Latest / Blind But Now I See / The Master Connector !
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're right here in New York and New York and
- 0:02Speaker 1: New York. It's been snow and since I got here.
- 0:04Speaker 1: I've been here for like seven days and we had
- 0:06Speaker 1: a blizzard.
- 0:08Speaker 2: My brother stuck in Miami right now.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Really yeah, my homegirl is in Atlanta. She supposed to
- 0:12Speaker 1: come back on Saturday. He pushed your flight back to tomorrow,
- 0:16Speaker 1: so she's stuck at Atlanta.
- 0:17Speaker 3: I've been here.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I had a blizzard. It was snowing this morning. But
- 0:20Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not missing your podcast, so you
- 0:22Speaker 1: know who?
- 0:22Speaker 4: Not you know who in New York now though she
- 0:24Speaker 4: back home, but Jersey at home will so.
- 0:27Speaker 3: But I made my money in New York on Wall Street.
- 0:29Speaker 4: So yeah, I was this's gonna be an interesting podcast today.
- 0:34Speaker 4: Back for the episode of the Blab and I See podcast.
- 0:37Speaker 4: I'm your host, the official Blind Stepper. Frenchie's not here snow.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Yeah she said the snow. I mean, stop her up,
- 0:45Speaker 4: but that's here there.
- 0:47Speaker 2: But what today?
- 0:48Speaker 4: We educating people entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, whether they big or small,
- 0:55Speaker 4: or whether they want to walk through the dolls. You
- 0:57Speaker 4: got a special person here today, special. But before we
- 1:02Speaker 4: even introduce, I guess you signed to the Master Connected Wolf,
- 1:07Speaker 4: the Community Crickets main part of the Community Wolf.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Get that membership.
- 1:15Speaker 3: By the end of this podcast, we need to sign.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Up the benefits.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Let me tell you about the Master Connected Agency. Because
- 1:21Speaker 4: this podcast sponsored by it AM. I got my credit fix.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
- 1:27Speaker 4: I got paid to speak way more than I was charging.
- 1:30Speaker 4: That's how this podcast is still running with m ideally
- 1:36Speaker 4: monthly meetups. It's like our family reunion. I ain't convincing
- 1:40Speaker 4: you yet. You got marketing, a branding, branding. What else
- 1:48Speaker 4: we got?
- 1:48Speaker 3: Ai Brandon market You're doing a really good She's.
- 1:51Speaker 2: A p all herself. I don't even know it I created.
- 1:57Speaker 2: I'm introducing you yet, the master of all connections.
- 2:02Speaker 1: Everybody in there has scaled their businesses, have scaled, their
- 2:05Speaker 1: following on social media, got more customers and clients.
- 2:09Speaker 2: So she's an author too.
- 2:11Speaker 3: I'm an author too.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Author. You got to help up too.
- 2:16Speaker 3: You can see it on the screen. It's a connector.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Let me tell you. Chris came to my event and
- 2:21Speaker 3: brought ten of these bad boys.
- 2:24Speaker 1: It was Forgot one. He was passing them out. He
- 2:26Speaker 1: said he couldn't make it do the airport.
- 2:30Speaker 2: They took all my stuff out of there, Like, what
- 2:31Speaker 2: did that said? Those books? He's like, no, you got
- 2:33Speaker 2: to check it.
- 2:35Speaker 1: There's so many gyms in this book on how I
- 2:38Speaker 1: got from the inner cities of Jersey all the way
- 2:40Speaker 1: to Wall Street and the connections that I made along
- 2:42Speaker 1: the way.
- 2:42Speaker 3: So y'all might want to get y'all copy.
- 2:45Speaker 4: But let's highlight the fact that she walked away from
- 2:47Speaker 4: Wall Street to be an entrepreneur.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Who is doing.
- 2:51Speaker 3: That, who is guaranteed paycheck a nice one too?
- 2:57Speaker 4: To really like get Temple, You're a big gambler, right,
- 3:03Speaker 4: big gambler.
- 3:04Speaker 3: Trust me, Chris.
- 3:04Speaker 1: When I left, I left July eleventh, and my mortgage
- 3:07Speaker 1: hit August first, and that Wall.
- 3:09Speaker 3: Street check wasn't in account.
- 3:10Speaker 1: It's like, he's ready to go back. I said, wait
- 3:12Speaker 1: a minute, God, it's me again. Excuse me.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I need to.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Where's this check at?
- 3:15Speaker 1: Right? Yes, for sure, I was ready to go back
- 3:17Speaker 1: with the less than thirty days because I'm going to
- 3:20Speaker 1: Wall Street twenty one years.
- 3:21Speaker 3: That's all I know.
- 3:22Speaker 1: I know that steady money for twenty one years at
- 3:25Speaker 1: a high six figure level. And so when I walked
- 3:28Speaker 1: away and I didn't have that check, I was like, wait,
- 3:31Speaker 1: do I need to get a job again, because I
- 3:33Speaker 1: get do you know it's easy to get a job.
- 3:34Speaker 1: And so I was like, I'm gonna get a job again,
- 3:36Speaker 1: and God said no.
- 3:36Speaker 2: But you can't be damn what about us?
- 3:38Speaker 1: That's exactly so God was like, no, you cannot get
- 3:42Speaker 1: a job. I removed you from corporate America to grow
- 3:44Speaker 1: this agency so I could prosper it. And it's funny
- 3:48Speaker 1: because Chris and all the members said, what about us,
- 3:50Speaker 1: you can't get a corporate job.
- 3:51Speaker 3: I have a team.
- 3:52Speaker 1: They're like, wait, we're gonna be uneplayed if you get
- 3:53Speaker 1: a job. So yeah, but yeah, guy, literally I listened
- 3:57Speaker 1: to him. I'm so obedient to the man above. He said,
- 3:59Speaker 1: I removed you from corporate America so that you can
- 4:02Speaker 1: grow this business. I need your one hundred percent focus
- 4:04Speaker 1: on entrepreneurship. So I walked away July eleventh, and here
- 4:07Speaker 1: we are in February.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Never look back.
- 4:10Speaker 4: Well, before we even get into that, I want to
- 4:12Speaker 4: give you your flowers.
- 4:13Speaker 3: Oh thank you critics.
- 4:14Speaker 4: First sponsor of the blomber Nazi podcast came from the
- 4:17Speaker 4: Master Connect the agency, and I was pulling his book.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Yes you did say that. That's one thing I love
- 4:23Speaker 1: about the community. They support each other's businesses, like if
- 4:26Speaker 1: somebody is doing something, we all chip into support.
- 4:29Speaker 3: We helped fundraise, We buy their products, like we have
- 4:32Speaker 3: some old products here.
- 4:33Speaker 1: She's in the community, like she came and was giving
- 4:35Speaker 1: us products. We support her business. My book were podcast
- 4:38Speaker 1: like you said, you got your credit fixed, you got
- 4:41Speaker 1: I got out more dollars to speak and then you
- 4:43Speaker 1: also still rolling.
- 4:44Speaker 2: I'm speaking next month.
- 4:45Speaker 3: Look at it still rolling, getting so many opportunities.
- 4:48Speaker 1: And you even said something to me that stuck with me, Chris,
- 4:50Speaker 1: that I never forget you said.
- 4:51Speaker 3: It boosted my confidence. Definitely did, because you said like
- 4:53Speaker 3: you were quiet.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Like working with y'all too helped me get While I'm
- 4:58Speaker 4: at today who me and Wolf brought.
- 5:00Speaker 2: It out of me? Awesome, bought it out of me.
- 5:02Speaker 2: And then I'm in the community.
- 5:03Speaker 4: Well, if it don't matter how many times I'll speak
- 5:06Speaker 4: at the end of the meeting, Chris, you want you there,
- 5:08Speaker 4: You're coming on speaker, I said, she exercised my speaking career,
- 5:12Speaker 4: like I love it. But honestly speaking, I feel like
- 5:16Speaker 4: you the definition of blonde faith.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Mmmm, that is amazing. I think you faith.
- 5:21Speaker 4: You jumped out there and didn't know what was going
- 5:23Speaker 4: to be next? What dolls were like, what'd you walking
- 5:27Speaker 4: through the wrong doors? So let's get into the how
- 5:29Speaker 4: did you feel about taking that leap to say, I'm
- 5:32Speaker 4: walking away from corporate America?
- 5:34Speaker 3: So I'm still with blind faith.
- 5:36Speaker 1: They always say, if you want to be if you
- 5:37Speaker 1: want to get closer to God, become an entrepreneur because
- 5:40Speaker 1: every day it's a faith walk.
- 5:41Speaker 3: Every single day.
- 5:42Speaker 1: I don't know where my next client or my customer
- 5:44Speaker 1: is coming from.
- 5:46Speaker 3: But God gave me a vision and I'll just back
- 5:48Speaker 3: it up.
- 5:48Speaker 1: So God gave me a vision in twenty twenty four,
- 5:51Speaker 1: I said, you know so many amazing people, corporate executives,
- 5:54Speaker 1: industry leaders, entrepreneurs, influencers, the gamt up like the array
- 5:59Speaker 1: of amazing people that are doing their thing. You're going
- 6:01Speaker 1: to create a room called the Room where the deals
- 6:03Speaker 1: are done and bring in these top people so that
- 6:06Speaker 1: they can have access to help them grow their businesses.
- 6:08Speaker 1: So corporations need influencers and industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs
- 6:12Speaker 1: in the community to tell their messaging. And then entrepreneurs
- 6:16Speaker 1: and industry leaders need corporations for business funding, business acumen,
- 6:19Speaker 1: and more support. So Gods, so you're gonna put them
- 6:22Speaker 1: all in more room called the Room where the Deals
- 6:23Speaker 1: are Done. I did my first event in October. I
- 6:26Speaker 1: interviewed egypt stivider Mike Jackson. I did my second one
- 6:29Speaker 1: in November. I interviewed Yandy Smith Harris. I did my
- 6:32Speaker 1: third one in March. I interviewed doctor Eric Thomas et
- 6:36Speaker 1: the hip hop preacher.
- 6:37Speaker 2: That's the first one I came to.
- 6:38Speaker 3: That's the first one you came to.
- 6:39Speaker 1: You said, you come up for his spot because he's
- 6:41Speaker 1: the number one motivational speaker in the world. And I
- 6:43Speaker 1: could see Chris doing that because you're just so amazing
- 6:45Speaker 1: that when you tell your story or even that.
- 6:46Speaker 2: I said this, so how I wanted to meet him.
- 6:49Speaker 2: She was like okay.
- 6:49Speaker 4: So the line was long. I'm like, I my brother, like, yo,
- 6:53Speaker 4: let's walk around meet other people. Nicole grabbed me and
- 6:56Speaker 4: took me to the front of the line. And ever since,
- 6:58Speaker 4: I said, she got myne she got my money. Every month,
- 7:01Speaker 4: I'm subscribed to it, but not just that, Like you
- 7:04Speaker 4: get so much knowledge and game and you never know
- 7:07Speaker 4: who you could be introduced to. Yeah, right, I love
- 7:10Speaker 4: the community. It's like mom, like it's my family. Then
- 7:13Speaker 4: I came to the event and I met your mother
- 7:15Speaker 4: and like I had another mother says.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Then, yeah, everybody loves my mother. I feel like she's
- 7:20Speaker 1: a star. To show people like I met your mom,
- 7:21Speaker 1: everybody comes up to me. I'm like, mom, what are
- 7:23Speaker 1: you doing at these events? Because everybody comes up to
- 7:26Speaker 1: me after the event, like I met your mob, like
- 7:27Speaker 1: that's the event.
- 7:29Speaker 3: And then I did one with Angela Yee.
