Speaker 1: Deborah, with her thirty years of being an entrepreneur and
Speaker 1: creating over seven companies, knows exactly what it means to
Speaker 1: accept the mission. When you make that decision, when you
Speaker 1: accept the mission to become a solopreneur, to take yourself
Speaker 1: and your talents to market, then you embrace a life
Speaker 1: of not only unlimited possibilities, but also the unknown. It's
Speaker 1: an elixir of fear and bravery that only someone who's
Speaker 1: taken the leap really understands. On our show, deb digs
Speaker 1: deep with her guests to highlight what you the listener
Speaker 1: wants to know, the stories, the whys, and the hows
Speaker 1: to navigate the journey to success. Get ready to hear
Speaker 1: from some of the most incredible mission takers from Generation
Speaker 1: Z to boomers. So sit up, perk up, and get
Speaker 1: ready to be blown away. Now here is your host,
Speaker 1: Deborah Drummond.
Speaker 2: Well, welcome back to another fifth Stick session. You're like,
Speaker 2: what is deb On? I'm happy, happy, great joy, and
Speaker 2: you are also on today. Let me see my listeners,
Speaker 2: my incredible listeners. You guys are so on the what
Speaker 2: you what you, where you're at, and what you could
Speaker 2: say you could get on the biggest stage and you're
Speaker 2: gonna rock your stage today. It's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: You guys are rock stars on stage today. So no
Speaker 2: matter what you're doing, make sure that you share something
Speaker 2: and share loudly and proudly with somebody, because that's what
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about today. Our experts with
Speaker 2: us today. I don't want to call them experts because
Speaker 2: you know what, there's one thing I know about speakers
Speaker 2: is they are fun, and they are bodacious, and they're passionate,
Speaker 2: and their voice gets loud in all the right ways.
Speaker 2: So don't go get in loud today unless you have
Speaker 2: something really cool to share. I want to introduce you
Speaker 2: to miss Leslie Caps. We have Kat, We have Kat
Speaker 2: Paul Selli and I say it that way for all
Speaker 2: particular pre show reasons that you're not gonna know about.
Speaker 2: And then we have Rachel Collins, who has been gracing
Speaker 2: our stages and sharing, sharing and sharing. But look at
Speaker 2: speaking is interesting. So there's all different types of speakers.
Speaker 2: People that like to speak to small groups, people that
Speaker 2: want to command the stage, people that are quiet in
Speaker 2: their life. Then get them on stage and you're like,
Speaker 2: where the heck did that person come from?
Speaker 3: Right, The passion makes people brave.
Speaker 2: That's what I think when it comes to speaking, because
Speaker 2: not necessarily everyone was born a speaker, and we all
Speaker 2: know that people statistics show is people would rather be
Speaker 2: on the other side of the tulips than get up
Speaker 2: on stage. But when they are fueled or dared either one,
Speaker 2: or they're at karaoke and they've had too much carry
Speaker 2: then all sorts of things comes out. But you know what,
Speaker 2: mostly I hang out with incredible people all day long
Speaker 2: that like to share.
Speaker 3: So there's a process, right, there's a process. Some people
Speaker 3: are born.
Speaker 2: To speak, but being able to do it in a
Speaker 2: way that lands for people and changes their life, that too,
Speaker 2: is another piece to this party. So I know that
Speaker 2: you're all out there doing good things the world, and
Speaker 2: let's listen to these three women that are doing the
Speaker 2: same thing, but they're doing it brat proudly from stage.
Speaker 2: So I know we have listeners and we have viewers. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're driving doing your thing, you just keep driving
Speaker 2: doing your thing. But we have a group with us today.
Speaker 2: So on group podcasts, we like to kind of let
Speaker 2: you know who's who. So I'm going to just call
Speaker 2: out their names. They're going to give you a little
Speaker 2: bit away peace sign, double peace sign. I don't know
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do. I have no control of this group,
Speaker 2: but it's going to tell you who's who. So miss
Speaker 2: Leslie Capps please make yourself known.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's Leslie and Kat Hello?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 3: Oh right, okay, Rachel Hello, there you go.
Speaker 2: Awesome. So here we are. So let's get right into it,
Speaker 2: shall we. Ladies, Look at this, it's a chicks it's
Speaker 2: a Chicks group today. So let's Sie if you don't
Speaker 2: mind introducing yourself because people speak on so many different things,
Speaker 2: kind of share what you do and what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: Sure, thanks than for having me such a great group
Speaker 4: and so appreciative to be here with you all. I'm
Speaker 4: less the Caps, I own Wild Woman Marketing, and I'm
Speaker 4: really a storytelling nerd. Storytelling is the most powerful thing
Speaker 4: in your business as well as you can use it
Speaker 4: for personal transformation right as so many applications and just
Speaker 4: learning what parts of your story are important can be
Speaker 4: a game changer. And that's really what I talk about
Speaker 4: and what I help people do.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, that's important. That's important. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: And Kat, what do you speak on? My friend? Yeah.
Speaker 5: So my name is Kat I am the owner of
Speaker 5: the Lotus Effect. I am a speaker in regards to
Speaker 5: domestic violence awareness. So I speak on domestic violence. I
Speaker 5: speak on boundaries. I speak on what I consider the
Speaker 5: invisible scars, which is the emotional and psychological traumas that
Speaker 5: any of us have faced, regardless of things that you've
Speaker 5: been through. And that really is the passion behind my
Speaker 5: company and what it is that I focus on and
Speaker 5: who I am pushing to see the world differently.
Speaker 2: Right on, right on, Thank you and Rachel.
