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 Mission accepted. Woo another year.
Speaker 2: Here we are. Let's go. Let's go. Look you haven't
Speaker 2: noticed and you may or may not have yet, but
Speaker 2: you're pretty dedicated. You guys are like and I know
Speaker 2: there's podcast hosts on this show today, but I got
Speaker 2: to say you're the best podcast audience ever because you're
Speaker 2: very active and we so support that. But look, you
Speaker 2: guys are you're not only supportive, you're not only active,
Speaker 2: you're not only cheering it on. You are freaking out
Speaker 2: about the new you know podcast thumbnail.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Because we've always been mission accepted talking to people taking
Speaker 2: a mission, it's got a bit of a James Bond edge.
Speaker 2: So we've just made that a little bit more obvious
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of risk that people take, right,
Speaker 2: a lot of risks that you don't see. You don't
Speaker 2: see that behind you know, behind the curtain anyways. But
Speaker 2: you guys are so coachable, Honestly, you're so coachable as
Speaker 2: an audience. You take the information in, you share it,
Speaker 2: you adapt it, you learn it. And so why would
Speaker 2: we not kick off this incredible new year with some
Speaker 2: very very incredible people that are experts in their field.
Speaker 2: And we are having a group show today and guess what,
Speaker 2: it's girl power today. Lots of ladies, lots of ladies
Speaker 2: changing lives, and we are going to introduce you to
Speaker 2: some incredible people.
Speaker 3: So let me do that.
Speaker 2: If you are listening because you're doing the audio thing,
Speaker 2: yeah you, But for those that are watching, So you listeners,
Speaker 2: come back and watch. When I introduce these incredible coaches
Speaker 2: and trainers and mentors, I'm gonna get them. Just put
Speaker 2: their hand out once so you kind of have an
Speaker 2: idea who's who that we're talking about. So, Rachel Collins,
Speaker 2: if you want to put your hand up. So, she
Speaker 2: is a mindful productivity coach. Okay, and then we have
Speaker 2: Carol Patrici, who is the accountability coach. We have Rhonda
Speaker 2: Travers who is in leadership development. She's a leader development trainer.
Speaker 2: And we have Lauria McDowell, she is a reinvention coach.
Speaker 2: So I'm super excited to hear about that. He needs
Speaker 2: to reinvent themselves as we go into a new year. So, ladies,
Speaker 2: and just so our audience and those that extend from
Speaker 2: that audience get a chance to know a little bit
Speaker 2: more about you if you can just tell us kind
Speaker 2: of where you're from and what kind of coaching is,
Speaker 2: what is mindful meaning, what does accountability mean? If you
Speaker 2: can kind of give us the the cole's notes on that,
Speaker 2: that would be fantastic. Rachel, why don't we start with you?
Speaker 4: Yes, So, I'm based out of Calgary, Alberta very cold
Speaker 4: here today, and in terms of the mindful productivity, it's
Speaker 4: really helping people clarify their top priorities based on their
Speaker 4: long term visioning and based on their values. And so
Speaker 4: it's getting really clear about what matters to you, why
Speaker 4: it matters, and then how to move the dial forward
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 2: Awesome, great January information to have, and then we're going
Speaker 2: to go right into once you know that you'd better
Speaker 2: be Hello, Carol, explain.
Speaker 5: Hello, Carol PATRESI. I'm in Houston, Texas and all over
Speaker 5: the world, but in Houston, Texas physically accountability. Just as
Speaker 5: Dev said I found twenty years ago. You can know
Speaker 5: a lot, you can learn a lot, but if you
Speaker 5: don't become accountable for what it is as you need
Speaker 5: to do and what you want to be and all
Speaker 5: the things, it's not going to happen. So I love it,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: All right, and Laurie please share sure.
Speaker 6: I am Laurie McDowell, and I am also outside of Houston, Texas,
Speaker 6: So Carol, we'll have to get together. And I am
Speaker 6: a reinvention coach and really what I help people do
Speaker 6: is reinvent their life so that they're living a life
Speaker 6: that's full of joy and fulfillment and happiness. So I
Speaker 6: help them come from wherever they are and reinvent their life.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it requires an outside change, but most often it's
Speaker 6: an inside change where you really find out what your
Speaker 6: true values are and then how do you live the
Speaker 6: life that's full of purpose?
Speaker 2: Right on? Right on? Very well, and Ron doc.