- 7:31Speaker 1: But I created these rooms and people were telling me
- 7:32Speaker 1: they got so many dope introductions. It helped them with
- 7:37Speaker 1: their business. One lady came up to me and said,
- 7:39Speaker 1: you know, I met you at your event. Your event
- 7:41Speaker 1: changed my life. And I said, change your life, that's
- 7:43Speaker 1: some powerful word. She said, Yeah, I'm working on a
- 7:45Speaker 1: two million dollar real estate project and I needed some
- 7:48Speaker 1: I had some issues with the contracting, and I met
- 7:50Speaker 1: a guy that is in government contracting at your event
- 7:52Speaker 1: and he helped me get over the hump.
- 7:54Speaker 3: So it's stuff like that.
- 7:55Speaker 1: And then like hearing you tell your story of where
- 7:56Speaker 1: you were speaking at this amount, and then somebody one
- 7:59Speaker 1: of the speakers was like, you need to put a
- 8:00Speaker 1: comma in that hundred.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Yeah, five hundred.
- 8:02Speaker 1: She's like, you need five thousand, and you said to me,
- 8:05Speaker 1: my customers away, and she said, no, you have a story.
- 8:07Speaker 2: And now she's running the clientel.
- 8:08Speaker 4: Well I'm like, nah, if I'm the plug, the cloe
- 8:11Speaker 4: gonna come back no more.
- 8:13Speaker 1: And now not only are you getting booked to speak
- 8:15Speaker 1: at your rate that you deserve, you're getting flown out
- 8:18Speaker 1: like they flew you to California.
- 8:20Speaker 2: That's a big idea I turned out.
- 8:21Speaker 3: I turned down deals, turned down.
- 8:23Speaker 4: I never thought I would be want to turn it
- 8:25Speaker 4: down deals. I'm like, you don't fit me, I'm turning
- 8:26Speaker 4: it down.
- 8:27Speaker 1: That's that's an important key I want touch on because
- 8:29Speaker 1: even when I launched a Master Connected agency, I was
- 8:32Speaker 1: able to get sponsors. I had one sponsor that wanted
- 8:34Speaker 1: to come in and I was new, right, like, I
- 8:36Speaker 1: left the corporate world and this is all I have.
- 8:38Speaker 3: This is my bread and butter.
- 8:40Speaker 1: And she wanted to sponsor, but she wanted me to
- 8:41Speaker 1: use her production do things her way, and I'm like,
- 8:43Speaker 1: this is my event.
- 8:44Speaker 3: So I turned it down.
- 8:45Speaker 1: And some people like I think we should hone in
- 8:47Speaker 1: on that is because all money's not good money if
- 8:49Speaker 1: it's not matching your values, if it's not bringing you
- 8:51Speaker 1: what you need, you don't have to take it and
- 8:53Speaker 1: the next one will be bigger. Because when I turned
- 8:55Speaker 1: her down, guess who came after that? Amazon? Y'all, I
- 8:58Speaker 1: got Amazon six first six months. Look at Christy entrepreneur,
- 9:03Speaker 1: it was Amazon.
- 9:04Speaker 2: It was Pulmo.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Yes, your memory is amazing.
- 9:06Speaker 1: So I got Amazon and Puma the sponsor my six
- 9:09Speaker 1: month old business. And I said, Okay, God, I'm gonna
- 9:11Speaker 1: be obedient like you lead my steps. I literally told
- 9:14Speaker 1: my husband the other day, I work for God. He's
- 9:17Speaker 1: my boss. Like every day he gives me the visions,
- 9:19Speaker 1: the dreams on what to do, how to move this
- 9:21Speaker 1: business forward. My sole goal in life is to win
- 9:24Speaker 1: souls for Christ and to make this world better than
- 9:27Speaker 1: where I left it. So everybody that's around me, I
- 9:29Speaker 1: want to make sure that I'm leaving you better than
- 9:30Speaker 1: when you first met me.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Nah. One thing I got in this, he said, you
- 9:33Speaker 4: definitely give the opportunity the chances you got.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Princess Duncan becoming a member to that.
- 9:39Speaker 4: Now she's the coach. Yeah, coach now a monthly coach.
- 9:42Speaker 4: I'm like, and as I learned, I'll be bringing it
- 9:44Speaker 4: back to well. But I don't want to be biased
- 9:46Speaker 4: because they're like Oh, he's a connector, so he gonna
- 9:48Speaker 4: say all these good things.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Wolf came to the last event. How did you feel
- 9:52Speaker 2: about the last event?
- 9:53Speaker 1: Wealf, Oh, man, we gotta get you miked up because
- 9:58Speaker 1: we're gonna sit here and singing the praises. But to
- 9:59Speaker 1: have somebody that's not a connector yet to learn about
- 10:02Speaker 1: the event or give your feedback, we would love to
- 10:04Speaker 1: hear from you.
- 10:05Speaker 3: But you're right.
- 10:06Speaker 1: So Princess Duncanson was part of the member community. She
- 10:09Speaker 1: wanted to start a life coaching business, so I hired her.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I said, well, listen, let us be your clients, Like
- 10:14Speaker 1: I will hire you to come in and test it out.
- 10:17Speaker 3: And she's doing a phenomenal job. Definitely, yes, every.
- 10:21Speaker 4: One definitely applies some things that she said to my
- 10:23Speaker 4: business that's starting to grow exactly.
- 10:26Speaker 3: So it starts in your mind.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So she motivates us for the month on like where
- 10:30Speaker 1: we need to be in our business, how do we
- 10:31Speaker 1: think differentely about our business? Being positive? What you tell yourself?
- 10:35Speaker 1: I tell myself every morning. I'm a multi millionaire CEO
- 10:38Speaker 1: because I tell people all the time. People are like,
- 10:40Speaker 1: when I look at your Instagram, your life looks perfect.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Everything looks easy, breezy, you with the celebrities, you here there, everywhere,
- 10:45Speaker 1: and I say, every day I'm figuring it out, Like
- 10:47Speaker 1: I figure it out every single day, but I think positively, like, God,
- 10:51Speaker 1: you woke me up today, what do you want me
- 10:53Speaker 1: to do? Because I'm going to be a multi millionaire CEO.
- 10:55Speaker 1: I know how to be a Wall Street executive, but
- 10:57Speaker 1: I don't know how to be an entrepreneur.
- 10:58Speaker 3: I am learning.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I built the membership to learn because I said, okay,
- 11:02Speaker 1: this is new for me. People wanted more from me.
- 11:05Speaker 1: They're like, we love these rooms, so we need to
- 11:06Speaker 1: talk to you once a month or monthly. Said, let
- 11:08Speaker 1: me do a community, and I need to learn how
- 11:10Speaker 1: to be a successful entrepreneur. I need to learn about
- 11:12Speaker 1: business funding, marketing, AI branding, running ads, like all the
- 11:18Speaker 1: things that I bring to us as entrepreneurs as we're
- 11:20Speaker 1: growing in scaling. I needed that for myself. So I
- 11:22Speaker 1: just launched a community and I'm like, all right, we're
- 11:24Speaker 1: gonna learn this together. And I feel like we're like
- 11:26Speaker 1: the underground railroad because we're so dope, Chris. Right, if
- 11:28Speaker 1: people don't know about us yet and by the time
- 11:30Speaker 1: they know, the price is gonna be too hot for y'all.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Y'all need to get it now.
- 11:33Speaker 4: You ask the questions that people be wanting to ask.
- 11:35Speaker 4: You be in the group, You're like, if she's the
- 11:38Speaker 4: the leader of it, or she's one of us students,
- 11:40Speaker 4: because she asked the questions. You take, you take your notes.
- 11:43Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I don't got to ask the question,
- 11:45Speaker 4: that's what there are any questions. I'm like, I'm gonna
- 11:47Speaker 4: let Ico ask you. I know we probably thinking the
- 11:48Speaker 4: same thing.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely always have a question when we have
- 11:52Speaker 1: guest speakers.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Come on.
- 11:54Speaker 1: I asked my members questions if they're experts in certain areas.
- 11:57Speaker 1: I even asked Chris when he started getting booked his
- 11:59Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, I'm like, well, how did you do that?
- 12:01Speaker 2: Like, hold me advice?
- 12:03Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm always a forever student, Like I'm never.
- 12:06Speaker 2: That's exactly the best thing about it.
- 12:08Speaker 3: That's the best thing about it.
- 12:09Speaker 4: How hard is it to wake up every day knowing
- 12:11Speaker 4: that you are moving.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Closer and closer to your dreams.
- 12:15Speaker 4: Accomplishing two hundred plus members and this master connect Ages.
- 12:20Speaker 3: That is my goal, Chris, that is my goal.
- 12:22Speaker 1: I'm like, I need to get to two hundred, and
- 12:24Speaker 1: it's funny because the members are like, no, we don't
- 12:26Speaker 1: want it to get big because we're like a family.
- 12:28Speaker 3: We want you to ourselves.
- 12:29Speaker 1: The bigger you are like the lesson, I'm like, no,
- 12:31Speaker 1: I'm forever. This is y'all are my babies, Like we
- 12:33Speaker 1: built this from scratch. It's interesting because I'm very structured,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and being.
- 12:40Speaker 3: On Wall Street you have to be structured.
- 12:42Speaker 1: So being an entrepreneur, like I never know what the
- 12:44Speaker 1: next day is going to look like, I never know
- 12:45Speaker 1: what my next client is going to be.
- 12:47Speaker 3: I never know what my next call is going to
- 12:48Speaker 3: be about.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Like every day I'm figuring out how to grow and
- 12:52Speaker 1: scale and that's new for me. But I do know
- 12:54Speaker 1: because God gave me this vision and I'm being obedient
- 12:57Speaker 1: because every day I'm like, oh, I'm gonna get a job,
- 12:59Speaker 1: Like in my mind, that's easy thing to do, and
- 13:01Speaker 1: God's like no. So the harder part is staying obedience,
- 13:03Speaker 1: staying the course when the money isn't flowing in like
- 13:06Speaker 1: it was with the corporate job. But I know that
- 13:09Speaker 1: I'm on the right track because I'm literally changing lives
- 13:11Speaker 1: with this community.
- 13:13Speaker 4: When people sign up for this for this membership for
- 13:15Speaker 4: the community. You what should they expect?
- 13:19Speaker 1: That's an amazing question. So when you sign up, we
- 13:21Speaker 1: welcome you in with open arms. I walk you in
- 13:24Speaker 1: as a CEO. I have a welcome committee now that
- 13:27Speaker 1: welcomes you in. So you automatically feel the love and
- 13:29Speaker 1: they're like you are in the best place to be.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Then you get the life coaching with Princess Princess Duncanson Yep.
- 13:37Speaker 1: One Monday a month, you get office hours with me.
- 13:40Speaker 1: My one on one hours are one thousand dollars to
- 13:43Speaker 1: talk to me just because of my experience on Wall
- 13:45Speaker 1: Street and all of the knowledge that I have and
- 13:47Speaker 1: how I scale my business six figures in six months.
- 13:50Speaker 1: But in my community, they get me for a full
- 13:52Speaker 1: hour where it's just office hours and I'm saying, how
- 13:54Speaker 1: are you guys doing, how is your business? What's going
- 13:57Speaker 1: on right now? What do you need help with? How
- 13:58Speaker 1: can I get you to the next level? Well, then
- 14:00Speaker 1: we also have an expert. Every single month I bring
- 14:03Speaker 1: on an expert that's an expert in their field. Last
- 14:05Speaker 1: month we had branding, a branding expert, come on, who
- 14:09Speaker 1: does my branding?
- 14:10Speaker 3: Yep? We had like set a speaking coach.