Speaker 6: Yes, so I speak about mindful productivity. So my company
Speaker 6: is passion purpose today and it's really around helping people
Speaker 6: identify what really matters to them and why and then
Speaker 6: how to plan mindfully so that they can achieve that
Speaker 6: without feeling a lot of undue stress and anxiety. So
Speaker 6: very happy to be sharing that message with everyone.
Speaker 2: Wow, So I love it. This is very variety so people,
Speaker 2: because when people tend to think about speakers or they're
Speaker 2: going to go here a speaker, maybe it's a speaker
Speaker 2: at their conference that's talking about something specific in relationship
Speaker 2: to you know, maybe corporate brought someone in, or you
Speaker 2: go an event and it's very motivationally based and it's
Speaker 2: supposed to inspire you and motivate you. But I also
Speaker 2: love very specific speakers. I mean, let's face it, you know,
Speaker 2: my audience knows that we run big summits and that
Speaker 2: we have really cool people that come and speak and share.
Speaker 3: And at the core, I think, whatever.
Speaker 2: The messages, it's really truly about betterment, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: it is about making something better, whether it's productivity or
Speaker 2: your boundaries. There you go, that's a good book, productivity
Speaker 2: to boundaries. So let's talk a little bit about letslie,
Speaker 2: let's put to you. So what made you to say,
Speaker 2: you know, decide to brave up and be a speaker?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What inspired that movement? Because you can get your message
Speaker 2: out in many different ways. So what made you decide
Speaker 2: to speak?
Speaker 4: Ash? Right? That I'm a loud mouth, right, and it's
Speaker 4: super obviously, Uh yeah, Like I got a lot of
Speaker 4: words once I started talking. I grew up doing debate
Speaker 4: and so never was an issue for me to talk.
Speaker 4: But I think through the years, your voice sometimes gets squashed.
Speaker 4: We let it get squashed. We are in settings where
Speaker 4: it's not allowed to or like you're yelling, right, you
Speaker 4: got the microphone, nobody's hearing you. So really, I think
Speaker 4: part of my mission is to use that being a
Speaker 4: ham and like, I don't care what I look like
Speaker 4: when I do a video, just going and doing it.
Speaker 4: So many people have said I love that because now
Speaker 4: I can do it right. I don't have to feel
Speaker 4: that pressure because I know you're out there doing it.
Speaker 4: So for me, it's really about that, not only your message,
Speaker 4: but then allowing other people to step into their own
Speaker 4: message and go, you know what, like, my message is
Speaker 4: bigger than if my hair is perfect, if my makeup's
Speaker 4: per perfect right, or if I say the right things.
Speaker 2: So wow, very cool, very cool, and caw, what was
Speaker 2: it that inspired you to become a speaker? Like what
Speaker 2: was that moment?
Speaker 4: Oh? What was that moment?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: My goodness.
Speaker 5: Well, I I've always been the person to stand up
Speaker 5: for others when I felt like they didn't have a
Speaker 5: voice or they were trembling when it came to bringing
Speaker 5: forth injustices. And after going through my own ten years
Speaker 5: in a domestic violence relationship and coming out with two
Speaker 5: young children and starting life over, I realize how many
Speaker 5: people had also been through that situation or had other
Speaker 5: traumatic events in their lives that we were allowing to
Speaker 5: lead our lives, and therefore wondering why on earth we
Speaker 5: couldn't play out full And so it started with my
Speaker 5: own healing and working with my kids who are now
Speaker 5: twenty and seventeen, and then realizing that even more is
Speaker 5: needed in this world and if I can help one
Speaker 5: person do something different, transform their lives, or someone who
Speaker 5: is helping someone on that side see that trauma differently,
Speaker 5: that to me means absolutely everything right on.
Speaker 2: Very personally inspired, right, very personally inspired. Everyone comes from
Speaker 2: a different place. And Rachel, you're so well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So like Leslie, I had, you know, grown up
Speaker 6: doing debate. I'd also done a lot of theater in
Speaker 6: my youth as well, and so it was very comfortable
Speaker 6: on a stage. But I would say, like echoing you know,
Speaker 6: Kat's message, it's really about having something to share. And
Speaker 6: so while I'm very comfortable speaking, I think, you know,
Speaker 6: focusing in on you know, what is it that you
Speaker 6: have to say that can really make a difference in
Speaker 6: the world, And when you do that as a speaker,
Speaker 6: it's also about really connecting with your audience. And so
Speaker 6: I write as well, But I find that when you're
Speaker 6: speaking it's just a different way of connecting and it's
Speaker 6: much more accessible, right, so people can get a sense
Speaker 6: of who you are, and it just your message resonates
Speaker 6: in a way that's really different than if it's written
Speaker 6: on a piece of paper.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would agree, and I think we all would agree.