Speaker 7: Hello, I'm Randa Travers and I'm from Saint Louis, Missouri,
Speaker 7: heart of Midwest, and it is very chilly here as
Speaker 7: well at the time of this recording. I'm a leadership
Speaker 7: development trainer, so I focus on the managers, leaders individuals
Speaker 7: to really understand how do you engage others, How do
Speaker 7: you lead others? How do you inspire others so that
Speaker 7: it's creating success for them. It's a win win situation.
Speaker 7: Not only you're empowering your team, but you're also empowering
Speaker 7: yourself because you're working together towards the goal.
Speaker 2: Right on so great. I love that we are bringing
Speaker 2: it together and we're also you know, as time goes
Speaker 2: on in the world of coaching, training and mentoring, if
Speaker 2: you look at the repertoire, I mean really it does
Speaker 2: it expand. So one thing that I love about being
Speaker 2: in business for a few days back to back. Now
Speaker 2: is that as you move through your business, as you
Speaker 2: move through your life, you may need to hire a
Speaker 2: coach or what I call an expert in a specific
Speaker 2: area for a specific time. I would like to try
Speaker 2: to highlight because I think coaching really branched out of counseling.
Speaker 2: You know, people did counseling, They went to counseling. There's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with it. People ask me many times, how
Speaker 2: have you stayed in business as long? On my coaching?
Speaker 2: Counseling there, But it's and experts, I mean really, there's
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's an interesting party. But and so
Speaker 2: then people have this idea that it's they're signing up for,
Speaker 2: you know, the next two, three, four, five years of
Speaker 2: their life now possible. And I think that we should
Speaker 2: always be surrounded by someone that's giving us a life
Speaker 2: of betterment. I think that's the interesting thing about coaching,
Speaker 2: is that when you decide to be a coach, I
Speaker 2: mean truly, I think kind of you sign up for
Speaker 2: being a servant leader because you're leading. But I think
Speaker 2: the best coaches are always staying in that place of learning, teaching, learning, teaching, learning,
Speaker 2: teaching because you can't get stale in this industry.
Speaker 3: If you get.
Speaker 2: Stale, you'll see it. You'll see it in your clients.
Speaker 2: You'll see it in your lack of clients. There's always
Speaker 2: that need to have to walk our walk, you know,
Speaker 2: and then talk our talk. That's you know, So it's
Speaker 2: a it's an interesting you know, it's like you step
Speaker 2: into this world and then you are also forced yourself
Speaker 2: to go through personal development as well. It's really interesting.
Speaker 2: But what I want to say about that is that
Speaker 2: there's so many different people that do so many different
Speaker 2: things that it's, you know, really beautiful as an industry
Speaker 2: and a sector to come together and recognize that. So
Speaker 2: there's many times that I work with someone, let's say
Speaker 2: in media, but honestly they can't get their stuff done.
Speaker 2: So we'll go talk to someone who talks about accountability.
Speaker 2: Because really there is this great weave that can happen
Speaker 2: in sceptors now that have been unlike before, and I
Speaker 2: think specifically this one. So let's talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about because many times people decide like why would why
Speaker 2: would you decide to take that on? So what was
Speaker 2: it that means you decide? Specifically in this sector, look
Speaker 2: what made this your jam? You know, like you get
Speaker 2: up in the morning and you're excited about this. Rachel,
Speaker 2: let's go to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love what you said about, you know, just always
Speaker 4: keeping your skills fresh and learning. Because really that's what
Speaker 4: started me on this journey. I learned a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff the hard way, and I wanted to be able
Speaker 4: to share that. Right, not everybody has to learn everything
Speaker 4: the hard way, and so to take what I've learned
Speaker 4: share that with others really create a feeling that you're
Speaker 4: not in it alone and be able to have support
Speaker 4: and community in doing things that you love. And so
Speaker 4: it really started for me having all of my passion
Speaker 4: projects on the go and balancing that with a very
Speaker 4: busy lifestyle and a full time job. And I said,
Speaker 4: if I can do this, and I can help others
Speaker 4: to do this as well, like there's power in the
Speaker 4: community and we can really do things that are wonderful
Speaker 4: for this world.