- 14:12Speaker 1: We've had AI experts, We've had business funding experts, we
- 14:15Speaker 1: had credit repair experts. We had someone talking about the
- 14:18Speaker 1: five key areas you need to start a business the
- 14:21Speaker 1: next month, which is really special. I have my friend
- 14:23Speaker 1: doctor can Tessa metclas So she's on a TV show
- 14:26Speaker 1: called Married to Medicine. She's a doctor and she's talking
- 14:29Speaker 1: about preventative health care. And I tell people, you can
- 14:32Speaker 1: have all the money in the world, but if your
- 14:33Speaker 1: health isn't right, then how do you spend it? So
- 14:36Speaker 1: I thought it'd be nice, Like I said, she has
- 14:37Speaker 1: a huge platform, but she loves what we're doing in
- 14:39Speaker 1: the community, and she wanted to come on and speak
- 14:41Speaker 1: to us about primnitive health care. And then every month
- 14:44Speaker 1: I ask my members like what do you need? And
- 14:45Speaker 1: then I'll go out and find a speaker to come
- 14:47Speaker 1: and talk to us, like this area of my business
- 14:49Speaker 1: I need help with this. I might have somebody to
- 14:50Speaker 1: come on talking about ads, right, because you got to
- 14:52Speaker 1: market your business.
- 14:54Speaker 3: So that's what you get.
- 14:55Speaker 1: So you get office hours with me, and you get
- 14:58Speaker 1: coaching from our princess Princess Dunkinson. You get a guest
- 15:03Speaker 1: speaker once a month, then you get a dinner on me.
- 15:06Speaker 1: So I give everybody in my book the master Connecting Agency.
- 15:09Speaker 1: I talk about breaking bread to break barriers. I host
- 15:12Speaker 1: one dinner a year around the event, during the day
- 15:15Speaker 1: before the event, where we just all get together and
- 15:17Speaker 1: I paid for dinner at an exclusive place. Last year
- 15:19Speaker 1: we did it at the Retreat, which is the members
- 15:21Speaker 1: only club rooftop in Atlanta. And I want my members.
- 15:25Speaker 1: They connect with each other, they become friends, they travel,
- 15:28Speaker 1: they hang out like it's so dope just to see
- 15:30Speaker 1: them connecting with each other. Also, any events that I do,
- 15:33Speaker 1: you get fifty percent off as a member. And then
- 15:37Speaker 1: I'm doing an event on March seventh in Atlanta so
- 15:39Speaker 1: that people can know more about the community. The members
- 15:41Speaker 1: get to come to that for free. So it's just
- 15:43Speaker 1: and like I said, it's just access right, like we.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Have our whole thing.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I just hired a community manager. Her name is for Sola.
- 15:50Speaker 1: So every day she puts in different fun things for us.
- 15:52Speaker 1: She highlights members rights. I see Thursdays where we talk
- 15:56Speaker 1: about business. She says, Okay, what's the biggest thing plaguing
- 15:59Speaker 1: in your business?
- 16:00Speaker 3: Right now?
- 16:00Speaker 1: We all put in our different things that we need
- 16:02Speaker 1: help within our business.
- 16:03Speaker 3: And then there's people in it. I can help you.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Okay, I'm struggling in this area, then somebody would give
- 16:07Speaker 1: you advice to what they did in that area. And
- 16:09Speaker 1: the beauty of the community is there are people in
- 16:12Speaker 1: there that still work corporate jobs and try to figure
- 16:14Speaker 1: out a way to get out of their corporate job,
- 16:16Speaker 1: how to.
- 16:16Speaker 3: Grow their business.
- 16:17Speaker 1: That people in it that's been business owners, but we
- 16:19Speaker 1: need to scale it a little bit better or get
- 16:21Speaker 1: more visibility. Then there I have people in there that
- 16:23Speaker 1: are three to ten million dollars in revenue as entrepreneurs.
- 16:28Speaker 1: So it runs the gamut. So there's entrepreneurs that are
- 16:31Speaker 1: very new, and then there's entrepreneurs that are ten million
- 16:33Speaker 1: and above. So you know, it's not just the one
- 16:35Speaker 1: size fits all. Because people are always like, oh, is
- 16:37Speaker 1: it a women's community. No, because I'm a woman, I'm like, No,
- 16:39Speaker 1: it's co ed. I love that as co ed.
- 16:41Speaker 3: My guys show up for me.
- 16:42Speaker 1: You falling, I want to say krids because you Dave like,
- 16:48Speaker 1: it's just so many guys and Henry that that are
- 16:52Speaker 1: very supportive and it's a co ed group, which I.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Like, nice. What would you say your biggest challenges?
- 17:00Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one, Chris So. And that's fun
- 17:02Speaker 1: because I always ask people that question. My biggest challenge
- 17:04Speaker 1: right now is to be honest, is not to take
- 17:08Speaker 1: the easy road out and get a job, because that's
- 17:10Speaker 1: what I know, that's what I've been.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Doing for twenty one years.
- 17:13Speaker 1: But then also telling people getting the exposure for what
- 17:17Speaker 1: we're doing. I know we have something special. I know
- 17:20Speaker 1: the community is literally changing people's lives and impacting their business.
- 17:24Speaker 3: But getting that out to the masses.
- 17:25Speaker 1: That's why I'm hosting an event in Atlanta to talk
- 17:27Speaker 1: about what you actually get in this community, why they
- 17:30Speaker 1: should be a part of it, why they should be
- 17:31Speaker 1: a member, why they should sign up. But yeah, that's
- 17:33Speaker 1: a challenging just marketing and scaling like I can scale,
- 17:36Speaker 1: but marketing it and showing.
- 17:38Speaker 3: The value doing a good job market though, thank you.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Definitely, you always hit that. I always hit that reposed button.
- 17:44Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate that.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I tell people like if somebody does a
- 17:48Speaker 1: good job, it's free marketing if you tell your friends
- 17:50Speaker 1: about them.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely, Yeah.
- 17:53Speaker 4: Before we even get to the next question, can we
- 17:55Speaker 4: get around on ploys because where they flying you at?
- 17:57Speaker 2: Too?
- 17:58Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot about it.
- 18:02Speaker 2: That's a big deal.
- 18:03Speaker 3: That is okay.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Yes, So Black Enterprise is flying me to Vegas next
- 18:08Speaker 1: month and two weeks to speak on their panel about
- 18:12Speaker 1: building community.
- 18:13Speaker 2: That's a big deal.
- 18:14Speaker 1: That's a big deal, right. I am backed by Black
- 18:16Speaker 1: Enterprise and they are flying me. They flew Chris out
- 18:18Speaker 1: to California. I'm like, Chris, how you get fown out?
- 18:20Speaker 1: And now they're flying me to Vegas. So I'm like,
- 18:22Speaker 1: following in your footsteps. But yeah, they're flying me to
- 18:24Speaker 1: speak about community.
- 18:25Speaker 3: And I had to ask them.
- 18:26Speaker 1: I said, well, you guys know, I'm not at JP
- 18:28Speaker 1: Morgan anymore, like I have my own business. And they're like, no,
- 18:30Speaker 1: we want to know how you but your community. So
- 18:33Speaker 1: I am grateful and thank you for that for reminding
- 18:35Speaker 1: me that celebrate the small losses, the small way.
- 18:38Speaker 4: I got to celebrated like I'm at the small wins. Yeah,
- 18:41Speaker 4: that's a big win. That's a big that's big.
- 18:43Speaker 1: And I said, this year of my goals because that's
- 18:45Speaker 1: what I love about the community too. And at the
- 18:47Speaker 1: end of every year, we get together and we talk
- 18:49Speaker 1: about our goals, and all my goals was to get
- 18:52Speaker 1: twenty paid speaking engagements and be on like TV radio
- 18:56Speaker 1: platforms to tell the story right. Exposure, that's one of
- 18:58Speaker 1: the challenges. And then I got the first one is
- 19:00Speaker 1: Black Enterprise. I'm like, wow, we're blowing this out the water,
- 19:03Speaker 1: Like okay, God, I see you. I'm being obedient. You're
- 19:05Speaker 1: flying me to Vegas to talk about the massive connector
- 19:08Speaker 1: in the community that we started here.
- 19:10Speaker 4: Now everybody look at it. When they see events, they
- 19:14Speaker 4: feel like they could pull it off.
- 19:15Speaker 2: They can do it.
- 19:16Speaker 4: How hard is it and how much energy you have
- 19:19Speaker 4: to put in to make these events impactful?
- 19:22Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question.
- 19:23Speaker 1: It's funny because people call me all the time for
- 19:25Speaker 1: events and I tell my husband like, I don't do events,
- 19:26Speaker 1: and my husbands like, you do do events, And I'm like,
- 19:29Speaker 1: I don't because I just think about it. Yeah, I
- 19:32Speaker 1: just I was like, I'm going to create a room,
- 19:34Speaker 1: but it literally is an event.
- 19:36Speaker 3: It's hard.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Well, I know the impact that it's going to have,
- 19:40Speaker 1: but the devil's in the details, right, and so making
- 19:43Speaker 1: sure Like this last event that I did with Angelie,
- 19:45Speaker 1: I was so scared because she was in New York.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I'm in Atlanta. TSA shut down, like cis member you
- 19:53Speaker 1: were coming from, You're like, yeah, tsa shut down, So I'm.
- 19:55Speaker 3: Like, is she going to get here on time? Is
- 19:57Speaker 3: she going to make the event?
- 19:58Speaker 1: And I wanted I always like my guess to flying
- 20:00Speaker 1: a day in advance so that we could have a
- 20:01Speaker 1: smooth sailing, but she had to fly in the day
- 20:03Speaker 1: of and I was like freaking out her, You, my mom,
- 20:06Speaker 1: everybody that was coming from the East Coast, I'm like,
- 20:08Speaker 1: are they going to get here? And then when you
- 20:10Speaker 1: get to the event, making sure your sponsors have what
- 20:12Speaker 1: they need, making sure the run of show is going accordingly.
- 20:16Speaker 1: You got to sell tickets right, and so making sure
- 20:18Speaker 1: that you're showing the value so people buy tickets to
- 20:21Speaker 1: support your event so that you're not in the red
- 20:23Speaker 1: at the end of the event. And like I said,
- 20:25Speaker 1: just the logistics of everything, finding a venue, finding a liquor, sponsor,
- 20:29Speaker 1: promoting it, constantly getting on lives talking about it.
- 20:33Speaker 3: But it's just a lot.
- 20:34Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, every time I
- 20:36Speaker 1: do it, even my husband like, I don't know how
- 20:37Speaker 1: you pull that off. And then it's amazing to me
- 20:40Speaker 1: that people show up. Definitely, Chris, it's amazing because I'm
- 20:44Speaker 1: not from Atlanta. I've been there four going on five years.
- 20:47Speaker 1: So for me to be in Atlanta and I have
- 20:48Speaker 1: over two hundred and fifty people come out to support
- 20:50Speaker 1: what I'm doing, or fly in from New York like
- 20:53Speaker 1: you and others. Or if somebody flewing from Canada. This
- 20:56Speaker 1: girl flewing from Canada. She's in the community of Philia.
- 20:59Speaker 1: She's going from canad to support the event. Like that
- 21:01Speaker 1: is like okay, yeah, I'm listening to you, like you're
- 21:04Speaker 1: telling me to do this, and I'm doing it and
- 21:05Speaker 1: people actually buy tickets, support and show up.
- 21:09Speaker 4: So no, being being an entrepreneur, how hard is it
- 21:14Speaker 4: to balance work And you're like, yeah, I outside like
- 21:18Speaker 4: your husband.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.
- 21:20Speaker 4: It could really be hard, like trying to balance both,
- 21:23Speaker 4: you know. I mean, he might think you he being
- 21:25Speaker 4: neglected of time.
