's a there's a lot of Bible classes real deep, real
• 35:48
  deep in here, but just understanding the nature of God,
• 35:52
  understanding that all things are meant for good.
• 35:54
  So then I guess in my, the way I translate it now, even outside
• 36:00
  of outside of, you know, religion is just that like
• 36:05
  everything works out for me all the time.
• 36:07
  So whether it is perceived as good or bad or a shortcoming or
• 36:12
  a delay or anything that happens, it's because it is
• 36:16
  always working out for you all the time.
• 36:17
  And that's just a confirmation with that Bible verse as well.
• 36:23
  And we're going to talk a little bit about your authority
• 36:26
  acceleration system that's helped countless of
• 36:29
  entrepreneurs stand out. What has been, I know you
• 36:33
  mentioned just your mission and you believe, you know, of
• 36:39
  allowing people to not necessarily have light shined on
• 36:44
  them, but illuminating their inner light and allowing them to
• 36:48
  be a light. Is there something you want to
• 36:53
  touch on about what inspired that creation and really how
• 36:56
  it's different from traditional PR?
• 36:59
  Yeah, that's a that's a really good one because it's a system
• 37:03
  that was formed from deep desire to help people gain clarity in
• 37:08
  there and build credibility and consistency.
• 37:12
  Unlike traditional PR, it doesn't start with your image
• 37:15
  because a lot of people are afraid to put themselves out
• 37:17
  there because they're they want to be perfectionist.
• 37:20
  They're afraid of how people will perceive them.
• 37:24
  However, this is starts with your identity.
• 37:27
  And when you know who you are and your why and why you're
• 37:31
  called to do this, who you're serving, your visibility becomes
• 37:34
  an extension of your purpose, not just a performance.
• 37:37
  So that's where it all stem from.
• 37:40
  Like people put content nowadays, it's like, what's the
• 37:45
  purpose behind that and what kind of reputation are you
• 37:48
  building? Who do you want to be known as
• 37:51
  when, when you're not in the room, Right?
• 37:55
  So that's the authority acceleration system, just
• 37:59
  starting with your what's. So it sounds like service is a
• 38:06
  pillar of not only what you're doing for your clients as you're
• 38:10
  serving them, but helping them understand how to serve others.
• 38:19
  Is there a specific strategy or like talk about your system a
• 38:23
  little bit about how you help your clients tell those stories
• 38:27
  that go beyond selling and serving?
• 38:29
  Is there a process that you walk them through?
• 38:32
  Are there modules? Are there?
• 38:34
  Is it a course? Like how does that relationship
• 38:37
  form? And how do you kind of train
• 38:39
  these people and help them tell stories?
• 38:42
  Yeah. And with what I do, it's not
• 38:47
  really a course. It's more of like a series of
• 38:50
  worksheets to really deep dive deep into why they want to do
• 38:57
  and how they want to, to help others.
• 39:00
  Right, Because public relations, you're building a relationship
• 39:03
  with your audience, with your target audience.
• 39:06
  And when I help clients tell their stories, it's not it's
• 39:09
  never about selling something. It's more about serving someone.
• 39:14
  Every brand has a soul and my job is to help bring that to
• 39:17
  light. One of my client had her biggest
• 39:19
  breakthrough when she shared her testimony instead of her title.
• 39:23
  And that's when people truly connected.
• 39:25
  That's the power of service driven storytelling.
• 39:29
  So breaking everything down before I even write or send it,
• 39:34
  send off, you know, send off my clients files to, to get it
• 39:39
  written. I, I really sit down with a
• 39:40
  person and make sure that we're aligned.
• 39:43
  I, I can see their vision, stand behind their beliefs and their
• 39:47
  values and properly represent them in the market, in media
• 39:51
  space, because now I'm an extension of who they are to
• 39:56
  tell their story. So that's part of the process.
• 39:59
  And then from there, just a series of worksheets to really
• 40:02
  identify, well, pinpoint how they want to be presented as
• 40:08
  well. So it depends on where the
• 40:11
  person's at, what stage they're at, you know, what kind of
• 40:14
  foundation they have online as a baseline and then working from.
• 40:17
  There amazing. Amazing.
• 40:21
  Honestly, I think that sounds like obviously a really good
• 40:25
  strategy. You kind of have to do a deep
• 40:27
  dive, peel back any type of performances or masks.
