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Building a Tribe, Not Just a Network with Dr. Elizabeth Stroot · The Confident Entrepreneur With Jennifer Ann Johnson

• 0:37
  Jennifer Johnson: Picture this you're at the helm of your business, steering through choppy waters of decisions, challenges and triumphs.
• 0:44
  Jennifer Johnson: You look around and realize, man, it's pretty lonely up here.
• 0:48
  Jennifer Johnson: Does that sound familiar?
• 0:50
  Jennifer Johnson: Today we're tackling a topic that's rarely discussed but universally felt in the entrepreneurial world the isolation that comes with leadership and their critical need for sisterhood or a tribe at the top.
• 1:04
  Jennifer Johnson: Today we welcome into the studio Dr Elizabeth Stroot.
• 1:08
  Jennifer Johnson: Dr.
• 1:09
  Jennifer Johnson: Stroot is the founder of Core Wellness and Physical Therapy and she brings over 20 years of health and fitness expertise to her practice.
• 1:16
  Jennifer Johnson: With a doctorate in physical therapy, she specializes in orthopedic conditions, particularly neck and back, also headaches and pre and postnatal issues.
• 1:26
  Jennifer Johnson: Her commitment to holistic wellness extends to her personal life, prioritizing fitness, organic nutrition and family time, and she resides in the DC metro area.
• 1:38
  Jennifer Johnson: We'll dive deep into the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs face as they climb the ladder of success.
• 1:43
  Jennifer Johnson: We'll explore why building a strong network of like-minded women isn't just a nice to have.
• 1:49
  Jennifer Johnson: It's essential for your personal sanity and your business growth.
• 1:52
  Jennifer Johnson: From finding your first entrepreneurial bestie to cultivating a powerful circle of industry leaders, we'll map out strategies for building your tribe at every stage of your journey.
• 2:03
  Jennifer Johnson: We'll discuss how to overcome the competitive mindset, the art of vulnerable leadership and the power of collective wisdom.
• 2:10
  Jennifer Johnson: Whether you're a solopreneur feeling the weight of isolation or a seasoned CEO looking to strengthen your support network, this episode is your roadmap to building a sisterhood that will uplift, challenge and champion you.
• 2:24
  Jennifer Johnson: Let's dive in Welcome.
• 2:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: Thank you.
• 2:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: I'm so excited to be here with you.
• 2:31
  Jennifer Johnson: I am too because the topic of tribe building has been on my mind for a long time and again, it's something that we don't often talk about.
• 2:40
  Jennifer Johnson: We know we have to be in the right circles and everything, but really is it defined for any of us?
• 2:49
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah, it isn't, and truly I think it's an ever-evolving concept.
• 2:55
  Elizabeth Stroot: I might have a definition of what that means in this season, but I guarantee you, in a month, three, six, a year, my needs are going to change and the needs of the people that are in my tribe are going to shift, and so the dynamic is it's ever evolving.
• 3:11
  Jennifer Johnson: It is Now.
• 3:12
  Jennifer Johnson: Do you have a time in your entrepreneurial journey that you felt like this, that you just felt isolated, you felt alone, that you felt like this, that you just felt isolated, you felt alone.
• 3:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, I think it happens quite often.
• 3:30
  Elizabeth Stroot: Actually, I think particularly when you are navigating the day-to-day needs of a brick and mortar business.
• 3:33
  Elizabeth Stroot: You're forward-facing with patients, both in a clinician's role but also in an administrative role.
• 3:41
  Elizabeth Stroot: You're navigating relationships with your peers, with your fellow clinicians, so there's a lot of giving of yourself Right, and there's a moment that just sort of you know it washes over you and you think I'm really in this alone.
• 3:58
  Elizabeth Stroot: You know there's no one in this moment that I can just transfer all of my thoughts and feelings to, and they can sort of take the helm Right and steer my boat for a while, and so the best option is to build those relationships with other like-minded or similar seasons women.
• 4:23
  Jennifer Johnson: Very true Similar seasons because so many people are at different areas of their journey in entrepreneurship.