- 21:27Speaker 3: I say, here, I clicked, I clicked it every night.
- 21:29Speaker 3: He's good. I was gonna say, it's funny because I
- 21:32Speaker 3: feel like I'm busy.
- 21:32Speaker 1: And now then when I had the corporate job, and
- 21:35Speaker 1: I remember one time when I first st when I
- 21:36Speaker 1: first left Wall Sheet, I think my mom called me
- 21:39Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I'm busy.
- 21:40Speaker 3: She's like, well, what are you busy doing?
- 21:41Speaker 1: So they think because you know, not the corporate job
- 21:43Speaker 1: that you're just chilling. I'm like, I'm building a business.
- 21:46Speaker 1: Like I'm way more busier. There's no days off, but
- 21:49Speaker 1: I do schedule time for myself. So every like at
- 21:52Speaker 1: least twice a week, I try to go to the
- 21:53Speaker 1: gym in the mornings, so I don't schedule any meetings
- 21:56Speaker 1: in the mornings for that. And then I also try
- 21:58Speaker 1: to walk at least five miles a week every funny,
- 22:02Speaker 1: I mean walking my five miles a week. And then
- 22:05Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, I want to read the Bible
- 22:07Speaker 1: cover to cover, so I make time to take out time.
- 22:10Speaker 1: If you read three pages a day, you could keep
- 22:11Speaker 1: the Bible. I read the Bible every day. I try
- 22:14Speaker 1: to go to the gym or walk, and I just
- 22:15Speaker 1: take time for myself. However, being an entrepreneur, you work
- 22:19Speaker 1: twenty four seven and what I mean by that is
- 22:20Speaker 1: never off right, Like on the train of the way
- 22:23Speaker 1: here I'm texting talking about business. Before I did the podcast.
- 22:25Speaker 1: I work on Saturdays and Sundays. I try to put
- 22:27Speaker 1: a little boundary there, but like my mind is always racing,
- 22:30Speaker 1: and so I put stuff in my notes to say,
- 22:31Speaker 1: don't text somebody on a Saturday at seven o'clock, like
- 22:34Speaker 1: they're not corporate, like these are office hours. I have
- 22:36Speaker 1: to always put boundaries for myself to say, I'll put
- 22:39Speaker 1: this in my notes and then email it's in the
- 22:40Speaker 1: first thing on Monday.
- 22:42Speaker 3: But I feel like I balanced it well.
- 22:43Speaker 1: People are always like when do you rest, because like
- 22:45Speaker 1: I do have a husband, I do have a family,
- 22:47Speaker 1: I do have friends. I am running a business. I
- 22:49Speaker 1: do have a community that you know I'm running as well.
- 22:52Speaker 1: I don't know how I do it, Chris, I just
- 22:54Speaker 1: making these twenty four hours for myself work.
- 22:56Speaker 3: Make it work.
- 22:57Speaker 2: It works.
- 22:58Speaker 4: But that's bet fact. Let me back ups sponsorships. Yes,
- 23:05Speaker 4: you win in at sponsorships.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Thank you. I got a lot of big companies money from.
- 23:11Speaker 3: Sponsorships, that is very true.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Like to talk about some of them.
- 23:16Speaker 1: Sure so well, because some of them are my clients.
- 23:19Speaker 1: I don't want give it away. But I was the
- 23:21Speaker 1: head of sponsorships at JP Morgan for the last five
- 23:23Speaker 1: years my career on Wall Street. I was equity traded
- 23:26Speaker 1: and investment banker, and then I worked in private equity
- 23:29Speaker 1: for a little bit, and then the last five years
- 23:31Speaker 1: of JP Morgan, I was had a national sponsorship. And
- 23:33Speaker 1: so I've helped organizations get five and six figure checks
- 23:38Speaker 1: in my seat selling them like show the value of
- 23:40Speaker 1: how they even go about it. And then when I left,
- 23:43Speaker 1: when I did my first event, I was able to
- 23:45Speaker 1: get my friends to sponsor my event right, and so
- 23:47Speaker 1: I showed them the value like, hey, you want to
- 23:49Speaker 1: be a part of this sponsor at this amount because
- 23:52Speaker 1: showcase your business. And then from there I was able
- 23:55Speaker 1: to get a sponsor from Amazon, Like I talk about
- 23:57Speaker 1: this all the time. That was my first corporate sponsor,
- 24:00Speaker 1: being only I got it at four months in the
- 24:02Speaker 1: business and then the event was two months later, so
- 24:04Speaker 1: I say six months.
- 24:06Speaker 3: But and then I was able to get Puma. This
- 24:08Speaker 3: last event, I was able to get truest enough as mutual.
- 24:11Speaker 3: But sponsorships are a big thing.
- 24:12Speaker 1: So sponsorships help you not spend your money all of
- 24:16Speaker 1: your money on an event. Companies want to align them
- 24:19Speaker 1: align themselves with brands that will help them, that will
- 24:22Speaker 1: help them execute their goals, their.
- 24:26Speaker 3: Keep performance indicators right.
- 24:27Speaker 1: And so for example, what are the big companies that
- 24:29Speaker 1: I got sponsored to sponsor me. They were looking for talent,
- 24:33Speaker 1: like one of their areas is recruited recruitment. So I
- 24:35Speaker 1: focused on that and I said, well, if you're trying
- 24:37Speaker 1: to do recruitment, I have a room where I'm bringing
- 24:39Speaker 1: in Atlanta's elite. There's gonna be two hundred fifty people
- 24:42Speaker 1: in here that are corporate executives at top Fortune five
- 24:44Speaker 1: hundred companies. Entrepreneurs aren't really looking for a job, but
- 24:47Speaker 1: maybe they want to take maybe they want to use
- 24:49Speaker 1: your use your platform for something right, and so I
- 24:52Speaker 1: just show them the value. And so I tell everybody
- 24:54Speaker 1: like that's one of the number one secrets in getting
- 24:55Speaker 1: sponsorship is showing the other person the value of why
- 24:58Speaker 1: they want to brand your business or sponsor, sponsor what
- 25:01Speaker 1: you have going on.
- 25:03Speaker 4: Not only she dropping game on this podcast, you could
- 25:06Speaker 4: go to her website and you could book her to
- 25:09Speaker 4: help you build a sponsorship deck.
- 25:12Speaker 3: That is very true.
- 25:13Speaker 1: So a lot of my clients I have clients now,
- 25:14Speaker 1: so there's different areas of my business. So one you
- 25:17Speaker 1: can do a concentration with me that I can tell
- 25:19Speaker 1: you how I grew the business six months, six figures
- 25:21Speaker 1: in six months. I have the membership community, which I
- 25:24Speaker 1: think you guys should all join. Chris is a big
- 25:26Speaker 1: advocate of it, and I always would call on him
- 25:28Speaker 1: to tell the story.
- 25:29Speaker 3: He's all over my website, all over my page.
- 25:33Speaker 1: And then sponsorship, so we have a cohort where we
- 25:36Speaker 1: teach you how to get corporate sponsorship.
- 25:38Speaker 3: You have to have a deck.
- 25:39Speaker 1: That's the number one thing that most people don't know.
- 25:41Speaker 1: You have to have a sponsorship deck for a company
- 25:43Speaker 1: to even look at you. And inside the deck, you
- 25:45Speaker 1: have to have metrics, keep performance indicators, talking about telling
- 25:50Speaker 1: your story like why should they sponsor you? Your vision,
- 25:53Speaker 1: your mission, your goals, past events that you've done, like
- 25:56Speaker 1: it's a whole thing that my company helps you put together,
- 25:58Speaker 1: and say like this is what needs to be in
- 25:59Speaker 1: there to this out with this in we do a
- 26:01Speaker 1: brand I set order for you, which is where we'll
- 26:04Speaker 1: look at your social media channels, your YouTube, your LinkedIn
- 26:07Speaker 1: is to say, a company they might not want to
- 26:09Speaker 1: sponsor you because you have this and this going on
- 26:11Speaker 1: versus might have some grammatical errors on there, or you
- 26:13Speaker 1: might be showing things that doesn't align with the company's brand.
- 26:16Speaker 1: But yeah, we teach you how to get those corporate sponsorships.
- 26:19Speaker 1: We also will tell you what companies you should be
- 26:21Speaker 1: looking at. People don't even know where to start. So
- 26:24Speaker 1: I give you the example all the time. If I'm
- 26:26Speaker 1: a health foods company and McDonald's wants to sponsor me,
- 26:29Speaker 1: it doesn't really align with the brand, right, And so
- 26:31Speaker 1: you have to make sure the brands are aligned and you're.
- 26:33Speaker 3: Both getting what you need out of the deal.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Meaning they're getting what they need as far as executing
- 26:38Speaker 1: their metrics, and I'm getting what I need as far
- 26:40Speaker 1: as the dollars and the great partner nice.
- 26:44Speaker 4: My buddy will over here always tell me if I
- 26:47Speaker 4: walk away from the word the official blinde stuff of
- 26:51Speaker 4: I want people to know this means this. If you
- 26:56Speaker 4: walk away from the master connected, master connected name is
- 26:58Speaker 4: on the table you want people to see. What do
- 27:00Speaker 4: you want people to know that they represent?
- 27:02Speaker 2: What do you want? How you want the name to
- 27:06Speaker 2: speak for yourself?
- 27:06Speaker 1: The name is speak for yourself. I sell people all
- 27:08Speaker 1: the time. It's just cliche, but your network is your
- 27:11Speaker 1: net worth, right, and so the more people you know
- 27:13Speaker 1: it's cutting through the red tape, you are one connection
- 27:15Speaker 1: away from changing your life. So if I walk away,
- 27:19Speaker 1: I want people to know you're one connection away from
- 27:20Speaker 1: changing your life. And like I said, my thing is
- 27:22Speaker 1: winning souls for Christ. I am obedient, So you will
- 27:25Speaker 1: be okay. If you're walking in alignment, which is what
- 27:29Speaker 1: I'm doing now, you will be successful and you will
- 27:31Speaker 1: be okay because you're walking in what your God given
- 27:34Speaker 1: talents are and God's going to make sure that you're
- 27:36Speaker 1: protected as you're going forth and doing that. So if
- 27:38Speaker 1: I walk away tomorrow, I want people to say, like
- 27:41Speaker 1: I met Nicole, I was a part of her community,
- 27:44Speaker 1: and she helped me get to the next level. Your
- 27:46Speaker 1: one connection away, you connected to me, and now you're
- 27:49Speaker 1: connected to ten other people that are helping you get
- 27:51Speaker 1: to the next level.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Nice.
- 27:54Speaker 4: There's a lot of gyms in that book, right, Yeah,
- 27:56Speaker 4: give us some tips.
- 27:57Speaker 2: How do we work the room?
- 27:59Speaker 3: How do you work the room?
- 28:00Speaker 4: And that's a great I'm in a room, I'm scared,
- 28:02Speaker 4: I'm in the corner. What are some tips that you
- 28:04Speaker 4: would give someone to work this room? Because I learned
- 28:08Speaker 4: a lot of tips from you too. Oh, you're a
- 28:10Speaker 4: compliment and everything.
- 28:12Speaker 1: That's one of the Yes. Your memory is a beast
- 28:15Speaker 1: like I. Like you remember more than me like Chris memory.