• 40:36
  And correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like sometimes by the
• 40:39
  time you get to the brand, maybe they've been posting for a
• 40:42
  certain amount of time, Maybe they've created something that
• 40:46
  could be slightly inauthentic. And it sounds like you helped
• 40:50
  peel that back, connect with who they really are and shine a
• 40:54
  light on it. That's really amazing, honestly.
• 40:57
  And you've you have a incredible track record.
• 41:01
  Obviously you've placed clients on top tier outlets, outlets,
• 41:06
  excuse me, like Forbes, New York Times.
• 41:10
  Do you have any unseen habits or skill sets behind that?
• 41:19
  Man unseen habits behind that it's putting the when you do
• 41:27
  outreach for anybody, it's always comes back to a place of
• 41:31
  understanding and that's a habit that I always have.
• 41:36
  You know, there's no secret formula to winning, just just
• 41:40
  persistence and and making sure that every win starts with
• 41:44
  genuine relationships, deep research and consistency.
• 41:48
  Because when we when reach out to publicist your journalist,
• 41:53
  right? You got to understand who
• 41:55
  they're writing for and how do I make their jobs easier by
• 41:58
  presenting this client that could be a potentially a good
• 42:01
  story for them to to share. And you know, you don't want to
• 42:04
  reach out to a Forbes contributor who you may not have
• 42:07
  done a lot of research on. And all he writes about is the
• 42:10
  automotive space. And you're presenting somebody
• 42:13
  in the beauty space that there's no connection there.
• 42:15
  It's not going to serve anyone, right?
• 42:17
  So it's just just making sure that you understand, you do your
• 42:21
  research, and that's your reputation.
• 42:24
  It's not about trying to gain something.
• 42:26
  It's more about, hey, how can I help all parties?
• 42:30
  How do we all win? Yeah, doing the homework is
• 42:35
  definitely important, especially because, you know, we receive so
• 42:41
  many emails every day. We receive so many messages all
• 42:44
  day between the average attention span and the average
• 42:50
  schedule of these types of people that we are talking to,
• 42:53
  reaching out to, and connecting with.
• 42:56
  It takes a certain efficiency and it takes a certain type of
• 43:01
  understanding that this person only has.
• 43:03
  Even the person we're connecting with only has a certain amount
• 43:06
  of time and attention to digest the information we're giving
• 43:10
  them. You doing your homework behind
• 43:12
  the scenes and understanding their background, who they're
• 43:16
  talking to, and you know their needs or their goals.
• 43:19
  Within the next year or so, maybe they're starting a new
• 43:22
  series. Finding those little tidbits
• 43:24
  super, super important for sure. So love, love everything you're
• 43:27
  saying. Love hearing that.
• 43:29
  Adam, Ola, do you want to talk about the next couple questions?
• 43:34
  You talked about emails that receive every day and I think
• 43:38
  she she was touching my trauma points because.
• 43:42
  I didn't want to bring that up. Exactly why, why are you
• 43:49
  touching my trauma points in bead bead podcast right, because
• 43:54
  I I know you're in a PR and. I think you should be on the
• 43:57
  same boat as well. You get setting emails.
• 44:02
  Well, I thought you're done reading certain emails.
• 44:03
  You just know this was a waste of four minutes of my life spot
• 44:10
  What hurt, What hurts me the most is where people waste my
• 44:13
  time. I think the other day I had a
• 44:15
  call and the person wasted my time.
• 44:18
  I think I I cried that day. I cried.
• 44:21
  Why? Because I just want like I just
• 44:24
  wasted 30 minutes of my life I cannot account for I cannot
• 44:29
  account for this like money. If you lose money, you can make
• 44:31
  it back. If you lose effort, you can make
• 44:34
  it back. But time you can never get it
• 44:37
  back, right? So they got deliver us from from
• 44:41
  time wasters anyways. So how?
• 44:43
  How do you philtre the voice from the noise when it comes to
• 44:48
  your own profession? The voice from the noise.
• 44:52
  I mean, I probably don't get as many emails like you guys.
• 44:59
  You know, you can easily tell how it is when somebody uses an
• 45:03
  AI generated e-mail system that automates emails outreaches and
• 45:07
  they tend to start off the same way.
