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: Hello and welcome back. I love you my past people.
Speaker 2: Anyone has the podcast on here as knows it they do.
Speaker 2: You have your favorite people. I have my favorite podcast people,
Speaker 2: and let's get them to mix. This is such a
Speaker 2: great way to learn about what people are doing in
Speaker 2: the world, and we know and we highly encourage you
Speaker 2: to reach out to the people that you are listening
Speaker 2: to from today, because it's great that you tell me.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh my gosh, that was such a great show.
Speaker 2: I was doing this, I was doing that. But I'd
Speaker 2: rather you tell them because it's kind of a solo journey,
Speaker 2: this entrepreneurial and you are going to meet some crazy
Speaker 2: entrepreneurs today doing some cool things. And it's always nice
Speaker 2: to hear that what we're doing makes impact. It helps
Speaker 2: us get up the next day and get things going
Speaker 2: with zest. So welcome to Mission accepted. We're so excited.
Speaker 2: We are a room full of people that are taking
Speaker 2: the mission and doing all sorts of incredible things. So
Speaker 2: what I'm going to do, just because we are listeners
Speaker 2: and we are viewers as well, I'm going to say
Speaker 2: your name and if you can kind of just wave
Speaker 2: your hand so that our viewers have an idea of
Speaker 2: when you're talking who they're listening to. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: So I'm going to introduce we have Paula. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: Paula and Amanda give us a wave or peace sign
Speaker 2: or do what you want to do. We have Dana
Speaker 2: there we go and Brandy aw Son yeah, she's in it.
Speaker 2: And Yvonne, there we go, and Toby all right, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. So look, let's get this party started,
Speaker 2: shall we? And I get to say, ladies in the
Speaker 2: house today because we've got some it's a house full
Speaker 2: of ladies. Let's take it. So please when we go around,
Speaker 2: just introduce yourself, say your name. What is it that
Speaker 2: you're doing and what made you decide to become an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: I mean, this show is called mission Accepted for a reason.
Speaker 2: We talk about the risk, the danger, of the fun,
Speaker 2: the reward, all of it. But what was it that
Speaker 2: made you take that first leap in? So Paula, let's
Speaker 2: start with you.
Speaker 3: Thanks eb Yeah, I'm super happy to be here. So
Speaker 3: I am an entrepreneur, I am multi passionate and so
Speaker 3: what makes you really excited to be here to be
Speaker 3: sharing all my passions? Is I not only work for
Speaker 3: deb actually part of the two sixty two movement. I
Speaker 3: have flee of productions, which is growth and business. It's
Speaker 3: meant for Deborah. So I get to speak to all
Speaker 3: the amazing women, be a part of the community. I
Speaker 3: get to help make dreams come true from Depth's incredible platform.
Speaker 3: And also on the side, I have Soul Spark styling
Speaker 3: and that's a great thing that I do as well.
Speaker 3: And as well I have Prestige pet and home care,
Speaker 3: so a few different directions and that's mean to nutshell.
Speaker 2: No, this show is entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, and I think
Speaker 2: it's really interesting because we have you know, sometimes people think,
Speaker 2: you know, some people come from corporate and go to
Speaker 2: entrepreneurship and then they get to entrepreneurship and they're like,
Speaker 2: but I want to do more than one thing. We're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can. Thank you. Amanda.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I Amanda Taylor. I'm in Fort Collins, Colorado. I
Speaker 4: consider myself an entrepreneur as well. I am a real
Speaker 4: estate investor. I have a business development company, and I
Speaker 4: have a platform for women to educate them on investing.
Speaker 4: Very passionate about that, and I honestly fell into entrepreneur
Speaker 4: worship by accident. I know, nothing is an accident, but
Speaker 4: it was completely took me by surprise.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect it.
Speaker 4: But now I am completely unemployable and I love it.
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm met. There you go, she fell
Speaker 2: with it by accident, and here she is. Dana I
Speaker 2: my name is Dana Teresa.