• 4:30
  Elizabeth Stroot: Exactly so, I would say, even before I had my children who were about to be four and six, it was a very different dynamic of the women I was wanting to be around to, like you know, play ideas off of and just offer support, because they could relate to navigating the busyness of the schedule and being pulled in different directions.
• 4:49
  Elizabeth Stroot: And then you add motherhood and it's that's changes everything.
• 4:55
  Jennifer Johnson: It really does everything it does.
• 4:57
  Jennifer Johnson: At what point did you really make the realization that you needed to have a tribe?
• 5:04
  Elizabeth Stroot: Absolutely in 2020.
• 5:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: I think by virtue of.
• 5:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: I was pregnant in early 2020.
• 5:12
  Elizabeth Stroot: My father was diagnosed with cancer.
• 5:15
  Elizabeth Stroot: All the impact of the pandemic around the world super isolating when you're used to being around people all the time and all of a sudden everything kind of comes into this very narrowed group of people, limited time with one another because we want to get back to our safe space.
• 5:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: All of that.
• 5:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: That's when I felt like I needed to consciously make the connections more impactful, not just like have people on speed dial and people I text, but dedicated time to be with particular women.
• 5:53
  Jennifer Johnson: And our world definitely got smaller during that period.
• 5:57
  Jennifer Johnson: Like you say, like everything kind of just.
• 5:59
  Jennifer Johnson: You know, you were just around a very small group of people whether it's who you worked with or it was your family and that even made it more polarizing, I feel like.
• 6:12
  Elizabeth Stroot: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 6:14
  Elizabeth Stroot: It became clear how individuals' boundaries were important to to know and acknowledge and respect them.
• 6:25
  Elizabeth Stroot: But then it also perhaps wasn't what you needed at that time.
• 6:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: So let's say I have a girlfriend who you know, her, she and her family, they left the area, they went to another state for a good chunk of that year.
• 6:38
  Elizabeth Stroot: Well, that means she wasn't in proximity for me to have access to her and and that that bond was different.
• 6:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: Of course it would be.
• 6:48
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah, so it just.
• 6:49
  Elizabeth Stroot: It just challenged, um, what had become the norm, and we got more creative.
• 6:55
  Elizabeth Stroot: We started using apps like Marco Polo or we used the audio feature on text instead of just putting letters to the screen.
• 7:02
  Elizabeth Stroot: It just evolved?
• 7:05
  Jennifer Johnson: You're right, it evolved and it changed all of us.
• 7:08
  Jennifer Johnson: Yes, it certainly did.
• 7:10
  Jennifer Johnson: Now you mentioned something about I think you said the word network or something of that nature.
• 7:18
  Jennifer Johnson: How do you differentiate your true sisterhood or your true tribe of your entrepreneurs and I guess it doesn't just need to be entrepreneurs but how do you determine that in relation to the, I guess, differentiate between a network of people and a tribe, because I think they're two different things.
• 7:40
  Jennifer Johnson: A network, I would agree.
• 7:43
  Elizabeth Stroot: I agree.
• 7:43
  Elizabeth Stroot: So the network I think of, there are not just personal benefits of those connections.
• 7:51
  Elizabeth Stroot: There are usually business benefits.
• 7:54
  Elizabeth Stroot: There are connections that can be made that benefit someone's professional growth.
• 7:59
  Elizabeth Stroot: Mm-hmm the tribe.
• 8:02
  Elizabeth Stroot: The tribe just, it feels yummy, it feels safe.
• 8:07
  Elizabeth Stroot: You can be your most authentic self.
• 8:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: You don't hold back certain elements of yourself.
• 8:14
  Elizabeth Stroot: And a tribe, also in my mind, doesn't have to be like, oh, I've got this core four group of women right.
• 8:20
  Elizabeth Stroot: It can be my tribe with this person and this person and this person, but I know who.
• 8:27
  Elizabeth Stroot: My tribe is Right Versus the network doesn't have that same intimacy to me.
• 8:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's still very personal.
• 8:36
  Elizabeth Stroot: It can even be intimate from the standpoint of we're vulnerable on a business level with each other or even in a community level, but this is like the heart is in the tribe.
• 8:50
  Elizabeth Stroot: I was actually telling yeah, it just that's where the sisterhood vibe really starts to come alive for me.