Speaker 5: Awesome, Thank you, thank you, and Carol Gosh, I agree
Speaker 5: with everything you just said. And as Dev mentioned, this
Speaker 5: is an interesting party coaching and mentoring and it does
Speaker 5: all stem from counseling and I myself at a young
Speaker 5: age over twenty well pretty young. Over twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: God involved in and personal development and coaching and mentors,
Speaker 5: and it became for me. I felt accountable to pass
Speaker 5: that forward and to share that forward. And although we
Speaker 5: are all in the same industry, if you will, it's
Speaker 5: like when you go to the doctor, how many different
Speaker 5: types of doctors are there, and you might need to,
Speaker 5: like Deb said, you might need to see a specialist
Speaker 5: in the area to bring it all together. And especially
Speaker 5: as women, you know, it's a women group here today
Speaker 5: we have become a group of people that want to
Speaker 5: help one another grow in every area specifically. So I
Speaker 5: felt not just joy being involved and receiving. As Deb said,
Speaker 5: it is a learning and teaching, learning and teaching. We
Speaker 5: never stop in order to share the best we have,
Speaker 5: and it's a responsibility and I feel accountable to share
Speaker 5: the information right on.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I love the doctor analogy. I
Speaker 2: love that, right, I love that. That's that's so important
Speaker 2: because myself included, There's been times where I have seen
Speaker 2: different people even at the same time. Right, whether I'm
Speaker 2: going for some financial expertise, maybe I'm going, you know,
Speaker 2: like to to reach out and learn different things. You
Speaker 2: can it doesn't have to be, you know, one after
Speaker 2: another after another. You can do it at the same time.
Speaker 2: And a lot of coaches have a lot of experience
Speaker 2: in different areas and they can bring it together for
Speaker 2: the most part, because we've dealt with so many different things.
Speaker 2: But coach, you know, coaches that have that jam that
Speaker 2: really like this is their sweet spot and then you
Speaker 2: know to to adapt into. It's like having someone walk
Speaker 2: into a wellness center, right and they can go to
Speaker 2: all the different modalities. Most practitioners know a lot about
Speaker 2: each other's mendality, but when you really need to get
Speaker 2: that expert and and it moves like this exactly. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: And Laurie for yourself.
Speaker 6: Sure, Yeah, I was forced into a transition. I'm a
Speaker 6: chemical engineer by degree, and I worked in corporate America
Speaker 6: for over thirty years, and I was forced to reinvent
Speaker 6: myself at a point, and I wanted to learn a lot.
Speaker 6: So I actually studied people who had had horrible things
Speaker 6: happen to themselves and reinvent themselves into amazing you know,
Speaker 6: basically came back from the trauma and did something so
Speaker 6: much more. And I was so inspired by that I
Speaker 6: actually wrote a book about it, and I started studying
Speaker 6: more and more so I could help other people because
Speaker 6: it and it's so true what we said about learning.
Speaker 3: I mean, I learn, I have so many coaches.
Speaker 6: I learned, and I adapt, and I learned and I adapt,
Speaker 6: and it's just so many people like live these mediocre
Speaker 6: lives where they don't believe there's anything better. And I
Speaker 6: just wanted to learn as much as I could to
Speaker 6: help people show that there's always something better and you
Speaker 6: can always improve and always create a better life and
Speaker 6: a better you just by you know, learning more and
Speaker 6: more on personal growth and personal development.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Oh my gosh, Ronda, tell us
Speaker 2: what made you decide to get in and help these
Speaker 2: leaders become I don't know, people to breathe me, you know,
Speaker 2: be more empowering. What was it for you?
Speaker 7: Well, like Lourie, I had a thirty year corporate career
Speaker 7: and actually an intern audit risk management and compliance, so
Speaker 7: I'm a recovering auditor. But the common theme throughout my
Speaker 7: career is I was passionate about coaching, training, and developing
Speaker 7: not only my personnel teams and the professionals throughout that
Speaker 7: time period, but then also at the at the you
Speaker 7: know a team level, you know the department. And so
Speaker 7: I loved working with the employees on reaching their career
Speaker 7: goals and getting that next promotion and learning and really
Speaker 7: being thriving in our environment. And I knew that when
Speaker 7: I launched my business that's what I wanted to do
Speaker 7: is I want to work with other organizations and their
Speaker 7: leaders and owners of how to create a thriving, successful
Speaker 7: culture for their employees and their teams. And we are
Speaker 7: all leaders, and so I love being around these women
Speaker 7: because you're working on how to work within yourself and
Speaker 7: then as a leader, how then you can you communicate
Speaker 7: and connect and create collaboration and a culture where everyone
Speaker 7: else thrives around you as a leader.