• 45:10
  Hello dear, hi ma'am. I'm just like, OK, I know where
• 45:14
  this is going and and most of the time I open it up and just
• 45:19
  you know, because I like to clear out it's like this this
• 45:21
  thing, right? I just like to clear out my
• 45:23
  inbox. So saying, saying the same thing
• 45:25
  and most of the time Ioffer the same service, it's just crazy to
• 45:29
  me because they're reaching out to me to offer a service that I
• 45:32
  already offer. So I mean, you just tend to pick
• 45:35
  up the patterns. Yeah.
• 45:39
  Teaching on cross feature, Yeah. I don't know if you're right,
• 45:43
  but. We do receive a lot of emails.
• 45:45
  And then, yeah, you're running the visas.
• 45:47
  And, you know, people say, oh, I want to come on your podcast for
• 45:50
  free. Or what do you do?
• 45:51
  You breathe while leaving. That's cool.
• 45:53
  God be with you. God is the provider of breath.
• 45:55
  Why do you want to come teach me breath work?
• 45:57
  God put breath in me already. But anyways that that's a that's
• 46:02
  an inside joke. So how do you balance the
• 46:06
  analytical position with creative intuition when
• 46:09
  developing? A media strategy.
• 46:14
  Yeah, balance and data with discernment.
• 46:18
  I mean, staying informed with trends but also listening to
• 46:22
  what's within you, right? The Holy Spirit and NPR doesn't
• 46:25
  just is is both strategy and spirit.
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  It's it's about when you honour both doors open and data alone
• 46:32
  can't explain right and nowadays everything's so fast track you
• 46:36
  can use AI as well. What keeps that human connection
• 46:40
  right and and you can't just do it alone as well.
• 46:44
  So you really have to just make sure that you're, again, it goes
• 46:50
  back to purpose and intention, like why are you searching for
• 46:54
  these things? What is the data telling you?
• 46:57
  And you use the sermon to make the right next move.
• 47:01
  Well, I, I appreciate what you said.
• 47:03
  You know that that fine balance. And of course, you talked about
• 47:07
  AI. I am AI, right?
• 47:09
  My parents use something they need something.
• 47:11
  Everybody's don't know. So they just decoded my name.
• 47:14
  AI, what a time. What?
• 47:17
  A time to be alive. You know, somebody sent me a
• 47:21
  message. I said, wow, I am jealous of
• 47:23
  your money car. Like it's it's a really, really
• 47:26
  cool money car. But you know, beyond that money
• 47:29
  car, like, what do you think? How do you see AI affecting, you
• 47:32
  know, various industries, especially your own industry?
• 47:36
  And what's your advice to professionals out there?
• 47:40
  You know, there are a lot of AI enthusiasts and there are also
• 47:45
  AI, what I say doubters, AI people that are anti AI
• 47:53
  basically, but get used tanned. And how do you see AI
• 47:59
  influencing an impact in the business environment in the
• 48:04
  future going forward? Yeah, you know, it's pretty
• 48:08
  interesting because AI has just been a hot topic nowadays.
• 48:13
  I mean, I'm not opposed of AI technology can't amplify your
• 48:17
  reach. It can help with, you know, if
• 48:20
  you're, if you have if you're stuck, it can help jog up some
• 48:25
  creativity, but it cannot replace your voice.
• 48:29
  Automation might scale efficiency, but authenticity
• 48:32
  scales impact. And going back to those, you
• 48:36
  know, being bombarded with emails, what I mentioned about
• 48:39
  automation and AI doing the outreach, you pick up the on
• 48:43
  those patterns. So I use AI all the time, it
• 48:47
  helps me organise, outline and optimise my work.
• 48:51
  But I never replace it with the human heart behind the message.
• 48:54
  So AI as a tool, not the touch. And if you want to use it the
• 48:59
  right way, just structure ideas around it, but let your heart
• 49:04
  write the story. I love that I do have an episode
• 49:09
  on sports class titles. Humans first, AI next.
• 49:12
  Yeah, the eye is meant to be on the system, not the controller.
• 49:16
  So you have actually coached many founders who here.
• 49:21
  So people have fear of projection, people have fear of
• 49:25
  exposure. So how do you help them
• 49:27
  transform fear into free field feasibility?
• 49:33
  Yeah, this is a really like, it's a common theme with amazing
• 49:40
  brilliant minds that I've met with So many people fear
• 49:43
  visibility because they either fear rejection or being put in
• 49:48
  the wrong light. But I ask, I always ask like,
• 49:52
  what if you are not being seen right?