• 8:57
  Elizabeth Stroot: I was talking to one of my core people just the other day about how I had been asked to go to the gym by a dear friend of mine.
• 9:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: She wants to come work out with me.
• 9:09
  Elizabeth Stroot: Wonderful Years ago I would have been like that is so great, like, yes, let's go do that in this season, right now.
• 9:17
  Elizabeth Stroot: That is my sanctuary space where I need to decompress and it's not a time when I want to be talking or connecting.
• 9:24
  Elizabeth Stroot: I need to decompress and it's not an.
• 9:25
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's not a time when I want to be talking or connecting.
• 9:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: I need to be resetting myself.
• 9:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: The woman that I was sharing this story with if she had asked me to work out, it would have been a no brainer because she's part, she's part, she's part of the tribe.
• 9:44
  Elizabeth Stroot: That, yes, because it doesn't feel like I hate to say it doesn't feel like work, but it feels easy and it feels like there's just as much of an opportunity to give and pour into her as there is to receive her pouring into me.
• 10:01
  Elizabeth Stroot: You don't have to entertain her Not at all, it's natural.
• 10:04
  Elizabeth Stroot: You don't have to.
• 10:04
  Elizabeth Stroot: And it's not work.
• 10:05
  Elizabeth Stroot: You don't have to entertain her.
• 10:05
  Elizabeth Stroot: Not at all.
• 10:06
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's natural you don't have to.
• 10:06
  Elizabeth Stroot: And it's not work you don't have to entertain.
• 10:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: That's a perfect way to think about it.
• 10:10
  Jennifer Johnson: But I love how, how you put it.
• 10:12
  Jennifer Johnson: It also is like and I know this is going to sound weird like a, like a warm, snuggly blanket, a tribe.
• 10:21
  Jennifer Johnson: Yes, yes, you know it's yummy, it's whatever.
• 10:24
  Jennifer Johnson: Yes, yes, you know it's yummy, it's whatever.
• 10:28
  Jennifer Johnson: It's like, you know you're blanketed in that feeling that you want to feel and be around those people.
• 10:32
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, yes, as you were saying that I also.
• 10:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: There's also this counterpoint of you know, that opening scene of Wonder Woman or all the Amazonian women.
• 10:43
  Elizabeth Stroot: Okay, so, in the beginning, there are all these women that are incredibly fit.
• 10:50
  Elizabeth Stroot: They're in their like battle gear.
• 10:53
  Elizabeth Stroot: That is also a tribe and an element of how I think about the tribe.
• 10:58
  Elizabeth Stroot: These are also the women that, like, when stuff is hard, they're ready to rally, they're ready to tell you the hard truth when no one else is gonna tell you the hard truth, when no one else is going to tell you the hard truth.
• 11:09
  Elizabeth Stroot: That, like you know, you got to pay attention to this, cause I see you kind of spinning out.
• 11:13
  Elizabeth Stroot: They can just be very real with you so snugly but also firm, cause it all comes from a place of love and admiration for each other.
• 11:23
  Elizabeth Stroot: Tough love, tough love.
• 11:25
  Elizabeth Stroot: We need it sometimes.
• 11:28
  Jennifer Johnson: We do and we don't realize it all the time.
• 11:30
  Jennifer Johnson: I was literally having this conversation with somebody because I was in a spot where I felt like I knew what direction I needed to go but I was letting something hold me back.
• 11:44
  Jennifer Johnson: But I didn't really realize I was letting something or someone hold me back, but somebody else saw that in me and called me out on it and again it was part of my tribe.
• 11:57
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah.
• 11:58
  Jennifer Johnson: And when they called me out on it, I went.
• 12:00
  Jennifer Johnson: When sometimes, when you say something, you can be thinking it in your head and it makes sense.
• 12:08
  Jennifer Johnson: Yes, you verbalize it to somebody who's in your tribe.
• 12:12
  Jennifer Johnson: They poke holes in it and go repeat that.
• 12:16
  Jennifer Johnson: Do you know how silly that sounds?
• 12:18
  Jennifer Johnson: And that's an aha moment.
• 12:23
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah, yeah.
• 12:24
  Elizabeth Stroot: And how did you feel in that moment receiving it from that person.