Speaker 2: So interesting. I'm sure you're all going to be chatting
Speaker 2: with each other later. So one of the things that
Speaker 2: a lot of coaches do, and many of us here
Speaker 2: have books or parts of books or what have you
Speaker 2: that we're in and in the show notes, we'll have
Speaker 2: all your information and people can be you know, you
Speaker 2: can share them as assets as well. But has there
Speaker 2: been a book that's inspired you? Has there been a
Speaker 2: book that inspired many times it goes together, maybe not,
Speaker 2: Maybe it was you know, the children's cyclopedia that my
Speaker 2: mom bought from the guy that came knocking on the door,
Speaker 2: that you know, maybe fall in love with books. But
Speaker 2: has there been a book that has made an impact
Speaker 2: on you in relationship to other personal developments or business development? Ronda?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, the book that made an impact on me
Speaker 7: is The go Giver, The Go Giver by Bob Berg
Speaker 7: and John David Mann, because it's around it's a fable,
Speaker 7: but it's around the principles that really, you know, align
Speaker 7: and cultivate. What I have lived all my life is
Speaker 7: understanding your value, understanding that it's more than just you,
Speaker 7: you make an impact on others. How can you connect
Speaker 7: and help and make an impact on others that influence
Speaker 7: piece of it of being a leader in your role
Speaker 7: on your life. And then also just you know, understanding
Speaker 7: you know your worth and what you can give and
Speaker 7: being authentic around that. I'm big around authentic.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Rachel, Yeah, so fabulous. Read this
Speaker 4: book Effortless by Greg McCallan, and it's it's kind of
Speaker 4: taking a minimalist approach to how you organize your time
Speaker 4: and what you put your energy into. And so I
Speaker 4: just love There's just so many great takeaways from it.
Speaker 4: But one of it is really kind of reframing, you know,
Speaker 4: if things are really difficult, things are really challenging, instead
Speaker 4: of kind of focusing on that, ask yourself, how can
Speaker 4: I make this easier? And so he has tons of
Speaker 4: little tips like that that are really practical, applicable, and
Speaker 4: you know, just shift the energy in terms of what's
Speaker 4: the art of the possible. So I love it, fabulous
Speaker 4: read awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Carol.
Speaker 5: I have three ape and I know you tell me
Speaker 5: just all only get to share one. Deb is so
Speaker 5: good and strict with me because I can get excited.
Speaker 5: But the thing about it is is actually it's a
Speaker 5: book within the Bible and it's the Old Testament and
Speaker 5: it's of Nehemiah. And I cannot recommend that enough as
Speaker 5: leadership and personal change and taking risk and to do
Speaker 5: something that's so much bigger than oneself. It's building a
Speaker 5: rebuilding a people and a gathering of people and then
Speaker 5: a protection, you know, because once you build something, then
Speaker 5: it's about how to protect it on the back end.
Speaker 5: And it's really you know, it's how to do that,
Speaker 5: When to reach out, when to pray, when to be quiet,
Speaker 5: when to inspire. I cannot recommend that enough. And of
Speaker 5: the three, I'm going to go with that as number one.
Speaker 2: All right, No, it's great, right, And it's interesting what
Speaker 2: we pull every and we know when we read a
Speaker 2: book and then we read a book again. There was
Speaker 2: one book that I read ten times and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think I got it. You know, because when you
Speaker 2: read it at a different time in your life, you
Speaker 2: pull different principles. And for yourself, Laura, what is a
Speaker 2: book that you'd like to share with us today?
Speaker 6: Yeah, a book that really inspired me is called Hello
Speaker 6: Fears by Michelle Poehler. And this book, you know, I
Speaker 6: read the book at a time well I was still
Speaker 6: in corporate America and it just really I don't think
Speaker 6: i'd be where I was today had I not read
Speaker 6: that book, because it just helped me find the courage to,
Speaker 6: you know, to do something different, to jump in with
Speaker 6: two feet and just really face everything. And I recommend
Speaker 6: it to everyone, particularly to younger women, you know, teenagers,
Speaker 6: women in their twenties. It's an amazing book to help
Speaker 6: them realize that they can do whatever they want. And
Speaker 6: it gives amazing tips on how to change your life
Speaker 6: and how to face things that are holding you back
Speaker 6: in your fears.