Speaker 5: I'm the Metaphysical Mentor, and really what I do is
Speaker 5: guide conscious leaders and healers and transcending their lights obstacles
Speaker 5: so they can elevate their impact in the world. I
Speaker 5: do this through transformative energy work, which includes reiki, the
Speaker 5: acotic records, and shamanic healing. And really how I came
Speaker 5: to be an entrepreneur is because.
Speaker 2: I was a nurse.
Speaker 5: I've been a nurse for twenty years and the hospital
Speaker 5: wasn't letting me do things that I wanted to do.
Speaker 5: And I thought that the only way and I now
Speaker 5: know the only way that I could be in my
Speaker 5: passion and my purpose is if I started my own business.
Speaker 5: And so here I am today.
Speaker 2: Right on. I love this. Everyone's just got a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And Brandy, welcome to mission accepted.
Speaker 6: I am Brandy Cox. I am also an entrepreneur. I
Speaker 6: have a million things going on all at once. And
Speaker 6: what really drew me is, you know, I was raised
Speaker 6: everybody in my family was always an entrepreneur, and so
Speaker 6: we were all raised as to be entrepreneurs. And then
Speaker 6: I went out and I did corporate and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm awesome, right, I was like high powered corporate. I
Speaker 6: was like, I loved it. And then I actually got disabled.
Speaker 6: I'm a disabled combat vet, and so what happened was
Speaker 6: I ended up feeling like, heyde I have to find
Speaker 6: something to do with my life and my time because
Speaker 6: I am going to go crazy watching TV. So I
Speaker 6: was like, well, I'm going to do something that's fun
Speaker 6: and exciting. So we focus on gamification and making everything fun.
Speaker 6: So that is what we do.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, making everything fun. I love. That's a great tagline.
Speaker 2: It's a great tagline. Oh my goodness, and thank you Brandy,
Speaker 2: Hi everybody.
Speaker 7: Amy Bonniel Silver, Calgary, Alberta, Canada based the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 7: Women in Wisdom Media is my organization and it's about
Speaker 7: women entrepreneurs seeking to flourish. I got bitten by the
Speaker 7: bug because I just didn't have enough pocket money as
Speaker 7: a kid in England, and so when I was six,
Speaker 7: I started dog walking accidentally with a little older lady
Speaker 7: broke her leg and she asked me how much I
Speaker 7: would charge her to walk her dogs for her, and
Speaker 7: I said sixpence and that was it. I was bitten,
Speaker 7: and then later I did some corporate it was very restrictive.
Speaker 7: And then I had a special need son who had
Speaker 7: four surgeries before he was five, So that created an
Speaker 7: opportunity for me to seek out more flexibility so that
Speaker 7: I could work when he was recovering, work when he
Speaker 7: was healthy, and then not when he was recovering. So
Speaker 7: everything from MLM to a real estate investing to now
Speaker 7: my current work, which is primarily coaching and mentoring based
Speaker 7: on work from my best selling book around Confident Conversations
Speaker 7: for Women.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Wow, just sounds. I just feel like I went
Speaker 2: full circle with you. I went on your journey. She
Speaker 2: was bitten. That's interesting. A dog and money and very
Speaker 2: I'm you know you're good with words. So there you go.
Speaker 8: And Toby, Hello, everyone's so so fun to be here.
Speaker 8: Thank you deb. My name is Toby Spears. I live
Speaker 8: in a beautiful little town in Utah, a gorgeous state,
Speaker 8: so if you haven't visited, you should. And I get
Speaker 8: to spend several weeks a year in Guatemala, which is
Speaker 8: also a highlight. I am a.
Speaker 2: Lover of life.
Speaker 8: I have a fabulous husband and multiple children that make
Speaker 8: my life full.
Speaker 2: Great and awesome. Thank you so much. Well look, ladies,
Speaker 2: we have an audience full of entrepreneurs at this same
Speaker 2: people that are sitting in the room, or the same
Speaker 2: people sitting in the room love to support entrepreneurship. But
Speaker 2: here's something really interesting from a you know, you all
Speaker 2: do something fairly different. You all bring betterment to people's lives.