Speaker 2: There's something very special. And I think that we've really
Speaker 2: been able to maneuver the world of what we are
Speaker 2: on right now, like through the television screen, through the
Speaker 2: zoom screen, through the FaceTime screen, through the messenger, the WhatsApp,
Speaker 2: what have you. We have curated ourselves to be able
Speaker 2: to get a sense of energy where you know it
Speaker 2: used to be just live, just live. You get a
Speaker 2: sense of someone just live. And I think also to
Speaker 2: talk to your topic there Richel is that when you
Speaker 2: meet someone in person and then read their book, mayn
Speaker 2: it lands so much differently, like when you read that
Speaker 2: article or that blog because you've met them, you're like,
Speaker 2: I met that person, I saw that person, and it's
Speaker 2: like you have a different sense of that person, right,
Speaker 2: And I think that's a beautiful thing about speaking because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people that obviously don't and I
Speaker 2: deal with a lot of people that want to be
Speaker 2: on our stage, and we need to curate that confidence
Speaker 2: right interview style, you know, for anyone out there that's
Speaker 2: wanting to start off a lot of people really enjoy
Speaker 2: the interview style because they have the questions ahead of time,
Speaker 2: you can practice them in the mirror and curate. And
Speaker 2: even I love how you talk about you know, how
Speaker 2: people can absorb you or take in information is and
Speaker 2: it matters like what are you wearing, are you sitting up,
Speaker 2: are you leaning in? Are you sitting down? You know,
Speaker 2: what did your background look like? What's what is background
Speaker 2: on the stage? Right when you're on the stage, it
Speaker 2: all kind of encompasses is really three D experience with
Speaker 2: somebody that you just can't get any other way. So
Speaker 2: that's why I would say to people, brave up, even
Speaker 2: if it's an interview. Or does everyone remember doing their
Speaker 2: first Facebook live? I mean I spoke to twenty thousand
Speaker 2: people on stage, and I think I'm not gonna say
Speaker 2: I was more nervous to do a Facebook live. But
Speaker 2: there was something about it being on Facebook that you're like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you know, and you know, until you
Speaker 2: realize like no one really cares, no, and it's only
Speaker 2: thirty seconds and it's going to go away, and you
Speaker 2: know it's it's never going to you know, but it's
Speaker 2: really interesting even for some you know, speakers that are
Speaker 2: really comfortable in one arena, when they get into another arena,
Speaker 2: they have to have a different conversation. And I think
Speaker 2: that a lot of people are like, oh, you do
Speaker 2: it so easily. Well, we're going to get into a
Speaker 2: little bit about what it is that you do to
Speaker 2: make it look easy, because you know, we've all gone
Speaker 2: through that. Even if you're debating. You know, there's rooms
Speaker 2: that you move up to that have different speakers that
Speaker 2: you're like, ooh, this feels uncomfortable, and it's good to
Speaker 2: do that, right, it's good to do that. Now. I
Speaker 2: know that we have said Sujata. Sujata I know has
Speaker 2: joined us and she's coming in from Singapore. So Sujata,
Speaker 2: we are just talking a little bit. If you're able
Speaker 2: to take yourself off mute. I'm not sure, or maybe
Speaker 2: you're just hanging out listening to our podcast today, but
Speaker 2: do you want to share with us on what your
Speaker 2: topic is. We're just taking a little bit of time
Speaker 2: to introduce ourselves and what is your topic that you
Speaker 2: like to speak on See she's there, you go. I
Speaker 2: see that she's unmuted herself.
Speaker 7: Yes, I've unmuted myself. So I was just listening into
Speaker 7: the conversation about made you into a speaker, right, It's
Speaker 7: always been the work that I've had. I started speaking,
Speaker 7: like on television and other platforms when I was doing
Speaker 7: my anti counterfeiting because it's not a job that women
Speaker 7: actually do and it was a male dominated area. But
Speaker 7: because of the work that I did, I was asked
Speaker 7: to speak. And I think naturally I'm a person who
Speaker 7: just lands up when the call is required on any topic.
Speaker 7: So whether it's from anti counterfeiting to any other topic
Speaker 7: to say side to whatever you can name it, I
Speaker 7: have been speaking. My last speaking assignment right now in
Speaker 7: Singapore was when I gave a talk to ten and
Speaker 7: fourteen year old children in a school and I was
Speaker 7: really amazed at the kind of questions they asked me,
Speaker 7: you know about mentoring, about speaking, about writing, how do
Speaker 7: I manage my schedule? It was this thing. So I
Speaker 7: think I land up even though some people would not
Speaker 7: like to hear me speak, but it are others who
Speaker 7: pulled me up and just put me on stage. And
Speaker 7: I think I do best as an extemple speaker. I've
Speaker 7: tried a lot to do, you know, rehearsing thing. It
Speaker 7: never works with me. It just put me in front
Speaker 7: and asked me to speak, and I shall speak because
Speaker 7: I suppose I have the lived in experiences, practical wisdom,
Speaker 7: and that's how I speak or I'm speaking.
Speaker 2: Awesome. I love that. Okay, rehearse, don't rehearse. I think
Speaker 2: what I get from that is do you you know
Speaker 2: whatever makes you feel comfortable? And I love that, And
Speaker 2: I love that you call it an assignment. Isn't that great?
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's an assignment. And I think
Speaker 2: if you talk to most people on passion or path
Speaker 2: or what have you, you you know, people use the
Speaker 2: words calling, people use the words. I don't feel I
Speaker 2: have a choice, you know, like this is what I'm
Speaker 2: meant to do.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm scared, but I'm going to do it anyways, not
Speaker 2: because I have this agenda, but because this agenda has
Speaker 2: been chosen for me.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So look, we talked a little bit about what it's
Speaker 2: like to be a speaker. All of you have content,
Speaker 2: all of you deal with other people, and you share
Speaker 2: and you in part and as someone who is in
Speaker 2: the outpour, right, we're in the outpour when you're speaking
Speaker 2: and you're giving and you come off stages sometimes, Man,
Speaker 2: I just left it all out there, you know, I
Speaker 2: just left it on the table, right, and you outpoured.
Speaker 2: What do you do for yourself for your own self improvement?
Speaker 2: What do you do to help keep yourselves maybe on
Speaker 2: top of your field or on top of like what
Speaker 2: do you do to help yourself just be em betterment
Speaker 2: of what you do or in betterment of preparing yourself
Speaker 2: for what you do? Leslie, I'm going to start back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 4: Sure, this is such a great question, right, there's so
Speaker 4: many different things for me, like personally preparing for speaking.