Speaker 3: So it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: It's a great right. I mean, I find words and
Speaker 2: paper and I don't know about you, but I love
Speaker 2: books like I'm just hitting a stack of I love books.
Speaker 2: I love opening, I love underlining. I actually can't lend
Speaker 2: my books out because I actually write personal notes on
Speaker 2: them and I put names. I know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like I don't. I don't write in cognitos that when
Speaker 2: I'm passing this book to someone else. But there's been
Speaker 2: books that I've passed the people that I've gone and
Speaker 2: I've scratched things out. I dog ear I take them
Speaker 2: with me. I always. I'm planning to go to New
Speaker 2: York next week for a book for our book launch,
Speaker 2: two book launches, and I've already put a book, you know,
Speaker 2: put Kathy Bushnell's book on top so i can read
Speaker 2: it on the plane. Like that's my favorite time to
Speaker 2: read is when I travel. But I would have to
Speaker 2: say one of the books that I love, because you know,
Speaker 2: we're big top performance people over here as well, and
Speaker 2: Malcolm Goldwell the Turning Point, you know, it's like when
Speaker 2: you when you because you know, look at you're not
Speaker 2: just coaches, your entrepreneurs, and look at our audience is
Speaker 2: full of people that are by nature entrepreneurial, but they're
Speaker 2: sitting on the edge waiting for someone to go and
Speaker 2: brush them and you know, push them off the diving
Speaker 2: board into the into the pool. And and it's really like,
Speaker 2: when you do something long enough, when you work at
Speaker 2: something long enough, the tipping point will fall in your favor.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: And so as someone who has had you know a
Speaker 2: little bit of life of endurance. Wait, if you're decided
Speaker 2: to be an entrepreneur, is it that things that's what's
Speaker 2: under your Christmas tree next year? You a little box
Speaker 2: of endurance? Oh my goodness. And talking about endurance, let's
Speaker 2: talk about something here. So we talked about really mission
Speaker 2: accepted people taking the mission. Let's share, like, we can
Speaker 2: share something that was risky for you, that you felt
Speaker 2: risky that coming into this world of being a coach.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, unless you're working for a corporation,
Speaker 2: which I think you're all independent, there's a risk that happened.
Speaker 2: So can you share with us a moment that you
Speaker 2: felt this was risky or this was something that you
Speaker 2: had to overcome, and Rachel, I'm going to start with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like it was really kind of stepping
Speaker 4: into my own power and using my voice. I was
Speaker 4: really comfortable being an employee working behind the scenes making
Speaker 4: things happen. But to put yourself out there, right, and
Speaker 4: to put yourself out there with something you really care
Speaker 4: about and really believe in, and to do it in
Speaker 4: a public way, that's a leap of faith.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: And so I'm fairly new in this journey, but I
Speaker 4: feel like it's just kind of like a huge leap
Speaker 4: opening up possibilities. And at the same time, you know,
Speaker 4: you don't know how people are going to react to you,
Speaker 4: and you can't control that, right, And so it's getting
Speaker 4: really comfortable with saying I have something to say. I'm
Speaker 4: going to use my voice. This matters to me, and
Speaker 4: the people that you know want or need this message
Speaker 4: will find each other.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Carol, risk, what was the risk that you
Speaker 2: needed to do or hey still need to do? Who knows?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think every day I've got tryed to there's
Speaker 5: usually a risk. Something that's happened.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: It was a risk I decided to after I've been
Speaker 5: an entrepreneur for a long time and I decided just
Speaker 5: to become a consultant in the businesses I had started before.
Speaker 5: And it was a risk, you know, sharing, delegating, passing
Speaker 5: on that leadership, if you will, and then beginning a
Speaker 5: new business in an area that I had not creating
Speaker 5: a new business, you know, and rather than step back
Speaker 5: work less, the risk was allowing myself and I appreciate
Speaker 5: what you said, Rachel, sharing my voice. I'm not big
Speaker 5: on people complaining. I'm big on if you complain, what
Speaker 5: is it and what can you do to make a
Speaker 5: difference there? Don't spend energy there, Let's create something better.
Speaker 5: And you know, it was a risk sharing my voice,
Speaker 5: and it continues to be for all of us every day.