Speaker 2: But as an entrepreneur, what is the piece of advice
Speaker 2: that you could give that has helped you make entrepreneurship
Speaker 2: either easier, flow better, make more impact, like something that
Speaker 2: you know, it's a journey, and sometimes the money doesn't
Speaker 2: come as much as the month comes, you know, Oh,
Speaker 2: or at the end of the month, where's the money?
Speaker 2: Or sometimes you're taking a risk. Sometimes there's all sorts
Speaker 2: of things that happen in the world of entrepreneurship. What
Speaker 2: would you what would the advice would you give to
Speaker 2: make this an easier journey for someone based on the
Speaker 2: experience that you've had as successful entrepreneurs. So let's start
Speaker 2: with you, Paula.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Deb Yeah, I feel that we are our
Speaker 3: own business. It's not that we're our spreadsheets or our
Speaker 3: profit margins, or we're the next zoom meeting. It's us.
Speaker 3: So I think what's really important is if I can
Speaker 3: say so being a newer person to entrepreneurship, for advice
Speaker 3: is to remember who you are and what lights you up,
Speaker 3: because everyone can feel that in the room. If you're
Speaker 3: going and you're rushing around and you're not taking time
Speaker 3: for yourself, it really does take a toll on you
Speaker 3: and your business. And I'm a firm believer of making
Speaker 3: space for you and for the stillness and the calmness,
Speaker 3: because that's when magic happens. That's when inspiration happens, and
Speaker 3: we're caught up and everything else, and it won't it
Speaker 3: won't channel in well. So that's my little piece of advice.
Speaker 2: That's awesome piece of advice.
Speaker 4: And Amanda, yeah, I have to say, you know, they
Speaker 4: don't teach this stuff in school, how to run a business,
Speaker 4: how to be an entrepreneur. And I focus a lot
Speaker 4: on the mindset piece of just being a self employed
Speaker 4: person versus being a business owner. That's a very different
Speaker 4: thought process, decision process systems, how you're going to take risks.
Speaker 4: Like you said, a lot more forward thinking and compounding
Speaker 4: effects of your decisions. And you can't do it alone.
Speaker 4: A lot of entrepreneurs try to wear all the hats
Speaker 4: and you think that the cost of doing that is
Speaker 4: going to hurt you, but there's really a cost to
Speaker 4: not bringing in the help and the tools to do it.
Speaker 4: So that's my advice.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic advice. I mean, look, we always want to
Speaker 2: learn from people that have some handle on this, right
Speaker 2: It just let's make this easier data.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I'm going to piggy back off of Amanda
Speaker 5: a little bit. I think the best thing I ever
Speaker 5: did for myself being an entrepreneur is invest in myself.
Speaker 5: And I the first couple of years in my business,
Speaker 5: it was running myself ragged, carrying my reiki table all
Speaker 5: around the community that we live in, teaching a yoga
Speaker 5: class here, teaching a yoga class there, and things just
Speaker 5: weren't flowing, things weren't coming together. I was putting in
Speaker 5: lots of effort for not a lot out of revenue
Speaker 5: or income. And when I finally actually COVID happened. We
Speaker 5: all know what happened when COVID that happened, and everything
Speaker 5: shut down, and I had the time and the space
Speaker 5: to figure out, Okay, what am I going to do?
Speaker 5: This isn't working, And so I actually invested in a
Speaker 5: business coaching program, which at the time was thousands and
Speaker 5: thousands of dollars, and it was really scary to me,
Speaker 5: but it was the best thing I ever did to
Speaker 5: myself because my business was my baby, and I wasn't
Speaker 5: nurturing my baby. I was just doing what I thought
Speaker 5: I had to do instead of investing in myself and
Speaker 5: the growth of my businesses and the work I was doing.
Speaker 2: Wow, so good, can't pay for this, I get me
Speaker 2: Brandy yourself. Thank you, Dana.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So yeah, basically I agree with everybody here, and
Speaker 6: it's you know, one of those first things that I
Speaker 6: you know, when I'm working with my clients is I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: the first thing you do is you have to realize
Speaker 6: that you can't be an expert in everything. You have
Speaker 6: to like, you know, if you needed brain surgery, you're
Speaker 6: not going to go out and YouTube that. You're going
Speaker 6: to go to the person who has been a specialist
Speaker 6: and an expert for eons, because you want somebody who
Speaker 6: knows what they're doing and who didn't learn it on YouTube.
