Speaker 1: Deborah, with her thirty years of being an ltrepreneur 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: Hello, and welcome back to you Mission extended it. I
Speaker 2: am so excited that you here.
Speaker 3: We are connection a very, very, very powerful podcast today
Speaker 3: because you know how much I believe in words on
Speaker 3: paper right it is so impressionable.
Speaker 2: I am sure all of you.
Speaker 3: Out there have read something or have seen something or
Speaker 3: screenshot at a meme and it's sitting in your camera role.
Speaker 3: You probably have a whole bunch of them, and your
Speaker 3: phone's not working properly because we get so impressed upon
Speaker 3: whether it's five words, whether it's a quote, whether it's
Speaker 3: a chapter.
Speaker 2: And even if I was to ask.
Speaker 3: You, and I'm talking to you audience, because you talk
Speaker 3: to me all the time and thank you, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you. You are like the best. And if there's
Speaker 3: other podcasts I was listening, sorry, we have the best audience.
Speaker 3: They ask questions, they share the shows.
Speaker 2: But you do let me know. I'd love for you.
Speaker 3: To send me on social everybody, what is your favorite book?
Speaker 3: But what was it that you remembered about that favorite book?
Speaker 3: Because many times a book will make an impression upon
Speaker 3: us and will remember a phrase or will remember a
Speaker 3: feeling that it evote. Right, That's what good books do.
Speaker 3: The thing I love about books is that they're so valuable.
Speaker 3: They're so valuable because I'm sure all of you have moved.
Speaker 3: I know that one of our guests, Kathy, certainly has moved,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure when she has just come through that move,
Speaker 3: I'm sure she was unpacking books. We buy book cases,
Speaker 3: We buy furniture to put our books in because they're
Speaker 3: that valuable. We don't just put them in recycling, right,
Speaker 3: Like we may have magazine after a good long time
Speaker 3: of sitting on the coffee table, right, but we pass
Speaker 3: our books on because they're just so full of valuable now,
Speaker 3: so full of valuable, so full of value.
Speaker 2: I'll correct my own words.
Speaker 3: Today, So I want to thank you, audience. And we
Speaker 3: are going to be talking to a group of authors
Speaker 3: that are in different processes of maybe their first book,
Speaker 3: writing their second book. There's people out there that are
Speaker 3: thinking about writing a book, and it's really interesting.
Speaker 2: I was on.
Speaker 3: A great call yesterday with a bunch of women from
Speaker 3: two sixty two, and we were talking about authoring and
Speaker 3: when authors get together, it's like we feel like everyone's authoring,
Speaker 3: but the truth still lies in then less than three
Speaker 3: percent of people actually put their words into this creative
Speaker 3: process of writing into a book that goes to market.
Speaker 3: And so when you're in it, right when you're hanging
Speaker 3: out with authors, you think everybody goes through this process,
Speaker 3: but that is actually very much not the case.
Speaker 2: Yet, over ninety percent of people would like to write
Speaker 2: a book. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 3: So the accessibility to write books are so available now. Anyways,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to make this about me or about writing.
Speaker 3: I want to get in and talk to some people
Speaker 3: that have actually done that are in through that process.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm going to just get our
Speaker 3: guest today. As I say your name, if you can
Speaker 3: just kind of put your hand up, because you know,
Speaker 3: we have some people that are listening and some people
Speaker 3: that are, you know, watching, and so by putting your
Speaker 3: hand up, we'll be able to see who you are.
Speaker 3: And if you're just listening, well, you know what, when
Speaker 3: you when you get home, watch this and you'll be
Speaker 3: able to see who we're talking about. So I'd like
Speaker 3: to introduce Rachel Collins. Just give us a nice wave.
Speaker 3: We have Yvonne Silver, oh my gosh. We have Kathy Holt,
Speaker 3: and we have Peter Kelly. We have some Canada in
Speaker 3: the house today. We have some Canada in the house today.
Speaker 3: All right, so let's talk about it. Maybe our authors
Speaker 3: today were impressed upon by a book that they had
Speaker 3: while they were growing up. So I'm going to start
Speaker 3: with you, Rachel. Was there a book that made an
Speaker 3: impression upon you? I mean, it could have been a
Speaker 3: childhood favorite, something that you really loved or was it
Speaker 3: something else that just overrode that that has made an
Speaker 3: impression upon you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so lots of Canada the house today, for sure.
Speaker 4: My favorite book growing up was Anna Green Gables, and
Speaker 4: I just I loved the language of it. I loved
Speaker 4: the feeling of it. And it was a character that
Speaker 4: was just independent and fierce and loving and would make
Speaker 4: mistake after mistake and learn and grow and recover from that.
Speaker 4: And so that was a book that I read over
Speaker 4: and over for most of my childhood.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: And see, I think that's really interesting how we can
Speaker 3: relate to the characters, not that maybe you were making mistakes.
Speaker 3: When you say mistakes over and over again, it reminds
Speaker 3: me of sitting there Saturday afternoon watching Pippylong stalking.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I've got a birthday coming up.
Speaker 3: If anyone rehab Pippy Lie stalking you, me and you,
Speaker 3: we need to talk. But it's so interesting, right, It's
Speaker 3: almost like sometimes through characters it gives us allowance.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. And Yvonne, how about yourself.