Speaker 5: It was a risk, you know, you got to some
Speaker 5: time and money that let's face it, there's some we
Speaker 5: all have a lot of places we can put our
Speaker 5: time and our money, and it was a risk to
Speaker 5: start over again in a new area. And it's been
Speaker 5: incredible because it's fun, it's a little bit scary, it's
Speaker 5: a little bit fun. And again, we're all here, every
Speaker 5: one of us. We love learning. But we all know
Speaker 5: if we don't share and or teach and or move forward.
Speaker 5: You know, we didn't invest our time to learn. Well, anyway,
Speaker 5: it's it's the risk is fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, awesome, Thank you so much, Laurie. A time
Speaker 2: that you felt like you had to take a risk.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, Well, I feel like my whole career as entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: Has been a risk.
Speaker 6: But I think the biggest risk really was the first
Speaker 6: time I decided to invest in a big ticket coaching
Speaker 6: program for my business before I had the income, and
Speaker 6: I just had to trust that I'm going to do
Speaker 6: this and I'm going to be successful, and I'm going
Speaker 6: to spend this money and get it back.
Speaker 3: And it was so scary.
Speaker 6: Because you know, in corporate America, you really didn't invest
Speaker 6: in yourself.
Speaker 3: Your company invested in you.
Speaker 6: And this was the first time I had spent that
Speaker 6: much money on something for myself with no guarantee in
Speaker 6: getting anything back, and that was very It was terrifying,
Speaker 6: but it was also fulfilling because I felt like I
Speaker 6: really committed to me and I committed to the business.
Speaker 3: So risky and exciting.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's what it is when you take
Speaker 2: a risk, right, I mean, you can do this and
Speaker 2: many of us do. But I love what you said
Speaker 2: about because everyone goes through that getting it back because
Speaker 2: by nature we are we have been wired around instant return,
Speaker 2: like I buy this, you get this. I order something online,
Speaker 2: it comes in a week. If it doesn't come in
Speaker 2: a week, we start to get like annoyed. Right, But
Speaker 2: that's not how this is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: I've I've invested in things that it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: the long game. Media is the instant long game.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I sit across from people every day where they're like, well, like,
Speaker 2: you got to understand that media is the long game.
Speaker 2: But risk it is, and reward it does. I believe
Speaker 2: and Ronda, I.
Speaker 7: Am the common thread here amongst everyone here on the
Speaker 7: call is the same. The risk is having your voice.
Speaker 7: My risk was actually when I launched my business, because
Speaker 7: I knew I wanted to launch my business, and I
Speaker 7: kept going back and forth on Sunday five years, and
Speaker 7: I decided to launch in the summer of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 7: when we were still navigating through not being quite out
Speaker 7: there again socially, you know, working through you know the
Speaker 7: COVID and you know what's happening in our community and
Speaker 7: our environments. So that was risk number one is just
Speaker 7: deciding to launch my business and leave corporate in that
Speaker 7: space and then identifying with the growth and the evolution
Speaker 7: of my business over the past f years of how
Speaker 7: to elevate it to make a bigger impact in this
Speaker 7: world with my mission and going from regional and people
Speaker 7: knowing me at the regional level those first two years
Speaker 7: of how I serve my clients to elevate it to
Speaker 7: an international level and all the things, and like Rachel said,
Speaker 7: having that voice, your voice out there. Now you're vulnerable.
Speaker 7: Now more people are hearing, and you know, how is
Speaker 7: that align? And it goes back to you never know
Speaker 7: what's going to resonate with others. You never know what
Speaker 7: you say, what you write, what you publish is going
Speaker 7: to resonate, and the fact that it makes an impact
Speaker 7: is all that much more exciting as well as riskier
Speaker 7: but rewarding.
Speaker 2: Right on, Well, look, you know a lot of us
Speaker 2: that are coach as we do things for people in
Speaker 2: their business, Like if we're coaching someone that's in business,
Speaker 2: like you know many of you probably like ourselves over here,
Speaker 2: we coach entrepreneurs, but we also coach people that are
Speaker 2: you know we also do other coaching, but don't. When
Speaker 2: people come to us, they want betterment of some kind.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 2: They're looking for more time or more leadership. They're looking
Speaker 2: for betterment. And that trickles into two areas. It trickles
Speaker 2: into their business betterment, and it trickles into their business betterment.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: So you too, I imagine, have goals for the reason
Speaker 2: why you decided to be coaches, right or you have
Speaker 2: a sense of betterment for your life, or you want
Speaker 2: betterment for your life. You know, sometimes it falls in
Speaker 2: the bucket of more time and sometimes more money. But
Speaker 2: when you go go through that, it's like share with us.