Speaker 6: And as an entrepreneur, we're so you know, not really control,
Speaker 6: but we're trying to like hold wear so many hats
Speaker 6: that were like, Okay, I'm just gonna go learn that
Speaker 6: and not you not go to an expert. And I'm
Speaker 6: like that, you're actually shooting yourself in the foot there.
Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, you wouldn't do your own brain surgery,
Speaker 6: so don't do your own tech and your own you know,
Speaker 6: marketing or whatever else. Get somebody it that's an expert.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you so much, great great advice. And Yvonne
Speaker 2: for you in your business. What's something that you did
Speaker 2: that really helped?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well to pick it back off what Brandy just said.
Speaker 7: Definitely when I'm working, you know, in my own reflection
Speaker 7: and also with my clients, it's about what have I
Speaker 7: actually done that has created value to someone that they're
Speaker 7: going to pay for. So I can speak to confident
Speaker 7: conversations because I've been doing.
Speaker 2: It for thirty years.
Speaker 7: I wrote a best selling book on confident conversations. I've
Speaker 7: interviewed and hired about six thousand people and helped them.
Speaker 7: So in the work I do now as a coach,
Speaker 7: it's really about helping them to figure out not only
Speaker 7: what do they know, but how can they monetize that
Speaker 7: as well? Because there's a lot of women in particular,
Speaker 7: who are smart, who are caring, and they're so caring
Speaker 7: that all they want to do is tell people how
Speaker 7: they do it. People don't want to know that. They
Speaker 7: want to know what can you change for me? And
Speaker 7: what can you help me do that I can't do
Speaker 7: for myself? And don't tell them all the ways you
Speaker 7: do it, because you've probably scared the Jesus out of them.
Speaker 2: All Right, all right, thank you very much, thanks Avon
Speaker 2: and Toby. For yourself, something that you've been able to
Speaker 2: do that or that you do that has made this
Speaker 2: a little easier.
Speaker 8: Well as a humanitarian. So the piece of advice that
Speaker 8: I would give is for you to look outside of
Speaker 8: just your business. So I would say to follow entrepreneurs,
Speaker 8: to get your company involved in a social impact project
Speaker 8: and to align with a charity. There are so many
Speaker 8: studies that show that employee engagement and employee retention really
Speaker 8: skyrockets when teams have like a communal philosophy, something that's
Speaker 8: really passionate for the whole team and that they're all behind.
Speaker 8: And I've seen that.
Speaker 2: With our work.
Speaker 8: We have partners that partner with the humanitarian and they
Speaker 8: have photos of the kiddos on their walls, and they're
Speaker 8: working for more than a paycheck. And I think that's
Speaker 8: really important with this new generation of cute little workers,
Speaker 8: like they will work for less. They will work for
Speaker 8: less because they want to work for a company that's
Speaker 8: making an impact in the world. So even for brand
Speaker 8: new startups like you know, start that like from day one,
Speaker 8: like what can we who can we align with, what
Speaker 8: can we do to create this beautiful collaboration with a
Speaker 8: charity and with our team right on?
Speaker 2: Right on? Well, look, you all do incredible good work
Speaker 2: in the world, and you know it's worth it, and
Speaker 2: you know what's worth it. You just talked about some
Speaker 2: of the things that you do to make it easier
Speaker 2: because it is worth it. But kind of the last
Speaker 2: thing that I want to ask you is what is
Speaker 2: it about what you do that makes you happy? Like
Speaker 2: maybe it's one of those cool things that happened, like
Speaker 2: I know, Choby, we were just talking and you know,
Speaker 2: you have a child come up and you know, hug
Speaker 2: you and recognize you for the work that you've done.
Speaker 2: But what is it that makes you happy about your
Speaker 2: chosen field? Because let's face it, the world of entrepreneurship
Speaker 2: has opened vast and furious, and there is there is
Speaker 2: things that you can do now that you couldn't do
Speaker 2: five years ago. We're going to talk about one of
Speaker 2: those and I then if you know you too, can
Speaker 2: have you know your own TV show five years ago,
Speaker 2: ten years ago. I voted to be a stewardess when
Speaker 2: I left school. You know, they were like stewardest nursed.