• 12:30
  Jennifer Johnson: Validated.
• 12:32
  Elizabeth Stroot: Beautiful.
• 12:33
  Jennifer Johnson: Because ultimately, at the end of the day, we're all human.
• 12:38
  Jennifer Johnson: We want validation and we do get that from our tribe.
• 12:41
  Jennifer Johnson: Yeah, yeah, we just want to know that we're seen, we're heard, we're understood.
• 12:49
  Jennifer Johnson: And that's what I think that does for us.
• 12:52
  Jennifer Johnson: Now, how did you go about, or how would you suggest someone who doesn't really know do I have a tribe?
• 13:01
  Jennifer Johnson: How do I know if I have a tribe or no?
• 13:04
  Jennifer Johnson: I don't have a tribe.
• 13:05
  Jennifer Johnson: How do I find a tribe?
• 13:06
  Jennifer Johnson: How do I know if I have a tribe or no?
• 13:07
  Elizabeth Stroot: I don't have a tribe.
• 13:07
  Elizabeth Stroot: How do I find a tribe?
• 13:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: I'm a big fan of journaling.
• 13:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: I'm a big fan of putting your thoughts and feelings down on paper.
• 13:15
  Elizabeth Stroot: As a way to explore that, I think if we just have the self-talk going or we kind of have somewhat loose conversations with people about like well, how do you define that?
• 13:27
  Elizabeth Stroot: What does that look like?
• 13:28
  Elizabeth Stroot: Do you feel like to you?
• 13:30
  Elizabeth Stroot: We oftentimes cherry pick other people's idea of tribe and then make our own little you know puzzle of it, but that's not necessarily a genuine reflection of what it is.
• 13:42
  Elizabeth Stroot: We need Such a good point.
• 13:44
  Elizabeth Stroot: So it's like and this is where social media can be great we can cherry pick ideas and that's lovely.
• 13:50
  Elizabeth Stroot: But just because you see another person that maybe you identify with, you're like she's my people and like she does this, so that probably is going to work for me.
• 13:59
  Elizabeth Stroot: We might be missing an opportunity to really dive into what the best version of ourselves would want.
• 14:06
  Elizabeth Stroot: So I like the idea of thinking about ourselves six months, one year, five years down the road.
• 14:13
  Elizabeth Stroot: And I do this two ways.
• 14:19
  Elizabeth Stroot: Either we're looking at her, that version of ourselves, and saying what does her tribe look like?
• 14:27
  Elizabeth Stroot: Like what has she's been working on this.
• 14:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: What?
• 14:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: What was important to her?
• 14:31
  Elizabeth Stroot: Is she doubling down on family time?
• 14:34
  Elizabeth Stroot: Is she doubling down with, you know, this group or that group, her book club, her Whatever makes sense, and writing down some of the attributes.
• 14:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: What is it that I bring to a tribe, what are strengths, what are gifts, what are some unique abilities I have that I would like to bring to other people?
• 14:59
  Elizabeth Stroot: So, acts of service, being of service to other people, and then what is it that I could really benefit from receiving and what kind of dynamic would be necessary for me to feel like I am giving and I feel safe to receive and I can play into this nice symbiotic dancey thing that we need to do in the moment, thing that we need to do in the moment, the other, the other fun journaling exercise for me is having that distant version of ourselves Send us a postcard.
• 15:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, and you, you know you, you visualize, you're writing down.
• 15:38
  Elizabeth Stroot: Oh, I went to my mailbox and I took the, the.
• 15:41
  Elizabeth Stroot: You know the handful out, and on top was this postcard from the.
• 15:47
  Elizabeth Stroot: You know the handful out and on top was this postcard from, and you see the picture and what the picture looks like.
• 15:54
  Elizabeth Stroot: For me, it's always Italy, it's something, it's something European, and it's like hey Elizabeth, it's like I'm here's what I'm doing, here's what I smell, what I see what.
• 16:01
  Elizabeth Stroot: Maybe I just tasted here's who I'm with, see what.
• 16:09
  Elizabeth Stroot: Maybe I just tasted here's who I'm with.
• 16:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: And for this topic, it could be remember when you were thinking about what kind of tribe would really suit you and you would like to be a part of.