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of power. And I think
Speaker 2: you'll all agree because you coach people, so people talk
Speaker 2: to you and they tell you, and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of power when someone takes it from an inside to
Speaker 2: you know, cutting it out of a magazine and putting
Speaker 2: it on a treasure map and then talking it into existence.
Speaker 2: And the next step from talking those dreams into existence
Speaker 2: is actually talking it out loud. Right, So you've all
Speaker 2: managed to talk your businesses out loud. But is there
Speaker 2: something because you know, I think it's important to share
Speaker 2: with the audience about the risk of our of just
Speaker 2: being who you are, doing what you do, showing up here,
Speaker 2: getting ready, being on the show, because we all have
Speaker 2: a sense of what this, what having a business and
Speaker 2: being an entrepreneur may bring to us. So if we
Speaker 2: could just kind of go around the road, what is
Speaker 2: something that is still on your business treasure map or
Speaker 2: vision board, whatever you want to call it. Maybe you've
Speaker 2: never done one physically, but you've got one in your
Speaker 2: mind or your or you're personal because let's taste it.
Speaker 2: We are by nature solopreneurs, right, like you said, there's
Speaker 2: no corporate you know, paying that bill for you anymore.
Speaker 2: So let's let's go over here, Ronda, something that you
Speaker 2: are hoping being an entrepreneur other you're you're is gonna
Speaker 2: you know, what's one of your goals or what's one
Speaker 2: of your what's one of your dreams that this business
Speaker 2: brings you personally or business wise?
Speaker 7: Well, my mission is always to make a positive impact
Speaker 7: to others. And you know how, how how have I
Speaker 7: helped somebody? How is that adding value to where they're
Speaker 7: wanting to be finding that common ground for that? And
Speaker 7: so to know that I've made an impact is so
Speaker 7: important to me and broadening my message. So one of
Speaker 7: my bigger goals with my business is to be a
Speaker 7: ted X speaker, to be able to deliver a message
Speaker 7: that's going to create impact, a positive impact that's going
Speaker 7: to help the community that others servant thrive because of
Speaker 7: their leadership. That's truly what I want to do. And
Speaker 7: then personally, you know, on my bucket list, my husband
Speaker 7: and I going to Greece and Italy. So and being
Speaker 7: able to have with the rewards from being an entrepreneur
Speaker 7: and being a business owner and following my passion and
Speaker 7: my purpose to have that serve me both in my
Speaker 7: professional life as well.
Speaker 2: Perfect awesome, thank you so much, and Laurie sure So,
Speaker 2: one of my.
Speaker 6: Missions, or one of my beliefs, is that the world
Speaker 6: should be a more joyful place. We need more joy,
Speaker 6: we need more purpose, and we need more impact. And
Speaker 6: I want to make an impact by really bringing more
Speaker 6: joy and more adventure to people's lives.
Speaker 3: So one of the things that I want to do
Speaker 3: with my business.
Speaker 6: And I'm planning to do at this fall, is to
Speaker 6: host a business retreat that's part adventure, part personal development,
Speaker 6: and I'm going to actually include scuba diving as kind
Speaker 6: of a mindset retreat, so I'm planning for those and
Speaker 6: I'm really excited about it. I think it'll give people
Speaker 6: back their sense of joy and their sense of purpose
Speaker 6: and help them make a bigger impact. So that's something
Speaker 6: business wise I'm really excited for and haven't done it yet,
Speaker 6: but I'm planning for it. So it's something I've always
Speaker 6: dreamed about. Personally, I have a lot of bucket list items.
Speaker 6: I just have a little bucket list box. But one
Speaker 6: of the things that I've put on my bucket list
Speaker 6: is to do like a stand up comedy at an
Speaker 6: open mic.
Speaker 3: Night or something like that.
Speaker 6: I've always thought it would be fun and I love joy,
Speaker 6: so hopefully I can make people laugh and smile more.
Speaker 3: So someday I am going to do it.
Speaker 6: It terrifies me, but it's exciting and I'm looking forward
Speaker 6: to it.
Speaker 2: Awesome. That's amazing. I love you. I love this question
Speaker 2: because it also gives our audience insight right, like you're human,
Speaker 2: and it puts brings some humanists to the party.