Speaker 5: I didn't have one particular favorite author. I had a
Speaker 5: collection of nursery rhymes, and that was a combination of
Speaker 5: poetry and story and beautiful illustrations, and that kept my
Speaker 5: interests because there was so much variety in there, but
Speaker 5: there was always a common thread with a happy ending.
Speaker 5: It's almost like watching the Homewark channel, right, there's a
Speaker 5: secret recipe, you know, distrust and then there's success at
Speaker 5: the end and everyone falls in love happily. So those
Speaker 5: were my favorites, but not one particular book.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I love happy endings, I think for
Speaker 3: me because for me media the books or magazines, or
Speaker 3: when I go to a movie, I like to get
Speaker 3: lost in a story. It's me getting out of my life.
Speaker 3: And who doesn't want to Who doesn't.
Speaker 2: Want to have a happy ending or watch a happy ending?
Speaker 2: But that's awesome and Kathy, but yourself.
Speaker 6: For me, I was an avid reader very very early on.
Speaker 6: Whenever we'd go to the store or the grocery store
Speaker 6: even I'd want a book, not candy or something like that.
Speaker 6: But really the book that impacted me so much was
Speaker 6: called Flowers for Algernon and I wrote read it in
Speaker 6: about sixth or seventh grade, and it's about a man
Speaker 6: who has a low IQ that's put in a science
Speaker 6: experiment and becomes brilliant, but then as as time goes off,
Speaker 6: he loses that ability and goes back to who he was.
Speaker 6: And I'm getting chills talking about it. But what it
Speaker 6: taught me was to grab life because while he could,
Speaker 6: he did everything and experienced everything he could possibly experience
Speaker 6: because he knew this might not last forever. And so
Speaker 6: that's really the one that really hit me hard, and
Speaker 6: really I think started the whole process of me saying, yes.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's really that's profound.
Speaker 3: I mean that sounds like, you know, if someone read
Speaker 3: that book in their thirties, but to read it in
Speaker 3: grade six or seven and to have that kind of experience, Wow,
Speaker 3: I have you know, knowing you.
Speaker 2: And your role in world leadership, I get it. I
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 3: I love how you get to know people and you
Speaker 3: get to know people are like, Okay, now it's making sense.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And Peter, what's yourself?
Speaker 7: Yes, Deborah, thanks first of all for having us. This
Speaker 7: is a wonderful opportunity for not only to meet each other,
Speaker 7: but also to talk about ourselves a little bit. And
Speaker 7: I know, for myself, I'm usually in a different position
Speaker 7: where I'm the listener, and I'm doing a lot of
Speaker 7: nodding and using empathy because I'm a clinical hypotherapist. Previously
Speaker 7: I was working as a clinical psychologist. And how did
Speaker 7: I get to that point? Well, this goes back many,
Speaker 7: many years. I'm not going to say when, because you're
Speaker 7: going to know how old I am. But nevertheless, we're
Speaker 7: talking about the seventies when I first came across the
Speaker 7: writing of doctor Wayne Dyer. And doctor Wayne Dyer, of
Speaker 7: course most of you probably know, was very very much
Speaker 7: involved in the New Wave movement and an inspirational speaker.
Speaker 7: He wrote many, many books, but the first book that
Speaker 7: I came across by him was called The Sky the
Speaker 7: Limit in the seventies, and that book just totally transformed
Speaker 7: my view on things. At the time, I was working
Speaker 7: for my father in a business. It was office equipment,
Speaker 7: and I was in the role of repairing typewriters. I
Speaker 7: was a technician basically, and I was getting a little
Speaker 7: bit more and more disheartened by what I was doing
Speaker 7: and my life I just felt was going nowhere. But
Speaker 7: when I read The Sky's the Limit, I mean, it's
Speaker 7: like total transformation. I ended up leaving the job, not
Speaker 7: right away. I went back to university, I completed my degree,
Speaker 7: my graduate degrees, and went on to become a psychologist
Speaker 7: and started my practice. And so it just shows you,
Speaker 7: you know, don't lose hope. There's always something out there
Speaker 7: for you. It takes time sometimes, but you get a
Speaker 7: book like this, it just can change everything.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for reminding us that.
Speaker 3: And I think that we all could probably put our
Speaker 3: hand up at some point where there's been a message
Speaker 3: that needs to come to And many times when I'm
Speaker 3: talking to clients, I'll say, especially when they're making a
Speaker 3: change or needing to make a change, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: watch for the book that gets thrown on the floor
Speaker 3: in front of you. That's just my analogy of something's
Speaker 3: going to open your world.
Speaker 2: And isn't that what books do?
Speaker 3: They take you to another place, They inspire you, they
Speaker 3: motivate you. I always say, you know, a good book
Speaker 3: happens when you need to find an answer, either.
Speaker 2: There or where. It travels you to. Right.
Speaker 3: One book introduces you to maybe the author, that takes
Speaker 3: you to a speaking engagement that they've done, that takes
Speaker 3: you to you know.
Speaker 2: I I ended up in actually New York at the.
Speaker 3: Omega Institute listening to Cheryl strad in a writing workshop
Speaker 3: before I decided to just because I was really made
Speaker 3: an impression upon the journey of the movie you know
Speaker 3: that her book turned into.