Speaker 2: You know, the options have opened up. So there's so
Speaker 2: many things that you, incredible women could choose to do.
Speaker 2: And some of you do the entrepreneurship thing, and you
Speaker 2: do more than one thing. But what is it that
Speaker 2: gives you the greatest sense of joy? Maybe it's a story,
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a cool thing that's happened. Maybe it's a knowingness.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but let's find out. Paula, what about you?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I really think it's the freedom to choose and the
Speaker 3: freedom to be true to myself.
Speaker 2: As well.
Speaker 3: It's when I work with women. So in my Soul
Speaker 3: Spark styling business, it's the most incredible feeling to see
Speaker 3: someone transform. I work with people who are at Marshall
Speaker 3: I maybe I'm confident or not really sure how to
Speaker 3: dress themselves. And when I go and work with them
Speaker 3: and I use sustainable conscious fashion techniques where we have
Speaker 3: what they already have and we look at their body
Speaker 3: type and their skin tone, and we see how they
Speaker 3: want to express themselves in the world. We you know,
Speaker 3: act as is. And it's the coolest thing when I'm
Speaker 3: working with someone and where I take photos of them
Speaker 3: outfit after outfit and they literally just transform and they
Speaker 3: are a different person at the end. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: all the coaches in the room can feel the same way.
Speaker 3: When you can see someone literally become a different person.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the coolest thing. And the fact that
Speaker 3: I'm able to do not only the styling, but also
Speaker 3: be a part of Dev's team and be connected with
Speaker 3: all these incredible women and to make impact and to
Speaker 3: be a part of something bigger, so I don't have
Speaker 3: to gest on my own thing. I can be a
Speaker 3: part of someone else's collaboration and expand the world, make
Speaker 3: sure the people's dreams come true.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's some happy moments there. There's some rappy moments there, Amanda,
Speaker 2: what about for yourself? Thank you, Paul.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she said, the word that is mine is impact
Speaker 4: And for me, I am so passionate because you know,
Speaker 4: until nineteen seventy four, a woman couldn't open a bank
Speaker 4: account or get a credit card without a man's permission.
Speaker 4: And women are twenty five percent more likely to say
Speaker 4: I don't know when asked a question about their finances,
Speaker 4: and we've just traditionally deferred those decisions to someone else,
Speaker 4: be it a financial advisor or someone And so my
Speaker 4: passion is just to empower women to educate themselves, to
Speaker 4: build that confidence to learn and take action with their investments.
Speaker 4: And as entrepreneurs, we tend to pour every dime we
Speaker 4: have leverage out our personal finances to build a business,
Speaker 4: but we have to protect ourselves on the other side.
Speaker 4: So let's separate those Let's grow wealth outside of our business.
Speaker 4: Let's learn how we do that, especially outside of the
Speaker 4: S and P five hundred. Hello, what's happening right now?
Speaker 4: And that is just my mission. I want to empower, educate, inform,
Speaker 4: and really set women up for success.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna need to take a cold who said
Speaker 2: someone said in the last one a hash shower, cold shower?
Speaker 2: Someone lets you do it my cold shower. I'm excited, okay,
Speaker 2: and data for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the freedom as well, and kind of
Speaker 5: what just came to me, I just had a big
Speaker 5: little insight.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for inspiring that. But I love how
Speaker 2: integrated my life has become.
Speaker 5: It's not like this is work data and this is
Speaker 5: off work data.
Speaker 2: It's all come.
Speaker 5: Together as one because I'm as a healer and a mentor,
Speaker 5: I'm constantly healing and mentoring myself, and the lessons that
Speaker 5: I learned through my own healing, those translate into how
Speaker 5: I'm guiding other people to heal as well, how I'm
Speaker 5: helping others to become their own energy healers.
Speaker 2: And so life just really flows.
Speaker 5: When you're in again your passion and your purpose and
Speaker 5: you're doing what you love, then it just becomes your
Speaker 5: whole life.