Speaker 4: I learned this technique a while back, but releasing cortisol
Speaker 4: and adrenaline, right and super easy ten pushups, ten jumping jacks,
Speaker 4: ten squats, anything like that. And I went on a
Speaker 4: little regiment of that for like sixty days, and it
Speaker 4: really eliminated a lot of that build up because what
Speaker 4: happens is we go to the gym once and then
Speaker 4: we come back and we have a stressful situation or
Speaker 4: we get on stage to speak, right, whether you're experienced
Speaker 4: or not, you have a little bit of those hormones
Speaker 4: raise up and so being able to get rid of
Speaker 4: the bulk of that and then right before this, right,
Speaker 4: I kind of have a little ritual of what I do,
Speaker 4: and just having that really kind of ground you and
Speaker 4: keep you before and after truthfully sort of and then
Speaker 4: keep you at that stable level so you're not that
Speaker 4: you know, massive up and downs, which that's what wears.
Speaker 2: Us out right.
Speaker 3: Awesome, thank you so much. And Kat, what about yourself?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm going to take this question a little
Speaker 5: bit differently, you know, because you're talking about growth and
Speaker 5: improvement consistent with us in our field. And for me,
Speaker 5: the first thing that popped into my brain, which pops
Speaker 5: in my brain a lot, is asking questions. I am
Speaker 5: always here to learn from absolutely anybody, whether they are
Speaker 5: where I am at way further ahead behind in the
Speaker 5: journey or you know, in their space and their journey.
Speaker 5: Is connecting with people in different areas to be able
Speaker 5: to pull that knowledge and understand, especially when we're talking
Speaker 5: about domestic violence and trauma, it's really getting a feel
Speaker 5: and understanding other people that speak in this field, people
Speaker 5: that have been through it. How it affected them so
Speaker 5: that I can eliminate those pockets within my brain where
Speaker 5: it fills in its own story, and I have more
Speaker 5: information to be able to share. That is statistical, but
Speaker 5: it's also in real time because I'm hearing it directly
Speaker 5: from people. And that's that lived experience that I feel like.
Speaker 5: You can give ask questions and give tests all day long,
Speaker 5: you may not necessarily get that point. And that is
Speaker 5: the piece that I love doing right on.
Speaker 3: That is very cool. It's very cool.
Speaker 2: I'm loving this. It's when both of you are talking it. Also,
Speaker 2: it reminded me of something that I did. I just
Speaker 2: came back from doing a book launch in New York
Speaker 2: and it was fantastic. And you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: our authors put together an event for me to go
Speaker 2: speak at about our movement and our project. Now, look
Speaker 2: at I can talk about this movement and the project
Speaker 2: in five minutes. If I'm called to go on to
Speaker 2: stage right, I mean, I know it because I embody
Speaker 2: it much. I'm sure like all of you and some
Speaker 2: of you that are listening to us today. So you
Speaker 2: when you embody your information, you can pull it up
Speaker 2: from anywhere, like what the HUGECTA was talking about just
Speaker 2: her life wisdom. But for some reason, I was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I need to rewrite And it was
Speaker 2: really interesting for me to rewrite my presentation and I
Speaker 2: rewrote it differently, and I was like, oh, this was
Speaker 2: such a good exercise. I didn't have time.
Speaker 4: I was in New York, part.
Speaker 2: Of someone else's book launch, doing an event, Times Square,
Speaker 2: all the things, and then you know, so we were
Speaker 2: running around and I was like, no, I'm going to
Speaker 2: take the time to rewrite. And it was interesting rewriting
Speaker 2: my speech that I could have done with my eyes closed.
Speaker 2: I completely added a different piece and I enjoyed my
Speaker 2: presentation so much more. And you know, the audience didn't
Speaker 2: know my old presentation, but it certainly rised, like rose
Speaker 2: the vibe in the room. So for me, that was
Speaker 2: really something really good from an improvement of what I
Speaker 2: had already improved upon. And I think that you just
Speaker 2: reminded me with that just asking questions or just you know,
Speaker 2: I just knew there was going to be a couple
Speaker 2: of different people in the room, and just hearing my
Speaker 2: conversation a little differently, that was really cool.
Speaker 3: Thank you and Rachel for yourself, what do you.
Speaker 4: Do yeah, So I do a lot of reading.
Speaker 6: I love to read and then really just kind of
Speaker 6: reflect on what I've read to stay current. I also
Speaker 6: love watching Ted Talks so on you know YouTube, there's
Speaker 6: this fabulous Ted x talks and such a variety of information,
Speaker 6: and when I watched those, like, I really you know,
Speaker 6: kind of hone in on how are people delivering their
Speaker 6: message right, how are they connecting with their audience? And
Speaker 6: so watching really great speakers just inspires me to up
Speaker 6: my game. And then as well, I'm part of like
Speaker 6: a group coaching program, and so I can get feedback
Speaker 6: and input from other people and really, you know, ensure
Speaker 6: that my message is landing. So those are all things
Speaker 6: I do just to you know, continually improve and grow
Speaker 6: through this.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that because every good coach
Speaker 2: needs a coach, Every good coach needs an expert, Every
Speaker 2: good coachings a therapist, like you know, the human part
Speaker 2: of who we are. And sometimes you may not have
Speaker 2: to take the whole course over again, because you could
Speaker 2: teach the course, but there's always something new to learn.
Speaker 2: And even bringing in experts and having someone who will
Speaker 2: reflect back the truth to you. I love it. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like when you ask your friend like this is
Speaker 2: this a nice dress? And they're like, hmmm, doesn't really.