• 49:57
  Who who needs to see you? What kind of disservice are you
• 50:01
  doing by not putting yourself out there?
• 50:03
  And faith's greatest visibility strategy there is.
• 50:06
  Because when it comes to showing up, even when the outcome isn't
• 50:09
  guaranteed, you know that somebody out there could be
• 50:17
  better served when you put yourself out there.
• 50:20
  Because there's a lot of people out there making promises and
• 50:24
  under delivering, but there's also a lot of amazing people
• 50:27
  over delivering, not visible. Mm hmm well I think I'm going to
• 50:34
  hand over to my Co host. Before I do that I'm going to
• 50:38
  beat a portion of this creature that is Matthew chapter 5 verses
• 50:42
  14 to 16. Ye are the light of the world.
• 50:46
  A city that is set on the hill cannot be hid neither to men.
• 50:50
  Light a candle under a bushel or on a Candlestick, and giveth
• 50:55
  light unto all that are in the house.
• 50:58
  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
• 51:02
  words, and vilify your Father, which is in heaven.
• 51:07
  Amen. Amen.
• 51:10
  I just love what you said about when we're using AI to let your
• 51:15
  heart tell the story as like a business owner or you know, an
• 51:20
  artist, anybody. We are made-up of the stories we
• 51:25
  tell ourselves and AI can be, we're talking about this with
• 51:29
  Ted Santos, how these AI systems kind of, if we are in charge of
• 51:35
  our own thoughts or aren't in charge of our own story, to give
• 51:37
  a parallel over to this conversation, they can tell us
• 51:41
  who we are. So allowing our hearts to tell
• 51:45
  us what our brand is allowing to tell us the way that we want to
• 51:51
  shine is, you know, just essential.
• 51:54
  So again, just love being able to have this connection between
• 51:58
  business and faith. I think it's super, super
• 52:01
  important. Another thing that you've worked
• 52:03
  on, Anna, is leading Eng to to help e-commerce brands scale
• 52:10
  exponentially. What parallels have you seen
• 52:14
  between scaling your own business with scaling personal
• 52:19
  influence? What are, you know, like
• 52:23
  dislikes, similarities, differences, the whole thing?
• 52:27
  Yeah. So with that it's, it was more
• 52:30
  on the marketing side scaling a business it's it requires
• 52:36
  systems. So you fall to the quality of
• 52:41
  your systems or you yet. And if you have proper systems
• 52:47
  and processes in place, it's incredible how much faster you
• 52:52
  will grow. And it has to be rooted and
• 52:56
  strong culture as well. It's not about growing fast,
• 52:59
  it's about growing strategically.
• 53:02
  Consistency builds credibility as well.
• 53:04
  So it ties in with PR and that's how high how I evolved into PR.
• 53:10
  But with marketing, there's a lot of behind the scenes systems
• 53:13
  that needs to be in place, such as the messaging has to be
• 53:17
  aligned, how your brand shows up.
• 53:20
  If you're getting a lot of traffic, there's not a lot.
• 53:23
  However, there's no conversions. Where is the disconnect?
• 53:26
  And then if somebody does convert but doesn't close on a
• 53:30
  call, where's the disconnect there?
• 53:32
  Is it with the sales team? Is it with the marketing team?
• 53:36
  Is it with the website? So is it with the credibility?
• 53:41
  And I mean, all these things work together, but having the
• 53:46
  systems in place to identify the gaps really helps.
• 53:49
  And and then from there you start scaling from there.
• 53:53
  You don't want to, you know, a million traffic and no
• 53:57
  conversions. Lots, lots of Nuggets there as
• 54:02
  AI would say. He loves to say the word Nuggets
• 54:04
  that you're breaking. Nuggets just like chicken
• 54:09
  Nuggets. I don't try with the Nuggets.
• 54:14
  Every time you say that, my when I when my daughter was a baby, I
• 54:17
  would call her my little chicken nugget.
• 54:20
  So every time you say that, I just think of like a little
• 54:22
  baby. But yeah, as someone with a
• 54:27
  background in marketing and sales, I definitely understand
• 54:30
  what you're saying is it's really systems based.