• 16:15
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, here's what that looked like.
• 16:18
  Elizabeth Stroot: And so we're, we're kind of changing how we go at it and I think you get two different answers.
• 16:23
  Elizabeth Stroot: But how beautiful is that?
• 16:24
  Elizabeth Stroot: Now you have an even bigger net to cast.
• 16:28
  Jennifer Johnson: Right.
• 16:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: So that, as you're moving about the world, you can say, hey, that does resonate with this idea.
• 16:34
  Elizabeth Stroot: I should maybe spend more time in that book club.
• 16:37
  Elizabeth Stroot: I really like those women, even though we don't talk about the book, Right.
• 16:41
  Jennifer Johnson: And I love what you said.
• 16:42
  Jennifer Johnson: I mean, it's all beautiful what you said, because so many times we do look at the comparison stuff.
• 16:50
  Jennifer Johnson: We look at social media, for example, and we see people in different parts of their lives not necessarily our part that we're at in our lives with their tribe and, like you said, cherry pick, basically regurgitate what they're doing and going oh I like this person what they're doing, this person with their, so on and so forth, but it's not serving us because that's not what we necessarily need.
• 17:21
  Jennifer Johnson: We think we do because we saw it need.
• 17:30
  Elizabeth Stroot: We think we do because we saw it.
• 17:32
  Elizabeth Stroot: But journaling, yeah, and to your point, like it is what we, what we, we need it, like we need to be validated and seen, and I think it's a testament to how disconnected we all can feel at any given moment, that we like we want it, we want it so bad, we want it now.
• 17:44
  Elizabeth Stroot: We want to give it all hit and they're like give it all of it, all of it, and I feel like that just makes us keep spinning our wheels, as opposed to like just be marinated in a little bit marinated, reflected.
• 20:29
  Elizabeth Stroot: How do I, how do I feel when I'm with so-and-so where?
• 20:36
  Elizabeth Stroot: Who am I with when I feel the most comfortable and confident?
• 20:40
  Elizabeth Stroot: And whatever, pick and confident and pick your descriptors, right, right, who am I with?
• 20:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: What am I doing?
• 20:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: How do I get more of that?
• 20:50
  Jennifer Johnson: So an interesting little part of this is, as women a lot, and not just women in nature competitiveness, because women can be very competitive.
• 21:07
  Jennifer Johnson: Not saying that guys can't because they can, but sometimes women can be extremely competitive.
• 21:14
  Jennifer Johnson: How do you, let's say, someone's in your tribe and they start becoming something that you're not about and you're not interested in?
• 21:30
  Jennifer Johnson: How do you navigate something like that?
• 21:38
  Elizabeth Stroot: Such an important question.
• 21:40
  Elizabeth Stroot: Such an important question.
• 21:41
  Elizabeth Stroot: Such an important question.
• 21:44
  Elizabeth Stroot: In most instances, I'm more competitive with myself than I am with other women In business.
• 21:56
  Elizabeth Stroot: I am a firm believer there is enough to go around for everybody, and I love the fact that I am not everybody's cup of tea.
• 22:04
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, and for the people where we do have that jive and that whatever, whether it's a client, a patient, a friend we can just keep it moving.
• 22:15
  Elizabeth Stroot: And, like you know, I want, I really want the.
• 22:17
  Elizabeth Stroot: I want the best for everybody.
• 22:20
  Elizabeth Stroot: If it's someone in the inner tribe, I usually have to check myself first.
• 22:27
  Elizabeth Stroot: Right, it's not so much that like I don't like what they're doing or like, oh, she's doing that I need to distance myself.
• 22:33
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's like, hang on, why am I having that reaction?
• 22:38
  Elizabeth Stroot: Hmm, why is that rubbing me the wrong way?
• 22:42
  Elizabeth Stroot: Or like, why did that make my ears perk up?
• 22:45
  Elizabeth Stroot: And now I'm looking at her differently.
• 22:47
  Elizabeth Stroot: I need to check myself first and once I've done that, there's usually a very clear answer.
• 22:54
  Elizabeth Stroot: It usually has everything to do with me and nothing to do with her, especially if it is a woman in my like.