Speaker 2: You know, You're like, hey, thank you, you know, thank
Speaker 2: you and and all the things, and you see it
Speaker 2: all on social media.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: Right now we're going to a big event and a
Speaker 2: lot of everyone's putting their outfits out there. Do you
Speaker 2: like this one? Do you like that one? And taking
Speaker 2: boats and book covers and all the things, And it's
Speaker 2: really interesting to get people's feedback on what it is
Speaker 2: that you're taking forward. And so as well, our dear friends, Sujata,
Speaker 2: what about you? Is there anything that you do in
Speaker 2: terms of keeping yourself on top of your game or
Speaker 2: that you do for your own self improvement?
Speaker 7: So we're learning is concerned. It's a continuous process, right
Speaker 7: every time I speak to a person, or I deal
Speaker 7: with a person or interact or engage, I'm always learning.
Speaker 7: That's been my passion from I think childhood, observing people's
Speaker 7: behavior and then learning from it. As far as you know,
Speaker 7: people having an opinion, judgment, or feedback, whether you like
Speaker 7: it or not, they will give you that, okay. And
Speaker 7: my simple thing is that it's very difficult to live
Speaker 7: up to people's expectation. There's a song which is my
Speaker 7: favorite song, which is called be Yourself. So I just
Speaker 7: be myself and I just go with the flow. You
Speaker 7: can learn, but ultimately, what you want to do or
Speaker 7: what you want to give out there, that's up to you.
Speaker 7: So for me, as I said, it's ex tempo on
Speaker 7: the spot, depending on the questions, questions I can answer.
Speaker 7: But if it's a prepared keynote speech or any speech,
Speaker 7: that I will still do extempo because like you said,
Speaker 7: if you write the presentation, I can have twenty versions
Speaker 7: up till the last moment. You know, each time I
Speaker 7: will write it, it'll be a different version. So I
Speaker 7: gave that up and I said, okay, I go to
Speaker 7: the stage and then I just speak.
Speaker 2: Right on, right on, Thank you so much. We talk
Speaker 2: a lot about people in business on this show. It's
Speaker 2: called mission Accepted. And most people that are speaking on
Speaker 2: this show, and most people that are listening on the show,
Speaker 2: they are you know, they're looking to expand something in
Speaker 2: their life. They've taken the mission, whether it's personal or
Speaker 2: whether it's business, or they're looking to pull from your crazy,
Speaker 2: crazy enthusiasm and brave up and go do something that
Speaker 2: is calling to them. And so many of you have businesses,
Speaker 2: and when someone looks at starting a business, they're in
Speaker 2: the middle of the business. They want to go to
Speaker 2: the next level in their business. All the things. One
Speaker 2: of the things that you will hear is like, and
Speaker 2: you know you probably hear it. I know we hear it,
Speaker 2: is like.
Speaker 4: How do you do? How do you do?
Speaker 2: How do you want so many shows? Rachel, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: how are you producing? Like?
Speaker 3: How do you do? What it is that you do?
Speaker 2: And I think that entrepreneurs become very good at obtaining
Speaker 2: at least in some area of their business. Now they
Speaker 2: might be doing it with their personal business or their
Speaker 2: personal life that allows them more availability in their business right,
Speaker 2: But can you share with us, like what I call
Speaker 2: a top performance, a top performance message, or a top
Speaker 2: performance tip or whatever you want to call it. What
Speaker 2: do you do in your life that allows you to
Speaker 2: do more of what it is that you want to do?
Speaker 2: And honestly, it could be having your groceries delivered. But
Speaker 2: share this, so, Leslie, what do you do?
Speaker 4: Miss?
Speaker 2: I'm going to the oscars, I just launched a book.
Speaker 2: I'm speaking. Last time we had a conversation we're looking
Speaker 2: at three businesses, Like what do you do to talk
Speaker 2: performance so that you know.
Speaker 4: You stay you Yeah, No dusting, hello, no vacuuming, right yeah,
Speaker 4: don't like those things anyway, So that was no loss. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it's a great question for me when things
Speaker 4: start to like seem super overwhelming. I clean so no dusty,
Speaker 4: no vacuuming. But I go out in the garage and
Speaker 4: I clean, I clean out a closet, And mostly it's
Speaker 4: an energetic thing, right, It's like, I know, I have
Speaker 4: to get rid of things to allow more things in.
Speaker 4: So the physical then is part of the internal. And
Speaker 4: the other thing I've started doing is really closing the
Speaker 4: door on things. I make decisions in my head. I'm
Speaker 4: like very quickly, but I sometimes don't say those out
Speaker 4: into the universe. And really taking that step to be
Speaker 4: very clear, very conscious saying to another person another thing
Speaker 4: like stopping that and closing the door. Again, for me,
Speaker 4: it's all about managing the amount of energy I have,
Speaker 4: and so how how to do that best and keep
Speaker 4: what's old and outdated sloughed off and moving forward to
Speaker 4: bring new opportunities in.
Speaker 2: Right on.
Speaker 3: Very cool and kat for yourself.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: For me, it's boundaries and delegation.
Speaker 4: Those are the two biggest things.
Speaker 5: And I feel like, especially us as women, where we
Speaker 5: have this feeling of but I need to do it all,
Speaker 5: and I have to care for everybody, and I need
Speaker 5: to take care of the kids. Creating the boundaries to
Speaker 5: realize what is important to you and being okay with
Speaker 5: putting that first, and then thinking about how you can
Speaker 5: delegate out all of those other things you don't want
Speaker 5: to do, right, like cooking dinners.
Speaker 4: I don't have to do.
Speaker 5: My kids are old enough so.
Speaker 4: They get to choose a night.