Speaker 2: So that's thank you so much for taking us through
Speaker 2: that a little bit of that journey. Why don't we
Speaker 2: do this?
Speaker 3: I'm sure the audience is like, Okay, you've got a
Speaker 3: group of authors here. They've been inspired, they you know,
Speaker 3: they've had movement, and I want to know how to
Speaker 3: do that too. These are people that take the mission.
Speaker 3: That's what this show is about. So again, Rachel, let's
Speaker 3: go back to you.
Speaker 2: What is your book?
Speaker 3: Are you in the process of another one? Like tell
Speaker 3: us where you are as an author right now?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I had done two children's books, so those I
Speaker 4: published years ago. But the book that is new for
Speaker 4: me that I'm really excited about is called Insights and Inspirations,
Speaker 4: three hundred journal prompts for cultivating joy, gratitude, and mindfulness.
Speaker 4: And so the way that I wrote this actually was
Speaker 4: for myself. I was creating journal prompts when I was
Speaker 4: going through a really challenging period of life, and I
Speaker 4: had friends just encourage me, like you need to share this,
Speaker 4: You need to find a way to share this, and
Speaker 4: it led to me publishing. So having done two children's
Speaker 4: books in the past, I think just gave me the
Speaker 4: way of doing that easily. But this one is very
Speaker 4: meaningful for me and I've been getting really great feedback
Speaker 4: on it. I am in the process of launching another one,
Speaker 4: which is called the Focus Flow Planner, and so it
Speaker 4: is a system to basically help people identify the really
Speaker 4: the top priorities in their life and then work on
Speaker 4: those in ninety day planning cycles. So a lot of
Speaker 4: interrelated projects that I'm just very excited about at this time.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Well, thank.
Speaker 3: You for sharing, and we'll have everyone's information in the
Speaker 3: show notes of people wants more than like children's but.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll be awesome. So what about yourself? Were yet?
Speaker 5: Well, I just want to look back to that previous
Speaker 5: question because I was thinking, you know, why did I
Speaker 5: not have one favorite book that spurred me into authorship?
Speaker 5: And I think what it was, deb is my dad,
Speaker 5: who was PTSD, came back from World War Two, You
Speaker 5: got a bullet and Dunkirk. He was such an angry
Speaker 5: man and such a strict parent that he was forcing
Speaker 5: me to do homework, and I was the adventurous soul
Speaker 5: who didn't want to do it, so I resisted. However,
Speaker 5: English Lit was my top market in school, so there
Speaker 5: was a sign there. But that's why I actually wrote
Speaker 5: my book, this one words Women and Wisdom, the Modern
Speaker 5: art of confident Conversations, to honor my mom, who was
Speaker 5: literally had the dignity drained right out of her because
Speaker 5: he constantly criticized her all the time, took her power.
Speaker 5: She didn't have a job anymore, she was a stay
Speaker 5: at home mom, and he took the car keys and
Speaker 5: wouldn't let her drive the car after she taught him
Speaker 5: to drive. A lot of things going on, but that book.
Speaker 5: Now I'm looking at doing an additional either a second
Speaker 5: version or a leadership version, because this one is for
Speaker 5: every woman and there's forty words and more concepts to
Speaker 5: help them to ask for what they want to get it.
Speaker 5: And I think that's powerful leadership too.
Speaker 2: Yvon, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: For sharing that, because we talk about getting inspiration from
Speaker 3: books and sometimes we don't talk.
Speaker 2: And Peter, thank you for this.
Speaker 3: I think it was one of the questions that I
Speaker 3: like to ask, is where did the inspiration come from.
Speaker 3: I mean, Rachel, you talked about you were doing these
Speaker 3: journal prompts because you were getting yourself through something.
Speaker 2: And you know the idea. I love.
Speaker 3: I love when friends are like, yes, it's a good idea.
Speaker 3: And I love when friends say it's a good idea.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, it's nice, like, you know,
Speaker 3: give it, give me the truth.
Speaker 2: But and then, Yvonne, for you to be able to I.
Speaker 3: Mean, you know your content, right, you know your content,
Speaker 3: whether it's from a personal experience, watching a personal experience,
Speaker 3: or what have you. It was really beautiful. Thank you
Speaker 3: for sharing that. It reminds me of the one book
Speaker 3: that made a big impression on me in my teens.
Speaker 3: Was very similar in the sense that I found myself.
Speaker 2: So, you know, I was a.
Speaker 3: Creative in a family that was very you know, my
Speaker 3: day to Friday nine to five. They kept wondering when
Speaker 3: I was going to move out to the valley. You know,
Speaker 3: I wanted to be near the ocean and all the things.
Speaker 2: And I was young.
Speaker 3: I was you know, my favorite class school was art
Speaker 3: and all of that.
Speaker 2: And I remember reading a book called Living in the
Speaker 2: Light by Shakti.
Speaker 3: Gatwan and it was the first time that there was
Speaker 3: this concept that there was this female energy and this
Speaker 3: male energy.
Speaker 2: And I was like, glory, hell lujah.
Speaker 3: I was just like, thank you, sister, and I mean,
Speaker 3: thank you sister for explaining why I feel like there's
Speaker 3: two parts of me. And interestingly enough, I saw her
Speaker 3: maybe twenty years later at a speaking at a church
Speaker 3: downtown here in Vancouver, and she was like, I read
Speaker 3: my book, you know, ten years after, and I was
Speaker 3: what was I thinking? And I was like no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 3: it saved my life. Don't you dare change it now?