- 28:17Speaker 1: And you are not scared of shot because when Chris
- 28:19Speaker 1: comes to MyoD events, everybody knows Chris. They running up
- 28:21Speaker 1: to Chris giving him product, giving him shot I was doing.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Chris is famous at the Eventure. I'm just saying, you're
- 28:25Speaker 1: gonna come see it becomeba Chris. People know Chris. But
- 28:31Speaker 1: I tell people one. If you're in a room and
- 28:34Speaker 1: you're shy, leave with a compliment. So people love compliments.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Tell people I love your hair, I love your shoes,
- 28:39Speaker 1: I love what you have. One I love what you presented,
- 28:42Speaker 1: whatever it is, Give a compliment because I left the
- 28:43Speaker 1: guard down. From there, you can see you're from around
- 28:46Speaker 1: this area. People love talking about where they're from. If
- 28:49Speaker 1: that's not moving a conversation, you can say what.
- 28:50Speaker 3: Field are you in?
- 28:51Speaker 1: Because people love talking about what they're doing. Listening to
- 28:53Speaker 1: what they're saying, and figure out how you can add value.
- 28:56Speaker 1: The number three the number one networking tip. I'll give
- 28:59Speaker 1: all three. There's the three three that I think are
- 29:01Speaker 1: very important, but number one is leading with value. I'm
- 29:04Speaker 1: around a lot of higher profile people and people are
- 29:06Speaker 1: always coming up to them asking them for something. You
- 29:09Speaker 1: always come up to them asking for something. How can
- 29:11Speaker 1: you help me with this? How can I help them
- 29:12Speaker 1: with that? And I said, no, you have to go
- 29:15Speaker 1: with what can you help them with? The higher their
- 29:18Speaker 1: profile the person is, the more asked they get from
- 29:20Speaker 1: their friends and people, the people that know them. So
- 29:22Speaker 1: how can they stop what they're doing to help you?
- 29:24Speaker 1: And they don't even know you, right, And so what's
- 29:25Speaker 1: going to set you apart is how can you help them?
- 29:28Speaker 3: What can you offer them? And then the second thing
- 29:30Speaker 3: is following up.
- 29:31Speaker 1: When you go to these events, you meet a million
- 29:33Speaker 1: and one people, You get all these business cards and
- 29:35Speaker 1: get people tell you here's my Instagram, follow up, follow
- 29:38Speaker 1: find me, follow me, But people don't follow up. So
- 29:41Speaker 1: people follow up within twenty four to forty eight hours.
- 29:44Speaker 1: I started taking pictures with people now, like a selfie,
- 29:46Speaker 1: so that when I send them a message saying hey,
- 29:47Speaker 1: nice to meet you, I send a picture of us
- 29:49Speaker 1: so that they remember it was me that they met.
- 29:51Speaker 1: This is Nicole the master connector, and this is you know,
- 29:53Speaker 1: this is what I look like. And the third thing
- 29:55Speaker 1: is do good business. I wanted to put number three first,
- 29:57Speaker 1: doing good business, because doing good business is free marketing
- 30:01Speaker 1: for your business. I can't drive that home enough. When
- 30:05Speaker 1: I do a good job, or if anybody does a
- 30:07Speaker 1: good job, they're going to tell their friends of the
- 30:08Speaker 1: family about you.
- 30:09Speaker 2: I'm sure.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Like I said, Chris is a walking build ford for
- 30:11Speaker 1: the massacreting to agency because of the benefits that I
- 30:14Speaker 1: provide in his business. So he's going to tell his friends,
- 30:16Speaker 1: He's going to tell Wolf and everybody else about the agency.
- 30:18Speaker 1: He always tells me, his siblings, his mom, They're all like,
- 30:21Speaker 1: what are talking about the community? I came gave more books,
- 30:24Speaker 1: I get more books. Yeah, but when you do a
- 30:25Speaker 1: good job, that's free marketing. I give the story of
- 30:28Speaker 1: my makeup artists all the time. She does my makeup
- 30:30Speaker 1: and does a phenomenal job. She's on time, her prices
- 30:32Speaker 1: are good, she's communicative, and so I branch out to
- 30:36Speaker 1: all my friends are the celebrities, and now she's literally
- 30:38Speaker 1: a celebrity makeup artist. When Angeloue came to town for
- 30:41Speaker 1: my event, who do I send her to? My celebrity
- 30:43Speaker 1: makeup artist? She does a lot of my friends that
- 30:45Speaker 1: are high profile on TV. They fly her around and
- 30:48Speaker 1: so now she's literally a celebrity makeup artist because of
- 30:52Speaker 1: how good of a job she did for me and
- 30:53Speaker 1: my makeup so nice, and.
- 30:56Speaker 4: She gave y'all marketing tips. She gave y'all tips on
- 30:59Speaker 4: how to work the room. But it was different because
- 31:01Speaker 4: the last event we went to, it felt like the
- 31:03Speaker 4: room was working me and.
- 31:04Speaker 3: I'm like, that's right.
- 31:05Speaker 4: We walked to the door because first met I was
- 31:08Speaker 4: in the hotel sleep walk on the farm.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, we gotta get up, we gotta
- 31:11Speaker 2: go now, we get this.
- 31:13Speaker 4: Soon as we walked in, someone with the first one
- 31:14Speaker 4: that ran down, I've seen Paul first. Paul greeted me.
- 31:18Speaker 4: I walked in. Someonone walked in. I said, what if
- 31:20Speaker 4: you know her? He's like no, but I'm asking him,
- 31:23Speaker 4: like we we both not from Brooklyn coming out to Atlanta.
- 31:27Speaker 2: He was like, nah, do it? You knew her dog?
- 31:28Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay. She's like I got something for y'all.
- 31:31Speaker 4: I'm like, she got something for us, so you know,
- 31:34Speaker 4: I still got that in New York Brooklyn, the mentality.
- 31:36Speaker 2: I'm like, what does she got for us?
- 31:37Speaker 4: Bro She came back and it was cream and I'm like, okay,
- 31:41Speaker 4: she got her shave butter.
- 31:43Speaker 3: She brought me something.
- 31:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so she was like here. I'm like, she gave
- 31:46Speaker 2: us full. I'm like, can we get on the plane
- 31:49Speaker 2: with this?
- 31:50Speaker 4: Cause I gotta make sure, like I ain't gonna go
- 31:52Speaker 4: to jail bringing this dough it Shi, now you safe.
- 31:54Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, but just walk in the room. It's different.
- 31:57Speaker 2: People come in here. What you doing.
- 31:58Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm a motivation speak on my podcast, and
- 32:01Speaker 4: they oh, we're trying to start a podcast. And from
- 32:04Speaker 4: that alone, I'm like, well, you're talking to the wrong person.
- 32:07Speaker 4: He the man behind the he the man behind the screen.
- 32:09Speaker 4: You need to talk to him. And they exchange numbers.
- 32:12Speaker 4: But at the end of the night, I'm like, we
- 32:13Speaker 4: got like six seven numbers. I'm like, I ain't got
- 32:16Speaker 4: not in one number. I'm like, well you got a
- 32:18Speaker 4: shit well, so like I need some of them numbers.
- 32:20Speaker 4: And that's how we got some moan on the podcast,
- 32:23Speaker 4: like we just all over. I'm talking to the Truest Bank.
- 32:26Speaker 4: I doesn't talk to somebody was in it from Chase.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Yeah, he came to me. He like I like your.
- 32:30Speaker 4: Story, Like we need to work, Like, let's you exchange information,
- 32:34Speaker 4: We exchange emails and everything. I'm like the Truest Bank like,
- 32:38Speaker 4: how can we be a fit for you?
- 32:39Speaker 2: Oh?
- 32:39Speaker 3: I love that you didn't tell it that. So she's
- 32:41Speaker 3: dropping gyms to be on the score. I didn't even
- 32:43Speaker 3: know that bank.
- 32:44Speaker 4: Then we had to massaw the massage all right, dropping
- 32:47Speaker 4: game on, uh and all this, Like you ain't taking baths.
- 32:49Speaker 4: I'm like, I think shots. She said, oh no, you're
- 32:51Speaker 4: doing it wrong, like you need a woman to take care.
- 32:54Speaker 4: You supposed to be taking bads. I'm like Dann with
- 32:56Speaker 4: his son, knew I learned. I ain't know that, Like
- 32:58Speaker 4: why you're not taking pat I'm like, who on the
- 33:00Speaker 4: Gold Show? You got to give tom to yourself? Like
- 33:03Speaker 4: you got to eat these grapes. You gotta eat that.
- 33:04Speaker 2: I'm like, all right. She was passionate about it.
- 33:07Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, people talking to me and she
- 33:09Speaker 4: grabbing my arm like nah, I'm talking to you.
- 33:11Speaker 2: I'm like, you got attention.
- 33:13Speaker 1: But it was just and then you put the shade
- 33:15Speaker 1: butter on. Some more shad butter, you come off the bath.
- 33:17Speaker 4: Look, we went to the hotel. Wolf was trying it on,
- 33:21Speaker 4: like I told, I told some more.
- 33:23Speaker 2: I said.
- 33:23Speaker 4: He was trying to he like, okay, smell good, feel good.
- 33:27Speaker 4: I'm like, nah, I'm like, we got one right here.
- 33:31Speaker 3: That's awesome.
- 33:31Speaker 4: You got when the community, the events just beautiful.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 33:36Speaker 4: It helps somebody that's questioning themselves should they be in
- 33:39Speaker 4: this space. Once they walk in the rooms, that's the
- 33:42Speaker 4: confirmation that they got this is everything right here.
- 33:46Speaker 3: I love that.
- 33:47Speaker 1: A couple of things that people tell me when they
- 33:48Speaker 1: come in the room, They say, the room is so inviting,
- 33:51Speaker 1: like everybody's in there wanting to help and connect with
- 33:54Speaker 1: each other. So they go in there with the mindset
- 33:56Speaker 1: like I want to meet more people.
- 33:57Speaker 3: I want to connect.
- 33:58Speaker 1: Another thing that did we do at the event's networking Bingo.
- 34:02Speaker 1: It's always a hit, so break the icebreaker. Yeah, so
- 34:05Speaker 1: if you fill your Bingo card out, you get a gift.
- 34:07Speaker 3: That's time. We had basketball tickets to the Hawks game.
- 34:11Speaker 1: We had a hotel stay at like one of the
- 34:12Speaker 1: five star hotels in Atlanta, which was some of the prizes,
- 34:15Speaker 1: one of the year's et When he was there, I
- 34:17Speaker 1: gave ot some of his autograph copy books and he's.
- 34:20Speaker 2: He donated twenty memberships.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Yes, that's another thing. So he supported my business. When
- 34:25Speaker 1: I say that meant so much to me. He said, Nicole,
- 34:27Speaker 1: what do you need? I said, I want to scale this.
- 34:28Speaker 1: I want to scale my membership. He got on the
- 34:30Speaker 1: microphone and said, I'm buying twenty memberships for twenty people
- 34:33Speaker 1: in the audience right now, That's how much I believe
- 34:35Speaker 1: in the Cole and the Master Connected Agency.
- 34:37Speaker 3: Get yous are friends like that? Get yous are friends
- 34:39Speaker 3: like that?
- 34:40Speaker 1: Like he wants twenty memberships for people in the audience
- 34:42Speaker 1: to get to be a part of the mass Connector agency,
- 34:45Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful to him. And I tell the
- 34:47Speaker 1: story all the time, and I think it's worth sharing
- 34:49Speaker 1: on your podcast because I tell people leave a value,
- 34:51Speaker 1: follow up and do good business. Et and I met
- 34:54Speaker 1: each other in New York because I used to work
- 34:56Speaker 1: on Wall Street. At a Forbes event in twenty twenty nights,
- 35:00Speaker 1: I want to say, and my friend that worked with
- 35:02Speaker 1: me was like, oh tell Et. I said hi, and
- 35:04Speaker 1: I'm like, you know you're from the top. We're not
- 35:06Speaker 1: speaking to strangers, right, That's how we put it up.