• 54:33
  And I think it's really, I think it serves your pivot over to PR
• 54:38
  obviously to have that type of background and door to door
• 54:43
  sales. That sounds so crazy to me and
• 54:47
  and marketing as well. So you understand collectively
• 54:51
  the systems that it takes. So it sounds like you're just
• 54:54
  adding, you know, new wisdom and new expertise on as your career
• 54:59
  moves. So that's amazing to hear to
• 55:02
  hear your story because we don't really know which way we're
• 55:05
  going to go. You know, like day one, you
• 55:07
  probably didn't know you're going to pivot to PR, But that's
• 55:11
  how that's why journeys are journeys.
• 55:13
  If we knew what the end of, if we just skipped to the end of
• 55:19
  the movie, then we would miss everything in between, pivoting
• 55:26
  kind of over to the flow and focus that you work with.
• 55:30
  Just being a life obviously takes dedication, faith,
• 55:37
  Lovejoy, peace, you know, being somebody who cultivates that for
• 55:42
  an entire home, with or without children and credit.
• 55:46
  And then, you know, an incredible role instilled by
• 55:49
  God. So what tools or systems do you
• 55:51
  use? Both, I guess, as a founder that
• 55:54
  works in business and as a wife in your household.
• 55:58
  There's actually a lot of conversations that I've watched
• 56:02
  with couples who also work in business.
• 56:05
  And a lot of people say even Ted Santos, who we were just talking
• 56:09
  to, he has an entire book on this.
• 56:11
  Just because relationships mirror through your business.
• 56:16
  So what do you specifically use? You have any tools or systems
• 56:20
  that work both in your marriage and and your business?
• 56:25
  Yes, tools. You know what just touch upon
• 56:28
  the mother thing. I I dream about being a mother
• 56:30
  all the time. Like I dream about that I have
• 56:32
  kids crazy. That's exciting.
• 56:36
  Yes. So I'm excited.
• 56:38
  OK. So was that confirmation?
• 56:41
  I guess. So.
• 56:42
  I guess so. Sometimes I would cry when I
• 56:45
  wake up. I'm like, Dang, that was a
• 56:47
  adorable sun. I, I wish it was real.
• 56:49
  But yeah, with, with that said systems, tools, you know, having
• 56:54
  a rhythm in place and making sure that you start your day off
• 56:56
  planning ahead the night before that no matter what the heck
• 57:01
  your morning routine is, I find that what sets you up for
• 57:04
  success is what you do the night before and you already ran
• 57:08
  through the next day. And and that's, that's the
• 57:12
  system that we have in place, tools.
• 57:14
  I like to use Excel to map out everything, you know, budget
• 57:18
  everything. But yeah, it is pretty simple.
• 57:22
  Just keeping it simple, yeah? There's always planning ahead.
• 57:27
  Yeah, That way when you wake up, it brings a little more peace.
• 57:32
  As soon as you wake up, at least you even if you're still sleepy
• 57:35
  and groggy or anything like that, you have some sort of
• 57:38
  direction. Like setting up your clothes,
• 57:41
  having a water bottle ready beside your protein and you
• 57:44
  just, you know, plop it in or whatever.
• 57:45
  OK. Just or even writing it out
• 57:48
  because now you visually promising yourself, OK, that's
• 57:51
  why I'm going to do the next day and it helps just reduces.
• 57:55
  OK, what am I doing today? That's awesome.
• 57:59
  That's awesome. The two water bottle people
• 58:02
  talking. I've never been able.
• 58:03
  To keep a water bottle all my life.
• 58:06
  Oh my gosh. It comes with me everywhere.
• 58:08
  It's like my hand, you know, like.
• 58:10
  Yes, I love successful. I love it is.
• 58:16
  Successful in that regard. Anytime I try to keep a water
• 58:19
  bottle I'll probably misplace it somewhere.
• 58:20
  So I just gave up. Try again, try, try again.
• 58:25
  Hydrate. So you don't hydrate as I say.
• 58:29
  I I I use I use my mugs. So we have obviously on this
• 58:36
  podcast, we talk about AIA lot and we've talked about it a bit
• 58:40
  so far with the systems that you use.
• 58:44
  I feel like we've really answered a lot of this question.
• 58:47
  But just out of curiosity, was there any other tidbits or
• 58:52
  anything else that you want to say about specifically AI and PR
• 58:56
  in general, How you integrate tech while you work?