Speaker 2: And work to me is so fun. It's not like
Speaker 2: I gotta go to work. It's like, yes, I get
Speaker 2: to go to work. Yeah, you go from got to
Speaker 2: to get to. And what I think happens for entrepreneurs
Speaker 2: after a while is you start to embody, you become,
Speaker 2: You become what you want the world to be. And
Speaker 2: that's what I hear when you talk about you know,
Speaker 2: is embodying. Thank you so much, Dana and for you, Brandy.
Speaker 6: So Dana said the key word for me, which is fun.
Speaker 6: And you know, I tell everybody life is too hard.
Speaker 6: Business is too hard to not be having fun. And
Speaker 6: if you're not having fun, then we're doing something wrong.
Speaker 6: And that's why my whole business focus on gamification and
Speaker 6: turning your business into a game that your clients and
Speaker 6: you love to play. There's always gonna be boring parts,
Speaker 6: there's always going to be slow parts. Like a game,
Speaker 6: sometimes there's a little bit of a grind. But if
Speaker 6: we make the entire thing with the aim of focusing
Speaker 6: on fun while you are having that amazing impact and
Speaker 6: that freedom, then you end up enjoying life every single
Speaker 6: day when you get.
Speaker 2: Up right on whoop all right, Yvonne, Well.
Speaker 7: It's definitely the you know, seeing the light bulb go on.
Speaker 7: As a secutive coach working with women entrepreneurs and some
Speaker 7: professionals as well, it's when they truly step from oh
Speaker 7: I don't know if I can do this, into believing
Speaker 7: that they can. They take the step, and then all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, they're writing the book, they're doing a retreat,
Speaker 7: they're you know, hosting an event, they're they're doing something
Speaker 7: they never thought that they could possibly do. And I'm
Speaker 7: sitting there there going and I get paid for this
Speaker 7: like this is fun. And so I you know, I
Speaker 7: love it when women decide for themselves as I did,
Speaker 7: to stop tolerating mediocre and really step into something that
Speaker 7: is more joyful. That's my word for this year. It's
Speaker 7: joyful exclamation mark. It's not joyful if it's not fun
Speaker 7: not doing it. And so I heard a quote the
Speaker 7: other day I'll just wrap up with, which was stop
Speaker 7: pushing against the door to success, it opens inwards. That
Speaker 7: was Charlotte Brown Phillips woman. And I believe that that's
Speaker 7: where we really thrive as entrepreneurs, is when we step
Speaker 7: into doing things differently at our own pace and choosing
Speaker 7: our path based on what brings us the greatest joy.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, Toby, I mean, okay, Toby, just you know,
Speaker 2: wrap that up. No, but you know, what is it
Speaker 2: that makes you happy? What is it that makes it
Speaker 2: worth it? So people out there, what is you know?
Speaker 2: How do you make that happen for yourself? It's so easy.
Speaker 8: So the humanitarian focuses on nutrition, fighting malnutrition, and creating opportunity,
Speaker 8: educational opportunities and income opportunities for our families in Guatemala.
Speaker 8: So that's like pure joy, pure happy. But then, like
Speaker 8: Paula said, my word is transformation. So what makes me
Speaker 8: happy is getting to watch transformation happen in myself and
Speaker 8: in others. So I get to see these darling kiddos
Speaker 8: in Guatema go from hungary to healthy. I get to
Speaker 8: see them from shy and reserved with very little opportunity
Speaker 8: to brave and confident and self secure. I get to
Speaker 8: see volunteers come alive with purpose after they've been working
Speaker 8: with our community. And I get to see individuals come
Speaker 8: together to create real change in their community and in others.
Speaker 8: So I mean, all of it is soul food for me.
Speaker 8: It's just amazing good work and we're making tangible impacts,
Speaker 8: which is nothing but pure happiness.
Speaker 2: Wow. So what I hear from all of you is
Speaker 2: that it's worth it. I hear that as you give,
Speaker 2: you receive. I hear that there's a sense of like
Speaker 2: I said earlier, there's a sense of empowerment that happens
Speaker 2: for you as well when you see what you're doing
Speaker 2: in the world making change right, it's like you talk
Speaker 2: about it with enthusiast on how what you do opens
Speaker 2: people's eyes. Like I said before, there's so many different
Speaker 2: ways that people can step into this world of entrepreneurship.