Speaker 5: Carol, Oh my gosh, I love this so much, and
Speaker 5: I love the scuba diving deal. I mean, unbelievable, so
Speaker 5: First of all, I love that we all want to
Speaker 5: create a positive social impact, and on my list, I'll
Speaker 5: take a little different route. I wanted to begin publishing
Speaker 5: some of the things that I write shock short long anyway,
Speaker 5: I've had the incredible pleasure of being one of the
Speaker 5: co authors in Deb's amazing book you know, Show Up,
Speaker 5: Stand Up, Speak up to sixty two. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: just unbelievable, this mission accepted book. But from there, I
Speaker 5: want to share more people's stories, not just share mine.
Speaker 5: And I want to I hope too, and plan too.
Speaker 5: You can call me up on my accountability of this
Speaker 5: to get a book out similar to this book that
Speaker 5: she has been so incredible, generous, you know, generous to
Speaker 5: all of us. Trust me, try to get in one
Speaker 5: of those books so good. I think some are in it,
Speaker 5: but it's really amazing, and I thought again, learning and
Speaker 5: then teaching and sharing, So that is a huge getting
Speaker 5: a book out there with beautiful co authors. That's there.
Speaker 5: So I'll just I'll stick with one that awesome.
Speaker 2: That's you know, I love it and big and audacious,
Speaker 2: you know, big and audacious. It's a great way to live, okay, Rachel.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh so, big and audacious.
Speaker 4: My on my bucket list, I would love to become
Speaker 4: a New York Times selling Beth best selling author. Want
Speaker 4: to go big. I want to get the message out there.
Speaker 4: I would also really love to kind of create a
Speaker 4: sense of community, right where people can come together and
Speaker 4: they can feel support, you know, they can feel connected.
Speaker 4: And so really looking to kind of build you know,
Speaker 4: this both message right, this bigger and bolder through writing,
Speaker 4: but also a sense of community where people can come together.
Speaker 4: So that's on the business side. On the personal side,
Speaker 4: my son just turned twelve, and so it's a really
Speaker 4: precious time where I know I don't have a lot
Speaker 4: of time left with him right before he's you know,
Speaker 4: before you know, at eighteen, and so would love to
Speaker 4: do some family travel time, you know, see Canada, like
Speaker 4: we've done international travel, but to really kind of take
Speaker 4: the time to see our country while he's that age
Speaker 4: while would be meaningful for him. And so that's on
Speaker 4: my personal bucket list. See if I can make it
Speaker 4: all the way out to the East Coast someday.
Speaker 2: Sin Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sharing it. Look, we are
Speaker 2: just a little over time, so I'm going to go
Speaker 2: quickly around the room. All of your information is in
Speaker 2: the show notes and one thing. So we're big on
Speaker 2: top performance here. People like, how do you do what
Speaker 2: you do? I'm like, well, we you know, do what
Speaker 2: we do and we do it well. But there's a
Speaker 2: process to that. If you can do one thing really quickly,
Speaker 2: if we go around the room, like, what do you
Speaker 2: do from a top performance way for your business? Like,
Speaker 2: what's something one thing you do in your business that
Speaker 2: helps you do it other easier with less time, makes
Speaker 2: you more efficient, brings it to the point. Just if
Speaker 2: there's one thing that you do and we're just going
Speaker 2: to quickly go around the room and then we'll do
Speaker 2: a nice wrap up. So I know, Rachel, there's lots
Speaker 2: of things that you could say, but one thing that
Speaker 2: you do that makes your business sing that you can
Speaker 2: share fairly quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I work in focus blocks, and so I really
Speaker 4: map out what I need to do and then do
Speaker 4: dedicated time blocks to get those things done.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you, And Carol, I do what I don't
Speaker 2: want to do first right on, right on, Lorie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm very similar to Carol. I do the hardest
Speaker 6: things for me during the time of day when I
Speaker 6: have the most energy.
Speaker 3: So for me, that's early in the morning.
Speaker 6: So I do the hard things early so that I
Speaker 6: can do the things I love when I'm tired.
Speaker 7: Right on and Ronda, I do a ninety day planning
Speaker 7: so I can remember what am I trying to achieve
Speaker 7: and are going to achieve, not try, and breaking that
Speaker 7: down into the weeks so that I can stay focused.
Speaker 7: So focus is probably the biggest piece there.
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