Speaker 3: But it's interesting, right, Like we write and sometimes people
Speaker 3: like go, yeah, but you know the book that I
Speaker 3: wrote ten years ago, the children's book that are open
Speaker 3: to you may all write multiple books, yet that book
Speaker 3: that you first wrote is going to inspire people when
Speaker 3: they need to find it, when they need to find it,
Speaker 3: which is why I'm very important. I find it very
Speaker 3: important to keep books alive. You know, sometimes people write
Speaker 3: books and then they just kind of like go over
Speaker 3: here and you don't hear about it again. Keeping books
Speaker 3: alive because people need to read your book, Yvon in
Speaker 3: five years, and we'll be ready to do your book
Speaker 3: in five years, right, So I think that's why it's
Speaker 3: really great to do this, Okay, Kathy.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess I was.
Speaker 6: Where I am in my book is I'm writing a
Speaker 6: book about leadership for women, and it's really trying to
Speaker 6: create the motivation for women to lead, because I think
Speaker 6: every woman has what it takes to lead. The things
Speaker 6: that used to be considered soft skills or interpersonal skills
Speaker 6: are now key leadership skills, and so I want women
Speaker 6: to recognize that they are leaders because so many of
Speaker 6: us have been programmed over the years in Peter I yeah,
Speaker 6: I know of the seventies, so you know, the programming
Speaker 6: of not being you know, not shrinking yourself, to not
Speaker 6: not be heard, to make other people happy before your
Speaker 6: own happiness. All those social conditionings. A lot of us
Speaker 6: still have them. Our culture still gives those messages. So
Speaker 6: I want women to realize that they have what it
Speaker 6: takes to be a leader, and that they should jump
Speaker 6: at it and step into their power. Step out of
Speaker 6: those shadows and step into their power.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: And for those that don't know, Kathy will be presenting
Speaker 3: her book for one of the very first times, if
Speaker 3: not the first time at the Oscars at February twenty
Speaker 3: seventh that the celebrity had gifting ceremony, which is ceremony lounge.
Speaker 3: They get champagne and caviar and then they get you,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So they're really a ceremony,
Speaker 3: but it will be because she will be there in
Speaker 3: What a great place and a great platform to step
Speaker 3: into to have your book being seen, So congratulations on that.
Speaker 3: All right now, Peter, please tell us about your book.
Speaker 3: I know that you produced one, and I believe that
Speaker 3: there's a second one ready to launch if it's not
Speaker 3: launched last week or what have you. It's very fresh
Speaker 3: and new, so please tell us the name and where
Speaker 3: that came from.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, the first book I happen to have it
Speaker 7: right here is the keys to success are all in
Speaker 7: your mind, and so clearly we're talking about the fact
Speaker 7: that you have everything you need is just a question
Speaker 7: of unlocking in the subconscious mind. And this book basically
Speaker 7: talks about all the different things you can do in
Speaker 7: terms of holistic therapy, hypnosis, regular therapy, all the different
Speaker 7: types of reiche, you know, all the different ways that
Speaker 7: you can be successful. And part of what it does
Speaker 7: is that it helps you to define in a more
Speaker 7: precise manner what success really means for you, because everyone,
Speaker 7: as as Kathy was saying before, we're conditioned. Society conditions
Speaker 7: us to have a certain way of looking at success,
Speaker 7: which usually means money, which means position and ex prestige.
Speaker 7: But there's so many other ways that you can express success.
Speaker 7: The second book, I don't have it here. I don't
Speaker 7: know if I have time to share a picture of it.
Speaker 2: Only if you can hold it up, but we don't do.
Speaker 7: Okay, So I'll just say that the name of the book,
Speaker 7: which should be coming out probably the mid January, is
Speaker 7: called How to Awaken Eternal Youth You Don't Have to
Speaker 7: Grow Old, And that contains, guess it contains, okay, an
Speaker 7: anti aging modification program, which I'm really excited about because
Speaker 7: it shows people the steps you can take to harness
Speaker 7: your own ability to become young, eternal youth, longevity, health span.
Speaker 7: It talks about all that. It talks about the Fountain
Speaker 7: of Youth. It gives you a history of the Fountain
Speaker 7: of Youth and all the cultures over the years that
Speaker 7: have tried to embrace here after life, like Egypt and
Speaker 7: it's a wonderful book. I'm really excited about it. As
Speaker 7: I say, I'm going to have links to my YouTube channel,
Speaker 7: which will help people understand how they can progress, because
Speaker 7: it's going to have an assessment tool so you can assess, Okay,
Speaker 7: what supercharged areas that are linked to Eternal Youth, what
Speaker 7: are you doing? Are you engaging in them or are
Speaker 7: you not? And it gives you a way to calibrate
Speaker 7: and to measure that. And then I have another module
Speaker 7: that's going to show you progress a progress chart over
Speaker 7: the twelve week program. So it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: We can hear that. That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean I love the variety, Like if you think
Speaker 3: about the variety of just really myself included with the
Speaker 3: books that we produce between the five of us here,
Speaker 3: just the variety and the messages I was on. I
Speaker 3: did a live yesterday because of course we're up for
Speaker 3: a holiday season where people like to purchase, and I
Speaker 3: was talking about buying from your community, right, like buying
Speaker 3: from your community and whether it's your community, like I
Speaker 3: went out into my community the other day and bought things,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: To support the community.