• 59:02
  I know you mentioned how you use it to organise and plan and
• 59:06
  things like that. Or possibly, is there any way
• 59:10
  that you use AI to help you stay anchored in your faith at all?
• 59:16
  Yeah, so The thing is, I, I'm not going to lie, it's like I
• 59:20
  love using AI. It does help and it reduces time
• 59:24
  exponentially, even in automations, even at an
• 59:27
  outreach. However, I never rely on it at
• 59:31
  the at the end of the day to make the connection.
• 59:33
  So whatever it spits out at me, it can give me ideas, it can
• 59:37
  give me motivation. OK, We're like maybe just
• 59:40
  different ways of wording. I always go back and read it out
• 59:45
  loud and say, hey, you know what?
• 59:46
  Do I say things this way? Or if I'm doing an outreach, I
• 59:50
  always go back rewrite it in how I would say it as well, although
• 59:58
  it gives you different, let's just say ways of wording.
• 1:00:02
  I always go back and and say, well, put your human touch into
• 1:00:06
  it. It never replaces the messenger
• 1:00:09
  I would say. And I have a question for you
• 1:00:12
  are. You are you friends with Noella
• 1:00:14
  or like? Did you guys, did you guys go to
• 1:00:17
  the? Same school.
• 1:00:18
  Did you guys go to the same school?
• 1:00:20
  Because that's the same exact things that she says.
• 1:00:24
  How would you say no? No, I don't want it to be AI.
• 1:00:26
  I want to be human. I wanted to process.
• 1:00:29
  Yes. Oh like don't worry, I have AI.
• 1:00:34
  People will see through it. Don't.
• 1:00:37
  Worry. I.
• 1:00:38
  AI at the end of the message I always.
• 1:00:41
  Put AI. So that's my usual.
• 1:00:45
  So take it or take it. So basically, you know.
• 1:00:48
  Anna is a very busy woman. Before she she runs away, let us
• 1:00:53
  run her through the big fire round.
• 1:00:55
  Now you're closer to the Pacific round.
• 1:00:57
  Of fire and we are going to take you to the big fire round we
• 1:01:02
  have just one question for you are.
• 1:01:04
  You ready to rumble so? You skipped a whole page.
• 1:01:09
  Are you ready to rumble? Yes, Sir.
• 1:01:12
  Yeah. So before you run, you can run,
• 1:01:15
  but you cannot. Hide so they see right So.
• 1:01:18
  The very. First question, what is 1 Bible
• 1:01:20
  verse or spiritual quote that keeps you anchored?
• 1:01:24
  Oh man, we we went through quite a few today.
• 1:01:27
  This one actually reminds me of my friend.
• 1:01:29
  She sends me God first every morning.
• 1:01:32
  She's from Texas and we do Bible study from different countries.
• 1:01:35
  Always this reverse she she she mentioned that it was her
• 1:01:40
  favourite as well and it stuck with me all these years.
• 1:01:42
  It's Jeremiah 2911 or I know the plans I have for you, declares
• 1:01:48
  the Lord, Plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give
• 1:01:52
  you hope and a future. I love that.
• 1:01:57
  I think I know it in King James version.
• 1:01:58
  My head is configured in King James.
• 1:02:00
  Though Oh yeah, mine is King James too, but I just wanted to
• 1:02:03
  pull it up for yeah. For my pleasure, my favourite
• 1:02:06
  scripture is Philippians chapter 4 verse 13.
• 1:02:08
  I can do all things through process transfers me.
• 1:02:11
  Yeah. Noella.
• 1:02:16
  All right, what is your morning ritual in one word?
• 1:02:22
  Surrender. I give myself away so you can
• 1:02:27
  use me. I need God every day.
• 1:02:31
  I'm not. I'm not perfect at all.
• 1:02:34
  Absolutely don't tell me the Bible.
• 1:02:37
  I know the Bible. Is.
• 1:02:39
  Your real answer to this question.
• 1:02:41
  So tell me the second best, the second best, next book.
• 1:02:45
  So what is the book? What is the book that has
• 1:02:47
  shifted your mindset forever? How did you know that was what I
• 1:02:51
  prepared? For how did I know?
• 1:02:56
  Because I am AI. I am AI, OK?
• 1:03:00
  I have the human AI actually. I would say the next best book
• 1:03:04
  that is flagged out like this. It's 7 Habits of Highly
• 1:03:09
  Successful People. Stephen, Stephen.