- 35:08Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't know.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Him, so head nod and not keeping plasing exactly.
- 35:12Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know this man. He doesn't
- 35:13Speaker 3: know me.
- 35:14Speaker 1: But I wound up having a VIP passed and remind
- 35:16Speaker 1: me to talk about VIP. I have thought to tell
- 35:18Speaker 1: you this story, but at a VIP pass so they
- 35:20Speaker 1: did a meet and greet for VIP.
- 35:22Speaker 3: So I wound up meet e Et and he didn't
- 35:24Speaker 3: know me.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Of course I didn't know him, and I said, by
- 35:26Speaker 1: the way, your friend Larry said hi. He said, oh
- 35:28Speaker 1: my god, Larry went to college together. We you know,
- 35:30Speaker 1: we we we're really good friends. I said, okay, and
- 35:33Speaker 1: nothing was that. I didn't follow up. I didn't talk
- 35:35Speaker 1: to him because I didn't know him. Fast forward to
- 35:38Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Pinky Coal, she owned Studdy Vegans. She
- 35:41Speaker 1: had these things called sesch sessions where she was bringing
- 35:44Speaker 1: in corporate executives and entrepreneurs in a in a session
- 35:48Speaker 1: where we would brain ideas together.
- 35:50Speaker 3: And guess who was on my session?
- 35:52Speaker 2: Et.
- 35:54Speaker 1: So he's looking at me and I'm looking at him,
- 35:56Speaker 1: and we're like, where do we know each other from?
- 35:58Speaker 1: I said, oh, my god, the Forbes even in New York.
- 36:01Speaker 3: And so he said yeah, and I said what do
- 36:03Speaker 3: you do? He looked at me like as if like
- 36:05Speaker 3: you know what I'd like. I was like, no, what
- 36:07Speaker 3: do you do?
- 36:07Speaker 1: He was like, I'm the number one. He's like, I'm
- 36:09Speaker 1: a motivational speaker. He did because he's so humble. I'm
- 36:11Speaker 1: a motivational speaker. I didn't know he was one of
- 36:13Speaker 1: the number one motivational speakers, right, And I said, Okay,
- 36:15Speaker 1: I work, I'm work in finance. I said, what are
- 36:17Speaker 1: you working on this year? Like, what is something that
- 36:19Speaker 1: you need help with? What do you need helping your business?
- 36:21Speaker 1: And he was like, Nicole, I got two kids. I
- 36:24Speaker 1: built an empire, but one of my biggest fears is
- 36:26Speaker 1: that my kids won't know how to sustain the empire
- 36:28Speaker 1: when I'm not here anymore, which is a lot of
- 36:30Speaker 1: fear for people that have built something, right if their
- 36:32Speaker 1: kids don't have to do Yeah. So I was in
- 36:35Speaker 1: finance at the time, so we got on the call
- 36:38Speaker 1: every week, myself, doctor Eric Thomas, his daughter Jada, and
- 36:42Speaker 1: his son Jalen, and somebody else from the bank. We
- 36:45Speaker 1: all got on the call and we helped them financial
- 36:47Speaker 1: plan for six months to make sure that his kids
- 36:50Speaker 1: knew how to run the business if he wasn't here anymore.
- 36:52Speaker 1: And he said to me, he said, Nicole, help my babies.
- 36:54Speaker 1: I will forever help her. So what did I tell you?
- 36:56Speaker 1: I'll lead with value?
- 36:57Speaker 2: Right.
- 36:58Speaker 1: I followed up right after I met him, and I
- 37:00Speaker 1: did a great job. Had I not done a great job.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Et would have not come to my event, supported me
- 37:05Speaker 1: what twenty memberships And to this day, I called him
- 37:08Speaker 1: all the time.
- 37:08Speaker 3: Like I left corporate. What do I do?
- 37:09Speaker 1: He's like, you're about the sore. I was like, did
- 37:11Speaker 1: you hear that I said I left?
- 37:13Speaker 3: Did you hear me?
- 37:15Speaker 1: He's like, no, Nicole, I know you're about to soar,
- 37:16Speaker 1: and however I can continue to help you. He just
- 37:18Speaker 1: let me speak to his community last week, and then
- 37:21Speaker 1: they brought me back again last Monday, and then I'm
- 37:25Speaker 1: flying out to Chicago for him for his event to
- 37:27Speaker 1: be in front of his community again. So I'm just
- 37:29Speaker 1: grateful that I did a good job and that he's
- 37:31Speaker 1: continued to invest in me and support me and the
- 37:33Speaker 1: things that I'm doing. And you too, Chris, like you
- 37:35Speaker 1: don't have to have me on your podcast, So thank
- 37:37Speaker 1: you for you and Wolford allowing me the opportunity to
- 37:39Speaker 1: speak to your community.
- 37:40Speaker 2: Nah, I definitely love. Yeah, he came back.
- 37:43Speaker 4: We had a wolf had a whole end when I'm playing.
- 37:45Speaker 4: We talked about different things like I'm glad I could
- 37:48Speaker 4: make that impact bringing people into my world and showing
- 37:51Speaker 4: people what I can see because Lulu you know you
- 37:53Speaker 4: changed my life when you walked me to et and
- 37:55Speaker 4: we were just talking and he was just like, what's
- 37:58Speaker 4: your story? M And I'm like, what's my story? I
- 38:01Speaker 4: said yeah, I said, I know my story better than y'alls.
- 38:03Speaker 4: He said, is it?
- 38:05Speaker 2: I said, yeah, you chose to be homeless. He said,
- 38:07Speaker 2: so you read the book? Say? He said, so, what's
- 38:09Speaker 2: your story? I said, I got shot three times.
- 38:12Speaker 4: I'm visually in pre He like, if they paying me
- 38:14Speaker 4: a quarter million, they gotta give you a half a million.
- 38:16Speaker 3: Mm.
- 38:17Speaker 2: He said, I'm tired of my knees hurt. I need
- 38:19Speaker 2: you to take over my job.
- 38:20Speaker 3: Oh you did ever be better?
- 38:22Speaker 2: You did?
- 38:22Speaker 4: And I'm saying you need me to take over. He said, yeah,
- 38:24Speaker 4: I'm ready to retire. This is your this is your lane.
- 38:27Speaker 2: I don't want it no more. This is all you.
- 38:29Speaker 2: I'm like.
- 38:30Speaker 4: Then, going back to New York, I put the headphones on.
- 38:32Speaker 4: I'm just listening to music and it just stuck with me.
- 38:35Speaker 4: I'm like, now I gotta change. I gotta change.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I gotta do.
- 38:37Speaker 4: I gotta really get up and motivate myself to say
- 38:40Speaker 4: and say tod They're going to be a different day.
- 38:42Speaker 4: Let me do something different. I'm starting to do videos
- 38:44Speaker 4: in the rain. I'm doing it all.
- 38:48Speaker 3: Money.
- 38:48Speaker 1: And I was gonna say, God is waiting on you.
- 38:51Speaker 1: He already gave me those gifts, Chris, It's already inside
- 38:53Speaker 1: of you. He just waited for you to activate it.
- 38:54Speaker 1: So that might have keep said changing, like people keep
- 38:57Speaker 1: telling you these events, and what I'm putting on is
- 38:59Speaker 1: change in life. And that's like the biggest reward that
- 39:00Speaker 1: I could ever get, because that's why I started this,
- 39:02Speaker 1: to help impact people's lives, to make it better than
- 39:04Speaker 1: when they started. Like, So the fact that he told
- 39:07Speaker 1: you that and you could hear it in the back
- 39:08Speaker 1: of your mind.
- 39:09Speaker 3: He's the number one motivational speaker.
- 39:10Speaker 1: He's telling you could do that, and then less than months,
- 39:13Speaker 1: what two three months later, you're flying out to California
- 39:15Speaker 1: and telling your story and now getting booked, Like that's incredible.
- 39:18Speaker 1: That's a gym for me. I didn't know this happen
- 39:20Speaker 1: until you just told you.
- 39:20Speaker 3: Just now right, well, you're having good food.
- 39:24Speaker 2: It's free food the VIP. You get free.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Food, I know, and that's the VIP.
- 39:30Speaker 1: So a chapter of my book, I talk about investigating yourself,
- 39:33Speaker 1: where you see yourself.
- 39:35Speaker 3: I tell people all the time.
- 39:36Speaker 1: Pay for the VIP, pay to sit a little closer,
- 39:39Speaker 1: pay for certain things because that's where everybody else is
- 39:42Speaker 1: that that's paying for that same level. Right if everybody's
- 39:44Speaker 1: in VIP, you meaning people that have that VP mindset
- 39:47Speaker 1: like yourself. At my events, if you pay for the
- 39:50Speaker 1: VIP ticket, you get a free now you need a
- 39:52Speaker 1: free meal, you get premium seeding, and you get a
- 39:54Speaker 1: meet agree with the celebrity gus. I remember telling my
- 39:57Speaker 1: uncle one time that I fly first class and he's.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Like, what, you're from York, you need to fly coach
- 40:02Speaker 3: it in the Bay.
- 40:03Speaker 1: And I was like, he's like, you can meet you
- 40:04Speaker 1: can meet somebody in your community in the back of
- 40:06Speaker 1: the plane. I was like, but I can meet an
- 40:07Speaker 1: investor in for his class. And then he said to me,
- 40:10Speaker 1: He's like, oh okay, he got real quiet. And on
- 40:12Speaker 1: that flight back home, I sat in for his class
- 40:14Speaker 1: and I met a guy that was helping me with
- 40:16Speaker 1: my community. He was helping me business plan. So it's
- 40:19Speaker 1: just like, don't look at it as oh my god,
- 40:21Speaker 1: just too expensive, don't break the bank. But if you
- 40:23Speaker 1: can afford it a little bit extra, invest in yourself
- 40:27Speaker 1: into your business. And place yourself where you see yourself
- 40:29Speaker 1: so that VIP. Like when Chris comes, he's like, I'm
- 40:30Speaker 1: only doing VIP. He always buys two VIP tickets. He
- 40:34Speaker 1: gets the you know, he gets the best, best of
- 40:35Speaker 1: the best time.
- 40:36Speaker 4: Definitely, dude, definitely do now Now I got turn the
- 40:43Speaker 4: switch onto your cause you you love to say what's
- 40:46Speaker 4: your elevator pitch? I do I need you to say
- 40:50Speaker 4: your elevator pitch? But you do more than maybe more
- 40:53Speaker 4: than a minute of why people should go to Master
- 40:56Speaker 4: connect the agency dot com and sign up for the
- 40:59Speaker 4: memory that's it.
- 41:00Speaker 2: Why should they be part of the community.
- 41:02Speaker 3: Why should they be part of this?
- 41:04Speaker 1: So my elevated pitch, because I tell people elevated pitch
- 41:06Speaker 1: needs to be thirty seconds. When you meet people, you
- 41:08Speaker 1: have to have it short, sweet, and precise on why
- 41:10Speaker 1: they should want to work with you.
- 41:12Speaker 3: My elevated pitches.
- 41:13Speaker 1: I'm the cold point, is your the CEO of the
- 41:15Speaker 1: Master Connector Agency, and we have the tools and resources
- 41:18Speaker 1: to help you grow and scale your business and connections
- 41:21Speaker 1: as well. So I need you to say, tools, resources
- 41:23Speaker 1: and connections to help you grow and scale your business.
- 41:25Speaker 1: Then if they asked me, what does that mean, that's
- 41:27Speaker 1: when I will go and explain to them that we
- 41:29Speaker 1: have experts that come on every single month to help
- 41:31Speaker 1: us in every area of business, whether that's trademarking. I
- 41:34Speaker 1: just got my trademark, y'all. It took a while, but yeah,
- 41:37Speaker 1: I went through.