Speaker 3: I also buy from my social media community, the community
Speaker 3: that supports me.
Speaker 2: Right, Why am I going online.
Speaker 3: To you know, you know, to the big gesttors in
Speaker 3: the sky when I have so many people that are
Speaker 3: doing things. I talked about how you may not want
Speaker 3: to hire someone as a coach, but coaches might have journals,
Speaker 3: they might have books, they might have cups, they might
Speaker 3: have things our podcast community, our group community, and there's
Speaker 3: so many incredible different things that people do, and I
Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit about that. So many
Speaker 3: people that write books have other practices, like I know, Peter,
Speaker 3: you have a practice, Kathy you speak on leadership. Let's
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about what it was that made
Speaker 3: you decide to write a book. Books can be for
Speaker 3: people's credentials. Authoring is a big deal. It's a big deal,
Speaker 3: and sometimes those of us in the world of bookland
Speaker 3: we forget it's a big deal. What was it to
Speaker 3: support a project that you were doing? Was it because
Speaker 3: it was a lifelong dream you always knew you needed
Speaker 3: to write one, and it didn't even really matter what
Speaker 3: it was a bucket list thing. So let's just go
Speaker 3: around a little bit about that and just say, was
Speaker 3: there something that you that you found that your book
Speaker 3: was useful for right, We just finished producing a book
Speaker 3: of two hundred and sixty two women. Those women are
Speaker 3: using it as a platform to share mostly put out
Speaker 3: their business, their profit, their nonprofit. It is a very
Speaker 3: highly prized business tool, but it's also meant to have inspiration.
Speaker 3: But what was it for each one of those women?
Speaker 3: Some women didn't even put their business at all. It
Speaker 3: was just to support International Women's Day, because.
Speaker 2: That's the meaning by the book. So what was yours?
Speaker 3: Because I think it'll help Sometimes people think I need
Speaker 3: to write a book because I'm an author or I'm
Speaker 3: a writer. You know, I need to write a book
Speaker 3: because everybody else is writing a book and I should.
Speaker 2: Write one too.
Speaker 3: And it's the thing that's going to crank my business.
Speaker 3: So let's have a conversation with that. Rachel, What was
Speaker 3: it about for you why you decided to say yes
Speaker 3: to your friends and take this to market.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, honestly, this was a passion project for me.
Speaker 4: It was something initially that I had done for myself.
Speaker 4: I had a family member who is going through a
Speaker 4: critical illness and I absolutely had to have a way
Speaker 4: of still having joy and mindfulness and gratitude in my
Speaker 4: own life, and so I had been journaling for a
Speaker 4: full year just to make sure that I stid grounded,
Speaker 4: that I didn't get overwhelmed in it, that I was
Speaker 4: able to be there for myself in addition to being
Speaker 4: there for the person I loved. And so it was
Speaker 4: just a really powerful way of making sure that I
Speaker 4: was being true to myself while also showing up well
Speaker 4: for others. And so when I shared this experience with
Speaker 4: my friends, a lot of them were also going through
Speaker 4: things where they felt overwhelmed or pulled in many directions,
Speaker 4: or you know, would have that guilty voice in their
Speaker 4: head saying, you know, you have to do it all.
Speaker 4: And the journal prompts that I developed were really a
Speaker 4: way of just getting in touch every day with how
Speaker 4: you're feeling and what really really matters to you and why.
Speaker 4: And so when I had this practice, I wanted to
Speaker 4: find a way to share it, and so it started
Speaker 4: with publishing, but it also has grown into offering online
Speaker 4: courses as well. So I have a program which is
Speaker 4: called Mindful Momentum, and I'm launching a focus Flow success circle,
Speaker 4: and so all of it really has to do with
Speaker 4: being true and authentic to yourself. And to do that,
Speaker 4: you have to be in touch with yourself. You have
Speaker 4: to be honest and be able to really identify how
Speaker 4: you're feeling. And I just find journaling a very powerful
Speaker 4: way to do that.
Speaker 2: That's thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 3: So it started off as a passion project and then
Speaker 3: moved into something that was more of a business tool
Speaker 3: that now moved more into a business service. And that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: And what about for yourself, Yvonne.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Rachel.
Speaker 5: So, my mine came about because I had been coaching women,
Speaker 5: women entrepreneurs who are seeking to flourish for that term
Speaker 5: about ten years background of twenty plus years of senior
Speaker 5: HR roles, so interviewing and hiring like six thousand people,
Speaker 5: and I kept hearing the same message that women were
Speaker 5: not confident to ask, and knowing what my mom went through,
Speaker 5: I was passionate about helping those women to ask for
Speaker 5: what they wanted, and like, ask for the salary you want,
Speaker 5: try and negotiate it because otherwise data says that you know,
Speaker 5: you'll lose up to half a million dollars by the
Speaker 5: time you retire if you don't negotiate the first salary
Speaker 5: as a paid professional. But if I can work with
Speaker 5: onrepreneurs like I do, now, we can level the playing
Speaker 5: field because we have no ceiling on our earnings. So
Speaker 5: the book came about because they kept sharing the same
Speaker 5: principles with my clients over and over again. And then
Speaker 5: I put an action item for every one of those
Speaker 5: forty words, So if you flip should to could, for example,
Speaker 5: it takes the energy of it from being an obligation
Speaker 5: to a choice and it's so powerful and there's forty
Speaker 5: of those. So it's helping women to ask for what
Speaker 5: they want.