Speaker 5: That's on you, right, But it's it's things like that,
Speaker 5: Like you said, going to get your groceries paid. I
Speaker 5: have my groceries delivered. So where can you find those
Speaker 5: small things that you can delegate out so that you
Speaker 5: can focus more on what you want to do, But
Speaker 5: then also creating those boundaries around what is important to you,
Speaker 5: making sure you're still putting that at the forefront so
Speaker 5: that you continue to move yourself forward because if not, again,
Speaker 5: especially as a woman and a parent, everything else comes
Speaker 5: before you and then your business ends up falling behind
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: Right, very cool, Thank you so much and Rachel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I really start with a vision. So having
Speaker 6: a big, juicy vision that you just love. So having
Speaker 6: a really clear, you know, end goal that you're working towards,
Speaker 6: I think is really important. Steve's jobs, there's a very
Speaker 6: famous quote attributed to him that says, you know, when
Speaker 6: you have a vision this it pulls you right, it
Speaker 6: pulls you forward. And so I think that for me
Speaker 6: that is just such a critical place to start because
Speaker 6: it becomes a decision filter for everything I do. So
Speaker 6: if I'm really clear and where I want to go,
Speaker 6: then you know, I can say, okay, does this move
Speaker 6: is things come up? Right? Do is obligations come up?
Speaker 6: Demands come up? I can you know, really just use
Speaker 6: that to say does this move me towards the vision
Speaker 6: or does it distract me from that? And that allows
Speaker 6: me to more easily say no to some of the
Speaker 6: things that come up that you know, our great opportunities
Speaker 6: or our social obligations, but you know they're my energy.
Speaker 6: I really want it to be able to go towards
Speaker 6: this bigger, juicy vision, and so I would say that
Speaker 6: that's really critical as well. I you know, I like
Speaker 6: to break it down into milestones that I do within
Speaker 6: like a ninety day framework, and so having you know,
Speaker 6: really clear objectives that relate to that vision and then
Speaker 6: being able to you know, measure my success on those
Speaker 6: in a way that kind of creates a sense of
Speaker 6: urgency that as well helps drive it forward. And so
Speaker 6: those are two really good components for me to make
Speaker 6: sure that I'm achieving what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Right on. Thank you so much, so many great just
Speaker 2: so many great tips and so chata for yourself. What
Speaker 2: is it that you do?
Speaker 7: I go with the flow. So there are only twenty
Speaker 7: four hours in a day, and depending on what life
Speaker 7: throws at you, so I go with the moment, and
Speaker 7: then while making decisions, I just summarize, you know, after
Speaker 7: the observation as to the possible decisions I can make
Speaker 7: and then choose the best option. And if things are
Speaker 7: a bit messy, I just step aside from the moment,
Speaker 7: and that's when I do something which is just going
Speaker 7: to give me a clear head, like just being with
Speaker 7: the animals or with the nature. Like now I have
Speaker 7: a puppy, So I just spend some time with the
Speaker 7: puppy and then go back to the problem or go
Speaker 7: back to the situation and then you know, I can
Speaker 7: peacefully make a decision because I already had a few options.
Speaker 7: So that's what I do, right.
Speaker 2: So vast so incredible ladies. As we start to wrap
Speaker 2: up the show, you know, risk and reward, right, risk
Speaker 2: and reward. We talk about mission accepted, the risks we take.
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of like, you know, being on
Speaker 2: a mission, you know, and the risks that you take,
Speaker 2: and then there's really cool things that happen when you
Speaker 2: take risks, Like there's cool things that happen, things that
Speaker 2: unfold that you can't plan for. And you know, the
Speaker 2: big odacious and the joy and the juice and the
Speaker 2: passion and all we think about and when you look
Speaker 2: back in the last thirty days, you look back in
Speaker 2: the last three years, you look back and you're like, so,
Speaker 2: as we kind of wrap up a little bit, if
Speaker 2: we can share one of the riskiest times and I
Speaker 2: know we're you know, we're not going to go on
Speaker 2: for a long time, but like something that you really
Speaker 2: felt was a risk, right, it was like, ooh, this
Speaker 2: felt risky. You didn't know how it was going to unfold,
Speaker 2: and then it could be a completely different scenario. But
Speaker 2: what's one of the coolest things that ever happened to
Speaker 2: you by being in business, because people, being a speaker
Speaker 2: is a business. You know, you might be talking about
Speaker 2: your book, you might be talking about your program, might
Speaker 2: be talking about something.
Speaker 3: But speaking in itself is a powerful, powerful, powerful marketing
Speaker 3: tool which leads to business, and or speaking within itself
Speaker 3: is a business.
Speaker 2: Right, So leslie risk and then.
Speaker 4: Cool, Well you know what that is. I really look
Speaker 4: at that a little differently, though, So I recognize every
Speaker 4: day I step out of the house, I could be
Speaker 4: hit by a bus, and I judge everything on that
Speaker 4: right knowing that if I did get hit by a boss,
Speaker 4: would I have missed that opportunity or not. So it
Speaker 4: does change the way I make decisions without a doubt,
Speaker 4: but without a doubt. It was I got an opportunity
Speaker 4: to pitch a book to take the Oscar's Gifting Lounge.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a book at the time, so I
Speaker 4: pitched the book knowing that I had about thirty days
Speaker 4: to write it, so that we would have thirty days
Speaker 4: to puke it out into the world. And truthfully, I
Speaker 4: didn't know if I could do that, but I was like,
Speaker 4: that's one of those things that I would regret if
Speaker 4: I walked out the door and got hit by a
Speaker 4: boss and didn't take this opportunity. I don't know where
Speaker 4: it's going to lead because the oscars are coming up, right,
Speaker 4: But it's been a freaking cool ride. And it's like
Speaker 4: I talk about the Oscar swagger now right, you write
Speaker 4: a book in thirty days you're taking to the oscars,
Speaker 4: Like I feel differently and people interact with me differently,
Speaker 4: like even in the grocery store. So yeah, so that's
Speaker 4: definitely the biggest risk. I don't know where it's going
Speaker 4: to go. Someh're freaking cool though, is pretty much what
Speaker 4: I'm banking.