- 41:38Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, it was nervous, like I'm not giving
- 41:41Speaker 2: up on its name. I'm not getting it costs me
- 41:43Speaker 2: a lot of money trading point hole. I said, not,
- 41:45Speaker 2: let me see if I us go through first.
- 41:47Speaker 4: Before I started doing this, I'm telling you, it's not
- 41:50Speaker 4: a little bit of money.
- 41:50Speaker 3: It's not a little bit of money.
- 41:52Speaker 1: And because it's master connector these are words that are
- 41:55Speaker 1: used often, Like I was scared and at first they
- 41:57Speaker 1: were like no, we had to petition.
- 41:58Speaker 3: It, and I got it to go through.
- 42:00Speaker 1: But it took almost a year, and it's sixteen hundred
- 42:02Speaker 1: dollars to get a trademark.
- 42:03Speaker 3: And now I have this name. So that's breaking news.
- 42:05Speaker 3: I didn't even tell so breaking news on.
- 42:07Speaker 1: This podcast, but I had somebody coming on talking to
- 42:09Speaker 1: us about the importance of trademarking AI, like incorporate AI
- 42:13Speaker 1: in your business.
- 42:14Speaker 3: Systems.
- 42:15Speaker 1: Systems are so important people, systems and teams are so
- 42:18Speaker 1: important to a business.
- 42:19Speaker 3: It's very vital.
- 42:21Speaker 4: We talked about it and that's amone got a system
- 42:22Speaker 4: that's in the inbox. Yeah, message come to you.
- 42:27Speaker 1: Exactly when you send an inbox mini chat, you get
- 42:29Speaker 1: you get the message that comes to you.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Having the right team around you.
- 42:32Speaker 1: But you want to be a part of this community
- 42:34Speaker 1: because we're a tribe and we are so mighty. Like
- 42:38Speaker 1: I said, we give you access to information. I think
- 42:41Speaker 1: that's so vital, access to information. We support you and
- 42:44Speaker 1: your business and you can come and start wherever you are,
- 42:47Speaker 1: whether you're that corporate executive that wants to figure out
- 42:49Speaker 1: what your business is because I help people identify what
- 42:51Speaker 1: the gifts are. Talk by the all the time, how
- 42:54Speaker 1: to identify what your gift is and how to monetize that,
- 42:57Speaker 1: whether you're an entrepreneur but can't figure out how to
- 42:59Speaker 1: get over that hump. We have these experts that come on.
- 43:02Speaker 1: We do different challenges. People come in the community. We
- 43:05Speaker 1: just had one of the girls that's building an app
- 43:07Speaker 1: in the community and said, can I test this out
- 43:09Speaker 1: on y'all. Yeah, she came in, she tested out her
- 43:12Speaker 1: app on our community. We gave her her feedback, told
- 43:15Speaker 1: her how her presentation needed a little bit work, more
- 43:17Speaker 1: work here, but she has a great product.
- 43:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:19Speaker 1: So it's like it's just really a really good support system.
- 43:23Speaker 1: And people come to me all the time because you
- 43:24Speaker 1: always like Chris, my membership is paid up.
- 43:26Speaker 3: But they're like, you get all that for one hundred
- 43:27Speaker 3: dollars And.
- 43:28Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I got to increase the price on
- 43:30Speaker 1: this because the value the value.
- 43:32Speaker 3: Of what we get, and you've seen it grown.
- 43:34Speaker 1: I have a community manager now, a community manager now,
- 43:37Speaker 1: a mindset Monday coach. Like I said, we do the
- 43:40Speaker 1: free dinner once a year. The experts that come on
- 43:43Speaker 1: are out of this world. They're all successful business owners
- 43:45Speaker 1: and like I said, yeah, so if you're looking for
- 43:48Speaker 1: your tribe or your community that wants to pour into
- 43:51Speaker 1: you and help you get to the next level, help
- 43:54Speaker 1: you understand business. Even if I said, I have somebody
- 43:56Speaker 1: in there that made ten million dollars, right, And so
- 43:58Speaker 1: it's like the Gamut is like a new business owner
- 44:00Speaker 1: to a multi millionaire business owner, and we're all teaching
- 44:03Speaker 1: and learning with each other.
- 44:05Speaker 3: And I said, what made.
- 44:05Speaker 1: You joint because you already you know, and he was like, no,
- 44:08Speaker 1: I need community, like entrepreneurship is lonely. That's some people
- 44:11Speaker 1: don't talk about. Entrepreneurship is a lonely space. When you
- 44:14Speaker 1: work out a corporation, you have your co workers and
- 44:16Speaker 1: other people around you. Entrepreneurship is your ship that you're
- 44:20Speaker 1: sailing out by yourself. And so we have that community
- 44:23Speaker 1: and support system around you where it's like you don't
- 44:25Speaker 1: have to do it alone. We go further together. And
- 44:27Speaker 1: I want to say this really quickly too. Et had
- 44:29Speaker 1: me speak to his group to two weeks in a
- 44:32Speaker 1: row talking about the African wild Dog and I didn't
- 44:36Speaker 1: know what that was.
- 44:37Speaker 3: I never heard of it before. Have y'all heard of it?
- 44:40Speaker 2: Heard that African Yeah, stuff like this.
- 44:43Speaker 3: He like like, okay, yeah, I never heard of it.
- 44:45Speaker 1: And so Et called me because I was helping him
- 44:48Speaker 1: with some stuff about sponsorship, and so he said, you, Nicole,
- 44:51Speaker 1: I trust you. You're a part of my tribe. When
- 44:53Speaker 1: somebody trust you, that is high profile. That's a big
- 44:55Speaker 1: deal because they never know who's around them to get
- 44:58Speaker 1: something versus wanting to help them. And He's say, you're
- 45:00Speaker 1: a part of my African wild Dog pack, and.
- 45:01Speaker 3: I'm like, what the heck is that?
- 45:03Speaker 4: Like?
- 45:03Speaker 3: As a dog, like what.
- 45:04Speaker 1: And he goes in the jungle. So I started doing
- 45:06Speaker 1: research on it. In the jungle, the lion, the tiger
- 45:09Speaker 1: people are most scared of them. But the African wild
- 45:11Speaker 1: dogs have like a ninety percent success rate on hunting
- 45:13Speaker 1: their prey. And the reason they do is because each
- 45:16Speaker 1: dog in the pack has a specific skill set to
- 45:20Speaker 1: help get to help attack the prey, and everybody stays
- 45:23Speaker 1: in their skill set, but they go in the same direction.
- 45:25Speaker 1: So it's to pack the African wild dog pack going
- 45:28Speaker 1: together in the same direction, but everybody strong in one
- 45:30Speaker 1: specific skill set, but they work together. And that's what
- 45:34Speaker 1: That's how I feel our community is we have so
- 45:37Speaker 1: many people in are strong in certain fields that we
- 45:39Speaker 1: all work together to make sure that we are achieving
- 45:42Speaker 1: our goals as a community. So in his pack, I
- 45:45Speaker 1: was the sponsorship a financial person. He's like, if I'm
- 45:47Speaker 1: dealing with anything with sponsorships, anything dealing with financial literacy
- 45:51Speaker 1: or anything like that, I'm like, go to Nicole.
- 45:52Speaker 2: So now I'm definitely coming to you for sponsors There
- 45:55Speaker 2: you go.
- 45:55Speaker 3: I know that's right.
- 45:58Speaker 4: Hope we even get out of here. One thing I
- 45:59Speaker 4: do love about you. You don't just show us the
- 46:02Speaker 4: finished product. We really seeing the product going through construction, yeah,
- 46:06Speaker 4: to be built what it is today. So it's something wrong.
- 46:09Speaker 4: You come to the group chat, you say what it is.
- 46:11Speaker 4: We give you the confidence to build you up, to
- 46:14Speaker 4: keep on moving. So it's not we just seeing a
- 46:16Speaker 4: finished product. We actually in the community seeing the product
- 46:19Speaker 4: being built, being grown. And that's what I love about it.
- 46:22Speaker 4: You know, some people like oh, this, that and the
- 46:24Speaker 4: third You'll be like, well, how do I know this
- 46:26Speaker 4: is real? Like you could have just put this together
- 46:28Speaker 4: and you want me to sign up for it. But
- 46:30Speaker 4: I'm actually seeing you every day putting work in for
- 46:34Speaker 4: this in Mighty Networks. I'm really saying that sometime like
- 46:37Speaker 4: they're going to Cold Night. Mighty Networks again, nigga, someone
- 46:40Speaker 4: in Mighty Networks again, Mighty Network non stop. But I
- 46:45Speaker 4: see the ambition in you, and that's what I really
- 46:47Speaker 4: love about you. I love being in part of this community.
- 46:50Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 46:51Speaker 1: And it's consistency. I tell people all time. Consistency that
- 46:54Speaker 1: is like you don't know where you be if you stop.
- 46:56Speaker 1: Every day I get up and I talk to the community.
- 46:58Speaker 1: It's a community that we're building together. I say happy Monday,
- 47:01Speaker 1: Happy Saturday, what's going on this week? What do I
- 47:03Speaker 1: have planned? Like every day I set myself even alarmed
- 47:05Speaker 1: and say, I'm want to get in myny networks and
- 47:07Speaker 1: talk to the community. I hired a community manager, but
- 47:09Speaker 1: I want you to hear from me, even on social media.
- 47:12Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, get on social media
- 47:14Speaker 1: and talk about your business. Sam Own literally said the
- 47:16Speaker 1: other day, like, I don't have that many followers, but
- 47:18Speaker 1: I'm going to get on here. And she every day
- 47:20Speaker 1: she gets on there, she gives quotes and messages from God,
- 47:23Speaker 1: talks about her product, how she builds it. Every day
- 47:25Speaker 1: She's consistent, and I said, why she's gonna pay off?
- 47:28Speaker 3: And she's growing.
- 47:30Speaker 2: Paul grew.
- 47:31Speaker 1: Paul Cross of his sales increased by sixty percent of
- 47:35Speaker 1: sixty percent by being in the community. And what I
- 47:39Speaker 1: love about it is when we do these calls, we
- 47:41Speaker 1: don't know what we don't know, and every single speaker
- 47:44Speaker 1: that has come on has taught us something.
- 47:45Speaker 2: That we did not know, something different, something.
- 47:48Speaker 3: Though, something different, something new.
- 47:49Speaker 1: Because even Brandon, when the branding guy came on, he said,
- 47:51Speaker 1: branding is not marketing.
- 47:52Speaker 3: They're two different things.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Branding is what people say about your business marketing is
- 47:57Speaker 1: what you're selling, like what you're putting out there. But
- 47:58Speaker 1: branding is like what do they say about the official
- 48:00Speaker 1: blind Step or like like you said, what like what
- 48:02Speaker 1: Wolf said?
- 48:03Speaker 3: What do you known as? What do they say about Nicola?
- 48:05Speaker 2: Or not?
- 48:06Speaker 3: What am I known as?
- 48:07Speaker 2: Right?
- 48:07Speaker 1: I want to be known as a connector. I want
- 48:08Speaker 1: to be known as a person that's going to help
- 48:09Speaker 1: you scale and grow your business. I want to be
- 48:11Speaker 1: known as a person that's going to execute with excellence, right,
- 48:13Speaker 1: Like that's your brand. If somebody needs something and they're
- 48:17Speaker 1: calling you for that, that's what your brand is. But
- 48:19Speaker 1: every speaker that has come on to talk to the
- 48:21Speaker 1: community has helped them with different things that we just
- 48:24Speaker 1: never knew. Like can you tell like something that you've
- 48:26Speaker 1: learned from one of the speakers.