Speaker 2: To get it. That's fantastic. And I have the book.
Speaker 2: I love that my book. Yes, I have the book.
Speaker 3: I know she's like, what do you how are you going?
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's still my coach, right. It moved from
Speaker 3: the on my coach and that's where I usually tend
Speaker 3: to flip through. And it's great. It's great, and I
Speaker 3: love your story of the cover and everything. But you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to contact Egond.
Speaker 2: To find out more.
Speaker 3: And so my website just saying yeah, yeah, it's all
Speaker 3: gonna be in the show notes. Everyone's going to have
Speaker 3: access and all of you is well. So Kathy, you
Speaker 3: are writing your book, tell us tell us.
Speaker 6: Yes, I am actually in the final stages of finishing
Speaker 6: my book, and I've kind of been putting it off
Speaker 6: for a long time because I was so busy working
Speaker 6: with women and mentoring and coaching women that I kept saying, oh,
Speaker 6: I don't have time right now. But then I realized
Speaker 6: that the impact that I can have is so much
Speaker 6: greater with a book. And as you know, I think
Speaker 6: we have to be honest also that the book does
Speaker 6: give you some legitimacy when you're sometimes questioned about, well,
Speaker 6: why should we talk to you about this, Well, because
Speaker 6: now you can see all my experiences in what I've
Speaker 6: done throughout my life. I work with women globally through
Speaker 6: the UN and n GEOS, I work with women here
Speaker 6: in the States and all to empower them to take
Speaker 6: to be leaders. And so that was really the the
Speaker 6: motivation was. I really wanted to share not just my story,
Speaker 6: but the stories of all these women I have worked
Speaker 6: with that never woke up one morning and said I'm
Speaker 6: going to be a leader, but took on leadership because
Speaker 6: of either situation, survival, or just frustration over something they
Speaker 6: wanted to see changed. And they had some good ideas,
Speaker 6: but their voices were so were often silenced. So you know,
Speaker 6: it's it's a process of that brought in a lot
Speaker 6: of different motivation.
Speaker 2: But I just really feel that.
Speaker 6: I want to create a movement of women leaders, and
Speaker 6: so I need to maximize my impact and the book
Speaker 6: is a way.
Speaker 3: To do that. Absolutely, I couldn't have said it better,
Speaker 3: I believe, and it is true, right, it is true.
Speaker 3: I mean I see books as a piece of media,
Speaker 3: and we know that media grabs attention. It also does
Speaker 3: grab authority. You know, they no you sat down, you wrote,
Speaker 3: there was editing. I mean, books are not you know,
Speaker 3: books are not articles, right, Books are not articles.
Speaker 2: And I know you put yourself under even a.
Speaker 3: Time gun where there was you know, an event coming
Speaker 3: up and there was a timeframe, and you know what,
Speaker 3: I think sometimes that's when the best stuff comes up.
Speaker 2: I think in the wee.
Speaker 3: Hours, whether the wee hours of the morning or the
Speaker 3: wee hours of the night, I think that's when the
Speaker 3: best thing comes up. It just somehow drives you know,
Speaker 3: if you said to someone who got four years to
Speaker 3: write a book, you know what I mean, I think
Speaker 3: it's nice when you have kind of a bit of
Speaker 3: a timeframe and it does give authority, and I think
Speaker 3: it also allows us to meet ourselves.
Speaker 2: I was literally.
Speaker 3: Finishing up a article for a magazine yesterday and I
Speaker 3: wrote about something I would never have written about, but
Speaker 3: it was because of the topic I had to follow,
Speaker 3: and I had to go into my life sometime and
Speaker 3: find when there was some kind of grief. Now I
Speaker 3: didn't go for the normal grief. I went for a
Speaker 3: grief and it was the grief. But when I changed
Speaker 3: one company to another, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is so bizarre to be writing
Speaker 2: about this, but I was like, oh, yeah, this happened.
Speaker 3: Coming home from that, and just the experience that I
Speaker 3: had grieving a good decision to a good decision, it
Speaker 3: was bizarre. I didn't see it coming and I was
Speaker 3: in shock and cried for four days and all the
Speaker 3: things that I'm writing about, and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I totally forgot about that. I also think
Speaker 3: it gives self confirmation, which comes out. I mean, Kathy,
Speaker 3: let's face it, you don't just help women in the US.
Speaker 3: You are on global stages doing international things, and so
Speaker 3: our words Weather said from stages, and she's you know,
Speaker 3: you've been on two sixty two stages a number of times,
Speaker 3: whether we're saying that, I think it gives us even
Speaker 3: more our own self credibility when we realize just how
Speaker 3: much we know, just how much impact we have, Like
Speaker 3: when you talked with that Vanna, you know six thousand
Speaker 3: and Rachel, how it got you through your thing, and
Speaker 3: Peter how you were inspired and look at you know,
Speaker 3: look at the book to the book.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love that the book to the book.