Speaker 2: On, all right, So your cool story is for our
Speaker 2: next show. Your cool stories for the next show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know this woman, there's been some cool things happened
Speaker 2: to her, but we're going to keep the big cool
Speaker 2: for after. Okay, Kat, And what about yourself? That's a risk?
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, there's I think back of so many
Speaker 5: risks that I have taken that like really transformed my life.
Speaker 5: And I think that one of the biggest ones for
Speaker 5: me was when I stepped out of the medical field
Speaker 5: and got into the entrepreneurial field and decided, after a
Speaker 5: year and a half of doing it everybody else's way,
Speaker 5: that I was just going to do it that way
Speaker 5: that I felt I should do it, regardless of a
Speaker 5: coach or anything else, which led me down this really
Speaker 5: beautiful path to where I am today and what I
Speaker 5: get to share. And I think that I have to
Speaker 5: say the most recent one of the really cool things
Speaker 5: that happened to me was I was at a parent
Speaker 5: meeting for my son's JROTC class and the instructor actually
Speaker 5: came up with me and he's like, Hey, you know,
Speaker 5: I've been following you for a while. Your stuff's been
Speaker 5: popping up on my stories and I'm loving what you're doing.
Speaker 5: I want you to come talk to the girls teams.
Speaker 5: He's like, and I really have been trying to get
Speaker 5: my daughter to follow you, who is almost seventeen, to
Speaker 5: really pay attention to your message, And that to me
Speaker 5: was like just the coolest thing to notice that somebody,
Speaker 5: especially a dad that like is outside of this realm,
Speaker 5: notice that recognized what I was doing and that made
Speaker 5: an impact in the way that he wants his daughter
Speaker 5: to see to be able to grow up right on.
Speaker 2: That is so great that external confliment, and I love
Speaker 2: it when it comes sidebar right, You're like, like, I
Speaker 2: don't even talk to you. You're not even in my
Speaker 2: You're not even in my demographic, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: There's nowhere in my vision that says but that's really
Speaker 2: those are cool. Those are cool things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I always say that my office, if you saw it
Speaker 2: pass this looks like a you know, Tony garage sale.
Speaker 2: And some of it is stickers of things that people
Speaker 2: have said through that whole big process of putting the
Speaker 2: book together for three years. Some woman just sent me, honestly,
Speaker 2: a little sticky you know, like the post it notes,
Speaker 2: and I stuck it here and it was just a
Speaker 2: thank you, Like honestly, maybe it was six words, right,
Speaker 2: but it was that comment. It was that feedback that
Speaker 2: I'd look at and go, Okay, you know, let's go.
Speaker 3: You know that's fantastic and Rachel for yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, entrepreneurship is risky, right, and just figuring
Speaker 6: out where to start. I think it was kind of
Speaker 6: the real challenge for me. I'd say the biggest risk
Speaker 6: was I had this idea for a program and I
Speaker 6: wanted to develop it. I didn't have an audience, but
Speaker 6: it was something that I just felt called to do,
Speaker 6: and so, you know, developing that and then figuring out, okay,
Speaker 6: now how do I build the audience? It just absolutely
Speaker 6: took me outside of my comfort zone in really good ways.
Speaker 6: And I'd say the coolest discovery for me through this
Speaker 6: process was just really that while it felt like something
Speaker 6: I was doing in isolation and alone because there's a
Speaker 6: lot of work that you have to do that's independent,
Speaker 6: where my energy really came from and where it got
Speaker 6: exciting was just how it connected me with so many
Speaker 6: different people. Right, So, I think about being on this
Speaker 6: call and just these awesome, you know, new connections people
Speaker 6: I haven't known before, but you know, have you know,
Speaker 6: something to say, write a difference to make in the world.
Speaker 6: And I feel like each time I'm kind of getting
Speaker 6: out there sharing in some way, I'm really getting this
Speaker 6: tremendous gift back in terms of a new understanding of
Speaker 6: just how broad the network is and how many people
Speaker 6: are doing such significant things to make a difference in
Speaker 6: the world. And so, you know, going from that place
Speaker 6: of you know, focusing on what I want to do
Speaker 6: to you know, feeling like we're all in this together
Speaker 6: like that is the coolest thing for me.
Speaker 2: Right on, that's very cool. That's very cool, and Sujata
Speaker 2: something that was risky and then something cool that happened,
Speaker 2: like just some cool things.
Speaker 7: So as you know that I met you because I
Speaker 7: wrote a book. If I had written that book, then
Speaker 7: I probably wouldn't have met you because even if it
Speaker 7: was referred by somebody to meet you, right but the
Speaker 7: book was written because I became an entrepreneur. When you
Speaker 7: had a life when you have a life challenging situation
Speaker 7: and you have a spiritual experience and you start up
Speaker 7: as a business person from the scratch in a foreign country,
Speaker 7: that itself is so cool because you just walk into
Speaker 7: something where you have no experience, nothing, and you have
Speaker 7: to do from scratch, and it all leads from one
Speaker 7: to the other. So I became an entrepreneur and then
Speaker 7: I became an author. And because of being an author
Speaker 7: and because of the experiences that I had, I became
Speaker 7: a life mentor. Now when I have testimony onals from
Speaker 7: people whose life I have impacted, that is a follow
Speaker 7: up to whatever I am doing. So whether it is
Speaker 7: business that somebody wants to consult me on or it's
Speaker 7: on a personal issue that people want to consult me on.
