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Do What’s in Front of You | DWC Member Spotlight: Mary Boza Crimmins · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyRiderLife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: As writers, we have a lot of project-based items to think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are what I would call big items that can take weeks or months to complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this can include things like building a website, writing a book, creating a course, building an author platform, or starting a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is why it's easy to get paralyzed by all the things that you think you should be doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the small steps are important too.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, the big steps are made up of the small steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: The big steps don't consist of anything but the small steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Small steps are the only thing that gets you to your bigger goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thomas Carlyle, a British historian, said our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with that in mind, what do you need to do today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Not next week or next month, but what do you need to do today?
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  SPEAKER_00: What lies clearly at hand?
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  SPEAKER_00: I encourage you to focus on that one thing until it's done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't spend so much time thinking about the big projects that the small steps don't get done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Focusing on today's work and making sure it gets finished is the only way to ensure you get those big steps completed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's today's challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is a single small step that you can take today toward a bigger goal?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, a big thanks to today's sponsor, The Word Wizard.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've got one more thing for you here on today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've probably heard me talk about the Daily Rider Club a lot of times here on the show, and periodically I like to feature many interviews with some of the members of the Daily Rider Club.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I'm excited to introduce you to Mary Boza Crims, who is a unique combination of businesswoman, writer, researcher, and teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary's the owner of Crimin's Communications, co-host of the podcast, What Leaders Wish They Knew, and author of the upcoming book, Taking the Holy Spirit to Work.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can connect with Mary at Mary at Crimsons Communications.com or on Facebook at Mary Bozakrimans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's my conversation with Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary, it's good to have you on the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is your first appearance, if I'm not mistaken.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thanks for joining me for this quick conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start out by um let me just have you share what you do generally as a writer and how you got started with writing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you so much, Kent.
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  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate um you taking the time to talk to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: How how I got started in writing, I've always written for every employer.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's I'm one of those people though, as for writing, I've always wanted to be a writer, but it's easier to write for others than it is to write for myself.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I have a business, Crimson's Communications, where I write for others, ghost writing, anything from I'm helping somebody with a book right now, press releases.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wrote an article once on um a new wine for a vineyard in Argentina.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know nothing about wine, but um, but it was, you know, it's very diverse work.
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  SPEAKER_01: On the personal side, my writing has been is uh recently been more of a um Christian spiritual nature, um, basically coming through my journaling in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you tell us about the the book that you're working on right now that I know is this interview will come out before your book comes out, um, just so that people are aware of it and how they can support it and what the book is about.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, great, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's called Taking the Holy Spirit to work, empowering and encouraging Christians in the workplace.
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  SPEAKER_01: And essentially, part of my message is that when we're at work, we spend one third of our day there or or more.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we we leave the Holy Spirit behind and don't bring him with us to work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I know from personal experience that calling on the Holy Spirit has really helped me through some difficult conversations or difficult situations in work.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I would love to encourage people who are Christians to do so, but also to have the Holy Spirit with them so that they are um more open to the people that they encounter at work because we're going to encounter the most diverse group of people while we're at work rather than we're when we're in the home or in our community, in our churches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, gosh, that that is so true.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, you you can encounter um a pretty diverse area of people almost anywhere you go, but particularly in a work environment.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have people from all kinds of different backgrounds and sometimes with conflicting points of view.
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  SPEAKER_00: And gosh, having having that spiritual strength behind you as a person of faith can be really, really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious your your strategy for this book.
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  SPEAKER_00: One thing that um, of course, I'm I've known you for a while now, Mary, and I I know about this book, is that you've specifically made this into a shorter book as opposed to like this big long 300-page kind of tome sort of thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm curious if you can walk us through your strategy for doing a short book and how that'll actually benefit the reader.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, in part it was I wanted to write a book and get one done.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, so just that practical nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: The other part was that, you know, I heard there's this trend towards shorter books.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some people are more likely to read all of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want, I would like for it to be read from beginning to end.
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  SPEAKER_01: And also was very determined that I was gonna write what I felt was laid on me and I wasn't going to, you know, try to stuff stuff in to make it a 300-page book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I love that emphasis on a short book because they're faster to write, they're easier to read.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when people finish a book, then they're gonna be more likely to leave a review and to recommend it rather than having a big, massive book where they read a couple chapters, they set it aside, and then forget about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think you've done something really, really smart with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so congrats.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, where can people find out more about your writing and get notified about the book and just all the cool things that you're doing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, right now I do have uh Crimin's Communications.com, or you can always email me at Mary at Crimin's Communications, and that's Crims C-R-I-M-M-I-N S Communications with an S as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am currently building my email list for my for the book, and um even got a couple of emails ready to go to launch next month, this morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm proud of myself for doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so right now I do not have my website set up for the book, but I'm moving towards that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awesome, love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so one final thing here before we wrap up, wrap up this conversation is how do you feel like being a part of the Daily Writer Club has helped you as a writer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Has it helped with connections or relationships, habits, mindset?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, any of the above?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that you'll say yes to at least a couple of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh, just can't, you know, I I've I've mentioned to you before that you were my companion on walks during COVID.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I mean I didn't work completely during COVID as a teacher, but when I came home to decompress, so that was the beginning before I ever laid eyes on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I don't think that I would have um committed to actually finally finishing the book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've started a lot of books, had it not been for you and the tremendous people within this group.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I am so grateful to be a part of Daily Writer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um really the people in it are so kind and open and supportive.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, and that's because of you, um, of what you have created and then the people you have attracted.
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  SPEAKER_01: So thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, thanks for the kind words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, sometimes people tell me that I have kind of a calming voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I always, whenever people tell me that they listen to the podcast every day, I'm like, do you do you do this right before your nap time?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know, I don't want to be responsible for people falling asleep at the wheel or falling asleep during a walk or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so I and I'm kind of just kidding, but uh but thank you for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm so glad to have you part of the Daily Writer Club.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and just really impressed with what you're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh can't wait to get this book into the hands of people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thanks again for for this conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been a lot of fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're very welcome, and thank you.