- 48:28Speaker 2: The AI no the web what's her name? Ak oh ak? Yeah?
- 48:33Speaker 3: That a everybody's dealing. I was like, I gotta bring
- 48:34Speaker 3: her bag.
- 48:35Speaker 4: I even know that you could buy so many domains Wolf, Yeah,
- 48:39Speaker 4: forward it to your website. So when people type in
- 48:41Speaker 4: motivational speaker, if you buy that domain and forward it
- 48:45Speaker 4: to your website when they type in motivational speaker, you
- 48:47Speaker 4: gonna pop up.
- 48:48Speaker 3: That is very true.
- 48:50Speaker 2: If you type in.
- 48:52Speaker 4: Visually in pairs speaker, if you buy that domain and
- 48:55Speaker 4: forward to your website, they type that in, it's going
- 48:57Speaker 4: to come out.
- 48:58Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 48:58Speaker 2: Second chance you that domain, you type it, it's going
- 49:01Speaker 2: to come up.
- 49:01Speaker 3: It's come up.
- 49:02Speaker 2: I never knew that.
- 49:03Speaker 1: She gave us an example. Somebody put typhood near me.
- 49:07Speaker 1: They bought that domain name. And when you type that in,
- 49:10Speaker 1: that's the tipe food that comes out right, tape food
- 49:12Speaker 1: near you. I was gonna say for you, I thought
- 49:13Speaker 1: it would be ebony because she's the one that told
- 49:15Speaker 1: you you need to be charging five thousand, not five hundred.
- 49:17Speaker 4: And he killed the game with me too, and she
- 49:19Speaker 4: did it for free, and she did like, oh I
- 49:21Speaker 4: charged this, that and third, but let me give you
- 49:22Speaker 4: this gym. And I'm like, okay, I appreciate it. It
- 49:25Speaker 4: just you learn so much. It's like you just can't
- 49:27Speaker 4: pinpoint one thing because you learning every time. Every month,
- 49:30Speaker 4: you learning something.
- 49:31Speaker 3: Now you learning something.
- 49:33Speaker 4: He killing the podcast, but you can't buy no podcast
- 49:36Speaker 4: words because he got it killing the space right now
- 49:39Speaker 4: you type it in.
- 49:39Speaker 3: AKA helps him with that?
- 49:41Speaker 2: When that helping here?
- 49:42Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's that's the thing. Like with the with
- 49:44Speaker 1: the speakers, they teach her so many different things. But
- 49:47Speaker 1: one of the thing I love about the community. We
- 49:48Speaker 1: still put each other's businesses, like Simone is booking Princess
- 49:51Speaker 1: for certain things, like everybody pall sponsorship podcasts, like we
- 49:54Speaker 1: all are in there supporting each other's businesses. I hire
- 49:57Speaker 1: Princess on for her new her new coaching business, right like,
- 50:01Speaker 1: you can't.
- 50:01Speaker 3: You can't put a price on that.
- 50:02Speaker 2: No, you definitely can't.
- 50:03Speaker 3: Like you as a new business owner, it's scary.
- 50:05Speaker 1: It's scary. You never know where your next hour is
- 50:07Speaker 1: going to come from. You never know who's going to
- 50:09Speaker 1: buy and sell your product, buy your products from you.
- 50:11Speaker 1: But when you're in this community and I'm like, hey guys,
- 50:13Speaker 1: I'm watching day, Like, oh, we're gonna get it, Nicole, Like, you.
- 50:15Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
- 50:15Speaker 3: We support everybody supports each other's businesses. So absolutely, I
- 50:19Speaker 3: think that's the.
- 50:20Speaker 2: More we got out here is something new. What we're doing.
- 50:23Speaker 4: Who would you love to see on a blind and
- 50:25Speaker 4: I see podcast? But before you answer that, you got
- 50:28Speaker 4: to help us get.
- 50:29Speaker 2: Them on here.
- 50:30Speaker 3: Help you get them on here?
- 50:34Speaker 2: She got a long less how her phone book is crazy?
- 50:37Speaker 3: I know, my phone. It's crazy. Who would I love
- 50:40Speaker 3: to see on your podcast? That's a great question. Is
- 50:43Speaker 3: it somebody from the community or somebody that I just know.
- 50:46Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of who we Oh, sorry,
- 50:48Speaker 1: can we turn it off?
- 50:49Speaker 3: That's my phone?
- 50:51Speaker 2: Whatever you feel, no.
- 50:53Speaker 1: Because you offer so much value. Well, you always talk
- 50:55Speaker 1: to me about Gillia Whilow. I feel like they need
- 50:57Speaker 1: to do your podcast. That's how I feel because.
- 51:00Speaker 2: You can help Gilly and want to come on.
- 51:02Speaker 1: I used to have Wallow's number. I don't know Gilly
- 51:04Speaker 1: that much cause let me see you I can help.
- 51:06Speaker 1: That's okay. I got to get in my bag and
- 51:09Speaker 1: see who I can help. Come on here, because I
- 51:11Speaker 1: do think make it happen. I gotta make it happen.
- 51:14Speaker 1: So you got to do more to come on that.
- 51:16Speaker 1: So you'll have to do an update where I can
- 51:18Speaker 1: work behind the scenes and see I can get Because
- 51:19Speaker 1: you have an amazing podcast.
- 51:21Speaker 3: I am so proud of you, Chris.
- 51:23Speaker 1: I see the difference in you from when we first
- 51:25Speaker 1: met to where you are now. You're consistent, you're putting
- 51:28Speaker 1: out more content, you have amazing speakers.
- 51:31Speaker 3: Come on here.
- 51:32Speaker 1: You ask great questions. You're a great interviewer. And again
- 51:34Speaker 1: I didn't know your memory was like an elephant, like
- 51:36Speaker 1: you remember, I'm like, wait, I forgot I fuck out block,
- 51:39Speaker 1: I speel like your memory is so sharp, And like
- 51:43Speaker 1: I said, I'm grateful to have you as a community
- 51:45Speaker 1: member because you're so supportive you fly out.
- 51:48Speaker 3: I always call you like, can you give you a testimony?
- 51:50Speaker 3: Can you tell you a story? Because you say for.
- 51:52Speaker 2: A video, can you do another one?
- 51:53Speaker 1: I need you to say that whole Yeah, I don't
- 51:55Speaker 1: got another one. You got to get to the point
- 51:57Speaker 1: grit you say it in the element, So yes. But
- 51:59Speaker 1: but like your testimonial, because you literally have real, live,
- 52:03Speaker 1: impactful things that have happened, like you said, you got
- 52:05Speaker 1: your credit fixed, you you got a sponsor for your podcast,
- 52:08Speaker 1: You've got flown out and paid five thousand dollars to
- 52:10Speaker 1: fly and speak like those things are important, especially somebody
- 52:13Speaker 1: growing their business right, And so I do want to
- 52:16Speaker 1: make sure I have the right person that I can
- 52:17Speaker 1: get to come on here, because I do think what
- 52:19Speaker 1: you're doing is amazing helping people tell their stories, because
- 52:23Speaker 1: you have a phenomenal story yourself. So let me think
- 52:25Speaker 1: about that. But I do want it to be somebody
- 52:27Speaker 1: that's going to powerful. Yeah, powerful that.
- 52:30Speaker 3: Is going to move the needle for you.
- 52:32Speaker 4: So so go get your membership. Now, I mean I'm
- 52:36Speaker 4: the branded.
- 52:36Speaker 3: Basket of the he's a random basket. I'm like, I
- 52:42Speaker 3: have like this the five people. And now I'm like, okay, Chris,
- 52:44Speaker 3: can you speak? Can you speak? But yes, I'm always
- 52:46Speaker 3: calling Chris.
- 52:47Speaker 1: Be like sometimes I'll be putting the phone in the
- 52:49Speaker 1: back while I'm cooking and I'm like, Chris, come off you.
- 52:52Speaker 2: I'll be cooking.
- 52:52Speaker 4: I'm like, I got flour on my hand man and
- 52:54Speaker 4: I come one.
- 52:57Speaker 1: But they can find me at the map Underscore connectors.
- 53:01Speaker 1: I don't know how you're gonna advertise it.
- 53:03Speaker 3: And then my.
- 53:03Speaker 1: Websites okay, and then my website is www dot themasterconnectoragency
- 53:10Speaker 1: dot com. So those are a couple of places that
- 53:12Speaker 1: you can get your book. Get your book, get.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Your I'm telling you.
- 53:16Speaker 1: When there's so many jims each chapter, I like, how
- 53:19Speaker 1: you probably can't see on this thing, but you see
- 53:21Speaker 1: this great box up here.
- 53:23Speaker 3: These are connection gyms.
- 53:24Speaker 1: So every chapter has connection gyms, even more connection gyms
- 53:28Speaker 1: in them to say like you need to take this
- 53:30Speaker 1: gym and write it down and imply it in your life.
- 53:33Speaker 1: And I had Egypt Sharad Yandy Smith, Harris, Belisha Butterphild
- 53:37Speaker 1: Cynthia Bailey, Ian Dunlap all Right quotes in this book
- 53:42Speaker 1: about how I've helped them connect, how I've got them
- 53:45Speaker 1: more opportunities. And then Angela Yee wrote the forward to
- 53:48Speaker 1: my book about how I got her opportunities and deals right.
- 53:50Speaker 3: And so I've been out here doing this. I'm not
- 53:53Speaker 3: new to this. I'm true to this.
- 53:54Speaker 1: I've been connecting people to deals and sponsorships and just
- 53:58Speaker 1: other opportunities for over two decades now.
- 54:01Speaker 4: So I'm gonna be half of the blame. And I
- 54:05Speaker 4: see podcast even though my dog Frenchie out here, I'm
- 54:08Speaker 4: gonna purchase. You're gonna purchase two books. You gotta inbox
- 54:12Speaker 4: us connected the first two people that in box connect
- 54:16Speaker 4: connector we ain't gonna do it off Amazon under that
- 54:20Speaker 4: we're gonna do it like we ain't gonna do that.
- 54:22Speaker 4: We're gonna have Nicole to sign it and send it
- 54:24Speaker 4: straight to you.
- 54:25Speaker 2: Autograph. Put that book on mean something one day.
- 54:28Speaker 1: It's definitely gonna mean something. Sooner than later. We are skyrocking.
- 54:31Speaker 1: I'm saying we are all walking in obedient in Christ.
- 54:34Speaker 1: He is definitely gonna skyrock and me to the next level.
- 54:36Speaker 4: So first two people, we're gonna buy it, she's gonna
- 54:39Speaker 4: say on it, and we're gonna.
- 54:40Speaker 2: Ship it out.
- 54:40Speaker 1: I love that Chris bought Tim books already. I don't
- 54:43Speaker 1: know what he did with those timp We're gonna get
- 54:44Speaker 1: you two more new.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Ones, sister my cousin. We just passing them out like
- 54:50Speaker 2: it was the check that out on that. I definitely appreciate.
- 54:59Speaker 3: You, though, No, I'm grateful for you. Of course.
- 55:01Speaker 1: Of course I said, I'm in New York, I gotta
- 55:03Speaker 1: come to your podcast.
- 55:04Speaker 3: Support is a verb, y'all. Support is a verb.
- 55:06Speaker 1: Don't you tell people you're going to do something, make
- 55:08Speaker 1: sure you show up and support them. Support goes a
- 55:10Speaker 1: long way, absolutely, And I'm so grateful to be here.
- 55:13Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
- 55:14Speaker 4: And this is another episode of the Blamin I See
- 55:16Speaker 4: podcast Don't wait to see Just Move Oh I love that.
- 55:22Speaker 4: Bie