• 22:59
  Elizabeth Stroot: That is like a soul sistery tribe type.
• 23:02
  Elizabeth Stroot: Um, the other potential there is that maybe it's time for our season to take a little bit of a hiatus relative to that part of life, because that's okay too, right?
• 23:21
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah, I mean my high school girlfriends.
• 23:23
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's amazing to me that, like my closest high school girlfriends, I mean thank god for Facebook or I would have no idea where they are, but it has been interesting to have relationships evolve with other girls I knew in high school also thanks to social media and all these other things, that we now use Marco Polo messaging once or twice a week.
• 23:44
  Elizabeth Stroot: So you just don't know when the seasons are going to change.
• 23:48
  Jennifer Johnson: And I wholeheartedly agree with that, because there are people from high school that were a year ahead of me or behind me that I never hung out with, never even thought about.
• 24:00
  Jennifer Johnson: And then you do see him on Facebook and you make a connection and all of a sudden you know those two years or that year in high school was huge.
• 24:15
  Elizabeth Stroot: Now, as we're older, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, and, and it and it, I think for women, I've always thought that it was very natural to be tribal with other women.
• 24:27
  Elizabeth Stroot: Now, I went to an all girls school from preschool to senior year, so, like, maybe it's kind of conditioned into me also.
• 24:33
  Elizabeth Stroot: But you know you, you find a resonant point in another woman and you're like yes, like our tribe has this kind of this, what should we call?
• 24:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's like a, like a radius around it, like we've got our, we've got the friends that are in like this orbit and then the next orbit in, and then another, and then there's like.
• 24:57
  Elizabeth Stroot: Then there's the like the nucleus, yes, yes, exactly.
• 25:04
  Elizabeth Stroot: But and it is fun to make these connections with people that you're like wow, when we were 18, I mean you were cool and all but like now you are, now, you're all that we're sharing recipes.
• 25:16
  Elizabeth Stroot: we're sharing playlists, yeah.
• 25:20
  Jennifer Johnson: Have you had a time where your tribe or maybe it's ongoing that your tribe has really changed your business or had a direct impact on your business?
• 25:33
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes, I immediately think of the tribe of women that work in my practice.
• 25:42
  Elizabeth Stroot: When my when my daughter Zoe was born, I had a somewhat traumatic birth and she was in children's hospital for a two week period of time.
• 25:52
  Elizabeth Stroot: And when you, when you are running a business as an individual, you don't have business partners, you don't have a whole crew of management.
• 26:03
  Elizabeth Stroot: I was fortunate enough to not have to have the worry of what's going to happen while I am, heart and soul, over here with my baby as she's trying to survive.
• 26:18
  Elizabeth Stroot: Over here with my baby as she's trying to survive, and I I really believe it's because of the rapport and relationship that I built with them leading up to her birth that it was.
• 26:31
  Elizabeth Stroot: It was automatic that they.
• 26:33
  Elizabeth Stroot: They just jumped on it.
• 26:35
  Elizabeth Stroot: They were equal parts concerned with me and her and my husband as they were, for we just were at the Clinton.
• 26:42
  Elizabeth Stroot: We're making everything flow.
• 26:43
  Elizabeth Stroot: I didn't worry for a second.
• 26:47
  Elizabeth Stroot: That was my heart's getting goosebumps just thinking about that.
• 26:51
  Jennifer Johnson: It's beautiful that it works like that.
• 26:53
  Jennifer Johnson: It's beautiful when you can create that on the front end, knowing that you have this tribe and you don't have to worry.
• 27:01
  Jennifer Johnson: I mean, I went through something similar when my husband was in the hospital, didn't?
• 27:05
  Elizabeth Stroot: worry.
• 27:06
  Jennifer Johnson: Because I had a tribe.
• 27:08
  Jennifer Johnson: It's my work tribe.
• 27:10
  Jennifer Johnson: Yes, you know it's different than my friend's tribe, but they actually genuinely cared and it it makes the rest of your life easier.
• 27:26
  Elizabeth Stroot: Absolutely and and feeling in it together about something, whether it's work or it can be a variety of other things.