• 1:03:11
  Covey, Stephen. What's his name?
• 1:03:15
  And then Stephen something. Yeah.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah. Stephen Covey.
• 1:03:18
  OK, yeah. Noella.
• 1:03:19
  Yeah, over to you. So faith, family, or freedom,
• 1:03:25
  which one drives your decisions the most right now?
• 1:03:29
  Always faith, because everything else follows.
• 1:03:33
  Always. And every time I put something
• 1:03:35
  else first. It's just like, you know, you're
• 1:03:37
  in a position where face is all you have to turn to.
• 1:03:42
  No, I agree. Yeah.
• 1:03:44
  Totally agree. Totally agree.
• 1:03:46
  OK, I guess question. The next question is for me, and
• 1:03:53
  it was designed by God because I'll be very curious about this
• 1:03:56
  one. So finish this sentence.
• 1:03:58
  God positioned me in Japan because.
• 1:04:03
  He needed to show me that obedience is the bridge to
• 1:04:08
  overflow. Obedience is better than
• 1:04:12
  sacrifice. Yeah, that's only in the Bible.
• 1:04:16
  I can't remember the exact verse right now.
• 1:04:18
  Wow. Love and respect to you.
• 1:04:22
  We love you. We appreciate you.
• 1:04:25
  You. You are really, really up on our
• 1:04:28
  bookshelf. Of course, your personal faith
• 1:04:31
  and you. I think you went to the same
• 1:04:34
  school with Noella, but you never met her in classes.
• 1:04:37
  Maybe you guys used to skip? Classes, Noella.
• 1:04:41
  I hear what I said, I said. I guess you guys went to the
• 1:04:44
  same school. But you used to skip classes
• 1:04:47
  because you both wear glasses, so you're funny.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, you, you guys have very, very similar classic
• 1:04:54
  philosophies and the mindset skill set, tool sets very
• 1:04:58
  fantastic for me. To you, it's love.
• 1:05:00
  And of course, maximum respect to you and we look forward to
• 1:05:06
  having you on the show again and collaborating with you again.
• 1:05:09
  And over to you, Noella. Yeah.
• 1:05:15
  I just want to say thank you so much for just sharing your
• 1:05:18
  heart, sharing your journey, sharing really practical
• 1:05:24
  integration of faith in business.
• 1:05:27
  It sounds like you're somebody who because you're able to
• 1:05:32
  establish such a solid, deeply rooted foundation that you're
• 1:05:38
  open, it actually creates openness to be that rooted.
• 1:05:42
  You allow such flow in your life that's easier for God to take
• 1:05:46
  you across the world. And that's just such an amazing
• 1:05:52
  point that we want to drive home here at Kingdoms to show anyone
• 1:05:58
  who's watching, a lot of the people that listen to us, they
• 1:06:02
  have their own businesses, their CE OS, their leaders.
• 1:06:07
  Maybe they work in C-Suite or they're entrepreneurs or they
• 1:06:10
  work in tech. And they have those dreams and
• 1:06:12
  they are cultivating that type of faith in establishing that
• 1:06:17
  foundation that's going to take them down the same flow.
• 1:06:20
  So just want to let you know that we greatly appreciate you
• 1:06:23
  coming on and sharing all of your expertise, not only just
• 1:06:28
  NPR, but in sales and marketing, as a wife, everything that has
• 1:06:33
  brought you up into this point. You're obviously a heavily
• 1:06:38
  impactful person for brands to position them in a way that they
• 1:06:44
  believe that they are worthy. Just like God calls us, tells us
• 1:06:50
  that we are worthy, that we are more worthy than diamonds and
• 1:06:53
  rubies and the most riches that we think about as humans and
• 1:06:59
  that we are here to shine our own light.
• 1:07:01
  So thank you so much. Just greatly appreciate you.
• 1:07:04
  And again, just in closing, your journey reminds us that faith is
• 1:07:08
  the highest form of strategy. And when mindset, purpose, and
• 1:07:12
  obedience aligned, visibility becomes inevitable.
• 1:07:16
  So thank you so much for coming on and talking with us today.
• 1:07:21
  Thank you so much for having me. And it was such a an honour to.
• 1:07:25
  Yes, I felt like this is a Bible study more than anything.
• 1:07:33
  Yeah, I loved it. Thank you so much guys.
• 1:07:36
  OK, goodbye.