Speaker 2: There's so many. And then now there's this new level
Speaker 2: of niching in that like I work with executives, I
Speaker 2: work with women, I work with people in the nonprofit sector,
Speaker 2: and there's all of these incredible and it's making for
Speaker 2: a pretty big, colorful rainbow. I have to say that
Speaker 2: there has been a tide and rise not only with
Speaker 2: women in this sector, but entrepreneurship and these young gen
Speaker 2: zs that are stepping in and going this is their
Speaker 2: first opt they're like I, you know, and they're doing
Speaker 2: it because we're laying track. They're seeing success, and they're
Speaker 2: seeing success because of women like you that have stepped
Speaker 2: in to it to create success for others. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's the joy and piece of it. So that's
Speaker 2: very very cool. All Right, we're going to do something
Speaker 2: completely different. We're going to just change the vibe here,
Speaker 2: but we're going to stay on point. So here's something.
Speaker 2: Let's stick with the fun. Any great word for the year,
Speaker 2: great word for the year. So let's do this. We
Speaker 2: know what you do. We know how you do it.
Speaker 2: My listeners and they're gonna reach out. You're gonna reach
Speaker 2: out to them. Yes, thank you for reaching out to me.
Speaker 2: Reach out to them and tell them how great they were.
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be some cool collaborations that go
Speaker 2: on here. There's lots of places that we can play.
Speaker 2: But in talking about that self care that you were
Speaker 2: talking about, Paula and that sense of freedom, I personally
Speaker 2: think that happens when I listen to music. I really
Speaker 2: get back to myself. When I listen to music, it
Speaker 2: changes my vibe, It gives me energy. I do it
Speaker 2: between clients. I go on the balcony or something's going on,
Speaker 2: I go listen to a song and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's figure this out, so don't overthink it. It can
Speaker 2: be the song that you're listening to, Manda's like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, here comes a question. It could be the
Speaker 2: song you're listening to right now, or the one that
Speaker 2: you could never imagine listening, you know, ever living without
Speaker 2: like you know me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin.
Speaker 2: You know you could never imagine you're life without that song.
Speaker 2: Paul I'm gonna start with you one song, one album,
Speaker 2: or one singer that she's like, I got it, I
Speaker 2: got it to stop job totally.
Speaker 3: I recently took a sabbatical for six months and I
Speaker 3: was solo traveling, and one song that kept with me
Speaker 3: just pumped me up and maybe fearless, like nothing was
Speaker 3: going to get me. Is that from Gizmos g I
Speaker 3: Z M O v A R I L l A
Speaker 3: s called Freedom for a Change.
Speaker 7: It's powerful.
Speaker 3: Play it, you'll love it?
Speaker 2: All right, thank you for spelling that. I appreciate you
Speaker 2: saving me from doing that. Amanda, What about you? What's
Speaker 2: the song that you're taking with you today Private Island?
Speaker 2: It's just you and you.
Speaker 4: Can I love music more than anything, and you're making
Speaker 4: me pick one. The album that I always go back
Speaker 4: to is Sime's Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins. I am
Speaker 4: such a gen xer. I don't know. I will listen
Speaker 4: over and over and over for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: All Right, we got it. I love this mix up. Dana,
Speaker 2: how about yourself?
Speaker 5: I've been a huge Lady Gaga fand for a really
Speaker 5: long time. And her new song that's out right now, Abracadabra,
Speaker 5: I bring them. I love creating magic with in my
Speaker 5: own life, with my clients, with my friends and family,
Speaker 5: and so it's just like, yeah, I have my magic
Speaker 5: wand and that African era and also just the beat
Speaker 5: of that song.
Speaker 2: It's so fun to dance too. Right on. Okay and Brandy,
Speaker 2: what are you listening to these days or what do
Speaker 2: you love?
Speaker 6: I am really struggling with this because I have like
Speaker 6: my little playlist and it is all rage metal.