Speaker 3: Right, it's like, oh, okay, what's next, you know, so
Speaker 3: thank you, Kathy and Peter will will wrap up with
Speaker 3: you on.
Speaker 7: This, Okay, yeah, yes, Well it took me a few
Speaker 7: years to get this first book out there. It basically
Speaker 7: started in something that we've all shared, and that is
Speaker 7: the COVID nineteen And what happened basically is that, you know,
Speaker 7: I had to practice where we're seeing people face to face,
Speaker 7: and I suddenly found myself in quarantine. Not me personally,
Speaker 7: but I was in a lockdown and I was in
Speaker 7: a residence at that point in my life. Believe it
Speaker 7: or not, it's almost like things are going in reverse
Speaker 7: for me. But anyway, that's the next book. This one
Speaker 7: stemmed from my desire to put out there the things
Speaker 7: that people can do to empower themselves from connecting with
Speaker 7: their subconscious. Okay, so I said about Actually it started
Speaker 7: only hard to believe, only about a year ago that
Speaker 7: I started putting out free hypnosis sessions on my YouTube channel,
Speaker 7: and then one thing led to another. Writing the book
Speaker 7: was all a part of that and giving people access
Speaker 7: to what's involved in hypnosis and how powerful that can
Speaker 7: be to really transform your life.
Speaker 3: So the opportunity showed up, Like the time, opportunity showed
Speaker 3: up and it got you creative and thinking, I know,
Speaker 3: we've had great conversation, a little more in depth, and
Speaker 3: so sometimes things show up and it gives you, It
Speaker 3: gives you time to have that.
Speaker 2: Come to the surface. Look, I know it's kind of
Speaker 2: time to wrap up.
Speaker 3: And our audience absolutely loves they love these group shows.
Speaker 3: It's variety and I think it talks to many different
Speaker 3: people about many different things. So I'd love to just
Speaker 3: kind of we talked of everything's going to be in
Speaker 3: the show notes. The names book launches I think are
Speaker 3: super important. You know, I'm sure we all can come
Speaker 3: back and talk about the power of the book launch
Speaker 3: because that would be just a great dynamic show of
Speaker 3: what that looks like. So I'd just like to kind
Speaker 3: of go around the room and say, maybe if you
Speaker 3: can just say the title of your book again and
Speaker 3: honestly in thirty seconds, if you can say if there
Speaker 3: was something that inspired you about that. You know, did
Speaker 3: that title come to you right away or did it
Speaker 3: take a little while to come to it.
Speaker 2: So Rachel will start with you.
Speaker 4: Yes, So my book is Insights and Inspirations, three hundred
Speaker 4: journal prompts to cultivate joy, gratitude, and mindfulness. And it
Speaker 4: came to me through journaling. It was just instantly there.
Speaker 2: Awesome, we have our journal Queen in the room.
Speaker 5: Anymone Mine came in through a download, so run in
Speaker 5: the book was kind of like going through seventy five
Speaker 5: parks and nine months of writing five o'clock every morning,
Speaker 5: half an hour visualization, so words women and wisdom. I
Speaker 5: wanted to include the modern art of confident conversations because
Speaker 5: of the me too movement and things that were bubbling
Speaker 5: up at that time, and it aligned.
Speaker 2: But it came in a download, so thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 6: And Kathy Well mine is still kind of being massaged,
Speaker 6: I guess, but the working title is Women's Work finding
Speaker 6: our voices changing the world. And I really wanted to
Speaker 6: play off that, oh, that's women's work, because that has
Speaker 6: been so derogatory for so long, but in reality, women's
Speaker 6: work in behind the scenes and you know, anonymously has
Speaker 6: really shaped the world.
Speaker 3: Wow, very cool working title. We'll have to wait and
Speaker 3: see watch the oscars and Peter.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So it's hard to remember now where the title
Speaker 7: came from. It just sort of just flowed from one
Speaker 7: day to the next and I finally arrived at that.
Speaker 7: It basically the way I do it. I like to
Speaker 7: do my own covers, book covers. So it stemmed from
Speaker 7: the art work of having a mind a brain, and
Speaker 7: it stemmed from there. After I had the main artwork
Speaker 7: of the cover, I then work towards the actual title.
Speaker 7: The keys to success are all in your mind, and
Speaker 7: I put the mind right over the brain. And you know,
Speaker 7: that's kind of says it all.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at all the different ways you know,
Speaker 3: downloads and just drilling. So I'm going to ask you
Speaker 3: a completely different question that has nothing to do with authoring,
Speaker 3: and it's a quick question and it's people go.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the answer would be.
Speaker 3: Don't worry. You can change when you get off the show.
Speaker 3: I love music. I think music changes the world. I
Speaker 3: think author and changes I think all of creativity changes
Speaker 3: the world. So we're just going to kind of flip
Speaker 3: hit here to your favorite radio station. And if you
Speaker 3: were on your way to a desert island and you
Speaker 3: were taking one album with you, it could be one album,
Speaker 3: one song, one artists. You only have room in one suitcase.
Speaker 3: It's carry on only what album are you taking with
Speaker 3: you that you could not imagine not listening to for
Speaker 3: the rest of your life. Rachel, you're smiling. Let's start
Speaker 3: with you. I've been kind of going around the same circle.