• 27:34
  Elizabeth Stroot: I think that puts an ease and a and an element of grace on the heart of the entrepreneur, of the business owner.
• 27:46
  Jennifer Johnson: Absolutely.
• 27:47
  Elizabeth Stroot: Everything's going to be okay.
• 27:49
  Jennifer Johnson: Right, I can hear it.
• 27:51
  Jennifer Johnson: I can hear that song.
• 27:53
  Elizabeth Stroot: Exactly.
• 27:55
  Jennifer Johnson: What would you suggest to entrepreneurs who are just entering their journey about tribe building?
• 28:07
  Elizabeth Stroot: Keep it real.
• 28:07
  Elizabeth Stroot: Keep it real, like, be true to yourself.
• 28:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: You know, sometimes I think we're told we should leverage connections and relationships with certain people because someone else sees the benefit.
• 28:21
  Elizabeth Stroot: You know, maybe a you know, a friend or a mentor is like, you know you really should connect with so-and-so because they blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 28:31
  Elizabeth Stroot: If that feels right, cool, take the hot tip and run with it.
• 28:37
  Elizabeth Stroot: But if you're not spending time in self-reflection to be like, am I still being true to like my, my mission and my why of why I'm starting this business or why I'm writing this book or why I'm doing this podcast, I, I think it can very subtly take you off target and off track over time and it and it's slow and it doesn't feel like it should be a whole lot, or maybe we justify that it's not such a big deal.
• 29:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: But I think you have to keep it real with yourself and connect with people that from the beginning, there's this resonance.
• 29:17
  Elizabeth Stroot: You feel there's this resonance.
• 29:18
  Elizabeth Stroot: You feel it Like, I think, trusting your gut, fortifying that that connection, yes, it, it has not steered me wrong.
• 29:28
  Elizabeth Stroot: I mean I'm, I'm also a woman of faith.
• 29:31
  Elizabeth Stroot: I, I think there's um, you have to build those muscles.
• 29:41
  Elizabeth Stroot: I love that Of trust, of trusting yourself, and the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
• 29:45
  Elizabeth Stroot: And I'm doing it just because someone else told you to or you know that was their business model.
• 29:51
  Elizabeth Stroot: So I should connect with that person and just use that playbook.
• 29:54
  Elizabeth Stroot: It's not people are going to know, people are going to sense that like and in her playbook she it feels like a franchise.
• 30:01
  Elizabeth Stroot: There you go and they can be successful.
• 30:05
  Elizabeth Stroot: And if that like gets it done for you, do it.
• 30:08
  Elizabeth Stroot: That's great, that's great.
• 30:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: But if you are someone that feels very um, heart driven, purpose-filled, passionate and, like you, you know what you want to do and you have to create it.
• 30:20
  Elizabeth Stroot: So it feels like a bigger hurdle.
• 30:23
  Elizabeth Stroot: Maybe you really have to stay.
• 30:25
  Elizabeth Stroot: You have to stay dialed in so that you just stay the course and it grows authentically.
• 30:32
  Jennifer Johnson: I think that's really great advice, Definitely great advice.
• 30:36
  Jennifer Johnson: I have so enjoyed our conversation today.
• 30:39
  Jennifer Johnson: I feel like you're my sister from another mister Is that or a mom?
• 30:45
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yeah, totally, totally.
• 30:46
  Elizabeth Stroot: What is that?
• 30:47
  Jennifer Johnson: saying it is that there's just a connection.
• 30:51
  Elizabeth Stroot: Yes.
• 30:51
  Elizabeth Stroot: So, yes, see, we have a tribe now we have our own little tribe.
• 30:55
  Jennifer Johnson: It's our tribe.
• 30:56
  Jennifer Johnson: I so appreciate you being on.
• 30:58
  Jennifer Johnson: If our listeners would like to get a hold of you, how can they do so?
• 31:02
  Elizabeth Stroot: They can go to corewellnessleadershipcom, and you can find all the different ways to connect with me on social media or send me an email.
• 31:10
  Elizabeth Stroot: I would be very excited to hear from anybody that wants to continue this conversation or start another.
• 31:17
  Jennifer Johnson: Fabulous.
• 31:18
  Jennifer Johnson: Thank you again, thank you.