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Season 4 - Episode 287 - Being BOLD! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from the Chicken coop.
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  Let's talk about being bold. This past month I have been
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  working with a client who is in a very tough industry as she's
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  navigating moving from one position to another.
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  And she is someone who is incredibly talented, very, very
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  creative. You know, everything that you
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  would want to have in a person working for you in this type of
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  industry, you would want in this person.
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  And she also happens to have this like side of herself where
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  we have this conversation often about are you playing to win or
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  are you playing not to lose? What your gained is so far.
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  And this, this is so tricky because every time you've, and
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  I've talked about this piece multiple times about, you know,
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  my husband uses this metaphor, talking about football games all
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  the time. When someone gets a lead in a
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  game, he'll say the coach will switch and he'll start playing
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  not to lose and he's not playing to win.
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  And there's a difference. So she and I started talking
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  about this. I was teaching her the concept
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  for the last, you know, 6-7 months we've been working on
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  this concept and we got down to this point about like, are you
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  willing to be bold? And she's like, well, how bold?
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  And I'm like, just bold like this.
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  Just talk about the the scale of bold after.
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  Just say, am I willing to be bold first and foremost?
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  And she stopped and she paused and she said, yes, I'm willing
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  to be bold. I said, OK, so let's start
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  talking about what bold looks like.
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  So you tell me something that you think is bold in getting
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  this position and I'll tell you something and we'll completely
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  pitch and catch and come up with ideas.
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  And the process of doing this, she realized that what she was
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  doing was playing not to lose. She was not playing to win.
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  I was pitching out things that were bigger and more bold.
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  And she was playing it safe. And, oh, playing it safe.
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  She got so like, why am I doing this?
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  And I'm like, it just based around culture right now.
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  Nobody wants to stick their heads out too far.
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  Nobody wants to get into a position where they're like, you
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  know, able to have it chopped off.
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  We know what happens when that comes about.
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  So more and more people are afraid to play that bold, bold
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  card. And that's not how you win.
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  You have to be bold. You have to go for what you
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  want. You have to be willing to just
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  walk up. Now, you know, I'm out here in
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  the chicken coop and I've, I think I've told everybody that,
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  you know, we have 54 chickens right now and one of, and only
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  one rooster. And now that we've lost Rufus
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  and of those 54, only about 8 of them now are laying eggs.
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  And that's not every day because the, the, the light has gone
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  down and they're all, they're all in the midst of losing
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  feathers and molting and they're all cranky and whatnot.
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  And I'll tell you, Miss Celine, which everyone knows is like,
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  she's just my sweetest, coolest. She's a French crevacore and
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  she's but she's got an attitude with other chickens.
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  And she's not the biggest hen here.
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  And she will walk over as bold as can be.
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  And if they're doing something and she wants it instead of
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  them, she will shove them right out of the way.
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  She is bold. And all the others look at her
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  like, who are you? You're so small.
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  But they don't do anything to move her.
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  And I always laugh and I say she is the way the universe reminds
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  me how to step in and just be bold.
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  And then the ones that are the giant ones, like I, some of my,
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  the girls that are bigger, the ones that are just larger in
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  size overall, whether it's feathers or actual weight or
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  whatnot, like my splash Moran's, they look so puffy and so big,
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  but they don't assert themselves.
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  They pull back and they miss out on things because of that.
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  So the real crux of this conversation is, are you willing
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  to be bold to get what you want? Are you willing to take chances?
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  Are you willing to step into that place and not play the game
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  in a, in a way that allows you to just pull yourself back to
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  say, oh, yeah, well, I did everything I could do or be
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  bold, reach out, send the emails.
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  Now, the moral of the story comes back to this client ended
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  up sending an e-mail. We crafted it.
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  She sent it off and she didn't hear anything.
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  She's like, I haven't heard anything.
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  And I was like, just wait, Just wait.
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  And then it was like a week. She hadn't heard anything.
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  And she said, hey, something just came up that I saw in the
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  industry and I'm going to reach out and I'm going to say
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  something again. I was a brilliant to it show
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  that you're watching your monitoring and you're not
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  holding back because they didn't answer that first e-mail and she
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  did it. And guess what happened?
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  They messaged her two hours later and said, OK, we need you
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  to come in, we want to talk to you.
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  And guess what? Now she has an offer on the
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  table to come in as a consultant.
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  And this is exactly what she had put on to her manifesting list
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  for by the end of the year. So something to think about,
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  right? Being bold, taking the risk,
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  doing something like that, sending the e-mail, asking for
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  the lead, letting somebody know you do what you do.
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  It's all available, my friends. It's all available.
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  OK. I hope you guys have a blessed
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  day and I will see you tomorrow. Be bold.
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  Bye.