Speaker 7: It just goes from one to the other. So I
Speaker 7: just watch, like a movie, I watch from outside the
Speaker 7: journey that unfolds. I just keep myself open to whatever situation.
Speaker 7: And because I care about people, I suppose that even
Speaker 7: if people can hurt you, there are people who will
Speaker 7: uplift you. And that's how I met with you, and
Speaker 7: that's how now I'm in two sixty two. I always
Speaker 7: wanted to make a movie out of my this thing,
Speaker 7: and now you're taking me to the Oscars? What more
Speaker 7: can I say?
Speaker 3: What more can you say? It is so cool? Isn't
Speaker 3: it like if we could, you know, share from the rooftops.
Speaker 2: There's days that sure, like any day, I'm sure that
Speaker 2: at certain times, people go, what was I doing? How
Speaker 2: as I thinking? Rachel, you talked about creating the product
Speaker 2: before the audience. I mean, here's what entrepreneurs do. They
Speaker 2: don't necessarily follow up formula. I mean we watch people
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe people say, well, maybe you want
Speaker 2: to do some market research or what have you. After
Speaker 2: building seven businesses, I made my kid do a business plan.
Speaker 2: But my first business plan was on a piece of
Speaker 2: paper in the middle of a massage class.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: You know, you know, best ideas, they'll rise. You know,
Speaker 2: they'll rise if they're meant to rise. And I love that.
Speaker 2: And again, I think one of the biggest bonuses and
Speaker 2: one of the coolest things is the collective of the
Speaker 2: people that you meet. And we make impression upon people
Speaker 2: as speakers. That's why you do what you do. And
Speaker 2: we'll never know how many people we've touched as the
Speaker 2: people that have said something to us, they'll never know
Speaker 2: that they changed our lives either. There's books that I've
Speaker 2: read that I've never called the author and saved my life.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, you know Shafti guy Wan living
Speaker 2: in the Light I was twenty seven years old. Yay,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. I mean, you know, there you go.
Speaker 2: I hope to meet her one day, but they just
Speaker 2: we just don't know. So it's just this power of
Speaker 2: goodness that makes impression upon right, Okay, look at last
Speaker 2: question I'm going to ask you because we've got you know,
Speaker 2: let's do thirty seconds each year. Best tip for someone
Speaker 2: that wants to be a speaker but they're scared too.
Speaker 2: Best tip for someone who's like I don't know my goddamu. Okay,
Speaker 2: what would that be? Leslie?
Speaker 4: Thirty days of one minute reels. Send them out to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.
Speaker 4: Don't edit, don't do nothing, put on captions. Send them
Speaker 4: out for thirty days right.
Speaker 5: On, kat, watch yourself after you record it. Get comfortable
Speaker 5: with hearing your voice and seeing your motions so that
Speaker 5: you can approve, but also be okay with you and
Speaker 5: let go of perfectionism.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Rachel.
Speaker 6: Start small and build, you know, get out of your
Speaker 6: comfort zone. Be willing to take your risk and just
Speaker 6: start sharing your message.
Speaker 4: You have something to say.
Speaker 2: Fantastic and Sujata.
Speaker 7: If you get the opportunity, just get into it. It's
Speaker 7: only you who think that you are scared. The world
Speaker 7: doesn't know that you're scared, So just do it. Nobody's
Speaker 7: going to.
Speaker 2: Know, nobody's going to know. That's fantastic, Ladies, Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for being here today, audience. All of their
Speaker 2: links are going to be in the show notes. You know,
Speaker 2: our show notes are fantastic. Carmel behind the scenes, shout out,
Speaker 2: Shout out for Carmel. She's doing her thing, doing her magic.
Speaker 2: Leslie has an incredible book that just launched. Kat has
Speaker 2: incredible programs that she's changing the world with. Rachel is
Speaker 2: making people think better and hang on to their vision
Speaker 2: and curate that. And Sujata also has a very powerful
Speaker 2: book of life wisdom that she is right now looking
Speaker 2: for someone to turn into a movie. These are the
Speaker 2: things that we've got going on for people that said
Speaker 2: yes at some point, and you know what, continue to
Speaker 2: say yes. And I love what you just said this
Speaker 2: to Jetta. It's like, we have opportunities and for the
Speaker 2: most part, for the most part, I say to people,
Speaker 2: if it makes you a little nervous, if you wonder
Speaker 2: if you have the money or you don't have the money.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many stories that I've heard with
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Have the money, so I, you know, put it on
Speaker 3: a credit card and here I am.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, ten years later, the credit
Speaker 2: card may not be empty. It's just full of other
Speaker 2: stuff I said yes to. But their life is better
Speaker 2: and they're successful, and they're running their businesses and they're
Speaker 2: no longer in the you know, in the job they
Speaker 2: didn't want to be, and their kids are you know.
Speaker 2: I remember my son was doing some work with a
Speaker 2: personal development teacher and I was in the other room
Speaker 2: because I'm not supposed to listen, right, and I happen
Speaker 2: to be walking from one room to the other and
Speaker 2: this person said, it's so great that you're starting your business.
Speaker 2: He must have been I don't know, seventeen or something.
Speaker 2: So great you're starting your business and you could go
Speaker 2: to university and get a business degree. And he's like,
Speaker 2: I don't think I need to because I have my mom.
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, the years of fatigue and birthday
Speaker 2: credit cards are all worth it. So don't let whatever
Speaker 2: you say is your reason be your reason. Definitely explore that.
Speaker 3: I always say to myself, is it true or is
Speaker 3: it sabotage? Right?
Speaker 2: So thank you for doing everything that you do. So
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