Speaker 3: So's again, We're just going to go quick here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm smiling because it's impossible to choose one.
Speaker 4: But I will say for radio station c k u
Speaker 4: A in Alberta fabulous station and they do stream internationally
Speaker 4: as well, and I love the variety.
Speaker 2: So no, no, no, no, no, no no no, that's
Speaker 2: no no no no no. You're you're not selling encyclopedias. Here.
Speaker 2: One album that you're taking with you that you can imagine.
Speaker 2: Let's go what came to.
Speaker 4: You, Okay, I would say the one, Oh it's it's
Speaker 4: so hard, but I'm gonna go with the Beatles. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go with the Beatles.
Speaker 8: All right, The Beatles for you and the Thing by
Speaker 8: Keith Keith Urban, Yeah, that's that's my favorite, gets played
Speaker 8: over and over.
Speaker 5: There is one album covered with with him with bright
Speaker 5: blue eyes on a black and white background, and the
Speaker 5: name name is Escaping Me right now, but.
Speaker 2: Keith Urban and Kathy.
Speaker 6: For me. For me, it would be probably Demi Levato,
Speaker 6: who is a newer singer that she has an album
Speaker 6: but it's titled Confidence, and the one song on it,
Speaker 6: all the songs are really about women's empowerment, but the
Speaker 6: one song called Confidence, it's like, what's wrong with a
Speaker 6: woman having confidence? And I love I love her lyrics.
Speaker 3: Well, that makes sense, that makes sense, and Peter quickly
Speaker 3: one album.
Speaker 7: Well, jeez, I wish I could remember. I know. The
Speaker 7: music of George Michael has always been someone who I
Speaker 7: thought was underrated and I think he was pigeonholed and
Speaker 7: unfortunately he passed away. But he had incredible talent and
Speaker 7: lyrics and voice and incredible arrangements. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, awesome, So George Michael, it is there. You go.
Speaker 3: There's a variety as well. I want to thank you
Speaker 3: all so much for coming on to Mission Accepted and
Speaker 3: sharing part of your process and your project with us.
Speaker 3: And we know that we inspire people here, and I
Speaker 3: want to do a message to my audience.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for.
Speaker 3: Being so loving and so supportive, not only of me
Speaker 3: but the people that come onto the show. You are
Speaker 3: constantly opening, sharing, and that is really what it's about.
Speaker 2: That's how the message gets out.
Speaker 3: So when these incredible people they have their books, go
Speaker 3: see them, Go check out their website, go follow them,
Speaker 3: go do all the things.
Speaker 2: We appreciate everything that you've done.
Speaker 3: Mission and accept It has been an exceptional our last book,
Speaker 3: you're sharing it. If you are an author and you're
Speaker 3: giving a gift away this year, make it your book.
Speaker 3: And if they have your book already, make it somebody
Speaker 3: else's book. If you want to be sitting where these
Speaker 3: people are sitting today, you want to come onto the show.
Speaker 2: This is not difficult.
Speaker 3: You go to dev Drummond dot com. It's really easy.
Speaker 3: There's a contact page and it actually goes to my email,
Speaker 3: before it goes to the team, and I'm happy to
Speaker 3: have that conversation about having you here. I know yvon
Speaker 3: talked about asking and how sometimes it's difficult to ask well.
Speaker 3: The two sixty two sisters that are part of the
Speaker 3: speaking and the authoring of which there is hundreds and
Speaker 3: if you'd like to speak on our stage, we have
Speaker 3: a spot for you. If you'd like to put words
Speaker 3: into our book. We are opening our book for a
Speaker 3: revision and we have room for thirty three people to
Speaker 3: join us as of today. I don't know when you
Speaker 3: listen to this show if that's possible, but if you're
Speaker 3: listening to it right away and you want to be
Speaker 3: part of it, we would love to have you. But
Speaker 3: we do something really special called the Ask Party. And
Speaker 3: if you anywhere out there are on the screen, want
Speaker 3: to be invited to the Ask Party, we as two
Speaker 3: sixty two sisters can and have someone come along and
Speaker 3: you literally will be sitting in a room just like
Speaker 3: you heard these people today, and it's your name, where
Speaker 3: you're from, and you're one ask that will change your
Speaker 3: life in the next thirty days. And how interesting, Yvonne,
Speaker 3: You're correct, how interesting it can be difficult for people
Speaker 3: to get comfortable asking, but when you get into it,
Speaker 3: it gets fun.
Speaker 2: So if any of that sounds like interesting to you,
Speaker 2: then please join.
Speaker 3: Us and know that we have an upcoming summit of
Speaker 3: forty speakers that are going to rock your world and
Speaker 3: inspire you. A lot of them author because like Kathy said,
Speaker 3: a lot of speakers have books as well, and so
Speaker 3: please reach out and we're happy to.
Speaker 2: Bring you into the family. Whatever is going to inspire
Speaker 2: and motivate you, And if you want to get on
Speaker 2: the stage, then get on the stage with us. So
Speaker 2: thank you so much, Peter, Kathy, Yvonne and Rachel.
Speaker 3: What a wonderful time which it was just wonderful to
Speaker 3: spend time with you and learn more all about you.
Speaker 2: And until next week, my.
Speaker 3: Dear audience, you be well and you stay Ruby.
Speaker 2: I