Speaker 2: So well, you might go, I'm going to eat DC
Speaker 2: on April. So it's like, you know, if it's one
Speaker 2: level up, Okay, cool, what is it? Just tell us?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean I listen to a lot of like
Speaker 6: Pantera and Marilyn Manson and God's Back and Alison Chains
Speaker 6: I think is the most PG of what I listened to. So,
Speaker 6: I mean, I listen to a lot of rage metal
Speaker 6: and I like to just scream out everything in my hat.
Speaker 6: But the thing that gets me out of bed in
Speaker 6: the morning when I'm having a rough morning, my husband
Speaker 6: will from wherever he is in the world, he will
Speaker 6: sit there and he will cast it to my house
Speaker 6: and on every speaker and it'll be the greatest showman.
Speaker 6: And that gets me up and out of the bed.
Speaker 6: Even though I like Ridge metal like sometimes I just
Speaker 6: need that little oomph.
Speaker 2: Oh, we all need that little unpunny. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: That's that's fantastic. And Yvonne, what are you listening to
Speaker 2: that that works for you?
Speaker 7: Well, based on you know, divesting of a toxic husband
Speaker 7: a little over a year ago. My my favorite still
Speaker 7: is you know Ri s b c t. You know
Speaker 7: the great Aretha gets me every time.
Speaker 2: Right on great song, classic, classic, fantastic and Toby wrap
Speaker 2: us up on best song for you ever.
Speaker 8: Okay, this is a really loaded question, but I so
Speaker 8: let's just go with Girl on Fire. I think that's
Speaker 8: a fabulous, namp.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you ladies, thank you so much. This has
Speaker 2: been so much fun, and I know the audience has
Speaker 2: loved it. I'm just going to talk to the audience
Speaker 2: for a few minutes here, so I am sure you
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Speaker 2: over and over and over again. This could be somebody's,
Speaker 2: you know, someone putting it on all of their speakers,
Speaker 2: and listening to it over and over again. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for sharing, thank you so much for listening,
Speaker 2: and honestly, thank you so much for continuing to share.
Speaker 2: The show Mission Accepted is on the airways and people,
Speaker 2: we are changing lives. That's when I sit down, I'm like,
Speaker 2: whose two lives are we going to change today? And
Speaker 2: I know that we have done that, So you can
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Speaker 2: not going to be listening this for five or six weeks.
Speaker 2: We were just talking about this earlier. Toby was on
Speaker 2: a show earlier where we talked about today is that
Speaker 2: day that Mission Accepted launches. You've been hearing what launches
Speaker 2: the Women's Channel and it is for women and those
Speaker 2: to support women. Now, in my world, I'm thinking that's everybody.
Speaker 2: But you decide, you decide, and if you want to
Speaker 2: be on the show, we want you on the show.
Speaker 2: If you want to be on the stage, we want
Speaker 2: you on the stage. If you want to be in
Speaker 2: the book, be in the book. If you want to
Speaker 2: come to a show and share your person, you know,
Speaker 2: your your passion, your magic like you're talking about, and
Speaker 2: you have a message to share. If you want the
Speaker 2: show well to yourself, you can have it right. Or
Speaker 2: if you want to come in on a group show,
Speaker 2: you can do that. Dude. We're here to help you.
Speaker 2: We are your behind the stage. That's what mission accepted
Speaker 2: is We're going to put you out on a platform
Speaker 2: and help you go stand up, speak up, and show
Speaker 2: up so you can be sustained. Because there's nothing more
Speaker 2: empowering than having these women and having you do your work.
Speaker 9: But you got to be sustained, right, You got to,
Speaker 9: you know, and Amanda talks a lot about that sustainability,
Speaker 9: and you have to be able to have, sorry, more
Speaker 9: month than men or more money than month.
Speaker 2: That's been my nude saying today.
Speaker 9: I don't know where it's from. All right, thank you
Speaker 9: so much for being here. Thank you audience, We adore you.
Speaker 9: We can't wait to see you next week, this show
Speaker 9: over and over again and as always until we see
Speaker 9: you again, hoping to be well and saycre you bye
Speaker 9: end now bye